Just before the Fifth Hell was about to fall, the watching Hell Demigods finally could not hold themselves back.
Yes, the five of Ash's group ascending at the same time did mean they had extraordinary potential, heaven-sent talent—but of those spellcasters who had retreated intact from the God Realm, fought across Hell for a thousand years, and attained the rank of Demigod, which one had not been a genius who dominated an era? Which one had not been a powerhouse who suppressed their generation?
So what if they were genius spellcasters? Genius spellcasters' gods were exactly what they wanted to steal!
They did not rob the quasi-Angels protected by Divine Lords, not because they feared the Divine Lords—after all, no matter how angry a Divine Lord became, he could not burrow into Hell and hammer them—but because quasi-Angels had usually already used mortal bodies to command gods. Even if the gap between them was as incompatible as that between a child and an adult, the Divine Lords had forcibly bound their souls together. No matter what the Demigods did, they could not steal the gods away; the returns were entirely negative.
But the new gods summoned when spellcasters ascended were different. At this moment, the spellcasters' Soul Bodies were unstable, they had no source energy, and even their Artificery Temples had not formed yet, making it utterly impossible for them to take the new gods into their souls. The new gods were only protecting the spellcasters by instinct; in truth, they were ownerless. As long as the Demigods snatched them, they profited!
Compared with the Fifth Hell, these lowest-level Hell Demigods were the final obstacle for ascending spellcasters. Do not think they were weak. Even Vishy had once been a "Ghoul" back then; the reason she later stopped being a