A Demon's Journey

The Golden Roc was a Demon Emperor-level expert. In Purgatory, it was considered one of the fastest flying demons.

'Why has it been left behind in such a place?' Azaroth found it weird that this Golden Roc's descendant was in this demon nest.

If it was him, he would assign such a valuable subordinate to a better location.

'Perhaps his bloodline isn't known to them. In fact, this guy himself doesn't appear to be aware of his Bloodline Ability. My Bloodline Pressure is forcefully activating his Bloodline Ability, though.'

'For him to have become a Demon Lord without even activating his Bloodline Ability. Impressive.'

Azaroth was impressed because a demon had to forge his path over corpses to become a Demon Lord or a stronger being.

Without activating his Bloodline, a demon would have rather limited strength. At least, he could only be considered among the average demons.

For an average demon to become a Demon Lord, he had probably reinforced his will and refined his power along the way.

Now, with this Bloodline Ability, this Demon Lord's power was bound to elevate to another level again.

At the very least, this Demon Lord would be stronger than all other demonic beings in this Demon Nest.

Well, it still amounted to nothing to Azaroth.

Azaroth checked the entire Demon Nest with his Spiritual Senses and found the Spirit Demon and the other demons he had encountered in the outskirts of Veninza City.

He was relieved because this meant they had accomplished their task. They had prepared the signal.

With a commanding tone, Azaroth ordered in demon tongue, "Follow me."

Azaroth flew out of the hollow cavity with an emotionless look on his face.

While he was flying, he contacted Noah, "Go and wake Patrick up. I need to ask him something."

Noah was immediately on the move. He left his current task and was dashing towards Patrick's location.

Patrick was still unconscious, but his body had been brought back to the infirmary.

Noah appeared in the infirmary and immediately began to shake Patrick's body before speaking, "Wake up…. Wake up… My boss wants to ask you something. Wake UP!"

Noah had tried for a couple of minutes before he lost his patience and threw water at Patrick's face.

Patrick's face and half of his upper body were immediately drenched with cold water. He opened his eyes and was shocked to see Noah standing ahead of him.

"W-What is it?!" He asked, his voice barely holding back his annoyance at being woken up in such a manner.

Noah couldn't be bothered about what Patrick felt. He simply raised his ring in the air.

His Mystical Spiritual Connection Ring began to shine before it displayed a holographic image of Azaroth.

"W-What is it, Lord Azaroth?" Patrick spoke a little nervously. All his annoyance was gone as he realized it was Azaroth who wanted to talk to him.

"Your sect should have a secret location where you can store a large number of people, right?" Azaroth asked him quickly.

Patrick was a little confused as he heard Azaroth's question. But he still answered quickly, "Yes. We have many such places for that. It's just 3 miles south of the main base. It's an abandoned site that was used to store treasures. But since the construction of the new treasury, it had been left abandoned."

"Is it large?" Azaroth asked with a serious look.

Patrick immediately assured Azaroth by saying, "It's so large that Lord Azaroth might find it unbelievable. We were even thinking of constructing our main base in that location before someone mentioned the geographical disadvantage of that place."

"I see…" Azaroth muttered as he tried to imagine just how wide the place could be.

"How many people are you bringing?" Patrick asked casually. He was curious about the number.

"Nearly 12000 demons. Give or take a couple of hundreds." Azaroth replied just as casually.

Patrick was flabbergasted as soon as he heard the number! However, this shock was was nothing compared to the shock he felt when he discovered Azaroth was bringing demons, not humans!

"D-Demons? So many of them? L-Lord Azaroth has joined hands with the demons as well?!" As a human warrior, Patrick absolutely abhorred the demons.

Azaroth noticed Patrick's hesitance and thought 'Would he betray him if I say yes? Well, I can't be bothered to deal with such an event right now.'

Thus, Azaroth spoke, "No. They will be training dummies for the sect disciples."

Patrick was startled to hear those words and muttered out, "Training dummies?"

The term wasn't unfamiliar to him, but it was the first time he heard someone using demons as training dummies.

"Actually, I have another task for you. Select the best outer sect disciples. Even among those possessing 2 Star Rank and give the list to me. It's time to transform this greenhouse into a place where only experts can survive." Azaroth spoke with a cold glint in his eyes.

"But what if the demons escape? It would be disastrous if someone discovers that we are keeping demons in our territory. The main branch would send experts to kill us all." Patrick shouted with a scared expression.

"You worry too much. Firstly, a demon can't escape from my grasps. Well, let's say by some luck, a demon does escape. Then do understand that a demon won't return to save other demons. The demon would be more scared of being captured again. Moreover, who will this demon ask for help? No human will listen to him."

Azaroth added, "Most importantly, if the escaped demon is creating terror in the community, then you can go and capture them under the pretext of dealing with a demon. I mean, wasn't the primary motive for the establishment of sects to shield citizens from the terror of demons?"

He paused as he saw the look of realization on Patrick's face. A scheming smile appeared on Azaroth's face as he continued, "The main branch will even send someone to reward you for killing demons. So relax. As long as your disciples keep their mouth shut, no one will find out anything."

Azaroth was rather relaxed about this entire situation. He felt that the entire situation was pretty much under his control.

"…A few disciples might send this information back to their families," Patrick spoke with a bitter smile, "It would be difficult to restrain them."

"You can't even control your disciples?" Azaroth was truly speechless.

Patrick looked a lot embarrassed, and he immediately explained, "I can restrain them forcefully, but their families might take action against us then. It wouldn't be good if 5 Star Warriors attacked us…."

"I see… So that's what worries you. Then you can be relieved. Dealing with those warriors would be my task. Just make sure to prevent those disciples from spreading information outside." Azaroth assured Patrick.

Patrick was slightly curious about how Azaroth was planning to deal with them, but he didn't dare to ask him right now.

Azaroth cut off the connection and soon led the demons to that location. He was using his sensing abilities and chose a path in which he won't encounter a human.

The demons were absolutely terrified of Azaroth.

They had a feeling that if they didn't obey his order, they would immediately die. This was kinda true since Azaroth was going to use his Mystic Eyes of Perception to destroy his spirit immediately.

Soon enough, they reached the location mentioned by Patrick.

Just as Patrick had mentioned, the entire building was quite large. However, Azaroth doubted whether it could hold all these demons. They numbered more than 12000 demons, after all.

He turned his head to look at the demons.

Even the demons, who had lived in a cruel environment since their birth, were absolutely terrified of Azaroth at this moment.

"Low-Rank Demons. Stand over there." Azaroth pointed towards his left.