Start with Island Lord

The Painful Abyss.

In the starry sky, it is one of the three planes that cannot be observed by any other means except gravity, a disturbance of space and time.

It exists like a shadow in the starry sky, but people have never been able to see its true appearance.

Through the scattered information sent back by the Abyss Intelligence Officer, Rosen imagined the appearance of the Painful Abyss thousands of times, but when he really came to the Painful Abyss, he was still shocked by the world in front of him.

At this moment, he was standing in a hidden cave in the middle of a cliff.

Looking forward, you can see a very far view.

He saw that the ground in the distance was an endless city ruins.

The broken walls and ruins that almost occupied the entire land silently told the glory of the empire in the past, but the architectural ruins that were deformed like a burning candle and as bright as glass also silently showed the horror of high-energy war.

But whether it is prosperity or war, they are all passers-by in time.

The ruins of the city are now covered with a wide variety of lush vegetation, filled with all kinds of strange creatures that are hard to describe, and from time to time you can hear sharp, hoarse, or furious roars.

At first glance, it is deep, dark, and depressing, making people feel heavy in their hearts.

Looking up, the sky is gray and black, as if covered with a thick haze that will never dissipate.

Occasionally, there is wind blowing, blowing the haze a little, and you can vaguely see a ring of light floating in the sky.

After careful observation with magic, you can find that the ring of light is a huge city floating in the sky.

Adela said that it is the location of the core civilization area of ​​the Abyss of Pain, called Moon City.

Looking at a ring on the ground that is about the same size as the moon, the actual diameter is more than 500 kilometers. It floats in the star realm about 10,000 kilometers from the ground. It is the only star realm city retained by the Eternal Empire.

There used to be twelve such star realm cities, but the other eleven have all been destroyed in war.

But just this one building made Rosen deeply feel the brilliant glory of the Eternal Empire.

Just this one building was enough to make the Painful Abyss have the crushing power to despise other planes.

His Natural Empire had just taken off a sky city with a diameter of 3 kilometers, and the maximum ceiling was no more than 20,000 meters, and it had no ability to enter the star realm.

Lifting a city with a diameter of 500 kilometers into a space of 10,000 kilometers was a great miracle that the empire's magic engineers dared not dream of.

While he was sighing, the voice of Belldandy came from his side.

"The Abyss is really a ghost place!"

"Your Majesty, look over there, there seems to be a large group of bat monsters with ghost faces flying in the sky!"

Rosen turned his head and saw a group of flying monsters. It was roughly estimated that the number exceeded 100.

Each individual had a wingspan of more than 5 meters, a blue-gray skin, a pair of thighs with sharp claws and strong muscles, and an ugly and terrifying ghost face.

They were flying in the sky, screaming, and occasionally swooping down to the ground, and then picking up one or two prey from the ground.

Rosen squinted and found that the prey seemed to be people.

The reason why I said it was like was because these people looked really weird.

They had no clothes on their bodies, their skin was grayish white, they were very small, about the same size as a ten-year-old child, their calls were very sharp, their movements were extremely agile, and they had sharp claws.

They were not all prey.

Because there were so many of them, there must be two or three thousand, jumping around on the ground, constantly fighting against the ghost-faced bat monsters in the sky, and occasionally tearing down one or two ghost-faced bat monsters from the sky.

After watching for a while, he said, "It's two monster tribes fighting."

Beldandi nodded: "It's a very primitive, but also very amazing battle. I feel that their souls are very powerful. Any one of them is stronger than me."

Rosen smiled and said, "It's also stronger than me."

It can be felt that the magic ring of the Abyss of Pain is very strong, much stronger than the demiplane of the Dawn Empire. It is a truly complete 23 magic ring.

The most common members of the two monster tribes fighting in front of them have soul strengths of more than 10 rings, and the strong ones among them have 12 or even 13 rings of soul.

And Beldandi now has the power of Legend 16, which is equivalent to 11.8 rings. No wonder she feels terrible.

Fortunately, the cave is very hidden, and Rosen also immediately blessed the time spell undercurrent and various types of invisibility spells, so he is not worried about being exposed.

Beldandi asked softly: "Your Majesty, what should we do next?"

The self-confidence that just got the sword of annihilation is fading rapidly.

Rosen smiled and said, "Of course, I will hide carefully and try my best to increase my strength."

"Where are you hiding?"

"In this cave."

The cave is very small, less than 5 meters deep and less than 3 meters in diameter, but the ground is flat, the walls are smooth, and there are many delicate time and space runes engraved on them.

On the innermost ground of the cave, there are some items, including food, clean water, and some simple daily necessities.

Rosen walked over and used Transfiguration to create a simple table and chair, and then took out food and clean water and put them on.

After carefully testing it and confirming that it was non-toxic, he asked Belldandy to sit down.

After the other party sat down, Rosen handed over a kilogram of solar essence.

"Take this, carry it carefully with you, as your source of power replenishment."

Belldandy naturally knew the preciousness of the solar essence, and immediately put it away carefully.

Rosen poured her another bowl of water, poured himself a cup, took a sip, and talked about the known information.

"The area we are in is the poisonous fog forest in the abyss. There is no human gathering area within a radius of 500 kilometers."

While speaking, he pointed to the cave entrance: "There are many human-like and non-human monsters in the poisonous fog forest."

"Some are human beings poisoned by high-energy wars. The other part is specially made flesh and blood weapons."

He sent many abyss intelligence officers, but the most important ones are Adela, Patnaros and Liv.

This cave was prepared by Adela, and the relevant information was also provided by Adela, so it is naturally the most credible.

After introducing the basic situation, Rosen answered Belldandy's question.

"This cave is also very secretive, and there are enough supplies inside. As long as we don't take the initiative to cause trouble, no one will come to trouble us."

Beldandi breathed a sigh of relief and asked again: "How long do we have to practice?"

"Stay as long as you can, and increase your strength as much as possible until this place is exposed."

Beldandi nodded to show that she understood, but immediately worried because she didn't know how to practice.

When she was about to ask, Rosen had already taken out the practice method.

"This is the practice method of high-energy magic ring, which comes from the royal family of the Eternal Empire and is called the Heart of Eternity."

"After you become proficient, the practice efficiency is still very good. If you are lucky, you can reach the 20th ring in about 1,500 years."

"20th ring. Can't it be higher?"

Rosen shook his head: "For the practice of high-energy magic ring, the 20th ring is a watershed. Before, it depends on hard work, and after, it depends on talent."

"According to my observation, your upper limit is the 21st ring. It takes 1,500 years to reach the 20th ring, and 800 years to reach the 21st ring alone."

In the practice method of "Eternal Soul", the 20th ring is called the 'supernormal limit'.

Before the 20th ring, you are a mortal, and after the 20th ring, you are an outstanding supernormal person.

Among the hundreds of millions of practitioners in the Eternal Empire, about one in every three million people breaks through the limit.

"." Belldandy scratched his scalp subconsciously.

"Your Majesty, isn't this too long? After all, you are the Lord of the Empire. You can't stay in the cave forever, right?"

Rosen smiled: "You are right. 1500 years is indeed too long."

"So, I will always guide you to practice. In this way, once I reach a certain level, you will catch up quickly."

"Okay, time in the abyss is very precious. Let's start practicing now."

After saying this, he began to take off Belldandy's clothes.

Belldandy was startled: "Your Majesty?"

"You forgot what I just said so quickly?"

"I guide you to practice, and when I guide, I need to have a comprehensive and clear understanding of the operation of your soul."

"Because the power of the high-energy magic ring is extremely fine, there can be no interference."

He will not only guide his practice, but also strengthen his time talent and make him his first guard.

"Oh~oh, I was thinking wrong, Your Majesty."

Rosen laughed: "Not completely wrong, if you are interested, you might as well have some fun, after all, practice is boring."

This is one of the main reasons why he brought Belldandy here, because she is both good at fighting and interesting, and it won't be too boring to have her company during practice.

Belldandy has been absolutely obedient to Rosen, so naturally she will do whatever he says.

In the following time, the two lived a hermit-like life in a secret cave in the abyss.

The Joyer Taranaya was right. With the dual assistance of the source essence and the light scepter that far exceeded ordinary people, Rosen's power increased very quickly, even much faster than the Joyer predicted.

In less than two days, he restored his 13th ring soul.

After that, he made rapid progress at an average rate of one ring every half a month.

Belldandy was much slower, but Rosen's soul fusion guidance effect was excellent, and the absolute practice speed was also amazingly high.

In a blink of an eye, the two stayed in the cave safely for seven months.

Rosen directly reached the peak of 20 rings and was stuck at the extraordinary limit.

And Belldandy also reached 17 rings.

According to the information provided by Adela, even in the former Eternal Empire, reaching 20 rings of soul strength is a very outstanding achievement.

Looking at the magic masters of the entire Eternal Empire, they can already enter the top 1,000.

If placed in the current Abyss of Pain, they can even enter the top 200.

So, until this time, Rosen was slightly relieved.

"Now, I shouldn't be easily crushed by the Abyss masters. When facing the Apostle of Joy Liv, I don't have to tread on thin ice."

Adela is 21 rings, Patnaros 20 rings, and Liv is only 17 rings, which is no match for Rosen at all.

Next, it is to find a way to break through the extraordinary limit and impact the last three rings.

Rosen clearly felt the difficulty of the last three rings.

He estimated that breaking through the 21st ring was not too difficult and would only take three months, but the 22nd ring would take five months, and the last ring might take more than a year.

Originally, he planned to rush to the 23rd ring in one go.

But early in the morning of that day, he had just finished a day of practice and was relaxing with Belldandy when he suddenly felt a slight shock in his heart.

Then, he saw a time illusion.

A scarred boy walked through the jungle and came to the bottom of the cliff.

When the boy was desperate, he accidentally discovered a cave on the cliff, and then he desperately climbed towards the cliff.

When they were halfway up, the pursuers appeared not far away.

The pursuers looked like three mages standing on a floating flying disc, wearing colorful dark blue robes.

When they found the boy on the cliff, they immediately shouted loudly: "Traitor!"

The illusion stopped abruptly.

Rosen became curious: "Are you a mage from the Eye of the Dawn Tower?"

The news came from Liv.

Liv told him that the Eye of the Dawn was a mage organization in the ruins, which was quite powerful and was said to have a deep background in the Moon City.

Its symbol was an eye looking down at the ground from the sky, which was similar to the badges on the chests of the three mages.

The years in the cave were really boring, and now there was a change, Rosen was immediately looking forward to it.

He smiled at Belldandy who was screaming in front of him: "Sweetheart, there will be excitement later."