Under the Red Dragon

Boom,

In the deafening roar, the ground of the hills was as if an immense force from the earth had punched through, falling apart and forming an annular depression crater of more than ten meters.

At the same time, cracks like spiderwebs or fire lines extended further, scaring the spellcasters into immediately raising magical barriers and retreating behind the solid arms of the warriors.

Within the deep pit, a strong abyssal aura permeated, and without being driven, this abyssal aura spontaneously eroded the material plane, corroding the environment and life of the material plane.

In many worlds invaded by demon legions, indelible scars were left behind, not only because of the destruction of the demons but also because of the active erosion of the abyss.

"Your sacrifices, while good, have not truly satisfied me,"

In that intense abyssal aura, an exceptionally strong abyssal monster slowly stood up from the deep pit.

This demon minor lord, summoned by the spellcaster legion according to the specific spells and magical items recorded in the "Book of Vile Darkness", "Aham's Dark Scroll", and "Iggwilv's Demonology", should, in theory, obey the will of the summoner after being summoned.

However, while this demon minor lord has not lost control or rebelled, it has also not immediately attacked the enemy trapped in the nest according to the summoner's wishes.

This surprised many spellcasters, who looked at the tall abyssal monster.

This abyssal demon minor lord is clearly an ancient demon species from the abyss, a type of Tanar'ri demon. In demon lore, this type of demon is called a Soul Reaper or Soulbinder.

This Soul Reaper is over eight meters tall, covered in purple skin, and every feature on its body appears exceptionally burly. Two pairs of thick, blade-like bone horns grow backward from its ugly and ferocious head.

Its feet have three toes, like the cloven hooves of ungulates, but its fingers are extremely short, replaced by extremely thick and long bone claws.

Even on the upper sides of the demon's forearms, there are two pairs of bone blades and a pair of small bone spurs.

Its entire body exudes a ferocious posture, except for the short, thick tail behind its buttocks, which appears somewhat comical.

This type of Soul Reaper, called a "Horned Demon", has always been regarded as a clumsy, muscular demon. In the bottomless abyss, they are widely distributed slave owners and sometimes become captains of the guard for some powerful demon lords.

And their name comes from their ability to hunt and enslave souls. As slave owners, these demons especially like to sell their captured spoils and sacrifices to any wealthy creature.

However, this demon in front of them doesn't seem like the traditional image of a clumsy, muscular simpleton, especially since its eyes, which are only the size of green beans compared to its burly body, gleam with shrewdness as itoverlooking the many spellcasters.

"But considering your promise to offer me tributes in the future, the great demon lord Bartos has decided to answer your call,"

This Soul Reaper lord named Bartos, although carrying a chaotic abyssal aura, does not seem to have a chaotic mind. As a not-so-powerful Soul Reaper, being able to live to this day and become a minor lord requires some wisdom and luck.

"But if you want me to serve you, I have one not-too-excessive request," the Soul Reaper lord Bartos's voice carried the unique timbre of the demon race, as he turned his head to look at the two creatures standing on the top of the hill.

One was the unusually strong and tall troll Zuga, who was empty-handed, and the other was the imposing and fierce lizardman Raelith, who had two long swords stuck behind his back.

The Soul Reaper lord Bartos's gaze finally settled on the troll Zuga, and he said, "Hey, little guy, you should be the leader of these people. If you agree to my request, I will take action for you once."

The dragon-born troll Zuga's draconic features were not obvious, and the scales on his body were covered by a simple set of armor. He nodded slightly and glanced at the unmoving Raelith.

Then, he said loudly, "Powerful demon lord Bartos, please state your request. We will do our best to satisfy you, if possible."

"That hydra lizard has occupied our large tribe's nest and demands that we offer up the flesh and souls of our tribesmen. Relying on its strength, it enslaves us. Even if it costs us greatly, we must destroy it."

The Soul Reaper lord Bartos's green bean-sized eyes rolled around, and then he stepped out of the magical summoning array in the deep pit and came before the troll Zuga.

The hundreds of warriors along the way avoided the demon's body, lest they be contaminated by the abyssal aura around the Soul Reaper.

"My request is not much. You promised to dedicate my souls, can be halved, and can also be replaced with the souls of other creatures,"

"But, I require your tribe to establish a cult to worship me, make me the supreme god in the cult, and dedicate your faith to me."

The Soul Reaper Bartosoverlooking the troll Zuga, his huge voice carrying the aura of a demon's threat, making the expression on the troll Zuga's face barely change.

"If you can agree to this condition, I will not only kill this hydra lizard for you and throw its head at your feet for you to use as a urinal, but you can also use my name to summon my power to descend when there is danger in the future."

The Soul Reaper lord Bartos spewed out two streams of black smoke from his nostrils, and he said with a ferocious smile, "How about it, am I generous enough?"

Although trading with demons and other devils hides many risks, there are still many creatures in the mortal world who covet the power of demons.

Mortals will exchange magic or other favors with demons through transactions, and demon lords will control their servants in the mortal world to carry out their huge evil plans, but demons only regard these mortals as tools, abandoned pawns that can be discarded at will, and finally harvest the souls of mortals into the bottomless abyss.

However, this Soul Reaper in front of them is somewhat different from other demon lords.

This Soul Reaper lord named Bartos clearly knew some knowledge that he should not have known at his level. He had the same purpose as some god-like existences, relying on mortals to make a name for himself and coaxing praise and worship from the guys under his feet.

This guy knows how to use fame to transform into primal power, the more people know him, the more likely he is to go further.

Moreover, Bartos's ambition is extremely great. He has not yet become a god-like powerful existence, but he has already begun to want to learn from those powerful demon lords, beginning to imitate and learn from the gods.

This is thanks to the successful examples of several powerful demon lords, such as Baphomet, the King of Minotaurs, and Demogorgon, the abyssal overlord known as the Two-Headed Baboon, and Jubilex, the abyssal lord known as the Faceless One.

And Yeenoghu, the King of Gnolls, the demon lord of all gnolls in the world, these special existences have all achieved true divinity by similar means.

The lost undead god whose name has been erased from all records in the bottomless abyss is also like this.

These abyssal lords used their evil ways and will power to create their own positions in the multiverse for themselves.

Although the dragon-born troll Zuga was not clear about all of this, no matter what sky-high conditions the other party offered, he would nod in agreement after a moment of feigned hesitation.

So, the troll Zuga used all the acting skills and strength he had accumulated in the first half of his life, desperately twitching the muscles on his face, distorting his expression to the point that even Raelith, who was next to him, couldn't stand it and coughed lowly twice before the troll nodded heavily.

"I said, no matter what the cost, I will save my tribe," the troll Zuga's eyes flickered, and he said in a heavy tone, "As long as you can defeat or kill that hydra as agreed, our Bloodclaw tribe will fulfill this promise."

"Very well, I will let you know how powerful and tolerant the god and lord you serve will be," the Soul Reaper lord Bartos received a satisfactory answer and stepped towards the dark nest that was constantly overflowing with poisonous gas.

"Come out, my good dog," Bartos grinned and released the soul he enslaved, which was also a demon from the abyss, but a Bralani demon with close combat civilization.

This type of demon is the heavy infantry of the abyss, a powerful melee expert who is intoxicated with splitting flesh and splashing blood, perhaps once an enemy who failed to compete with this Soul Reaper Bartos for the position of minor lord.

This demon soul showed the same appearance as it had in life, covered in festering sores and abscesses, with patches of short mane decorating its tall, thin skeleton.

It had a huge pale white ram's head with curved horns, cold eyes, and sticky saliva and protruding dense needle-like teeth.

Its snake-like tail twitched, and the end was a mass of twisted metal thorns. Despite its thin figure, this beast-like demon wielded a harpoon that was too huge for its size with an unsettling elegance, and quietly burrowed into the dark nest.

Roar,

Only a moment later, the roar and painful hissing of a giant beast came from the dark cave. The intense poisonous mist rushed out of the cave, and the Bralani demon carrying the harpoon floated out of the cave unhurriedly.

Rumble,

The sound of the enormous monster arching the entire nest on the hill came, and one huge head after another poked out of the cave, nine heads like giant snakes, blue-green skin, vertical pupils cold, like beasts.

Only the middle head was dyed with a layer of faint gilded gold, which looked extraordinarily majestic.

"You, actually dare to disturb my, Hydra's nap time, you really deserve to die," the cold words were accompanied by a hissing sound,

Behind the nine heads was a huge body, a full twenty meters in size, which was a considerable size even among snakes.

"You, actually dare to betray me," the anger in the eyes of this Hydra variant named Hydra made her indifferent snake pupils bright up. She turned her head to face the demon lord Bartos again.

The hissing sound smelled of a intense abyssal aura, which made the Hydra's anger soar. "Get back to your abyss, this is not a place for you, demon, do you want to possess my dependents?"

"Hehe, an immature pure-blooded Hydra, even in many material planes, is rare," the demon Bartos revealed a strange look.

He sneered: "Now you submit and surrender, it's still too late, otherwise, killing a pure-blooded Hydra, even a demon, will feel regretful, you should become the guardian of my cult."

hissing,

The enraged Hydra was provoked by the demon's words, and the nine heads spewed out swamp black water poison and acid. None of these spewed substances were without severe toxicity.

It is said that the blood and flesh of the Hydra contain one of the most potent toxins in the world, which can easily poison any beast.

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Unfortunately, no spellcaster in the world ever fights a battle without preparation, just like a certain bat old man who likes to walk in the night.

These spellcasters, after learning that the magic god enshrined by the Bloodclaw tribe was a poisonous Hydra, chose to summon the demon lord - Soul Reaper, a demon with near immunity to toxins and electricity, a creature that is naturally not afraid of the Hydra's breath.

"Hahaha, you bold fool," the Soul Reaper lord Bartos's huge arm hammered his sturdy chest.

His body suddenly swelled at this moment, turning into a fourteen-meter giant with gnarled muscles and veins exposed. The bone blade in his hand was surrounded with a intense aura, and he directly welcomed the Hydra's poisonous breath.

The Bralani demon flying in the sky by the soul characteristics also at this moment towards Hydra's back of the neck stabbed the huge harpoon, although the Bralani demon's body has disappeared, but under this soul control, its attack is enough to harm the enemy's soul.

Roar,

The Soul Reaper lord Bartos's expanded body directly bumped the heads spitting poisonous breath, and the huge bone blade in his hand directly chopped off two of the Hydra's heads, and rolling poisonous blood gushed out from the break, splashing on the ground.

The severe toxin can even corrode the soil, making the soil dry and curled.

The Bralani demon's harpoon also harmed Hydra's soul, making this careless Hydra suffer a big loss upon meeting.

But the middle golden head of the Hydra made a severe roar at this moment, and the sound waves and shock waves visible to the naked eye rolled the soil on the ground, spreading out in an instant.

The Soul Reaper Bartos, who head-on confronted the sound waves, overflowed blood from his eyes, nose and mouth, and the soul of the Bralani demon behind him was shaken to the point of fluctuation, and the hands and feet in front of the sound waves were crushed into nothingness at the first time.

A large number of warriors around were fine after the spellcasters jointly propped up the magic barrier and magic shield, but the spellcasters of the spellcaster legion were all flushed in the face, desperately outputting their magic power to stabilize the shaking magic barrier.

The Soul Reaper lord Bartos overflowed blood from his facial features, but was not seriously injured. At this moment, he heavily stepped on the ground.

Spell-like ability: Greater Teleport.

The Soul Reaper Bartos's figure disappeared in an instant, and appeared behind the Hydra, claws wielding, and towards the Hydra slashing down.

Spell-like Abilities: Levitation, Haste. After cleaving off another head, Barthos soared into the air, dodging the Hydra's massive tail strike, which instead pulverized a boulder into dust.

Spell-like Abilities: Greater Command. A lesser demon, summoned by the Soul Reaper Barthos, emerged from the abyssal demonic energy. It was also a Soul Reaper, though only five meters tall, but its body was exceptionally strong.

As soon as this Soul Reaper appeared, it charged directly at the Hydra, completely disregarding its own life. Under the Greater Command spell, this demon had to submit to the summoner's will.

"Damn you, you're forcing my hand," the Hydra, whose severed heads were already budding, opened the mouth of its golden head and spat out a white flash.

This white flash immediately drew everyone's attention, as it radiated an incredibly powerful and intense aura.

Ding, ding, ding, ding,

With a peculiar rhythm, the white flash instantly vibrated around the Soul Reaper Lord Barthos, then its sharp tip hesitated for a moment before easily piercing the body of the other summoned demon.

It directly pierced the demon's heart, then remained motionless, leaving only a string of translucent, lustrous white ivory chain visible outside the body.

"Damn it, I wanted you to bind him, not kill that idiot," Hydra shook its massive body frantically, ensnaring the Soul Reaper Barthos, who was stunned by the ivory chain.

The two behemoths roared in unison, rolling and fighting on the ground, shattering the surrounding hills and collapsing the ground. However, the Soul Reaper Barthos couldn't break free from Hydra's powerful restraint in a short time.

The Soul Reaper's claws could sever any of Hydra's heads, except for the golden head in the center and the light golden body.

His claws could only inflict significant damage to Hydra's light golden body, but he also had to face the Hydra's binding and the constant biting of its heads.

Even in this intense battle, both massive monsters simultaneously sensed an extremely lethal danger.

They looked up in unison, gazing at the flames rolling in from the sky like a storm.

They may not have heard the words circulating in the Golden Land: Beware the firelight in the sky, for that blazing light may not be the sun, but the sun's incarnation in the mortal realm—the Golden King.

Rumble,

The explosive force was still rolling in from afar, but before the two monsters, they saw a sun suddenly descend in the distorted air, and two enormous, brilliant dragon claws reached out, pressing down on the two monsters.

Bang!

Before the two monsters could react, their heads and bodies were pressed into the mud by the immense force, and the sunken pit buried their bodies.

When they raised their heads, they saw a gigantic, unique dragon.

And a magic circle, quietly raised by a legion of spellcasters.

Although demons do not truly die outside the Abyss, even after death, they will reshape themselves from their essence at the bottom of the Abyss. Few creatures can completely kill a demon in other worlds.

However, both the knowledge left by ancient mages and the knowledge exchanged with alien gods clearly told the Red Dragon how to seal the demon's true form and essence in the material plane.

Today's battle was just a small experiment.

The Soul Reaper Barthos felt his power and connection to the Abyss fading away, on the verge of tears. He shouted angrily, "Damn it, I responded to the summons and worked hard to fulfill the contract for you. Not only did you not fulfill your promises, but you also want to completely seal me away. You are the real demons, you damn demons!"