Thick, dark gray smoke billowed from the colossal Dragon Harbor, seemingly slanting into the white clouds. The shipyards were enormous, their outlines appearing entirely black, yet at this moment, the entire Barayamakan was shrouded in dense, dark clouds.
Beyond Devil's Reef, however, the shadows of corpses appeared.
Those bodies were not killed.
Instead, it was the bloated, swollen corpses that were being submerged that were being carried along the river, along the active waters of the Barayamacan, into the settlement of the Innsmouth people of Cthulhu.
The settlements in the Canaanite territory include dwarven industrial clusters within towns.
There are also gathering places for followers of the Devil's Cult under Abraham, but when talking about Devil's Reef, one must mention the gathering place of Cthulhu creatures and their followers.
Within the Canaanite territory, the Devil's Reef, the town of Innsmouth, and the marine resources of Dragon Harbor, along with the abundant barnacles, shellfish, and seafood formed by the nearby reefs, were the areas where the people of Innsmouth, who adhered to the Dagonic Mysticism and the Hydra, flourished.
Recently, Balayamakan has been repeatedly embroiled in war.
First, they were attacked by elves.
Having done his best to declare war on the High Elf Empire, Su Yue, riding Sleipnir, whose face was covered in heavy armor, arrived at and inspected Devil's Reef.
"What happened?"
Su Yue's figure was incredibly domineering. As soon as he arrived, he discovered that near Devil's Reef, a large number of Innsmouth residents were fishing and retrieving a large number of corpses from the water.
Ragnar said, “Master, a fleet of High Elves intends to launch a surprise attack on Balayamakhan.”
"oh?"
Su Yue was surprised and went forward to see.
A large number of treasure chests and corpses were discovered, all floating from the bottom of Devil's Reef onto the beach of Balayamakham? What happened?
"Shipwrecks, a large number of shipwrecks have been discovered at the bottom of Devil's Reef."
"..."
Su Yue looked astonished, wondering if these guys had invaded Balayamakan and run aground. He thought, "This territory is off-limits to beach landings. Without his orders, the Devil's Reef barrier can block almost any naval fleet."
The Titanic sank after hitting a reef, and countless ships sink on icebergs every year.
Do you want to attack Canaan?
An attack at sea?
"Hehe..." Su Yue had just changed all his military uniform and equipment, and now he was in his prime, wearing a steel helmet and imperial riding boots, along with his appearance riding an armored white horse.
This immediately drew cheers from the entire population of Balayamakan.
"My lord, a large number of the corpses have been confirmed to be High Elves."
"They launched a surprise attack on Devil's Reef, but were blocked. We are now collecting treasure and salvaging the shipwreck." Su Yue laughed. "Thank you for your thoughtfulness."
Lord's Log: "The High Elf fleet raided Barayamachan, but encountered the Devil's Reef and was defeated by the reef. Enemy Legions (countless): 2000+. Your Innsmouth minions are salvaging shipwreck treasure at Devil's Reef."
Su Yue was still pondering the development of the Canaan territory.
More good news followed.
Abraham emerged from the darkness and said with a smile, "Master, a batch of minerals from the Abyss is now in place."
"What have you been up to lately?"
Abraham smiled and said, “Please come with me.”
"good."
A colossal, dark blue portal appeared before Abraham. As a top-tier spellcaster surpassing level 9, his strength was formidable. Through the portal, Su Yue could almost smell a pungent sulfurous odor.
Abraham wore a noble tailcoat with a white bow tie and gold emblem. A monocle at the corner of his eye formed a U-shaped arc of gold chain, making him appear exceptionally elegant and mature. His mind was extremely insidious and cunning, as if he were born for intrigue.
There were two silk scarves inside the bow tie at his chest, and Abraham's long fingers seemed to be wiping away the bloodstains.
Since Cardinal Schwartz's death, the Dominican Order and the Spiritualists have fallen into a state of silence. But Su Yue knew very well that they couldn't remain silent, especially Devil's Reef. Besides contributing nearly 20 million gold coins in taxes last time, it was changing rapidly every day. These Torah believers were incredibly loyal to their leader, Abraham, and traveled daily through the interdimensional portal.
Abraham's every plan of action seemed incredibly mysterious, like a round mirror in his hand.
Before the frame is opened, no one knows what's inside.
From a distance, Abraham's figure overlapped with Su Yue's, like a prime minister and an emperor of an empire inspecting all their territories.
Human ambitions seemed irrelevant to Abraham.
Holding the smelling salts, he solemnly took the lead and walked towards the portal. His existence was probably over a thousand years old. In stark contrast to those who believed in God, Abraham's every action and behavior seemed like that of an imperial nobleman, yet he also revealed a dark aura that was completely opposite to that of imperial nobles and theocrats, like a demonic monarch or Behemoth shrouded in a human appearance.
He would even occasionally accompany the faithful of the Holy See to worship, offer sacrifices, and receive Holy Communion.
Like an adult human observing ants, he might raze the anthill to the ground with a single step before leaving. This description stems from Abraham's innate sense of oppression and danger.
The moment Su Yue stepped into the portal to another world, he was captivated by the scene before him.
A massive, dark mechanical chain was dragging Abraham's back, who was standing with his hands behind his back, and Su Yue's figure, at a 45° angle, half a body length ahead of him.
"Shouldn't we be going down? Why are we still going up?"
Time had not smoothed out Abraham's rough edges. He spoke with a calm and respectful demeanor: "My lord, this time I may have to take you to see a lord of the abyss, the ruler of the Silver Palace, my chief, Lord Grazt."
"oh?"
If Su Yue once felt distressed, worried, or nervous about meeting the true god, his hands are now firm, and he would never tremble in front of others.
This is thanks to the experiences of Kshira and Id Ya, as well as the experiences during this period.
A huge gate opened to them.
The demonic territory of the Argent Palace presented Li Ye with a vast and magnificent scene, with a long table laden with food and soup, exuding a strong medieval atmosphere.
The sunlight was an evil, cold white.
There was no sign of the sun in the sky, but the light shone through the clouds, evenly and densely refracted and reflected through the silver palace, passing through the windowsill, making Su Yue's eyes sting.
His inner emotions were unusually calm and peaceful, and he had no idea what would happen when he met the Lord of the entire plane at the Silver Palace.
However, Su Yue seemed to complain about Abraham, the sixth son, day and night, claiming that he was not a person worthy of respect, but in reality, Su Yue trusted Abraham, his companion and subordinate, very much.
Some even went so far as to trust to the point of obsession.
He walked along, his sleeves, epaulettes, and lace breastplates swaying back and forth.
"For people who don't believe in God, this place is like paradise."
Su Yue looked up at the abyss, or more accurately, the Infinite Layers of the Abyss, in the style and appearance of an 18th-century aristocratic painting. The enormous walls and ramparts, reflected in the glass, floated in the distant Vosges Mountains.
Whether frivolous or tall, Su Yue sensed a cold, oppressive, dark, and destructive aura from these ivory towers outside the mountains.
Have we arrived yet?
Abraham pulled the table aside for Su Yue, and he smiled:
"A feast for the Abyss Lords will be held soon."
"A get-together??"
Abraham said, “Regarding the future, I need to explain to you that the multidimensional and diverse cosmic structure of the world planes is evolving, and a large number of cracks have appeared in the material plane of Turin.”
"crack?"
Abraham pushed back the chair, which was very wide and covered with an intricate pattern of pure silver mirrors. The pattern depicted dragons, behemoths, demons, and millions of people at war, as if the figures were alive.
Abraham laughed and said, "Yes, so the Abyss is preparing for a great war to invade the material plane."
"Is this what you've been busy with lately??"
"Is the Abyss about to invade the material plane?"
"this……"
Abraham shook his head and said, "The gods of the future will become saints and descend to the mortal realm. Countless gods will fall, and worldly power will become their bargaining chips. We are not waging war against the material plane, but rather..."
"And what?"
Su Yue sat in the chair Abraham had offered, diagonally to the right of the large dining table in the Silver Palace. There, a larger lord's chair seemed to exude a thick, divine aura, a scent unique to evil gods. That appeared to be the seat of "Dark Lord" Grazt.
Abraham said, “It is an act of charity.”
"??"
"The souls of mortals will enter the Demon Pool and be transformed into demons. The souls of humans after death may become creatures of the bottomless abyss. Isn't this a form of charity?"
"..."
Su Yue remained silent... He felt as if he had been led astray. He chatted with Abraham in a casual manner, but the Lord's Log seemed to fall silent again.
As if suppressed by a bottomless abyss, Su Yue understood that Abraham would not harm him.
Because his favorability rating has been raised to 100 points.
Keep in mind that Gregory's favorability rating is only 89.
Of course, he might have been deceived by Abraham, but Su Yue trusted his future imperial prime minister completely. If he wanted to kill him, he probably could have done so long ago.
The situation where subordinates are stronger than their lords, which is considered problematic and unacceptable, is not something that Su Yue finds unacceptable.
His subordinates include the evil god Cthulhu, the archangel of Heaven, the lord of Joanna's empire, and the great devil Abraham. He seems to be able to establish connections with many evil gods, which makes Su Yue not too uneasy.
"What kind of personality does Lord Grazt have?"
The Devil Cult, the Dominican Order, the Spiritualists, and many other branches of the Devil Cult, in essence, worship the Great Devil of the Abyss, the Great Demon, and this Evil God Lord. Their faith and doctrines are directed towards this "Dark Lord" Grazt.
He even provided protection to Canaan in the early days of the county, giving the entire Canaanite territory a bonus.
"Congratulations, player. Your territory has gained a new evil god cult: Lord of Darkness, Grazt."
"Your territory gains a constant effect: +3 Leadership Charisma (Morale)."
"Calamity: Luck -3 for all enemy creatures".
"Source: +5 Magic".
"Evil Gravity: Increases favorability with the Lion, Banshee, and Six-Armed Serpent by 50%".
These attributes didn't have a significant impact in the early stages of Canaan because Su Yue wasn't a spellcaster, and he couldn't recruit lion-man, banshees, or six-armed serpent demons.
At this moment, Su Yue asked Abraham, "Can I recruit Abyss troops now?"
"As the lord of the Silver Palace plane, how is your territory?"
"Could you show me around your territory?"
Abraham smiled and said, "Some mysteries are better revealed little by little." Su Yue remained silent. It was another answer like this, keeping him in suspense. From Abraham, this great devil, you could never seem to see through his plans and actions.
He seemed to live his entire life in scheming and intrigue, and was like the embodiment of hatred and sin.
As a devil lord, his deep and dark mind seems to be the defining characteristic of his personality.
Su Yue doesn't even want to change adults.
Not to mention a great demon who has lived for thousands of years.
A spider was hiding not far away. Soon, tiny, segmented insects, like centipedes, crawled toward Abraham and Su Yue's table, seemingly attracted by the food on their table. Woodlice, toads, and even a black snake-like creature with colorful stripes, resembling an eel, all crawled toward the table.
"..."
A centipede laughed and said, "Abraham, it's been a long time."
"Long time no see. This is the Su Yue man from Canaan in the material plane."
The white spider, with seven or eight compound eyes on its head, seemed to bow respectfully and said with a smile, "What a handsome lord you are! I have long heard of your deeds. You will surely rule the material plane in the future."
He crawled toward Su Yue.
An ordinary person's courage would probably collapse at this moment, but Su Yue is different. He has seen too many scenes of death and war. The so-called demons and devils did not make him feel too much fear. Perhaps Su Yue himself is the embodiment of fear of the unknown.
Compared to slumbering in the void of the universe, this is the perspective of a plane that falls in love with Xerath, the Cthulhu god.
The sight of the spider speaking human language was nothing more than a minor spectacle to him.
"You flatter me, Abraham. And who are these gentlemen?"
Abraham said respectfully, “This is Lady Billings Franks, who is also a demon lord of the lands of Azzagrat.”
"Hello."
The centipede's voice came: "Your demigod power is strong and captivating, General Su Yue."
Abraham: "Lord Hynes Adelaide of Azgrath, the Lord of the Abyss."
"Hello."
Su Yue watched as the white spider climbed onto the dining table. The instant it climbed from the table leg onto the silver bench, a beautiful woman, gentle, graceful, and affectionate like an 18th-century court noblewoman, appeared opposite Su Yue.
She transformed into human form, picked up a knife and fork, and wiped the silver fork clean.
And he smiled at Su Yue.
"..."
The second centipede crawled toward the food on the table and suddenly transformed into a fat, muscular demon lord with fangs and two single horns on its head, gnawing on the chicken in front of it.
It makes a clanging and jingling sound.
"Hains, be mindful of the consequences."
"There are new people."
"..."
A black midge, its wings fluttering, transformed in mid-air into a gloomy, withered, and emaciated old man, nodding at Su Yue.
Abraham: "Lord Alfred."
A rough-looking man, as if he had just returned from the waves and the harbor, appeared to Su Yue's left, sitting next to him. He looked somewhat impatient, and he was dressed in the same 18th-century style, with a huge snuff bottle hanging from his neck.
This man, who was also like a sailor and first mate, and whose body reeked of cooking oil and grease, gave Su Yue a dangerous feeling. Even as a demigod, he felt a sense of killing intent and death from the gathering of these Silver Palace Abyss lords.
It was as if tens of millions of terrifying and vicious beasts were lurking inside a closed, massive city wall, about to fight in an arena. Everyone here seemed to have their own authority and territory, able to point fingers and act arrogantly in their own domain. Therefore, when it came to this kind of dining table, everyone seemed somewhat restrained and repressed.
Abraham: "Longsmat Tarien, Tarli, the Abyss Outer Messenger."
"..."
"He was Demogorgon's subordinate, a kind of diplomatic envoy in the court."
"Demogorgon?"
"Yes."
Su Yue initially didn't know what the Abyss Envoy meant, but now he was certain that the other party was not a lord under "Lord of Darkness" Grazt, but an envoy of other Abyss gods.
Enveloped in the abyss, Su Yue felt like a small boat adrift in a dark sea. If his sanity could drop, he felt he would probably faint from fright at the sight of that grotesque figure gnawing on a head.
A demon resembling a fisherman; a monster with tentacles on its face; a bizarre large cat with a human face and a body like a mollusc.
Lords of various appearances were preparing to dine inside the incredibly long and narrow Silver Palace.
In fact, quite a few people have already started eating it.
Whether it was a few minutes or centuries later... the oppressive, gloomy, and expectant atmosphere finally took a turn for the better.
"Lord of Darkness" Graz'zt emerged from a dark blue portal. He looked at Abraham, nodded to him, and then walked step by step toward the throne on the steps.
"Lord..."
"Lord..."
"Greetings, Your Majesty, Lord of Darkness, Great Lord Grazt."
At this moment, all the demon lords, whether it was Billings Franks, the abyss lord in the form of a white spider, Alfred, the gaunt midge in the form of a gnat, or Abraham, stood up.
A shadowy silhouette and ripples.
That immense divine power made Su Yue, a demigod, feel his own insignificance, as if he were facing Kshira.
This was the second time he had met the true God.
The gods of the bottomless abyss.
To pay homage to the emperor.
The presence of Abraham as a guide made Su Yue somewhat suspicious of the purpose and motives of this trip. However, considering the possibility that the gods might descend and become saints to walk among humans, Su Yue realized that this was probably a problem with the "version".
The Silver Palace is rumored to have sixty-six ivory towers and one hundred cold mirror halls. There is also a labyrinth on the outskirts of the Mirror World. The Dark Lord Grazt did not seem as noisy and domineering as Su Yue had imagined.
Instead, he calmly sat back in his chair and said, "Let's begin the meal."
"yes."
The eyes of the many Abyss Lords at the table gleamed brightly, and Abraham gestured for Su Yue to use his knife and fork.
As an "outsider".
Su Yue naturally trusted Abraham.
He picked up his knife and fork, took a piece of chicken breast, and placed it on the silver plate.
It felt as if he were swallowing leather or eating a stone; a hard, astringent, and nauseating sensation filled Su Yue's nasal cavity.
"vomit……"
Abraham laughed: “Sir, you should not do anything unseemly at the table.”
"You want me to swallow this thing?"
Abraham waved his hand... In an instant, Su Yue stared in shock at the "chicken breast" in front of him...
Without saying a word, he swallowed the chicken breast in one gulp.
Lord's Log: "You have devoured the flesh and blood of the ninth-tier dragon Ixu, gaining 15 attribute points."
"Your body has been bathed in dragon blood, your internal organs have been strengthened, your strength +7, constitution +12."
"??????"
"This is fucking..."
"Is this dragon meat?"
On the narrow, cramped plate, a dead chicken had transformed into a shrunken corpse of a giant dragon, dried up in black blood. The dragon's body resembled a colossal creature thousands of meters long, while the plate seemed to be flowing with mountain spring water and dragon blood. Su Yue looked to his right…
“Behemoth…”
"Angel???"
"Hydra..."
He stared in shock at the top-tier creatures on the table, their pupils like a kaleidoscope, seven or eight beams of light emanating from "Lord of Darkness" Graz'zt as he gazed at Su Yue's profile.
At the dining table, Su Yue took a sip from the tin wine pot.
"You have drunk from the Fire God's Spring and gained: Strength x4, Spiritual Awareness +5."
Su Yue thought to himself, if the players knew about this scene, they would probably be devastated.
He started eating right away.
Lord's Log: "You consumed Black Dragon Flesh and Blood, gaining: Strength +8, Agility +5."
—Your body has been bathed in the blood of a black dragon, gaining the trait: Magic Resistance.
His strength became 172 and his agility reached 106.
The plate was printed with the date.
Su Yue felt a little dizzy, and smoke seemed to be swirling around his ears. The lords around him began to whisper and discuss war-related topics.
He didn't faint, but he experienced hallucinations as if he had eaten a poisonous mushroom.
"..."
A ragged child ran toward him.
The enormous cathedral seemed to have been crushed by the hooves of a massive army of demons trampling on blood...
"Thank you, the great Lord of Darkness, Lord Grazt."
He has six fingers.
His skin was dark, and his eyes gleamed with an eerie green light.
It seemed that Su Yue had paid his respects before the throne. Su Yue's vision was filled with blurry and chaotic signs. He looked at the "Lord of Darkness," Grazt, before him.
"Lord of Darkness," Grazt laughed:
"I look forward to your performance in the material plane. Perhaps in the future, you will also have a place in the territory of the abyss."
The banquet quietly ended amidst the chaos, darkness, and ambiguity of Su Yue.
He didn't even know what exactly happened at the banquet.
He participated.
Yet it also seemed as if they hadn't participated at all.
Enveloped in darkness and surrounded by black mist, Su Yue fell into a deep sleep.
The world of Turin should, in theory, have reached its eighth day.
What Su Yue found strange was that when he came to his senses, he found himself back on the dining table.
"!!!"
The Abyss King, "Lord of Darkness," walked back to his seat. Abraham was beside Su Yue: "Master, what's wrong?"
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