Chapter 562: Meeting an old friend

The second level of hell, the Iron Fortress.

A magic mirror was brought to Salvador.

Looking at the huge mirror, the clerk sighed and reached out to open the magic mirror.

Amber Xiu's face appeared in the mirror, and the two looked at each other for a long time, but they were silent, as if neither of them knew how to start.

After not seeing each other for three hundred years, Salvador has become a devil, and Amberxiu has become a spirit in the mirror. They once fought side by side, but finally became enemies. There are so many stories between the two that I don't know where to start.

In the end, it was Salvador who spoke first, and said to Amber Xiu: "I haven't seen you for so many years, and you haven't been promoted to a god. I am surprised?"

Amber Xiu said self-deprecatingly: "It's not that easy to become a god, especially for someone like me who is greedy and has no restraint. There are too many greedy people among mortals, and I am just one of them."

Salvador smiled and said, "You are greedy... It seems that you have changed a lot in the past few hundred years. When I knew you, you assassinated me seventeen times for the justice and fairness in your heart, which lasted for several years."

Amber: ...

Unexpectedly, when the old enemies met, there was not tension, but an indescribable awkwardness.

If only I were still a lich, I could block out those useless emotions and talk to Salvador about cooperation with a flawless fake smile.

But after regaining the feeling of being alive, the emotions become very complicated, and you have to accept both the good and the bad together. It is not like taking drugs and feeling only happy.

But after all, he was an old man of several hundred years old. Amber quickly calmed down and said to Salvador: "I believe you have heard the news I released. I need your help. I want to end the bloody battle."

Salvador did not show any excitement, but said calmly: "Let's not talk about whether I have let go of the hatred in the past. Even if you are just a stranger, why do you think I will help you? Why do you think you can do such an impossible thing?"

"How do you know it's impossible if you don't try?" said Amber Xiu.

Salvador said, "It's meaningless to use words to fool me. You used to do this before. I may not have a tongue as clever as yours, but I won't be fooled by appearances. You are crazy, and you are crazy for no reason. I don't know what your deep reason is, but I will never help a madman, no matter how much benefit there is."

Amber Xiu was rejected but didn't care at all. Instead, he smiled and said, "So, if I wasn't crazy, you would help me?"

Salvador raised his eyebrows and said disdainfully: "I said, don't use language traps..."

Amber interrupted directly and said, "This is not a language trap, this is the truth from the bottom of your heart. Salvador, hundreds of years have passed, and I am no longer the same person I was before. Now I have learned to read other people's expressions. Even though you are already the Devil Archduke, you still can't control your expression."

Salvador: ...

Amber looked at the silent clerk and threw out the last sentence: "Ryan is no longer extremely fanatical now. The Lord of Dawn won the bet, and the holy light will once again cover Ryan, but unfortunately, this future has nothing to do with you."

Salvador clenched his fists uncontrollably, crushing the thick stack of documents into powder.

Amber Xiu said in surprise: "You don't know? It's impossible. The secretary of the second layer of hell can't be unaware of Ryan's changes. Are the information you read every day all made up? So many people went to hell, such a big event, how could you not know. Oh, I understand, you don't dare to ask. After hundreds of years, you still haven't let go of Ryan, and you still haven't forgiven your past self. You don't dare to read any information related to Ryan, and you don't even dare to hear a word..."

"Shut up! You damned piece of shit!"

Amber Xiu said disdainfully: "You've been a devil for hundreds of years, and this is how you curse people?!"

Salvador shut his mouth. Although he was confident that he could see through all of Amber's schemes, he was still irritated by him. That was the past he could not forget, and it was his most persistent belief in his previous life.

Even though the Lord of Dawn denied his choice and sent him to hell with his sins, Salvador never resented the Lord of Dawn, because Salvador himself understood that killing innocent dwarves was wrong in the first place, and it was meaningless to use any kind of righteousness as an excuse.

Sin is sin, and Salvador did not feel that he was atonement for his sins by spending hundreds of years in hell.

He was just accepting punishment, and the days and nights of regret and shame were a torture specifically aimed at him.

And now, Ryan’s problem has been solved?

Has the Lord of the Dawn finally favored His believers again? Salvador's eyes turned red, and something hot seemed to be flowing out. Salvador lowered his head and said through gritted teeth: "Tell me what happened."

He could have checked it himself, but Salvador still wanted to hear the ending from Amberxiu's mouth. This was the reason why the two of them turned against each other in the past, and now it can be said that there is a beginning and an end.

Amberxiu no longer tried to provoke Salvador, and told him everything that had happened before in the shortest but most precise words.

When Salvador heard that Arthur Ryan's heroic spirit dissipated in order to completely slay the dragon, he finally couldn't bear it anymore. The powerful clerk lay on the table and burst into tears.

Arthur Ryan is a special existence for all the Ryan people, and is the pillar of life second only to the Lord of Dawn. Amber Xiu didn't know what Salvador was thinking now, whether he regretted not being able to fulfill his ideal and let Arthur Ryan sacrifice again, or felt that he was also an accomplice in killing the Holy King.

The crying alarmed the guards outside, and the moment they rushed in, they were torn into pieces by an invisible force.

Only when the devils' flesh and blood covered half the ground did Salvador raise his head again.

Although his eyes were still bloodshot, he finally calmed down.

An Boxiu looked at the blood and flesh and couldn't help but say, "Your cruel methods haven't changed at all."

Salvador said coldly: "I am no longer a priest of light, but a devil, a cruel and vicious devil. Is there any problem?"

"When you dry your tears, you speak with a strong voice."

Salvador's eyes widened and he cursed angrily: "You damn thing... do you still want me to help you?!"

"How can you not help? I saved Ryan, I helped the Lord of Dawn win the bet, and I am also Arthur Ryan's best friend..."

"Don't mention that name!" Salvador said excitedly, "You must have deceived His Majesty the Holy King. Even if you didn't say it, I can guess it! How can you call yourself his friend?!"

Amber Xiu shrugged. If you don't believe it, forget it. Even if Arthur Lane came back to life, he would not deny it.

Amber Xiu said to Salvador in a bad mood: "Okay, I won't waste my words. I want to end the bloody war. What can you do to help? Don't tell me that you have been a secretary for so many years and you can't give any good suggestions."

"I knew you would do this, so I avoided you." Salvador said helplessly: "Ending the bloody battle is the slogan you shouted. If it is just a cover, then I advise you not to think too much. This is impossible. Not to mention you, all the devils in the nine layers of hell cannot end this battle, because the bloody battle is part of the law of hell and the key to punishing sinners. Unless you destroy the nine layers of hell, what qualifications do you have to change the law of hell?"

It is impossible to destroy Hell. Only Io can do it. The sleeping Lord of Hell only controls the authority of the Nine Hells, similar to the existence of a king. But a king cannot destroy his own kingdom. The most he can do is to abdicate and let others take over.

"Don't pour cold water on me yet. Tell me the origin of this bloody battle first, and I'll think about it carefully." Amber Xiu said.

"There's nothing much to say. The endless Styx runs through countless planes. One of its huge tributaries connects the Abyss and Hell. That's the Blood River you saw, but that's only a small part of the Styx..."

Salvador began to explain to Amber the causes of the bloody battlefield and the distribution of various areas on the battlefield.

These are basic common sense that all the devil dukes know. Salvador has been the secretary of the Iron Duke for many years. He is also responsible for transporting troops and equipment to the Blood River Fortress over the years, so Salvador is very familiar with the bloody battle.

Amber listened for a long time and only heard two key points.

First, the demons can come to hell only by relying on this tributary of the Styx. For countless years, the demons have been unable to completely close this tributary, so the bloody battle will never end.

Theoretically, as long as the River Styx can be cut off, all problems can be solved.

But the difficulty of this is comparable to kicking Io away and becoming a god among gods yourself, so you basically don't have to consider it.

Second, the laws of hell are constantly self-completing. The blood war was not a means of punishing sinners at the beginning, but the blood war lasted too long, and the nine layers of hell have tacitly accepted the existence of the blood war and incorporated it into the laws. To end the blood war is to be against the will of the plane of the nine layers of hell.

If Amber Xiu lay down in Melina's territory, he would be counterattacked by the laws of hell. Want to stop the bloody battle? The backlash could easily destroy Melina and everything she owned. Amber Xiu might be able to avoid some punishments with his own characteristics, but he would definitely not be unscathed.

Strictly speaking, he is also a sinner who has gone to hell.

It sounds like both of these solutions are unsolvable, but Amber thinks the second one is not without a chance. Since the Nine Hells can accept a bloody battle, can they also accept something else as a substitute, and then doomedly isolate the invasion of the Styx? Amber told Salvador about this idea, and the clerk immediately mocked, "What a terrible torture it is to have a war that has not changed for billions of years. Where can you find a corresponding punishment that can satisfy the Nine Hells?"

"Well... I have no idea now, but it's not absolutely impossible." Amber said.

"Well, even if you can do it, how can you make the Nine Layers of Hell expel the Styx? The Styx is not a river, it is a very special plane, and what is connected there is the abyss. Cutting off the connection between planes is something that even powerful gods may not be able to do."

Amber touched his chin and said, "It's not impossible to study this."

He had never tried to exile a plane, but he had tried to exile a kingdom, and he was involved in the whole process. Perhaps, when Harvey's gifted student was promoted to god, he could sacrifice himself and Hell would cut off the Styx branch.

It doesn't mean that Harvey must be sacrificed. In any case, this is something that can be studied.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Salvador didn't know where Amber Xiu got his confidence from. He just felt that this matter was becoming more and more abnormal. He couldn't help but ask: "Isn't this a cover? Do you really want to end the bloody battle?"

Amber nodded and said, "I did have this idea, but I didn't say it was a cover."

"Are you sick? Why do you want to end the bloody battle?"

Salvador looked at Amber Xiu in shock. Was this guy kidding? Putting aside whether he could do it or not, why did he do this? Was he just crazy?

"I think this is my chance to become a god. Mortals must shine in order to be seen by Io. If even the gods above the gods cannot see me, how can I possibly become a god?"

"You are really sick. Even if Io really saw you at that time, he would crush you to death with one finger!"

Amber Xiu retorted: "Who can tell what the gods above the gods like?"

"Don't even mention Io. You made such a big noise, aren't you afraid of disturbing the sleeping one? The master of the Nine Hells has never been known for his good temper. At that time, before Io granted you the godhood, the Lord of the Devil had already extracted your soul. You don't think you can be safe hiding in the mirror, do you?"

Salvador could also sense that Ambershu's condition was special. Ordinary Dukes of Hell might not be able to do anything to Ambershu, but Asmodeus was different. He was the incarnation of Hell. Legend has it that he was born at the same time as Hell, so His power could not be speculated by the so-called powerful divine power.

Perhaps Asmodeus is not very good at fighting, but He is definitely on the same level as gods such as Corellon and the Goddess of Magic.

Corellon's arrow can instantly penetrate countless planes and lock onto Amber's soul. Even if he hides in the kingdom of the god of alchemy, he cannot escape this arrow. The goddess of magic can easily break the magic circuit of the magic mirror and then grab Amber out of the mirror.

Asmodeus must have had similar means.

In this state, the magic mirror spirit can only bully Zariel, and is definitely not enough in front of Asmodeus.

"Don't worry. I just started boasting. The Lord of Hell won't wake up and kill me as soon as he hears something. I still have time to study and arrange things slowly."

Salvador confirmed that Amberxiu had no intention of giving up, so he could only shake his head and said, "Then I can't help you. Only gods are qualified to intervene in this matter. The power I have is given by the Duke of Steel. It is useless if I leave the second level of hell. The bloody battlefield is in the first level of hell, and I can't help you."

"Don't think so lowly of yourself. Even a piece of toilet paper or a piece of mud can be useful, let alone a clerk of the second level of hell."

"Thank you for your sarcastic compliment. It's nothing. You can go away and don't bother me anymore."

Salvador issued the expulsion order without hesitation.

Amber smiled and said, "You call this disturbing? I can help you resolve a knot in your heart. Ryan has regained his life, and this is all my credit. Arthur Ryan and I are equals, and you should respectfully address me as sir."

"Get out! Get out now!"

Salvador couldn't help but grab the desk and try to throw it over.

This table made of pure obsidian weighs more than ten tons, but in Salvador's hands it is like a chicken feather.

"Okay, I won't joke with you anymore." Amber Xiu put away his joking expression and said very seriously: "Salvatore, whether you regret the evil deeds you committed or not, since you have gone to hell, my friend's family has been taken to the kingdom of the dwarf gods, and I have avenged them personally, then we are even now.

"I will not use my past crimes to blackmail you, nor will I use Ryan to force you to do things for me.

"But let me tell you something. You wanted to change Ryan on your own. Did you just throw away your ambition? Ending the bloody war is such a great feat. Think about it carefully. Do you want to join this great cause? You don't want others to only know you as a clerk but not even your name, right?"

Salvador didn't say anything, he put down the desk, then reached out and turned off the image in the magic mirror. After Amber disappeared, the clerk was silent for a long time, and finally said to himself: "The bloody battle... is too old, it's difficult to find information."

Amber did not force open the magic mirror in front of Salvador. He had obtained enough information from this meeting and at least found a direction that seemed promising.

Exile the tributaries of the Styx, and then find an alternative form of punishment. No matter how difficult it is, at least you know what to do.

But Amber was in no hurry to do this. He immediately descended to another magic mirror and said to Melina who was training, "Bring the little inferior demon who provided information about Salvador here."

Melina quickly ordered the little demon to be brought over, and then took the opportunity to ask, "Father, what's wrong? Is there any new information?"

Amber Xiu said, "There is information, but that's not what I'm going to talk about."

The little demon was soon brought to Ambersu. When they met again, the little demon seemed to be in much better spirits. Perhaps it was because he had been eating and drinking well during this period, and it seemed that his strength had become stronger.

But he was just a small demon after all. He dared not even breathe in front of Amberxiu. He could only lower his head and wait for Amberxiu's lecture.

The first sentence that Amberxiu said scared him half to death.

"That crazy woman in Parulil sent you, right? Where is she?"

Amberxiu didn't mean to scare him. Salvador himself didn't spread his name. How could a little demon know such a secret name?

There must be someone behind him who is willing to offend a big shot like Salvador to cause trouble... I guess it can only be that crazy woman!

Before the little demon could speak, an enchanting figure appeared in front of Amberxiu.

"Oh, ha ha ha, long time no see, you are still as sharp as before."

Parulil stood in front of Amber and asked, "Do you miss me, my old friend?"

(End of this chapter)