This is the Domain of Bayan, now the ninth layer of the abyss, a country ruled by a powerful and evil demon lord [The Queen of Fire].
It consists of a main plane where the fire element is extremely active, and three demi-planes that support slaves and food.
The combined total of more than 100,000 lives in the four planes are all the subjects and slaves of the demon lord, and they all live under her shadow.
And such a country is very common for the abyss where no one knew the specific space. It is an indescribable one among hundreds of planes.
But now it is only one of the sixteen realms controlled by demons.
After the gods fell into a deep sleep, extraordinary creatures with faith were most severely affected. The intuitive impact was that priests lost their perception of the gods, and many divine spells were directly unable to be used.
But it's not just the poor people who are affected, beings like demons who don't believe in gods are also affected to a certain extent.
The most intuitive point is that the abyss, the base camp of the demons, has shrunk significantly.
The abyss that was once composed of multiple planes underwent huge changes. A large number of layers shrank and disappeared, along with the demons above who had not had time to escape.
In that catastrophic event that caused the sky to collapse and the earth to fall, even the power of legend was not as strong as imagined, and it would still be swept away.
And when everything finally settled, the entire abyss shrank to only one percent of its original size.
The current abyss is simply not enough for hundreds of thousands or even millions of demons. In order to compete for territory, extremely fierce battles broke out among the demons.
Countless demons died in that turmoil, and more than a million demons were reduced by more than 50% in the crazy fighting.
To this day, there are still two demon kingdoms that can intuitively feel the misery of the battle at that time.
One is the skeleton kingdom on the third level, where countless demon skeletons and undead creatures born from them remain, and is ruled by the most powerful demon undead born from them.
One is the blood ocean on the fourth level, a vast ocean formed by the blood of countless demons. Not only does it contain a highly corrosive rancid smell, but there are also various types of flesh and blood that have not been digested.
A very special point is that the bloody ocean of the fourth level is the only plane without a clear lord. Several demon lords that once existed all disappeared mysteriously.
There are rumors that some kind of special existence was born in the depths of the bloody ocean.
No one knows whether the rumors are true or not, but the special nature of the blood book has given it some special uses. All kinds of "junk" will be thrown into it by neighboring planes for destruction.
As for how many compatriots have died, demons don't care, this concept does not exist in their minds.
die?
In the abyss, won't you die?
From the moment a demon is born in the blood pool of the abyss, he will experience countless deaths and killings throughout his life.
There are very few demons like succubi who only like to fight in a different way, and they can be called weird among demons.
But even if they are succubi, their lack of bellicosity will only make them look cruel and bloody to other demons.
For most demons, they spend their lives either taking other people's lives to evolve, or becoming other people's nourishment.
There is no other choice.
Killing, death, fighting, blood and fire... these are completely normal to the demons living in the abyss, and they will not be sentimental at all.
What the demon lords care about is only how much power and territory they gain, and how much strength they can improve.
And under the demon lord, there are still a large number of people who are eyeing the position of lord and want to overthrow the demon in power.
No matter how the world changes, fighting, fighting, and death will always be the unchanging essential color at the bottom of the abyss.
And being able to stand out among many powerful demons and fight for the next plane to gain the title of Demon Lord, there is no doubt about the power of the Fire Queen herself.
But this does not mean that she is a wise lord.
Although she has some special interests and hobbies in other demon lords, she upholds the devil's usual brutality in ruling, ruling the country with blood and terror.
As her heir, Karan is lucky, but also unfortunate.
Fortunately, with half the blood of a demon lord, Karan has not encountered many obstacles in improving her strength, allowing her to touch the threshold of the legendary demon at this age.
Unfortunately, this bloodline is only half.
Karan doesn't know who her father is. From the time she can remember, she has been living in the demiplane... with other slaves.
She didn't know that she was the heir of the Lord of this country, and no one was secretly guarding her.
She was like the product of an abandoned toy, thrown directly into that demiplane and left to fend for itself.
Karan has been alone from the beginning, living as a member of the slaves.
They are said to be slaves, but in fact most of those people are hybrids born from their ancestors for various reasons and have varying degrees of demon blood.
It was a world of chaos and evil, and there was no such thing as order.
Although slaves suffered a lot of oppression and unfair treatment because of their status, this does not mean that those uneducated and uncivilized guys deserve much sympathy.
Especially when those guys still have demon blood flowing in their veins!
The strong draw their swords in anger at the stronger, and the weak draw their swords in anger at the weaker.
Those guys would not hesitate at all to bully slaves who are weaker than themselves.
And being a woman in that kind of world would make Karan more valuable for exploitation.
So from the beginning, she was pretending to be a man, hiding her identity and using her fangs to disguise herself.
After her strength increased to the second level and she had the ability to change her appearance, she directly transformed into a male and simply lived in that identity.
Fortunately, her bloodline was strong enough, allowing her to have strength far exceeding that of other adult slaves at a very young age.
It was only after a long time that Karan understood his situation by chance and knew that there was no future for him to stay here.
Young Karan was not impulsive and had been saving up his strength to gather other slaves and look for opportunities to defect.
Until one day, she found a suitable opportunity and took everyone to make a desperate move.
Nearly ten thousand slaves attacked the demon warriors guarding them.
They were almost successful.
But in the end, the massive rebellion did not cause any waves.
And everything failed because the Queen of Fire suddenly got up and went out for inspection.
Nearly ten thousand rioting slaves were reduced to charcoal under the demon lord's spell.
Karan, who was the only one to survive because of his strength, aroused the interest of the Fire Demon Queen and was brought to the main plane by her like she picked up an interesting toy.
Because of the Queen of Fire's hobbies, Karan, like other demons with special talents, was adopted as her heir.
She did live a better life, no longer having to live as a slave.
but……
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"It's really interesting."
Ning Feng tasted the information he had obtained hiding in Karan's soul and said strangely:
"She's not satisfied."
Yes.
Karan was not satisfied.
After becoming the nominal heir of the Fire Queen, Karan's identity and status underwent a radical change in a very short period of time.
From a slave without any dignity, she transformed into the beloved heir of the demon lord.
Yes, it is love.
At that time, Karan's strength was not outstanding among the queen's descendants, but he received more attention because of the rebellion.
Slave rebellion is not a problem. From the devil's point of view, rebellion is not a problem at all, and it is not even worthy of their discussion.
The one who has the ability to organize a rebellion and almost succeed is what they care about.
For Karan at that time, she was labeled as a brainy guy in the eyes of others.
This is no joke.
Demons with brains like succubus are only a minority in the abyss. Most of them are still filled with the desire to kill. It is really difficult for them to organize such a thing.
On the other hand, there are many high-level demons with brains, but just relying on command is meaningless. If the soldiers below don't listen, it's all in vain.
If the demons really had brains and could obey orders, they wouldn't be able to fight back and forth with the Angel Legion with dozens of times the numerical advantage...
With his status and his freedom from slavery, Karan should have developed quietly until he gained more power.
But she was not satisfied.
Karan has no idea of revenge for other slaves in her heart, and she has no sense of companionship towards those people.
There is no hatred towards the queen who made her lose everything and almost die. It is the instinct of the devil to prey on the weak.
But when she had more, Karan's desire became even greater.
She wants more!
More power, more rights, more... more dissatisfaction with the feeling of being inferior to others.
In order to get rid of the shadow of a slave, she and the demonic fallen who once hid in the human world learned the etiquette of the so-called nobles to make themselves more special.
Perhaps it is because of his human blood that Karan learns very quickly.
In order to gain more power, she used taboo methods to continuously dilute the other half of human blood in her body and extract almost all of it.
It was also at that time that she discovered her true relationship with the Fire Queen.
Mother and son, no... mother and daughter.
What a strange coincidence.
But she was still not satisfied.
It's just that Karan fell silent again, became less independent between brothers, and began to become less noticeable.
Because she has greater ambitions.
Pull the Fire Queen out of that position!
Even though the person above her is her nominal mother, even though she is a powerful demon lord, Karan is still not satisfied.
She is like a spider entrenched in the domain of Bayan, constantly weaving its own spider web.
Karan's latest move was to compete for the liaison spot with other forces.
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"I will eventually become a king..."
As he chewed on the prophecy he had spoken, Ning Feng felt that he might actually have some talent as a magician.
Ning Feng himself knew the truth. He really just said it casually, but from Karan's perspective, the matter was completely different.
The answer she got from the sage actually catered to the biggest secret she had hidden in her heart.
The ambition that I had never told anyone was exposed directly!
His prophecy simply captured Karan's heart.
Ning Feng had a strange feeling. He felt that he had suddenly gone from being a charlatan pulling people to tell fortunes on the roadside, to a mysterious sage.
Snap, snap, snap.
The demon girl straightened up and patted Ning Feng's head gently, causing Ning Feng to stop while he was unconsciously walking in the Holy Word Secret Sanctuary.
[A little ambitious guy, I quite like this kind of character~]
Is it as simple as having a "little" ambition?
Ning Feng was a little speechless about the measurement unit mentioned by Arianna, and was too lazy to complain about it.
"Then you like it."
【So, how do you plan to continue to take advantage of this?】
[Would you like to try asking her to do something? For example, ask her to assume some specific postures? 】
Um?
What kind of letter circle are you doing to do this?
After thinking carefully, Ning Feng finally gave up this tempting idea.
"No, don't rush it yet. Don't rush this matter for a while."
Judging from the fragments of memory, Karan is a very cautious woman and is not easily fooled.
"The bait has been thrown in, it's too early to lift the rod now."
"This is a guy who is very good at using his own advantages. We can't let her feel that she can grasp the situation."
You cannot make the other party feel that you are useful, otherwise the positions of the two will reverse at any time.
If you really want to maintain this gap between the two sides, then you can't let the other side feel that there is a day when you can stand up and make the decision.
Karan doesn't even plan to let go of her own mother, so when she has the opportunity to replace the sage, will she hesitate?
Ning Feng felt that the answer did not require thinking at all.
Will not.
Therefore, the best solution for this kind of person is not to give her any chance.
【So, what should we do now? 】
"I...do nothing."
Commonly known as - y.
"Let her think more and wait until she calms down."
[Aren’t you worried that she will tell others about this after she wakes up? Let me declare in advance that if a saint comes to cause trouble, I can’t stop it. 】
"Will not."
Ning Feng thought for a while and then said again:
"She won't."
"If she were an extraordinary creature with faith, I would still be worried, but now..."
The corner of his mouth curled up, Ning Feng was very satisfied with the unexpected chess piece.
"You expect a careerist like her to pass up the opportunity to share her secrets with others?"
laugh.
"How can it be!"
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Reminder, after Karan got a name in the previous chapters, I never referred to her as "he", I always used Karan to describe her directly.
I will post a recommendation tomorrow, and I ask everyone not to keep books for a while, at least so that the new additions can have some improvement.