Chapter 1199
This was merely to confirm whether the Abyssal Sand Dragon’s belly also contained ores. When five pieces of Eternal Dark Gold were found inside,
From then on, every desert creature encountered along the way was torn to shreds by the frenzied abyssal army...
After more than ten days of continuous assault, the abyssal army had begun to advance deeper into the desert—yet one fellow was not pleased.
After finally mustering the resolve to leave his old haunt and venture alone into this desert, Sterlin was already furious, having slaughtered more than a dozen abyssal creatures just to vent his rage...
Seated in the underground palace beneath the desert, Sterlin’s fingertips swirled with drifting yellow sand, his eyes burning with fire and trailing black smoke—filled with savage malice.
Damn it, I’d deliberately reincarnated as a desert demon, relying on my innate quicksand magic to rise swiftly. But who would have thought the place I ended up in was surrounded by nothing but desert—and demon overlords.
I ran for tens of thousands of kilometers, nearly got killed several times, and only just found another suitable spot. But before I could even start a war with that minor demon lord to the south, the idiot was taken out by someone else.
Poor bastard, what rotten luck. As far as I know, no one’s ever reincarnated as a pureblood Hellfire Demon—it must be some Hellfire Demon Lord’s offspring dumped here.
Those crazed, chaotic Hellfire Demon Lords—never reasonable, a bunch of maniacs no one in the Abyss wants to provoke lightly.
Damn it, whatever—if he wants the desert, let him have it. A pureblood Hellfire Demon doesn’t care much for the desert anyway. Once he officially claims this territory, he won’t be able to do much about what’s underground.
By then, his attention will shift elsewhere. After all, those three demon overlords to the south won’t sit around and watch a pureblood demon grow stronger next to their borders.
Thinking about all this, Sterlin—who had never felt any real sense of belonging to the Abyss and only wanted to break through to Sky Rank and leave—just hid beneath the desert, playing dead, completely ignoring the abyssal army charging in.
Unfortunately, he didn’t know those crazed abyssal creatures really did have a simple goal: dig out the entire desert, then trade it for Bloodline Potion...
Leon’s territory kept expanding. After a month, more than half the desert had become part of Leon’s domain. If not for the harsh environment, even more would have been conquered—the deeper the abyssal army went, the more of them died to the desert’s brutality.
The abyssal army’s losses were even greater than those of war itself. Still, this did nothing to dampen the terrifying enthusiasm of those abyssal creatures.
These idiots really were set on hollowing out the entire desert...
And Sterlin wasn’t wrong—by now, the demon overlords to the east, west, and south of Leon’s territory had taken notice. They weren’t about to let a pureblood Hellfire Demon expand unchecked next to their lands.
Because a pureblood Hellfire Demon, over time, will transform their territory into a land ravaged by volcanoes and magma—one eruption after another, reshaping the environment to suit Hellfire Demons.
And this change is nearly irreversible. Anywhere a pureblood Hellfire Demon settles, the surroundings will inevitably become a volcanic, magma-ravaged world with time.