In countless legends about the abyss and demons, there are always survivors who describe the appearance of those monsters in horror: flames, poison and ferocious and burly bodies. And demons are indeed such creatures.
Almost all monsters from the abyss have the power of fire and poison. Their bodies are as strong as steel. Except for little devils and worms, most of them are over two meters tall. Their weird souls allow them to perform magic in the abyss. Terrifying magic, but this does not mean that they cannot control magical energy in the normal world, it is just that most of it is suppressed. Such terrifying power makes them widely feared in the outside world.
There are many types of demons. Even the most basic abyss worms have weird mutants, not to mention other more advanced categories. But there is no doubt that the most well-known and powerful type of demon is the abyssal worm. magic.
As the name suggests, the Abyss Balrogs have bodies completely covered with blazing flames. Under the flames with a thousand-degree temperature, their bodies are black viscous substances similar to oil. These black viscous substances are always present. It releases violent flame energy and radiates an invisible and qualityless poison towards the surroundings. It can make ordinary people age, lose energy, and cause distortion and mutation in various parts of the body. There are records in history that after the Balrog passes by At this time, frogs will grow extra legs and lizards will grow two heads. This terrifying toxicity is so terrible that it can even make a piece of land barren of grass for decades, which is amazing and disturbing.
The abyss balrogs have no final shape. Their body is just a ball of black viscous substance. If we talk about the initial appearance, it is probably similar to the flaming slime, but it is countless times more dangerous than it. But once the balrogs awaken, With wisdom, they will consciously shape their bodies—these terrifying beings at the top of the abyss food chain will devour all kinds of metals and monsters, use those solid steel and bones to shape their bodies, and then construct Create your own human form.
So there are humanoid Balrogs and dragon-shaped Balrogs. For these monsters, the shape can be changed, and the larger the body, the more powerful the Balrog is, which also means that after killing them, The richer the harvest, after all, they can withstand the erosion of the flames of the fire demon and the poisonous body. As they have very few materials to build the bones of the body, they have always been the raw materials for making magical weapons.
And now, what Joshua grabbed from the abyss to Mycroft's continent was a five-meter-tall humanoid Balrog.
The Balrog Syndicate still hasn't figured out what's going on now - it was originally wandering in the boiling sea of the scorching purgatory on the thirty-seventh floor of the abyss, looking for someone to fight in the poisonous soup that had long been contaminated by sulfur and heavy metals. Prey and rare metals, but I don’t know what happened, but suddenly a hand ignored the thousands-degree flames above its head, grabbed its black body that could poison an abyssal skeleton king elephant, and then dragged an island with a force The terrifying force pulled it up from the hot seabed three thousand meters deep.
At that moment, the Syndicate thought they had been recruited by some pit lord or demon lord—or captured as a test subject by a god from another world or a void wanderer.
This is actually not uncommon, just like the recruitment of abyss lords. This is actually a very normal thing. The abyss is endless, but there are some levels where there are lords who are loved by the will of the abyss. They have the power to control the content of that level. With the power of all demons, as long as they have a thought, any demons whose strength has not reached the level of legend will be recruited by it and sent to its army. Demons who dare to disobey the will of the abyss lord will have long since died, and the demon king will also be In the same way, they are actually not loved by the will of the abyss, but they still rely on their own strength to subdue an abyss lord.
However, the thirty-seventh floor of the abyss should be a world without an owner - the devil thought with some confusion, otherwise it would not be wandering in this abyss. The Balrog has a strong sense of territoriality, and they rarely appear where there is a lord. and the abyss of the king, because every Balrog has the ambition and potential to become a king.
So is it a god or a great being from outside the world? Syndicate guessed this in its simple mind, but when it raised its head and looked at the existence standing in front of it, it suddenly realized that it didn't know when it started, but there was a master on the thirty-seventh floor of the abyss.
What kind of face is that? Although he looks like an ordinary human male, he actually has a clearly suppressed appearance. Balrog can easily see that the opponent's body is able to maintain its human form after layers of restraints. In that fragile shell Underneath, there is something more terrifying, greater, and more sublime. It is filled with high-density matter like the center of the earth, and has extremely high temperatures that are a hundred times hotter than ordinary Balrogs. His life radiation is so terrifying that it The poisonous radiation of the Balrog was easily overshadowed and suppressed.
There is no doubt that this is a king-level big devil. Unlike his own body, which is only five meters long, if the opponent shows his true body, it will probably be as high as a hill.
Just the body is so terrifying, not to mention the wails of the souls surrounding this great demon (?). The screams and curses of endless lives before death surround the surface of the opponent's body, far more than the mind flayer. , far beyond the aura of despair of the Horror Demon—no, the Horror Realm declares its existence to the outside world all the time, making even the Balrog with a simple mind want to tremble involuntarily.
—A king-level Demon King of Despair. Syndicate thought of this, and it almost wanted to kneel down and completely surrender.
In fact, it did kneel down.
The five-meter-tall flaming humanoid bowed his head neatly and knelt down respectfully to show his obedience. Although the devil's naturally chaotic mind made it want to get rid of the fear in its heart all the time, even if it meant death, it still had to punch the existence in front of it. , but that can only be thought of. Now that the Syndicate's instincts are suppressed by fear and reason, it can't help but tremble in the Abyssal language and say: "Great King of Terror, you called me to come. Do you have anything to tell me?"
Balrog uses magic power to imitate the vibration of sound waves. The distortion caused by the high-temperature flames makes his voice sound vague and unclear, like the noise of lava stirring. There is no honorific like 'you' in the Abyssal language, but according to the emotion and movements, Joshua could roughly understand what the other party meant. He looked at the flaming figure lying on the ground in front of him and showed a satisfied smile.
"Not a bad attitude." He said: "If you can keep it up, I can spare your life after I ask questions."
The questioning did not last too long. The Balrog knew a lot of things, but most of them were different from what Joshua wanted to know. After temporarily sealing the power of the Balrog and throwing it aside, the warrior began to sort it out. Information.
He discovered that the abyss linked to the Book of Ibon did not come from the same abyss. For example, the Balrog in front of him came from the thirty-seventh floor of the abyss, and the demons he summoned to play before were from the seventh and third floors respectively. Sixth floor, the time and space coordinates of these three abyss are very close, and they all contain the power of lava and poison.
Joshua summoned the devil this time because he found traces of the devil in the North. If the disappearance of the two legendary mages was because they were heading to the abyss from the North, they must have been heading to the abyss closest to the Mycroft continent. The same is true for the Book of Ibon. The demons it summons are also demons from the nearest abyss. The warrior wants to see if he can catch a demon with higher strength and can detect the fluctuations of time and space in the abyss, and then ask about the specific situation. If If the time is right, then Barnier and William should have gone to the abyss.
This plan is simple and crude, but the result is quite effective - the Balrog named Syndicate does have the power to detect fluctuations in time and space, and it did sense that there were some fluctuations in time and space some time ago, but it is a pity that the time when the two legendary mages disappeared No, it can only sense the fluctuations of time and space within tens of kilometers around it. Joshua thinks that it should be just the normal time and space changes in the abyss, such as the sudden appearance of a small time and space crack that will dissipate immediately. some type of.
However, as the overlord of a small area in the thirty-seventh layer of the abyss, the Syndicate does not only know this. Through the little devils under his command and the ferry demon from the Styx, the Balrog knows many news about other abyss realms, and All this news was told to the warriors in an inverted manner. For example, the sixth layer of the abyss was at war with the twenty-third layer of the abyss. There were multiple abyss lords and the demon army fighting a bloody battle on the twenty-third layer, so the sixth layer melted Most of the demons in the Seafire Hell have been conscripted away. The Syndicate was also afraid of being conscripted, so they took refuge on the thirty-seventh floor.
The River Styx runs through all the abyss and is also an important medium for demons to transfer time and space. The Ferry Demon is a kind of demon that can survive in the River Styx for a long time. They feed on the corpses and souls of ordinary demons in exchange for those in the various abyss. In a sense, they are like messengers, but if they don't have enough strength, these messenger demons that look like giant crocodiles don't mind opening their mouths, showing their fangs, and trying something else. Fresh raw meat taste.
Except for the meaningless trivial matter of the Burning Purgatory, the Syndicate only had three pieces of valuable information from the beginning to the end - the sixth layer of the abyss is invading other abyss, and the five-color dragon clan has occupied one of the layers of the abyss and renamed it Dragon Sleeping Abyss has officially become one of the abyss races, and there are huge changes in the seventh layer of the abyss. The continent in the center of that world is experiencing violent earthquakes, which even demons can hardly bear.
Although it has little meaning to Joshua's current goal, no matter what it is, it is something he has never heard of in his previous life, or it only exists in those thick settings, and now, everything is so far away from the warrior Very close, a Jiyi-level abyssal flame demon told him in a respectful and fearful manner these major events that were once far away but were now very close.
Joshua couldn't help but fell into deep thought.
Before he could ponder for long, a ray of holy light flashed, and the hurried Archbishop Artanis had already arrived behind him.
This place is a remote plain on the outskirts of Moldavia. The old bishop could clearly see the sun-like figure of the warrior in the energy vision. When he came to Joshua, he did not say hello first, but looked at him in confusion. The big demon who was sealed aside and now unable to speak or move, paralyzed on the ground, then turned to the warrior and said: "Joshua, I just sensed the wave of summoning the demon-"
"it's me."
Breaking away from his contemplation, Joshua said crisply. He turned to look at the old bishop, raised the book in his hand and waved it: "I just wanted to find a demon to ask about the situation, so I used this Abyss Magic Book to capture him. A demon came out."
Shouldn't it be a summons? The verb is wrong. After blinking, the old bishop had no energy to care about the soldier's grammar. His quick thinking immediately reminded him of the topic he and Joshua had discussed not long ago, so the old man frowned and said, "What's the matter? Could it be that the disappearance of the two legendary mages is related to demons? What level of demon can capture them? Not even an abyss lord."
"Change your thinking, Artanis." Joshua shrugged: "Maybe they got there by themselves."
With that said, Joshua explained his appearance in the Great Ajax Mountains, focusing on describing the residual time and space fluctuations around the demonic aura.
"I have obtained the coordinates of the three abyss from the Book of Ibon." The warrior concluded with this sentence: "Wait until tomorrow morning, I will find Master Nostradamus and let him see the remaining time and space. Which three coordinates are the fluctuations leading to? If they can be matched, then it can be confirmed that the two legendary mages went to explore the abyss of their own volition and did not disappear."
"It's not just that, is it, Joshua?"
The old bishop was keenly aware of the soldier's tone problem. He had known Joshua for a long time, and his words and deeds were not complicated, so Artanis could easily see through his true thoughts: "If it is confirmed, You’ll want to go to the abyss to find them yourself!”
Faced with the old bishop's conclusive words, Joshua was not dissatisfied with his thoughts. He smiled and said relaxedly: "Of course, logically speaking, they disappeared in my territory. Naturally, I have to personally Go and determine the whereabouts and safety of the two legendary powerhouses.”
"Secondly, the abyss is so big." After saying that, the soldier paused and then said, "I want to take a look."
"It's that simple."
And at this moment, as if by chance, there were sudden bursts of thunderous sounds in the distant sky, and a huge figure shuttled through the clouds. Joshua and Artanis both raised their heads and spoke with their voices. Perception, they could easily detect each other's true identity from hundreds of miles away.
That was the warrior's prisoner, Sukrash, the ultimate blue dragon.
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The abyss and demons in this article are different from the world view of DND Dungeons and Dragons, and the same is true for Balrog. According to my settings, the abyss is a world that has long been destroyed. The reasons for the destruction are different, which is also the origin of the bad environment of their world.
I don’t need to explain the origin of the doomsday world of radiation, flames, poison, the body of the Balrog and the abyss, right
Repeat, not dnd, this article, not dnd!
Yesterday was my birthday. I originally wanted to update it earlier, but my computer crashed. It really crashed. It crashed and couldn't be opened. Now I'm using a 2006 desktop computer to write the update. It's really... Awful…
This chapter will be revised later.
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