In the fourth layer of the Howling Abyss, the Sealed Space Tunnel exists. This layer contains increasingly narrow tunnels that end in voids, leading to numerous sealed spaces filled with decayed air, surrounded by stone circles. There is no better place suited for a prison.
Within these sealed spaces, no energy exists, making it nearly impossible for even gods or demigod-like entities to escape without external help once they are defeated and imprisoned there.
Today, the entire Sealed Space Tunnel, in fact, the whole Howling Abyss, trembles continuously.
The native intelligent creatures of the Howling Abyss look up in terror.
The rock-layered firmament of the Howling Abyss is extending cracks like lightning, with stone dust falling. The most perceptive creatures sense an immense divine presence and the terrifying power of the abyss through these cracks.
Most creatures retract their senses as if shocked by electricity, daring not to probe any further.
But a few bold ones muster their courage, widening their eyes to sense the god-like battle unfolding above them. Some gain insights from merely glimpsing the surface, experiencing a surge in their own power as if enlightened. However, many more become deranged from the divine and demonic powers sweeping through, losing their sanity.
After a long while, in a dark space within the Sealed Space Tunnel, surrounded by dim, starless skies, a massive figure covered in black, fierce demonic armor, with a muscular upper body and a scorpion-like lower body, remains motionless. This figure is tightly bound by endlessly rotating chains extending from the surrounding dim stars, rendering it immobile.
This figure, with its eyes burning red with relentless ferocity as if to destroy the world, is the Wolf-Spider Miska. The chains rattle continuously as the creature struggles. Despite being sealed for countless ages, Miska's consciousness remains clear, constantly battling the chains that bind it—though ineffective, it does not dampen its fiery will to fight.
Miska was created by Chaos later with the intent to win the war between Order and Chaos.
Undoubtedly, Miska, who fears neither pain nor death and craves violence and bloodshed, was crafted as a pure weapon of war.
During the war between Order and Chaos, no deity in the Order camp wished to face the frenzied Miska alone. Even when forced into the material realm, the gods preferred not to risk death by battling it directly. It took the death and blood of countless Dukes of the Wind to weaken Miska enough to seal it away.
Among all powerful demonic princes, Miska might not be notable for its intelligence or cunning, but its combat prowess is among the highest.
Unlike many cunning and deceitful demon lords, Miska resembles a beast that can only be persuaded by Chaos later, willing to obey its creator's commands.
Despite being sealed for eons, the still fierce and crazed look in Miska's eyes indicates it has not given up hope of escape. It firmly believes that its lover and creator will one day break the seals with boundless abyssal fire and rescue it.
At that moment, Miska's gaze sharpens unprecedentedly, and its struggle intensifies, causing the chains to creak louder as stars tremble. A gentle expression, unlike any seen before, spreads across its ferocious face.
Miska catches a familiar scent.
"My love, you have come."
Miska roars in demonic tongue, but its tone lacks surprise, as if it had always anticipated this moment.
Crack!
The dark space shatters like a mirror.
A tentacle, scarred with burns, frost, lightning marks, cuts, and hammer impacts, and dripping with fresh blood as if it just fought a great battle, bursts through the space. It extends infinitely, growing thicker and sweeping toward the stars that bind Miska.
A similarly gentle voice responds.
"My prince, did you miss me here?"
As it speaks, the gigantic tentacle slams down with overwhelming force, turning a chain of stars into dust.
"Every second."
As the stars shatter, they burst into brilliant fireworks.
In the glow of the flames, the fierce light in Miska's eyes fades, and it speaks in the demonic tongue, simply and sincerely.
"Good, I like your answer."
The tentacle continues to swing wildly.
"My prince, my love, my future king."
"I will destroy the place that seals you and take you home."
"The Abyss awaits us to ascend the throne together, countless demons await our rule, and endless worlds await to become the one true Abyss."
Chaos later responds.
Boom!
Under her tentacle's crushing force, stars fall one after another, and chains break apart.
The crimson tentacle scoops up the weakened Miska, wildly destroying the sealed space until it completely shatters, then disappears with Miska in an instant.
The prolonged war gradually ceases.
The Howling Abyss, ravaged by the battle between gods and demons, returns to calm,
but the spatial damage inflicted may take millennia to heal.
Garon, having returned to the Dragon Court from the material realm and stayed there for over a year, contemplates the recent upheaval.
Despite the steady flow of the River of Time, the worlds it surrounds are anything but calm.
Less than twenty years since the War of Glory, the endless planes of the multiverse have erupted twice this year after a period of calm.
First, Chaos later gathered many demon lords and armies in the fourth layer of the Howling Abyss to launch a chaotic battle against the gods who came to prevent Miska's rescue.
It is said that countless spaces within the Sealed Space Tunnel were destroyed in this battle.
Possible treasures, artifacts, spells, and knowledge that may have existed are now completely annihilated along with the spaces destroyed by gods and demons.
As for the battle between the gods and demons, which lasted for months and made the entire Howling Abyss tremble, the demons paid the price with countless spider demons' lives and severe injuries to several demon lords to successfully free Miska.
Garon is not surprised by this outcome.
Firstly, Chaos later's determination to unseal her lover far outweighs the current gods' desire to keep Miska sealed. Ever since the end of the war between Order and Chaos, Chaos later has been planning to unseal Miska.
Secondly, Chaos later has two staff segments, giving her a clearer and more precise understanding of the sealing coordinates than the gods.
Chaos later, this ancient and powerful demon lord, former ruler of the Abyss.
After countless eons, she has finally reunited with her prince.
Undoubtedly, Miska's return to the Abyss alongside Chaos later will cause seismic changes in the Abyss.
But before this.
While Chaos later was leading her demon lords against the gods in the Howling Abyss, the Abyss itself had already begun to change dramatically, causing an incredible event that astonished all demons.
The oldest of the Obirith demon lords.
The first demonic despot to control the Abyss.
The King of Insects, Obokos.
This quiet, long-silent demon prince, waiting under the deep influence of Miska and Demogorgon, has finally turned the tables after being killed by both Chaos later and Demogorgon and then sinking into oblivion for hundreds of thousands of years!
The King of Insects, acting alone, entered Demogorgon's domain in the Abyss and, after provoking him, engaged in a fierce battle with the currently most powerful demon prince.
In the battle between the two demon princes.
The eighty-eighth layer of the Abyss, the Brine Swamp, was turned upside down.
No demon thought the King of Insects could win.
The King of Insects had previously been killed by Demogorgon, was less powerful than him, and had even gone to the Brine Swamp, the enemy's territory. With Demogorgon's significant advantage in both strength and home field, no demon knew how the King of Insects could possibly win.
However, what seemed impossible to countless demons happened.
The King of Insects completely defeated Demogorgon, took control of the eighty-eighth layer of the Abyss, and has now moved into the Skull Spire that once belonged to Demogorgon, gathering Demogorgon's former subordinates, killing resisters, and incorporating the compliant into his army.
As for the defeated Demogorgon, he fled.
Between the humiliation of being defeated by a former underling, Demogorgon escaped.
Demogorgon is now hiding in an unknown layer of the Abyss, or he may have already left the Abyss to hide in other lower planes.
The King of Insects, mobilizing his forces, is relentlessly searching for Demogorgon across the lower planes, hoping to take advantage of Demogorgon's inability to recover from his severe injuries to kill this major threat once and for all.
To kill Demogorgon.
The King of Insects has even widely disseminated Demogorgon's condition.
He does not boast of his own strength but openly admits that he defeated Demogorgon only because Demogorgon was grievously injured. After all, the King of Insects' own power is also quite formidable, and eliminating Demogorgon is his top priority.
This news has driven the entire Abyss, no, all demons of the lower planes, into a frenzy.
Numerous demon lords dispatch subordinates, or even personally leave their domains, launching a massive search across the lower planes to find Demogorgon and attempt to seize the power of this demon prince.
Kicking someone when they're down is all too common in the Abyss.
Moreover, the devils, the eternal enemies of demons, have also sprung into action.
Whether to take the opportunity to kill Demogorgon, a powerful demon, preventing his resurgence, or coveting Demogorgon's power to ascend in rank, the dukes of Hell, with the tacit approval of the
lords of the Nine Hells, have also begun their move.
Later.
Chaos later returns with Miska.
Due to Demogorgon's concealment, the situation in the lower planes, already chaotic, immediately whirls into a more tumultuous vortex.
The severely wounded and hidden Demogorgon.
The greatly esteemed King of Insects.
Miska, returning from tens of thousands of years of imprisonment.
Which of these three demon princes will ultimately win the battle for supremacy in the Abyss, gain the favor of the Will of the Abyss, and become the legendary Demon King?
Now, the key lies with Demogorgon.
Whichever of the King of Insects or Miska finds Demogorgon first, capturing him or killing him outright, is likely to experience a significant increase in power and then defeat the other demon prince to ascend as the Demon King of the Abyss.
Countless demons of the Abyss await the time to reveal the answer.
At the same time, powerful demon lords like the Lord of Shadows also seek to take advantage of this rare opportunity to become a new demon prince and participate in the battle for kingship in the Abyss.
Due to the significant events caused by the two demon princes.
Even the blood war between the Abyss and Hell has temporarily calmed down.
Half of the Dark Eight, the generals of Hell, as Garon learns through the mechanical legions, are no longer active, suspected of having left the Myriad Pits, most likely searching for Demogorgon.
The Lord of Avernus, Duke Baal, with whom Garon has interacted, has also unusually left his Bronze Fortress, his whereabouts unknown.
"First was the Lord of Thunder who killed his father and took over as the chief god of giants, and now the battle for kingship among the Abyssal demon princes is in full swing. The multiverse is about to be thrown into chaos again."
Inside the Dragon Court's Eternal Hall, the silver dragon, having just sorted through the recent changes in the situation, thinks to himself.
After pondering for a moment, the silver dragon lifts its head, displaying a proud demeanor, and mutters to itself: "Both demon princes' situations were indirectly caused by me."
"It seems the chaos of the multiverse is still up to me, Garon, to decide."
Shh shh shh.
"Pfft, Garon, you're getting ahead of yourself."
Yuna's head emerges from the gold and gems, speaking up.
"Hmm? Are you scolding the great Lord of the Dragon Court?" Garon asks.
Yuna blinks her light purple eyes and says, "Yes, I am scolding you. What are you going to do about it?"
The silver dragon's eyes widen, and he playfully pounces on Yuna to start a tussle.
After a while, they tidy up the messy dragon nest. Having just played around, Garon begins to close his eyes slightly, extending his senses into the River of Time, searching for the mysteries of the river.
Previously, he had passively accepted the various powers of the River of Time.
But since ascending to a quasi-lesser godly power, Garon has been actively trying to unveil the mysteries of the River of Time, though with little success so far.
Not long after, Garon's connection with the River of Time is interrupted.
One of the legendary dragons of the Dragon Court, an infernal dragon, uses the pact of the Dragon Court to convey a message Garon has long awaited.
Infernal dragons, also known as abyssal dragons, are a rare and powerful species native to the Abyss, much stronger than ordinary dragon breeds, with not many members in the entire Dragon Court.
"Dragon Lord, Chaos later has found me and wishes to communicate with you. I hope you can respond."
From the emotional tremors of the infernal dragon, Garon senses fear and anxiety.
This is understandable.
Facing Chaos later directly in the Abyss is no easy task.
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