The knight in the abyss

Chapter 16 Shuangqiao Town

After two hours of walking through the twisted and depressing streets of Twin Bridges, Lancelot and Dink returned to Tijana's statue.

Quasai Mo's intelligence and language skills are not very good, and he is not well qualified for the role of a tour guide. Fortunately, Lancelot can directly read its thinking, and finally has a general understanding of the situation in Shuangqiao Town.

This town built on a river island is not small in size, comparable to a human county capital.According to the main functions, the whole town can be roughly divided into four areas:

The first is the blacksmith district, where a large number of craftsmen sheltered by Tijana, including dwarves, humans, goblins and other strange races, are producing goods for her arms trade business day and night.

There, Barende met several former "cellmates" who were now learning more about the conditions of work there, and Pluto stayed there with his dad.

Then there is the trade area, where most of the "shopkeepers" are sales representatives sent by demon lords to deal with loot, as well as mortal races from the upper planes.Lancelo regretfully learned that they all belonged to a certain organization and were brought here by his predecessor in the form of summons. When the time came, they would automatically return to their original world and receive a huge dangerous area assignment allowance.

The goods here include treasures with strong curse effects, all kinds of highly poisonous substances that even demons are not immune to, and even jars of mourning face worms. There is basically nothing that he can use, except for a clerk. They are all human shops in red robes, and the enchanted equipment and magic scrolls inside look very practical.

The street they just passed by belongs to the mercenary area.There are a large number of taverns, inns, and dwellings of local residents (some are called dens to be more accurate), and some are even rented out.Types include single rooms upstairs in taverns, villas with gardens, dungeons, and interrogation rooms, tombs under mass graves, sewers leading directly to the Styx, and septic tanks connected to all public toilets, in short most races can live in Find a home that fits your needs.

But the most important building is a gladiator-like hall of mercenaries for those who are foolish enough to venture into the abyss.They can receive all kinds of dangerous tasks here, and the rewards are rich enough to make people willing to take any risks. Of course, no matter how good the rewards are, they must have their lives to receive them (in some cases, in the form of undead or ghosts) .

Finally, there is the military zone at the core of Tijana's red castle.The castle is surrounded by the barracks of the succubus lord, and an unknown number of troops are stationed here. The types of soldiers include mid-level and low-level demons such as mad war demons, iron cavalry demons, and Flo demons. "The Snake Girl with the Hand", but Lancelot noticed that there was a lava lake behind the messy and dense military camp, and the surrounding area was empty within a hundred feet. Advanced Demon.

The situation in the castle is unknown, but Tijana will hold banquets in the castle from time to time.Banquet-goers will find sumptuous food and fiery succubus maids, always happy to return, and there are always a few male guests mysteriously missing from the banquet.Most of the missing can be found in a dark sewer in a few days, lethargic, claiming to have lost the past week, but at least not lost their lives.As for what happened, everyone is tacit, and secretly expects that the one who disappears next time is themselves.

Lancelot also learned a lot about demons from Dink, such as the fact that demons don't actually need to eat, they just like the pleasure of eating, and the discomfort it brings to bystanders when eating certain things (such as bystanders' companion).Demons don't need to sleep either. If you find that the demon is sleeping soundly, then it has probably found you and expects you to be a fool who wants to sneak up on it.

Demons are, in essence, fallen mortal souls, plunged into the river Styx after death, and then washed ashore in the form of a worm in some corner of the abyss.Most of their memories as mortals have dissipated, but their instincts are still preserved, so the seven deadly sins of arrogance, jealousy, rage, laziness, greed, gluttony, and lust are not many.After becoming a demon, these seven desires are magnified countless times and completely dominate their behavior. The only thing that can compete with them is the fear of death.

They are always passionate about invading the mortal world, where they can vent their destructive desires, and even if killed by mortal heroes, their bodies will immediately respawn in a corner of the abyss.

Lancelot really realized how dangerous the portal that was closed by himself was.

It is a very rare giant semi-permanent portal that consumes a lot of resources. The biggest difficulty in building such a portal is that it is almost impossible for mortals to have such a level of stupidity, and his world not only did this, but also did it twice .The only explanation is that his world is mostly floating in some nook and cranny in the multiverse, and not even the gods have noticed that such a world exists.

Otherwise, they would have already sent down divine punishment and destroyed this world to cover up any connection between themselves and this level of stupidity.

In addition to the seven desires inherited from mortals, the biggest desire of most demons is promotion, promotion to higher demons.There are many ways to be promoted, the most common is to kill demons of the same level and absorb their demon energy to promote.This process was long, bloody and cruel, which directly led to the hobby of high-level demons killing low-level demons for fun. Of course, in the abyss, causality can be converted to each other in most cases.

Another common form is achieved by high-level demons directly at the cost of consuming mana, but this method is generally used to create a large number of cannon fodder, and the demons do not actually expect this promotion method.

The abyss itself sometimes directly drops "gifts" on a demon, which directly depends on the chaotic and crazy will of the abyss itself.In Dingke's memory, there were a lot of rumors that a strange wind blew, or a bolt of lightning fell, or a stream of magma poured out, and a certain Quartet directly turned into a high-level demon.

This made Lancelo couldn't help but have another idea, he beckoned and asked Dingke to come over.

"Master, what are your orders?"

"Your service today is very good, come with me."

Lancelot found a deserted street corner and ordered Dink:
"Kneel down, I will reward you."

Hearing the word reward, Dingke's heart surged with huge fear, which was clearly felt by Lancelot.

It's not a good word in the context of the abyss, and thanks to the devil's brutal sense of humor, the reward is usually followed by words like "permanent sleep" or "endless pain."

The color of Quasai Mo's skin directly reflects its psychological changes, and it is now extremely gray, like furnace ashes.But it still knelt down, and the red ball in Lancelot's hand made it unable to resist.

"Don't, master! Did Dingke do something wrong... Dingke still has treasure, and there is treasure to give to the master!"

"What are you thinking about, kneel down for me!"

Lancelot put his hand on Dink's head.

(End of this chapter)