Looking at the endless sea of demon creatures, Mike and Amari fell silent.
Clearly, for some reason, the demon gods behind the scenes realized something was amiss.
They actively removed the mist, trying to maximize the refresh rate of demon creatures, overextending their potential to birth the strongest demon creatures and make the demon god seeds even more powerful!
From previous explorations, Mike had roughly understood the extreme operations of the Suture Abyssal Plane.
Relying solely on demon god seeds to evolve into a demon god would take an incredibly long time.
The correct approach was to prepare a nine-tier Lord tier demon creature in advance. When the demon god seed was near maturity, the demon creature would devour it.
This way, the Lord tier demon creature would inherit the immunities of the demon god seed and have the potential to reach even higher levels!
Of course, this method would result in a demon god with significant flaws and much weaker -combat power.
Even so, it would still be a demon god!
A being that Mike and Maxen couldn’t contend with at this stage.
No matter what, Mike and his team had to eliminate this threat before the demon god was born.
Mike never had the habit of letting his enemies grow stronger.
Looking at the endless demon creatures, Mike suddenly asked,
“Does Maxen have fire element immunity?”
“What?”
Amari didn’t understand the connection between the two. He replied honestly, “Not sure. For someone of his level, complete immunity is hard to achieve. It’d be better to ask him directly.”
Mike nodded and took out the communication crystal.
To facilitate contact, this set of communication crystals had multiple copies, with Thor, Maxen, and Joseph each having one.
The communication crystal displayed the following:
[Customer Service]: Excuse me, do you have a moment?
[Maxen]: Hold on, I’m busy killing demon lords.
[Maxen]: Done. Three nine-tier demon lords are dead. Got more coordinates?
Mike: …
Mike composed himself and continued chatting with Maxen.
[Customer Service]: Do you have fire element immunity?
[Maxen]: I can temporarily activate it with special means, but it consumes fire element Abyssal Pearl shards.
First, anyone with access to the communication crystal was likely an ally.
Second, Maxen had been fighting in the abyss for years, and many of his attributes and trump cards were public knowledge.
Since the other party asked, Maxen saw no need to hide it.
[Customer Service]: How long can you maintain fire element immunity, and what’s the effect of the fire element Abyssal Pearl shards?
[Maxen]: 80 minutes. Each fire element Abyssal Pearl shard can extend it by 10-60 minutes.
Putting away the communication crystal, Mike rubbed his temples, feeling a headache.
He really wanted to burn all the demon creatures in front of him to ashes.
Of course, demon creatures with fire element immunity would survive.
The problem was, once [Meteor Fire Rain] started stacking, the damage would be terrifying!
Mike and Amari could stay away from the battlefield, but what about Maxen, who was fighting in the same plane?
They couldn’t just roast their teammate to medium-rare, could they?
Ask Maxen to retreat?
Without Maxen continuously killing demon Lords, the situation would only worsen.
Moreover, [Meteor Fire Rain] had a usage limitation.
If [Meteor Mark] landed on a fire element-immune demon creature, [Meteor Fire Rain] would hit a firewall and quickly extinguish, no matter how intense the flames.
At that point, someone needed to step in and kill the fire element-immune demon creatures to allow [Meteor Mark] to spread again!
Maxen was the perfect candidate!
Mike shook his head, “80 minutes of fire element immunity is too short.”
This plane was vast, and Maxen’s 80 minutes of fire element immunity clearly wasn’t enough.
“Amari, let’s go hunt some fire element Lords.”
With that, Mike used the Eye of Truth to start searching for targets.
Without the mist’s suppression, the Eye of Truth’s detection range expanded several times.
Amari fell silent again. Spending so much time with Thor, he was starting to get the illusion that Lords were easy to kill?
Following the Eye of Truth’s guidance, they stealthily approached a three-tier fire element demon lord.
Same old routine.
Mike first maxed out his health and shield to ensure he wouldn’t be counter-killed.
Then he stacked Charge Up and Blessing of Lightning.
“Thunderclap Strike!”
“Star Pluck!”
“Wind’s Reach!”
With terrifying red lightning, the demon Lord’s body exploded, and the Abyssal Pearl transformed into three fire seas, spreading in different directions, trying to escape.
Following Thor’s precise directions, Amari struck, shattering the three Abyssal Pearls!
Successfully killing the three-tier demon Lord!
12,000 Lord merits earned!
The three Abyssal Pearls shattered into five shards of varying sizes, with more breaking into
powder.
“Not enough. Let’s collect more shards for Maxen!”
Mike immediately reported the next coordinates, and they continued their hunting spree.
After all, these shards would eventually be sold to Maxen.
Thinking of this, Mike felt highly motivated!
They mainly operated on the plane’s edge, where the demon creatures were generally weaker.
Even the demon Lords were mostly low-tier, with the strongest not exceeding four-tier.
After hunting three more fire element demon Lords, Mike collected 12 Abyssal Pearl shards, 8 of which were fire element-related.
“5 plus 8, a total of 13 shards. Selling them to Maxen should give him at least 2 hours.”
Mike calculated in his mind,
“Adding Maxen’s previous 80 minutes, he can get over three hours of fire element immunity. He’ll also hunt fire element demon Lords on the battlefield to extend his buff, so it should be
enough.”
Next came the bargaining phase.
[Customer Service]: Our store is having a fire element Abyssal Pearl shard sale, starting at 350
Lord merits!
[Maxen]: Why would I need that? I can hunt them myself if I need them.
[Customer Service]: To prepare for the upcoming battle, the cost of purchasing fire element
Abyssal Pearl shards will be deducted from the unpaid merits. Also, our store is having a clearance sale, with a 20% rebate on purchases over 500 Lord merits.
[Maxen]: I desperately need fire element Abyssal Pearl shards! Please sell them to me!
In the end, after some back-and-forth,
the thirteen fire element Abyssal Pearl shards were sold to Maxen for a total of 7,000 Lord
merits.
7,000 Lord merits, with Maxen’s actual cost being 70 points, but he could get a 1,400-point
Kickback!
No matter how you looked at it, this deal was a steal for him.
On the other end of the communication crystal, Mike sighed.
If only he had started at 3,500 Lord merits!
After handing the shards to Maxen through the communication crystal, Mike blew the Magic
Conch and used the portal to return to the fortress.
“Professor Gregory, you need to take fire precautions!”
Mike said seriously, “For the next while, everyone should get fire element immunity.”
Although they didn’t know why Thor said this, but it wasn’t too difficult to implement.
After all, it wasn’t permanent fire element immunity, just short-term.
Ensuring everything was foolproof, Mike returned to the battlefield.
Taking a deep breath, Mike stood at the battlefield’s edge, clad in shadow armor, raising the
Force of Nature.
“Shadow Sea!”
A black light spread around him, and shadows began to randomly refresh.
Seeing this, Amari’s eyelid twitched.
Thor was only level 200, yet his Sea of Truth was already this strong?
After refreshing 10 shadows, Mike cast another spell.
“Ghostly Mirage!”
He summoned six shadows.
A total of 16 shadows followed Mike’s actions under his command.
“Wind Fury!”
“Meteor Fire Rain!”
Whoosh-
A General-tier demon creature instantly had dozens of [Meteor Marks] on it.
“Thunderclap Strike!”
Boom-
After being killed, the [Meteor Marks] doubled and spread, rapidly spreading across the
battlefield!
After setting the fire, Mike turned and ran back to the mountain, overlooking the battlefield, watching the flames grow, consuming countless demon creatures in the inferno…