Defying the Fate of Beheading-Chapter 535 - 296: The Seven Disasters of Doomsday, A Plot Thousands of Years in the Making_2
The most essential power and tribe, however, were preserved, carrying the hatred of all beings, forming an "undigested world" independent of the Star Continent.
Due to the chaos of world rules in such a world, the various forces of the Star Continent are unable to send top combat power into it.
Especially when the development of the Underground City’s tribes is at its weakest, the restriction of such world rules also becomes the strongest, often allowing only a few people to enter the Underground City.
Sometimes it even allows only one person to enter with a legendary status.
That sole legend is the hero blessed by the world.
Look at the configuration of the Hero Squad back then.
The supernova of the Thief Guild that appeared suddenly, Heisen Bansha.
The half-elf, weathered by the ages, whose combat skills rival that of the primal race’s divine marksman, Lumi. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚
A prodigy in the Martial Monk profession, known as the humanoid monster capable of tearing apart Climbing Monks, Grave.
The future Holy Son from the Ense branch of the Church of Glory and Justice, Aine.
The foremost mage of Ense’s new generation, like the Celestial Destiny Mage of a generation, Diana.
——And finally, adding the one who outshone this group of top talents, the actual number one combat power of Ense’s new generation back then, the child of the storm, Max.
It could be said that the Hero Squad of that generation was already the highest combat power the Ense Empire could muster.
Any country that saw this squad’s configuration wouldn’t doubt the resolve of the Ense Empire at that time.
But the Sun Monk Grave’s body was embedded into the mountains, blood staining the earth.
The future Holy Son Aine exhausted himself to death after delivering a desperate blow.
Hero Max, to allow the squad to deliver their message, volunteered for the rearguard and died in action.
The Thief Guild’s supernova Heisen Bansha’s starlight dimmed, never breaking through to legend, ending as the little old guild leader of the Thief Guild’s Ense branch.
The marksman Lumi clearly had an archery dominance akin to the Sword Saint’s, but was left with an unerasable scar in the heart, lasting a hundred years, until finally breaking through to legend after resolving their heart’s knot.
The Celestial Destiny Mage Diana’s strength, however, advanced rapidly, but due to her brother Max’s death, it is said she became obsessed with conquering the Underground City for life, ultimately having a "grand finale" after reaching demigod status.
Unflinchingly said, the originally ample new generation combat power reserve of the Ense Empire was directly interrupted after this battle.
If not for the unreasonable emperor that emerged in the Empire, this Ense with its thousand-year legacy might have faced several centuries of decadence.
Pain, so much pain.
Everyone was heavy-hearted, for that was a hundred years ago when the Underground City had yet to develop to its maximum extent.
Clearly, this generation of the Underground City was out of control.
Due to the restrictions of the Underground City rules, top demigods undoubtedly couldn’t enter it.
The extermination of the prior generation’s Hero Squad already showed that even with legends like Max, who rival demigods and possess foresight, the Underground City couldn’t be conquered.
Although over the past hundred years, with the continuous "world digestion," the level restriction of the Underground City shifted from below regular legend to legend, the vacancy of the hero’s position has always prevented demigods from entering.
All countries could only watch helplessly as Demon King Helmer recuperated and strengthened its power in the Underground City.
They feared, truly feared.
Ambelas frowned: "For over a hundred years, we’ve constantly formed Legendary Squads to eliminate the Monster Army in the Underground City in batches, but the results were remarkably poor."
Although he was quite displeased with Mayer, who mastered the power of resurrection, Ambelas’s nation was precisely among those striving diligently to address the matter of the Underground City.
The more he thought, the more frightened he became. In fact, over the past century, all nations have been constantly upgrading their military forces, preparing to confront the feat-devouring Demon King Army. To this day, everyone’s emotions have become very tense.
But the Underground City still hadn’t integrated into the Star Continent.
There’s the saying of endless vigilance against theft, but no such thing as perpetual vigilance. Now most countries can’t bear this arms race and have relaxed their alertness.
It was like how a middle-aged man was in a romantic trap, once relaxed, leading to a complete collapse, as if the whole nation became limp.
Grand Chief Nuke spoke heavily: "Our priests used the Soul-Searching Technique and have already confirmed that the Abyssal Church has been plotting the Demon King disaster for thousands of years."
Even the demigods couldn’t remain calm at this point.
"Grand Chief Nuke, are you joking?"
"Please do not deliberately create panic!"
"Could it be that your Giant Demon Tribe has colluded with the Ense people to hype this up?"
The scene became noisy.
Louis watched this deeply ridiculous scene, momentarily unsure whether to laugh or cry.
These demigod forces aren’t fools; they actually understand that for the Giant Demon Tribe to dare stand up and say this, they must hold absolute evidence.
Yet they still showed this pale reaction.
——This is because they couldn’t accept this cruel truth, hence they do not and dare not acknowledge it.
The atmosphere on site sank to its lowest point.
But Nuke did not give them a chance to deny reality.
He mercilessly uncovered the bloodthirsty conspiracy undertaken by the Abyssal Church for millennia.
Thousands of years ago, when the Elf Realm was still the hegemon of the epoch, no one knew that such a vast realm would quickly decline after a short period of brilliance.
The aftermath called "Demon King Curse" affected the Elf Gods and all levels of the Elf Realm.
Ultimately, with a slow-burn approach, the problems of insufficient birth rates and lengthy training cycles quickly dragged down this huge hegemon of the epoch.
And as one of the reasons leading to the disintegration of the Elf Realm... the giant demons bearing the Demon King Curse also parted ways with their elven brethren.
When Jianqi of the Abyssal Four Gods learned of this, he sensed an opportunity.
The Giant Demon Tribe, secluding on the Giant Plain to recuperate, was greeted by history’s most malevolent organization.
Fueled by labels such as cannibals, carriers of the Demon King Curse, and one of the culprits destroying the Elf Realm, various nations either actively or passively severed ties with the giant demons, who had regained their sanity.
To build a nation of their own, the determined giant demons chose the same path as their former comrades, the elves, maintaining peace on the Giant Plain by guarding space passages, hoping to gain recognition from various nations.
However, forced into a cold war with various nations, the giant demon tribe had virtually isolated itself from the world, with external information difficult to come in and internal information difficult to get out.
With surgical precision in the Abyssal Church’s scheming, though the giant demon tribe never forgot the dream of "establishing a nation" over a long time, the key information of "guarding the space passages" spread less and less.
Ultimately, over an especially long period, a huge loophole appeared in the defense of the space passages of the Giant Plain.
And the Abyssal Church took advantage of this gap to wildly cultivate alternate world creatures, supporting a force capable of world destruction.
Until a hundred years ago, they chose the best master for this force.
He’s called Demon King Helmer.
Clearly not yet a developed and powerful Demon King, but a monster that annihilated the prodigies of a top nation like the Ense Empire.
By this point, the expressions of everyone present had become as stagnant as dead water.
The representative Sword Master from the Lokeshi Empire retracted his feet from the table, coldly saying:
"You mean that after the Giant Demon Tribe sacrificed the Great Sin: Wrath, and let Mayer form the Curse Binding Legion at such a heavy cost, what was finally cleaned up was nothing more than remnants left by the Abyssal Church?"
Grand Chief Nuke said painfully: "Yes, the Curse Binding Legion, capable of contending with any top legion on the continent today, merely extinguished the echoes of a true disaster."
"Those armies of alternate world creatures capable of creating mountains of corpses and seas of blood were long ago sent by the Abyssal Church to the Underground City, accumulating power for Demon King Helmer’s emergence, as Helmer delays merging with the Star Continent to quickly digest this power."
Suddenly, the clan leader of the Windwalker Family from the High Forest spoke: "The Seven Doomsday Calamities?"
The breath of everyone suddenly stilled.
In an instant, all their thoughts connected together.
"No, the Curse Binding Legion cannot disappear."
A demigod said almost frantically: "Not only can we not let the Curse Binding Legion disappear, but we also have to find a way to expand its numbers."
A demigod ruthlessly retorted: "No, the existence of the Curse Binding Legion is originally a taboo, beware of nurturing a tiger to one’s peril; if it grows strong and harbors other intentions, how does that differ for us from the Demon King?"
