NOVEL NEXT Chapter 1514: Invading Hell
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The Demonic Dimensional Gate opened, revealing a spiraling vortex of demonic flames and dimensional energies. Blake used his Aura of Creation, encompassing everything within it, and rushing inside.
He went with Ruby, Bestellen, and Braveblitz as his only summoned Familiars, keeping everyone else within his Grimoire as Cards, moving the entire army inside may cause problems he didn't want to deal with.
FLAAASH!
Everyone saw a similar scene to when they entered Belphegor's Nightmare Realm.
Shifting colors.
Strange, mind-twisting images.
Membranes of strange ethereal energies which they slowly went through.
Until they moved from their own world, Spiritias...
To Hell, the World and Realm of Demons.
RUMBLE!
Hell itself trembled as it received unwanted visitors. Everyone opened their eyes, glancing around their surroundings.
There was no sky, but an endless ceiling made of red stone and covered by black and red crystals.
The landscape seemed near endless, with mountains, forests, lakes, and rivers everywhere.
Some lakes and rivers were made of magma poured of endlessly erupting volcanoes.
Others were made of noxious boiling poisons and acids.
Some mountains had eyes and tentacles, opening jaws to devour hordes of flying things.
They saw an amorphous entity walking by, suddenly noticing them as well.
Forests of bleeding souls wailing in agony in the distance filled the background with plenty of horrible noise.
Castles and destroyed buildings were around certain areas, some still being occupied by armies of demons, others abandoned, as strange mushrooms grew over them, spreading poisonous gases and spores.
There was no sea and there was no sky, there was just an endless... world, encased on its own crimson brimstone and crystallizations of corrupt energy leaking everywhere, corrupting and eating everything.
This was the world of Demons, which Erdrich had seen with Patricia a while ago, only momentarily.
And there were demons, yes.
Billions of demons and demonic beasts everywhere.
"T-This is hell?!" Erika gasped. "Oh wow...! This is... wow... we're really visiting another world..."
"Incredible..." Elizabeth muttered. "It's so different from our world... so strange, so alien..."
"A realm made to imprison Lucifer and the demons for eternity..." Eric said. "I see now what sort of strange, twisted world it would become..."
"Ahh, I wonder what sort of unique resources we could mine here..." Alberta said that out of nowhere, gaining a few glares that made her embarrassed. "A-Ah! Sorry, that was inappropriate..."
"So this is where all those bastards come from, no wonder they want our world, theirs look like a living hell... well, it is I suppose," Elfriedden sighed, crossing his arms.
"It's so strange and alien, and yet it also feels so familiar... I don't really like this feeling," Erdrich sighed. "I hate how comfortable it feels to me to be in here..."
"W-Where are we exactly? Which part of it?" Chris asked. "I'm really lost right now... and there's so many things to see..."
"Exactly at the sixth layer, only one layer from reaching our destination, it seemed the gate teleported us here instantly, this is where the army of demons were coming," Blake explained, this view was too familiar to him already. "I know the way to the Abyssal Pit, an area that can help you reach deeper... but I am sure that it won't be easy for us to advance as leisurely."
Blake looked in front of him, the ground trembled, and the skies rumbled, armies of demons were marching towards them. Millions of flying demons coming from the skies, most of them shaped like giant, aberrant humanoid bats and wyverns, and from the ground, demonic beasts and demons rushed forward, most of the beasts acting as mounts for big, burly, and muscular warrior demons.
"INVADERS!"
"DON'T LET THEM GET THROUGH!"
"LORD LEVIATHAN HAS ORDERED US TO TAKE THEM DOWN!"
"FIGHT FOR YOUR DOMAIN!"
"OOOOHHHHHH!"
The demons panicked and screamed, rushing forward and making the sixth layer of hell tremble with their footsteps and roars. Blake wasted no time, his Grimoire glowing and overflowing with power, as thousands of cards appeared, rapidly turning into divine familiars, a hundred of each type.
At the same time, Henrietta, Allen, and Hyun supplemented his summoning, summoning even more familiars beyond Blake's limits, a hundred Divine Familiars each, of their own unique types. Allen's Divine Elemental Beasts, Henrietta's Divine Genesis Egg Beasts, and Hyun's Divine Shadow Soldiers emerged, marching towards the demon, and clashing loudly against them.
Explosions of magic erupted everywhere, claws and fangs tore flesh apart, the demons were mostly overwhelmed, their demonic beasts being of no use either, killed without end, and quite easily at that.
"Let's keep moving, don't waste your breath with them, everyone."
Blake and company moved through the skies of the Sixth Layer of Hell, riding over the wide backs of Ruby, Bestellen, or on top of Braveblitz's shoulders.
Ruby and Bestellen had both evolved already, becoming much stronger after training and hunting monsters and especially Spirit Beasts for a while.
Bestellen had mostly regained all of his original power by now, and a little more, while Ruby had further evolved into a True Spirit Dragon, becoming formidably huge and powerful, surpassing Bestellen.
As for the Xenoid Queen, Blake kept her inside his Spirit Realm, as she was preparing her own army of Ascended Xenoid, devouring millions of demon corpses and growing immensely larger over time.
As the demons perished by the thousands as the Summoners' armies advanced, Blake and his friends glanced into the distance, they moved as quickly as possible, flying towards the center of the layer.
Blake had calculated roughly calculated that each layer was as big as Spiritias, but they had landed very close to Leviathan's Palace, which was right next to the Abyss Pit, meaning that it wouldn't take too long to reach their destination.
Demons as strong as the three Merfolk princes appeared from time to time, shouting their names and titles, calling themselves Princes, Dukes, and Great Dukes of Hell, and yet they were all weaklings not even worth mentioning, slain by a single swing of Blake's spear, pierced hundreds of times before exploding into pieces.
It was a complete massacre, one that Hell had not seen in eons since Asmodeus invaded this Realm with his army...
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