After the Lord of the Abyss Awakens - Chapter 116.2

Only a cunning demon understands a cunning demon. Tactical players have dirty hearts!

But Aelioge had no mood to care about Bachin, seeming like His heart was shattered, head lowered, lips pressed, pupils slightly trembling.

Bachin suddenly narrowed His eyes, about to start cursing but didn’t.

He understood Aelioge’s feelings. The childhood psychological shadow had not only not been overcome but might have deepened.

Big Brother was truly something. At least show some mercy. Isn’t confidence important in a demon’s growth? That punch would shatter Aelioge.

He counted: How many demons were present?

Bachin turned and swept His gaze, counting with His fingers. “Vassago, Marbas, Valefor, Amon, Barbatos, Paimon, Buer, Gusin, Beleth, Botis, Aelioge, me, Morax, Beelzebub – 14 in total?” Ignoring the pathetically overlooked Zepar lying flat.

Vassago was surprised, “Are we missing someone?”

“Ah, Inpos and Celerios didn’t come in.”

Bachin supplemented.

Vassago suddenly realized, “Yes, Inpos was sleeping so deeply. I called Him and He didn’t wake up, thus escaping this disaster.”

Such an operation? Too enviable for demons!

Bachin continued to ask. “What about Cele?”

Before Vassago could answer, Marbas spoke first. “Big Brother needs a demon to explain the situation. From His perspective, He probably doesn’t know exactly what happened. An honest demon without ulterior motives like Cele is the best choice for explanation.”

Bachin choked, thinking indeed, though Beleth was also quite honest.

Beleth, sensing Bachin’s gaze, shook His head. “Forget it. We’ve all been caught here. Reflection and review probably won’t help much…”

At this moment, Aelioge suddenly raised His head, with a determined look. “I won’t surrender. The position beside Father, I will never easily give to Big Brother!”

Wow, He recovered confidence so quickly?

Beleth hadn’t even finished speaking.

Botis raised both hands in support, vertical snake pupils standing, and voiced firmly. “Exactly right! Just one failure. Once we learn from experience, we definitely won’t lose next time!”

Cough. Gusin almost couldn’t hold back, almost wanting to say, “There might be a possibility we won’t have a ‘next time’, because I don’t want to join you again.”

Beelzebub stood up, observing around. “Then we can’t rest. We must quickly break through the Infinite Trial and go outside.”

The Infinite Trial, as the name suggests, is countless trials.

So the question is, where do these trials come from? The answer is Their Big Brother’s experiences. Big Brother loves battle, conquering the world, experiencing countless difficulties, meeting and defeating countless enemy demons and gods. These experiences, once recorded and “re-edited”, become various trial scenarios.

In other words, the “Infinite” in Infinite Trial is the infinite challenges Big Brother personally experienced.

There are also automatically generated domain trials, but the “materials” for automatic generation still come from Big Brother’s personal experiences.

Additionally, usually when Big Brother makes a move, the opponent dies. But sometimes, He throws captured giants and such into the Infinite Trial.

Is this because Big Brother has a collection fetish? No, the answer is to train Them!

In other words, besides Them, the Infinite Trial also has a large number of gods and demons once beaten by Big Brother.

These gods and demons are mere defeated opponents to Big Brother, but not to Them.

Beelzebub just sensed that within the range He could perceive, there were nearly fifty ultimate beings.

This is the lowest layer of the Infinite Trial. To break through the trial, They must defeat these gods and demons, climb upwards, reach the highest layers, and gain a chance to communicate with Big Brother.

Numerous obstacles lie ahead. Could They easily overcome them?

The demons looked at each other, and the answer was self-evident.

Charge! Of course, They would charge. Did They want to be permanently assigned to the Infinite Trial?

Younger brother and sister demons must also struggle!

Cat-head demons will never be slaves!

For Father, charge!

Their inner thoughts varied, but Their goal for the next stage was very clear.

Big Brother is not an unreasonable demon. His “reason” is strength. Only by fully demonstrating Your strength and Your “reason” will He truly consider Your opinion.

Facing Big Brother, words without power are meaningless!

At this moment, Aelioge took a deep breath, using demonic power to repair His demonic body, quickly recovering.

He told the other demons. “It’s not time to despair. Breaking through the Infinite Trial, I want to challenge Big Brother again, let Him know my strength, prove to Him that I’m qualified to stand beside Father!”

His momentum was imposing, His gaze sharp, His belief incredibly strong.

The easily excited Morax exclaimed. “I want to challenge too!”

Botis, thinking about Father being occupied by that big tiger, turned red-eyed and said indignantly, “Must do it. Oppose monopolizing Father!”

Beelzebub snorted. “No need to say more. Prepare. We’ll clear this quickly.”

After speaking, He shook Amon, “Amon, stop sleeping. The second round of battle begins. We’ll break through the Infinite Trial from the inside out.”

Amon furrowed His brow and actually woke up, slowly raising His head, His gaze dark and cold, emanating a chaotic atmosphere, “I was careless. My power didn’t perform well this time. Next time I’ll definitely succeed.”

Amon should have been the main demon fighting Big Brother, but He hesitated during the melee, took a head-on blow, and didn’t even get to unleash His power.

Of course, He felt He should fight again.

Vassago, observing from the sidelines, looked at Them and finally settled on Aelioge. In His heart, He really wanted to tell Aelioge, “You don’t actually need Big Brother’s permission to be close to Father. In the past, you often pretended to be weak, clinging to Father, refusing to properly upgrade, which is why Big Brother took you away. He was afraid you were too weak, would be easily injured or killed, and would make Father sad. But now is now. This isn’t the Abyss back then. Big Brother won’t care so much. Just don’t go too far and He probably won’t pay attention to you.”

Vassago’s thoughts flashed through His mind, but He didn’t say them directly. Instead, He met Marbas’ gaze.

Marbas obviously felt the same but also chose to remain silent. Why? Because it was interesting. What could be more entertaining than little brothers charging forward to challenge Big Brother?

Marbas might not be a fun-loving demon, but both demons and humans have a tendency to watch and enjoy drama.

Of course, He participated in getting beaten this time, but He didn’t want to participate next time. Watching from the sidelines is indeed more comfortable.

Hands in support!

On the other side, watching the determination of the five demons – Aelioge, Morax, Botis, Beelzebub, and Amon – Valefor gave a faint smile and exchanged glances with Barbatos.

Valefor: “What do you think?”

Barbatos shook Her head, “Once is enough. But seeing Them so persistent, although I won’t participate next time, I’ll support Them in my heart.”

Valefor smiled and asked, “How are the memories?”

Barbatos was slightly stunned, “Not fully digested yet. The memories of the Goddess of Harmony are too numerous. She always genuinely experienced and thought about those things, so each memory is so profound. Recalling them… is not easy to process.”

Valefor, not as emotional as Barbatos, couldn’t fully comprehend Her situation, but could rationally understand.

If Barbatos said it was difficult, then it truly was difficult.

She should have been quietly digesting these pieces of information, yet She resolutely chose to contribute.

What a good sister.

Valefor gently patted Barbatos’ shoulder, “It’s okay. We have plenty of time, enough to digest those memories, to cover them.”

Barbatos nodded, “Sister Valefor is the best.”

They were conversing about different matters.

Gusin blinked and suddenly said, “We’re not outside. Outside, there’s only Inpos possibly still sleeping, Lelagin with memory loss, and the foolish Cele. What if something happens…”

All demons turned to look at Gusin.

Marbas couldn’t help but laugh, “Gusin, how can you be so foolish? Big Brother and Second Brother are both on the continent. How could anything happen?”

Vassago also said, “Actually, just Second Brother being there prevents anything from happening.”

Gusin scratched the back of His head, innocently saying, “No, I’m afraid Big Brother and Second Brother might fight.”

Before He finished speaking, all awakened demons widened their eyes.

Ah? Big Brother and Second Brother fighting?

They hadn’t even considered this possibility, as it seemed first and foremost impossible.

Gusin continued, “Talking about hiding things from Big Brother, isn’t Second Brother also hiding something?”

Vassago shook His head, “That’s different. Without Second Brother, how would Father be found? Second Brother’s merits outweigh His faults. Big Brother won’t fight Second Brother over something like this.”

As the family’s third child, Vassago knew very well that Big Brother and Second Brother’s relationship was good. Big Brother’s conquering and battle style were known to all demons – He would never throw a second punch if one could solve the problem, and when He went out, it was life-or-death combat, only challenging stronger opponents. Second Brother would assist Big Brother, using His omniscience to gather information and His omnipotence to lay out strategies.

If They were 1, Big Brother and Second Brother would be 10, then Big Brother plus Second Brother would be 10 plus 10, equals 100.

If Father hadn’t said one word to keep Second Brother on the other side back then, Big Brother facing the high-level giant demons alone might have been overwhelmed…

Stopping His memories, Vassago emphasized, “Anyway, Gusin, don’t worry. Mature demons won’t easily fight.”

Gusin went “Eh” and actually said His true thoughts, “I really want to see Big Brother and Second Brother fight. Such a missed opportunity back then, how unfortunate.”

Wanting the world to be in chaos, right? Vassago really wanted to punch Gusin.

Gusin turned and said, “Haha, brotherly love is still more important, Big Brother also loves us.”

So you’re giving us the iron fist of love, right?

Aelioge’s mouth twitched slightly.

At that moment, Beleth reminded, “Wait, if we’re all here, who will investigate the mastermind outside?”

The demons suddenly fell silent.

This was a significant matter concerning Their great enemy. Aelioge had wanted to use this to divert Big Brother’s attention, but ultimately chose “forceful confrontation”, resulting in the current situation. Now, should He loudly call for Big Brother and then tell Him the information about the mastermind?

Logically so, but Vassago felt it was unnecessary, because since Celerios was outside, He would certainly tell Big Brother everything, and Their cat-headed demon group was updating intelligence along the timeline. Celerios only needed to bring Big Brother in, and He would know all the circumstances.

Celerios might be a fool, but He definitely understood this much. Perhaps Big Brother was already looking at the group.

They went back and forth, and the result was still the Infinite Trial. It was somewhat sad.

Valefor suddenly said, “Uncle Wang is also investigating, and the overall progress is still moving forward, so there’s no need to be anxious.”

“Indeed,” Aelioge nodded.

“Arnold will probably hide even more thoroughly after last time,” Amon reminded.

Botis: “Wait, now that he knows Big Brother has returned to the continent, would he dare to show up?”

“This…”

The air fell silent.

Aelioge pondered. “Indeed, if I were Him, I would have almost fled to the end of the universe by now.”

Big Brother’s deterrence was no joke. He had beaten up the God of the Universe, so what was the Evil of the Universe? One punch would flatten Him like a manhole cover.

Beelzebub: “So Father’s safety doesn’t need to be worried about, but the difficulty of capturing the mastermind has relatively increased.”

Those consciousness-type things were the hardest to deal with. They discussed intensely, talking over each other, completely forgetting about one demon.

At this moment, this demon’s face was as dark as water, demonic power surging, with a chilling killing intent in Her eyes.

While They were discussing, She suddenly stomped Her foot, causing the ground to crack and the sky to roar, with terrifying demonic power dominating the entire scene.

All demons paused, turning their heads towards – Paimon!

Paimon chuckled, hand brushing Her front hair, as if applying hair gel, revealing a smooth forehead and a pair of angry green eyes.

They were stunned for a moment, only then remembering.

Paimon’s pupils contracted extremely, horrifyingly, then clenched Her fist, with bulging arm veins.

“From the beginning, it’s been ‘Father this’ and ‘Father that’, and I was wondering what you were talking about, have you gone mad?”

Paimon’s every word seemed to be bitten out from between Her teeth, sharp and piercing to the demon’s heart.

“I just figured it out. Father has returned, right? You’ve been hiding this from the other demons, right? No wonder you provoked Big Brother!”

The demons stood frozen.

Aelioge reacted promptly, about to explain the situation.

Suddenly, Paimon’s demonic power erupted, splitting the ground, precisely where Zepar lay flat.

With a bang, Zepar fell through the crack.

What?!

Paimon was shocked, and the other demons were equally stunned. The air was quiet for a second.

Then, a heart-rending roar came from beneath the crack.

“I will kill you, I will kill you all!!”

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On the other side. The short-legged cat explained the situation while gesturing with its paw, nervously recounting the events of these past days.

“That’s… that’s how things happened, meow.”

He tremblingly gazed at the towering demon god, afraid of saying something wrong and getting punched.

The demon god stood quietly, silent, with a faint lightning flash deep in His dark green eyes. After a long while, He spoke.

“Where is Father.”