King of Titans and Dragons
Chapter 893 - 893 881 The Most Ruthless Devil

Chapter 893: Chapter 881: The Most Ruthless Devil Chapter 893: Chapter 881: The Most Ruthless Devil Bart’s Fourth Layer, the Blazing Flames of Hell

The middle-rank Demon Gavriel Zapata, who was collecting the sinful souls that had fallen from the Void into Hell, lifted his head as he heard a faint sound. A look of uncontrollable ecstasy spread across his face, for he sensed the summoning force from the Main Material World.

For these lesser Devils, every trip to the Main Material World was a rare opportunity, and they would always return with a bountiful harvest, so Gavriel responded to the summoning without hesitation.

Time and space shifted, and Gavriel, following the force of the summoning, left the Hell where he had resided. Fresh air surged into his nostrils, and a slight feeling of oppression came from his surroundings.

“Lowly…” just as Gavriel was about to deliver his grandiose opening speech, a hand wreathed in Flames grabbed his head and violently dragged him from the Teleportation Array before throwing him to the ground.

“You…” Gavriel, treated so roughly, lifted his head, intending to curse out loud, but he quickly swallowed his rude words.

This was because the one who had yanked him out of the Teleportation Array was a High-level Demon of higher rank than him. A being that could crush him with a mere flick of the wrist, let alone grab and throw him by his head.

“Behave and stay put!” The greater Demon who had summoned him threw him aside and did not bother with him further, instead continuing to operate the Teleportation Array, calling forth the Devils of Hell and luring their true forms into the Material World with souls.

“…” Soon, the figure of another middle-rank Demon appeared in the Teleportation Array, but this Demon was not as lucky as him; it did not even get a chance to speak before the greater Demon grabbed its head and threw it aside as well.

Under the greater Demon’s intimidation, all the Devils that were summoned did not dare to speak; they simply crouched obediently in the corner. When the room was nearly filled with middle-rank Demons summoned by the greater Demon, he took out a bell and rang it.

Almost immediately, another powerful Demon entered the room and looked at the Demons summoned from Hell with an expressionless face, “All of you, come with me.”

Without requiring further instruction from the greater Demon, the Demons summoned from various levels of Hell spontaneously formed two lines and followed the greater Demon out of the room obediently. Compliance with orders from more powerful Demons had become their instinct.

Gavriel ranked in the center of this Demon procession, and soon he noticed similar groups continuously emerging from various rooms.

This was a massive building, and within this building’s rooms, there were powerful Demons, continuously using the Soul Source to entice Demons from Hell.

Before long, Gavriel arrived in a spacious hall, where the majority were middle-rank Demons like himself, with a small portion of High-level Demons. They all stayed obediently in the hall, not daring to misbehave.

Then an incredibly powerful Abyss Refining Demon appeared, and he was accompanied by countless tomes.

“These are the Legal Codes of various nations of the Erathia World. Your task is to compile a complete, flawless Legal Code based on these!”

After the powerful Demon that had left the middle-rank Demons breathless had spoken, he vanished. He did not mention what would happen if they failed to compile a flawless Legal Code.

Once the order was given, led by the forcibly summoned High-level Demons from Hell, thousands of Demons quickly established their respective assignments and divisions and then began the work of compiling the Legal Code.

Three months later, when the Legal Code compiled by the united efforts of thousands of Demons had piled up like a mountain, the Abyss Refining Demon responsible for overseeing their work reported back, and the powerful Demon that made breathing seem difficult reappeared once again.

“Now, I pose a question to you!” Mels stood beneath the high platform, looking down at the thousands of Demons below, a smile on his face that was hard to decipher,

“Do you think the Legal Code you’ve compiled is perfect?” Mels, who had transformed into a human form and with an exceedingly graceful bearing, asked the group of hellish Demons, many times his height and fearsomely grotesque.

Not a single Demon dared to answer, and they believed themselves to have done their utmost. The Legal Code they had created was even more perfect than those they had been given as reference.

“So, you all think the Legal Code you’ve compiled is perfect, without any flaws, correct?”

Still, no Demon spoke.

“Very well!” Mels nodded. “I am now giving you all one final opportunity. Does anyone believe there is a loophole within the legal code article they are responsible for drafting? If so, stand forth. You still have one last chance to make amendments!”

Still, no demon stepped forward because they all thought this was a good opportunity to show their competence before such a powerful devil—no demon would admit their inadequacy to their face.

“Since that’s the case, let them in!” Following Mels’s command, a group of demons—almost equal in number to those who had drafted the legal code—emerged from various corners and stood trembling beneath Mels’s feet, just like the others, listening to his orders.

“Listen, what lies before you is a legal code with no loopholes! But I do not believe that, and you should all have your doubts as well, for there is no such thing as a perfect contract!”

Mels shouted to the demons that had entered from behind, his voice filled with passion.

“Your task now is to find the loopholes within this legal code. Each demon must find at least one. Those who find one will survive, and those who don’t…”

Mels adjusted the monocle on his nose and revealed a particularly ferocious smile, “Well, they can just die. If you can’t even find a loophole in a contract, you have no right to call yourself a demon living in this world!”

“Begin now and prove to me that you deserve to live in this world as a demon!” As soon as Mels’s words fell, the demons that had come in later began to stir, and under the arrangement of Mels’s subordinates, they started to frantically check the contract.

“My lord, I’ve found a loophole here!” It didn’t take long for a demon to raise its hand.

Mels, without uttering a word, simply waved his hand; immediately, a demon stepped forward to inspect the loophole and then nodded to Mels.

“Which demons were involved in drafting the legal code article with a loophole?” Mels asked. The names of the responsible demons appeared on the central crystal tablet in the hall as his words concluded.

“My lord, spare my life, please give me one more chance!” Upon seeing their names before the great devil, four demons kneeled, their expressions panicked.

“As demons who are responsible for drafting a contract, you’ve allowed a loophole to exist, casting a shadow over all demonkind. To pay for your hard work, I can now generously allow you to choose your own death. Tell me, how do you wish to die?”

Mels smiled at the few demons kneeling and continuously kowtowing, begging for mercy, his eyes, however, were utterly indifferent.

These demons didn’t answer Mels’s question; they just knelt and kept kowtowing, pleading for Mels to spare them, but for a great devil to show mercy was pure fantasy. Thus, it wasn’t long before another demon approached and dragged away those who had allowed a loophole in the legal code.

“Continue!” As Mels commanded amid the hall’s deafening silence, the demons checking for loopholes in the legal code became even more desperate. They had realized that if they could not find a loophole, their fates wouldn’t be too pleasant.

As one loophole after another was identified, more and more demons were dragged away. In Mels’s eyes, they no longer had any value to continue living. If that was the case, let the corpses of these demons become fertilizer for the Elf Race’s Tree of Life, to nourish the Earth of Senapus.

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“Please, don’t let it be my name! Please not…” Gavriel’s body trembled as he muttered incessantly, his face showing an unmistakable color of fear.

He looked around himself. From the initial count of a thousand demons, now less than fifty remained. The others had been dragged away for the loopholes found in the legal codes they helped draft.

What was their fate? Gavriel dared not think or wish to ponder. Demons had no sympathy for those beneath them; they were seen as mere tools.

“Can’t find any more loopholes for the time being?” After a long wait and noticing no new loopholes being reported, Mels frowned, “Then take away all those demons who haven’t found a single loophole just now!”

After another wave of heart-wrenching cries and pleas for mercy, the hall once again fell into silence, leaving less than eight hundred trembling demons standing there.

“You will now continue to revise this legal code until not a single demon can find any more loopholes within it!”

After the operation that had already killed over a thousand demons, Mels still looked down with a smile at those who remained. Every one of the surviving demons trembled with fear, yet they worshipped him devoutly and submitted wholeheartedly—to them, such a demeanor was exactly the grandeur a true great devil should possess.