This Lich Requests More Remuneration
Chapter 632 - 558: It’s Hard to Be a Good Person

Chapter 632: Chapter 558: It’s Hard to Be a Good Person

Hell is no good place, equally tormenting every sinner.

The low-ranking devils live a hard life, either getting killed or enslaved while the high-ranking ones also suffer, with the Endless Blood Battles being a continuous torment. Many times, when there’s a shortage of troops, the Grand Dukes of Hell will resort to forced conscription.

No one can escape this conscription; every Lord of Hell must provide equipment or personnel as commanded, otherwise, they’ll end up being dragged to the battlefield themselves.

Even those Grand Dukes, as the supreme rulers of Hell, have all sorts of troubles to consider, lest they face the punishment of Hell Law.

Zariel can’t even take revenge and has to keep Bayer, the fool, alive even though it means trapping Him at the Blood River Fortress, but every time Zariel sees Him, the painful memories of being dismembered resurface.

Hell equally torments every sinner, but recently there’s been a slight change.

In Melina’s territory, there appeared briefly a sensation among the devils that they might be able to lie down flat.

Here, it seemed like one could eat one’s fill without much effort and didn’t have to worry constantly about some devil coming over to slit one’s throat and use one’s flesh for spellcasting materials.

Many sinners who had just entered Hell flocked here and quickly settled into a life of stable work and comforting idleness.

These devils got used to the Magic Mirror system.

In Melina’s territory, a complete set of trading rules was established, and every devil would deposit their Soul Fragments or Soul Currency in the Magic Mirror system, no longer carrying it on their person.

This directly led to the disappearance of thieves.

Stealing someone else’s Magic Mirror was futile; you couldn’t open it to take the other party’s Soul Currency. Of course, robbery still occurred occasionally, after all, the guards that maintain order couldn’t prevent all acts of evil from happening, not to mention many of them took bribes.

This is a devil’s evil nature; it’s really difficult to avoid.

But no matter what, this place could now be considered a "Heaven" in Hell.

However, this comfort was built on the back of Amberser’s subsidies.

Amberser, hiding within the Magic Mirror, looked at a mountain of data, feeling somewhat a headache.

Under normal circumstances, Melina’s territory should be able to sustain over eight hundred thousand devils, but with a large number of devils beginning to ’lie flat,’ the production of Soul Fragments in the territory actually started to decline.

This wasn’t because Blood River Fortress had tampered with the territory rights during the exchange, but rather Hell Law was at work.

This place is meant to punish sinners, not for them to ’lie flat.’

The more devils that enjoy the peace they shouldn’t have, the more naturally Hell Law will come into effect.

Feeding too well, are we? Then let no one eat.

This is Hell.

The Lords of Hell aren’t fools; on the surface, it’s easy to win people over by offering them benefits, but the tyrants who fall into Hell know how to do this, they just can’t actually carry it out.

In other planes, you can gain a lot of support by buying people’s hearts.

In Hell, if you buy people’s hearts and let devils live well, you are making enemies with the world, and all sorts of misfortunate events will befall you.

Although Amberser’s plan for spiritual involution was recognized by Hell, the devils aren’t at the stage of actual involution yet, and are first enjoying the ’lying flat’ life. Regardless of the future, for now, these devils enjoying life have triggered Hell Law’s punishment mechanism.

For now, it’s just a reduction in Soul Fragment production, but if Amberser doesn’t whip these devils back to work soon, more trouble will await.

It’s a world that doesn’t let you be kind to others, and for now, Amberser can’t afford to be enemies with the world.

He has already subsidized a significant amount of souls just to sustain the surge of devils in Melina’s territory.

"Indeed, the will of the world isn’t so easily overturned. Ending the Blood Battles is truly no easy task,"

The management of a mere territory, whether running at a loss or profit, wasn’t of much concern to Amberser, because the Hell Bank had already opened for business. Under Amberser’s guidance, Mammon started to work hard and, in a short amount of time, accumulated a large amount of capital.

And these Soul Currencies were then used by Mammon to stir up the battles among the Lords of the Third Level of Hell.

A massive amount of lending allowed Lords to upgrade their domains, from troops to equipment, to large-scale Magic Arrays, and so on.

If your neighbor hoards grain and you hoard guns, that neighbor becomes your granary. It’s a rule everyone understands; previously it wasn’t so easy to stockpile weapons, but now with easy lending, if others borrow and you don’t, you’re doomed.

So recently, the Third Level of Hell has been quite lively, almost like a miniature Blood Battle.

Although countless loans went bad due to the deaths of borrowers, Amberser’s printing press of infinite currency issuance also forcefully implemented the Magic Mirror system into the hands of all Lords on the Third Level of Hell.

In a short time, the amount of Soul Currency handled by the bank exceeded what Mammon had over a hundred years.

It’s hard to say whether this account is at a loss or a profit, but Mammon’s control over the Third Level of Hell has risen dramatically. Now, it’s a matter of who Mammon wishes to win and how to move things around.

This is entirely due to the special nature of Soul Currency; this thing is food, ammunition, and currency itself, tightly connected to every devil as a universal equivalent.

Mammon now understands why Amberser once said He was thinking too small. With the Hell Bank in hand, there is no need to fuss over that bit of interest anymore because now, the World Laws of the entire Third Level of Hell are favoring His actions, allowing Mammon to noticeably feel stronger—a result that couldn’t be achieved even with swallowing billions of Soul Currency.