Chapter 189 Consequential Justice and Procedural Justice

As the River Styx changed its course, it swallowed up most of the bloody battlefield deep in the hinterland of Avernus, the tunnel collapsed, and the subsequent weak demonic offensive collapsed on its own.

This may be the fastest medium-sized encounter blood battle battle from start to finish in Baator Hell in so many years.

David and his group of dragons, who successfully used the Styx River to burst its banks and break out of this bloody battle, also lost most of their lives, with a large string of 'familiar heads' hanging around their necks.

The ambition that I had forgotten in my childhood, but more than ten years later, I successfully cosplayed ‘Wu Jing Long Above the River Styx’.

But at this moment, no one could laugh. Their faces and eyes were full of exhaustion and numbness. David said in a hoarse voice:

"Don't stop. If you make such a big noise, that devil general won't let it go so easily."

He could feel the arrogance of the devil general.

And with the power of [Arrogance], he also knows the by-products of this arrogance:

When this arrogance is offended, it often appears extremely 'petty'.

And this kind of 'small-mindedness' is often fatal.

He also said that "revenge does not last overnight", so he used the Styx to deceive the opponent while saving himself.

But Dragon Dad Artilicia, who had just experienced a narrow escape, felt a little unreasonable:

"But didn't we also accomplish his strategic purpose and successfully flood the tunnel where the demons poured in this time?"

In his view of the Silver Dragon who has received Dragon Island's "Justice Education" since childhood, as long as he can achieve the "great and correct ultimate goal", then no matter how many sacrifices he makes, it is worth it.

Even if it was himself who was sacrificed, he had indeed gone to the Dark Territory alone for his son.

Therefore, he couldn't understand that although David did not act in the way the opponent expected, he had successfully blocked the devil's attack! For this reason, most of the family members died. Is it too much to ask for more?

If it were placed on some material plane such as Ellaria, the name of David Yutos would probably be directly praised as a hero who successfully repelled the demonic invasion, and would be commemorated by a monument and recorded in history forever.

David opened his mouth, a little too lazy to speak, but the Dragonborn Desire Demon beside him, who was also in ragged clothes and covered in blood scabs, sighed and explained:

"Uncle Artilisia, you may not know much about the situation in our Baator Hell. For the devil, since the bloody battle began eternity ago, partial victory in the bloody battle has long been accustomed to the devil, because no matter what he encounters, In the eyes of the devil, victory is inevitable, no matter sooner or later. Since victory is inevitable, how to achieve victory with the smallest loss has become the standard for every devil general to be evaluated and honored, and whether it is 'procedural justice' or not , is also an indicator that must be included in the judgment.”

In other words, David, who is not a military member of Baator Hell, went a little too far this time by directly digging into the Styx-flooded battlefield.

Because the terrain of Avernus is extremely complex, no one can predict whether the Styx River bursting its banks will actually achieve its strategic goals, or whether it will cause greater damage and losses to Avernus.

For example, what if the River Styx after its redirection directly washed away the Bronze Fortress?

Who could have predicted this?

This is equivalent to a huge gamble.

It's just that David himself won the bet, and the devils of Avernus and the devils of the Abyss both lost miserably.

As she spoke, she glanced at David who didn't want to speak:

"The losses to Avernus this time are also great, especially the change of course of the River Styx. Before the river course stabilizes, the salvage process of the Soul Shell of Avernus will become extremely unstable, which will also affect Avernus's war potential is so great that it cannot be compensated by large-scale promotion of low-level devils in time. The only way to eliminate Avernus's entire war zone strength is by temporarily dispatching troops from other prison levels. The risk of insufficient. Such a large troop transfer will inevitably alarm the lords of all levels of prison and affect their interests.

"It is even possible to reach His Majesty, the Lord of Nine Hells.

"David Yutos, we, especially you, must be prepared for this."

David narrowed his eyes and said:

"It seems that it may be necessary for me to go and see Her Majesty the Five-Colored Dragon Queen in person."

After all, his red dragon ancestor Efilomon may not be able to survive such a big basket.

"Indeed, I'm afraid I have to go back to the Sixth Prison Malboji to ask for His Highness Gracia. Regardless of whether His Highness is willing to protect us or not, at least if the worst happens, I can find the family. Book a defense team for us in advance."

David immediately became happy: "Then we will have to go to a military court if we turn back?"

"Under some very special circumstances, this is not a fantasy. This is Baator Hell, a place with the most stringent rules and laws. We must prepare for the worst."

Hearing this, David didn't have much reaction. Father Long and Sister Long beside him were already confused, and their minds were in a trance.

One of them came to Baator Hell to do business, and the other came to 'study' with his brother. Why is it that it has only been less than a month and they are going to be involved in a military court?

Still on the defendant’s side!

Soon, a whistling sound came from the sky.

"Hidden! Hurry!" Yolanda's warning sound came.

The dragons, including David, immediately jumped up on their forelimbs like a polar bear attacking a seal cub, preparing to dig a hole in the loose ground of Baator Hell's layer of dead bodies.

But I didn't expect that under this blow, the entire ground suddenly collapsed like quicksand. Not long after the body fell down, I saw a ferocious fortress that looked similar to the Soul Train passing through the air.

"It seems the worst has happened." Yolanda murmured.

"What is that?" asked the unfinished white dragon Mephiler.

"Flying Fortress, the second generation product of Soul Train design, Hell Engine is also powered by the Soul Forge. It is directly under the command of Archduke Avernus of Bronze Fortress. In the early years, it was used as a command center or strategic defense line, but with the increase of Soul The shutdown of the furnace is now generally only used for mobilizing troops and long-distance communication when the war situation is most critical. Now, it is mostly used to arrest us after the pressure on the front line has been reduced sharply. We cannot be caught, otherwise, we will lose our final strength. The right to defend oneself.”

"In that case, let's go separate ways." It's meaningless to continue to stay together now.

"Okay." Yolanda looked at him deeply and revealed a fact:

"David Yutos, this sudden incident may have led to him being dragged into a conspiracy against me. I'm sorry."

"It's meaningless to say this now, let's survive first." David said expressionlessly.

They are not fools. With such a big bloody battle gap in the rear, it is impossible for the teleportation stronghold not to receive any battle report, even if it is foreseeable.

But in this way, they were still placed on a soul train that happened to pass there.

No matter how you look at it, it seems to be full of the conspiracy of the devil in Bardo Hell.

"Take care, my friend, I, Yolanda, will repay the friendship and debt for saving this life." After saying this, the dragon-born lust demon disappeared into the shadow at the end of the underground cave.

"Is she worthy of trust? Dragon Lord?" The green dragon Shadela, who had always been silent, looked at the direction in which the other party disappeared, and asked with some doubts.

"At least in terms of logic and interests, I have no conflict with her or her father Christos for the time being. Moreover, I don't think I have any value worth exchanging for a core heir who unites the bond between the two families."

In the previous bloody battle, if he made a mistake, Yolanda would not be able to survive alone, and even her soul might not be able to escape.

Regardless of whether they are devils or devils, some of them have some unique magical artifacts and special methods that can imprison and capture souls.

"Brother, let's get out quickly. It stinks here." Tanya couldn't stand the smell here.

"Stay good, at least it's relatively safe here." David hit Tanya on the head with his tail.

But after Tanya's reminder, David sniffed and felt the smell of decay and death in his nasal cavity. Every breath seemed to swallow the spark of life, and he felt relieved.

He knew where this place was.

They had crossed the hinterland of Avernus and arrived at the edge of the fabled Den of Maggots.

At the end of the Maggot Cave is the Dragon Cliff that leads straight to the sky.

Sure enough, as they continued to move forward in this underground cavity, the ground became increasingly slippery, as if it had been deposited and fermented by old corpse liquid.

Slowly, more unknown liquids and twisted and half-rotted soul shells began to appear on the ground. Yellow mold grew along the walls. They glowed faintly in the darkness, providing the only source of light in this place.

One after another, huge, squirming balls of flesh occupy most of the underground space. These meat balls are the aggregation of soul shells transported from various places of torture.

They huddled together in despair and instinct, just like emperor penguins huddled together for warmth before dying.

It's just that they look much more disgusting than penguins. They will hug and tear each other, and slowly rot together, converging into such a 'meat mass' composed of soul shells and dark energy, constantly squirming and twisting, like invisible bodies. Its stomach digests every soul body that falls here.

Then after a long period of time, new lemures were continuously produced from this mass of flesh - they struggled to crawl out of the mass of flesh, carrying new resentment and pain.

Around the Maggot Egg, some devils are endlessly busy.

They use long hooks to select the new lemures among the meat balls.

Bring the ones that look "different" to the ground and send them in a row to the river embankment, to the military camp, and to wherever they are needed. At the same time, they can also serve as all functions that can use them: slave labor, Cannon fodder, military prostitutes and even temporary military rations.

But this kind of "distinctiveness" is entirely based on the interest of these Baba demons, so the first threshold that the lemure demons have to cross if they want to be promoted, on the contrary, it really requires a little luck.

In this dark place, occasionally these Barb Demons holding barbs will be 'lazy' and drag some new lemures into a deeper and darker place for torture and fun. In the process of being pulled, these souls are There were shrill screams, but these sounds seemed to be drowned out by other sounds in the cave - the wails of countless souls and the roars of lemures.

And this is Baator Hell.

But soon David's operation made them confused again. In front of a squirming mass of flesh, David directly killed the Baba demons who were pulling and torturing the new lemures, and then pulled out the bastard from behind. The two completely deformed hell-iron swords were used as shovels to dig holes into the maggot eggs.

At first, Father Long and the others didn't know what David was doing, but they just followed it instinctively as they were already exhausted.

It was not until the sharp roars of countless soul shells dug out a huge hole that could fit a house in, that David asked the dragon father Artilicia:

"Dad? Do you know the [Mordencan Mansion Technique]? Otherwise it will be very noisy."

Artilicia thought that David was also tired and was going to take a temporary rest here while avoiding the pursuit of those flying fortresses.

".I only know the low-end version of [House Building Technique]."

"Then just build one, as long as it can be lived in."

Dragon sister Tanya opened her mouth and wanted to suggest whether she could change the place, but her reason told her that this was indeed a good place to take refuge.

After a while, the inside of this maggot egg was stuffed into a house that looked ordinary but was enough to fit them in.

But after they got in, David had no intention of following them in. Instead, he threw the corpses of the Baba demons that he had silenced, and then began to paste the dug out soul shells back into the wall.

Dragon daddy Artilicia was just about to come out when she was stared back by David:

"If you stay here, in your current state, following me will be a burden. You might as well stay here as a backup."

Although the group of dragons, including Father Long, don't want to admit it, this is an indisputable fact.

After leaving the continuous nourishment of hunting demons in bloody battles, they have been overdrawn countless times and have little ability to fight head-on. They are in urgent need of a 'long rest' to slow down.

As he spoke, David didn't give Artilicia a chance to refute at all. He pointed the tip of his tail at Father Dragon's paw that was engraved with the demiplane magic array and said:

"If you receive my message or encounter the guards from the Bronze Fortress, don't hesitate to sacrifice our savings directly to the Five-Colored Dragon Queen."

"Okay" Artilicia sighed.

This world is so magical. The amount of money their father and son had saved over the years was originally used to pay off Pavla's 'debt', which was enough to resurrect all their dragons more than a hundred times with the [Resurrection Technique].

It is also enough to please a Dragon God.

As for why not sacrifice treasures directly on the bloody battlefield from the beginning to pray for the five-color dragon queen's salvation?

Due to the rules of bloody battles, the move is a chess piece, and the Dragon Queen's personal exit is likely to trigger an unexpected chain reaction, which is a taboo.

Therefore, the last thing Tiamat, who also served as the Grand Duke of Avernus, could do was to accept this treasure and lead their souls back to his divine kingdom.

That is equivalent to directly begging for mercy from the Five-Colored Dragon Queen.

This was not what David wanted and could accept.

Similarly, just like when he was born in Scanis, the old continent, he fell under the nose of his mother Pafla.

Holding [Tiamat's Guardian] in his claws, he must be under the gaze of the Five-Colored Dragon Queen when he enters the Hell of Baator.

Yes, Tiamat.

Always looking at him!

What he wanted to prove was that he had the same ability as his mother Pavla to walk before Him alone.

Instead of being like a timid, incompetent and pitiful creature who can only pray for His blessing in everything.

He believed that this was what the other party wanted to see.

For this reason, He did not hesitate to change the course of the River Styx, and the swampy land was thousands of miles away, but He was indifferent.

David hurriedly walked for an unknown number of miles in the hollow underground maggot den.

Bang!

After getting out, he looked up at the horizon in front of him, the dragon cliff that was like a chasm that went straight to the sky and seemed to completely block the land route. He took a deep breath and said to himself with a smile:

"Now then, Your Majesty.

"I am coming!"