age of lords I! The Call of Death

Chapter 4 The nature of the Demon

With the activation of the Abyss Incubator, Sebastian can officially recruit soldiers. All Abyss units, from level 0 to 2, can be recruited with just souls and flesh. "Since the 0-level, 1-level, and 2-level units in the Abyss Incubator only require souls and flesh for recruitment, I don't need to exchange for other supplies in the early stages."

"And, as I have no resources nearby to gather, I have no need to allocate additional energy to exploration."

Sebastian looks at the withered and desolate land around him and thinks about it. Generally, most lords need to focus a significant portion of their energy on exploring the surrounding lands after establishing their territories to ensure the safety of their territory, expelling possible threats such as wild beasts or hostile forces.

The second aspect is that once these lords explore suitable surroundings, they quickly establish something akin to "mines" in corresponding locations to accelerate their development. However, Sebastian currently has no need to worry about these issues because the world called the Endless Abyss has long withered and died, and there are no enemies inside that could attack Sebastian 's territory. So, Sebastian 's territory within the Endless Abyss can be considered absolutely safe. The only concern for him is how to launch an attack! "Now, if I want to continue developing, I can only go to the Trial Continent to plunder resources. But before that, I need to summon a few basic units to check their attributes." With this in mind, Sebastian directly invested a set amount of soul stones into the incubation pool. With a wriggling motion in the pool, ten cocoon-like structures of various colors appeared in front of Sebastian , each about the height of an adult's waist. Their shells were covered in various strange patterns – some resembling ghost faces, some resembling special symbols – all unique. But the one thing they had in common was that these symbols and patterns were something any being with sufficient intelligence and emotion could understand.

They all instinctively feel ominous. The first-level Abyss Incubation Pool can only incubate ten such cocoons at a time, and these cocoons contain little demons not yet fully hatched. Sebastian looks at the countdown timer on the Heavenly Dao System, indicating the time required for these little demons to hatch: thirty seconds. Among many level 0 units, they are considered a relatively fast batch to hatch. The cocoons break open after thirty seconds, revealing small, ugly demons with wings, about the size of children. **[Little Demon]** **[Level 0 Unit]** **[Affiliation: Chaotic Evil]** **[Abilities: Mining, Carrying, Logging, etc.]** **[Introduction: Cannon fodder among cannon fodders in the Endless Abyss, possessing strong adaptability. You can use them freely, remember, use them! Whether you make them miners, slaves, experiments, or even eat them directly, it's a good ending for their wretchedly evil souls.** As they open their eyes, they exude absolute evil and greed, scanning everything around them with malicious eyes, including Sebastian himself! Although they are small demons, they are demons nonetheless. The chaos and evil within demons apply to them as well. However, as soon as they sense the Lord aura emanating from Sebastian and the invisible fluctuations beneath him, their malice and greed disappear without a trace. "Hmm?" But when ten little demons actually hatch, Sebastian can't help but furrow his brow. "What's going on? Why do these little demons have different attributes?" "Some little demons have a strength of 5, while others have only 2." "Some little demons have intelligence as high as 6 points, while others have a pitiful 1 point, just like stupid fish people?" Sebastian is seeing this situation for the first time. It's the first time he's heard of the same unit having different attributes. Generally, the units recruited in a territory have fixed attributes. However, the little demons Sebastian summoned this time have no fixed attributes at all! Sebastian, who doesn't believe in superstitions, summons 10 new little demons and 10 level 1 units – Inferior Imps – again. As expected, the attributes of the little demons summoned by Sebastian this time are completely chaotic. Not only the little demons, but the attributes of the Inferior Imps are also completely chaotic! "Complete chaos in attributes?" "No, it's not just attributes." "The entire Endless Abyss is in complete chaos." Sebastian looks at these little demons and gradually understands some basic properties of the Endless Abyss. Firstly, the chaos of the Endless Abyss is not only manifested in the environment and rules but also affects all living beings inside the Endless Abyss, even everything within the Endless Abyss. Sebastian doesn't delve into this point any further after understanding it. He is not a scholar, and there's no need for him to understand the Endless Abyss so thoroughly. He only needs to make good use of it. However, just as Sebastian is preparing for a large-scale "exploding troops" operation, sending these little demons to the Trial Continent en masse, an unexpected event occurs once again. "Okay, let me organize these little demons into a formation in the system. Without heroes or commanders, I have to be the one to command all units." As Sebastian organizes the formation, he suddenly discovers that of the first batch of little demons he summoned earlier, only 8 remain! Two little demons have disappeared! Completely disappeared, Sebastian can't find them in the system either. When a puzzled Sebastian locks his perspective onto the group of little demons, a shocking scene unfolds before his eyes. The remaining eight little demons are happily tearing apart the corpses of the other two little demons. They are cheering and celebrating their first meal since birth! They are extremely grateful for being the one to survive. They don't care at all that they are eating their own kind. They only know that their desperate hunger needs to be satisfied! After devouring the bodies of the two little demons, their hunger is not completely satisfied. Although no longer hungry, they always crave more. So, they once again focus their gaze on their own kind. This time, the first batch of summoned little demons only has 7 left... Greedy, evil, thirsty, never satisfied. They possess all these sins and are all beings nurtured by the Endless Abyss. And they... have such a nature.