Chapter 208 The Devil Warlord
From then on, the First Hell was ruled by the Grand Duke Zariel, and Zariel replaced the Pit Demon Baier as the lord of Avernos. This change led to the Devil A major change in tactics.
Zariel's fiery temper and reckless maneuvering were in sharp contrast to Bair's approach, and the demons under her command entered the battle with a violent rage. According to Luft's memory, In the past hundreds of years, the devils have never faced battle with such ferocity as they do now.
However, unexpectedly, this method of combat has achieved quite good results. In the past hundred years, the frequency of bloody battles has been much lower than in the past. This is all due to Zariel's high efficiency. Means of exterminating demons.
After Zariel fell into the devil, she has been unswervingly committed to destroying the devil. In order to achieve this goal, she also retained the army planned by Grand Duke Bile when he ruled Avernus. system, because this model allows orders to be communicated more effectively. There are still a full 150 formal elite regiments in the First Prison, as well as about 50 newly expanded cannon fodder regiments, but the specific size and number are not fixed. .
Zariel was originally an angel. This unique personal reason and her fiery temper caused her to suffer political isolation from other Lords of the Nine Hells.
Of course, even so, other lords in hell will still send devils to join in the bloody battle, because this is the mission of the devils, but also because of Zariel's origin, there are far more secretly than normal leaders. The Lord and many demons are plotting to overthrow her.
Zariel sensed this malice, so she chose to increase the combat effectiveness of her army by actively recruiting mortal souls. The city at the feet of Nohir can prove this, and the cannon fodder army is changing and expanding. It was her strategy to deal with this hostility.
The Cannon Fodder Legion has actually always existed in Avernus. There is no fixed number of people, officers and titles in the legion. In other words, the unified title of these legions is cannon fodder, and their functions are as conspicuous as their names.
The devils who were originally in the Cannon Fodder Legion are often new devils born from the River Styx in Avernus. Their combat effectiveness is far less stable than those of the truly elite devils, so they can only join the Cannon Fodder Legion and Only by surviving the war until the end of the war and collecting enough military merit in the process can they join other formal legions and escape the ranks of cannon fodder.
Of course, this is the former cannon fodder legion. The current cannon fodder legion is also filled with other demon legions from the nine hells who came to support. Zarrell always throws them into the most dangerous battles without hesitation. This makes Their mortality rate skyrocketed. Luft was always glad that he was born 300 years earlier than these unlucky ones. Of course, his current results were not much better than those unlucky ones.
However, Zariel did not leave them with a way to survive. She broke up the supporting demon legions and mixed them into the cannon fodder legion. If any devil could show his value in the battle, at the same time If Zariel or her cronies notice this value, then she will directly promote him without even needing military merit.
The racial jump and the promotion of power, such a rapid class change can be called a rapid promotion. Zarrell does not seem to worry at all that among the devils she promotes, there are spies from other grand dukes. She didn't worry if these demons would betray her, but Nohir knew why.
Zariel is optimistic about her, and the devils promoted by her will sign a soul contract before being promoted. Although this is unlikely to eliminate betrayal, after all, no one stipulates that the soul can only be sold to one buyer. Home, if the devil's soul has already belonged to someone before, and the efficiency and effectiveness of the contract are stronger than the one signed with Zariel, then there is no way to be forced to betray Zariel due to the contract.
However, this small insurance is not the fundamental reason for Zariel. What really gives Zariel the confidence to lead them is her cruel management of the devil army.
Strictness and cruelty, these are Zariel's mottos. She consciously instills fear in her army during her rule of hell. For those who try to betray, revenge will come faster and fiercer than imagined.
In fact, the devil has already set a very good example on this point. Some of the betrayers were instantly burned to ashes, and some were skinned alive, but these were not the worst. .
Although these unlucky guys experienced pain, their pain did not last long. The one who was burned to ashes was the most merciful and only suffered for a few seconds. The one who was skinned was hung on a hook. On the city gate, he cried and wailed bitterly for several months, and then he ushered in eternal sleep, but the most miserable guy is still hanging alive on Zariel's flying fortress.
The poor guy was transformed into a vampire by Zariel. After losing his vital points in the physical sense, what awaited him was eternal punishment. He was sentenced to forever hang on the [Iron Blade], the spiked costume at the top of the Flying Fortress, and a group of specialized stirges maintained his vital signs by injecting blood into his body so that he could stay here forever. Being punished, according to Luft's memory, the guy was hung for probably more than 100 years, and his screams also lasted for 100 years.
‘Tsk, devil. '
Nohill took another sip of wine and shook his head silently. These guys were indeed as cruel as he knew in the game, but in another way, these memories made him more A clear understanding of hell, in all its aspects.
Shaking his head, Nohill no longer thought about the cruelty of the devil, but sank into Luft's memory again. Soon, he found another interesting situation.
It is an emerging individual that has recently appeared in Avernus. It is an independent gathering point that has broken away from the devil's promotion system and gathered on the desolate plains. It is called devil warlord by other devils. existence.
To be honest, Nohir was shocked when he knew this. After all, in his memory, the order in hell was extremely strict. He did not expect that there were devils who could circumvent the system of hell. Achieving a certain degree of freedom, but recalling the series of changes that took place in hell after Zariel came to power, Nohir also understood.
After all, even a powerful devil like Zariel cannot firmly control the soul of every devil in hell. The souls that can appear in hell are sinners who have committed crimes, and looking at the entire There are countless such sinners in the main material plane.
They were not tempted by the devil or sold their souls during their lifetime. After death, according to the punishment of the gods, they spontaneously fell into the nine hells and were reincarnated as the lowest level evil demons. Serving in the legion began his life of atonement.
But Zariel was too keen on bloody battles in the abyss. Her desire for war made her loosen her control over the entire Avernus in disguise. In the past, just like during the reign of Bair, it was like a harsh gear. The system that is generally running now has loopholes, and the biggest loophole is the cannon fodder army.
Many devils who were originally cannon fodder accumulated enough strength in the bloody battles, but were not discovered by Zariel in time, and then escaped from the battlefield through various means in a certain battle. When the number of such devils If there are enough people gathered, and if one of them is strong enough to control other devils, then they may occupy a certain place in the vast plains of Avernus and become kings, becoming a relatively independent devil warlord.
However, according to Luft’s memory, the biggest reason why they can exist is simply because Zarrell is busy fighting bloody battles and has no time to clean up these dirty bugs. At the same time, there seems to be a conflict between these devil warlords. Quite fierce competition.
After all, Avernus lacks resources, but devils also have physiological needs. As creatures of order, in addition to participating in bloody battles, their daily activities are also full of various depraved entertainment behaviors.
But it is difficult for them to gather enough toys outside the fortress, so plundering each other becomes their only option, and Zarrell is also happy to see this happen, if they If they can destroy each other, then she doesn't have to worry about the life and death of these garbage.
‘Are these the current specific situations in Avernus? It's unexpectedly interesting, and through these memories, I have some ideas on how to break the current situation. ’
(End of this chapter)