On the outskirts of Istalia, a steam locomotive sped along the tracks, spewing out billowing white steam.

"Woo——"

The whistle made a shrill sound.

Suddenly, someone pointed to the front of the car and asked tremblingly: "Wait -

So, what is that? "

Suddenly, a huge black shadow appeared in the steam and blocked the train.

Soldiers on the train reacted immediately, firing their guns and shouting.

"Damn it, it's a demon!"

"Stop!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Intensive gunfire rang out, but the dark shadow blocking the train remained motionless, and even let out a low, chilling laugh.

"Jie Jie"

The train driver was in a panic and pushed the lever to the bottom: "I can't stop! The braking distance is too short!"

"Om-"

With a harsh sound of metal friction, the brake shoes can hold the wheels tightly, splashing a string of sparks under the train.

The entire train was shaking violently, and people in the entire carriage were panicking and screaming.

"What happened?"

"Did an accident happen?"

"boom!"

Suddenly, there was a deafening roar, mixed with chaotic metallic sounds and people's terrified screams.

The front of the train was overturned by the huge force, and the carriages behind it also shook violently. People in the carriages fell one after another. They crowded and collided with one side of the carriage, making noisy screams.

"Stop it!"

"Help!"

"What happened?"

Finally, the black shadow in the steam cloud revealed its hideous true face.

The huge, spider-like creature in front of him had three clawed, tentacle-like twisted tails, eight legs connected by flesh membranes, and cold thorns at the tips.

The fang-filled mouth was filled with sticky, turbid saliva. The smelly liquid flowed down and corroded the steel exterior of the train.

Those pairs of compound eyes stared at the people in the carriage, revealing an extremely greedy look in their eyes.

This is the batwing spider demon, a demon that devours any creature it defeats.

Compared to fresh flesh and blood, bat-wing spider demons prefer to eat completely rotten meat, especially rotten demon flesh.

The curses they carry in their bites are a great spice. However, a batwing spider's favorite feast is cannibalism.

"Then, what is that?"

"Cassius above"

"My eyes! What on earth did I see? It was simply..."

After seeing the terrifying appearance of the Bat-Winged Spider Demon, many people with weak wills fell into madness, and chaotic halos appeared in their eyes.

Some people couldn't bear the physical disgust and vomited directly in the carriage.

As demons from the bottom of the abyss, these bat-winged spiders have supernatural ugliness in appearance, which makes all creatures in the main material plane feel uncomfortable from the bottom of their souls.

Under the cover of the bat-winged spider demon's corrupt aura, the surrounding weeds withered and the trees rotted, turning into thick water crawling with maggots.

"His-"

The spear-like tip of its foot pierced through the iron sheet of the train and directly impaled the driver on his seat, with blood splattering all over the windows.

The driver let out a shrill wail.

"what!"

The bat-winged spider retracted its giant feet, and the barbs on its feet dragged away the still living, struggling driver.

Foul-smelling mucus gushed out from its fang-filled mouth, enveloping the driver, and his body quickly decayed within a few breaths, turning into a pool of blurry, rotten flesh and blood.

The bat-winged spider swallowed the rotten meat into its mouth, chewed it up with its mouthparts, and continued to stab its feet into the carriage, trying to grab the passengers out.

"Wow!"

The glass was pierced, and the sharp foot reached in again, grabbing a tiefling passenger.

"Help!"

"help me!"

"I don't want to be eaten!"

The passengers screamed for help and struggled desperately in mid-air, but it was of no avail.

"呲呲!"

He was covered in sticky saliva and stuffed into the mouth of this huge spider-like demon.

The bat-winged spider demon eats so easily, just like a child eating candy from a jar with his hands.

"Let us out now!"

"I don't want to die!"

Inside the overturned and broken carriage, people were screaming in terror, crowding at the door, banging on the squeezed and deformed carriage, trying desperately to escape from it.

"Bang! Boom!"

The soldiers in the carriage kept shooting at the bat-winged spider demon.

But in front of the demon's thick shell, these bullets would only be ruthlessly bounced off and would have no effect at all.

"Nina, don't be afraid."

"Don't make a sound, His Majesty Cassius will protect us."

The tiefling mother held the child in her arms and hid in the corner of the carriage.

Her body trembled slightly, but in order to protect her children, she tried her best to stay rational. However, this attracted the attention of the bat-winged spider demon.

The demons of the abyss love to see humanoids in extreme pain, which is like a fine wine that intoxicates them.

And for the Bat-winged Spider Demon, what could be a better way to experience pain than to admire a mother who has lost her child?
"Squeak-"

The sound of metal being cut was heard.

The iron sheet on the roof of the carriage was opened by the bat-winged spider like opening a can, and everyone in the carriage was exposed to its greedy sight.

People were even more terrified and crowded together, but there was no way to escape and they could only close their eyes in despair.

The tiefling mother also hugged her child tightly. She could already feel the greedy gazes focused on her, but she could only pray silently.

"Cassius above"

This tiefling had experienced the massacre more than a decade ago, wandered with Medoraash, and witnessed the step-by-step development of the empire.

She firmly believed that no matter what kind of enemy they encountered, His Majesty would always lead them to victory - even the extremely powerful demon in front of them who regarded human life as worthless would be vulnerable in front of His Majesty.

The bat-winged spider demon laughed hoarsely and slowly stretched out its legs connected by flesh membranes towards the crowd. The stingers on them flashed coldly.

The people in the carriage were almost in despair; this demon was too powerful.

Whether it is a knife, a gun, or a bullet, none of them has any effect on this spider-like demon with a twisted and hideous appearance.

At this point, all we can do is wait for a miracle to happen.

Suddenly, the space twisted, and accompanied by scorching flames, a space crack opened in mid-air.

"Ah?" The bat-winged spider demon raised its head in surprise. It suddenly felt an extremely dangerous aura, causing the three tentacle-like tails behind it to tremble.

It instinctively flapped its bat-like flesh membrane, trying to escape from here and fly into the sky.

What is on the other side of the portal?
But soon, the bat-winged spider demon's question was answered, and this was also its last thought before its death.

I saw a huge red claw stretched out from the crack, with unstoppable terrifying force, suddenly stepped on the head of the bat-winged spider demon.

"boom!"

In an instant, the earth shook, the ground cracked, and the ground within a radius of dozens of meters collapsed, forming a huge pit.

Half of the bat-winged spider demon's body was crushed, and the smelly mucus and rotten flesh were smeared on the ground and burned to ashes by the scorching flames.

"Cassius above"

The tiefling mother opened her eyes, her eyes full of piety and surprise.

She looked up at the sky and saw the huge red claws covering the earth, and the thick, muscular arms stood like a giant pillar.

She survived!
And he was rescued by His Majesty himself!
Only the Burning Emperor could possess that majestic body that could make everyone look up to him just by showing his arms.

"Long live His Majesty Cassius!"

"Loyal to the Great Red Dragon!"

"Then, that's really His Majesty Cassius!"

The people who survived the robbery in the carriage also opened their eyes, realized who had saved them, and felt extremely excited.

The fear and panic just now disappeared at this moment, leaving only admiration and fanaticism for the owner of the giant red claw.

'Disgusting stuff'

The giant red claw swung casually in the air, then retracted into the space crack and disappeared.

Only the people in the carriage continued to pray. They knelt in front of the huge pit and worshiped, looking at the crushed body of the bat-winged spider demon in amazement.

“As expected of the bottomless abyss, it always creates something that pollutes my aesthetic taste.

I thought that soul-judging demon was ugly enough, but I didn't expect there would be something that would make even dragons physically uncomfortable."

Cassius couldn't help but sigh as a puff of white sulfur-smelling smoke blew out of his nostrils.

The red dragon swung its claws again with disgust on its face, and a raging flame surrounded his arm, burning away the remaining flesh and mucus.

It's like a human slapping a cockroach to death with his hands - even though the force is completely overwhelming, the human will still feel nausea and chills.

Another space portal opened, and a panting ogre appeared in front of the red dragon, half kneeling down.

"How is it going?" Cassius asked.

Rump saluted and replied, "Master, the demons within the empire have caused a lot of casualties, but we have basically eliminated them."

Trump waved his hair, and magical images appeared in the air. Among them were demons with different appearances, but all were hideous and powerful.

They wreaked havoc in cities, villages and the wilderness, but were quickly wiped out by the elite troops from the Empire.

The figures of Misha, Anthony, Alger, Medorash, and even Trump himself fighting hard appeared in these magical images.

Rump said solemnly, “In the past ten thousand years, the vengeful demon has made many arrangements in the Anzeta Wasteland, leaving behind many demon species.

Their attacks were very targeted, specifically targeting important places such as railways and arsenals. These demons came out in droves just to disrupt the order of the empire.

Therefore, I guess that the vengeful demon did not hesitate to use all those back-up plans, and his main purpose was to attract the attention of the empire and cover up his next action. "

There was a glimmer in Cassius's pale golden eyes: "You mean
Is the full-scale invasion of the Abyss Demons about to begin?"

Rump nodded seriously and replied, "In my humble opinion, the previously disappeared Leo Bosco is likely to appear in the demon army.

And the vengeful demon is very likely to come to the main material plane in person."

Cassius nodded slightly. He had guessed this as well. Last month, he had consumed three wishes of the Fire Giant Empire to predict the situation of the demon invasion.

But every time, after a certain point in time, the future picture presented in the prophecy will turn into a chaotic and disordered mass of colors.

You should know that the wishing spell is the most unreasonable nine-ring spell. If you ignore the distortion of those wishes, it can almost realize everything that mortals want.

There is only one possibility that can completely block this kind of magic: the object of his spying is a divine power or even a being of a higher nature.

And Cassius could easily guess the existence of the interfering prophecy——

Jerrazax.

The demon sealed in the body of the god Karix, the lord of the abyss tens of thousands of years ago, seems to have a goal related to the fate of the multiverse.

"finally coming."

Cassius' tone was calm, but his pale golden eyes revealed an excitement that was difficult to suppress and conceal.

It's time to decide the winner.

He had waited too long for this day, and he believed that the devil had waited too long.

The red dragon raised its head and looked into the distance, a dazzling light flashing from the depths of its pupils.

That look spanned a distance of nearly a thousand miles, across the vast Saavedra Plain, through the majestic Anstica Mountains, and saw the tall and towering snow-capped peaks.

Mont Thierry.

The sky is blue and the wind is cold.

This is the tallest mountain in the entire Anzeta Desert. It is covered with snow all year round, but it also exposes large areas of black rocks.

It is called the "King of Snow Mountains" by the northerners. For nearly a thousand years, all rulers in the United Kingdom of the North would compare themselves to Mount Thierry to show their supreme authority.

——However, the Red Dragon Emperor is an exception. He never needs external objects to demonstrate his authority. His existence itself is the embodiment of divinity.

"call--"

The cold wind became more and more intense, a shrill scream was heard in the sky, and the blue sky suddenly became dark.

I saw giant black claws tearing the sky apart, creating extremely deep whirlpools in the sky and on the ground, from which countless hideous demons poured out.

They came like a wave, and those ugly bodies even blocked out the sky, making the earth dim.

Their screams vented their hatred for everything in existence until the noise became unbearable even for themselves.

A low, hoarse voice swirled from the abyss, echoing among the mountains and making all mortals tremble.

"Casius——"

"I know you are watching, but you will soon realize that all your struggles are in vain and that your proud empire is nothing more than a ridiculous toy.

I will let you witness the destruction of your empire with your own eyes. Be prepared to face the fate of the end! "

Vro, Bagula, Giant Bull, Soul Eater, Berserker, Soul Judger, Batwing Spider.
Countless powerful demons of various kinds appeared in the demon tide, many of which had appeared in attacks on the empire.

Only this time, they came in large groups, and took destroying Anzeta as a matter of course.

Soon, the surging demonic tide obscured the sky and covered the earth. There were already tens of millions of demons in it, which was more than the entire population of the Burning Empire.

Finally, a familiar figure walked out of the vortex of the abyss.

It was a humanoid creature with red skin, tall and strong build, and bat-like wings growing from his back.

The devil clenched the flaming sword in his hand and stared into the distance for a long time.

"I'm finally back."

"The North."

He uttered the name that had been abandoned for many years - Northland.

At this time in the Burning Empire, no one missed the past glory of the North.

It even became a derogatory term. When drunks in the tavern quarreled, they would call each other "cowards of the North" and "maggots like Northern nobles."

Thinking of this, the demon's eyes burned with flames of hatred, and his tone was gnashing his teeth.

"The shameless and traitorous pariahs, the rude and barbaric monsters, and the reptiles that destroyed everything I had
I will destroy everything you have, your army, your cities, and even your country, and let you taste what I have tasted."

The devil, or Leo Bosque said so. (End of this chapter)