Elf Kingdom: Game of the World Tree-Chapter 1232 - 801: Hell Plane

The Silent Annihilation Wilderness makes it difficult to distinguish between day and night.

After the players have restored their strength and fully recovered, a day has passed according to the system’s native plane time.

The number of players within the Demon Fortress, combined with the players arriving gradually over the past two days, has exceeded one hundred thousand.

And this will be the first player team to delve into the Hell Plane.

Outside the Gate of Hell, players from various guilds gather together, aligned in neat formations according to their professions, fully armed and prepared to enter Hell.

"Lord Mars, we are ready. We can enter Hell and prepare for battle."

The commander of the legion, Transforming Ji Gang, said to the Holy Giant Dragon.

Although Mairrel has become the Dragon God, it’s merely that his strength is quite formidable. Nominally the army’s leader, realistically he’s just a hired hand, still easily lured with a few servings of honey roasted meat.

The NPC truly assisting players in their tasks is none other than the Old Golden Dragon Mars, who has lived so many millennia that he has become a seasoned dragon.

After hearing Transforming Ji Gang’s words, the Old Golden Dragon slightly nods:

"Then let’s set off, prepare for battle. Hell must already know of the fall of the Gate of Hell, and they’re likely prepared to obstruct our progress."

Transforming Ji Gang agrees profoundly and nods.

The commotion caused by the attack on the Demon Fortress was so great, coupled with so many demons fleeing back to Hell, making Hell well aware of their actions.

Up next, they might very well face a fierce battle!

Thinking about this, Transforming Ji Gang takes a deep breath, turns on the battlefield channel’s microphone, and commands loudly:

"Attention, player squads! Cast all boost magic upon yourselves and prepare for battle!"

As soon as the words are spoken, dazzling brilliance bursts forth within the players’ ranks, colorful and radiant.

"Partners! Whole army, set forth! Target—Hell Plane!"

Transforming Ji Gang swung out the longsword in his hand, shouting hoarsely.

After speaking, he, full of spirit, led by the vanguard forces, was the first to enter the Gate of Hell.

Meanwhile, several Mythical Giant Dragons also let out a long cry and transformed into their true forms, entering the gate one after another.

A familiar sensation of crossing dimensions arises, much like entering the Silent Annihilation Wilderness from the Segis World.

The view of Transforming Ji Gang first goes dark, then slowly becomes bright.

Of course, saying bright isn’t accurate, it was merely some illumination.

A pungent smell invades, a mix of sulfur and rotten eggs left for unknown days, so potent it nearly suffocates the players without smell blockers.

Transforming Ji Gang looks around and finds himself in a vast, dim world.

The sky is still full of billowing dark clouds, but much heavier compared to the ones over the Silent Annihilation Wilderness. The lightning isn’t the dazzling white, but a profound purple.

The ground is black, stretching endlessly, punctuated by towering mountains, jutting out like spikes from the earth.

Rivers of scorching lava flow across the land, crisscrossing, becoming the sole light source of the world, casting a deep red hue upon the sky...

This is the sixth layer of Hell, the domain of Wrath Demon God Samael.

After delving into the Silent Annihilation Wilderness, Transforming Ji Gang specifically studied and learned this Hell Plane, known as Lava Hell due to being covered in lava.

It’s said that the lava represents wrath, hence the Hell Plane is a manifestation of Demon God Samael’s divine persona.

Unbeknownst to Transforming Ji Gang, it was precisely the all-encompassing lava that made Samael envious of Azazel’s persona "Earthfire," one of the many reasons for the tension between the two Demon Gods.

Lava Hell, oppressive and blistering, akin to a steamer.

However, when Transforming Ji Gang looks into the distance, he is stunned.

Equally stunned are the players transported with him, already prepared for battle.

Even the Mythical Giant Dragons in the sky exhibit peculiar expressions.

The players appear atop a hill, below which stands a massive Demon Fortress.

Yet, the entire Demon Fortress is eerily empty, seemingly void of any demons as seen from the hillside...

Furthermore, the group does not encounter any demon attacks. The whole of Hell is silent, only the murmur of thunder in the sky.

On the ground, abandoned demon equipment is scattered about, occasionally interspersed with chaotic footprints, trailing into the distance...

Judging from the footprints, it seems the departure was rushed and hurried.

"Where are the demons?"

The players look bewildered.

In the sky, Mythical Giant Dragon Mars gazes far off, his huge Dragon Eyes catching sight of certain squads continually retreating into the distance, prompting a more peculiar expression:

"They... seem to have fled."

Transforming Ji Gang: ...

Vast and mighty, the player army emerged from the Gate of Hell, fully aware only after the vanguard has thoroughly conquered and searched the empty Demon Fortress below the hill—

The demons appear to have fled upon hearing the news.

This revelation leaves the players looking astonished, yet somewhat amused.

Yet Mars, after contemplating briefly, seems to understand subtly.

Demon God Samael was captured, and even the only other mid-level divine peak Abyss Myth besides him fell into the hands of the Goddess.

Although the Goddess did not descend into Hell yesterday, that battle yesterday, every demon nearby probably saw it.

Even the mid-level divine Evil God kneeled, so at this moment, weaker Demon Monarchs and Lords naturally prioritized their lives, quickly gathering their belongings and armies to flee...

"So... Lord Mars, have we successfully established our foothold in Hell? What’s our next step to get to the first layer of Hell?"

The Transforming Ji Gang planted the flag at the fortress, somewhat helplessly looking at the Golden Dragon Mars standing outside the fortress, who was even taller than him.

Golden Dragon Mars lifted his head, his massive Dragon Eyes gazing at the sky, his ancient voice slowly resonating:

"Next... the Goddess will open the path to the first layer of Hell for us."

Just as he finished speaking, a golden beam of light shot into the sky, piercing the dark clouds.

Transforming Ji Gang instinctively looked up, only to see the silhouette of the Goddess appear again, descending into the skies.

Soon after, she gently waved her arm, and a Triumph Stone Gate shimmering with golden light appeared on the hillside, facing the Gate of Hell.

Within the stone gate, the light was reversed, growing deeper and deeper.

Golden Dragon Mars smiled slightly:

"Look, it’s already started."

As soon as he spoke, the golden stone gate emanated an even more radiant glow!

The seven layers of Hell, seven planes, but in a certain sense, they are all one.

Normally, each Demon God cannot glimpse into the realms controlled by other Demon Gods, but exceptions occur when a Demon God is sealed.

Typically, disturbances in each Hell Plane don’t attract the attention of other Demon Gods, but when a Hell Plane attempts to traverse voids directly to another Hell Plane, it’s different...

As it is now with the slowly unfolding reverse gateway!

Feeling that familiar aura, Demon Gods from the other Hell Planes simultaneously cast their gaze.

"This aura... is the Goddess of Life!"

Belusabab abruptly stood up from Azazel’s throne, his expression subtly changing.

At the edge of the first layer of Hell, Demon God Mamen and Demon God Belial, who were leading their battalions against the Prayer, showed expressions of surprise:

"Goddess of Life?" 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

"Why did she come into Hell?"

In the third layer of Hell, a sinister octopus slowly surfaced from the black waters, its deep gaze directed towards the sixth layer of Hell, with fire in its eyes:

"Eve... no... Yggdrasil!"

Meanwhile, in the seventh layer of Hell, the enormous Helair’s eyes flickered, he snorted coldly, and flew into the sky.

At this moment, five Demon Gods simultaneously directed their gaze towards the fifth layer of Hell.

They saw the Player Army outside the Gate of Hell, saw Eve hovering in mid-air, below her glowing the golden reverse gateway.

They saw the golden beam shooting into the sky.

Meanwhile, somewhere in the heart of the first layer of Hell, another golden beam pierced the sky and descended...

"Bad news!"

The three Demon Gods in the first layer of Hell drastically changed their expressions.

Without hesitation, they snorted coldly, connected with their respective Hell cores, unleashed their Fallen Divine Power, and slashed at the golden beam...

Simultaneously, the other two Demon Gods followed suit, launching an attack through the void, targeting Eve in the fifth layer of Hell.

But, it was already too late.

Before the attacks reached, the golden beam faded, and in the first layer of Hell, a flowing Triumph Stone Gate had already appeared!

Positioning, successful.

By this time, the Demon Gods’ attacks gradually arrived.

With the beam dissipated, the attacks by the three Demon Gods of the first layer fell into void, while Helair and Leviathan’s attacks were blocked by Eve pulling out Dharma’s Sword and deflecting them with a single strike.

Executing power across planes, even for Demon Gods, is limited.

Destroying an unsuccessful positioning might be possible, but once the reverse gateway is completely established, the attacks are ineffective.

Gazing at the flowing Triumph Stone Gate, Golden Dragon Mars laughed heartily.

"Let’s go, Lord Transforming Ji Gang."

He said to a still somewhat dazed Commander, and with a long roar, flew towards the reverse gateway.

Joining him were Mairrel, now the Black Dragon King, and the two Silver Dragons following the two Mythical Giant Dragons.

Until the dragons vanished inside the reverse gateway, and the Goddess’s figure slowly faded away, Transforming Ji Gang finally reacted.

His expression gradually turned excited, and he opened the battlefield channel, issuing a new command:

"Attention, players!"

"Follow Mairrel and Mars through the Triumph Arch!"