Walking down a corridor decorated with all kinds of items from monster heads to swords to armor.
Each trophy was collected by its user through many years of hardship.
The person who is walking down the corridor is not human, as he has 2 huge bat wings on his back, but his whole body is black with no clothes on his body at all, but a red gem in the middle of his body that could charm everyone to take it for themselves, but those who know who he is would instantly end themselves so he would not be able to see their memories of what they thought.
His face, like his boy's, is black with no nose, only a mouth and 2 eyes, like a human face, with his ears being pointy.
His hair is purple and reaches his back.
He walked, occasionally stopping as he remembered some of the best fights he had against other foes that brought great pleasure to him.
Soon he made his way through the corridor and entered a room.
Inside the room were other people.
First was a green ooze that was eating something constantly, next to him slept an angel with black wings and a sword next to her as she gripped it even in her sleep.
These two sit on the other side of the table, and opposite them is a flower with extremely beautiful flowers that bloom constantly and give off a scent that could mesmerize anyone who smelled it.
On the left side of the flower is a holographic projectile of a giant made out of magma with a crown on top of his head made out of countless ores. The light shone on it, it could mesmerize people for its beauty.
On the flower's right side was an entity made out of bones with a scepter in his hand and a bone crown on his clear imitation of the giant crown.
Soon the person took his seat, making the whole place a triangle as each faction took their place, but one seat can be seen empty as it would have created the fourth alliance.
“Where is Wrath?” Asked the person who walked in. Curious why I didn’t show up.
“Do you need to ask this? Wrath is always angry about something and will vent his anger on it, and he might not show up at all, as he came late always and missed the last two meetings.” Said the giant, as he was not happy about Wrath.
“We all know wrath is temper, so let's focus on our meeting and why it was called. Can you tell us why you called this meeting Pride?” Said the flower, as it did not want to waste its time with this meeting.
“Hmph! Don’t push me, Lust. I will say it when I want to say it, but I will look over it for this time as we have more important things to do.” As he said this, he was irritated by Lust, as no respect was shown to him at all.
But he continued after a short pause as he looked at the sloth as she slept and made Gluttony wake her up only for her to open her eyes for a short time and go back snoring the next second.
Some even were curious how Angel took up the position of Sloth in the first place, but clearly, no one cared about it as they were enemies in the end.
“As you know, our setback on Peran caused a lot of trouble for all of us and hurt our pride as demons as we had to lift some restrictions on the demons in that world for fastening up the corruption.” Sad pride, as he has chosen his words so as not to hurt his pride.
Everyone knows it was Pride alone who lifted the restrictions on Peran, as he could not take the humiliation of being defeated by others.
So in anger, he lifted the restriction, which caused him to suffer for it, like Wrath, who is always under this effect.
“So you gathered all of us to help you out in conquering that world?” The giant had a smile on his face as he would get great rewards for conquering this world, but he wasn’t the only one who eyed this opportunity.
Gluttony also pays attention to Pride and so does Envy the Skeleton.
“Hmph! Don’t think I couldn’t conquer it at all, but there is another reason for it entirely.” Said Pride was dissatisfied with their attitude of not showing any courtesy towards him, the strongest of the sins.
“The corruption in the world suddenly sped up many times, and I found a dungeon that is responsible for it. So I want to ask which one of you did it. Many were a bit surprised at this but did not show any emotion as they all wanted to pretend it was their doing so they could get leverage from Pride.
After all, Pride was the one who invaded this world first, and now he is facing setbacks as his followers were defeated one after another, but this wouldn’t shake Pride's position as they invaded numerous worlds beforehand, and Pride is currently invading more than 30 worlds at the same time.
The main reason this world is special is because of the extremely rich mana it has.
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Once a world is corrupted, it can be incorporated into one's dungeon or body to strengthen it many times. The more mana that was corrupted, the more they gained once they incorporated it.
But no one has chosen to incorporate it into their dungeon, as it was a waste of energy, as they would gain more as they are the final defense of the dungeon.
“What was more infuriating is that I felt chaos energy in that dungeon!” Said Pride changing the whole room temperature from hellish heat to cold, and even the angel awakened once chaos was mentioned and paid attention to it fully.
Now they don’t want to claim it at all for themselves.
Everyone knows here what chaos means. Chaos and the Hell have been natural enemies since the beginning.
Both are the same, trying to incorporate more worlds into themselves and trying to defeat the other.
Chaos always won when they clashed, but the reason they weren’t destroyed is the same reason chaos.
Chaos simply operates with whims.
If the chaos felt like it would do it even if it did not benefit it at all or would do things that would bite back later for it, like how chaos supported the seven sins to conquer numerous worlds.
With the chaos taking nothing from it or invading Hell outright without warning.
Now a demon working with chaos is unheard of. As everyone who works with chaos will instantly turn into a mindless monster on the spot, there are exceptions to this, but those creatures never leave chaos as they feel the world outside of it is impure for them.
If someone is being transformed by chaos, they would lose their ability to govern over the dungeon, but clearly, that dungeon did not get destroyed by chaos but survived it and even incorporated it into the dungeon.
Instead of feeling happiness, they felt fear. Another person who will reach their realm, and this time it was closely related to the chaos.
“So how should we get rid of it? That is why I called this meeting.” Said Pride revealing why he called this meeting, but everyone became quiet until a snorting could be heard, but no one paid attention to it.
“What if we let Wrath handle it for us? He always hates something, so we can just let him take care of it for us.” Said Lust as it looked towards Pride.
“Let Wrath take care of it, after all, I, as Pride, the strongest, shouldn’t deal with a weakling and let my followers deal with him.” Said this extremely arrogantly as he looked at everyone, and others could only hide their anger as everyone knew about Pride's strength.
With everyone agreeing to it, they would let Wrath take care of it. After all, no one wants to irritate the chaos, as they can be revenge targets.
As they concluded their meeting, they did not see an eyeball floating above their heads as it looked at them.
***
As I Got up from my bed and finished my morning exercises, like doing some push-ups, each successful one resulted in one person's tendon being removed.
One successful lap around the castle will result in molten iron being injected into a person's veins.
This is how I did my every morning, as I couldn’t wait for the next day to start so I could enjoy the screams as I did my exercises.
The best of my day came to an end, and the worst came up.
The dungeon is empty, only the monsters are moving around, or their constant fight echoes through the floor, as no one has come inside the dungeon in the last 2 days. Not even a soul.
Likely my dungeon is being blocked by what happened to the previous 2 raids.
Not being able to even reach the Dungeon Lord likely put a lot of pressure on the people outside.
I knew I could not gain any more terror points this way, so my only choice was to return to Hell and challenge other dungeon lords for their core.
But I can’t go back to hell until I become a greater demon. I only have 6000 terror points, far from the desired amount. Others can challenge lower demons, that’s why I was dragged there, but lower demons below a certain level cannot challenge stronger demons at all.
I can only torture the people being kept in my dungeon and not let them die so I can gain my terror points for my next evolution.
As I looked over the floors, I saw on the Sixth Floor the Deep Sea Dwellers. They already started taming other monsters, and infighting happened about who would become their ruler.
I can easily say it would last for a long time as they fought amongst themselves, and all parties were equal.
They had the same stats and abilities, the only way for the balance to tip was if a creature much wiser than his kin emerged.
But when will such a creature appear? I don’t know and I don’t care about it.
All I see them as is nothing more than tools that can farm me terror points.
I can only wait until I reach Greater Demon for anything to happen, and until then I can only stay here bored.
***
At this moment outside the dungeon, a person appeared clad in black clothes as he looked at the portal in front of him in the deserted street.
The whole street is deserted, and no one is allowed to enter this street under military authority.
Looking around to make sure no one was watching him, the person took out an amulet that had a skull on it and golden trims around it.
Soon information about the amulet appeared in front of the man.
Amulet of Doom
Passive Effect
The wearer will experience misfortunes after misfortunes throughout his life with hardship being a daily norm as the user experiences these hardships until his death which is caused by misfortunes. Once the user dies because of the amulet his misfortune will be stored in the amulet. Misfortune will be stacked the more user dies, because of the amulet.
Currently stored misfortune: 110,346 (Each misfortune is one person)
Active Effect (1)
To activate the amulet, the user has to die by his own hands and not caused by the misfortune of the amulet. Once the user dies unleash a catastrophic event near the user that will target everyone regardless of foe or friend. The catastrophe will be strengthened based on how many misfortunes were stored.
His face showed no hesitation as he drew his dagger and stabbed himself in his throat as blood gushed out, and the last light dissipated from his eye, the amulet activated and turned into dust.
The dungeon's original red color turned black, and eyes started appearing around it as if something otherworldly wanted to enter this world, but something was holding it back, making it angry as it thrashed around trying to remove the thing blocking it.
In frustration with not being able to enter this world, the monster let out a shriek as monsters started coming out of the dungeon and flooding the streets, with many more coming out, each stronger than the last, with deformed bodies.
As a monster did not stop coming out of the gate, its strength differed from the weakest, only having around 1 for all of its stats, while the strongest had 1000 for all of its stats.