God-Tier Villain

Chapter 10: Chapter 10

"Starting today, you will torture these three for me."

"My requirements are simple. Don’t kill them."

"I will check on them once a day. If they can still stand when I arrive, what happens to you will make today feel gentle."

"Understood?"

With that, Soren rose and left, Arnold and Bruce falling in behind him.

The three stepped out through a distorted entrance, a moment later, the entrance vanished.

This was a pocket space of Soren’s own creation. Its drawback was size, at most holding a hall fit for a hundred people.

Its advantage was that only he could open or close the entrance.

Lysara, Althea, and the other two imprisoned inside had no way out, and the Great Demon Emperor had no way of sensing it, let alone finding it.

Soren suddenly stopped walking, Arnold and Bruce stopped with him.

"Master is heading to the Ten Thousand Demons Cliff next, isn’t he?" Arnold asked with a smile.

"I need the World-Destroying Demonic Lotus in hand as early as possible, dragging this out only hurts me."

"Using Althea and the other two to hold back the Great Emperor Palace was never a long-term plan."

Arnold hummed in agreement.

"Master is absolutely right. If the Great Demon Emperor loses patience and attacks even at the cost of those three lives, our situation becomes very dangerous."

"Only with the World-Destroying Demonic Lotus will Master truly have the capital to face the Great Demon Emperor. Then we can safely trade Althea and the others for the Sixth Matriarch."

Bruce pounded his chest with both fists, the thuds echoing.

"The Ten Thousand Demons Cliff is crawling with danger, I will go with Master. If it comes to it, I can be Master’s shield!"

Soren chuckled and patted him on the shoulder.

The instant his hand landed, the Strategy Encyclopedia in his mind laid out everything about Bruce, his image on the left, his information and stats on the right.

What Soren cared about most was the relationship level between them.

Absolute Loyalty.

Soren rubbed his chin.

That morning, when he rose from the bone chair and gripped Arnold’s arm, he had already read Arnold’s information, Arnold’s level was also Absolute Loyalty.

Now, reading Bruce’s, something caught his interest.

According to the Encyclopedia, Absolute Loyalty was already an exceptional bond, very few relationships in this world ever reached Following to the Death.

The level could also shift, a trivial slight could lower a tier, a single sentence could raise one.

So there was no need to obsess over Following to the Death.

Still, curiosity won, and Soren read the strategy anyway.

[Bruce’s relationship with his Master has already reached a very high level. The method to light up the next tier is exceedingly simple.]

[As a half-human, half-beast, Bruce is accepted by neither the human race nor the beast race. To this day, he has never known intimacy.]

[He is thin-skinned about such matters. He says nothing aloud, but deep down he is bitterly envious of both races.]

[Bestow a few women upon him, and his relationship tier will rapidly rise to Following to the Death.]

Bruce, oh Bruce, such a small wish, if you’d asked me yourself, I would never have refused.

Soren closed the Encyclopedia, thoughtful.

"Bruce, how long have you been with me?"

Bruce didn’t understand the sudden question, but he did the rough math. "Answering Master, it’s been over a hundred and twenty years!"

Soren sighed. "Over a hundred and twenty years... and in all that time, why have I never seen you take an interest in a woman?"

Bruce’s throat closed up, he had no idea what was wrong with his master today.

Bad enough that his personality had completely changed, now he was raising topics like this?

His face went red.

"Answering Master, I only want to be Master’s sword and shield, to carry Master’s burdens and kill his enemies, women? Not interested!"

Soren fought down a laugh. "Truly not interested?"

"Uh, yeah!"

"Then as your Master, you still have to do as I say, don’t you?"

Bruce thumped his chest until it boomed. "That’s a given! If Master told me to go die, I wouldn’t so much as frown!"

"I took Abel’s three women from the Shadow Heaven Demonic Realm, each one is exquisitely beautiful. I have no interest in anything Abel has used, but I’m not letting them off easy either."

"How about I give them to you?"

Bruce stood there, dumbstruck.

Arnold looked perfectly calm, even a little amused. "You blockhead, what are you spacing out for? Hurry up and thank the young master."

"Master Arnold, even you... you’re teasing me along with Master now."

Soren had guessed Bruce was too thin-skinned to accept. So he shrugged. "This is an order."

"Abel and those three women mocked me plenty in the old days, now I’m handing them to you, discipline them well, consider it venting my anger on my behalf."

"That I can do!" Bruce nodded with a goofy grin.

"In the pocket space I opened, the second room is where the three of them are held, go on in. If anything comes up, I’ll call for you."

Soren shoved Bruce into the pocket dimension and walked off with Arnold, both holding back laughter.

He understood Bruce’s temperament perfectly, stubborn as a mule, an order was the only thing that would work.

After they left the Ice Heaven Demonic Palace, Arnold glanced back. "It seems Master has already decided to abandon the palace?"

Soren said nothing, only nodded.

"Good, good. The dozens of old, weak, and sickly folk left here were all the Great Demon Emperor’s people originally. If spies are hidden among them, better not to be around."

"This old servant only wants to ask one more question, does the young master already have a better site for a base camp?"

Soren replied, "You could say that."

Seeing his smile, Arnold brightened considerably.

The Ice Heaven Demonic Realm wasn’t just a remote corner of the Endless Demonic Domain, it was subordinate to it.

If Soren wanted to grow a faction of his own, he could not stay under the Great Demon Emperor’s nose.

New territory was essential. At the bare minimum, he couldn’t be boxed in on all sides with the Great Emperor Palace watching his every move.

The Endless Demonic Domain was vast, home to billions of demons, and yet it was still only one piece of the Exalted Continent.