Chapter 2764: Chapter 865: Hellfire Contract
However, regardless of whether Hellfire is a true living being, for Zhou Tian at that time, if he wanted to create the first kind of living beings in the Abyss World, choosing Hellfire was indeed a good choice.
Firstly, Hellfire’s strength is quite decent. Although compared to Zhou Tian and the others, Hellfire can be considered very weak, even when facing the Angel Race, they can steadily suppress them. In situations of the same level or even slightly higher by one or two levels, Hellfire is still no match for angels.
But regardless of how small Hellfire looks compared to angels, for ordinary living beings in the Lower Realm, Hellfire is still an extremely powerful creature.
Of course, as long as the talents of Hellfire don’t improve significantly, then their strength will always only have a limited effect on Zhou Tian. After all, he doesn’t worry about solving his problems only with his own strength, let alone those angels under his command.
Based on the situation at that time, since the angels under Zhou Tian could mostly help him, the combat power of that group of Hellfire naturally seemed dispensable.
However, although it seemed like those Hellfires weren’t very effective at the time, the fact that Zhou Tian chose them to become the second batch of residents in the Abyss World must have a reason.
In terms of strength, Hellfire was definitely far behind angels, but although they might not be strong in combat, Zhou Tian realized that if he used Hellfire for other purposes, then the role of that group of Hellfire might even surpass that of the angels.
Zhou Tian’s thinking was simple, leveraging the method of using certain skills in a game to benefit himself.
In fact, many worlds have creatures like Hellfire, and what Zhou Tian needed to do was make his Abyss World Hellfire the strongest branch of Hellfire. Subsequently, he could have the Abyss World Hellfire sign contracts with living beings from other worlds, allowing them to summon Hellfire for combat in exchange for a certain cost.
Perhaps strong Hellfire would require a huge cost, while ordinary Hellfire could be forcefully summoned to their world just for a little magic power. Regardless of the circumstances, Hellfire is considered powerful for ordinary living beings, and if Zhou Tian truly intends to place them in that manner, how many worlds they could influence and how many would sign contracts with Hellfire.
On the surface, Zhou Tian’s decision at that time seemed quite unprofitable. It’s imaginable that Hellfire would face risk when fighting in the outside world. Even if Hellfire is usually fine, encountering danger could result in falling in otherworld battles.
Gambling the lives of his Hellfire underlings for something that might have no value to Zhou Tian seemed unwise at the time. Nevertheless, from the perspective of transaction methods, Zhou Tian’s arrangements were advantageous for his expansion despite seeming disadvantageous.
After those otherworld living beings summoned Hellfire through the contract, they might felt they were profiting, exchanging some trivial things for Hellfire as strong thugs, defeating enemies they couldn’t originally defeat, and gaining benefit. As long as this ability isn’t widely spread, eighty percent of living beings wouldn’t resist the temptation of this ability.
Thus, it can be imagined that once knowing the ability to contract Hellfire, as long as there are entities with that ability, most would choose to contract Hellfire as their combat power.
While those living beings were enjoying the help Hellfire provided, they probably wouldn’t consider the repercussions of their actions!
Zhou Tian isn’t any benevolent saint, if his actions have a purpose, they must bring him corresponding benefits. If his actions can’t provide enough benefits, Zhou Tian wouldn’t do such things.
Given the circumstance at that time, Zhou Tian had his own plan arranging those Hellfire to sign contracts with living beings from other worlds. The idea was that when Hellfire was summoned by otherworld beings, because it was an action by indigenous creatures, the World Consciousness of that world wouldn’t interfere much. But once Hellfire was summoned to those worlds, during combat, it would inevitably lead Abyssal Energy into those worlds. The short-term effects might not be visible. Yet over time, those worlds might be significantly corrupted by Abyssal Energy.
No matter how much that tactic could corrupt those worlds, one thing is certain, if Zhou Tian intended to conquer those worlds, his actions would be much easier with such preparations.
