432 The Abyssal Eye
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Within a secret and dark hideout, a group of demons gathered surrounding a large, round table. They covered their faces with masks and their bodies with long and black robes, each one seemed not willing to show their faces, even though they knew one another quite well.
They were a large group of resentful people, they were filled with hatred and frustration, and an undying desire for revenge. After having suffered so much against the tyranny of the humans who had not only never stopped treating them terrible after the war, but also have begun to enslave them and treat them like items, they were tired.
It was enough...
For them, who have hidden in the shadows, for those who have smiled pretending to be happy in a place that was unwelcoming of their kin. In a world where their children were enslaved and raped, a world where they were tortured and humiliated... how could they possibly feel happiness and fulfillment? How could they possibly life freely and peacefully?
When the war was finally over, thousands of demons ended being trapped in the human continent. Without any way to go back home through the dangerous Dark Seas at all, they were forced to adapt to human society.
At first, they thought they could run away, forming tribes, and living near mountains or in grasslands and woods isolated from the humans. They thought they could live freely and peacefully, only to be hunted down like monsters, one by one.
Those that ended being captured were tortured and enslaved, forced to work from day to night, many died out of exhaustion, while those unlucky enough to survive more, went through even worse fates. The surviving soldiers that didn’t wanted to fight anymore now that the war was over were simply turned into slaves and forced to do horrid things, tortured by sick aristocrats, and made into sexual toys for the most sickest of them all.
Certainly, there was no right or wrong, humans might had gone through similar things back in the Demon Continent, or even worse ones, but what this group of demons was going through, and what even their children born in here had experienced was something that had now been deeply ingrained into their bloodlines. This hatred... this fury... this resentment... it cannot be easily contained anymore.
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But they knew they didn’t had the strength to fight back. Of course, not until THEY appeared. A group of demons that didn’t originated from this continent, a group of demons that were not the children of the thousands of soldiers trapped in the human continent, but those born in the Demon Continent itself.
They called themselves... The Abyssal Eye.
Led by several remnants of the Demon King, the Demon Lords, their mission was to free the Demons of this continent and those of their own continent. Sent specially to this continent and this location as it had the largest concentration of their kin, they hurriedly offered these oppressed people a chance to change their fates.
A specially talented young woman amongst the demons accepted almost immediately when the chance was finally given to her. She, part of the new generation of demons born in the oppressed lands of the human continent who had been protecting her kin since she had consciousness of herself using the powers inherited from her mother, had been waiting for such a chance all these years.
And like this, six years ago, their plans began. And now, after six years of arduous planning, their plans seemed to be slowly falling apart, as a group of mysterious S-Rank Adventurers appeared in the city...
“Not only these bastards stopped our first attempt at attacking the city when we provoked the Dungeon Break, but they had dared to find our third hideout in the depths of the Wolf Steppes?! How did they even pass through the territory that young Fenrir was protecting? Are they strong enough to even make the Fenrir wary of them?!”
BAAAM!
Suddenly, a green-skinned demon hit the table, only his green-skinned hands could be seen below his black robes, as a few rings adorned his fingers.
“Calm down, brother.” Sighed the voice of a young woman, her distinctive blue hair quickly made everyone realize that she had a higher authority than them, her strength was almost unparalleled.
“It wasn’t within our expectations, but we had managed to clean the area from most things, and well, that place was our third hideout. We were only making an experiment there with the Flesh Demon.” Added a second female voice, her hair was red and her mask resembled a fox.
“Nonetheless, that Flesh Demon was powerful, but it didn’t obey our orders after growing so big, so we ended sealing him there...” Sighed another. “It is better it got slain than if it had gone out of control...”
“We used many souls from our resentful brothers and sisters to create him but at the end it was all wasted...” Another said.
“However...” The blue-haired young woman said, as her tail began waving around. “We already have our next plan scheduled. And this time, they won’t be able to easily save them. After all, from our spies spying the aristocrats, they’re current focusing themselves on learning what’s going on with the slaves.”
“Sigh... to think slaves are being brought in masse now, can we even free our people now?” Wondered another.
“Calm down.” The blue haired woman said. “After we deal with the bourgeois, those of the underworld wont be of any use for us, we’ll slain them easily and take back our people which they generously bought for us. I don’t know how that small organization got so much money to buy so many slaves, but it is not like it is not making our job easier.”
“I suppose you’re right, leader.”
“We’ll have to wait a bit longer.”
“I hope they can muster for a while.”
“Our people have stronger wills and bodies than humans, they can wait longer, it won’t be long before we take over this place, and free them.”
“S-Rank Adventurers or not... True Demons have incredibly strength... Fufu, I wonder if they can deal with the menace we’ll throw at this city soon...” The blue haired woman giggled devilishly, looking into an enormous red crystal glowing behind them all.
It emanated a monstrous quantity of demonic energy, as thousands of souls wailed within its interior...
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This 𝓬ontent is taken from fre𝒆webnove(l).𝐜𝐨𝗺