Kadath Universe, Higher Dimensional World of Baator, 9th Layer Nessus, Wintermoon Mountain Range, Nurmengard Castle.
Nurmengard was a stone fortress at the edge of a mountain. It had a tower with a cone-shaped top, possibly being a watch tower.
There was a building connected to the tower that was slim with windows. Nurmengard also had a courtyard, which was gated and filled with countless precious and rare trees and plants.
Nermengard was a Castle that was only recently constructed a few centuries ago to serve as one of my fortresses where I would spend time with my wives. Wintermoon Mountains were a really nice place, completely frozen and covered in snow.
Sometimes, the atmosphere in the Anor Londo was tense because of the politics, countless discussions, decisions, and conquests, invasions of other Universes, worlds within the Endless Void and other spaces.
Because of that, we were spending a lot of time within the Nurmengard; aside from me and my wives, there were a lot of members of the Imperial House who were living in this Castle due to its secluded area.
"So Gu Long has succeeded... soon... very soon..."
I muttered when I opened my eyes in my meditation chambers, where I have been spending my past years contemplating about the mysteries of the Arcane and steadily increasing my strength from the connection with my Universe.
The Kadath Universe was already well established and contained countless worlds in them, from which many had already started entering the era of the Inter-Dimesnioanl Conquest and wars were becoming a common occurrence in the Kadath Universe.
"You seem very satisfied with something..."
I heard a voice belonging to Hela, who entered the meditation chambers as if sensing that I had woken up from my enlightenment state.
"Yes... I certainly am... Gu Long has completed the mission that I assigned to him and the Physe One is done; now I am very close to obtaining the Bloodline Source of the Devil Race there and my ascension to the Tier 13 Primarch would be complete."
With the current progression of things, I think that within a few decades or centuries at worst, my plans would be finished, and I would become Tier 13 Primarch...
That would mean another Golden Age for the Baator and, in a certain sense, the Kadath Universe as a whole.
Tier 13 Primarch, who is also a Universe Master, would be an extremely powerful entity, which meant that we could attack some really powerful Unvierses to plunder their resources and their Cores to strengthen our own.
"Hopefully, it would be soon... such grand wars and great conquests that await us..."
Hela was in her element, imagining the scenes of brutal, bloody battlefields... not to mention that when I reached Tier 13, I could help other people to reach higher Tiers either personally or through other means.
Venelana and Grayfia were long stuck at Tier 11 and couldn't move further because their Soul Aptitude and other factors constrained them. And some precious treasures like Heavenly Treasures that could break them were still not born in the Kadath Universe.
"On the other page, are the cultivators still wreaking havoc in the Middle Worlds?"
Several decades ago, when the Kadath Universe stabilized, I got an opportunity to either shut down the Universe and prevent anyone from entering it or to open the Dimensional Passages and let them form.
This meant that sooner or later, Dimensional Pathways would form to the other Universes and connect to them. One of such Dimensional Pathways connected itself to a cultivation-based Universe, which wasn't exactly a very strong one.
Fortunately, it was a weak one where the strongest entity in that Universe was only at Tier 12 and there was only one of them in the entire Universe as it seemed, even that one was in some sort of inactive state.
When the Dimensional Pathway connected to that Universe, which we found was called the Primal Chaos Dimension, the native cultivators started flooding into the Kadath Universe en masse, searching for cultivation resources and treasures.
Naturally, the majority of them were comparable to only Tier 7 and Tier 8, so they were weak as shit; even their strongest cultivators were about Tier 9, and some rare ones reached Tier 10 due to the long-time decline of their Universe.
I took this as my amusement and let them ravage a few weak Middle Worlds that were not protected by anyone so they could gain confidence and send in there more and more people.
The souls of the cultivators were pretty tasty for the Devils because most of those so-called Divine Stage Cultivators had already started cultivating their very own souls, which was making their souls valuable commodities for the devilkin.
"Yes, they are... though unfortunately, only a few of their Divine Masters have appeared from the Primal Chaos and even them are not directly participating in the combat and are only delegating it to the weaker ones. Unforunteantely, some of them are pretty smart and they soon realize that Kadath Universe is much stronger than ours, so many of the cultivators are keeping a low profile and not attacking any stronger Middle Worlds or Higher Worlds."
I frowned in annoyance, but whatever... it seems that we would need to smoke out the rats and force them to leave the Middle Worlds and move onto the Higher Worlds. If they were not that weak, I wouldn't be playing with them like this.
"Send in some troops... more preferably some experts to smoke them out... connect the Middle Worlds to the Higher Worlds and then flood them out of place... let them fight in the Higher Worlds. Most of the cultivators are even greedier than devils and dragons, so when they see the treasures and resources of the Higher Worlds, they would for sure send in even more members."
Sooner or later, I would send some troops to conquer Primal Chaos Dimension; even though it was a Universe that was weaker than the Kadath, resources were resources.
Not to mention, from preliminary scans, they have some really good Treasures in there... very powerful ones.