A blood-soaked forest, illuminated only by the dim light of the moon.
For someone with a weak psyche, this would have been the last thing he would see. Xie Qing, however, strolled along without any problem.
After all, the cause of this blood was him.
During his journey toward the Abyss, he stumbled upon a forest with many powerful monsters.
Their level was up to A- level, but Xie Qing was able to dispose of them. However, the guy did not feel happy about it.
No matter how hard he tried, his level did not increase. He was stuck at A-level and was now trying to find the Abyss.
According to his senses, he should have just kept moving forward. However, he was met with strong enemies and patrol dragons along the way.
More often than not, Xie Qing began to encounter poisonous flowers that looked exactly like the Ice Flower.
Next to this flower lay many corpses of different races. Somewhere even half-humans were visible.
Xie Qing kicked over the corpse of a half-human and looked at it. It was a man with rabbit ears.
"Huh... I'm more of a bunny girl's person after all." Xie Qing grinned crookedly and kicked the corpse.
Spinning around, the corpse hit the frozen river and stopped on the ice.
"Dinner is served, bitch." Xie Qing smiled and saw a shadow appear under the ice.
The shadow suddenly rose and broke the ice. A crocodile with gray skin jumped out from under the river!
The impact made the corpse of the man-rabbit fly up in the air, but it ended up in the crocodile's mouth.
Xie Qing watched this with interest. His goal was to test a myth he had learned while researching the Supernatural World.
The Ice Flower-like plant attracts greedy creatures who end up dying of poison.
Their name is the Envious Flower.
And the Demonic Crocodile devours them, leaving the flower with its eggs, with which the flower can become stronger.
Whoo!
Suddenly the Demonic Crocodile disappeared and appeared one step away from Xie Qing with its mouth open.
Xie Qing looked at him indifferently and... give bream
"Graaaa!"
The crocodile screamed in pain and flew off toward the tree, colliding with it. It fell and spun around a few more times.
The crocodile jumped up and regained its balance, glaring furiously at Xie Qing. Suddenly it opened its mouth and began screaming into the sky.
"Grieeeeeeeeee!!!"
The Envious Flowers suddenly glowed and began to move closer to each other, as if under the influence of gravity.
They merged into one creature, which looked like an Ice Flower with sharp teeth instead of petals.
Shuh!
The petals shook and released a green gas that was poisonous. Now, however, the poison was much stronger!
It could kill an A+ level practice!
Xie Qing shook his head and spread his arms out to either side.
Black smoke began to escape from his body, enveloping his body in black armor. He grinned and snapped his fingers.
Suddenly dozens of UZIs appeared in the sky. Half were aimed at the crocodile and the other Envy Flowers.
"Shoot."
Xie Qing's quiet whisper to Demonic Crocodile and Envy Flower was what they heard before they died.
For after his words, black bullets flew out of dozens of UZIs that began to corrode everything they touched.
Soon the wild screams echoed throughout the forest, terrifying the patrolling dragons and forest dwellers.
...
Meanwhile... Hell, the Ninth Circle.
There was a sepulchral silence in the huge ice castle. Antheus, the guard of the ninth floor, stared silently at Beatrice.
The latter, on the other hand, tried to hold back his tears. Cold sweat trickled from his forehead.
"Beatrice." Suddenly Anthea's deep voice sounded.
"Y-yes, Master."
"What did I tell you last time?"
"To kill the Guardian of the Abyss..."
Antheus smiled and tapped the armrest of his throne. But then he narrowed his eyes.
The giant suddenly stood up, causing the castle to shake. Beatrice didn't dare raise his head.
"BUT THEN WHY IS HE ALIVE?! WHY, BEATRICE?!"
Antheus' furious scream and anger made space shrink and time stop for a nanosecond.
"Kxh-..." Beatrice vomited blood and he fell to the floor. His body shook with pain.
"WHY ARE YOU SO USELESS?!"
"TELL ME!"
"BEATRICE?!?!"
The souls who awaited their punishment in the Ninth Circle began screaming in pain, and other subordinates of Antheus were seriously wounded.
It was the wrath of an X+ level creature. And it was enough to cause the weaker people to die.
Beatrice was only A-level, so he was on the verge of death.
The echoes of Antheus' screams passed, but his anger was still there. Slowly the giant turned his head to the side and saw the portal there.
"What do you want, Lucifer? I'm not in the mood for games." Antheus hummed and sat down on his throne.
"Rude of you to greet your ally, Antaeus." Lucifer smiled defiantly and looked at Beatrice.
Lucifer snapped his fingers and a girl with beautiful curves appeared behind him. She got down on all fours and Lucifer sat on her back.
Antheus cringed in disgust, "Your fetishes are still just as disgusting."
"Thank you."
"That wasn't a compliment!"
Lucifer chuckled and slapped the girl's buttocks, causing her to let out a quiet moan. Antheus sighed heavily.
Lucifer, massaging the girl's buttocks, looked at Beatrice and shifted his gaze to Antheus.
"I have an idea, but I don't know if you agree."
"Tell me about it first." Antheus nodded and propped his chin up with his hand.
Lucifer slapped the girl's ass one more time and grinned: "How about giving him the Devil's Fruit?"
Antheus frowned. And that was natural, considering the origin of the Devil's Fruit.
As the name says, it comes from the Devil, or, more precisely, from the corpse of the Devil King.
There were once five Devil-Kings in ancient times, but they died fighting against the gods in the Ancient War.
One of the corpses was found by the current ruling family of demons. Eventually, fruit began to grow from the corpse.
At first no one tried to taste them, but curiosity took over. The ruling family sent a D-level imp to devour the fruit.
After consuming it, his level rose to S+, but the price was a complete mental clouding.
Also after devouring the Devil's Fruit the creature can live for five days and after that he will die.
And it is not a simple death. Their souls will be consumed forever, deprived of the chance of reincarnation.
Beatrice, who heard this, felt despair. Even if he were SSS level, the Devil's Fruit would still kill him!
He looked at Antaeus with a pleading look, but got only a smirk in return. Beatrice froze.
The demon felt his body freeze as the two higher beings looked at him with a contorted smirk.
"N-No..."
...
Xie Qing looked at the swirl of black energy that surrounded him. Despite his dangerous appearance, he felt like a fish in water.
Looking forward, Xie Qing pressed his lips together.
In front of him was a black door with a white handle, and on top was a sign that read "Abyss".
He felt as if he had come for a job interview... Xie Qing pushed the door open and entered the space.
When he crossed the threshold, the door disappeared.
The space was dark, but only for a second.
Soon it lit up, causing Xie Qing to have to close his eyes.
When he opened his eyes, he was in the bedroom. Turning his head back and forth, Xie Qing realized that it was a nursery.
"Where am I?" He muttered in surprise and suddenly froze.
"Huh?! What the hell?!"
His voice was as squeaky as a child's. And his tongue slurred from time to time, making his speech sound sloppy.
He jumped off the bed and looked in the mirror. Xie Qing suddenly opened his mouth wide and pointed at the mirror, jumping back.
"What kind of a suckling is that?!"
In the mirror, he looked like a child of five. He had black hair and blue eyes.
His face was cute, but you could tell by it that as an adult it would become the cause of many broken hearts.
While Xie Qing was looking at himself in the mirror, the door to his room opened and a familiar voice sounded behind him.
"What's wrong, son?