Ominous knew that it would be his best option to leave the first floor of the abyss until he was strong enough to protect his self
Every floor of the abyss had a demon lord to preside and rule over, in an abyss floor the demon lord was a god in his god domain
He wouldn't look kindly to a demon growing too strong under his nose without being under his control
So out of caution, Ominous decided to follow the human into it's realm and grow as strong as he can before heading somewhere else.
The human named Finnegan Sloanei lead Ominous close to a portal not too far away from the ruins, he explained that some mages of his kingdom opened a portal to this plain at random for the team of knights and priests to go get some trophies to impress the goddess and get her blessings
Sometimes the kingdom knights and the church hunted in different planes to impress the goddess, for them any life not from their realm was a scum that could be killed, enslaved or sacrificed.
Ominous smiled at the revelation and decided to crush the man's skull before going forward to the portal
"goodbye Finnegan, until we meet again"
He killed the man while his imps laughed with happiness and malice, at their master's twisted joke
Ominous proceeded to enter the portal, while he did so mother Abyss contacted him mentaly and informed him that she would be changing his teleportation path as it would not be safe for him to go where the other party opened the portal
The mental communication of the Abyss with its demons always took seconds, no matter how long they talked.
He nodded as he understood that mother abyss did this for every demon who decided to step into a portal to protect them from the forces in the other side and not alarm them.
Yes it was risky and random but at least it wouldn't be a certain death
Ominous understood that he would be separated from his underlings and he would need to regroup there
It was too late to tell them he had already stepped into the portal
What came into his view was a beautiful desert with a blue sky he could feel the dense magic in the atmosphere
Walking slowly in the desert he noticed the sand was moving slowly from time to time as if there was a big creature under it, casting a fortification spell on himself to strengthen his defense he got ready for a battle.
From the sand, a gigantic scorpion emerged with huge pincers trying to pinch the imp in front of it
Dodging the attack with a dash, Ominous took one of it's six eyes with his tail as a counter-attack
And as if to compete with him the creature pierced one of his thighs with its tail using the sting at the tip of it tail to poison him
Not to be out done Ominous held into the creature's tail with his hands digging into it with his claws as he cast a thunderbolt spell to Cook it alive
The giant twitched and struggled for some time before falling unconscious, Ominous ripped the sting from his thighs and jumped on the scorpions back
Piercing the carapace of its cephalothorax wish is its head fused with thorax, and pulled the scorpions brain making sure it was dead.
As soon as the combat finished, Ominous felt light-headed and fell unconscious because of the poison
In his slumber he could hear screams and cry's for help in the abyssal language begging for his salvation and support
Trying to follow the voices, he could only see some images that flashed in front of him because of his magic mark left on his imps
One where some of his imp servants were sacrificed in a church to a statue of a lady he could feel his magic seal on them being ripped and boiled in the sacrificial light
He could tell it was the priest's of the goddess of light, because they had the same robes as the ones that died in the abyss
Other images were of Lydia's head on a spike while some orcs offered her body to a giant Orc in dark robes with green glowing eyes like vortexes, his hand holding a staff with a skull above it.
Ominous's heart was beating fast without him realizing it, his magic was flailing and struggling against the poison inside of him all the time, trying to wake his body up