The Death List Novel - Chapter 457
Chapter 457 An Unexpected Opportunity
“Berylseth!” Looking at Sly Devil’s scarlet eyes, Qin Lun’s expression was a little complicated.
Ever since joining the order-keeping front, he had thought that the foreign affairs elder of the Abyss Devil Race would not come looking for him again. He hadn’t expected that Berylseth would contact him on his own initiative today.
“You still joined the order-keeping front!” Berylseth sighed, a trace of regret appearing on the ugly face of the Abyss Devil. “I told them long ago that with your personality, you would not be willing to be captured by the Chaos Party. Unfortunately, there are always some Abyss Devil executives who think they are right.”
Qin Lun was silent. Naturally, the Abyss Devils had leaked the information that the Chaos Team had been able to find his villa. Originally, due to the Hellfire Devil Hound, he still owed the Abyss Devil Race a favor. However, since the Abyss Devils had revealed his address, no matter what, this favor no longer existed.
“With the relationship between the Abyss Devils and the Chaos guild, there’s nothing wrong with doing this. I won’t blame you, Berylseth!” Qin Lun smiled calmly and said, “I don’t owe the Abyss Devils anything now. However, I will still remember your help.”
After pondering for a while, Qin Lun took out the remaining bottle of Void Beast Potion from his pocket. “This bottle of Void Beast Potion is useless to me. I’ll give it to you. However, you must note that the probability of becoming an apostle with this bottle of potion is very low. It can only be used as a last resort in life and death!”
“Void Beast Potion? Not bad!” Berylseth’s eyes lit up and he shook his head. He smiled and said, “Qin Lun, I’m not looking for you for anything. Even if you join the Order-keeping Front, you can still trade with the Abyss Devils. However, there won’t be any complicated factors involved!”
“Oh? Haha, then I really underestimated your demon race’s magnitude!” Qin Lun smiled and said, “Alright then, why did you come to me this time?”
Berylseth smiled and didn’t answer immediately. He looked at Qin Lun with a strange gaze, and his heart couldn’t calm down.
The relationship between the apostles and the intelligent races in the shattered starry sky is very complicated. The apostles need the services of the intelligent races, and the living environment of the intelligent races also needs the strength and help of the apostles in a sense.
As for the apostles, it is a self-evident principle that intelligent races cannot be slaughtered at will. As for the intelligent races, the lessons they had learned over the years had taught them that they could neither leave the apostles nor rely entirely on them, and that it was best to follow the principle of equal exchange.
From this point of view, no matter which apostle alliance Qin Lun joined, it had nothing to do with the Abyss Devils. However, this relationship changed when the Alliance of Apostles and the Abyss Devils were in the same apostolic city.
For example, the Moon Night Elves were rejected by the other four management races in the Corner of the Abyss and almost squeezed out of the management council. The reason for that was because they had left the Corner of the Abyss short of many urban points during the period of rotational management, causing the discontent of the apostles.
To the Abyss Devils, Qin Lun was an apostle with tremendous potential. In half a year, he was already close to the Second Order. In one or two years, he would become a high-order apostle.
Every high-ranking apostle would definitely exert a tremendous influence in the process of growing up. Whether it’s setting up your own team or joining other large teams. There would never be a shortage of subordinates beside high-level experts.
Getting Qin Lun was equivalent to getting a mature apostle team, and it would even affect several other apostle teams. Whether it was war mercenary missions or the right to vote in urban governance, it was a matter of life and death for the governing race of the apostolic cities.
Qin Lun joining the order-keeping front seemed to be a personal matter of the apostles. But in the same apostolic city, that means standing in line.
If there was a dispute between the Abyss Devils and the Elves, no matter how close Qin Lun’s relationship with the Abyss Devils was, he and the team he represented could only support the order-keeping races. This was the position of the Alliance. It was not affected by one’s will unless Qin Lun left the order-keeping front and the horn of the Abyss Devils.
In fact, the chaos team found the demons and requested access to Qin Lun’s information. The demons could refuse. This refusal would not damage the relationship between the two. After all, the disclosure of other apostolic information by intelligent races was a taboo in itself.
However, after some deliberation, the Abyss Devils decided to agree to the request of the Chaos Team and sell Qin Lun’s address. Of course, this wasn’t because the Abyss Devils didn’t value Qin Lun, but because they had guessed wrongly.
They had originally thought that Qin Lun had always been cunning and tactless. Even if he wasn’t willing to join the primordial chaos, he would only join the neutral alliance-the Apostle Filling Tombstone. Unexpectedly, the young man’s reaction was so intense that he directly turned around and joined the order-keeping front that was opposed to the Chaos Alliance.
Berylseth wasn’t lying at all. As the Abyss Devil who knew Qin Lun the best, he had indeed dissuaded the other Abyss Devil Elders at that time. Unfortunately, he was in the minority and couldn’t obtain the desired result.
By the time the boat was done, the Abyss Devils could no longer recover. They could only helplessly admit that their previous investment in Qin Lun’s favor had been wasted.
Countless trivial thoughts flashed through the Sly Demon’s mind. Berylseth calmed down and smiled bitterly helplessly, “Those guys sent me to wipe my butt, but it’s good news for you.”
“Good news?” Qin Lun raised his eyebrows and waited patiently for the Sly Devil to follow.
“Of course! I remember you said before that you also have a need for the Abyss Devils’ bloodline, right?” Berylseth put aside his distracting thoughts and looked at Qin Lun with a smile.
“Are you still willing to give me the Abyss Devil bloodline?” Qin Lun was truly a little surprised this time. He didn’t expect the Abyss Devils to act without a bottom line after they became so dirty with him.
Hearing Qin Lun’s question, Berylseth smiled bitterly. Actually, this wasn’t because the Abyss Devils didn’t have a bottom line. Rather, it was the Astral Race’s survival wisdom towards the apostles. They could not rely on the apostles, but they could not deliberately offend them.
After all, Qin Lun hadn’t been in the Broken Star System for a long time, and he hadn’t reached a high level. But thinking back, it wasn’t a small matter for the Abyss Devils to sell his address. Even if the two of them had a relationship in the past, if the young man wanted to avenge him, and when he reached a higher level, or even a Legendary level, he would remember to take revenge, the Abyss Devils would suffer.
“Yes, in order to make up for this mistake, we are willing to sell you the Abyss Devil bloodline.” Berylseth said seriously, “Of course, since you have joined the order-keeping front, we will not add other factors. This is a pure transaction, and you will have to pay the price.”
Qin Lun frowned slightly. Right now, he lacked broken crystals, and almost all of the broken crystals for selling gold cards had been spent. He was in a difficult situation. However, he was unable to reject the proposal of the Abyss Devils.
To advance to a low rank Abyss Devil Hunter, he needed two conditions. The first was that he needed to reach 100% progress in hunting legends. However, he didn’t need to complete this mission on his own. After crossing Toril World, his progress was already very fast.
The second condition was the Demon’s Blood, which was also the biggest difficulty in advancing. Great Abyss Devils and high rank Abyss Devils were very difficult to find, but mid and low rank Abyss Devils would leave behind hidden dangers for the purification of their bloodlines in the future.
Qin Lun couldn’t always count on a god to help him purify his bloodline, or stimulate his bloodline inheritance in a mission world.
“Berylseth, to tell you the truth, the bloodline item I need is the Demon’s Blood, and the quality must be at least high-grade!” Qin Lun sighed and said hopelessly.
In the past, when he had the closest relationship with the Abyss Devils, he had asked Berylseth about the way to obtain the Abyss Devils’ bloodline. In fact, there were many ways to obtain the Abyss Devil bloodline, and most of them weren’t as harsh as obtaining the Elven bloodline.
Under normal circumstances, the apostles were allowed to enter the Abyss Devil Race’s blood pool, and then through some sort of transformation ceremony, the apostles were allowed to obtain the Abyss Devil bloodline. The apostles’ success rate was even lower when they fused with the blood of the Abyss Devils. After all, the Abyss Devils were superior races, and their blood essence was not easily absorbed by other creatures.
“Are you saying that you can directly absorb the blood of the Abyss Devils without the need for a bloodline conversion ceremony?” Berylseth, who was projecting from the other side, had a strange expression.
“No, of course I can’t absorb the blood of the Abyss Devils right now. Otherwise, I will definitely be rejected by the elven bloodline.” Qin Lun shook his head indifferently. “I don’t know what to do for the time being, because before I absorb the Abyss Devil Blood, I have to fulfill another condition for advancement. Then, when I use the Abyss Devil Blood, the starry sky will help me complete my bloodline fusion.”
“Are you going to advance again?” Berylseth was shocked. Then he put away his shock and smiled as he congratulated, “Congratulations. If the Abyss Devils don’t need to help you with the bloodline conversion ceremony, then the price will be much lower.”
“Berylseth, I’ve made it clear to you that what I need is high rank Abyss Devil blood!” Qin Lun said word by word, “Given my demand, it is very likely that a high rank Abyss Devil will die. Are you willing to pay such a price?”
“Haha, this is not a problem!” Berylseth couldn’t help but laugh. He shook his head and said, “Qin Lun, I am the foreign affairs elder of the Bahraini Abyss Devil Race. I have helped many apostles convert their Abyss Devil bloodlines. Perhaps you misunderstood. High-grade Abyss Devil Blood Essence has never been a problem for us. What we really consume is the magical materials needed for the bloodline conversion ceremony.”
“Bahrain’s Abyss Devils?!” Qin Lun pondered for a moment and recalled what Berylseth had told him before. A light flashed in his eyes. He understood, “The Demon Blood Essence you provided me does not belong to the Demon race of the Horn of the Devil?”
The Horn of the Abyss was a city in the sky. Below it was the Scorching Plains, the floating continent where the Abyss Devils lived. The majority of the Abyss Devils living on this plain were Bahraini Devils. There were also some high-level Sly Devils and Flame Devils like Berylseth, as well as low-level Demons and Little Devils.
However, like the Moonlight Elves, the Bahraini Demons of the Scorching Plains did not represent all the Abyss Devils in the Broken Star System. The Moon Night Elves of the Horn of the Abyss had a mortal enemy, the Dark Night Elves, and the Bahraini Demons also had enemies of their own race.
In fact, in the war of races that shattered the starry sky, there were more inter-race wars than outsider wars. The reason was very simple. Take the Moon Night Elves as an example. They were indeed opposing factions to the Abyss Devils. However, unless the Abyss Devils were too weak to withstand a single blow, the two races would not lose face.
This was not only because of the Horn of the Abyss, but also because of the great difference between the two races’ living conditions. The scorching plains filled with volcanic and sulphur auras were the paradise of the Abyss Devils, but to the Moonlight Fairies, it was hell, and vice versa.
Rather than invading the scorching plains, the Moon Night Elves might as well attack the Night Elves’ floating continent. The forest resources there were the environment they needed to survive. Moreover, due to the uniqueness of the shattered starry sky, the Moon Night Elves didn’t have the slightest psychological burden of attacking the Dark Elves.
It was because they were of different races. Perhaps the two races that were absorbed by the shattered starry sky in the Ancient Era were originally from two different worlds of space and time.
“From the looks of it, you should understand!” Berylseth squinted his scarlet eyes and said with an embarrassed smile, “Our race has fought many battles with other Abyss Devils, and there are many high-level Abyss Devils captives in the prison. If you have time, come to our headquarters to take a look. However, I have to remind you that high-level Abyss Devils’ blood essence is still a scarce resource. It is not enough to just pay for shattered crystals.”
“I understand!” Qin Lun’s heart skipped a beat. No matter what, he didn’t intend to miss this opportunity. After thinking for a while, he took out the Undead Sacred Artifact Scepter from his storage space and showed it to Berylseth. “I think the value of this item should be enough to exchange for a high rank Abyss Devil captive!”