Eldritch Creature's Guide

Not to mention that the leaders of the Star-Moon Coalition were very well aware that they had fallen into the trap prepared for them by the Hall of Kadath the moment they took the helping hand of the Kadaths.

Thought unfortunately for them, there was no possibility of getting out right now, as they had gone too far on that path. They were well aware of the fact that the Hall of Kadath was scheming against the demon races as a whole, but there was nothing they could do about that.

The silent help from the Hall of Kadath as they attacked a few crucial worlds under the control of the Golden-Horned Demon Tribe proved itself to be very helpful. The Golden-Horned Demon Tribe was too powerful, but with several forces working together, they were being weakened enough for the Star-Moon Coalition to become their real contender.

And on the top was the fact the relationships between their Daemon Primogenitors did not always mirror the relationships between the mortal progenies. Not like they cared that their progenies warred against each other; in the end, it was the same thing that they were doing, just on an entirely different scale.

In the Abyss, the structure of the Higher Dimensional World was changing each decade because some territories under the control of some Daemons fell. At the same time, some rose to prominence after defeating and assimilating their foes. And this endless cycle kept repeating itself for countless eons, going on for countless Epochs since the creation of the Cosmos.

The only one to whom the Abyss was loyal and who could command them all, without a question as his orders were absolute, was 'Him', but 'He' would never care about the lives and state of something so incomparable and distant like the existence of a few billions of demons in the Material Plane of the Cosmos.

"As you say, My Lord... but still... this war only serves the purpose of our race being forever divided and not becoming a player on the Cosmos scale."

Answered the previous Moon Demon, as Crown Prince Thadon nodded in agreement because such was the sad truth.

"Yes, if all of the major Demon Tribes were united into one coherent faction, then we would be able to fight even hegemons like the Hall of Kadath or The Guild and be victorious in all faction wars. But under the leadership of the Goldne-Horned Demons, we would have been going from one war to another, and in the end, that would consume us to the point where we would all perish. We don't need to continue waging wars one after another; look around... our society is on the level of orks... dammit orks!"

Shouted Crown Prince Thadon angrily because he was enraged at this. Most of the demon societies were primitive and backward, on the level of orks in pure sageness... it was catastrophic, though.

With all of the advancements of the Cosmos, and their civilization was still like it hadn't moved point few past Epochs. The majority of them lived as barbarians in terrible conditions, yeh, they had a good number of powerhouses, but the same could be said about Silvermoon Elves or, better, the Asuras, which had a similar culture and yet were technologically advanced in terms of Magitek.

Naturally, there were some demons that wanted to become more "civilized" and to adjust the Old Ways of the demonkind into something new and something that could survive the passage of time.

During a few thousand of years, more and more factions were getting technologically more and more advanced, countless of them developing high levels of magical technology.

This was causing one thing... that countless factions started becoming stronger and stronger and the main lifeline of approximately 90% and soon enough, it would cause the demons would have a much harder time procuring slaves and resources as they were pillaging worlds.

Some even nicknamed this Epoch as Tek Revolution Epoch, because countless worlds and factions completely focused on the industrialization and modernization of their repertoire, making them many times stronger.

Some said it was because the Era was nearing to its end; thus the big and powerful factions were selling scraps to less fortunate, arming them with advanced weaponry... just what the Human Breotherhood managed to inflcut on the demons on the 8th Floor was proof of it.

If this didn't stop, then because the demons couldn't live otherwise, they would collapse and probably destroy themselves in a series of neverending wars. Their culture was all about waging war on each other which resulted in a great deal of hatred between various races and tribes, making any attempts at cooperation almost non-existent.

Even right now, some of the High Worlds, which were serving as breeding worlds for slaves by the Demon Tribes as they were attacking these High Worlds for countless millennia started giving resistance to invasions of the Demon Races.

And some of them were even repelling the invasion of the Demon Tribes.

***

"You should have escaped far sooner, human!"

In the Heart of the City Layer of the Selangrad, the battle between various Gold-Tier Professionals of the Human Brotherhood and Demon Army under the Golden-Horned Demon Tribe was getting to its conclusion, as the Gold-Tier demon Professionals were gaining the upper hand.

The entire area where the Gold-Tier Professionals of both sides fought was destroyed by the fight, as everything was in rubble, with several buildings all around the Dimensional Gate or rather the remains of the Dimensional Gate was destroyed.

It all came to an inevitable end when the number of Human Gold-Tier Professionals started to dwindle; it was that moment when the humans started losing ground below them and soon enough, one after one were being killed.

Individually, the Gold-Tiers of the Human Brotherhood were no match for the ones of the Demon Army, even remotely not. Despite being often at the same Tier, they could not match the stronger demons who were superior in experience, weapons and their power was often more stable.

It didn't take a genius to figure out that they were genetically strengthened by some of their Genetic Enhancement Serums, so their power was relatively unstable.

Soon enough, all of the Gold-Tier human Professionals were killed and only one of them remained, who was one of the leaders of the Human Brotherhood.

Surprisingly, one of the Gold-Tier Professionals of the Human Brotherhood managed to escape from the Heart of the City Layer of the Selangrad when he realized that the battle was going bad for them.

With one motion of his sword, he severed the head of the kneeling founder of the Huzamn Brotherhood, as with this, the battle has essentially ended. The Selangrad has fallen to the Demon Army under the Golden-Horned Demon Tribe, even though right now, the demon armies were only in the Outer Layer of the city while marching at the Inner Layer.

Though, in the end, that didn't matter at all because they lost their Gold-Tier Professionals; it meant that if the Golden-Tier demons moved, then the humans won't be able to block their advance and they would be soon enough overpowered.

"All dead?"

The commander of the Gold-Tier Professionals of the Golden-Horned Demon Tribe asked as one of the Gold-Tier demons came up to him when he finished killing his Gold-Tier opponent of the Human Brotherhood.

"Not... one of them escaped, severely injured, probably has no more time to live than half an hour due to injuries that Xos inflicted on him."

Reported the Gold-Tier Professional who came up to the commander of the Gold-Tier squad. As someone from the Golden-Horned Demon Tribe and sent here directly by the Elders of the Tribe to clean out this mess.

"Leave it be... focus on securing the Heart of the City, gather the spatial equipment and search through all the buildings in the Heart of the City."

The Golden-Horned Demon commanded the squad of the Gold-Tier demon Professionals under him as the priorities under their belt were different than pursuing one gravely injured Gold-Tier human Professional who would die anyway... that was not important and neither it required his direct interference.

Right now, their top priority was securing the Heart of the City because this was the center of the Human Brotherhood's power and there were still a lot of people in the buildings here.

Especially the enormous palace, which was serving as the headquarters of the entire Human Brotherhood, needed to be secured as soon as possible before the people there destroyed any sensitive information; they may have some leads to the Avalon Kingdom and other supporters of the Human Brotherhood.

***

Meanwhile, in the Core Layer of the Selangrad, one bloodied Gold-Tier human was escaping from the Heart of the City and even the Selangrad as fast as possible because he wished to live. While some of the Human Brotherhood's members were fanatics and believed in the cause, some were just opportunists who wanted to make a name for themselves.

And Arion was one of them. He was from a family of commoners in some Lower World, whose name was not important in the great game and it was a typical world where humans were at war against demons. The world's power balance was like that for thousands upon thousands of years; only after he entered the broader Cosmos and joined the Human Brotherhood did he learn that his homeworld was artificially sustained to be like that.

It was one of the countless worlds that were in that way, where demons were breeding and cultivating their armies. When Arion was fifteen years old, he was pretty lucky to find the corpse of the killed demon Gold-Tier Professional and obtained the demon's dimensional ring, which was full of Mana Crystals, supplies, weapons, Combat Manuals and other things that were perfectly suited for the Class that he awakened.

From then on, he rose from the pitiful Level 3 Iron-Tier to the peak of the Bronze-Tier Level 50 in ten years, which was for a human with almost no talent relatively staggering rise. When he became peak Bronze-Tier during one of his adventures, he found a Dimensional Pathway that connected the Lower World to the Tower and found himself on the Tower's 3rd Floor.

After some time in the Tower, he managed to reach Silver-Tier rather easily and was recruited to the Human Brotherhood under the premise of great wealth and resources for the continuous advancements to the Gold-Tier.

He spent countless decades as a mercenary of the Human Brotherhood and even reached the Gold-Tier due to their resources.

Though Arion was never one who believed in their cause like most of the fanatics that were consisting the core of the Human Brotherhood.

He believed only in money and power; the ideological aspects were totally useless for him, but he had one thing, which was loyalty to the contract that he signed with the leaders of the Human Brotherhood.