Demon Assessment

"Huh... "

  In a small mountain several hundred kilometers outside of the city of Birel, a sudden gust of sand and wind formed into the shape of Roy.

  "Unh, I can travel at a speed of one hundred thousand kilometers. Not bad."

  Feeling the distance he had traveled, Roy smiled.

  After the fusion of the laws of Tectonics and the Earth element, coupled with elemental transformation, Roy could instantly move one hundred thousand kilometers. With this speed, even the higher gods would struggle to keep up with him.

  As the sand and wind settled, Roy's figure reappeared a hundred thousand kilometers away, and after a few blinks, he appeared outside of Birel City.

  "Birel City?"

  "This is also a city?"

  These years, Roy had been flying in a straight line following the direction of the teleportation array of the Scarlet Flame Mansion. In the three hundred plus years, this was the first time Roy had encountered a city in such a straight distance.

  Looking at the small city in front of him, Roy felt some doubt.

  Roy had seen cities being built with his own eyes.

  The Four Sides City's city walls had their own imposing pressure, preventing the levitation of the Holy Sanctuary and reducing the flight speed of lower gods by half.

  Even the higher gods would be affected.

  However, the city walls of Birel City, although they matched the height of the Four Sides City, did not possess that kind of "imposing pressure."

  After paying the entrance fee and entering Birel City, Roy inquired and arrived at the Demon Castle.

  "Hello, how may I assist you?"

  As soon as Roy entered the Demon Castle, a girl in a green dress walked up and asked.

  "Hello, I want to register as a demon here."

  Although Roy believed he had the strength of a three-star demon, because the Four Sides City had only recently been established, the Demon Castle had not been occupied by people yet. So up until now, Roy was not a demon.

  "Alright, this way please."

  "Okay."

  Led by the girl, Roy sat down in front of a counter-like structure and filled in some basic information. After the girl took Roy's information and left, she returned after a few minutes.

"Star" is the demon code name chosen by Roy for himself.

This is also Roy's expectation for himself.

He hopes that in the future, he will become a star that never falls, holding up the heavens of the Ninth Realm.

"Just in Birel City."

After a little thought, Roy chose to participate in the demon assessment in Birel City. It's only seven years, not that he can't wait.

Once he misses Birel City, who knows when he will encounter another city?

Traveling outside, the demon medal is proof of strength.

With the demon medal, ordinary people won't come looking for trouble.

Of course, those who dare to cause trouble are not ordinary people.

Cities are different from tribes.

Because tribes are limited to a few hundred miles, at most a few million miles in range, most of the trade is done through bartering.

Cities, on the other hand, have information exchange with the entire Hell and even other divine planes or the highest planes. With the inclusion of large forces like the Demon Castle and the auction house, the consumption within cities uses a unified currency called "Moshi."

It is said that Moshi is a mineral that is mutated by the influence of the main god's power, and some powerful individuals can even extract the power of the main god from Moshi.

In the space ring given to Roy by Lawrent, besides the metallic life form, there are also one billion Moshi.

Although Roy hasn't actively inquired about any information these days, he occasionally learns some information from the conversations of guests during meals.

For example, in Roy's eyes, Birel City is still far from being as well-developed as the still-incomplete Sanhe City.

Whether it's the city walls, the Demon Castle, or the scale of the auction house, they all fall short compared to Sanhe City.

The only advantage Birel City has over Sanhe City is the number of people.

But in the eyes of these wandering gods, Birel City is considered to have developed quite well among small cities.

All of this makes Roy feel that Lawrent's identity is not simple.

Moreover, from the conversations of these people, Roy also learned that the establishment of small cities will not attract the attention of the main gods.

All of this indicates that Lawrent is not ordinary.

However, this is exactly what Roy wants.

Have already adapted to the slow life in hell.

On this day, Roy, in the inn, received a message from the Demon Castle.

The biennial demon assessment will begin in seven days.

During these seven days, Roy did not continue to practice but instead wandered around the city of Birel. He quickly bought some supplies and stored them in his spatial ring.

Then, on the seventh day, he made his way to the Demon Castle.

"Mr. Xingchen, this way please."

Guided by the maid from last time, Roy arrived on the second floor of the Demon Castle.

There were already seven people here, and from their positions, they were all strangers.

Roy glanced over and saw three lower-ranked gods, two middle-ranked gods, and two upper-ranked gods.

The chests of those two upper-ranked gods were adorned with black demon badges.

Both of them were three-star level demons.

The remaining five people, like Roy, did not have demon badges, indicating that they were all participants in the demon assessment this time.

After waiting for another half an hour, another lower-ranked god came up to the second floor. At this moment, one of the upper-ranked gods with the demon badge started speaking.

"Alright, now that everyone is here, let me explain the demon task for this time."

"Our two upper-ranked gods have the task of escorting a treasure worth billions of ink stones from Birel City to Nichol's City."

"Your task is to assist us in successfully reaching Nichol's City, and that will pass your demon assessment, making you a true demon."

"If you choose to run away or die during the escort mission, then you only have yourselves to blame for being too weak and unprepared to participate in the demon assessment."

"Now, do any of you have any objections? If you find it too dangerous, you can choose to withdraw and participate in the next demon assessment."

"I, I withdraw."

"I withdraw too."

As soon as the words of the upper-ranked demon were spoken, two lower-ranked gods chose to withdraw.

After waiting for a few minutes and seeing that no one else chose to quit, the higher-ranking god spoke again: "Alright, now that you all have made this decision, let's start our journey."

Upon finishing his words, the higher-ranking god led the way downstairs, and Roy and his companions quickly followed.

After leaving the demon castle, the higher-ranking god extended his hand, and a mini-metallic life form appeared in his palm.

With a toss of his hand, the metallic life form ascended into the sky, gradually increasing in size. Eventually, it transformed into an airship that was five meters wide and thirty meters long.

"If we were to fly from Bi Lei'er City to Ni Ke'ers City, it would take at least three hundred years. But with this metallic life form, it will take around thirty years."

"Let's depart."

"Alright."

Once inside the metallic life form, the higher-ranking god began assigning tasks.

The flight speed of the metallic life form required the input of divine power.

The two higher-ranking god demons were the main forces for this mission and needed to be in their peak state at all times. Therefore, the task of providing divine power to the metallic life form was assigned to Roy and his six companions.

Roy and another middle-ranking god each selected two lower-ranking gods, and they took turns providing divine power to the metallic life form, rotating every year.

In the first year, Roy's group was responsible for providing divine power, while the rest entered the rooms inside the metallic life form.

"Whoosh..."

"Huh? This speed?"

Standing inside the metallic life form and feeling its speed, Roy was amazed to find that the flight speed of the metallic life form was even faster than his fusion of the Law of Earth and the Law of Movement's speed.

Roy named that move "Shrinking Earth," in which he completely Elementalizes himself in an instant, turning into the element of earth and then fusing with the mysterious Law of Earth Travel, using countless earth elements in space to instantly reach the range sensed by his divine consciousness. With Roy's current rate of divine consciousness dispersion, he can reach a distance of 100,000 kilometers in one second.

Based on the comparison between Roy and his metallic life form, the speed of the metallic life form is about 78,000 kilometers per second.

However, Roy suddenly remembered that the three-star demon with metallic life form said it takes thirty years for the metallic life form to fly from Beilei City to Nichols City, and it takes over three hundred years to fly. This speed should be the flying speed of the superior god.

The flying speed of the metallic life form is ten times that of an ordinary superior god.

In other words, Roy's "Shrinking Earth" is several times faster than an ordinary superior god?

Thinking of these, Roy's lips curled into a slight smile, feeling a sense of security.

After instructing the two subordinate gods assigned to him to take turns and wake him up when their divine power is insufficient, Roy began his cultivation.

Hmm, those two subordinate gods are very sensible, they haven't disturbed Roy in this year, which made Roy very satisfied.

In this way, although Roy is nominally a member providing divine power to the metallic life form, with the help of the two sensible subordinate gods, Roy was able to cultivate peacefully for more than a decade.

One day, a sense of crisis suddenly arose in Roy's heart. He didn't dare to be negligent and immediately exited the state of cultivation. With a single thought, ripples appeared in the air around Roy.