Unrest of the Canghzi (2)

Canghzi Plane, Core World

Contrary to the Canghzi Plane, Core World was entirely different. Especially in the aspect of energy density, it was countless times higher than the Canghzi Plane itself. The concentration of the energy was around 10-times higher than the surface world of the Canghzi Plane.

Somewhere at the deepest part of the Core World, several Great Step Holy Spirit Warlocks were having a meeting about the recent phenomena that happened at the surface world of the Canghzi Plane.

"We need to do something about this transgression against the Warlock Realm."

Said a deep voice to other shadowy silhouettes gathered around him.

"And at the same time, we cannot leave the Core World without the help of a special artifact as right now, it is not the time for the Core World to appear."

Answered him an another voice.

"If we let this be... who knows if they won't attack us once more, pride of the Warlock Dynasties is not something those dammed foreign races can trample on!"

Shouted one of the oldest Great Step Holy Spirit Warlocks present at their meeting. Even if somewhat irrational, as even Warlock Dynasties have very vague information about the Baatorians and their exact number of powerhouses, even though it was better than compared to the information obtained by the Great Cloud Dynasty, it was still not enough.

"Even at max, I refuse to believe that, that foreign filth has more power than we 6 Great Step Holy Spirit Warlocks together with twenty ordinary Holy Spirit Warlocks would be enough to overrun their lair several times over."

Said one of the Great Step Holy Spirit Warlocks, bearing the sigil of the Time Dynasty.

In the end, the representatives of the Six Imperial Warlock Dynasties have decided to attack the Plane known as a Baator, with 10 Great Step Holy Spirit Warlocks and 25 Holy Spirit Warlocks.

From the information they gathered, they came to the conclusion that the enemy didn't have more than 10 powerhouses of their level, so they decided to conquer the foreign race that disgraced the pride of the warlocks by stealing one of their peerless treasures directly from the Canghzi Plane.

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"Are you sure that they will attack?"

I asked a man who was standing beside me.

"Of course... Warlocks inherited great arrogance from their cultivator counterparts. What your grandson did would instantly provoke them to mass attack with their top powerhouses to preserve their pride and show everyone the strength of the warlocks."

Answered Yatogami Kuroh, peak Magister Arcanist who was sent here by the Emperor of the Dresden Arcanum Empire, as we baked this scheme together.

While the Fuso Divine Tree was something that I wanted to obtain, it was not worth of bringing armies of the Warlocks to the door of the Baator.

But now the situation changed. As the Core World hadn't shown itself to the world, it was very hard for anyone to leave the Core World. The only way was to use unique artifacts that would allow one to travel between Core World and Surface World.

With Weissmann, we thought this would be an excellent chance to lure out a whole bunch of Holy Spirit Warlocks from the Warlock Imperial Courts and kill them before the majority of their Great Step Holy Spirit Warlocks. More importantly, their Warlock Emperors awaken.

Any chance to weaken Warlocks was the top priority for all factions of Arcanists, as they were their enemy number one.

Yatogami Kuroh led five Tier 10 Magister Arcanists and twenty Tier 9 Arch-Arcanists for this scheme, coupled with Baatorians strength consisting of ten Tier 10 Dimensional-Class powerhouses whose combat prowess is same as Great Step Holy Spirit Warlock and forty Tier 9 Apocalypse-Class, from whom more than half had combat prowess around Holy Spirit Warlock to Advanced Holy Spirit Warlock.

"Where do you plan on fighting them?"

Asked Yatogami Kuroh.

"On the first floor... that place is more dangerous than it appears. Even for Tier 11, leaving that place alive and fine would be hard..."

I grinned as Yatogami Kuroh shuddered.

1st Layer of the Baator, Avernus, was basically the sole entrance to the Baator, and thus it was appropriately armed and defended. It had countless weapons, arcanotech structures, and anything one could think of hidden there.

For thousands of years, we have improved upon the 1st Layer Avernus defenses, making it an impregnable fortress. If Warlocks really enter the 1st Layer of Avernus, their strength won't really matter, as they won't ever lead that place alive.

The most terrifying aspect about the 1st Layer Avernus was the second strongest Magic Net deployed there, which would be able to affect even a Tier 11 to some extent.

"Oh, they have already come."

I grinned as I sensed our guest coming.