Chapter 3231: The Snow Elven Null Strider

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Dark Realm, Seven Prince of Hell Territory, Pandemonium City, Center of Pandemonium Volcano, Millennium Volcano Heart Natural Array

"Master, Belphegor says he is willing to swear an oath with the Origin Source as his witness. If I quit the dark faction and give up my authority as one of its leaders, he will not set off the true relic, and he will never harm Pandemonium City again or use such a method to coerce me again.

"As a sign of good faith and to continue the old friendship, he will also pay me the price the Bloodrools agreed to pay for the rights to the Card World, out of his own pocket, and hand over the explosion-type true relic beneath the city as well."

Mommon reported as Belphegor replied to his text instantly. The latter seemed to have definitely anticipated the text and should be a little delighted that his threat might work after all.

"Mommon, take your time and reply back to Belphegor that you too will swear an oath with the Origin Source as your witness. If he were to uphold his terms of the bargain first, you would not only resign as one of the faction leaders of the Seven Princes of Hell, quitting the dark faction, but also help him get on the good side of the faction members and the Bloodrools, that is, if he wishes," I relayed while continuing my efforts to divine Belphegor’s location. "Remember, make him wait."

Belphegor seems to have taken measures to ensure that no one can divine his location, after all, he was running from a true ruler-class faction. But his measures weren’t absolute. And based on the information I knew, it wouldn’t be hard to find his location. But I didn’t have time, did I?

Even if Belphegor were to agree to Mommon’s counteroffer and remove the timer on exploding Pandemonium City, I still had a hearing with the Demon Merchant Code in less than five minutes.

Clown Mask and Karl were proving fruitless. Their Eye of Fortune and Eye of Prosperity were of no help because of their limitations. I and my Casualty Certainty Curse were on our own. I had been using trial-and-error methods to try and pinpoint Belphegor’s location to determine three things:

i) Belphegor’s original body was still in the Dark Realm.ii) Belphegor was not in the city but in the vicinity.

iii) Belphegor was close enough to notice if Mommon tried to find the explosion-type true relic underneath the city or tried to use the Demon Merchant Code to leave the city with his valuables.

With these three points, I reduced my search radius for Belphegor to the vicinity of Pandemonium City.

I then contacted Thalorien, the Snow Elven Empyrean who was on standby to use his clone army and his empire’s resources to physically search for Belphegor in the vicinity of Pandemonium City and turn Belphegor into a calamity daughter gem.

As much as I would love to hand him over to Corey, I needed him to save the Card World from a grim fate that was slowly moving to set upon it.

’Master, if we could get something of Belphegor’s energy signature, my race’s diviners and curse masters will track him down in no time,’ Thalorien informed me as his clones stealthily descended into the vicinity of Pandemonium City using the Demon Merchant Code’s transportation function after gaining permission from Mommon, since he was paying the Demon Merchant Code a hefty sum to ensure nobody used its transportation function to launch an attack on Pandemonium City.

’Contact Gideon. He can get you what you need,’ I replied before summoning my Demon Merchant Codex and preparing for my hearing with the Demon Merchant Code.

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From within the newly built Heathen stone prison/secret lab, Thalorien sat in the lab, monitoring and manipulating his multiple clones through his mind’s eye with the assistance of the Hive Spirit.

Even without the Hive Spirit, he could effectively control hundreds of thousands of his perfect snow clones. However, with the Hive Spirit, the whole process had become a lot smoother and easier. He never thought it could get any easier. Now, observing and controlling millions of ruler-class perfect clones wasn’t even enough of a warm-up.

Yes, having become a Bloodkin, Thalorien was a lot stronger than he had been when he faced Dalia. She no longer felt like a good rival, let alone a threat to him. Actually, he was now so confident in his prowess that he wanted to return to the center of the Winter Valley and face his demons.

Thalorien’s confidence didn’t just come from the number of clones he could control but also from the ultimate ice rule rune, Null Strider, which he had inherited from his master when he was recognized by and inherited the cursed primordial bloodline, becoming a Bloodkin.

With the help of the ultimate ice rule rune, Null Strider, he had already comprehended the ice rule meaning of the null ultimate tier and added it to his ice rule stream.

Though he couldn’t use Null Strider to the extreme extent that his master could, he was still a calamity daughter gem and carried the cursed primordial bloodline. He was able to use it enough to help him refine his Ice Rule Stream and nourish the Ice Rule Stream Spirit further. This was especially possible because of the assistance of his Ice Rule Stream Spirit. It was a lot more efficient at using the Null Strider rune than he was. If not for his physical limitations holding it back, it could have used the rune to extreme extents like his master did.

That was to say, after becoming a Bloodkin, Thalorien had achieved new heights in terms of his rule comprehension and realm, which could have taken him another millennium to achieve even with his talent. That was why he was confident about facing his past. However, his master had told him not now, as it wasn’t time yet.

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