Chapter 3236: Belphegor’s Will

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Dark Realm, Seven Prince of Hell Territory, Pandemonium City

In all honesty, Belphegor had indeed written a will asking to transfer the Demon Merchant Code’s transportation rights to the Card World upon his death, only it wasn’t to the Librarian, but to his master, Dalton V. Wyatt.

Calamity daughter gems would die, even endure unknown torture, but never betray their master. So, there was never a problem with Belphegor willingly giving the rights to the Card World to the Bloodrool Hegemony.

But if he were to be killed, considering the debt the Seven Princes of Hell’s dark faction was carrying, the rights to the Card World it possessed would be liquidated along with its other assets by the Demon Merchant Code. Then, a bidding war would break out between the interested parties. To avoid that and not cause his master trouble in the event of his death, Belphegor wrote the will as instructed.

Ensuring that, no matter what, whether his master’s plan succeeded or not, the Bloodrools were not getting their hands on the rights to the Card World from Belphegor today.

"If you are ready, shall we discuss the terms, Your Highness Bloodawn?"

Bloodawn glared at Belphegor while her chest heaved up and down, not out of exhaustion but from the sheer amount of rage she was feeling right now. This was supposed to be a simple mission, but suddenly, the mission’s difficulty had increased a thousandfold as the latter chose to introduce the Librarian into the picture.

Though an ancient True Ruler-class race should be in the top one percentile of the Myriad Realms, the truth was that there were differences among them too. Even her progenitors held the Librarian in high esteem. Bloodawn couldn’t see how they would ever get the rights to the Card World if they were to end up in the Librarian’s lap.

"Discuss terms? I will be doing no such thing," Bloodawn rejected Belphegor with a sneer before adding, "I have seen your faction’s finances. You pushed your faction neck-deep in debt acquiring the rights to the Card World, even though you weren’t even prepared to launch a campaign into the Card World. Now you guys are pressed by the mounting interest rates. We know that the Demon Merchant Code will collect its dues before it executes your will, which would be meaningless by then."

What Bloodawn meant was that leaving behind a will was not meant for those who were drowning in debt, and the Seven Princes of Hell’s dark faction were barely afloat after his impulsive purchase of the rights to the Card World. For every day they failed to conquer the Card World to pay off the debt they had taken on to buy its rights, the accumulated interest grew bigger and bigger. In the Seven Princes of Hell’s current condition, especially after Mammon quit, the debt wouldn’t be cleared even if Belphegor were to sell himself into slavery along with everything he and the dark faction owned.

"Your Highness, if you feel that way, please do kill me and buy the rights to the Card World from the Demon Merchant Code," Belphegor remarked with his signature gentle smile.

Bloodawn’s observation was right, but she deliberately missed one detail: the Demon Merchant Code gave the one inheriting the will a chance to pay off the debt that came with it if they wanted to inherit the will. If not, the Demon Merchant Code would first try to offset the debt with assets, and if there was still anything left, it would follow the will.

That was to say, if the Librarian were to willingly pay off the debt of the Seven Princes of Hell, he would inherit the rights to the Card World as mentioned in the will. Normally, someone as esteemed as the Librarian wouldn’t bother with such a thing, but what if Belphegor explained why he was leaving the rights to the Card World to him in his will? There was no telling what would happen. If one were to look at it from a financial viewpoint, the Seven Princes of Hell’s dark faction’s overall debt wouldn’t even amount to pocket change for the Librarian.

As such, Belphegor’s words immediately got on Bloodawn’s nerves. As a result, Bloodawn conjured blood around Belphegor, which pierced into his skin and began to crawl, spreading across his body like roots in the ground, while the latter’s body twisted in pain. She showed him hell, but not death. Belphegor continued to endure the torture with a gentle smile on his face, which, for some reason, creeped out Bloodawn, who had seen and done far more horrific things than this. To her, it felt like she was torturing a lifeless mannequin or, more accurately, a puppet.

Bloodawn then used the blood she had rooted in his body to torture him, exploring his body inside and out, except for his mutated Unholy Core. She knew everything else, just as she had learned from his dossier before arriving in the Dark Realm. She scrutinised that mutated Unholy Core for a bit before dismissing it as a lesser-known fact that Belphegor had kept secret.

"Fine, speak. What do you want in exchange for the rights to the Card World?"

Bloodawn had no choice but to cave. She could drag Belphegor to the Sunless Realm, isolate him from the Demon Merchant Code, and torture him until he willingly gave up the rights to the Card World to them. But that would take too long and had risky variables of its own. It would be easier and faster to pay off Belphegor.

Belphegor discarded his body and reconstructed a new one, getting rid of Bloodawn’s blood now that she was done torturing him and had faced the reality that paying him off would be in the best interests of her and the Bloodrool Hegemony.

Maintaining the same creepy smile, he spoke his demands. "First off, I would like you to ensure my safety. I don’t want to find myself killed or thrown into one of the Bloodrools’ torture dungeons after giving you what you wanted..."

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