Epic of Caterpillar
chapter-1169

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There are seven sins and seven princes of hell, each one is in a certain layer of hell, and there are eight, the first one is the Limbo and there are no archdemons here, apparently. This place is where most of the low-rank demons' dwell, which are often attacked by low-rank angels such as cherubins that want to grow stronger by slaying evil beings.

But there are also all sorts of terrifying monsters too, so its not an easy play to live. But I would say this is the only "mortal realm" within the entirety of the Hell, down there everything seems to get ballistic and stronger. You might be unlucky a run into a powerful Archdemon from the get-go.

Talking about the Limbo, I wonder how people manage here, the Imps barely do it every day, so I might as well assume most of the low-ranked demon tribes cannot properly handle living in here with giant demonic monsters roaming everywhere.

Due to this, I might as well start my plan, which I call… Hell Expansion! I will expand my influence in Hell by helping the demonic tribes, as the benevolent new Archdemon Goddess of this place, I will bring them the joy of living comfortable lives in exchange for their faith and smiles!

And well, in exchange for also protecting my Drain Shrines! I will build my influence and continuously construct more Drain Shrines as I go with it, the plan would be to make as many I freaking can!

The Imps were easily blessed by me overnight, and now they had grown stronger and even evolved, becoming stronger and a bit taller, although they still remained looking like Imps. My powerful blessings are truly amazing things.

After having influenced them like this, they spoke all I wanted now that they felt so grateful, and the new plants I gave to them that yielded fruits and other stuff were also amazing for them, so they ended loving me a lot!

Anyways, going back to the main topic at hand, I had mentioned Lucifer before.

Why is he a prince? Wasn't he the king? The big boss in here? I guess he's also part of the seven princes, but being part of other six members in a group means they're somewhat equally stronger than him? wait, does this means Mammon is even more strong than I had originally believed?

Well, that's quite the pain to think about it, if he's really that strong I don't know if I and Rimuru will be able to take it down. Even if we fuse with everyone and use all the mechas, can we do it? Even with all the Maxima Summons? Well, we'll see about it, I have faith in Bubu- I mean, in everyone!

"Why is Lucifer the Prince of Pride while he's also the King of here? Wasn't this entire place made as a prison for him?" I wondered.

Unlike other archdemons I was very unique! While they were restrained in here, I was free to go from one place to another with ease, this was my advantage that these archdemons didn't had, they had to use Avatars to go from one place to another, but I can easily do it without them, I can even clone myself which is one million times better than a measly avatar.

"Well yes, he is the Prince of Pride. He represents such a Primordial Sin as he was prideful and desired to do things his own way, he thought that he could also be like God and well… it ended in all of this at the end. He was the beginning of evil, some say." Said the elder.

"Well, he is like our King, it is thanks to his pride that our home was created, and we also came to be as living beings, so we cannot really say anything regarding his decisions. He is a being way above us for us to even think we can do anything over it." said another Imp.

But I wonder what to do and ask now. I've pretty much satiated my curiosity about the main topics, asking away for each prince of hell would be a pain and it would be way too much info dump for me to care about, I would rather find out myself…

Wait, well, no, I better just ask them away.

I decided to ask them about each archdemon but…

"We don't know anything other than that."

"We apologize…"

"But all that knowledge you seek is something beyond our understanding, Kireina-sama."

"I see… Oh well, that's that then. Thank for giving me some insights. Now, we'll get going for now." I said.

"Very well!"

However, I decided to leave this place with some slime clones and other things, and I also decided to build up a Drain Shrine right away in here.

The ingredients were all available in my divine realm, which I brought here through my Inventory which is shared through all my bodies.

I decided to do it in the surface though, doing it underground would net as much demonic energy as it would be in the surface.

Even if in the surface it risks being damaged by beasts, I will leave it protected from them with a special formation that will protect it and also camouflage the entire thing, as if it wasn't there to begin with.

The ingredients included divine materials of all types of elements, alongside a lot of divine energy. I decided to use more formations as nodes, and I even added totems, which ended being surprisingly useful in the usage of formations. They're technically like them.

Additionally I added the power of the Lesser Dao of Drain by adding a fragment of it directly into the formation, this served as the formation's core and formed the shrine beautifully.

After that, I quickly used a bunch of demonic cores we got from slaying a bunch of creatures as the batteries to startup the process. Using the corpses of the demonic beasts too, to make it adapt to the power and environment… and it began.

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