800: Chapter 520 800: Chapter 520 The Western Demon King, frightened by the pack of wolves, jumped up and realized that the previous bindings and controls were gone, allowing him to move flexibly, and so he began to run away at speed.
Suddenly, a transformed Wolf Demon appeared in the space, a form definitely not of their kind.
At first, the pack only surrounded and observed it without attacking, driven simply by curiosity.
Then, the guilty escape of the Western Wolf Demon caused the pack to howl but not to attack, having received no orders from the Wolf King to do so against this foreign species.
The Hell Palace Artifact Spirit enlightened them that this was a Wolf King from the West and that he had followers, albeit some were annihilated by their master.
The reason for bringing it into this space was its loose tongue; it had insulted its master as foolish and claimed that Western wolves were mightier than Eastern wolves.
The wolves, who had harbored no animosity towards foreign wolves, suddenly put aside their indifference.
The Wolf King also commanded his subordinates to let these Westerners know the ferocity of the Eastern wolves.
“Don’t kill it for fun; play with it slowly as a toy, making it realize that offending an Eastern wolf is to wish for death without knowing how to die!”
The Artifact Spirit’s educational speech not only reached the ears of the wolves in the space but also the lions, tigers, and other Demonic Beasts, who sensed an entertaining spectacle unfolding.
The Hell Palace’s space grew livelier, having previously welcomed a city and later a ship.
They embraced the hustle and bustle, occasionally overseeing and even toying with them to ensure they dared not venture out.
In the city and aboard the ship, humans were bold enough to attack and kill the lower-capability Demonic Beasts for food.
This was a challenge to the diversity within their space.
Previously united by a spirit of solidarity, the lower-capability beings sought the help of the more powerful ones, demanding the Human residents of the city treasure and those aboard the ship be punished severely.
The requests of these lesser Demonic Beasts, as creatures of might, they spent their days absorbing mana from the air for cultivation, basking in the sun, and occasionally preying on smaller animals for food.
However, they mostly fished in the rivers; although fish were not their kin, their taste would become tiresome after indulging too often in seafood.
In the space, countless Demonic Beasts thrived, and the lesser, rapidly breeding ones sated their appetites.
Among them were rabbits, horses, cattle, donkeys, pigs, camels, giraffes, wild fowl, dogs, cats, monkeys—the frequently bullied species whose rapid breeding was an asset.
They were the primary targets of the superior Demonic Beasts’ harassment and now served as mere toothpicks to them.
Later additions included foreign monkeys protected by their kin, whom other Demonic Beasts dared not touch in the space.
From time to time, the Hell Palace Artifact Spirit would bring dragons from outside for them to watch the battles and be entertained.
Now the Artifact Spirit had brought back a Western Wolf who had looked down on their Eastern wolves, inciting the Demonic Beasts in the space to feel there was fun to be had.
Even if the wolves couldn’t kill the Western Wolf, they would take their turn for sport, all to refute that claim by the Western Demonic Beasts—and even by this ignorant demon—that they were foolish and inferior.
“Let it learn how fast it dies based on how smart it thinks it is!”
The Western Demon Wolf yelped like a dog as it was chased, its plight growing ever more miserable.
Surrounded wherever it went by thousands of Demon Beasts, it faced an onslaughts that could overwhelm even the mightiest, as ants could wear down an elephant.
The Western Demon King was now paying the price for saying the Eastern Demon King was foolish and of lesser capability.
Jiang Tang left the Western Demon King to the Hell Palace Artifact Spirit, not concerned whether it lived or died or if it could provide useful information.
At the moment, he was preoccupied with searching for the humans who had vanished from this small town.
On the surface, the houses offered no insights or secrets, nor could any sign of people be found underground in the town.
After the Wolf Demons were dealt with, the entire town fell into an eerie silence.
As Jiang Tang retracted his light shield, the once opulent houses reverted to a state of disrepair and lost their newness.
Jiang Tang speculated the original newness of the houses could have been a transformation spell of the wolf pack, turning the dilapidated buildings into luxurious ones, simply creating an illusion for humans; perhaps others saw through the deception.
The worn-out houses remained, but their return to their original state saw the disappearance of the humans who had once lived there.
The town became deserted, with snow continuing to fall, growing thicker as no one cleared it from roofs that looked ready to collapse.
Jiang Tang, unwilling to let returning humans find only ruins, took pity on them.
Construction was difficult enough for ordinary humans, whether due to the materials or the finances.
In the midst of swirling snow, a lack of shelter would freeze people to death.
Moved by compassion, Jiang Tang cast a spell to cover the airspace above the town, like a vast umbrella shielding it from snow so that not a flake could fall upon it.
Bathed in gentle sunlight, translucent as the barrier was, the accumulation of ice and snow began to melt as the temperature increased.
Should anyone pass by or return to this place, they would find it unexpectedly warm amid the freezing winter.