"You want me to spell the consequences out to you? Why should I do it just because you tell me to? Are you too stupid to think for yourself, Helcan?" Hecate insulted before stating, "I will only give you two words – Soul Master."
"Try figuring out the consequences with that pig-sized brain of yours," Hecate coldly added.
"You—!" Helcan glared back at Hecate furiously.
However, he was immediately forced to quell his anger when he heard Thanatos tap the stone table with his bone finger.
"So the culprit is a Soul Master?" Balmodan uttered before admitting, "That certainly changes some things, but not by much."
"Even if the culprit is a Soul Master, they shouldn't be that strong if they need you to assist them in killing Abaddon. We only need two or more Great Devils to join hands to remove this threat before it is given a chance to grow further."
"A Soul Master that has yet to spread their wings is not a huge problem. At the very least, we still have the power to remove this threat," Balmodan stated.
Hecate suddenly laughed before snickering coldly, "The words of the ignorant. Little Bal, you better sit back quietly and let the adults talk."
Balmodan's face darkened immediately.
Just because he was the youngest Great Devil in the group, it didn't mean others could disrespect him.
After all, his true age wasn't necessarily any less than the eldest Great Devil, Thanatos.
To refine the Evil Wolf God's divine power in the shortest time, he had spent roughly 600,000 years practicing in a temporal space relic, which equaled 6,000 years in reality.
Unfortunately, it was a low-grade temporal space relic with distorted laws. As such, it did not help him comprehend laws, only granting him a lot of time to train the body.
"Quiet down, Balmodan. You have barely stepped out of Gehenna, so there are a lot of things that you don't know," Thanatos calmly stated before saying, "New Soul Masters aren't much of a concern, but the forces that back them definitely are."
"The Soul Master has a strong backer? How is that possible?" Balmodan frowned, wondering how the rat slipped past Gehenna to find themself a powerful backer.
However, his thinking was flawed.
After all, how could the person have entered Chaos to find a strong backer even though he had barely explored himself? Was it that easy to find oneself a strong backer?
Unless one had a high-ranking magic vessel or used long-distance star arrays, stellar travel simply took too much time, even for Rank 6 Divine Beings, let alone anything weaker than it.
"Why can't it be possible? The Soul Master doesn't even need to be aware of it," Thanatos casually said.
"As long as one is a confirmed Soul Master, one will have the backing of the Soul Master Association, with or without their knowledge. Furthermore, the Soul Master Association is very protective of its own."
"As such, killing a Soul Master would spell disaster if the Soul Master Association learns of it. Gehenna disappearing from existence could very well be the final outcome if we commit the crime and the Soul Master Association learns of it," Thanatos stated.
"What the hell is the Soul Master Association? Can it be more powerful than the Skymagia Star Kingdom? It can't just arbitrarily destroy another star country's vassal realm, can it?" Balmodan frowned.
"Pft!" Hecate couldn't help but laugh at Balmodan's ignorance before commenting with ridicule, "What the hell does a mere Skymagia Star Kingdom amount to compared to the Soul Master Association? Do you even understand what a whole group of Soul Masters represents, Little Bal?"
"The Soul Master Association is not a star country, but it is indeed more powerful than the Skymagia Star Kingdom," Astarte explained solemnly.
"The Skymagia Star Kingdom can only be considered a large star kingdom with small influence within the Eternal Darkheaven Sector. On the other hand, the Soul Master Association is a small group with huge influence, spanning countless Chaosverses."
"Based on that magnitude, you can guess how powerful the Soul Master Association is, Balmodan," Astarte said.
Balmodan's jaw dropped with wide eyes.
After listening to Astarte's explanation, he realized how foolish his question was. It was also no wonder that Hecate laughed at him.
If the Soul Master Association's influence truly was so widespread that it stretched across countless Chaosverses, then it must have many Empyrean-level powerhouses! Those were the strongest beings under the heavens!
On the other hand, the Skymagia Star Kingdom might not even have more than one Rank 8 Divine Being…
There was truly no comparison between them! The difference between an ant and an elephant was very clear!
However, Balmodan also noticed a problem.
"No matter how influential and powerful the Soul Master Association is, it has nothing to do with us if they are so high up that we can't reach them," Balmodan frowned.
"If there's no way to contact them, that also means the chance of them finding out we killed a Soul Master would become non-
existent. Furthermore, a feud between Gehenna and Pangea has already been made."
"That Soul Master won't leave us alone once they have the strength to step on our heads. If we waste too much time thinking, we might not even get the chance to decide later!" Balmodan stressed.
His territory had the most contact with Pangea and also incurred the most hate for his past invasion.
As such, if the Soul Master was allowed to grow, wouldn't he be the first to die?
"Little Bal, you speak a lot of sense," Hecate acknowledged before claiming, "However, you missed one major variable."
"What variable?" Balmodan frowned.
"Me," Hecate coolly stated before saying, "I want to protect that Soul Master. Do you dare to defy my wish?"
"Even if I do, what can you do, Hecate? Do you think you can stop us if we all choose to eliminate that Soul Master?" Balmodan retorted.
Hecate surprisingly chuckled as she acknowledged, "Naturally, I can't stop everyone from going down this path."
"But if you do force yourself down this path, I can't promise that the Skymagia Star Kingdom won't suddenly visit Gehenna to conscript its elite into its Realm War with the Divinesun Star Kingdom."
Although Hecate spoke casually, her threat rang like thunder in their ears. The area immediately became dead silent.