Chapter 270
"In some cases, the demon lord won’t mind, as their layer is hospitable to visitors and known across many realms where you can trade for knowledge or anything else with other civilizations working together with the abyss lord," Zarvok explained.
Ikenga’s interest was piqued. "How do you find such an abyss layer?"
"As I said before, luck—or, in most cases, prior knowledge of the layer and its abyss coordinates, which allows you to go there directly," Zarvok said as he reached for another fruit.
"If the abyss is so helpful to first-time visitors, why do so many still fear visiting it?" Ikenga asked.
Zarvok paused at Ikenga’s question. "The abyss doesn’t exactly help its first visitors. It only places them in a layer where it’s easier to achieve their goals. Whether the goal is achieved or not depends entirely on the visitor, not the abyss."
"In the other scenarios I mentioned, everything depends heavily on luck and the knowledge you have about the layer you’re visiting. As an origin god, if you land in an abyss layer with a demon lord, death would be the least of your concerns. Your status is known, and death would do little to harm you, so you could be held captive indefinitely by the abyss lord, who would use every method possible to discover your world’s coordinates."
"As for ordinary ascended gods, their fate is pretty much sealed. They might be taken as slaves, servants, or killed, leaving behind a godhead that contains their world’s coordinates," Zarvok said with a smirk and an anticipatory look on his face.
"Killing gods? Aren’t you afraid of ’Order’?" Ikenga asked. The demon stopped to look at him before laughing.
Finally catching his breath, Zarvok replied, "We demons aren’t afraid of ’Order,’ as they have no power over us. We can only be judged by the opposite force."