This lich needs more money.

Chapter 537 This is Hell

Blood River Fortress, a huge fortress as large as a small kingdom.

No one could count the number of demons in this fortress, just as no one could count the number of demons that died outside the fortress.

Every corner of the city wall has been covered with corpses and flesh, and has grown with all kinds of evil flesh tumors, making it impossible to recognize its original appearance.

And these flesh and blood tumors are neither devils nor demons, but hybrid demons formed by the flesh and blood of both.

Any creature that approaches these tumors faces a lottery, perhaps a highly venomous substance that explodes at the touch, a mouth full of sharp teeth, or tentacles with barbs and suction cups.

No matter you are a demon, a devil, or anything else, these evil creatures slaughter any kind of life equally. Even Zariel himself will be attacked by these monsters.

However, these evil creatures ultimately contribute more to the devil, because the devil needs to defend the Blood River Fortress, and the demons have to invest a lot of blood and flesh every day to feed these monsters, so that they can have a chance to see what the fortress looks like.

The devils only need to clean up these disgusting monsters that climb up to the top of the city regularly.

Most demons can only watch the outline of the Blood River Fortress from afar throughout their lives. Until they die, if they are lucky, a piece of their soul fragment will fall into the fortress, and then be picked up with disdain by the little cowardly demon guarding the city inside and stuffed into its mouth with disgust.

However, the most lively place in the Blood River Fortress is not the city wall that is always under attack, but the Merit Square at the innermost part.

This is a place that demons love and hate, because as long as you kill enough demons, you will get all the rewards here.

Melina brought her two subordinates, Cambian and Monica, to this magnificent fortress.

Originally, ordinary Hell Lords were not qualified to teleport directly to the Blood River Fortress. Only when the Blood River Fortress was opened regularly could those Hell Lords who owned territories be teleported here through a special teleportation array.

On the surface, it was to prevent the demons from exploiting loopholes to teleport into the interior of the Blood River Fortress, but all the lords of Hell felt that this was the Blood River Fortress looking for an excuse to reap their gains.

You know, every time the teleportation permission is opened, the lords need to pay a large amount of soul coins to teleport directly. It cost Melina and the other two 30,000 soul coins to teleport to the Blood River Fortress.

The lustful Monica was still heartbroken over the money. You have to know that her own territory only had 100,000 soul coins, and the teleportation fee alone was 30,000. This made her feel like the sky was falling. This new master was very powerful, but he didn't seem very smart. He couldn't even do the most basic calculations.

Monica couldn't help but say, "Master, there's no need for us to spend this kind of money. The demons we caught sporadically these days are not worth the merit of 30,000 soul coins."

Melina said in surprise: "How could it be, isn't it possible that any Balor Flame Demon is worth a thousand?"

Melina came to redeem merits this time because of Amber's request. The Blood River Fortress suddenly opened up for teleportation ahead of schedule because Amber was looking for an excuse to instigate Zariel, saying that it was to let these lords of hell spend money first, and then the bank's loans would be easier to release.

Zariel didn't feel there was anything wrong. Since Mammon thought there was nothing wrong with doing so, he decisively opened up the teleportation rights to Blood River Fortress.

No one knew how many demon corpses Amber sent to Melina, but Melina also needed to play the whole game, so she organized her subordinates to go to the edge of the Blood River battlefield to capture some lone demons and gathered demon corpses from a few warehouses. She thought it was almost done, so she sent them over.

Then Monica said that this amount of stuff wasn’t even enough to cover the shipping fee?
That's not right. The Blood River Fortress doesn't have a clear price tag. The prices for demon corpses are calculated based on type, part and weight. It's all clearly written.

Melina was about to ask, but Monica pointed to a registration office not far away.

On the bloody and heavy scale was a thick arm, which was obviously taken from the powerful Balrog.

A scarred Cambion was standing in front of the scale, waiting for his merits to be calculated.

It was clear at first glance that he was not some Hell Lord, but a stragglers fighting on the Blood River battlefield. It was unknown whether he had picked up or robbed this arm, or whether he had just encountered a seriously injured Balor. It was unknown how much effort he had put into getting to the Blood River Fortress, but in any case, this Balor arm was enough for him to make a small fortune.

The reward of thirty or forty soul coins was enough to transform this Cambion. He couldn't get a territory in return, but it should be enough to get a good set of magic equipment. However, the little coward in charge of registration casually wrote in the merit book: "The broken claw of a hellhound, the forelimb is not intact, and the weight is less than one kilogram..."

Cerberus, the price of this is more than ten times that of Balrog!
The young Cambion said angrily: "Are you blind? This is the arm of the Balrog, and such a complete arm only weighs one kilogram?! It is dozens of times heavier than your rib-like body!"

But as soon as he said this, the seemingly insignificant little coward pulled out his whip and hit Cambion hard.

After a scream, Cambion's arm was broken at the shoulder by the whip.

Cambion didn't expect that his arm would be torn off by a little coward. Isn't this the weakest devil in hell?

The little coward in charge of recording casually added the broken arm and said, "Well, now it's one kilogram."

After saying this, the little coward threw a few soul fragments at random, and then kicked the half-dead Cambion away.

As for the arm of the Balrog, it will fall through the mechanism under the scale and will be directly sent for harmless disposal.

Despite such blatant deductions, none of the devils around objected, as if they had become accustomed to it.

Monica then said to Melina, "Master, how can we trust the devil's contract? In this Blood River Fortress, even if you can move Demogorgon's body, they will dare to say that it is an illusion of the hell worm. The devil's greed is endless."

This situation is also the reason why Monica thinks that this merit exchange will definitely be a loss. Most of the Hell Lords only come here when they need to acquire a territory. Even if they are cheated to death, they still have to get the territory rights, so they bear the pain of being cut by the Blood River Fortress. When they become Hell Lords, they will mainly manage their own territories and rarely come to the Blood River Fortress to exchange.

The devil here is too evil, and with Zariel backing the Grand Duke, there is no way for others to rob him.

This deeply shocked Melina, who was less than two years old. Is this hell? It is even crueler than the world of the dead.

Just as Melina showed a surprised expression, an undisguised sneer came from the side.

"Where did this idiot undead come from? How dare you run to the Blood River Fortress? How stupid are you two to be enslaved by such an outsider? Why don't you come with me? Oh, forget about Cambion, but you, a lust demon, are still useful."

Melina turned her head and saw that it was a spider-like drow.

Many of the sinful souls that fell into hell would retain their previous forms and then be reshaped in hell. Therefore, creatures from various other planes can be seen among the devils in hell, but the abyss demon race is more uniform.

This spider drow was about the same size as Monica, with a lot of dark red magic patterns on his body. He probably betrayed Rose Spider Queen and fell into Hell, otherwise spider drow rarely appear in Hell. And this traitor could escape Rose's punishment, so he must have some skills.

Monica whispered to Melina, "This spider-like drow is not easy to deal with, Master, let's hide from it."

The main reason was that the spider drow had brought a lot of devils with him, more than a dozen of them. How expensive was the teleportation to Blood River Fortress? The fact that he could bring so many people meant that he was very rich. In hell, being rich meant being powerful.

Melina curiously asked Monica, "Can we fight in Blood River Fortress?"

Monica suddenly became nervous and was about to persuade them, but Kambien at the side said first: "It can be resolved within a minute. If it takes more than a minute, the fortress guards will intervene, and no matter who wins or loses, they will all be arrested and punished."

"Within a minute?" Melina asked again, "No matter if he lives or dies?"

"It doesn't matter if you live or die, but if you die you have to pay for the disposal of the body," said Kambian.

Melina turned her head and said to the spider-like drow: "Kneel down, or die!"

Cambion sneered at the arrogant spider-like drow and said, "If you discriminate against Cambion, this guy is dead!"
(End of this chapter)