Please be my partner.

Melen held the little guy and looked at him carefully. He could see that a second cage had appeared in the [Blood Prison] inside the latter's body, and Cruzerei was imprisoned inside.

Melen opened the Little Red Lotus's attribute panel...

【Name】：Red Lotus

[Race]: Bloodhound (Dark Orange King)

[Racial Level]: Level 5 (Saint)

[Racial Skills]: Innate Blood, Blood Bond, Scarlet World

[Evolution Chain (Locked)]: → Blood Hell Hound (???)

[Status]: Blood Prison in the making (11.9%)

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The gestation status of [Blood Prison] directly increased from 4.6% to 11.9%, an increase of 7.3%.

But this is normal, Cruzerai is much stronger than the blood demon back then.

After imprisoning Cruzerei in the [Blood Prison], it was equivalent to Xiao Honglian gaining everything from him, so...

Melen looked at the vampires in the Eternal Night Castle, and a pressure that truly belonged to the source of the Garces family's bloodline spread out. The vampires' minds suddenly went blank, and when they reacted, they had already knelt on the ground devoutly, and their eyes looking at Melen were full of respect and fanaticism.

Mellen curled his lips. In the final analysis, the only ones who truly benefit from this so-called vampire system are the small group of people who stand at the top, and the rest are just slaves.

Ignoring the vampires kneeling on the ground, Melen slowly walked into the palace of Evernight Castle, came to the throne and sat down without hesitation.

Soon, three figures appeared one after another. They were the three vampire marquises who had escaped before.

Since Xiao Honglian had obtained everything from Cruzerai, naturally this also included absolute control over his direct descendants. With one order, the three vampire marquises had no choice but to return obediently.

Mellen looked at the three vampire marquises as if they were three lambs to be slaughtered.

The vampire marquises naturally felt Mellen's gaze and their bodies instinctively trembled. If Mellen really wanted to do something to them, they would have no choice but to submit to death.

After a moment, Mellen withdrew his gaze. He was thinking that if he handed all three vampire marquises in front of him to Xiao Honglian for imprisonment, he wondered how much the [Blood Prison] could be improved.

But after thinking about it, he decided to forget about it for now. Melen wanted to control the power left by Cruzerai so as to carry out the next plan. These three vampire marquises would be good tools.

After a brief explanation, Melen sent the three vampire marquises away. Only then did he have time to sort out Cruzerai's memories.

Cruzerai was born in a world ruled by vampires. One can imagine how old and corrupt this world is. Except for the six vampire gods (demigods) who are truly at the top, each class has its own rules.

Cruzere was born into a middle-class vampire clan, whose head was a marquis. Although Cruzere was born a member of the nobility, that was all.

A lot of things happened during Cruzere's growth, of course, they were nothing more than some melodramatic stories of love, hate, and vengeance.

He fell in love with a noble lady from one of the Thirteen Clans, but the result of this was that the noble lady's fiancé, another young master from the Thirteen Clans, made the entire clan kneel down and apologize with just one sentence, completely trampling on their dignity.

The careless attitude of the superiors deeply hurt Cruzere. Since then, Cruzere has spared no effort to improve his own strength, and is even willing to collude with the demons in the abyss.

The final result was naturally that Cruzerei was contaminated by the power of the abyss and degenerated into a demon. He simply betrayed his family, fled the vampire world, came to the bottomless abyss to develop, and gradually built the current Garces family.

Seeing this, Melen's eyes flickered slightly. He was somewhat interested in the so-called world of the vampires. Xiao Honglian's [Blood Prison] was still far from perfect. If only there were more vampire saints...

Melen shook his head and suppressed this tempting idea for the time being. There were six blood clan gods in the blood clan world, and the thirteen clans as the ruling class should not be underestimated. It was not something Melen could plan for now.

Melen quickly flipped through Cruzerai's memories and soon found the part that interested him...

The secret treasure of rules [Holy Temple] is a treasure that can strengthen the concept of all "realms". At the same time, it can also integrate different "realms" and bring out the power of one plus one greater than two.

For example, if you place the [Holy Temple] into the world, the barriers of the world will be strengthened.

If a saint carries it, his own sanctuary will be strengthened, and all powers related to the concept of "realm" will also be strengthened, such as the concept of "world" that Spike's body carries.

The [Holy Temple] suddenly appeared in the 632nd layer of the abyss world. The first person to discover it was Marcus. Unfortunately, the [Holy Temple] seemed to have established a connection with the entire 632nd layer of the abyss world. Unless one has the complete authority of the 632nd layer of the abyss world, it cannot be moved at all.

So after a while, the other two lords of the 632nd level of the abyss world naturally discovered the [Holy Temple].

Since then, the three demon lords have formed an unstable balance. They all want to defeat the other two lords to monopolize the authority and rules of the 632nd layer of the abyss world, but when they encounter powerful outsiders, they are forced to join forces to fight the enemy.

Although the three demon lords are not very strong, they cannot fight against overly powerful enemies without complete authority.

However, the [Holy Temple] can temporarily merge the powers of their respective lords. In this way, even if the 632nd layer of the abyss world is invaded by a powerful demon above the demigod level, it can be repelled.

After Mellen got this information, the originally vague plan gradually became clear, and only some details needed to be improved.

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The changes in Evernight Castle naturally alarmed the other two demon lords, but when they sent their spies over, the news they received was that everything was calm and Evernight Castle was as usual.

Finally, the two demon lords came to the conclusion that a powerful person must have attacked Evernight Castle, but was dealt with by Cruzerai.

The two demon lords each had their own thoughts and spontaneously sent out invitations to meet.

After some communication, they finally decided to meet at Molten Gorge, which is also the location of the Sacred Temple.

Melen sent away the vampire who delivered the message, a smile on his face. The drama he had prepared was about to begin.

Five days later, Molten Gorge.

Molten Gorge is not a strategic location, but a large number of demon legions of the three demon lords are stationed here. In name, they are here to protect the [Holy Temple], but in reality, they are here to restrain each other and prevent the other two parties from doing anything tricky.

At this time, Melen arrived at the outskirts of Molten Canyon as agreed. Following him were not only three vampire marquises, but also a large number of blood nobles and elite blood warriors. It was no exaggeration to say that they came out in full force.

After signaling others to stop, Mellen slowly walked towards the Molten Canyon. At this time, he could already sense the special aura that belonged only to the secret treasure of rules.

It is worth mentioning that rule treasures are different from artifacts and semi-artifacts, which are extraordinary things created after birth. Instead, they are treasures born from the beginning, more like godsends like the fairy tale kingdom, but they are of a higher level and often have unique abilities that override the rules.

The weakest rule treasure is at the semi-artifact level, and the stronger ones can even be comparable to artifacts. Of course, the latter are extremely rare.

Gradually, the [Holy Temple] appeared in front of Mellen. It was a ball of soft light, in which floated a shadow that looked like a palace and a fortress.

Of course, these images are not the physical entities of the [Holy Temple], but rather the manifestation of its concept after being concretized.

Melen's eyes lit up slightly.

Suddenly, a majestic, powerful, and wild aura swept across from the right front of Melen. The sky there became overcast with dark clouds, and waves of fire rolled in the clouds, reflecting the sky in a fiery red. Lava flowed on the earth, and a tall figure came bathed in flames.

In the front left, a cold breath that penetrated into the bone marrow spread silently like mercury pouring on the ground. The earth seemed to be covered with a layer of frost, and a figure shrouded in a dark curtain walked towards them.

Feeling the pressure of the two auras, Melen's mouth curled up, realizing that the other two demon lords were testing him, or testing Cruzerai, to see if the latter was injured or weakened after the previous incident.

That being the case...

Melen raised his chin slightly, and a blood mist billowed into the sky, unceremoniously dyeing the sky and the earth blood-red. This was the mobilization of the lord's power that originally belonged to Cruzerei.

The three powers entangled and confronted each other, and the power of the entire 632-layer abyss world began to converge towards the Molten Canyon.

Fire, frost, blood.

At this moment, the world was divided into three distinct parts.

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The turmoil lasted for more than ten minutes before slowly subsiding.

The three of them advanced slowly, and soon they arrived near the [Holy Temple] and each occupied one side.

Melen looked to his right, where he saw a majestic Balor Flame Demon. He had an arrogant and domineering aura, and looked down upon the other two people.

Looking to the left again, there was a figure shrouded in a black curtain. The black curtain was like a black hole, blocking all light and shadow, and preventing any detection capabilities from intervening.

At this time, Melen naturally did not show his true face, but transformed into the appearance of Cruzere. Although he was ready to take action today, he did not want to alert the enemy in advance and lose the advantage of the first move.

After the three of them stood still, Mellen took the initiative to ask, "Tell me, what is the purpose of this meeting?"

The Balrog, the Fire Demon Giorgos, laughed wildly and said, "I've been entangled with you two little bugs for so long, I'm tired of it. I called you here today to issue an ultimatum. Either surrender obediently or die!"

Giorgos adhered to his usual style of doing things and had no intention of communicating or negotiating at all. He asked the other two lords to make a choice right away.

Marcus remained calm and didn't seem to want to answer.

Melen snorted coldly, imitating Cruzerai's tone and mocking him, "Giorgos, are you confused after sleeping? Or did those succubi suck your brains out? Why are you talking nonsense in broad daylight?!"

Giorgos's eyes turned cold, and he drew out the flaming whip from his waist and swung it at Melen.

“Whoosh!~”

Mellen flashed and retreated several meters, just avoiding the attack of the flaming whip, which only dispersed a residual image.

With his other hand, Giorgos drew out a beheading sword that was burning with flames, and turned it into a flaming meteor and rushed towards Meren.

Melen's mouth twitched. Although he'd already known Giorgos was a dangerous lunatic in Cruzeray, he'd still been a bit surprised by his madness. Was he really just going to start fighting over a disagreement?! Shouldn't he have negotiated a few more times to save some words?!

"Boom!~"

After taking Giorgos's sword head-on, Melen looked a little embarrassed. In terms of absolute strength, the former was the strongest among the three demon lords, and he also occupied the largest territory.

Melen looked at Marcus and found that the latter was indifferent. He couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart. This was not what he had planned before.

Is this just a test? Or have they reached a new agreement?

Because of Giorgos's strength, Cruzerai and Marcus usually team up to fight against the former, and it is precisely because of this that the three can maintain a fragile balance.

If it were in the past, if Giorgos attacked one of the parties, the other party would definitely provide support immediately, because they all understood that if Giorgos got rid of one of them, the other party would definitely not have a good ending. This was something that was easily foreseeable.

After fighting with Giorgos for a while, Melen couldn't help but shout, "Marcus, what are you waiting for?!"

Following Melen's call, Marcus finally took action. He stretched out his hand and released a ray of cold air that directly enveloped Melen and Giorgos.

Giorgos stopped attacking and Melen took the opportunity to retreat a distance.

Marcus said, "Giorgos, what do you want?"

The hellfire burning in Giorgos' body didn't die down, but instead became even more intense. He sneered and said, "Isn't what I said clear enough? Surrender, or die!"

Marcus said, "So there's no room for negotiation? Or do you really think you can handle both of us at the same time?!"

Giorgos grinned grimly and said nothing more, but swung out the flaming whip.

"Boom!~"

Marcus dodged the attack like a ghost, while the cold air surged and cooled the spreading lava.

At this point, the three parties had nothing left to talk about, and the only option left was war!

Giorgos still seemed to be at ease dealing with Melen and Marcus at the same time, and was on the offensive most of the time.

Marcus's figure moved around like a ghost, and with the natural restraint of the power of ice on fire, his defense was impenetrable.

Although Melen is the 'weakest', he can also serve as the last straw, distracting Giorgos's attention and giving Marcus a chance to breathe.

In their battle, they tacitly agreed not to use the power of the abyss, but simply used the power of their bodies. Even so, the entire Molten Canyon became unrecognizable in a short period of time.

However, no matter how fierce their battle was, the [Holy Temple] was not affected at all.

The battle lasted for an unknown amount of time before Marcus finally couldn't help but say, "Giorgos, enough of that! You should know this is pointless!"

"No point?!" Giorgos' smile widened as he said, "How could it be meaningless? Hahahaha!"

Marcus paused and said, "You..."

At this moment, Melen's face changed, and the black curtain outside Marcus' body also began to ripple. They both felt that their territory was under attack.

Logically speaking, although Giorgos has a powerful demon army under his command, in terms of overall strength, it is still slightly inferior to the combined forces of Cruzerai and Marcus. Attacking both of them at the same time is definitely not a good choice.

But, looking at Giorgos's confident look, the answer seemed to be obvious.

Marcus said firmly, "Giorgos, you actually hired foreign aid? Aren't you afraid that you'll be wiped out in the end?!"

The overall strength of the 632nd level abyss world is actually quite good. If the final winner can be determined, not only can he possess the power of a demigod with the authority of the abyss, but he can also obtain a secret treasure of rules.

In this situation, they still have the confidence to get involved and take advantage of the situation. The strength and influence of outsiders can be imagined. Giorgos's cooperation with the other party is undoubtedly courting disaster.

Giorgos's eyes were filled with arrogance and possessiveness, and he said meaningfully, "I will naturally get everything I want!"

"You two little bugs still have the mood to think about this now? I'm giving you one last chance. Surrender? Or die?!"

After a moment's silence, Marcus suddenly chuckled and said, "The third time? Giorgos, that's not your character! Or are you also anxious about those outsiders who helped you, so you want to get rid of us as soon as possible?!"

As he spoke, Melen could feel Marcus's gaze flickering towards him.

Melen immediately understood that Marcus' words were mainly meant for him, so that he would not misjudge the situation and make the foolish move of changing sides at the last minute.

Giorgos was the first to use the power of the abyss. The aura on his body rose steadily, and in an instant he reached the pinnacle of the Saint level. The sky was surrounded by flames, and lava was boiling on the ground. Giorgos stood between heaven and earth, and his figure seemed to rise infinitely.

Melen and Marcus also activated the power of the abyss without showing any weakness. The power of blood and frost filled the air. Although it was somewhat out of place, it was fighting against the power of fire at the same time.

At this point, the three demon lords displayed their full strength, and the entire 632nd level of the abyss world was ignited by war.

At the border of the territory, the demon army belonging to Giorgos launched an attack on the other two parties.