Chapter 329: Turning Against Them

The energy released by the spell vanished just as quickly as it appeared. After the storm ended, Donald also felt a sense of fear. “Fortunately, I hadn’t saved the divine power used to exchange for legendary items and prepared three Resurrection Crosses for myself. Otherwise, even if I hadn’t died, I would have been injured in their counterattack and unable to fight!”

The Legendary Deceiver, which had sensed something unusual about the opponent, quickly figured out what was going on. “I see now—you have a substitute device that can transfer damage…”

As it spoke, the Legendary Deceiver’s body turned gray and it began to lose much of its vitality. Although it had prepared defenses, including a shield and several summoned demons that shared some of the damage, the amount inflicted was enough to kill it more than twice! What remained was enough to kill Baldon outright.

“Be careful, An…”

Its last glance was directed at the Semi-Divine Abyssal Demon Forger. From the latter’s eyes, Amps could tell that Baldon had finally realized its betrayal at the moment of death, but it was too late to warn Anak, who was still fighting.

Donald simply activated the barrier created by the Power of the Book of Truth, watched the Legendary Deceiver die, and immediately retrieved its body to prevent its soul from being drawn into the divine realm by the power of its faith deity.

Unlike the Legendary Tempter, whose faith had waned before, the Legendary Deceiver, being a fanatic, was so closely aligned with its deity that its soul was second only to that of a Holy Spirit—plus, it was a legendary-level soul. If taken by a deity, it could instantly revive in the divine realm and become a legendary Holy Spirit! This was something Donald did not want to happen.

Moreover, he didn’t go out of its way to drain its power before it died.

To be honest, Baldon’s domain ability was indeed valuable, but Donald already possessed a similar ability in the form of the Thorn Halo, a natural power that suited him better. Thus, he didn’t see much value in the Legendary Deceiver’s talent.

Additionally, Baldon came from a lowly background. Unless someone had exceptional talent, Donald didn’t pay attention to those low- to mid-level demons. Even if they had legendary-level power without any additional traits, they weren’t worth hunting.

Besides, the power of the legendary Demon of Temptation from the last time hadn’t been fully absorbed yet. Donald knew he could at most draw in the power of one more legendary demon at this point; otherwise, even his already half-divinized, formidable body would be torn apart by the fierce demonic power. That would be nothing but seeking death out of sheer recklessness!
Even if the Book of Truth could protect his soul and divinity and reshape his body, he still didn’t want to go through the experience of dying from his own overwhelming strength!
So, this remaining chance naturally had to be reserved for the more promising Legendary Soul Judger, Anak!
The Legendary Soul Judger had witnessed what was happening with Bardon, but its crude mind failed to understand Bardon’s words on his deathbed. Seeing the usually cunning Legendary Deceiver die like this—though it was due to its own weaknesses—after fighting for so long and still being able to hold its own against it, it now realized that among the three, Eschbachel, with the strongest magical abilities and powerful spells like wish magic that could change rules, was the best at escaping. It now understood why it had died at the hands of those seemingly fragile humans earlier.
With this thought, Anak finally felt fear and shouted at Amps, who was still pretending to fight over there.
“Amps, quickly summon your subordinates to hold off for us!”
What he meant was that they needed to prepare to escape.
Higher demons generally possessed the spell-like ability to summon their kind, but they usually didn’t use it casually, as there had never been peace among demons, and their nature couldn’t be understood by ordinary logic. If the summoned ones didn’t help but instead became enemies, it would be self-sabotage!
Unless they could ensure the summoned demons shared their interests, they wouldn’t summon any to cover for them. After all, it was better if those summoned demons stayed idle; it wasn’t uncommon for them to turn against their summoner or compete for spoils.
Amps also seemed scared, frantically pushing back attacks from others as he rushed toward the Legendary Soul Judger.
After the two demons joined forces, Anak felt much more at ease. It prepared to work with Amps’ projection to fight against these human insects, while also scheming to have Amps take the blame for it. After all, its true body was still in the abyss, so losing a projection would mean losing at most one-tenth of its strength!
It was better than dying itself, right?

Demons, by nature selfish, would never consider the well-being of other demons. Even if the Legendary Soul Judge intended to use Amps’ power to escape, it wouldn’t feel any gratitude toward him, let alone feel obliged to repay or feel guilty! How could Amps, a demi-god demon that had spent nearly a thousand years rising and falling in the abyss, not see through Anak’s plans? Only his own motives were slightly more sinister than Anak’s. So when the Legendary Soul Judge used himself to hold off the enemy and tried to withdraw, Amps, who had turned his back on him, suddenly thrust a sword out from beneath his ribs, severing half of the Legendary Soul Judge’s wings as he couldn’t dodge in time. “Ah—Amps, what are you doing?” the Legendary Soul Judge cried out in pain and fury. Though Anak’s small wings seemed useless, like mere decorations, those who understood the existence of abyssal creatures like Soul Judges knew they were sufficient to enable them to fly with their massive bodies, and they allowed for great agility—making them the main auxiliary limbs for aerial combat. Destroying these wings meant undermining one of the Soul Judge’s greatest advantages in aerial combat, reducing its strength by a third. Indeed, without those demonic wings, the Legendary Soul Judge’s agility dropped significantly, forcing it to rely solely on its own powerful magical and supernatural abilities to fight. Thus, Amps’ surprise attack instantly changed the course of the battle. All the human warriors, including the demi-god demon projection, moved in perfect coordination as if they had practiced many times before, surrounding Anak in a battle circle. Several mages responsible for support even used abilities like dimensional anchors to restrict space and prevent the Legendary Soul Judge from escaping. With a fierce expression, Anak roared at the demi-god abyssal demon: “Amps, have you betrayed the great goddess? Aren’t you afraid of the most terrifying punishment from Her Majesty?” Hearing this, Amps sneered at the struggling Legendary Soul Judge and said, “I’ve had enough of that perverted bitch Flora tormenting me. Now that I’ve found a way to escape, what am I afraid of her? As long as I stay in the main world, no matter how powerful Flora’s divine forces are, what can she do to me?”