I, The Dragon Overlord Chapter 563 - The Pain of the Succubus Queen

The 570th level of the Abyss, Shendilavri, was the territory of the Succubus Queen Melcanthet. In the past, although the demon lords of the Abyss constantly fought between themselves, these conflicts were limited to small skirmishes, and no large-scale wars of extermination occurred.

Demons were notoriously fickle creatures whose oaths had no credibility. The real master of the demons was the Abyssal Will. But even the Abyssal Will had no ability to enforce contracts or create them.

Demons were immune to breaking most oaths. It could be said that unless a demon swore to a true god’s divine fire, an oath could never be formed between them. Even if that were the case, there would always be stupid people in the world who would believe in a demon’s oath, thus having their souls taken away.

It was because of this chaotic nature of demons that they were in constant conflict with one another. Nonetheless, these rarely escalated unless one side had an overwhelming advantage against the other.

If two demon lords carried out this kind of war and used up all their resources, none of them would become the ultimate winners. As long as a demon lord’s power plummeted and the number of demons in their territory reduced significantly, they would become the targets of countless other demon lords. In the Abyss, this meant certain death.

During the era of the gods, there were demon princes who were a lot stronger than demon lords, but even if they were stronger, they were unable to conquer the entire Abyss. The most they could do was rule several layers of the Abyss. Any time they showed weakness, countless demon lords would definitely rebel and covet the title of the ‘prince’.

This was the norm in the Abyss, and Melcanthet thought that this norm would last forever, but she never expected that outsiders would change it.

“Aaaaaaaahhhhhhh—”

Ordinarily weak and timid demons such as dretches, quasits, and bebiliths, and powerful demons such as nalfeshnees, mariliths, and balor demons were frantically fighting the army of gargoyles

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