Mythology: Ragnarok

Chapter 270 Battle Against the Entire Hell

Mammon hurriedly activated his sin of greed to resist, but to his utter surprise, he could not break free from Lucifer's restraints. His strength had always been on par with Lucifer's, and Mammon simply couldn't understand how Lucifer had suddenly become so powerful.

Lucifer, of course, guessed Mammon's doubts and answered, "Don't understand why my strength has suddenly increased so much, right? Did you think that after discovering that monster capable of killing Tiamat, I would think it would be obliterated by the soul core? Don't forget, I am the Sin of Pride, I wouldn't make such a low-level mistake. The first thing I did upon returning was to devour all my subordinates in the layers of hell under my control to reach my current strongest state. The other demon lords also accepted my advice and devoured all their demons. Now we have pushed our respective strengths to the peak! By the way, even those demons of the Sin of Greed under your command were eaten by me. I really don't understand you. You have so much food to feed, yet you don't eat it. No wonder your Sin of Greed's ability is clearly second, but your strength is still so weak."

Mammon sneered. It was Lucifer who first started the development of the Seven Deadly Sins demon faction. Demons feed on their own kind, and the concept of faction should not have been born in Hell. However, Lucifer developed a new approach, also known as the 'pig farming' development plan.

The original intention of the "pig farming" strategy is very simple: the Seven Deadly Sins recruit high-ranking demons and grant them their authority. The power of the Seven Deadly Sins may seem like a blessing and a strength to those high-ranking demons, but in reality, it is a form of assimilation and parasitism. The power of sin will transform those high-ranking demons into forms that are very suitable for Lucifer and other demon lords to absorb.

Just as humans choose breeds of pigs that are sedentary and have tender, easily digestible meat for raising, the demons under the Seven Deadly Sins are like 'pigs' raised by Lucifer and his followers. This is why Lucifer and his followers allow their minions to harvest souls in the material world and even feed them the souls from the Sea of ​​Souls. When the harvest is complete, every soul consumed by the 'pigs' is nourished in an extremely easily digestible state for these 'masters,' namely the demon lords of the Seven Deadly Sins.

Lucifer's plan naturally inspired the other six demon lords to follow suit, which brought order and vitality to Hell, transforming it from chaos into a well-organized place. However, Mammon did not agree with this method. He felt that it was nothing more than opportunism and would not bring any significant change to the future of the demon race. Therefore, although Mammon raised pigs, he never ate his own subordinates. He hoped to use the vast intelligence network provided by his subordinates to find the powerful soul who was capable of inheriting his will and changing the landscape of the Soul Sea, and bring him here.

This is why Mammon kept trying to persuade Agreed to join Hell; Mammon had placed his hopes on Agreed a long time ago.

Seeing that Mammon did not answer, Lucifer grinned savagely and shouted, "Since you have betrayed this place, then give me your power!" With that, Lucifer plunged his hand into Mammon's chest, and the sin of greed and most of the soul connected to it were brutally ripped out of Mammon's body.

Mammon let out a painful scream, which also awakened Agreed, who was digesting the divine power. At this time, Agreed had also finished digesting Satan's divine power. In his Surtur form, a pair of fiery wings instantly sprouted from his back, and he arrived at Mammon in an instant. Then, Agreed threw a punch, sending Lucifer flying and rescuing Mammon at the same time.

Seeing this, the other five demon lords immediately launched an attack on Agreed. Agreed immediately unleashed his rage, instantly transforming into countless sharp blades that pierced towards the demon lords. At this moment, the Sin of Gluttony, 'Belucab', immediately opened his mouth wide and swallowed all the attacks in the blink of an eye, then spat them back to Agreed. This was his ability to devour all attacks and return them. Due to the blessing of the Sin of Gluttony, the upper limit of this ability was extremely high, so it could be said that ranged energy attacks were basically ineffective against him.

Agreed sent Mammon out of this hellish place and protected him. Then he turned around and transformed back into Nidhogg form, blocking all the attacks aimed at him. Immediately afterwards, Agreed unleashed a dragon's breath at the demon lords. The Sin of Gluttony, 'Belusaeb', tried to use the same trick to block Agreed's dragon's breath, but unfortunately he didn't see the treacherous glint in Agreed's eyes. Otherwise, he would never have made such a foolish decision.

Belial swallowed the dragon's breath, but when he tried to return the attack, the breath exploded inside him. Belial immediately opened his mouth to release the energy, but it was too late. The explosion severely injured him, and the shockwave sent the other four demon leaders flying.

The Sin of Gluttony, 'Belusabu,' was easily defeated by Agreed due to his arrogance and extreme confidence in his abilities. Agreed grabbed the Sin of Gluttony and was about to devour Belusabu when Lucifer transformed into a stream of light and saved the Sin of Gluttony. At the same time, a miniature version of the illusory nebula appeared and struck Agreed.

Unfortunately, this little trick was too insignificant in Agreed's eyes. With just a wave of his hand, Lucifer's Nebula Attack was destroyed by Agreed. However, at this time, the other demon lords also arrived and launched an attack on Agreed.

Unfortunately, they soon discovered a terrible problem: their abilities were completely unable to break through Agreed's protective divine power.

Lucifer's strongest ability, 'Morning Star,' allows him to create stars to attack his enemies. The name of this ability is borrowed from the ancient meaning of Lucifer's name, 'Morning Star.' However, Morning Star is meaningless against dragons, since Nidhogg's body was nurtured by the stars and has extremely high resistance to them. Therefore, Lucifer's Morning Star cannot break through Agreed's defenses at all.

The Sin of Gluttony was already offline and unable to fight anymore. Asmodeus, the Sin of Lust, had the ability to attack mentally. The premise for such attacks to be effective is that the soul is stronger than the enemy's. But... how could Asmodeus possibly compete with Agreed, who had devoured most of the Soul Sea? Her attacks were completely rendered powerless, and thus another of the five great demon lords was rendered useless.

Leviathan, the embodiment of the sin of envy, has the ability to transform herself into a colossal void behemoth called 'Leviathan,' while simultaneously returning double the damage she receives to her enemies. However, Agreed clearly knew about her abilities and completely ignored her, instead relentlessly attacking other demon lords. The Leviathan that the sin of envy transformed into actually had no active attack skills and could only launch meaningless, even joking, savage charges at Agreed like a clumsy monster.

As for Belphegor, the Sin of Sloth, his ability is the Domain of Sloth. Within his domain, any special ability or even divine power will dissipate. Most gods will be rendered powerless and useless within this domain. However, unfortunately, Agreed's false authority, coupled with the rage techniques he learned from Satan, made him immune to Belphegor's domain, thus preserving most of his combat power.