Chapter 294: Stygia City

A demon with wings on his back, similar in height to the ice demon, extremely strong, with gray-black skin and strong horns also flew from afar. The demon waved the three-pronged steel fork in his hand and quickly threw several flaming arrows at the demon. Noshier also recognized the type of the demon.

This is a male demon, also known as a horned demon. Judging from its appearance alone, this kind of demon may be the closest to the public's impression of creatures in the lower planes. At this time, the two demons were attacking from both sides by continuously releasing various powerful spell-like abilities to delay the giant skull demon's attack.

They were very cautious and tried to keep their distance from the giant skull demon's innate ability to attack. They had ways to deal with most of the spell abilities, but even they were unwilling to be attacked by the giant skull demon's unpredictable twisted ripples.

"It's settled. It seems that we don't have to worry about whether the battlefield below can be decided in the short term. As long as this demon survives, the demons will not relax their vigilance. They will focus most of their energy on dealing with the demon army. With the addition of the giant skull demon, the demons will not fall into a complete defeat in a short period of time."

Noshier looked down. At this time, the demons' artillery fire had begun to show its power. Dense solid shells and giant crossbows were constantly shooting at the giant skull demon. The demon used his innate ability to continuously shoot down these flying projectiles, but such an offensive was too intensive, and the giant skull demon's innate ability could not be used unlimitedly.

At this time, his brain had begun to swell obviously due to excessive use of his ability. When his brain swelled to the point that even the chains wrapped around him were about to be restrained, the giant skull demon finally couldn't help but open his mouthful of fangs. After a high-pitched roar spread throughout the battlefield, the giant skull demon finally floated back.

Some high-level demons who were fighting in the front retreated directly against the demon tide, and those demons who were about to attack in the back also stopped their charge in the chaos. Only the low-level demons who were killing in the front line were still attacking in vain, and then they were gradually wiped out by the demons without help.

The demons temporarily stopped their offensive under the order of the giant skull demon, but from Noshier's perspective, looking down at the battlefield, he could see that a steady stream of small groups of demons were gathering from all directions. It would not take long for the number of demons lost to be made up. They temporarily retreated just to launch a more massive attack next time.

"The battlefield has fallen into a strange balance. I originally thought that if the pressure on the demons was not great, I would try to sneak attack a demon at the level of a legion commander. This would not only suppress the demons' combat power, but also help them understand the current situation of hell from his mind. Maybe I could even find Haruman's current location, but now it seems that this is not possible."

Noshier looked around the surrounding environment. A tributary of the Styx ran across the battlefield below. Eight giant fortresses were scattered on eight fulcrums of the battlefield. These fortresses served as anchors to fix Eltoril and the first line of defense to prevent demons from invading Eltoril.

From the previous battle, it can be seen that with the mutual watch between the eight fortresses, two demons at the level of legion commanders can temporarily block the attack of the giant skull demon, but if the top combat power of one of the fortresses disappears, then that direction will become a breakthrough. Whether it is a direct attack on that fortress or an attack on the fortress next to it, the demons will not wait for the support they should have.

So Noshiel couldn't break the balance between them, and today's incident also reminded him that a legendary giant skull demon could run directly to the bottom of the city to fight the devils, so it is not impossible for a Balor Fire Demon to come to the city and kill people the next day.

Thinking of this, Noshiel didn't stay for too long. After making sure that there would not be any major changes in the battle line below, he quickly flew towards the originally scheduled target.

Noshiel obtained a partial map of Avernus from the hunter demon. The complete version of the map is almost impossible to obtain. Even if he asked Gargos, he didn't have the ability to give Noshiel a complete map, because the first layer of hell is too big, so big that even native devils can hardly figure out what is waiting for them between the two destinations.

Devils often find some wandering warlords out of control in the wild, unknown gathering places that do not exist on the map, demons that accidentally break into the hell when the demons do not invade on a large scale, powerful hell beasts, and even some travelers from the outer star realm are not rare in hell. The existence of these things makes the whole hell extremely dangerous even for demons.

However, as long as he follows the previously planned route, Noshiel has a high probability of avoiding these dangers. Although the map drawn by the hunter is not complete, he is still quite familiar with the surrounding area.

Flying high in the sky, Noshiel took out the map seized from the hunter from the space box.

"Let me see, according to the map, the location below the city is called the Styx Outpost. Go northeast from here, 20 miles away there is a large settlement built by the devil [Stygia City], uh, it can also be called the Stygia Hatchery Pool, or the Stygia Pier."

"When the devil eggs in the river are washed ashore, they will be collected by special little devils and then stored in city buildings similar to Stygia for unified hatching. A large number of devil legions are stationed there to protect their important source of troops. The city is built on the edge of the Styx and has a large number of docks and ships to transport these troops to various battlefields through the tributaries of the Styx."

"This feature makes it an important strategic location. The ruler there must know the direction of the mobilization of many devil legions. He is very likely to know where Haruman and the legion he leads are now."

Noshir put away the map. He has determined the specific location of Stygia City. If he walks by land, he will pass through three relatively dangerous places along the way, but for him who can fly and dive at critical moments, those dangers are almost impossible to threaten him.

"We have to fly over the Bonethorn Forest where a legion of bone demons are stationed, cross Mount Gangar occupied by a group of fire giants, and pass through a fortress ruled by a night hag warlord to reach our destination. Tsk, this journey is really dangerous. There are all kinds of monsters and demons in hell. I can't imagine how difficult it would be if I couldn't fly."