Chapter 3232: Child With Destiny Assigned By Dark Realm

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Dark Realm, Seven Prince of Hell Territory, Pandemonium City Outskirts

"I knew I could count on you to be a greedy bastard, my dear friend!"

A humanoid figure with goat horns and legs but two pairs of human arms, a torso, and a head, clad in loosely fitted, luxurious golden silk armor, shouted in a subdimension while viewing the mining city built around a volcano, Pandemonium City.

His goat-like eyes rested on the city. They no longer held the vigilance and scrutiny from earlier, as his negotiation had not only been a success but had also brought unexpected gains.

The four-armed, half-humanoid, half-goat creature was none other than one of the surviving leaders of the Seven Princes of Hell dark faction, Devil Merchant Belphegor. He was hiding in a subdimension with high resistance to divination and curses. He had stripped it from the corpse of his adopted daughter, Corey Park, like many of her prized possessions that were simply too valuable for a Card Emperor to possess, such as the true relics, the temporal hourglass, and the golden chain. Though it was Agony who had procured them for him, no matter what name they went by, they were all the same to him.

This adoptive daughter of his, who refused to die, had been very lucky compared to the conditions under which he had adopted her and brought her to the Dark Realm. She would go out for a walk and return with a haul and strength that took many their entire lifetimes to accumulate.

Thanks to her incredible luck, in less than a century, she had not only forged a very powerful Title Demon Core despite starting out with a low-grade artificial demon core, but also achieved the peak Demon Emperor realm and come a step away from establishing her Unholy Core and achieving devilhood. She had raised a pet sinister snake demonic beast to the Devil Realm. Not to mention, as a non-native, she had even gathered her own faction that had almost destroyed the Seven Princes of Hell faction, led by a mix of seven demon and devil merchants.

Even before she bared her fangs at him, whatever task he assigned her, no matter how absurdly difficult or beyond her strength, she would not only complete it but also grow stronger. She seemed to have a talent for the Dark Realm power system. At the rate she was growing, she would overtake him even before the century-long agreement between them came to pass.

As such, sometimes Belphegor couldn’t help but feel like he was her whetstone, while most of the time, he was left wondering if the Will of the Dark Realm was looking after her, Corey Park, a non-native orphan with a low-grade demon core.

Yes, Belphegor feared that his adoptive daughter, Corey Park, was one of the children with destiny assigned by the Will of the Dark Realm, and for obvious reasons, he was her stepping stone.

He thought about trying to redirect his fate from being her stepping stone to becoming her guiding stone instead, saving his skin and reaping the benefits of associating with a child with destiny.

Despite being thrown into literal darkness surrounded by demons, she still continued to see kindness in everyone. If he wanted to, he could use it to rectify their relationship, but they were simply too different.

Belphegor believed that no matter how much he changed himself to align with his adoptive daughter, sooner or later, they would once again be standing against each other, and by then, she would be too strong for him. He would have no choice but to accept his fate.

However, he also understood that if he were to act against the child with destiny while she was still weak, he would be angering the Will of the Dark Realm. Though there wasn’t much evidence to suggest this and it was more of a superstitious belief, it was a belief nonetheless.

As such, Belphegor began acting partial toward Corey on the surface, earning the ire of his fellow faction members while giving her the most absurd of missions that no one would form a team with her to complete, trying his best to get her killed indirectly. However, not only did she not die, but she also returned stronger, with more allies who would willingly lay down their lives for her.

The more he tried to isolate her, the more loyal allies she seemed to gain.

The more he tried to kill her, the stronger she seemed to grow.

If earlier Belphegor had only believed out of convenience, now he was convinced that Corey Park was a child with destiny assigned by the Will of the Dark Realm and that he was fated to be her stepping stone.

However, after decades of struggling to kill his adopted daughter indirectly, Belphegor, who was forced to face her directly, had no time to wonder where he had gone wrong. To his disbelief, he managed to go against his fate as her stepping stone and killed her, looting her fortune to grow his own and dismantling her forces to strengthen his own.

From that day on, Belphegor decided not to act out of fear, but out of will. Actions driven by fear lead only to one’s own regret and demise, while actions driven by will never lead to regret, let alone ruin.

Since that day, he who had broken his fate had taken his fate into his own hands and begun to do what his will commanded him to without hesitation. And now, his enlightened way of life had led him to a point in his life where he would become the sole leader of the Seven Princes of Hell and an ally of the Bloodrools, an ancient, true ruler-class race.

"Mommon, my dear friend, we have a deal. Sign the attached contract with the Origin Source as the witness, and I will tell you how and where to find the explosion-type relic under your city and how to refine it."

Belphegor sent the following text, attaching a contract he had personally drafted and signed based on the agreed-upon terms and conditions, without any deceit, knowing Mommon wasn’t new to any tricks he could think of and that right now was not the time to be crafty, but to secure his safety.

"Hahaha!" Belphegor laughed out loud as he almost instantly received Mommon’s reply with an attached, signed contract.

As he prepared to inform Mommon how to get to and refine the explosion-type true relic, his laughter came to an abrupt halt as he noticed a sudden snowfall over the city and its surroundings.

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