Rise of the Alchemy God

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As she was walking towards the castle, the visor of the helmet she wore magically disappeared, revealing a beautiful feminine face, with slightly dark skin and a pair of ruby-red eyes.

Her face showed no obvious expression while she walked calmly.

It was as if she were in her world, isolated from the noisy surrounding environment.

As she walked, Jing Xia's thoughts could not help but wander, as the face of an elven girl she had bought a little over three years ago came to mind.

At that time, she had participated in that auction by chance, intending to see if she could find something interesting.

Although she didn't appreciate the sale of slaves, she also understood their necessity.

Among the various bad uses that other demons might have for them, slaves, although considered at the bottom of the food chain in this place, were also a driving force for their army since many of the small tasks were done by them, and even on missions, they could be useful depending on the type of slave.

Some were from races very skilled at detecting certain types of presences, others had infallible memories, and some who could command the elements to a certain extent, something their own race couldn't do because demonic Qi was the opposite of the source of these elements.

All these factors made slaves very useful in battle for demons, and consequently, it was normal to hold these slave auctions to see what they had to offer, to check if the fellow commanders from other squads had found good products or not.

It was at one of these auctions that she met the elven girl.

Back then, she saw no use for the girl either for herself or for her group in battle, so she almost ignored her.

But then her eyes met the elven girl's gaze. A shiver ran down her spine.

There was something in those eyes, something unbearably familiar. For a moment, the world around her went silent, leaving her alone with that face and a memory she thought was dead.

Was it pity? Was it guilt? She wasn't sure.

She had spent the last half of her life this way, surrounded only by battles and destruction.

At this point, anything else other than these two things didn't exist for her, but at that moment,

seeing that innocent, but at the same time familiar sparkle in the elf's eyes,

she couldn't resist, so she bought her.

She knew that if she ended up in the hands of someone from her race, it wouldn't necessarily be a good fate awaiting her.

That was also the first time in a long while that she did something that seemed pointless and would bring her no benefit,

and that was also the moment when she began to think that the world was not all black and Red.

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Ethan had taken his time to explore the information about the two demons, so he didn't overlook any detail regarding this city and the people who lived there.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

From what he had discovered, the city was called the City of the Red Moon, a floating city that also served as a base for the legion of one of the Demon Kings of the demonic race.

At first, Ethan didn't know what a Demon King was and what it meant for this city to be a demonic stronghold.

After all, he could feel a great presence of the Void element everywhere, which meant that this place was most likely some kind of dimensional rift.

And indeed, it had been discovered that it was.

This was one of the dimensional rifts of the demonic race that served as a bridge between their dimension and all others.

Infact, the demons apparently weren't just a threat to the three heavens from which Ethan came, but they were a threat to the entire universe.

Needless to say, the news was quite shocking for Ethan.

He had often discussed with Bai Yu whether there were other worlds beyond the celestial planes or not, and she said that the mortal plane was more like a step where all worlds that couldn't surpass a certain power level existed,

the so-called mortal worlds.

But unlike these, the celestial plane was a single, vast world, still unexplored in its entirety.

She told him that she didn't know if there were other similar worlds , like the situation with the mortal plane,

but it was assumed that there were, even though, as far as she knew, no one had ever come into contact with them.

Needless to say, when it came to the divine plane, things became even more uncertain, as only a few beings had managed to ascend to that plane, and those beings were none other than the so-called deities of the celestial plane's inhabitants.

Ethan took things as they were because the arrangement of a world into planes was one of the most common things he came across in the novels he read in his old world.

But it was precisely because he was from a different world that he had imagined the various planes of existence were not composed of just a single world.

And now, with the discovery of these demons who were a universal threat, it seemed his assumption was correct.

As for the power system, demons had a hierarchy very similar to the military one from his past life, with some additions and modifications.

For example, the lowest rank wasn't that of a soldier, but rather a slave, and in this category, not only were those captured and exported from other worlds included, but also half-demons, like those who had been transformed through demonic Qi, or through relations between demons and other races.

These people were considered slaves in the eyes of demons, slaves who were not only used for reproduction but also for use in battle.

The idea of reproduction seemed strange to Ethan at first because although demons could be lustful, the fact that they paid attention to the reproduction of their race didn't seem normal, especially when considering that all pure demons were supposed to originate from the same source.

Ethan later discovered that even the offspring of demons born from relations with other species had certain ranks among them, and depending on these ranks, the being born could be considered a slave, or one of their own race.

Ethan wasn't sure how exactly this worked, but personally, it didn't concern him.

What mattered to him, however, was the part about how this floating land contained various teleportation stations that allowed travel to other dimensions.

And for Ethan, who was currently stuck here, something like this was exactly what he needed to return.