1580 Winged Golden Demon Emperor
Once Ajax made up his mind, he didn't waste any time as he started working on conquering all the Normal Demon Worlds around him.
Soon, he ordered the Devourer Eagle Kings that were yet to use this ability [Portal Creation] and sent some of his selected summons.
Since the Great Golden Demon Emperor had died, Ajax was no longer worried about anything as he started destroying multiple Normal Worlds at once.
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In the Greater Golden Demon World,
'The Great Golden Demon Emperor's life pearl has been destroyed.'
The minister of the Great Golden Demon Emperor went into the huge palace belonging to his majesty on some work and noticed that the pearl hovering above the throne had fallen to the ground and already turned into pieces.
'Does that mean the Great Golden Demon Emperor had died?'
The winged golden demon emperor was shocked for a moment; however, soon, the greed he was hiding deep inside his heart had finally come out.
'It looks like the perfect opportunity to become the Ruler of this Golden Demon Territory.'
With an excited look on his face, the winged golden demon emperor started planning about it.
Since he was the minister and the second most powerful and influential golden demon in the Golden Demon Territory, he knew that he didn't have to work too much about becoming the Great Golden Demon Emperor.
Nevertheless, he didn't want to take any chances because it was his lifelong dream.
'I knew this day would come; however, I didn't expect it to arrive this early.'
As a minister under the Great Golden Demon Emperor, it was his duty to take care of all the things in the territory and at the same time, his other main duty was to give suggestions to the Great Golden Demon Emperor.
However, the Great Golden Demon Emperor had never listened to the minister's speech, making the winged golden demon emperor angry.
Nevertheless, he was sure about one thing because, with the Great Golden Demon Emperor's thoughts and ideas, it would die sooner or later.
'Also, why does he care so much about the prophecy from ancient times? Does he need a Divine Dragon to become the leader of all the Demon Emperors? Then what will he do?'
The winged golden demon emperor scoffed at the Great Golden Demon Emperor's actions and thoughts as he continued, 'If he wanted to become one, he should rely on his strength and intelligence and not on a Divine Dragon.'
'Just like this b*stard, the other four Great Demon Emperors were also fools and believed the prophecy.'
The winged golden demon emperor was not a privileged demon from birth. He had endured many difficulties and survived many life-and-death situations to become what he was today.
Hence, he didn't believe or rely too much on fate or prophecy because he believed that as long as one works hard enough, he could achieve whatever he wants to achieve.
'Just wait, I will show you how I will take over the five demon territories in this universe and create a New Demon Emperor under my rule even without the help of a Divine Dragon.'
Since there was no longer the Great Golden Demon Emperor, the winged golden demon emperor felt that his time had finally come.
Hence, he wanted to prove himself to the entire universe by merging the five demon territories into a separate universe from the existing universe.
"It's time to check the armies and their numbers before making the necessary changes according to my plan."
Even though he believed that one needed strength to conquer the other territories, he didn't want to use the resources that were in his hand.
Therefore, he decided to check the armies and make the changes according to what he feels is right.
'But before that, I think I should do something about the young man with the divine dragon.'
Just as he was about to start working on his plan, the winged golden demon emperor stopped in his steps.
Because he received the information from some world leaders of the Normal Demon Worlds that their world was currently under attack and they needed urgent help.
'From the looks of it, the young man was capable of killing the Great Golden Demon Emperor and the 1000 Zeroth Order Demon Apostles.'
Unlike the Great Golden Demon Emperor, the Winged Golden Demon Emperor didn't rush to help those worlds that were being conquered by Ajax.
Instead, he started thinking about his options.
'With my current strength, I can't kill him or defeat him.'
Since the most powerful demon emperor along with the most powerful army failed to kill the young man and his divine dragon.
Hence, the Winged Golden Demon Emperor didn't think much before giving up on fighting Ajax.
'I think I should take a risk and meet that young man.'
After thinking for a moment, the Winged Golden Demon Emperor thought of his next instant goal.
'Swoosh'
Without wasting any time, he made some simple preparations along with some trump cards to protect his life before opening a portal to the closest greater demon world that Ajax was conquering.
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On Ajax's temporary base world,
'Ding,
The host has successfully retrieved a normal world core from a Normal Demon World.
'Ding,
The host….
In less than three hours, Ajax had successfully collected 6 Normal World Cores and he only needed four more Normal World Cores to merge them into a Greater World Core.
However, Ajax was not in a hurry to merge them as he was planning to give away 7 normal world cores and 13 smaller world cores.
"Alder, you and the other Devourer Eagle Kings could use your ability to open the portals, right? I mean to the Great Worlds."
The Devourer Eagle Kings had already used their ability to open the portals to the smaller and normal worlds.
Alder, the leader of the Devourer Eagle Kings could use his ability to open the portals to the worlds by the following order:
1) Three Smaller Worlds / Day.
2) One Normal World / Day.
3) One Greater World / Week.
As for the other Devourer Eagle Kings, their abilities could open the portals by the following restrictions:
1) One Smaller World / Day.
2) One Normal World / Week
3) One Greater World / Month.
Since they have used their abilities for the smaller and normal worlds, Ajax thought about checking out a Greater Demon World.
If he could conquer a Great Demon World and take out the World Core from it, then it would save Ajax a lot of time.
"Master, I can open it if you want to as I am looking forward to fighting some powerful enemies in the Greater Demon World."
When it comes to fights, Alder and the other Devourer Eagle Kings were the most excited ones because they could eat some powerful beings.
Hence, Alder was ready to open the portal to a Greater Demon World.
"Wait…there is no need to open the portal to a Greater Demon World…at least not for now."
Suddenly, Ajax thought of something and hurriedly rejected his plans on conquering a Greater Demon World.
'Wait…what?'
Alder was disappointed a little as he asked, "What happened, master? With our current strength, I don't think we will have any problem in taking care of a Greater Demon World."
"I can say that we can easily kill the world protectors and the guardians of a Greater Demon World and I can also say that it won't be a problem for us to take care of the entire demon population in the world."
Ajax had a particular reason behind why he rejected the thought of conquering a Greater Demon World and he was explaining it to Alder and the other Devourer Eagle Kings.
"However, it would take quite some time to achieve that. According to me, it would take at least a week to conquer and retrieve the world core."
Ajax paused for a moment before continuing, "Also, I have a gut feeling that the Greater Worlds might be different from the normal worlds and the smaller worlds that we destroyed until now."
As a world leader for some worlds, Ajax could sense that the Greater Worlds might have some unique protective methods that protect the world and its inhabitants whenever there was an invasion from the outside world.
Moreover, Ajax felt that even if there were no such protective methods, it would take quite a lot of time and Ajax could almost merge two Greater World Cores in that week's time.
With Alder's ability, Ajax could conquer a normal demon world daily and get one normal world core every day whereas he needed to wait for one more week to use the ability of the other 10 devourer eagle kings.
"As you say, master."
"Yes, master."
"We are already full and we need quite some time to digest all those bodies anyway."
Soon, Alder and the other devourer eagle kings agreed with Ajax's words and nodded their heads in understanding.
"You guys can stay here and take some rest. I will get and fulfil the contracts with the cultivators in the Trader's Realm."
Since Ajax rejected his plan of entering the Greater Demon Worlds to conquer them, he could only leave his base world and returned to the Dwarf World to enter the Trader's realm.
The reason why Ajax still didn't destroy his current base world was that there were still a dozen normal worlds and more than 30 smaller demon worlds around his new base world.
Hence, there was still some time before he could destroy this world to take its world core.
'Swoosh'
However, just as he was about to leave the world, a winged golden demon emperor flew down from space while waving a white-coloured flag.