A Demon's Journey

After some time, Azaroth gave up on trying to figure out the mystery of that chasm. He got up and went to check up on all his subordinates.

Tiana's condition could be considered the worst among them. However, Azaroth sensed a mysterious phenomenon occurring in her soul. Slowly, the Ice Laws were fusing with her soul.

The process was bound to be extremely painful. But he had a feeling that her Soul was going to mutate into a pure Ice Soul. This would be a great boon for Tiana.

This was the reason he hadn't dealt with those Ice Laws within her Soul.

Also, if the situation turned life-threatening for Tiana, Azaroth had his methods to purge those Ice laws from her soul.

This was also why he was so furious at Christina. She was about to undo the result for which Tiana had endured such great pain. Even Azaroth was eagerly anticipating the result of this issue.

Tiana's subordinates weren't so greatly injured. This was a good thing.

They just had to be careful to not overuse the Sacred Ice Sovereign Manifestation Technique. Since they didn't overuse it, the situation remained typical for them.

However, it was a fact that the entire team was wasted for this one week.

Azaroth called out for Zena and the two fox kits. They had more or less recovered from that battle in the night a few days earlier.

"Remain on guard here. Call out for me if you face any issue," Azaroth ordered them before he turned around and walked away.

Zena turned into a commander and stationed the two fox kits in different directions. They would be in charge of those two directions.

Meanwhile, Zena began to fly high in the sky in a circular manner. She was basically patrolling this area. Anyone unknown who tried to enter this area without permission would be killed.

It was unknown just how many beasts Zena and those two fox kits slaughtered.

In reality, it wasn't the fault of those beasts. Their territory was too close to Azaroth's camp, but they had created a specific boundary for themselves. They won't pass that boundary.

However, Zena had no idea about this sort of fictional boundary they had created for themselves.

Zena saw them as a threat and decided to eliminate them. She released multiple thunderbolts. And these were Golden Lightning Thunderbolts. Thus, the beasts had no chance to retaliate against Zena.

In the meantime, Azaroth had returned to the Black Lake Sect's main camp. Azaroth remained in the trees and continued to gaze at the disciples, elders, and their sect mistress from afar.

His eyes and senses were focused on each individual present in this camp.

When he felt that something suspicious was happening, he would immediately move towards that location. A suspicious deal would normally occur outside the tents and not inside.

This was because if a specific individual was seen coming out of a specific tent or the disciples around found out just who was in that tent, then rumors would begin to fly and so on.

Those individuals' political rivals would figure out that this man was doing something suspicious and keep an eye on him or deal with him.

Naturally, there were also cases when secret deals would take place in a tent. However, this meant that they had a method to get out without arising suspicion.

The current scenario was similar to the latter situation. An elder had a few disciples who had gone on a mission to ambush the Night Mountain Sect's team.

However, they hadn't returned. Thus, he would talk about this issue with another reputed elder whose disciple was leading this ambush.

There was nothing strange for him to go and release his frustration on that elder. However, the situation was much different than they imagined.

This was a mere excuse to meet that man in an open and abroad manner.

These men were actually planning a rebellion within the Black Lake Sect. They felt that Erica was ruining the Black Lake Sect.

She didn't have a political mindset that was required to run a sect. She was far too idealistic and cared about her personal prestige. She was afraid of the hard decisions that a leader should take.

Thus, they had decided to remove Erica from her position. However, they required great support from their fellow elders for this to occur.

These two were the founding members of this ideology. Slowly, this thinking began to grow within the sect.

A fierce discussion would occur on it since many individuals in the sect greatly respected Erica. They respected her because of some personal reasons. Like, Erica had assisted them personally, or she had taken care of their family when they urgently required it, and so on.

In the end, if there was someone who didn't agree with their ideology, these two elders would find a way to turn him silent.

However, many people also agreed with this ideology. They respected Erica for her strength, but they felt her leadership qualities were greatly lacking.

Once these two elders felt that their influence was strong enough, they approached Erica's husband and tried to corrupt him.

They organized a large banquet for the elders in the Black Lake Sect. Only the male elders were invited.

During that banquet, they did a lot of things. They played a couple of games, some small bets, and a few spars. The food was exquisite, and the musicians and dancers kept everyone entertained.

These two elders who had created this rebellion movement remained sober while the other elders were all drunk, including Erica's husband.

The man was so drunk that he had no idea what was left or what was right. He couldn't even count in that state.

These men first used some special liquid to make him sober. They couldn't talk to him or corrupt him if he remained drunk like that.

Erica's husband vomited a few times before his head cleared up gradually. He was quite grateful that these two elders had escorted him to his tent.

Slowly, the three began to talk. And during their talk, the two elders began to provoke Erica's husband against Erica.

Naturally, their strategy was extremely sound and realistic.

One individual would say something slanderous about Erica, and the other individual would counter him and speak of Erica's upright qualities. However, the individual speaking of Erica's good points would add some bad points about her at the end.

Initially, Erica's husband was completely inclined towards the man speaking of Erica's good points. However, as he continued listening to their argument and felt how logical it was, he had inclined to the side that Erica's leadership wasn't perfect for the Black Lake Sect.

And then, he asked them this question in his mind, "Then who would be perfect to lead the Black Lake Sect?"

To which, the two elders smiled internally and spoke extremely solemnly, "You would be perfect, sir. We believe there is no one more worthy of that position than you."

Erica's husband was startled to hear this statement. But the two quickly praised him to the high heavens and stroked his ego and pride that Erica's husband was smiling ear to ear.

He couldn't even frown, even if he wanted to.. This was how delighted he felt at this moment.