Chapter 340 Abyss Situation
After sending the former Apex Sovereigns to Battle Ax Bar.
Maximus called his children, grandchildren, and in-laws who stayed in the abyss.
Upon receiving the message, Liam and the others quickly dropped what they were doing and went to the Shadow Hunter Stronghold.
...
A few days later.
Maximus and the others looked at the people who arrived with smiles.
"Welcome back..."
"Dad... Mothers..." Lily and the girls muttered tearfully as they hugged them.
Looking at the girls, Maximus unconsciously smiled.
Lily, Lyla, Lydia, and Cyra looked pretty fatigued but exuded an unfathomable aura.
Just by looking at them, one would know they had undergone intense battles regularly.
"Did you miss us?"
"We missed you a lot, Dad!" Lily muttered, looking at him pitifully.
Lily thought that their father would return just a few years after returning to the Etherium realm.
Who knew it would be decades later?
Although they had no problem staying in the abyss.
Fighting all the time, all day long, was pretty exhausting.
"Dad, did you also miss us?" Lyla asked, jumping on his back.
"We missed you a lot."
"Then why didn't you come earlier?" Lydia muttered, accusing him.
"Maybe Dad forgot about us..." Cyra chimed in.
"How could I forget about you! I'm just a bit busy." Maximus reason.
"Anyway, it's Dad's fault." Lyla huffed.
"That's right!" The others quickly nodded.
Seeing that they wouldn't stop, Maximus smiled wryly.
"Alright, alright, just tell me what you want."
"Who told me to be your father?"
"Yay! Dad, you promise you will do anything?"
"Hmm."
"Then we're in for a treat!" Lily smirked, looking at her sisters planning for something.
"What about we talk while we eat?" Maximus suggested, seeing Erica just finished cooking.
The others also nodded, somewhat hungry.
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At the table, Maximus looked at his two sons and asked,
"How about you, Liam and Max? How are you doing in the abyss?"
Liam and Max looked a little more mature, like battle-hardened middle-aged men.
"We're doing just fine, father," Liam nodded.
"I'm fine too, Dad, just a little bored," Max replied.
Although the abyss is full of fights and wars, it's too monotonous for his liking.
Those abyss monsters didn't have much skill.
They only rely on numbers and strength.
After decades of fighting with them, Max already grew bored.
"That's good, that's good."
"How about you girls? Did your husbands wrong you?" Maximus asked, looking at Amara, Elysinee, and Ella.
"Those brats!" Hearing this, Nathan muttered in dissatisfaction.
It was already the family gathering, yet his two sons didn't even have time to look for their mother and father.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at Zoe, planning to have another child.
'Hmph, we don't need those brats; we can create another one.'he thought
"Nathan~" Zoe blushed, seeing the meaning in his eyes.
Unfortunately, in their current state, it's not so easy to give birth.
They already have three children, and at their current tier, having another one would be a miracle.
"Could you tell me about the abyss?" Maximus asked Liam.
"The abyss has become pretty chaotic these past few decades."
"Chaotic? Isn't it always chaotic?"
"No, the Etherium realm and the abyss are already in an all-out war."
A few years after his father left, the Etherium Council decided to conquer the whole boundary layer.
Because of the arrival of tier 6 powerhouses from the Etherium realm, the living space in the abyss continues to dwindle.
An outpost can only do so much, not to mention it's too expensive to build.
Wanting to have more people in the abyss and dig more resources.
The Etherium Council put out a crazy plan to conquer the Boundary Layer.
It has almost limitless space, filled with various resources.
Furthermore it was not like the chaotic sea, where one needed high-tier means to get resources.
In the abyss, where resources are scattered all around, one just needs a little digging.
With huge profits ahead of them, they launched a crazy war against the abyss.
"So, did they succeed?"
"Yes, just after a decade of resistance, the Boundary Layer was captured."
Capturing the Boundary Layer and cleaning up all the high-tier monsters and dangers.
Those powerhouses built arrays all around to keep the abyss aura to a minimum.
After years of construction and millions and trillions of individuals working, the Boundary Layer was formally captured.
Now, the abyss aura around was so negligible that a mortal could survive with their bare body.
In the past, they could never dream of doing this.
After all, even if they had enough manpower and strength to do so, they didn't have enough materials.
However, with Maximus's help, getting the materials just needed some money.
Hearing this, Maximus nodded in understanding.
No wonder decades ago, Fealan bought various materials from him costing magic crystals worth hundreds of quintillions of dimensional coins.
"What about the Middle Layer and Purgatory Layer?"
"The Middle Layer was the crossroads of war between the two dimensions."
"It was too chaotic that even some Apex Sovereigns died," Liam said with a sigh.
Seeing that the Boundary Layer was conquered, how could the Abyss Monarchs let it be?
Unfortunately, with Malgron lurking around, they couldn't get out of the core layer.
Their only choice was to send the subordinates they had cultivated to suppress these maggots from eroding the abyss.
Thus, the biggest battle since the Etherium realm faced the abyss began.
As for the Purgatory Layer, it became a forbidden ground.
It became the breeding ground for the abyss monsters who were fighting for war.
Only strongholds with hidden feutures, such as the Etherium Citadel, Shadow Hunter Stronghold, and Eternal Outpost, were capable of venturing the purgatory layer.
They were the hidden blade of the Etherium realm, ready to cause a fatal blow when needed.
All in all, the abyss was more chaotic than ever.
It was also the prelude that would open the world to higher dimensions for the time to come.
