Arbidis

**Arbidis** or the **Eternal Battlefield** is the realm where both demons and devils fight in an Eternal War, a vast land of death and bloodshed with no end in sight. This place was the final destination of all demons and devils, putting them into a vicious cycle of murder with no rest.

It is similar to the Battlefields of Despair, but here, lesser lords would die while archlords that even surpass most epics would lead the charge. Here, archlords numbered the dozens.

## Description

The sky here was a dark red, and thick layers of clouds covered everything that was more than a hundred metres above ground. Even Richard’s perception was distorted by terrifying energy once it entered the cloud cover, leaving him unable to see what lay behind. The sky here was forbidden to all living creatures.

The earth was a dark red as well, gradually sloping downwards into the distance to enter a crimson blur. Richard pushed his perception as far as it would go, but even 10,000 kilometres in he couldn’t see any end.

Countless demons and devils were fighting all over down below, the weakest of them being greater demons and devils while lesser lords could be found everywhere. Richard even came across dozens of greater lords and archlords during his scan!

The battlefield was occasionally interrupted by a bright radiance, giant portals dropping a horde of demons or a neatly formed devil army that entered the fray. Richard could sense tens of thousands of small skirmishes all around, and even with hundreds of deaths every second the number refused to drop. The sight made one thing clear: if not for the constant battle between the two existing sides, even 500,000 night elves wouldn’t be enough to guarantee a retreat.

## Overview

The reason why neither the devils nor the demons had grown powerful enough to take over the rest of the myriad planes was because of the sheer hatred for the other. Each side was too focused on harming the other, so Arbidis had evolved into a place that both strengthened and limited archlords. One couldn’t heal here without eating flesh, but that poisoned flesh would eventually accumulate into certain death, even for an archlord. The demons had strengthened their bodies to combat this poison, while the devils tried to assimilate the laws of order to neutralise the danger. Both sides were walking completely different paths, but neither had gained an upper hand.

### **Purpose**

Both devils and demons came here solely to consume the flesh of their eternal foes, using that energy to evolve into their most powerful forms. Only a handful of the archlords here actually came from the hells or the abyss; most evolved out of the lucky few. This was the true purpose of the Eternal War.

This place was simply a furnace designed to turn ordinary demons and devils into lords! Countless battles over billions of years had made for a system where the lives of the many were sacrificed for the strength of the few!

### **Land**

Arbidis was a strange place, its laws so powerful that they almost completely suppressed everything Richard knew. His black hole wasn’t even able to break a small section of the area, leaving the origin energy of the plane entirely unaffected. After a few pulses that devoured everything in sight, it was drained of energy and withered away.

The mud was greasy and dark, smelling strangely like something that had been burnt. Hidden amongst it were countless fine grains of crystal, containing the power of order and chaos. These actions seemed relaxed, but in reality the black mud was many times tougher than even lafite. The simple kneading would have destroyed most legendary weapons!

Countless demons and devils had died fighting on this land over the untold number of years this war had been fought, and their blood slowly compacted into the earth, layer after layer. The power of order and chaos thus filled this land, welding together into a strange substance that was harder than most metals.

The value of this black mud was inestimable. It could be added into most equipment and boost it by a grade instantly, and a handful would be considered a greater offering to the Eternal Dragon. Such a substance was everywhere in this bloody battlefield, with no way to exhaust it all!

## **References**

1. ↑ Book 9, Chapter 106
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Book 9, Chapter 110