The Dungeon Conquerors: Journey to the Peak

After leaving his secret training area, Alcusus immediately asked all the demons to gather in the grand hall. The grand hall was an area of the spatial rift which had nothing special except for its super large size. So Alcusus was using this stupidly large area as a gathering place for the demonkind.

After getting his orders, all the demons quickly gathered in that area in just a few minutes. The low level demons hurried to this place in fear while the powerful ones came there while grumbling about Alcusus looking down on them. But soon most of the high level demons became surprised as one of their comrades was nowhere to be seen.

One of them remembered that the missing demon god had actually gone out of the spatial rift to have a meeting with some helpers from the human race. Having an agent of theirs in the human race would be very useful so even Alcusus was very eager for this plan to succeed.

After everyone realised it, they relaxed again. If their comrade Vakadha was outside of the Spatial rift then it made sense for him to be late. So they started to wait for him to come. But even after almost half an hour, he was nowhere to be seen.

In the early stages of the waiting, some of the other demon gods were a bit irritated by all this waiting, but now everyone was feeling fear and tension. Alcusus had also appeared quite some time ago and now he also had a grave expression on his face.

He had fought Vakadha before. Even though Vakadha was not especially strong among the demon gods, when it came to evasion and speed, no one was his match. And even though Vakadha was not the strongest among the demon gods, he was still one of the six. So his fighting prowess was definitely stronger than most of the humans.

Even so Vakadha was unable to come back. This was a scary fact that indicated that either the humans had some kind of trump card that was capable of defeating Vakadha or Vakadha was in some other kind of trouble. Alcusus' instinct was warning him that his trouble and Vakadha's troubles were most probably the same.

Losing Vakadha was a very bad thing but now was not the time to worry about what had happened to him. The demons needed to come up with some kind of ways to get the situation under control. Alcusus felt very lucky that his instincts had given him that timely warning or it would have taken him and the demon race a lot of time to find out about Vakadha's situations.

Demon gods did not spend much time with others and for the most part were always busy trying to increase their powers even by a little bit. So if Alcusus did not arrange this sudden meeting for all the demons, no one else would have even noticed Vakadha's absence for a few days. And in that case, it would most probably have been too late for the demons.

Immediately Alcusus asked everyone to think of work countermeasures. The demons knew Vakadha's personality and were sure that he would not become a traitor to the race. But the humans were too cunning and might trick him into getting information from him. So the demons were going to think that everything that Vakadha knew, were already known by the humans too.

With that in mind they started to think about various countermeasures.

The most critical information that Vakadha knew were about the two way nodes. If humans get to know the location of those nodes, then it would be very much possible for them to enter the spatial rift through that. If that happened then the only safe heaven that the demons had would not be safe anymore. So they definitely needed to prevent that.

But the other demons including the demon gods did not know much about the Spatial rift itself. Among them only Alcusus somewhat understood how this spatial rift worked. So all the demons looked at him to get a solution.

Alcusus had already speculated that someday something like this might happen. So he had already taken countermeasures. Among the locations that Vakadha knew as genuine, almost 70 percent of them were actually false ones. Whenever a demon went out, Vakadha told them exactly which node they should use.

So Vakadha never had a chance to check the authenticity of his words and believed that all the things that he was told were true.

This was a little bit risky as in critical situation, a demon might want to run away using that node but then he would not be able to because the node he was told about was actually false. That was the reason why Vakadha only told the demon gods this lie.

It would be very uncommon for them to find themselves in a situation where they needed to run away like that and so this plan was a bit safer with them. And now it turned out to be a right decision.

These false nodes would not just buy time for the demons but if this information was used properly then the demons would be able to launch a surprise attack on the humans. So Alcusus gave a few low ranking demons orders to keep an eye on those false areas.

They were ordered to report anything that they saw and the treat level of that thing. Depending on that threat level, required number of subordinates would be sent to attack those humans. It was a good plan and if the demons were lucky and the humans were not careful, they might even be able to get rid of white a few humans with the sneak attacks.

But only doing so was not enough. Among the nodes that Vakadha knew about, 30 percent of them were still genuine. Those nodes did open in particular areas and Alcusus made those areas into blust zones using explosives. So even if the humans were able to enter the spatial rift, they all would immediately be killed in that explosion.

This method would also destroy those entrances which was something that Alcusus wanted to avoid. But if there was a need, he was determined to sacrifice all those nodes to keep the demon race safe.

But even with all these plans, none of the demons felt safe and they all started to train even more. Alcusus even told the demons about an area in the spatial rift which also had a similar effect like his training area but to a lesser degree. So the demons would be able to grow stronger at a faster pace.

Alcusus was still unable to tell the race about his absolute secret and the thing that was responsible for his dominance over the race. Was that a good thing or bad, only time could tell.