Archdemon

Huo Ling's garrison time in the Bronze Fortress for more than a hundred years is much longer than the time he originally promised Bayer.

So during this period, Huo Ling continued to erode the rights of other war zones, and he made various py transactions with the commanders of these war zones.

At this time, there are a total of five war zones, including four war zones in the outer circle and one war zone in the inner circle.

These war zones were taken into Huo Ling's pocket, and the troops Huo Ling was responsible for garrisoning even provided legendary-level power for these war zones.

In this way, it can be regarded as helping these war zones to greatly reduce the pressure of defense, allowing these war zone commanders to enter a profitable state from the original loss state.

Huo Ling and these war zone commanders win-win, in fact, Bayer does not lose in theory.

Because he also has a share of the income of these war zones.

But the income is not as good as the loss of rights. Huo Ling's transactions with these war zone commanders are within the scope allowed by the rules, and Bayer cannot cross the rules to govern this.

In the first fifty years, Huo Ling behaved very honestly because he was accumulating strength.

When the garrison period was over, Bayer did not find a suitable commander to replace Huo Ling, so he did not drive Huo Ling out.

Since then, the garrison terms have become that if Bayer finds a suitable devil duke to replace Huo Ling, then Huo Ling can be replaced.

But after fifty years of development, Huo Ling began to constantly extend his claws and erode other rights.

Behind Huo Ling, there are many think tanks who found various loopholes in the Purgatory terms and helped Huo Ling to start making plans.

Even if Bayer found a suitable duke, they did not dare to take over Huo Ling's job after seeing Huo Ling's attitude.

Bayer could not attack these Purgatory dukes for no reason. Unless these dukes clearly wanted to rebel, Bayer really could not send out a large army to attack these Purgatory dukes.

But Huo Ling could, because Huo Ling was still just a duke, and the fight for territory between Purgatory nobles was also allowed in Purgatory.

Under the threat of Huo Ling, and the fact that the original garrison of the Bronze Fortress was not a good job, which duke was willing to take the trouble of provoking Huo Ling and squeeze him out of the Sixth War Zone.

Although Huo Ling made money in the Bronze Fortress, it is not certain that he can make money if he changes to a duke, and he may even lose money.

For the war zones that Huo Ling did not intervene in, it is good to be able to break even. If there is a profit, these commanders will be very happy.

So at this time, Bayer has no hope of driving Huo Ling away.

It is true that Bayer is the devil lord, and he enjoys the highest ruling power of Avernus, but he also needs to follow the rules of Purgatory.

As long as all of Huo Ling's methods are carried out within the rules of Purgatory, then Bayer will not be able to expel Huo Ling.

Precisely because Bayer is the highest beneficiary of the system, he can only strictly abide by the rules.

If he abandons these rules, his position will be even more unstable.

It is also not allowed for a devil lord to rebuke or attack the Duke of Purgatory for no reason.

The only one who has such power is Asmodeus, the Lord of the Nine Hells.

It is precisely because of this that Bayer was able to successfully backstab Zariel and become the new Grand Lord.

In Purgatory, there is no eternal Grand Lord, but there can be eternal Dukes.

Just like the Grand Lord of Avernus, there have been several changes, but some dukedoms that were established at the beginning have not changed their dukes until now, and the fiefdoms still exist.

Power is from top to bottom!

Similarly, power is from bottom to top!

In Purgatory, the Purgatory system is very interesting.

The devils under the Great Devil have no rights and do not have the basis for generating rights.

Because their promotion depends on the superior devil. They can only be promoted if the superior devil agrees to promote them.

Even if it is a superior devil, no matter how powerful and talented he is, he cannot cross the threshold of legend.

The Great Devil who promoted them can demote the upper devils in a moment, from the Deep Hell Refining Devil to the War Devil, Horned Devil, or even to the Middle Devil.

Therefore, below the Great Devil, they have no power in Purgatory, nor are they popular, and their loyalty can only be forced.

But after the Great Devil, the situation is reversed. After the devils are promoted to the Great Devil, their strength is improved, and they do not need the affirmation of their superiors.

These Great Devils cannot be knocked down again and become upper devils.

You can kill a Great Devil and let him return to the Styx to reincarnate as a Lesser Devil.

But you cannot knock down his status before killing him.

So in Purgatory, the Great Devil is special, they can represent power and the will of the people.

Compared with Bayer, other great devil nobles are all inferior.

Therefore, Bayer can rule these great devils under the system of Purgatory. The method of rule can be the master-servant system, the covenant, or even the feudal system.

Those who sign a master-servant contract with Bayer are naturally the master-servant system.

And powerful nobles like Holing who belong to the feudal system can also have their own vassals.

Holing is a vassal of Asmodeus and Bayer, and the marquis, viscount, and baron under Holing are vassals of Holing.

These marquises, viscounts, and barons only need to obey Holing.

As for Holing, he can choose to listen to Bayer's orders or not, because he is a dual monarchy, a vassal of Bayer and a vassal of Asmodeus.

The lord of Purgatory, while enjoying the benefits brought by the system, also needs to bear the risks brought by this system.

Just like Zariel once felt that something was wrong with Bayer, but still couldn't get rid of Bayer.

At that time, Zariel led his army into the Wanyuan Plain, and he might have wanted to take the opportunity to consume Bayer's huge army.

At that time, many of Bayer's troops were withdrawn for garrison or as mobile forces.

In the end, Zariel even entered Bayer's military camp, but he couldn't avoid the final outcome.

So, Bayer noticed that something was wrong with Huo Ling, but he couldn't find a reasonable way to deal with Huo Ling.

The situation is like this, and Bayer is now very worried.

Another more worrying thing is the power that Huo Ling has. It's not just the strong men and troops under his command that are increasing.

The speed at which Huo Ling's own strength grows is also extremely terrifying to Bayer. If Huo Ling is allowed to grow like this, it may not take long for Bayer to follow in Zariel's footsteps.

This was not what Bayer expected. After all, Zariel had been the great ruler for many years, while Bayer had only been in office for a few years. He did not want to be backstabbed and ousted so early.