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Chapter 71: The Abyss’s Hierarchical System for Hiring; Bosses Become SubordinatesWhen the purple eyes in the Seal Grounds opened, Lin Ye was signing contracts. Not with the Lord of the Abyss, but with eleven wild Abyssal Lords.

He had walked all the way down from the Abyss Rift, blocking every wild lord he encountered in their lairs. One was hiding in a lava river, one was concealed under a pile of bones, and one had sealed itself in ice to play dead. Lin Ye dragged them out one by one and signed the contracts one by one. When he finished signing the eleven lords, a surge of energy came from the direction of the Seal Grounds. It wasn’t the kind of fluctuation from the Abyss Council, but a tremor that shook the entire Abyss ley line.

The Lord of Destruction stood behind Lin Ye, the purple flames in his eyes shrinking to the size of needle tips.

”It has awakened.”

Lin Ye put the eleven contracts into his backpack: ”It woke up quite punctually.”

He strode toward the Seal Grounds. Su Qinghan and Pojun followed behind, and the four Abyss Council members followed at the very back. The closer they got to the Seal Grounds, the denser the Abyss energy became. Black mist permeated the air, and every breath felt like swallowing sandpaper.

Su Qinghan cast a Purification Shield on herself and Pojun, while Lin Ye walked at the front with his Decay Domain active. The dark purple and pale golden light pushed the black mist back three meters, forming a clean passage.

They arrived at the Seal Grounds.

It was a huge circular space. The ground was engraved with seal patterns, and dim golden light flowed deep within the lines. The golden light was already very weak, flickering like a bulb about to run out of power. A crack had opened in the center of the sealing array, and the black energy surging out was as thick as ink. Deep within the ink, a pair of purple eyes floated in mid-air, staring at Lin Ye without any emotion.

”The second inheritor of the Decay Talent.”

The voice did not come from the crack; it appeared directly in Lin Ye’s mind. It was deep, thick, and sounded like the movement of the earth’s crust slowed down tenfold.

Lin Ye stood at the edge of the sealing array: ”Lord of the Abyss?”

”It is I.”

”Since you’re awake, come out. Stop squatting in the crack and acting mysterious.”

The purple eyes in the sealing array were silent for a moment. It had lived for who knows how many tens of thousands of years, had been sealed for ten thousand years, and had seen countless opponents. This was the first time it had encountered someone who told it to stop acting mysterious the moment they opened their mouth.

”Are you not afraid of me?”

”Afraid of what? You can’t even break free from the sealing array right now. How much power from your prime can you have left? Thirty percent? Twenty percent? I’d bet less than twenty percent.”

The purple eyes remained silent for even longer.

Lin Ye had guessed right. The sealing array hadn’t fully cracked yet, and the Lord of the Abyss currently had less than twenty percent of its prime strength. Twenty percent of fifty thousand attributes was ten thousand. And Lin Ye’s current attributes were twenty-three thousand. He was crushing it with double the attributes.

The Lord of the Abyss clearly realized this too. It stared at Lin Ye for a long time, then said: ”You are not here to seal me.”

”No. Why would I seal you? If I seal you, who will work for me?”

The purple eyes contracted violently. It hadn’t heard the word ”work” ten thousand years ago. But hearing it from Lin Ye’s mouth ten thousand years later, it instantly understood the meaning.

”You want me to work for you?”

”What else? Your Abyss Council is all working under me. The Lord of Destruction, the Lord of Corrosion, the Lord of Shadow, the Lord of Flame, plus forty-seven mid-level lords, over three hundred low-level lords, and eleven wild lords. They have all signed employment contracts. Now, you are the only one left.”

The Lord of the Abyss was silent for a very, very long time. Then it did something that petrified the four Abyss Council members. It laughed. It wasn’t an angry laugh, nor a mocking laugh, but a laugh that genuinely found something funny. The low laughter echoed in the Seal Grounds, shaking the golden light on the seal patterns.