Rise of the Demon God

"You seriously think you can destroy the barrier cast by the Heavenly Emperor? It's the strongest Barrier you can possibly imagine, created by the strongest power in this world!" Zia Uzhi informed Long Chen after he finished laughing. 

"I'll take that as a no. So there's no way to destroy the barrier. That makes things a bit complicated," Long Chen muttered, frowning. 

"Yeah. To destroy the barrier, you need to be at least as strong as the person who cast it. And in this case, it's impossible. As for weaker people, I guess they might also be able to destroy the barrier if they possess a God-Grade artifact, but that's even more impossible," Zia Uzhi let out, sighing. 

"God Grade Artifacts?" Long Chen asked, frowning. 

"Ah, right. You're not from here. In the lower world, you won't know about such things of this magnitude. But a God Grade Artifact is said to be the strongest Artifact. I'm sure you people there also grade your Artifacts. Just think of God Grade as the pinnacle of that grading," Zia Uzhi answered.

"The strongest Artifacts?" Long Chen acted surprised despite possessing one himself. "They must be rare, right?"

"Rare would be an understatement. I don't think even twenty of those exist in the entire world, and most of those would be defensive God Grade Artifacts. As for the God Grade Weapons, they are even harder to find! I think there are only three of them that I know of," Zia Uzhi responded.

"Is there no way to get your hands on them to break the barrier?" Long Chen asked. 

"Heh, there's no way. One of those three is with the Heavenly Emperor, while the other is with the Demonic Emperor! And lastly, one is with the Heavenly General! So don't even think you can get to that," he added, sighing. 

"For a moment, assume that a prisoner manages to get his hands on the Heavenly Emperor. Would that be enough to break the barrier?" Long Chen asked. 

"Of course! God Realm weapons are the gods of weapons! No other barrier would be able to stop an attack from them! But even then, I doubt you can do anything. It'll be hard even then. Moreover, no Prisoner would be there stupid since that would be like painting a red dot on their back!"

"What do you mean?" Long Chen asked. 

"I mean, just think about it. If someone breaks the barrier to escape, everyone will know that the person probably possessed a Heavenly Grade Artifacts. That person would become the most wanted person. Even the Heavenly Emperor would go after him."

"And even if that person possesses a God Grade Weapon, he won't be able to face the Heavenly Emperor. In the end, he'll either end up dead or back in this place while his weapon will be taken. I'm sure you can guess how useless running would be. You'll just end up back here, after all."

Long Chen nodded, understanding what he was trying to say. But that was also his concern too. He knew that the God Grade Weapon would be too eye-catching. If someone knew about that, he would spend most of his life running. Moreover, the Heavenly Emperor would probably be able to find him.

The only way to escape was to escape without destroying the barrier. If the barrier wasn't destroyed, no one would know he had a God Grade Weapon. 

And after that, even if it came out that he had run away, so what. The Heavenly Emperor wasn't going to send his force after a random prisoner they escaped. With the God Grade Weapon, it was a different thing.

"You're right about that. So there's literally no way to break the barrier to escape that won't result in a disaster," Long Chen muttered, sighing. 

"Unless..." he muttered but didn't finish. 

He just thought about one thing. If he considered what he heard here, there was going to be a problem if he destroyed the barrier and escaped, but what if he destroyed the barrier and he didn't escape alone?

If he destroyed the barrier and came back, leaving with others, no one was going to know he destroyed it, especially if he escaped with everyone else. 

"Suppose a person destroys the barrier, will the. Barrier repair itself or the Heavenly Emperor would need to come back to repair it?" he asked. 

"Repair? It won't be able to repair itself if it's destroyed. It will need the origin of the Heavenly Emperor to heal itself. So he would need to come," Zia Uzhi answered, sighing. 

"That would be great then. I hope someone is able to break the barrier someday. We would all be able to escape," Long Chen muttered, sighing. 

"That's hard. I doubt that person would inform anyone else about his plan of escape in advance. He would think about himself since he would be suspicious of others spoiling his plan," Zia Uzhi muttered, sighing. 

"Of course I know. But I'm talking about after that. So what if he doesn't take us with him. When the barrier is broken, can't we leave on our own? We would be able to use our laws and other abilities too! We could certainly escape after that!" Long Chen let out. 

"Little kid, you underestimate the Heavenly Warriors too much. Within five minutes of the barrier being broken, this entire place would be surrounded by the Heavenly Warriors. So unless we knew about the plan in advance to position us near the exit, we won't be able to do anything," Zia Uzhi explained. 

"And if we aren't in position, it'll certainly take us a long time to get to the exit to even think about running away. And by the time we'll be surrounded from all sides. So we can't escape. It's not that easy," he continued. 

"Now stop thinking about the barrier and dreaming. You need to come to terms with your reality. You aren't going to escape. So just make the best of your life here. You'll be much happier that way," He further added, sighing. 

Long Chen nodded, but he didn't speak. He now knew about the flaw in his plan.

'The Barrier can be broken, but I can't escape alone. I can certainly use my teleportation to come back inside the prison so I could be seen by others running inside the prison after the barrier was broken. That would be my witness. But even then, it's useless if I can't take others with me.'

'Wait... Maybe I can use my Spatial Portals to take others with me? That can work. I can break the barrier, teleport inside.. Act as if I'm surprised.'