"Oh, no, no, no, Your Excellency, Lord of the Hollows!" Roy bowed slightly. "I think you must have misunderstood. The mission of hunting down the Seven Deadly Sins was forcefully given to me by the Horseman of the Apocalypse, Fury, and I didn't deliberately cause trouble. You should have heard of Fury's temper and personality, right? Facing a Horseman of the Apocalypse, how could a high-rank demon like me dare to refuse?"
Roy lowered his head, but at this moment, his eyes were shining with the cunning that a demon should have.
Roy was not too sure about the purpose of the Lord of the Hollows' visit, but from his tone, it seemed like he was here to denounce him.
Roy used the Void power from the Warcraft world to divert Fury's attention. Fury had gone to investigate what was going on with the depraved power of this world and ignored the Seven Deadly Sins mission. This would definitely attract the anger of the Charred Council, but it was not easy to subdue Fury's bad temper. If the Charred Council insisted on punishing her, it would very likely make Fury walk the path of breaking off with them.
This push should be in line with the intentions of the two masterminds behind the scenes, Demon King Samael and the Mad Queen Lilith. Roy did this to leave a good impression on Samael's side.
It could not be helped. The demon kings that had appeared in this world were Samael and the Destroyer. If nothing unexpected happened, the Destroyer would definitely be killed by the Horseman of the Apocalypse, and there was no future to speak of following him. On the contrary, the chess game that Samael and Lilith had jointly directed showed unfathomable wisdom. Even though Roy was acting alone and maintaining a neutral attitude, he was still on Samael's side in essence.
But it was important to note that changing Fury's original plan would definitely hurt the interests of some people because they might have originally planned to use Fury as a chess piece.
The Charred Council was definitely the party whose interests would be hurt, and if he was not wrong, the Lord of the Hollows in front of him might be one of them.
Therefore, Roy simply did not admit to any of these questions and pushed them all to Fury. Anyway, the Lord of the Hollows probably could not confront him …
Of course, this quibble might have the possibility of angering the Lord of the Hollows. Facing a demon lord, Roy and Julia had no chance of winning, so as he said this, he secretly prepared to activate his Teleport skill. As long as he saw the slightest possibility of the Lord of the Hollows attacking, he would not hesitate to bring Julia back to the Abyss. Back then, he had left Fat Tiger in the Abyss to guard against this situation.
However, to Roy's surprise, the Lord of the Hollows did not show any signs of anger after hearing Roy's explanation. Then he suddenly sighed slightly. "It seems that I'm really old. You, a high-rank demon, dare to participate in this chess game and use Fury as a chess piece to pursue your own interests. But I can only hide in an alternate space and place my hopes on others …"
"…" Roy looked at him in puzzlement, not knowing why he was sighing. However, he did not agree with what the Lord of the Hollows said. He thought that he was not a chess player.
In fact, Roy's understanding of the Lord of the Hollows was a little off. The Lord of the Hollows did not come to find him specifically to denounce him. In fact, if Roy had not interfered and caused the plot to deviate, the Lord of the Hollows would have looked for Fury, a Horseman of the Apocalypse. Then he would have used Fury to let her discover the truth of being deceived by the Charred Council step by step and instigate her to rebel.
In other words, the ultimate goal of the Lord of the Hollows was actually to point his sword at the Charred Council!
Back then, he had left angrily because he had a disagreement with the other members of the Charred Council. In his opinion, over hundreds of millions of years, the Charred Council had become corrupted. The Charred Council had used the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to suppress the various races in order to maintain the so-called balance. This was understandable, but the key was that the further it went, the more this' maintaining balance 'began to change. When he realized that maintaining balance was only an excuse, and the true goal of the Charred Council was to maintain its rule and authority, it had already deviated from the original intention of the Charred Council's establishment.
The Lord of the Hollows believed that the current Charred Council had actually been corrupted and fallen, so he began to oppose it.
Similarly, there were many others who were dissatisfied with the Charred Council, such as angels, demons, the Lord of the Hollows, and even some ancient races … Perhaps the Charred Council itself did not realize that its actions of using the powerful force of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to suppress the various races were only constantly accumulating the dissatisfaction of these races.
Now, the End War set off by angels and demons was an opportunity, causing all the people standing against the Charred Council to jump out and add fuel to the fire.
To disintegrate the Charred Council, they had to first cut off their limbs, and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were their limbs …
When Fury descended to the human world, the Lord of the Hollows had his eyes on Fury. But unexpectedly, Roy appeared in front of Fury first and made her abandon the mission and leave. This prevented the Lord of the Hollows' original plan from being implemented.
Naturally, the Lord of the Hollows' gaze focused on Roy.
He was very curious about what Roy, this high-rank frost demon, wanted to do. Although the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse had always been neutral, their chances of fighting demons were much higher than their chances of fighting angels. But not only did Roy not fight with Fury, but Fury even threw her mission to him. This was indeed a little unbelievable.
During this period of observation, he found that not only did Roy have strength that far exceeded that of ordinary high-rank demons, but he was also very smart. He actually knew how to use human weapons to fight.
Strong enough, smart enough, and cunning enough! Although he had pushed all the blame on Fury, the Lord of the Hollows still intuitively realized that this demon might have the same goal for the Horsemen of the Apocalypse …
But … the Lord of the Hollows sized up Roy and muttered to himself, "Not enough, not enough. Not enough strength …"
His words were very vague, so Roy could not hear them clearly. He only felt that this old man was strange. Could it be that he was too old and had dementia? Therefore, he immediately considered how to find an excuse to leave and stop entangling with this old demon.
However, before he could think of an excuse, the Lord of the Hollows pointed at the enormous floating objects in the distance. "Did you want to go there just now?"
"Yes!" Roy nodded, thinking, It's just that your appearance interrupted me.
Julia said, "Your Excellency, you said that it's best if we don't go. What do you mean?"
"That's the Destroyer's Tower!" The Lord of the Hollows explained. "That's the home he ordered the demons to build for him. He wants to build a demon king city there and then completely rule the entire world. Be it demons or angels, they will all succumb to his terror … Of course, he's currently attacking the White City, but because the makers and some ancient races have also appeared in the human world, it won't be long before he returns. If you're not his subordinates, then it's best if you don't walk into his trap."
"Is that so, the Destroyer's Tower?" Roy looked thoughtfully at the enormous buildings floating in the sky. No wonder he could see some radiation sources flying around there. They must be the demons building the tower, right?
However, if that's the Destroyer's Tower, is Samael's sealed place not far from the tower? The Destroyer could not kill Samael, so he could only seal him. He should be afraid that Samael would bring him trouble after he escaped, so wouldn't it be easier to monitor him by building his residence near the sealed place?
Of course, Roy was not too sure. He could ask Julia later to see if the direction of the tower was near the direction where Samael and the Destroyer had fought … Then he would understand …
"But …" At this moment, the Lord of the Hollows, who had been persuading Roy and Julia not to go to the tower, suddenly changed the topic. "Just because you can't get close to the tower doesn't mean you can't go near it. There's a demon named Abraxis nearby. He's the supervisor of the Destroyer's Tower, Demon Osiris. If you can find Abraxis and kill him, I can give you a special reward!"
"Oh? What kind of reward? "Roy asked curiously.
"Power! A power that comes from myself! " The Lord of the Hollows said. "Although you're much stronger than ordinary high-rank demons, you're still only a high-rank demon. In this game, you're still too weak. If you're not careful, you might be crushed to pieces. If I reward you with this power, you can reach the height of a demon lord in a short time. Even if this power is only one-time, it can let you experience what kind of existence a demon lord is. This will be very beneficial for you to break through to the demon lord level in the future!"
"Oh, really?" Roy's eyes lit up as he asked in 'surprise'.
"Kill Abraxis and bring his heart and soul back to me, and I'll give you this power!" the Lord of the Hollows said.
"Okay, deal!" Roy said straightforwardly.
The Lord of the Hollows was satisfied. A magic formation appeared under his feet, and he sank into it.
After he left, Julia asked Roy, "Are we really going to the tower?"
However, what she did not expect was that Roy spat on the ground and said, "Go my ass! Let's go find the Seven Deadly Sins! "
Julia was dumbfounded. "Then … then why did you make a deal with him just now?"
"That's to stare at him and get him to leave quickly!" Roy sneered. "Do you think Abraxis is so easy to kill? If Abraxis is someone we can deal with, why doesn't the Lord of the Hollows do it himself? Listen to me and ignore this old guy! "
"Then … then what if he comes looking for us again?" Julia could not wrap her head around it.
"What are you afraid of? We only said that we would kill Abraxis, but we didn't say when we would go! " Roy poked Julia's forehead with his finger. "Besides, we don't even have a demon contract. It's empty talk. How can he control when we go?"
After coming to a realization, the way Julia looked at Roy changed into … starry eyes!
She said to Roy with admiration, "Osiris, you're so treacherous!"
Yes, there's nothing wrong with this. In the Abyss, treachery is the best praise for a demon …
Julia felt that she was falling more and more into Roy's charm and could not extricate herself …
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