After spreading the Demon Eyes, Roy stayed in the military camp for the next few days and did not go out.
He did not go out, but his army was causing trouble everywhere in Ur-Hekal!
The demons he had summoned from the Abyss had witnessed the strength that Roy had displayed with their own eyes. Following a commander like Roy naturally made them arrogant and insufferably arrogant. They wandered in groups in the city and unscrupulously snatched the soul rations of other demons. The demons that they bullied knew who the backer of these new demons was, so they either swallowed their anger or resisted and were beaten up.
If the demons were only taking the initiative to bully, then Giovanni and the vampires and Cassandra's undead were walking taunts. Demons hated undead creatures, so as long as Giovanni and the others appeared on the streets of the city, countless disgusted gazes would immediately stare at them in the dark. Although Roy had taught them a lesson by killing them before, demons were irritable and easily angered, especially low-rank demons. They might forget the previous lesson in a moment of impulse and attack Giovanni and the others.
Giovanni remembered Roy's instructions. He would not take the initiative to attack, but if other demons attacked them, they could fight back.
As a result, in just a few days, hundreds of fights occurred in Ur-Hekal. Both sides suffered losses, and hundreds of low-level undead were killed on the undead army's side. Similarly, many low-rank demons on Xeron's side also died.
As the headquarters of the demons, the city was naturally very chaotic. But before Roy came, this chaotic situation was not too bad, and Xeron and the other demon heroes had always ignored it. But now that Roy came, many buildings in the city were burned and collapsed every day, and the sound of fireballs exploding could be heard in the city at any time. This was all caused by the fighting between the two sides.
The demon heroes reflected this situation to Xeron, and Xeron also had a headache. He had long expected such a situation, but he was still at his wit's end when it really happened.
In the center of Hekal, in a huge black demon hall, Xeron sat on a large chair in the middle, listening to the demon heroes report the situation while suppressing his anger.
His fierce gaze was currently on Grawl, who was in the corner. Grawl seemed to realize that he seemed to have done something bad with good intentions and attracted a troublesome demon, so he did not dare to say a word.
"Your Excellency Xeron, this can't go on!" A demon hero named Alester said to Xeron. "We have to send Osiris and his troops as soon as possible."
"But where should we send them?" Another demon hero, Nebiros, hesitated. "In order to smoothly carry out Sovereign Kha-Beleth's plan, all the demons in Eeofol are shrinking. There's no war at all!"
"If there's no war, create war!" Alester said. "Just send Osiris and his troops out. As for whether to fight the elves or orcs, let him decide for himself."
Another demon hero, Nemos, interrupted. "Osiris is very powerful, and the combat strength of the troops he leads is definitely not weak. With his personality, I'm afraid he won't stop after taking down one or two cities. It's very likely that he'll go straight in. What if his actions make the various races mistakenly think that we're going to start a new round of invasions and then gather to deal with us?"
The demon heroes fell silent. After a long time, Nebiros asked Xeron, "Your Excellency Xeron, how long will the sacrificial ritual take?"
"Eighteen days!" Xeron sighed. "This is the shortest time that can be guaranteed!"
"In eighteen days, even if Osiris provokes a hornet's nest, the various races might not be able to reach our hinterland in such a short time, right?" Nebiros said. "I think it's feasible!"
However, Xeron said gloomily, "Eighteen days is only the first stage of the sacrificial ritual. In fact, there's a second stage in Sovereign Kha-Beleth's plan. This second stage … is at least twenty years!"
"What?!" The demon heroes present were stunned when they heard this. Then they exclaimed, "Your Excellency Xeron, what do you mean?! Are we going to continue hiding for another twenty years?! "
Xeron nodded with difficulty. "It's very likely!"
"How can this work?" Alester said in astonishment. "You said that the sacrificial ritual would take a month, so forget it. It'll be over after a while. But we can persevere for twenty years, but the demons under us will rebel! There's no blood, no slaughter, no souls to prey on, and no demon that can stay in one place for twenty years! "
"That's right, Your Excellency Xeron! Don't you want to reconsider? "the demon heroes echoed.
"Shut up, all of you shut up!" Xeron said angrily. "Do you think I want to stay here for twenty years?! But this is Sovereign Kha-Beleth's plan. You don't know the specific plan, but I do! I can tell you with certainty that as long as Sovereign Kha-Beleth's plan succeeds, the prison that the Seventh Dragon Sar-Elam used to imprison us a thousand years ago, Sheogh, will no longer exist! All the powerful demons in Sheogh will return to the world and completely cleanse it! For this great goal, waiting for twenty years is worth it! "
The demon heroes were dumbfounded. To be honest, they did not know much about Kha-Beleth's plan before. Only the two main people in charge, Xeron and Biara, were carrying out the specific implementation process. They only obeyed Xeron's orders and captured a large number of living beings to carry out the sacrificial ritual. From Xeron's mysterious actions, they understood that this might really be a big plan and vaguely guessed that it might be related to Sheogh. But their initial guess was that Sovereign Kha-Beleth might want to escape. But they did not expect that after hearing and confirming this news from Xeron, they realized that it was not only Kha-Beleth but also other powerful demon lords!
Sheogh was a cage, and the demons imprisoned inside were all powerful demons who had followed the Dragon of Chaos, Urgash. Among these demons, there were many demon lords, but in the war, some demon lords had died, and the rest were all sealed in Sheogh. For a thousand years, the demons inside had been constantly looking for ways to escape from the prison, but only during lunar eclipses would the seal on Sheogh weaken a lot.
However, even if it weakened, the number of demons that could escape was limited because the seal barrier had a filtering function. The stronger the demon, the greater the impact, and the more impossible it was to escape. Left with no choice, the demons could only infiltrate out bit by bit during these thousand years. First, some low-rank and middle-rank demons escaped, and then a small number of high-rank demons escaped. These high-rank demons began to summon companions from the Abyss, and gradually, the demon camp became active on the ground again.
But there was a problem here. The helpers that high-rank demons could summon from the Abyss were basically equal to their strength, and it was impossible for them to summon powerful demon lords.
This was also the reason why the demons lacked a unified leader in the previous Demon Wars and often fought on their own.
However, it was different now. It seemed that as the number of lunar eclipses increased, the seal barrier was weakening further. During the last lunar eclipse, Demon Lord Kha-Beleth finally escaped from Sheogh for the first time with the help of his clone. Although this clone only had more than half of his strength, it had indeed reached the standard of being able to escape.
Even though he only had more than half of his strength, a demon lord was still a demon lord, and he was still stronger than all high-rank demons. At this point, the demon camp finally had a true leader-level figure, and it was his appearance that united the power of the demon camp.
However, perhaps Kha-Beleth knew that even if he could escape, he might not be able to defeat the alliance army of the other races. Therefore, after coming out, he was not in a hurry to make any big moves but secretly began to plan to release all the demons in Sheogh.
This might have been an agreement between Kha-Beleth and the other demon lords in Sheogh, so when the demon heroes heard Xeron's words, they realized that Xeron indeed could not go against Kha-Beleth's will because Kha-Beleth now represented the will of all the demon lords in Sheogh!
"Okay, since that's the case, we'll listen to your orders!" Nebiros and the others said. "But Your Excellency Xeron, please resolve the matter of Osiris as soon as possible. If we can't fight outside, it shouldn't be a problem to eliminate the enemies in Eeofol, right? Wasn't there a Dark Elven Clan that infiltrated recently? Why don't we send Osiris to eliminate these dark elves? The underground world is complicated. Even if he succeeds, it will take a lot of time. "
Xeron nodded. This was a good idea.
But he still felt that this demon, Osiris, was still an unstable factor. Perhaps because of Roy's name as a demon, Xeron had always been wary of him. So after the demon heroes dispersed, Xeron thought about it, went to the back of the demon hall, and stood on a pentagram teleportation formation.
Purple light flashed, and Xeron's figure disappeared. But what he did not know was that an invisible Demon Eye had been following him. When he teleported away, this Demon Eye disappeared at the same time.
In the army camp far away in the city, Roy had been relying on the Demon Eye to pry into the discussion between Xeron and the other demon heroes, and their suggestions did not exceed Roy's expectations.
As expected, the crusade against the dark elves fell on Roy's head …
Now, when the Demon Eye teleported with Xeron, Roy immediately became spirited. The scene transmitted by the Demon Eye appeared in front of him. When he saw that Xeron was in a huge secret room, Roy immediately understood that he had found the place where Xeron was performing the sacrificial ritual …
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