This was a secret room about hundreds of square meters in size. The thick walls were made of hard black bricks, and the four walls were engraved with demon characters. Several burning magic torches emitted light, but they could not illuminate this secret room at all. There was a strange dark atmosphere in the secret room, and a strange force field spread in the room, as though something like a barrier was protecting and enveloping this place.
Roy controlled the Demon Eye and did not dare to get too close. He could only find a corner that was easy to observe and let the Demon Eye hide.
This secret room was empty, and there was only a huge demon skeleton on one wall. The demon horns of this skeleton were still there, but its face had three empty eye sockets, and the third eye socket was in the middle of its forehead. It was unknown what race this demon was when it was alive.
Xeron walked toward the demon skull. After arriving in front of it, he stretched out his hand and reached into its mouth. He did not know what kind of mechanism he activated, but he heard a low rumbling sound, and the ground in the middle of the secret room slowly opened!
Immediately afterward, a circular altar slowly rose from the ground.
When the Demon Eye conveyed this scene to Roy, he could not help but widen his eyes in surprise.
The circular altar that rose from below was engraved with a pentagram pattern, and in the middle of the altar was a rectangular stone bed! A big-bellied woman with her limbs bound by magic runes was lying quietly on the stone bed.
What surprised Roy was this woman. Her clothes were gorgeous, and she seemed to have a noble status. Moreover, she had dark red hair!
This made Roy immediately think of someone, Queen Isabel of Erathia!
Although Roy had never seen Queen Isabel with his own eyes, he had heard that Queen Isabel had her iconic dark red hair. He recalled that Benia had once said that her sister, Biara, had turned into Queen Isabel and stayed in Erathia. So in that instant, Roy immediately confirmed the identity of this woman lying on the stone bed: She was the true Queen Isabel of Erathia!
No wonder, no wonder. Since the queen in Erathia is a fake, then the real one is the one captured by the demons …
But according to the scattered information Roy obtained, wasn't Isabel's husband killed by the demons? So what's going on with her big belly?!
Could it be …
Roy came to a realization. He finally knew what was going on!
If nothing unexpected happened, the child in Isabel's stomach was not the seed of her human husband but … the seed of a demon! Moreover, if he guessed correctly, it was the seed of Demon Lord Kha-Beleth!
Roy finally understood what time he was in this world after coming to this world. This was the time when the Dark Messiah was born!
After the last unpredicted lunar eclipse, a large number of demons left Sheogh, came to the surface, and launched a battle to destroy Steadwick. It was during the time when Roy came to this world four years ago. After trapping Xeron to death and leaving the Dragon Balls as coordinates, Roy returned to the Abyss, so he did not know about the subsequent war.
In fact, in this war, although Erathia had united with its allies to repel the demons' attack and protect the capital, Steadwick, their Queen Isabel had been secretly replaced. The succubus Biara had replaced Isabel and stayed in the kingdom of Erathia as a fake, while the real Queen Isabel had been captured by the demons. All of this was secretly planned by Demon Lord Kha-Beleth.
Since there was a fake, the Erathians naturally did not know the truth, so it was impossible for them to come and rescue their queen. Thus, Isabel was imprisoned in the demon kingdom of Eeofol for a long time.
In fact, seventy-six years after the death of the Seventh Dragon Sar-Elam, one of his apprentices, a prophet named Sar-Shaza, made a prophecy.
The prophecy read:
The fortress will stand for ten centuries
The wall of souls will be surrounded by a wall of fire
The horned lords will lower their heads
To the yet to be born King of Darkness
A hundred years of blood and conflict
The moon will lose its color, and no one knows why
A place to rest has finally been found
Is the seventh who once soared high
The last daughter of the abandoned legacy
Will guide him into history
Beneath the tomb, the prophecy stirred
The war of ancient enemies
As an apprentice of Sar-Elam, Sar-Shaza was quite famous, so the prophecy he made had once been valued by the world. But the world of Ashan was a world full of disasters and frequent wars. In the past thousand years, records of this prophecy gradually disappeared, and today, not many people remembered this prophecy.
Only some of the ancients who had survived since that era might still remember this prophecy, but there were very few of them …
Only the demons of Sheogh remembered it very clearly because most of the powerful demons were imprisoned in Sheogh and could not come out, so there was naturally no saying that they would die in war. Especially demon lords like Kha-Beleth, their long lives and unforgettable thoughts of escaping made them remember this prophecy. They firmly believed that the demons would only be trapped in Sheogh for ten centuries at most, which was exactly a thousand years.
And the facts proved that this was indeed the case. As time passed, the power of the seal was weakening.
Through the interpretation of the prophecy, the demon lords had already realized that the seal barrier set up by Sar-Elam could not be destroyed by demons, so they planned to create a half-human half-demon hybrid and then nurture him to let this Child of Taboo, who had demon power but a human body, help them break the seal and completely liberate all of Sheogh.
When Kha-Beleth could finally use most of his power to pass through the seal barrier and appear in the world of Ashan, the demons immediately realized that the prophecy had come true! Therefore, all the demon lords unanimously decided that Kha-Beleth would go out and carry out this prophecy.
In order to create a demon-human hybrid, he had to find a human woman to give birth to this child for Kha-Beleth. Without a doubt, Kha-Beleth chose Isabel …
The reason why he chose Isabel was that this woman was born during the fifth lunar eclipse and was the Daughter of the Lunar Eclipse! When she was born, Kha-Beleth remotely commanded the demons to quietly leave a mark on her …
After Isabel grew up, the demons took advantage of the sixth lunar eclipse to attack. Their plan succeeded, and Isabel was successfully captured and replaced.
Because no matter what, the demons of Sheogh were still creatures of another world. They had only stayed in this world because of their contract with Urgash and the seal of Sar-Elam. If he wanted to give birth to a Child of Taboo with the creatures of this world, he had to find a Daughter of the Lunar Eclipse.
The Daughter of the Lunar Eclipse was the best choice. The illusion demon César that Roy had chased back then was a hybrid born with the help of a Daughter of the Lunar Eclipse. But unfortunately, it was difficult to find a Daughter of the Lunar Eclipse of the right age. In the past twenty years, there had not been any solar eclipses in Ashan, so he could only take a step back and choose the Daughter of the Lunar Eclipse, Isabel.
But the Daughter of the Lunar Eclipse had a shortcoming that could not be ignored. Compared to the Daughter of the Lunar Eclipse, the pregnancy rate of the Daughter of the Lunar Eclipse was not high!
But this was not a big problem for Kha-Beleth. The quality was not high, but the quantity made up for it …
Thus, this period of captivity was definitely a terrifying, painful, and despairing memory for Isabel …
After Kha-Beleth's hard work and hard work, Isabel finally became pregnant with his child. Logically speaking, she needed a normal pregnancy time to give birth to this half-human half-demon hybrid.
However, Kha-Beleth clearly could not wait any longer. The other demon lords of Sheogh were constantly urging him, so he chose an unconventional method. He used a sacrificial ritual to extract the life and soul of the sacrifice and supply it to the fetus in Isabel's womb to accelerate the birth process.
Of course, even though he accelerated, there was still a need for time. This time was at least a month! Because Kha-Beleth had to ensure that this Child of Taboo had sufficient talent and physique.
From ten months of pregnancy to a month of childbirth, this time had shortened by ten times …
Roy combined all the information he had obtained and deduced this possibility. He immediately understood why Xeron said that it would still take eighteen days when discussing with the other demon heroes. In other words, not long after Roy entered the Desert of Death, the demons had just begun the sacrificial ritual.
This also explained why the demons did not know about Roy's appearance at that time … Because from then on, they had retracted their defenses and tried to ensure that the sacrificial ritual would not be disturbed.
As for what Xeron mentioned, the second phase of the plan would take twenty years. Perhaps it was because after this Child of Taboo was born, it would take twenty years for him to grow up. After all, although the Child of Taboo was powerful, he still needed time to grow. And Kha-Beleth might not be able to speed up this growth time, and he might also need to nurture this Child of Taboo's feelings for demons …
The illusion demon César had once said that the reason why half-human half-demon hybrids were called Children of Taboo was that they would often lean toward the side of humanity due to emotional factors and turn around to deal with demons. There was no reason for Kha-Beleth not to guard against this situation …
Through the Demon Eyes, Roy looked at the scene in the secret room. His eyes flickered as he pondered and figured out everything.
He thought that Xeron had raised Isabel's altar to carry out another sacrifice, but unexpectedly, Xeron half-knelt in front of the stone bed and placed his hand on the pentagram below. As he infused magic power, he chanted in the demon language softly.
Because he was a little far away, Roy could not hear what Xeron was chanting clearly. But not long after, a ray of light suddenly rose from the pentagram!
The light of this magic formation enveloped Isabel's stone bed. Above the stone bed, above Isabel's body, a gigantic illusory shadow suddenly appeared!
It was the shadow of the upper body of a demon. He was wearing fiery red armor and a full helmet, revealing only a pair of burning flame eyes. Just looking at these eyes made one feel a soul-stirring tremble …
Kha-Beleth! This shadow was definitely Demon Sovereign Kha-Beleth!
Roy instantly understood. Then he made the invisible Demon Eyes shrink again and hide tightly in the darkness in the corner.
It was obvious that Xeron was contacting Kha-Beleth, but the reason why he used Isabel's altar to contact him was probably because Kha-Beleth was very concerned about Isabel's situation, so he had been closely watching over her.
In other words, Isabel was being protected by Kha-Beleth's power …
This is a little troublesome … Roy thought. It's not easy to do anything …
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