The final range of Armageddon reached a radius of more than 150 kilometers.
Roy and the others flew with all their might before finally escaping the bombardment range of the meteorite. After the smoke dissipated, Roy spread his wings and hovered in the sky, able to see the enormous radial crater in the distance.
The power of this Armageddon was comparable to a nuclear bomb with a yield of tens of thousands of tons. It really could not be underestimated …
If Roy had not decisively cut off Xeron's head and allowed him to guide the meteorite to land quickly, they probably would not have had time to run out of the range.
Even so, the ground troops in Roy's army that could not fly were completely wiped out by this Armageddon. The skeleton soldiers, death knights, and most low-level demons all died in the shock wave, leaving not even dregs behind.
Giovanni and his vampires were palpitating. If not for the fact that vampires could transform into bats and fly, their entire race would have been wiped out here.
"Your Excellency Osiris, what should we do now?" Giovanni asked Roy carefully.
After killing Xeron, not only were the demons under Roy obedient to him, but even Giovanni and the others were also abnormally respectful. Perhaps Roy did not feel much, but to Giovanni and the natives of Ashan, Xeron's name was really resounding. Over the years, the demon camp had always been under Xeron's leadership, but Roy had killed this demon that the various races of Ashan hated and feared in no time.
Now, Giovanni increasingly felt that following Roy was the right choice …
Roy did not answer Giovanni's question for the time being. He floated in the air and took out Xeron's evil soul.
Frostmourne did not need Xeron's soul, so Roy chose to devour it without hesitation. Xeron's soul seemed to still have some consciousness, and Roy stuffed it into his mouth while wailing. Then he used the soul memory reading technique he had used on the spider demon Araniya on Xeron's soul again.
Countless scenes began to appear in Roy's mind, and they flashed quickly. Perhaps because Xeron's soul was stronger, there were quite a lot of source memories in his soul, and they were not fragmented. These memories showed Xeron's life almost completely in front of Roy.
From his memories, Roy learned of Xeron's age. So far, Xeron had lived for 404 Abyss years!
Xeron seemed to have promoted to high-rank demon more than a hundred years ago. In other words, this guy had used three hundred years to become a high-rank demon.
Don't think that this time was very long. In fact, in Xeron's memories, he had been proud of this for a long time. In other words, to be able to grow into a high-rank demon in six hundred years, Xeron could already be considered a genius among demons!
Roy had never dared to mention his age in front of any demon because it was too exaggerated that he had only used a few years to become a high-rank demon … This kind of cheat promotion trajectory could not be viewed with the common sense of any demon. This was also why Xeron did not dare to believe that Roy was the little demon from back then.
Only Julia had seen Roy promote. But because Julia was a fallen angel, and when Samael created her, she was already a high-rank demon-level fallen angel, she did not have much of a concept of the age of demon promotion, so she had never been surprised.
As for Benia, from the moment she met Roy, she knew that Roy was about to promote to demon lord, so even if Roy really promoted to demon lord, she would not be too surprised.
But from Xeron's memories, Roy also received a hint that he must not let others know his age in the future.
Although Xeron's memories were very complete, most of them were memories of Xeron killing and plundering souls. Moreover, these memories were basically memories left behind when he faced more difficult enemies. In addition, there were also memories of Xeron's defeat and escape. Perhaps these memories were relatively deep, so they were left in the root memories of his soul.
However, Xeron's most vivid memory was probably the memory of being tricked by Roy last time. In this memory, when Xeron was surrounded and beaten to death by several dragons, Roy's small figure in the sky looked down coldly. The scene was especially clear and repeatedly appeared! It was no wonder that Xeron could not forget it. In all his memories, this might have been the worst time he had been tricked … This was indeed a humiliation.
On the contrary, after he was killed by Roy this time, there were no memories left. He probably died too quickly and did not have time to reflect on it …
After checking for a while, Roy finally found the memory he wanted to find the most.
One memory was about Demon Sovereign Kha-Beleth. From Xeron's memories, Roy clearly 'saw' Kha-Beleth's figure and the entire process of his loyalty to him.
From his memories, Roy learned that although Xeron was loyal to Kha-Beleth, it was because Kha-Beleth had promised him many benefits and benefits. But deep in Xeron's heart, there was a trace of hidden ambition.
It seemed that every high-rank demon whose strength was close to that of a demon lord would have similar emotions when facing a demon lord. On the one hand, they were afraid of the demon lord's strength, but on the other hand, they also wanted to become a demon lord.
Among the many benefits that Kha-Beleth had promised Xeron, one of them was to help him become a true demon lord!
Kha-Beleth told Xeron that as long as he could be loyal and complete all of Kha-Beleth's plans, Kha-Beleth would give Xeron a trace of a demon lord's soul and help him complete his promotion!
This was a rather important piece of information to Roy.
In order to become a true demon lord, not only did he need to accumulate enough magic power and complete control of spatial power, but there seemed to be another important step — the ritual! The promotion ritual!
All along, the promotion of demons had a very important relationship with their bloodline. While continuously refining their bloodline, it was also a process of refining magic power. It was the same from low-rank to middle-rank, from middle-rank to high-rank. And from high-rank demon to demigod-level demon lord, it was a leapfrog sublimation process. In this process, a promotion ritual was needed.
For example, this promotion ritual was a qualification certification process. If one could obtain a trace of the source power from a demon lord, it would be equivalent to the examiner giving the promoted a 'qualified' certification. Then in the promotion ritual, the promoted would smoothly obtain the promotion.
This was also why there was a tradition of 'challenging a demon lord' among the demons of the world of Ashan. Only by challenging a demon lord could one obtain recognition.
Of course, under normal circumstances, demon lords were not willing to see other demons promote. Of course, the fewer people on equal footing, the better, so demon lords would not easily give such promises. This led to the challenge of a demon lord often having to kill a demon lord and plunder his source power to successfully ascend. Otherwise, only death awaited them.
Then, the question was, without the recognition of a demon lord, would the promotion ritual absolutely not succeed?
The answer was not necessarily because if a high-rank demon had enough accumulation and obtained sufficient strength, he could also survive the promotion ritual and become a new demon lord. A demon lord who became a demon lord this way was naturally stronger.
However, this method of brute force often did not have a high success rate, and it could even be said to be very low. Therefore, the 'Source Bestowment' of demon lords naturally became a special gift and reward, becoming a method used by high-level rulers to control and win over demons.
Seeing this, Roy finally understood that when he was in the Darksiders world, the Lord of the Hollows had said that he would give Roy a chance to experience the power of a demon lord. It was actually a similar reward. If Roy had agreed at that time, it would have been equivalent to him obtaining a trace of the power of the Lord of the Hollows, which would definitely have been twice the result with half the effort for his future promotion.
Unfortunately, Roy did not understand this at that time. After all, Araniya was only a low-rank demon. In the inherited memories that Roy obtained from her, there was no detailed information about the promotion process of demon lords. At that time, not only was the Lord of the Hollows very vague, but Roy did not trust him at that time. In addition, the Lord of the Hollows wanted him to challenge another demon lord. Such a mission was too risky, so after Roy agreed perfunctorily, he did not carry it out until he left the Darksiders world, causing him to miss an opportunity …
Of course, Roy did not regret it much. Even if he was given another chance to choose, Roy would not carry it out.
On the other hand, the Lord of the Hollows might still be waiting for Roy to hand in the mission to him. After all, the passage of time was too meaningless to demons …
Looking at these memories, Roy came to a sudden realization and could not help but wonder what the so-called promotion ritual was.
Thus, he kept searching through Xeron's memories, and after a while, he finally found the content of the promotion ritual.
When Roy saw the content of the promotion ritual, he was stunned.
Because he really did not expect that the promotion ritual of a demon lord was actually … passing through the Gate of Heaven!
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