When he returned to Ur-Hekal, all he saw was a melted city.
Thick smoke swept up and slowly drifted into the dark sky. Hot magma flowed randomly in the city, and from time to time, houses collapsed and fell into the magma. The flammable objects inside exploded into violent flames when they came into contact with the magma.
The entire city was in a state of continuous burning. In addition to the alliance army's attack, most of the reason why Ur-Hekal had become like this was because of Kha-Beleth. When he transformed into a flame demon and fought Roy, Ur-Hekal, which was the closest, naturally became the first to suffer.
Because he was worried that this melting state would not be good for him to find things, the moment he landed, a large amount of black frost quickly spread from his feet. Not only did this black frost freeze the flowing magma in the city, but it also strengthened the crumbling buildings.
After identifying the direction, Roy led Julia and Benia straight to the city hall of Ur-Hekal. The other demons scattered into the city to search for useful things as much as possible.
The city hall was also in a state of meltdown. Roy's arrival froze the collapse here. After walking into the city hall, Roy raised his head and looked at the circular dome of the city hall. There was an enormous purple crystal embedded in the dome, emitting a warm glow.
"That's … a soul crystal?!" Julia followed Roy's gaze and was shocked. "Such a large soul crystal?!"
Benia came to a realization. "No wonder the souls of people killed on the battlefield will float to Ur-Hekal. It turns out that there's actually such a large soul crystal here …"
Yes, this was the first harvest Roy had obtained in Kha-Beleth's memories.
Soul crystals were also a method used to store souls. Compared to soul contracts, which were stored in documents, soul crystals could store a larger number of souls. Moreover, soul crystals had a characteristic. After the number of souls stored in them reached a certain number, they would have a special attraction ability that could absorb souls within a certain range. This was similar to Roy's Soul Attracting Flag.
Benia stared at the soul crystal on the dome with bright eyes and whispered, "Such a large soul crystal. How many souls are stored in it?! We've made a killing! "
"Around 3.43 million!" "This is the number of souls that Kha-Beleth has been storing ever since he left Sheogh and came to the surface. Over the past twenty years, half of the souls obtained in the wars that the demons have waged have been sealed here …" Roy replied.
"What does he want to do by storing so many souls?" Benia asked curiously.
"This can be considered as a kind of … magic power source!" Roy spread his wings and slowly floated toward the dome. Julia and Benia quickly followed. As he flew, Roy explained, "Although Kha-Beleth wants to use the Dark Messiah to break Sheogh's seal and release all the demon lords, he doesn't know if the Dark Messiah will have enough magic power to break the seal after he grows up, so he stored a large number of souls in advance so that he can prepare for emergencies when he breaks the seal."
"Even if the Dark Messiah can grow up, it will still take at least twenty years. How many souls is Kha-Beleth preparing to store?!" Julia said in surprise.
"More than ten million!" Roy said. "Moreover, even if these souls aren't used to break the seal, they have other uses. For example, after breaking the seal, they can be used to replenish the magic power of the demon lords who are constantly weakening after being trapped in Sheogh, or … use these souls as sacrifices to the Dragon of Chaos to help it recover and return!"
Benia's eyes widened. "They're actually playing so big?! They even want Urgash to return?! "
"There are more demon lords in Sheogh, but there are no demon king-level demons …" Roy explained. "And Urgash is a true demon king. Kha-Beleth and the others need the power of Urgash to fight against the Dragon of Order, Asha … These soul reserves can be considered a precaution."
"Hahaha!" Benia suddenly laughed. "But now it has benefited you, Osiris, right?"
Roy smiled but did not say anything. He reached out and hugged the enormous soul crystal. Then he exerted force with his arms and directly broke the soul crystal from the socket.
This purple soul crystal was six to seven meters tall, twice the size of Roy's, and it weighed about two tons. When Roy carried it to the ground, the ground trembled slightly. After landing, Roy sensed the number of souls in the crystal and found that the number far exceeded the 3.43 million in Kha-Beleth's memory but more than 3.6 million!
This excess number was probably the souls of the alliance army and demons who died in this war. After being attracted by the crystal, it was not included in Kha-Beleth's statistics.
Holding this crystal, Roy was ecstatic. He had really made a killing this time!
Although he had been continuously collecting souls over the years, the largest number of souls he had obtained before this was the soul contract that Fury had given him in the Darksiders world. There were a million souls in it, and now, the souls stored in this crystal were 3.6 times that of the soul contract.
Sure enough, a horse would not get fat without grass at night, and a person would not get rich without a windfall. How could collecting painstakingly be faster than directly robbing?
Unfortunately, souls were delicacies to demons. Under normal circumstances, demons would not store souls after obtaining them and would eat them directly. Therefore, unless a demon lord like Kha-Beleth would store some souls when plotting a big conspiracy, it was impossible to obtain spoils of war from killing demons under normal circumstances …
A large portion of these 3.6 million souls were contributed by Xeron and the high-rank demon heroes. Since they had chosen to serve Kha-Beleth, other than keeping some souls for their own use after obtaining them, the rest were stored in the soul crystal.
Fortunately, Roy did not think of exhausting his magic power when fighting Kha-Beleth this time. If Kha-Beleth really exhausted his magic power, he might think of this soul and use the souls inside to replenish his magic power. In that case, Roy would not be able to maximize his benefits.
"Julia, Benia, each of you take two hundred thousand souls from it. This is your reward!" Roy patted the soul crystal.
Benia was ecstatic when she heard the one-time reward of two hundred thousand souls. This was an enormous fortune! But before she could be happy, she saw Julia shake her head. "I don't want it. I can't increase my strength by absorbing souls. It's useless to me even if you give me so many souls! Darling, it's time for you to promote to demon lord, so you don't have to give them to me! "
Benia was a little dumbfounded when she heard this. That's right. Julia was a fallen angel, and her strength could only grow by continuously absorbing dark power. She could not grow by devouring souls like true demons. But now that she said this, it was not good for Benia to want it. Because in comparison, it seemed like she was not thinking about Roy …
She was now loyal to Roy. The stronger Roy was and the higher his status, the greater the benefits for her. So she gritted her teeth and said, "Then I don't want mine either!"
Roy understood what they meant and smiled. "It's fine if Julia doesn't want it. Benia, take it. Don't you want revenge on your sister? You also need to improve your strength as soon as possible. I'll use Julia's share to reward the demons under me, but I'll use Kha-Beleth's demon sword to compensate Julia after modifying it! "
"Okay, I have no objections!" Benia quickly nodded. Her weapon was usually a flame whip, and she was used to using it. But Julia used a sword, and only she could use Kha-Beleth's demon sword.
Benia stepped forward and placed her hand on the soul crystal. Then, soul light balls kept flying out of the crystal one after another. Benia opened her mouth and swallowed these souls.
The entire process lasted for a long time. After reaching two hundred thousand, Benia stopped. At this moment, magic power surged all over her body, and she had a charming look on her face, looking very satisfied. She looked at Roy coquettishly and said, "Then, my dear lord, I'll go and digest it first …"
"I'm going too!" Julia hugged Roy intimately. "I'll go to Fat Tiger and get the demon sword."
After seeing Roy nod, the two of them flew out of the city hall.
After Roy was the only one left, he placed his hand on it again and began to take out the souls from the soul crystal. It was the same process as before, but unlike Benia, the souls Roy took out merged into his body and were stored in the system space.
The originally exhausted soul counter in the system began to rise rapidly. One million, two million, three million, and finally stopped at about 3.2 million.
Roy took away 3.2 million souls and left more than two hundred thousand in the soul crystal. This was a dividend for his demon subordinates. As the leader of these demons, he had to give his subordinates enough benefits to fool them into continuing to work for him.
Roy put the soul crystal aside for the time being and began to walk slowly in the city hall, sensing something as he walked.
Soon, he stopped and muttered to himself, "It's here!"
With that, Roy stretched out his arms, condensed magic power on his fingertips, crossed his hands, and slowly made a tearing motion in the air.
Buzz! A slight sound rang out. Roy actually tore open a spatial channel in the empty spot with his hands! This was an oval-shaped spatial gate shining with blue light, and the center was pitch-black.
This was naturally the space magic that Roy used. He was a frost demon, and space magic was not his forte. But Kha-Beleth was not much better than him. Although it was necessary for a demon lord to know space magic, it did not mean that he had to be proficient in it.
This spatial channel actually connected to a Purgatory Space, which was the partition of the main world. If he were a rift demon, he could freely travel through this Purgatory Space, but Kha-Beleth was only a flame demon, so he only used the Purgatory Space to … hide things!
Through Kha-Beleth's memories, Roy knew how to open the space where Kha-Beleth hid things. After finding it, Roy flashed and walked in.
The first and second things he saw were two … stone tablets engraved with demon characters!
Because he had come into contact with them before, Roy immediately recognized that they were two Demon Bible inscriptions!
Roy was stunned on the spot. F * ck! Could this be the original inscription of the Demon Bible?!
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