Roy did not disturb the communication between the demon lords. He stood in front of the light screen and waited quietly.
In fact, from the very beginning, Roy had never thought of communicating with these demon lords. To him, there was no need to interact with a group of demons imprisoned in an alternate space prison and unable to appear in the real world. His initial plan was to kill Xeron and promote to demon lord before preparing to go to the Abyss.
However, after killing Kha-Beleth, Roy suddenly realized a problem. These demon lords might have goods or good things in their hands!
It was not easy for ordinary low-level demons to obtain souls, and it was difficult for them to control their Soul Devouring Addiction. Therefore, once they obtained souls, they would eat them on the spot. However, for high-level demons or demons at the demon lord level, obtaining souls became much easier. But if they obtained many souls at once, even demon lords might not be able to devour them in a short time.
This led to high-level demons storing some souls in their hands. Even among high-level demons, souls had become a common currency that could be used to exchange for things with other high-level demons. This would obviously encourage the habit of high-level demons of storing souls.
Of course, Dioland and the other demons had been imprisoned for nearly a thousand years, so Roy did not dare to guarantee how many souls were left in their hands. But no matter how many there were, he could squeeze out as much as he could. Even if there were not enough souls, he could exchange them for other things …
After all, these guys were asking Roy for help now!
Therefore, Roy was not in a hurry at all. He had the initiative.
About five minutes later, the demon lords seemed to have reached an agreement. Dioland turned his head and said to Roy, "We can pay a price to complete this transaction!"
"Very good!" Roy nodded. "Then, how many souls are you willing to give me?"
In the next second, Dioland uttered a shocking number, "20 million! Twenty million! "
"How much?!" Roy thought that he had heard wrong. To be honest, he thought that it would be amazing if these prisoners could take out a few million souls at most. He did not expect them to say such an astonishing number.
"Twenty million, no more, no less!" Dioland replied affirmatively.
"Why do you have so many souls? Where did it come from? "Roy asked, puzzled.
Dioland said proudly, "Back then, although the Seventh Dragon, Sar-Elam, gambled with his life to seal us in the alternate space of Sheogh, you also know that whenever a lunar eclipse comes, the power of the seal will weaken, and some demons in Sheogh will be able to escape from this prison. And these demons who escaped are all the executors of our will. In the past thousand years, the demons who escaped launched several large-scale wars in Ashan, and most of the souls who died in the wars were sent to Sheogh. Although these souls are not enough for us to break out of this cage, they can barely maintain our strength. However, in this idle cage, even if we can maintain our strength, it's useless, so we didn't use these souls. Even though a thousand years made us weak, we still stored the remaining souls except for the necessary consumption!"
"Our original plan was to wait until we got out and use these stored souls to restore our strength …" Dioland sighed. "But Kha-Beleth is dead. Without the Dark Messiah, it's useless no matter how many souls we have. So we can promise you to give these souls to you first to increase your strength. After all, if you can't protect yourself and are driven away or killed, it will be very troublesome for us to send another demon lord out …"
Roy understood the meaning of Dioland's words. Although Roy was not on the same side as them, he was still a demon no matter what, and he was naturally in their camp. After Kha-Beleth's death, Dioland and the others hoped that a demon lord could preside over the situation and at least ensure that the Dark Messiah would not be taken away. This way, they would have a glimmer of hope of escaping.
And these twenty million souls were actually an investment they were giving Roy …
It had to be said that demon lords were actually quite cunning. They secretly sent a large number of souls to Sheogh and stored them. This way, if they escaped in the future, the various races of Ashan would think that they could take advantage of their weak period to destroy them, but they would hit a steel plate because they stored a large number of souls and could quickly recover their strength in an extremely short time …
Roy was certain that these demon lords probably had more than twenty million souls in their hands and might even have more. Over the past thousand years, countless intelligent lives had died under the flames and iron hooves of demons during several demon invasions. Conservatively speaking, it should not be an exaggeration to say that nearly a hundred million souls were not an exaggeration.
Intelligent life reproduced, was born, and died generation after generation. This was an endless cycle of reincarnation and cycles. From this point of view, as long as demons were willing to spend time on it, souls could be considered a renewable resource …
But for most demons, they were very impatient and did not have that kind of patience. They all liked to plunder everything in one go. This was also why many demons were obsessed with destroying the world. After all, even if the current world was destroyed, they could return to the Abyss and find another world to continue invading …
Of course, the demon lords might have more souls in their hands, but it was impossible for Roy to squeeze out all of them. Twenty million souls far exceeded Roy's psychological expectations.
The number of souls that Dioland proposed was also calculated. If he gave too many souls, they would hurt themselves. But if he gave too few souls, he probably would not be able to move Roy. If Roy lost his motivation and left to return to the Abyss, Dioland and the others would be finished. If they really waited until their strength was weak enough to break the seal and come out, who knew how many years they would have to wait …
From Roy's surprised tone, Dioland could tell that Roy should be very satisfied with this number, so he continued, "But correspondingly, you have to sign a demon contract with us and stay in this world for more than twenty years until the Dark Messiah grows up and has enough strength to break the seal and let us out!"
"Twenty years?" Roy frowned and shook his head. "Impossible. If I remember correctly, you're also from the Abyss and not the natives of this world. Even if I sign a demon contract with you, it won't help me resist the repulsive effect of the world. It's impossible for me to stay here for so long under the repulsive effect of the world for twenty years."
"Indeed!" Dioland nodded. "As a demon lord, I know very well the effect of the world repulsive effect on you. In fact, even if you sign a contract with the natives of this world now, you might not be able to stay for too long. As long as the contractor's strength is lower than yours, they won't be able to help you resist the repulsive effect. And it won't be easy to find natives of the same level as you unless they're figures like the Gold Dragon Queen and the Titan Lord. Obviously, these figures won't sign a demon contract with you …"
"Hmm …" Roy nodded and did not interrupt, waiting for Dioland to continue.
"So now, there are only a few solutions. One is to split your soul and create clones to weaken your strength and sense of existence. This way, you can effectively reduce the effect of the world repulsive effect on you and allow you to stay in this world for a while longer!" Dioland said.
Hearing this solution, Roy could not help but sneer. "Splitting my soul to create clones is possible, but how many clones do I need to create if I want to stay for twenty years? To what extent will my strength be weakened? I won't use this method! "
What a joke. If my strength is weakened, will I give you a chance to take advantage of it? Roy thought to himself.
"There's another way. You return to the Abyss first!" Dioland continued expressionlessly. "Then have your subordinates host a sacrificial ritual in this world to summon you again. With the sacrifice of life and soul, you can stay longer."
"How many lives and souls do I need to sacrifice in twenty years?" Roy asked while rubbing his chin.
"With your strength, a conservative estimate is that you need more than a hundred thousand lives and souls!" Dioland said an astonishing number.
Hearing this, Roy still shook his head. "The probability of success is too small. Let's not talk about the success rate of the ritual. Do you think the people of this world will let such an evil ritual complete? I'm afraid that before my people can collect enough sacrifices, they will be surrounded and annihilated, right? At that time, I won't be able to interfere in the Abyss at all … "
A hundred thousand sacrifices … Roy found it unbelievable. The main reason was that the duration of stay was too long, so the price greatly increased.
In fact, not to mention demon lords, even true demon kings could be summoned. But the stronger they were, the greater the threat they posed to the world, resulting in shorter stays. Dioland wanted Roy to stay in this world for twenty years, but it was absolutely impossible to rely on ordinary and common methods.
"If you think this method won't work, then there's only one last method left!" Dioland grinned sinisterly. "Then become our comrade-in-arms completely and accept the call from Urgash!"
Roy snorted coldly and grinned sinisterly. "Dioland, what you said to me before was actually nonsense, right? Your real goal is to make me accept the last method, right? Beating around the bush doesn't match your war demon style at all! "
"Hehe, that's right!" Dioland and the demon lords behind him all laughed. "You really saw through it. If you want to stay in this world for a long time with the strength of a demon lord, there's actually only one option. Only an existence like the Dragon of Chaos, Urgash, can protect us. If you want to obtain these twenty million souls, I'm afraid you can only sign a contract with Urgash like us …"
Roy's eyes flickered. After a moment of silence, he suddenly asked, "I have a question. Didn't you say that Urgash has fallen into a deep sleep? How can I still contact him? "
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