The further they went, the stronger the feeling of palpitation.
For a moment, even Roy hesitated. He found that things seemed to be a little different from what he had guessed. The owner of this ruin was probably not as simple as a demon lord …
If not for the fact that he had seen the fossilized eggs and knew that it had been a long time, Roy might have really turned around and left.
Roy continued moving forward. In the end, he found that the magma river was getting shallower and shallower, and the two of them gradually came to the surface of the river.
Finally, Roy and Benia appeared at the source of the magma river. This was an enormous … valley surrounded by tall rock walls. On the left and right sides, there was a waterfall formed by magma falling vertically. The fiery red and boiling magma gathered at the bottom of the valley, forming a river that flowed outward.
On the other parts of the rock walls, there were a large number of long insect eggs neatly arranged!
At a glance, it would probably really make people suffer from trypophobia. There were millions of insect egg fossils here, and they were embedded in the rock walls. Except for some occasionally falling because the rock walls fell and then being transported out with the magma, the rest of the insect egg fossils were still standing upright.
Roy and Benia continued forward and looked at this scene in surprise. According to Benia, these insect eggs were all soldiers. How terrifying was the army of millions of insects?
Then think about it. How much magic power would it take to set up millions of insect eggs?!
The two of them walked forward carefully and soon arrived at an enormous square. This place seemed to be the center of the ruin, and there were many broken fragments of buildings built by demons scattered around. Many collapsed and shattered statues even showed signs of weathering, and their original appearance could no longer be seen.
On the empty ground of the square, there was an enormous, rust-red pentagram magic formation engraved there. But this magic formation was also incomplete, and many demon characters were already blurry.
Roy and Benia looked at each other and at this magic formation. The immense and strong sense of threat from before came from here. When they arrived at the square, the sense of threat had already reached its peak.
"What should we do?" Benia asked Roy. "It seems like some existence is hidden here. If I'm not wrong, it should only appear after activating this magic formation …"
Roy was also conflicted. After thinking for a while, he asked Benia, "Can you see what this magic formation is?"
"I'm not too sure, but I'm sure that this isn't a sealing formation!" Benia said. "This is the Abyss, and it's impossible for there to be foreign enemies. Similarly, no demon would be stupid enough to seal themselves, right?"
"It's hard to say …" Roy said. "I can only feel that there seems to be a special alternate space here, and it's not stable. I can even vaguely feel the unstable spatial fluctuations here … This means that even if this magic formation is hiding something, it's on the verge of failing."
"Then perhaps we can open it without activating the magic formation?" Benia asked.
"To be on the safe side, let's use another method!" Roy looked around and picked up a larger stone on the ground. The flames of flowing brightness flames ignited in his palm, and then he quickly shaped the stone in his palm.
What Roy created was an eyeball-shaped object. After it took shape, Roy sent it into the system space and defined its attributes.
This was a space detector. Just in case, Roy did not give it any magic power and only defined it as a photographic function. Then he set it to be able to teleport to a designated space and summon it back.
After taking it out again, Roy carefully sensed the location of the unstable space. He raised his hand and used space magic to send the detector in.
After the detector was sent in, it would start working. It would take pictures of the things inside the alternate space. After a while, Roy summoned it back.
Then he and Benia began to check the recorded images.
In the end, when they saw the content recorded by the camera, Roy and Benia could not help but be shocked!
"How … how is this possible?!" Benia's eyes were filled with fear. "W-what is this?"
"I don't know, but I can confirm that there shouldn't be any danger …" A thoughtful look appeared in Roy's eyes. He gritted his teeth, gathered magic power on his hands, and directly used space magic to tear open the alternate space he sensed!
In the next second, an incomparably huge pitch-black object suddenly appeared on the square!
Along with the appearance of this pitch-black object, an astonishing amount of mana filled the entire space.
Under the impact of this magic power aura, Benia took a while to recover. She resisted her fear and uneasiness and raised her hand to shoot out dozens of fireballs, using the flames to illuminate the area. Then the two of them finally saw the object in front of them clearly.
The object that appeared in the square was an enormous … insect corpse!
No, it was not an insect corpse. Roy and the others later discovered that it was actually just an empty shell because there was a huge crack in the back half of it, as though something had drilled out from inside!
"Is it … molting?" Benia asked uncertainly.
"It should be!" Roy nodded and carefully observed the empty shell. But as he looked at it, his gaze became stranger and stranger.
Because he found that the insect-shaped molting in front of him looked very much like a … fly!
On its head, there was a pair of huge eyes that were close to each other. From the shape of the eyes, one could see countless densely packed compound eyes. On the lower part of the molted body, there were six insect legs with countless bristles.
Apart from not seeing the wings, the molting in front of him really looked like a fly, but it was countless times larger than a real fly.
However, this shell-like molting in front of him actually emitted an incomparably powerful magic power aura …
The more Benia looked at it, the more surprised she became. She could not help but turn to look at Roy. Roy was the same, looking at Benia in surprise. Looking at this thing and the powerful magic power it was still emitting, the two of them simultaneously thought of a name.
"Beelzebub … Demon King Beelzebub?!"
In many human myths and legends, Beelzebub was known as the Lord of the Flies. People said that he was an enormous fly. Like Demon King Samael, who represented anger, he was also one of the most famous demon kings among demons and was regarded as the incarnation of gluttony.
Roy and Benia never thought that they would find Beelzebub's … molting underground!
Of course, this thing in front of them could not be Beelzebub himself. It was just an empty shell left behind by him, and no one knew where his main body had gone.
"Can flies … molt?" Roy asked in confusion.
"Of course not for real flies …" Benia said. "But the problem is that Beelzebub isn't a real fly. He's just a fly-shaped insect-type demon …"
"That's a reasonable explanation …" Roy nodded, walked forward, and stood in front of the molting.
His three-meter-tall body looked very small in front of this shedding, but he still stretched out his hand and gently touched the leg shell.
"There's no stress reaction!" Roy waved his hand. "The immense magic power on it seems to have been left behind passively. With the protection of this magic power and the fact that it was hidden in an alternate space, this molting didn't turn into fossils like the insect eggs. Instead, it looks new."
Benia said dejectedly, "From the looks of it, Big Black can become so huge not because there are rare minerals underground but because it swallowed the insect eggs left behind by Demon King Beelzebub. Even though those insect eggs have already turned into fossils and their magic power is very weak, long-term devouring and it's also an insect-type monster stimulated it to mutate."
"It looks like that's indeed the case. No wonder it didn't dare to come here and only dared to wait at the periphery to eat the insect eggs that drifted out. The magic power of the molting left behind by a demon king is enough to deter it," Roy said. "I just don't know if this molting was left behind when Beelzebub promoted to demon king … After all, if it's just something left behind when Beelzebub was a demon lord, this magic power is too astonishing."
Hearing Roy's words, Benia's eyes lit up. "Darling, if that's really the case, then maybe you can find a way to become a demon king from this molting?"
"How can it be so simple?" Roy shook his head. "If I can find a way to promote by relying on a demon king's molting, then wouldn't demon lords be looking for similar things all over the world? But have you heard of a demon lord doing this so far? "
"Not necessarily!" Benia said. "Don't forget. In the entire Abyss, only Beelzebub is an insect-type demon king. He's the only one. It's impossible for other demon kings to be like Beelzebub and leave behind this kind of empty shell! Other demon lords can't find it even if they want to. "
Hearing Benia's analysis, Roy could not help but be stunned, but then he could not help but have a strange feeling.
Yes, if it's really as Benia said, and there's only one example of Beelzebub's molting, why did I find it? When he chose this fragment world, he did not think that there would be such a surprise buried here.
What is this? Is there heaven's will in the dark? Or is it purely luck?
Or … is it because of the identity of the Chosen One of the Abyss?
Shaking his head, Roy threw these messy thoughts aside and began to think.
This molting was something left behind from a very, very ancient era. Although Roy had not seen Beelzebub with his own eyes, he understood that Beelzebub should have long been at the top, at the level of the Deadly Sin Demon King. This molting was not his clone, but it only had some of his magic power left behind. It was very rare and unique, but … Roy could not think of its true use.
Looking around, Roy saw the densely packed insect egg fossils. Suddenly, his heart stirred. He flipped his wrist, and a flesh seed appeared in his palm.
After this flesh seed appeared, it pulsed rhythmically like a heart. Benia had never seen this thing before, so she asked out of curiosity.
"This is the seed of the Red Sea Egg! I secretly got it from Lilith! " Roy replied as he stuck his finger into the ground. After poking a hole in the ground, Roy buried the seed, relaxed the muscle defense of his palm, and used his fingernail to cut a bloody mark on his palm.
After watching his demon blood flow out, Roy dripped blood on the place where the seed was buried.
A moment later, under Benia's surprised gaze, the ground trembled slightly. The next second, countless tentacles surged out of the ground and quickly spread in all directions.
These tentacles were the flesh roots of the Red Sea Egg. Under the nourishment of Roy's demon blood, they grew rapidly and … spontaneously began to interweave toward the rock wall, wrapping the densely packed insect egg fossils in them …
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