Authority. This was the only word that Roy could think of at the moment.
After becoming a demon lord, Roy found that although demon lords and high-rank demons were only one level apart, they gave people the feeling that they were two completely different creatures. Advancing from high-rank demon to demon lord was a qualitative change. Using the same logic, the gap between demon lords and demon kings should also be ridiculously large.
Demon lords were called demigods, but demon kings were true gods. As god-like existences, demon kings definitely grasped some extremely powerful and irresistible power. Roy suspected that this might be the so-called authority.
If Roy's guess was correct, and the so-called 'Gluttony' ability was Beelzebub's authority, then indeed, it was impossible for him to easily obtain such authority from this shell.
Fortunately, Roy was not greedy and did not have the mentality of wanting more. Although he felt a little regretful, he did not take it to heart after realizing it.
Next, Roy and Benia got up and continued exploring the ruins. Since this was once Demon King Beelzebub's palace, Roy guessed that there should be a reason why he chose to stay here. There should be other good things here besides the shell.
As expected, Roy and Benia found a rather special mineral deposit in the following exploration.
This mineral deposit was actually in the space around Roy and Benia, in the rock walls where Beelzebub's eggs grew!
Benia only tried to dig through some rock strata and discovered the existence of this mineral deposit. It was a kind of crimson crystal sandwiched in the rock. This crystal was very fine and unevenly distributed under the rock walls. However, this crystal seemed to have the ability to store flames and heat. The heat of the magma flowing through the rock walls was absorbed by these crystals and slowly released, causing the entire space of the underground ruins to have a constant temperature effect.
Benia recognized this mineral deposit. "This should be flame obsidian, a relatively rare crystal mine. Don't look at how the heat release in this crystal is constant, but in fact, once it's activated with magic power, the flames and energy stored inside will be instantly released. It's a very useful thing for demons who are good at using fire magic. It can greatly enhance the power of fire magic, and it's usually used to forge flame weapons and armor!"
Roy followed Benia's instructions, pinched a handful of fine crystals, and injected magic power into them. The next second, Roy's fist erupted with a bright light. His entire fist was surrounded by a layer of blazing flames, burning fiercely.
This change shocked Roy. He quickly threw the flames away and then looked down at his burned hand.
Roy had clearly already grasped the flowing brightness flames, and fire magic should not be able to cause much damage to him now. But he did not expect this flame to burn his entire hand black and directly cause necrosis.
Roy used his other hand to pull off the necrotic palm. While regenerating the muscle tissue, he said to Benia in surprise, "This flame is so fierce?! It's even hotter than Julia's destruction flames?! "
"It's just that the instantaneous explosive power is high!" Benia said. "These flame obsidian have been absorbing and storing the heat of the lava underground for thousands of years. Although a portion of the heat has been evaporated evenly, the remaining portion has been stored. The heat accumulated over a long period of time is extremely terrifying, and it's normal for it to exceed the temperature of the destruction flames at the moment of eruption. But this kind of crystal can't be used as a fire seed to allow demons to obtain new flame power. It can only be used as runes or engraved magic formations to amplify fire magic. Weapons and armor made from flame obsidian are very popular among flame demons in the Abyss because holding these weapons is equivalent to raising their magic and attacks to a higher level, allowing them to better defeat powerful opponents."
"You mean, we can use this kind of flame obsidian to make weapons and armor and then use them to trade with other demons?" Roy understood what Benia meant.
"Yes. Although there's basically no concept of trade for demons, and even if we want to exchange for souls, we probably won't be able to exchange for much, we can use barter to exchange for some rare things from other demon lords!" Benia touched the flame obsidian rock layers that were releasing warm energy on the rock wall and said regretfully, "The only problem now is that these flame obsidian aren't rich ores. The crystals are too fine, and there's no way to fuse them into larger crystals. In this case, there will be more restrictions when manufacturing …"
"It's probably because of these insect eggs of Beelzebub …" Roy thought for a moment. "Beelzebub left so many insect eggs on this rock wall probably because he wanted to use the heat of the flame obsidian layer to hatch them … But perhaps because he suddenly encountered something and left, there was no continuous supply of magic power. These insect eggs had a constant temperature environment, but they couldn't hatch and eventually turned into fossils."
"What exactly happened to Beelzebub? Why would he suddenly leave behind a shell that contains powerful magic and so many eggs? And he hasn't come back for so long … "Benia asked, puzzled.
Roy shrugged. "Who knows? It's been so many years, and it's useless to guess. It's even possible that he simply forgot. After all, to us, a person like Beelzebub is a true tycoon. These shells and insect eggs have immense magic power in our eyes and are wealth, but to Beelzebub, they're just insignificant relics. He abandoned them just like that … "
"I hope so!" Benia did not dwell on it any longer. "Then, let's mine the flame obsidian here. Although the quality isn't high, it's still a specialty of the territory. We have to find something for the summoned demons to do."
Roy nodded and did not say anything else. The two of them left the ruins and returned to where Big Black was. Big Black had been waiting obediently in place. After seeing Roy and Benia return, it carried them back to the surface.
As for the Red Sea Egg, he left it underground for the time being. There were still many insect egg fossils that the Red Sea Egg had not digested, so he placed them underground. After a while, the Red Sea Egg should be able to work again.
On the surface, Julia and Fat Tiger had been waiting at the entrance of the cave. The earthquake earlier made Julia realize that something might have happened underground. If she had not sensed that it was the magic power pressure released by Roy, she would have been burning with anxiety long ago. After seeing Roy and Benia return smoothly, she heaved a sigh of relief.
But then she discovered the skyrocketing magic power in Roy and asked in surprise, "Darling, what happened? Why did your magic power suddenly … increase so much?! Also, your appearance has changed … "
Roy told Julia what had happened underground. When she heard that Roy and Benia had actually found the ruins of Demon King Beelzebub's palace and found the empty shell left behind by Beelzebub in the ruins, even Julia was extremely surprised.
Back then, Julia had followed Demon King Samael. She, who had been fighting with Samael, had never seen Beelzebub. However, she had heard of his name in many worlds. He was a very famous demon king.
Demon Kings rarely cooperated with each other. It seemed that everyone adhered to the tacit understanding that kings did not meet other kings. Of course, a Demon King like Lilith was an exception. This Succubus Queen seemed to have an affair with many Demon Kings …
Julia had never seen Beelzebub, so she was very curious about his appearance. Unfortunately, the shell had already been absorbed, and Julia could only imagine it based on Benia's description and Roy's changed appearance.
This territory had once been occupied by someone, which made Roy a little regretful. But thinking about it, the Abyss had given birth to many demon lords over the years, and the probability that the fragment worlds here had not been occupied by others was too small. It was impossible to find a completely original territory unless he spent a lot of time and patience to search one by one. In comparison, this territory had probably only been occupied by Beelzebub thousands or tens of thousands of years ago, which was already very good.
At least, there were still many things in this territory …
So the next step was to develop the territory. In addition, Roy planned to gradually try to contact other demon lords …
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