So many souls were actually completely unexpected to Roy.
Xeron was really reckless. If Roy were leading the army, the first thing he would think of when facing the powerful elven forces three to four times his own would probably be to retreat quickly. But Xeron still wanted to use magic to turn the situation around. Moreover, his Meteor Shower was aimed at the densest places on the battlefield. Thanks to his magic, Roy had picked up a huge bargain.
Under normal circumstances, it was impossible for the souls of demons to stay in another world. After being killed, the Ouroboros Mark would pull the demon souls into the Abyss, so all the souls left on the battlefield belonged to the elves. Roy looked at the densely packed souls and estimated that there were at least a thousand of them, which was equivalent to one-third of the elven forces dying under Xeron's big move.
Of course, Roy would not be polite about this unexpected surprise. Souls that had left their bodies were generally kept fresh for about an hour or two. Depending on the size of the soul, the dissipation time was different. At this moment, a lot of time had passed since the previous battle. In Roy's demon vision, some soul light balls had already begun to dissipate, so he quickly sped up and wandered around the battlefield, collecting these floating souls into the system.
After tossing and turning for a while, he finally cleaned up the souls on the battlefield. He opened the system interface and saw that the number of souls had suddenly increased to 1079!
F * ck! I'm rich!
He had just used up more than six hundred souls not long ago, but he did not expect to replenish them in the blink of an eye and even exceed the original number. For a moment, Roy felt like he had hit the jackpot.
Hmm, I can't be too excited. I have to calculate first and see if these souls belong to me! Roy quickly calmed down and began to think. Xeron isn't dead yet, and neither am I. This means that the demon contract is still in effect. According to the demon contract, after victory, ninety percent of the spoils of war have to be handed over to Xeron. But according to the literal meaning, this should refer to the case of victory … The problem now is that Xeron lost this battle! Xeron probably didn't expect to suffer such a huge defeat, right? "
Generally speaking, demons would definitely escape if they lost a battle, and it was impossible for them to have the opportunity to harvest the spoils of war. Therefore, when Xeron wrote the demon contract, he did not consider the situation after the defeat and did not make the corresponding explanation. But Roy realized that a situation that exceeded the demon contract's rules had appeared. Because he had played dead to escape, although he had lost this battle, Roy still obtained a large number of souls as spoils of war!
Therefore, even Roy was a little confused. What should he do in this situation?
After thinking for a while, Roy finally came to a conclusion that these more than a thousand souls might really be his! There was no need to execute the contract!
Because … Xeron was still being chased by the elves. Perhaps in the demon contract, this could be considered as the battle not over. Then, this was the same nature as Roy secretly seizing souls in battles in the past. Before the battle ended, the souls he collected from the battlefield belonged to him!
Thinking of this, Roy finally heaved a sigh of relief. With so many souls in his hands, what Roy was most afraid of was being within the scope of the demon contract. If that happened, it would be terrible. It meant that Roy would have to hand over more than nine hundred souls.
Roy did not know if the souls stored in the system would be forcibly extracted from the system when the demon contract was executed. Because he had never encountered such a situation before, he did not know if the system had the ability to isolate the influence of the demon contract. If the system could isolate the influence of the demon contract, then Roy would really have picked up a treasure. In the future, he could use this isolation function of the system to cheat on the demon contract!
However, he could not use this opportunity to experiment. After all, if the experiment failed, the system would not be able to isolate the influence of the demon contract, and the price he would have to pay would be too great. Therefore, he could only think of a way to experiment in the future with fewer souls.
Now that he knew that he could freely use these souls, Roy could proceed with the next step of his plan.
In fact, be it gaining Xeron's trust from the beginning, driving a wedge between Xeron and Rashka, sending a letter of war to the elves on Xeron's behalf, and even using the Dark-Dark Fruit to resist damage and escape on the battlefield, the ultimate goal of Roy's plans was to trap Xeron to death so that he could tear up the demon contract.
Now, with the help of the chaos on the battlefield, Roy had successfully escaped Xeron's control and did not have to worry about him forcefully giving him orders. But as long as Xeron was still alive and not killed or expelled, the contract would always exist and be effective.
In order to invalidate the contract, either party had to be killed or expelled. Of course, Roy did not want to die. The longer he was a demon, the more he understood the importance of souls. He did not want his soul to be damaged after he was killed, so since he did not want to die, he could only let Xeron die.
Now, the letter of war had angered the elves, and Xeron was being hunted down. Roy had achieved most of his goals. Next, he only needed to borrow the hands of the elves and the dragons to kill Xeron, and then Roy would be free!
However, there was a problem now. Would Xeron escape from the pursuit of the elves and dragons? Don't forget that there was Ignatius, that high-rank demon, on the other route. Ignatius should have a large number of high-level demon troops there. If Xeron was smart and escaped to meet up with Ignatius, then the elves and dragons might not be able to do anything to him.
Therefore, Roy felt that he could not completely place his hopes on the elves and dragons. It would be best for him to intervene when the time was right.
Thus, Roy first opened the system interface and modified the previous settings of his wings.
Demon Wings: High-speed flight. Maximum speed of Mach 1!
Yes, he modified the definition of his demon wings. From the previous simple flight, he changed it to the highest speed of sound. In order to better achieve this, he increased the size of his wings and modified the curve of the wings to be a little smoother.
Since it was a modification based on the original foundation, it did not take much time. After Roy chose to save and materialize this modification, he paid the price of forty-six souls!
In fact, this speed could be increased, but Roy guessed that the faster the flying speed, the more souls it would consume. The speed of Mach 1 was probably enough for the time being, and the price-performance ratio would be very good.
After the modification, Roy's wings quickly changed. The wingspan did not change, but the width was increased. When Roy flapped his wings and flew up, he felt that the strength he used to flap was less than before. After rushing into the sky, Roy observed the direction. He still remembered the direction Xeron had fled in, so he sped up.
He did not fly at the speed of sound for the time being because he was not in a hurry to catch up. It would take a lot of time for Xeron to completely escape the pursuit of the elves, and Roy could make it in time.
While flying in the air, Roy drew in the system interface.
On the newly created blank page, he drew a tetrahedron, then casually drew some patterns on the tetrahedron. After that, he began to color it and designed it into a simple box that could be opened at the top.
Then Roy began to define this box.
[Horadric Cube]
Item Function: Use low-quality souls to synthesize high-quality souls!
Yes, this was a design that Roy had only recently thought of. For Roy, low-quality souls were very easy to obtain, but low-quality souls could only be used in the system to make static items and transform the body, and they could not be used for dynamic skill creation. High-quality fallen souls and noble souls for skill creation were not so easy to obtain, so Roy had been thinking about whether there was any way to convert low-quality souls and high-quality souls into each other.
According to Roy's understanding of souls, he felt that this conversion should be possible. To put it bluntly, fallen souls should be souls that contained a lot of negative emotions and energy. And when a person deviated from their conscience and race and did bad things, it would often cause the soul to produce a lot of negative emotions and energy. When these negative emotions and energy reached a certain level, the soul would turn black!
By the same logic, noble souls should have great love for others and be willing to sacrifice themselves. These were positive emotions and energy.
In fact, low-quality souls also contained similar emotions and energy. When any creature died, they would feel fear of being injured, fear of losing their lives, hatred for their enemies, reluctance to part with their family and friends, longing for their loved ones, and so on. However, these positive and negative emotions were intertwined, and it was hard to say which side had more of them. It could only be said that there was a balance, so the soul became a low-quality soul.
It was not great, nor was it evil. This kind of soul was just ordinary …
Since low-quality souls contained both emotions and energy, why not extract them and synthesize them into high-quality souls?
What Roy wanted to make now was such a medium. The name did not matter. Of course, such a box could not be the real Horadric Cube and could only be regarded as a fake. At first, he wanted to call it Pandora's Box, but after thinking about it, it seemed more appropriate to call this synthesis function the Horadric Cube, so he decided on it.
Roy only dared to make this item because he had a large number of souls in his hands. After all, he had more confidence. In order to reduce consumption as much as possible, Roy even defined a single function.
But even so, Roy spent four hundred souls to materialize it. It seemed like it was not easy to improve the quality of souls.
A simple box appeared in his hand, and Roy began to try to synthesize with souls.
One, two, three … When he put in the 198th soul, the box emitted a burst of light, indicating that the synthesis was successful.
Roy opened the lid and found two souls floating out of the box! One was a fallen soul exuding thick black mist, and the other was a colorless noble soul with resplendent light!
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