On the way, Roy played with the seven Dragon Balls in his hand, making colliding sounds, causing Fat Tiger's six ears to twitch. From time to time, he would look back at his master, Roy.
Making the Dragon Balls in the system consumed about twenty souls each, which was not much. But the seven Dragon Balls added up to a total of about one hundred and forty souls.
The Dragon Balls that Roy made did not have much effect. They just constantly emitted a special frequency signal. As a receiving device, Roy also made a Dragon Ball Radar to display the strength of this signal.
Among the attributes defined for the Dragon Balls, Roy also added a 'resonance' attribute. This attribute could increase the signal output when the same Dragon Balls were close to each other.
According to Roy's imagination, this signal could be transmitted to the Abyss when a Gate of the Abyss was opened and then received by the Dragon Ball Radar. This way, since there were people summoning demons in this world at all times, the Gates of the Abyss would often open, so the signal would not be interrupted. When Roy wanted to enter the Heroes of Might and Magic world again in the future, he could find the signal.
Of course, the next time he came to the Heroes of Might and Magic world, Roy hoped to open a Gate of the Abyss himself with great strength and not be summoned by someone. If Roy could reach this step, it meant that he was strong enough. In this world, he did not have to worry too much even if he encountered a strong enemy.
This world was still quite dangerous. After bidding farewell to the Sylanna's Ancient, Roy wanted to fly for a while, but a fire phoenix streaked across the sky, forcing Roy to walk on the ground obediently.
It just so happened that Roy was also considering how to scatter these seven Dragon Balls everywhere. He originally wanted to add an attribute to the Dragon Balls to scatter in the air, but after thinking that it was not necessary, he buffed himself with Bloodlust and used his greatest strength to throw four of the Dragon Balls out in the north, south, east, and west directions.
Roy knew that he could not throw them far like this. At most, he could throw them a few kilometers away, but it did not matter. Roy had never thought about letting these Dragon Balls fly across the ocean to another continent. The Dragon Balls were just beacons, and a few kilometers away could also provide a signal. As for whether or not someone would pick them up in the future, Roy did not care.
Finally, there were three Dragon Balls left. Roy got Fat Tiger to catch a few wild boars, stuff these Dragon Balls into their stomachs, and then let them go. This way, these wild boars would run around with the Dragon Balls. If they were preyed on, other beasts would take over and continuously spread these Dragon Balls.
He just did not know how long it would take for the Sylanna's Ancient to spread the news of the Dragon Ball treasure and how long it would take for someone to gather these Dragon Balls.
In Roy's opinion, it would take at least a few years …
The time in the Abyss did not seem to be synchronized with the time in these other worlds, so a few years sounded long, but maybe by the time Roy returned to the Abyss, a long time would have passed. Therefore, Roy felt that he did not need to care too much about the time factor. Moreover, even if someone really gathered the Dragon Balls in a short time, he could choose not to come. He had positioned himself in this world to hunt souls to increase his strength, and he did not really want to become a Dragon God to fulfill the wishes of the people who gathered the Dragon Balls.
Because the demon army had marched for about a month and a half, it was a long distance to return to the demon city. But it was not boring along the way, and he saw the diverse ecology of this world.
When passing by a swamp, Roy and Fat Tiger were attacked by a swarm of dragonflies. At the bottom of a cliff, Fat Tiger caught a few cavemen in a dark cave. At night, Roy found a camp of wandering dark elves by following the light of the fire. A group of dark elven assassins with their faces covered attacked Roy, but Roy killed them instead.
In the sky, ferocious birds of prey such as thunderbirds, fire phoenixes, and dragons could often be seen. These creatures were the overlords of the sky in this world. Although Roy and Fat Tiger had wings and could fly, in order to avoid unnecessary battles, they rarely flew.
Similar creatures emerged endlessly along the way. When the demon army was in a hurry, these creatures often retreated, but now it felt like they were appearing one after another, and lone demons like Roy were basically the targets they wanted to attack.
It could not be helped. Demons were hostile to almost all races in this world. After all, they were foreign species.
Among the various creatures Roy had encountered, the one he hated the most was probably the undead! These wild undead were usually formed by the contamination of dark power after the creatures died. They had no intelligence and only relied on their instincts to attack every living creature. To Roy, killing these undead without obtaining any souls was simply a waste of effort. Moreover, these wild undead were very common, and one might suddenly appear in a remote place. It was simply annoying.
Along the way, Roy either hunted other creatures or other creatures took the initiative to attack him. As time passed, Roy slowly accumulated a lot of souls. Except for a small portion that he fed to Fat Tiger to accelerate his growth, Roy made the rest into Magic Energy Growth Potions. He did not know how much magic power it would take to reverse activate the teleportation formation, so it was naturally necessary to prepare some Magic Energy Growth Potions just in case.
However, it was worth mentioning that when Roy used some Magic Energy Growth Potions, the strange feeling in his body appeared again.
Compared to the last time, the burning sensation in his body was even more intense, and he could feel his heart beating rapidly.
After this situation appeared again, Roy did not dare to continue using Magic Energy Growth Potions to increase his magic energy attribute for the time being. He temporarily stored the Magic Energy Growth Potions he made.
He guessed that this might be because his body was about to reach the limit of the magic power it could hold, so this strange symptom appeared.
In fact, thinking about it, Roy's current magic energy attribute had increased to almost four hundred, almost all thanks to the Magic Energy Growth Potions. According to the efficiency of the Magic Energy Growth Potions in extracting soul power, his four hundred magic energy attribute was almost equivalent to the level that other low-rank demons could achieve after devouring seven or eight hundred souls.
As far as Roy knew, many low-rank demons instinctively hunted for souls to devour. After reaching a certain level, they might reach a bottleneck in the amount of magic power their bodies and bloodlines could hold, so they would seek a way to break through. This method was to go to the lower levels of the Abyss, find a place of refinement, and purify their bloodlines.
This was the method to promote to middle-rank demon. Although Roy did not have any inherited memories about this promotion, he slowly deduced it through contact with other demons.
Perhaps it was because the bloodlines of low-rank demons were different. Some low-rank demons had purer bloodlines, so the upper limit of magic power they could hold was higher. They needed to hunt thousands of souls, which would cause them to stay longer in the upper levels of the Abyss and become the old demons Roy had seen. Similarly, some low-rank demons had more complicated bloodlines, and the upper limit of magic power they could hold was lower, so their magic power might reach a bottleneck after devouring a few hundred souls.
Roy guessed that he was probably the latter. In the system's display, Roy's demon body had a complicated bloodline. In addition, he had made potions to improve his magic energy, so he had reached the point where he needed to advance so quickly.
Along the way, Roy was actually thinking about whether he should make a tempering potion to use. This way, he could complete the promotion even without going to the lower levels of the Abyss to find a place of refinement.
But after thinking about it, Roy did not do so because he still did not understand the principle of the place of refinement. Did this purification of bloodlines only purify one type of bloodline, or did it mean that all bloodlines could be improved? After all, according to genetics, there would always be some genetic factors that were dominant and some recessive in complex bloodlines. The dominant ones might not be useful, and the recessive ones might not be useless. Did the place of refinement purify the bloodline to purify the dominant ones or to reveal the recessive ones? Roy needed to understand all this. If he rashly made the purification potion himself, he might mess it up.
Therefore, Roy decided to go to the lower levels of the Abyss after returning to the Abyss, find a place of refinement, and observe how the promoting demons did it. At that time, he would slowly consider whether he should use the place of refinement to complete the promotion or use the system to make the potion to promote.
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