He slowly withdrew his magic power, and the dark cold aura around him dissipated.
Just as Roy was about to put the souls of the dead demons into his bag, the water of the refinement pool, which was originally just bubbling, suddenly churned and formed a vortex. This vortex had a strong suction force and actually sucked in the souls scattered around!
All of this happened so quickly that Roy did not expect such a phenomenon to occur. It was too late for him to snatch the souls back.
At the same time, Roy felt a powerful force acting on him. It was the power of the barrier! Roy and Fat Tiger were repelled by the power of the barrier and were sent flying out of the place of refinement.
He was ejected from one of the Gates of Ghosts. As soon as he left the barrier, the power suddenly dissipated. Even so, Roy and Fat Tiger fell to the ground.
The middle-rank demons wandering around the periphery of the place of refinement looked at Roy and Fat Tiger with puzzled expressions. They did not know what had happened.
But at this moment, these middle-rank demons seemed to sense something. They howled and fled in all directions.
At this moment, Roy had just gotten up from the ground when he saw the eyes of the ghoul on the Ghoul Gate he flew out from light up, emitting a scarlet light. The Ghoul Gate seemed to come to life at this moment!
As the scarlet light lit up, a powerful force, or rather, will, descended on the Gate of Ghosts. Roy once again felt the same power as Xeron, so he knew that the will of a high-rank demon was definitely connected to this Gate of Ghosts.
"Hohoho! Look, another challenger has appeared! "
The Ghoul Gate made a sound, and its scarlet eyes stared at Roy, making the ghoul's face look like it was smiling but not smiling.
"Your Excellency, you are …?" Knowing that the other party was a high-rank demon, Roy did not dare to be careless. Fortunately, he had practiced false respect for high-rank demons when he was with Xeron, so he revealed a humble and puzzled expression without a trace.
"My name is Edrach! High-rank demon! "the voice said." A servant of Demon Lord Rogeros! Brat, don't you know that it's forbidden to kill in this place of refinement? "
"Your Excellency Edrach, I don't know!" Roy replied. "They attacked me. I can't just stand there and let them attack, right?"
"Humph, I'm not interested in listening to this kind of debate about who is right and who is wrong!" Edrach said, "Over the past millions of years, many demons have been unable to restrain their killing instincts in the barrier of the place of refinement and killed other demons. If I had to listen to the reasons for every one of them to attack, wouldn't I be exhausted to death? What's done is done. I don't care who's right or wrong! "
"Alright!" Roy exhaled softly and asked, "So, Your Excellency Edrach, did you come here to kill me, who broke the rules?"
While saying this, Roy prepared to use the Flash skill.
However, unexpectedly, Edrach laughed loudly and said, "Kill you? Why? "
"Hmm? Didn't you say that I broke the rules? "Roy asked doubtfully.
"Hmph, the pool water of this place of refinement has the demon blood of Lord Rogeros, and the rules here were set by the lord!" Edrach said. "You did indeed break the rules set by the lord! However, chaos and killing are the rules of the Demon World, so you can't say that you're completely wrong! "
"What do you mean?" Roy was confused. What is Edrach trying to say?
"Damn it. You guys who have just promoted from low-rank demons are troublesome!" Edrach's voice sounded a little impatient. "Listen up. I'll only say it once! Don't you understand? After becoming a middle-rank demon, you should have the status you deserve! Unlike those ant-like low-rank demons, after knowing how to use magic power, you've become a qualified warrior! So in some matters, you can also get the opportunities you deserve! "
"Killing in the barrier of the place of refinement is indeed not allowed. If all demons do this, it will cause the number of middle-rank demons to decrease significantly!" Edrach continued. "But the nature of demons to kill is like this, so even demon lords can't blame you. Since you survived the siege, it means that you were the strongest in the barrier at that time, and warriors deserve the praise they deserve!"
Now, Roy really understood.
Warriors should be praised, and on the other hand, weakness was the greatest sin! The meaning was obvious. Although Roy had broken the rules, did Edrach still want to seek justice for those pitiful creatures who were killed?
Impossible. Demons did not have any mercy, and it was impossible for them to sympathize with the weak.
From the perspective of the ruling class, although Roy had indeed broken the rules, they preferred this kind of bravery that stood out! Because this meant that another powerful demon warrior would be born.
At this moment, Roy finally experienced the changes brought about by his promotion. In this Abyss, no low-rank demons had … Yes, demon power, and the rulers could not even look at low-rank demons. But once they reached the middle-rank demon level, they would immediately receive the attention they deserved.
This was a very obvious class discrimination. The more powerful a demon was, the more power they had to make mistakes and break the rules. As long as you were strong enough, you could even set the rules!
Roy felt that he really could not use his human thinking to measure the attitude of demons toward certain things …
"I understand!" Roy nodded. "Your Excellency Edrach, thank you for your attention!"
"Hmm, it's good that you understand. It seems like you're not an idiot!" Edrach's voice sounded very satisfied. The smarter demon saved him the trouble of wasting his breath. "Warriors should obtain the rights they deserve, but this kind of behavior is not worth advocating, so you still have to receive the punishment you deserve. His Excellency Rogeros doesn't have the time to pay attention to these small matters. Let me announce your punishment. You must carry out an execution mission!" Edrach's voice sounded very satisfied.
"An execution mission?"
"Yes! An execution mission, but the target of this execution isn't you, but you're the executioner! Go kill the target set by His Excellency Rogeros! " Edrach said. "The mission has a certain degree of difficulty because this kind of target is often stronger than you. If you can successfully complete the execution, then His Excellency Rogeros will give you the reward you deserve when you return …"
"Then, if I can't kill the target and am killed by the target instead, it will be my punishment for breaking the rules, right?" Roy understood immediately.
"That's right!" Edrach said. "The execution and the execution depends on whether you're really strong. I hope you're not a demon who only knows how to bully the weak …" As Edrach spoke, a black ball of light appeared in front of Roy.
As Edrach spoke, a black ball of light appeared in front of Roy. In the ball of light was a crystal as thick as a thumb. The crystal floated in front of Roy. Edrach said, "This is a memory crystal. There is information about your execution mission target on it. You can read it after inputting magic power. Remember, you only have one year to complete this execution mission … After the mission is completed, you can come here to find me!"
After saying that, the power of Edrach's will gradually dissipated, and the scarlet eyes of the Evil Ghost Gate gradually dimmed.
Roy did not touch the memory crystal immediately. Instead, he swayed his tail gently on the spot and pondered.
He did not expect to encounter such a thing after promoting to middle-rank demon. From Edrach's words, Roy sensitively discovered some information.
Demon lords were existences higher than high-rank demons, and this place of refinement seemed to have been built with the blood of demon lords. Unlike the attitude of the upper Abyss toward low-rank demons, these demon rulers seemed to have consciously managed the middle Abyss. However, this was not the world where high-rank demons and demon lords lived, so they could only execute their will through this method of descending with power.
When Roy first entered the middle Abyss, he was ignorant and had indeed broken the rules set by the demon lords. But in the eyes of the ruling class, it was still within the range of toleration. After all, the demon lords who established the place of refinement had specially created a barrier. After collecting souls in the pool water, they immediately expelled the demons in the barrier. This meant that they had long expected such a situation to happen, so they only punished him.
Of course, rules were indeed divided into tolerable and intolerable. If Roy had killed in the birthplace of the surface little demons, he would definitely have been killed, and it would have been impossible to tolerate it.
Rather than saying it was a punishment, it was better to say that it was an opportunity because this mission was for Roy to be an execution demon to chase after other demons, not other demons chasing after him. They did not even sign a demon contract with Roy, and the time given was very loose.
If he could complete the mission, there would be rewards. This mode was like a mercenary accepting a mission. No matter how one looked at it, it seemed like they were giving Roy an opportunity to train him.
Hmm … It could not be said that it was only targeting Roy. From what Edrach meant, many demons had broken the rules in the place of refinement in the past, so this method of dealing with Roy might have been used on other demons.
This situation, coupled with the word 'warrior' in Edrach's words, made Roy think that this might be a demon lord training his own army.
The so-called lords referred to those who had their own jurisdiction. Generally speaking, it was impossible for there to be only one lord. Even human lords would fight against each other, let alone demon lords. Therefore, Roy felt that the middle Abyss was actually a source of soldiers for demon lords!
Chaos, slaughter, war … Tsk, this kind of world melody is really a headache. Don't these demons get tired of it?
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