Chapter 316 - Xeron’s Memories
Chapter 316 Xeron’s Memories
The final range of the Armageddon was a radius of more than 150 kilometers.
Roy and the others flew with all their might until they finally escaped the explosion range. After the smoke and dust dissipated, Roy spread his wings and floated in the sky. He could see the enormous radioactive crater from afar.
The power of this Armageddon is comparable to a nuclear bomb with a yield of tens of thousands of tons. I really can’t underestimate it…
If Roy had not decisively cut off Xeron’s head but instead allowed him to guide meteor to land quickly, they might not have had the time to run out of the range of the impact.
Even so, this Armageddon had completely wiped out the ground troops that could not fly in Roy’s army. The skeleton soldiers, death knights, and most of the low-level demons died when the blast hit them, leaving not even a scrap. The hearts of Giovanni and his vampires were palpitating. If not for the fact that vampires could transform into bats and fly, their entire clan would have perished here. “Your Excellency Osiris, what should we do now?” Giovanni asked Roy carefully.
After killing Xeron, not only did the demons under Roy submit to him obediently, but even Giovanni’s group was abnormally respectful. Perhaps Roy did not feel anything, but for the natives of the Ashan world like Giovanni, Xeron’s name was like thunder in their ears. Over these years, the demon camp had always been under Xeron’s leadership, but it was this demon that the various races of Ashan hated and feared that Roy killed quickly and easily. Now, Giovanni felt more and more that it was the right choice to follow Roy… Roy did not answer Giovanni’s question for now. He floated in the air and took out Xeron’s evil soul.
Frostmourne did not need Xeron’s soul, so Roy chose to devour it without hesitation. Xeron’s soul seemed to have some consciousness, and Roy stuffed it into his mouth while it was wailing. Then he used the Soul Memory Reading skill, which he had used on the spider demon Araniya in the past, on Xeron’s soul.
Countless scenes began to appear in Roy’s mind and flashed by quickly. Perhaps because Xeron’s soul was stronger, there were many source memories in his soul, and they were not fragmentary. These memories almost entirely displayed Xeron’s life in front of Roy.
From his memories, Roy learned Xeron’s age. He had lived for 404 years in the Abyss!
Xeron had promoted to high-rank demon more than a hundred years ago. In other words, this guy had used around three hundred years to become a high-rank demon.
Don’t think that this time was very long. In fact, in Xeron’s memories, he had been proud of this for a long time. In other words, Xeron could already count as a genius among demons for being able to grow to a high-rank demon in six hundred years! Roy had actually never dared to mention his age in front of any demon because it was too exaggerated for him to become a high-rank demon in just a few years… This unbelievable promotion speed could not be viewed with the common sense of any demon. This was why Xeron could not believe that Roy was that little demon.
Julia was the only one who had seen Roy promote. But since she was a fallen angel, when Samael created her, she directly became a fallen angel at the high-rank demon level. This made her not have much concept of the promotion age of demons, so she had never been surprised. And from the moment Benia met Roy, she knew that his strength was about to promote to demon lord, so she would not be too surprised even if he really became a demon lord soon.
But Roy received a reminder from Xeron’s memories
-he absolutely could not let anyone know his age in the future.
Although Xeron’s memory fragments were pretty complete, most of them were of Xeron killing and plundering souls. Moreover, these memories were basically memories of facing tough enemies. In addition, there were also memories of him being defeated and escaping. Perhaps these memories were relatively profound, so they remained in the source memories of his soul. However, Xeron’s most distinct memory was probably the one of Roy entrapping him. In this memory, while Xeron was being beaten to death by several dragons, Roy’s small figure in the sky stared coldly at the scene below. It was especially clear and appeared repeatedly! It was no wonder that Xeron could not forget this. In all his memories, this might be the worst time he had been tricked… It was indeed a humiliation.
On the contrary, after Roy killed him, he did not have any memory of it. He probably died too quickly and did not have time to think about it…
After checking for a while, Roy finally found the memory he wanted to find the most. It was a memory about Demon Sovereign Kha-Beleth. From Xeron’s memory, Roy could clearly ‘see’ the figure of Kha-Beleth and the entire process of him swearing loyalty to Kha-Beleth. Roy learned from his memories that despite Xeron being loyal to Kha-Beleth, it was because Kha-Beleth had promised him many benefits and advantages. But deep in Xeron’s heart, there was a trace of ambition lurking. It seemed that every high-rank demon whose strength was close to demon lord would have similar emotions when facing a demon lord. On the one hand, they were afraid of the strength of the demon lord, but on the other hand, they also wanted to become a demon lord.
Among the many benefits that Kha-Beleth promised Xeron, one was to help him become a true demon lord!
Kha-Beleth told Xeron that as long as he was loyal and accomplished all of Kha-Beleth’s plans, he would give Xeron a wisp of the soul of a demon lord and help him complete the promotion!
This was very important information for Roy.
In order to become a true demon lord, not only did he need to accumulate enough magic power and complete his control over spatial power, but there also seemed to be an extremely important step-a ritual! A promotion ritual!
All along, the promotion of demons had a very significant relationship with their bloodlines. While constantly refining their bloodlines, it was also a process of refining magic power. From low to middle, and from middle to high, it was the same. From high-rank demon to demigod-level demon lord, it was a process of sublimation. During this process, it required the promotion ritual. This promotion ritual was a process of qualification verification. If demons could obtain a wisp of source power from a demon lord, it would be equivalent to the examiner giving the promotee a ‘qualified’ certification. In the promotion ritual, the promotee would smoothly obtain a promotion. This was also why there was a tradition of ‘challenging a demon lord’ among the demons in the world of Ashan. Only by challenging a demon lord could they obtain recognition. Of course, under normal circumstances, demon lords did not want to see other demons promote. The fewer people on equal footing, the better. Therefore, demon lords would not easily give such a promise. This often led to the situation where they could only succeed in promoting by challenging demon lords, killing them, and plundering their source power. Otherwise, they would only suffer defeat and death. Then, the question was, without the approval of a demon lord, would the promotion ritual certainly fail?
The answer was, not necessarily. If high-rank demons had enough accumulation and obtained enough power, they could also survive the promotion ritual and become a new demon lord. Demon lords who used this method were naturally stronger.
However, this method usually did not have a high success rate, and it could even be considered extremely low. Therefore, the ‘source bestowment’ of demon lords naturally became a special gift and reward, becoming a method for high-level rulers to control and win over demons. Seeing this, Roy finally understood. When he was in the Darksiders world, the Lord of the Hollows saying that he would give Roy a chance to experience the power of a demon lord, it was actually a similar reward. If Roy had agreed at that time, it would have meant that he would have obtained a wisp of the power of the Lord of the Hollows, which would have been beneficial for his future promotion.
Unfortunately, Roy had not understood this at that time. Araniya was merely a newly-promoted middle-rank demon after all. In the inherited memories Roy obtained from her, she did not know much about the promotion process of a demon lord. At that time, not only did the Lord of the Hollows say it very vaguely, but Roy did not trust him. In addition, the Lord of the Hollows had asked him to challenge another demon lord. This mission was too risky, so Roy agreed perfunctorily. Even until he left the Darksiders world, he did not carry it out, so he missed an opportunity… Of course, Roy did not regret it much. Even if he had another chance to choose, he would not carry it out. On the other hand, the Lord of the Hollows might still be foolishly waiting for Roy to report on the mission. After all, the passage of time was too meaningless for demons… Looking at these memories, Roy was enlightened and curious about what the so-called promotion ritual was.
Therefore, he searched the depths of Xeron’s memories for a while and finally found the content of the promotion ritual. Roy was stunned when he saw the content of the promotion ritual.
Because he really did not expect that the demon lord promotion ritual was actually… crashing through a Gate of Heaven!