Chapter 535
Chapter 535: In the Name of Despair!
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
After the intense light erupted, what followed was the disintegration of the Crystal Arch. Enormous spiderweb-like cracks covered the surface of the tower, and hundreds of tons of rubble of different sizes collapsed. The debris fell from a height of more than three kilometers and hit the ground with shocking loud bangs and tremors.
In every corner of the High Heavens, there were still some surviving angels who had not given up resisting and were still fighting the demons. But after the intense light erupted just now, they couldn’t help looking up at the Crystal Arch. As a result, they could only stare at the collapse with their mouths agape.
The Crystal Arch was the faith of all the angels of the High Heavens. For many angels, the Crystal Arch had been standing there since the moment they were born. For millions of years, it had stood tall, and in the minds of angels, they had never thought it would collapse.
But now, this scene really appeared, so much so that the angels thought they were seeing an illusion and couldn’t believe it.
The demons had similar expressions. Although they had always been clamoring to destroy the High Heavens, they had never imagined what the moment the High Heavens was destroyed would be like. Now, seeing the Crystal Arch, the symbol of the High Heavens, collapse, they didn’t know what was going on and stared blankly like the angels.
The collapse of the Crystal Arch lasted for more than an hour, and everyone in the High Heavens just stared blankly for more than an hour. This soul-stirring scene had already made them forget that they were still fighting.
The ruins left behind by the collapse of the Crystal Arch, which had been more than three kilometers tall, were more than two hundred meters tall. The smoke and dust that rose spread for hundreds of kilometers and didn’t dissipate for a long time. Anu’s spine crystal, which had become fragile because of the massive loss of holy power, exploded into countless fragments. These fragments were buried in the ruins with the rubble. But even so, the creep of the black Desolate Virus attached to these fragments hadn’t disappeared, and the energy-loving virus was still greedily absorbing the remaining energy in the fragments.
These fragments were like a dying patient. The dim light was their final struggle. Only when the last bit of energy was exhausted did they completely dim, symbolizing the dissipation of the last ray of light of the High Heavens.
After the massive tremors stopped, the demons woke up from their daze. When they finally realized what had happened, they roared excitedly.
For a moment, all kinds of roars of demons resounded throughout the entire High Heavens, celebrating the victory!
Then the demons looked at Roy slowly descending from the sky with fanatical eyes. They shouted the name of Demon King Osiris, prostrated on the ground, and gave Osiris the highest respect.
At this moment, to the demons, the name Osiris was even greater than the seven demon kings of Hell..
As for the surviving angels, all that was left was endless sorrow. They looked at Roy with hatred in their eyes, but no angel charged at him for revenge because they knew that the High Heavens was finished and hopeless.
Incomparable despair grew in the hearts of the angels. They drew their weapons and stabbed themselves into their chests, choosing to commit suicide to accompany the High Heavens.
However, because Anu’s spine crystal had collapsed, after these angels committed suicide, their souls couldn’t find a place to go and could only circle around the corpses.
Roy, who was slowly descending, didn’t look at these angels who committed suicide. But an inexplicable feeling made him turn his head to look at them. After thinking about it, he waved his hand, and the souls of these angels turned into streams of light and flew toward him.
After the souls flew into his palm, he found that these holy angel souls that should have been golden actually revealed a gray color. The angel faces that flashed in the souls from time to time also had numb expressions.
Almost the moment he came into contact with these souls, he sensed an extreme negative emotion from them!
This emotion was called ‘despair’!!
Roy could understand why angels would have this emotion. The destruction of the Crystal Arch meant that the High Heavens had completely fallen, and the remaining angels could no longer save them, so they committed suicide in despair. These emotions before their deaths were completely inherited by their souls, finally forming this ‘soul of despair’.
However, Roy didn’t care about this. What he cared about was that these souls of despair were actually… resonating with his divine spark!
He realized something, so he swallowed these souls of despair without even thinking. Not only that, but he waved his hand again, and more souls of despair left behind by the angels who had commited suicide continuously flew toward him.
Some clever demons even saw Roy’s intentions and hugged the souls of despair they found, intending to offer them to him.
In the end, Roy collected more than 1,400 souls of despair. This was the remaining number of angels that survived. After witnessing the collapse of the Crystal Arch, their souls all turned into souls of despair.
Roy devoured all these souls of despair, and unlike before, they didn’t exist in the system interface. Every time he devoured a soul of despair, he could feel his divine spark becoming stronger.
Yes, Roy finally understood what his authority was. It was… despair!!
This was an authority unique to demons. Just like Mephisto’s hatred, Diablo’s fear, Baal’s destruction, Belial’s lies, Azmodan’s sins, Duriel’s pain, and Andariel’s anguish, demons could use the negative emotions born from intelligent life in specific ways to strengthen their divine sparks and authority.
What was worth mentioning was that the negative emotions that different demon kings could use were different. Similarly, the increase in authority caused by these negative emotions was different. The easily obtainable negative emotions would instead have a smaller increase in authority, while the difficult to obtain negative emotions would have a greater increase in authority.
The despair that Roy could use was often very difficult to appear in intelligent life. Such emotions would only appear when they were truly desperate and despairing, so it was much more difficult to obtain ‘souls of despair’. But correspondingly, these souls would greatly improve Roy’s divine spark and authority.
Especially when the soul that produced this emotion was an angel soul, it was even rarer.
After devouring the souls of despair of these angels, the unlying information of the world that Roy could see through his authority became clearer, and the ‘strings’ that he could pluck in the past became thicker. These were signs of the increase in his authority.
It had not been long since he obtained a divine spark and became a demon king, so in the past, Roy was still very unfamiliar with how to use his authority and didn’t know how to strengthen this power. Therefore, when fighting, he still chose his usual fighting style and used more magic power and Chaos power to fight.
But now, with clarity about the meaning of authority, he finally knew what the power of his authority could do.
He lowered his head and looked at a crystal fragment of the Crystal Arch in the ruins. This fragment was enormous and weighed more than a thousand tons. But he merely hooked his fingertip at it and saw countless cracks suddenly appear on it.
Thousands of tons of crystal shattered into countless tiny fragments in a short time. These fragments decomposed further and turned into countless dust. Finally, even the dust disappeared.
The entire process didn’t seem like a big deal, but only Roy knew that he had just plucked a ‘string’ and injected the power of ‘despair’ into this crystal fragment.
Yes, even non-living matter without any thoughts could ‘produce’ despair! After this emotion appeared, the crystal fragment fell into a ‘doubt of self-existence’ emotion and then ‘desperately self-decomposed’!
The actual process was like this. It might be a little complicated to describe, but it was this process. Roy’s authority could allow any matter to enter a state of ‘self-destruction’!
This was a very powerful authority. In theory, it was very difficult to break. Of course, although using this authority didn’t consume any magic power, it required a large amount of divine spark power. With Roy’s current divine spark state, he couldn’t use it frequently and continuously. Moreover, he could only achieve macroscopic self-destruction of matter, and he couldn’t do anything at the molecular/atomic level for the time being.
This required Roy to absorb more specialized ‘souls of despair’ to improve…
After understanding this, Roy felt a little regretful. If he had known earlier, he would have left more angels. The more angels who witnessed the collapse of the Crystal Arch, the more souls of despair he might have obtained.
But there were many situations that couldn’t be controlled in such a large-scale war, so Roy only felt pity and didn’t think too much about it.
He looked around at the numerous demons surrounding him. Seeing that they were all prostrating around the ruins under his feet, waiting for him to speak, he floated up slightly, revealed his misty body, and roared, “My name is Osiris! In the name of the King of Despair, I hereby proclaim the destruction of the High Heavens! I proclaim the defeat of our old enemy, the angels! I proclaim—the end of the Eternal Conflict!!”
Roar!!!
As Roy’s voice fell, the countless demons in the High Heavens let out fanatical roars. They were venting their excitement that was about to get out of control. After the roars, they shouted Roy’s true name in the demon language.
On this day, a name resounded throughout Hell, Heaven, Sanctuary, and the entire Diablo world.
“The King of Despair—Osiris!!