Chapter 583
Chapter 583: Opening
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There was a reason Roy noticed this.
He acutely noticed that when the naaru A’dal used Holy Light to fight against him just now, a very small portion of the radiation of the Holy Light power was directed at Auriel on his shoulder.
Although A’dal had done it very secretly, and the impact of the Holy Light was not only very weak but also quickly stopped after reaching Auriel, she didn’t know that Auriel’s body and Roy were almost one because of the symbiotic contract. Roy’s power was also circulating in Auriel’s body, so even though A’dal’s probing was very careful and cautious, he discovered it immediately.
Roy didn’t notice A’dal’s intentions at first, but he suddenly understood.
A’dal seems to want to try to awaken Auriel!
In other worlds, the representative of the Holy Light was angels, and in this world, the representative of the Holy Light was the naaru. So in fact, the naaru could be regarded as the angels of this world.
Not only were they Holy Light beings, but even their bodies had some characteristics of angels. Be it the geometric components like wings or the halo-like crown on their heads, they were all like this. This reminded Roy of the strange-shaped first-generation ancient angels he had encountered in the Bayonetta world. So perhaps the naaru were considered ancient angels… After Roy made this connection, A’dal’s actions naturally made sense. Perhaps she sensed that Auriel on Roy’s shoulder was trom the same race as her!
In this world, those with wings might not necessarily be angels. They might have advanced and obtained wings. Although they looked similar to angels, in fact, true angels referred to life forms made of Holy Light. Angels from other worlds like Auriel were completely different from the advancers of this world. A’dal would treat Auriel as her own race, but it was impossible for her to treat advancers as one of her kind.
Auriel only had half of her body left, and the power of the Void and Roy’s Chaos power filled her body, forming a delicate balance. The original Holy Light power had long since disappeared, but this didn’t prevent A’dal from sensing Auriel’s situation. After all, even angels could fall, and naaru could also become dark naaru.
Although Auriel’s appearance was far from that of the naaru’s, it was impossible for A’dal to be mistaken. So in her confrontation with Roy, she had tried to use Holy Light to stimulate Auriel and see if she could use the power of the Holy Light to reactivate or awaken her.
After figuring this out, Roy sneered.
He finally understood what A’dal meant by what she said earlier. The reason why the leader of the naaru, the Light Mother Xe’ra, had sent a message to her people that they should try to stay by Roy’s side as much as possible when they met him was likely that she wanted the naaru to try to save Auriel, their compatriot from another world!
The Army of the Light had always been fighting against the Burning Legion, and they would do their best to fight for anything and anyone that could help them. If Auriel, an Archangel, could really be awakened by the Holy Light and escape the despair and corrosion of the Void, then the Army of the Light would undoubtedly obtain a powerful combat force.
It was even possible that after waking up, Auriel could help the naaru summon angel soldiers from other worlds!
The plan of the naaru was quite good. Because of the existence of the Burning Legion, the demons in this world were too powerful. There were many demons from other worlds, but there were no angels from other worlds. Auriel’s appearance was undoubtedly a wonderful opportunity for the naaru.
Unfortunately, in Roy’s opinion, the naaru would probably waste their efforts. Auriel’s situation was very special. She had fallen into the Void with Roy and then suffered Lilith’s time curse, which was equivalent to being corroded in the Void for thousands of years. If Roy hadn’t formed a symbiotic contract with her and used his Chaos power to suppress the Void infection, she would have never been able to survive. The moment she left his body, she might instantly turn into a Void creature!
Therefore, although it wasn’t impossible to rely on the power of the Holy Light to let Auriel recover, it could only be said that the chances were too low…
Thinking of this, Roy suddenly froze. Wait! Auriel can’t recover, but what about others?
He stretched out his palm and took out something from the system space.
It was a huge golden crystal. After he took it out, it quietly floated in his palm. Inside this golden crystal, a bright soul was constantly moving around.
‘W-where is this?” A soul fluctuation came from the crystal, and the voice of the soul revealed confusion.
“This is another world, Tyrael!” Roy replied.
That’s right. The crystal in his hand was the soulstone sealing Archangel Tyrael!
In the Battle of the High Heavens, Roy had defeated the Archangel of Valor,
Imperius, and in his despair, he had self-destructed his soul. The Archangel of Fate, Itherael, had been killed by Mephisto and the other two demon kings. The Archangel of Wisdom, Malthael, had fallen to become the Angel of Death and disappeared. And the Archangel of Hope, Auriel, had become the Angel of Despair. Only the Archangel of Justice, Tyrael, had survived. Roy had sealed him with a Light Soulstone at the beginning of the battle.
After the battle, Roy had encountered Lilith and fought Mephisto and the others. So many things had happened that he had almost forgotten that he had the soul of an Archangel…
So when Tyrael saw light again, he didn’t know what had happened, and his consciousness was still in the Battle of the High Heavens. When he heard Roy say that this was another world, his first reaction was disbelief.
“Nonsense!” But just as he refuted Roy angrily, he suddenly ‘saw’ Auriel on
Roy’s shoulder, and his soul voice trembled violently. “Au-Auriel?! Is that you?! What’s wrong with you? How did you become like that?!”
Urael felt rich Void power and a desperate and gloomy aura from Auriel. He couldn’t believe that she, who once represented hope, would become like this.
“Hmph. What’s the benefit of me deceiving you?” Roy walked out of the Black
Temple and allowed Tyrael’s soul to sense the broken world of Outland. “The High Heavens has been destroyed, and Imperius and the others have all died in battle. Now, only you are left, and I’ve brought you to another world!”
“H-how is this possible?!” Tyrael’s soul was rapidly blinking. Although he didn’t have a body, he could still express his disbelief.
“Osiris, I swear…” Tyrael gritted his teeth and was about to say something when Roy threw him back into the system space in the blink of an eye.
“Yes, I know. You swear that you will kill me, a demon king, one day!” Roy curled his lips and finished the rest of Tyrael’s sentence for him. “Seriously, you only have a soul left. Do you think your threat is useful?”
Although he said this, he was rubbing his chin and thinking about how to use Archangel Tyrael.
Tyrael’s soul was complete. As long as he could escape the seal of the Light Soulstone, he could reconstruct his body through Holy Light power. In other words, apart from Auriel, Roy had another Archangel in his hands. Didn’t the naaru want to awaken Auriel, a member of the same race? What if they found another member of the same race that they didn’t need to awaken?
It was imaginable that once Tyrael and the naaru came into contact, they, who were both Holy Light life forms, would immediately stand on the same side.
Tyrael would definitely join the Army of the Light to fight against the Burning Legion.
Tyrael would definitely be eager to do this. After all, his greatest enemy, Roy, was currently one of the commanders of the Burning Legion…
Ifl can monitor Tyrael’s movements in real time… Does this mean that I can infiltrate the interior of the Army of the Light? Roy pondered. Arranging an undercover agent that they can’t refuse sounds quite interesting.
In addition, strengthening the Army of the Light meant adding opponents for the Burning Legion. Roy was not truly on the same side as the Burning Legion. If Sargeras suddenly fell out with him one day, such as wanting to renege on the one hundred trillion souls, then using Tyrael as a pawn and making special arrangements for him might be able to play some role…
Hmm, in that case, I have to arrange an opportunity for Tyrael to escape and not arouse the suspicion of the naaru… Roy pondered as he returned to the Black Temple.
Days passed, and Roy didn’t go anywhere. He stayed in the Black Temple for the time being and commanded Magtheridon to continue to expand the Burning Legion’s sphere of influence in Outland. The demons of the Burning Legion gradually spread to the territory where Shattrath was. But there were no traces of the draenei in the reports of the demons. It was likely that Velen had already migrated his people and hidden with them. After all, Roy had already discovered their camp, and they couldn’t guarantee that the temperamental demon king wouldn’t suddenly go back on his word and bring the Burning Legion to attack them.
Since the Draenei were hiding, Roy couldn’t be bothered to look for them. Velen’s principal enemies were Kil’jaeden and Archimonde, so Roy didn’t need to put in too much effort for them.
During the time Roy was staying in Outland, great changes were happening on the planet Azeroth.
In the depths of Northrend, shrouded in freezing ice and snow, a towering spire stood. On the top of this spire, the Lich King Ner’zhul was sealed here in an enormous piece of ice. After being thrown to Northrend, with the powerful mental power bestowed by the Helm of Domination, Ner’zhul’s will was spreading on the land of Northrend.
He then used the undead plague to destroy some human settlements in Northrend and controlled their corpses.
He used his gradually expanding forces to launch the War of the Spider and capture the nerubians, an ancient race of Northrend. After a long time of operation, he had already established a massive army of his own and built Northrend as his base.
At this moment, just as Roy had expected, Ner’zhul began to feel indignant and unwilling.
Ner’zhul wasn’t a fool. He didn’t believe Kil’jaeden’s promise to him from the beginning to the end. He knew that he was only a pawn of the Burning Legion and was only paving the way for the Burning Legion to invade Azeroth. Once he lost his usefulness, Kil’jaeden would immediately abandon him.
But Ner’zhul knew that his soul was imprisoned in this armor and frozen here, making it impossible for him to escape. Therefore, he gradually had a new idea. He wanted to find a new body so that his soul could leave the armor and escape from Kil’jaeden’s control.
Under Ner’zhul’s continuous search, a figure with a soul full of honor and a heart of justice appeared in his line of sight!
Prince Arthas Menethil…