Chapter 640
Chapter 640: Past Promise and Goal
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Roy wasn’t surprised by Sargeras’s fall because he was already mentally prepared for it.
However, in order not to expose his knowledge of the future, he asked in surprise about Sargeras’s demon form, “Lord Sargeras, what’s with your appearance?”
Sargeras didn’t hide it from him. “I needed an army, so I smashed Mardum. But that damn plane imprisoned too many Twisting Nether demons. The activities of these demons caused Mardum to contain a large amount of fel energy. The moment the prison exploded, I was also hit by this fel energy…”
So that’s what happened. Roy instantly understood. He had thought Sargeras had become a demon after taking the initiative to fall. But after hearing this explanation, he realized that Sargeras’s demon form had something to do with fel energy.
The dragon slayer would eventually become an evil dragon. This statement was really appropriate for Sargeras. Perhaps he had never thought that he, who had been dedicated to hunting down demons, would become a demon one day.
However, there was something that Roy didn’t know. Sargeras choosing to become a demon actually had something to do with him.
After fel energy infected creatures, it would produce a distortion effect that caused normal creatures to transform and mutate. This was also the origin of most Twisting Nether demons. However, Sargeras had been fighting Twisting Nether demons for so many years, so how could he not understand the corrosion of fel energy? With his strength, if he wanted to resist this distortion, he could definitely resist it completely. But after being contaminated by fel energy, he gave up on resisting this distortion and instead embraced it, so he finally became his current demon form.
A large part of the reason why he made this choice was due to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse summoned by Roy!
Although Sargeras didn’t know much about the Four Horsemen, during the short battle in the Void, the scene of the Four Horsemen transforming had left a deep impression on him. It was at that time that he realized one thing. Demonization might be a way for him to break through the bottleneck of his strength!
After Sargeras faced the Void Lord but was helpless, his desire for power had reached its peak. In order to obtain the power to deal with the Void Lords, he began to use whatever means necessary.
How should it be put? Although Sargeras would become an existence like a supervillain in the eyes of the world in the future, he was actually just sticking to his beliefs and cognition like Thanos. Even if these beliefs and cognition conflicted with the mainstream beliefs and cognition of the world, they would never look back and would take action without hesitation.
In layman’s terms, this was their Way!
Sargeras chose to accept the power of fel energy and distort himself into a powerful demon. At the same time, for his beliefs, he released all the demons in Mardum and planned to control these demons to form the Burning Legion. All of this was for his ultimate goal—resisting the corrosion of the Void!
After doing this, Sargeras realized that he might not be able to control so many demons alone, so he thought of Demon King Osiris, a kindred spirit in a sense. But because he had left in a hurry out of anger, he had forgotten to leave a communication method with Roy, so he could only rely on his impression to find his way back and see if he could meet Roy.
Fortunately, Roy didn’t go far, making Sargeras rejoice.
He didn’t know that Roy had deliberated wait here for him. So after the invitation succeeded, Sargeras began to describe his great plan to Roy excitedly.
“The Void Lord hasn’t fully woken up yet. We still have time!” Sargeras said. “Its power comes from the Void devouring the material world. Now that we’ve already figured out its plan in advance, we only need to stop the plan. Imagine what the scene will be like when it finds out that those damn Old Gods wandering the material world looking for targets end up as balls of ashes.”
Roy quietly listened to Sargeras and his great plan to burn the entire material world. Finally, he asked Sargeras, “Are you sure this method of destroying the material world in advance is really useful in stopping the Void Lord?”
In fact, Sargeras’s extreme idea was indeed logical at first glance. If he couldn’t stop the Void Lord, then we would destroy the world in advance so that the Void Lord wouldn’t be able to obtain it.
But how did Sargeras’s brain reach such an extreme idea? No matter how desperate he was because of the power of the Void Lord, this kind of self-destructive idea and plan still made Roy feel a little doubtful. In addition, he had encountered the nathrezim, the dreadlords, in Mardum. After knowing that these fellows had an unknown method of communicating with the outside world, Roy had to be cautious. He wanted to test Sargeras and see if he had been influenced by anyone or the outside world to come up with this thought.
This was a very simple principle. If Roy hadn’t appeared in this world, then normally, Sargeras should have fallen because of the nathrezim. The actions of these spies from the Shadowlands were faintly discernible in history. Now, Roy had intervened, making it so that Sargeras didn’t have too much contact with nathrezim. But he still fell in the end and had the same idea of burning the entire material world. This naturally seemed a little strange.
Therefore, Roy’s probing question was actually to find out whether Sargeras had come into contact with the dreadlords during the destruction of Mardum.
The result was not out of Roy’s expectations. Sure enough, Sargeras recounted the process of him opening Mardum. At the time, he had destroyed Mardum with violence. The fel energy explosion in this plane had indeed corroded him, and the explosion had also caused many demons to die. So when he forcefully demanded the surviving demons to be loyal to him, something immediately went wrong.
The prison of Mardum had existed for a long time, so the number of demons imprisoned had exceeded Sargeras’s expectations. Even though the demons were afraid of Sargeras, when the number of demons reached a certain extent, there would always be audacious and brainless fellows gathering together to try to resist him.
Under these circumstances, Sargeras naturally had to suppress them violently. But before he could execute these rebels, the dreadlords took action first and attacked the rebels.
There were not many imprisoned dreadlords, but these guys were very scheming. Their actions were equivalent to paying allegiance to Sargeras and becoming the first group to be loyal to him. In this situation, Sargeras would certainly be satisfied with them. After he personally suppressed the rioting demons, the dreadlords, who had first stood in line, would naturally be fine and be regarded as his trusted subordinates.
After learning that Sargeras planned to form a powerful army, the dreadlords took the opportunity to tell him what they knew about the Old God and the Void Lords. At this time, Sargeras was still a little unclear about his plan to form the Burning Legion and destroy the world in advance. But with the advice of the dreadlords, his faith in his plan became more and more firm.
This kind of guidance was so ingenious that even Roy couldn’t say anything. Even if he wanted to remind Sargeras to be wary of these dreadlords, he didn’t know how to say it.
Yes, his relationship with Sargeras was actually very subtle. Sargeras wanted to recruit a powerful subordinate in Roy. After all, he was used to being domineering, and his strength was far greater than Roy’s. So even though Roy had brought him to the Void, his attitude of looking down on him hadn’t changed. He was winning over Roy now only because he valued his unique ability, not because he really wanted to find a partner to lead the Burning Legion together.
It was still the same sentence. The Burning Legion was the Burning Legion of Sargeras, not the Burning Legion of Sargeras and Roy.
Roy’s attitude regarding Sargeras was similar. What did Sargeras’s plan have to do with him? He had helped Sargeras earlier because he wanted to take the opportunity to infiltrate the Burning Legion and complete the Movement to the End of Reincarnation. All his interactions with Sargeras were for the goal of one hundred trillion souls.
So after thinking about it, Roy didn’t say anything. He couldn’t be bothered to care about the mess between the Shadowlands and the Burning Legion.
He only made his request to Sargeras directly. “It’s not a problem to join your plan, but Lord Sargeras, I need you to provide me a hundred trillion souls in return!”
Upon hearing this number, even Sargeras was shocked. For Sargeras, who had already made plans to destroy the world, souls were not a problem. But with such a large number, even if he wanted to accumulate them, it would take a long time. Moreover, he knew very well that this was Roy’s ‘additional’ request. In other words, these souls were a ‘bonus’ in addition to Roy’s ‘pay’!
For example, if Roy participated in a war of the Burning Legion and destroyed a certain planet, however many souls he could obtain in this war would be his and not counted in these one hundred trillion souls.
Too troublesome! Sargeras subconsciously wanted to reject it, but the moment he opened his mouth, he suddenly thought of Roy’s strange soul creation ability and fell into deep thought.
After a while, Sargeras nodded. “I agree!”
Then Sargeras and Roy left together. Roy became the first demon king commander under Sargeras after the creation of the Burning Legion.
Thus, Roy was actually the first of the future three commanders…