Chapter 384 Soul Split
The rhythmic sound meant that the Red Sea Egg was ready and full of energy, able to start work at any time.
But Roy did not move after seeing this and continued to wait.
Sure enough, after a while, the roots of the Red Sea Egg continued to explore for other nutrients instinctively after absorbing the insect egg fossils.
And the source of these nutrients was the insect sh.e.l.l of Beelzebub standing on the square!
“What does it want to do?” Benia asked in surprise. “Don’t tell me it wants to absorb the sh.e.l.l?!”
“Won’t you know after seeing it?” Roy crossed his arms, but he had infinite hope in his heart.
Regarding Beelzebub’s sh.e.l.l, although Benia had suggested that Roy try to see if he could discover a little bit of the essence of demon king-level power through it, after careful consideration, he found that there appeared no good way to do this. Because this sh.e.l.l was purely biological tissue, apart from the magic power left behind, there was no soul fragment of Beelzebub. Be it memories or legacies, they had to be carried by souls or soul fragments. Without souls or soul fragments, it was simply a joke to comprehend the essence of high-level power.
This was not like martial arts or fantasy novels where Roy could just sit down, say ‘I understand!’, and really understand. Even if it was possible, it was still uncertain if he had that kind of perception or not.
Therefore, Roy’s first thought was to turn the remaining magic power in this sh.e.l.l into his own. As for whether he could comprehend anything from this magic power, it would depend on luck.
Demons devouring souls would increase their magic power, but this might not necessarily be the case for devouring corpses, let alone this shed and dead sh.e.l.l of Beelzebub. This way, if he wanted to turn the magic power in the sh.e.l.l into his own, he would have to find another way. This was why he chose to plant the Red Sea Egg.
Roy felt that since the remaining amount of magic power in this sh.e.l.l was about the same as his total magic power, why not use the Red Sea Egg to absorb this magic power? Then he could use his body tissue to create a new clone and transfer the magic power into this clone. Wouldn’t he get a ready-made demon lord-level clone like this?
At that time, as long as he slightly adjusted the clone to make it as similar to his main body as possible, wouldn’t he be able to use the Fusion skill again?
Once he completed the fusion, it would double his total amount of magic power!
Such a ready-made benefit was not something that he could encounter at any time. Under normal circ.u.mstances, if he wanted to create a demon lord-level clone, he would have to invest tens or even hundreds of millions of souls to increase its magic power. Now that he had this sh.e.l.l, wouldn’t he save those souls?
No matter what, he had to give it a try first. Roy had planted the Red Sea Egg, and now, it began to become interested in the sh.e.l.l, just as he had expected. But it seemed to be afraid of the demon king aura emanating from the sh.e.l.l, so its roots only dared to linger around it.
If it were a living creature, it would definitely be furious and attack these roots after sensing the intentions of the Red Sea Egg. In that case, the Red Sea Egg might retreat in fear. Unfortunately, the sh.e.l.l could not move at all and would not have any hostility toward the Red Sea Egg. This caused the Red Sea Egg to probe it continuously and discover that the target did not react at all, so it began to become more and more daring. Its roots continued to extend toward Beelzebub’s sh.e.l.l at a slow speed and finally touched it.
When it first touched it, its roots shrank back in fear, but when it discovered that there was really no reaction and no counterattack, the roots suddenly swarmed forward and ferociously pounced at the sh.e.l.l!
This action was like a wild beast hunting prey in the natural world. After confirming that the prey was really not dangerous, the Red Sea Egg was abnormally greedy and impatient. Numerous roots quickly climbed up along the sh.e.l.l like crazy ivy and soon covered it.
While covering it, these roots began to absorb the remaining magic power in the sh.e.l.l. These numerous roots seemed to have been hungry for a long time as they used all their strength to extract the magic power in the sh.e.l.l and transfer it to the bud.
At the same time, Roy saw this scene and stepped forward. He placed his hand on the wall of the bud and used weak electric currents to guide and adjust it.
He wanted to absorb the magic power, so of course, he could not allow the Red Sea Egg to absorb it. Otherwise, it would use this magic power for self-growth and become even larger. Roy had to stop it from doing this and get it to store the magic power it absorbed.
With his adjustments, the Red Sea Egg’s extraction of magic power slowed down a little, but it still continued to absorb it tirelessly.
When Roy felt that it was about time, he removed his hand, summoned Frostmourne, and slashed at his left arm!
Blood spewed out, but it stopped in less than half a minute. Then the muscle tissue at where he severed his arm produced countless meat sprouts as it began to enter the regeneration state. It would probably take at most an hour to regrow this severed arm.
While sighing that males demons had to be ruthless to themselves, Roy picked up his left arm that had fallen to the ground, flew up a bit, and put this severed arm into the opening on the bud.
With Roy’s body tissue, the Red Sea Egg truly entered the working state, and the rhythm of its pulsations accelerated. Within the flower bud, the Red Sea Egg quickly a.n.a.lyzed Roy’s arm and began cloning.
At the same time, the magic power absorbed from the sh.e.l.l began to infuse slowly into the new clone.
Roy returned and waited quietly. Benia did not understand the functions of the Red Sea Egg, so she asked curiously. He did not hide it from her and explained it to her.
Benia did not understand the term replicate too well, but she could roughly understand it and asked with doubt, “According to what you said, the Red Sea Egg will use your severed arm to create a flesh and blood clone, right? But the magic power of this clone will come from Beelzebub’s sh.e.l.l.”
“Right!” Roy nodded.
“But… don’t forget that the sh.e.l.l is also biological tissue. During the absorption process, will it affect your clone?” Benia asked curiously. “Will this cause your clone to have Beelzebub’s bloodline?”
“… That’s possible!” Roy hesitated for a moment before nodding. “In fact, I was worried about this just now. I could have entered the bud myself and absorbed the magic power, but I didn’t go in rashly. After all, the outcome is unknown, so it’s best to experiment with my clone. Even if something goes wrong, it won’t affect my main body.”
“Then, we’ll see what happens to the clone,” Benia said. “By the way, the clone you create won’t have a soul, right? Looks like you’ll have to prepare a fragment of your soul.” This was indeed a problem. The first clone Roy created with the Red Sea Egg had Uriel’s soul driving it. But now, he did not have such a suitable soul in his hands. Moreover, he was also considering a problem. The soul in the clone would ultimately fuse with his soul through the Fusion skill. In this way, too many souls mixing together too much would not be good.
So after thinking about it, Roy decided to use his own soul fragment this time.
Roy knew the method of splitting soul fragments. This method naturally came from the inherited memories of the spider demon Araniya, but he had never tried it personally.
Roy condensed magic power on his intact right arm and recited the demon language incantation. Under the effect of the incantation, the magic power radiance on Roy’s right arm changed slightly, and his entire arm turned translucent!
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This was the ‘Soul Touch’ spell. It was a special spell that allowed others to touch the souls of living creatures!
Roy slowly inserted this translucent right hand into his chest. The moment his fingertips touched his chest, ripples appeared on the surface of his chest. Without breaking through any skin, his right hand went into his chest. Even though it was touching his own soul, it was quite uncomfortable. But Roy endured it, grabbed his soul, and slowly took it out.
The moment his soul left his body, he felt that his entire body was not good, and an extreme sense of emptiness filled his whole body.
At this moment, Roy finally saw his soul for the first time. It was a huge soul emitting black light. This size represented his status as a demon lord, and it was different from other demons. If he had to compare it, Kha-Beleth’s soul was about the same size.
But what was strange was that there were thin golden lines on the surface of his soul ball. When he observed carefully, he discovered a faint blue light other than the golden lines!
Roy’s heart tightened. Needless to say, he knew that the golden lines were due to him fusing with Uriel’s soul. It was the remnant of the angel’s soul and displayed as golden lines.
As expected, he could not do soul fusions too many times. Because after the fusions, these souls did not totally disappear. Instead, they attached to his soul in this way. Who knew if too many fusions would cause problems for his soul?
As for that almost imperceptible blue light, it was the most shocking because he had seen it before.
This blue light was the light unique to human souls!
It was probably because of this light that Roy still had memories of his previous life even though he was born a demon…
Of course, despite these two lights, his soul was still mainly black, which was the color of a pure demon soul. There was a thread connecting the entire soul to his body.
Not daring to expose his soul for too long, he quickly cut off a small piece from his soul and then stuffed his soul back into his body.
The small piece he cut off gradually became round in his hands, becoming a much smaller soul ball. Although he was holding this soul fragment in his hand, he still felt as though he had lost something important. His body felt empty, and even his spirit was a little dispirited.
Roy understood that this was the effect of splitting his soul. Fortunately, after adapting for a while, this feeling gradually disappeared. Moreover, when he thought about how he would take back the soul fragment when he used Fusion with his clone later, he felt better.
After this splitting his soul, he suddenly understood what was going on with the demon king-level clones of Samael and the others. If the soul fragment split from the main body was put into a powerful demon king-level body, it seemed that a demon king clone could be created.
Of course, this was not easy because it was extremely difficult to find such a powerful body. Just like Roy now, he was creating a demon lord-level clone, but if he had not coincidentally encountered Beelzebub’s sh.e.l.l and had the Red Sea Egg, he might not have been able to do so…