Chapter 433: Many Mysteries
After hearing what Roy said, Dante was silent for a while before finally returning to his human form. He inserted Demon Sword Dante into the ground in front of Roy, then let go and took two steps back.
Seeing that he finally compromised, Roy nodded in satisfaction. He stretched out his hand and sucked over the Yamato beside Vergil.
Demon Sword Dante and Yamato floated beside Roy, which was equivalent to gathering all three weapons that Sparda had left behind.
“Very good!” Roy tossed a test tube containing a red liquid to Dante. “This is a recovery potion that can help Vergil recover. Whether you believe it or not is up to you.”
Dante held the potion and hesitated for a moment before returning to Vergil’s side. He fed the unconscious and seriously injured Vergil the potion.
Then he saw that the wounds on Vergil’s body really began to heal faster, and the muscle tissues were growing rapidly. In just a few seconds, Vergil’s torn open chest had closed again.
It was not until this moment that Dante realized that Demon Lord Osiris did not seem to have the intention of deceiving him.
After Roy obtained Demon Sword Dante and Yamato, he walked back with the two weapons and sat on his frozen throne. Sareth also ran back, stood behind the throne with Ca.s.sandra and the others, and waited curiously for Roy to start.
Roy’s hands glowed with magic power as he extended them toward the two floating weapons. When his hands touched the surface of the weapons, a ripple appeared in the void, and Roy’s hands disappeared as though they had reached into water. When his hands retracted, there were two b.a.l.l.s of black light in each of his palms.
The larger soul naturally came from Demon Sword Dante, and the smaller one came from Yamato. When Roy pulled out these two soul fragments that belonged to Sparda from the weapons, Demon Sword Dante and Yamato seemed to cry out, and the light of the weapons immediately dimmed.
Although they were not destroyed, anyone could tell that after losing the soul fragments of Sparda, the two weapons were no longer as powerful as before.
Seeing this, Dante naturally felt sad, and Nero also felt a little uncomfortable.
However, Roy did not care so much. He placed his hands together and kneaded the two soul fragments together.
At first, these two soul fragments were still clearly separated, but after all, they belonged to the same source. So after a while, these two soul fragments gradually began to fuse.
Roy’s eyes flickered. Of course, he could tell that these two soul fragments had difficulty fusing in the beginning because they had been separated for too long. This undoubtedly confirmed Roy’s guess: it was not good to separate soul fragments for too long, especially those used for clones. Once they developed self-awareness over time, it would probably be even more difficult to fuse them.
After he waited quietly for a while, the two soul fragments finally fused together, turning into an even larger black ball of light.
“Demons are still demons!” Roy suddenly said to Dante, who was paying attention to what was happening, “Even if your father, Sparda, is regarded as the savior of this world by humans, his soul is still an ‘evil soul’. This won’t change no matter what.”
“…” Dante was speechless and could only change the topic. “Why do you want to find the old man?”
“What? Do you think I’m like those demons who want to hunt down traitors?” Roy looked at Dante. “Don’t worry. I’m not that bored. I want to find Sparda because there are some things that maybe only he knows!”
Yes, although he did not have much hope in the beginning, since Sareth had completed the missions Roy gave him and successfully summoned Roy into this world, he naturally did not want to come in vain.
There were a total of seven inscriptions of the Demon Bible, and Roy now had four. The first one was the rubbing he had obtained from G.o.ddess Calypso in the Pirates of the Caribbean world. Calypso had said that this rubbing came from a high-rank flame demon that she had eliminated. Roy had never seen this demon, so he naturally had no way of investigating it.
The second and third ones were obtained from Kha-Beleth. Unfortunately, Roy did not know that Kha-Beleth had Demon Bible steles and had only obtained them from his treasury after he killed him, so there was no way to ask him about the specific origins of these two Demon Bible steles.
Now, the fourth one was in Sareth’s hands, and he had not given it to Roy yet. Fortunately, the former owner of the stele, the Dark Knight Sparda, seemed to be alive still. This was the best news.
Since Sparda had the stone stele before, it meant that he might know some of its functions. In that case, would he know some other information about the steles? For example, what effect would collecting all the steles have? Which demons had the remaining steles? And so on…
This was Roy’s greatest purpose in coming to this world. He had finally encountered a living demon lord who had once held a stele, so he certainly wanted to understand as much as possible.
As for the second purpose, it was about Julia. Roy still remembered that Julia had mentioned to him that Samael had brought her back to a certain world and made her a fallen angel, and this ‘certain world’ was very likely the Devil May Cry world!
In other words, this world was very likely Julia’s birthplace. Fallen angels were transformed from angels. But the problem was that from the moment Roy descended into this world, he felt that this world seemed to be strange, and he did not sense any angelic aura in this world! And if there were no angels, it meant that there was no Heaven in this world. So if the demons here wanted to promote to demon lord, how could they complete the promotion ritual?
It was impossible for them to become demon lords with the help of their fathers’ bloodline like Dante and Vergil, right?
Hmm… Speaking of which, Dante and Vergil didn’t seem to have displayed the True Name Liberation state. Could it be that they haven’t completed the promotion ritual?
What surprised Roy the most was that the demons of this world seemed to be missing something very important!
The Ouroboros Mark!
Any demon who traveled from the Abyss to another world would have the Ouroboros Mark engraved in the depths of their souls the moment they pa.s.sed through a Gate of the Abyss. This unique mark was a form of protection of the Abyss for demons. Even the weakest demon could be teleported back to the Abyss by the Ouroboros Mark as long as their souls had not been completely purified.
Unfortunately, the moment Roy was summoned, the Ouroboros Mark flashed in the light of the magic formation, but when he truly descended into this world, the Ouroboros Mark broke!
It was not only him. Julia and Benia were the same. So after descending, Roy immediately sensed the demons in the Qliphoth and found that they did not have the Ouroboros Mark.
Without the protection of the Ouroboros Mark, it meant that the souls of the demons here could not return to the Abyss after they were killed!
As for whether the souls of these demons would continue lingering in this world or return to the ‘Demon World’ in the Purgatory s.p.a.ce, Roy did not know for the time being because Urizen had absorbed the souls of the dead demons. This would have to wait for Roy to verify.
This was not the only strange place. There was also something that puzzled Roy the most.
In Roy’s impression, demon kings were very powerful. It was evident by Samael and Lilith, whom he had encountered in the Darksiders world. However, Sparda was only a demon lord, but he had defeated and sealed Demon King Mundus!
There were only two explanations for this. Either Mundus was simply a fake and just claiming to be a demon king, but he had not really reached the demon king level! Or Sparda’s method of sealing Mundus had other secrets!
In any case, there seemed to be many secrets hidden in this Devil May Cry world. And if he wanted to figure them out, it was impossible without Sparda.
Dante and Vergil were the main characters of this world, the Children of Destiny. However, Roy already knew from his past experiences that these so-called Children of Destiny were not impossible to kill. But he now wanted to find Sparda and learn many things from him. If he really killed the descendants of Sparda, there would probably be a lot of trouble in communicating.
Moreover, there were still many unknown factors in the future. What if they encountered a place that required the Sparda bloodline? At that time, Dante and Vergil would be useful.
This was also why Roy had shown mercy and spared Vergil’s life. He had been thinking long term…
Of course, no one would be able to guess Roy’s thoughts if he did not say them himself. Dante did not understand the causes and effects, so he felt that Roy’s words were profound and mysterious.
The magic power light in Roy’s hands did not disappear. It kept moving around Sparda’s soul ball. Soon, the black soul ball became even more dazzling. About half a minute later, an illusory light suddenly appeared above the soul ball!
The figure in the light was actually a demon. In the light, they could see the eyes emitting white light on his head, two normal demon eyes on the left and right, and a third vertical eye between his eyebrows. His demon horns did not rise into the sky like those of ordinary demons. Instead, they extended out a distance from his left and right before bending down to cover his cheeks. This demon was wearing black armor, and the demon wings on his back spread slightly as he floated in the air.
“Old man?!” Dante could not help exclaiming when he saw the figure.
“Huh? Another insect-type demon?” Benia asked from behind.
Indeed, the demon wings on Sparda’s back were not normal demon wings but looked like insect elytra. This was the main characteristic of insect-type demon bloodlines.
Roy could not help but look at Dante and Vergil, who had already awakened. When he thought about it carefully, these two brothers’ demon forms indeed seemed to have insect-type demon structures, but it was not obvious.
“Heh. I’m really fated with insect-type demons recently!” Roy laughed self-mockingly.
He had just encountered Beelzebub’s sh.e.l.l not long ago, and now he had encountered Sparda, a fellow with an insect-type demon bloodline…
“Who… are you…” The Sparda in the light seemed to be at a loss as he asked Roy in a hoa.r.s.e and stuttering voice.
Now, this soul ball of Sparda was equivalent to the amalgamation of the three fragments, so it was naturally able to generate consciousness. But these soul fragments should have been split out before Sparda disappeared, so Roy estimated that it should not have any memories of Sparda’s whereabouts, so he asked straightforwardly, “Sparda, can you sense where your soul source is?”