Chapter 633: The First Note
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Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
After Diathorus finished speaking, he raised his head and looked at Roy hopefully, waiting for his answer. But Roy was noncommittal about his proposal and remained silent.
He could understand Diathorus very well. After all, Diathorus should be the first batch of prisoners after Sargeras established the prison of Mardum. He had been imprisoned here for more than a thousand years. Even a demon with a long lifespan would probably not be able to bear it. It was normal for him to want to break out of the prison and escape after such a long time. But with his strength, it was impossible for him to break through the spatial blockade of Mardum, so he placed his hopes on Roy, this demon king.
In other words, Diathorus hoped to use his loyalty in exchange for Roy taking him with him when he broke out of the prison.
Unfortunately, Diathorus had made a miscalculation. Roy wasn’t worried about escaping from Mardum at all because he knew that Sargeras would destroy the prison himself before long. Why would he waste his effort on researching how to escape?
Moreover, how could a plane chosen by Sargeras to banish demons be so easy to break out of? It wasn’t an exaggeration to describe this prison as impregnable. Roy didn’t think that all the demons here combined would be able to find a flaw and escape.
When Diathorus saw that Roy was staring at him without saying anything, the flattering smile on his face gradually disappeared. Then he realized that Osiris was different from him. He had just been imprisoned. Things like breaking out of the prison probably wouldn’t move him. It was even possible that Osiris didn’t want to leave for the time being. After all, he must have fought with Sargeras before coming in, and he was imprisoned because he couldn’t win. If he were in a hurry to escape from the prison, he might have to face Sargeras’s pursuit…
After these thoughts ran through Diathorus’s mind, he quickly changed his words. “Of course, Lord Osiris, if you want to stay here and rule all of Mardum…”
“Not interested…” Roy replied lazily. What a joke. Although there were many demons in Mardum, even if he could really rule here, he would at most be a prison tyrant. Moreover, when Sargeras personally broke the cage, every demon would immediately pledge their loyalty to him and join the Burning Legion.
Therefore, Roy didn’t want to stir up trouble in this prison. He only needed to wait peacefully for a few years…
The difficulty of serving Roy made Diathorus unable to do anything. After all, demons could only think of power, authority, killing, and destruction. But none of these things could impress Roy now. Diathorus didn’t know what tribute to give him.
Fortunately, Roy saw his awkward expression and relieved him. After thinking about it, he took out Frostmourne and lightly threw it. The sword was inserted into the floor in front of Diathorus. “I can protect you, Dreadlord Diathorus, but I’ll give you a task. Do you see this sword? It was damaged in a collision with Gorshalach. If you can find a way to repair it, no demon in Mardum will dare to touch you!”
Diathorus pulled himself together and looked at Frostmourne. He could feel the powerful force of this sword, but the gap in the sword was also obvious. After looking at it for a while, he raised his head and said awkwardly, “Lord Osiris, with all due respect, even if I have the ability, there are no resources in Mardum that can be used to repair this artifact…”
“Don’t worry. I’m not asking you to repair it immediately!” Roy replied. “You can repair it when you go out in the future, but I want you to confirm whether you have a way to repair it.”
Diathorus’s expression changed several times before he gritted his teeth and agreed. “Yes! Lord Osiris, you can give it to me!”
“Very good!” Roy nodded in satisfaction. “Then from now on, you will be the subordinate of King of Despair Osiris…”
“Thank you so much, Lord Osiris…” Diathorus breathed a sigh of relief and bowed to Roy again.
In fact, Diathorus had no choice. When he was first imprisoned in Mardum by Sargeras, there were pitifully few demons in the prison, and it was very difficult to encounter any on the vast land. But as Sargeras continued to fight in the Twisting Nether, he imprisoned more and more demons, and they were becoming stronger and stronger. Now, Mardum could be said to be overcrowded with demons. In order to compete for living s.p.a.ce, demons naturally fought each other. This point was the same whether it was the crazy demons whose sanity had been corroded or the demons who had retained their normal rationality. Although Diathorus was a dreadlord, his frontal combat strength wasn’t high. The means of scheming and manipulating people had a negligible effect on the demons of the Twisting Nether, so Diathorus’s survival was under great threat, which was why he had no choice but to seek protection from a powerful demon.
As for the task Roy gave him, Diathorus wasn’t lying. He was indeed powerless in Mardum. But if he could get out, he really had a way to repair the sword. As for his so-called method, he would naturally seek the help of the true boss behind him…
It was just a normal artifact. There were plenty of ways to repair it in the Shadowlands…
Roy naturally saw Diathorus’s expression, but he didn’t say anything. Handing Frostmourne to him was just a flash of inspiration from Roy, who recalled that the dreadlords on Argus had taken out Frostmourne. If nothing unexpected happened, Roy handing over Frostmourne to the nathrezim was part of completing the closed time loop here. They would repair Frostmourne in the Shadowlands and make certain adjustments to its power, making it the Frostmourne that Ner’zhul and Arthas would wield in the future.
As for why they didn’t return Frostmourne to Roy after repairing it, it was actually very easy to understand. Roy guessed that he must have disappeared after falling into the s.p.a.cetime flux and jumped to another period in history, causing the sword to fail to reach his hands after being repaired…
Roy had guessed the cause and effect, so he didn’t resist taking Frostmourne out. But he was actually a little curious and had been thinking about a question. What would the consequences be if he didn’t complete these closed time loops?
Roy calculated and found that if he really did this, he might really fall into a so-called parallel timeline… It was even possible that he would be trapped forever in this s.p.a.cetime flux. He would be teleported to a certain point in time and could no longer escape. It would be like this for eternity.
This consequence made Roy much more cautious. He naturally didn’t want to court death easily.
The following time was a boring wait. Roy stayed in his territory and studied attributes and definitions in the system every day. In addition, he killed the crazy demons who dared to intrude into his territory in the most brutal way to deter other demons.
As time went by, Roy gradually established absolute prestige in Mardun, and more and more demons came to submit to him.
Most of these demons were sane, and such Twisting Nether demons all had one characteristic—they controlled the power of fel energy. As they continuously gathered in Roy’s territory, the concentration of fel energy in this area became ridiculously high.
Fel energy actually existed in this universe from the beginning. It wasn’t produced after the fall of Sargeras. After falling, Sargeras could only be regarded as a representative of fel energy. In fact, fel energy had already been born after the Void leaked and created the Twisting Nether.
Roy naturally studied the power of fel energy carefully. He found that fel energy was actually a kind of compromise. It was a compromise made by Void energy to exist and manifest in this world, so there was no difference in calling it decay.
It had to be known that Void energy couldn’t appear in the material world under normal circ.u.mstances. Once it appeared, it would devour matter. During this devouring process, Void energy was in a state of decay and compromise. Pure Void energy existed in reality for a very short time, including Roy’s Void Form. In fact, every time he transformed into the Void Form, although he could use Void energy, he always felt that most of the energy was wasted. This wasted energy was due to devouring and decaying with the matter.
Not only was this the case for Roy, but even Auriel on his shoulder was the same. When using Void energy, they couldn’t last long because the energy consumption was too great.
Therefore, Roy studied fel energy to see if he could convert Void energy into fel energy for fighting.
The answer was naturally yes. Even after Roy converted his Void energy into fel energy, it was still surprisingly powerful. After some calculations, he found that if he used fel energy to fight, in terms of energy level alone, he would be at least two to three times stronger than when he fought Sargeras.
However… this didn’t mean much because this improvement was not enough for Roy to break through to the Deadly Sin level. Facing Sargeras’s true body, he was still utterly powerless.
Moreover, after Void energy was converted into fel energy, it wasn’t without drawbacks. The influence of fel energy on the mind was too great, even for demons. Using fel energy to fight for a long time would cause demons to become more tyrannical and cruel and greatly suppress their rationality. This was unavoidable, no matter how strong their mental power and willpower were.
Simply put, it would cause the sanity value to drop. Although this effect didn’t seem to be too big for originally tyrannical and cruel demons, Roy felt that being able to maintain his calm thinking and reason were the most important things. He had to have a big fist and a good brain.
Therefore, Roy only had a superficial taste of fel energy. He felt that in terms of resisting Void energy, he had to use his own Chaos power.
Matter in reality, including all kinds of energy such as arcane and Holy Light, could achieve a neutralizing effect when resisting the corrosion of Void energy, but the premise was to sacrifice oneself. In other words, if you wanted to neutralize one portion of Void energy, you would have to pay at least three to five portions of equivalent energy for Void energy to devour and decay. This was the natural disadvantage when facing Void energy. After transforming into the Void Form, Roy relied on this characteristic to exchange a few energy blows with Sargeras.
However, Chaos power was different. Its neutralizing effect against Void energy was a ratio of 1 to 1! However much Chaos power Roy could use was equal to how much Void energy he could neutralize!
This was also the true reason why Lilith had sought Chaos power…
Just like that, almost two years pa.s.sed quickly during Roy’s constant research and exploration. On the first 666 days since he jumped out of the s.p.a.cetime flux, he finally welcomed his first all-around energy increase!
[The Movement to the End of Reincarnation] played the first note, increasing Roy’s overall strength by… one thousandth!
To be honest, this improvement was very little, but… the effect was really obvious!