Chapter 645: Cause and Effect
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Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Along the way, Roy had been summarizing the rules of the time flux in his body. Although this time jump phenomenon came without warning, there were still traces to follow.
When Roy’s time jump happened this time, it was at the point in history when the Battle of Nihilam occurred. Sargeras had destroyed the Pantheon of Order and killed his fellow t.i.tans with his own hands. However, Norgannon, the Keeper of Celestial Magics and Lore, saw that the situation wasn’t good and made a last-ditch effort. He communicated with the two great cosmic energies of arcane and nature to protect the souls of every t.i.tan in an energy s.h.i.+eld and temporarily send them into the Void World, thus allowing the souls of the G.o.ds of the Pantheon to be preserved in the tsunamis of the fel energy storm set off by Sargeras.
Sargeras didn’t notice this. After destroying the bodies of the t.i.tans, he thought that he had won a great victory, so he also destroyed the negotiating venue, Nihilam.
The destruction of the Pantheon was definitely a major historical node in this universe. Although Roy didn’t partic.i.p.ate in this battle, he guessed that the moment of the time jump should be the moment the Pantheon was destroyed.
But now, after hearing Tichondrius say that the Burning Legion was attacking Argus, Roy immediately understood that he had come to another time node.
This is fine, Roy thought. The Burning Legion led by Sargeras wreaked havoc in this universe for more than twenty thousand years before the opening of the Dark Portal. If Roy partic.i.p.ated in the entire crusade for more than twenty thousand years, it would be very troublesome. Lifespan was a minor issue. The key was how many big and small events would happen in these twenty thousand years. These experiences would form many memories in his mind. If he really took more than twenty thousand years to return to his starting point, he was afraid that he wouldn’t be able to remember what he wanted to do…
Since Roy could jump through the time flux, he might only need to stay at some important historical nodes for a few years to decades, which would allow him to retain his original memories to the greatest extent. Just like now, when he heard about Argus, he immediately remembered that when he separated from Julia and Benia in the time flux, he had told them to wait for him on Argus.
Roy didn’t know at what time node the time flux had sent Julia and Benia. Were they already on Argus, or were they not? He needed to figure this out.
If they had already appeared on Argus, it would be easy. But if not, it would be a little troublesome. Roy didn’t know when they would arrive on Argus, so he would have to leave a message…
While he was thinking, in the c.o.c.kpit of the Void Seeker, Rafaro had projected the image of the distant planet Argus. This was the image sent back by the magic energy detector that he had launched in advance. With the naked eye, he couldn’t see Argus at all.
On the screen, Argus was slowly rotating. Because Sargeras didn’t seem to have tempted the eredar to fall and become demons, this planet still maintained its original appearance. From outer s.p.a.ce, Roy felt that it was extremely beautiful. The purple auroras that appeared above the planet from time to time couldn’t be seen on other planets. Thinking that it wouldn’t be long before fel energy contaminated this planet, causing it to exude an evil green glow, he couldn’t help observing for a while.
A light-year away from Argus, the Legion stars.h.i.+ps guiding Roy began to slow down and slowly sailed toward an astonis.h.i.+ngly large comet in s.p.a.ce. This comet’s tail stretched for hundreds of millions of kilometers. Under the light of the stars in the galaxy where Argus was in the distance, it reflected a beautiful white trajectory in the dark s.p.a.ce.
Of course, at this distance, comets that could be observed from Argus only occupied a small position in the starry sky at night. Moreover, the comets that the eredar on the planet saw were still stationary.
But in fact, after approaching this comet, you would find that the comet nucleus at the front was traveling through s.p.a.ce at high speed. This huge comet nucleus was an iron meteor with a diameter of about a hundred kilometers. But if you counted the coma enveloping it, the comet was much larger. The mist formed by gases and dust that permeated the surroundings directly expanded the size of the comet to more than a hundred thousand kilometers.
The temporary main forward base chosen by the Burning Legion was built on this comet. After the stars.h.i.+ps maintained the same speed as the comet, they began to land slowly. After pa.s.sing through the fog-like particles that made people unable to see their fingers, the scene suddenly lit up, and a land illuminated by fel energy appeared in front.
The comet nucleus with a diameter of more than a hundred kilometers provided more than a thousand square kilometers of ground. Although the ground was b.u.mpy, the demons of the Burning Legion didn’t mind. From above, you could see dense demons entrenched on the ground.
Clearly, this was not a regular Legion forward base but a secret base. There were not many demons stationed here, not even a thousandth of the Legion. But when Roy thought of what Tichondrius had said earlier, that Sargeras was plotting against Argus and not intending to destroy it, he immediately understood the purpose of this secret base.
Demons hiding in a comet? Roy smiled and felt that it was really interesting. Since ancient times, many intelligent races seemed to have regarded the appearance of comets as ominous signs. Now that the Legion was hiding many demons in this comet, it really confirmed this meaning. He didn’t know if the eredar on Argus had stargazers or astrologers. If so, he wondered if they were observing this comet and if they knew that there was a group of demons hiding in the depths of this comet that would bring disaster to them.
After landing, Tichondrius jumped out of his stars.h.i.+p in advance and waited politely for Roy at the exit of the Void Seeker. After Roy walked out, he didn’t waste any time and nodded for him to lead the way.
While leading Roy to where Sargeras was, Tichondrius spoke to Roy in a low voice. From him, Roy quickly learned about the changes and situations of the Legion during the three thousand years he had disappeared.
It turned out that after Roy suddenly disappeared under the gazes of many demons, it had caused a commotion. The demons didn’t know why their commander, Lord Osiris, had suddenly disappeared, so they had searched all over that planet. Even middle-level leaders such as dreadlords and abyss lords couldn’t suppress the demons. Fortunately, not long after, Sargeras returned from Nihilam. After learning that Roy had disappeared, he pondered for a while before ordering the demons to stop searching for Roy.
With Roy missing, the responsibility of commanding the Legion naturally returned to Sargeras. In the following hundred years, the Burning Legion didn’t make many major moves, and even the advancement plan of the crusade had slowed down. Clearly, Sargeras had been waiting for Roy’s return.
After waiting a hundred years, even Sargeras couldn’t stand it anymore. He realized that Roy wouldn’t appear for a while, so he restarted his crusade.
But without Roy as the commander, Sargeras didn’t have a commander strong enough to suppress so many demons, so he could only personally lead the Burning Legion on the crusade. In the end, after destroying several worlds, even Sargeras quit!
How could a big boss like Sargeras go into battle bare-chested? When he led the crusade, if he had taken action personally, then the ma.s.sive number of demons in the Burning Legion wouldn’t be of any use at all because he could directly destroy the target planet with a slash of his sword. But if he didn’t take action, the demons without a leader would be in chaos when attacking the planet. They would rush forward like a swarm of bees in everything they did. There would be no organization and discipline, and they couldn’t even do basic coordination.
Can you imagine the scene when attacking a small front formed by the natives of the planet? Because the attacks were too chaotic, inferior demons were trampled to death by infernals, and the infernals were crowded around by demon hounds, making it difficult for them to move an inch…
This scene happened not just once but many times. This caused the Legion to completely lose its irresistible momentum when it invaded planets with indigenous people. Every attack was extremely difficult, and many times, the ferocious and terrifying demons were beaten until they peed their pants in horror by mortal armies.
If they continued like this, the reputation of the Legion would be ruined! Therefore, Sargeras had no choice but to take action and destroy the target planets with his despair-inducing strength.
He managed to save some prestige doing this, but it wasn’t right to continue like this! If he had to take action every invasion, then why did he get so many demons?
After experiencing this, Sargeras realized the important role of a high-level demon king like Roy in the Burning Legion. He originally wanted to wait for Roy to return, but after finding that Roy’s return was a long time away, he could only think of another way.
However, it wasn’t easy to find a replacement for Roy. Although Sargeras had found many demons in the Twisting Nether, they had to have powerful strength and a clear and wise mind. It wasn’t easy to find demons like this. Lord-level demons were everywhere in the Legion, but there was not a single one who could reach the demon king level. This wasn’t only because divine sparks limited the progress of demon lords but also because most of the demons in the Twisting Nether had mutated due to the corrosion of the Void. Since they were not native demons, their advancements were even more difficult.
Even the abyss lords from the Abyss admitted that demon kings were extremely rare.
Therefore, Sargeras began to rack his brains. According to the descriptions of the abyss lords, he tried to get them to find a way to return to the Abyss, wanting to see if he could bring some demon kings over to be commanders. Moreover, because he learned from the abyss lords that Osiris’s bloodline was that of frost demons, he focused his search on frost demons. Sargeras felt that since Osiris could become a demon king, it meant that the bloodline of frost demons had more potential in the Abyss.
The abyss lords obeyed orders and kept trying to open gates to the Abyss. Unfortunately, the chances of success were very, very low. Out of hundreds of attempts, only one or two might succeed, and it would not last long.
The reason for this was actually very simple. Although abyss lords were a native demon race of the Abyss, they had stayed in this world for too long. The beings that summoned them had long died, and this world didn’t have any repulsive effect, causing them to be able to continue staying in this world after the death of the summoners. As a result, as time pa.s.sed, they had even forgotten the location and coordinates of the Abyss. Even the Ouroboros Marks in their souls were so faint that they were about to disappear.
Under such circ.u.mstances, it was indeed a big problem for them to find the Abyss in reverse.
But even so, as long as there were one or two successes, they could continue researching, and one day, they would be able to go to the Abyss more easily… However, because the flow of time in the Abyss and this world was different, the impact of Sargeras’s order on the Abyss was that the Burning Legion had taken away most of the frost demons in the Abyss!
This was also why Roy had rarely discovered frost demons when he was in the Abyss and why he could hear news about the Burning Legion from time to time…
After Tichondrius explained the situation clearly, even Roy was a little speechless. Was all of this because of my disappearance?