On the way, Roy played with the seven Dragon Balls in his hand, making collision sounds. Fat Tiger’s six ears moved, and he looked back from time to time at his master.
Creating the Dragon Balls in the system consumed about 20 souls each, which was not much, but the seven added up to a total of 140 souls.
The Dragon Balls Roy created did not have much use other than constantly sending out a signal on a special frequency. Roy even made the Dragon Ball Radar as a receiving device to show the strength of this signal.
Roy also added the definition of Resonance to the Dragon Balls. This attribute would increase the output signal when the Dragon Balls were close to each other.
According to Roy’s vision, this signal could transmit to the Abyss when Gates of the Abyss were opened and then received by the Dragon Ball Radar. This way, since there were people summoning demons all the time in this world, the Gates of the Abyss would open frequently, and the signal would not be broken. When Roy wanted to enter the Heroes of Might and Magic world again, he could find it through the signal.
Of course, the next time he entered the Heroes of Might and Magic world, Roy hoped to open a Gate of the Abyss with formidable strength instead of being summoned over. If Roy could reach this stage, it meant that he was already sufficiently powerful, and he would not need to worry too much about encountering a strong enemy in this world.
This world was still considerably dangerous. After saying goodbye to the Sylanna’s Ancient, Roy wanted to fly for a while. But unfortunately, a fire phoenix flew by, forcing Roy to walk on the ground obediently.
While walking, Roy was thinking about how to spread the seven Dragon Balls everywhere. He initially wanted to add the Flying attribute to the Dragon Balls to spread them out but decided against it. After enhancing himself with Bloodlust, he used his greatest strength to throw four Dragon Balls to the southeast and northwest.
Roy knew that it was actually not too far away, and he could have only thrown them a few kilometers, but it did not matter. He had never thought about letting these Dragon Balls cross the ocean to another continent. The Dragon Balls were just beacons in the first place, and they could still send a signal like this. Roy did not care whether or not others would pick them up in the future.
With the remaining three Dragon Balls, Roy got Fat Tiger to catch a few wild boars, shoved them down the wild boars’ throats, and then let them go. This way, they would run around with the Dragon Balls. If other beasts ate them, these Dragon Balls would transfer to the beasts and continue to spread out.
He did not know how long it would take the Sylanna’s Ancient to spread the news of the Dragon Balls, nor how long it would take someone to gather these Dragon Balls.
Roy felt that it would be at least a few years…
The time flow of the Abyss seemed to be inconsistent with these other worlds. So while a few years might sound long, maybe when Roy just barely returned to the Abyss, a lot of time would have passed here. As such, Roy felt that he did not need to care too much about the time factor. Moreover, even if someone really managed to gather the Dragon Balls within a short time, he could choose not to come. He placed these beacons here in order to hunt souls and raise his strength, not to become a Dragon God that satisfied the wishes of the people who gathered the Dragon Balls.
Because the demon army had marched for about a month and a half, returning to the demon city was a very long distance. However, it was not boring on the way back, and he saw a lot of the diverse ecosystems of this world.
As they passed by a swamp, Roy and Fat Tiger were attacked by a group of dragonflies; at the bottom of a cliff, Fat Tiger caught a few cavemen in a dark cave; while searching for firewood at night, Roy found a stray dark elf camp, and a group of dark elf assassins attacked him, but they were instead killed by Roy.
In the sky, he could frequently see ferocious birds, thunderbirds, fire phoenixes, and dragons. These creatures were the overlords of the sky in this world. Although Roy and Fat Tiger had wings and could fly, they rarely flew in order to avoid unnecessary battles.
There was an endless stream of such creatures along the way. These creatures usually stayed away when the demon army traveled, but it felt as though they were emerging one after another now. A lone demon like Roy was basically the target they wanted to attack.
It couldn’t be helped. Demons were enemies to almost all races in this world. After all, they were alien creatures.
Among the various creatures Roy encountered, he hated the undead the most. These wild undead were usually formed by the contamination of dark power after their deaths. Without intelligence, they just instinctively attacked every living creature. Roy could not obtain any souls from killing these undead, and it was just a waste of effort. However, these wild undead were very common. Who knew in which remote place they would suddenly appear? It was simply frustrating.
On the way, Roy either hunted other creatures, or they attacked him actively. As time passed, Roy slowly accumulated quite a number of souls. Other than feeding a small number to Fat Tiger to accelerate his growth, Roy used the rest to make Magic Energy Growth Potions. He did not know how much magic power it would require to activate the teleportation formation in reverse, so it was naturally necessary to prepare some Magic Energy Growth Potions.
What was worth mentioning was that after Roy used a Magic Energy Growth Potion, that strange feeling appeared in his body again.
Compared to the previous time, the heat in his body was more intense, and he could feel his heart throbbing rapidly.
After this situation appeared again, Roy did not dare to continue using Magic Energy Growth Potions, and he stored the potions he made for the time being.
He guessed that this might be because the amount of magic power that his body could hold was about to reach the limit, causing such strange symptoms.
Actually, it made sense. Roy’s current magic energy attribute had reached almost four hundred, almost all of which he had gained through Magic Energy Growth Potions. According to the extraction efficiency of the potion, his four hundred points in magic energy was equivalent to what other low-rank demons could achieve after consuming seven to eight hundred souls.
Based on what Roy knew, many low-rank demons were instinctively hunting souls to devour as one of the conditions to promote. Once they reached a certain extent, they would probably have to seek a way to break through because they reached a bottleneck in the amount of magic power their bodies and bloodlines could contain. This method was to go lower in the Abyss to find a place of refinement and purify their bloodlines.
This was how to promote to middle-rank demon. Although Roy did not have any inherited memories of this promotion, he slowly figured it out after coming into contact with other demons.
There were different complexities in the bloodlines of low-rank demons. Some of them had purer bloodlines, so the upper limit of magic power they could accommodate was higher. The number of souls they needed to hunt was in the thousands, which led to them staying longer in the upper Abyss, becoming the old demons that Roy had seen. Similarly, some of the low-rank demons had complex bloodlines, and the limit of magic power they could contain was lower. So after devouring a few hundred souls, their magic power reached a bottleneck.
Roy guessed that he was likely the second type. According to the system, Roy’s demon bloodline was rather complex. In addition, he had improved his magic energy through potions, so he had advanced to the point where he needed to promote so quickly.
On the way, Roy was wondering if he should make a refining potion to use on himself. This way, he could complete his promotion even without heading lower into the Abyss to find a place of refinement.
However, after giving it some thought, Roy decided against it. He had yet to understand the principle behind the refinement. Would it only purify one of the bloodlines, or did it mean that all the bloodlines could promote? After all, according to genetics, there were always genetic factors that were dominant in complex bloodlines, while some were recessive. Some dominant ones were not necessarily useful, while the recessive ones were not necessarily useless. When the refinement process purified the bloodline, would it purify the dominant or reveal the recessive? Roy needed to understand all of this. If he rashly made his purification potion, he might mess it up.
Therefore, after returning to the Abyss, Roy decided that he would head lower into Abyss to find a place of refinement and observe how it worked for those demons who were promoting. At that time, he would slowly consider whether he should use a place of refinement to complete his promotion or use the system to make a potion to promote.
In this way, after spending a few weeks walking, Roy was finally led by Fat Tiger back to the volcano where the demon castle was…
