Chapter 189 Three Years
Although Roy had decided to wait, he did not expect that he had waited for three full years!
Yes, three years! Even though Roy knew that Fury might have gone to an alternate space with a different flow of time from the main world, this long wait still drove Roy slightly crazy.
In his words, if he could have a descendent with Julia, then his child could have used magic in these three years…
But what made Roy feel the most speechless was that Julia did not feel anything about the passage of these three years. Roy felt that it was very long, but Julia felt that it was only the blink of an eye. Every time Roy talked about time, she would look at Roy in surprise and say, “It’s only been three years. It’s normal for Fury to not return in such a short
time!”
“…” Roy felt speechless every time this happened.
Of course, he knew that three years was indeed very short for the long-lived races, and it might require hundreds of years to make them feel that time was long.
Some demons could sleep for hundreds or even thousands of years until they were awakened by someone who did not have eyes. The legendary stories in the human world were all written in this way. In a sense, this description was not an exaggeration.
After understanding this, Roy no longer worried about it.
During these three years, Roy had not been idle. He brought Julia to find a place to stay, a relatively intact human building, and then enslaved a group of low-level demons nearby to collect souls for them.
Although the humans in this main world were almost extinct now, it did not mean that there were no souls produced. After the nuclear weapons launched by humans exploded in various parts of the world, the nuclear winter effect brought about by them was slowly weakening over time, so some animals and plants were slowly waking up. Ironically, without the existence of humans, their greatest natural enemy, the other creatures on this planet reproduced even better!
Even though the number of demons entering this world was large, it could not compare to the original human population on this planet. After the billions of humans were almost extinct, their demand for food in this world instantly reached its lowest point. Without the influence of human activity, the survival pressure on animals and plants lessened.
Over the past three years, Roy had witnessed with his own eyes this world go from near extinction to flourishing once again. But the creatures that survived the nuclear winter had more or less undergone some mutations and evolutions. Their bodies had become larger and stranger, but even so, they were still creatures of this world. After a short period of adaptation, new food chains were taking shape.
If Roy were a poet or an artist, he might have been moved by nature’s self-regulation ability, but unfortunately, he was not. Although he was very shocked, he felt that it was a matter of course.
When he was a human in his previous life, Roy did not feel much about it, but when he became a demon and looked at humans from another perspective, Roy did not know how to evaluate them. Human beings were very great! They could use thousands of years to transform nature step by step, eventually becoming the overlords of the food chain, and create a dazzling history and culture. But at the same time, humans were too insatiable. Like cancer cells, they continuously reproduced and destroyed the balance of nature.
It was not that Roy did not stand on the side of humans. In fact, even humans knew that if this had continued, they would have destroyed themselves even without the End War.
They seemed to have realized this as well. It was precisely because of this caution that there were all kinds of catastrophic disasters in human movies and novels. But because these novels and movies were made up by humans, almost all of the endings had humans finally winning and surviving…
But in this world, it was not a novel or movie. The appearance of angels and demons directly defeated humans with a single blow. Their imagined resistance and eventual victory had not appeared… Without the presence of humans, the animals and plants on this planet became active again. The plants were still nothing special, but the mutated animals had now become the best choice for demons to hunt souls. It seemed that because of mutations caused by radiation, the spirits of these originally weak animals had become much stronger. Although they were still inferior to human souls, they were better than nothing for demons.
However, due to the mutations, these animals, plants, and insects displayed greater combat strength than before. In fact, even when they faced low-rank demons, these low-rank demons would conversely become their prey.
Not only that, but some animals had devoured the corpses of the dead angels and demons on the battlefield. As everyone knew, demon blood could infect other life forms. Similarly, angel blood had similar effects. So when these animals consumed the flesh and blood of demons and angels, new changes emerged. As time passed, demonized creatures resembling the ones in the Abyss and some light-based creatures that could use weak holy light power gradually began to appear in this world.
In just three years, this planet had become completely unrecognizable. If a newcomer who entered this world were to look at these strange creatures and those places that had become strange because of radiation contamination, they would definitely not think that this was Earth…
Roy and Julia occupied a territory and ordered the low-level demons to hunt these mutated creatures every day. After the low-level demons brought back their souls, Roy set aside a portion of them for these low-level demons as rewards and used the rest to cultivate magic power. After becoming a high-rank demon, Roy discovered that the efficiency of raising his magic power using ordinary souls to create Magic Energy Growth Potions had substantially reduced. After condensing his magic power, it now became very difficult to increase.
Fortunately, Julia was by his side. Under her reminder, Roy changed the method of making Magic Energy Growth Potions.
He first transmuted the animal spirits he collected with the Horadric Cube, obtained fallen souls and noble souls, and then used these two types of high-quality souls to make Magic Energy Growth Potions!
Roy used these two types of high-quality souls to create skills in the system, and he thought that these two types of souls could only be used to create skills, but with Julia’s reminder, Roy realized that his thinking was wrong.
Julia said that high-level demons preferred to devour high-quality souls. This reminded Roy that regardless of whether they were ordinary souls, high-quality souls, holy souls, or evil souls, to demons, they could devour all souls!
In other words, there was no difference in the essence of souls. But in the system, the utilization of higher-quality souls was different.
Ordinary souls could be used in the system to create various items and increase Roy’s magic power. Although high-quality souls could not be used to create items, they could create skills and increase magic power. As for holy souls and evil souls, they could not be used to create items and skills, but they could create life and also increase magic power.
But Roy had tried devouring an angel soul, and the increase was negligible, and it was also very disgusting. This was because the positive emotional power in the holy soul had condensed to the highest level, and it was the least beneficial to demons.
In other words, according to theoretical calculations, the magic power growth effect contained in souls should be as follows: evil souls > fallen souls > noble souls > ordinary souls > holy souls!
For angels, this order might be reversed…
Evil souls could only be obtained by killing high-rank demons and above. To Roy, this was a very difficult path because the higher the level, the fewer the number. Moreover, generally speaking, after becoming high-rank demons, killing each other would become rare, so it was extremely arduous to increase magic power by collecting a large number of evil souls.
Of course, Roy could also think of a way to modify the Horadric Cube so that it could transmute evil souls, but he estimated that this kind of transmutation required a lot of ordinary souls.
Now, the most efficient way for Roy to increase his magic power was to use fallen souls to make Magic Energy Growth Potions!
Therefore, after accumulating souls for a period of time, Roy changed the definitions of the Magic Energy Growth Potion so that he could use the fallen souls transmuted from the Horadric Cube to make Magic Energy Growth Potions.
Originally, the Horadric Cube used 198 standard ordinary souls to create one fallen soul and one noble soul, which was equivalent to combining 99 standard souls into a high-quality soul. However, the animal spirits of mutated creatures were not as good as standard human souls, so after testing, it took about 140 mutated animal spirits to transmute a high-quality soul.
Roy kept the transmuted noble souls to create skills in the future or possibly for creating Magic Energy Growth Potions, and he used all the fallen souls to synthesize Magic Energy Growth Potions.
The result of the experiment was gratifying. If Roy were to devour a fallen soul directly, his magic power would increase by about 0.6, but the produced Magic Energy Growth Potion could increase this value to about 0.8. The Magic Energy Growth Potion produced using 99 standard human souls could only increase his magic power by about 0.5. The efficiency difference was 0.3!
Roy’s current magic power value was five thousand. If he wanted to double his magic power to ten thousand, it meant that he needed more than six thousand fallen souls. When converted, it was about six hundred thousand ordinary souls.
And this was under the effect of using Magic Energy Growth Potions. If he were to devour and digest like other demons, it would take at least a million ordinary souls… Roy finally knew why high-rank demons needed a long time to promote to demon lords. It was because collecting so many souls was absolutely impossible without enough time…
Therefore, Roy was looking forward to the million souls that Fury had promised. He did not think much of it before, but now he suddenly realized how large the number of souls Fury could take out was. It would not be an exaggeration to say that she was a golden thigh[1]
[1] A rich and/or powerful patron.
