When Roy found that Sparda’s arm was bound in place by the magic formation and could not be taken away, he did not do anything rash and only squatted down to examine it carefully.
After careful observation, he found something unexpected.
The first strange thing was that Sparda’s arm did not show any signs of being cut, but the cut was very neat and smooth.
The second strange thing was that this arm had clearly separated from the main body, but it was… fresh. Not only did it not show any signs of withering or dying, but when he placed his hand on it, he could even feel the blood flowing in the arm. But he did not know where the blood was flowing to when it passed through the cut…
This situation seems to be… severed by space? Roy looked at Sparda’s arm with a weird expression and found it unbelievable. In other words, the severed arm is in a strange spatial balance and still has a connection to the other parts of the body. Although it’s placed here, it’s actually isolated with the spatial concept and not really severed, so the blood in the arm is still flowing?
Who did it? Also, did they put Sparda’s arm here just to seal him?
Shaking his head, Roy placed his arm back into the magic formation and got Fat Tiger to come over through telepathy.
After everyone came with Fat Tiger, Roy beckoned to Dante and Vergil. “Come and take a look. I found your father, Sparda, but the bad news is that your father seems to have exploded…”
Dante: ???
Vergil: ???
Hearing Roy’s words, not only Dante’s group but even Julia and Benia were curious, so they gathered around and landed on the magic formation. Then they saw Sparda’s arm.
“What’s going on? The old man only has one arm left?! Who did it?!” Dante and Vergil were furious.
“Don’t worry!” Roy waved his hand and told everyone about his discovery. Only then did Dante and Vergil calm down, and then they squatted down to observe Sparda’s arm carefully.
Julia looked at it for a while and then said, “Someone used a special method to cut off Sparda’s arm and seal it here. But it’s only the left arm here. Does this mean that there are other body parts sealed in the same way and placed elsewhere? Hmm, let me calculate. In addition to this left arm, there should be four more parts, the right arm, left leg, right leg, and torso…”
“It’s possible!” Roy nodded, thinking that this method really resembled Exodia the Forbidden One. No wonder there was no trace of Sparda. It turned out that he had been divided and sealed.
Cerberus asked doubtfully, “But who did it? You have to know that there aren’t many demons in the entire Demon World who can defeat Sparda. His Majesty Mundus is one of them, but he has been searching for traces of Sparda in recent years. If it was him, why would he still look for Sparda to take revenge?”
No one could answer this question. Nero said impulsively, “In any case, can’t you just break the seal and let Sparda out? He’ll tell us the answer.”
Roy nodded. He was about to squat down and try to see if he could undo this seal when Benia suddenly said, “Wait! Something doesn’t seem right!”
“Huh? What’s wrong?” Everyone looked at her in confusion.
Benia was currently crouching at the edge of the magic formation and carefully examining the demon runes in it. After studying it for a while, she frowned and said, “No, this magic formation isn’t sealing Sparda’s arm. On the contrary, the magic power in this arm is supplying the operation of this magic formation!”
“What do you mean?” Dante did not understand.
Benia straightened up and pointed at the arm. “It means that this arm is the core energy of the entire magic formation. Not only are those chains of light binding it here, but they are also continuously extracting the magic power in the arm to supply the magic formation! I just studied the runes in this magic formation. What it really seals isn’t this arm!”
Everyone was stunned.
If it was not sealing the arm, then what was the magic formation here?
Roy rubbed his chin thoughtfully. “The arm is the core energy? Could Sparda have set up this sealing formation himself?!”
“Very likely!” Benia’s eyes lit up. “Sparda might be trying to seal something, but he didn’t have anything suitable to suppress the sealed target, so he simply used his body parts to seal it!”
With this reminder, Dante and the others suddenly understood. Yes, the demon weapons that belonged to Sparda were almost all in other places. When he disappeared decades ago, the Sword of Sparda turned into Force Edge and sealed Temen-ni-gru. Rebellion and Yamato were in the hands of the two brothers, Dante and Vergil. Even the necklace to unseal Force Edge was given to Sparda’s wife, Eva, and then it fell into the hands of the two brothers. Even the twin guns Luce & Ombra that Sparda used before seemed to have wandered outside, and then it somehow fell into Trish’s hands… It could be said that Sparda had no weapons at all.
Although Roy had never seen Sparda before, he could roughly guess some of the abilities that Sparda was good at through his deeds. He was definitely exceptional at using sealing formations! Otherwise, it would have been impossible for him to seal Mundus, who was stronger than him, back then. Moreover, Sparda later sealed the passage between the Demon World and the human world, allowing humans to survive. These deeds all proved how superb Sparda’s use of the power of seals was without exception.
But even so, it was impossible for Sparda to create a sealing formation out of thin air. It had to be known that a sealing formation with complete power required a corresponding ‘key’! And such ‘keys’ were usually items that could carry the magic power of the caster. Sparda did not have any available demon creation at that time, so if he wanted to complete the sealing formation, he had to create a new one.
But what if the situation was urgent and there was no time to make a new one?
The answer was right in front: Sparda used his body parts to carry the power of the seal!
This could also explain why the severed arm looked as though it had been severed by space instead of being cut off. After all, Sparda could not kill him to create the seal. He had to ensure his survival in order to supply the magic power of the sealing formation. Therefore, it was possible that he had used his spatial ability to separate it. And at the same time, this arm maintained the connection with his main body and could preserve it for a long time to supply magic power continuously.
“In that case, Sparda was actually… sealed by himself?” Julia asked in astonishment. “Then what does he want to seal? Mundus?”
“No! Impossible!” Cerberus shook her heads. “His Majesty Mundus was sealed a long time ago. Although the power of the seal has been weakening in recent years, even if Sparda wants to strengthen the seal, he should be strengthening the original seal. Why would he use his body parts to create a new sealing formation?”
Indeed, this sealing formation should have only appeared after Sparda disappeared. Otherwise, when Dante and Vergil saw their father, he would have been short of arms and legs. In other words, this seal was probably set up about only twenty to thirty years ago, so it was impossible for it to be the sealing formation sealing Mundus.
Moreover, according to Cerberus, Mundus was currently sleeping in Demon King City and would only wake up once in a while. If this seal were really sealing Mundus, then he probably would not even be able to wake up. So how could the incident of sending Trish to lure Dante happen? After all, Dante was already an adult at that time, and Sparda had been missing for a long time.
The times did not match at all, so Cerberus was certain that this sealing formation was definitely not for sealing Mundus.
The group discussed here. According to the information they had, some secret situations quickly appeared in their minds. Roy thought for a while and contacted Rafaro in the sky outside the rift valley through telepathy. He asked him to scan the environment around the rift valley from the sky and then transmit it to him.
Soon, Rafaro responded. Roy took out a projector and projected the surrounding terrain into a virtual image.
“Cerberus, you said that the location of this Despair Prison is near Demon King City, right?” Roy asked. “Then where is Demon King City?”
Cerberus curiously observed the image that Roy displayed and quickly figured out where they were. After recalling, she raised her forepaw and pointed. “Here. Demon King City is about twenty kilometers west of the Despair Prison.”
Roy made a positioning mark on the image and then contacted Rafaro to fly to a higher position to transmit the image. When the larger map was displayed, Roy drew five dots on the map.
“That’s right!” Benia immediately understood what Roy was going to do. She said excitedly, “There should be more than one seal formation like this one, and they should be arranged in the shape of a pentagram. Using the location of the rift valley as a reference, if we can find similar seal formations at the other four pentagram points, it’s equivalent to finding the other parts of Sparda.”
Roy nodded. “I think Sparda chose this rift to place the seal formation for a reason. In addition to relying on the massive number of whip demons as guards, his true goal might be to construct a pentagram formation. Moreover, if he really wanted to seal ‘something’ in Demon King City, then Demon King City is in the center of the formation, and the other four pentagram points are around Demon King City. The exact distance won’t exceed twenty kilometers!”
While speaking, Roy drew the pentagram on the map, pointed at the other four points, and asked Cerberus. “Is there anything strange or different about these four places?”
Cerberus said in surprise, “It seems so. Without exception, these four points are the lairs of some powerful demon races. Very few demons dare to enter their territories… Perhaps Sparda really set up a seal formation in these places!”
“Won’t we know if we go take a look?” Roy spread his demon wings and rose into the air. “I’m very curious. If there really is a seal formation with Demon King City as the center and not to seal Mundus, then what is Sparda sealing? What did he discover after he disappeared…?”
