The Demon King Mode System

CHAPTER 142: WAR 10 (THE INGENIOUS PLAN OF ROY)

The explosion! The explosion! Some demons climbed along the building. These demons were not light in size and weight. As soon as they jumped onto the building, the ground shook.

In the air, several winged demons surrounded the building and stared at Roy with malicious intent.

　

A demon with a large mouth and sharp teeth crawled towards Roy with all four limbs. His mouth drooled, and the saliva fell to the ground and instantly rusted on the ground until smoke billowed.

When he arrived not far from Roy, he stopped and roared indistinctly, “Thief! That, soul, is mine! You, can't snatch! ”

The other demons behind him said nothing but surrounding Roy.

Satan views the Final War as a carnival. The sheer number of souls in the city made them ecstatic, but not every demon could directly devour souls after killing enemies due to the interference of angels. There will always be delays for a variety of reasons. Roy used the Soul Puller Flag to collect these souls that had not been taken by the demons, so the demons naturally looked at him with hostility, feeling that Roy had snatched their things.

　

In the distance, several angels saw the gathering of demons on top of the building, but they wisely chose to observe. Compared to the angels, the chances of the demons fighting were naturally higher. But facing the demon's reprimand, Roy suddenly spread his demonic wings. Under the infusion of magic power, the demon mark on its wings lit up, and the Halo of Fear spread out, covering the entire top of the building!

Frostmourne pierced into the ground, and a strong frost force developed, causing the surrounding temperature to plummet by tens of degrees. Roy raised his head and bared his fangs towards the demon. “If I want to seize, I will seize! How about that? Did you come to the court of death and hand your soul over to me ?! ”

　

On this battlefield, low-level demons had no status at all. Even if the souls they had hunted were snatched away, they did not have the courage to say anything. High-level demons generally acted as commanders and dealt with high-level angels, and it was unlikely that Roy would snatch their souls. So, the demons that came to cause this matter were all medium-level demons.

Therefore, as soon as Roy unleashed his power, these demons immediately felt threatened. Putting aside Roy’s Halo of Fear, the suppression possessed by the high-level demons coming from Roy became clearer and clearer. When these demons felt the pressure from Roy, they inevitably took a few steps back.

They realized that they had faced a formidable opponent. This person who had snatched their souls turned out to be a demon in the middle of promotion!

It could be said that Roy was only a step away from becoming a high-level demon. After he compressed the last wisp of magic power in his demon heart, he would become a high-level demon, but the middle-level demons who had come to look for trouble with him had not even reached the threshold for promotion!

　

The Demon Abyss were a race that advocated power, and a strict hierarchical system had been buried in their bloodline for millions of years. So when Roy unleashes his powers, the demon at the outermost end retreats and turns to escape. The winged demon that was circling in the sky was also secretly flying. Only a few upper-middle-ranked demons, including the one who was salivating with acid, hesitated.

They're not gonna let Roy take a lot of souls. In their opinion, although Roy was not someone who could be messed with, he had yet to promote and was still a mid-level demon. Maybe if they work together, they can win.

At the same time, this demon had a strong envy towards Roy. They were very clear that once they became high-level demons, their status would change. Many demons dream of this promotion, but they can't do it yet, so it's a lie to say that they don't envy when they find out Roy's situation.

Roy can roughly guess what these demons think of their distorted expressions and eyes, but he doesn't care what they think. He gave them a chance. If they didn't want to leave, then they could stay here to harvest!

He stretched out his left hand and suddenly raised it, and a powerful magic power erupted from under the feet of the saliva-releasing demon. A sharp black ice pillar soared into the sky in less than half a second, piercing through the stomach of the saliva-releasing demon. This black ice pillar was tens of meters tall, and it hung the demons in the air in an instant!

The other demons quickly moved away as Roy's magic power erupted. But unexpectedly Roy waved his hand, and several ice spears appeared in the air. They flew towards these demons to block their escape route.

Roaring!!! Realizing the danger, all of these demons roared and used their magic power to fight back.

One of the demons opened his mouth and spat out a shock wave formed by the power of darkness while the other two demons lit up with flames and waved their hands to fire a fireball.

　

Unfortunately, their magic could not stop or undo Roy's ice spear at all. Roy's black ice spear pierced through their magic and pierced through their bodies!

This was the most essential difference between a high-level demon and a medium-level demon …

Roy's ice spears pierced through the three demons at the same time, but they did not pierce through their hearts. Even so, the three demons shouted loudly. But before their voices died down, Roy appeared behind them and waved to Frostmourne, instantly cutting the waists of the three demons with a powerful force!

Purple blood splattered. These demons had paid the price for their hesitation just now.

After taking the souls of the three demons, Roy looked at the demon that was pierced by the ice pillar. Even though the ice pillar had broken through a huge hole in his stomach, he was still alive. The vitality of the demon was extremely powerful, but the Magic Power Virus contained within the black ice pillar quickly devoured its magic power, rendering it unable to resist.

“Do not... kill me!” the demon said weakly to Roy. “You, strong... I, willing, submit!”

This was a choice that many demons usually made when facing stronger demons. However, this situation was rare among demons of the same rank. Such words indicate that this demon, like Araniya before him, was very afraid of Roy.

Roy thought about it and then pointed his claws at this demon from afar. He used Psychokinesis to break the ice pillar above and let this demon fall.

The situation here is a little different to that in the Abyss. Returning to the Abyss, Roy had nowhere to use Araniya. Moreover, he could not trust Araniya's loyalty, so he instantly killed Araniya and took away the memories he inherited.

　

However, this demon seemed to have no legacy memory worthy of Roy's attention, so it was better to treat him as an accomplice that helped him gather souls!

If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have killed the other three demons so quickly. There are too many souls here, and Roy himself has limited efficiency.

“I can let go of you and let your pitiful soul continue living in your ugly body!” Roy said to the demon who was trying to pull the remaining ice pillar from his body. “But you have to sign a demon contract with me!”

“Yes, Your Majesty!” the demon replied with a grin. She's ill…

Roy waved his hand, and a demon contract appeared in front of them. The contents of the demon contract were very simple. Roy will let this demon go and not kill him, but as a price, the twenty percent of souls that this demon obtained in this world will automatically pass through the power of the demon contract and be handed over to Roy!

Frankly, Roy's collecting protection money! As long as this demon was not killed by any angel or other enemy in the future, he would have to hand over twenty percent of the souls he obtained to Roy.

After looking at the contents of the contract, the demon signed his demon name without saying anything.

And so, the contract was made.

“I, go now, Your Majesty?” the devil asked carefully.

Roy nodded. Relieved, the demon quickly covered his wound and jumped down from the top of the building.

　

Roy was not surprised that this demon had signed the contract so easily. Roy's method of collecting protection money is actually unusual among demons. Many high-level demons did this, and they were even more exploitative.

Returning to the world of Heroes of Might and Magic, Xeron had done this. Moreover, he was more extreme. All the spoils of war were his, and he only distributed a small portion to the demons below. Even after signing contracts with some high-level demons, Xeron actually obtained around fifty to sixty percent of the spoils.

Compared to that, Roy's protection money was only twenty percent, which was already quite generous.

Roy was not a true high-level demon, so he could not command these demons to fight and harvest the spoils of war for him. But he could use this method to find more demons to sign the demon contract. It could be considered as a disguised form to achieve the same goal as a high-level demon.

At that time, not only would he use the Soul Pulling Flag to gather souls, but he would also have a large group of contract workers under him. The speed and efficiency of obtaining a soul would definitely increase greatly …