Chapter 154 - Chaos Power? (1/2)

“Lilith? The first succubus?” Roy pondered and asked, “Apart from her, are there any other demon kings in this world?”

“No!” Julia shook her head. “In this world, only His Majesty Samael and Mother Lilith are leading.”

“Then, let me reject your proposal!” Roy said expressionlessly. “I won’t go with you to find Lilith to rescue Samael!”

“W-why?!” Julia immediately became anxious. “After finding Mother Lilith, she can handle it. We only need to tell her the news, and we won’t need to do anything. Why are you unwilling?”

“That’s not what I mean!” Roy shook his head. “Julia, think about it carefully. The Destroyer’s aura of depravation means that a demon must have tempted and transformed him. Is an ordinary demon capable of doing that to such a powerful force like the Destroyer?”

Julia was stunned. “You… You mean…?”

“It can only be another demon king who can create that kind of demon king-level power!” Roy said. “You said it yourself that only Samael and Lilith have the power of demon kings in this world. And if Samael didn’t create the Destroyer, then who was it?”

Julia did not dare to say a word. “It’s understandable that you want to save Samael!” Roy was not much concerned as he continued, “But it’s not a good method to rashly ask for help everywhere like this. Have you thought about it? If Lilith had tempted the Destroyer into falling, thereby creating him, wouldn’t you be just like a fool if you went to find Lilith so recklessly?”

What Roy said to Julia all came from his intuition. His intuition told him that Samael’s defeat was too strange. One of the most ancient demons in the Abyss, an incarnation of a Deadly Sin Demon King, could not defeat the Destroyer, a newly-born demon king, but was instead sealed. How could anyone not find this unbelievable?

Therefore, Roy had reason to believe that this was probably a play directed by Samael and Lilith. They were just playing a game of chess!

The more ancient a demon, the higher the intelligence, and you definitely could not simply perceive them from the surface. And Samael was such an ancient demon. His true goal was probably not on the side of Heaven, so who was he plotting against in this game of chess?

In this world, besides the third-party Charred Council, was there something else worth him scheming against?

In Roy’s opinion, the Charred Council, which could force Heaven and the Abyss to stop fighting and sign a contract, was like a fishbone stuck in the throat to demons. They absolutely wanted to get rid of it quickly! This might be the case for Heaven as well. No one wanted to have another mother-in-law managing them…

In order to destroy the Charred Council, he had to remove the most powerful force of the council, and the most powerful force of the council was nothing other than the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse, right?

Recalling the inexplicable appearance of War, one of the Horsemen, in the End War, Roy felt that this might have been Samael’s scheme. His goal was to turn the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the Charred Council against each other in order to dissolve the power of the council…

Of course, the latter part was just Roy’s vague guess for now, and he did not tell Julia. But he had already made up his mind not to participate in it.

Julia loyally wanted to remove Samael’s seal, but what if Samael being sealed was part of his plan? If she acted rashly like this, it might instead destroy Samael’s plan. At that time, it was very likely that she would not be rewarded but punished instead!

In fact, Julia was not stupid. She was just shocked by Samael’s defeat and could not think straight. After Roy analyzed it for her from the perspective of a bystander, she immediately reacted.

Seeing that she was silent, Roy said, “So, you should recuperate first!”

Of course, with that said, Roy was still a little regretful. He felt that it was just a pity for his merit. Julia had said that she would apply for merit from Samael to reward him. But now that Samael was sealed, he probably had no hope for this merit for the time being. Roy had used up all his souls to exchange for the Cold Winter Armor. It would have been better if he could use the merit to make up for some souls, but he could only continue collecting them himself now.

Over the next few days, Roy did not go anywhere. He stayed on top of the building and waited for Julia to recuperate.

And during this time, Roy learned a lot from his conversations with Julia.

Before Julia was transformed into a fallen angel, she should have been an original angel, which was an angel born naturally and not a product of those artificial creations of Heaven. Her memories as an angel had indeed disappeared, but from what Samael had once told her, she learned that after her defeat, Samael had brought her soul and body back to the Abyss.

Therefore, Julia was actually a fallen angel with relatively high potential. Even if she was transformed, she could still improve her strength in the future, unlike artificial angels or fallen angels whose badly damaged bodies were created again and had almost fixed abilities after transformation.

However, because fallen angels were not like demons, who were innately obsessed with hunting souls, the increase in Julia’s strength had always been relatively slow. She had been by Samael’s side for more than eighty years, but she was only slightly stronger than when she had just transformed. Moreover, she was better at skill-based combat and was not that good at increasing her absolute strength.

She told Roy that she had been by Samael’s side for more than eighty years, and she could feel that Samael had always been faintly anxious.