Chapter 204 - Returning the Favor (1/2)
Chapter 204 Returning the Favor
Hearing Roy’s words, Julia was shocked. Roy wanted to take the Red Sea Egg for himself!
What’s so great about this Red Sea Egg that even Roy is willing to take the risk to hide it?
However, she did not ask. After returning to her senses, she began to consider for Roy.
After pondering for a while, she asked Roy, “Can’t you put this away?”
“No, this thing is too strange. It doesn’t have a soul, but it’s a living creature and can’t be stored in my space!” Roy shook his head.
“In that case, you can’t stay here anymore!” Julia said. “Mother Lilith might have some informants that we don’t know about that help her collect information about what happens in this world… Since you plan on hiding this thing, you have to avoid these possible eyes.”
“Yes, the news of my return can’t spread!” Roy nodded, but then he frowned. “But there’s still a more troublesome place because I don’t know if the Charred Council will tell others about the theft of the Red Sea Egg. If Lilith knows about this, she will know that I’ve already obtained the Red Sea Egg…”
Julia thought about it and then shook her head. “I don’t think it’s possible because the invasion of the space is very embarrassing for the Charred Council. It’s impossible for them to make it known. Even if they want to recover the Red Sea Egg, they’ll only do it secretly, so I think that there shouldn’t be any problem.”
“That’s good! As long as I can keep this secret, no one will know the whereabouts of the Red Sea Egg. When I understand the specific operation method of the Red Sea Egg and find a place to hide it, I will show up again!” Roy said. “And I’ll make Lilith mistakenly believe that I escaped from the Charred Council after being heavily injured, and the mission to retrieve the Red Sea Egg failed!”
“Are you confident?” Julia asked.
“It shouldn’t be a big problem…” Roy thought for a while before shaking his head. “Actually, the surest way would be killing me once and letting my soul return to the Abyss Outpost to resurrect. This way, I can clear my suspicions!”
Due to the existence of the Abyss Outpost in this world, if demons were killed and their souls escaped, they would first resurrect at the Abyss Outpost instead of returning to the Abyss. Once Roy’s soul revived, Lilith would think that he was killed in the Charred Council Space, and the mission must have failed.
However, even though Julia was Roy’s most trusted person now, it was still better not to hand over his soul to others… Julia would not agree to this kind of thing. In the Abyss, even a couple would not hand their lives to each other, so Roy’s words were just a casual remark.
Perhaps someone might ask why Roy did not activate the Teleport skill and directly return to the Abyss? If he returned, wouldn’t everything be fine?
This was indeed a solution. But the problem was that Roy was certain that the importance of the Red Sea Egg was probably beyond his imagination. Once Roy returned to the Abyss without saying a word, Lilith would definitely suspect that he had escaped with the Red Sea Egg. For a demon king like Lilith, even though her clone was in this world, it did not mean that she could not deal with Roy in the Abyss!
How strong was Lilith? Although Roy was not quite clear, he could understand by referencing Raphael’s incarnation… Roy did not want to be targeted by Lilith.
What he needed to do now was to clear his suspicions. He wanted to create the illusion that he had failed and did not obtain the Red Sea Egg so that he could hide it from Lilith and prevent her from suspecting anything. Only then could he completely claim the Red Sea Egg as his own.
Therefore, Roy could not return to the Abyss directly. On the contrary, he had to stay in this world for a while. It would be even better for him to return to the Black Stone Throne to meet Lilith and report the news of his mission failure.
Now, the best news for Roy was that he was certain that Lilith did not place her hopes on him at all. After all, he was only a high-rank demon, and Lilith had probably only used him as a pawn to scout the way from the beginning. So even if he failed, Lilith would still find it normal, and she would not doubt that he did not have the strength to steal the Red Sea Egg under the watchful eyes of the three councilors of the Charred Council!
Roy’s plan was actually very simple. It was just a ploy to hide the truth. He believed that as long as he failed, Lilith might send more pawns to try. But in that case, even if she finally found out that the Red Sea Egg had disappeared, it would be impossible to tell how it had disappeared.