Chapter 384 - Soul Split (1/2)

The rhythmic sound meant that the Red Sea Egg was ready and full of energy, able to start work at any time.

But Roy did not move after seeing this and continued to wait.

Sure enough, after a while, the roots of the Red Sea Egg continued to explore for other nutrients instinctively after absorbing the insect egg fossils.

And the source of these nutrients was the insect shell of Beelzebub standing on the square!

“What does it want to do?” Benia asked in surprise. “Don’t tell me it wants to absorb the shell?!”

“Won’t you know after seeing it?” Roy crossed his arms, but he had infinite hope in his heart.

Regarding Beelzebub’s shell, although Benia had suggested that Roy try to see if he could discover a little bit of the essence of demon king-level power through it, after careful consideration, he found that there appeared no good way to do this. Because this shell was purely biological tissue, apart from the magic power left behind, there was no soul fragment of Beelzebub. Be it memories or legacies, they had to be carried by souls or soul fragments. Without souls or soul fragments, it was simply a joke to comprehend the essence of high-level power.

This was not like martial arts or fantasy novels where Roy could just sit down, say ‘I understand!’, and really understand. Even if it was possible, it was still uncertain if he had that kind of perception or not.

Therefore, Roy’s first thought was to turn the remaining magic power in this shell into his own. As for whether he could comprehend anything from this magic power, it would depend on luck.

Demons devouring souls would increase their magic power, but this might not necessarily be the case for devouring corpses, let alone this shed and dead shell of Beelzebub. This way, if he wanted to turn the magic power in the shell into his own, he would have to find another way. This was why he chose to plant the Red Sea Egg.

Roy felt that since the remaining amount of magic power in this shell was about the same as his total magic power, why not use the Red Sea Egg to absorb this magic power? Then he could use his body tissue to create a new clone and transfer the magic power into this clone. Wouldn’t he get a ready-made demon lord-level clone like this?

At that time, as long as he slightly adjusted the clone to make it as similar to his main body as possible, wouldn’t he be able to use the Fusion skill again?

Once he completed the fusion, it would double his total amount of magic power!

Such a ready-made benefit was not something that he could encounter at any time. Under normal circumstances, if he wanted to create a demon lord-level clone, he would have to invest tens or even hundreds of millions of souls to increase its magic power. Now that he had this shell, wouldn’t he save those souls?

No matter what, he had to give it a try first. Roy had planted the Red Sea Egg, and now, it began to become interested in the shell, just as he had expected. But it seemed to be afraid of the demon king aura emanating from the shell, so its roots only dared to linger around it.

If it were a living creature, it would definitely be furious and attack these roots after sensing the intentions of the Red Sea Egg. In that case, the Red Sea Egg might retreat in fear. Unfortunately, the shell could not move at all and would not have any hostility toward the Red Sea Egg. This caused the Red Sea Egg to probe it continuously and discover that the target did not react at all, so it began to become more and more daring. Its roots continued to extend toward Beelzebub’s shell at a slow speed and finally touched it.

When it first touched it, its roots shrank back in fear, but when it discovered that there was really no reaction and no counterattack, the roots suddenly swarmed forward and ferociously pounced at the shell!

This action was like a wild beast hunting prey in the natural world. After confirming that the prey was really not dangerous, the Red Sea Egg was abnormally greedy and impatient. Numerous roots quickly climbed up along the shell like crazy ivy and soon covered it.

While covering it, these roots began to absorb the remaining magic power in the shell. These numerous roots seemed to have been hungry for a long time as they used all their strength to extract the magic power in the shell and transfer it to the bud.

At the same time, Roy saw this scene and stepped forward. He placed his hand on the wall of the bud and used weak electric currents to guide and adjust it.

He wanted to absorb the magic power, so of course, he could not allow the Red Sea Egg to absorb it. Otherwise, it would use this magic power for self-growth and become even larger. Roy had to stop it from doing this and get it to store the magic power it absorbed.

With his adjustments, the Red Sea Egg’s extraction of magic power slowed down a little, but it still continued to absorb it tirelessly.

When Roy felt that it was about time, he removed his hand, summoned Frostmourne, and slashed at his left arm!

Blood spewed out, but it stopped in less than half a minute. Then the muscle tissue at where he severed his arm produced countless meat sprouts as it began to enter the regeneration state. It would probably take at most an hour to regrow this severed arm.

While sighing that males demons had to be ruthless to themselves, Roy picked up his left arm that had fallen to the ground, flew up a bit, and put this severed arm into the opening on the bud.

With Roy’s body tissue, the Red Sea Egg truly entered the working state, and the rhythm of its pulsations accelerated. Within the flower bud, the Red Sea Egg quickly analyzed Roy’s arm and began cloning.

At the same time, the magic power absorbed from the shell began to infuse slowly into the new clone.