Chapter 656: The Outbreak of the Old God Calamity

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

The huge commotion near Oronaar couldn’t be hidden, so almost as soon as the battle started, most demons already knew that a conflict between the three commanders had erupted.

The demons were not surprised by this situation. In fact, no matter what kind of demon it was, they were very selfish. How could demons from so many races in the Burning Legion stay together in harmony? It might not be apparent on the surface, but it was common for high-level demons to bully low-level demons and low-level demons to bully lower-level demons. Even demons of the same level were infighting. If not for Sargeras relying on absolute strength and setting the Burning Crusade as his goal, it would have been impossible to unite so many demon races.

Therefore, the demons were not surprised by the conflict between the three commanders. They were only concerned about who would win this battle.

In the eyes of the demons, the strength of the three commanders should be about the same. But if Lord Archimonde and Lord Kil’jaeden joined forces to fight, Lord Osiris would probably be at a disadvantage. This battle might take half a month to decide the outcome.

No one dared to go to the battlefield and watch the battle. The immense energy fluctuations were not a joke. Once they were swept into it, they wouldn’t even know how they died.

Therefore, the demons could only sit uneasily in Antorus. Of course, those who could gather here were basically middle-level demons, ranging from middle-rank demons to high-rank demons and demon lords. As for the lower-level demons, they were not qualified to pay attention to this conflict.

However, what all the demons didn’t expect was that the battle between the three commanders did not last for more than ten days as they had expected. Instead, it ended in a very short time!

When they saw Roy flying back with Julia and Benia, while Archimonde and Kil’jaeden were missing, all the demons were dumbfounded.

It wasn’t until this moment that the demons realized that it was really meaningless for them to speculate on a demon king-level battle at their level. This was not a domain they could imagine.

At the same time, the demons realized something. The usually low-key King of Despair, Osiris, had hidden himself too deeply. As expected of the first commander that Sargeras had personally recruited, there was indeed a vast gap between new commanders like Archimonde and Kil’jaeden and Lord Osiris.

Without seeing this battle with their own eyes, the demons couldn’t tell how powerful Lord Osiris was, but it was a fact that Archimonde and Kil’jaeden had not returned. The demons had already vaguely guessed that Lord Osiris had killed Archimonde and Kil’jaeden…

But no one dared to speak nonsense, and no one dared to ask openly. All the demons were trembling. After all, Archimonde and Kil’jaeden were commanders personally appointed by Lord Sargeras. Now, another commander had killed them because of a conflict, so no one could tell how explosive Lord Sargeras’s anger would be when he returned.

Therefore, in the following days, most demons ‘tucked their tails between their legs’ and kept a low profile, not looking like demons at all.

The eredar demons were even more terrified, especially the Eredar Twins. They were the ones who understood the truth behind this conflict the most. When they discovered that Archimonde and Kil’jaeden might have been killed, the fear in their hearts was unprecedented. They never expected that the King of Despair, Osiris, would be so powerful. Not only did he end the battle in a short time, but he even killed Archimonde and Kil’jaeden together. And the two of them had offended Julia and Benia.

After waiting anxiously for a day and finding that Archimonde and Kil’jaeden had not returned, the Eredar Twins could only find Roy while shivering. They knelt in front of him and licked the armor on his feet, begging for his forgiveness.

Although Roy was annoyed at the troublemaking actions of the Eredar Twins, he didn’t care about the existence of these two sisters. Although they were Kil’jaeden’s adjutants and had barely reached the demon lord level, in Roy’s eyes, he didn’t need to care about such strength. He wanted to kick the two of them away, but then he changed his mind and pushed them to Julia and Benia. He said that if their anger had not dissipated, they could beat up these two sisters to vent, but he didn’t want them to die.

It couldn’t be helped. Roy couldn’t go too far now. He had already killed Archimonde and Kil’jaeden. These two were the leaders of the eredar demons after all. It was understandable for them to have conflicts with their peers, but it wasn’t suitable for him to oppress the eredar demons. Sargeras still attached great importance to them.

Julia and Benia understood this logic, so they didn’t make things difficult for Roy. After whipping the Eredar Twins, they let them go. Although they seemed to let them off easily, everyone knew that the twins wouldn’t dare to provoke Julia and Benia in the future.

After Roy returned, he didn’t tell the demons about the situation of Archimonde and Kil’jaeden. He had destroyed their corpses, leaving only their souls. Therefore, although the demons guessed that the two commanders had been killed, they had no corpses or evidence.

He remained silent, and the demons below didn’t dare to ask. Roy continued to maintain the operation of the Legion as if nothing had happened, maintaining the same low profile as before.

But this time, no demon dared to underestimate him because he was low profile. All the demons understood one thing—among the three commanders of the entire Legion, King of Despair Osiris, was the strongest. His fist was the largest, so large that Archimonde and Kil’jaeden combined were not his match.

Therefore, in the following days, the demons of the Legion became much more well-behaved. Even the demons who leaned toward Roy didn’t dare to be arrogant. In fact, these demons knew that although they leaned toward Roy, they were not his trusted aides. The King of Despair only had two true trusted aides, Julia and Benia. At most, there was the demon dragon who could transform into a starship and had been sleeping on the Burning Throne for a long time. After realizing that Osiris didn’t want to expand his influence and power in the Legion, these demons who leaned toward him became much more obedient.

Roy didn’t care that much. He was thinking about what to do next.

Killing Archimonde and Kil’jaeden was nothing more than to teach these two fellows a lesson so that they wouldn’t bare their teeth at him casually in the future. But in the end, they had to be resurrected.

In fact, after this battle, Roy vaguely understood something. Although they were all at the demon king, he could easily crush Archimonde and Kil’jaeden with five times the strength of a demon king. He didn’t even need to use Chaos power and Void power. What did this mean? It meant that as his strength continued to increase, there would be a huge disparity at the demon king level.

So, how big is the difference in strength between the Deadly Sin-level Sargeras and Roy?

Roy couldn’t estimate it, but he knew that Sargeras had definitely held back in the battle between them. This might have something to do with him wanting to capture Roy. If not, then Roy would have probably been defeated in one move by Sargeras.

Although there was only a difference of at least 666 times between the demon king level and the Deadly Sin level, there was no intuitive feeling from the numbers alone. In the past, Roy didn’t have much awe for Sargeras, and he believed that Sargeras could definitely feel it. But because of the special nature of Roy’s strength, Sargeras chose to tolerate it, which made Roy feel quite fortunate when he thought about it now.

After understanding this, Roy became more and more eager to increase his strength. But there was nothing he could do about it. Sargeras had not returned for a long time, and the corruption of Argus had not been completed, so Roy couldn’t see any signs of a time jump and could only continue waiting.

Just like that, another twelve years passed.

Archimonde and Kil’jaeden never appeared, so the demons naturally confirmed their guess. However, the demons understood that although Lord Osiris had killed Archimonde and Kil’jaeden, he definitely had their souls. As long as their souls existed, resurrection was child’s play. The demons from the Twisting Nether had the most right to speak about this matter. So when they realized that Archimonde and Kil’jaeden would resurrect, the demons heaved a sigh of relief, especially the eredar demons. After feeling uneasy for a while and realizing that Roy had no intention of finding fault with them, they finally felt at ease. They obediently followed Roy’s orders, not daring to disobey at all, just so that Lord Osiris would be in a good mood and Archimonde and Kil’jaeden could be resurrected as soon as possible.

During these twelve years, something big happened. Two planets near Argus erupted with the contamination of Old Gods!

How should it be put? These two planets had blocked the disaster for Argus. The Void Lords had chosen completely random planets to release the Old Gods. Naturally, the Old Gods had first settled on these two planets while flying across the universe and contaminated them. If there had been any mistake at the time, it would have probably been Argus that was unlucky. And Argus had a powerful world-soul residing in it. If the Old Gods had parasitized Argus’s world-soul, then after Sargeras returned, he would have had to kill the corrupted world-soul like last time. At that time, the fate of the eredar people could be imagined.

The outbreak of the Old God contamination on these two nearby planets was the awakening of the power of the parasitic Old Gods and the catastrophe that erupted after they became adults. When Roy noticed the situation of these nearby planets, he rushed over with the demons of the Burning Legion and watched the entire event.

These two planets were covered with the tentacles and limbs of the Old Gods. The Old Gods used hundreds of tentacles that were tens of thousands of kilometers long to embrace the entirety of the plantets tightly, like an enormous octopus hugging a balloon. The scene was too spectacular. The tectonic plates of the two planets shattered one after another under the grip of the huge tentacles, exposing the endless magma thousands of kilometers below. And this high-temperature magma couldn’t even burn the tentacles of these Old Gods. It could only dye the planets crimson and make them wail.

Even Roy couldn’t deal with such mature Old Gods. Fortunately, it would take a long time for these Old Gods to completely devour and transform the planets, and they wouldn’t have time to care about anything else for the time being. Therefore, Roy didn’t overestimate himself and lead the Legion to attack these Old Gods. He could only leave them for Sargeras to deal with after he returned.

Fortunately, at the end of the twelfth year, there was finally a huge commotion on Argus again. Sargeras finally completed his corruption of Argus’s world-soul. He was returning…