Chapter 202 Parting Gift
Clearly, demons were keen about creating their own clones for a reason.
In order to satisfy the ever-increasing demand of magic power growth, demons needed to devour more souls. Although the Abyss could connect to the Infinite Worlds, demons could only enter one world at a time with their main bodies. Even if they tried their hardest to obtain souls, they might not be able to get too many at a time. The hatred and vigilance against demons by the various races in the Infinite Worlds, the obstruction of angels, competition among the same race, etc. greatly negatively affected the demons’ plans to devour souls.
It was precisely because of this situation that the demons thought of using clones to help their main bodies plunder souls. The more clones they had, the more worlds they could go to at the same time. This was a way to spread their nets. Even if they did not obtain much in a few worlds, the more worlds would make up for it. In addition, clones could also grow, which was also a good way to increase combat power. Therefore, it was not difficult to understand why demons liked to use clones.
However, Roy also realized that while there were indeed advantages to clones, there were many disadvantages as well! First, in order to create a clone, he had to split out a portion of his soul. Souls were the driving force of all life. The stronger the soul, the stronger the power the body could bear. So, he had to carefully select the fragments that his soul separated.
If the split soul fragment was small, then the power that the clone could display would naturally be small, and it would be very easy for an enemy to kill it and destroy the soul fragment. Back in the Van Helsing world, Roy had picked up a bargain. In that world, Van Helsing was a clone created by one of Gabriel’s soul fragments that did not have much essence. After seizing an opportunity, even Roy, who was a low-rank demon, had been able to kill this clone easily.
In other words, if the separate soul fragments were too weak, then such a clone would actually be a burden.
But… what if he gave it more soul fragments? For example, what would happen if he divided out half?
When he thought of this question, Roy could not help but become vigilant. He had been bombarded by all kinds of imagination-boggling movies and novels before. So for this way of splitting in two to make a clone, the first thing he thought of was not that his power would double, but whether… this would lead to a problem in which it would be ambiguous who the primary was and who the secondary was!
After dividing out half of the soul, which of the two bodies was the main body, and which was the clone body? Since both had a shared consciousness, how should they be clear about this problem?
Wasn’t this written in many movies and novels? The clone was no longer satisfied with its clone status, so it turned its head and replaced the original owner, inherited the other party’s social status, family, spouse, children, debts, and so on. Then the original owner would fight against ‘themselves’ to regain everything that belonged to them. All these movies and novels definitely had happy endings, but they were only written by the people who made up the story. When it came to demons, that might not be the case. After releasing the clones, if the growth speed of the clones exceeded that of the main body, and their soul grew to the extent of crushing the main body, then it would really be a reversal between primary and secondary.
With this mental association, Roy realized a very strange phenomenon.
You see, during this period of time, Roy had encountered demon kings such as Samael and Lilith, and seraphim such as Gabriel and Raphael, but why were they all clones?
These famous demon kings and seraphim seemed to have legends about them in many worlds, proving that they had once appeared in these worlds. According to Roy’s idea, those were probably clones.
But… what about their true bodies?
In the Abyss, there had always been rumors circulating about the Seven Deadly Sin Demon Kings, saying that they had not appeared for a long time. In the past, Roy had always felt that it might be because the place where the Deadly Sin Demon Kings lived was too deep, so ordinary demons could not see them at all. However, when Roy thought about the situation of clones, he suddenly realized that things might not be that simple!
Even if Roy could not imagine how powerful the Deadly Sin Demon King level was, even they would have to split out more soul fragments to create demon king-level clones, right?
It would be fine if there were fewer clones, but if there were more… Would they be able to split into so many clones even if they were Deadly Sin Demon Kings?
A light flashed in Roy’s mind, and his eyes widened. Could… the Deadly Sin Demon Kings have disappeared because they had too many clones, and they were unwilling to gather again?!
Demons were originally an ambitious race, and the demon kings created by their clones might have also inherited this trait. Therefore, the clones did not want to disappear but wanted to seize the other clones and make themselves the main bodies…
Roy was shocked by his own imagination. Although his imagination was usually quite vivid, he was still shocked by what he thought this time!
If this guess is true, doesn’t that mean…
Stop, stop! Roy hurriedly stopped his thoughts from drifting further and further and returned to the situation before him.
But after thinking about it, Roy made a decision. It was best not to make clones for now until he thoroughly understood.
Although he had thought a lot about it, it was only a few seconds of thoughts in Roy’s mind. Roy estimated that this replica created by the Red Sea Egg was at most at the middle-rank demon level in terms of magic power. It was barely a little better than cannon fodder. If he had to split out soul fragments to drive him, he would have to look after him all the time. Otherwise, it would be very troublesome if an enemy killed him.
Therefore, Roy did not intend to make him active and planned to take him away first.
“Raphael’s incarnation…” Roy looked at the Red Sea Egg and recalled the scene of him being cut in two by Raphael, and his face could not help but darken.
Now that Raphael had left, Roy could take away this Red Sea Egg without any obstruction. However, Roy was also a ruthless person… or rather, a ruthless demon! When Xeron had forcibly enslaved him, Roy had found an opportunity to take revenge, not to mention almost being killed by Raphael. He had to take revenge! To put it bluntly, since he had become a demon, he had to be ruthless! Without such awareness, how could it be possible to survive in the Abyss? Wasn’t he desperately pursuing strength so that he could ensure his survival when facing such situations?
Roy was no match for Raphael now, but it did not mean that he would not be in the future. Moreover, it did not mean that Roy did not have the ability to retaliate now!
After opening the system space, Roy took out all the remaining tactical nuclear bombs he plundered.
In fact, during these three years of waiting, Roy had been trying to search for remaining nuclear bombs from other places. But the result of the search was not ideal. The total number of tactical nuclear bombs he had now was only fifteen. Most of them had a yield of three thousand tons, but there was a special tactical nuclear bomb that had a yield of eight thousand tons, which was his biggest harvest in the past three years.
Roy placed these tactical nuclear bombs together and thought about it before drawing in the system interface.
He created a metal box the size of an intermodal container and placed all the nuclear bombs inside. He also set the attribute of this metal box as ‘sensor’. Once it sensed that there was a creature within ten meters of it, it would immediately detonate all the nuclear bombs stored inside!
Yes, Roy had already guessed that Raphael’s appearance might have been because he had moved the Red Sea Egg. If he took the egg away, Raphael might come back to check. At that time, the fifteen nuclear bombs in the container would be the parting gift Roy left for him!
Even if he could not kill Raphael, Roy wanted him to lose a layer of skin!
With these vicious thoughts in mind, Roy threw his clone back into the system space. Because the clone had already been recognized by the system and was not a living creature, he could store it in the space. But the Red Sea Egg could not, so Roy could only bring it out through teleportation.
In order to carry objects and teleport together, Roy specially modified the definition of the Teleport skill and used up a lot of his souls to achieve it. Roy was only a frost demon and would not use this kind of spatial magic, so he had no other choice but to use the system.
If Roy could master spatial abilities, then it would be a different matter. The upper limit of a pure elemental-type demon was not high, which was why Roy wanted to learn from the power of the nephilim.
Of course, it would just be for reference, and it did not mean that Roy wanted to turn himself into a nephilim. The nephilim were a race cursed by angels and demons, and their situation was not good. Besides, Roy was quite satisfied with his demon identity and did not intend to change it. His goal was only to obtain stronger abilities and more strength.
After placing the container on the spot and confirming it, Roy went to the Red Sea Egg. It had taken root again, but it was not deep, so Roy pulled hard and quickly pulled it out.
This time, Roy did not dare to delay any longer. He immediately grabbed the Red Sea Egg and teleported.
Swish! A ray of light soared into the sky, and in the next second, Roy and the Red Sea Egg disappeared…