Chapter 551: War of the Burning Hells (2)

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Since Andariel and Duriel had appeared, Roy felt that it was time for him to take action. He said to Rafaro, “Free bombardment! Reduce the number of Burning Hells demons as soon as possible.”

After Rafaro responded, Roy spread his wings and jumped down from the sky.

With a loud bang, the ground trembled. Roy slowly stood up and looked at Andariel and Duriel not far away.

“What… is that?” After seeing Roy, Andariel was a little surprised. She had seen him before, but at the time, he didn’t have a ‘pendant’ on his shoulder. Now, the moment she saw him, she was shocked by Auriel on his shoulder.

The Angel of Despair, Auriel, had been leaning close to Roy’s shoulder from the beginning to the end, even when he jumped down. And because she felt the fighting spirit emanating from Roy, the six black wings behind her opened. When her six glowing compound eyes under her hood looked at Andariel, the dense strange eyes on her wings turned in the same direction, and countless eyes stared intently at Andariel.

Seeing the trypophobia effect and the despair in these eyes, even Andariel and Duriel felt a chill run down their spines…

“A-Auriel?!” Although her appearance had changed drastically, Andariel still recognized her through the hood and the two twining iconic ribbons. But she couldn’t imagine why Auriel, the former Archangel of Hope, would suddenly change into this appearance.

Hearing the name Andariel called out, Auriel mechanically turned her head. Although her consciousness had become a little blurry the moment she returned because of the conflict between Void power and the material world, she could still subconsciously respond to some words, such as her original name. This mechanical turn of her head undoubtedly acknowledged her identity, making Andariel gasp.

From her angle, she could see that Auriel’s lower body was already broken and missing.

During the Eternal Conflict, Andariel and Auriel had fought several times, so she was well aware of Auriel’s strength. But now, Andariel didn’t dare to imagine what Auriel had experienced to end up in such a miserable state.

Instantly, Andariel’s vigilance against Roy rose to the highest level.

“Osiris!” Andariel changed her previous arrogance. She stepped forward and tried her best to show her body. As she twisted slightly, she looked at Roy seductively. “Mephisto asked me to tell you that we can also give you what Lilith can give you. As long as you can reach a contract with us, we can treat the matter of you leading an army to attack the Burning Hells as though it never happened. Even if you want a demon king as a plaything, I can satisfy your request and let you do whatever you want! Whatever you want me to do… I can do it!”

In fact, putting aside the strange appendages on her back, Andariel’s figure was quite explosive. She had long fiery red hair that fluttered in the wind and a pair of big grapefruits that were wrapped in only a pitifully small amount of cloth. Her long legs were strong, smooth, and charming, and her partial succubus bloodline made her look full of wild temptation. It could be said that most demons would be infatuated with her appearance. When she flirted with others, it was indeed difficult to resist.

However, Roy didn’t know if it was because he had just had a go with Lilith, the succubus queen, but he had no feelings for Andariel at all. Especially when he saw Duriel beside Andariel and his fat insect-shaped body, Roy felt nauseous.

To be honest, although there were many strange forms among demons, the only ones he couldn’t accept were those that looked clumsy and fat. Duriel happened to be like this. Seeing him standing beside Andariel, Roy couldn’t get in the mood.

Therefore, he summoned Frostmourne without a word to express his attitude.

Seeing Roy’s stubborn appearance, Andariel was furious. She suddenly let out a sharp and shrill howl, held two strange snake-shaped daggers, and rushed at him!

The extremely short distance was gone in an instant under Andariel’s rapid charge. The dagger in one hand stabbed at Roy’s crotch at a vicious angle, and the other stabbed at his ribs. Both daggers were shining with dark green light, clearly smeared with poison.

Roy naturally couldn’t let her weapons touch his body. He stretched out his left hand, grabbed Andariel’s right arm that was stabbing at his ribs, and slashed down with Frostmourne in his other hand, wanting to cut off her left arm. But before she was about to be cut, she changed her move. With a flip of her wrist, she hid her dagger, and then the bone of the arm that Roy grabbed snapped. She stomped her feet and actually jumped in an impossible posture onto his left arm.

Roy was almost twice her height, and she looked very short in front of him, but this also gave her more relative flexibility. When she jumped onto his left arm, her legs immediately clamped around his neck, and her hands hugged his left arm. Then her entire body leaned back and violently pulled his left arm sideways!

This action was clearly a special fighting move, but it didn’t pose any threat to Roy. But the moment his chest leaned sideways, a huge figure suddenly appeared in front of him.

It was Duriel!

Although Duriel looked stupid and fat, he was actually quite scheming. When Roy bombarded them earlier, he had used the insect legs under his abdomen to escape, creating the illusion that it was difficult for him to move. But in fact, this guy actually had the ability to teleport and flash over short distances. When he suddenly used this ability, he immediately formed a tacit cooperation with Andariel.

The moment he appeared, Duriel opened his bloody mouth and bit Roy’s shoulder. At the same time, the pairs of sharp appendages on his chest quickly stabbed at Roy’s chest.

Such an attack posed an enormous threat to flesh and blood, but Roy’s body had already elementalized, and he could transform from flesh and blood to the elementalization at will. Logically speaking, Andariel and Duriel should know this, so why did the siblings still use such an attack method?

Soon, Roy understood why they were doing this…

When Duriel bit him, Roy had already transformed his body into a Chaos body, so what Duriel bit was only a mass of Chaos power. Even though his mouth contained poison, it couldn’t cause any damage to Roy.

But strangely, Roy felt intense pain, a pain that should have come from his flesh and blood body!

He instantly understood. Duriel’s attack looked ordinary, but it actually used the power of authority. There was a reason why he was called the Lord of Pain. His authority should be able to inflict physical pain and torture on any creature.

Moreover, regardless of whether the other party was in elemental form or not, he could do this.

And as his sister, what Andariel exerted was mental anguish and torture. Although these two siblings were completely different in appearance and form, their authorities and powers were extremely similar.

Such authorities were powerful because the sources of pain and anguish were extremely extensive, and it was easy for them to increase the power of their authority. But trash was still trash. After just one exchange, Roy immediately roughly guessed the limitations of their authorities.

“Interesting!” A sinister smile appeared on Roy’s face. He put away Frostmourne, stretched out his hand, grabbed Duriel’s head, and pushed him away from his shoulder with powerful strength. “But as long as you can withstand this pain with your willpower, it won’t have any effect, right?”

Duriel’s head was grabbed by Roy, and he was struggling with all his might as the mouthparts in his mouth moved chaotically. But his expression was indeed a little panicked because Roy was right.

“And you, Andariel!” Roy turned his head to look at Andariel. Her legs were still clamped around his neck, so when he turned his head, he could see her fat butt. It made him feel a little disgusted, so he swung his hand and sent her flying with immense force. After seeing her flip over and land, he continued, “If I’m not wrong, the reason why you used close combat is that your authority has to come into contact with the target’s body to take effect, right?”

Andariel was expressionless, but her eyes were full of viciousness. After standing up, she rushed at Roy again, wanting to use the same trick.

When she restrained Roy just now, she had actually launched an authority attack on him, but it didn’t have much effect. Just as Roy had said, pain could actually be resisted by relying on individual willpower.

Fortunately, Andariel’s and Duriel’s authorities had another characteristic. They could achieve the effect of deepening and strengthening the level of pain through repeated applications. As long as Andariel seized the opportunity to attack Roy a few more times, she didn’t believe that he could endure greater pain.

However, after figuring out their abilities, how could Roy give them a chance to get close? He grabbed Duriel’s head and smashed it at Andariel, who was rushing at him.

Andariel had no choice but to jump up, cross over Duriel’s enormous body, and pounce at Roy from the sky.

But before Andariel could approach, Roy spread his wings and flew up. This simple move made her gnash her teeth in hatred because she understood his goal. He wanted to fight them in the air!

However, aerial combat… was what Andariel and Duriel were the worst at. Andariel’s fighting style leaned toward that of assassins. She had an agile body and short weapons, so she had always been accustomed to close combat. In order not to let her demon wings hinder the smoothness of her movements, she even evolved her two pairs of demon wings into arthropod appendages, which were the sharp insect legs on her back.

These four bladed insect legs could allow her to attack many times in close combat.

If the opponent flew, she could also fly. Andariel also had a pair of demon wings, but she had always hidden them. If she wanted to fly, she only needed to stretch them out her back again. But because she had not used her wings for a long time, it was obvious how weak her aerial combat ability was.

More importantly, if she fought Roy in the air, she wouldn’t be able to cooperate effectively with Duriel! Looking at Duriel’s obese form, it was apparent how difficult it would be for such a big fat pig to fly…

Left with no choice, Andariel could only use the tip of her insect legs as throwing knives the moment Roy flew up in an attempt to stop him from flying.

But this time, the throwing knives could no longer touch Roy’s body and were blocked by a giant black ice wall. He successfully rose into the air.

She had to fight this aerial battle even if she didn’t want to. She quickly stretched out her wings and flew up as well, trying her best not to let Roy pull too far away.

But as soon as she flew up, she saw Auriel, who was lying on Roy’s shoulder, stretch out the six wings on her back!

“Test your strength, Angel of Despair Auriel!” Roy grinned sinisterly as he stood in the air and sent an order to Auriel in his mind.

All the eyes on the feathers of Auriel’s spread wings emitted black light simultaneously, and a terrifying power pervaded the surrounding space.

The next second, countless tiny black beams of light that were so dark that they could drown out light shot out. It was the Void power that had been accumulating in Auriel’s body. Through the radiation of her eyes, the Void power turned into thousands of jet-black laser beams!

Suddenly, the already insufficient light on the entire Plains of Despair was completely devoured. The vision of all demons was blocked, and it became pitch-black.

At this moment, light was hidden…

The sudden change in Andariel’s vision made her unable to react in time. Even her brother, Duriel, below her, was enveloped in the dense attacks of the floating Void cannons!

Yes, Auriel’s attack was extremely similar to the attack launched by countless floating cannons. Although the Void beams shot out from the eyes on the feathers were inconspicuous, there were too many of them. After accumulating, they turned into a terrifying invasion of Void power that was unavoidable.

After Andariel and Duriel were hit, countless small holes instantly appeared on the bodies. These Void beams were really like bullets and had incomparable penetrative force. The defense of the two demon kings couldn’t resist this penetrative corrosion at all, and they were riddled with holes, looking tragic.

“Ahh!!” Andariel and Duriel screamed in unison. The dark shields they had just hurriedly raised broke with a touch, and Andariel fell straight back to the ground, smashing a big pit in the ground.

After shooting down Andariel, Roy didn’t stop Auriel but let her continue firing. Void beams continuously shot out and continued to bombard Andariel and Duriel, turning their demon king bodies into mush.

Andariel’s and Duriel’s bodies were bodies that they had found in recent years. It wasn’t easy to find a body that could fully accommodate the power of a demon king. If it was just clones, they might be able to parasitize or possess low-level demons with their souls. But their main bodies had to use the bodies of demon lords or ones they made themselves. It was quite difficult.

In the end, these bodies that they had painstakingly found were gone in the blink of an eye…

This made Roy realize that the Void power that Auriel shot out seemed to be different from the slowly corroding Void power. These Void beams displayed the violent and destructive aspect of Void power. It was similar to Roy’s Chaos power, in which they had the ability to crush and destroy conventional defenses. It was impossible to purely rely on shields of holy light or dark power to defend, let alone rely on physical defense.

A composite elemental shield might be a little useful, but it was hard to say how effective it would be…

After Andariel’s and Duriel’s bodies were destroyed, their souls were immediately exposed. But the moment they escaped, because they passed through the Void beams, their souls were immediately contaminated by Void power, and the color of their souls immediately changed.

Of course, this corrosion wasn’t serious, and their souls couldn’t worry about it currently. They wanted to escape from the battlefield and run back to the Hellforge to recuperate.

But how could Roy let them escape? He flashed and disappeared in the air. When he reappeared, he blocked the path of the two souls. His demon claws clenched fiercely on the left and right, grabbing the two souls.

The two Hell demon kings lost too quickly, so much so that Roy felt that it was a little unreal when he caught their souls.

They were all demon kings. If Roy, Andariel, and Duriel had used magic power and relied on magic to fight, it would probably have taken days to determine the winner. Therefore, in battles between demon kings, they usually used their authorities to attack.

At this time, the strength of demon kings depended on the strength of their authorities.

Andariel and Duriel had actually planned this in the beginning. They knew that Roy controlled the authority of despair. This authority was very strong, but it wasn’t easy to grow, so they felt that they had a chance of winning in a fight against him. But the problem was that not only did Roy not compete with them in terms of authority, but he even acted shamelessly and directly used a great Void killing weapon like Auriel!

Void power was a power that could destroy the material world. Under normal circumstances, it was impossible for creatures of the material world to control this power safely. But because of Void corrosion, Auriel had transformed into a half-Void creature and survived through a symbiotic contract with Roy, so she became a controllable… Void weapon in Roy’s hands!

Andariel and Duriel unfortunately became the first test subjects of this Void weapon. Before these demon kings could even display half of their strength, they suffered a disaster…

After their souls fell into Roy’s hands, they began to struggle with all their might. Their souls even transformed into the faces of Andariel and Duriel. They crazily cursed at Roy and threatened him to let them go.

However, when Roy sneered and increased his strength, as though he wanted to crush their souls, the two of them saw that the threat didn’t work and started begging.

Unlike ancient demons like Mephisto, who had clones everywhere in the Infinite Worlds because of his age and whose main body in Sanctuary might not necessarily be his true main body, Andariel and Duriel were different. They had just advanced to demon kings in this world and had no time to send clones elsewhere in the Infinite Worlds. Therefore, the souls of the two demons Roy caught were the souls of their main bodies. Once these souls died, they would really die!

Of course, Roy knew this, so it was impossible for him to let their souls escape back to the Hellforge. He grabbed their souls with both hands, opened the system space, and got his imitation Kanai’s Cube to fly out.

Roy opened the cube, placed the souls inside, closed the lid, and chose to extract them. His movements were as smooth as flowing water.

Regarding souls of demons kings, the only thing that was truly useful to Roy was the divine spark mark. Without the divine spark mark, a demon king’s soul was only a soul that was hundreds of times stronger than other souls. And Roy’s Kanai’s Cube had a most important function after upgrading—purifying the divine spark mark in the soul.

In fact, he didn’t really care much about the divine sparks of Andariel and

Duriel. After all, the powers of ‘pain’ and ‘anguish’ were a little too common. What he really wanted to try was to fuse multiple divine sparks and see if he could synthesize them into a more useful and powerful divine spark. Don’t forget that Julia and Benia still needed divine sparks to promote in the future…