Chapter 646: Involving Authority
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Because of Royâs existence, Sargerasâs interest in the frost demons in the Abyss was aroused, making Roy speechless.
If nothing unexpected happened, during the future research of the Burning Legion on frost demons, they would discover the special effects of the demon blood of frost demons. This was certain, and it would become the origin of the Scourge virus in the future.
However, the Burning Legionâs exploration of the Abyss would not yield any results for a while, and Sargeras couldnât find a qualified replacement to replace Royâs command of the Legion in a short time. So in addition, he targeted some mortal races with great potential.
For Sargeras, what he needed now was commanders to command the Legion, and the commanders had to meet one requirementâsufficient intelligence.
This sounded like a simple requirement, but this wasnât the case. Regardless of how intelligent ordinary mortals were, they couldnât be used to lead the demons of the Burning Legion. It was impossible for the demons of the Burning Legion to obey the orders of a non-demon. Therefore, even if Sargeras could find a smart person, he had to use fel energy to corrode them and distort them into a demon before using them.
Therefore, a question arose. How could ordinary mortal races withstand the distortion of fel energy without going crazy?
Even the orcs of Draenor in the future, despite having strong bodies, became bloodthirsty and bellicose after being corroded by fel energy, becoming easily angered and irritableâŠ
So after some research, Sargeras found that it was really difficult to find a race that could withstand fel energy and the intelligence debuff.
During the battle with the Pantheon in the world of Nihilam, Sargeras had learned a piece of news. The titans of the Pantheon had found a world-soul that was unprecedentedly powerful. The location of this world-soul was known as Azeroth. The Pantheon regarded this unborn world-soul as their hope, but it wasnât good news for the fallen Sargeras. However, the titans only mentioned Azeroth and didnât say where it was.
During the nearly three thousand years that Roy had disappeared, Sargeras had continued his crusade with the Burning Legion and tried to find this world called Azeroth. Although he hadnât found it, it was not without results. He discovered a world named Aldrachi. The mortal race of Aldrachi was a race with relatively high potential. They were powerful, and they were not at a disadvantage even when facing the demons of the Burning Legion. After encountering the Aldrachi world, Sargeras had the idea of winning over this mortal race. He thought that if they could withstand the corrosion of fel energy and maintain their rationality, thereby transforming into demons, he might be able to unearth the strongest individuals to serve as commanders of the Legion.
However, Sargeras was actually not good at dealing with mortal races, so his method of dealing with the Aldrachi people was to threaten them directly! He wanted to use the powerful military might of the Burning Legion to threaten this planet and force the Aldrachi people to submit.
During this process, the demons of the Burning Legion definitely had to give the Aldrachi a taste of suffering first. So under Sargerasâs command, the Legion began to invade this planet.
However, what Sargeras didnât expect was that the resistance of the Aldrachi was so powerful. Several invasions of the Burning Legion were repelled by the Aldrachi people, causing them to fail on the verge of success. The reputation that the Burning Legion had just established in the past few years almost fell under the hands of the Aldrachi people.
In order to save face and establish his might again, Sargeras had to take action personally and eliminate the Aldrachi world.
After this battle, the face of the Burning Legion was saved, but Sargerasâs desire to find a race with potential to serve as commanders became even stronger.
It couldnât be helped. Although Sargeras was incomparably powerful and could destroy a planet at will, he was only one person after all and couldnât split himself up. But as the Burning Legion continued to expand, it was possible to attack dozens of planets at the same time. If the Legion called Sargeras to support them whenever they encountered resistance on a planet, he would probably die of exhaustion.
Therefore, while carrying out the crusade with the Burning Legion, Sargeras got the abyss lords to speed up their contact with the Abyss. At the same time, he paid attention to the mortal races with potential that he encountered during the crusade.
During this process, Sargeras eliminated many alternative targets. The mortals of these alternative target worlds were either destroyed because they strongly resisted the Burning Legion, or they couldnât withstand the corrosion of fel energy and became a race of crazy demons. In short, they were unable to meet Sargerasâs lowest standards.
Nearly three thousand years was neither long nor short for long-lived species. Just as Sargeras was wondering if this selection method would work, a new goal appeared.
The scouts dispatched by the Burning Legion to the universe discovered a new world with an intelligent civilization. This world was Argus.
The main race living on Argus was a group of people who called themselves the eredar. The eredar were a race with high talent in spellcasting and had lived on Argus millions of years ago. Their attainments in the arcane arts were known in many worlds because the eredar had already achieved extremely high achievements in the mystical domain. Their magic technology even enabled them to leave their home planet and go to other worlds.
In other words, the eredar were actually an interstellar civilization.
This was a rather glorious achievement. It had to be known that among the countless planets in this universe, civilizations that could leave their mother planets for interstellar travel were indescribably rare.
When Sargeras received this information, he immediately attached great importance to Argus. He even ordered the Burning Legion not to get too close to the Argus system and not to arouse the vigilance of the eredar.
After observing in secret for a while, Sargeras confirmed his guess. The eredar were indeed a race with great potential. Not only were they proficient in arcane power, but they were also very compatible with most of the powers of the mystical side. In other words, they could also accommodate the power of fel energy. What was even better was that Sargeras noticed the three leaders of the eredar and found that they were all powerful and comparable to Demon King Osiris.
If he could use fel energy to transform these three leaders into demons, they would become powerful demon king-level existences and be directly qualified to be commanders of the Burning Legion. There would be no need for Sargeras to pay more to increase their strength.
Moreover, the power of fel energy could greatly increase the strength of intelligent life. Sargeras knew very well that if he could transform the entire eredar race into demons, then these eredar demons would become the strongest pillar of the Burning LegionâŠ
For these reasons, Sargeras became interested in Argus. He knew that the eredar probably wouldnât submit to mere coercion, so he learned from the lesson of the Aldrachi world and planned to use benefits to recruit the eredar.
When Tichondrius mentioned these things, although he didnât say them as straightforwardly as mentioned above, because he told them in detail and Roy knew some things about Argus, he guessed most of Sargerasâs thoughts.
After speaking, Tichondrius tactfully said to Roy, âIn addition, Lord Osiris, youâve returned, so Lord Sargeras is more certainâŠâ
âItâs indeed more certain, butâŠâ Roy turned his head and grinned sinisterly at Tichondrius. âYou might have forgotten one thing. If Lord Sargerasâs plan succeeds, I wonât be the only commander commanding you, but there will be moreâŠâ
Tichondrius was quick-witted. He immediately bowed slightly to Roy and whispered, âOf course. But Lord Osiris, weâve always been fighting under your command before this, and it will be the same in the future.â
This was showing his loyalty. Of course, Roy understood. He knew that the dreadlords had always been faintly expressing their intention to submit to him, but Roy had never paid much attention to them because he didnât want to get involved in the Shadowlandsâs scheme against the Burning Legion. It was mainly because he didnât have enough strength and felt that he couldnât get involved. But after this time jump, Roy found that his strength had soared, and his confidence grew stronger. He smiled and asked Tichondrius in a low voice, âHave you repaired my sword?â
As soon as he said this, Tichondrius understood. Dreadlords were experts at playing with psychology, so there was naturally no problem with their understanding of words and tone. He knew that Royâs words were actually indirectly accepting his goodwill, so he immediately whispered, âItâs repaired. You can go get it whenever you want. Iâll lead the way for you.â
Roy nodded and didnât say anything. He knew that the dreadlords were planning to introduce the master behind the scenes to him.
The nathrezim in the Burning Legion actually displayed their allegiance to Sargeras very thoroughly. This was the basis of their espionage mission. Over the years, the dreadlords had gained Sargerasâs trust.
But even so, the dreadlords were still trying to win over Roy because they keenly sensed that he wasnât entirely of the same mind as Sargeras, even though Sargeras had personally found him.
Another important reason was that they discovered that Roy seemed to know the identities of the dreadlords, but he didnât expose them.
After realizing that Royâs goal in the Burning Legion was the same as the Shadowlandsâs, which was to use the Burning Legionâs crusade, Roy was even more worth striving for to the Shadowlands. In order to better gain his trust, not only did the dreadlords help reforge Frostmourne, but they even thought that they could reveal their true background and power to him to a certain extent, hoping that they could work together with Roy, the commander of the Legion, with one force in the open and another in the dark.
It sounded troublesome for the nathrezim to go to such great lengths, but this was determined by their hidden identities. Their hidden identities determined that they could only win over allies in secret and couldnât be exposed on the surface.
Now, Tichondriusâs goodwill had finally reached a tacit mutual understanding with Roy, which naturally excited him.
While speaking, Tichondrius led Roy and finally arrived in front of Sargeras. The moment he saw Roy, Roy didnât know if it was an illusion or not, but he felt that Sargerasâs blazing eyes widened quite a bit.
âDamn it?! How is it you?! Osiris, where have you been all these years?! You still have the nerve to come back?! Do you know how hard Iâve been working?!â
Roy was one of the few existences in the Burning Legion who could communicate fairly equally with Sargeras, so when Sargeras saw him, he couldnât help saying so many things at once and even complained resentfully.
âLord SargerasâŠâ Roy used the honorific in front of so many demons and smiled bitterly. âRegarding my whereabouts over the years, I think you can roughly guess some things even without me saying them⊠I can only say that there might be more of such situations in the future, but donât worry. This situation will end eventually.â
âIs that so?â Sargeras sat on his throne, and his anger dissipated a little. He looked at Roy thoughtfully and then suddenly laughed strangely. âIn that case, you shouldnât have any complaints about me finding a few commanders to divide your authority, right?â
After hearing this, Roy grinned sinisterly, but this smile didnât look arrogant. âOf course. After all, the Burning Legion is your Burning Legion, isnât it, Lord Sargeras? So I support any decision you make unconditionallyâŠâ
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