Chapter 646: Involving Authority

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

Because of Roy’s existence, Sargeras’s 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 Legion’s exploration of the Abyss would not yield any results for a while, and Sargeras couldn’t find a qualified replacement to replace Roy’s 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 requirement—sufficient intelligence.

This sounded like a simple requirement, but this wasn’t the case. Regardless of how intelligent ordinary mortals were, they couldn’t 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 irritable…

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 wasn’t good news for the fallen Sargeras. However, the titans only mentioned Azeroth and didn’t 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 hadn’t 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 Sargeras’s command, the Legion began to invade this planet.

However, what Sargeras didn’t 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 Sargeras’s desire to find a race with potential to serve as commanders became even stronger.

It couldn’t be helped. Although Sargeras was incomparably powerful and could destroy a planet at will, he was only one person after all and couldn’t 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 couldn’t withstand the corrosion of fel energy and became a race of crazy demons. In short, they were unable to meet Sargeras’s 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 Legion…

For these reasons, Sargeras became interested in Argus. He knew that the eredar probably wouldn’t 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 didn’t say them as straightforwardly as mentioned above, because he told them in detail and Roy knew some things about Argus, he guessed most of Sargeras’s thoughts.

After speaking, Tichondrius tactfully said to Roy, “In addition, Lord Osiris, you’ve returned, so Lord Sargeras is more certain…”

“It’s indeed more certain, but…” Roy turned his head and grinned sinisterly at Tichondrius. “You might have forgotten one thing. If Lord Sargeras’s plan succeeds, I won’t be the only commander commanding you, but there will be more…”

Tichondrius was quick-witted. He immediately bowed slightly to Roy and whispered, “Of course. But Lord Osiris, we’ve always been fighting under your command before this, and it will be the same in the future.”

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 didn’t want to get involved in the Shadowlands’s scheme against the Burning Legion. It was mainly because he didn’t have enough strength and felt that he couldn’t 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, “Have you repaired my sword?”

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 Roy’s words were actually indirectly accepting his goodwill, so he immediately whispered, “It’s repaired. You can go get it whenever you want. I’ll lead the way for you.”

Roy nodded and didn’t 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 Sargeras’s trust.

But even so, the dreadlords were still trying to win over Roy because they keenly sensed that he wasn’t 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 didn’t expose them.

After realizing that Roy’s goal in the Burning Legion was the same as the Shadowlands’s, which was to use the Burning Legion’s 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 couldn’t be exposed on the surface.

Now, Tichondrius’s 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 didn’t know if it was an illusion or not, but he felt that Sargeras’s blazing eyes widened quite a bit.

“Damn 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 I’ve been working?!”

Roy was one of the few existences in the Burning Legion who could communicate fairly equally with Sargeras, so when Sargeras saw him, he couldn’t help saying so many things at once and even complained resentfully.

“Lord Sargeras…” Roy used the honorific in front of so many demons and smiled bitterly. “Regarding 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 don’t worry. This situation will end eventually.”

“Is that so?” Sargeras sat on his throne, and his anger dissipated a little. He looked at Roy thoughtfully and then suddenly laughed strangely. “In that case, you shouldn’t have any complaints about me finding a few commanders to divide your authority, right?”

After hearing this, Roy grinned sinisterly, but this smile didn’t look arrogant. “Of course. After all, the Burning Legion is your Burning Legion, isn’t it, Lord Sargeras? So I support any decision you make unconditionally…”