Chapter 376: The Lair
The process of finding a territory was not too smooth.
Roy spent most of his next time constantly entering and exiting the entrances to the space, and he searched hundreds of fragmented worlds, large and small, but he couldn't find the fragmented worlds that satisfied him.
Some people may say, can't you just find one at random? Why do you have to be so obsessive-compulsive?
But in fact, Roy understands that it is completely different from the previous time when he used to randomly designate a place as a lair in the upper abyss world, if nothing else, for a long time in the future, the territory he found is his real "home", and this time period is likely to be hundreds or even centuries, in view of this, Roy of course wants to find a most suitable place.
So although he was impetuous about finding it, Roy still continued to search patiently.
As time went on, Roy was also surprised to find that the number of fragmented worlds that existed here was simply amazing, he entered and exited hundreds of spaces, but the repetition rate was only about two percent at most, and the others were all new spaces, each of which was different in size, terrain and even environment, it was hard to imagine how vast all the fragmented worlds here would be if combined.
On the way to find it, Roy has also broken into other territories with lords, and the demon lords in these territories are all very wary of Roy without exception, and even the irascible brother will directly do it with Roy, and when encountering such a situation, Roy usually copes with it a few times, and then retreats, with no intention of fighting.
It's not that he can't win, but it's unnecessary, not only Roy himself is looking for a territory and environment suitable for him to inhabit, other demon lords will generally choose the environment they like and feel comfortable, but because of the difference in blood, what suits them may not necessarily be suitable for Roy, for example, Roy met a demon lord of a scorpion demon before, his territory is purely a black and red desert, he can walk freely in the desert, but Roy may not want to stay in this desert.
These demon lords encountered by Roy usually find some demons of their own race to use as their subordinate forces, but occasionally recruit some demons of other races, but the number of these subordinates is generally not too much, after all, these low-level demons are all summoned from the upper level of the abyss, which is equivalent to turning the demons in the wild state into domestication, then as a lord, he is naturally responsible for the food and clothing of his subordinates, if his territory is not big enough, he will not be able to support these subordinates.
Therefore, the demon lords generally control the number of their subordinates, and this number will be maintained in the hundreds to thousands, and these demons will stay in the demon lord's territory for a long time as a standing army, mining for the lord, building buildings, operating the territory, etc., and the demon lord usually does not personally manage these low-level demons, but hands them over to the high-ranking demons who take refuge in them to manage.
That's right, this business model is the method that Roy once encountered, the demon lord Lorjelos used, not only him, but most of the demon lords use this way to maintain their rule.
Only if there is a territorial war with other demon lords, the demon lords will summon more demons from the upper abyss world in large numbers.
Or if you want to execute some betrayers, you will find some demons to serve as executing demons as you did when you found Roy, hunt down the betrayers, and give a certain reward afterwards.
This kind of ruling and management method can be regarded as a relatively efficient way of ruling among the demon races, and it has been used by demon lords for tens of thousands of years of history, not to mention that demon lords are used to it, and even low-level demons are also used to it...... If Roy were to govern his own territory, he would probably inherit this way of management.
With what he saw and heard in his heart, Roy continued to search for the entrances to each dimension, constantly checking one fragment of world after another.
"Huh?" I don't know how long it took, but after Roy plunged headlong into another spatial vortex, he was stunned for a moment after seeing the situation in this fragmented world.
It was a very cold world of debris, the land was full of crystallized rocks, there were long ice ridges hanging from all kinds of withered and twisted plants, a strong snowstorm was howling in the sky, and a plain was full of white expanse, and it was impossible to see too far away.
Finally, he encountered another world of ice and snow, and as far as Roy felt, the temperature here was even cooler than the territory where Anivia was located, and the whole world took on a dead silence.
Roy spread his wings and flew forward against the blizzard, and he found that the area of this fragmented world was quite large, conservatively estimated to be tens of thousands of square kilometers.
This kind of scale is not big in the fragmented world that Roy has entered, but it is also not small, it belongs to the fragmented world of medium and lower scale, and the most rare thing is that in the center of the plain, there is an active volcano, and this volcano is buried in the ground, only a small part of it is exposed on the ground, it is precisely because of the existence of this volcano, the center of the plain is still relatively warm, and even Roy saw the existence of several hot spring lakes.
The most important thing is that the environment here is still very clear, there is not too much gray and dirty feeling, but it is quite beautiful.
This environment is perfect for Roy, the outer blizzard and low temperature are natural barriers, and the warmer part of the center is suitable for Julil and her survival, if you can build a city around this volcano, then this is the perfect territory.
The decision is here! Roy flew towards the position of the volcano, he had already decided that even if there was a demon lord in this fragmented world, he would drive them away!
Boom, Roy fell on the ice, three pairs of demon wings wantonly spread, full of magic power, in this abyss world, he doesn't need to fight against any world repulsion power, naturally in his heyday, under the influence of his magic power, the surrounding ice and the flying blizzard, all turned into black frost, spreading along Roy's feet.
His powerful magic power stirred between heaven and earth, and in this way, he announced his existence, and if there were other demon lords in this territory, then this was a means to lure out the other party.
As if feeling Roy's magic, there was a slight tremor on the ground, and the amplitude of this tremor was gradually increasing.
Roy quickly identified the source of the tremor in the crater, and with a sinister laugh, he spread his wings and flew towards the crater.
The part of the volcano that outcrops the ground is about 100 meters, and the boiling magma inside is shorter than the crater, and when Roy flew to the crater, the magma suddenly churned, and then a huge figure rushed out.
That's a huge ...... Worm! It has a round body and dark red skin, no eyes, but it has a circular mouthpart with a diameter of tens of meters, and it has hideous teeth like a roller, when it rushes out of the magma, it brings out a large amount of fiery red and hot lava, and in this rain of lava falling from the sky, it stands upright in the direction of Roy.
Roy looked at this terrible demon worm calmly, and he didn't know how this thing could grow, it could be so huge, its body just exposed to the magma liquid surface was more than sixty meters long, and there were more torsos left, which were still buried in the volcanic magma.
And the most important thing is that Roy judged by the other party's breath that he was not a demon lord yet!
Even this guy is not even a demon, it can only be regarded as a monster, it has the breath of a demon on its body, which means that it has the blood of a demon, and its strength is at most only a median demon level, but this thing is too ...... It's outrageous!
Another mutant guy! Roy came to such a conclusion.
Without eyes, this demon worm relies on smell and vibration perception to act, although its body is countless times larger than Roy's, but after feeling the demon lord's breath on Roy's body at this time, it let out a loud purring sound and lowered its head towards Roy.
This is an action to show submission, of course Roy also saw it, and couldn't help but rub his chin, when he checked this territory before, he found that there were no other creatures on the ice field, but now there is such a demon worm, which means that the creatures here are likely to live underground.
Roy flew over and stroked the top of the demon worm's head a few times to show his acceptance of its submission, which made the demon worm look a little excited, and its huge body began to writhe.
The only pity is that this guy is just a monster, so he can't communicate with Roy, otherwise you can ask it to see if this territory has had an owner before.
This is a very suitable environment for the frost demon to inhabit, and Roy feels that if there are other frost demon lords, he should not abandon this place, but after talking to Anivia, Roy is also wondering if there was really a frost demon lord here before, will it have been killed by the hunters of the Burning Legion......
But either way, now the territory belongs to Roy.
He flew out of the crater and re-entered the ice field, and the demon worm had wanted to follow it out, but the low temperature outside made it uncomfortable, so it had to soak in the magma and shake at the crater.
Roy knelt on one knee on the ice, his right hand supported the ice, the magic power overflowed from his palm, and the blue lumen flame spread out in all directions with his palm as the center of the circle, and where the flame flowed, those solid ice cubes were immediately shaped into a circle of magic arrays.
Almost in a matter of seconds, Roy completed the summoning circle, and after infusing it with magic power, the summoning circle began to glow.
Julil Bainia and them were separated from Roy when they returned before, but Roy knew that they should have returned to the abyss level where the superior demon was, and what Roy had to do this time was to summon them directly, as well as Kassandra, because of her relationship with Roy's demon contract, when she returned this time, she also came to the abyss world, but she didn't know where she was, Roy also wanted to summon her through the contact of the contract......