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Roy had imprisoned Tyrael’s soul in the crystal. Unless Tyrael’s soul power could surpass Roy’s, he wouldn’t be able to break out in a short time.
Imprisoning Tyrael was equivalent to killing him. For a long time, he would no longer be able to interfere with the human world of Sanctuary.
All Roy had to do was wait. The matter of Tyrael’s disappearance needed time to ferment, and the relationship between the nephalem and angels would not deteriorate immediately. In order for it to reach Roy’s ideal state, he needed enough patience.
Of course, waiting didn’t mean that Roy would do nothing. In fact, after considering the subsequent developments after Tyrael’s disappearance, he felt that he needed an army, a massive demon army, in order to deal with the possible attack from the High Heavens.
As long as he didn’t hide in the Purgatory Space of the Burning Hells, his whereabouts in Sanctuary would be discovered sooner or later. After all, the High Heavens had lost an Archangel, and this Archangel hadn’t fallen like Malthael, so it was certain that after discovering that Roy didn’t perish together with Tyrael, the High Heavens would definitely take revenge on him.
Under these circumstances, a powerful demon army was essential to Roy. He was even considering whether to summon Julia, Benia, and the others to this world to manage the army for him.
With Roy’s current status as a demon king, it wouldn’t require too much effort to form a demon army. Thanks to Mephisto, Diablo, and the other demon kings, places far away from human order in Sanctuary were full of demons, monsters, undead, fallen, and so on. These creatures usually didn’t have a unified administrator, and they only moved aimlessly in the wilderness. They formed all kinds of groups and fought each other to snatch territories and turn their opponents into food.
Even so, the class inheritance engraved in the bones of these monsters with demon bloodlines still existed. As long as Roy, a demon king, summoned them, they would quickly gather and become a part of his demon army.
Of course, it was still early for the war, and he didn’t need too many troops. If there were too many, it would be difficult to provide for them unless he launched a war against the humans of Sanctuary and plundered their souls. But this didn’t match his plan. Once demons attacked humans, it would instead make the humans closer to the angels.
The conflict between humans and angels could only manifest without the invasion of demons, so what Roy wanted to do was to maintain the current peaceful situation of all of Sanctuary.
After thinking about it for a while, he decided to try his best to subdue the powerful demons and monsters. By restraining these guys, he could restrain more low-level demons and monsters and prevent them from invading human territories for the time being.
Therefore, his first step was to gather the demons and monsters around his island.
Yes, Roy had already figured out where he was now. This place was the northernmost part of Sanctuary, on an island isolated from the world. The name of this place was Xiansai!
Xiansai was an enormous island in the Frozen Sea. It was isolated by seawater on all sides, and it was between the eastern and western continents of
Sanctuary, adjacent to the Dreadlands and Scosglen.
Due to Xiansai being separated by wide straits, the island could be said to be inaccessible, but this didn’t mean that there were no people on the island. In fact, when he flew over the island earlier, he had found a city where humans gathered near the southern coast.
What was strange was that the architectural style of this human city was very oriental. The people living here also had black hair and looked oriental. Moreover, the name of this city was ‘Zhou’!
Roy observed this city curiously through invisible Demon Eyes. He found that apart from their appearance, the people here were no different from those in other places of Sanctuary, and they all had the nephalem bloodline.
People who had not awakened their bloodline powers were no different from ordinary human civilians. But if they awakened the nephalem bloodline, the people here actually had powerful elemental affinity. Although they were isolated from the world, in their historical records, people from the Yshari Sanctum would come every few years to select talented children to go back and accept their mage inheritances.
In other words, this place was an important source of students for the mages of Sanctuary...
Roy’s place was in the mountains farther north of Xiansai, quite a distance away from this human city. Due to the cold weather in the north, the people of Zhou had no intention of exploring the mountains. It could be said that they were at peace with Roy for the time being, and he didn’t want to break this balance for the time being.
In the depths of the mountains, there were a large number of snow monsters and ice demons. When Roy’s power spread out, these demons and monsters with weak demon bloodlines began to approach him. Before long, he had thousands of soldiers.
These tall snow monsters and ice demons had immense strength. Under Roy’s orders, they worked hard and began to build a demon king palace for him.
The people of Xiansai knew nothing about the lively scene in the depths of the mountains, and they continued to live their lives as a cover for Roy’s whereabouts.
A year passed quickly. During this year, Roy’s demon king palace was completed, and the snow monsters and ice demons within a radius of nearly five hundred kilometers fell into his control. But he restrained these monsters and demons and made them stay in the mountains. Only the humans who entered the snow mountains rashly were expelled and killed by them. Even the Xiansai people were surprised and felt that their lives were more peaceful than before.
In the course of this year, the consequences of Tyrael’s disappearance gradually spread.
Tyrael had led the establishment of the New Church of Horadrim. After losing the leader, Tyrael, the New Church of Horadrim had been leaderless for a while, and internal disputes began about what the church should do next. Some people didn’t believe that Archangel Tyrael was really dead, so they suggested searching for his whereabouts. Others suggested expanding the power of the church to prevent the return of the seven demon kings. Others felt that they should contact the High Heavens as soon as possible. In short, the internal opinions were chaotic.
Unfortunately, the elite nephalem warriors with powerful strength in the Church of Horadrim were not in management. It had to be said that this was a
mistake on Tyrael’s part. These warriors were usually only responsible for combat, and they rarely interfered with the internal affairs of the church. This caused them to be unable to speak in chaotic internal situations, and no one was willing to listen to their opinions.
The upper echelons of the church didn’t care about the feelings of these warriors, so as time passed, these warriors gradually became disheartened. They would rather fight to the death with demons than get involved in this power struggle.
However... in the history of humans in Sanctuary, there had never been a lack of such Dower struggles. This was human nature, and even Tvrael couldn’t understand it.
At this time, the High Heavens sent an envoy to inquire about Tyrael’s whereabouts. After all, he hadn’t returned to the High Heavens for a routine report, and his soul had not been reborn in the Crystal Arch. The High Heavens had lost contact with him for a long time.
Regarding this inquiry, the people of the Church of Horadrim could only tell the envoy that Tyrael might have perished with Demon King Osiris.
When this news reached the High Heavens and was known by Imperius, the Archangel was furious!
Although they had always had disputes in the past, Tyrael was still his brother. In the long Eternal Conflict, Tyrael had always been fighting side by side with Imperius. This brotherhood couldn’t be erased with disputes.
His brother’s whereabouts were unknown, but these mortals had only reported the news now. This could no longer be described as missing the opportunity..
However, Imperius didn’t think that it was his fault either. He had always been vigilant and wary of the nephalem. He had originally wanted to destroy these gathering places, so the High Heavens had never set up any contact points in the mortal world. In the past, Tyrael could still transmit some news. Now that Tyrael was missing, it was impossible for the people of the Church of Horadrim to contact the High Heavens.
Under these prejudices, Imperius couldn’t help but vent his anger on the humans. He ordered the Church of Horadrim to find Tyrael at all costs. If they couldn’t do it, then they couldn’t blame the High Heavens for being impolite!
This domineering order made the Church of Horadrim, which had adapted to Tyrael’s gentle personality, very uncomfortable. But because it concerned their leader, they could only try their best to do it.
However, the domineeringness of the angels aroused the displeasure of the nephalem warriors. When Diablo returned from the Black Soulstone and gathered the power of the seven demon kings to lead the demon army into the High Heavens, the High Heavens had been unable to resist at all. It was Tyrael who had led these nephalem warriors to help the High Heavens defeat Diablo.
Back then, Imperius had been utterly defeated by Diablo, but he still used such a tough attitude to order the nephalem warriors. Of course, they would be unhappy.
Thus, cracks appeared at this moment...
And they would become bigger and bigger...

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