Chapter 179: Splitting the Loo (2/2)

Not long after I was stunned by that dastardly loli, my forced-upon-me harem arrived on scene, wings and claws ready to defend their meat. However, just as everyone thought that Julia was about to start another lecture, she instead revealed a radiant smile: “Remember to treat his Excellency well from now on, got it?”

“…mhm! Hehehe!”

“Looks like you gained another one.” Violet Snow rolled her eyes back as she delivered her trademark emotionless tsukkomi.

After messing around, it was time to proceed on with the soul flame distribution. In just a few minutes, the remaining the soul flames were distributed as followed: the six-star soul was given to Mimiya, one of the fiver-stars was consumed by me while the other was given to Violet Snow. As for potato-faced Mo Xixidi, he naturally worked for free. Other than that soul flame I gave to No.3, the remaining titan souls were handed out to Big 4, Big 5, Nine-finger, One-eye and the Grimoire of the Dead.

In what was most likely a lack of soul flames, only One-eye managed to evolve from consuming his share of soul flames. Because the majority of his soul flame was expended to heal his wounds, No.3 wasn’t able to evolve as well.

In his new form, One-eye grew a pair of red devil wings on his back and his body became a lot bulkier. Assuming nothing else changed, his evolutionary path was most likely that of Mo Xixidi’s: the sin of Gluttony.

The fact that he was the first of my named subordinates to evolve didn’t come as a surprise at all. He was the strongest amongst them all and before meeting me, he was already the head of his own band of devils. His talents were naturally a cut above the rest.

However, the fact that Big 4, Big 5 and Nine-finger weren’t able to evolve still left me exasperated. Having three more four-stars would undoubtedly speed up our future progress. Because we still weren’t sure about what hidden traps laid ahead of us, growing stronger was of utmost importance.

Being a three-star prior to meeting us, Mimiya was naturally able to evolve upon consuming that six-star soul. Because she was born with the original sin of Greed in her, she was born as a primal devil destined to tread the path of an infant devil. Thanks to that, her form didn’t change much after evolving; it was still that of an adorable loli.

In order for her to become a newly-evolved infant devil, she would have to evolve to the level of five-stars first. Thus, her innate skills had only been partially unlocked. Her affinity with dimensional magicks had definitely increased substantially but it still wasn’t to the level where she could teleport. In order for her to do that, she had to at least be a five-star.

As for the Grimoire of the Dead, it was a bottomless black hole just like before. No matter how much souls I fed it, it would never be full.

As for me…that five-star soul actually had no effect on me at all…undoubtedly, all those energies had been forcefully absorbed by the slumbering Ferti’nier within me.

Naturally, she made sure to leave me some scraps. As for how much that was… ‘let’s have a looksie, about two percent? That damned woman…no wait, damned she-devil, once you wake up, I’m going to make you cough up the rental fee!’

After reorganizing the army once more, we were now ready to set off.

What was once a giant black whirlpool was now an immeasurably thick bone wall with a giant gate carved into it. The gate itself was over fifty meters wide and was already open as if it was inviting us in. However, that wasn’t the only thing strange about it. The location where it appeared, in other words, where the black whirlpool used to be, didn’t use to have a gate at all. In fact, when we first entered this cavern, those walls weren’t even there.

Even so, now that a road had opened up before us, we naturally had to take it. As for the way back…it was already gone.

“There’s no time or mana to process those titan bones so I want the dogmen to take them apart and carry them for now.” Having dumped that task onto the dogmen, I continued: “The Abbadon Rodents will continue serving as our vanguard. Weslin, make sure you watch them carefully, I don’t want any mistakes.”

“Alright, I’ll be extra careful.” She nodded her head and as she did so, she gave those thousand rodents under her an evil glare: “Listen up, if you perform well enough, you will get promoted. As for those cowards amongst you who don’t dare to advance, death on the spot!”

“Chit chit chit chiiit cccchit…” The ratman beside her furiously translated her words for its brethren who upon hearing its words, immediately trembled. Chits flying about, they immediately rushed towards the mysterious gate.

“What did they say?” Slightly curious, I turned to Violet Snow who seemed rather bored right now.

Rolling her eyes at me as usual, she said: “They said: for food, for the does, we fight!”

“…”

Does huh…

(TL: Does: plural of doe. A doe can be a female hare,rat,deer, goat and some other animals.)