8 The Flame Salamander Empress (1/2)
| DAY 11 |
”Aawoooooooo!”
”Ae one, we don't have to worry anymore about tyrants and we can settle down as a whole clan, we are at your service.”
”So that's how it is huh…”
When I checked the amount of wolves they were exactly 28, very few compared to the monkeys, it seems that Crimson Wolves were at the blink of extinction.
I decided to do the same with monkeys and held a little tournament to see who were the strongest among them.
Unlike the monkeys, every Crimson Wolf was very strong and outside of the little pups, everyone had amazing fighting potential.
I decided the three best ones and granted them with names.
The strongest one was the biggest and experienced one, it had multiple scars on his back but acted very polite and friendly towards his people, and me.
I named him Kekensha (Experienced in Japanese)
The second strongest was an adult King with calm and composed personality.Unlike the other Crimson Wolves, he had good affinity with Water and Earth Elements since birth, and some said that it was thanks to being born in a specific sacred day of the Crimson Wolves.
After I checked his status, I found an interesting title: | BORN IN THE WATER AND EARTH SACRED DAY |, it granted him high affinity to those two elements.
I named him Tsuchimizu (Earth Water in Japanese)
Moreover, the third one was a young and promising King with an energetic personality, he also had an abnormal mutation on him, having a little horn red colored horn on his forehead that granted him high magic affinity.
I named him Kurimuzonhōn (Crimson Horn in Japanese)
Afterwards I made squads with the battle capable Wolves, while the pups and mothers would stay in the cave taking care of their children.
In total there were three Mothers, two had already they pups and one was pregnant, there were seven very adorable Crimson Wolf pups running around.
I made three squads with 6 Wolves each (Including the leader), and introduced them to the monkeys, I don't want them to fight over stupid things like different beliefs and such so I made sure to tell the monkeys to be polite.
Afterwards I put together the entire Monkey Squads leader and presented them to the Wolf Squads leaders; they all had a good conversation and became good friends.
”Haaahh… this was tiring… now there are even more mouths to feed…”
”Master Kireina do not worry, just like the monkeys, my clan will hunt his own food and even share it with the whole community”
”Oh yeah, right! Hahaha, not like I will feed you or anything…”
”Guuu, masta food… ready!”
We quickly made a little feat in celebration of the addition of the Crimson Wolves to the group, there were still a lot of the Bird Emperor meat and everyone had a good time. Just as yesterday, the named Crimson Wolves were amazed about their new power after obtaining skills from the meat and were very thankful to me.
| MAX MINIONS 12/40 |
After eating, I did not wanted to immediately head out to the next Emperor and checked on how the activities Monkey Squads were doing.
What I was most interested on was in the Crafting and Alchemy team lead by Kusuri, it seems that when I arrived found him crafting special equipment for the main squads.
”Ah! Master Kireina, good to see you, here I have crafted these equipment for you, I know that you cannot equip them but maybe you could try to eat them Uki!”
”Eat them…? I mean, why not?”
I quickly ate the two magic rings and bracelet that Kusuri made for the testing, they tasted very bitter and were incredibly hard to munch and gulp.
| YOU LEARNED A NEW SKILL: RED GEM MAGIC RING |
| YOU LEARNED A NEW SKILL: BLUE GEM MAGIC RING |
| YOU LEARNED A NEW SKILL: SERAPHIN HEALING BRACELET |
”Ooh its true Kusuri, I am able to pass on the skills on this equipment if I eat them! This is a broken mechanic!”
”Really? Then the other named beings can also obtain skills by eating equipment with skills! These are amazing news Master Kireina; with this, our power will rise even more! Ukii!”
After a little conversation I give Kusuri the task on crafting a specific equipment that could grant the skill | SYNTHESIS | he told me that the materials needed were very large and that the monkey squads would take at least 3 days to obtain them.
It's also seems like his job as ”High Crafter and Alchemist” give him a special skill that grants him several crafting recipes, making the creation of items very easy.
”Is it possible to task me on getting some? What are the materials?”
”Well you see, the rarest one in my list is the Scorching Adamantite, a very rare rock find Volcano areas… Ukii…”
”Volcano areas? This is your lucky day, we were just going to the Volcano Hot Springs to kill the Flame Salamander Empress, and we will bring tons of that material! Just you wait!”
”Hahaha, very well Master Kireina, I bid you good luck in your journey ukii!”
Afterwards I went to the Furniture and Carpentry leader Shokunin, and found him with some blueprints on hand and the other monkeys handling big pieces of rocks and wood.
”Master Kireina, good timing, I recently crafted a plan to expand the cave sections, due to the recent new members of our community ukii!”
”Oooh? What do you have in mind?”
Shokunin showed me his blueprint and started to explain each step on the expansion. It seems that they are going to use brute force to break the cave walls and go deeper on the mountain; this will also give us a lot of mining resources like Iron and Copper.
”I see your point but aren't you worried over the whole cave falling over us if we dig too deep?”
”This is why I have made another blueprints in advance, these will be strong Pillars made of concentrated rock and reinforced with magic, they will maintain the cave ceiling in place, here take a look”
”Ooh! I see how it is, very well then, keep going!”
”Wait! Master Kireina, I have constructed you this night table for your room, I hope you like it! Ukii!”
”Ah! Th-thanks, it will be very useful! (Not really)”
We packed some food in my Item Box and we headed out to the Volcano Hot Springs with Rimuru and Wagyu!
In the way I tested these new equipment skills, they were very interesting, when activating them, my body would generate tiny versions of these equipment in my butterfly legs and would grant me the passive buffs of these equipment except the extra stats. It reminded me of my Purple Crimson Horn.
| RED GEM MAGIC RING: Grants +20% Fire Element affinity and resistance |
| BLUE GEM MAGIC RING: Grants +20% Water Element affinity and resistance |
| SERAPHIN HEALING BRACELET: Heals 5% HP every 5 minutes, if activated, can cast BASIC HEAL: Cost 20 MP |
”I see… this is indeed quite useful, specially the Healing skill! I really needed something like this one!”
”I see you are in a good mood Master Kireina!”
”Guuu!”
”Hahaha, yes it's because of my new healing skills!”
”I see-”
Suddenly, in the middle of the road, an incredible hot aura started to show.
”Ugh?! What is it?!”
”Guu?”
Suddenly, more than thirty tiny Salamanders started to run to use, they were completely covered in fire, and because they were all packed together, an immense heat pressure was created.
FUOOSH!
”Geeeh, this pressure is unbearable… Activate Water Shield!”
”Resume BRAIN SHARE!”
| BRAIN SHARE RESUMED |
”Uhh… what's going on? Let me sleep some more!”
”So you finally let us free… Eh? Gyyyaaaaah! Those are some disgusting Salamanders! Are those the Flame Salamanders?”
”Hahaha! It seems like the Empress has anticipated us and brought a whole squadron of Salamanders to intercept us, time to get serious then!”
”Alright, I leave the skills to you guys!”
”Rimuru, Wagyu let's go!”
Suddenly, as if they were acting as one, all the Flame Salamander started to combine they spells and shot multiple strong fire balls!
BAAM BAAM!
FUOOSH!
”Gaaah! What is this?! Tandem Magic? That's cheat! Take this! WATER LANCE!”
FLASH! BAM!
A big Water Lance crashed on the Salamanders back but evaporated in mere seconds, causing very little damage!
”Ruooooo! Kill the demon!”
”Don't let him get closer to our Empress!”
The Salamander group started to multi cast again, casting a big magic shield around them and massive fire balls!
BAAAM! BAAAM!
”Master Kireina, the magic shield is too strong, we can't penetrate it with our long ranged attacks! What should we do?!”
”Guu!”
”Easy, we just break were they are standing! Activate BASIC EARTH FORMATION MAGIC!”
BOOM!
Out of nowhere, a big hole appeared bellow the group of Salamanders throwing them in!
”Oh no! The demon has tricked us! This is our doom!”
”Do not give up yet, let's use that!”
”Yes!”
”Tandem skill: LAVA ZONE!”
FLAASH!
BOOM!
Suddenly, the earth trembled and the hole started to spit big amounts of lava like a Volcano!
The big amounts of lava started to fall everywhere, starting a big fire on the forest! In addition, a Lava Sea was formed in the battlefield.
”Guaah! What is this? This is insane!”
”Master Kireina! What do we do? We have never fought an enemy that can change the environment for his own benefit!”
”Guuu! Masta! Watch out…!”
Rimuru suddenly expanded himself and took me to his side, evading a big flaming stone falling from the sky!
”Th-thas was close, there are so many projectiles falling from the sky that even my separate minds are having a hard time predicting them in advance! How can these underlings be so strong? Is it because they're all together?”
BAAAM! BAAAM!
”It's working! Keep casting flaming rocks!”
”Uuugh! I really wanted to spend low MP for these filler soldiers, but if you really want to be massacred, don't ask anymore!”
”Activate MANA ZONE!”
FLASH!
A big Mana Zone was created above my head!
”Now! Combine every Water based spell! We will fight environment vs environment!”
I started to imagine a big ocean, and increased the amount of MP used, combining countless water spells into a big water mass!
FLASH!
”I'll call this Poseidon Rage!”
Suddenly, falling from the sky a big formation of water crashed on the Lava Sea, converting it all in solid rocks!
SPLASH!
The water did not evaporated enough and made a huge lake right in the hole were the salamanders were!
”Guuaaahkk! Demon! Demon!”
The salamanders struggled but drowned with the strong water currents.
| YOU GAINED 4450 EXP | | THE REST OF YOUR PARTY GAINED 2225 EXP |
| YOU GAINED TWO LEVELS! | | LEVEL 8/30 EXP 1350/2450 |
| THE REST OF YOUR PARTY GAINED ONE LEVEL! |
| PARTY MEMBER: SERVANT RIMURU GAINED ONE LEVEL!|
| RIMURU LEVEL 8/20 EXP 1743/2400 |
| PARTY MEMBER: SERVANT WAGYU GAINED ON LEVEL!|
| WAGYU LEVEL 8/25 EXP 1136/2600 |
”Hmmm! You get what you deserve!”
”Well done Master Kireina, we are sorry to have helped so little this time…”
”Don't worry, let's eat up some Salamanders and keep going!”
The Flame Salamaners meat tasted like boiled eel, because they died drowning, the heat produced by their bodies boiled the water around them. They had a very tasty meat juice. Probably one of the few non-Emperor class meats that taste good in this forest.
| YOU OBTAINED A NEW TITLE: MERCILESS SALAMANDER KILLER |
| YOU AND YOUR PARTY LEARNED THE FOLLOWING SKILLS:
| FLAME SALAMANDER SPELL COMMAND |
| FLAME BODY |
| MP SHARE |
| YOU LEARNED NEW SKILLS:
| HIGH LAVA AFFINITY |
| TANDEM SKILL: LAVA ZONE LEVEL 1 |
”So I can create a Lava Zone like those bastards, I wonder if it will become useful in the future…”
”Let's keep going Master!”
”Yes! Guu!”
As we crossed the forest, we saw multiple monster running away from the fire, hundreds of monster were losing they homes.
”Hmm, these Salamanders were pretty desperate to go all out on me and destroy almost the entire ecosystem of this forest…”
Inside my head, my Minds expressed they opinions.
”It's probably because they live in some Volcano so they couldn't care less about the Forest”
”Hmm… Salamanders tasted very good… I want more…”
”Hmm I agree, these Salamanders were quite unaware of what they were doing… We must put a stop to the Empress!”
As we passed through the forest, we did not found any more Salamander squads like that one before.
”Was that… all of them?”
”Master Kireina, they silence give me a bad feeling…”
”Guuu…”
”Here we are, the Lava hot springs! It's really is a freaking volcano in the middle of a forest!”
Suddenly, a high pitched voice resonated from the Volcano peak.
”Demon, you have come…”
”Oh? Are you the Salamander Empress?”
A massive red colored salamander with flames all over its back came outside the Volcano!
”Why do you call me a Demon? I am stupid a butterfly!”
”You are a Demon… a Demon from another world! The Wyvern Overlord is always right, he is the wisest being in this Forest!”
”Geeh! How did he knew about my real identity?!”
”Master Kireina, you are from another world?”
”Guu?”
”Haha, yeah, but keep this as a secret for now, let's focus on the fight”
”Yes!”
”Guu!”
The Flame Salamander Empress started to talk in an ancient language and circles of magic started to appear around her.
”Do you really think that this fight will be as easy as the others? , the Bird Emperor was a fool that never liked cooperative work and was easily defeated by the Monkey, loosing most of his power and even the ability to fly”
Even more Magic Circles started to appear all around her body.
”Just like the Monkey, I am very adept at high leveled magic, but I am different, most of my power still remains intact… Activate circle magic skill: LEVITATE!”
FLASH!
The Flame Salamander Empress started to levitate in mid-air!
”Activate circle magic skills: OVERPOWERING IRON BODY! MAGIC RESONANCE! ABSOLUTE FIRE ZONE!”
FLASH!
The Salamander Empress massive body increased at double her size, all her stats and even max HP were boosted and hard red scales started to cover her entire sticky body.
Meanwhile, an incredible and empowering Magic Zone started to expand!
”Gaahk! What's going on?! My other spells are being sealed?! I can only use Fire Magic?!”
”Welcome to my Mana Zone, you will only be able to use Fire Magic here!”
”Th-this! What do I do?!”
My Energetic Mind started to yell at me.
”What do we do?! We fight! Close combat fight! Activating every physical boosting buff!”
FLASH!
”Hmm? Going for close quarters fight? Hahaha, give it a try then, Superior Fire Ball!”
FLASH!
”Here it is!
A gigantic fireball came right at me, if I don't evade it I will be completely turn to dust!
”Mater Kireina we will support you! Let's go!”
”GUUUUUUUUUUUU!”
BOOM!
With their physical boosting buffs activated beforehand, Rimuru an Wagyu charged right ahead of the Fire Ball and kicked it right back to the Empress!
BAAAAM!
”Wh-what?! How could you not be burned when you touched it?! Eh? Triple Elemental Being? Midnight Wolf Emperor?! They naturally have fire element resistance… This won't be so easy huh?”
The Salamander Empress called the rest of the Salamander Squads being lead by Kings and started to attack and pressure Wagyu and Rimuru.
Suddenly, a flash of dark light appeared behind the Salamander Empress!
FLASH!
BAAAM!
”GYAAAAAH!”
”Hey! You are fighting me! Don't worry, my servants will make sure to kill all your babies…”
”YOU! Take this! FIRE ELEMENTAL TORNADO!”
FUOOSSH!
A gigantic tornado went right to me and enveloped my entire body on it!
”GUAAAAAH! Th-this! This spell is of much higher level than anything I have created before! What the hell?! Why there are such high power gaps between the Emperors?!”
I quickly used all my Pressure related skills and created a big shock wave that dissipated the Tornado, but I took quite a lot of damage!
”Not bad… But that's just as much as you go… Demon…”
Meanwhile in my head.
”Guaaah! What with this old hag? Who does she think she is?! I am going to wreck her real good!”
”I can't use… magic… What do I do?”
”Everyone! Let's cooperate using physical skills, combining them to create combo attacks!”
”That's sounds good guys, well done!”
I quickly went ahead and punched the Salamander Empress at max speed with MONKEY EMPEROR STRONG BLOW!
BAAAM!
”Guuaak! What is your strength stat?!”
Meanwhile a system message appeared on the Salamander Empress side!
| YOU HAVE BEEN INFLICTED WITH SEVERE POISON |
”Poison?! How?”
”HAHAHA! Now take this!”
Without letting the Empress have time to breath I used GALE BIRD EMPEROR FEATHER PROJECTILES, creating a myriad of feather bullets from my butterfly wings!
FLASH FLASH FLASH!
The Salamander Empress wasn't able to dodge in time and hundredths of feathers got stuck in her hard scales, worsening the poison and inflicting paralysis!
”GGAAHKK! You damned Demon! Activate skill! SACRED FIRE!”
FLUOSH!
A white colored fire covered the Empress, completely erasing her status ailments and healing her a bit!
”Not going to let you!”
Suddenly, gigantic claws and fangs made of red energy surrounded the Empress and started to slash and crunch!
SLASH! CRUNCH!
”AAAAAHKK!”
The Empress was blow away several meters from the battlefield, losing sight of her children.
”Uuughh! To think that she got such a high myriad of physical skills, she is able to easily make combos! How many beings as this Demon consumed already? Unforgivable!”
The Empress started to exude an incredibly thick pressure from her body and went right in front of me for a physical attack!
”If that's what you want now I'll intercept it!”
I activated MOUNTAIN MONKEY EMPEROR STRONG BLOW in combination with the older River Emperor and Wolf Emperor related attacks, creating a big shock wave!
BAAM!
Neither of us were blasted away, and we remained in the same position stuck in a fight for who could push the other!
”Grrrrrrrr! I got you! FIRE ELEMENTAL TORNADO!”
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”What?!”
FLAASH!
”GYAAAAAAH!”
Using this precious opportunity, the Empress used a Fire Tornado right on my face, putting a heavy weight on my defensive buffs!
| YOU HAVE BEEN INFLICTED WITH SEVERE BURN |
”What?! Burn status! Ugh! Combined Pressure!”
BAAM!
The Fire Tornado was dissipated but I took heavy damage! The passive healing effect of my skill SERAPHIN HEALING BRACELET was being very useful now, but not enough!
”Can I use BASIC HEAL?”
| SYSTEM ERROR |
| THE SKILL: BASIC HEAL HAS BEEN NEGATED |