21 Lurking Darkness (1/2)

Fallen Kingdom of Ollathir, now known as the Dark Nation: King's Castle.

A young looking man sits on a grandiose throne. He had a pale white skin, covered in ugly scars, his eyes shined of a bright red, and a long black robe covered its weak body, while holding a grotesque staff made of flesh and skulls. It looked at a small crystal ball.

If seen very close, you could notice how countless deformed faces agonizing in pain cried inside the crystal ball, these crying souls were the people that once lived on this kingdom, trapped inside this crystal ball, to agonize and suffer for eternity.

A small magic projection formed from the crystal ball, and an image came to the eyes of the mage.

”…Kireina…”

The magic projection showed an above look of Kireina's cave, including the training grounds and barren space outside of it.

The mage used its weak and thin fingers to increase the image quality and then made the walls and ceiling transparent.

”Impressive… You have built so many things inside this mountain…”

The mage looked at every facility and room inside Kireina's cave, until he found its room.

Inside the room, a gigantic Lamia was sleeping soundly while squishing a little butterfly.

”There you are… I can't wait to crush you to dust…”

”The Trolls were a complete disappointment… However, the Goblins are different… They are scheming and astute… Will you survive an army of over 500…? Will your army survive, or will you show your true face and run away while they die for you? Eh? Kireina?”

The Mage waved its hand and the magic projection disappeared out of thin air.

”Haahahah… This Monster… Is really interesting, isn't it, little sister?”

On the left side of the mage, a little undead girl looked at the mage with its red eyes, she was wearing a beautiful black dress, typical of the royal family, lacking a soul, it could only respond to simple commands.

The undead girl nodded.

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| DAY 23 |

When I opened my eyes, I immediately realized that Nesiphae was squishing my body again.

”Uggh… Not again…! Nesi, leave me go!”

”Hmm… Aaah…”

”Ghhh…!”

Using my flexible and little body, I was able to slip outside her big arms without waking her up.

When I looked at Nesiphae sleeping face, she was smiling cutely while drooling.

”Hmmm… Roasted… Bird… Aaah…”

”I wonder if a big body like hers also requires more hours of sleep, I will leave her alone for some hours… Eh? Where is Nereid?”

I quickly noticed that Nereid was sleeping over Nesiphae head.

”Sigh… Should I wake her up? It's always a pain to deal with her, I will go eat first”

As I opened the door of my room, a beautiful woman figure greeted me it was Zehe!

”Ze-Zehe! Aah… Uh, did you wake up well?”

”I… Sigh… Did you went on that journey to…”

”Uh?”

”Let me finish! Did you went on that journey to… bring the materials to make this harm…?”

Zehe showed her prosthetic arm to me, it was nice and the surface was smooth; beautifully decorate with different magic stones.

”Well… Yes, I did. I told you that I was going to do something about your missing arm. Do you like it?”

Zehe blushed a little and nodded.

”Yes… Its feels very good, as if it were a real arm, and it also gives me a lot of extra stats and magi affinity, it's very good… Thanks…”

”Ah! No need to thank me, I literally ate your arm. We are fine now. I hope…”

Zehe looked at the ground in embarrassment.

”Yes… After I thought about what you did, it was fair. We were trying to kill you after all, you were in your right to defend your life, and you could had decided to just kill me right on the spot. However, you give me a new life here… A room, food every day, warm baths, fine clothes… I don't think I deserve any of this…”

”A-Ah! Z-Zehe… No need to worry, you deserve all of this! These are the basic things that every servant gets!”

”Master…”

Suddenly, Zehe looked me with warm and lovely eyes and hugged my little butterfly body.

Squish!

”E-EEEHH? (S-She hugged me! Uuaahhh!)”

”Haahh… Zehe you are warm…”

After saying this, Zehe became red in embarrassment.

”W-Warm…? I-I… I am sorry! I should be going back to my training, Master…”

”S-Sure”

The minds inside my head were surprised over Zehe's change!

”Unbelievable… You just give her a shiny and beautiful thing and you already conquered her heart… Women in this world are not so different than in Earth, huh?”

”Zehe… was cute… I want to sleep on her warm chest… forever…”

”Indeed, the charm of a beautiful woman are hard to resist! Are you hanging in there, Main Mind?”

”Ah! Yes, of course! Time to train!”

Before training, I decided to held a little meeting with every Squad Leader, I told them that the next mage wave would be coming after 4 days, if we have luck they could take an extra day or two.

”Sigh, this really does not stop, huh?”

”We must protect our home and this forest, this is the task that the Legendary Wyvern Overlord has granted us with, and we must become stronger fast!”

I nodded.

”That's right! Everyone! The intensive training will become even more intensive! We will summon even more beings and everyone will wake up very early in the morning! In addition, Kusuri and Kajiya have prepared a new equipment for all of you”

Kusuri and Kajiya nodded and opened their Item Boxes, taking out countless Synthesis Bracelets.

”Synthesis… How could this skill make us stronger, Master?”

”Simple! It will let you fuse skills! Being able to create even stronger skills and buffs! You can even obtain unexpected skills with this!”

”Amazing! So Synthesis has such uses!”

”I see, but Synthesis wouldn't be as useful if we didn't shared Master blessing and had such a big skill window, now we can fuse our natural skills with the new ones, reinforcing their strength”

”Very true, as a Mage myself, fusing skills will grant me fusion spells from the get-go without having to waste time combining elements and saving MP”

Every humanoid was able to equip the bracelet, the wolves endured the pain and swallowed the bracelets whole, and then activate the skill, creating a small bracelet on their front limbs.

”I know that eating material things is hard, but it's a small price to pay for strength!”

When the meeting was finished, I told Kusuri and Kajiya to distribute the rest of the bracelets with every named being. Including the Slaves leaders Jorogumo, Ganjo, Kura-en and Kaguya. Due to their hard work, all of them were able to evolve, so I made an exclusive meeting with these 4, including Kekensha who has been taking care of them since they got here.

Since being added to the community, their personalities have changed a lot, specially Ganjo, the Swamp Alligator King, who was selfish and egocentric. After training and learning about teamwork, he has grown more mature. Even a little polite. He has evolved into a special Alligator variant named ”Rocky Scales Alligator King” which is a species focused on massive defensive capabilities.

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Jorogumo, the brave Hairy Spider Queen became less aggressive, however, her brave nature has been kept on her, which I think it's a plus. She is a very inspiring leader. Her bravery and talent in physical combat granted her a very rare evolution branch, becoming a ”Brave Flaming Spider Queen”, a powerful spider focused on physical combat; she told me that her evolution tree would lead her to evolve into a humanoid form in the future. Which means that she will be able to acquire a class and become evens stronger.

”Hmmm I wonder how cute will you look as an Arachne…”

”M-Master? Excuse me, w-what did you say?”

”Ah! N-Nothing! You are beautiful as a spider too!”

Jorogumo blushed in embarrassment, closing her eight little eyes.

”Eeeh? M-Master…”

The Dark Squirrel King Kura-en used to be a coward that would prefer to run away than to fight. However, since Kekensha has instructed him, he has become a completely new person, developing his confidence and strength; he is an adept and powerful mage. Just like Jorogumo, he also obtained a special evolution branch, which led him to become a ”9 Spirit Squirrel King”, a special variant focused on the use of the 9 elements with the help of the spirits, similar to shamans.

Kaguya, the energetic Dark Squirrel haven't change much her personality, as she was always brave and loyal. Thanks to Kekensha intensive training, her power has increased swiftly, he unique fighting style of physical attacks enhanced with magic had led her to a unique evolution just for her, named ”Unbreakable Demonic Champion Squirrel”, and she also received the blessing of the Squirrel demi-god of Strength and Speed Ratatoskr. Just like Jorogumo, her evolution tree would lead her to a humanoid form too.

”I never thought that there would be a Squirrel Demi-god, that's hard to imagine… The thing that I never expected is that there would be cute Squirrel girls in this world. I can't wait for you to evolve Kaguya”

”Yes, Master! I will train twice as hard, I want to join the frontlines and blow up some enemies!”

”Indeed, these two Squirrels are way better suited to the title of Emperor than the coward former one who was easily tricked by the Hairy Spider Empress… I might give them the title, however get stronger first”

”The same applies to you, Jorogumo and Ganjo, get stronger!”

”Ah! Y-Yes Master! I live to serve you!”

”Leave it to me, Master! I will become your impenetrable shield!”

Before going out, I remembered that there was a third Dark Squirrel Emperor, and according to Kaguya, he has been working very hard too and recently evolved into a ”High Shadow and Dark Squirrel” a not so rare evolution variant. Due to his hard work, I rewarded him with a name too.

”From now on you will be named Yamiyo! (Dark Night in Japanese)”

”T-Thank you very much, Master!”

I then, watched over all the rest of the slaves who congregated around Yamiyo.

”And for all of you, even if you don't specialize in combat, your help is very essential to this community and are part of our family! If you work as hard as Yamiyo, you will be also granted a name!”

From the Alligator Guards to the Hairy Spider Maids and the Dark Squirrel Assitants, everyone cheered boasting in high morale.

A little spider maid came close to me.

”M-Master, I would like to talk for the weakest of us… Since I was little that I was bullied because of my stature, due to being born as a lesser Hairy Spider variant, my stature was tiny and weak, but when you took care of us, I have never been felt useless ever again! Your family is truly something else, were even the weak can find a place to live and work for”

The rest of the Hairy Spider Maids cheered agreeing with the little spider.

”Indeed, little one. All of you are welcome here; everyone's efforts can be useful to our family! And if you are weak but want to become stronger, talk with Kekensha and he will instruct you into the special training for the weakest ones, you will be able to catch up with the rest in no time!”

Something that I have noticed about this world System is its fairness, with such a simplistic leveling system, every being has the equal chances to evolve and become stronger, even if it works extremely weak like I did, there will be always a path ahead, and any effort will be rewarded!

This is the true purpose of a System! Everyone can grow equally if given the effort!

After having a nice meeting with the slave group, I decided to make a little feast for them, celebrating their total integration on the community.

Meanwhile, I decided to go check on my room, if Nesiphae and Nereid had woken up already.

”Ah?”

I found the two still lazing around while Wagyu and Rimuru brought them breakfast, so they were just eating on my bed!

”H-Hey Wagyu, Rimuru! Don't consent them!”

”Ah! M-Master! I am very sorry, but Miss Nesiphae and Nereid said that they were extremely hungry, to the point of dying at any second! I couldn't see my comrades die in front of me!”

”That's right, guuu!”

”Munch munch, Master! Wanna join? Wagyu and Rimuru brought lots of delicious food!”

”Noo! Nesi, don't call him! Hes a meanie, don't you know? He don't deserve this food!”

”Eeeh? Nereid, don't be like this with our Master, he always wants the best for us!”

”B-But… he's a meanie! He makes me work hard!”

”That's because he wants you to get stronger”

”Eeeh? But…”

”Sigh…”

I left the two eating on the bed for now and I went directly to the training grounds, where I connected my MP with my present servants and summoned 700 Lower Demonic Beings! However, no special variant came out this time.

While seeing the monkeys and wolves train, I saw the Slime family coming out of the cave, being led by Rimuru.

”Ah!!! Masteeeer!”

”Gaah! Milim!”

”Master! I haven't seen you in a while, where were you? I missed you! Let me squish you!”

Ranga, Benimaru, Shion and Luminous quickly joined!

”Master I missed you! Guuuuu!”

”Aaahh! M-Mastaa!”

”Master!”

”C-Can I hug you?”

”Gaaahh! Let me go! Gueh…”

After every Slime expressed their love to me in a tight hug, I noticed that Benimaru and Shion finally evolved. Benimaru became almost the same size as the evolved Ranga, while having a darker red color and sharper demonic horns; his new race was ”Erupting Demonic Berserk Slime”. Shion on the other side, kept her little size but became pale red, while golden colored markings covered her entire watery body, her new race was ”Sacred Flame Spirit Slime”.

| NAME: BENIMARU CLASS: NONE RACE: ERUPTING DEMONIC BERSERK SLIME

| LEVEL 1/30 EXP 0000/2800 STATUS: FINE

| HP: 95/95 MP: 28/28 STAMINA: 141/160