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Chapter 29: Combat System

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

A pale young man sit on a grandiose throne, with his eyes lost in amazement.

"Impressive… This Kireina! Impressive!"

"Even against the odds, she was able to win?"

The young man slowly stood up.

"Even when I completely sealed her magic?! She evolved her own skills, being able to combine and use non magic skills in such ways, abusing the System…"

"Hahahaha…!"

The young man started to laugh, and slowly sit down on his throne again.

"Hahahaha! No matter what I throw to you, will you still survive? Thanks to such battle, I was able to obtain precious data on how Shadow Rings power and effects can stack up together…"

"If I am able to correctly use Shadow Rings, I could completely reform my body again, becoming a full Demon… However, for this, I need a massively strong and large soul, even with my Soul Nourishing System, I still lack on food for it…"

The young man grabbed a strange crystal ball, filled with countless deforming and wailing faces.

"And this is where all of you come in to place, my beautiful family… You will become the food to nourish my soul, and finally ascend it to stage 3!"

"Hahahaha! Hahahahaha! Without you, Kireina, I would had never been able to figure out the limits of the Shadow Awakening Rings! I am one step closer to obtain a pure Demon body!"

"With this…"

The young man glanced at an undead girl at his side, who was silent.

"With this… When my soul finally ascend to stage 3 … I can obtain a full Demon body, I will be able to conquer the Sealed Spirits inside the Grand Forest and with their power, I will be able to enter the Realm of Hel, and finally retrieve your soul, sister! I am so close! Kireina, you are of no use to me anymore, the next wave will be the last…!"

"Finally… After so many struggles, there is a clear path ahead of me…"

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"Master Kireina!"

"Ah! Nesiphae"

"H-Honey…"

"Z-Zehe…"

The two girls jumped over me, with their eyes flowing with tears.

"We were so worried…!"

"I'm glad you are fine… But you shouldn't rush on things like that, you have us and your ser- EH?!"

Zehe quickly noticed my missing leg.

"Gyaaaaaaaaaahhhh!!!! H-honey! What happened to you?! Your beautiful leg! It's gone! Snif snif"

After Zehe freaked out, all my other servants around noticed these horrible news!

"M-Master! Your leg!"

"You must have a really hard time, I can't believe this"

"It was such a hard battle, Master… We want to protect you, please don't rush again like this"

"Master, you are precious to us, please don't be so careless!"

"Agh! Get off me! I'm fine! It was a fair trade for my life… I can replace it with a prosthetic one, like Zehe's…"

"H-Honey…"

"I guess we are fair now, don't we?"

"D-Don't talk such stupid things! I already forgive you for my arm long ago…! I… I… Please don't be so careless… If I lose you… My world would crumble…"

Zehe blushed and cried like a little girl, hugging me tightly.

"Zehe… I'm sorry… I just wanted to protect all of you … I tend to put my life over my servants, but perhaps cooperation and preparation is a better tactic"

Zehe was very close to me, and I could smell a sweet flower fragrance from her silver hair.

I patted Zehe and kissed her cheek.

"It's fine… I'm here"

Suddenly, I heard a loud girly voice!

"MASTEER!"

It was Milim and the rest of the Slime Family; they all came crying over me.

All of the Slimes expanded their bodies and hugged my entire body!

"AAAAAAAGHHH! S-Stop it! Leave me alone! Uggghh!"

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After comforting all my crying servants, I ordered my new undead soldiers to carry the Goblin meat inside the castle; we do not waste food here, even if it is a nasty Goblin!

According to Kekensha and the Wyverns report, the invasion was sudden but they were able to hold off just fine, mostly using the undead soldiers as meat shield, causalities were very few.

4 Monkeys, 2 Crimson Wolves and 1 Ice Wolf were lost.

I decided to leave the corpses to their respective families, the monkeys decided to bury their brothers while the wolves did their eating ritual, were they eat their diseased family, it is crude, but I can't really make them change their mindsets and beliefs. According to the Wolves, thanks to this ritual is that they were able to survive on times were food was scarce.

The undead Trolls that were used as meat shields mostly were fine, but some lost their heads and were too damaged, so they ended up "dying". However, because they are just moving corpses that use Magic and the System to move, they can revive if I offer enough "tributes" and MP, by tributes, it means living beings meat. I decided not to do this because I already had new undead soldiers with me. Around 6 undead Trolls "died", while the rest became very strong after battling so much, close to evolution.

There were so many corpses and blood all around that it took several hours to retrieve everything, we even took the small armors and weapons the Goblins were using, as they could provide useful to my army.

According to my command, the slaves and weaker soldiers stayed inside the castle, on an underground room, when everything calmed down they finally were able to go out and retrieved the Goblin meat and items.

The Spider Queen Jorogumo was disappointed on her own weakness, not being able to qualify for the war.

"I really wanted to join the main forces… sigh"

"Joro? Don't worry, you will in no time, you have an amazing potential as a physical attacker, you must train harder for now!"

"M-Master… Y-Yes… I will do my best!"

The rest of the Named Slaves also wanted my attention so all of them came close to me. Asking for fighting advice.

"All of you are also strong assets so our community, I am expecting great things from your strength, make sure to eat all of these Goblins, their skills will grant you new powers"

"Yes!"

As I settled things with them, I went inside my castle and did a quick meeting with the Squad Leaders.

I talked about the struggles I had inside the Anti-Magic Zone, and the power of the Shadow Awakening Ring, showing them the four I retrieved from the Goblin Emperor.

Kekensha and Kizuato were the first ones to talk.

"So this is the Shadow Awakening Ring? It is really true that this accessory possess a Demon inside? Unbelievable"

"Such power, is it even safe to use these, Master?"

"I don't really know, but it seems that these Rings are able to drain the used vitality as you use them more and more… The only thing I know is that they don't need MP or Stamina to activate, using something else… Further investigations needs to be done, and to this, I need the help of Kusuri and Kajiya"

Kusuri and Kajiya nodded.

"Y-Yes, M-Master…! I will do my best!"

"Leave it to us, Master"

Afterwards, I told them that I have been planning to name more servants, and each Squad Leader recommended to me some promising rookies, who were almost as strong as they were without even owning a name.

"Very well, bring them here"

The Monkeys brought five very talented monkeys, including Chokumotsu partner, the interesting thing is that these monkeys were classified as the "weakest" ones before, because of being born weaker than the others are, but after intensive training and evolution, they were able to develop new powers and talents unique to them.

A red colored monkey with a strong and muscular body, very proficient in physical damage, even without a name, it managed to evolve into a rare variant named "Flaming Oni Mountain Ape", which specializes in using explosive physical attacks imbued with strong flames.

I simply named him "Oni".

"Thank you Master!!! Finally, I can prove the world my might, with a fitting name! ONI!"

Two Monkey twin sisters, who were white colored and small in size, since they were born, they had a good affinity with Light and Holy magic, specializing in healing and restorative spells, this give me the idea of making them the Leaders of the first Nursing Team. The two managed to evolve into an incredibly rare variant named "Holy Light Nursing Monkey".

Even though the two were almost identical, one had blue eyes while the other had green eyes, so I named them according to this.

Aoi (blue) for the blue-eyed sister.

Midori (green) for the green-eyed sister.

"Thank you very much, Master. We are not worthy of your care"

"T-Thanks, Master. May the Holy Light guide your journey…"

"Hahaha… They really talk like nuns"

There was also this very tall monkey, he had a very strange green colored fur, and it seemed as if plants were growing on its back, it also had a relaxed face. After intensive training, this weak monkey ended up showing amazing talent and evolved to a rare variant named "Natural Gaia Monkey" which specializes in the manipulation of plant life, from healing to attacking spells, it had a myriad of skills.

I named him Odayakana (serene).

"Thanks… Master… Zzzz…"

"H-Hey don't fall asleep!"

The last monkey was Chokumotsu partner, who was a genius in cooking. However, what surprised me the most is that not only he was a talented on cooking, but also possessed attacking and supportive skills based on the Cook job. After evolving into a "High Mountain Monkey" it obtained a special job named "Flaming Battle Cook", which possessed incredible skills that I have never seen before, like instantly creating a meal with high calories and vitamins using his MP and Stamina, or being able to use "Flaming Pan Arts" to do incredible strong blows with his cooking pan.

Even more, it seems that this job as an incredibly long skill tree, and after peeking on the future skills, there were even summoning skills! What would he even summon? A giant noodle monster?!

However, the meals created with his skills did not have any flavor, so if you wanted to eat something delicious is better for him to prepare it.

This new job give me a new insight on how varied are the powers on this world, that there are even "Fighting Cooks" is something interesting that I have only seen on a manga from Earth named Tori##.

I named this talented Fighting Cook, Kaen (Flames), because he had flaming red eyes.

"Thank you, Master! I shall serve you as a Cook but also as reliable Warrior!"

After naming the monkeys, the wolves were next.

This time there were four very talented Crimson Wolves and two Ice Wolves.

The first one was one who previously evolved into a Midnight Wolf King, just like Wagyu, Midnight Wolves specialize in Shadow Manipulation and Magic, having amazing skills like Shadow Drag and Absolute Shadow Zone. This Wolf had a calm and composed demeanor.

I named him Kage (Shadow).

"Thanks for the name, Master. I shall serve you on the shadows…"

"(He's quite edgy huh?)"

There was another Crimson Wolf who became famous lately because of evolving into a "Flying Wind Wolf", a rare green-colored variant of wolves specialized in flying and controlling the Wind element, if they evolve enough, they will be able to cast massive storms and tornados, whipping out entire armies by themselves.

This wolf was nice and carefree so I named him Nonkina (Carefree).

"Hahaha! It's quite nice to have a name now… Thanks"

The other two Crimson Wolves were brothers, although not entirely twins, they were almost equally strong, and looked almost the same. They evolved into an extremely rare variant named "Earth Titan Wolf", which was brown colored and massive in size, with two goat-like horns on their foreheads and golden eyes, they had good affinity with Earth and Rock manipulation while also having a sturdy body.

I named the oldest brother Chikyū (Earth) and the little brother Iwa (Rock).

"A name! At last!"

"We have come so far, big brother! Thanks, Master!!"

"No problem, keep working hard"

Yuki also recommended me two of the strongest Ice Wolves, I see that she did not wanted to loose to the Crimson Wolves.

The first Ice Wolf was an energetic male, even though the Ice Wolf family is small, everyone is very talented.

After so much hard work, this wolf evolved into a strong Ice Wolf variant named "Freezing Iceberg Wolf", which specialized on strong tanking capabilities. It would rely on a gigantic iceberg that grown from its back to defend itself, almost using it as shell, it was slow but his defense was impenetrable, and even got a skill that could negate his weakness to fire.

I named him Hyōzan (Iceberg).

"Thanks, Master! I will become the shield of our small Ice Wolf family!"

The second and last Ice Wolf was actually a mother, much like Yuki, she was a serious and calm Wolf, and she specialized in fast and swift attacks. She evolved into a "High Ice Wolf Queen", although her evolution was not a special variant, she was strong nonetheless, and I could not ignore her hard work.

I named her Kōri (Ice).

"Master… Thanks for your benevolence…"

After naming so many wolves, I felt quite tired, so I finished the short meeting and told everyone to head to their respective works.

I followed Kusuri and Kajiya to their rooms and give them the task to create a fitting prosthetic leg for me, they told that they had all the materials and that it would be done by tomorrow, there are also quite a lot of smith assistants now, and Kajiya is teaching all of them the basics.

I wanted to give them so work too, so I give them the task to create me some physical weapons, of any kind, they included Great Swords, Long Swords, Knives, Hammers, etc.

The one who created the best and strongest one would get a name, it was a nice little incentive and everyone was excited about working hard.

The same went for the Alchemy assistants; the ones who created the best accessories and potions would get a name too.

Afterwards, I decided to sleep for the rest of the day until dinner time.

When I entered my room I was greeted by Zehe and Nesiphae who also were deeply asleep, they fought a lot in this battle, defending the frontlines.

According to Wagyu, Nesiphae used her powerful and sturdy armor and her axe to slash through the front lines and fought toe to toe with the mighty Giant Goblins. It seems that she has mastered the usage of both physical attacks while multi-tasking magic spells around, she also showed amazing magic spells never seen before, probably due to her synthesis fusion of skills.

Most of Nesiphae skills, according to Wagyu, consisted of controlling thousands of little snakes made of different magic elements, wrapping her enemies like threads, but inflicting status ailments on the process, some would even detonate or others would act as shields. The more she summoned these snakes, the larger would be the quantity produced, and the more enemies killed would make them stronger and sturdier.

I could see that she herself was already designing her own combat system.

Zehe, on the other side, stayed on the backlines while she casted the new spells she had carefully fused, including the one I gifted her, she was seen very calm and calculative, while wreaking havoc on the middle of the enemy army, disrupting their movements and formations. According to Wagyu she used new spells that were based on Shadow Magic but combined with different elements, and even a very peculiar one that would cast a gigantic shadow in the middle of a battlefield and would drag nearby enemies, if they are too weak, they would get crushed and nourish this shadow, making it grow bigger.

I noticed that she was already seeing some insights on how to properly make her own combat system, but she was still too far from it and needed more practice.

What is a combat system?

A combat system is a way to fight using different techniques that complement each other, growing in strength through the battle, and even evolving with you to break through obstacles.

An ideal combat system should be able to complement each technique in a growing way. While casting or activating skills, the strength of the upcoming moves would become stronger, but a perfect combat system would also include healing and protection on the formula, while attacking and growing in power, you could also use this "accumulated" power to heal yourself or even buff your body even more.

A very basic and primitive combat system would be what I was able to achieve in my fight with the Goblin Emperor, being able to grow my power and even evolve my techniques.

I made use of Cursed Claw in ways I would had never imagined before, from protection to mobility, and even distraction. While also being able to accumulate more Cursed Claws and combine them, growing in power exponentially, this combat system would seem unconventional to most people because of the Stamina cost, but as an undead, I am immune to physical fatigue.

The critical flaw of this "novice" combat system was the lack of supporting moves, only using Cursed Claws and some physical buffing skills to increase my strength.

Why do I even know what a combat system even is?

It's just an hypothesis, and probably it doesn't even apply on this world entirely, but it's just insight I have learned from reading and watching countless fantasy action anime, manga and novels. I always noticed that the best action stories always had character with different types of abilities that somehow complemented each other, making the character grow in strength through the battle, overpowering their enemies at the end.

Perhaps a world ruled by a System does not need a combat system, but the ridiculous amount of skills that I and my servants are able to obtain and fuse give us an edge over others, giving us the power to freely customize our power.

An ideal combat system for me would be something that I could use anywhere, even while being imprisoned in a strong Zone skill, being able to pull out of any situation, no matter the odds.

For this, I will need to develop two separate combat systems, a magic and a physical one, while also making them complement each other.

While I laid on the bed, I tried to theory craft more with my split minds, but my mental fatigue won me over and felt asleep.

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When I woke up, it was in the middle of the night, Zehe and Nesiphae were still sleeping at my sides, from afar I could hear the voices of my servants cheering, it seems that there was a big feast going on. I could not miss this!

I quickly woke Zehe and Nesiphae, they looked very cute while sleeping but they needed to eat something, especially Nesiphae which large body requires big quantities of food.

"D-Dear Kireina… Were you sleeping too?"

"H-Honey…? What hour is it?"

"Wake up already sleepyheads, its already the middle of night, lets go eat whatever is left on the dining room"

Suddenly, Nesiphae big belly started to rumble!

"A-Ah! I guess I'm hungry…"

"Fufufu… Your stomach is too big; it needs loads of food"

"Geez, don't make fun of me, Zehe…"

"If you keep babbling I will leave you two alone…"

"Ah! W-Wait, Master!"

We quickly went to the dining room and we found by my servants having a big party, with thousands of preparations made with Goblin meat, the chefs somehow figured out a way to make this bad meat something tasty.

We choose a big table and we waited for the cooking assistants to bring the food and beer, this time there was a new type of beverage made of Rabbit milk and fruits, it resembled Earth Milkshake, so I ordered one because I have been craving for something sweet for a while.

While waiting for the food, I noticed how the dining room as been remodeled through time, now it was a grandiose and wide room with ceramic floor and decorations around the painted walls, there was countless pillars and even a second floor to fit more people efficiently, the tables were beautifully crafted and the seats were very comfy.

"Hahaha, I remember when it was just a plain and old cave full of dirt; it has changed a lot…"

"Is that so? Since I came here that it was like this, Master"

"Yeah, I think I remember it didn't had as much ceramic as now"

"You two girls are quite new here, this castle was originally a long and wide cave that belonged to Wagyu's former family, it's quite a sad story. His family died on the hands of the older Crimson Wolf Emperor, but Rimuru and I beat the crap out of that Emperor and we saved Wagyu, since then he has been my left hand"

Zehe and Nesiphae seemed fascinated by my stories from long ago, and we talked about those old times until the food came.

When two Spider Maids finally brought the food, I was in the middle of a story when I was still a Caterpillar; it was when I was attacked by a bird and went to a spider nest, only to be almost killed there again.

| BOILED FOREST GRAINS AND ROASTED SPICY GOBLIN MEAT BOWL: A delicious bowl of boiled forest grains with loads of spicy Goblin meat over it, the meat has been marinated and roasted with tons of spices. |

| Effect: Grants +7 Defense for the next 24 hours |

| Heals 40 MP and 80 Stamina|

| GIANT GOBLIN BURGER WITH RABBIT CHEESE AND SPICY SAUCE: Minced Goblin meat combined with forest veggies and spices then roasted and served inside a delicious bun with thin slices of Rabbit milk cheese. |

| Effect: Grants +5 Strength and +4 Defense for the next 24 Hours |

| Heals 60 MP and 60 Stamina |

| SPICY GOBLIN MEATLOAF: The hard Goblin meat is carefully minced and combined with countless veggies and spices, and then slowly baked to perfection |

| Effect: Grants +4 to Strength, Defense and Speed for the next 24 Hours |

| Heals 70 MP and 80 Stamina |

| FOREST BERRIES AND RABBIT MILKSHAKE: A sweet and refreshing beverage that combines the creamy Ice Rabbit Milk with the sweet Forest Berries. |

| Effect: Grants +5 Magic and Resistance |

| Heals 60 MP and 70 Stamina |

The Goblin meat preparations surprised me, except from the Goblin Emperor, the weaker Goblins really tasted awful, but somehow the Cooking Team figured a way to make it tasty, marinating and covering the meat of spices.

The Milkshake was creamy and sweet, and I could feel several different Forest Berries on the combination.

After having an incredibly big meal with Zehe and Nesiphae, the two were drunk already, and because they are such good drinking partners, they couldn't stop drinking and doing embarrassing dances.

While most servants were already sleeping, I did not wanted to bother the ones that wanted to stay a little bit more so I used my threads to carry the two women to my room.

"I'm sorry for the fuss, they always get like this when drunk, enjoy the meal"

"Y-Yes, thanks Master!"

"Poor Master, he has to endure such troublesome women"

"Well, she is a woman too, perhaps she understand them better than us. Hahahahaha!"

I slowly dragged the drunk women to my room and freed them on my bed, but instead of getting angry with me, they actually were excited!

"Hmmmm~ M-Master… You are so rude with us… You wrapped our bodies so tightly… Fufufu…"

"Honey, do you really like to do that? You are so lewd~"

"I-It wasn't a sexual play! (These girls are complete degenerates!)"

Zehe and Nesiphae quickly started to take out their clothes and patted the bed, while looking at me with lusty smile.

"Master, come…"

"Honey…"

"Sigh… I… Ahh… I'm quite tired…"

Nesiphae couldn't contain herself and did the same cheap tactic from before, wrapping me with her snake tail!

"Aggh! N-No!"

"Common… Master, I know you like it too… Geez, don't be like that… Here, I know this is your weak spot…"

Zehe smoothly caressed my wings.

"Aaaaahh~! D-Don't!"

"Fufufu… And here too…"

Nesiphae started to stimulate my petite breast with her fingers.

"Aaah~! N-Noo…! (God…)"

Skill fusions of the day:

| ARMOR CREATION: SHADOW DEMON DARK PURPLE ARMOR |+| ARMOR CREATION: DEVILISH CRIMSON SHARP DEMON ARMOR |+| ARMOR CREATION: FLAMING WOLF DEMON ARMOR |=

| FAIRY VAMPIRE EMPRESS THREE LAYERED DEMON ARMOR |

| GOBLIN CHAMPION IMPOSSING BODY |+| GOBLIN CHAMPION STEEL MUSCLES |+| GOBLIN GIANT TITAN STRENGTH |= | FAIRY VAMPIRE EMPRESS SUPERNATURAL STRENGTH |

*Increases Defense and Strength. (Passive)

| LOWER GOBLIN TRIPLE FLAMING TACKLE |+| MID SWORDMAN GOBLIN FLAMING KNIFE TORNADO |+| THIEF GOBLIN KNIFE THROW |= | FAIRY VAMPIRE EMPRESS DARK FLAME KNIFE STAB |

*Knife skill: can be used with a Knife for increased power.

| ARCHER GOBLIN ARROW RAIN |+| ARCHER GOBLIN SHARP SHOT |+| FAIRY VAMPIRE EMPRESS DARK FLAME KNIFE STAB |= | FAIRY VAMPIRE EMPRESS DARK FLAMING KNIFE RAIN |

*Knife and Bow skill: can be used with either for increased power or none for its normal power.

| GOBLIN CHAMPION EMPEROR RED ONI MODE |+| GOBLIN GIANT TITAN FORM |+| DARK MOON DEMONIC MODE |= | FAIRY EMPRESS GIANT CRIMSON DEMONIC MODE |

*Powered version of Dark Moon Demonic Mode, now increasing her size by 3 times, while also boosting defenses.

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Here it is! Its kind of a shorter chapter by my standards but I was quite tired today, specially because of the heat! And I haven't eaten for around 6 hours so I'm very hungry... A-Anyways, thanks for reading!

EDIT: Added skill fusions of the day, sorry for not doing it yesterday, I was busy.

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Chapter 30: Expansion Plans

| DAY 30 |

A Little Spider Maid woke me up this morning, Zehe and Nesiphae weren't in the bed, they seem to have woken up earlier than me today.

When I was about to put on some clothes, I noticed that my new prosthetic leg was ready on my night table, and tried to put it on, however, I noticed something peculiar.

It seems that my missing leg is slowly growing again.

"Is it thanks to my Undead status? Buts its too slow… I should be able to equip the prosthetic leg for now…"

This new mechanical leg was black colored and looked like the armor of a black knight, with pointy spikes around, carefully decorated with countless crimson Magic Stones that seemed to look like Red Roses.

| SHADOW QUEEN ARMORED PROSTHETIC LEG: A mechanical leg constructed by a talented blacksmith, it has been enhanced with countless reinforcement spells and Crimson Rose Magic Stones. |

| Effect: Grants +15 Defense, +20 Resistance and +10% Affinity with Shadow and Dark Magic. |

| Set Effect: If each part of the Shadow Queen set is equipped, grants +10 to every stat and +50 HP|

"Oh? Its not bad. And what is this? Shadow Queen set? So, there are things like this here too…"

I thought about requesting the whole set to Kusuri and Kajiya, but before I could even do that, I glanced over another table close to the door, were the full set was already there.

"Ah?! What is this?"

The rest of the set didn't look as a conventional Knight Armor, it was carefully modified to fit my small girl body, and they even give themselves the luxury to add an area to show part of my breast in an erotic way.

"Ughh… There wasn't any need to expose my breast like this…"

| SHADOW QUEEN DEMON CROWN: A beautifully crafted crown made by a talented blacksmith. |

| Effect: Grants +15 Magic and Resistance |

| Extra effect: Grants +10% Affinity with Shadow and Dark Magic |

| SHADOW QUEEN DEMON CHEST ARMOR: A beautiful and erotic dark colored chest armor, beautifully decorated with gems |

| Effect: Grants +25 Defense and +10 Resistance |

| SHADOW QUEEN DEMON CLAWS (GLOVES): A majestic and dark pair of armored gloves, with sharp ends on each finger, giving a powerful and demon-like energy. |

| Effect: Grants +15 Strength, +10 Defense and +10 Affinity to Shadow and Dark Magic |

| SHADOW QUEEN DEMON ARMORED HEELS: A pair of beautiful and imposing heels, fitting for a Queen of the Shadows |

| Effect: Grants +20 Speed, +10 Defense and +5% Affinity to Shadow and Dark Magic |

I quickly equipped the whole set, and as I feared, it was very hard to use heels, it will take me some time on getting used to them.

| YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY EQUIPPED THE WHOLE SHADOW QUEEN EQUIPMENT SET |

| SET EFFECT: SHADOW QUEEN HAS BEEN ACTIVATED |

It was still quite early on the morning so I wondered where could had Zehe and Nesiphae went to. On the hall to the dining room I found Wagyu and Rimuru, who was leading the Slime Family as always.

I immediately noticed that they got way stronger from yesterday, Wagyu and Rimuru were close to evolution already, while the Slime Family wasn't so far off. It seems that their overnight training was worth it.

"Master Kireina, our new armor looks glorious, each corner of your new set fits well with your beautiful and delicate body, creating an imposing but enchanting feeling"

"Mastaaa! So beautiful, guuuuu!"

"Aaahahaha! T-There's no need to praise me…"

Milim looked at me fiercely!

"Hmph! I won't lose to you, Master! I will also become a beautiful lady! You just wait!"

"Eh? (What kind of weird rivalry is this?)"

I went to the dining room with my servants.

When we arrived, the scene seemed quite lively, there was Zehe and Nesiphae enjoying their meals on a tablet.

"Ah! There you are…"

Zehe and Nesiphae noticed me and got a little bit scared.

"Ah! M-Master…"

"Honey… hehe…"

"Were you hungry, you could had woken me up too…"

Zehe and Nesiphae looked at each other and blushed while smiling.

"Aaahh… But Master… You look so adorable when sleeping…"

"Hmmm… Like a beautiful little doll, we didn't want to woke you up"

"W-What… Whatever, lets have breakfast with the rest, together"

"Sure!"

"Come honey, sit close to me"

While having a nice breakfast, we talked about the new Goblin skills everyone got, and I also tried to ask about everyone's skill fusion results.

According to everyone's experiences and results, skill evolutions seem to be extremely personalized for each individual, from the name of the skills to their uses.

Something to notice is that skill fusions results relate to the user personality and way of fighting, while also combining their affinities since they were born.

For example, Milim fused skills seem to be called "Enchanting Demon Slime", and come with variables of this name for each combination, even when she is fusing physical skills, the result swill be extremely rare physical attacks that can inflict hypnosis, enchanting and illusions, a very unique Combat System, I can see her becoming a master of Illusions in the future.

Another impressive and unique example of personalization on skill fusions would come from Wagyu. His skills become shadow related, and can work together to become stronger, they're named "Midnight Wolf Emperor", and can go from physical to magic attacks.

He also told me about a unique skill named "Midnight Wolf Emperor Shadow Recollection", which can collect and save shadow density, increasing the power of his Shadow related skills through the battle. He can use these shadows to heal himself and even release them all in an explosive magic attack.

"I can already see a clear path on Wagyu's Combat System, impressive, you are very talented"

"M-Master, I don't deserve such praise!"

Rimuru, on the other hand, specialized on making every fused skill have some attribute to the 9 Elements, becoming a powerful elemental attacker, even his physical attacks would carry more than 3 elements on them. His most powerful one, being named "Nine Elements Master Multi-Elemental Claws", which could switch between any type of Element and if he desired, didn't even need to use MP, only using Stamina, becoming extremely convenient on Anti-Magic situations.

Nesiphae and Zehe unique skills were already mentioned before, but I was able to understand them better.

Nesiphae skills are named "Shadow Illusionist Lamia Empress", most of her skills go around releasing powerful groups of snakes made of energy or magic, which can do different task around the battlefield, from wrapping to detonating.

A skill named "Shadow Illusionist Lamia Empress Medusa Snakes Multiplication" can give her the power to multiply the snakes she produces over time, giving her a sustainable and ever growing power on the battlefield.

Zehe skills are named "Shadow Elemental Witch Empress", being a powerful Witch, Zehe uses this advantage to create a powerful combat system that goes around casting strong and destructive elemental spells who are infused with Shadow Magic. She is also able to regain MP easily using a special skill named "Shadow Elemental Witch Empress Shadow Absorption", that can be casted on the shadow of an enemy and will slowly transfer their MP to her.

"Hmm! Those are very impressive skills! You two have exceptional battle talent, we must keep training and experimenting"

"M-Master… I will do my best!"

"Dear Kireina, all my power is just for you…"

The two girls looked at me with warm and blushed smiles, with a little fanatical look on their eyes.

"S-Stop looking at me like that…"

When we all finished our breakfast, I wanted to check on everyone status, so I went around the big castle.

It seems that after the war, there were some reparations to be done outside the castle, specially around the door, who was in a pretty bad state. Most of the construction team were fixing the massive door.

They told me that our new door would be even more sturdy, transforming our castle into an impenetrable fortress.

"If you guys need anything, just tell me"

"There's no need Master, we have mined countless precious ores in this mountain, with all of this, we will be able to create the Ultimate Door!!! Let's go brothers!!!"

"YEEAAAHH!!!"

Every Monkey Worker got even more pumped up and started to work at double the speed!

"UOOOOOOOOOOHHH!"

CLANK CLANK!

"Ah… Just don't overdo it guys…"

Afterwards, I wanted to check on the new Nursery Team, which was very needed, even though there were little casualties in the last battle, there were a lot of wounded, some wounds cannot be healed so easily with magic, and lost limbs cannot regenerate unless you are an Undead. So proper care is needed. The nursery assistants will also help on mothers who are about to give birth, helping the mothers bear the pain and healing them afterwards.

Just when I got in, I was greeted by a little Spider Nurse, who was a new assistant on the team, she was carrying some medicine to a patient.

"A-Ah! M-Master Kireina?"

"Hello little spider, do you know where are the Nurse Leaders?"

"Ah! Miss Aoi and Miss Midori are currently helping Miss Chokumotsu to give birth…"

"Eh?! Is she giving birth already?! Why no one told me?!"

"M-Master please calm down…!"

"A-Ah! Sorry about that, where are they?"

The little spider nurse quickly guided me to a wide room with lots of magical lights.

Chokumotsu was resting over a big bed, with two little baby monkeys on her arms, her partner, Kaen, was by her side, holding another baby.

"Ah! They were already born, and three?!"

"Ah! M-Master!"

"Master Kireina!"

"Relax relax, I'm not here to complain because I didn't find you two on the kitchen or something… Congratulations, these 3 little babies all look very healthy"

"Ah! T-Thanks, Master"

"Yeah… They all were born extremely strong too"

"Oh? AH?! EH?!"

I quickly noticed that each monkey was of a different color, every one of them were born in a super rare and evolved variant! What is the meaning of this?!

Aoi quickly tried to find a reason.

"Hmmm, perhaps, the birth of such strong babies is because of both of their parents being named beings, while also evolving multiple times and having powerful jobs and skills"

Midori also added.

"Indeed, if you notice carefully, Master. You can see that they were even born with a class already assigned to them, and their base stats are impressive for newborn monkey babies, we have never seen such strong and talented monkeys being born in the past, when our former Emperor took care of us"

I checked on these monkeys and it was true!

The little brats were even born with a share of my blessing, that perhaps, were obtained from the share of their parents.

Suddenly, Kaen bravely asked me for an important request!

"Master… Such talented babies, they need a name, could you grant them one? Please… I… Will work very hard for them…"

"K-Kaen! Don't be so disrespectful with our Master!"

"Ah! I-I'm sorry Master! I didn't want to sound rude!"

"Hmm? Rude? What are you two talking about? Sigh, take it easy. I'm not some kind of tyrannical empress or something, you two already know me well, right?"

"Master…"

"Still! I'm sorry…!"

"Alright then! But you two will have to come with the names!"

Chokumotsu and Kean looked at each other with crying eyes, they felt extremely fortunate for their babies to be granted a name at the time they were born!

After they thought it carefully enough, they finally decided the names.

The bright pink baby monkey, who had beautiful blue eyes (from her mother), was a rare variant named "Dream Roaming Pink Monkey", it had an incredibly high affinity with the mysterious Dream Magic, and also had a strong advanced class named "Arch Bishop".

She was named Crystal, according to Kaen, it was because of her two blue eyes resembling shining crystals.

The second one was the biggest of the three, having almost three times the size of Crystal, and it was bright red colored, with a little horn growing from its forehead. It was a rare variant named "Flaming Berserk Mountain Monkey", this variant had incredible body mass and muscle, with high affinity in Fire Magic, and came with the advanced class "Martial Arts Expert".

He was named Ifrit, according to Chokumotsu, on the Mountain Monkey mythology exist a legendary fire spirit who had a flaming red fur and a big crimson horn on its forehead named Ifrit, so she named her son after this legendary entity.

The last but not least was a little pale blue monkey with green eyes, it had a cute and smooth face. This variant name was "High Undine Monkey", it came with a high water affinity but also had some Wind magic. It also possessed the advanced class "Paladin".

This little monkey was named Aqua, according to Chokumotsu, Aqua was also a legendary water spirit on their mythology.

"Sigh… Its done, these babies are quite the monsters… I feel extremely tired for just naming them… They drained all my MP"

Chokumotsu and Kaen thanked me with tears on their faces.

"Thank you very much, Master! Snif snif"

"Snif snif… Thanks! Thanks!"

"Don't worry, it is the least I could do. Don't cry, even your babies are perfectly calm, just look at these little brats… The rest of the monkeys will have to train very hard if they don't want some babies to surpass them in no time…"

Seeing how everything was going well on the Nursing headquarters, I headed to my next location, I actually wanted to talk with the Wyverns, especially with Eshne.

The room were the Wyverns lived was once just a very wide rocky cave with water, but after countless remodulations, it has become a grandiose and even wider area, the room was made wider vertically, so the Wyverns can even practice their flying inside of it.

The five Wyverns were playing around and practicing their skills and attacks, thanks to the new fusion of skills, everyone was trying out new and unique skills.

While flying, Abellona was practicing a strong unique magic he has fused.

"Hmmm… Like this!"

FLUOSH!

Suddenly, countless magic circles surrounded Abellona, and from them countless dragon shaped flames started to come out, however, they did not attack but instead covered Abellona's entire body, and solidified into a hard and red colored armor.

"Oh? Its not heavy at all, this armor magic is extremely convenient, even with my hard scales, they could still be penetrated by those Giant and Champion Goblins, if it wasn't for my brothers and Kireinas servants, I would be dead by now"

The majestic armor covered Abellona's entire body, even the top of its wings, and it had beautiful coiling dragons around it as decorations.

"Big brother!"

"Hm? What is it?"

"Kireina is here, he needs to talk with us"

"Oh?"

Abellona slowly flew to the ground and greeted Kireina.

"Ahh guys, how are you? I'm already seeing how you all are evolving your skills even more! That armor is incredible, Abellona, did you craft it by yourself?"

"Ah! No, fellow Kireina, it's the result of countless skill fusions, yesterday, after fusing three protection skills, out of nowhere this armor skill appeared, its fantastic and very light too"

"Ah! So, you can even get armor skills if you fuse hard enough, huh? This skill fusion system never ceases to amaze me"

"Indeed, its an incredible gift that you have granted us, we are very thankful"

Titus was curious about my visit.

"Is it time to train already?"

"Ah! N-No, I actually wanted to check on all of your status, and also came for a little request to the no-so-little Eshne!"

Eshne was surprised by my sudden interest, and blushed a little bit.

"Eh? M-Me? Sure!"

I discussed about my newest plans to the Wyverns, the first one was the "Forest Expansion" plan and the second was the "Agriculture" plan.

For these two plans I would need Eshne help on plant manipulation, with the help of Tsuchimizu.

The first plan consisted on Eshne and Tsuchimizu moving the ground and forest around our mountain away, crating more "free space", afterwards, we would expand our kingdom around this free space, creating streets and even houses. Babies are born every day, and they take around 4 days to completely grow to adult size, as we constantly increase our population, not everyone will be able to fit inside the castle anymore.

"I see, so its all goes around the Kingdom's expansion over the Grand Forest"

"That's right, we will be able to finally have streets and houses, and even shops… And from that point, we can even create an economy"

"I see, you sure think pretty far on the future, Kireina"

The second plan consisted around Eshne and Tsuchimizu molding the ground, while using their skills to increase the minerals and nutrients inside it, with this, we would be able to plant different veggies found in the forest, so we won't end up exhausting the Forest resources.

Eshne agreed happily and with the rest of the Wyverns, I called my other servants and we all went to the training grounds.

I quickly summoned 1300 Demonic Beings this time, with no variant surprisingly.

While leaving my servants training, I left to the north of our mountain with Eshne and Tsuchimizu.

I showed both of them the area I wanted them to remove, the whole area consisted of around the size of a big football stadium from Earth.

They quickly put hands on their work, Eshne used his skill "Masterful Plant Manipulation" and moved hundreds of trees around, as if the trees themselves could walk, they slowly went away.

Tsuchimizu used his powers to mold the earth and make it completely flat. Because the area was too wide, it would take them around the entire day, so I left some Spider Maids at their service if they needed any food and left the area.

I decided to train with Zehe and Nesiphae today.

While training, both of my wives couldn't take their eyes off me, it seems that my new armor was too suggestive, having almost my entire breast exposed, combining it with my high heels and imposing crown.

"Dear… If you let me add, your new armor suits your beautiful and exquisite body perfectly…"

"Hmmm… Indeed, I can see all your curves now…"

"W-What are you two degenerates talking about now?! Geez… Then, I will also be a degenerate!"

"EH?!"

"AH!"

I couldn't contain my anger anymore, I always thought highly about these two girls, and contained my lustful desires, but after so much, I have already figured out that both are extreme degenerates! Its not just when they're drunk! Its always!

Without Zehe even noticing, I grabbed her breast with my hands, and squeezed it!

"Aaaaahh~! M-Master?"

"T-This is punishment for saying such perverted things while we are not in bed! And you too, Nesiphae! Ooooraaaaahh!"

SQUISH!

Using the help of a Cursed Claw, I carefully squeezed Nesiphae giant breast!

"Aaaah~! W-Wait! I'm sooorryy!!"

Thankfully, before doing this, I used my Poisonous Illusion Mist around us so my servants wouldn't see such an embarrassing scene.

For the next hour, I dedicated myself to the only purpose of "punishing" them.

The two girls were resting on the ground, while breathing heavily with blushed smiles.

"Aahh… Mashter is so rough…"

"Aaah~ I'm soowwyy…"

"Sigh… I think I over did it…"

After continuing the training, the last mob was killed and we took our lunch break.

| YOU GAINED 28554 EXP | | THE REST OF YOUR SERVANTS GAINED TONS OF EXP |

| YOU GAINED TWO LEVELS! | | LEVEL 26/50 EXP 02106/20000 |

| THE REST OF YOUR SERVANTS GAINED TONS OF LEVELS! |

After having this punishment, Zehe and Nesiphae actually calmed down and became more civilized.

We had a nice lunch while talking about the different skills and combat systems. In the middle of it, I remembered I had leveled up quite a lot and had enough points to exchange some skills in the class system menu.

I had 26 points so I used them to buy |+7 STRENGTH (12 SP) | and | +15 HP (12 SP) |, it seems that you can't buy the same passive stat boost again, so the only one left is the |+3 STRENGTH AND DEFENSE (15 SP) |

| YOUR STATS PERMANENTLY INCREASED BY +7 STRENGTH AND +15 HP |

"I wonder how much will the stat boost be in the future, with stronger classes…"

When we finished the lunch break, I summoned another 1300 Demonic Beings and we slashed them until the night fell.

| YOU GAINED 28995 EXP | | THE REST OF YOUR SERVANTS GAINED TONS OF EXP |

| YOU GAINED ONE LEVEL! | | LEVEL 27/50 EXP 11101/21000 |

| THE REST OF YOUR SERVANTS GAINED TONS OF LEVELS! |

"One level? I can't keep training like this, its not as convenient anymore… the next wave of undead and probably the mage himself… I need to grow faster to catch up with him…"

While checking on the servants who trained, most still got enough EXP, and gained around 10 levels. I noticed how every spirit already hit max level and evolved right there. Nereid also evolved too, finally, thanks to the other spirits making her train.

Every spirit grew a little bit bigger, and their stats increased exponentially, however, they were still too weak and needed to evolve even more.

"Did ya see that? Master?! I evolved! Look at me! I'm so big now! Hohohoho!"

"Nereid, you barely grew in size…"

"GEH! Y-You are so mean! I will surpass your beauty! You just see! I will become a big fairy like you! And everyone will love ME instead! Hohoho!"

"Really? I hope so, that means that you will train hard, right?"

"EH?! O-Of course!"

Seeing how my little Nereid finally wanted to train by herself, I couldn't contain a little tear to come from my eye.

"I'm so glad… You finally understood…"

"AGH! Stop acting!!!!"

Suddenly, a little girl pulled my wings.

"Ugh! W-Who?"

When I glanced at my back, I saw a little cyclops girl, she had a big blue pupil and golden hair.

"Ah! Brontes! You got so big!"

Brontes nodded while blushing.

"I got… strong!"

I couldn't contain my urges to pat her head and caress her cheeks.

"Aaah! You are so adorable Brontes, and so hard working"

"Big Sister… please don't pull my cheeks…"

"Ah! I-I'm sorry, here"

Mooch

I give little Brontes a little kiss on her reddened cheek, and she blushed at me.

"Better? A little kiss always fixes the wounds!"

"Thanks… Big Sister…"

I quickly noticed an ominous aura!

"EH?!"

It was Zehe and Nesiphae!

"Master! I also have countless wounds all around my body! Please! Fix them!!!"

"Master! Please fix my wound down here! I beg you!"

"Aaaah!"

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When we went to the dining room for dinner, I found my Archer Blood Clone, it already had evolved, it seems that she has put on hard work.

"Ah! Master, its good to see you"

"You can always see me"

"B-But this place is too big… I often get lost inside the castle rooms and… the Spider Maids have to guide me outside…"

"Ah! You really deserve the name Clumsy!!"

"Fueeh… Don't bully me, Master… I want to be useful for you… how about summoning more blood servants?"

"No way"

"EH?!"

"Too costly… Too much MP and Stamina, and they also take part of my blood…"

"But Master! P-Please!"

My blood clone looked exactly like me but completely made of blood, I quickly noticed how beautiful this body really was. And I have a soft side for beautiful women.

"Ugh… Okay… Perhaps tomorrow, okay?"

Clumsy eyes shined on a bright red, showing excitement.

"Aaaaah~! Thank you very much, Master!"

"Sigh, sure… Have you gotten new skills?"

"Yeah, tons! Senior Kusuri give me a Synthesis Bracelet, so I already fused some skills, I will become your reliable archer, Master!"

"Indeed, you were born with half my base stats, you better put them to good use, you have an amazing potential… Hey, how about this? Do you want to join the Undead and Slimes on the overnight training? You don't need to sleep, right?"

"I certainly don't… But I like to sleep sometimes…"

"No buts! You will be joining them!"

"Fueeehhh… Okay…"

"Hmmm, maybe in the future, there could be something like a Blood Clone Squad, you could be the leader because you were the first one, but for that you need level a lot!"

Clumsy eyes shined with expectation.

"Aaah~! A Blood Clone Squad? And I would be the leader? That would be so cool…!"

"Sounds nice, isn't it? For now, let's go eat, come, accompany us"

"R-Really?!"

"Yeah, you are my clone after all, its like talking with a split mind"

Suddenly, my split minds became furious!

"Hey you idiot! We also want to go to the outside world! We want to train!"

"I want to… Become a beautiful lady…"

"Yes! It is my dream to become a strong warrior!"

"EEH?! You aren't going anywhere!!!"

"You guys are vital for my battles, how could I just let you go?"

"Just make other ones to replace us! Easy!"

"Yes... Other ones…"

"Hmm! Please!"

"Guaaahh! I will think about it… But I barely know how you guys work, can I let you go off as Slimes? Aren't you part of a skill?"

"Well, you see, once you create a split mind and insert it inside a sleeping Slime, we already exist outside the skill, the skill only purpose is to create split minds, insert them and then connect them with you…"

"Hmmm… Aren't you guys traumatized or something for just being born as minds instead of living being?"

"No"

"Not really"

"Not a little bit"

"Hmmph, I actually had some ideas about creating more clones or inserting split minds on undead, we shall try that tomorrow maybe, now, let me eat in peace!!"

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After having a nice dinner with my servants and wives, we headed to our rooms in peace, I was glad the two girls didn't get drunk and crazy tonight.

However!

"Master! Please! Now that we are alone, could you fix our wounds?"

"D-Dear…"

The two girls took their entire clothes off and laid over the bed completely nude.

"Sigh… No way…"

Skill fusions of the day:

| ADVANCED BLOOD CONTROL: SHARED BLOOD |+| VITALITY SUCKER |+| RESISTANT INSATIABLE DEMONIC TEETH AND BELLY |= | FAIRY VAMPIRE EMPRESS SHARP BLOODY FANGS AND INSATIABLE BELLY |

*Passive skill, grants the power to suck blood for farther away, while also increasing the vitality you obtain from this.

| BASIC UNDEAD REGENERATION |+| ADVANCED VAMPIRE EMPRESS REGENERATION |+| TRUE VAMPIRE SUPERNATURAL BODY |= | FAIRY VAMPIRE EMPRESS SUPER NATURAL REGENERATIVE BODY |

*Passive skill, increases regeneration speed and other stats.

| VAMPIRE EMPRESS INCREDIBLE REFLEXES |+| FAIRY VAMPIRE EMPRESS SUPER NATURAL REGENERATIVE BODY |+| FAIRY VAMPIRE EMPRESS SUPERNATURAL STRENGTH |=

| DEMON VAMPIRE EMPRESS IMPOSSIBLE BODY: REFLEXES, REGENERATION AND ENDURANCE |

*Passive skill, the combination of each passive boost and bonus on each skill, increased by a little.

| GOBLIN CHAMPION POWERFUL BLOW |+| GOBLIN CHAMPION EMPEROR RED ONI HAMMER |+| GOBLIN CHAMPION EMPEROR RED ONI FLAMING KICK |= | FLAMING VAMPIRE EMPRESS OVERWHELMING BLOW |

| GOBLIN CHAMPION EMPEROR RED ONI BARE HANDS COMBAT STYLE |+| GOBLIN GIANT EARTH SHATTERING BLOW |+| FLAMING VAMPIRE EMPRESS OVERWHELMING BLOW |= | FLAMING DEMON EMPRESS EARTH SHATTERING COMBAT STYLE |

*Active attack skill, composes kicks, punches and blows.

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Here it is! This chapter is a little bit softer with just more character interactions than anything, next chapter will be more interesting! Thanks for reading!

EDIT: Added skill fusions.

NEW NOVEL IS OUT!

Check "The Protagonist's Sister Is Actually the Strongest"!

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