บท 60: Assassin Corps Recruits

Seeing Yin's blissful face Aika asked,

"Who is she?"

"Oh yeah, I forgot Kumo is the only one who knows Yin. Well, she used to be my slave but now she's been promoted to a pet. If you want you can pet her, her skin is super soft," I say.

Hearing this Yin crawled out of my lap and walked towards my wives. She first approached Kumo with a huge smile before kneeling and hugging her legs. Kumo saw this and decided to pet her and say,

"Good girl,"

"Ehehehe," Yin giggled.

Huh… aren't you guys supposed to be friends. Why are you treating her like a pet when she was just your friend a couple of days ago.

Seeing how Kumo was happy I decided to say nothing and let her do her own thing.

I decided to use [Mind Magic] to see what my other wives thought of her and to just see if I can hear thoughts with this skill. Activating it. I focused my attention on Aika who had a happy smile on her face.

'So cute,' I heard coming from Aika but also heard Homura's thoughts as well.

Seems like I need to practice this more.

After Kumo stopped petting Yin, she walked on her knees towards Aika and then hugged her legs as well. Aika didn't hesitate and sat down on the floor with Yin on her lap where she started to stroke her hair.

Aika also noticed her broken spider legs causing her to frown slightly. Aika wasn't able to see them before because Yin did her best to cover it up with her threads but now that they are exposed, she can see them.

"Is Yin a bad girl…?" Yin asks.

"No, no, no, Yin is a good girl," Aika says, quickly changing her expression.

Soon Yin crawled out of Aika's lap and got onto her knees, hugging Homura's waist. Homura felt this was kind of awkward so she only pets her head slightly before retreating.

"Alright Yin that's enough, come here," I say patting my lap once more.

Yin ran over to me with a huge smile and laid down on my lap where I started to stroke her hair.

"So I'm pretty sure Kumo only knows part of what I'm about to say, so if you want you don't have to listen. Yin is not just my pet but also the leader of an assassin corps I'm trying to put together. They will do recon and assassinate anybody I think is a threat.

Yin has been gathering people that are proficient in [Shadow Control] so we can put together this corps. So far she has gathered 14 recruits but I want to cut that down to 5 so I'm going to make a venom jar where this will dwindle the numbers," I explain.

"Whats a venom jar?" Aika asks.

"It's a room or maybe a pit where you put a bunch of venomous bugs in and then they all fight to the death. The one remaining will be the strongest out of the bunch but also going through the venom jar experience makes it stronger overall," Kumo explains.

"Exactly, and we will be replacing the bugs with the new recruits. Yin, bring all of the recruits to the throne room while I get Akio to make a pit suitable for the experiment," I say.

"Mmmmm, I want to stay like this for a bit longer," Yin says, liking my warmth.

"Yin, don't be a bad girl,"

"I-I don't want to be a bad girl, I-I'll go," Yin says instantly getting up and leaving the throne room.

*sigh*

"So, do you guys want to see the experiment?" I ask my wives.

"No thanks, I think I'll continue to shop," Aika says.

"That's fine, just don't buy out every shop. You might have access to unlimited money but you are also a queen. You have to think about your citizens,"

"I know~," Aika says before leaving.

"What about you guys," I ask Homura and Kumo.

"I have nothing else to do," Kumo says.

"Same, I'll watch with you," Homura says.

"Alright,"

Leaving the throne room I looked for Akio in my kingdom. It didn't take me long since I just flew up above my kingdom and looked for the biggest pile of rubble, that's usually where you can find him.

Landing next to him, he greeted me and told him my plan. He gathered some workers that were working on rebuilding my kingdom and ordered them to help him with my plan. They complied and followed us to the top of the hill where my castle is engraved in.

As we reached the top, I showed them where to make it. It was pretty close to my castle so it had easy access. I also suggested for them to make it into a type of arena where there was the center and then a stand that circled around the top of the bowl for people to watch.

It took them very little time as I didn't demand too much detail. They created a staircase for everybody to go down into the bowl. Once you went down the stairs you arrived at the stands that circled the entire bowl and also another pathway that split to the bottom of the pit.

"Thanks!"

"If you need something else please inform me," Akio says before taking his leave.

Making my way back to the throne room with Kumo and Homura, I saw Yin with 14 kids that looked like they were 15 - 18 years old. Of course, they were much younger but their physical bodies were that of 15 - 18-year-olds.

6 of them were Amazonians, 3 were elves, and the remaining 5 were fire harpies. They clearly looked malnourished as I decided to let them eat before they fight to the death. What I'm about to do sounds cruel but all of them have very cold gazes. It's like they've already rejected the world and can only rely on themselves to survive which is exactly what they've been doing.

"Master! Did I do good!" Yin says in her usual black, skin-tight clothes.

"Yes you did, good girl," I say, petting her head, making her melt in satisfaction.

Clapping my hands 2 times I hear footsteps walk down the hallway. Not long after, maids came into the throne room awaiting my order.

"Get these kids something to eat," I order.

"As you wish," They all say synchronously.

Seconds later, the maids bring out tons of dishes ranging from Aqua Boa to Golden Mountain Bear. I forgot that we slaughtered so many bears so I decided to eat with the children. Though they were hesitant in the beginning once one kid couldn't resist the urge, all of the other kids followed, not wanting to miss out.

I tried to interact with them but they only gave out responses like "Hi," or "Okay,". Feeling slightly disappointed I just decided to talk with Kumo who was eating right next to me. I also don't want to get too attached to them since most are going to die soon.

[Gained the following skills]

[Gold Manipulation]

[Feral Claws]

The pale expression on their faces soon filled with some color but their eyes were still cold. We all devoured tons of meat until we were all satisfied. Somehow their appetite was much larger than me even with my new skill, so I decided to go to my room and test out the assimilation ring.

Arriving at my room I saw the silver ring I placed on the nightstand beside my bed and swallowed it without hesitation. I didn't feel anything abnormal so I looked up to the new notification that appeared in front of me.

[Gained the following skill]

[Assimilation]

"Perfect..."

『Status』

[Name: Arpious]

[Race: Lamassu of Ancient Fires]

[Status: Relaxed]

[Servants: 3]

[Subordinates: 7]

[Pets: 1]

[Level: 1/100]

[HP: 700/700 MP: 500/500 SP: 500/500]

[Strength: 170 (+5) (+25)]

[Defense: 170 (+5)]

[Magic: 170 (+25)]

[Speed: 170 (+5) (+25)]

[Luck: 2]

[Charisma: 50]

[Skills: [******] [Forbidden Magic: Zeus's Nimbus] [Boost (2/5)] [Scratch (3/10)] [Mind Magic] [Shadow Magic (4/10)] [Berserk] [Swipe (2/10)] [Poison Immunity] [Disease Immunity] [Virus] [Commanders Presence] [Army Control] [Forbidden Magic: Medusa] [Fire Immunity] [Lightning Resistance] [Water Control] [Flying Sense] [Enhanced Senses] [Enhanced Regeneration] [Horse Beetles Extreme Senses] [Liquid Fire Secretion (2/10)] [Domain of the Night (Locked)] [Demonic Berserker] [Ancient Fire Magic: Amaterasu] [Ancient Fire Magic: Ichimei] [Guardians Presence] [Phoenixes Dominating Presence] [Fires Will] [Inspect] [Magma Control (3/5)] [Kingfishers Flexible Wings] [Magma Secretion (2/10)] [Gluttons Stomach] [Pickpocket] [Body Enhancement] [Seduction] [Strong Libido] [Contortion] [Wind Control (2/5)] [Concentration] [Seeds of the Ancient Fires] [Evolution Switch] [Gold Manipulation] [Feral Claws] [Assimilation]

[Body Modification: [Fangs] [Cursed Eyes] [Aquatic Lungs] [Metal Bones] [Mark of a Berserker] [Boiling Bloodline of the Phoenix] [Iron Skin] [Great Wings of the Cursed and Blessed Lamassu] [Cursed and Blessed Tattoos] [Incinerating Tail of the Cursed and Blessed Lamassu]

[Mastered Weapons: [Scythe (Partial)]

[Soul Equipment: [Fire of Deaths Sword: Raiu] [Fire of Deaths Armour: Araes Dress]

[Equipment: [Queens Crown] [Green Ring of Twilight]

[Titles: [Blessed by the ********* Spirit of *************] [Savage Assassin] [Heartless] [Blessed by a Star] [Chief of the Fire Harpies] [Blessed by the Overlord Spirit of Curses] [Blessed by the Phoenix Mountain Guardian] [Blessed by the Overlord Spirit of Blessings] [Incomplete Monster (Humanoid and Intelligent Monsters Killed (43/50)]

...

Scrolling through my status, I found the perfect two skills to experiment with. Activating [Assimilation] my status reappeared in front of me and I knew immediately what to do. I poked the skills that I wanted to assimilate, causing my status to disappear with 2 points of power inside of me slowly fuse.