From the mont I defeated that ratman overlord, the look everyone gave changed.
In the past, they used to treat as a commander c** auspicious itemtruth be told, I kind of deserved that label seeing as my combat strength wasnt anything to write ho about. Even after obtaining Shadowfang, I wasnt able to unleash its full power because I didnt possess the ability to use its corresponding skillset, and also because of a variety of other minor issues.
Even after mastering that flashy Revolution Slice, Shadowfang was in its sealed form. However, at least my combat strength received a substantial boost since I learnt a skill that suited it.
Just look at those quivering ratn. In the past, they were only afraid of the influence I wielded, now they were afraid of because of my influence and strength.
Chit chit chitThe ratman overlord used his unintelligible chits to try and communicate with as before. However, this ti I didnt need any translation to know what he was trying to say.
Hmph, isnt it too late to beg for your life now, little ratman? I chuckled ntally to myself as I sneered at the rodent.
Its begging for its life. Once again, Violet Snow chid in with her highly appropriate translations. It only wants to live, no matter what you want, its willing to offer it to you.
I dont want to listen to its nonsense, help translate this to those nine ratn, if you guys want to live, kill off that idiot together, if you cant do it, you can join him in death.
Alright. Violet Snow turned to the quivering ratn lieutenants and in the midst of their astonishnt, passed down the ssage I gave her.
To kill or not to kill? In the face of death, was there even a need to hesitate? After exchanging a brief look with each other, all nine lieutenants ca to the sa decision
Ten minutes later, there was an unrecognizable rat corpse lying before .
Having done their ghastly deed, the nine ratman lieutenants turned towards in unison and gave a submissive smile. Needless to say, their intention was clear to none of them wanted to be the next sacrificial lamb.
Knowing the futility of resistance, their eyes burned with ingratiating fervor as they did their best to present their useful side to .
Go settle in your own subordinates, as for those slain ratman lieutenants, Ill leave it to you all to split the spoils.
Seeing that I had no intention of settling past debts, the lieutenants breathed a collective sigh of relief.
After expressing their endless gratitude and thanks, they hurried off to gather the rest of their subordinates. Looking at them try to outdo each other, I bet they planned on stealing so subordinates in the midst of this chaos so as to better serve .
As for , I didnt particularly mind them gaining more subordinates. After all, with that terrifying Flatail under my command, there wasnt even a need for to fear a revolt given that one blast was all it took to wipe out a thousand ratn.
Besides, if they werent able to defeat with over 10 000 elite ratn, I doubt any one of them would dare to even think about rebelling now that they had suffered such heavy casualties.
Thus, the battle truly ca to a close and the battlefield tally was quickly compiled.
From that battle, we gained almost 6000 ratman slaves. However, over a thousand of these slaves were severely injured to the point where they would never recover. Thus, there was only one fate awaiting these burdens: ration duty. The worthless didnt deserve any pity from .
Once we harvested their souls, bones and fed their flesh to our warriors, we would be left with nearly 5000 ratman slaves. Of these 5000, 9 were the four-star lieutenants I had just interacted with. Over 500 of them were three-star warriors while the rest were two or one-star warriors.
Honestly, I had to hand it to Violet Snow. Her guerilla tactics worked out splendidly. Thanks to her constant taunts, the rats were thoroughly incensed to the point where they emptied their nest of elite rodents. Their plan was to wipe her out but we all know how that plan ended
The severely wounded rations were herded into a corner after which I left it to the dusas to handle their processing. Seeing as they didnt eat souls, there was no risk of them sneaking a few bites.
However, the mont so of the other prisoners saw their kinsrodent get dragged off so violently by the dusas, they beca agitated. So of the more hot blooded ones even tried to rescue them. Unfortunately, in the face of overwhelming might, resistance was futile and these foolish rats ended up sealing their own fate.
Drag out all the rebels and process them as well. Naturally, the dusas didnt show any compassion as they carried out instructions. To them, these rats were nothing more than food.
It didnt take long before the dissenters were dragged out, their limbs broken and dislocated before being tossed into the pile of heavily wounded rations.
Seeing that, the nine ratman lieutenant grimaced.
Well, tough luck, with that ugly mug of yours, how do you even expect to forgive you guys? Dont you know that being handso makes it easier for you to be forgiven?
An hour passed and the harpies in charge of moving the souls began delivering ball after ball of freshly harvested souls right into my waiting arms.
Seeing the heavens rain souls, I was suddenly struck by a conflicted emotion that I couldnt really put into words.
Speaking of which, the mouths I had to feed with souls seed to have grown. First was those three distinctly different harpy witches, Numila, Elena and Eugenia. They didnt consu any at and only subsisted on souls. That was the reason for their fragrant scent.
Second was Violet Snow for who so unknown reason, didnt eat at as well. Next was Mo Ens family. Other than Mo Xixidi, Mo En and Mimiya rejected at and only consud souls because of Julias insistence. In the past, Mo En wasnt used to this lifestyle and would sneak a few bites of at from ti to ti. However, his body gave off a foul odor whenever he did that which resulted in Julia kicking him off the bed every tiafter that, Mo En learnt to be obedient.
Because Mimiya was a female devil, Julia tried to groom her from a young age to be a refined lady. Unfortunately, she was too wild for Julias re-education. Getting her to abstain from at was the limit of her success.
The first thought that ca to mind when I learnt of that was: serves you two right for spoiling her.
A flurry of feathers later, over 5000 souls were brought before and dumped into a corner of the maze. Looking at the dazzling pile of souls, I suddenly felt like a rich devil. Yet the mont I feasted on 500 of the one-star soulsnothing happened
I know that Im a three-star and eating a bunch of one-star souls wont give much of a boost but shouldnt the quantity have made up for the quality? That was 500 souls for crying out loud!
If I fed that terrifying amount of souls to a one-star, I could promote him all the way to two-star and perhaps even three-star. Yet, the mont I swallowed all those soulsnothing happenedthat made no sense at all!
In order to solve the mystery of my bottomless appetite once and for all, I fished out the soul of that ratman overlord.
Unlike the other ethereal souls, his four-star soul was noticeably more corporeal as it was an actual physical object.
The mont I swallowed that soul, my body began to heat up and two seconds laterit stoppedit was as if what I consud wasnt a four-star soul but rather a warm cup of coffee
Why didnt it increase my mana? Disappearing like that goes against the laws of conservation of energy, dontcha know!
Hmm? Wait a minuteisnt Fertinier hibernating in my body
Truth be told, I had consud quite a sizeable amount of souls recently. In order to craft those weapons, Julia and I would basically convert all the souls we ate into mana while we were in the base. Because of that, I barely gained anything from consuming them especially given my notoriously slow leveling rate. We were busy back then so I didnt pay much attention to it but now that we were out of the base
I bet all the energy from the soul I just ate was converted into energy in order to feed Fertinier
Bah, forget it. Shes my savior after all and was even assigned to protect by Yi Yi. Besides, shes a pretty lady so I should at least give her so face.
Because we had no way to store souls, exposed souls tend to dissipate rapidly. The speed at which they dissipated was related to their star level while they were still alive. For the higher starred creatures, their souls tend to be stronger so they had a more corporeal look to them. That was why that ratman overlords soul was noticeably different from the other souls.
Based on looks alone, one could essentially tell the grade of a soul.
However, it wasnt true that all environnts chipped away at exposed souls. Certain environnts were able to incubate souls. Under those conditions, not only would they not get worn out, these souls would even get refined. Given enough ti, these souls would turn into soul flas and if their corpse was still around, the soul fla would be bound to the body, creating a zombie. If the flesh had rotted away completely, a skeleton was created instead.
As for vengeful ghosts, their formation was more special required certain conditions being t.
Regarding the undead, their formation wasnt exclusive to the Western Human Realms. Even on Earth, there were such legends: ghosts, etc.
I still had no idea when was Fertinier going to wake up. In fact, I didnt even know how many more souls she required. Thus, I had no choice but to accept the situation as is and slowly accumulate, consu and digest more souls. As long as I consud enough souls, she was bound to wake up one day.
However, I wasnt the only one who needed souls, the Grimoire of the Dead needed a vast amount of souls as well. Needless to say, the grimoire was extrely important to so starving it wasnt an option.
As I continued feeding it, it beca more and more lively to the point where I was beginning to suspect that so kind of beautiful girl would pop up the mont I fed it enough souls.
Because over 5000 Abaddon Rodents died in that previous battle, we werent lacking for food at all. Thus, there was no need for to be shy about consuming these souls. Of course, my other subordinates, naly Numila, Elena, Eugenia, Violet Snow and even my guardsn had their own share as well.
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