I looked at the slimy spider lady that was vomited by the giant spider in front of us, her skin was white, the skin tone of nobles who were forbidden to go out of their abode in fear that their purity would get tainted with the harsh environment in the world outside their gates, however, her pitch black hair that goes down her also white-colored spider lower half alongside her scarlet red eyes that suggests her malice and greed will make any good first impression to immediately crumble to dust. She also has a slender body and ample breasts her being naked right now plus the fact that she is pushing off slimy liquids away from her cleavage makes her look incredibly alluring.
"Master, I have news."
She said so as she bowed lightly in front of me, she had this annoying smile on her but the greedy person that she is, I am sure that she would not betray me and I am planning to name her anyway so betraying me or not will not matter after I do that.
I waved my hand a little and looked at the monkeys, I then said a simple "Disperse." which made them immediately get out of the area in which my room is in, even the two children of the monkey leader did not dare to loiter around, it seems like they have already accepted their position as my subordinates.
Talk about quick adaptability.
"Tell your tale."
While I was thinking of such things, I said to the queen,
She immediately entered an empty room adjacent to mine and then slumped into the ground, coughing some blood while sweating like mad.
"You should have eaten the corpse that I gave you before you came here, you know."
She is panting while wiping off the trickles of blood that were left in her mouth.
"Ahem... Well, this is an urgent matter you see."
The spider who vomited the queen earlier entered the room and once again puked something, but this time, it's a corpse of one of the many monkeys that I killed earlier, Yeah the reason I levelled up to level 29 even though I can't exp. share with my goblins because I am considered the killer of the monkeys that died in the landmine site, anyway the spider queen started to pluck out the eyes of the monkey, she then put an eyeball in her mouth, chewed it, and made an "Ah..." sound.
Seems like it's delectable for her.
According to cannibals, the most delicious part of the human body is the eyes, Who would have thought that that's also the case for monkeys too.
"Want some? They're delicious."
The spider queen seemed to misunderstand me intently staring into the eyeball she was currently eating and offered me one.
"Ah no, you seem tired, anyway, Start the report while you are eating."
Who wants things vomited by a spider?
Well, I can't say that, so I just listened to the story of the spider queen, Though her gigantic spider child that is skinning the corpse of the monkey is quite distracting, I ignored it. Anyway the story is actually quite simple, a bat with narcissistic tendencies gave birth to a single bat, or rather she gave birth to several but not en-mass like how this spider in front of me can do, so only the oldest one flew towards the cave of the spider to seek information to the gigantification of the monkey tribe leader.
The liar that she is, gave completely wrong information like I am the one who killed the monkey tribe leader, I enslaved the whole race of the monkeys, and am seeking the head of the greatest information broker of the forest (her). Of course, the death of a strong person like the monkey tribe leader will cause quite the stir up for the bat and the forest in general, so the bat immediately proposed a meeting and my subordinate offered her lair as the area in which the meeting will happen.
"Well as far as I can see, master wants to invade the whole forest, so this help should be enough, I will have to have another three days to calculate the total amount of soldiers they can muster, but I have the list of races that will surely participate, they are..."
The spider queen stated all of the races that would participate, sure enough it is quite shocking how few they were considering how big this forest is, but given that races as intelligent as humans like the monkeys over here existed with monsters stupider than an ostrich, I can see why that is the case. She also said the number of populations of the races and the lairs of the strongest are of course the points I have to conquer.
Wait, does that mean the spider queen is weaker than an orc? I mean, shouldn't her lair be one to be the point to be conquered because of her being recognized as one of the most prominent figures of the forest?
[You just got freebies, don't ridicule your subordinates.]
Oh, I see, My bad.
Of course, the queen of spiders is not aware of this conversation and continues.
"The meeting will be held in three days and the alliance will probably attack after another three, there's no time for proper intel. gathering because I am yet to properly recover and cannot give birth to many arachnids so I will also propose my base as the main backline of the invasion army, I will also make sure that I will be the strategist of their invasion."
She ended her tale like that and yeah, I will probably have no choice but to be on the defensive here so I have to plan it so that my two bases will not get destroyed, but I will not accept it if only one base survived, so to have a proper amount of power to push off their future advance and attack, I won't also accept it if I will only defend.
_I have to give them names._
I sighed and then [Guide] immediately responded and rebuked me.
[That's very dangerous you know? And isn't it enough that the spider will be the strategist?]
No, what the hell are you talking about? Do you think a strategist can just say: "Okay, so what will we do is to give up on our dreams and die" and it will be approved by the commander?
Of course, what will she do is create a proper strategy and then relay it to me and I have to find a solution on the spot, Actually didn't you say that you are as intelligent as me?
[Well, I am still a little bit loop-sided.]
... I see, well I hope you won't be any more soon.
Anyway, like I said earlier I have to name all of the monsters under my command for their strength to receive an upgrade. My undeads seem to be lagging behind the soldiers, but as their race name has said, they are already undead so even though some goblins are already high goblins and Lyra is just a mid goblin, that does not mean that she is weaker than the majority of the soldiers because the Undead race have a higher base than the goblin race.
And they are just four or five levels away from evolving anyway so I am not worried about them lagging behind.
After deciding what I first do as preparations, I left the spider queen alone for now while saying "You will now be known as Arachne."
"Wha....?"
She is of course dumbfounded but I left him alone and asked Lyra to gather the goats of the goat cavalry and asked Kabuto to travel into the first settlement and summon all the wolves into the volcano.
"While you're at it, announce our victory."
I added to my order because even though I was quite sure that they already knew that we won I just wanted to bloat my ego more, anyway after I heard Kabuto's "Understood", I looked for the tribe leader that is currently eating a giant chunk of meat stuck in a very long bone, so there are also manga meat in this world, how fascinating, no its ridiculous, anyway I called him out after her bit the last piece of meat and said.
"Summon all of the citizens, both civilians and soldiers."
The monkey tribe leader suddenly looked at me as he rinsed his mouth with a bowl of water, he then replied,
"Why is that, my lady?"
I just gave him a light smile and replied,
"It's a surprise, oh and by the way Wokung, please bring your children too."
Wokung nodded his head as he bowed, but then squinted his eyes and asked.
"What is Wokung?"
I walked away casually and replied,
"Your name."
He had the same "Wha..?" Reaction as Arachne which as I expected, in all the goblins I named before, no matter how much they were afraid of me, their eyes shined and looked at me and still said thank you before running, that just shows how prestigious a name for a monster is, well it gives them strength after all, so no wonder.
After a bit of waiting, all of the goats, the wolves, and the monkeys are lined up neatly outside the cave. And as pops finally permitted it, none of my wolves nor my goats have pale white faces when looking at me, all of the quadrupedal in here even bowed slightly whilst the wolves were wagging their tails.
Ah... If you were not in my shoes, you would not be able to understand this sense of satisfaction of mine. I had that kind of smile on my face as I finally decided to speak.
"Ahem, my people, we have successfully grasped victory with our hands..."
Anyway, the speech is quite long because I can make it long and also because I have to recover mana from naming the two strongest individuals in this place after me, and after some 30 minutes of babbling about, I finally gave out names, I named the girl child of Wokung, a swordsman with a katana and a little bit tattered kamishimo Saru as in monkey in Japanese to not be confused to the java definition of the same word that means annoying.
I then named the other child, the one with the bandages on both of his fists Jin, that one from Tekken. They knelt in front of me and thanked me while crying, It took about thirty minutes to stop them, and the moment they stopped they got shrouded with a cocoon and were unable to speak.
I then saw the two giant spiders loitering around the foot of the volcano and called them to act as guards for the cocoon of these many many individuals, after which I continued naming them and now I learned my lesson on naming and now using names that have relation to their respective race, I mean I don't want to call a goblin Protacio, you know? And there's already a goblin that is in the ranks of the infantry, I started to sweat as my mana drained with every name I uttered, but this is for the power-up of my people after all, so after about half a day of naming, I sighed, after which my vision suddenly tuned black and several panicky sounds was heard around me.
_Oh, I passed out._
[I told you, it's dangerous.]
Some time later, in my room, Arachne or her bust can be seen in my field of vision, It seems like she let me have a lap pillow, but of course, I ignored it because I am a one-woman lady and just checked her stats.
Name: Arachne
HP: 15
Race: Monarch Spider
Mana: 356
Stamina: 333
[Level: 3/100
EXP: 300/1000
Stats:
STR: 3
INT: 89
VIT: 5
AGI: 40
DEX: 77
LUK: 1]
Skills:
Unique: [Dissection]: Absolute dexterity in biological experiments of being below her level(higher beings needed to first have their consent), [Queen of Arachnids]: Control over spiders and another relative being, Asexual egg reproduction (debuff-No common skill can be attained).
"Oh yeah, master! I got a dress for you."
Is it just me or did she become more affectionate? Well, not like I minded so I accepted the full white dress and I discarded the scarf I was using as a robe, and put the dress on, it fitted perfectly so I nodded in satisfaction though it could be better if it had some color scheme on it, but this will do for now. Actually, because all of them swore their loyalty to me, I can see their stats even if I am not in front of them, but the thing is I want to let Saru and Kabuto meet because the two of them look extremely serious and will be quite a good match, but Kabuto is now hiding from the still curious monkeys and they will sure to be in the same battlefield anyway, so I did not meddle with the two that much.
These are the stats of the three monkeys by the way.
Name: Wokung
HP: 111
Race: Pyro Erectus
Mana: 108
Stamina: 209
[Level: 15/350
EXP: 13/3500
Stats:
STR: 48
INT: 27
VIT: 37
AGI: 59
DEX: 50
LUK: 1]
Skills:
Unique:
Pyromancy [Complete Control Over Flames, Complete Flame Immunity, ×4 Fire Damage]
Common:
[Martial Arts Master]: Only Ones who have mastered the way of martial arts can have this skill. The next evolution is something anyone in the martial way desires.
[Gigantification]: Let the one who has masterful control of his or her body increase the size of any parts of their body, or even their whole body itself.
Passive:
[Mid Regeneration]: Regenerates HP, speed: 2 HP per .05 second.
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Name: Saru
HP: 111
Race: Pyro Erectus
Mana:57
Stamina: 477
[Level: 0/40
EXP: 30/5,000
Stats:
STR: 40
INT: 10
VIT: 37
AGI: 50
DEX: 80
LUK: 1]
Skills:
Common:
[Sword Master]: Skill gained by a person who pursued the way of the blade and nothing else, fundamentals and damages increased.
[Flame Cloak LVL. 5]: Let the user cloak inanimate objects with fire.
[Sprint]: Enables the user to bolt in and out of the enemy's range with ease, due to the skill being already at its final form, it cannot further be evolved.
________
Name: Jin
HP: 111
Race: Pyro Erectus
Mana:57
Stamina: 477
[Level: 0/40
EXP: 30/5,000
Stats:
STR: 38
INT: 10
VIT: 37
AGI: 50
DEX: 47
LUK: 1]
Skills:
Common:
[Sprint]: Enables the user to bolt in and out of the enemy's range with ease, due to the skill being already at its final form, it cannot further be evolved.
[Flame Charge LVL. 5]: Lets the User Charge him or herself with scorching flames, and adds Physical Fire Damage to every Physical attack for Five Seconds.
[Martial Arts Master]: An evolved form of Martial Arts apprentice, uses fists and feet to fight and move precisely and effectively with every name change. The next evolution is what every taker of the path of the martial desires.
______
I can see that the sibling have quite the similar stats, but then again all of the people here have martial arts skills running in their blood, while I am thinking about this thing, I removed the dress that was given to me by Arachne and looked for the bathrobe she just made and put it in. I saw Eleanor in a similar outfit going to the natural hot springs.
_Well, I also have to have a little me time once in a while._
I thought so as I shouted.
"Ellie, let's go together!"
I looked at the slimy spider lady that was vomited by the giant spider in front of us, her skin was white, the skin tone of nobles who were forbidden to go out of their abode in fear that their purity would get tainted with the harsh environment in the world outside their gates, however, her pitch black hair that goes down her also white-colored spider lower half alongside her scarlet red eyes that suggests her malice and greed will make any good first impression to immediately crumble to dust. She also has a slender body and ample breasts her being naked right now plus the fact that she is pushing off slimy liquids away from her cleavage makes her look incredibly alluring.
"Master, I have news."
She said so as she bowed lightly in front of me, she had this annoying smile on her but the greedy person that she is, I am sure that she would not betray me and I am planning to name her anyway so betraying me or not will not matter after I do that.
I waved my hand a little and looked at the monkeys, I then said a simple "Disperse." which made them immediately get out of the area in which my room is in, even the two children of the monkey leader did not dare to loiter around, it seems like they have already accepted their position as my subordinates.
Talk about quick adaptability.
"Tell your tale."
While I was thinking of such things, I said to the queen,
She immediately entered an empty room adjacent to mine and then slumped into the ground, coughing some blood while sweating like mad.
"You should have eaten the corpse that I gave you before you came here, you know."
She is panting while wiping off the trickles of blood that were left in her mouth.
"Ahem... Well, this is an urgent matter you see."
The spider who vomited the queen earlier entered the room and once again puked something, but this time, it's a corpse of one of the many monkeys that I killed earlier, Yeah the reason I levelled up to level 29 even though I can't exp. share with my goblins because I am considered the killer of the monkeys that died in the landmine site, anyway the spider queen started to pluck out the eyes of the monkey, she then put an eyeball in her mouth, chewed it, and made an "Ah..." sound.
Seems like it's delectable for her.
According to cannibals, the most delicious part of the human body is the eyes, Who would have thought that that's also the case for monkeys too.
"Want some? They're delicious."
The spider queen seemed to misunderstand me intently staring into the eyeball she was currently eating and offered me one.
"Ah no, you seem tired, anyway, Start the report while you are eating."
Who wants things vomited by a spider?
Well, I can't say that, so I just listened to the story of the spider queen, Though her gigantic spider child that is skinning the corpse of the monkey is quite distracting, I ignored it. Anyway the story is actually quite simple, a bat with narcissistic tendencies gave birth to a single bat, or rather she gave birth to several but not en-mass like how this spider in front of me can do, so only the oldest one flew towards the cave of the spider to seek information to the gigantification of the monkey tribe leader.
The liar that she is, gave completely wrong information like I am the one who killed the monkey tribe leader, I enslaved the whole race of the monkeys, and am seeking the head of the greatest information broker of the forest (her). Of course, the death of a strong person like the monkey tribe leader will cause quite the stir up for the bat and the forest in general, so the bat immediately proposed a meeting and my subordinate offered her lair as the area in which the meeting will happen.
"Well as far as I can see, master wants to invade the whole forest, so this help should be enough, I will have to have another three days to calculate the total amount of soldiers they can muster, but I have the list of races that will surely participate, they are..."
The spider queen stated all of the races that would participate, sure enough it is quite shocking how few they were considering how big this forest is, but given that races as intelligent as humans like the monkeys over here existed with monsters stupider than an ostrich, I can see why that is the case. She also said the number of populations of the races and the lairs of the strongest are of course the points I have to conquer.
Wait, does that mean the spider queen is weaker than an orc? I mean, shouldn't her lair be one to be the point to be conquered because of her being recognized as one of the most prominent figures of the forest?
[You just got freebies, don't ridicule your subordinates.]
Oh, I see, My bad.
Of course, the queen of spiders is not aware of this conversation and continues.
"The meeting will be held in three days and the alliance will probably attack after another three, there's no time for proper intel. gathering because I am yet to properly recover and cannot give birth to many arachnids so I will also propose my base as the main backline of the invasion army, I will also make sure that I will be the strategist of their invasion."
She ended her tale like that and yeah, I will probably have no choice but to be on the defensive here so I have to plan it so that my two bases will not get destroyed, but I will not accept it if only one base survived, so to have a proper amount of power to push off their future advance and attack, I won't also accept it if I will only defend.
_I have to give them names._
I sighed and then [Guide] immediately responded and rebuked me.
[That's very dangerous you know? And isn't it enough that the spider will be the strategist?]
No, what the hell are you talking about? Do you think a strategist can just say: "Okay, so what will we do is to give up on our dreams and die" and it will be approved by the commander?
Of course, what will she do is create a proper strategy and then relay it to me and I have to find a solution on the spot, Actually didn't you say that you are as intelligent as me?
[Well, I am still a little bit loop-sided.]
... I see, well I hope you won't be any more soon.
Anyway, like I said earlier I have to name all of the monsters under my command for their strength to receive an upgrade. My undeads seem to be lagging behind the soldiers, but as their race name has said, they are already undead so even though some goblins are already high goblins and Lyra is just a mid goblin, that does not mean that she is weaker than the majority of the soldiers because the Undead race have a higher base than the goblin race.
And they are just four or five levels away from evolving anyway so I am not worried about them lagging behind.
After deciding what I first do as preparations, I left the spider queen alone for now while saying "You will now be known as Arachne."
"Wha....?"
She is of course dumbfounded but I left him alone and asked Lyra to gather the goats of the goat cavalry and asked Kabuto to travel into the first settlement and summon all the wolves into the volcano.
"While you're at it, announce our victory."
I added to my order because even though I was quite sure that they already knew that we won I just wanted to bloat my ego more, anyway after I heard Kabuto's "Understood", I looked for the tribe leader that is currently eating a giant chunk of meat stuck in a very long bone, so there are also manga meat in this world, how fascinating, no its ridiculous, anyway I called him out after her bit the last piece of meat and said.
"Summon all of the citizens, both civilians and soldiers."
The monkey tribe leader suddenly looked at me as he rinsed his mouth with a bowl of water, he then replied,
"Why is that, my lady?"
I just gave him a light smile and replied,
"It's a surprise, oh and by the way Wokung, please bring your children too."
Wokung nodded his head as he bowed, but then squinted his eyes and asked.
"What is Wokung?"
I walked away casually and replied,
"Your name."
He had the same "Wha..?" Reaction as Arachne which as I expected, in all the goblins I named before, no matter how much they were afraid of me, their eyes shined and looked at me and still said thank you before running, that just shows how prestigious a name for a monster is, well it gives them strength after all, so no wonder.
After a bit of waiting, all of the goats, the wolves, and the monkeys are lined up neatly outside the cave. And as pops finally permitted it, none of my wolves nor my goats have pale white faces when looking at me, all of the quadrupedal in here even bowed slightly whilst the wolves were wagging their tails.
Ah... If you were not in my shoes, you would not be able to understand this sense of satisfaction of mine. I had that kind of smile on my face as I finally decided to speak.
"Ahem, my people, we have successfully grasped victory with our hands..."
Anyway, the speech is quite long because I can make it long and also because I have to recover mana from naming the two strongest individuals in this place after me, and after some 30 minutes of babbling about, I finally gave out names, I named the girl child of Wokung, a swordsman with a katana and a little bit tattered kamishimo Saru as in monkey in Japanese to not be confused to the java definition of the same word that means annoying.
I then named the other child, the one with the bandages on both of his fists Jin, that one from Tekken. They knelt in front of me and thanked me while crying, It took about thirty minutes to stop them, and the moment they stopped they got shrouded with a cocoon and were unable to speak.
I then saw the two giant spiders loitering around the foot of the volcano and called them to act as guards for the cocoon of these many many individuals, after which I continued naming them and now I learned my lesson on naming and now using names that have relation to their respective race, I mean I don't want to call a goblin Protacio, you know? And there's already a goblin that is in the ranks of the infantry, I started to sweat as my mana drained with every name I uttered, but this is for the power-up of my people after all, so after about half a day of naming, I sighed, after which my vision suddenly tuned black and several panicky sounds was heard around me.
_Oh, I passed out._
[I told you, it's dangerous.]
Some time later, in my room, Arachne or her bust can be seen in my field of vision, It seems like she let me have a lap pillow, but of course, I ignored it because I am a one-woman lady and just checked her stats.
Name: Arachne
HP: 15
Race: Monarch Spider
Mana: 356
Stamina: 333
[Level: 3/100
EXP: 300/1000
Stats:
STR: 3
INT: 89
VIT: 5
AGI: 40
DEX: 77
LUK: 1]
Skills:
Unique: [Dissection]: Absolute dexterity in biological experiments of being below her level(higher beings needed to first have their consent), [Queen of Arachnids]: Control over spiders and another relative being, Asexual egg reproduction (debuff-No common skill can be attained).
"Oh yeah, master! I got a dress for you."
Is it just me or did she become more affectionate? Well, not like I minded so I accepted the full white dress and I discarded the scarf I was using as a robe, and put the dress on, it fitted perfectly so I nodded in satisfaction though it could be better if it had some color scheme on it, but this will do for now. Actually, because all of them swore their loyalty to me, I can see their stats even if I am not in front of them, but the thing is I want to let Saru and Kabuto meet because the two of them look extremely serious and will be quite a good match, but Kabuto is now hiding from the still curious monkeys and they will sure to be in the same battlefield anyway, so I did not meddle with the two that much.
These are the stats of the three monkeys by the way.
Name: Wokung
HP: 111
Race: Pyro Erectus
Mana: 108
Stamina: 209
[Level: 15/350
EXP: 13/3500
Stats:
STR: 48
INT: 27
VIT: 37
AGI: 59
DEX: 50
LUK: 1]
Skills:
Unique:
Pyromancy [Complete Control Over Flames, Complete Flame Immunity, ×4 Fire Damage]
Common:
[Martial Arts Master]: Only Ones who have mastered the way of martial arts can have this skill. The next evolution is something anyone in the martial way desires.
[Gigantification]: Let the one who has masterful control of his or her body increase the size of any parts of their body, or even their whole body itself.
Passive:
[Mid Regeneration]: Regenerates HP, speed: 2 HP per .05 second.
______
Name: Saru
HP: 111
Race: Pyro Erectus
Mana:57
Stamina: 477
[Level: 0/40
EXP: 30/5,000
Stats:
STR: 40
INT: 10
VIT: 37
AGI: 50
DEX: 80
LUK: 1]
Skills:
Common:
[Sword Master]: Skill gained by a person who pursued the way of the blade and nothing else, fundamentals and damages increased.
[Flame Cloak LVL. 5]: Let the user cloak inanimate objects with fire.
[Sprint]: Enables the user to bolt in and out of the enemy's range with ease, due to the skill being already at its final form, it cannot further be evolved.
________
Name: Jin
HP: 111
Race: Pyro Erectus
Mana:57
Stamina: 477
[Level: 0/40
EXP: 30/5,000
Stats:
STR: 38
INT: 10
VIT: 37
AGI: 50
DEX: 47
LUK: 1]
Skills:
Common:
[Sprint]: Enables the user to bolt in and out of the enemy's range with ease, due to the skill being already at its final form, it cannot further be evolved.
[Flame Charge LVL. 5]: Lets the User Charge him or herself with scorching flames, and adds Physical Fire Damage to every Physical attack for Five Seconds.
[Martial Arts Master]: An evolved form of Martial Arts apprentice, uses fists and feet to fight and move precisely and effectively with every name change. The next evolution is what every taker of the path of the martial desires.
______
I can see that the sibling have quite the similar stats, but then again all of the people here have martial arts skills running in their blood, while I am thinking about this thing, I removed the dress that was given to me by Arachne and looked for the bathrobe she just made and put it in. I saw Eleanor in a similar outfit going to the natural hot springs.
_Well, I also have to have a little me time once in a while._
I thought so as I shouted.
"Ellie, let's go together!"
