Volume 1 Chapter 22 (2/2)

“Yay! ♪”

“Understood, Master.”

“My lord, let us show them the might of your Undead legion!”

And so, at last, we began our conquest of the [Wind] Demon Lord’s castle.

The [Wind] Demon Lord had tasked a considerable amount of her fighting force to attack my dungeon.

Her defense was now sparse.

There was an hour and a half left. That much should be enough to complete this conquest.

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“Fuhahaha, how is it, my lord? The power of the undead legion!”

The skeletal monster that wore an elegant robe like those of a noble’s, Wight, laughed out loudly.

He commanded the twenty Undead monsters and exterminated the enemies.

I heard that his skill allowed him to instantly train the Undead so I bought a Skeleton for each spare assault rifle I had.

The first room was a valley.

One wrong step and we’d fall down to the bottom.

Within the valley, Stolas’s winged monsters circled in the skies.

The lack of footing was not an issue for them.

The problem for us was that they were diving in from our blind spots. Furthermore, they refused to come anywhere near us aside from when they attacked. An ordinary monster would probably be at its wit’s end figuring out how it could beat them.

“My lord, there are no blind spots for the Undead legion. Let me show you that our 42 eyes sees all.”

That was if their enemy was ordinary.

Wight was connected to all the twenty Skeletons and saw what they saw.

He had instructed the Skeletons to look at all directions and thus, eliminated the blind spots.

And then, by Wight’s command, the Skeletons displayed their terrific coordination.

On his signal, the Skeletons immediately opened fire and gunned the bird monsters down.

“You’re doing great, Wight.”

“I’m honored to have received your praise, my lord.”

He, in his elegant as ever movements, thanked me.

Though his stats were low, his performance was excellent.

Even as he thanked me, he remained wary of the surroundings.

“Tenko-sama, may we borrow your strength?”

Wight suddenly raised his head and then faced Tenko.

“Yeah—!”

Tenko nodded her head in assent.

“Tenko-sama, in 60° south of east, in 3… 2… 1… now!”

“Here I go.”

In time with Wight’s signal, Tenko drew the trigger of her gun.

Tenko’s remodeled large caliber shotgun was fired. The shell split into countless pieces and hit the fast-flying enormous green eagle-type monster.

The formidable enemy was a B rank. It had endured the 5.56mm bullets of the Skeletons. Additionally, it was able to avoid the bullets after seeing them.

Wight splendidly assessed the situation: he had determined the Skeletons wouldn’t able to hit the quick enemy nor would they be able to take it down with their firepower, and thus asked Tenko who wielded a high caliber shotgun to lend them a hand.

This showed that I could rely on him.

“As expected of Tenko-sama, to fell that formidable foe in one blow!”

“Just leave it to Tenko!”

She took it down without any problems whatsoever. She was in a good mood.

The truly excellent one though was Wight. How I wished he was born an S rank.

Did she want to be praised? She, in a very obvious manner, went near my right arm so of course I stroked her head.

Her soft and smooth hair and fox ears felt pleasant.

“Yay ♪! Oto-san’s hand’s so big!”

Elder dwarf looked envious as she restlessly looked around. I guess she wanted to perform a feat and be praised as well. But it also seemed that she couldn’t make herself to just ask for it.

Well now, we should go push on as we were doing thus far.

We could see the exit for the first room.

It might not go as smoothly as before, we must brace ourselves.

In case you haven’t seen my post or the picture itself, here are the illustrations for Marcho, Tenko, and Elder Dwarf.