Volume 3 Chapter 7 (2/2)

This was their only play; no matter how much they wait, they would not find a better chance than now. At least now, all three of Procell's monsters were deployed outside of the dungeon.

”B-but that bastard is absolutely hiding something in there. We have to first investigate what that is and then form a plan about it.”

Resisting the urge to ask him how much time do you intend to waste, Morax instead decided to move the conversation.

”Assuming so and if you have any worries about invading by yourself, you should deploy the A rank monster lent to you.”

”But then what if he invades my dungeon instead?”

”By the time Procell could afford to invade your dungeon, we would have already lost. Upon conquering my and Ronove's dungeons, I'm guessing he's gonna fortify defense and forego attacking unless everything's perfect.”

Does he not comprehend even this!?

Once again, Morax suppressed what he wanted to say.

Patience, a little more patience.

”A-alright but I have a condition. Give to me the monster that was lent to you. Even if it's that guy, he can't possibly take on all of my best troops and two fully-leveled A rank monsters.”

Phew, finally, he realized it.

Morax could have proposed so from the start but due to Zagan's inexplicably high pride, he was unable to accept and go along with strategies suggested by another. It was better to let him think he thought of the plan himself.

”That's a good idea, yeah. I'll make it transfer there. I'll also hand over the right of control to you so that it won't vanish even if my crystal is broken.”

Each of them had placed transfer arrays on each other's dungeons. If they made use of it, they could then safely lend monsters to their allies.

That said, there was only one monster that could use [Transfer] and that monster could, at most, only transfer five human-sized individuals at a time. Because it would eventually run out of magic power in three roundtrips, they couldn't afford to use the monster carelessly.

”Be thankful for I shall do my best to fill the shortcomings of the two of you. I will break that bastard's crystal and win this war. Fufu, fufufu. Yes, I alone will invade his dungeon; I will show you all my courage and might!”

”Amazing. I'll try to hold out for as long as I can and keep him from recalling his troops back to his dungeon but I hope you win this quickly.”

Deep inside, Morax was ridiculing Zagan. That isn't courage; unless he had such strong monsters by his side, he wouldn't be this confident. Really, after relying so much on others…

With that, their chances of defeat went down from a hundred percent to an eighty percent. They were desperate, yes, but the plan they thought up was surprisingly not too bad.

As soon as the A rank monster was given to Zagan, they concluded their communication. He probably thought it was troublesome to return the demon but due to that alone, information kept being sent to Morax.

”Now then, shall we get this final struggle started?”

Morax took out his Demon Lord book and using as much of the remaining points he had, he increased the floors his dungeon had and bought a labyrinth room that was as large and complicated as possible.

If a room was too wide, monsters would have a hard time intercepting invaders. Furthermore, such a room would make the dungeon unpopular to the adventurers and that would normally only be a bad thing. This however wasn't the time to mind such things. If Morax could gain even just a second of time, it would also buy Zagan an additional second, thus increasing the likelihood of conquering Procell's dungeon.

”What would I do once Procell reaches me?”

Surrendering immediately would allow him to keep his life. His crystal would be broken resulting in him losing all the monsters he had made up until that point and his dungeon disappearing. But that loss was tolerable for, fortunately, he hadn't chosen anyone to be his [Monster of the Covenant].

Demon Lords could live for as long as three hundred years and he would only be inactive for about nine months of those 300 years—nine months being the time he would have to wait for a new crystal to be given to him if his current one was indeed broken this war. After that, he would go independent and rebuild.

He would look at this as the price to be paid for him to learn and grow stronger. Even if it took him decades, he would bounce back from this.

”Let me learn everything I could about you, [Creation] Demon Lord Procell.”

And thus, he gathered the information from the quadruplet demons.

After a while, the Orihalcum Gargoyle lent to [Viscosity] was defeated. Seeing that, [Evil] was convinced that handing the A rank monster who was the center of his defense over to Zagan was the correct decision. It was far better to use it offensively than for it to be kept within his dungeon.

As he casually watched the scenes unfolding in the screen, he noticed the blond elf.

She was beautiful and was appealing to the eyes.

Using DP and medals were not the only ways to increase one's number of monsters. Other methods included the copulation of monsters of the same race and thus bearing a child; the usage of a corpse for undead monsters; the natural splitting of the monster as was the case for monsters like the slimes; and of course, for some demons and demon beasts, the usage of the females of another race to give birth to a new kind of monster.

[Evil] possessed the ability to make use of latter.

In fact, a good number of his subordinate monsters were born from human adventurers. The more magic power the individual had, and the more attuned the said individual was to [Holy], the stronger the newly born monster was.

So, when he saw that elf, he couldn't help but gulp down. That elf was the ideal candidate to be a mother to his monsters. Monsters born out of her could possibly be extremely fantastic. His intuition and the sensation in his loins was enough for him to prove that point.

I want to try her, I want to try her so bad.

If he confronted them head on, he would probably be crushed in an instant but if he could catch them off guard, then maybe… He still had enough monsters to accomplish that.

No, wait, settle down. I can't risk provoking [Creation] Demon Lord Procell here and now. Calm down, I have to calm down. I'll buy as much time but once they've reached me here, I'll say I was tricked by the [Steel] Demon Lord and beg them to forgive me enough to spare my life. Procell who has softness in his heart should spare me.

But, but….

”I… I can't endure it anymore”

Thinking about it, going along with that idiot brought me considerable stress. Maybe I can enjoy myself even if only a little.