Epic of Caterpillar
chapter-134

As the first, second, and third troops of the Realm Menace of Lust pressured the Athetosea human army, quickly diminishing their ranks with their overwhelming strength, the Elemental Knights of Wind and Nature obtained a system notification alerting the death of Adam, the Elemental Knight of Thunder.

Because they have gone through so many hard times with Adam, even though he had a flamboyant and somewhat annoying personality, he was still a beloved companion and was a reliable man that wanted to protect his people and his Kingdom.

The death of such a character greatly impacted the Elven cousins, Haemir and Faylen Qinric, who contrary to their calm demeanor and relaxed nature, went into a total rampage, blinded by rage and sadness.

Their beautiful and almost celestial faces were now deformed by the constant tears and rage. Their pale white skin was red with fury, and their small and fine eyebrows were crossed on v shape, depicting a wave of anger that does not belong on the elven race.

Although they were half-elves, the cousins were always treated as pure elves, and sometimes discriminated by their ancient lineage. However, Adam always treated them like friends and never had said any offensive word to them, or any racial slur whatsoever. Although Adam was flamboyant, a tad bit egocentric and annoying, he was a good man and one who supported and respected his companions, something that the cousins saw that the Athetosea Kingdom lacked very much.

Such an old friend parting ways with them at such a sudden event, impacted their hearts greatly, filling them with grievance, anger, and regret.

"Adam… I will never forget you, stupid human… And you, monsters!!! You will pay for what you have done! I shall bring your heads back to my Kingdom!" -Yelled Haemir Qinric, in a sudden burst of anger.

"Ooh… Adam… Adam… You didn't deserve such a sudden death, without your friends around… Why was your death so tragic? Adam… Nature Spirits, please bring me your strength!" -Grieved Faylen Qinric, in a weak voice, with her face filled with crystalline tears.

Concentrating, I summoned twenty more [Arms of Demise] and commanded them to quickly massacre the humans on the backline, especially the strong-looking ones and the mages.

The gigantic and towering arms flew through the skies and opened their palms, smashing the humans bellow them like floating towers of judgment. Only when various mages and knights came up together, they were able to resist the giant arms with a combination of Magic Shields and Light Magic Attacks.

Meanwhile, I saw the Elemental Knight of Wind confronting Brontes, he had an almost lunatic smile filled with anger and sadness, completely deforming his natural beauty.

The half-elf man yelled at Brontes about who killed Adam, the Elemental Knight of Thunder. Meanwhile, Brontes remained silent as she fought the half-elf with her club alongside a thunder domain.

The half-elf had a powerful magic-infused weapon that could call upon the Wind Spirits on the environment, it seems that his elven lineage also lets him partially draw MP from the environment, which he uses to enhance his body beyond his basic capabilities. Because I was curious about Brontes growth, I let the two fight.

At first, Brontes tested the waters and fought at a safe distance, while shooting sparks of yellow-colored lighting. As she discovered that the Elemental Knight of Wind was obviously faster and even matched her Lighting Speed, she became more aggressive.

When the half-elf matched Brontes speed, he raised his longsword and released a massive half-moon shaped slash made of concentrated Wind Magic. The powerful slash had a massive speed and for a moment, outmatched Brontes capabilities.

However, she quickly summoned her Thunder Spirit Shield and covered her entire body with a dense Lighting Coat, which took most of the damage. The strength of the wind slash was able to break Brontes Thunder Spirit Shield, something that I have never seen happening before.

It seems that Wind is naturally stronger than Thunder, as the skills that this half-elf throws at Brontes seem to have an additional fixed damage effect.

Brontes covered her foot on what seemed to be Lighting Boots, a skill that I had never seen her use before. And with these new Lighting Boots, she managed to keep up with the half-elf increasing speed and strength.

Afterward, she tightened her muscles and released a powerful lighting aura, that expanded into a small domain. I instantly knew that she was using the skill [True Thunder Awakening], present on one of the accessories that I gave to her. This skill will enhance all her capabilities and fill her muscles with thunder energy, increasing her overall speed and power.

Seeing the sudden increase in strength of Brontes, the half-elf was surprised and angered.

"Geeh?! You are a cyclops! How can you have such powerful Lighting capabilities?! Hmph! No matter what you try, Wind will always beat Thunder!"

Brontes gave a prideful smile.

"You will see… All the strength that I have been building!"

In a flash of lighting, Brontes rushed towards the Knight of Wind. Her increased capabilities seem to have surprised the half-elf, as he didn't expect her to break their distance in less than a split second.

FLASH!

"Eh?!"

Raising her [Legendary] Club, Brontes clashed it over the half-elf, however, the figure of the men quickly dissipated into Wind, as he appeared behind Brontes.

CRASH!

Seeing how Brontes lost momentum, the half-elf raised his sword and tried to stab Brontes back with a stroke at the speed of sound.

FLUOSH!

CRACK!

However, Brontes skin was so hard that it actually completely blocked off the half-elf sword stab, failing the stabbing, he became vulnerable to Brontes's attack.

"W-What?! How can you skin b-"

She quickly twisted her body at lighting speed and using her free arm, punched the half-elf on the sides of his body, breaking several ribs.

CRACK!

BAAAM!

"Guuuuueeehhh!!!"

The Knight of Wind body was completely blasted several meters away, however, Brontes was merciless and quickly rushed towards the -still in the air- half-elf. With lightning speed, she appeared right over him, and while raising her Club, she smashed the young half-elf man head into debris.

"Huh?! N-No!"

BOOOOOM!

Her charged blow was so strong that it shattered the earth itself and created a massive crater that threw several unaware soldiers inside, falling to their deaths.

The Elemental Knight of Wind was no more, and accompanied by his death, came a notification.

[Conflicting [Epic], [Lesser Epic of Haemir Qinric, The Beautiful Wind Knight] has been annihilated by [Fourth Wife/Concubine] [The Cyclops Thunder Spirit: Brontes]

[Fourth Wife/Concubine] gained a prize reward] [Legendary Relic of the Beautiful Wind Knight]

Another reward prize has been given, this time to Brontes. Although I would like to investigate what these things are, several humans began to gather around myself, it seems that there is a knight with a very advanced tracking skill and detected my presence on the skies. So, there is a big group of over two hundred humans trying to take down.

They gathered on separated groups and began to cast Tandem Magic, giant magic circles appeared to bellow their feet as a powerful magic aura started to exude from these circles.

"Kill that demon!!!"

"She killed Sir Adam! I saw her!"

"She is one and we are over two hundred, we will blast her away!"

"Tandem Magic: Everlasting Inferno Tornado!"

"Tandem Magic: Plasma Spheres Lighting Thunderstorm!"

"Tandem Magic: Eternal Icicle Winter!"

Three massive spells were directed towards me, and because I wanted to tests its strength, I took them head-on.

BOOM! FLASH! CRASH!

As the magic hit me, I surprisingly didn't feel any kind of pain at all and even felt my body reinvigorating itself, gaining new strength and energy.

The explosions and attacks quickly dissipated as I absorbed them as if they were another meal on my menu.

The humans looked at me with pale faces, blinking several times to make sure that what they witnessed wasn't just an Illusion.

Thanks to [Thunder Absorption] from my blood, [Fire and Lava Absorption] and [Ice Absorption], instead of taking damage from these magic elements, I gained new strength and my power increased.

"S-She… Didn't die?"

"N-Not even a scratch…"

"What is this?"

"D-Did that fairy just ate a magic spell?!"

Satisfied by their reactions, I commanded my [Arms of Demise] to smash and crush these insolent humans. I also killed a hundred or so myself on my rampage towards were the Nature Elemental Knight was, using my bare hands covered on armor, I was able to easily grab the human's heads and smash them while closing my palms.

If my bare hands didn't kill them, my everchanging aura would mold itself into a giant arm and finish the job, sometimes even instantly killing them due to the instant death chance of the intimidation on my aura. I didn't receive any EXP whatsoever, as the system was stockpiling the EXP and would award it to me after I stop my human genocide, probably at the end of the war. I think this is a way for the system to not overcharge awarding me EXP every second.

As I rampaged through the army backline, I made sure to kill every mage and archer on my line of sight, using my big arsenal of [Mystic Eyes]. I also decided to summon one hundred floating eyes that began annihilating everything at their sight shooting rays of light, freezing spikes, and nature blasts. These eyes were similar to [Arms of Demise] and worked independently if I give them a basic command. I used my split minds to devastate the battlefield that I wasn't able to cover with powerful Area of Effects spells like [Blasting Inferno], [Omni Elemental Chaos Storm], etc.

The human corpses who died in more than one hundred different ways began to pile up one over another. The survivors saw with horror the terrible rampage that was going on and could only think about escaping this hell incarnate. Absorbing the blood and souls of so many humans quickly increased my capabilities to another level.

On my way towards the Nature Elemental Knight, I roughly killed over one thousand and six hundred humans… Its quite hard to keep on the count, but after my Flesh and Slime Minions in form of bats reported me the state of the human army from the skies, it seems that we have already reduced the army to 60% of what it originally was. However, I have also lost several soldiers, counting over two hundred, but compared to the humans who have lost around five thousand, it's a fair exchange.

When I finally reached the Nature Elemental Knight, I saw that she was already on her last moments, she went against Rimuru after killing around fifty of my soldiers. Rimuru was able to easily deal with her and was currently admiring her last moments.

I don't know if it's because of my influence, but my wives have certainly grown more sadistic…

The Elemental Knight of Nature was a beautiful half-elf, it's a pity that she came on this army. As an enemy, my wives and soldiers are allowed to kill her anyway.

I came closer to the grieving scene where the half-elf woman was cursing over Rimuru with an elven dialect that I wasn't able to decipher. When she finished speaking, Rimuru raised her sword and cut her head off, which rolled through the ground leaving a bloody trail.

[Conflicting [Epic], [Lesser Epic of Faylen Qinric, The Nature Maiden Knight] has been annihilated by [Third Wife/Concubine] [Omni Elemental Spiritual Slime: Rimuru]

[Third Wife/Concubine] gained a prize reward] [Legendary Relic of the Nature Maiden Knight]

Without thinking about her death that much, Rimuru walked towards the half-elf detached head and impaled it with her rainbow sword, and then, she started to munch on it like a snack while looking at me with a cheerful smile.

"Mastaa! I did it! Will you reward me?"

"Of course, however, let's concentrate on the fight for now"

"Guu, alright!"

The soldiers surrounding Rimuru saw with horror the death of the third Elemental Knight that they brought. Having lost their hopes for victory, they started to despair and cry, while others tried to run away but were quickly stopped by my soldiers, who mercilessly killed them in several ways using techniques and magic that I taught to them.

With their morale so low, the army quickly became way easier to deal with. My soldier swiftly diminished the ranks as I commanded the fourth and fifth army, the airborne army composed of flying mount cavalry, harpies, tamed monster birds and Thunderstorm Phoenix, and the "Final Annihilation" army composed of the strongest mages commanded by Meiji alongside his Spirits.

Although a lot of the human army soldiers managed to escape, I quickly sent my Flesh and Slime Minions to hunt them down, while using [Swarming Parasite] on others to take control over them and infiltrate the Kingdom.

When it was 8 PM, the war was over. It probably ended so quickly because of my intervention, [Arms of Demise] and my area-of-effect Spells managed to take several thousand soldiers by themselves. The majority of the soldiers were just war fodder and lacked any experience or outstanding abilities.

In this world, it would have been a more challenging war if they threw at us a group of twenty Elemental Knights or Champions while being accompanied by a highly trained, talented, and an experienced army of Knights.

Monsters and Demi-Humans can easily outpower humans by their quick increase in strength due to [Evolution], and because of their fast reproduction and growth into maturity, I can recover the soldiers that I lost after one or two weeks of intense breeding on the Breeding Team.

In the end, out of my army of around one thousand and three hundred, we lost roughly four hundred soldiers, 40% of the diseased were Goblins, 30% were Trolls, and 20% Merfolk. Other demi-humans were too few to count.

Also, none of the very strong servants and soldiers that I've been training since I was a butterfly died, so there isn't a feeling of tragedy. The ones who were badly injured were quickly healed by the Nursing Team, which were accompanied by Amiphossia, and my Healing Lesser Flesh and Slime Minions.

On the battlefield, there was a big pile of roughly nine thousand humans, while one thousand escaped or were killed outside of the main battlefield. There are also the two hundred Shadow Assassins that skipped the entire battle and went for my Kingdom on the center of the Grand Forest, however, they met their end when they entered on the range of Guubo and the two Chimera Guardians. Most of them were instantly melted into nothing inside of Guubo's massive body, while the others were eaten alive by the Chimeras in different and horrible ways that I won't specify.

[Calculating EXP]

"Oh?"

[You gained 162.897.394 EXP] [The rest of your servants gained massive amounts of EXP]

[You gained 9 levels!] [LEVEL 027/250 EXP 13.344.345/52.000.000]

Well, that is surely a rewarding thing to see, the effort and time put into this were really worth it…

Gathering the corpses, equipment, and items of the enemy army would take too long, so I made my [Arms of Demise] gather most of the things, alongside my Aura Clones and Flesh and Slime Minions. It took around three hours to finally save everything on my Item Box, something that should be impossible, but thanks to my ability to stack the same "item" I was able to store the same human corpses in only one space.

There were also the three delicious Elemental Knights who I have been craving for very long now when we are back to the Kingdom, I will feast on them with my wives and children.

Before going back home, I also gathered my fallen troop's corpses, I decided not to eat them, as I will burn their bodies into ashes tomorrow as a festival for the fallen. I cannot bury them as they would most likely become Undead. I feel like it would be disrespectful for those who give their lives for me to become mindless slaves.

The monkeys used to bury their dead companions and would usually be surprised by a big group of Undead monkeys in the morning, so they stopped doing that. The Monkey Emperor used to burn the corpses of the fallen, and now that job is upon me to do. Although I'm sure I could obtain some interesting abilities from my soldiers if I ate such a big amount, I contained myself.

When we were back home, it was already 1 AM the next day. Thankfully, while I gathered the corpses, I multi-tasked and fused some abilities to not waste the synthesis chances of the day.

Skill Fusions of the Day:

1) [Sacred Earth Marksman] + [Spiritual Wind Tribe Survivalist Hunter] + [Sacred Shrine Maiden of Calming Winds] + [Mother's Earth Shrine Maiden] = [Sacred Hunter Maiden of Heaven and Earth]

*Can be switched between on and off. Increases magic and speed alongside giving a high affinity with the Wind and Earth Spirits and its magic.

2) [Weapon Summoning Magic: Thunderstorm Oceanic Protective Wall] + [Greater Heavenly Sand Spiky Shield Mark] + [Shark Turtle King Tower Shell Creation] + [Azure Coral Wall] + [Knight Arts: Greater Shield Protection] = [Azure Heavenly Sand Oceanic Fortress]

*Summons a fortress made of azure-colored sand magic. It can extend itself to a certain range and protect allies from damage, it can take a fixed amount of damage itself before it breaks. Small floating fortresses can be summoned to protect allies individually, although their power is halved. Cost: 400 MP.

3) [Severe Pain Resistance] + [Greater Pain Reduction] + [Pain Adaptability] = [Pain Nullification]

*Can be switched between on and off. Passive. Nullifies any type of physical pain that the user can receive, it can be sometimes deteriorating as the user cannot understand the damage its body is taking.

4) [Cowardly Heart] + [Sadistic Heart] + [Chivalry Heart] + [Corrupted Heart] = [Double Morality of the Human Heart]

*Passive. Increases capabilities and philosophical understanding of the human's hearts and their desires. Although these skills cannot affect Kireina or her family negatively, it does, in a certain way, change her personality and way of thinking.

*Cowardly Heart: Cowards tend to see danger everywhere while having high self-awareness of their weakness. Increases self-awareness and danger perception alongside overly cautious tendencies.

*Sadistic Heart: A Sadistic finds pleasure and enjoyment of the suffering of others while lacking any type of empathy for them, being able to fulfill their desires without being stopped by morality. Increases sadistic tendencies but at the same time, grants the ability to not be blinded by simple morality when it's time to fulfill what you desire.

*Chivalry Heart: Chivalry guides the heart of a knight, it's their code and morality. Protect the weak and swear royalty to your Kingdom. Grants the "feeling" of protecting what yours, if it was already on the user, it strengthens this feeling. It also passively increases the royalty of your servants and relatives.

*Corrupted Heart: A heart that feigns to be chivalrous and correct, but its essentially corrupted, completely doing what is contrary to its primary beliefs, without any remorse or regret. Increases the "believing" factor of lies and false emotions and expressions.

5) [Awakened Heart of the Prideful and Lustful Sinner; Vampire Overlord Dignity] + [Coldblooded] + [Double Morality of the Human Heart] = [Double Morality of the Prideful and Lustful Sinner; Coldblooded Vampire Overlord Dignity]

6) [Fist Combat Technique: Blazing Punch Barrage] + [Fist Combat Technique: Flaming Uppercut] + [Ultimate Wild Combat Technique: Catastrophic Consecutive Bites and Slashes of the Enraged Chimera] + [Demon Overlord of Lust Intimidating Catastrophic Rampage and Battle Style] = [Impossible Annihilation Rampage and Battle Style of the Unleashed Demon Overlord]

*Destructive rampage that immediately begins the second the user activates the skill; it will destroy everything with Kireina's barehand. She rampages everything as her aura mutates into different shapes, from claws to jaws, representing the countless beings she has eaten. Cost: 200 Stamina and 500 MP.

7) [Consecutive Ice Attacks] + [Thief Arts: Consecutive Silent Stabs] + [Blade Energy Vertical Slash] + [Blade Energy Flashing Stabs] + [Blade Energy Light Speed Stroke] = [Consecutive and Silent Freezing Blade Energy Stabs, Slashes and Strokes]

*Release a barrage of consecutive attacks using blade energy, power is enhanced if this technique is used with a dagger or sword. Cost: 120 Stamina and 260 MP.

8) [Storm of Ice Spikes] + [Ice Spikes Catastrophe] + [Winter Punishment] + [Cruel Freezing Stroke] + [Ice Empress Everlasting Winter Dance] = [Everlasting Winter Punishment Dance; Ice Lance Storm]

*Generates a giant Storm that can engulf an immense area of effect, throwing ice lances and freezing anything that does not resist Ice, its power is catastrophic and after one use, it cannot be used again for a set period. Cost: 550 MP Cooldown: 4 hours.

9) [Ocean Slime King Aquamarine Flood] + [Zapping Ocean Downpour] + [Thunderstorm Plasma Spheres Barrage] + [Obliterating Thunderstorm Rapids] = [Catastrophic Storming Oceans Flood Barrage]

*Massive attack that devastates its surroundings with a flood of high-pressure ocean water filled with thunder. Cost: 460 MP

10) [World-Rejecting Ice Crystals] + [Everlasting Winter Punishment Dance; Ice Lance Storm] + [Catastrophic Storming Oceans Flood Barrage] = [Ancient Tundra Thunderstorm Ocean Punishment; World-Rejecting Flood]

*A combination of Ice Lance Storms and Storming Ocean Floods creates a devastating catastrophe that is akin to a godly punishment. Cost: 650 MP Cooldown 8 Hours. The spells that made this one can still be used.

11) [Ruby Gemstone Scales Creation] + [Sapphire Scales of the Ancient River Dragon] + [Sapphire Scale Armor Creation] + [Thunder Shark Turtle Scales Armor] + [Ice Crab Carapace Creation] = [One Hundred Azure Sapphire Dragon Scales Carapace Armor Creation]

*Creates an armor of Azure Colored Sapphire Scales over the user's body, it made of over a hundred of these scales. The armor cannot be cast off and can only be taken off by force as its an organic armor and not made of magic. The armor gemstone scales can be used as precious materials for crafting. Cost: 220 Stamina and 300 MP.

12) [Charming Empress of Lust Sacred Omni Elemental Spiritual Shield] + [Sacred Wind Spirit Shield] + [Shark Turtle Spiritual Shield of Damage Reflection] + [Ice Empress Silver Barrier] = [Demon Overlord of Lust Omni Elemental Spiritual Barrier Shield of Reflection]

*Evolved magic shield, it can now safely reflect magic weaker than the user resistances, while also increasing the user resistances to magic and physical damage. It can stack with armor skills. Cost: 350 MP to activate. 150 MP for regeneration.

13) [Stealthy Concealment and Sneak] + [Wild Cat Cautious and Silent Sneaking] + [Shadow Coat of Recognition Obstruction] + [Thief Arts: Enhanced Hiding] + [Wind Coating] = [Shadow Wind Concealment Coating of Presence Nullification]

*Nullifies own presence, as if you weren't there, only someone who has a god blessing can still sense you, however, your identity will still be masked. It can work as a coat or as a passive skill, or even be added to others alongside Illusion Magic. Cost: 300 MP.

14) [Snakeman Breeding Capabilities] + [Endless and Tireless Lust] + [Strong Libido] + [Wild Beast Increased Libido] + [Sexual Adaptability] = [Endless Sexual Lust, Tireless Libido and Adaptability]

*Passive. Increases stats while having intercourse. It can easily adapt one's body to its sexual partner. Obtains a buff to one's stamina while on intercourse. Mental Fatigue is nullified for a small moment. Produces more seed if male. Greater chances to interbreed between species.

"The ultimate Skill…"

15) [Monster Army Overwhelming Enhancement] + [Bandit Arts: Cheap Group Assault] + [Shadow Wolf Pack Hunt Tactics] + [Predator of the Weak] + [Human-Hunting Army of the Demon Overlord of Lust] = [Overwhelmingly Malicious Human-Hunting Demon Army of the Demon Overlord of Lust]

*Increases the stats of an army of over one hundred soldiers if they all met the criteria of being a [Beast], [Demon], or [Demi-Human]. Increases their damage dealt with [Human] and [Humanoid] type of beings by a big amount. Increases their stealth and strategic capabilities. Grants a bonus on all stats if killing an unaware enemy. Grants a bonus if fighting a weaker foe. Increases all stats if fighting a group of over one hundred weaker enemies. Cost: 550 MP.

16) [High Blunt Attack Resistance] + [High Piercing Resistance] + [Enhanced Blunt Attacks Resistance] + [Physical Damage Resistance] + [High Magic Damage Reduction] = [Greater Physical and Magical Resistant Iron Skin]

*Passive. Concentrates all the resistances into one skill, enhancing their effects even further.

17) [Global Mapping and Logistic Gathering; Season and Star Deciphering] + [Shadow Assassin Arts: Enemy Presence Discerning] + [Thief Arts: Wiretapping] + [Thief Arts: Enhanced Tracking] = [Global Mapping and Information Gathering Radar; Surrounding, Stars and Season Deciphering]

*An even more enhanced mapping skill that can detect very far away enemies and their presences, Kireina can now see their stats from far away without them even noticing. Cost: none. Cost for Appraising faraway foes: Varies.

18) [Blessed and Talented Divine Bloodline of the Demon Overlord of Lust] + [Cursed Flaming Bloodline of the Fire Demons and Phoenix Descendants] + [Ancient Ice Fairy Bloodline] + [Bloodline of the Giant Turtle Shark Lineage] + [Blessing of the Ancient Shark Turtle King] = [Mystical Beasts Blessed Bloodline of the Divine Lineage of Lust]

*Passive. Changes the bloodline of Kireina to a combination of even more beasts, alongside this, this bloodline is passed as a "lineage" to Kireina's offspring. The blessing effect of the bloodline lineage is stronger on a newborn child.

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