Epic of Caterpillar
chapter-286

[Day 179]

After the small break, it was already the next day. And just as we advanced towards the Flame City, a massive group of soldiers awaited us. They were over six thousand.

Oh, they are going rather hard on us now. They were also being led by a group of stronger than normal Blazing Ashura.

Ashura, the Yokai King, immediately recognized some of these faces.

"T-Those are my siblings… The ones enslaved by Ymir!"

"Ooh! I didn't think that I would get to taste them so soon, these are spectacular news! Hm? What with that face? You have bonds with them?"

Ashura was giving me a twisted look, there was regret, sadness, and also rage on his face…

"No… Not at all. Although they are being enslaved by my brother, they are no different. All of them have committed a lot of atrocities and have broken our father's rules and regulations… The Ashura Nation is back to being such a primitive place thanks to them…"

"Ohoho? So, you want me to take revenge? Aren't you quite the guy as well? Don't worry, I was not planning on sparring them anyways… Look, my children already are slaughtering the soldiers…"

As our small conversation occurred, my family was already waging war against the thousands of troops by themselves, my children slaughtered hundreds in minutes and Ashura's siblings were struggling to survive.

"So what are the names of these enslaved siblings?"

"There is Inferna, my older sister… She is a wicked witch that loves slaughter and to torture the innocent and weak, she evolved into an Arcane Flames Ashura, and she uses her flame magic to burn her victims into ashes… Huh?"

As I glanced towards Inferna's position, she was currently fighting Ailine… Oh, and she died. Ailine threw a giant multi-colored solidified magic spear that impaled her head, she died instantly. Ailine was disappointed, but quickly joined hands with her other siblings to gather EXP.

"That's my little princess for you. You're doing amazing my little girl!"

"Inferna died so easily… A-Anyways, there is the middle brother Ruruno, who is also a versed mage, but is also talented on physical techniques… He's also an Arcane Flames Ashura and…"

"And he's dead"

"Eh?"

Ruruno was a slim-looking Ashura with blonde hair and a cunning expression, he seemed more intelligent than Vudia, which he was fighting. He had a very talented control over magic and could even create a Fire Mana Zone, manipulating the flames and shaping them in different forms, he seemed rather desperate after finding out that my daughter had amazing magic defenses. He was surrounded by her Gold Golems and crushed to death, Vudia then drank his blood.

"Vudia, you are doing good, my little princess! Mommy is very proud of you!"

"Unbelievable, even brother Ruruno… W-Well, the next should be a better challenge. Ah! There he is! Brother Rockont! His body bulges with muscles and he's an overwhelming tyrant, he knows various types of martial arts and his evolution is Giant Ashu- Huh?!"

Rockont, the Giant Ashura whom Ryo was fighting had his head suddenly ripped off his neck by one of my son's fists, which impacted him right below his chin. The force of Ryo's punch was so strong that the head flew through the air, a river of fresh, warm blood flew out of his red neck, Ryo drank it while taking down some of the soldiers around him.

"R-Rockont! Even that cunt died so fast…! I'm rather… taken aback…"

"I can tell, so who's the last remaining one…"

I pointed as the smallest Ashura in the fight, a young Blaze Ashura girl that moved around with incredible speed. Her strength was overwhelming as well. The nails on her hands could extend like long knives and sliced down the villagers that decided to fight the soldiers, slicing them into pieces.

"Aah! That's sister Jewelen! Her appearance may deceive you, but she is a talented fighter who has learned the hidden arts of manipulating her nails and convert them into lethal knives! Coupled with her gifted speed, she can take down many soldiers at once and- WHAT?!"

As Jewelen danced around the battlefield and directed her gaze towards Aarae, my son tried to defend himself with a water shield. The little Ashura was about to destroy the shield when a massive hammerhead shark made of Lightning appeared from nowhere and ate her with its giant jaws. Her little body was then destroyed by the countless of electrified fangs, getting both fried and pulverized alive.

Aarae only pretended to lower his guard so Jewelen could put her attention on easily taking him down. Meanwhile, he made his Hammerhead Shark Familiar hide with Illusion Magic, and then commanded him to eat her alive the moment she lowered her guard.

"What a cunning son I have! I'm so proud!"

Ashura seemed disappointed with his siblings, although he hated them. Probably the fear they put on his young days made him secretly admire them for their overwhelming might and cheer fear they inflicted on his heart.

"Well, they were fine, I suppose. My children drank their blood and said that it was very delicious, so there is that"

"A-Ah…"

After two hours, the big "army", of weak guards and soldiers, who weren't as strong as Athetosean Knights were completely annihilated, with a few ants that managed to run away. My children offered me the corpses of Ashura's siblings and I ate them happily. They certainly had some talent and strength, but they probably don't compare to the main dish, Ymir.

[Calculating EXP gained…]

[Kireina] gained 437.538.880 EXP]

[LEVEL 055/250 EXP 2.088.599.346/9.850.000.000 EXP]

[Kireina] learned the following Skill]

[Blazing Ashura Royal Bloodline; Lineage of Fire Giants]

[Ancient Blazing Nails Arts]

[Blazing Martial Arts; Four Fists Barrage]

After the small war game, we entered Flame City with the villagers and slaughtered every soldier or guard, and probably some civilians that opposed us were also mixed in. We also showed our magic and healing abilities, healing the wounded, poor, and socially neglected, while also freeing the countless slaves that were inside the city. It took roughly the rest of the day to do all of this, which was rather fast seeing on how big the city was.

Once again, we were being called gods, and with Ashura's influence and how everyone knew about him, they believed our words easily. Most of the citizens were in terrible conditions and were praying for salvation to appear, praying to whatever god they believed in.

We were ambushed several times for more soldiers, but in the end, the smallest city of the Ashura Nation fell in half a day. All of this is nice practice whenever I do the same on the surface Kingdoms.

The Royal Family members here had already fled beforehand, and the ones who attacked us were sent by Ymir himself, I'm rather surprised that he hasn't come here to confront us, he seems to be more calculative and patient than I thought.

The people in this city submitted to me and automatically became my subordinates and then citizens, receiving my blessings and bonuses to their stats, while also enhancing their loyalty.

After healing and gathering most of the citizens, and letting them have their revenge against the nobles of this place, I had a great feast with even more high-quality Blazing Ashura meat, Nobles are in another level, their bodies are filled with Magic Energy and Life Energy, giving them very strong flavors.

[Calculating EXP gained…]

[Kireina] gained 624.459.345 EXP]

[LEVEL 055/250 EXP 2.713.058.691/9.850.000.000 EXP]

[Kireina] learned the following Skill]

[Ancient Blazing Ashura Magic Core]

Even after eating around a thousand, there were still more piles of corpses piling up, so I decided to turn them into Undead with my Skill [Raise Undead], which was inside one of the Necromancy Grimoires on my Skill [Metis Grand Magic Knowledge Library]. After its fusion, the skill became a powerful spell and became more effective in the conversion of corpses into Undead.

A ray of dark light flashed over the piles of Undead as they began to stand up and walk around, this was rather fun. I think I ended up creating over five thousand Blazing Ashura Undead…

I'm really a necromancer after all… Fufufu, Redgaria, you are not needed anymore… I'm just joking.

I ordered the five thousand Undead to march towards the next city, the Blaze city. The villagers began to call me a Goddess of Death, it seems that Necromancers in this place don't exist, so everything I was doing was beyond their comprehension.

As the Undead marched with haste towards Blaze City, I followed it from the skies inside a floating fortress that I just made using [Earth Molding Arts; Create Grand Golem]. I created a giant golem made of charcoal dirt and then summoned a bunch of Floating Slimes, stuck them together with the Golem using [Synthesis] and voila! It was able to fly… or float. Flying on my own was getting annoying as I desired to do more things with my family in the meantime.

The floating Golem was molded to resemble a Graf Zeppelin, and any monster or demi-human that saw its big appearance, that blocked the light emanated from the ceiling cowered in fear and ran away for their lives.

After two hours of marching, the Undead closed through the Blaze City defenses and ravaged the people inside. Whoops, I forgot to bring the citizens. Anyways, whoever survives will be welcomed and the ones who die will just become more Undead. Not even an hour passed and the city was in chaos, the Undead that I created was not only tireless but received several enchantments from my skills and spells, their strength had multiplied by three times compared to when they were alive.

Hmm, ravaging a whole city with Undead, this really feels like I'm an evil Necromancer Main Character in those novels. They are getting killed by their own soldiers and friends they trusted so much. Isn't it ironic? No? Well, it's funny for me.

Where is Ymir? Is he really letting me go towards the last city and conquer it? Did he run away? My Slimes Clones who have been monitoring the Inferno City didn't say anything about this.

[Calculating EXP gained…]

[Kireina] gained 952.298.439 EXP]

[LEVEL 055/250 EXP 3.665.357.130/9.850.000.000 EXP]

Ah! That was a lot of EXP, is it because I indiscriminately left my Undead to kill the countless civilians as well? I had gathered a ton already, carrying so many people back would be inconvenient, so I allowed this, the Undead who survived, leveled up and evolved too.

The Blazing Ashura Zombie became Blue Blaze Ashura Zombies, or Four-Armed Inferno Lich, it was very interesting how their species branched when they evolved as Undead. And perhaps because of my skill [Raise Undead], which is now a spell, had increased its power, the Undead created retained their past life souls inside, being very intelligent from the start.

The corpses left out were also converted into more Undead, and in the castle, there were only slaves and servants, the Royal Family members here also ran away. Is Ymir planning to do a last stand in Inferno City?

Oh, never mind. He's actually serious about it.

As we approached Inferno City, the capital of the Blazing Ashura Nation, there was an immense magic shield protecting the city, while an army of fifteen thousand soldiers awaited our arrival, they were accompanied by the rest of the Royal Family Ashura as well, Ymir seemed to plan on using them as meat shields before even risking his life. Was he planning a retreat?

I quickly contacted my Slime and Phantom Fox Clones, and he was indeed running away with his life! What a shameless guy he is… I left my family to have fun with this little war, with the assistance of the Undead army, they will be able to fight very comfortably.

Meanwhile, I flew at max speed towards Ymir, who was running away over a giant flame lizard that could run at incredible speeds.

"Ah, Ymir~! Since I heard about you from your little brother, I couldn't stop thinking about you!"

Ymir was very concentrated on riding the lizard, so my words surprised him and almost made him vomit blood.

"Bugeehhh…! W-What?! Butterfly wings?! Are you part of the foreigners led by my weak little brother?!"

"Indeed~ You see, your little brother just sold you to us! Perhaps if you haven't been such a bad brother, nothing like this would have ever happened~!"

Ymir commanded his fire-lizard to run faster, but I used Earth Manipulation and then added [Earth Molding Arts; Create Grand Golem], transforming the ground itself into moldable golems that extended themselves widely into a spherical dome, trapping Ymir with me inside.

"W-What?! You can manipulate Earth?! You whore! You leave me no choice…! I will have to just kill you right here! Know the rage of Ymir, the one blessed by two gods! And the one born as a Divine Species!"

Ymir's appearance, which was that of a youth Blazing Ashura, with long golden hair suddenly transformed. His body was covered in countless golden and silver tattoos that shined brightly, he gained two new pair of arms, reaching eight, and two more heads grew in each of his shoulders, his body also became that of a giant, reaching five meters of height, each of his arms obtained a blazing weapon as he looked at me with ferocity.

"You are privileged to be able to see my Godly Ashura transformation! Gahahaha! Now watch closely, whore! As I pulverize your flesh until nothing, not even ashes remain!"

"Hey, I can do that too"

"What?"

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