Epic of Caterpillar
chapter-74

After countless practice fights, most demi-humans couldn't even keep with the Slime Family, these colorful group of slime girls became way too strong and were demolishing even the strongest Demi-Humans like the Hellhound or the Wind Wyvern woman. And the Blond Boy lose miserably to the weakest of the Slimes, Luminous, which Light and Holy Magic was just superior to him in every way.

Kekensha also wanted to spar with the Shining Boy, so I quickly healed him and forced him to fight again, any experience that he can get will be incredibly useful due to his talent to learn swiftly learn things.

In the end, Kekensha beat the crap out of the boy, but I noticed that the future hero was able to quickly adapt to Kekensha fighting style and even managed to predict some moves that the golden wolf had already done.

I decided to leave Evan sparring with different fighters, so he can quickly absorb their techniques and knowledge, increasing his experience in combat. From now on, he will fight with more than 5 different fighters every day, they can go easy on him, or go all out, as long as they don't kill him, I can even restore his lost limbs.

BOOOM!

After they second sparring, Evan already obtained some more experience from Kekensha fighting style and was able to avoid or counter some hits, but Kekensha had to just kick him in the stomach to send him flying towards the walls. The boy had almost its entire ribcage shattered and all his limbs were broken. However, I gave him two Blood Fruits and he quickly healed all his wounds.

"K-Kireina? You healed me again… C-Can I rest now?"

"No"

"Eh? B-But… I'm tired…"

"Kekensha! Start the third sparring!"

"Awwwoo! Yes, Master!"

I looked at the boy with an almost malicious smile.

"Good luck"

"W-Wait! K-Kireina!"

Flash!

Kekensha quickly appeared ahead of the boy raising his paw, which was enhanced with Light and Dark magic.

"Where are you looking, human? I am your opponent!"

Although Evan was surprised, his inner talent for survival quickly kicked in as he kneeled and dodged Kekensha powerful blow, afterward, he raised his sword and moved Kekensha away with several swift strokes.

"Hmph! Not bad, human!"

The thing that made this boy be able to tirelessly fight was his unique combination of skills, which were [Self-Stamina Recovery], [Gift of Training], [Tireless Rookie], [Shining Heart] and [Shining Determination], the first three will be able to reduce his stamina consumption while increasing his natural stamina recovery and negating the distraction of his tired muscles. And the last two makes his mind never gets tired, making mental fatigue nonexistent for him.

This is why the most efficient way to train him is like this, constantly putting him in dangerous situations and force him to adapt and evolve.

Fufufu, he will become a good hero.

I spent the rest of the day seeing my wives training while I trained the Archer woman and the Protector girl personally. I took a liking on these two beauties, so it was mostly because of this reason.

The Archer woman, which is named Charlotte Bartram, was getting better on her Long Sword techniques, and recently unlocked a new job named [Rookie Sword Soldier], which came with the skill [Basic Sword Technique: 5], that cost only 10 Class Points, with this help, she will be able to raise her foundation on sword fighting.

On the other hand, the Protector Girl, which is named Lilith Payne, was getting better on lifting her axe, and she has been quickly adapting to the arts of slashing with it. Axes are very sharp weapons and better used to slash things with immense force, using the weight of the weapon at your advantage to deal massive damage. However, due to this, unless someone has supernatural strength like Truhan or Nesiphae, slashing with an Axe may fail multiple times because of its weight and the accuracy needed to slash with efficacy, this, without even counting the speed of your target. This is why in certain strategy games; Axes always have low Accuracy but high Might.

Lilith has worked quite hard but she still needs more practice and exercise, as her status is quite bad and may need to level up some more to build up stats points, especially Speed. Because of her weight, she is rather slow. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that I don't like girls with squishy tummies, but she needs to exercise more. Thankfully, these trainings and sparring are slowly getting her in form. She was too used to remain in one place and take hits relying on her armor and shield.

Now that these humans are my slaves and belong to me, I will train them until they become the strongest champions of their race, no exceptions.

While training, I asked the two girl origins.

Charlotte is the daughter of a commoner family since she was a kid that she always loved Alchemy because her grandfather raised her on his workshop. However, after his grandfather died, the workshop was quickly closed and she was taken by her aunt's family. After some years, they discovered that she was born with a rare skill named [Innate Bow Mastery], which made her perfect for an adventurer. She had to put aside her Alchemy studies and become an adventurer to support her family with money, while slowly saving some pennies for a workshop.

If Charlotte shows more growth in the following week, I may present her to Kusuri, who may instruct her on Alchemy, and if she shows enough determination and talent, I will give her a workshop. Of course, she needs to show her worth and be useful. Both as a warrior and as an Alchemist.

On the other side, Lilith is the daughter of a family of farmers and was raised with a lot of affection and love. However, she noticed that the Kingdom began to increase the prices for everything, and it was getting expensive to even live as a farmer, due to the Nobles creating taxes to own certain farming zones. Against the will of her parents, she became an adventurer to raise money and help her family survive. She was never born with any combat skill so she had to train with the friend of her father who was once a knight, he taught her some defensive skills alongside basic sword techniques. Her innate skill is [Farming Grace], which decreases the time that any crop that she plants takes to grow, the crop will also have a better quality.

Her actual dream was becoming a Royal Knight for the Kingdom, but after discovering how scummy were the Nobles that owned the Kingdom, she began to despise them and would never become a Knight for such horrible people.

If Lilith shows her worth, I will bring all her family or even the whole village to my Kingdom, if more of her family possess such skill, they would be very useful. I will make sure to pay them very well and give each of them a place to belong to.

After giving my proposal to the girls, their eyes began to sparkle with determination and quickly began to train with even more enthusiasm. I used this opportunity and summoned several Undead Monsters using my [Summoner Book]. I made them not just normal skeleton, but I covered them on a thick layer of red muscle and assigned each one a different class, they will be nice training dummies that will also grant EXP when defeated.

Seeing that the girls were able to defeat them without much effort, I decided to summon more.

I connected my MP with [MP Share] with my wives and servants and summoned more than two thousand Undead. Using my skill [Lovely Care: Extra EXP], everyone was able to gain double the EXP. We spent the rest of the day killing these strong monsters until the sun fell down the horizon.

I killed quite a hundred myself, and the EXP was fine.

[You gained 386200 EXP] [The rest of your servants gained tons of EXP]

[You gained one level!] [LEVEL 53/70 EXP 160977/514000]

[The rest of your servants gained tons of levels!]

After the long and tiring training of today, which a lot of the rookies like Trolls, Goblins, and Monkeys noticed, we went towards the Royal Dining Room and I had a nice dinner with my wives.

Not all of them were on the training grounds, for example, Brontes was polishing her Forging skills with Kajiya while Rimuru was learning how to cook more things with Chokumotsu.

Rimuru gave all of us her first preparation, it looked quite ominous.

Wait, is this one of those stereotypes with the adorable girl that cooks horribly? P-Please don't be that…

Everyone put a spoonful of Rimuru's preparation inside their mouths.

"Aah! It's actually good!"

What Rimuru gave us was a delicious Fried Rice (Boiled Forest Grains) with chopped meat, it was also seasoned with different herbs and a spicy sauce. Its ominous appearance was because Rimuru burned the rice a little bit, but it was overall enjoyable.

Rimuru was looking at us with a proud smile while blushing. She was very proud of her creation.

While everyone was eating, I also took out the meat and monster pieces of the monsters that the Slime Team and Kekensha brought, and shared it with my wives, I didn't want to cook them because it would take a while.

[You and your wives learned the following Skills]

[Ice Golem Freezing Core]

[Ice Elemental Freezing Arrows]

[All Ice Resistance]

[Freezing Curse Glare]

[Freezing Stack]

[Freezing Tundra Orb of Ice]

[Shadow Binding]

[All Shadow and Dark Resistance]

[Deviant Follower of the Dark Ones]

[Shadow Devouring]

[Shadow Void Orb of Forbidden Wisdom]

[You leaned the following Skills]

[Forbidden Summoning Magic: Lower Eldritch Abomination]

After having a nice dinner, I didn't go to bed so early and decided to go Kusuri and Kajiya workshop, it was mostly empty with some Arachne Maids cleaning around.

I've been wanting to try out my crafting and forging skills. I browsed around the workshop and found various minerals and gems of high quality, and because I own this whole place, I could take whatever I wanted without consequences.

First of all, I tried to make a very basic ring named [Yellow Gem Silver Ring], the [Recipe Book] Skill for crafting came very handy, and it instructed me on how to craft the ring step by step, by taking a piece of the metal to slowly melt it and forge it into a cylindrical shape. My skills and magic infusion came in handy while refining the metal, as I was able to do it more precisely, and the mastery that I obtained after eating some of those humans helped at the end.

After three hours of tirelessly working, the ring was done.

It was a very common looking ring on this world, it was made of a shiny silver and decorated with a tiny [Thunder Spirit Gem].

[Yellow Gem Silver Ring (Rare+): A Rare+ ring carefully made by The Realm Menace of Lust. It exudes her aura and has inherited some of her magical essence]

[Grants +15 (+7) to Resistance and +10% (+5%) to Thunder Element Resistance and Affinity]

[Extra Effect: Grants [Realm Menace of Lust Tiny Blessing (+3 to every stat)] Skill]

[Innate Skills: [Masterful Work], [Forging Evolution]

There were some things that I didn't expect from just making a Ring. First of all, everything I craft will receive some kind of blessing from me, this ring blessing is considered "Tiny" and grants +3 to every stat, including Luck! That's pretty good already.

It also came with the skills [Masterful Work] which increases the basic stats that the Item grants when equipped by 50%. The second skill is named [Forging Evolution] and works similar to [Self Evolution] but when its ready to evolve, the item needs to be forged by me again to successfully evolve into the next tier.

Seeing this possibility, I felt inspired over giving each of my wives a beautiful ring to show my love for them.

This Thunder Ring would be perfect for Brontes, but I will first forge one for each and gift them on a private date.

I spent the following six hours forging two more, these were [Phantasmal Gem Silver Ring] for Zehe, and [Rainbow Pearl Silver Ring] for Rimuru.

[You obtained a new Title]

[Novice Accessory Crafter]

Afterward, my mental fatigue wouldn't let me forge more so I dragged myself to my bed and fell in the middle between Rimuru and Zehe. Something deep inside was telling me to hold on my new skills and await when the humans strike, I will be able to consume their flesh and obtain more skills to fuse, creating better results.

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