New Subordinates
“We’re back, Master”
“Wafuu!”
Liscia, who rode on Lo’s back, returned when I’m gazing at the Divinity Tree by myself. ‘Lo’, is the Fenrir that’s formerly a Divine Beast, I made it my subordinate and named it. It’s now attached to me like a pup. In reality, even now, it’s rubbing its nose on me and fawning on me. I look at Liscia while patting Lo’s head and
“Hmm, it went smoothly, exactly as Master had imagined. It went too smoothly that it’s a little scary”
Liscia, who folds her arms, frowns and makes a serious expression. It went that well huh. I merely just sowed the seed though.
What I did, I placed a curse on the swordsman who accompanies the considerably skilled female archer during the fight with the Empire previously.
The female archer was commanding a squad of several tens of thousands. I’ve heard on the way here that the Empire Army are dividing into troops of several tens of thousands and attacking so I’d slightly thought about it.
Originally, the plan was to release dead spirits in the town that those fellows are staying and let the dead spirits assault them in the dead of night.
And then, those fellows will probably become extremely suspicious if I show them the sight of that female archer’s subordinate, who suffered the curse, being the only one not attacked by the dead spirits. By any chance, they’ll think that somebody lent a hand.
However, this time around, I was somehow able to make the Divine Beast my subordinate. It’s quite powerful and it’s an opponent that even Liscia has a tough time with. If something like that attacks the town, they’ll naturally be stunned, and an opponent like that somehow returned without doing anything. It’s clear as day that he’ll naturally be suspected if we make them think, ‘In spite of the fact that it appeared before his eyes’.
If I increase it by one or two people from now on, they’ll probably be torn by internal strife on their own. Well, this time around, it seems the female archer’s subordinate was suspected and arrested before I did that though.
“I guess they’re on bad terms right from the start. Although it’s not restricted to the army, there are lots of men who envy women who have more strength and authority than themselves, who are men. Liscia, you also died because of that reason so you understand, right?”
“Humph, I suppose so. However, if that’s the case then I’m getting irritated at the Empire! Master! Can I attack them one more time!?”
“Gauu!”
Liscia who’s gotten all pumped up by herself upon hearing what I say. Lo, who was influenced by that, looks at me with sparkling eyes. How much do they want to rampage.
“Well, wait. My preparation’s also almost done”
I say that and do the finishing touches. In my right hand, I’m grabbing a leash of black magic power and the end of it is twining around the Divinity Tree. And then I’m placing my left hand on the ground and pouring magic power into the ground.
However, what I’m pouring isn’t simply magic power, it’s a special magic power that mixed the power that flows within the Divinity Tree.
It seems that this Divinity Tree isn’t something that the Goddess created, but something that the Male God before her created. I heard this from the long-living Elf Race. It seems that this tree was here before the Goddess is being worshipped.
I don’t know whether if it’s because of that, but I’m able to take this Divinity Tree’s power into my body, albeit just a tiny bit. Just a tiny bit that my body can withstand.
Because I could tell that it has quite a bit of power even with just that, I thought, ‘Won’t I be able to create a powerful subordinate with that?’, and tried creating it, but that was a failure.
It looks like what’s created with just the Divinity Tree’s power was a failure and that, which I resurrected, left my control and went on a rampage. Of course, it also assaulted me.
After I defeated that fellow, a method that I came up with from trial and error was to create it with my magic power mixed with the Divinity Tree’s power. If it’s this method, it’s inferior to just the Divinity Tree’s power, but nevertheless, I was able to create a dead spirit that’s quite powerful.
I plan to create quite a number of it this time around. It’s what I’m currently doing. It’s been a fair bit since I started pouring my magic power and a rather large magic square is completed on the ground.
I’m not using the corpses this time around, I’m using the soul. During the time with Liscia and Chrono, it was the limit of my magic power to call for just the two of them, but now there’s the Divinity Tree’s power. I can probably call quite a few of them.
As the black magic square shines, it reveals figures one after another. Perhaps it’s because we’re in the Demihuman Country, only Demihumans responded to my calling.
“Are you our Head?”
“Heh, you look strong, don’t you! Have a duel with me, Sir!”
Amongst the several hundreds that I summoned, two people with consciousness spoke to me. One person is a male elf with long golden hair along with long ears; the other person has an elf-like long hair, but perhaps it’s because she’s got bed hair, her red hair is springing up here and there, and as for her appearance, she’s only wrapping a sarashi1 around her large breasts that the eyes inadvertently drift to.
In addition to that, a horn was growing from her head and a tail that’s covered with hard-looking scales was growing from her waist down. It looks like she’s a female Dragonewt Race,
“My name is Elfion・Mercure. I am an Elf that lived through the generation of the Hero God, Narugami-sama”
“I’m Relcend・Dragion. I was called the Fresh Blood Dragon and such before my death!”
さらし: Sarashi. A long, thick cotton cloth