Conquer - Chapter 219

“Hold up Zieglind, are you sure that you want to do that? That’s basically taking over the world at this point!” Precia joined in.

“Wait a minute, Zieglind has over two million units ready to go by his command?” Rize suddenly interrupted.

“Hold off on the questions for now. The pace you all have been going by has exceeded my expectations so there’s nothing to be alarmed about. We’ve established a large amount of army now. The moment I saw the numbers of demons I have under my control, the gathering of the armies were already finished. The rest of the time used was how you all would use it to improve yourselves. I’m impressed.” I was not lying to cheer them up because of the numbers I gathered.

At first, my army count was at 900,000. Everyone was disagreeing on how much Lagrima just chose a random person to take on the title of the Demon King. So, a lot of demons left. Leaving me with 900,000.

Hell was a battlefield of a never ending battle. There was no order, but only chaos. This place wasn’t ruled by government or anything. It was only ruled by power.

Demons are cowardly but strong. That’s why they can easily submit and overcome. They grow stronger on cannibalism or eating the souls of one another that’s why they go up through ranks. And I’m using this system of theirs to gather up more and more units.

Me and Lagrima were blasting through countless cities. Hell was like an infinite space. We haven’t looped around the whole place yet and we’re still finding more and more kingdoms in hell ruled by monsters that I haven’t seen or known before.

So the moment that I knew that the place was incredibly huge or maybe infinite, I began to start my plans on taking over.

I sent out the death reapers in a hunt in the whole underworld to kill anything it sees but leave the demons alive if they want to submit to me.

I haven’t use slavery skills on them, but it was easy. Demons only had one thing on mind and it was power.

So all I had to do was show my power at them.

I began to run around while doing whatever Lagrima wanted me to do to reform the entirety of the place. So for fighting, I head off and destroyed their castle and the kings that were sitting there. It was just a repeated cycle from there and that’s the fastest way I got to gather more allies and demons.

Maybe this is the reason why Ouroboros is so fixated on this title. No one can just go and leave in hell unless you’re a god or the demon king.

The benefits I can think of if he got this is the easy way of dominating other enemies with numbers and power. The demons here are cowardly so they’ll easily submit. But if you promise them great power, they’ll do anything for you.

Secondly is the space of hell itself. Ouroboros cannot act indiscreetly and silently when his army becomes too big for him to handle. A giant example of this is the serpent union. They got discovered too easily because of their numbers. But here in hell, he can just toss everything here and it’ll be impossible to find if they don’t know how to get here. With the Demon Sword Acabar, getting here and out is incredibly easy and seamless.

Third, the generation of materials. Hell has a lot of materials that I haven’t seen before and I’ve seen some that are tougher than Xend material. So it can block skills and spells from those who are level 60 and below. Or maybe even more. They can upgrade their own structures with this. That’s why I’ve been asking people to mine it but they’re having difficulty mining it so I have to manually go there and mine it myself. I’m going to give Lam these materials afterwards and if he doesn’t know, there’s always Ze-, Yurid there to examine it herself.

Hmm…

For the fourth and final thing that I can think of is obviously the power. Being in this form has greatly increased everything on my status. And the hundred sets of skills… And I haven’t used everything yet. And its still going strong.

Yurid then said, “We can take care of the taking over kingdoms but not killing anyone is going to be difficult.”

“We won’t have allies if they’re dead. Chances of betrayal will just increase if we just kill mercilessly.” I responded.

“So basically we’re doing the same thing the Serpent Union did.”

“…Exactly. But this time, they’ll be free to do whatever they want. The only thing we need from them is help. If we need it, they must go no matter what. In theory, if a single kingdom has around 20,000 troops, and if we made at least five kingdoms friendly with us, then it’ll be 100,000. But we must not be so merciful too. We must inflict a little bit of fear and a lot of loyalty in them. And that’s the thing that we need.”

“I can see where you’re coming from. Alright, I can agree with this plan. When do we start?”

“Tomorrow, everyone can start. You don’t need to split anymore. I’ll be staying here for the time being. Being in hell is annoying seeing how there’s nothing in there but a giant wasteland of lava and flames.”

“I shall tell Ortov to ready your room my lord.” Afal suddenly joined in.

“Alright, thanks Afal.”

The night passed by in a peaceful manner. Until I suddenly got a call from Herold.

I immediately answered it and asked, “What’s the matter?”

“You need to come here. Right now. I want to show you something.” Herold then said.

“What’s wrong? Where are you?”

“I’m at the Tower of Babel right now. I just discovered something.”

“Got it, I’ll be right there in an instant. Teleport!” As soon as I opened my eyes, I was in front of the Tower of Babel. A message then popped up that was saying that the message skill has ended.

“You’re here. Look at this.” Herold then walked in front of the door of the Tower of Babel. The door was giant, and there was two statues next to it that looked like valkyries. Herold placed both of his hands in front of the door and suddenly, sparks were flying everywhere.

“Herold! What are you doing! You said it yourself, we can’t go in yet!”

“I know! Just WATCH!” Herold began to push it all he can but the door won’t budge. And the lightning sparks that were coming out of the door were damaging him. He detached himself from the door when he discovered that he can’t open it or anything.

“It won’t open?”

“Inventory.” Herold then brought out a gigantic hammer out of his inventory and began to bash the door. Shockwaves were sent everywhere and I can barely stand from the wind it was releasing. I knew Herold is going all out right now trying to open the door.

“What’s happening..?”

“Its the same as with the valkyries. It won’t notice you if you’re a non player. But what if you Zieglind tried to open this door. If it really works as we thought it then this can only mean one thing. And you know it yourself.”

“Yeah.” If I’m the only one that can open this door that means all the Crimson Knights cannot join be in taking over this tower. So that means that I either have to go in alone or find other players to join me in this journey. But I won’t trust any player in this world. None of them are trustworthy. But going all alone especially in a tower that rivals the Tartarus… This is absolute trouble.

“Right now I’m hoping that it won’t open for you. So the only theory we can have is that this open on a scheduled time. So do it Zieglind. Let’s see how much the gods has sent us calamity.”

I placed my hands on the door. And just as I was to think on what I’d do, I felt like my arms were incredibly light. “Wha-”

“GOD DAMN IT!” Herold held my hand and flew at supersonic speed away from the Tower of Babel. “Please don’t work… please!” Herold was flying around.

But I felt like my whole body was being dragged away by another force. “What’s happening?”

“Damn it, it doesn’t work! Alright, Zieglind, defeat the gate guardian of the Tower of Babel. And once you defeated it, don’t use the key to open the giant gate. Run back! I repeat! Run back!”

“What’s happening!?” I then noticed that Herold has begun to become slower and slower until he came to a complete stop and was trying to pull me on his side. It seems that something is pulling me.

“I REPEAT ZIEGLIND, DON’T GO ANY FURTHER!”

“Ah-” Herold lost grip of my arm and I was instantly dragged back to the Tower of Babel.