Overlord Empress - Chapter 99 LAYING FOUNDATIONS OF ATALA

Ichika spent an entire day before going through all the monster forces. She started to peek in to the souls of all the surrendered soldiers and picked out close to 30 million monsters based on their soul and talent. They will be the core part of her forces in the future. She gave them all a year time to spend some quality time with their family, before they will be moved to Atlas Kingdom, where they will be specially trained according to their talent and affinity.

Almost all the monsters felt jealousy of them as they lost chance to be a part of Ichika’s core forces. Ichika also picked out another 20 million elite monster soldiers and ordered them to move towards the territory of Aqrabuamelu.

Before trying to fight against Ichika, all the sovereign ruler monsters already choose most of their top elite monsters soldiers to accompany them to the war. So majority of these monsters are already paragon level. Even among them Ichika only picked those who are at least mid level paragons and above.

There are close to 4000 early level sovereigns to high level sovereigns among the subordinates of the sovereign ruler monsters. They will be acting as Royal guards from now on.

Ichika, 20 million monster soldiers and 4000 sovereign monsters all moved towards the territory of Aqrabuamelu. If Ichika want to train a strong army resources are compulsory. She can supplement for the divine grade and sovereign grade spirit stones with the help of Miracle White. But that is only one part of the resources. She need large quantities of pills and metals.

So the territories of Aqrabuamelu, Angila and Dahaka are perfect for her.

Apart from opening sovereign grade spirit stones mines, they left most of the ore mines untouched. Since they have no skill in metallurgy or forging, they don’t know the value of these ores.

Ichika planned to mine all of these ore mines for metals, in order to build armors, weapons and various war equipment. She already ordered the 4 sovereign rulers to start mining the ore mines and keep delivering them to Aqrabuamelu territory. As for Spirit stones, she let them keep it. She passed them jade slips containing information on how to identify these metals and mine them. Before leaving she also left them with thousand containers full of spiritual liquid from Miracle white. This will be enough to train the soldiers under them for the next 10 million years.

When the 4 monsters noticed the contents of the containers, they can’t help but gasp in shock. This amount is easily equal to more than 3 to 4 times of spirit stones, they earned in the past 500 million years. With these spiritual liquid, there is no need for them to fear of going bankrupt, training large number of soldiers. Only now did they understand just how rich and powerful their new master is. They decided to completely focus on the task they were assigned to, by training an elite army. In this way, they can gain her recognition and even more resources.

With the help of the former subordinates of Aqrabuamelu, Ichika gathered enough monsters to work as labour forces in the ore mines. She chose 1000 high paragon monsters to supervise the work and marked the locations of all the ore mines in the 3 territories directly into their minds.

Aqrabuamelu territory is the richest in spiritual energy and is also a fertile land. Most of these lands were occupied by several monsters. Ichika ordered the forces under her to shift all these monsters of Aqrabuamelu and Dahaka territories  to Angila territory after paying them enough compensation.

Ichika want to use Dahaka and Aqrabuamelu territory to build a large medicinal garden. Since it is already a sovereign state world, with high spiritual energy, the spiritual herbs will easily grow into high grade herbs. These spiritual herbs will be used to refine into various high quality pills.

For the next 200 years Ichika placed various formation barriers, completely surrounding the territories of Aqrabuamelu and Dahaka. Of the 30% territory under Dahaka and Aqrabuamelu, she used up close to 25% of the land for medicinal garden. The remaining 5% of the land was used to build a militaristic city, with large training grounds, barracks, arenas, headquarters, soldier quarters, war equipment manufacturing industries, cultivation halls and a massive library.

She also ordered the other 4 sovereign monsters to build up cities in their own territories. These cities can be used as trade centers for all the monsters on Atala world.

The next 500 years she spent carefully planting seeds of various spiritual herbs. Apart from her, no one has access to her medicine garden. The size of the medicine garden is easily 30 to 35 times of Monster world. So she has to use large number of shadow clones and golems to clear the land of any trees and rocks. She also has to place separate formations, as there are large number of spirit and ore mines coming under the zone of medicine garden. These special formations are directly connected to the mines and the city. None of the labour monsters have any idea about the existence of the medicine garden beside these mines.

If any sovereign rulers were to invade this world, then this place will be their prime target. Just the rarity and quality of spiritual herbs is enough to make any sovereign ruler go mad with greed and create enough bloodshed to get his hands on this place. But they will be in for a big surprise, if they forcefully invade this medicine garden.

During this time Ichika split the 20 million forces under her into 2 parts. 12 million soldiers will take care and act as guards for her personal territory. While the remaining 8 million soldiers and the 4000 sovereigns will be following her to monster world and will be acting as guards to the Uchiha family.

The next 300 years she spent personally training all of these guards. As most of these monsters never met humans in the past, they retained their monster form even after reaching paragon level. Under the guidance of Ichika, all of them were easily able to turn into human form.

But what made Ichika most tired is the number of armors and weapons she has to create them. Since they will the personal guards and  royal guards of the Uchiha family, she has to make sure the quality of their armor and weapons are high class.

Ichika had no way but to divert most of her shadow clones and make them work all the time in time chamber. By the time she finished preparing all the armaments, she was completely knocked out by the backlash she received from using shadow clones. She was unconscious for 6 whole months before she regained her consciousness.

She learnt one valuable lesson from this experience, that she needs to train a special group of blacksmiths for future. There are still more than 342 million official soldiers under her control. If she has to prepare armaments for all of them, then it will be years before she is finished. Then there is also the increasing number of new recruits. She definitely needs to train blacksmiths, who can be employed in her military industries. Sigh, who said world domination is easy?

She also need to train specialists in Alchemy and formations. Luckily she had 2 good helping hands in the form of La Guita Xica and E’Lara.

La Guita Xica was really a master when it comes to taking care of poisonous spiritual herbs. But sadly he had no idea on how to refine them efficiently. When Ichika gave him her notes on the knowledge of poisonous spiritual herbs, he was so moved, that he almost started crying on the spot. On that day he almost pleaded Ichika on his knees to take him as a disciple. Ichika didn’t reject the idea, but gave him time to first memorize the contents of her notes. Then she will give him a test, if he passed in that test, she will take him as her disciple.

As for E’Lara, she was completely by Ichika side, placing various runes on the armaments of the soldiers. Without her help, it would have taken her few more years, before finishing her work. The knowledge from her memories also helped her to efficiently take care of the spiritual herbs during their infant stage.

Most of the imperial soldiers on Monster world are dressed in Black uniform, while golems are dressed in Gold colour uniform. So she prepared silver colour for the elite monster soldiers and red for the sovereign level monsters.

Their uniform consists of a full body armor, sword, bow and arrows, spear and shield. Cloaks matching their uniforms were also prepared to cover them from head to toe. The armaments were completely etched with auto repair function.

Ichika spent her time completely drilling them in various military formations, details about their job description, how they should move and act once they are on monster world. She also taught them various languages and how to detect various poisons. There were lot of things for her to teach them, but sadly she overworked their brains with too much knowledge. They clearly need few centuries to digest all these knowledge.

During this time she was also able to finish constructing the palace on wheels. The citizens on Monster world are in for a huge shock after seeing it. She was able to tame Angila easily, but it took some effort to tame Dahaka. Aqrabuamelu didn’t yet surrender and kept yelling how his mother Tiamat will come to free him. Ichika could only leave him in the hands of the golems.

Even though Angila and Dahaka surrendered, she didn’t return them their own territories. Only if they serve her well in the future, she will give them territories of their own.

Finally after 1000 years of staying on Atala world and making use of the time difference between both the worlds, Ichika was able to finish her preparations. Now time to go back home.

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Author’s Note: second and final chapter of the day. sovereign state world is thousands of times bigger than higher state world. Even though Ichika only used 25% of Atala, it is easily enough to dwarf Monster world by 30 to 35 times. I need a good name for the medicine garden and the militaristic city on Atala. The more names the better as more cities keep popping out in the future. Also  2 male and 2 female names for the sovereign guards. Please help me out like usual, as I am completely tired to browse the web for names. Enjoy the read and also please vote, as they are like boosters for me.If possible I will try to write 2 more chapters tomorrow.