Conqueror

I don't want to make an unneeded genocide on the five kingdoms. They signed the contract. It'll be difficult to breach the content of that contract. It's a soul bound contract using my skill, "Soul Bound Contract." Which means if any of us disobeys or breaks the things listed in the contract, we'll die. Player or not. In the first place there's nothing in that contract that I can break.

I unlocked some trading routes for each of the kingdoms that once surrounded us. They won't dare to take a piece of land in my continent as long as they are under the soul bound contract.

The buildings in this small kingdom of ours has been rebuilt and repaired. The castle that was once in rubbles because of my cut has been finally restored to its former glory.

I also was the one to terraform the ground. The blast Afal did to those two places were extremely massive. It created an extremely large and deep hole. His destructive power knows no bounds. I don't know if he's stronger than me since we haven't tested it out. But I'm glad he's my right hand man.

Later on the day after observing the changes, I found myself sitting at the conference room with Zeta trying to brainstorm on what we should do to protect the land of the continent. The size of our continent is far too large to be covered. Our kingdom covers barely a percent of it. If I had to compare the size of this continent to another continent in earth, it would be Africa. But there's no islands. Just a large single continent.

"How about just taking over the other kingdoms surrounding us? We did it with the five kingdoms." Zeta asked me.

"Those players are dumb and are incredibly weak. I didn't even need to step in."

"That's why. Some players didn't undergo the training each and every one of us did. I mean if I did get reincarnated in another world, I'll just get enough strength to live well and just basically live a great and happy li- URK!" Zeta suddenly cut off in his words. "Everything I just said was a big pile of joke aha… ahahaha! If I haven't met master that's what I'd do but I'm extremely grateful for my master creating Yurid so I can become strong. Ahaha… ahahaha! Isn't that right Yurid, I'll become strong! Hahaha…." It seems that Yurid said something to him that made him change his words.

I let out an exasperated sigh and began to refocus the topic at hand, "I mean taking over this continent is an extremely huge commitment. I didn't expect that for our return we'll have this huge thing at our disposal. I was just thinking of overtaking one player's kingdom then let things go from there. But a continent immediately? It's extremely difficult…"

"Hmm… How about we make this whole continent designed like a dungeon?"

Two words made me interested in what he's talking about, continent and dungeon. "Hoo… Interesting. Care to explain further?"

"Well the first thing we can do is…" Zeta then told me all the things he had planned for the continent. But two questions popped up inside my head.

"Wouldn't that be the same as that...?"

"We are only doing it for our continent not the whole world."

"You have a point there. Fine let's operate Project: Valhalla."

"Project… Valhalla?"

"Every large scale project needs a cool name."

"Ah…" Zeta just looked at me dumbfounded.

But everything moved as we had planned.

Afal, Greta and Rize were the ones to hunt monsters. Their objective were to not damage the bones but for the flesh they could do anything they want. The flesh will be used as trading for the other kingdoms and the bones, everything still needs to be intact so they'll have to be delivered to Zeta to use.

The recovery mages started casting spells on the ground for trees to grow. We'll cover the whole continent with trees. We'll slowly just chip them away when we need to expand. The only ones that will know the trading routes will be the only people in this kingdom of ours. We won't allow anyone to get in here other than us.

Ortov and his team along with the undead Zeta created has been creating pseudo dungeons. Making destroyed fortresses hidden among the artificial forest the mages created. It's filled with gold and treasure from the treasury of Izgoy. Just to lure some adventurers. But these fortresses and destroyed buildings might be filled with treasure, but they're heavily guarded by traps. Enough to kill low level adventurers.

So here's the full version of the Project: Valhalla. It's an extremely dangerous and difficult project to maintain. It's so expensive to the point that I had to pay the mages money for it. They are covering the whole damn continent with trees. Those mages are under my protection now. Well everyone is but these ones will take priority. They're helping me with a large scale project in the first place.

The plans with the bones of the monsters is that they'll be resurrected as an undead. I know we're basically doing what the previous owners of this continent did but we don't plan to expand for now. I just need those undead to act as monsters for the forest. Using Zeta's Corpse Defiler, this will be extremely useful and cost efficient. I don't need anyone from my kingdom to defend the walls or any of the forests with it.

I then ordered Precia to change into her Gazer form and lure monsters from everything outside our continent to us. It was an incredibly long and arduous process. Precia had to lure thousands of monsters outside our continent using her skill, "Taunt." It focuses everyone around her to… focus on her. That's it. But it isn't easy to lure everything here. This took two weeks of Precia running around. I need to give her an appropriate reward.

For the monsters Precia lured, I specifically asked her to lure them to the strongholds. Zeta was there to bind those monsters. Around 200 per strongholds that are scattered around the continent. He threw them inside of the strongholds and put them to sleep.

They did this combination over and over again until we filled every single stronghold with monsters that are able to co-exist with each other.

Monsters are extremely dumb. So the moment they wake up, they won't be going to go back to where they came from. They will try to adapt to the situation and think of what to do. If they see their family and/or friends with them or near them they'll definitely settle here on this continent without knowing it.

With them settling here, there'll be two things that happen. First, they'll go according to my plan and continue to breed monsters in this forest so their numbers will continue to grow. This will act as a camouflage for my kingdom here. If they get too many to the point that they can harm my kingdom then I'll just send Afal to do it or Yefa.

For the trading routes, leaving marks on the forest to guide my people will just be too obvious with people outside. They'll decipher it within seeing it. So what I had in mind was to make Ortov make underground tunnels only for us to use. I specifically asked at least for four guards to guard these. But they'll be at the underground too. Two for the entrance and two for the exit. This underground tunnel was extremely large. Enough for carriages to go in and get out. 

They'll need to do something first for them to be acknowledged and to go in and out of Izgoy. Two knocks at the trapdoor hidden below and the words, "The Outcasts." Only my people know the meaning of the word Izgoy so it's a nice protection. But that's only for the exit. For the entrance to our kingdom the next steps are saying the words, "Second Life." Since that's what everyone in this kingdom feels. We all have been given a second chance at life. And we're going to live it to the fullest.

Everything was moving smoothly. I was back in the conference room with Zeta on discussing the progress of Project: Valhalla.

"I'm amazed Zieglind." He first spoke.

"Why?" I asked.

"I mean, I was only thinking of the forest and me using the Corpse Defiler to make thousands of undead to make a pseudo dungeon in our continent. But you actually improved the plan and lure real monsters here so that they'll continue to breed. And the fake fortresses with monsters filled with traps."

"I used Telepathy to the monsters to tell them where the traps are located so they'll be safe in those fake fortresses."

"That's amazing."

"So our next plan should be helping Herold."

"Ah… that guy?"

"You've met Herold?"

"You were captured by him and we tried to take you back but he was too strong for us."

"Well… circumstances arise. The hordes of monsters spawning from Tartarus will be too strong and we'll be overpowered with numbers. Herold as of now is currently battling them. Let's go to where he is."