King of succubus

"Was it necessary?" He asked without losing his cold blood to see someone else steal his prey. He knew that he will not suffer a loss if he is one of his shadow soldiers!

She knelt before him and answers her lord's question. "A thousand excuses, my lord. But if he had activated his skill, it was not a divine punishment but an explosion of the domain he was about to trigger! You were not going to survive this. Your constitution is too weak at the moment." She announced to him by putting her greatest responsibility ahead, that of ensuring the protection of her lord before he became as he had been.

"Hmm, very well, thank you for your intervention."

"..." Although she was smart and seemed devoid of emotion, at that precise moment, Alvine felt like he was wrong about the nature of his shadow soldiers. He could feel Luna’s self-grateful and joy for him when she heard his compliments.

What if they had emotions like any other living being? But it will be contradictory to what he had imagined until now; the shadows are, after all, beings without a bodily constitution. But this idea too had just been meaningless, the proof was the manifestation of his last shadow soldier who had a materialized body.

"In short, what about Darka and Greed? Are they doing well?" Alvine put aside his disturbing thoughts and asked for the essentials.

"They had just destroyed the core of the beast. It kept regenerating so they had no choice but to do so. It was a waste of their part." She commented while giving her notice of disapproval regarding the destruction of the core.

"Hm? Are cores used for a few things other than the creation of artifacts and magic potions?" He felt like he had missed a detail when he heard Luna's protests.

"...My lord, the cores also give us the opportunity to increase and strengthen our powers."

"Give me more explanations!" Alvine suddenly had a bitter taste on his tongue thinking he had not taken this factor into account.

"Even if cores do not allow us to evolve quickly like the absorption of their souls, they allow us to acquire new affinities or increase our controls related to the affinity in question. Even if at present, the cores of beasts below the emperor ranks are not very useful for those who have passed their first stages of evolution like me; but it is different from other shadows." She explained in a voice that could not mask her confusion.

Alvine was both surprised and disappointed. How could he resolve to feel different after making a such mess? Darka and Greed had destroyed only one magic core. While he had ruined at least two hundred because of his ignorance.

"Luna, warn Darka and Greed; and gather all the intact cores on the corpses. Take all your time without forgetting a single one." He said with a notorious sigh.

"Willingly, lord." She disappeared the second after.

'Sigh, it was really a mess.' He says to himself looking around with his perception.

'I guess this is the end of this wave. I am sure that magic beasts are now numerically inferior to us. The soldiers are doing better than I expected. The battle that is at an impasse is... no, even the Queen and her counselors are doing better than me. Needless to say, I'm always weak to take care of a single low-level divine beast, it's really frustrating, despite the fact that I have had so much progress in my practice. I thought I was controlling the situation but, without Luna's intervention, I would surely be charred on the ground right now.' He said to himself looking at his palm before tightening his fist.

He was not proud of his confrontation with the black tiger. Even if he knew that he had the opportunity to finish his opponent if he had given himself completely, a major problem still persisted; the divine domain of divine beings!

'Sigh, if my agility were as exceptional as Luna's, I could have solved this problem. If I could manifest my domain like the deities, I would no longer have to worry about their domains. If I could kill them all at once with an overwhelming power that would not give them time to activate the explosions of their domains, this major problem I am currently facing would only be a minor detail.' He meticulously analyzed his weaknesses while looking at the different possibilities and paths to take to find a solution; but in the end, a bitter sigh escaped his lips.

Meanwhile, Liliana was floating in a bloody fog that surrounded her from all sides, with small droplets of blood floating around her. A red rapier in her right hand while she meticulously controlled the magical mechanisms of her domain with her left hand and inflicted both physical attacks with her rapier and magical attacks with the powers of her domain!

-Sssssiiii!!

The tail of the chimera spits poison trying to rebuild its domain of burning fire and poison that had just been destroyed by Liliana's domain, which was more powerful than its own!

Liliana, who seemed to have guessed her opponent's goal, did not give him time for action.

Appears!!

The drops of infinite blood began to merge with each other and soon, thousands of weapons made up of all kinds of known and unknown weapons appeared from all sides while sandwiching the chimera!

[Blood Skills: Impalement!]

She murmured slightly for herself.

-Woosh!!!

Like clouds of bees chasing their attackers, thousands of weapons flashed towards the chimera and transform him into a hedgehog!

Even if the chimera had set up his shield, he had not had time to react quickly enough before dying in the other world.

"Fufu~, we are different from the first time. At that time, only one divine beast had almost caused our annihilation on the surface of this planet. But now you are nothing more than fry menus!" She spoke with an abundant air while laughing sadistically in the air.

"Well, I guess I'm the first to...! Puree! Alvine is another story but there, thought that even these two black and strange beings are faster than me? Despite facing an enemy more depressing than mine? With ultra-infinite regeneration, Hydras are more unbearable than Wyverns themselves! Sigh, you cut off their heads and before you manage to decapitate the other four, the first regenerates! Their magical nuclei, which are known to be their only weaknesses, constantly move in their colossal bodies. To succeed in locating it is like looking for a needle in a bunch of hay, but destroying them requires precision, strength, and handling out of the ordinary! These people are really monsters!"

She didn't dwell too much on it either, just like Alvine, she had done similar actions after winning by killing her opponent. Namely, check the others, to see if one of them needed his help, thanks to her magical perception.

On the other hand, Noddra, who had skills similar to the Queen because of their belongings to the same family, mainly used his blood control skills to prevent the centaur from performing any skills.

An interesting thing to note was that the queen had automatically become the target of the chimera from the moment he noticed the queen's magical power. Just at a glance, he and the centaur were convinced that the centaur had no chance against her. But the biggest mistake of the Chimera was that he had also underestimated the power of his opponent!

Vandel, like his surname Sunshield, sun suited him divinely well. Being the strongest among the group, it was he who had manifested his domain and imprisoned his enemy with them! Spheres of magmas floated and swirled around him while constantly bombing the centaur who managed to avoid 3/10 of his attacks (either with his magic shield or physically avoiding them)

But anyone who has been a spectator of this confrontation will see only three people leaving against a single pitiful beast that was struggling pitifully to rank his soul in the world of the living.

As for Rosasse Silverhoock, she supported Vandel with her reinforcement spells and buffs, not to mention that she inflict some occasional damage when she had an opening and above all, she prevented the opponent's magical attacks against her party!

Even if none of them had seriously thought about a better strategy, the countless battles they had fought together made them the fiercest groups of allies!

Not surprisingly, their battles against the divine beast had lasted only twenty minutes longer before they managed to bring the soul of the enemy to hell!

While they had just finished the last divine beast, Alvine who was patiently waiting for Luna, and the other two shadows who collected the nuclei of the beasts; Liliana had quietly joined him without worrying about her subordinates doing their work properly.

"Do you think we can win the war, now that we have won a battle of this magnitude?" She asked

"Sigh, I don't know, but according to my judgment and predictions, I would say that at most, we only have one or two battles left to fight with the enemy. Then, the winner of this war will be decided before the real war begins." Alvine commented thoughtfully while contemplating the setting sun.

"It's because of this story of the apostle and the Leader, isn't it?"

"Yeah, we can say that."

"But what is your role in all this?" Liliana suddenly asked him a question he had never expected.

He turned his head towards her with confused eyes. He was not so stupid as not to understand the hidden meaning of Liliana's question, but he was confused about the reasons that led her to ask him such a question.

"Sigh, I would lie if I told you that it's only out of curiosity who lead me to ask u. I really need to know what drives you to go so far in a war that far exceeds us; when you are not even an emperor-ranking mage. Are you special? Your skills are fierce and your real fighting force far exceeds those of the intermediate divine mages. So what? Your enemies can create divine mages! Do you realize what you are doing by mingling in stories that far surpass you?!" She asked in a tone that could not hide her concern.

Obviously, Alvine had guessed her intention.