The movement of over 500 demons was quite impressive, especially when the leading demons were armored and looked quite strong. The level of the demons aren’t really high, the commanders were level 8, captains level 7 and sargents level 6. As for the soldiers, they were between level 2-5.

It can’t be helped because the system of the demons wasn’t changed, they could only gain a small bit of exp from missions and with few military campaigns, their level is low. Players were actually equal in level to the soldiers but the armor gave them the edge of course.

They soon arrived at the tribe which was very close and only needed about half an hour walk. The tribe had no walls and only had around 60 imps and 20 minogida. The minogida seem to be the leading class as they bossed the imps around.

When the demon army appeared on the side of the mountain, they began to panic greatly.

Akor turned to his commanders, “You and you…” Akor pointed to two of the commanding imps, “Split your squadrons and surround the tribe. One above and one below. Prevent them from escaping.” he ordered.

“Yes master!” they said in unison and turned. “Form up!” they roared.

The imps who saw their commanding figures shout the order suddenly formed two groups, leaving a third behind Akor. The two quickly ran forward, one on the higher path of the mountain and one below.

Akor continued to move and drew close to the distressed demon village.

Akor stopped 50 meters away, this was well outside the range that sling shooters could reach and his voice could reach the village.

He took out the staff and stepped forward once the demons had quiet down.

His demon mana began to flow through the staff and body causing his body to slowly give off a strong suppressing pressure. The demons behind him all swallowed their saliva in fear and awe by their lord’s might.

“Demons! Surrender now or die!” he roared. The mana flowing his body surged out through his voice and amplified it adding the pressure of a higher class being.

All the demon tribe shook in fear, they were all weak demons only level 1 or 2 while the minogida were level 2-3.

They felt their skin tighten under the pressure. After a few seconds the imps could no longer handle the pressure and ran out.

“Do not leave!” the tribal chief roared but the pressure on simple demons like these wasn’t simple.

Demons live by a strict hierarchy of ‘the strong command the weak’. If the enemy is stronger than the leader, there is even a chance for the minions of the enemy to backstab their own leader to survive under the more powerful one.

These dumb imps wouldn’t even know how to do that so they ran out and suddenly dropped to the ground grovelling.

As for the smarter Minogida, their hair was standing on ends under the faint but ever present pressure from Akor. His control and abilities weren’t enough to make a completely impossible to ignore pressure but it was a faint but piercing kind of pressure.

“Meeeh!” one of the minogida said looking fearful at the tribal chief.

The chief was scowling before looking out at the army and knew it was over.

He sighed and walked out, “We surrender!” he shouted and bowed on the ground.

“You are now my servants!” he said.

Suddenly an invisible power came from his body and invaded all the imps causing them to submit.

Congratulations, you have conquered the minds of weakling subordinate demons and they will now follow your orders and that of your minions.

After seeing the notice, Akor smiled and stopped using his demon mana and sighed slightly as he felt a faint throbbing.

“My body is still too weak, I can’t wait until I reach the level where I can dominate with just my aura making others kneels with just a glare.” even if he didn’t have a military mentality, he was still a young man with passion.

What followed was Akor calling the chief, “Have you researched any technology?” Akor asked in a cold tone.

“Yes master!” the chief said not looking up.

Akor was using a small bit of pressure making him unable to look up at him. The result came out quite nicely.

“Go and bring me the research scrolls.” Akor said.

“At once! At once!” The chief said and ran madly into the chief’s hut. After a short while he came out with several scrolls.

The research was quite random, they also focused on combat classes. In fact, there were a few skills Akor hadn’t researched yet. It had Warrior Shout, a buff skill that causes a warrior’s next attack to be stronger depending on the level of the skill. Keen Eye, an archer skill to increase range depending on the level. Taunt, a warrior tank skill which draws hate.

Besides these three new skills, there were copies like slash for the sword and shot for bow and sling.

Akor stored them all in his inventory and walked into the chief’s house.

Would you like to claim this village?

Yes

No

“Yes.” Akor said.

You have claimed this village. What would you like to do with it?

Occupy

Relocate

Reclaim

“Explain the three choices.” Akor said.

Occupy

This village will be occupied by a number of subordinates lead by a minion.

Relocate

The village will be turned into a moveable village cube and all the resource will remain within the cube. The village can then be placed where every you wish.

Reclaim

The village is broken down into resource state and can be claimed to use in your own territory.

“Relocate.” Akor said.

The reason he did not reclaim is because he needed a starting point to develop the surroundings of his capital. By planting the village near the capital, the subordinates will automatically move here and it can be developed and eventually will grow and form a district of the capital.

All the buildings began to glow and the shine began to gather in front of Akor as all the material was pulled into the form of a small glowing cube.

Everyone looked shocked at the display of the system.

Akor took the cube and was curious so he took a look at the item information

Village Cube

Low Quality

A low quality demon village. Run by a Tier 1 demon, there is little to no defence or development.

Village chief - None

“Low quality?” he looked at the perfect cube and thought there was something about this he didn’t know which was probably something related to the actual village instead of the actual cube itself.

Akor turned around and looked at the army, “We are moving to the next tribe!” Akor shouted.

He planned to clear out the tribes within at least 2 kilometers of his village and create a buffer zone in preparations for building the temple.

The next village was a bit bigger because it was just a little away from Sanity and it even had walls and the residents numbered over 100 but that didn’t change the fact that Akor’s numbers and power was much higher. This one was run by an imp which actually had high intelligence making Akor curious about this imp.

He subjected it similar to the other one and since the Red demon came from imp, it seems that because of the similar DNA lineage, it made the imps give in even faster.

He made sure to check the village information because of the confusing quality he saw.

Village Cube

Low Quality

A low quality village. Run by a Tier 1 demon, there is small amount of defence and some development.

Village chief - None

The village had hunters but no farms but the research they had were mostly copies of what Akor had but he wasn’t sad about that. Valring said that if he could gather enough copies, he could get a researcher to merge all the scrolls which would unlock the next level .

They moved on to the third village but as they reached it, Akor’s eyes narrowed.

“Adok, didn’t you say the largest village was far off and had around 500 tribes members?” Akor asked.

“Yes master!” he said feeling shameful

The village he was looking at in front of him was clearly a Level 2 village with palisade walls, at least 300 members, close to ⅓ were warriors and there was clear farm and hunter development. It was located at the bottom of a valley between the mountains.

“Seems we won’t get through this without battle.” Akor said.

“I am incompetent.” Adok said.

“No need, it probably just leveled up.” Akor said.

Akor looked around and saw there were two gates and began to think how to settle this.

In the end he made his move, “One commander, take your squadron as well as all the players to the other side. I will attack on this side and when the battle is under way, you attack the other side and break through.” Akor ordered.

“Yes master!” the commanders said and turned to each other and talked before one of them was decided.

The imp shouted and soon all the players and one squadron of demons rushed at the top of the mountain to circle the village.

Akor took his remaining troops and walked down towards the village and took a different approach. He pulled out his staff and cast fireball and then added his demon mana.

The two fireballs increased in size again becoming three times larger than the normal staffless casting. They also became black fire making it seem menacing.

He shot the fire balls which flew in an arch looking no different as if a catapult had thrown burning shots.

BOOM! BOOM!

The demon fireballs slammed into the gate and exploded rapidly spreading.

“My name is Demon Lord Akor! Submit to me and you shall live!” Akor’s voice resound out as he followed the same script as before after sending out his warning shot.

There was no reply for only a minute.

BOOM!

Suddenly the gates were smashed apart before the flame spread to the walls. The figure that did this feat stood there growling.

The figure was riddled in muscles and stood 250 cm tall with red skin but there was no horns on his head. A pair of pure black eyes adorned the creatures face.

Akor narrowed his eyes as he saw the creature, “That is a Giant Imp, isn’t it?” Akor asked.

“Yes master.” Adok replied.

Akor’s eyes moved slightly up and there was another figure sitting on the shoulder of the Giant imp. With blue skin, long hair and a figure of a female, a Blue Imp sat upon the Giant imp acting as its brain and clearly being the chief of this village. The pair of horns on her head was clearly showing that she was very smart while her adult look showed that she didn’t pump everything into her head, she clearly developed body and mind to make sure she can survive at the most important moments.

“Demon Lord, what have you come here for?” The blue imp asked.

“This is my territory, submit to me and I will not treat you bad. You two are clearly the chiefs so I will accept you as my minions and if you show your loyalty, you will definitely grow.” Akor said.

The blue imp grinned. “Young demon lord, I am not so stupid like my little brother as to not know that your territory is an empty shell. I know clearly from my great god that you have territory in name only and you must fully ‘digest’ the land before perfectly claiming it. Your soldiers as well are all low quality and besides yourself, there are no Tier 2 demons.” She said.

Akor frowned at her words. His eyes moved up and suddenly he noticed a familiar but different figure. With a bloody red and bright glowing orb at the top, an altar was built near the center of the city and was almost like a beacon.

Akor scowled and looked at the two. He had not expected that there would be such a strong force near his own home. He hadn’t spent as much time on occupying the land as he should have. He would need to ratify this very fast by obtaining Tier 2 imps fast.

“Which god do you speak of?” Akor asked.

“The great Goddess of Conquest, Edite!” She said with a bright red glow in her eyes.

As Akor had expected, it was an active god. The buff was unknown but it was sure to be much better than the 0.5% increase in skill exp gain he obtained.

“Do you want to go to war with only you and your brother as the powerful ones among you?” Akor said.

“Come, let us see if you and that small mage next to you can stop my little brother and I?” She said.

ROAR!

The giant imp roared and called the warriors.

“Attack the warriors, I will deal with the leaders.” Akor ordered his commanders. “Adok, you stay back and act as support.” Akor said.

“Yes master!” Adok said.

“Charge!” Akor shouted.

The armored imps behind him suddenly charged at the incoming village army while Akor took steps forward and began to flow his demon mana as he watched the incoming Giant imp.

The imps completely avoided it, to reach this size it needed both maturing as well as high endurance and strength to form such a powerful body.

“Demon Fireball!” Akor shouted.

The large fireballs shot forward but a blue shield formed in front of the giant imp as the blue imp defended with a grin.

BANG! BANG! Crack!

The two fireballs smashed into the shield and shattered it damaging the two with the residual shockwave and fire.

-6, -11

[Giant Imp Morrath Level 11 394/410]

[Blue Imp Everrath Level 12 239/270]

Akor looked at their HP and the damage before frowning. Magic damage is counted from Int + weapon damage - enemy endurance and magic defence. Akor had 26 intelligence + 20 damage from the staff meaning at least 46 damage. The mana shield at level one protects up to 20 damage meaning Morrath’s endurance was 20 and Everrath’s was 15.

“It is my turn!” Everrath said and waved her own staff and shot Akor.

He used demon mana and formed a black mana shield.

Unlike her own, the mana shield Akor made withstood the damage because the demon mana increases the strength of spells by at least 50%.

Her eyes showed shock and started to show some fear.

At this time, Morrath was almost upon Akor when two dark red fireballs surged from above and slammed into the Giant imp without any defence.

“AH!” Everrath shouted in pain and looked at the culprit and found Adok.

-26, -31

[Giant Imp Morrath Level 11 368/410]

[Blue Imp Everrath Level 12 208/270]

“If this continues, you will die before your brother.” Akor said as he destroyed the first shield and spawned another one three seconds later.

“Morrath attack!” She ordered.

“RAHH!” The Giant Imp roared and its fist glowed as he used the warrior skill Punch.

BANG!

Cracks riddled the shield before it vanished but it fully stopped the skill. Of course, this was a punch, it wasn’t a sword so the speed was fast and any humanoid had two fists and not one. The second punch came flying at Akor who crossed his arms.

Bang!

-14

[Red Demon Demon Lord Akor Level 10 394/410]

“What!? You have as much endurance as my brother!” She said shocked.

Akor was pushed back but looked up and grinned, “No, my race gives me only 50 extra hp. I have higher endurance compared to your brother.” He said coldly.

WOOSH WOOSH!

Two demon fireballs flew out from Akor and was defended by the mana shield but Adok shot two more.

-6, -20

-11, -30

[Giant Imp Morrath Level 11 327/410]

[Blue Imp Everrath Level 12 182/270]

“Submit to me while you still can.” Akor said.

She clenched her teeth while she finally began to feel the pressure from Akor.

The high intensity damage had also awaken Morrath who began to feel instinctive fear from Akor.

The battle between the four stopped as she looked at him.

“What do you offer me?” She asked.

“You will become my direct minions, each of you will live within the capital and from your presence you will birth more Tier 2 demons. Your brother will become a commander and you will become the leader of my magic corp and help me construct it as well as doing all magic related research.” Akor offered.

Everrath looked at Akor and her eyes widened, “If I accept, I will be cursed by Edite.” She said probably getting a message to submit.

“What is the curse?” Akro asked.

“I will forever be hunted by all Edite’s followers.” she replied.

“Then you have no worry, I pray to Pyarus, God of Education. I am enemy of all demon gods who do not wish for sleeping gods to awaken.” he said.

Her eyes shined a bright light and nodded. “I accept. All of you! Stop the fight!” Everrath shouted.

The imps battling actually did as ordered as the blue imp jumped off the Giant imp. Her height was 160 cm, much taller than a Tier 1 imp but still short compared to the two male Tier 2 demons before her.

“I, Demon Lord Akor, accept you, Everrath and Morrath, as my minions.” Akor said

“We accept.” She said for the two.

At once a link from Akor’s chest formed and shot into the chest of the two of them.

“RAH!” instantly Morrath shouted and grabbed his head.

Mana began to pump into the bodies of both. Everrath clenched her teeth as she felt her brain and body growing.

This was the minion buff. It not only branded loyalty into their souls, it improved their bodies depending on the number of mana springs Akor possessed.

A pair of horns began to appear on Morrath’s head but they were small while his pure black eyes suddenly changed and formed iris and pupils as his brain was developed and he gained sentience with the buff of 6 intelligence that all minions gained.

His body also grew rapidly with by a full 10 cm as his endurance and strength were buffed.

His ignored stats like dexterity and agility took effect making his four fingered hand into five fingered while his mental capacity and sensory abilities all improved.

Akor left the two to their transformation and looked at the remaining imps. “Your leaders have submitted. Become my servants or die!” Akor shouted.

As soon as his words fell the imps dropped what they were holding and submitted.

He smiled as he took control of their weaker minds and called the rest of the army who had begun their attack but stopped as soon as he beat the two leaders.

They entered from the other side and Akor walked to the center meeting up with his commander and looked at the altar.

He felt a hate and pressure coming from the altar but that didn’t stop him from walking up.

You have mounted the altar of Edite, Goddess of Conquest. What do you wish to do?

Destroy

Claim

“Explain.” Akor said.

Destroy

You will destroy the altar and god crystal obtaining the resources used to build it and obtained a small amount of the faith gathered in the crystal to sacrifice for your own god.

Claim

You will convert the altar to your own god and the Faith gathered will be sent to your god.

Akor’s eyes shined upon seeing this. He did not expect that there was a method like this to obtaining rapid faith for the God quest.

“Claim.” Akor said.

Crack! BOOM!

At once, cracks riddled the crystal before it shattered. The broken pieces kept breaking while floating in the air becoming grain-like. Then a large light burst from the altar piercing into the heavens. Slowly a new crystal began to form. It was a copy of the one in the capital. The shattered crystals began to liquify as the crystal took form and Akor was able to see that it was all faith.

He was surprised that faith remained in the mortal realm instead of going into the heavenly realm.

It all formed a vortex and was absorbed into the crystal which shot the energy directly into the heavens.

You have claimed the altar of another god. Pyarus has gained 3,500 faith.

By claiming the altar of Edite, Goddess of Conquest, you have angered her.

You and your nation have been cursed by the Goddess of Conquest

Curse of the Goddess of Conquest

By angering the Goddess of Conquest, you have been cursed.

When on conquest campaign, you are more likely to encounter trouble.

All the faithful of Edite will attack you unconditionally and will become harder to recruit.

“Seriously?” He scowled but he didn’t care since it already happened. It was bound to happen anyway. He was already hated by the gods so he didn’t mind but he did resent the part about making the followers harder to recruit.

He walked to the chiefs house and relocated the village.

Village Cube

Normal Quality

A Normal quality village. Run by a Tier 2 demon, it has good defense and development and is likely to grow into a town given time.

Village chief - Everrath

“We are returning!” Akor roared. All the demons, more than 1000 in number, all returned to Sanity which would require major development to house all these residents.