《Empress' Evolution》97. Uproot
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Lilith stood alone before a destroyed makeshift village built inside a cave. The cave's insides were smeared with blood, and the corpses of the Two Heads littered the ground.
The Two Heads were a race of quite intelligent creatures, and that's the only thing they had going for them.
Though they may have been strong, that would be the only semblance of possible merit. In the end, the Two Heads were still just daemons, and after being rushed by Lilith's Army, who had superior tactics and numbers, the ending was clear — all were eradicated.
As a bonus, Lilith managed to seize nine Meat Cores outside the ones from the Werewolves. The Meat Cores spawned a variety of beastly daemons, from boars to elk and even slimes.
However, something that Lilith noticed that others didn't cause her to stay in this place. She closed her eyes and then spoke, "Welp, I need to finish this soon before anyone comes to pick me up."
She chose to stay under the pretext of praying for the dead and resting. Luna insisted on joining Lilith but was made to supervise the cleanup to "learn" for the future.
No one was here, and as the body of the Two Heads was lined up before her, she snapped her fingers and used an active skill, "Blaze Blitz…."
Multiple fireballs appeared around her and then flew inside the cave that landed atop a Two Heads' body. A fire began.
The Two Heads' beddings were made of dried leaves, and that too burned with ease.
'This should be enough to kill them all…' she thought to herself.
Lilith waited in front of the cave, wanting to see if she would level up from this.
Minutes passed, but she got no level even after ten minutes of waiting.
'What did I expect? They were too young to have a high enough level, I supposed.' Lilith said to console herself.
But she received something else.
[System: Due to what you have done, the Goddess have granted you the titles of [Uprooter] and [Cold Blooded Exterminator].]
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[Uprooter: This title gives you nothing; it just shows how thorough you are.]
[Cold Blooded Exterminator: This will also grant you nothing.]
'What is this for? Another useless thing?' Lilith was rather incensed as she saw that the hallow titles.
Alpha sighed, [Well, the Goddess doesn't really condone the killings of a child, but she's not really against it. The Goddess Letza was, after all, the one who created all life. But, she's not entirely against it if it is necessary. After all, if she was against it, she wouldn't have chosen you as her Apostle. Look... she just doesn't want you to kill a life that had not blossomed yet, I think.]
'I can respect that.' Lilith said.
The reason why Lilith stayed in this cave was quite simple, to kill the children that were all hiding.
She sensed them earlier and sought them out; she chose a different way when she failed to find them.
Earlier, Lilith had already filled the place with poisonous breath, weakened the majority.
Every bunker has a hole for ventilation. Lilith's poison breath was heavy; thus, it would scatter and find its way into those holes.
She then used the fire and smoke to finish off everyone who didn't die.
Lilith didn't want any enemies of hers coming back to her, and she also didn't want anything that could become the seed of hate. If possible, Lilith would exterminate everyone, even a kid, to ensure the job was done.
Others feared her for her cold-blooded and ruthless means. This trait of hers was solidified due to her lack of hesitance in killing the young. Lilith would kill anyone related to the target, so no one could make the "I will avenge them!" line.
Though she still couldn't understand why in human society, killing children was more frowned upon than killing adults, she just chose to live with it, 'It's a life, both died so why so why pity the other more?' it was a mystery.
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Overall, Lilith did the same here, fearing Luna and the others might react the same as those humans; she had them go away after making excuses.
"Even if they find me now, I can just say I didn't know and say that burning the bodies of enemies is one of the new traditions the Goddess demanded… I don't want that to be a thing. Corpses are useful for blackmails, after all.
"I'll just say I didn't want them to be eaten by the Wild Animals." She said with a smug expression.
Turning her back to the annihilated Two Heads' cave and children, Lilith stretched her back and complained, 'Well, at least I didn't go with the idea of turning the Two Heads as Villages. That would have needed so much more work and acting.'
Though Lilith could have instead turned them into Villagers, she thought making them EXP points would make them far more helpful, "They are too stupid and unsophisticated to help us with the current state of the Village. Also, if I wanted the Werewolves, I can't possibly have them in my camp, or one might hate the other."
Lilith was in dire need of daemons under her, but even so, she would not use something that could undermine her planning. The Two Heads, after all, act like Chief who disobeyed orders.
What would be much worst would be the Two Heads, unlike Chief, were incapable of learning.
"I don't want that from happening again. If anything had gone awry, we would have been slaughtered because of recklessness. But Chief did make the pretense of slaughtering easier and convenient, so I'll let it pass for the time being. With this, another hindrance in this place has been completely taken care of."
In the Bleeding Rage Valley, there were not many territories remaining as the Tyrant Blood Gorilla had already destroyed most of them.
"From what I gathered from the Werewolves, the South East is theirs, and the South West belonged to the Two Heads… well, they are now annihilated, so they can be written off. The other soldiers from the army and the Werewolves are now hunting every survivor who may have survived. Cleaning up is going good. Yeah, doing this is far more efficient."
Lilith justifying her actions of killing the young.
Walking away from the fire, she received a notification.
[Mission: The Conqueror (non-mandatory)] (Side-Quest #10)
Requirements for Passing:
[] The Werewolves have been placed in a precarious situation because of the Two Heads; you are to help the Werewolf Leader recover their Pride and help them get their revenge. (Completed)
[] Get back the stolen three Meat Crystals. (Completed)
[] Note: If you are to accept this mission, you will be seen as an enemy of the Two Heads… the scent of the Werewolves will linger on your body, and the Two Heads will see you as an immediate enemy. This scent would not disappear until you complete this mission. (Completed)
Reward/s:
[] 100,000 SP (acquired)
[] Loyalty of this Werewolf Tribe (acquired)
[] Store Upgrade (acquired)
[Would you like to Upgrade the Store now? Y/N?]
"…Nah, I don't know how long that would take, and Sylva would be coming out of her evolution cocoon soon. I will also be going to begin the conquering of this stronghold soon. So I can't stall any moment. Tell you what, Alpha, why not renegotiate the Store Upgrade for the System Overhaul I asked for before?" Lilith bargained.
[Hmmm... I'll try and see what I can do. Don't expect anything. Also, if a System Overhaul gets approved, a more demanding mission would be given to us to meet the necessary contribution points.]
"Contribution Points? I don't know what that is but I'll just say sure... Ahhh, this is going to be tiring."
Lilith could already anticipate a tiring future.
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