Right now I am mostly cleaning up and scouting. The number of imps was truly gigantic, there's enough demon dust in my dungeon to make mounts of it. I could just absorb all of that, however it seems the slimes have taken a liking to it, so I’m letting them eat their fill.

There is also the sword from the main demon, it's a pretty simple huge sword. The interesting thing about it is the material, it's called Shadow Ash Obsidian, a special material that regenerates if fed fire, heat or shadow mana. I could make some interesting things out of that, but for now I’m looking around with scouts.

The scouts are mostly flying skulls and some Moon Blight Specters, they are going around known tunnels and seeing if they find anything interesting. They have yet to find anything worthwhile though.

So for now I am creating a few more altars, the test with the demon was pretty good and showed that these things can be pretty crippling to my enemies. Right now I am creating a few undead ones, using multiple materials and seeing which ones are effective and cost efficient.

Outside of that some undead actually got some Levels out of this, which is pretty nice. One of them was Damon, who was a skeleton made of imp dust, he’s looking quite a bit different now. He used to just be a darker colored skeleton, now he has created muscle around his skeleton using heated blood, giving him a bright orange body. His control is pretty good, he even created a forked tongue for himself.

Over his body he has a dark red armor made from imp dust and bone, it is a very spiky armor. To top it all off, he uses the Gnarled Bloodwood Hammer, which has also changed. The hammer has absorbed a lot of imp dust, becoming smaller and denser, its form now looks more like a bunch of gnarled horns than wood.

It was actually quite funny seeing him kill the imps with it, he would just smash them down in a single strike.

The other interesting undead the gained Levels were my gates, they even changed forms a bit. The gates were simple undead that guarded the ramp that goes down into the greenhouse, they haven’t seen much action since…well they are stationary gates. However they have seen enough action, especially after this recent invasion, to have gained some levels.

They have become Skull Gates, literally gates made of bone with a giant skull relief in front of it. I still have to think of something to do with them, and I already have some ideas.

Oh?

One of my specters is seeing something interesting. The walls are shifting, they are moving almost like mud, they are sliding down and slowly a hole opens. From the hole a bunch of single-horned goats come out, their head and horns moving frenetically, causing the stone to move faster.

There are a lot of them, almost a hundred just in front of my specter. I can see more, at the end of the tunnel, they are fighting something. I see white hot fire bisecting a few goats, they fight silently until that flame touches them, then they burst into flames and scream. The tunnel is closed, the goats clearly using magic to close it, leaving behind a few goats to slow down whatever is attacking them.

The goats stare at my specter for a second, then turn and run away, ignoring them. My specter can tell, there are a few goat who have burned bodies, and in those burned areas I can see some type of tracking mark.

I have my specters follow them, and tell them to try and guide the goats towards me. I am also sending a few of the scout skulls. I call a few undead to start making their way towards the goats too, Merlin in specific.

I can see it, the way the goats are moving, the way their horns touch and vibrate. These goats are communicating with each other, they have language.