Chapter 283: The Ambitious Young Girl Sets Off Towards the Ghoul Wasteland
“……”
Looking at the countless ghouls swarming out of the pit, like ants due to the height, rushing desperately towards the distant wasteland, Kazumi’s usually cold and aloof face showed a rare hint of embarrassment.
“Lei? Don’t ghouls have an affinity for death aura?”
Turning to look at the Lich beside her, who was lowering his head, a trace of anger flickered in the young girl’s eyes as she asked Lei with a slight fluctuation in her tone.
“Replying to Lord Master, your death ability’s purity is extremely high, possessing strong deterrence towards low-level undead creatures. Coupled with the possible pressure from that Lord, the ghouls will instinctively feel fear.”
Lei’s soul fire in his head was suppressed very low, and he answered the young girl’s question without any emotional fluctuation, but his body was half-kneeling on the ground, speaking earnestly.
“……”
Although Kazumi had a general idea of the current situation when Lei spoke earlier, detailed questioning still made the young girl couldn’t help but rub the bridge of her nose.
The soil slope before her had visibly dropped by a large margin, as if the previous soil slope, which was almost as tall as the city wall, contained not decomposed soil, but actual ghouls.
In a sense, the evil god she begged to was quite generous.
“Did the sacrificed items not leave a mental imprint?”
Looking at the gradually weakening corpse tide before her, Kazumi continued to ask with some helplessness. In such a situation, even retracting the scattered death aura would be of no avail. From the moment she unleashed her aura, the corpse tide had already formed, and the ghouls behind would instinctively follow the horde and run outwards.
The wilderness in the distance, about half the size of the town, unceremoniously absorbed the continuously diverging corpse groups, finally disappearing from the young girl’s sight.
Perhaps it was the first time Kazumi felt that her territory’s expansion speed seemed a bit too fast.
“No, Lord Master. Your subordinate believes that transferring such a number of mental imprints might be too troublesome for that Lord…”
“……”
Lei’s direct answer made Kazumi pause for a moment, but she still continued to ask.
“Can your ability catch them?”
Although there was a slight accident, overall, the reward had been delivered to her territory. Thousands of ghouls, as long as they could be controlled by her, would be a good force. This way, future tasks could be accomplished with more strength.
“Replying to Master, it might affect the territory’s construction speed, and Master, my ability might be somewhat lacking in this aspect…”
Lei was very smart, even too smart to seem like an undead creature, but rather like someone who understood human relationships.
Although Lei didn’t explicitly say it, Kazumi understood the unspoken words hidden in his pause. She had previously expressed her apprehension about this matter, and since then, Lei had not brought up anything related to it again.
It had to be said that such a suggestion seemed to be the optimal solution. Undead creatures, who didn’t need rest, were the most suitable for this kind of mechanical work. Perhaps if she slept a few more times, Lei would have captured these stray ghouls.
The problem was that until her spellcasting ability or her overall strength surpassed Lei’s, Kazumi would never choose to hand over control of the army to Lei, even if his soul fire was in her hands, even if Lei’s loyalty had been evident for so long. Kazumi would not do that.
After all, Kazumi did not want to return to her territory one day and face the rebellion of her own army. Even if the probability of this was almost zero, the young girl’s caution would not allow her to do so.
Because Kazumi Shimizu believed only in herself, from beginning to end.
“No need. You should focus on the territory’s development. Territory expansion can be temporarily suspended. Throw twenty corpses into it, I need Corpse Crows. Transfer the Acolytes to the Corpse Crow Nest. Research [Strength I] for me within two days.”
With a wave of her hand, Kazumi rejected his implicit inquiry. After a brief thought, she immediately made her decision.
After cutting off the most suitable option, Kazumi quickly thought of a solution.
As the only species with barracks in the territory, compared to ghouls and corpse maggots, Corpse Crows had its unique advantage: they could conduct research on technology points.
Although such rough and heavy work was most suitable for ghouls, who were the lowest-level troops, the territory currently had no buildings that could produce ghouls, so they had to settle for Corpse Crows as a second choice.
Through research on the technology point [Strength I], all Corpse Crows in the territory could become stronger and possess greater strength. Coupled with their hundreds in number, this could basically satisfy the young girl’s plan for capturing and transporting ghouls, though it would certainly not be as convenient as using ghouls.
But this was the early stage of entrepreneurship, and there wasn’t much to fuss about. It was good enough to have something usable. Moreover, after controlling some ghouls, they should be able to work with ghouls as the main force and Corpse Crows as support.
“Yes, Lord Master. If there is anything else to be done, please issue orders at any time.”
Lei nodded obediently to his Lord’s words, and energy continuously flashed in his hands. An ice staircase extending directly from the city wall appeared again.
In the Corpse Crow Nest in the distance, the special membrane that had enveloped most of the corpses suddenly burst open, and the flesh inside eagerly fed as if it had found food. The entire nest, like rotten flesh, began to squirm, and countless black Corpse Crows emerged from the nest, gathering into a dense mass of black clouds in mid-air, and finally converging towards the city gate.
“Mm, notify me immediately if there are any changes.”
Nodding gently in response to Lei, the young girl’s chest subtly moved a few times, and finally, a strange creature half the height of a person emerged. Its grayish-white skin was covered with dense, sharp teeth.
As if receiving some instruction, the teeth on its back, which were like a hedgehog, all retracted, and the dense black holes also squirmed little by little, recovering.
Reaching out and gently touching Little Black’s head a couple of times, Kazumi watched the large flock of Corpse Crows gathering in the sky. She sat sideways on Little Black’s smooth back, looking at the vast, desolate gray wasteland in the distance. A strange sense of ambition seemed to be brewing in her heart. If she could completely control this number of ghouls, her aspiration for her own abilities to strengthen would be one step closer.
“Let’s go.”
Gently patting Little Black’s pointed head, the ambitious young girl, riding a ghoul, set off towards the target Ghoul Wasteland.
(Ps: Training is too painful, with ten hours of class time plus homework every day, and running in the evening. I haven’t had a single good night’s sleep in over ten days. Save me QAQ)
