Chapter 61 - Moving On

After waking up, I went to the teleportation array to activate it. Fortunately, the activation process was a very short one, and soon enough spatial portal was created of enormous size, and tens of thousands of soldiers started pouring from it and getting into orderly formations.

I was satisfied seeing such beauty and soon, I will unleash them onto the Ihor and turn it into my playground similar to the Ewor, and then mainland and soon, the entire Yestera Plane would be my source of resources.

After some time, my entire army with over 1 million soldiers was here, together with half a million of Arcane Mechanical Automatons, was on Ihor, and soon, tomorrow they will march.

After constructing so many Arcane Mechanical Automatons, I have decided to start using them for war, and after the conquest of the Ihor, I will start manufacturing the combat-oriented types. Some of them were already in the preparation stages.

"General, organize everything for an attack tomorrow, coordinate your attack with the usage of Voidships, we will use them in every attack already. Also, notify me if something happens."

I said before I turned to leave.

"My Lord, there is something that requires your attention."

General Zagan quickly said before I left.

"What?"

I turned around.

"Our last magical scan performed by Lord Mephisto Pheles showed that as we are speaking almost all Ultimate-Class powerhouses of these tribes are together gathered at one place, probably some meeting. It is highly possible that they are plotting to ally against us. Altogether there are 15 Ultimate-Class powerhouses participating in that meeting My Lord."

Explained General Zagan as I frowned lightly. As much as I hated humans, despite being one past life, their biggest advantage and talent were banding together, depending on unity and numbers. Something not many races were good at, devils being a prime example. Most of us are too proud or straight arrogant to ask for help. One aspect that I will break and bury in history when I take control.

While among humans, when faced with threats they would join together and fight as one. Something I didn't want to see. Now, 15 joined together to form a resistance group, annoying me to no end, but alas, they will be crushed and killed as everything that stands in my way.

"Proceed as usual. Without any changes, but include counter plans if the bigger number of Ultimate-Class powerhouses appears. We need to be ready for all possibilities that could happen."

Something that I wanted to prevent, happened. Not that I was unaware of such possibility, but I hoped that human tribes would either be too blind to fight together or would put their grievances and hatred first before common interest.

"Also, be especially careful, and tell Lord Pheles to conduct scanning and tracking spells every 12 hours to observe the location of Ultimate-Class powerhouses, we need to be in light of their movements."

I said to him before leaving.

"Architect, start creating counter plans for the Ultimate-Class humans and how to most effectively kill them with our current strength without any major loses."

I said to my MTC.

[Of course.]

Sounded voice of an Architect in my head.

I wanted to win suffering minimum losses. In this regard, the Architect is the best strategist. In Solar Federation, battle strategies were often created by the most advanced Artificial Intelligence, due to their superior calculation abilities and analysis skills.

With help of the Architect's skills, I will have countless possible scenarios, I can apply to my situation if we encounter a large amount of Ultimate-Class powerhouses. I also made a mental note, to beat up Zekram when I reach his level of power or higher, for purposely sending me to the world that is too annoying.

Fortunately, there are not notable threats, as he wouldn't send Vena if it was that case. He was probably here personally, to scout the world. Still, so many corpses of Ultimate-Class... very good, though, what was the troublesome quality of them was low, and I noticed I won't be gaining much increase from them, but probably enough to reach a higher level of Ultimate-Class.

Meanwhile at the Central Region of the Yestera Plane

Fifteen people in tribal clothing were sitting on lavish chairs, as the deathly silence was in the air, nobody spoke a word.

"So... how accurate is that information?"

Asked one of the humans in the fur of a bear and huge cub next to his chair.

"100%... entire Tigara Tribe has been annihilated by invaders to the last person. Apparently, they used some monstrous flying metal things to shoot at them and annihilated them, including two Legendary people."

Said the chieftain of one tribe.

"We need to act immediately, to rally armies and attack vile invaders."

"Yes, together we will be able to defeat them. How many warriors can each of your tribes rally? My tribe can muster 15,000 warriors."

Asked one of the Chieftains.

"50,000."

"65,000."

"40,000."

"57,000."

"62,000."

Soon all fifteen of them stated how many warriors could they bring to their alliance.

"So in the end a grand army of 1,6 million is formed, known as the Alliance of Ihor. With this grand army, and fifteen Legendary powerhouses we shall defeat and banish vile invaders to where they came from."

Said the 'leading' chieftain, that became something akin to the chairman of the Ihor Alliance.

"When shall we march unto the enemy? Those vile invaders are currently in the western region, and we don't know what is their next target?"

Asked one of the Chieftains.

"After we mobilize our armies, we will attack them at first. In front of our strength and numbers, they will be nothing."

Said leading chieftain with a hint of arrogance in his words, as now he was the practically uncrowned king of the Ihor subcontinent.

"Then it is decided. Everyone return to your tribes and start rallying troops, force all tribes to send as much as possible troops for our cause."

Said to them leading chairman.

Chapter 62 - Battle for Ihor (1)

Several days later, provisory fortress Fort West

In the past several days, I have a bit changed my plans thanks to the stupid natives. It was not sarcasm, but they really helped me a lot, as they decided to attack first, which was pretty good for me, as my greatest advantage is Arcanotech is better used in situations like this, at least tech that I have in my arsenal.

The next day after my army arrived through the teleportation formation, I was notified, that all Great Tribes were mustering their armies and started marching to my location, which I was mildly surprised and amused.

Thus I have settled for defending. I have hidden my three Lunar-Class Cruisers, with stealth tech, to give natives feeling they were not present and encourage them to attack me. I have also installed all my Anti-Matter Magicule Batteries onto the fort and also, hidden a few of them in surrounding mountains, as this terrain had many mountains which gave me an idea to build some magic towers, so we can apply magical spells of higher scale or magical formations and traps.

With terrifying building force which was Arcane Mechanical Automatons, I had everything built within upcoming days, and now I was just expecting the enemy to come. I have also reduced my army of 1 million that was here, to just easily 300,000 and let the rest hide within mountains, to act as an ambush force.

These humans were stupid, they were just some new and young civilization and as they were in tribal age, they were pretty aggressive. To maximize usage of my arcanotech and various traps, I needed to provoke them to attack me recklessly.

"How are your preparations General Zagan?"

I ask my retainer who was handling some paperwork.

"All my Ultimate-Class Flesh Golems are ready to stall four of their Ultimate-Class powerhouses. Lady Venelana could handle two or three of them, as individually weak and General Amyke will also be able to take probably two. Lord Mephisto Pheles arrived yesterday, and he would take control of the Penta-Magic Tower Formation that was built by Mechs, to cast large-scale spells at the enemy and if needed to cast supportive spells."

Reported General Zagan.

"Very good. What about preparations for the usage of Anti-Matter Magicule Canon Batteries and Lunar-Class Cruisers, I gave you?"

I gave him some most useful scenarios of battle created by the Architect to go through them.

"We will do it similarly to the battle in the Skull Valley Pass, and try to bombard them with concentrated fire with both Anti-Matter Magicule Canon Batteries to reduce the number of their powerhouses. With our current firepower, if needed we could even wipe all of them."

Answered General Zagan.

"Yes indeed. But that would also obliterate bodies to dust, and I need them to increase my power, and you can craft more Flesh Golems if they are in an especially good state."

I said to him. With the usage of so many Anti-Matter Magicule Batteries and on top of that, with Lunar-Class Cruiser, I think we could kill probably at least ten Ultimate-Class powerhouses with two salvos, but that will also completely obliterate bodies to dust, and nothing would remain.

With controlled bombardment, bodies will be at least partially preserved. Though on the other side, it will increase a bit loss of lives, to prevent that, I will personally join the battle and take as many of Ultimate-Class powerhouses as possible.

"Finish all things needed to be done. I am returning to my room to study magic tome."

I said to him, as I was eager to study new magic tome, that I found interesting. Every day, I learned something new, and it helped me to perfect my new Tier Magic System. Slowly, I was steadily improving the might, stability, and abilities of the Tier Magic System even more. Having Lord Mephisto Pheles here I can consult with him, which helped greatly.

At the same time, several days of travel from the Western Region

If one would look at the roads this time, he would see hundreds of thousands, human barbarians, clothed in primitive clothing made from the fur of animals, armed with cubs, crude spears, and swords, as they were marching to the Western Region.

On huge monsters, be it sabertooth cats, mammoths, huge black-fur wolves, and other creatures.

"Big Chieftain in two days we will arrive at a place where the invaders are located."

Said one of the Legendary powerhouses belonging to some Great Tribe, based on his clothing was furrier and more complete, suited for winter, he was from North of Ihor.

"Very well, we need to banish those vile invaders as soon as possible, to prevent any slaughter of our blood."

Siad the 'Big Chieftain' who was the leader of the Alliance between Ihor human tribal alliance.

Chapter 63 - Battle for Ihor (2)

Day of the Battle, Ihor subcontinent, Yestera Plane, Western Region, provisory fortress Fort West

"Is Lord Mephisto Pheles ready to activate spell formation?"

I ask my Generals, General Amyke and General Zagan who were standing behind me, armed in their battle armors.

"Yes, My Lord. Lord Mephisto Pheles is prepared to cast the spell with help of his apprentices. The spell will create a formation that will prevent them from leaving, allowing us to annihilate them in one gulp, basically taking the entire subcontinent in one go."

Answered General Zagan. This was a plan to annihilate all enemies in the Ihor in one go. Then it would only leave the mainland, which while was bigger and had a higher number of Ultimate-Class, as they were many General Level monsters, but there isn't any kind of unity, so they would easily annihilated one by one.

"What about Arcanotech weaponry?"

I ask as I looked at the huge dust cloud rising high in the sky, several kilometers away. Apparently, our guests were already here soon enough.

"We have prepared 100 Anti-Matter Magicule Canon Batteries to be our artillery and three Lunar-Class Voidships are waiting in the stealth mode for the time to strike."

Reported General Amyke.

"Very well."

I said, we all waiting on the Fort West, with 300,000 Soldiers, that remained here. Rest was hidden waiting to ambush them, while all Arcane Mechanical Automatons were loaded onto the Lunar-Class Cruisers, and they would be dropped into the middle of the enemy when the chaos started.

Thus we waited and soon enough twenty minutes later, we could already see first humans barbarians, in their primitive gear marching at us, under leadership lavishly armed, at least for their standards as much as a primitive tribal society could go.

One of them stepped forwards, shouted something I didn't understand, while the devil's innate talent was Omni-linguist, it wasn't that easy. For it to activate, devil blood needed to be integrated with the World's Core, the Will of the World to recognize. Afterward, devils could speak all commonly spoken languages, that weren't magical or mystic in nature.

I didn't bother with the barbarian that was talking and immediately ordered for the plan to start. The moment I sent my confirmation, from several magic towers, an enormous amount of magical power surged, and fused with ambient magic in the air, created a huge transparent dome over the diameter of several kilometers, locking both of our armies in this space, until one side perishes.

Afterward, the formation was cast, and barbarians were still in wonder what was happening, I gave orders for Anti-Matter Magicule Canon Batteries to start their bombardment, under the leadership of three Lunar-Class Cruisers, that fired before the Anti-Matter Magicule Canon Batteries, aiming at the Ultimate-Class powerhouses mixed in the crowd.

Bombardment from the Anti-Matter Magicule Canon Batteries and mainly three Lunar-Class Cruisers, that were armed with more advanced Anti-Matter Magicule Canon Batteries compared to those used for smaller combat, of Tactical-Class, killed already several Ultimate-Class powerhouses on the side of humans, and more than two hundred thousands ordinary soldiers.

While they were strong in numbers, they were individually weak and on top of that, they weren't practically wearing any kind of armor, just some of them had some primitive clothes made from the fur of Warrior Level and Commander Level monsters, which was absolutely insufficient in front of advanced Arcanotech.,

"Should we start another salvo, My Lord?"

Aksed General Zagan as he observed the might of Arcanotech. By now, they must have understood that this will change the future of war. Just like gunpowder changed completely the style of war for humans when it was discovered, we will also change. Besides individual power, which will always remain as the top priority, we will have a lesser one and that would be Arcanotech.

While Arcanotech and even technology were Solar Federation was little threat to Tier 3 existences, which was Apocalypse-Class and higher, it was terrifyingly effective against Tier 1 which was basically Low-Class to High-Class. And most of the armies of all factions in Draconic Deus were composed of Tier 1.

Basically, the entire conquest was won by far with the usage of Arcanotech, and if I had even more powerful weaponry at hand, even stronger worlds would fall. When the production of more advanced Arcane Mechanical Automatons begin and first Mechanical Legions are constructed, only then will the entire Draconic Deus see the might of my Arcanotech.

"How many Ultimate-Class have we killed with the first one?"

I asked as I looked at General Zagan.

"Detection spells are showing that 4 Ultimate-Class from present fifteen have died."

Answered General Zagan swiftly.

"Then send them another one, to kill at least five. Afterward, we will be joining the fray. Also, how many soldiers have died on the enemy side? We don't want too many casualties on our side."

I said to him.

"More than 200,000 has died from first salvo My Lord. After another one, an additional 300,000 should die, altogether half a million would die from initial two million barbarians."

Answered General Zagan to me, as I nodded with satisfaction.

At my order all Anti-Matter Magicule Canon Batteries and three Lunar-Class Cruisers started their fire once more, this time even more aggressively, taking down, this time, unfortunately, only three Ultimate-Class powerhouses.

Apparently, these ones were smarter, and learned from their mistakes, and used their soldiers as cannon fodder, a pretty clever move. Now only 8 Ultimate-Class humans remained, while more than 700,000 humans died due to bombardment, and five hundred thousand died solely from the second salvo, as Ultimate-Class powerhouses used ordinary soldiers as meat shields.

Chapter 64 - Battle for Ihor (3)

'Architect, take direct control of Voidships and supplement magical barrier created by Mephisto.'

I said in my head to my MTC A.I.

[As you wish.]

Answered back the elderly voice of Architect, as I gripped my scythe Rosenkreutz and unleashed my wings as it was time to join the fun. Currently, I was even confident to go in close combat, as I trained a bit and raised my mastery to Expert-rank. Still, I will remain with my magic.

Rosenkreutz acted as my Mystic Code, the amplifier one and specialized one. It strengthened my spells by a great deal. When I flew high in the air, Venelana and General Amyke did the same, and General Zagan released four Ultimate-Class Flesh golems, upon enemies.

Our side had 7 against 8. That was good, but alas, 7 human Ultimate-Class human barbarians were blasted to dust. Inevitable end, as I wanted to preserve the lives of as many soldiers as possible.

I targeted two Ultimate-Class human barbarians, as Vena and General Amyke took one each, and four Flesh Golems stalled four of them.

I started casting countless Combat-Tier spells mostly, [Grand Fireball], [Magic Missle] and [Thunderclap] spells. I cast tens of them simultaneously, as I shot them at the two enemies that were before me.

While they were lower ranked spells, they manage to mildly injure both Ultimate-Class barbarians. One of them was a pure warrior and another one was some kind of shaman or something. Due to their primitive development, their magic system was just based on Elemental Spirit Magic, which lied in borrowing powers from Elemental Spirits.

The rather easy and straightforward system, usually used by primitive societies. The majority of magic practiced by human tribes in Africa in Draconic Deus or some in Asia was practically something similar. Shamanism was very popular here and there.

After being injured by me, they started some kind of strategy, as the warrior one stood before shaman one, as the shaman started calling upon the elemental spirits. This was rather dangerous, as I wasn't betting my chances on my luck.

If the shaman is lucky, they could summon very strong elemental spirits, that could reach even Super-Devil Class / Greater Divinity Stage Gods, which was pretty terrifying. Thus, I immediately, cast a huge Strategic-Tier spell, [Chain Dragon Lightning] as a huge dragon made out of lightning materialized above my head and shot with the enormous speed at the shaman, that was calling upon the strength of spirits.

When the shaman realized what was going on, the spell fell on him, obliterating him on the spot. Instant kill.

"Damm... that body could have been used for Devour."

I cursed a bit, as I looked at the Ultimate-Class warrior and attacked him with a barrage of Dark Light spears.

Meanwhile, I was fighting my battle, below me, the ambush started as the rest of my legions joined the fray together with Arcane Mechanical Automatons, which started dropping from the sky like raindrops.

Slaughter was commenced.

These humans were no match for a perfectly trained, armed, and more advanced civilization. This was inevitable. On the other hand, as I looked around me, I also was aware, we devils could end the same way.

If we are invaded by strong civilizations or faction in the Astral Boundary, like some human Arcane Empires, Mighty Divine Pantheons, or countless strong races.

Soon enough, Venelana killed her opponent, by blasting him off with her Power of Destruction. Similar to the effect of bombardment from Anti-Matter Magicule Canon Batteries and three Lunar-Class Cruisers. The enemy was blasted to oblivion.

Afterward, together with Venelana, we went to dispose of the rest of the Ultimate-Class humans that were fighting Flesh Golems of General Zagan. The battle between armies was also coming to the end.

My soldiers now were more experienced than before, and these humans as poorly as armed and trained, were no match for my armies. Arcane Mechanical Automatons, while Drone Types, were very effective against barbarians. In Draconic Deus, they would be useful only as cannon fodder, but against primitive civilizations such as this, they could be used as effective combat measures.

Within the next one hour, we have disposed of all Ultimate-Class humans, and I have obtained bodies of three Ultimate-Class shamans that would serve as my nourishment. Then there were four bodies that were in good shape, and they went to General Zagan to become Flesh Golems.

I needed a lot of Ultimate-Class Flesh Golems, as they would be very useful when conquering the mainland of the Yestera Plane, as there was a high number of General Level Monsters. Fortunately, they fought between themselves for supremacy, so I didn't need to fear any kind of alliance or something.

While the conquest would take a longer time, probably half a year, it will be easier, as I only need to dispose of one or two General Level monsters at the same time, it will be a hunt or something like that.

'Architect start cleaning the battlefield.'

I ordered Architect in my head, before turning to face my two Generals, who were standing before me, with Vena and Lord Mephisto.

"Good work everyone. General Amyke and General Zagan, you two are in charge of cleaning the battlefield together with Mechs that are being controlled by the Architect. Gather all bodies in one place, they would be processed for energy. Lord Pheles, please cast a protective spell, over the entire Ihor for the next one week, until we have constructed proper magic tower structure, and stabilize our grasp over the subcontinent."

I said my orders. With more advanced Arcanotech, I had a new way to create energy, and that was processing bodies. The higher the class was, the more energy could be created.

After one week, a proper network of Magic Tower constructed by Arcanotech would be finished, and my hold over the Ihor would be absolute. Then the mining works could start also here, in addition to the Ewor.

With two subcontinents, I can exponentially increase my army, and start building combat-oriented Mechs. They would be greatly useful at the conquest of the mainland of Yestera.

Chapter 65 - Aftermath of Ihor

After giving orders, I took my spoils of war and left the rest of the work to my loyal subject. The next day, General Amyke and General Zagan took the army and even Mechs and went to conquer and annihilate every human on the Ihor subcontinent.

Within one week, the entire Ihor fell and the Magic Tower network was swiftly constructed during that week, making my fold increase. Afterward, I could finally enjoy some rest, as an attack on the Mainland was scheduled to happen two to three months later.

Probably three, I needed to manufacture many things for the conquest to be as smooth as possible. Today I was sitting in a special room in Fort Bael, that was named in Vena's honor, or the real reason I sucked at naming things. But alas, Venelana was happy and I got a kiss, so good deal.

Before me, there were two corpses of Ultimate-Class human shamans, that I planned to use Devour Trait on them.

I used the Devour on the corpse on the right and felt a stream of energy enter my body, as it soon disappeared.

'Increase?'

I asked Architect.

[4 Units.]

Answered my MTC A.I.

Then I used the Devour on the second corpse and my Demonic Energy reserves increased once again slightly by 5 Units.

Altogether I had right now 192 Units of Demonic Energy by Architect's calculations. Not great, not terrible.

I ordered Architect to start constructing a proper Mechanical Legion, and the base would be Arachne Hydralisk. This mech was around 3,5 meters tall and weighed around 500kg. Armed with two scythe-like limbs, it looked like lamia or at rather some kind of Lovecraftian aberration of greek lamia. Additionally, it had inscribed a set of protective runes, gaining strong energy resistance, with all things, its power is High-Class. It was also armed with some energy-based weaponry.

After two months, I will have probably one Legion of 200,000 of these Arachne Hydralisks. This was the might of mechs, more I have faster they replicate.

After one month, the entire Ihor was turned into an industrial paradise. The number of Drones shot up to 2,000,000 from an initial 750,000 just after one month, and now Drones started working on the construction of Mechanical Legions, as they started building Hydralisk Mechs. Some other drones were doing mining works, others were doing processing works, in many factories.

Having such a world as this was truly profitable. I gained a huge army, just from resources mined from two subcontinents, and Mainland has to be conquered. With this, I would be able to gain so many Mechs. When I start selling them, it will make an astronomical amount of money.

After another one month, I gained my long-dreamed Mechanical Legion of 200,000 intimidating-looking Hydralisk Mechs. They looked beautiful and dangerous at the same time. I have decided to wait an additional two more months, to have at least two Mechanical Legions, and to have some time for Drones to construct a few more Lunar-Class Cruisers.

I spent most of my days silently, studying magic or talking with Mephisto or Vena. Sometimes I wondered about my perception of time is messed up. In my past life as a human, even though there was a long lifespan among even ordinary humans, we perceived time in the way we will die one day, while I was the devil wasn't the same. Devils could spend decades doing literary nothing, without any remorse.

Our lifespan was minimally 10,000 years, so we were slow at everything.

After additional two months, all preparations were done. I now had in my disposition 400,000 High-Class Hydralisk Mechs, and 14 Lunar-Class Cruisers together with more than 2,000,000 Drones. Though in the upcoming conquest of the mainland of Yestera, I won't be using drones even as cannon fodder.

They get broken very easily, and preparing them is annoying. My Army that would be invading the mainland shall be 10 Legions of my devils, numbering 2,000,000. I already replenished the deceased as I called reinforcements from home. Then 2 Mechanical Legions, and a small Fleet of 10 Lunar-Class Cruisers. As support, there would be 4 Drone Legions to construct objects and some necessary things.

While Hydralisk Mechs could be used as workers, their efficiency was far lower compared to that of specialized drones.

Soon enough, the entire Yestera would be mine. Though finally, I would be able to return home, I felt better in the Underworld.

Today, the last thing needed was to consult a strategy and assign roles to each of the Ultimate-Class fighters on my side, and then tomorrow, we could go. In the end, it was decided that the invasion of the mainland would commence by an army divided into two groups.

Each Army group would have 5 Legions of Devils, 1 Mechanical Legion, and 7 Lunar-Class Cruisers. Group 1 would be commanded by General Zagan, while Group 2 would be commanded by me personally.

General Amyke would join Group 1, while Vena would join Group 2 with me. Lord Mephisto would be remaining on stand-by in the Ihor subcontinent in case of emergencies.

Chapter 66 - Mainland of Yestera Plane

After several days, when all preparations were complete, I was leading my Army Group B numbering 1,000,000 soldiers and 200,000 Mechs, along with several supporting Arcanotech, mainly artillery to the Mainland of the Yestera Plane.

Within the next two hours, we would be reaching the southwestern shores of the mainland, and I was already in combat-ready mode. The entire mainland was populated by monsters and some goblinoids or other monster humanoid species.

So fight, as soon as we land, was inevitable.

"With two of us, we are enough. In the mainland, there is a low possibility to encounter a higher number of General Level monsters in one place, as they tend to be rather territorial. Also, due to the lack of humans in the mainland, the more intelligent species such as Orcs or Bugbears don't tend to group together, but rather the entire mainland in one huge warzone between various species and tribes as they fight over domination."

I explained slowly.

While the mainland had more General Level monsters, numbering in tens, they were too engulfed in inner strife. Not to mention the fact, majority of monsters were stupid even at the General Level, so I wasn't fearing any kind of unified resistance. We can slowly hunt them one by one. On top of that, I needed a lot of General Level corpses to increase my Energy Reserves through Devour. It would be best, if I find some species like Eldritch Giant, that had an extremely potent magical power, that would be good for me.

"I know, it just we don't have enough Ultimate-Class combatants on our side."

Said Venelana quietly.

"Yes, you are right, but what we have is advanced Arcanotech, which could blast Ultimate-Class to death until even no dust remains. Also, we are a more advanced and developed civilization, so we need to assure our dominance over these savages. On top of that, both of you and I are top among the Ultimate-Class combatants even though we are barely at the higher ends of the Ultimate-Class in terms of our Energy Reserves. Our Clan Traits are pretty destructive so it will be alright."

I said to her to lessen her worries.

After two hours, we were finally nearing the shores of the southwestern part of the mainland of Yestera. General Zagan together with his Army Group 1 should be landing on the southeastern part of the mainland at the same time as us.

"What are those Zeo?"

Asked me, Vena, as I looked through holographic to see tens of thousands of monsters on the shore.

"It is a Voltimeria, a fish monster with a blackish purple body made of stone. Voltimeria varies from one to two meters in length, have eight fin-like organs, and have a single eye on their forehead. They are able to float up to three meters in the air and charge at opponents at high speed. They have incredible endurance due to their stone bodies and are strong enough to destroy heavy armor with their sharp fangs."

Sounded voice of Architect through the ship's inbuild A.I.

"How is their general strength?"

I said.

"Majority of their species remains its whole life at the Minion Level, some may reach Warrior Level. Usually, the leaders or some mutated ones may reach Commander Level. The overall threat is low. Still, be wary of their numbers, on those shores there are almost a million of them."

Responded A.I.

"Use voidship's weaponry and wipe them all out. While their individual strength is low, their numbers are rather high, and we are near the sea, they could easily call for reinforcements."

I commanded as all 7 Lunar-Class Cruisers started redying up their weaponry, and soon enough sounds of shooting from Anti-Matter Magicule Canon Batteries and main cannons were heard, as they fell unto hundreds of thousands Voltimerias, and created huge explosions upon the contact.

The entire bombardment took twenty minutes until I got a response from the ship's A.I. that there were no signs of life below us.

Now, the formerly clean and beautiful beach was full of craters, crimson sand painted from the blood of monsters, and body parts from almost one million Voltimerias.

"Excellent. Now land and order Mechanical Legion to march, we will test the efficiency of the Mechanical Legion in the practice."

I said, as one Cruiser landed down, several kilometers away from the beach, where the massacre of monster commenced, and tens of thousands of Arcane Mechanical Automatons, started marching out from the Cruiser.

All of them looked like some kind of insectoid snake, marching in orderly formation until all of them stopped and readied their weapons.

"Architect take direct control. Thirty kilometers from us should be a small tribe of kobolds, numbering around forty thousand, without any General Level. March there, maintain the formation, and speed, Cruiser would be covering the sky."

I said to Architect as suddenly all Mechs started to march in a specific direction, and all Lunar-Class Cruisers were flying above them, occasionally killing a few monsters that were flying in the sky. Usually some rogue monsters, or even some flocks, but they were killed swiftly.

Soon enough we have reached the kobold settlement. The entire settlement was looking like some ruins of the proper village. Still, most humanoids were not intelligent enough to build proper buildings.

A kobold was a reptilian humanoid, standing between 60cm – 75cm tall, weighing between 16 – 20kg, with scaled skin between reddish-brown and black in color and burnt orange to red eyes. Their legs were sinewy and digitigrade. They had long, clawed fingers and a jaw like a crocodile. Small white or tan horns protruded from their head, and they had rat-like tails.

"Pathetic... annihilate."

I gave out my command as the entire Mechanical Legion of Hydralisk Mechs, started marching at the settlement. These mechs were brutal and efficient, weak kobolds were no match for mighty mechs, and were killed mercilessly, and within the one hour entire, the settlement was bathing in blood.

Chapter 67 - Southwestern Region of Mainland (1)

"Really terrifying. This level of efficiency is very high, though their production cost is a bit high with the current production abilities of the Underworld. Unless we start investing more into planar exploration and conquest."

Commented Venelana.

While Underworld didn't have enough resources to produce the necessary amount of mechanical legions, that didn't mean, that other planes also didn't have them. Devils could always go for planar conquest like I here. I got enough resources from just two subcontinents to build a lot, and that wasn't even the end.

From Architect's scans, resources on two subcontinents would be enough to last for five years or so. And when I reach Satan-Class or higher ends of it, I can slowly start cleaning sea monsters at that level, and access resources underneath the water.

Everyone can see that Planar Conquest was profitable. And this was true to be told nothing. The stronger the civilization was, the stronger their target of conquest could be. If I had strength, I could conquer some advanced civilizations and absorb their knowledge and strength into my own.

Something was done in Draconic Deus by Asgard to magical civilizations they found or Celestial Court if they found some cultivation-based civilizations. In Astral Boundary, such things were a common occurrence.

Stronger civilizations devoured weaker to become even stronger.

"Soon, soon enough. Okey... where to go now... where is the largest tribe?"

I ask Architect.

"Seventy kilometers to the north, there is an entire area that is ruled by various ogre tribes, from which all tribes have one, General Level Ogre. Apparently, they are at war with each other even right now as we are speaking. There are 8 tribes there, so await 8 General Level Ogres to kill, afterward, the entire southwestern region should be done, although there should be at least three or four rogue General Level monsters, they are just some minor threats."

Answered Architect.

Ogres appeared as giant humanoids with very muscular bodies and large heads. They stood around 300 cm high and could weigh 280 kg to 320 kg. In truth, instead of muscular bodies, they were rather fat, as they were gluttonous creatures willing to eat almost anything. They were beyond stupid, while a bit smarter than trolls.

"Then set the course to the ogre area, we will go hunting."

I said, as my fleet together with Mechanical Legion went to the next target, which was nearest Ogre Tribe. Compared to other species, their number was lower, but their strength on average was around Commander Level, while a few young ogres were of Warrior Level.

I sensed one, General Level Ogre, that was the biggest one in the tribe, standing at a height of 330 cm. What was interesting, he had primitive armor, some plates of crudely hammered iron on his chest.

"Hmm... they started evolving? Or is their civilization progressing? Interesting... sadly they won't have time."

I said to myself. When I saw that Ogre clad in primitive armor, and some crudely made iron weapons, it was apparent, that they were in Iron Age by classification of civilization advancement scale. They already found a way to mine and smelt ores. It was sad, at least for them, they will need to die here... truth to be told, I would love to observe their evolution and conduct some experiments... maybe in future, I will create some kind of safe environment and drop there some primitive species to observe their evolution.

"How many are there?"

I ask.

"4,597 Ogres. From which more than four thousand are of Commander Level, and rest are Warrior Level and Minion Level. One General Level combatant detected."

Said A.I. of the voidship.

"Vena you are on, try to kill that Ogre as soon as possible, I don't want to see him destroying my precious mechs. Also, try to contain your attacks."

I said to her, as she pouted a little and flew out of the voidship.

I understood that containing her attacks was troublesome for her Clan Trait, as Power of Destruction was hard Clan Trait to control, due to its destructive nature. So when someone with that Clan Trait fought, collateral damage was very high if one was not careful, and you can easily kill your allies.

Mechanical Legion underneath my voidships, rushed at the ogre village and ogres in the village without any second though actually did exactly the same thing, and a fight erupted between two sides. In the middle of all of that, was Venelana who was fighting with Ogre Chieftain, that was wielding a huge piece of iron, that looked like an iron pipe... probably some kind of failed forging experiment. They probably wanted to create a weapon but didn't know how to.

I watched from the comfortable chair in my voidship, how all ogres were overwhelmed and killed to the last specimen until none was remaining. While mechanical legion was finishing the battle, due between Vena and Ogre Chieftain was also nearing an end, as the ogre was tattered and bleeding from all parts of the body, and was missing his left hand.

In the end, the fight ended, when Venelana blasted the head of Ogre Chieftain with a ball of condensed Power of Destruction, killing the Ogre Chieftain on the spot. As I watched the body fall on the ground with satisfaction, I noticed the entire area was cleanly stripped of all life that could be a threat.

"Architect land voidships and order all troops to land out. Organize into three formations, from which one would take five voidships, Mechanical Legion and you will command it. The other two groups will take by one voidship and will be commanded by me and Venelana."

While one group would be significantly bigger, it was due to the lack of Ultimate-Class powerhouse overseeing that. It was compensated by having five Lunar-Class Cruisers and an entire Mechanical Legion. That should be enough to hunt for General Level monsters without any high casualties.

"It will be done."

Chapter 68 - Southwestern Region of Mainland (2)

Just one week, was all that it took, to completely clean off the entire region from the Ogres. Within one week, all ogre tribes and settlements were found, annihilated, and burned down, until nothing remained.

In front of overwhelming might and advanced arcanotech, these primitive ogres were annihilated to last one. Good news also came from the group of General Zagan, whose Army Groud A achieved the same results as me, and controlled the entire region where they landed.

Currently, I let my soldiers organize their own hunting groups and were hunting for the General Level threats that were in the entire Southwestern Area, as we conquered the region where we lanted, I immediately started expansion.

It was predicted that within the next two weeks, my Army Group B would meet with Army Group A of General Zagan, which would also mean, that the entire Southern Area of the Mainland of Yestera has been conquered.

On the other side, my energy reserves have risen to 201 Units from Devouring several General Level Ogres. Their energy reserves were pathetical, just barely classifying for Ultimate-Class, but what one would await from an ogre. Their physical strength was their main forte. Though, there existed a rare breed of them, called Twin-Headed Ogres.

Twin-Headed Ogres were rare breeds or some kind of mutation of ordinary ogres. As the name said, they had two heads, were excelling in the usage of magical power, often they were skilled in close combat as they were in magic. On top of that, they were intelligent comparable to many other sentient species.

Maybe with a bit of luck, I will be able to get my hands on the corpse of the Twin-Headed Ogre. That would be a nice boost.

[There are two General Level entities coming from north to our position.]

Said Architect as I was in the Lunar-Class Cruiser and enjoying my tea and reading magic grimoire.

"Species?"

I said uncaringly, as I sipped my tea.

[Amphisbaena. It is a white twin-headed long-necked dragon more than 20 meters long and several ten times wider than an Orc, with the right head having red eyes and the left blue. It is capable of two different breath attacks; the right head uses a crimson mist that surrounds itself and diffuses magic, while the left head breathes blue flames that burn even on water. In addition, it is capable of using its necks to hit opponents and attack them from underwater. Apparently, it was woken up from its slumber... a stroke of bad luck.]

Explained Architect.

Amphisbaena was a monster with fearsome physical strength and defense, and it could even use magic to a certain degree. I will just bombard it with magic until it is blasted to death.

I slowly stood up and took my Mystic Code Rosenkreutz with me, as I soon flew out from the Lunar-Class Cruiser, and flew the direction, where the two Amphisbaena creatures were.

It didn't take a long time for me to find them, and as they were rather close to the location of the fortress.

"They look just exactly disgusting as Architect described them... annoying..."

I muttered to myself, as I observed incoming Amphisbaena General Level monsters. While they looked disgusting, they had Ultimate-Class energy reserves of magical power, so they could strengthen me by a bigger amount compared to all ogre corpses I have obtained this week.

So, due to that, I have decided to kill them in a way, to preserve their bodies as much as possible. I don't want to destroy them completely, as that would cause excessive loss of magical power, as I learned during my time using Devour.

Thus I decided to use a combination of Dark Light and Chain Dragon Lightning a Strategic-Tier Spell, for extra piercing power.

The most simple way was to create two Dark Light Spears, and then coat them in the Chain Dragon Lightning Spell. While it may sound simple, in truth it was pretty hard, as it required enormous precision to not explode anything straight to my face.

Combined usage of Clan Trait and Tier Magic System was something new that I haven't tested properly yet, only with Lower-ranked spells, which wasn't that dangerous if something went wrong due to my strength right now. But with Strategic-Tier spell and Dark Light Spears on the same level... if it exploded, I would be severely injured.

Thankfully, Architect did the proper calculation and thanks to my True Name Dizmason, my own affinity to handling any kind of energy was boosted up to max, so I was able to construct the spell model for the Chain Dragon Lightning Spells over the Dark Light Spears just within 10 minutes.

I waited for several minutes for the best time to strike, and then when two General Level Amphisbaenas were in my strike zone, I released spells at them, that flew at them with thunderous speed, piercing through their heads, like a hot knife through butter.

"Nice instant kill."

I muttered to myself, as I flew to two corpses and used Devour on the first trait, as I felt a huge amount of energy enter my body, and I felt my energy reserves expand by several points.

"Really good."

I said as I used Devour on the second corpse, and once again I felt a nice feeling over my body, as I felt my energy reserves expand.

"Architect, scan."

I said to my MTC A.I.

[Class: Ultimate

Demonic Energy: 218

Strength: 98

Agility: 96

Vitality: 90]

An increase by 17 Units was really nice. If I should go by an increase from ogres or any other species where their magical ability was just secondary, then this was good. Soon enough, I neared the limit that my current form could hold.

With 218 Units of Demonic Energy, I was already in the higher-ends of the Ultimate-Class in terms of Class. I predicted that by the end of the conquest of the mainland, I would either be at the pinnacle of not far from that level.

Chapter 69 - Continuing Conquest (1)

When a devil approached the limit of his class, then he or she will undergo a so-called metamorphosis or evolution, or whatever one could call it. During that process, one's body would be changed and basically, it would allow one to accommodate more energy in the body.

It also drastically expanded energy reserves and had many other gains from it.

After I was done with these two, I used another Strategic-Tier Spell, Hell Flame to burn down the remains of the two mummified Amphisbaenas.

Then I just flew back to my Cruiser to finish my tea, snacks, and book.

One month later, somewhere in the Southern Area of the Mainland of Yestera

"I see that your part has been successful, General Zagan."

I said while looking at General Zagan who was sitting across me.

It was one month from the time, I killed two Amphisbaenas. During this one month, my Army Group B progressed smoothly, and annihilated countless tribes, towns, settlements, and monster hordes, until blood was soaked red.

Thanks to Architect and advanced Arcanotech, the casualties we have suffered were kept to a minimum during the conquest.

Similarly, Army Group A commanded by General Zagan has progressed smoothly and annihilated everything in its way, until we have met at a certain point in the southern area of the mainland. Now, we will progress to the Central Region, and when that one is conquered, then Western Region and Eastern Region.

"It was hard, but we made it out without any serious losses. Thanks to my Ultimate-Class Flesh Golems combined with Lunar-Class Cruiser and their high firepower, we were able without any problem to dispose of many General Level monsters."

Stated General Zagan.

"What about Mechanical Legion?"

I asked after a while. He was given complete control over the Mechanical Legion.

"Truth to be told, I was surprised at their efficiency when I first deployed them... if we conquer the entire plane then we can build more and more legions like this. They are practically perfect soldiers, especially suited to be best cannon fodder and in higher number, they could even drown Ultimate-Class experts."

Said General Zagan.

"Continue."

"These little things are more suitable to be our foot soldiers, while we may focus on cultivating elite devil armies. Mechs of High-Class such as Hydralisk Type Arcane Mechanical Automaton is perfect close combat cannon fodder foot soldier. If we manage to replace ordinary soldiers with Mechs it would drastically lessen losses of lives of devils, as most devils killed at the battlefield are that of the Low-Class and Middle-Class with some High-Class being among them, but not that much. Secondly, we could train our armies to be elites or to have proper specializations."

I nodded my head in agreement hearing everything that General Zagan said.

Yes, indeed as I studied our recent wars, it was true that the majority of Low-Class and Middle-Class soldiers that went to wars or battles died there. From High-Class combatants, the percentage was lower but was still lingering between 40% to 55%, which was pretty high for my standards.

The main reason was simple, that could be seen in most civilizations and cultures, but also a bit different.

Most of Devil Nobility didn't have the intention of grooming a proper army, and if there is a call to war, then what happens... there is a mass forced conscription from rows of common devils, that have minimal to no training, and they are subsequently dropped on the battlefield with poor gear.

While devils, were better in certain areas, as many of them knew the basics of combat and so, it was not enough for war.

I planned to develop a trend of constructing Mechanical Legions to fill the roles of cannon fodder soldiers. If you go by price, then constructing Mechanical Legion was only a tad expensive compared to training proper Legion of High-Class soldiers.

The advantages of my Mechanical Legions were much more lucrative. You don't need to pay them salaries, arm them, feed them, house them. Only spent some money on repairs, but that is negligent, as they can mostly repair themselves if needed.

"That is good... I predict that resources from continents of the Yestera Plane would be enough to build several million of them and plus a smaller Void Fleet. Sadly, without having at least three Satan-Class combatants, it will be impossible to conquer the depths of the oceans."

I said to General Zagan who agreed with my statement.

Having millions of Arcane Mechanical Automatons and the entire Void Fleet was my main goal to do before the Great War starts. With this Arcanotech, I would be able to greatly increase my influence and more easily implement my plans.

Also, it will be much easier to do serious damage to Fallen and Church. If possible, maybe I will cause some collateral damage to Olympians. Hades would become a threat once in the future as he has immense hatred towards devils for eating souls.

"How is the situation in the Central Region?"

Asked me General Zagan as we were sitting in my room of this Cruiser.

"Here it is interesting... compared to the other Regions of the Mainland of Yestera, this one has something similar to civilization or at least tribal society similar to Ewor. Apparently, some Orc Tribes have established some kind of Kingdom or whatever it is called. It may be problematic, as probably Pinnacle General Level Orc has emerged and conquered every tribe. From our scans we have seen, that they have subjugated tribes of Ogres, Trolls, Hill Giants, and weaker species such as Kobolds or Goblins. Problems are their numbers, as they number in millions."

I answered. The reason why I have chosen Central Region as first after the South Region fell, was precise because of this.

In this region, something akin to the primitive kingdom has emerged and that was unacceptable as if giving more time, they could grow more and become a threat or rather cause serious damage.

"So we need to lower their numbers at first..."

Chapter 70 - Continuing Conquest (2)

"Yes... their numbers are too high and it may turn dangerous for us once the invasion there starts in the full might. They might drown us in pure numbers, that could cause pretty terrible damages to us."

I stated.

"What strategy do you propose General?"

I ask.

"Simple guerilla warfare. We will lure them to the predestined locations and kill them in large numbers with traps or with bombardment from Voidships or Anti-Matter Magicule Canon Batteries. Afterward, we can start the invasion with full force. We should focus on the most populous locations and species such as goblins, kobolds, and orcs. They are the main force of this primitive nation."

Proposed General Zagan to which I nodded.

"Try to dispose of Hill Giants too... each of them is pinnacle Commander Level and their defensive abilities are terrifying. They would cause a lot of damage to our troops."

Average Hill Giant that was the pinnacle of Commander Level would need around four to six pinnacle High-Class devils to kill it. When it came to Hydralisk Mechs, then somewhere between ten to fifteen would be needed, which is a pretty high number.

That was mainly thanks to their extremely high defensive abilities and vitality, they were troublesome opponents. I wanted to dispose of their tribes through traps and other means such as bombardment from arcanotech gadgets as that would be the easiest way to finish them off.

"I will give it my best, My Lord. Now if you excuse me."

Said General Zagan as he bowed slightly, and exited the room.

"Hopefully, this entire thing will end as soon as possible... it is becoming too annoying and I want to return to the Underworld."

I muttered to myself as I was left alone in my room.

"Are you again sulking, Zeo?"

Asked a cheerful voice, of Venelana who just now entered the room.

"Yeh, probably... it is annoying you know? If not for the lack of Ultimate-Class powerhouses on my side, I wouldn't come here to fight with a bunch of barbarians and monsters. While this expedition gave me some combat experiences, it is boring at the same time."

I said to her, as Vena sat down across me.

"Hmm... I can relate to that."

Muttered Venelana.

"Don't worry. Soon entire thing will end, and we will return home. Then I will return here when I reach Satan-Class to clean the seas out of the monsters. I swear, I will join invasions to strong or interesting places, not ones like this."

I said to her. Essentially, when the Central Region of the Yestera Mainland is conquered, Western Region, Eastern Region, and Northern Region would fall without any resistance, as they are in the same state as the Southern Region which fell to me within one month, so no threat.

"Do you want to go on a date when we return to the Underworld?"

I asked out of nowhere, to which Venelana looked a bit surprised, at least on the surface. I bet she was shocked, as I was not a proactive person when it came to our relationships. The main initiative came always from Vena, something I was thankful for.

"Yes, that would be nice."

Answered her with a beautiful smile.

"I head Agreas Island has beautiful environment... maybe we could go and take a look."

The most distinctive feature about Agreas Island is that it appears to be a large floating island suspended in the sky. A popular tourist resort, it is also the place that controls the flow of the air in the Underworld. On top of that, it contains the essential crystals of the highest quality that is used to create both the Evil Pieces and Brave Saints in the future.

So I will be taking a sample of them to conduct some research. I want to see the extent of them. The creation of Evil Pieces is not necessary right now and would be a catastrophe right now, as I cannot influence their usage, to minimalize it. It would be best if they are invented after a certain time when my voice would be most important for all Devils.

"I head that Agreas is a wonderful place. I always wanted to visit it..."

Muttered Venelana as she looked at me.

Afterward, we spent several hours talking about various things to do after return to the Underworld.

Several days later, General Zagan began his guerilla warfare against the primitive kingdom of orcs and other similar species.

I gave him control over all Voidships, and the entire Artillery Battalion that consisted of more than two hundred Anti-Matter Magicule Canon Batteries and he gave me brilliant results.

As predicted, just with a slight provocation, he managed to rule several hundreds of thousands of orcs, trolls, and ogres into a trap, as they thought that somebody is attacking their territory and lured them to a remote location, where Anti-Matter Magicule Canon Batteries and Voidships tore them to shreds.

The second thing, that happened was the continuous process of sending assassins and assassinations of chieftains of tribes that didn't have good relations among themselves to create internal strife and conflicts. Most of the races that were in this nation, were beyond stupid and waged war among themselves even if they were allies. So when something like an assassination of chieftain happened, the next day they marched to attack their rival, they thought he was behind the act.

Third thing, several bigger tribes of Hill Giants and Trolls were completely annihilated personally by General Zagan, General Amyke, and Lord Mephisto Pheles working together. That removed probably the biggest obstacle to the successful invasion of the Central Region.

Still, after one week, of this operation, the so-called King noticed something and ordered all tribes to stand down and prepare for an attack.

I must admit, that the Orc ruling this nation was a pretty smart one compared to his compatriots to see danger behind. Still, it was already too late, as all major operations that needed to be done, were already performed and now final push into the Central Region could start.