Activation, Aberration.
The entire imperial capital is being frantically eroded. The earth begins to writhe, countless viscous and disgusting tentacles sprout from the walls, the residents on the streets begin to mutate, their bodies undergoing various aberrations, houses grow tumors and fangs, and the large trees on both sides of the street uproot themselves and flee with deformed limbs. The faces on the tree trunks, unsettling to even glance at, emit eerie laughter.
At the same time, similar scenes are unfolding in every town of the major kingdoms. The members of Eight Fingers, who have long been hidden in the major kingdoms, appear one after another, holding sacred books containing 'forbidden knowledge,' their faces filled with fervent expressions, and begin to spread forbidden knowledge unceasingly.
Every moment, countless humans, in fear and despair, or in their desire for power, begin to accept and embrace forbidden knowledge. In a short period of time, 'forbidden knowledge' spreads like a plague throughout all the human kingdoms.
“Master, we have found their location.”
In the imperial capital, atop the towering, indescribable monster, Yusa silently appears behind Lu Minghao. She lifts the corners of her skirt slightly, performs a bow, and speaks with utmost elegance, completely disregarding everything around her, or rather, she is already accustomed to it.
“You’ve already found it?”
Lu Minghao, who was admiring the masterpiece below, slowly turns around, looking at Yusa with a hint of surprise. After the kingdom was destroyed, Lu Minghao entrusted all matters concerning the human kingdoms to Princess Lana. Moreover, Yusa and Yuri were sent out by him to search for the legacy of the being once known as the Eight Greed Kings, who descended upon this world.
Before Ainz Ooal Gown led the Great Tomb of Nazarick to descend, this world also had a player who descended with his entire guild, just like Ainz Ooal Gown, only this player, known as the Eight Greed Kings, had already died after a great war with the Dragon Lords.
The only thing left behind was their former stronghold, a city floating in the sky. There, the Eight Greed Kings left behind thirty guardians to protect their guild equipment and items. Moreover, although the thirty guardians were not as powerful as Shalltear and the others,
they were all existences close to level 100. To put it simply, there were thirty guardians there, the weakest of whom could rival the Captain of the Scripture of the Slane Theocracy, and the strongest of whom were not weaker than Kaire and Tsuare.
“Master, what should we do next? Eliminate them?”
Yusa raises her head and asks Lu Minghao. Three days ago, she and Yuri successfully found the floating city in the sky, and relied on the power of [Original Sin of Lust] to sneak into it. However, even after hundreds of years, those guardians were still faithfully executing the last order left by their former master, the Eight Greed Kings.
When Yusa and Yuri infiltrated the second level, their presence was detected by the magic within the floating city. Before the guardians of the floating city could surround them, Yusa successfully escaped with Yuri, but before escaping, Yusa left a part of her body tissue there.
Currently, Yuri is following the floating city from a distance, while Yusa has returned to the empire to report the news about the floating city to Lu Minghao.
“No need to rush.”
Lu Minghao raises his hand and strokes Yusa's long hair, looking towards the direction of the imperial border, where Demiurge and Cocytus are leading the undead army of the Great Tomb of Nazarick towards the empire.
As of now, Lu Minghao has no need to clash with Ainz Ooal Gown for the time being. After all, he has only completely eroded the human kingdoms, but this world also has demi-humans and monsters besides humans.
Among them, the largest kingdom of demi-humans and monsters, the Council State, has only just had a portion of Eight Fingers members infiltrate it. To completely erode the Council State, a catalyst is still needed.
Although Lu Minghao could personally take action to kill the Platinum Dragon Lord and forcibly erode the Council State, doing so would definitely be noticed by Ainz Ooal Gown, coupled with the newly discovered remnants of the Eight Greed Kings' forces.
Lu Minghao still decides to hand over the Council State to the useful tool, Ainz Ooal Gown. After all, the Platinum Dragon Lord of the Council State is well aware of the dangers of players, especially after Ainz Ooal Gown completely destroyed all the kingdoms of mankind.
“But before that, I still have to add fuel to the fire for them.”
Saying that, Lu Minghao looks at the imperial capital below, which has already completed its aberration. With a gentle wave of his hand, all the aberrant bodies within the capital stand up and look towards the direction of the imperial border. At the same time, the remaining aberrant bodies in the imperial skill also make the same gesture.
“Master?”
Princess Lana is the first to notice the movement below, raising her head and looking at Lu Minghao curiously. She knows that besides her and the other familiars, only Lu Minghao, as the master, can do such a thing.
However, Princess Lana doesn't quite understand the meaning of Lu Minghao's actions. After all, the empire has already been completely eroded, and as for those aberrant bodies, they are completely unworthy of attention. Even if they die under the army of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, their corpses will be absorbed by the aberrant earth, causing absolutely no loss.
“Of course, it's to add fuel to the fire. Besides, I'm a prankster slime. How can I not go down and experience this game that I personally designed?”
Facing Princess Lana's question, Lu Minghao doesn't hide his chaotic and mischievous thoughts at all. At the same time, his body begins to twist and expand continuously. His original human-like body begins to lengthen, silver-white scales continuously emerge, sharp dragon horns on his huge dragon head shine with dazzling light, and a pair of enormous dragon wings slowly unfurl behind him.
Platinum Slime Dragon Lord has arrived!
“....Master, although I understand your desire to watch the fun, such obvious framing will be easily found out with a little investigation.”
Princess Lana looks speechlessly at Lu Minghao, who has transformed into the same appearance as the Platinum Dragon Lord. She roughly understands what her master wants to do, but such a low-level framing can be easily understood with a little information gathering from the Council State.
After all, there can't be two Platinum Dragon Lords in this world, right?
“Is the truth important?”
Lu Minghao lowers his huge dragon head and looks at Princess Lana, a ferocious smile on his dragon face. Many times, the truth is not important, what is important is the result. And now, Ainz Ooal Gown and the Platinum Dragon Lord are absolute mortal enemies from their standpoints. When the two sides meet, there is only one choice: you die or I live.
What's more, now Lu Minghao is planning to add fuel to the fire. When Ainz Ooal Gown and the Platinum Dragon Lord really meet, I'm afraid the correct way to open it is for Ainz Ooal Gown to directly use a World Item to slap the Platinum Dragon Lord in the face.
Of course, what does all this have to do with Lu Minghao? He is just an edible and kind slime. If you, the Platinum Dragon Lord, attack the Guardians of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, what does it have to do with him, Lu Minghao.
“I understand. Also, Master, the Holy Queen has brought the Slane Theocracy's Kaire to you. Do you need her?”
After receiving Lu Minghao's answer, Princess Lana smiles charmingly, already understanding Lu Minghao's meaning. Then, she claps her hands, and the shadow under her feet begins to lengthen and twist. The Holy Queen walks out, carrying Kaire, who is wrapped in tentacles and formed into a meatball.
For Solution Epsilon, it could be said that it was a surprise Saint Princess gave to Princess Renner. Originally, she thought that Solution Epsilon, as one of the Three Awakened God-kin, was destined to die in the previous war, but she didn't expect that she would be rescued by the Saint Princess in the end.
Princess Renner was extremely interested in this hybrid of the Six Great Gods' bloodline and the Elf race. How much stronger would she become after receiving power from her master, who was already powerful?
"Solution Epsilon?"
Lu Minghao was also stunned when he saw Solution Epsilon being brought over by the Saint Princess. The huge dragon head approached the meatball behind the Saint Princess, and dragon pupils comparable to the size of an ordinary person's body carefully examined Solution Epsilon inside through the tentacles.
Lu Minghao was extremely interested in this woman who only appeared briefly in the original story but left a deep impression on him, especially Solution Epsilon's words in the original story: as long as someone could defeat her, then no matter how evil the other party's personality was, how ugly they looked, or even if they weren't human, she would be willing to reproduce with them and give birth to offspring.
At this moment, Lu Minghao still remembered it vividly. Coupled with the [Lust] talent he obtained after coming to this world and the Solution Epsilon who was now delivered to his door, Lu Minghao felt that this was fate!
"Renner, take her away from here first, and heal her injuries. The rest can wait until I return."
"Yes, Master."
After hearing that Lu Minghao was also interested in Solution Epsilon, a trace of loss appeared in Princess Renner's twisted heart, but it was only like a little girl's feeling of having her favorite toy taken away by her adult. She nodded and took the Saint Princess and Solution Epsilon away from here.
"By the way, Yusa, you should leave first too."
"Yes, Master."
After saying that, a pair of wings opened on Yusa's back and she flew into the sky, leaving this place.
"Then next, it's time for me, Platinum Dragon Lord, to fight against the evil undead soldiers and stratum guardians for the peace and justice of this world!"
Looking at Yusa's disappearing figure in the sky, a hint of excitement appeared on Lu Minghao's dragon face. His huge body jumped down from the top of the giant aberration, and countless aberration armies began to gather, following Lu Minghao towards the border of the empire.
At the same time, during this process, Lu Minghao began to substitute himself into the role of the Platinum Dragon Lord, in order to prevent himself from accidentally saying the wrong thing later. On the other side, the bodies of countless aberrations on the ground also began to change constantly. A few minutes later, the boundless aberration army had become a mixed army of monsters and demi-humans.
"Roar!"
In the high sky, a majestic dragon roar sounded. The silver-white dragon waved its wings and cut through the sky. The boundless monster army followed below. The earth trembled constantly wherever it passed, and at the same time, a steady stream of aberrations joined in and changed their shapes.
......
Boom! Boom! Boom!
In the border area closest to the Great Tomb of Nazarick, Demiurge, who was leading the army forward on the boundless wasteland, suddenly felt a burst of tremors under his feet. A black line in the distance was constantly magnifying, and the pebbles on the ground could be seen jumping constantly.
"It seems that other races besides humans can't hold back either."
Demiurge pushed up his glasses on the bridge of his nose, looked at the black line that was constantly magnifying in the distance, and said slowly. Demiurge had a general understanding of the information of the major races in this world. Even though there was still a distance of more than fifty kilometers, Demiurge could still clearly see the mixed army of monsters and demi-humans rushing towards this side.
"Do we need to notify Lord Ainz?"
On the side, Cocytus took out all his weapons from the interdimensional space, raised his head and glanced at the silver dragon roaring in the sky. From a long distance away, Cocytus sensed the opponent's incomparably powerful aura. It was another strong man no weaker than their guardians.
"Too late, the other party is prepared. It seems we were careless."
Demiurge looked at the dragon circling in the sky with a sneer. When he first noticed something was wrong, Demiurge immediately wanted to report the situation here to Lord Ainz, but the magic was interrupted. Moreover, when he wanted to use the item bestowed by Lord Ainz before leaving, he instinctively felt a fatal threat.
He understood that this was because the other party had already locked onto him. Once he used the item, even if the process was only a moment, for strong men of their level, if they were prepared, this moment would be enough to determine the outcome.
Moreover, Demiurge was absolutely certain that the other party must have set up a magic barrier to interrupt teleportation as soon as they arrived here.
"Prepare for battle, this time is completely different from before!"
As he said that, Demiurge directly transformed into the third stage, which was his strongest mode. Seeing this, Cocytus on the side also unhesitatingly equipped all his weapons and made a fighting stance.
"Magic Dragon Breath!"
In the sky, Lu Minghao, who had been circling for several laps, suddenly waved his wings. His huge body swooped down towards the bottom at a speed that was completely disproportionate to his size. At the same time, his huge dragon mouth opened slightly, and the venom that had been accumulated for a long time spewed out like a waterfall.
In an instant, the purplish-black venom exuding a faint sweet smell covered all the members of the Great Tomb of Nazarick below. The venom, which had been evolved countless times, corroded the air as soon as it appeared, and all the plants on the entire earth began to wither and die.
Bang!
Below, the giant soldiers who were already prepared jumped into the air, and the shields of the divine artifacts began to expand rapidly, protecting all the undead soldiers and Demiurge and the others below in an instant.
"Heh!"
In the sky, Lu Minghao, who was spewing venom, flashed a cruel light in his huge dragon pupils after seeing the giant soldiers' movements. A mere divine artifact-level shield could not withstand his [Poison], which had been evolved countless times.
Sure enough, as Lu Minghao expected in the next second, the moment the shield came into contact with the venom, the seemingly indestructible shield began to dissolve directly. In the blink of an eye, the huge shield was covered with pits and rust, exposing the giant soldiers below.
Sizzle sizzle sizzle!
Faced with the easily breached defense, even Demiurge's eyes revealed a trace of disbelief. It must be known that that was one of the Supreme Beings' commonly used weapons, and it was completely destroyed just like that.
"Careful!"
In the next second, Demiurge, who had reacted, unhesitatingly used [Greater Teleportation] to disappear from the spot with Cocytus, and in the next second after they disappeared, the endless venom instantly submerged everything here.
When Demiurge and Cocytus reappeared, the undead army that was called the mythical legion in the original story had disappeared cleanly. Three of the ten giant soldiers were also destroyed, and the seven that escaped were also covered with pitted and corroded marks.
"Planetary Devastation!"
In the next moment, a ferocious dragon roar sounded again. When Demiurge raised his head to look, he realized that between the two dragon claws of the silver-white dragon in the sky, a black, irregular sphere was constantly expanding, and a powerful suction force was constantly coming from above, and it was increasing exponentially every minute and every second.
