"See? Potential is indeed forced out."
Not far from the battlefield, above the Eight Greed Kings' legacy Sky City, Lu Minghao watched Yuli, who was brutally slaughtering the Guardian squad, with his arms crossed and great interest. Lu Minghao had already arrived with Yusha when Yuli was ambushed and headshot earlier.
At that time, Yusha almost went berserk after seeing Yuli's head explode, but after Lu Minghao's comfort, she confirmed that Yuli was still alive and calmed down slightly.
After that, the guardians who stayed behind in Sky City and were just about to go to support, also noticed their existence because of the aura that Yusha had exposed when she went berserk earlier. Then, one by one, fully armed guardians found Lu Minghao and Yusha above Sky City.
After that, there was nothing. The moment they appeared, Lu Minghao directly opened his mouth and swallowed them all in one bite. Now they have long become Lu Minghao's nourishment, and incidentally added several useless skills to Lu Minghao.
"Master, I have never worried about Yuli's strength, after all, she is also one of your familiars. It's just that as her older sister, I want her to stay away from battles and be happy every day."
Yusha, who was on the side, looked at the berserk Yuli not far away, with a trace of doting on her face. As an older sister, wanting her younger sister to stay away from killing and fighting, wanting to protect her, wasn't that a very normal thing?
"Yusha, you are right. There is nothing wrong with being an older sister protecting her younger sister, but excessive doting is also a mistake. From the day you chose to become my familiars, she was destined to face these things."
Lu Minghao turned his head to look at Yusha beside him and said expressionlessly. To him, the two sisters, Yuli and Yusha, were just tools. This was the deal he made with them when he first came to this world.
Once, Lu Minghao gave them a choice, two choices, one was to die without pain, and the other was to live and become his tool.
And the two sisters, Yusha and Yuli, chose to live and become his familiars, then they must face these things. After all, Lu Minghao's talent destined his growth to require endless corpses and killings.
"...I understand, Master."
Yusha nodded after a few seconds of silence. Indeed, from the moment she and her sister chose to accept the master's power and become his familiars, all of this was already destined.
"Okay, smile, don't look like you're about to cry, face Yuli's growth with a smile."
The next second, a gentle smile suddenly appeared on Lu Minghao's handsome face. He raised his hand and patted Yusha's head, pointing to the distance, where the last guardian had been devoured by Yuli, and this trial of growth belonging to Yuli had ended.
"Yes, Master."
Saying that, Yusha raised her hand and patted her face vigorously, showing a sweet smile and flying towards Yuli's direction. Lu Minghao on the side also followed.
"Sister! Master!"
"Yuli is so scared!"
"Wuwuwu!"
"Yuli's head is gone."
At the moment when Yusha and Lu Minghao appeared, Yuli, the unspeakable monster at the top, with blood stains still on the corners of her mouth, blinked her big eyes and cried. At the same time, the monster heads on her body also began to cry and complain. One after another, tentacles tightly wrapped around Lu Minghao and Yuli, as if the frightened little beast had finally found its parents.
"I'm sorry Yuli, your sister is late."
Looking at the monster made up of heads in front of her, sobbing non-stop, Yusha raised her hand and gently stroked the tentacles wrapped around her. She was saying that she and Master had arrived long ago, and even witnessed her head being blown off by the enemy.
"Yuli, can you let go of me first, or control your instincts?"
Lu Minghao, who was on the side, looked at Yuli who was crying non-stop speechlessly, then lowered his head and looked at the tentacles wrapped around him. If he hadn't reacted in time, who knows where these tentacles would have drilled.
"But...but...Master, Yuli is really scared. Just now Yuli's head exploded with a bang, just like fireworks. I thought I was going to die."
Opposite, Yuli blinked her big tearful eyes and looked at Lu Minghao pitifully. When her head exploded just now, she was so scared that she almost thought she would never be able to eat all kinds of delicious food again, and she would never see Master and Sister again.
"Don't worry, as my familiar, you are not so easy to die."
You must know that after becoming Lu Minghao's familiar, let alone anything else, just the immortality alone has completely lived up to Lu Minghao's unspeakable power origin. As Lu Minghao's familiar, as long as you are not destroyed by a single blow, to the point where even the dregs are not left, then you don't have to worry about death at all.
"Oh..."
Yuli looked at Lu Minghao, who was full of helplessness, with a pitiful look, and said oh softly, then controlled the tentacles to let go of Lu Minghao's body. However, just when she was about to withdraw the last tentacle, a normal-sized Yuli head popped out from the top of the tentacle and kissed Lu Minghao on the face.
"Hehe!"
After seeing her successful sneak attack, Yuli showed a trace of smugness on her little face that was still pitiful the second before. Lu Minghao just sighed helplessly at this. After all, she was his familiar, so a kiss was just a kiss.
"Yuli, stop making trouble, quickly change back to your original appearance."
"Got it, Sister."
After speaking, the monster heads on Yuli's body began to melt, and her original huge body also began to shrink little by little. A few seconds later, Yuli, dressed in a maid outfit, with long blue hair and a delicate face, appeared in mid-air again.
"Master! Master! Yuli is amazing, right? This time Yuli defeated many enemies."
The next second, Yuli in mid-air jumped and ran to Lu Minghao's side, skillfully hugged Lu Minghao's arm and began to act coquettishly, completely unable to see the pitiful look before.
"En en, Yuli is very amazing."
"By the way, Master, where are the other guardians over there? Why haven't they appeared yet?"
Facing Lu Minghao's obviously perfunctory answer, Yuli didn't care at all, just stretched her neck and curiously looked at the sky in the distance. She had already devoured all those guardians, so why hadn't they appeared yet?
'Could it be that they are afraid of Yuli-sama?'
The next second, Yuli's big eyes lit up, and her little head subconsciously raised high, looking extremely proud.
Pa!
"Yuli, what are you thinking? The guardians over there have already been devoured by Master."
Yusha, who knew Yuli's personality, of course knew what she was thinking. She raised her hand and gave her a hand knife, then pointed to the Sky City in the distance and said, if she and Master hadn't arrived in time, the remaining guardians who stayed in Sky City would have come to besiege her the moment Yuli went berserk.
"So that's how it is. I thought they were too scared to come out by Yuli-sama. What a pity, also Master, I'm hungry."
".......Forget it, let's go back."
Looking at Yuli, who was in front of him, hugging him and acting cute, saying she was hungry, Lu Minghao was silent for a few seconds, then sighed helplessly. He had completely given up on changing Yuli's personality. Anyway, now that he was sure there were no problems with her combat abilities, he didn't care about the rest.
“Yay, let’s go back and eat!”
After hearing that they could go back, Yuli happily hugged Lu Minghao's arm and jumped up and down. Yusha, watching her sister's behavior, smiled dotingly. At least this battle hadn't changed her sister too much compared to before.
It seemed that she had been too indulgent in the past, and had underestimated her.
“By the way, Master, are you going to take this Sky City?”
At this moment, Yuli raised her head and asked, looking at the empty Sky City in the distance. She was quite curious about this city floating in the sky, as it was her first time seeing it.
“Do you want it? If you want it, we'll take it back.”
“Mmm hmm.”
After speaking, Yuli released one of her arms from Lu Minghao and reached out towards the sky in the distance. Her arm immediately began to lengthen and split. In less than a second, countless tentacles completely enveloped the entire Sky City. As Yuli pulled hard, the Sky City, which had been stationary, began to move slowly.
Half an hour later, Lu Minghao brought the Yuli sisters back above the Imperial Capital with their spoils of war. At this time, the capital below had completely turned into a hell of flesh and blood. Millions of mutated creatures roamed within the capital, and countless tentacles on the flesh-and-blood ground plunged into the circular sphere above the capital.
Inside the sphere, Juesi and Jueming, who were undergoing Lu Minghao's power transformation to become his subordinates, were still asleep. With the input of a large amount of nutrients, the aura emitted by Juesi and Jueming became even more powerful.
“Yusha, you and Yuli go help Lána. Complete the erosion of the remaining areas as quickly as possible.”
“Yes, Master.”
After hearing Lu Minghao's words, Yusha nodded. However, instead of taking Yuli directly away to carry out Lu Minghao's orders, she flew towards the capital below. After collecting some mutated creatures that could be used as ingredients, she cooked them all into a feast.
Only after Yuli had eaten her fill and was content did she take Yuli's new toy, the Sky City, and leave to carry out Lu Minghao's orders.
“It's almost done. Ainz Ooal Gown, you need to work harder.”
After watching the Yuli sisters leave, Lu Minghao suddenly noticed a strange fluctuation. He turned his head to look in that direction, his gaze spanning an unknown distance to the battlefield on the border of the Re-Estize Kingdom.
There, Demiurge's mutated creature had been killed by Ainz Ooal Gown and Albedo working together. Furthermore, Ainz Ooal Gown, based on the traces left in Demiurge's mutated creature, knew the real culprit who killed Demiurge and Cocytus this time.
“Platinum Dragon Lord, I swear on the name of Ainz Ooal Gown, I will make you regret it!”
On the desolate wasteland, Ainz Ooal Gown's eyes were full of murderous intent as he looked at the silver-white dragon scale in Demiurge's mutated creature. Sensing the powerful dragon aura on it, a cruel smile appeared on Ainz Ooal Gown's hideous skull face.
“Ainz-sama, it seems that the Dragon Lords still possess powerful forces unknown to us. Before the war, we need to revive Demiurge and Cocytus to replenish our combat power.”
At this time, Albedo, who was beside him, looked at Ainz Ooal Gown and said in a solemn voice. On this silver-white dragon scale, Albedo felt a power that even she considered powerful. Coupled with the fact that the Platinum Dragon Lord had defeated Demiurge and Cocytus, who were carrying World-Class Items.
Albedo believed that they must face the Platinum Dragon Lord as an enemy and start the war after being fully prepared.
“Mm.”
Ainz Ooal Gown, under the effects of the undead talent [Despair Aura], calmed down his anger slightly and nodded in agreement. In fact, even without Albedo's reminder, Ainz Ooal Gown would have done the same.
“Let's go, Albedo, return to the Great Tomb of Nazarick.”
“Yes, Ainz-sama.”
As soon as he finished speaking, a teleportation gate opened in front of Ainz Ooal Gown and Albedo. After completely destroying Demiurge's remaining mutated creature, the two walked into it.
.......
The scene changed. Ainz Ooal Gown and Albedo had already returned to the Great Tomb of Nazarick. After briefly telling the other Guardians about this matter, Ainz Ooal Gown brought everyone to the treasury deep within the Great Tomb of Nazarick.
Here, the ten billion gold coins and various precious materials needed to revive Demiurge and Cocytus were already prepared.
“Revive, Demiurge, Cocytus.”
As Ainz Ooal Gown raised the Guild Staff in his hand and activated the resurrection authority, the mountains of gold coins and various precious materials in front of him began to melt into golden liquid, which then gathered in two places in front of all the Guardians.
After all the golden liquid disappeared, Demiurge and Cocytus were perfectly revived.
“Demiurge, Cocytus.”
“Ainz-sama?”
“It seems that something happened?”
Lying on the ground, Cocytus and Demiurge woke up to Ainz Ooal Gown's voice. After seeing Ainz Ooal Gown in front of him and the location they were in, Cocytus showed a hint of doubt on his face. Demiurge, who had just been revived on the side, understood that something must have happened after seeing Ainz Ooal Gown in front of him, combined with the last memory in his mind.
“Demiurge, Cocytus, what are your last memories?”
Looking at the two who had woken up, Ainz Ooal Gown asked in a deep voice, hoping to learn from the two what exactly happened before their deaths.
“I'm sorry, Ainz-sama.”
“Our last memory is when you asked us to go to the Kingdom of Re-Estize to completely destroy them. After that, there are no memories.”
Cocytus and Demiurge faced Ainz Ooal Gown's inquiry, looked at each other, and shook their heads. Their last memories remained at the moment when Ainz Ooal Gown ordered them to destroy the Kingdom of Re-Estize, and after that, they knew nothing.
Especially Demiurge, who had just been revived, instinctively felt a sense of relief, thankful that his last memory remained before he left, but Demiurge didn't know why he felt this inexplicable sense of relief.
“It seems that I have to personally ask the Platinum Dragon Lord.”
After receiving the answers from the two, Ainz Ooal Gown raised his head and looked in the direction of the Slane Theocracy. Ainz Ooal Gown only knew some information about the existence of the Platinum Dragon Lord from the minds of those Slane Theocracy priests before.
This time, he would let him see this Dragon Lord who, in the memories of those human priests, could easily destroy the Kingdom of Re-Estize.
.......
“Eh? It seems that it failed, but it's not a loss.”
On the other side, Lu Minghao above the Empire also noticed the revival of Demiurge, but the original mutation on his body had completely disappeared. It seemed that the resurrection of the Great Tomb of Nazarick was not based on the soul, but on Demiurge's former information as the core.
