"..." I look at our troops marching towards the human kingdom, Freya has already arrived with my troops and now we begin to advance towards the human kingdom.
’It’s been almost two months of war...’ A ti that seed to pass too quickly, but moving troops, fighting, resting, and gathering everything took much longer than just a few days.
"Elena, what do you think about this? About the war, I an," I ask Elena while Calypso and Freya are talking further away about damages and supplies for the soldiers.
"It’s... complicated, there’s really no good feeling of victory, after all we’ve had quite a few casualties as well... and obviously we’ll have more before we win," she speaks without any real excitent about all this.
"Are you sad?... You’re so sentintal, Elena, but I guess it makes sense, you’re a demon, it must be unpleasant to see mbers of your race being killed..." I say to her without caring.
"Pandora... don’t you care?" She asks as I think about what to answer, deciding to be honest since there’s no reason to lie or make up an excuse.
"Honestly? Not at all, I know well that they are my subjects... but I can’t feel sad that they’re dying... to they’re just numbers that will slow down my progress... do I seem very cold saying that?"
"Pandora, I don’t think you seem cold saying that, after all you’re a monster, can’t expect empathy from you towards strangers, in fact I’m surprised you called them numbers and not food," she says with a little smile.
"Oh yes, it’s just that I don’t like to eat junk, I prefer a really tasty piece of at, you know? I only eat low-quality at out of necessity," I say excitedly as I think about a delicious raw piece of at.
Talking to her is pleasant, it helps to not take the tense mood of the war, after all it’s better to have a silly conversation like this than to stay tense.
"Hahahaha I don’t think you should say that kind of thing around the soldiers," she says, going along with it as I really think about a feast after this, I’m so hungry.
Almost dying against the heroes increased my hunger, but I didn’t have much ti to eat because I was busy with the war.
’It would be nice to have a delicious piece of at that could be constantly restored’ Lilith kind of fit that, but she wasn’t as tasty as food, she was good, but not even close to the best thing I’ve eaten.
’So far the best things I’ve eaten were Delphina and Zephyra...’ I’ve heard that love is blind, but apparently my love affects my taste since Zephyra is a delicacy.
And of course a delicacy in both senses, that tasty little body! She has so breasts that are a delight, although I’ve only generally tasted her blood since they were more loving bites than really trying to eat her.
"...Pandora, please don’t start drooling like that or your image will start to crack," Elena says, politely wiping my mouth with a handkerchief.
"I’m hungry! You can’t bla for that! I was just thinking about tasty things, besides, Elena, I also have sothing interesting to tell you!" I say with a huge smile, changing the subject.
"Is that so? What is it?" She asks, now relaxed with the whole war topic, which is good, setting the war aside for at least a few minutes helps to make the mood more pleasant.
"You know, I have a skill called [Ruler of Monsters - As the ruler of monsters, you have t the necessary requirents to help monsters evolve by reaching certain paraters.]"
"It’s a pretty cool skill, but I don’t know how to use it, so far the only monster that has evolved with it was Shogo, honestly it’s a waste... HOWEVER!! I noticed sothing interesting during my near-death experience!"
In monts when I approach death, that’s when my body is forced to evolve. And in such monts, my understanding of what life, death, and magic are increases dramatically, probably due to my adaptation, monts when I’m forced to the limit are monts when my adaptation works faster.
And in such monts, crazy ideas co to my mind, it’s not sothing I gain out of nowhere, it’s just my mind connecting dots that have always been there, but I ignored until an ergency mont.
It’s as if my brain was looking for ways to save , so it finds various things I can do, but don’t normally use.
"Fundantally, everything that exists is ’equal’ whether it’s demons, humans, monsters, and even goddesses, do you know what I an by ’equal’?"
"Hmm... no?" She thinks a bit but says no.
"It’s simple! Mana! Everyone is fundantally made of Mana, Mana is in everything, and everything that exists has Mana, unlike the heroes who co from a world that has no Mana, we inhabitants of this universe are literally made based on Mana."
"If we think logically, the primordial goddess sohow used this energy called ’mana’ to create everything, and since everything cos from mana, everything is equivalent to one thing... I know it seems a bit confusing, and it even seems like madness for to say that everything is equal in the end."
"But I don’t an it literally, obviously monsters, humans, demons, goddesses, and any other race are different things, but the basis of their existence is still mana, everything has mana and everything will always have mana."
"So I thought, and what if the ’Ruler of Monsters’ skill doesn’t actually refer specifically to monsters?" I say, leaving her even more confused, she gives a strange look as if I had gone crazy after almost dying.
"Elena, don’t look at like that! I know what I’m talking about, the system often gives confusing and not so direct nas and descriptions, leaving us to interpret them, a common thing about monsters is that most of them don’t exactly have a soul."
"Thinking about this, I ca to the conclusion that the skill actually only makes the body evolve, and not specifically a specific body, despite the skill ntioning monsters, in other words, the skill may not be limited to evolving only monsters."
"And yes, evolving bodies that I have made reach certain paraters, maybe the point is that monsters must have so parater that other races don’t, that’s why the skill focuses on talking about evolving monsters." When I say this, Elena gets even more confused.
"Pandora, if in the end only monsters have this necessary ’parater’, then what’s the point of knowing that the skill only evolves bodies and could theoretically work on everyone?" Her judgntal look really makes falter in my logic.
"Well, obviously I wouldn’t be talking about this if it wasn’t useful... considering that there are specific conditions and that in general monsters reach this condition, I thought I could forcibly make soone reach those conditions." I say, and finally she understands.
"That... is genius!! If you could do that, you could force other beings besides monsters to ’evolve’, so far the only beings in the world that can evolve are monsters, and the evolution of monsters usually gives them a humanoid form."
"But isn’t it strange that only monsters evolve? So Pandora, you’re saying that monsters actually evolve because they have a condition in their bodies that only exists in them! This is pure theory, but it makes sense." She speaks while I give a smile.
"Exactly! That’s what I thought! Monsters have sothing extra that makes them evolve! So if I find out what it is, I can do it to others!" I didn’t tell this to Elena without reason, of course I’ll try to evolve other things.
"Elena, do you want to be my guinea pig?" I ask while she seems tense and shivers all over.
"...Your guinea pig?"
"Yes, yes, you know I’m a monster, and if anyone understands monster bodies, it’s ! Since... well, I literally am one." I have Pandora Yandere who is the body and can help discover what this condition is.
’If I force Elena to evolve beyond her race...’ I think about the implications of this, if I discover that I can forcibly evolve other races, I can gain more authority in the system.
The system grants authority to the goddesses based on various things, and one of those things is racial ’discoveries’ that impact all races, if I’m a goddess who can force non-monster races to evolve, the system should grant more authority over it.
’I want to be able to reach 50% authority soon...’ All the goddesses have 50% authority, and I want that too.
"W-Well... if you trust in this, I’m willing to try..." She says as I give her a thumbs up.
’By the way... am I a monster, can I evolve too?’ I don’t know, evolved monsters gain a humanoid form, but I’ve had a humanoid form since the beginning and I’m a different kind of monster, so I don’t think I fit in that.
Since unlike normal monsters, I’m the daughter of the Goddess of the Abyss, a kind of ’unique’ monster, so I’m honestly not interested in trying to evolve that way.
"Great, but we’ll do that after the war, anyway I talked about this just to relax, it’ll still take two more days until we reach the first human kingdom," I say, bored.
’Pandora Yandere, I’ll need a lot of your help’ I’ll take advantage of this ’free’ ti we’re marching to try to figure out what conditions this skill requires, it’s literally an extrely powerful skill.
But I didn’t use it before because I don’t know how to use it, so it’s just been there without any real function.
’An evolved Elena... hmm, would she beco even more beautiful?’ I’m curious about that, it would also be interesting because if Elena evolves, maybe she’ll regain the things she lost.
"Well, Elena, do you like..." I start another topic with Elena to pass the ti, despite feeling a strange restlessness about going to the human kingdom now.
User Comments
0 comments from readers