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 s.u.c.k.e.d 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.