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Vd and Alitheus moved to the Bloodshed Sanctuary, entering the abandoned ruined churterior, and finding a crimson-colored altar with the statue of what resembled a vampire with long bck wings and a halo resembling a moon; her eyes were covered by a blindfold.
The statue was not made of just gray sto also crystals and stones of other colors; the skin was of pale white stohe halo of red crystals, the wings of bck stones, and the blindfold of bck crystals.
By itself, it already looked like quite the expeatue and definitely something someone might try to rob if they had the opportunity. He was trying to protect his city, but he had to admit that they weren’t the most well behaved, seeing how he and his sister were assaulted over a week ago, despite being nobles, in their own damn city.
He was definitely going to have to protect these areas from any unruly person that would try to rob them, as he didn’t know what might happen to the system-tied buildings if they were missing parts of themselves.
His Bzing Doppelgangers ’t be in the game when he’s logged out either, so he’ll have to trust that someone else within the game, such as NPC, will protect these buildings.
“I’ll have to talk with Teressa about this; I think she could assign some soldiers and guards to all these buildings… There were fewer casualties than I imagioo; those that survived will definitely be paid well for their job, and those that died will still be paid; their money will go to their families.”
As Paul thought about these things and over the noble sacrifice of the soldiers of Elderbridge, he pced a huge corpse on top of the altar, that of a giant armored beast. The statue’s eyes glowed bright red as it opes mouth and suddenly sucked the corpse’s blood pletely.
FLUOSH!
The corpse was pletely tried into a mummy, and then it colpsed into a pile of bck ashes; it wasn’t just its blood that was drained but everything within it.
This only showed that the Crimson Moon Goddess, Achlys, might actually be a Vampire, and her abilities with Vampirism were on a pletely different dimension.
“To pletely drain a target’s life, energy, blood, and everything until they’re nothing but a pile of ashes… what a terrifying power!”
In the game, the Gods were perhaps the stro NPC, right after the Outer Ones, which might be even stronger. Just thinking about what stats or abilities their own status might have made him uo realize the holy cross-shaped red crystal outside of the sanctuary was glowing bright red.
Ding!
[The Altar of the Goddess has accepted your sacrifice. The Bloodshed Sanctuary will now produce 100 Blood Energy every day for 7 days.]
FLASH!
Suddenly, a message appeared at the same time as he felt a surge of Blood Energy ing from the Sanctuary… However, it didn’t nd on his own body but in the halo above the goddess, being stored there.
“Right!”
He quickly drank some blood from a bottle he had to satiate his Avatar’s occasional hunger, quickly making it so the statue’s eyes glowed bright red behind its blindfold.
Ding!
[The Statue of the Crimson Moon Goddess praises yer vampiric cravings. For 7 Days, the Bloodshed Sanctuary will gain 50% more Blood Energy.]
“So it’s a weekly buff too? Well, that’s not so bad.”
“Is it dohen?” Alitheus asked.
“Ah yeah,” nodded Vd. “Let’s go to the factory for now… I think I’ll leave some barrier behind the sanctuary at least.”
“Barrier?” Chris gnced as Vd touched the ground.
RUMBLE!
Suddenly, huge walls appeared around the sanctuary, with no doors at all. Then he moved the stone around and created a literal cube, c the entire sanctuary.
“Eeeh?! Don’t you think this is too excessive?!” Chris asked. “e on, dude, have some faith in your people… Aren’t there churches here too? And they’re always safe and sound, no? I doubt they’ll do something to this one…”
"Yeah, but you’re oo sure,” said Paul. “I’ll take it away oell Teressa, and she assign some priests and soldiers to protect it. After all, the church of evil gods is alroteg the churches, don’t you know? They obviously are guarded.”
“Ah… oh well then, are you doing the same with the Ara Factory?” Chris asked as the two made their way to the huge factory, entering its old, rusty metalliterior.
They walked towards the only room there was, where a huge burning stove stood, as if waiting for someoo throw fuel at it.
“The fmes are blue and purple…” Chris gasped. "Woah, they’re so pretty.”
“Hm,” nodded Vd. “Alright. Let’s throw some of these… This probably needs more than the sanctuary to work.”
Vd quickly tossed several monster corpses inside of the huge stove until it was pletely full, its magical fmes beginning to burn the corpses and rapidly turning them into Ara, directly transferred to the huge blue colored jewel sitting on top of the factory.
Ding!
[You have filled the Ara Stove to full capacity; its magical fmes will slowly e all the fuel and gee Ara for your Territory Civilization for aimation of 30 Days.]
[Because the Ara Factory is at full capacity, daily earnings of Ara have been increased by 100%]
“So ten corpses get me a whole month worth of it? Alright, we’re dohen.”
“What are you doing now? Summoning the heroes? Or use the big eggs you showed me!”
“Yeah, yeah, we’re doing that now; calm down.”
The two of them flew back to the manor, and then, in there, Vd decided to grab the big guardian egg and use that instead.
However, there seemed to be an issue.
Ding!
[You have tried using the [Random Territuardian Egg (S+ Grade)]!]
[However, the [Random Territuardian Egg (S+ Grade)] is not an instant use item.]
[You must first pce it on a Territuardia, a special facility/building that you must struear the Capital of your Territory.]
[The Capital of your Territory is the Dungeon Pza and covers all the way to your Manor.]
[Once a has been made, the egg must be pced there, and it will hatch after some time has passed.]
[Every Territory only have 1 Guardian.]
[To use the uardian Eggs you possess, you must first create a separate territory ected to yours, by invading a small vilge or city or expanding your city.]
“Huh, so we ’t use these yet… I build the right now?”
Ding!
[Do you wish to build a Territuardia?]
[Cost]: [1000 Gold] [5000 Lumber] [5000 Metals] [5000 Stone] [10000 Food] [1000 Ara]
[Yes] [No]
“…”
Vd tried pressing Yes anyways, but…
[Oops! Your Territory doesn’t have enough resources right now!]
[Do you wish to spend 50.000 Credits io create the right away?]
[Yes] [No]
“Damn, this system is pay2win,” Paul sighed.
“Hahahaha! Lol, I didn’t expect that message…” Chris ughed. "Well, you’ve got like two millios, so it’s not that much, right?”
"Maybe, but those are the savings of the eerritory; I would rather not spend sally; we’ll simply start by produg the necessary resources for its stru…” Paul said. “Then… Um, we’ll save the other two eggs for aime.”
“So you o expand the territory by quering another one, like a vilge or a small city…” said Chris, nodding. “Hm, wait! Didn’t your brother and your aunt die? Weren’t they in charge of their owory?”
“…Wait, you’re right!” said Paul. “Maybe if I tell Vd’s mother, then she might be able to check how their city is doing. If we sy their rulers, we could probably easily take over it now that it’s unprotected, unless it was already stolen from us.”
“Some time has passed, so without a doubt someone else might have taken it,” nodded Chris. “But if this is really a game about war and quest, then whoever took it over is definitely not as strong as those twht? The big shot vampires are probably already busy and too far away… Maybe? Do you remember if they had any family members?”
“Hmmm, Vd’s memories were very hazy, so I ’t remember everything,” said Paul. “But… I think he had a niece, and his mom had a brother. They probably took over the territory.”
“Are they strong?” Chris asked.
“Definitely not…” said Vd. “We should try to quer that city, yeah… It is much richer than ours; it could give us a great boost of resources and personnel, and seeing hoires are, they were probably treating their people pretty badly.”
“Nice! We’re doing some querihen,” giggled Chris. “For now, try using these then.”
He grabbed the [Random Territory Hero Summoning Stone (S+ Grade)], which resembled huge rainbow-colored stones glowing with mysterious, spiritual auras.
“The summoning stones… Let’s see if I use these.”
Vd grabbed the stone and gave a mental and of wanting to “use it”.
This time, it worked, uhe egg.
Ding!
[You have tried using the [Random Territory Hero Summoning Stone (S+ Grade)] Item!]
[Using this item, you summon one Random Hero from any Civilization. Sometimes, you may get a Hero that doesn’t fit your Civilization.]
[Ohe Hero is summoned, it will be tied to your Civilization and will bee your summon and familiar, capable of proteg the territory from danger on their own.]
[A Territory Hero ts as a Special Type of Troop Unit that ts as many troops as possible at once due to their strength.]
[One Hero ge the tide of battle pletely and are mighty beings. However, much like troop units, they have different stats than Pyers.]
[Hero Units ot grow strohrough the same yers do and must grow stronger, learn Skills, and gain ons and Armor through the Research of specific subjects in the Research ter.]
[Aside from that, each Hero will be ected to a special building they’re tied to, which will also unloew features such as the ability to summoroops based on their power.]
[Hero Units e with unique abilities of their own, some strohan others, but all of them are useful.]
[There is a limit of 1 Hero Unit you summon per Core Building Level (your Manor); Level Up your Manor to gain the ability to summon more Hero Units.]
“So I only use one?! Dammit, if I knew about these restris, I would have just bought one of each…” sighed Vd.
“Haha, well, you already wasted your points,” shrugged Chris. “e oo it!”
“Yeah, at least let’s use one…” nodded Vd.
[Do you really wish to use the [Random Territory Hero Summoning Stone (S+ Grade)] to Summon a Hero that will be bound to your Territory?]
[If you end up summoning a Hero you don’t like, you choose to Sacrifice a Hero in the Bloodshed Sanctuary if you desire them to begone, and the slot they use will be emptied for another oo be summoned.]
[Once a Hero is Sacrificed, you will gain special items and resources.]
[Summon?]
[Yes] [No]
“Ah, sacrifig a hero?!” Vd muttered. “That sounds so cold… But whatever, let’s do it anyway. I’ll keep whatever I get. I’m not so heartless as to sacrifice them.”
Vd grabbed the stone and quickly gave the mental and.
FLASH!
The stone glowed brightly, exploding into particles of white and golden light, which then reached the floor and expanded into a huge magic circle.
RUMBLE!
The entire manor trembled as the magic circle erupted with bright light, which suddenly became corrupted.
The white light darkened, and it gained a deep red color, then it exploded into pieces, being a massive swarm of is made of shadows gathering together!
BBZZZTTT!
The horrendous sound of thousands of flying wings echoed through the entire room; Chris covered his ears in pain.
“What the hell is going on?!”
“I-I don’t know!”
TRUUUM!
And then the swarm of is made of darkness and blood biogether, finally taking on a slightly humanoid appearance.
An eerie presence emerged out of the magic circle in front of them.
Two enormous crimson-red eyes looked into Vd’s very soul within this bck swarm made of shadows as it slowly dissipated.
Ay” was summoned.
This being, it definitely didn’t have the “air” of a Hero.
They began to walk through the room, reag up to Vd.
Several arms covered in hard armor exoskeletons suddenly touched his body, as Vd felt paralyzed before their enormous auras of power.
Their ioid eyes, and their huge red and bck colored ioid scythes and cws…
An incredible sense of dread began to e out of this being, as if it were the ination of destru, famine, death, all of it.
Yet, despite all of that, their ioid face transformed, taking the shape of a beautiful woman with white “skin” and long purple hair, although each hair strand seemed to be a very loacle.
Her big red eyes remained almost the same, although they now had long eyeshes, and purple lipstick covered her seductive, meaty lips.
“Master~ Aah~! So you’re my new Master~!”
Her face turned into pure obsession that very instant, as her aura enpassed Vd entirely.
“E-Eh? Wait, wait a sed! What are you?! You’re a herht?!”
"Paul, get away from her! Or him? I don’t know... Just get away from that!”
“Huh?!”
The ioid woma Chris with jealous eyes.
“Child of the Lustful oay away from my master! He is mio eat! SHAAAH!”
She hissed at Chris!
Just what has Vd summoned into this world?!
“Eating?! You’re ing him!” Chris said.
“Ugh…!” Vd felt sick the more he was exposed to the hero’s aura, as he saw the system message. “Just what is this thing anyway?”
Ding!
[The Hero Unit [Ia, the Corpse-Eating Crimsole Queen] has been summoned!]
[The World is ging.]
[An Era of Is had begun.]
[All Is shall bow down to their queen!]
[You acquired the special Territory Trait [I ]!]
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[I : Lv1/1rants a passive enhao the growth of Iype Monsters raised or summoned in the Civilization by 100%.
The proliferation of all is is also enhanced by 100%, their reprodu speed and quantity are enhanced by 200%, and their total power is doubled as long as [Ia, the Corpse-Eating Crimsole Queen] is alive.
However, their hunger is doubled.
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“I-Ia?!”
“Yes! That is my name, my master!”
I stood up, looking to be almost three meters tall, t above Vd and Alitheus.
She spread out her enormous ioid wings and her massive scythes, smiling coquettishly and obsessively at him.
“At long st, after eons, I’ve been brought back to this world, bound to you! I shall now serve you! And bring is to the top of the food like they once were, millions of years ago!”
Millions of years ago, before Vampires, Werewolves, Imps, Incubus and Succubus, Orcs, Goblins, or even most of the evil gods and moon goddesses existed...
Obscuritas was a realm dominated by an Apex Primal Race, Ioids.
And Ia here was the Queen of the Crimsoles.
Her Aura tinued growing rger, shaking the entire manor, resembling a never-ending, all-enpassing swarm of pure dread aru.
“I’ll bring down any army you put in front of me… And my children shall feast! Haha… HAHAHAHAHA!”
“Paul! Sacrifice her! She’s nuts!”
“W-What the fuck did I summon…”
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