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Vd g the notifications while his eyes widened; what he had summoned just now wasn’t the a knight, wizard, or some sort of half-dragon warrior he had expected. Hell, even an old man would have beeer and more reasohan this!
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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However, the only thing he could see right now was an ioid woman… or man… or both.
Ia, a being that went beyond the cept of a “Hero”, if anything, felt like he had just summoned some sort of wicked vilin.
“Ioids…?”
The moment he summoned her, Vd learned a bit of information about what she was, or at least, what “Ioid” stood for.
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.
These a beings had not goinct but had degeed over time, being monstrous and with little to no intelligence.
Meanwhile, the new intelligent races, especially the most populous trinity of Obscuritas, Vampires, Orcs, and Werewolves domihe lugubrious dark nds with an iron fist.
The onown race of intelligent and monstrous i-like beings that inhabited the prehistoric Obscuritas, Ia, was the queen of one of their deadliest s.
The Crimsoles.
“I’ll bring down any army you put in front of me… And my children shall feast! Haha… HAHAHAHAHA!”
RUMBLE!
Her Aura tinued growing rger, shaking the entire manor, resembling a never-ending, all-enpassing swarm of pure dread aru.
“Paul! Sacrifice her! She’s nuts!”
Chris started going crazy because she was simply too overwhelmingly strong; her Aura made the two of them feel a bit nauseous and even weak.
It was as if they were fag a mighty final boss!
“I’m not sacrifig her!”
Vd sighed, slowly standing up agaiing the Aura of Ia and releasing his own Soul Aura, trating.
“Ia… Seal your… Seal your Aura right now! And… sit down, please.”
“Oh?”
Ia’s eyes widened as she raised her eyebrows in surprise; nobody had ever treated her like this before; nobody had ever told her what to do.
Yet… although in the past she would have eaten his head off with a sie, a different feeling surged from her heart.
She wao obey and make her master happy.
“Ah, so this is what it feels to bee a Familiar, hm?”
She gave Vd a motherly smile as her tremendous Aura quickly cealed itself within her body, and she sat dowhe cold wooden floor.
“I apologize for my rudeness; I didn’t io scare you, master,” she said. “I just was very excited! But I’m so sorryyyy!”
She giggled a bit while asking for fiveness as if nothing!
But… Well, Vd found her quite endearing in her ht.
Although Chris was only left even more shocked after what he said.
“Ah, well, if you’re sorry, then it’s fine.” Paul nodded.
“What?!” Chris asked angrily. “She almost killed us!”
“Hahaha! I never inteo kill anybody; I ot kill my Master,” Ia smiled. “After all, he and this Territory he’s building are all tied to my soul. This new life I’ve been given… is directly ected to him and this ey. If they all perish and are destroyed, so will I.”
“See? She’s still my Familiar at the end of the day,” said Vd. “Well, I was scared as well, but this game has to follow its preset rules at the end.”
“Hmm…” Chris was still very suspicious of Ia. “I don’t know… She seems kind of evil, malicious even. Is she trustworthy?”
“I suppose the cept of evil is not something I am very… acquainted with,” said Ia. “Ba my Era, there were no such things. You simply battled for territory and resources. Multiplied, fought, ate, and survived. I suppose all of these… strange politics, morality, and so on were mostly born after the Era of the Ioid by the new, weaker races.”
“O-Oh…” Chris muttered. “So you’re like a cavewoman of this world or what?”
“Hahah! I don’t know what that means, but yes, we did use to live inside of huge caves, my beautiful ,” nodded Ia. “There, billions of my ioid children would serve my every need. Albeit when it was time for battle, sometimes I would step in aroy my foes. Just so I wouldn’t get too ceited and ended up growing weaker as a result!”
“I see…” Paul nodded. “That’s iing… To think the developers designed such lore even for “prehistoric” times within this Realm… I suppose all other Realms also had their oworic times.”
“Maybe that sounds kind of cool,” said Chris. “But anyways… Erm, so she’s the Hero of this territory? Kind of extreme; I had at most expected some kind of old vampire guy al, but a bug woman… thing?”
"Yeah, well, it’s like a gacha, so maybe it wouldn’t even fit with the whole theme; it was random,” expined Vd. “heless, despite the rough introdu, Ia seems really strong.”
As the two talked, Ia didn’t stand still, quickly crawling around the room, even walking on the walls and ceiling, and then looking outside through the window. It seemed very hard for her to stay still.
“Hm, this pce smells delicious; so much flesh and blood to devour…” she smiled, lig her lips. “Ah! My bad, I shouldn’t have said that.”
“…”
“…”
Paul And Chris remained in silence, dropping their jaws after hearing her say that out of the blue.
She was even scarier than Vampires!
“I promise I wo anybody!” she said. “I-I promise! Okay? I will o… corpses! Indeed, I devour them whole. It helps me produce my children.”
“Okaaay…” nodded Chris. “Give her something to eat.”
“Alright…”
Vd opened his Iory, more to just calm down the hunger of his new summon, and brought out a rge Neburian corpse; it was a lion-like monster covered by bd gray-colored biological armor.
“Ohh! What’s this?! A Neburian?”
Ia seemed surprised; she knew about the Neburians and instantly reized o first gnce.
“Wait, you know about these guys?” Chris asked.
“Just how a are they?” Paul wondered.
Ia sat down, using her giant cws; she easily tore through the hard armor of the beast and opes carcass, beginning to take rge filets of meat aing them with a big bite.
“Nom! Hmm, this is a nostalgic taste! Yes, I know about the Neburians,” she said. “They’re a race of Ioids, did you know? Parasities.”
“Parasitic?!” Paul wondered. “Wait, does that mean...”
“Yes, the reason why they e in all shapes and sizes is because they have parasitized such bodies and transformed them into their new bodies,” said Ia. “Upon maturing, the Neburians fuse with their host and bee oh. Their host would often times remain simir to how it was before being parasitized, but it would gain a protective yer of exoskeletoheir bodies, their eyes might bee like us is, and they would usually gaiher wings or additional limbs and cws.”
“So this whole time… we’ve been fighting a race of parasites?!” Vd asked in shock. “I ’t believe it; I really thought they were like… something else. Maybe like, Uh, Undead?”
“Oh dear, no, they are not Undead!” ughed Ia. “They were all very much alive. Their hosts don’t have to grow up with them though, so their king often pnts their rvae on captured foes they deem worthy. Did you fight some of the Generals? They’re usually powerful mohey captured beforehand.”
“Yeah,” nodded Vd. “Then Judgement, that tipede woman and the four-armed giant… They were all inally different people.”
“Well, if they had already fully metamorphosed, then it means their brains had beeen and transformed by the Neburians, so there’s no hope for them,” said Ia. “The inal hosts are teically alive, but their sense of selves and so ohey had teically died, yet their bodies remain alive… Very scary, right? Hahaha! And you said I was scary? There were all kinds of strange races back then… pared to the people of this era, you all look like babies.”
“The King of Neburias had a grudge against Vampires and my father, the Emperor of this Empire,” said Vd. “Does that mean my father has lived for so long?”
“Hmm… I died before I could meet him; the Neburians, however, probably survived ast their own Era. The ones you’ve fought are most likely the st remaining one of them. When they’re about to be defeated, they oftereat underground and sleep, rec energy and multiplying more for many years before appearing again; it could take dozens, hundreds, or thousands of years.”
“Phew, good thing we blew up the mountain then, dude!” Chris felt relieved. “We won’t be having them annoy us for a while.”
“Yeah, but at the end of this week we’ll o front them again,” said Paul. “We have to prepare. I’m sure the King himself might front us.”
“Hmm, if you feed me enough corpses, master, I could regain more of my inal power,” said Ia. “And I help you deal with that pest… with my millions of children included, of course.”
“Millions of children? Regain your power? What do you… mean?”
Paul quickly looked at Ia’s information; her “Status” was much different than his own.
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[Ia, The Corpse-Eating Crimsole Queen]
[Unit Type]: [Hero Unit] [bat Unit]
[Fighting Power]: [3]
[Stamina]: [3]
[Mobility]: [4]
[Element]: [Evil] [Heroes] [Fantasy] [I]
[Affinity]: [Affinity of Blood +1] [Affinity of Darkness +1] [Affinity of Is +2]
{Special Abilities}
[Corpse Eating]: [Has a ce (5%) to acquire the Special Ability of a corpse it fully digests. creases if the corpse if from a powerful monster.]
[Swarm Queen]: [ summon already created Iype Units without the need for her Master’s Ara at her side and trol them as if they were part of her very being.]
[Bloodthirsty]: [When activated, enhances Bloodthirst, Fighting Power increases by +50%, and highest Affinity increases by +3. Lasts: 10 Minutes. Requires the Master’s Ara.]
[Camity of the Battlefield]: [When fighting against over 20 Enemies or more at once, any physical attack gains the ability to gee shockwaves capable of affeg several enemy units at the same time.]
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“Wait what? This Status… It’s so different from the Pyer’s status.”
Paul was left fused about why Ia had such little stat points when she was so powerful… Was it all a fa?ade? Or were her stats simply calcuted much more differently than Pyers?
The answer came quicker than he expected, thankfully.
Ding!
[All Units summoned or created by the Territory Civilization System will have uats, Abilities, and Powers that may differ greatly from the Pyer.]
[Unit Type]: [Every Unit has a “Type” whidicates what they are. Types usually have passive effects; Hero Units are naturally strohan a Normal Units. bat Units fight proactively and deal damage, etc. It is a method of cssification.]
“Pretty normal, alright…”
[Fighting Power]: [The Total Fighting Power of a Unit, it is based on all their capability within battles. This could include teiques, physical and magical power, and even battle intellect. Hero Units start at a minimum of 3, while Normal bat Units begin usually at 0.1. Meaning that the weakest Hero is parable to 30 Normal bat Units, without including Added Bonuses from Element.]
“Oh! Okay, I uaer now… huh.”
[Stamina]: [The total physical energy of a Unit, this is what defines how tired they get in battle. Hero Units start at a minimum of 2, while Normal bat Units begin usually at 0.3.]
“Makes sense.”
[Mobility]: [How many “Tiles” per turn a Unit move. Withirategy Map, you see all Units moving through Tiles. Each Tile usually being 25 Meters of length. A “turn” is usually between 3 to 10 seds.]
“Huh?! So Ia move… 200 meters in 3 seds?!”
[Element]: [The Elements that a Unit is made of. Every Element i with the other to grant a Unit special Weaknesses and Strengths against other Elements. When fighting a unit whose Element is weak against the unit you’re trolling, your unit deal 100% more damage to them, and vice versa.]
“What are Heroes, Evil, and Fantasy weak against?”
[Affinity]: [Affinities are a special stat reted to Elements, a “Sedary Element” but that instead of iing with foes, it is with allies. When allies with simir affinities are between 1 Tile of one aheir bat Power increases based on the Affinity Bonus.]
“Wait what?! Ia make every i unit have 2 more bat Power from being adjat to them?!”
“Yes! This is why I told you, master, that I easily wipe out the Neburians… as long as I get my army prepared,” she giggled. “So? Now that my powers are tied to yours, would you like to create my kindred?”
“Your… kindred?”
Vd noticed yet aatus windoears, one of a unit he could now summon.
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[Corpse-Eating Crimsole]
[Unit Type]: [bat Unit]
[Fighting Power]: [0.3]
[Stamina]: [0.3]
[Mobility]: [0.5]
[Element]: [Evil] [I] [Fantasy]
[Affinity]: [Affinity of Blood +0.2] [Affinity of Darkness +0.2] [Affinity of I +0.2]
{Special Abilities}
[Corpse-Eating Spawn]: [Unit gee a duplicate of itself o has eaten a part of a corpse.]
[Swarm]: [Several Units of the same type bine as a Swarm, ting as a single Unit.]
{Unit Description}
[A swarm of monsters capable of dev corpses or still living bodies, duplig themselves while tinuing to devour anything in their path. Ia trols them as their mother.]
[This unit is generally one of the weakest of the entire game but duplicate quickly and form swarms of dozens. If Ia is blessed by the I God, the Unit unlock a sed Special Ability that allows it to form a swarm and act as a single Unit.]
{Summon Requirements}: [Summon Hero Unit Ia] [50 Ara] [50 Blood Energy]
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“Oh…”
Ia smiled as she noticed that her master was shocked by what he could now summon.
And it only cost Ara and Blood Energy, energy sources he already began to produce.
“So, Master? Will you quer the Realms with me?”
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Pach
