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  After cheg all the uats of the Territory Civilization Units and how they worked very differently than Pyers, Paul realized the power that Ia possessed with her Affinity for Is being at +2.

  “Wait what?! Ia make every i unit have 2 more bat Power from being adjat to them?!”

  “Yes! Although it would really be a +6 boost as these is I could help you summon share all Affinities with me. 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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  The Crimsoles, a monstrous race of Ioids that Ia created; she was their queen, and they were her children, an endless y that multiplies the more corpses they devour.

  Iingly, they cost rather cheap pared to other Units, although right now he wouldn’t be able to summon more than three, they multiply without him needing to spend any energy by simply feeding them corpses.

  This also means that, in the middle of a battle, they rapidly multiply and overwhelm entire armies ohey start killing enough foes!

  “Oh… This is really good.”

  Paul immediately noticed the amazing pros and capabilities that this race of i beings could do; if he had them back then, things would have ged way too much!

  And maybe it wouldn’t have been as despairing to fight the Neburians without having to resort to the help of Pyers and entia’s temporary Evolution.

  “Fufu…”

  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 through the Territory.

  However, it seemed he couldn’t spend the Ara or Blood Energy he had within his own body, but only the resources geed by buildings.

  heless, this single unit and this single hero could ge the eide of battle and perhaps the entire position of Elderbridge iire Realm.

  Argentia was strong, but he wasn’t capable of being everywhere at once, and ultimately, if it wasn’t for Chris, he would’ve died against one Raid Boss.

  Ambition rapidly started surging from within Paul and Vd’s synized hearts.

  A smile filled with disbelief and crimson eyes full of an ever-growiermination.

  Ia could immediately tell what was going through his head with a mere gnce.

  “So? Master? Will you quer the Realms with me?”

  And she asked a rather insane question that made even Chris fall off into the ground while he was flying and hit his butt very hard into the wooden floor.

  “quer the Realms?!” he screamed. “W-What are you talking about?! We just want some stability! Maybe we’ll quer a few… territories at most, right, Paul? You said you had ambitions, but they were within the scope of possibilities…”

  However, Paul ignored Chris' words, as he remained in silence for a couple of seds.

  Chris noticed just how strong his ever-growing resolve had bee, as he seemed to be sidering it.

  “Chris… I never sider something if there isn’t a possibility for it to happen…” he smiled at the cute Incubus. “Don’t worry, this is a game anyway..." So maybe being a bit ambitious is not so bad, right? Let’s go crazy.”

  “Y-You’re insane!” Chris cried. “You want to make the whole world your enemy or something?”

  “Nah… I was just sidering things,” Paul said. “Ia… So is that yoal all along? You wao quer the Realms?”

  “Yes… I respond to no master that doesn’t have charisma aermination to quer the Realms at the very least.” She said. “The moment you summoned me, you had all of it within you. Charisma, Selfishness, Pride, Strength, Determination… All of these beautiful, beautiful emotions! Only one man mao summon me before, and he had simir qualities to you. Long, long ago…”

  “So I am your seaster…” Paul muttered. “Huh… Maybe she felt Vd’s determination? Or the Heavenly Demon? Ah definitely, that’s it.” He thought.

  “Yes indeed!” smiled Ia. “However, the memories with my first master… Are very foggy. But I remember he was from a fararobably lost Realm by now. Long, long ago.”

  “I see…” Paul nodded. “Then you have even more experience helping a Territrow?”

  "Yes, I do have quite a lot of experience,” she nodded. “Now I wonder, will you make the units right away, master? I detect there are some monsters roaming around the territory. We could go hunt them down to show you off how they work.”

  “Uh…” Vd sidered it, gng at Chris.

  “I mean, do whatever you want,” Chris shrugged. “I want to log out now; I may e back ter…”

  “Sure, I should be logging out soon as well,” said Paul. “Show me what you do, Ia.”

  “Very well,” she nodded.

  However, before Chris left, he approached Paul and whispered to his ears.

  “Don’t let her force you to do things you don’t want, ok?”

  “She’s not maniputing me or something; don’t worry.”

  “Hm… Fioday was an annoyingly long day… I’m exhausted.”

  “Yeah, go rest then; don’t worry about me; I’ll be fine.”

  “Hmm, I wonder if that’s the case! Sometimes you’re just… too hopeless without me.”

  “Hahah, I guess… but I’m trying now.”

  “Hmmm~”

  Chris quickly flew over Paul and kissed his lips while being upside down.

  His kiss, as always, was too good, and Paul quickly felt lost on the incubus lips and his pyful tongue.

  “Mooch… Okay, if I don’t log out now, this’ll take forever; bye now~!”

  Chris quickly logged out before Paul could tinue making out with him…

  “Ah…”

  He felt slightly sad the moment he felt, like he was already missing half his heart.

  “Fufu…”

  And Ia, atg everything, giggled in the er of the room.

  “So cute… I had my ideas about your retionship, but to think you both are so in love! It is truly very adorable! Even though you’re both men… Ah, that makes it eveer!”

  “…Huh?”

  Paul couldn’t really react properly to what he just heard…

  “Hahah! Don’t mind my words, master. Let us get going.”

  “Aah, yes…”

  He already knew Ia was some sort of crazy monster queen, but she somehow became even crazier once he realized she might be a fujoshi.

  Eventually, the two reached the outskirts of Elderbridge, which gave Ia more view to see how everything was.

  Aside from that, she was capable of flight, as she spread out a huge pair of i wings from her back.

  She also flew incredibly fast, easily flying around the city within a couple of seds aurning.

  “Indeed, a very pretty, if not ed, city! So this is our starting point, certainly better than my previous master. He barely had a manor and a vilge…” giggled Ia.

  “I-I see… Do you remember his name or something?” wondered Paul.

  He began to wonder if this art of the game lore or… if she had been the servant of some sort of beta tester or whatever.

  “Hmm… No matter how hard I try, I ot remember his faor his name,” Ia sighed, looking down. “Well, I might one day remember.”

  “I see, is this pce alright for you?”

  The two nded outside of the walls, in front of the ruined battlefield that had bee; there were still some corpses here and there, which Vd had not notior the Pyers.

  “We got lucky; there’s some corpses for you to eat,” said Vd.

  “Hmm, how about my kids eat them?” she wondered.

  “Alright, how do I do this… Do I just will it?” wondered Vd.

  “To summon my children?” wondered Ia. “My previous master… he used a Grimoire. But I don’t know how you could use it. Perhaps try to will it or jure it as a spell or skill?”

  “Sure,” nodded Vd.

  He pointed his palm into the air and then said the ands out loud.

  “Summon: [Corpse-Eating Crimsole]”

  FLASH!

  And it worked! A crimson-colored magic circle opened in front of him, which quickly appeared on the floor. Vd felt the energy stored in the buildings fly away and reach this magic circle as well.

  FLUOSH!

  Something began to emerge from within the magic circle, roughly fifty timeters i, with a slightly humanoid form, but that was clearly a crimson i.

  It had the shape of a beetle with long legs and arms that made it look slightly human. It also had a third pair of arms resembling small scythes.

  Its face? It resembled a huge bug face, with hateful, crimson-colored i eyes and long antennae, alongside sharp mandibles stantly drooling.

  “Gryyaaeeegh!”

  It gave a loud scream, or roar, as it looked at the moon above the sky, then at Ia and Vd.

  The creature slowly lowered its head before the two.

  Ding!

  [gratutions! You have summohe bat Unit: [Corpse-Eating Crimsole]!]

  [You have exged 50 Ara and Blood Energy from your Territory Resource Reserves to summon this bat Unit.]

  [bat Units, simirly, to citizens, will require Food resources, which will add further to your Food intake per day.]

  [Luckily, the [Corpse-Eating Crimsole] feed on any avaible corpse, so your Food Resource be saved.]

  [Tthen your Military Power and create space for your bat Units, you create a Barrack Facility.]

  “And it’s done! See? It’s super easy, master; now summon two more.

  “Ah, okay…”

  Vd quickly summowo more of these huge is, who lowered their heads before him and Ia in reverence.

  “Excellent,” she nodded. “Alright then, you three will work for us now. Go eat those corpses and reproduce!”

  Vd saw in disbelief as the beetles nodded, rushing to eat the corpses. They ate them by digging into their flesh aing them from the i.

  Somehow, magically, when they were dowo more beetles appeared!

  “Hmm, it wasn’t enough for a third; oh well, there’s more where that came from! Eat up! We’re not stopping until you are at least fifty!”

  Ia surprised Vd time and time again, as she started building him an army in mere seds.

  “I’m still w if I got lucky or unlucky with her…”

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  Pach