Chapter 42: Clean Up
The monkey rebel leader is finally dead and even though I am quite bummed because I don't have any fighting scene, I am also quite satisfied because a lot of my soldiers performed well and successfully evolved, not to mention that my goat cavalry got a very good debut fight, so all in all, Ruphas is the only person I can think of that is quite disgruntled because the monkeys did not even have a chance to take a glance to my camp, let alone my settlement right?
[He's sleeping by the way.]
Why?
[Well even though he can fight, he does not fancy it so if there are no enemies he will sleep... You already know of this right?]
It's for confirmation okay? Confirmation.
We are having that conversation as I made several water speakers much bigger than the one I used against the wolf king (LOL) while making a blob of water as my microphone.
"Hello, mic. test? Hello."
I spoke in the mic and I am not getting tongue-tied anymore which I am oddly proud about, anyway all of the warriors of the two sides stopped fighting and looked at the giant water blob, well I said fight but the truth is the monkeys who just saw their leader swear his loyalty to me got all of their remaining ray of hope swatted away from them, so what they do is like submit to their fate.
"My soldiers retreat from your spot into the entrance of the landmine field, be sure to not activate any inactivated mines!"
The monkeys got confused as to why am I making my soldiers retreat when the best opportunity to kill my enemies is already in plain sight. The monkey leader bowed a little as he slowly shrank in size until he is once again in his normal size, the monkeys immediately deviated their vision towards their leader who jumped high on top of all the soldiers who are still currently retreating and landed in the front of a mildly injured monkey, he looked at the monkey without slouching for he knew they are lower than him.
After a while of complete silence, the monkeys who either are just standing because of their pure force of will or slumped to the ground because of their despair lowered all of their heads, the monkey leader then seeing their action finally spoke.
"Do you have anything to say?"
All of the monkeys got their eyes widened a little as their former leader say those words, after a second a monkey suddenly started crying, after which another and then another, and the domino effect ensued until all of them started crying in an encore.
"WE'RE SORRY!"
All of them said, but it seems like the monkey tribe leader's face is stuck to default mode, he did not even smile at the repenting and regretful figures of his former people and just said.
"I accept your apology, alongside that I also accept you once again as one of the tribe's people."
The leader paused for a while so that the monkeys who got startled by this announcement can absorb the information, he then continued.
"However, as you may already have heard, I have already sworn my loyalty to the lady in the sky, alongside my words of loyalty is also the oath of all the monkeys left in the volcano, so anyone who is against our race serving my queen will be treated as rebels and will be hunted down for the rest of our lives."
Of course, he already knew what their answers will be, after all, I crushed all of their pride by making them know that most of their movements are manipulated by me, though it seems like the spider queen exaggerated a bit, anyway by knowing that the person they first thought is very weak being revered and of course somewhat feared by their leader, all of them inclined to the thought that they have to do so too for their survival because after all their tribe leader already submitted to me, so their reply is in unison.
"We will!"
The leader then stepped aside to make them look directly at me, I then went down a little just a tad bit higher than the head of the monkey tribe leader.
"The monkey tribe rebels offer their loyalty to Lady Sophia, from now on her words will be our life and our death will be her desire!"
I smiled a little, satisfied that for the first time, I did not enslave an entire race to make them obey me, also I am quite gleeful too that the [Fear] title skill finally got neutralized by the Magnanimity title, I already have this solution in mind so long ago when I learned the two contradicting titles' existence but this is the only time that I implemented it, and so I accepted their loyalty, this time there is no notification because as they say loyalty cannot be quantified.
After which, I briefly introduced all of the members of the infantry and the goat cavalry to the monkeys, they became close rather quickly which is not a shock, they are monsters after all.
And then, following the not so much awaited cleaning up of the battlefield, I kind of got excited about the prospect of plotting an invasion (Though that invasion is so easy because the leader of the place I want to invade became a subordinate of mine before I even reached his lair) that I forgot that I need to clean up a battlefield after I ravaged it with landmines.
The good thing is that it happened that we have two gigantic spiders here by which the other one of the twins suddenly spoke.
"Master, our master is in a critical state, we implore you to give us all the corpses of the monkeys that perished in this battle."
Oh yeah, that's right, the queen did give me quite the assist thereby killing the other sibling, I wonder why she considers herself weak if she got cheat codes for the womb, I mean what kind of spider will lay spiders if she's getting filled up by a monkey right?
Well, that is not my problem so I just replied to the other spider.
"You need not to implore, I shall give her all of this corpse after we still have a lot of stored meat that is unused in the war camp and the main settlement, oh and by the way now that you have already gone into the trouble have some small spiders harvest the scattered corpses in the area of the landmine site."
The giant spider nodded and some arachnids other than spiders came, but because some arachnids are born to be small, most of them are emperor scorpions, so the right term for her is the queen of arachnids huh?
"The scorpions on our ranks are for food gathering because of their bigger frames."
The spider gave me a brief explanation of the assignments of the arachnids of her mother, damn I have to pay her cave soon, the spider went to the monkey leader who is helping me asses the battlefield to make sure that he is all right making his people food for his fuck buddy, well the spider stated my name so the leader quickly agreed, I immediately arranged the many carts that I will not be using and just left two, one is for the monkey leader and another is for me and Eleanor.
The rest will be accompanying the spiders and will load the corpse that they cannot fit in their backs.
_Now I'm grateful that this world is a fantasy, wars during the warring states back on earth are super hard to clean up._
I said so and turned around just to see the whole forest my landmine wrecked fix itself, the soil became flat again, and the surviving trees lined up in the original way they are arranged, meaning that the mines also started to go up into the air and be grabbed by Eleanor who is the one that is doing all of this magic, she is soaked in sweat that makes her whole body see-through, she started to wonder her eyes and when she finally saw me she waved at me while running.
"Nice Brea... I mean work."
[Hey, restrain yourself.]
"Yes, thank you, but that is all because of you, your plan is so simple it's complicated."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
We are having some casual conversation whilst the carts I just ordered finally come, at this moment I ordered Kabuto to go back to the settlement and get all of the wolves to the volcano we will be temporarily using as a base, alongside him the soldier to prevent rebelling accidents.
[They are now genuinely loyal to you you know?]
Well, better safe than sorry right? Anyway, I also ordered the whole goat cavalry to walk and let all of the wounded soldiers sit into the goats, of course, Eleanor can just heal but healing is not done on a just-used battlefield, so that has to wait until they went back home.
Also, Eleanor obviously can't heal this many individuals right? It's not only the monkeys that got injuries after all.
"That bitch stole the corpse of the goblins when I just said that she can only get the monkeys?'
I cannot help but be disgruntled by this, but because her performance gave me the perfect assist, I will let the incident slide and will just treat it as casualties of war. Let's just hope that she will do the sign of the cross before she eats.
When all of that are done, we finally sat at the cart, me and Eleanor in the cart that is in the right and the cart that is in the left will be for the monkey tribe leader, I then: "Lead the way."
Made the wolves slowly pull the cart, in our backs the goats with the injured patients at their backs and our destination is the volcano of the second layer.
[3rd Person POV]
In the lair of the spider queen.
The cave owner has her whole body covered with the fur only spiders have whilst her once delicate hands became like that of a spider's frontal claws and her two pairs of eyes have additional three pairs of them.
"How unsightly this figure is..."
The spider queen despised this figure, after all, it was the figure of her former self when she yet to become an information broker and much more unrefined, what kind of lady will not see such a monstrous figure repulsive right? Well, good thing that the figure she hates can only be seen when she is incredibly weak because of the exhaustion from giving birth to strong arachnids.
_Good thing Master agrees- WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT FLYING MAMMAL DOING HERE!?_
She was startled because of something she rarely sees, the bat of the fourth layer, or more accurately her giving birth to a messenger after all mammals cannot give birth like her that are many in quantity, furthermore, that bat she is thinking is the solitary type and the only one of its already dwindling race, plus she thinks that she is greater than anyone she knew, so she is not that desired by others.
The spider queen sighed and then retracted her beastly appearance and her beautiful form was once again revealed, she then hurriedly went out of her cave section and grabbed the bat who is taking her time strolling around the entrance of her cave, clearly this bat is not used to solely become a messenger but also a spy.
_Good thing I already ate the corpse of my child._
After the queen grabbed the bat, she went out of her lair, causing the nearby monsters to scurry away, after all, she have the reputation of being able to stand side by side with the leader of the steamed monkey tribe leader. The bat seems to still have the slime coming from the womb of the bat, a sign that it is less probable that the bat witnessed the whole thing about the war.
_Who would have thought that the moment I cut off all the connections I have with my spawns temporarily is also the moment she will also give birth? I have to say sorry for my carelessness._ The queen of arachnids thought so and shouted.
"What does your repulsive mother wish to know about my lair?"
The tone was domineering and even though the bat is controlled by its birth giver, it cannot help but shiver uncontrollably with fear.
"You know what I want bug! Information! What exactly happened to the fight between the hero prospect and the monkey tribe leader!?"
The bat brushed off her blatant attempt to spy on the lair of the spider queen, which the queen ignored after all, there is a reason why is she called a queen, and that bat is just called "That Bat"
She snickered as her mind while also sighing in relief.
_I almost messed up._
She thought so and then told the tale of what happened between the monkey tribe leader and the hero prospect Sophia, of course, all of the things she said are nothing but a lie to confuse her counterparts, or in this case, former counterparts.
Did she ever feel guilt when she realized she was betraying people who trusts her credibility?
Who knows, but one thing is for certain.
_Everything I am doing is for her, My Lady Sophia._
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"The Monkey is dead...?"
"I affirm."
"This is more serious than I thought it is... I think we should all meet and plan a collective action towards the hero prospect, we will get overthrown if she pushed further to other layers!"
"I agree, we can use my place as the meeting spot."