Became the Queen of the Legion

“Monsters! Monsters!”

“Even fighting goblins is getting a bit boring now.”

Goblin villages untouched by player influence are now just a mouthful of food for us.

I yawned as I watched the soldiers kill them all and collect the spoils after literally sweeping over the panicked goblins like a wave.

In fact, similar things were happening simultaneously in other areas right now.

As the scouts were improved and the scouting range increased, the number of troops I could command increased, and our world expanded accordingly.

Moreover, I was now a being who didn’t need to focus on just one thing.

Although I had lost up to 1,000 troops, I recovered them all and produced even more troops in just a few days. I simultaneously sent troops to all areas secured by scouting and was conducting battles simultaneously.

’20 fully secured areas. 11 areas being cleared. 31 areas still being explored.’

Of course, even so, I can’t keep up with the speed of discovering and scouting new areas.

Perhaps because the area I started in belongs to the ‘frontier’, most of the newly discovered areas were places with nothing particularly important, just vast nature including demonic beasts.

For us, who can now chew and eat almost all plants in the demon realm, these could satisfy quantitative nutrients but were difficult to provide qualitative nutrients.

The qualitative growth I wanted, for that, I needed to hunt and kill higher-ranking beings. Otherwise, I would just repeat treading water and become obsolete.

[The growth of the test subject is complete]

So I prepared this to solve that.

With a satisfied expression, I looked down at it, which poured out along with copious mucus as I personally tore open the cocoon.

‘It’s inefficient to just run Seira alone when we still have this much accumulated magic power left.’

The thing lying there as if dead was a silver-haired woman with a snow-white naked body, a kind of avatar with the same face as me now.

This specially created avatar will literally become a kind of terminal that will allow me to operate outside as an avatar.

It’s sufficiently strong because it was made by investing the magic power left over after investing in Seira.

Moreover, unlike Seira, whose cells were transplanted inside and outside her body, this avatar is made entirely of my cells, so it could hold more magic power even at the same weight.

In fact, it’s the strongest body that can be created with the technology I currently possess.

“Good. Let’s test it out.”

Leaving the body lying on the floor behind, I headed to the chair, sat down, and quietly concentrated.

For me now, who is simultaneously commanding countless troops even at this moment, transferring consciousness wasn’t such a difficult task.

“…”

Soon, I opened my eyes not in the main body sitting in the chair, but in the body of the avatar lying in a pool of damp mucus.

[Achievement, Voluntary Evolution (4) completed. 1 trait point awarded as reward]

“Good.”

Still feeling awkward in the new body, I got up on trembling legs like a newborn fawn and smirked at the status window appearing before my eyes.

Another me, sitting in the chair connected by tentacles and looking at myself, also raised the corners of my mouth at the same time.

Being able to exist simultaneously in the same space was quite amazing and strange, an indescribable subtlety even now that I’ve become the queen of the hive.

‘I should actually test it out.’

I looked at the black leather and exoskeleton gradually covering the snow-white skin that wasn’t wearing anything.

I didn’t make this body just to guard the nest.

It was a body made to become the main force of the hive myself, like Seira who is hunting strong enemies outside even at this moment.

Actually going out to fight was a bit scary both as the instinct of the queen, the core of the hive, and as my own heart, but this body is just a kind of avatar anyway.

Even if it’s destroyed, I can just make it again. My main body is still sitting in a chair in the deepest part of the safest nest, performing all necessary tasks.

[It’s a tier 4 demonic beast, Armored Crab]

“Just the right opponent.”

A hunting party just discovered a perfect prey.

I casually rode on the back of a passing worker to leisurely go to the nest entrance, then stood up on the worker’s back and transformed the cells on my back to create a huge wing wrapped in a membrane like a bat’s wing.

Omnipotent cells, my unique power that’s too inefficient to give to other soldiers.

Being able to freely handle that was one of the reasons why I made an avatar myself.

‘I can become anything.’

Flying up to the sky in an instant, I grinned at the fresh sky and wind, different from the dark and damp cave full of mucus.

When I first fell into this world for the crime of drawing one fan art, it was nothing but despair, but now I clearly recognized that there were good points too.

It’s certainly a world based on games.

Rewards and consequences were clear.

So it’s not strange at all to want more of it.

* * *

“…My Queen.”

Seira, who was active nearby, led a group of troops that had followed her and came here.

As called, she was there.

A being standing on the corpse of a huge crab split in half.

Brilliant silver hair was fluttering along with dark red magic power rippling throughout her body.

As the mask, identical to the one Seira is wearing now, smoothly disappeared, the face revealed inside had the face of a beautiful woman, befitting the curves of a clearly female body.

Seira knew that the being in front of her now was an avatar of the queen.

But in fact, it didn’t matter whether it was an avatar or the main body that Seira had to serve now.

Even the grotesque monster soldier right next to her could become the queen if she wanted.

‘Everything in the army is hers.’

Not only that. She knew that even this armor integrated with her body now moves according to the queen’s will.

“Seira, how you handle magic power has been very helpful as a reference. But spear techniques just don’t suit me. It seems I still can’t fully learn it just by watching unless I properly learn it.”

“I’m glad if it was of help.”

“Yes. It’s certainly helping.”

She leapt up and lightly landed in front of Seira.

Seira flinched as she saw her legs change to reverse joints at the moment of jumping.

The queen’s true ability was not just using magic power, but being able to implement all genetic information she has with omnipotent cells.

“Thanks to the scouts continuing to explore to the southeast, we just discovered a city of demon races there. For now, the discovered residents are diverse with two races, goblins and kobolds. It seems there’s a force claiming that place as their territory.”

The queen, who removed Seira’s mask by stroking it with her hand, transmitted the image sent by the scout directly to Seira.

Seira, who flinched at the information being shoved into her head, soon began to see that screen too.

“I think I know where it is. I… I think I passed through that city before being sold to the goblin village.”

“Really? Then they must be ones we need to take revenge on.”

When Seira spoke up after searching through fragments of memory, the queen smiled brightly as if pleased.

She intends to raise an army to attack them under the pretext of Seira’s revenge.

But Seira thought it was a kind of imitation.

From the perspective of not knowing the queen’s true identity, even the queen is just a being evolved from a mere Black Death Worm.

‘Pretexts like that don’t matter at all.’

As said that they started from a mutant of Black Death Worms, they still show beast-like aspects in many ways.

That wasn’t wrong either. They are different from birth.

Those who must devour anything, continue to evolve, and increase their size.

If they don’t do that, they can’t survive.

“If we harvest from there, we should be able to evolve another step.”

From beginning to end, that was the queen’s only purpose.

From Seira’s perspective, no matter how much she learns and acquires, it seemed that essence would never change.

“Ugh!?”

“Did you feel the impact? It’s good to get used to it. We need to prepare as much as possible before the war.”

Right after that, Seira’s body twitched at the faint shock suddenly striking her entire body.

The queen, who was doing something while looking at the air, smirked amusedly seeing Seira’s reaction.

「Consciousness Enhancement 3-3」
「Physical Enhancement 3-1」
「Reproduction Enhancement 3-2」

What the queen was doing was, of course, distributing the points acquired so far to enhance traits.

It was a familiar task for the queen, but Seira couldn’t help but feel unfamiliar with the forcibly acting power every time a trait was enhanced.