Became the Queen of the Legion

“I should have kept at least one alive to question, but I forgot in the heat of battle.”

The orcs I faced for the first time. Although they clearly seemed to be just a mercenary group, their racial value was definitely different from goblins.

The one who looked like the leader was able to grab a common soldier’s poisonous needle with his bare hands and throw it far away.

As a result, I got a little excited fighting and ended up killing them all without leaving a single one.

“Judging by their appearance, they seem to be mere slave traders who visited the city. They probably didn’t know much about the city. And… there are people we can question over there.”

Seira, who had killed the orc leader by piercing his neck with her spear in one strike, pointed behind.

The demon race females trapped in the cart, which we deliberately didn’t touch even in the midst of such intense fighting.

It’s obvious seeing them naked and bound. They were brought by the orcs to sell to goblins.

“There’s hardly anyone sane.”

However, among those who were already in a state of diminished capacity, almost none were in their right mind. Most had foamed at the mouth and fainted during the battle.

[Achievement, Another Race (3) completed. 1 trait point awarded as reward]
[Achievement, Demon Race Slaughterer (1) completed. 1 trait point awarded as reward]
[Achievement, War Maniac (1) completed. 1 trait point awarded as reward]

Turning my gaze, I checked the trait points gained from this battle. I need to raise trait points to use acquired genetic information or nutrients more efficiently.

Orcs are a race exactly in the middle, two levels above goblins in the demon tier.

Without trait enhancement, I might not be able to use them even after digesting them.

「Consciousness Enhancement 4」

Aware of this, I poured all points into consciousness enhancement. At the same time, a strong shock shook my mind.

The strange sensation of my mental world expanding. But I’m completely used to it now, so I just shuddered a bit.

“Was it too much?”

However, Seira still doesn’t seem accustomed to having her ego connected to the hive consciousness.

She had suddenly started nosebleeding, her eyes rolling back, and was now trembling on the ground.

“Even so, it’s hard to believe that someone like you, Seira, has such high compatibility.”

“They… all died?”

But I learned through the different race females I acquired that Seira’s unseemly fainting after losing consciousness was actually better.

The moment I tried to connect mentally with them, thinking I might be able to use them like Seira if they hadn’t been abused to the point of mental breakdown, surprisingly, every single one of them died simultaneously with their egos collapsing.

“I didn’t know that only certain individuals can withstand the hive consciousness.”

It was an unfortunate accident. The bodies that became idiots with collapsed egos were no longer useful, so I had no choice but to put them in the digestive organs to use as nutrients.

Seira looked at that sight as if dumbfounded.

If she hadn’t been someone who could withstand the hive consciousness, she would have ended up like that too.

“Now other groups have left the city and entered the forest for trade. More keep coming after that, so let’s keep catching and eating them like this.”

But there was no time to think about what had already happened.

The foolish demon races who know nothing are already steadily entering this forest where we’ve set traps.

And all those scenes are being shown to me through the eyes of the scouts.

I intended to keep repeating this action until they notice something suspicious.

“When they notice something suspicious and start to prepare…”

“That’s the moment we strike.”

I grinned at Seira’s words.

This area is already in our hands, but I’m aware that we’re still a weak force compared to the entire demon realm.

It’s true that we need to keep fighting endlessly to maintain our rapidly growing size and evolve anew, but we should also do our best in each battle.

“I will follow the queen’s will.”

Seira bowed her head, putting her mask back on.

‘She’ll probably feel a bit better after this battle.’

I raised the corners of my mouth as I watched her back. I intended to help her get a more ‘thrilling’ revenge.

* * *

“What nonsense is this? Those who left with permits aren’t returning?”

Bekins was annoyed hearing his subordinate’s report. It was such an absurd report.

“It’s true. They say that the expected return date has passed, but their group hasn’t come back.”

“The trade must be taking longer than expected.”

“But the number of people who have disappeared like this now amounts to a hundred. It seems certain that there’s some problem in the north.”

There’s a limit to how much you can brush off. Bekins, whose expression was finally starting to become serious, bit his lip.

“Mobilize the troops! We need to go find those goblins and see what’s going on!”

Eventually, he issued a mobilization order for the entire city.

He mobilized quite a large number of troops to search for those who had gone missing and to check on the wild goblins in the northern forest whose recent activities had become unclear.

“Are they finally moving?”

However, there was a being watching as if waiting for this moment.

The queen, who was looking down at the unsuspecting city people through the eyes of scouts circling the sky, flashed her eyes in the darkness.

“We’ll strike first before they’re fully prepared to fight.”

The moment when an army becomes rather vulnerable, as they prepare to fight.

Countless troops, released from dormant state, began to cross the forest all at once, aiming for that moment.

‘The timing is good too.’

By the time they approached near the city. It was already a dark night after sunset.

The inside of the city was bright with various lights, but outside, only the soft moonlight was all there was.

As many as 10,000 bizarre monsters moved silently and stealthily like insects crawling on the ground.

“Hm…?”

Thanks to this, the first to discover these countless enemies that had reached right in front of the city was a hobgoblin mage standing guard on the city wall.

When numerous alarms started ringing on a kind of detection magic installed in front of the wall, the startled mage was shocked to see the crystal ball showing countless dots and the scene unfolding right before his eyes in front of the castle.

“Emer-Emergency! Emergency!!!!”

When the mage hurriedly shot a flare into the sky.

At that moment, the countless gleaming eyes that had been quietly approaching one step at a time began to rush in all at once.

“Enemy! We’re under attack!”

“What nonsense is this!”

Bekins, who had come out to inspect the mobilized troops, was shocked to see the alarm ringing from the northern wall and the flare shot into the sky.

Enemy attack from the northern wall. It was an incomprehensible phrase. There shouldn’t be any force that ‘dared’ to touch them in the north.

“Mayor! They’re monsters! Ma-demonic beasts! There are incredibly many!”

But it was true. The hobgoblin soldier who ran from the northern wall was so pale that he was drooling.

“Monsters attacking the city? How can that be…”

Bekins couldn’t continue speaking. Because something finally climbed over the wall and revealed itself on top of the distant wall where soldiers were desperately fighting.

Even just by its silhouette, it was clearly a monster.

A monster that pierced and killed a resisting soldier’s chest on the wall with its long, pointed legs, and pierced and killed other soldiers with poisonous legs protruding from its back.

‘Just how many are there?’

Bekins, who was blankly staring at it, unconsciously stepped back when numerous monsters squirming on all the walls visible to him revealed themselves.

Monsters that seemed easily two or three times more numerous than the soldiers guarding the walls were constantly climbing over the walls and pouring into the interior.

“Quickly, stop them!”

He shouted at the belatedly gathered soldiers to block the walls, but the walls were already a den of enemies with more foes than allies.

“Could that possibly be poison…?”

Something that several monsters on top of the wall vigorously sprayed was scattered, and soldiers who were doused with it screamed and collapsed on the ground with smoke rising as if they were burning.

In fact, Bekins’ reason was completely cut off from the moment he saw that.

His thought process stopped at these successive events that were beyond common sense, as if in a dream.

“Everything up to here is according to plan.”

On the other hand, the queen of this monster army, who had perfectly trapped the city’s residents, was leisurely riding on the back of a shock trooper, taking in all those scenes through the connected consciousness.

While the common soldiers climbed the walls all at once to occupy the castle, the shock troopers began pounding on the city gates with their massive bodies.