Tademoira's body, originally entangled with vines and flowers, has changed.
The vines grew longer and transformed into jelly-like tentacles, resembling the plant jelly and gummies. Originally a humanoid with a tail, the tail transformed into a third leg, allowing the body to stand on three supports, much like a tripod.
The limbs elongated, body parts that cannot be categorized as claws or hoes grew, and the tentacles of the long, elongated head extended backwards with flowers at the ends, and the face had no eyes, only a mouth.
"Oh, my master. Nyaltartep has been reborn here."
And then he descended. The third commander of the dessert army. Nyaltartep, the leader of the fruit army that serves dessert.
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{Nyaltartep}
Stamina LV.6: 5,355
Combat LV.6: 5,273
Dexerity LV.7: 10,394
Intelligence LV.9: 38,460
Charm LV.9: 37,895
Spirit LV.8: 27,836
Authority LV.9: 57,441
Magic LV.9: 44,052
Total Individual Score LV.8: 226,706
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Overall, it's a typical non-combat creation. First of all, its
Although its authority stat is high, its powers are mostly protection, healing, plant growth and breeding, etc. It is not an entity that you would send out to fight against enemies and win.
But that power is important, because it still has the original『Spirit of Floriculture and Horticulture』 trait.
This is a creation that grows weeds. It could also be used to drop pollen-allergy plants on enemy worlds. In other words, it's a creation that will grow plants on my behalf, a core part of my main plan.
And by creating and nurturing plants and bugs that Shuk-Rimuras could not, he can transform my entire ecosystem into a vegetable garden. They will either compete with the jellies or coexist with them.
But it's still not enough. While each individual isn't unique, Nyaltartep, having grown up in a civilization, is largely focused on healing and protecting the civilization's individuals.
It needs some tweaking to fit my build, which focuses on nurturing the overall ecosystem.
I steadily raised Nyar'Tartap's
『Nyaltartep Enhanced Clone Creation: Nyaltartep can create a clone by detaching his own body. The clone inherits a portion of Nyaltartep's abilities, and Nyaltartep can create clones equal to his level.』
It is possible to recover the consumed ability points by investing sufficient resources.
So to speak, it's a characteristic of my 『Divine Unity』 being sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-compatible. He can't share senses with his clones, clones don't just appear out of nowhere, and the abilities consumed when creating them have to be re-gained by consuming resources.
But he can still create clones. Spread the clones of Nyaltartep and place them in key locations throughout the ecosystem, allowing them to faithfully fulfill their role in fostering the main plan.
And if they are distributed like this, each clone can defend, heal, and support the army when there is an enemy attack in each location.
[Thank you, my master.]
"Nyaltartep. I entrust you with the management of the Hanging Gardens and each untamed land. Cultivate the most vicious and horrific species of malignant plants, just as they destroyed the world of the Mukite and destroyed my ecosystem."
[As the master wishes.]
"Who! Who! Who!"
"Nyal-tart-ep!"
The monsters danced and cheered at the sight of the newly reborn Nyaltartep. Nyaltartep no longer seemed disgusted by the monsters transformed from the creatures of his old creator.
He was worshipped and offered sacrifices, extending roots and branches in an instant, and consumed them to create his own clones, so that they could live forever within him.
Well, with this, Tademoira's dessert army has been a success.
"It's vicious."
That's the way of the Demon King. Tademoira wasn't corrupted. He had attained enlightenment.
"Civilization is trash and only nature is everything?"
Now even angels understand.
"Probably not."
I thought that would solve the problem, but then suddenly, a wild Yogur-Thoth flew in from far away. It was incredibly fast, probably because he launched himself.
[Creator! Why did you give it so much territory? This Yogur-Thoth's territory isn't even that big!]
"Hey. You've got a lot of creatures that worship you, so why are you arguing over something like that?"
[That guy got the same thing too!]
This kid's personality is really dirty. Does he really think he has to be the best?
"If you want to claim you're so great, you should have at least beaten him right away in our last fight."
[Ha, but originally, defense was more advantageous.]
"Who doesn't know that? Is it something to brag about if you can't win unless the situation is favorable? And do you think I'm criticizing you? It's not that you're incompetent, but at least Nyaltartep deserves respect. For enduring the onslaught of none other than Yogur-Thoth and proudly joining the Army."
[...I understand. Next time, I will crush the enemy with overwhelming force, making sure I am never pushed back.]
His arrogant personality is a bit irritating. Of course, I encouraged him and he was easily resolved, but if his arrogance persists, he might wreak havoc on my ecosystem, or he might suffer a severe depression after being severely beaten by the enemy.
What should I do?
"Don't you know how?"
Things like psychological counseling and human conflicts are...not my area of expertise.
"I guess so."
Anyway, Nyaltartep faithfully carried out my orders. Rather than planting only certain types of plants, he made sure that many different types of plants could somehow 'survive', thereby intensifying the competition for survival to the extreme.
A dessert desert has scant vegetation. Still, it has plenty of water and nectar, a nutrient-rich food.
Nyaltartep said he had a lot to do and continued to sacrifice the monsters to create new bodies for himself, and they dispersed to create all kinds of plants in each region.
They would become an extreme weed that would destroy any terrain in the opposing world. Just raising one Nyaltarteps and I've completed one axis of my main plan.
"You said the main plan wasn't to use weed, right?"
"Of course. We also need to find ways to kill spirit-based life forms, and besides ruining agriculture, we need to find ways to kill them by spreading diseases, parasites, or urban sprawl.
We could worsen the water quality, pollute the land, change the climate, annihilate the enemy's livestock... any number of means are possible. Ultimately, as long as the enemy starves to death, anything will do."
When I played the game, my favorite strategy in the later stages was to shoot down the opponent's planes with a bird strike. This was a real hit, but since the exchange cost was one bird per plane, the only way for the opponent to secure air superiority was with magic.
Similarly, there are some incredibly vicious tactics, such as disabling a ship's propellers and engines, or sending in a giant whale-like creature to ram it. With a whale-to-torpedo exchange rate of one, is that even a reasonable estimate? Furthermore, installing torpedoes on every cargo ship is impossible, so the enemy's maritime transport is paralyzed, ultimately losing both air and sea control. Their economies are often decimated, and while they have food, they often starve to death because it can't be distributed.
"Ah. There's also a strategy to paralyze them economically…?"
Yes. Biological resources have been essential to civilization since almost the entire modern era. And even in the very late stages of civilization, you'll eventually need to cultivate plants or animals, so even if you're determined to use a strategy of only culling livestock, you can paralyze your opponent.
Of course, even if medicine that treats mains species is well developed, it is not easy for veterinary medicine to develop to that level...
Anyway, this place is pretty much sorted out.
——I shifted my attention elsewhere. There's more to do than just this.
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Let's go back in time to the seventh collision, leaving behind the somewhat confusing point of view of Vein.
Other players were equally engaged in fierce battles. In short, Seisaisa, renowned within the community as a top-tier expert in the spiritual realm and mysticism, was one such example.
Seisaisa's seventh clash was quite violent.
"These guys, they have a military force that is no less powerful than my meat army!"
"I see, Sir Seisaisa. In fact, it seems that the level of technology in the material world, excluding
Rather, it could be said that the fighting ended early because the military power of both sides was so close.
The reason why Seisaisa won was entirely due to his special trait, 『Incarnation』.
The mythical trait,『Incarnation』, summons a myth-level creature with abilities equal to the world's. Even the player's own ego can enter and move.
The world of Seisaisa is naturally extremely high in
In other words, the giant elephant with incredible magic, Marquis Seisaisa, personally incarnated into the world and crushed all the troops that invaded it.
The opponent seemed dumbfounded. He must have wondered what on earth was Seisaisa doing to have possessed a mythical creature. The opponent was relatively strong, and he possessed powerful creatures, but they were powerless against the mythical creature created from, 『Incarnation』.
As a result, the fight was somewhat one-sided. Seisaisa could single-handedly crush the incoming troops, and the elephant unit was continuously sent to the enemy world, which is why the opponent was one-sidedly beaten.
Although defense is advantageous, the Seisaisa manipulated the flow of the spiritual world to change the flow of the dimensions.
The means to manipulate it.
A technique unknown to spiritual beings. A kind of
When Seisaisa crossed over to the enemy world and unleashed his magic, the enemy's fortress fell, and the vast forests, beautiful plains and the mines all became a part of Seisaisa's world. Surrender was not accepted.
"Then, let me begin the explanation of the expansion phase."
After listening carefully to the explanation, Seisa thought about it carefully. He decided to choose
The Seisa consulted with the higher-ranking entities under his command. Many individuals rose to the epic rank thanks to the consulting of a unique player named [Mihun].
Thanks to the consultation with the person who is not good at handling mystery, the ecosystem of the meat that he is not good at handling enriched amazingly, and he receives consulting on the conceptual areas that he is weak in through Mihun.
And through other helpers, he gained knowledge about how to build order in society, industry, and technology, so the civilization of Seisaisa was quite good.
Unlike the creatures of the non-humans, the Elephantmen are highly intelligent and have both
Hearing this, Seisaisa, the『Incarnation』, the player Seisa strives to build a spiritual world by connecting the other world and his own world.
"I've decided. Let's expand to the {Great Boundary}."
"Excellent choice."
In fact, objectively speaking, it wasn't a great choice.
Just as the ecosystem of spiritual beings are largely speaking a desert, and would have been much better if it had been a world grown based on mystery, the world that Seisaisa received was better built as a more life-friendly world with lush forests and resources from the seaside, just by looking at the terrain.
In short, it would have been better to expand to "The Great Ocean" in many ways. It would have been better to expand to "The Great Sky" as well.
However, two players strangely met each other early on and were able to subtly unleash each other's potential, which ultimately made this out to be a pretty good choice.
When a living being dies, its soul becomes a stream and goes into the afterlife. The path to the afterlife is the {Great Boundary}.
The Seisaisa expanded the afterlife, allowing the dead to easily resurrect without dying in vain. Their spirits, resurrected through generations in incredibly powerful flesh bodies, would bring immense prosperity to their race and civilization.
"And thanks to that guy, I learned this too."
How to manipulate meat. Understanding the meat itself. Just as Vein had gradually learned about the spiritual world from Seisaisa, and was now able to do it at a somewhat rudimentary level, Seisa, too, could independently manipulate the meat's body.
Twist the lives of opposing species and use them to your advantage. The brain provides the flow, and muscles are the most efficient organs for movement.
The world was becoming increasingly grotesque, without him even realizing it. Seisa was being reborn as a being no different from a [Tyrant of Hell].
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