Chapter 191: Rude Awakening (2)
The power of harmony.
Yong-ho used it harmoniously. It smoothly connected forces that had been somewhat disorderly connected until now. What was really affected was the power of the dungeon spirits, in particular.
A space that could accept the dungeon spirits.
Each domain of the dungeon spirits in it was in harmony with each other. The gap was filled, and the space they occupied was reduced. The area that had been expanded when Stravadi, the loser of the eastern area was defeated, had more space now.
Now he could say that was enough. If he exerted the power of harmony once again, he would be able to get it easily.
Yong-ho opened his eyes. He couldn't tell how much time passed. It seemed like a few hours or only a few seconds.
Yong-ho turned. Instead of looking at the dungeon spirits, he raised his hand. Then he held the magic spear of the red lotus in his hand.
"Aamon."
[Yes, my master.]
He didn't need to ask or reply anymore. He ordered Aamon to be his familiar spirit.
Aamon accepted his will. One of Mammon's 12 Spirits, Aamon, finally accepted a new master.
And Aamon's change began.
A bright red flame arose from the magic spear of the red lotus. Five horns sprout on Yong-ho's head. He released mana, roaring wildly.
Even the dungeon spirits experienced a marked change that they had never felt before.
They felt a flood of enormous mana.
Aamon, the magic spear of the red lotus.
The leader of the 12 Spirits of the House of Mammon!
Yong-ho reached the extreme limit at once. And he finally jumped over it. A new sixth horn sprouted on his head.
Aamon's flames did not stop. The flames of the red lotus soon turned into green flames, which filled the room, and surged through the dungeon spirits.
Catalina and Kaiwan's mana grew dramatically. A fifth horn sprouted on the heads of Eligos, Ophelia, and Tigrius, and a magnificent dragon's power arose from Skull's body.
Yuho and Yuan smiled in the green flames. Looking at Yong-ho's back, Yuho and Yuan recalled Mammon, the King of Greed, whom they trusted and followed.
"Finally, you, the King of Greed, have come back!"
Yuho and Yuan turned into light then disappeared. And at that moment, an enormous mana sprang from Yong-ho again.
***
The King of Fury looked at the letter she wrote in person. One side of the desk was full of letters that she stopped writing and crumpled.
"Good. This looks just right."
It was good for her to push Kirtimuka out of her room, who was making a fuss over her letter.
In the letter, she politely proposed to have friendly exchanges.
'He might be embarrassed if I ask him for a meeting suddenly.'
The King of Fury herself would also be embarrassed in that case.
Nodding in satisfaction, she sealed the letter. Then she called Kirtimuka, who was earnestly waiting outside the door.
***
Yuria handed out food to the Dungeon Meerkats. She was depressed because her new friend Lucia moved to a distant place, but she tried to avoid looking depressed. After all, she had Baduk nearby, and Dungeon Meerkats acting cute to her like this. She rather felt sorry for Lucia who moved to a remote place where she didn't have any friends.
Noticing she was in a bad mood, the Dungeon Meerkats acted more cute than usual.
She burst into laughter loudly as the baby meerkats climbed over her neck and tickled her.
Eventually, she forgot to give them food and began to play with them, rolling over the floor.
Suddenly, the adult meerkats raised themselves upright. Not just one or two, but almost all of them did. The baby meerkats who were playing on her body also straightened and stared at the sky.
"Bark, bark!"
Baduk also pointed to the sky in confusion. Yuria quickly raised herself, and looked up at the sky, holding the baby meerkats in her arms.
"Uh?"
Something was flying through the sky from afar.
A huge beast with the head of a bird, a beast, and a demon.
They were the King of Gluttony's forces.
***
'The King of Violence has never left his Dragon Rare.'
It was the last message left by Tamkuruku, the king's eighth familiar spirit, about three hours ago.
The King of Gluttony recognized Tamkuruku's demise because about all his communication line with Tamkuruku was cut off about ten minutes after he received the message.
He was the king's loyal minion man who directly infiltrated the King of Violence's innermost hideout place and obtained the precious intelligence about the king's whereabouts.
Even though he knew it was a mission that actually cost his life, Tamkuruku left without complaining at all, and he finally completed the mission.
While mourning Tamkuruku's death, the King of Gluttony cursed the King of Violence that caused the situation as it was now.
The death of familiar spirits was a big blow both physically and mentally to the master. However, it meant something different to the King of Gluttony.
Each of the Seven Deadly Sins had various characteristics of its own. Just like 'greed' allowed the king to have more familiar spirits than ordinary demon kings. The 'gluttony' possessed by the King of Gluttony could 'digest' whatever came in his mouth. The same was true of his increased abilities with the addition of more spirits.
Assuming that the relative value of the lost mana was 100 when the general master lost his familiar spirits, the King of Gluttony lost only 20 to 30 mana, which was much less than that.
As one of many abilities the King of Gluttony had, that was why he could consume or change his familiar spirits more drastically than other kings.
Nonetheless, Tamkuruku was still his spirit. The king couldn't help but feel so sad about his loss.
The King of Gluttony pondered over the King of Violence.
The King of Violence was currently staying at his own Dragon Rare.
The dragon corps under his command were on standby at the borders.
The King of Fury was only caring about the north and the east, as if to imply that he was aligned with the King of Violence in one way or another.
There was a war still going on in the north.
'Now is the chance!'
The King of Gluttony made the decision. He no longer thought of dragging on pointlessly.
There were abundant harvests in the southern area. It was time to harvest the ripe fruits.
The King of Gluttony thought of Ten Warriors among his elite force. Consisting of eight familiar spirits and two general spirits, each of them was strong enough to be called a single-man corps.
'Embrio was a competent guy who could be ranked at least in the middle out of the Ten Warriors.'
Of course, Embrio had never revealed his genuine abilities. Granted his power reached the highest when he died, nobody thought he could be ranked more than the upper middle.
In fact, even his upper-middle rank among Ten Warriors showed he had a mighty power.
There were not many with five horns ranked in the upper middle status in the vast demon world.
The king of the unclaimed land in the south defeated Embrio with such tremendous power.
Since he also absorbed the essence of Stravadi, the loser of the eastern area, it was no exaggeration to say that he could be ranked in the top group of Ten Warriors.
After he was done calculating the gains and losses of his war, the King of Gluttony fidgeted with his fingers then summoned the Ten Warriors.
***
Summoner Sabnak, the leader of the Ten Warriors, faithfully fulfilled the command of his master.
As a wizard from the alien world who crash-landed in the demon world hundreds of years ago, he was reborn as a demon by choosing to be a mummy Lich with powerful mana.
He was the strongest and the longest living among the familiar spirits that the King of Gluttony had taken until now.
Although he became a mummy, he still had a hooked nose, his pride. Wearing a priest's suit adorned with gold and standing with a cane shaped like a snake, he stared at the ground.
Seven of the ten were placed on the back of Trigon, a beast with the heads of a bird, a beast, and a demon. It was only Sabnak's own calculation, but given the average of their combined power, it was comparable to six Embrios gathered in one place.
Moreover, among the seven was not only the summoner himself but also the elder Lich, Bfrost. It meant that he could summon hundreds of spirits anytime, anywhere.
Given the size of their power, the Ten Warriors were too large to be sent to occupy a dungeon. However, their master, the King of Gluttony, was not satisfied. He was thorough in his plan, as always.
Bfrost had a scroll with which they could install the door of space leap. Due to the nature of the dungeon, which naturally blocked the flow of mana from the outside, it would take several minutes or more to create a proper space door, but that was not a problem.
The King of Gluttony ordered them to install the door of space immediately when they felt that it was beyond their power. In that case, he said he would help them out directly.
Only
The king's order was always absolute. Moreover, it was his gravest order in recent years. To be honest, Sabnak was nervous. Since he always highly valued Embrio, Sabnk was warier of the master of the House of Mammon.
However, that was the situation when they started moving into the south.
While they left their master's land and flew to the borders of the south, they changed their mind.
It was never easy to use magical power to catch a summoner moving at super-speed or to hinder his flying itself. It was natural that the typical master could not defend himself.
However, their opponent was the king of the unclaimed land in the south. It was disappointing that they didn't have any means to detect their flying at super speed, let alone any magic field that could stop their flying at super speed.
They saw the Dungeon Meerkats hurriedly struggling to run away on the ground. Some were staring at them, while others hurriedly went into hiding.
This meant that the southern people only recognized their invasion through the most basic dungeon defense system.