Chapter 183: Plan In Hexun Cavern
Alros is lying on a bed. He had rented a room per usual, even if he rarely, if ever used the commodity of the inn, preferring to stay inside the system space.
While he would return to the system space sooner, for the moment, he is resting as he is busy digesting the swath of knowledge he foolishly crammed inside his head.
"I should really think this through," he muttered, massaging his head. Though his current condition is due to his own action, he did not regret it one bit.
"Ow," ok, maybe he regret it a bit. However, the information, albeit the more common one, he manage to glean about the Duchy would be invaluable during his stay.
He manage to learn the Duchy is merely a century old nation, one founded by a noble from a nearby Tier 3 Nation, the Ravus Kingdom.
The area was conquered by the noble's force, who manage to subjugate and conquer the area. With the consent of the King of the Kingdom, the noble's title was changed to a Duke, with the territory he conquered being a vassal of the Ravus Kingdom.
As a vassal, the Duchy need to pay some tributes, in return of receiving the protection of being the vassal of the Kingdom. Given they have the authority to form their own rules and govern the area of the Duchy, it is a win-win scenario for the Duchy.
After a century after it's founding, the Duchy possess might equal to the lower rank Tier 2 Nation, even though they are just a vassal nation.
While they could not compare to the Astor Kingdom and Torim Kingdom, they are as strong as Bertrum Nation, or at least should be able to put up a fight.
As for the Hexun Cavern, he manage to learn about the more common monsters that reside there, along with some of the more infamous one.
As usual, the existence of Goblins seem to be similarity shared by every single Mana Zone, with the only exception being the Forest of Bug, likely because the bugs destroy any goblins that formed.
Aside from that, the other monster that appear in the cave of the Danger Zones are bats, which is something he expected, slimes, monsters he also expect to appear in the Hexun Cavern, bears and wolves, though they are called Cave Bear and Cave Wolf, and spiders.
Those are the more common monsters that can be found near the entrance as well as the deeper part of the cavern. As for the more infamous, there are the mighty golems, near impossible to hurt with sharp blades but much weaker to a bludgeoning weapon such as clubs and hammers.
Then there is the female humanoid monsters. To be honest, he never expected to found one here, considering the weaker Mana Zone compared to the other Danger Zone, but his expectation had been subverted, to his joy.
The two female monsters in question are Arachne and Lamia, the former being a half-spider, half-woman monster, while the latter are half-snake, half-woman monster.
They are, along with the golems, are infamous for being powerful, able to kill group of adventurers. Both humanoid monsters are fast and capable of killing quickly.
As for the golems, being made out of stone make them hard to kill. Not to mention the Iron-variant, which is a lot stronger, and somewhat faster. They still lumbering giants, just faster than their rocky brethren.
Those are the monsters that can be found in the Hexun Cavern. He is looking forward to explore the caverns. With how little lighting in the area, he could turn into his demonic form, and the others in the same place would be none the wiser.
Of course, the darkness of the caverns force the adventurers to bring torches and lanterns to give them the necessary lighting to navigate the area. So, he could be seen. However, if he make sure to turn earlier and always wary of the light, he should be able to hide his demonic features.
"I should head deeper from the get go," he said to himself, "Subduing the humanoid monsters would allow me to gain SP when they killed the adventurers. I don't even need to bring them with me, just let them move as usual, and I will have scores of adventurers killed,"
Smiling at his ingenious idea, other ideas formed in the recesses of his mind, "Not to mention, I should just grab a large group of Lamia, Arachne and Golems. Those are the monsters that will be helpful. Cave Bears, Cave Wolves, and Giant Cave Spiders are not that helpful, besides, I can always get them inside Lunos Forest.
Meanwhile, Cave Bats seem useful. Maybe I subdue one or two and see if they are any good," he mumbled.
"Some Slimes can be added as well. They should be the same as the one in Lunos Forest, and I can always have more demonic variant slimes," he uttered. While the regular Slimes are not that helpful aside from being a distraction and cannon fodder, the same could not be said about the elemental and demonic variant, which are helpful in their own way.
"So, that is the plan. No capturing the Cave animals except for the bats. I should also focus more on the stronger monsters to subdue, and left them in the caverns until it is time for me to go," he clapped his hands, his plan forming nicely.
Now he knew what he will do tomorrow, he should focus on what he will do tonight, or to be exact, who he will do tonight.
At the moment, the portal to the system space opened, which allow him to peer to the other side. He immediately spotted his women, all of them in erotic and very enticing clothing, giving him seductive look.
He climb inside the portal, leaving a clone in his room to keep the pretense of him being here, the clone having both Transformation and Illusion. While normally the clones would grumble of having to get Covering Duty, they no longer do so when he let them have fun during the day before they have to cover for him.
Considering his limp dick, and some liquid staining his member, the clone had been busy, and unlikely able to have another go. Then again, when they are allowed to do with any of the women with the sole exception being the B-rankers, it is not much of a surprise for their dick to no longer be able to rise during the night.