Empress' Evolution

After the fight with the humans, Chief, and the strongest of daemons went to sweep the area so no one would live. The East area was given to Sylva and Killa to take care of and an hour before sunrise, corpses littered the area.

The sun rose up from beyond the mountains, smoke abounds as the daemons bathed in the blood of their enemies.

The village was bustling despite the tired bodies of the daemons that scattered about. Lilith sat on the steps of her dwelling watching the daemons go about their businesses. From time to time, the daemons would look at Lilith and smile before doing something else.

Food was being handed over by the Sylva and the rest were eating. The food was cooked by the meat of the beasts, although the other daemons wanted to make use of the humans by cooking and eating them, Lilith shook her head.

"Those guys may have diseases, don't eat them." She treated them like how one would avoid exotic food, "Stupidity is a disease, don't eat them or else. Just throw them to the wilderness and let them rot and be eaten by tigers or something like that." She just had to add that on before moving forward.

The number of daemons that died numbered at 69, but the humans were annihilated so it was of good cause. Before Lilith came around, it was the custom of Ogres to eat their fallen comrades.

In the past, food was scarce thus living in such a manner was a must. But after Meat Dungeons appeared, such customs were no longer followed. Now, instead of being eaten, the corpses would be turned to fertilizer.

The body will be buried in a pile known as a Warriors' Honor; then after being buried, a tree or a crop would be planted over the grave. Even in death, daemons wish to become useful and such custom had somehow appeared in every race.

It was said that the tallest trees of the Elves are the representation of the strongest warriors that is buried beneath.

'That's kind of amazing.' Lilith didn't know that it was a thing. Documentation of daemons only goes as far as observation and nothing more. Conversing with a daemon is not done unless it is in a bedroom.

Daemon culture is complicated or more like unexplored territory for her. Though she is now a daemon, she was also once human. There are certain things she can do, and certain things she cannot.

BUT, she can also eat anything if it is laid in front of her and she is starving. Even if it is poisonous, her Cursed Purgatory Dragon can eat it without worry. The Cured Purgatory Dragon may have a stomach ache, but that's it.

Lilith can eat anything she wants if it will lead to her survival. Her innate hypocrisy will kick in and even eat a human if she needs to. Who cares about pride, she already killed humans and slaughtered thousands of them, why not take a step forward and try eating them?

'I heard they taste like tuna.' Besides, it's no longer cannibalism because she is no longer human, so what the heck. However, for the time being, with food still being abundant, Lilith will stick to eating mindless beasts.

The food was served per portions. Those who are awake will eat now while keeping watch of the surrounding for any possible ambush. Being vigilant is a lesson taught by the master.

Those asleep from the tiredness would eat later, and as Lilith received a bowl of soup, Chief, Sylva, Dhampy, Luna, Killa, and some more handpicked elites by Lilith sat before her.

Just like before the Forest of Beast was destroyed, Lilith took a slurp of the soup and asked, "So, what happened, and what are we doing here?"

Luna raised a hand as she volunteered to answer the question.

"Luna, report."

Like a student asked to recite for the class, Luna began recounting the events that had transpired for the past months when Lilith was in a state of a coma, "When the Priestess protected us from the light and sending us to a foreign land together with the village to save our lives, we arrived on a shoreline populated by humans who tried to kill us without question.

"When that happened, Chief protected us, but the sheer number of humans overwhelmed even he and Sylva was forced to teleport us away from there. Big Sis Dhampy had her use Marked Teleportation on a pebble she asked Senior Aero to bring with her as she was asked to escape. Moving from one place to the other, we managed to reach this place after some more teleportation."

Lilith nodded her head, "It must have been tough on you. It seems like I failed to properly send you guys to somewhere safe. This Priestess of yours is still lacking."

"No, no, please don't think that way, Boss Head. We are only alive because of your sacrifices!"

"That's right, boss."

Sylva and Dhampy interjected before everyone followed suit. Lilith smiled as she released crocodile tears. At the moment, Dhampy, Sylva, and Luna's loyalty had already reached 100/100. In their eyes, she can do no wrong.

It was even written in the description.

[Your followers will follow you to the ends of the earth. They will go through flames and crawl through the valley of blades, in short, their loyalty is genuine.]

Lilith cannot see the loyalty of the villagers, but she gauges it using Luna's loyalty and cutting it by 20%. Even if that is inaccurate, that should be close enough.

"Okay, moving forward…I was informed that our Extermination Rank has reached B+, I want to know how and why such numbers appeared."

This time, Sylva raised her hand, "I know, because we killed a lot of those detestable humans. Big sis Dhampy said that it was the humans who fired the white light that injured Boss Head and when everyone learned of that, every moment we can we kill humans."

Dhampy quickly turned her eyes away as Lilith looked at her direction. The, "Really? You instigated them?" kind of eyes were present.

Dhampy was also blinded by rage so she made sure to inform everyone who did what to her boss. At some point, she was even considering mass genocide.

Sylva noticed this and immediately added, "We only killed Hunters because Big Sis Dhampy said killing the innocent will bring us a lot of trouble."

Lilith sighed at her words, "So, how many did you guys think you killed? Has anyone kept tracked?"

"I have!" Luna proudly raised her hand once more.

Seeing this made Lilith have an instinctual feel that what she's about to say is going to cause a massive headache. But she had to ask her, "So, how many?"

"343 humans…"

"343? That's quite a lot, I…"

"…343 in this place alone and that's not counting the ones who ambushed us just now."

"Goddammit." Lilith cursed.