Chapter 421 Subjects
After receiving his own set of 'loyal' workers, Nial learned a lot more about his [Dominion] ability.
This included the limit of his ability, and how much of a difference it made if he used only mana to activate the ability in comparison to using dark energy, that is the Essence of Darkness or the energy stored within the Blood Eclipse Moon.
By using both the Essence of Darkness and the Blood Eclipse Moon's energy, the effect of Dominion would be the strongest. Not even dungeon beasts at the Prometheus rank were capable of disregarding his orders, which made things very easy for him in the long term.
Two days passed and Nial had ordered more than ten thousand dungeon beasts. More than 60 missions had been completed by now and it would require only around three more days to finish the rest. The time limit to complete the shortest mission that he had accepted was fourteen days.
This was a rather long duration, which was only obvious if one considered the huge distance one had to travel to the region that was considered to be the Breeding Palace and the Domain of the Undead. This was a weird combination of titles for a region but Nial didn't really bother about that.
He was more focused on finishing his missions and getting to know the true extent of his ability than anything else.
There were three Deux-ranked beasts to defeat but Nial was not really worried about them. He was already in control of more than ten Prometheus Undeads. He believed that they would be more than enough to wear out the living beasts at the Deux-rank and make it easy for him to finish them off when he would join the battle.
Nial was ready to finish off the Deux-ranked beasts soon, but before anything else, he wanted to take a look at the progress of his orders and the gains he made by sending his subjects to all kinds of places.
They had brought back many unique things, including a bunch of books, unique ability crystals that had dropped from exotic beasts one rarely encountered, and a few items in a special loot that had dropped from some dungeon beasts they had killed within the dungeons.
Some monsters would leave behind weird drops, such as odd liquids that had unique uses.
Nial had no idea what was the most special use the liquid might have but it had been dropped in a small vial, which was also why his subjects were able to bring it back.
In the end, Nial had to store everything neatly without knowing what most things were. He would let some things be appraised after he returned to the Alliance city and everything he didn't need would be sold, or put to some use.
Thousands of dungeon beasts surrounded him but none of them dared to attack Nial. They stared at him in fear, feeling uncertain of what the unfathomable existence in front of them would do.
Nial may look like a small human being to most of them but deep down they knew that he was not someone they could escape.
It was not even possible to go near him as he had already used [Dominion] to prevent anyone with ill intentions from coming close to him. Nial smiled upon perceiving the desperation of all the dungeon beasts to eliminate the threat posed by him but he couldn't care less.
Rather than stopping to use [Dominion], he spent his time traveling around the Breeding Palace to turn more and more dungeon beasts into his forcefully loyal subjects.
The feeling of being able to order around whoever he wanted whenever he wanted was exhilarating and Nial had to hold back from attempting to use his entire energy to control one of the few dungeon beasts at the Deux rank. He knew that he had already used up too much of his energy to control all the other dungeon beasts, and he would require a few days to replenish the energy it would take to attempt controlling one of the powerful beasts.
It was not worth the wait, which was also why Nial spent only two days turning more and more dungeon beasts into his subjects before he ordered them to complete his remaining missions except the Conquest of the Breeding Palace and Undead Domain region.
That was his last mission left after a total of five days had passed since he appeared in the region with Ryu and it was time to finish it off to complete everything properly.
"Attack the Deux beasts!" Nial gave his second last order to all his subjects, forcing them to go up against the Overlords of their region.
It was suicidal and all the dungeon beasts instinctively knew that they were unlikely to escape alive, but they followed the given command nonetheless.
They were not able to deny the given orders, after all!
Tens of thousands of dungeon beasts charged over the vast expanse and Nial followed them while riding Ryu. His heart was calm and he used his Mana sense to perceive everything around him.
Thus, he was the first one to perceive the Deux-ranked dungeon beast that had already noticed that something was amiss in the last few days.
It looked at the massive crowd of dungeon beasts, who wouldn't take long before they would reach it and they began to frown deeply.
The Deux-ranked beast was a Behemoth, the size of a huge mansion, and nothing was supposed to be able to overwhelm it. Yet, the massive horde of dungeon beasts marching towards it made it falter.
It might be difficult for the large horde to injure it while being at a lower rank but it was certainly not impossible. There were always ways to injure someone at a higher rank than oneself, especially if one was at a numerical advantage of more than tens of thousands to one!
Nonetheless, the behemoth let go of its initial hesitation and charged at its opponents, ready to trample them all if necessary.
But this was the biggest mistake it could have made. Under normal circumstances, it could have been considered charging at its opponents when they initiated an attack but not now. Its opponents were not wild and untamed beasts but Nial, Ryu, and a bunch of Undeads at the Peak of the Prometheus rank. Furthermore, they all wielded Broken Tier-2 Runic armaments.
Nial had prepared more than enough Broken Tier-2 runic armaments by using the cheapest possible materials to unleash the strongest effect.
Thus, when a bunch of dragon heads formed out of different elements shot toward the ginormous behemoth all of a sudden, all hell broke loose.
Five deep gashes formed in the ginormous body of the Behemoth the moment the Dragon heads impacted on the dungeon beast that was mostly focused on training its powerful body.
The gashes burst open when the dragon heads exploded and the Behemoth's skin and flesh were revealed while the beast could only roar out in pain.
Ever since it had emerged on Jundra, it hadn't felt such devastating pain and even that level of effort was hardly enough for the Behemoth to survive. Wanting to save its life, the Behemoth continued to run.
The longer it ran the worse the injury seemed to become, which was more than enough reason for Nial to start smiling.
"How about you have some fun, Ryu? Use your darkness however you like!" He told Ryu while caressing his fluffy plumage.
Nial decided to sit back and just watch as it was time to let others do his job.
He was feeling quite tired and exhausted after constantly using [Dominion] and testing out various things related to the ability.
And visualizing tens of thousands of monsters charging at the Behemoth that was crawling up its legs or jumping straight toward its huge body was oddly satisfying.
Nial was in control of most types of dungeon beasts right now. Whether it was huge monsters on the ground, beasts that lived underground and were creating tunnels below the Behemoth for the ground below it to break in, or aerial dungeon beasts that were adept at flying straight at the weak spots of the Behemoth to worsen its injuries all over its massive body.
The scenery that unfolded in front of him was miraculous and something that was not supposed to happen. All types of dungeon beasts attacked the Behemoth that killed thousands of beasts by trampling them to death.
There was no doubt that the Behemoth's power was immense because not even other Deux-ranked dungeon beasts would be capable of surviving a single charge of the ginormous existence.
However, the combined attacks of all the beasts helped Nial slowly gain an upper hand on the Behemoth. Nial and Ryu were flying high in the air, and the Broken Tier-2 Runic Armaments had inflicted mild injuries, which was more than enough to wear out the Behemoth and worsen its injury slowly but steadily.
"You are mine!!"