Epic of Caterpillar Chapter 30: Expansion Plans

| DAY 28 |

A Little Spider Maid woke me up this morning, Zehe and Nesiphae weren't in the bed, they seem to have woken up earlier than me today.

When I was about to put on some clothes, I noticed that my new prosthetic leg was ready on my night table, and tried to put it on, however, I noticed something peculiar.

It seems that my missing leg is slowly growing again.

"Is it thanks to my Undead status? Buts its too slow… I should be able to equip the prosthetic leg for now…"

This new mechanical leg was black colored and looked like the armor of a black knight, with pointy spikes around, carefully decorated with countless crimson Magic Stones that seemed to look like Red Roses.

| SHADOW QUEEN ARMORED PROSTHETIC LEG: A mechanical leg constructed by a talented blacksmith, it has been enhanced with countless reinforcement spells and Crimson Rose Magic Stones. |

| Effect: Grants +15 Defense, +20 Resistance and +10% Affinity with Shadow and Dark Magic. |

| Set Effect: If each part of the Shadow Queen set is equipped, grants +10 to every stat and +50 HP|

"Oh? Its not bad. And what is this? Shadow Queen set? So, there are things like this here too…"

I thought about requesting the whole set to Kusuri and Kajiya, but before I could even do that, I glanced over another table close to the door, were the full set was already there.

"Ah?! What is this?"

The rest of the set didn't look as a conventional Knight Armor, it was carefully modified to fit my small girl body, and they even give themselves the luxury to add an area to show part of my breast in an erotic way.

"Ughh… There wasn't any need to expose my breast like this…"

| SHADOW QUEEN DEMON CROWN: A beautifully crafted crown made by a talented blacksmith. |

| Effect: Grants +15 Magic and Resistance |

| Extra effect: Grants +10% Affinity with Shadow and Dark Magic |

| SHADOW QUEEN DEMON CHEST ARMOR: A beautiful and erotic dark colored chest armor, beautifully decorated with gems |

| Effect: Grants +25 Defense and +10 Resistance |

| SHADOW QUEEN DEMON CLAWS (GLOVES): A majestic and dark pair of armored gloves, with sharp ends on each finger, giving a powerful and demon-like energy. |

| Effect: Grants +15 Strength, +10 Defense and +10 Affinity to Shadow and Dark Magic |

| SHADOW QUEEN DEMON ARMORED HEELS: A pair of beautiful and imposing heels, fitting for a Queen of the Shadows |

| Effect: Grants +20 Speed, +10 Defense and +5% Affinity to Shadow and Dark Magic |

I quickly equipped the whole set, and as I feared, it was very hard to use heels, it will take me some time on getting used to them.

| YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY EQUIPPED THE WHOLE SHADOW QUEEN EQUIPMENT SET |

| SET EFFECT: SHADOW QUEEN HAS BEEN ACTIVATED |

It was still quite early on the morning so I wondered where could had Zehe and Nesiphae went to. On the hall to the dining room I found Wagyu and Rimuru, who was leading the Slime Family as always.

I immediately noticed that they got way stronger from yesterday, Wagyu and Rimuru were close to evolution already, while the Slime Family wasn't so far off. It seems that their overnight training was worth it.

"Master Kireina, our new armor looks glorious, each corner of your new set fits well with your beautiful and delicate body, creating an imposing but enchanting feeling"

"Mastaaa! So beautiful, guuuuu!"

"Aaahahaha! T-There's no need to praise me…"

Milim looked at me fiercely!

"Hmph! I won't lose to you, Master! I will also become a beautiful lady! You just wait!"

"Eh? (What kind of weird rivalry is this?)"

I went to the dining room with my servants.

When we arrived, the scene seemed quite lively, there was Zehe and Nesiphae enjoying their meals on a tablet.

"Ah! There you are…"

Zehe and Nesiphae noticed me and got a little bit scared.

"Ah! M-Master…"

"Honey… hehe…"

"Were you hungry, you could had woken me up too…"

Zehe and Nesiphae looked at each other and blushed while smiling.

"Aaahh… But Master… You look so adorable when sleeping…"

"Hmmm… Like a beautiful little doll, we didn't want to woke you up"

"W-What… Whatever, lets have breakfast with the rest, together"

"Sure!"

"Come honey, sit close to me"

While having a nice breakfast, we talked about the new Goblin skills everyone got, and I also tried to ask about everyone's skill fusion results.

According to everyone's experiences and results, skill evolutions seem to be extremely personalized for each individual, from the name of the skills to their uses.

Something to notice is that skill fusions results relate to the user personality and way of fighting, while also combining their affinities since they were born.

For example, Milim fused skills seem to be called "Enchanting Demon Slime", and come with variables of this name for each combination, even when she is fusing physical skills, the result swill be extremely rare physical attacks that can inflict hypnosis, enchanting and illusions, a very unique Combat System, I can see her becoming a master of Illusions in the future.

Another impressive and unique example of personalization on skill fusions would come from Wagyu. His skills become shadow related, and can work together to become stronger, they're named "Midnight Wolf Emperor", and can go from physical to magic attacks.

He also told me about a unique skill named "Midnight Wolf Emperor Shadow Recollection", which can collect and save shadow density, increasing the power of his Shadow related skills through the battle. He can use these shadows to heal himself and even release them all in an explosive magic attack.

"I can already see a clear path on Wagyu's Combat System, impressive, you are very talented"

"M-Master, I don't deserve such praise!"

Rimuru, on the other hand, specialized on making every fused skill have some attribute to the 9 Elements, becoming a powerful elemental attacker, even his physical attacks would carry more than 3 elements on them. His most powerful one, being named "Nine Elements Master Multi-Elemental Claws", which could switch between any type of Element and if he desired, didn't even need to use MP, only using Stamina, becoming extremely convenient on Anti-Magic situations.

Nesiphae and Zehe unique skills were already mentioned before, but I was able to understand them better.

Nesiphae skills are named "Shadow Illusionist Lamia Empress", most of her skills go around releasing powerful groups of snakes made of energy or magic, which can do different task around the battlefield, from wrapping to detonating.

A skill named "Shadow Illusionist Lamia Empress Medusa Snakes Multiplication" can give her the power to multiply the snakes she produces over time, giving her a sustainable and ever growing power on the battlefield.

Zehe skills are named "Shadow Elemental Witch Empress", being a powerful Witch, Zehe uses this advantage to create a powerful combat system that goes around casting strong and destructive elemental spells who are infused with Shadow Magic. She is also able to regain MP easily using a special skill named "Shadow Elemental Witch Empress Shadow Absorption", that can be casted on the shadow of an enemy and will slowly transfer their MP to her.

"Hmm! Those are very impressive skills! You two have exceptional battle talent, we must keep training and experimenting"

"M-Master… I will do my best!"

"Dear Kireina, all my power is just for you…"

The two girls looked at me with warm and blushed smiles, with a little fanatical look on their eyes.

"S-Stop looking at me like that…"

When we all finished our breakfast, I wanted to check on everyone status, so I went around the big castle.

It seems that after the war, there were some reparations to be done outside the castle, specially around the door, who was in a pretty bad state. Most of the construction team were fixing the massive door.

They told me that our new door would be even more sturdy, transforming our castle into an impenetrable fortress.

"If you guys need anything, just tell me"

"There's no need Master, we have mined countless precious ores in this mountain, with all of this, we will be able to create the Ultimate Door!!! Let's go brothers!!!"

"YEEAAAHH!!!"

Every Monkey Worker got even more pumped up and started to work at double the speed!

"UOOOOOOOOOOHHH!"

CLANK CLANK!

"Ah… Just don't overdo it guys…"

Afterwards, I wanted to check on the new Nursery Team, which was very needed, even though there were little casualties in the last battle, there were a lot of wounded, some wounds cannot be healed so easily with magic, and lost limbs cannot regenerate unless you are an Undead. So proper care is needed. The nursery assistants will also help on mothers who are about to give birth, helping the mothers bear the pain and healing them afterwards.

Just when I got in, I was greeted by a little Spider Nurse, who was a new assistant on the team, she was carrying some medicine to a patient.

"A-Ah! M-Master Kireina?"

"Hello little spider, do you know where are the Nurse Leaders?"

"Ah! Miss Aoi and Miss Midori are currently helping Miss Chokumotsu to give birth…"

"Eh?! Is she giving birth already?! Why no one told me?!"

"M-Master please calm down…!"

"A-Ah! Sorry about that, where are they?"

The little spider nurse quickly guided me to a wide room with lots of magical lights.

Chokumotsu was resting over a big bed, with two little baby monkeys on her arms, her partner, Kaen, was by her side, holding another baby.

"Ah! They were already born, and three?!"

"Ah! M-Master!"

"Master Kireina!"

"Relax relax, I'm not here to complain because I didn't find you two on the kitchen or something… Congratulations, these 3 little babies all look very healthy"

"Ah! T-Thanks, Master"

"Yeah… They all were born extremely strong too"

"Oh? AH?! EH?!"

I quickly noticed that each monkey was of a different color, every one of them were born in a super rare and evolved variant! What is the meaning of this?!

Aoi quickly tried to find a reason.

"Hmmm, perhaps, the birth of such strong babies is because of both of their parents being named beings, while also evolving multiple times and having powerful jobs and skills"

Midori also added.

"Indeed, if you notice carefully, Master. You can see that they were even born with a class already assigned to them, and their base stats are impressive for newborn monkey babies, we have never seen such strong and talented monkeys being born in the past, when our former Emperor took care of us"

I checked on these monkeys and it was true!

The little brats were even born with a share of my blessing, that perhaps, were obtained from the share of their parents.

Suddenly, Kaen bravely asked me for an important request!

"Master… Such talented babies, they need a name, could you grant them one? Please… I… Will work very hard for them…"

"K-Kaen! Don't be so disrespectful with our Master!"

"Ah! I-I'm sorry Master! I didn't want to sound rude!"

"Hmm? Rude? What are you two talking about? Sigh, take it easy. I'm not some kind of tyrannical empress or something, you two already know me well, right?"

"Master…"

"Still! I'm sorry…!"

"Alright then! But you two will have to come with the names!"

Chokumotsu and Kean looked at each other with crying eyes, they felt extremely fortunate for their babies to be granted a name at the time they were born!

After they thought it carefully enough, they finally decided the names.

The bright pink baby monkey, who had beautiful blue eyes (from her mother), was a rare variant named "Dream Roaming Pink Monkey", it had an incredibly high affinity with the mysterious Dream Magic, and also had a strong advanced class named "Arch Bishop".

She was named Crystal, according to Kaen, it was because of her two blue eyes resembling shining crystals.

The second one was the biggest of the three, having almost three times the size of Crystal, and it was bright red colored, with a little horn growing from its forehead. It was a rare variant named "Flaming Berserk Mountain Monkey", this variant had incredible body mass and muscle, with high affinity in Fire Magic, and came with the advanced class "Martial Arts Expert".

He was named Ifrit, according to Chokumotsu, on the Mountain Monkey mythology exist a legendary fire spirit who had a flaming red fur and a big crimson horn on its forehead named Ifrit, so she named her son after this legendary entity.

The last but not least was a little pale blue monkey with green eyes, it had a cute and smooth face. This variant name was "High Undine Monkey", it came with a high water affinity but also had some Wind magic. It also possessed the advanced class "Paladin".

This little monkey was named Aqua, according to Chokumotsu, Aqua was also a legendary water spirit on their mythology.

"Sigh… Its done, these babies are quite the monsters… I feel extremely tired for just naming them… They drained all my MP"

Chokumotsu and Kaen thanked me with tears on their faces.

"Thank you very much, Master! Snif snif"

"Snif snif… Thanks! Thanks!"

"Hahaha! Don't cry! Monsters don't cry, Right? Even your babies are perfectly calm, just look at these little brats… The rest of the monkeys will have to train very hard if they don't want some babies to surpass them in no time…"

Seeing how everything was going well on the Nursing headquarters, I headed to my next location, I actually wanted to talk with the Wyverns, especially with Eshne.

The room were the Wyverns lived was once just a very wide rocky cave with water, but after countless remodulations, it has become a grandiose and even wider area, the room was made wider vertically, so the Wyverns can even practice their flying inside of it.

The five Wyverns were playing around and practicing their skills and attacks, thanks to the new fusion of skills, everyone was trying out new and unique skills.

While flying, Abellona was practicing a strong unique magic he has fused.

"Hmmm… Like this!"

FLUOSH!

Suddenly, countless magic circles surrounded Abellona, and from them countless dragon shaped flames started to come out, however, they did not attack but instead covered Abellona's entire body, and solidified into a hard and red colored armor.

"Oh? Its not heavy at all, this armor magic is extremely convenient, even with my hard scales, they could still be penetrated by those Giant and Champion Goblins, if it wasn't for my brothers and Kireinas servants, I would be dead by now"

The majestic armor covered Abellona's entire body, even the top of its wings, and it had beautiful coiling dragons around it as decorations.

"Big brother!"

"Hm? What is it?"

"Kireina is here, he needs to talk with us"

"Oh?"

Abellona slowly flew to the ground and greeted Kireina.

"Ahh guys, how are you? I'm already seeing how you all are evolving your skills even more! That armor is incredible, Abellona, did you craft it by yourself?"

"Ah! No, fellow Kireina, it's the result of countless skill fusions, yesterday, after fusing three protection skills, out of nowhere this armor skill appeared, its fantastic and very light too"

"Ah! So, you can even get armor skills if you fuse hard enough, huh? This skill fusion system never ceases to amaze me"

"Indeed, its an incredible gift that you have granted us, we are very thankful"

Titus was curious about my visit.

"Is it time to train already?"

"Ah! N-No, I actually wanted to check on all of your status, and also came for a little request to the no-so-little Eshne!"

Eshne was surprised by my sudden interest, and blushed a little bit.

"Eh? M-Me? Sure!"

I discussed about my newest plans to the Wyverns, the first one was the "Forest Expansion" plan and the second was the "Agriculture" plan.

For these two plans I would need Eshne help on plant manipulation, with the help of Tsuchimizu.

The first plan consisted on Eshne and Tsuchimizu moving the ground and forest around our mountain away, crating more "free space", afterwards, we would expand our kingdom around this free space, creating streets and even houses. Babies are born every day, and they take around 4 days to completely grow to adult size, as we constantly increase our population, not everyone will be able to fit inside the castle anymore.

"I see, so its all goes around the Kingdom's expansion over the Grand Forest"

"That's right, we will be able to finally have streets and houses, and even shops… And from that point, we can even create an economy"

"I see, you sure think pretty far on the future, Kireina"

The second plan consisted around Eshne and Tsuchimizu molding the ground, while using their skills to increase the minerals and nutrients inside it, with this, we would be able to plant different veggies found in the forest, so we won't end up exhausting the Forest resources.

Eshne agreed happily and with the rest of the Wyverns, I called my other servants and we all went to the training grounds.

I quickly summoned 1300 Demonic Beings this time, with no variant surprisingly.

While leaving my servants training, I left to the north of our mountain with Eshne and Tsuchimizu.

I showed both of them the area I wanted them to remove, the whole area consisted of around the size of a big football stadium from Earth.

They quickly put hands on their work, Eshne used his skill "Masterful Plant Manipulation" and moved hundreds of trees around, as if the trees themselves could walk, they slowly went away.

Tsuchimizu used his powers to mold the earth and make it completely flat. Because the area was too wide, it would take them around the entire day, so I left some Spider Maids at their service if they needed any food and left the area.

I decided to train with Zehe and Nesiphae today.

While training, both of my wives couldn't take their eyes off me, it seems that my new armor was too suggestive, having almost my entire breast exposed, combining it with my high heels and imposing crown.

"D