" Little guys, do you really need to eat more fish? "
Aldritch spoke in bewilderment as he observed the new creatures that heed his summons.
Their hollow eye sockets stared back at Aldritch, as the tendrils waved and rotated akin windmill,
An aberration of flesh resembling an amalgamation attempting to mimic a pseudanthium.
Surprisingly, it didn't appeared disturbing to him - is this because he was their creator now?
To creators in this world, these are recognized as 'pawns', they aren't notable but expect to do the menial task in the army.
They cannot face any strong enemies such as enemy major unit or even their queen.
Therefore they aren't often summoned for battle and are left to rot or be in the shadows of their army forever.
However, Aldritch isn't the person to look down upon such a unit.
Pawns are essential to setups and could be the backbone of an army itself!
As a gamer in his former life, he knew what they are capable of, their destiny doesn't lie being a retail unit - that's the first rule his army.
'Utilizing all units to their full protential.'
With that conviction in his mind, he subsisted to respect the five creatures that gluttionously desired for more nutritious fish that were hunted from the lake.
As he had summoned them using fishes as a catalyst and now they were practically living in freelancer life.
But he intend to have them work, soon enough.
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Neophyte [Existence: Echelon 8 - Red Grade ]
[HP: 6 ] [MP: 10]
[Species: Eldritch Saplings ]
[Path: Illumination ]
STR: [1]
AGI: [2]
DEX: [2]
DEF: [0]
VIT: [3]
CDF: [0]
INT: [2]
CHR: [-1]
WILL: [1]
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[Passives]:
< Fliers of The New Gods >
< Eye of Saplings >
<== Red Skills ==>
[ Eldritch Shriek ]: < F >
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"Hm...this need some more work, the infrastructure need to be lower for it to not be too moist - also be sure there are space for the floor to breathe."
Aldritch was commanding the two remaining hardworking units, as much he wished for them to rest.
He couldn't rest easy until everything is finished and this is currently all the manpower he could muster for now.
His gaze soon locked onto the figure of a beautiful valkyrie that has tentacles hair bearing resemblence to the Medusa but instead it was natural and humane - befitting with the blond and slender figure, that was summoned through a special means or rather a channel through his other unit that were eagerly awaiting his orders - Jigash.
[ Viking's Matroncy]: The unit can summon an ally that has amicable or intimacy relationship in the past, however the unit themselves will have their stats and skills only limited to what the unit's has.
(Can summon up to 1 unit.)
" Julie, i will also have more need for fishes. The Neophytes aren't sastified with the current batch. Can it be done? "
" As the god's will it, this Julie will do as you command. "
The gentle and seline voice responded with resolute tone, when she was first summoned - she has heard the stories of their god before and has sung praise for their entire life.
The one shrouded in darkness, that saved their northmans.
Ever since that day of tormenting inferno, both her and husband was saved by this merciful god.
Of course, she felt nothing but gratitude and unwavering faith - despite the object of faith being weak as a song bird.
"...Can you stop calling me that already, i have told you both many times - that i don't believe in gods, nor am i one. "
Aldritch could only shake his temple and become numb to it after a while,
Humans has their own fair share of abnormal and frightening traits. - adaptation, is one such example.
So, as long he could adapt to their idolization of him, it wouldn't be bad to have loyal units that is willing to serve him sincerely.
" I'll be going now, make sure to plan for tommorow. It's a battle that we have to win, "
" Also, i'll be introducing Julie to my family soon. I hope you don't mind. "
Aldritch didn't verbalized anything more and proceeded to step out of the realm using his Information Domain.
He was met with the familiar laboratory that was oozing with mint flavored as Stellaria has given him permission to access it at any time.
Though, he felt something strange at the back of his mind.
He looked at a wall that gave him an ominious feeling, but soon dismissed it as a paranoia of lacking in sleep.
Speaking of the devil, he wasn't certain why she had been given so much thought on him,
While he has some guesses - he had never been the one to act on assumptions alone.
" Oh my, you've have grown a lot more than i expected. maybe you're iching for another private lesson? "
'When the lightning and tsunami intertwined'
The description that could describe the elven lady that appeared in front of Aldritch - right now,
It was an ominious tense that overtook him.
He was suspicious of her current appearance, to be precise -
It was suppressingly insufferable and suffocating!
That's the only description he could think of, if he weren't already breathing heavily.
" Don't be too tense, i'm not here to eat you! It just came about to noticed that you were out of your hatchery. "
The homeroom teacher was reassuring him with a smile, although he couldn't tell what *it* was about,
He would instinctively nod and feel a little better knowing it wasn't because of him.
"I-I teacher, can i go home now? "
He was trying to communicate without sounded like he just had a heart attack - but rather it was an uncomfortable stress that kept rising.
"It's alright, just take a rest home afterward, don't stay up for too long - you got a battle ahead of you tommorow! "
With a shooing gesture, she makes way for Aldritch to go away from the scene.
" Then, miss Stellaria. Have a pleasant evening. "
" One step... "
" Pardon? "
" It was nothing. "
And just like that, the small exchanges ended between them as time resumed for Aldritch, for what he experienced moments before was a nightmare.
'Is Stellaria really just a teacher? Or is there something else i'm missing.'
Aldritch brushes aside these curiosity and speculation - he will need to take a rest before coming up with anything plausible right now.
This time, he felt his body being dragged into the abyss - He didn't just gaze into it!
He stepped into something uncanny!
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'One step.'
'Just one step, Novice Aldritch.'
'You almost died, if i were one step too late...'
Stellaria look at the wall where it was percieved to be a wormhole opaque into the air.
the 'traces' of the disaster she was hunting for.
Her right index finger tapped the device attached to her long ears, with a much scarier expression than last time - an sociopathic face that was devoid of any emotion.
' Calamity reporting: 'The Sin Of All Trades' - Beginning the extermination of the Spatial Predator. '