5 months after starting the expansion of his forces, Ominous was now seated on a great white throne made of the bones of orcs he was wearing pants made of high quality leather looted from orcs
He had glowing tattoos moving in a pattern over his body from his horns going down to his neck, torso, and legs, some on his wings too
He could feel his strength has been growing steadily as he gathered more followers that made more sacrifices in his name, he had grown crimson like long hair draping over his shoulders his magic pool was larger than an imp could ever dream of
It was no longer a magic pool but a magic river flowing constantly in his veins mixing with his blood and muscles making him ever stronger, he could now demonize and enslave a creature with his magic only no need to use his blood anymore.
His tribe has grown into a town full of tents, he had 20 425 lizard men under him, most of his lizard men could talk and make tools now some could even use magic
With the growing population of demonized worshipers he could feel the abyss slowly turning its attention to him trying to communicate with him, he had to double the effort of expansion, and to attract more lizard men to his tribe, to do that he needed to do something flashy.
Learning from their master, the lizard men mages started to make bone armors and carapace or scale armors enchanted with magic
After some weeks all men under Ominous had full on enchanted armor and weapons they were trained in combat and ready to die in his honor, Ominous was about to attack the big orc tribes the ones controlled by shaman orcs
It was the same tribes that resulted in the death of Lydia and some of his imps, from his subordinates he learned that all the shaman's followed the great chief Gul'ban
He had a hunch it was the giant orc with dark robes that Lydia was sacrificed to, it seemed that these orc tribes worshiped him and all shamans operated as his priests.
Some orc prisoners gave him detailed information after some friendly torture, it would seem that orcs have a kingdom far away from this desert called the hord kingdom
And only the savage orcs and tribes that live by the old ways stay here, Gul'ban was a shaman from the kingdom of orcs who was banished
He decided to come to this desert gather some savage orcs and start a sect to gather faith and ascend to godhood, apparently from what the prisoner said right now Gul'ban was not even close to becoming a Demi-god wish made things easier for Ominous.
With a mental order mobilizing his tribe, Ominous marched to one of the big orc tribes bringing his full army, shocking the orcs to the core, they would never have thought that such an organized army existed in this desert
this tribe belonged to an orc shaman named Ouhgan, inside the orc tribe Ouhgan was screaming orders mobilizing all orc warriors to defend the tribe flanking his sides were his two guards they were orc berserkers, this tribe had 2000 orcs ready for battle.
Ominous was flying in the sky with his 5 lizard men chiefs, he gave them the order to start the battle, before the orcs could muster a significant counter-attack they were neutralized by the lizard men
The lizard men were properly trained and armored, opposed to the orc savages of this tribe, most of them couldn't even use magic, The lizard men used all their advantages from firing spells for a distance to ganging up and aiming to kill the strongest orc warriors before they dealt any true damage.
Only 30 warriors and 2 mages from his army died in this battle, Derun and the other 4 chiefs were having a battle 5 v 3 against Ouhgan and his two guards, looking at the shamans fighting style Ominous could understand that the shaman was mixing his negative emotions with his magic energy to exert the desired effect on the opponent
if the shaman mixed anger with magic he could cast a hateful flame to burn the enemy, if the shaman mixed hatred with magic he could cast debuffs and curses on his enemy, it was very interesting and informative to Ominous.
Demons were very sensitive to emotions, they could smell hatred, anger or fear from their prey, so it wasn't hard for Ominous to understand the concept behind shamanic magic.
After learning what he wanted to, Ominous flashed behind the shaman as if teleported and knocked him unconscious, then he did the same with the two guards,
after looting the orc tribe and getting 1400 prisoners Ominous, and his army headed back to their hidden Basecamp, tonight was going to be a great sacrifice, for the first time in lizard men history they were going to kill a shaman, the same shamans that sacrificed them to Gul'ban for years, this would bring more lizard men to his side.
Night had fallen, the celebration began and more than 20000 lizard men were celebration and worshiping their great god, their lord and savior Ominous
this time the ceremony was different as Ominous felt that he was close to evolution, he organized it in a way where he was in the middle of all the prisoners as they formed a big circle around him, it was shaped in a way where all the blood from the sacrifices would flow to him at the center
the ceremony started the lizard men started praising him, adoring him and sacrificing all the orcs in his name as he started to feel the evolution coming closer all the blood essence from the orcs mixed with the faith and magic energy of the lizard men started to surround him forming a cocoon
as more and more blood added to it, the cocoon was growing darker some abyssal runes started appearing all over it, they burned with orange like flames and pulsated strength, as the ceremony went on all lizard men came close to the cocoon and started channeling their faith and magic energy into it as if hypnotized.
Inside the cocoon, a small fissure in space appeared from which the Abyss started to assist Ominous in his evolution, focusing on his evolution paths Ominous could see the following :
1. Elite high imp : one of the most promising high imps with a great deal of magic energy and strength, it can crush a high imp easily.
2. high imp : the last evolution of the imp family, perfecting the advantages accumulated in the evolutions before this one, only gray and red imps can become a high imp.
3. Arch imp : an imp that went above and beyond all expectation and limitations, an Arch Imp is an imp capable of miracles, a creature with near limitless potential.