Absolute Depravity: Reincarnated with a lustful System-Chapter 238 - Binding Things Together[Everyone’s Status Before Tower Infiltration]

Sitting atop the throne on which the king of Lamenia once sat, Margarette was still filled with doubt about the deal she'd made with the overseer Maria. Traveling off towards the emperor's domain, she was already on her way to inform the others about the situation in Lamenia, and that thought concerned Margarette a lot.

"Rose…" Getting off the bejeweled throne of ivory, she turned her attention to Rose who was standing by her at her moment. "Keep a watch on things for me please, I'll go and start scanning the library for any information about the records of the world."

With the demons still rampaging about, she didn't want them to break the terms of the deal that they'd just recently signed. If even a single of those demons were to kill the humans left behind by Maria before her departure with the populace, an even greater war would surely be on their hands.

"I'll try, but there's no guarantee with these stupid imps," Rose responded, visibly not invested in this whole takeover ordeal at all.

'Thankfully, I sent Hawthorn back, because, from the looks of it, I doubt those humans in the dungeon would simply give into serving a demonic master.' Having served under a tyrannical leader, nobody knew better about the spirit of rebelling more than Rose.

Watching over Margarette as she made her way through the passage, the tinted light of the stained glass painted her in a gruesomely poetic way. Bloodred on the face and body, she reflected the countless sacrifices made for her to be here.

'Master will take the throne soon, I do not want to be burdened with land once again.' Recalling her greed for land that she'd held once, she no longer wanted to be responsible for something that's made her child suffer dearly in silence.

***

"How's everything going?" Coming out of her tent for the first time in days, Moriyana stretched her limbs while asking that question to her general Greta.

Doing a gentle bow before her master, she slowly raised her head to reply.

"Dolatia is in ruins, the guards in Marquis are either dead or turned into demons. Although some of the Marquis territory has been taken by the Maddened dragon so we couldn't encroach it completely," hearing her report, a warm smile took over Moriyana's lips.

With everything going swimmingly, all she now had to do was to hold those positions until her master comes back from Scorchen Gaia to take over. Her shoulders finally lightened from the burden, Moriyana let out a content sight and turned to look at Greta once more.

"What about the women? I'm sure master would love a feast upon his return," licking her lips, she felt more excited to devour them alongside Haruki, but knew better than to try anything without his permission.

Her request being under Greta's realm of expectations, she turned to her side with her arm outstretched towards the dense forest. Following Greta's gaze, Moriyana used her demonic sight to scan through whatever she was pointing towards.

"Ohhh myyy…" Seeing a fancy horde of armored demons bringing a collection of human beauties right in their direction, Moriyana was quite impressed by Greta's performance in the whole saga of war.

"I hope these would be adequate for our supreme master," bowing even lower, Greta made sure to reflect her fidelity to Haruki in action more than words.

Being one of the unfortunate few who'd bear witness to the discipline cycle when he'd taken over Marquis, she wanted nothing more than to never experience the horror of trying to escape a dragon's breath along with the claws of a giant shadow demon.

"That's more than enough sweetheart," moving closer to Greta, Moriyana took hold of her face and raised it to look right into her eyes. "Keep working like this and who knows maybe you'll be his next wife."

Met with the prospect of getting closer to their master once more, her eyes gleamed up with joy and a bright blush ran across her face. Gulping down as her heart beat out loud, Greta nodded her head before taking a step away from Moriyana and heading off to busy herself with even more work.

'Hmm…I wonder if anyone else mind if I kill her in case she really tries to get close to Haruki.' The fiendish of the bunch, Moriyana drew an array of mental boundaries which if crossed would lead to her subordinate's death. 𝗯𝐞𝗱𝐧𝐨𝘃𝐞𝐥.𝗼𝗿𝐠

***

Back inside the dungeon with the queen of goblins and Medusa, Haruki was accompanying them through the last stages of the experiment on both a wisp and the lava-guzzling gremlins. Trapped in a giant tube of glass filled with mist, the shape of the whisp's body gaze off all the movement it committed to. As for the gremlin, he or she, whichever it might've been, was chained to a vertical wooden board with make-shift steel rods connected to its head.

"Just one more thing," saying those words, the queen of goblins moved closer to the gremlin and drew a sigil of deep red on its rock-hard chest. "Amora El'Nis, Amaralysia!"

In a tongue understood only to her kind, she cast a spell that broke off a soul fragment from the gremlin and attached itself to the sigil's ink. Reaching into her pouch, she took out a gold ring with a cloudy jewel and pressed it against the gremlin's chest.

As the soul fragment slowly began to drain into the jewel its color changed to resemble burning amber. Thrashing about in all of this, the monster screamed out in pain as the rods on his temples began slowly crushing his skull inward.

"This one won't survive, hide yoursel-'' Although the queen turned around to warn the others, the gremlin's body imploded on itself.

Thankfully, having already put up a magic shield, Haruki was able to protect himself from the fleshy innards of the gremlin that came flying toward him. Medusa, however, wasn't so fortunate. Dripping in guts and blood just like the goblin queen, she let out a feral growl to relay her annoyance.

"Do the wisp too, I need them both. And if we find any other monsters, we're bringing them to you as well," although he already had species control rings for humans, demons, and all kinds of monsters he'd encountered so far, Haruki was getting greedy for control and power.

"As you say," sharing his ambition, the goblin queen threw him the ring she'd just made. "I'd love to have more monsters to toy with anyways."

"Whatever you say, but, remember, you're not going to experiment on anything without my permission," still not willing to trust her entirely, Haruki warned before leaving.

To the knowledge of neither the goblin queen nor Medusa, he'd planted a demonic spy that could keep the two in check. And soon enough when Haruki would be gone for Asmodia's tomb, their secret experiment about using his seed for pregnancy potions was sure to be revealed.

'Tomorrow morning, before the sun rises, we're gonna sneak into that tower. Let's just hope things don't get too bloody because I don't intend to hold back.' Unaware of the experiment yet, he marched back to meet up with the others.