Chapter 15: Management
The world sucks!
In the faint moonlight, the locals tied Victor to an olive tree with heavy chains. About 20 werewolves gathered to watch the sacrifice ceremony, with a squid-like humanoid creature presiding over the ceremony, waving a scepter and muttering incantations. Victor guesses that Moonman admirers are a relatively minority in the community.
Unfortunately, most people ignore Victor.
"Brother, is that smart?" Chocolate asks her brother, who is one of the few who opposes the arrest of the adventurer. "He's the dragon's chief of staff, and that guy is already angry......"
"He burned down our former home, sister," Chloe Sant noted. Unlike his sister, he transforms into a terrifying black wolf the size of a car, glaring at Victor with boiling hatred.
"yes, so I don't want him to burn the one we have now."
"I'm sure Victor is just doing what he is told." Sauruse tried to argue with the congregants, though it was not the enthusiastic defense that Victor had hoped for. "Don't blame the followers, blame the leaders."
Ke Song replied with a sneer. "After the dragons destroyed our home, I asked the Adventurers' Guild, and they confirmed that it was the 'human partners' who led the dragons in the first place."
"But Wacker himself burned the forest!" Victor protested.
"You're going to get him there!" The croissant replied sharply.
"He burned my house!" Another werewolf in the crowd complained.
"I watched all my livestock die!"
Saviles glanced at Victor sympathetically. "I'm sorry, Vic. I tried. If my life was not in danger, I would have fought for your release. ”
Victor shrugged. It was more than he expected.
After the priest of the moon people finished reciting the incantation, a beam of light fell from the sky. A dazzling flash, a terrible insult to nature, appeared in front of Victor, a hybrid of a dragon and a squid the size of a bus, with no eyes, only wriggling skin. Its countless tentacles swung around, driving away some werewolf worshippers.
Victor had a headache at the sight of the creature.
The charm test is successful! (Crazy) no!
It sounds like this guy, like Victor, isn't happy to be here. "Once again! It screamed in a harsh, inhuman voice. "Why don't you stop?"
"Great Moon Beast!" The lead priest shouted, and the other believers bowed before the monster. Only C
oissa
t、chocoli
e and Savou
euse is still there. "Thy rancid glory glorifies us! Accept this sacrifice for sin!"
The monster is not at all grateful. at all. "I don't understand how your slimy tongue moves, stinky skin, but I swear in the name of the Moon Man that one day I'll lose my self-control and I'll drip my prosthetic feet into the hole you use to excrete."
"Hmm...... Sir," Victor said to the creature. "I want to say that I am not complicit in this."
The giant froze. "Do you speak Irish, Bun?"
R 'lyehia
Victor thought he was Pe
K has translated these words into the creature's native language. "Well, yes, I can understand you very well." The adventurer blinked. "They can't?"
"Can he understand the Moon Beast without going mad?" Squid Priest turned to the croissant, who shrugged his shoulders in confusion.
Victor guessed they lacked the mental lift needed to discuss the interstellar abomination. "Because you can understand me," the man said to the monster. "Words can't express how unappetizing I am."
"Why should I eat you?" You don't even have prosthetic feet. "Hmm...... Belch...... You moving gametes make me sick...... Your face is horrible, with these big, disgusting eyes that look like a cancer......"
It doesn't have eyes of its own, so how does it know that Victor has eyes?" Yes, long eyes are scary, as terrible as being tied to a tree and being threatened with death. ”
"I'll tell you what's terrible, gametes. You're doing your own thing, enjoying your once-in-a-millennium vacation, and before dawn, you'll have to go back to work, and you're this," the abomination held up two tentacles, "and you're just going to eat that delicious telepathic spider." Then, without warning, someone teleports you while you have food in your tendrils and throws a screaming human cub at you. And that's what they did. Every single one. Single. Moon! Aren't you going to vent?"
This explains why creatures with tentacles destroy the world as soon as they are summoned.
"Yes, but ......," Victor continued, looking at the cultists, especially the croissants, who didn't understand half of the Moon Beast's words. Why at me, and not at them?"
The creature sighed. "Moon Man...... Very forgetful, so we have to take care of his followers. There are already so many of them, and although stupid, this man is religious. However, I hope they don't call me all the time. I don't know where they got the idea that the Moon People needed a living sacrifice, but the idea spread all over the place. ”
"I think they do that because they don't understand what you're saying, unlike me." Victor replied. "I can articulate your needs to them and make them stop."
"Can you make it stop?" The giant's tentacles writhed, making a dirty-sounding sound. "Oh yes! Yes!"
"But you have to let me go first, and set me free."
"Yes, yes, at any cost." The giant's tentacles rushed towards the chains, breaking them effortlessly. Victor walks away from the tree, enjoying his newfound freedom, much to the surprise of the believers and to the dismay of Croissant.
No one is more important than the lead pastor. He ...... This newcomer has been chosen by the Moon Beast to be its mouthpiece!"
"That'......" Victor continued, frowning at the Moon Beast. What's your name?"
“Thul-Gatha
, gamete leather pouch. ”
“Thul-Gatha
Say, you don't need any sacrifice to show your loyalty to its ancestors. ”
The believers talked in low voices. "And how do we serve the Moonmen?" The chief priest asked.
"They're asking what to use instead of sacrifice," Victor translated.
"Tell them that every full moon they have to walk on the moon until they are exhausted, and then eat their own feces."
"Seriously?"
"No, but it would be fun." Moonmon replied. "Tell them to pray to the lunarians for true knowledge, and then have a quiet private every full moonlight; Drugs are encouraged, but not required. Order them to stop calling me, for I have other cults to guide. ”
“Thul-Gatha
Saying that you have to pray to the Moon People for insight, while ......" the believers listened intently to his words unnerved Victor. "Carnival of drug abuse on the full moon"
"Also, don't fool around." The Moon Beast clarified. "It is very important for the father's cult to remain healthy and prolific. We allowed inbreeding a long time ago, so today cults are constantly dying. ”
“Thul-Gatha
It is expressly forbidden to fool around, this is an insult to the people of the moon. ”
"Even cousins? The pastor asked.
"Is it okay for cousins?" Victor delivered the message.
The Moon Beast hesitated for a minute before answering. "Cousins are not allowed, but in return, in-laws are allowed."
"Cousins are not allowed, but since blood is the only obstacle to love, you can sleep with your in-laws. In the end, your repeated summoning stopped Thul-Gatha
Guide other civilizations to glory. This means that you are aware enough to be able to govern yourself. ”
“ch' ya
ul'
ya
shaggo
yth。 The believers said in unison.
"Yes, yes, inbred people." Turghasa replied contemptuously that his flock could not understand him. "Is it over?"
"Yes, I think from now on they will follow the rules."
"Thank you then, Skin. Stretch out your hand to me, that I may repay you for the peace you have given me.
The Moon Beast touched Victor's left arm with its tentacles, the wet touch sending shivers down his spine. The symbol of the Moon Man, the white mark of the full moon, appears on his skin.
Congratulations! You have been blessed by the stars of the moon people! You have won [claimed by the Moon People] personal benefits!
[Lunarian Claim]: When you level up, you have an additional 10% chance of gaining a charm point. You gain immunity to madness and moon effects, unless those are caused by the moon man and his servants.
All right! In the end, things finally turned out in his favor!
"Tell me, gametosperm, do you want a job?" The Moon Beast suggested. "You can be a good mouthpiece to address the moonmen's flock, I've been looking for a chief of staff to lead my minions."
Chief of Staff? Not again. "I already have a lord, sir."
"Who are you?" The guy hummed at Victor. "The smell of dragons?" Do you serve a dragon?"
"Unfortunately, yes."
"Look, carbon-based mammals, dragons are prestigious, but they give too little money to their minions." Like it won't believe. "If you serve me, by next month you will be able to swim among pearls and shells. As my chief of staff, you also have unrestricted reproductive privileges, including ignoring blind restrictions. You can leave your tendrils at home. ”
It's official, the monster officially tried to bribe him. Victor pondered the proposal, and the idea of managing a fertility cult appealed to him.
But consider Winkel's reaction when he thought Victor had left him for a wyvern...... "I'm flattered," Victor said. "But my dragon is also uncomfortable with me leaving it, so I don't want to make it angry. I kind of like other Minions. ”
"Your funeral." Moonmon replied. "If you change your mind, go to the moon and see me."
"But thank you, I am honored by your proposal." Victor said politely, in case the guy held a grudge. He turned to the cult. "And ...... What should I do with them?"
"Toot them." The Moon Beast vanished in another flash of light, apparently in a hurry to get out of the place.
Congratulations! Because you have resisted the temptation to deceive your dragon master with a moonmon, you have proved your loyalty, and as a bridge between the monster lords and their flock, you have earned two levels of [Monster Squire]!
+60 hp, + 10sp, +1 ski, +1 agi, +1 i
t, +1 cha, +1 lack !
You've gained the [Rally Minions] class privilege!
[Rally Minions]: By issuing a strong statement of authority, such as "Die to them, or die to me", you can increase all of your minions' stats for a short period of time.
"Well done," Sauruse congratulated Victor, "I don't understand half of what is written on it, but you handle it like a champion." ”
Victor shrugged. He felt like he had done his best......
Await.
Wait, wait! Victor didn't ask if the creature could send him back to Earth!
"I think I'll have to eat him myself." Chloe Sant spoke, baring his fangs, but the Lunarian priest blocked his path with his scepter.
"You can't hurt the prophet of our God with your fangs, Korson!" The priest turned to Victor again. "Excuse me, Victor, who was chosen, what is the final revelation?" What are you going to do with us?"
Don't abuse your power, Victor don't abuse your power, don't abuse your power.
Abuse of power. "Sugasa wants me—"
Before Victor could make his unreasonable demands, a powerful shadow obscured the moonlight, followed by a familiar voice.
"Minions!"
Everyone shuddered, and his landing blew dust as Winkel slammed to the ground. "Minions! There you are! Stop daydreaming and tell me where my treasure is! Is it safe? Is it cured?"
Victor sighed, his vacation was too short. He already regretted not accepting the Moon Beast's offer. "I put it where you want, Your Majesty, but no, it doesn't 'cure'."
"As I feared," Winkel said angrily, his golden eyes falling on the gathered villagers, the flames in their gaze causing them to take a step back. "What are they, the new Minions?"
"They are the survivors of the Revadang Forest, burned by His Majesty."
"Yes, we are." To his credit, Chloe Sant was brave enough to stand up to Winkel. "You burned our home."
"Then you apologize to me right away, werewolf."
The croissant glared at the dragon, stunned. "Why should we apologize to you?"
"If you don't survive, I'll get more treasures," Winkel replied. "So your survival has cost me. You all have to apologize for being my new servants. Now, doing what I want will pay a big reward. i.e. life. If you had changed to other dragons, your sins would have been eaten a long time ago, and we would not have let the werewolves obey them, but I am tolerant and merciful. ”
Victor has horrific memories of those words, which he blames for post-Wink's stress disorder. The more Chloisan listened, the more disbelieving he became. "You can't count on—"
"I'm a dragon. A dragon that has never eaten a wolf, your voice is starting to sound like food. Victor, is that food for wolves?"
"It depends." Victor stared at Kosson. "Are you a dragon food, croissant?"
The wolf looked at Victor, then at Winkel, realized that he was twenty times smaller, and then glared at Victor again. "I'm starting to realise that the excuse of 'just following orders' can work," he complained.
"You're so right." Victor replied that he was a little too happy to rub it against the wolf's face.
The croissant looked at the rest of the villagers, and none of them were willing to take a stand. Later, after glancing at his sister, he decided not to lose money again and proved that he was much smarter than the nobles of Gardemane. "I apologize to you two." The werewolf said, forcing himself to say every word. "Don't eat us."
"Unless you run out of sheep." Winkel replied, and the villagers looked at each other. The dragon loses interest in the wolves and turns to Victor. "Minions, I have to be a wizard."
"A wizard, Your Majesty?"
"He wasn't dead when I killed the lich, and now he's hiding in his castle like a coward. You say he hid his soul in something so that it would be immortal. ”
"Yes, his will is most likely hidden in the castle." Victor begins to realize where the dragon is going.
"I can't break the magical barrier that protects it, and I can't heal my treasure, so I have to become a wizard." Winkel explained. "We must destroy the great demon of Frebon, Victor the Minion. It's not a matter of wealth anymore, minion. It's about all the dragons, all the treasures, the present and the future. Fu
ibo
It is the biggest threat to the dragon's lifestyle after the goldworm. ”
"Are there any insects that eat gold?" Victor asked, not knowing what was going on.
"Yes." Winkel said in an ominous tone. "I was overconfident and thought that being an adventurer was all about increasing the size of my treasure. I now realize that I don't know anything about the danger ahead. All the treasures hidden in the darkest corners of the world are threatened, and I must destroy them. ”
Victor didn't say anything, he was stunned by Winkel's passionate speech.
“Fu
ibo
is the embodiment of evil, a cruel, ruthless monster who loves to take everything that brings value to the world and turn it into lead. Imagine what would happen if he spread the spell outside the castle? Imagine a world without gold?" Winkel made a brief pause. "You can't, Manlin, and neither can I! Because there is only Fu
ibo
Such a perverted monster can only be imagined! He is evil and must be stopped. So we're going to break down the magic barriers, clear the dungeon, and destroy the lich forever. Even if it takes a thousand years!"
They're all finished.
Winkel began to act like a real adventurer.