Chapter 328: The ‘Mainland’ of the Nineteenth Step
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This was disastrous! It was an unheard-of calamity that Azmond must get to the bottom of right away!
Ember looked at the face he was making and immediately knew that he wasn't playing around, so she said, "Go ahead. I'll watch over the other Monster Queen's and those two over there."
"Hmm?" Azmond wasn't expecting her to say something like that.
He brought his divine sense back before he looked down with his eyes, and what he saw was...
Ember, with her dainty finger up to her lips and hearts within her reddish pupils, looked at him like she wanted to devour him whole!
"..." Azmond didn't know what to say in response to such an intense gaze.
'Oops' Ember realized she had been caught, but she resolved herself as she turned the table on its side!
"You won't forget about us after you leave, will you~?" She whispered with her arms squishing her milky white breasts together.
"..." Azmond was utterly speechless.
He didn't know if he had been any more speechless in his entire life, and it didn't even seem like Ember was the only one with such dangerous motives.
His eyes scanned the black dome and saw the lust-filled gazes of every single Monster Queen honed in him!
'What the hell is this situation!? Didn't we just meet a few hours ago??' He thought with a bewildered expression. 'Is this the sin of being too handsome?? Have I brought such trouble upon myself due to my own devices??'
Azmond's countenance became a little solemn as he knew what that caped baldy meant when he said, 'It was lonely to stand at the top'.
It truly was so lonely!
(...)
His shamelessness shone through in the end, but it didn't take long before he snapped out of his self-indulgent reverie and looked toward the Whaliceros.
"I must go now," he began. "I'll come back to you guys within the next few days, Kay?"
His question was mainly directed toward the voluptuous women who smothered him, but it was also slightly aimed at the two male demon kings. Although only 'slightly'.
He would rather not have them on his 'ship' at all, but they helped him out after all, so he didn't mind bringing them along for the time being.
Although he would most definitely drop them off after he made it to the twenty-first floor,.
Whereas, the fates of the 'troubled' Monster Queen's were still undecided.
He kind of wanted to make a maid squad with them as the maids, but he doubted that would go over well if he brought it up with Boundless, Calista, and Crystalline.
Nevertheless, he would still keep that option in the back of his mind! And who knows? He might be able to convince them of the benefits of having a maid squad!
Maybe
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Anyway, Azmond bid farewell to the seductresses on the black dome before he made his way down to the world-like back of the Whaliceros.
This Whaliceros in particular, had been sitting above the vast, blood-colored ocean water for the last few dozen years. Furthermore, it hadn't moved an inch from its spot.
He looked at the stat shat of the Whaliceros and gleaned this information, but he didn't know why the Whaliceros was so adamant on not moving.
But, as soon as he looked at the Whaliceros's 'personality traits', he immediately knew what the issue was.
The adjectives used to describe its personality were 'Lazy, Bored, Lazy, Tired, and Lazy'
It didn't take a genius to figure out the reason why the Whaliceros was so keen on not moving from its spot, as 'Lazy' was repeated three times!
Nonetheless, it was due to such a peculiar trait of the Whaliceros that it became a perfect living environment for all the normal folk who had migrated up to the Nineteenth Floor.
But don't confuse the low cultivation bases of the inhabitants of the Whaliceros as the baseline for the Nineteenth Floor, as that would be the furthest thing from the truth.
The Nineteenth Floor, otherwise known as the 'Home of the High-Rank Monster Kings', was ruled over by the High-Rank Monster Kings and their families on the 'Mainland'.
The 'Mainland' was simply what the monsterkin who lived on the Whaliceros's and other hybrid 'experiments', called the central plot of land that lay in the middle of the vast expanse of water that surrounded it.
And this 'Mainland' was tens of millions of miles wide and contained tens of thousands of powerful families that were connected to the High-Rank Monster Kings that Azmond had exterminated.
In fact, only a few of the High-Rank Monster Kings had stayed behind when they were informed of the 'Monster King Meeting', and the subsequent 'Subjugation of the invader'.
There were likely only a few hundred High-Rank Monster Kings left on the 'Mainland' after Azmond mowed down their ranks like weeds.
One would think that the families of these 'High-Rank Monster Kings' would start to decline, and they'd be right in that assumption.
Once the families of the High-Rank Monster Kings learned of their family heads' deaths, they would start to sell all their royalties and businesses on the Nineteenth Floor in an attempt to amass enough money to move to the Eighteenth Floor without losing their statuses.
Following such a freak-selling frenzy made by the descendants of the High-Rank Monster Kings, all the common peasants on the Mainland would lose their tyrannical rulers, but they would also lose the sense of security and protection that their rulers provided them with.
Now, whether this was a good or bad thing for the inhabitants of the Mainland on the Nineteenth Floor was still undecided, but what one could say for certain was that a simple action made by Azmond caused an entire ecosystem the size of a planet to take an unforeseen route toward a destination unknown to them.
Killing those High-Rank Monster Kings was the moment that Azmond started to gain something.
He had started to gain 'fate'.
Now whether the fate he acquired from altering the lives of tens of billions of beings was a good or bad thing was still undecided; however, that moment was a turning point for hima turning point that would eventually snowball into something beyond anything the mortal realm had ever known.