Empress' Evolution
Chapter 97: Uproot

Lilith stood alone before a destroyed makeshift village built inside a big. The cave's insides were smeared with blood, and the bodies of dead Two Heads littered the ground.

The Two Heads were a race of quite intelligent creatures, and that's the only thing they had going for them.

Though they may have been strong, that would be their only merit. In the end, they were still daemons, and after being rushed by Lilith's Army and had their 9 Meat Cores taken, the ending was clear — all of them died under the hands of Lilith and the Army.

However, something that Lilith noticed that others didn't cause her to stay in this place. She closed her eyes and then spoke, "Welp, I need to finish this soon before anyone comes and picks me up."

She was here under the pretext of praying for the dead; thus, no one was here, and as the body of the Two Heads was lined up before her, she snapped her fingers and used an active skill, "Blaze Blitz…"

Multiple fireball appeared around her and then flew inside the cave and landed atop the Two Heads' body. A fire began. The Two Heads' beddings were dried leaves, and that too burned with ease.

'This should be enough to kill them all…' she thought to herself.

Lilith waited if there she'd actually level up from this, but she got no level even after ten minutes of waiting.

'Sigh, I didn't join in on the fun because Chief already started the fight , so I got no EXP… what did I expect? They were too young to even have a high enough LVL, I supposed.' Lilith said to console herself.

But then, she got something else.

[System: Due to what you have done, the Goddess have granted you the titles of [Uprooter] and [Cold Blooded Exterminator].

Uprooter: This title gives you nothing; it just shows how thorough you are.

Cold Blooded Exterminator: This will also grant you nothing.]

'What is this for? Another useless thing?' Lilith was rather incensed as she saw that the titles she gained did nothing for her.

Alpha listened to her thoughts and answered, [Well, the Goddess doesn't really condone the killings of a child, but she's not really against it… she just doesn't want you to kill a life that had not blossomed yet, I presume. The Goddess Letza was, after all, the one who created all life. But, she's not entirely against it if it is necessary. After all, if she was against it, she wouldn't have chosen you as her Apostle.]

'I can respect that.' Lilith said.

The reason why Lilith stayed in this cave was to kill the children that were all hiding somewhere. Lilith had already filled the place with poisonous breath earlier and weakened and killed them, then the fire and smoke finished off everyone who didn't die.

Lilith didn't want any enemies of hers coming back to her, and she also didn't want anything that could become the seed of hate. If possible, Lilith would exterminate everyone, even a kid, to ensure the job was done.

Others feared her for her cold-bloodedness, and the reason this trait of hers was solidified was because of this very reason. Lilith would kill anyone related to the target, so no will make the "I will avenge them!" line before her.

Though she still couldn't understand why in human society, killing children is more frowned upon than killing adults, 'It's a life, both died so why so why pity the other more?' it was a mystery.

Overall, Lilith did the same here, and as she feared daemons might react the same as those humans, she had them go away after making some excuses.

"Even if they replace me now, I can just say I didn't know and say that burning the bodies of enemies are one of the new traditions the Goddess demanded… I don't want that to be a thing; I can use corpses for blackmail and the like in the future, after all.

"I'll just say I didn't want them to be eaten by the Wild Animals." She said with a smug expression.

Turning her back to the annihilated Two Heads' cave and children, Lilith stretched her back and complained about this work, 'Well, at least I didn't go with the idea of turning the Two Heads as Villages. That would have been so much more work and acting.'

Though Lilith could have instead turned them into her Village people, she thought making them EXP points would make them far more useful, "They are too stupid and unsophisticated to be a part of my Village, and if I want the Werewolf I can't possibly have them in my camp or one might hate the other."

Lilith was in dire need of daemons under her, but, even so, she would not use something that could undermine her planning. They might, after all, act like Chief who disobeyed orders.

"I don't want that from happening again… if anything had gone wrong, we would have been slaughtered because of recklessness. But Chief did make the pretense of slaughtering was a better idea, so I'll let it pass for the time being. With this, another hindrance in this place had been completely taken care of."

In the Bleeding Rage Valley, there were not many territories remaining as the Tyrant Blood Gorilla had already destroyed most of them.

"From what I gathered from the Werewolves, the South East is theirs, and the South West belonged to the Two Heads… well, they are now annihilated, so they can be written off. The other soldiers from the army and the Werewolves were hunting every single one that may survive. Cleaning up is good. Yeah, doing this is far more efficient."

Lilith said as she justified killing the young without hesitation.

Then after walking away from the fire, he received a notification.

[Mission: The Conqueror (non-mandatory)] (Side-Quest #10)

Requirements for Passing:

[Ÿ] The Werewolves have been placed in a precarious situation because of the Two Heads; you are to help the Werewolf Leader recover their Pride and help them get their revenge. (Completed)

[Ÿ] Get back the stolen three Meat Crystals. (Completed)

[Ÿ] Note: If you are to accept this mission, you will be seen as an enemy of the Two Heads… the scent of the Werewolves will linger on your body, and the Two Heads will see you as an immediate enemy. This scent would not disappear until you complete this mission. (Completed)

Reward/s:

[Ÿ] 100,000 SP (acquired)

[Ÿ] Loyalty of this Werewolf Tribe (acquired)

[Ÿ] Store Upgrade (acquired)

[Would you like to Upgrade the Store now?]

"…Nah, I don't know how long that would take, and Sylva would be coming out of her evolution cocoon soon… I'm going to begin conquering this stronghold soon. This is going to be tiring."

At the end of the day, Lilith would still be tried.