Became the Queen of the Legion

「Consciousness Enhancement 4-3」
「Physical Enhancement 4」
「Reproduction Enhancement 4-1」

“Very good…”

The reward for attacking and conquering an entire city was, as expected, very large. The result is the trait points flickering before my eyes now.

All elements have broken through to level 4. Although no special traits were unlocked, raising the level is meaningful in itself.

After all, we’ve reaped other rewards as well.

[Now you can analyze the information of higher-ranking creatures]

This was what pleased me the most. My analytical ability, which had been limited to tier 4 demonic beasts and low-level demon races, has been enhanced.

Now I can analyze higher-ranked demonic beasts and demon races, and it’s also possible to reverse-engineer and use the powers they possess.

‘The demon races I can now analyze are orcs, beastkin, hobgoblins, kobolds, and such?’

Of course, I can’t copy the abilities of exceptionally talented individuals. It’s only the racial average values…

But that alone is enough. For now, I can boost the performance of my auxiliary brain several times over.

[The auxiliary brain is being improved]

When I directly moved my main body still sitting in the chair to look behind, the huge brain behind me was changing its internal structure while absorbing the sprayed nutrient solution.

Its size was also gradually increasing, so I had to mobilize workers specialized in digging to keep expanding the space.

“Now I can control more soldiers, faster.”

The auxiliary brain was essentially my core for operating large numbers of the hive.

Because my soldiers have no ego whatsoever, if they’re not connected to the hive consciousness, they become dolls that just freeze in place and can’t do anything.

The most important resource for expanding the hive consciousness was my auxiliary brain, which acts as a kind of database center, and now that it has been improved, I can move more soldiers.

[Now it’s not too much to create new soldiers]

And it became possible to create new soldiers.

I didn’t increase the types unnecessarily because it would burden the computational power, but now there’s room for it.

“This recent battle has revealed some shortcomings.”

The most important data for creating new soldiers and modifying existing troops was the war that had just taken place.

Not including special individuals like Seira or myself, the types of troops I mobilized for this war were mostly common soldiers belonging to scouts and combat troops, and a small number of shock troops.

“We need those specialized in ranged attacks.”

The first thing I thought of was the absence of ranged attacks.

Until now, common soldiers spitting acidic poison from their internal poison glands had compensated for ranged attacks, but their range is too short.

Seeing our allied soldiers being mowed down without any countermeasures against the arrows and spells the enemies were firing like mad, I felt we needed long-range attack means too.

‘I’ll find a way. How to combine the genetic information we have now to launch the most lethal attack as far as possible.’

Closing my eyes and entering my consciousness, I began to ponder what kind of soldier to create by moving omnipotent cells.

For now, the attack method itself had to use poison as a fixed value.

We can’t use gunpowder, and we can’t cast spells like the enemies, so the most lethal way for us to attack multiple enemies is to use poison gas.

[A new soldier, the throwing troop, has begun growing]

Thus, the newly created soldier began to be produced experimentally in one of the artificial wombs connected to the hive.

Its appearance resembled a giant earwig.

However, it could spew bombs full of poison gas and liquid from its rear, and its spine and muscles were designed to bend to the limit so it could throw those bombs far like a catapult.

Of course, it was a chimera created by mixing genetic information extracted from various types of demonic beasts I had collected so far.

“What do you think? Of course, its body is specialized only for laying and throwing bombs, so it has almost no close combat ability. It must be operated mixed with other soldiers.”

“I… I don’t think I could even imagine being able to create such organisms directly.”

When I informed her about the throwing troops, Seira could only marvel with a blank face.

Well, although she’s connected to the hive, she doesn’t know everything.

If I tried to tell her ‘everything’, her tiny brain might just explode.

Dividing roles was enough.

Since I, the queen, can command the hive and create soldiers, she, as a knight, just needs to focus on fighting.

“If you’re creating new soldiers… do you not plan to make soldiers that look similar to us?”

But Seira had picked up on some things.

Now that we’ve acquired information on quite a few demon races, I smirked at her question about whether we wouldn’t create new soldiers based on them.

“The reason demon races are superior to demonic beasts is because they can handle magic power in addition to intelligence. But our legion’s common soldiers can’t have magic power. I won’t bother distributing magic power to them.”

Demon races without magic power are really no different from humans. They’re just oddly shaped different races.

If they band together based on intelligence and engage in group battles, they would certainly be strong, but their individual combat power is very weak.

Even orcs, a born warrior race with bodies over 2m tall and muscular, were the same.

If their opponents were wild beasts of Earth, they would be monsters who could beat tigers barehanded, but this is the demon realm.

Even a mere demonic beast has claws that can tear through steel and can spew lethal poison gas.

“Demonic beasts have stronger bodies. That’s why we make common soldiers into synthetic demonic beasts. To maximize the use of those hardy bodies that can survive in this demon realm without magic power. And they actually proved that strength in this recent war.”

“I understand what you mean.”

Seira nodded as if she understood my explanation.

She herself knows how difficult it is to fight demonic beasts without using magic power, so it’s not hard to understand.

“Then how do you plan to use the magic power secured from this war? Surely you absorbed the magic power dwelling in the bodies of many magic-wielding enemies you killed.”

That’s why she could now ask such questions.

“With our current power, we can no longer concentrate magic power on just the two of us. But it’s a waste to let that considerable amount of magic power rot in the nest… Shall we create a new type of troop on this occasion? A group that can handle magic power.”

I grinned and my eyes sparkled.

“It doesn’t make sense for just the two of us to monopolize all the magic power we secure from the start. Unless we found a new knight worth investing in, which we haven’t.”

We killed easily thousands of enemies. Among them, over hundreds were demon races who could handle magic power.

When we put them all in the digestive organs and turned them into nutrients, the amount of magic power gathered was on a different scale from what we had secured so far.

While it’s important to save resources, resources that are just held without being used are also worthless.

We had to use these to make the hive stronger.

‘If we use magic power, we can create beings that defy common sense.’

I recalled the protective spell that the survivors gathered in the city center cast as their last resistance.

The fact that I could crush it with a huge body that I transformed on the spot as I wished was purely thanks to the power of magic power I possessed.

Using magic power, I made possible a body that normally couldn’t be created because it couldn’t withstand the weight or the joints couldn’t endure.

[Unifying the types as much as possible will help lower the difficulty of operation]

“That can’t be helped.”

However, it was impossible to increase the types mindlessly.

In the end, the method I chose was to create a new type of special troops by greatly enhancing existing soldiers.

Those with magic power throughout their bodies are on a different level.

If underestimated and rushed at, they would crush even decent demon races with the magic power they contain.

[As a result of entering the sphere of influence of demon races, scout encounters with new forces are increasing]

And the place where these soldiers will be active will be the new battlefields that will become more intense and larger in the future.

Instantly transferring my consciousness to a scout’s body, I raised the corners of my mouth as I saw various villages and cities spread out in the distance.

‘I hope it’s a small force if possible.’

One of the most important abilities required of a game player is diplomacy.

This is because while the player starts at the level of a mere village or tribe, the world already has various established forces living in repeated alliances and antagonisms with each other.

Players had to exploit their gaps, increase their own alliances, and sow discord among enemies to gain benefits.

Although I’ve become the queen of a terrible monster hive, the same applies to me now.