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nWithin the ruins that had turned into a low-level dungeon where the sealed Demon God, Oggoth's mind dwelled, monsters such as goblins, hobgoblins, orcs, great orcs, lizardmen, kobolds, and more kneeled and worshiped the statue of a giant eye with tentacles, which represented the god.

nBy the worship of hundreds of monsters, he slowly felt that his strength resurged.

nBut he needed more.

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"Begin the sacrifices,

" said the disgusting voice of the demon god, as Great Orcs, three-meter tall Orcs with larger bodies carried the 'sacrifices', which were other monsters such as goblins or kobolds that were born with diseases or weaknesses.

nOne after another they had their chests opened with a knife and had their hearts taken out of their bodies, dying in agony.

nOggoth felt the delicious power that dwelled through sacrifices, worship, and fear.

nDemon or Monster Gods were different than conventional gods, they feed upon suffering and their divinities were twisted and showed the dark side of existence.

nA Demon God did not need to be benevolent and bring prosperity to his pawns to gain power, but fear and tyranny.

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"This… it has been almost a month since then. With this power, I've accumulated and the new troops… it should be possible to swiftly take down the two Raccoon Tribes and bring the slaved tribe members here, if I managed to get my hands in those hundreds of mortals, the worship and sacrifices will become of a higher quality than simple monsters…

" said Oggoth.

nThe sacrifice, worship, and fear inflicted upon monsters seemed to be lesser than the one acquired from intelligent races, most likely because intelligent races had a more complex mind and also a stronger soul and spirituality. Their fear generated energy that Oggoth feeds upon, the more they comprehended the fear, the more power he would acquire.

nOggoth began to infuse his intent and energy inside a closed room of the dungeon where he was sealed, which was filled with green-colored oozy and slimy eggs, his intent filled the eggs with life and magical power, quickly hatching.

nThe creatures from within the elastic and soft eggshells were large eyeballs covered in scales and tentacles of all shapes and sizes, Gazer, Oggoth's children.

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"Since that incident that things have been strangely calm, I must use this opportunity to my advantage and take upon those raccoons! That child and the undead, they have been only exploring the surrounding of the squirrel-kin village and seemed to not show any interest in any of the other, further away villages or tribes. As long as I am quick, they should not be able to detect my troops… to ensure my victory, I have created these special children… Rank 6 Gazer Sages! It has cost me all my energy, but they should guarantee my victory no matter what! Even if the kid and the undead show up, they can't defeat this group of Gazers and my over one hundred troops! These two were nothing in my path for greatness, after all, they can't get as strong as quickly as I do, I am a God after all… even if sealed!

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nOggoth has been using his intent on monitoring the whole Devil Forest and has been checking on Ervas and Veronica constantly. However, his deciphering powers were nothing too advanced, he could not see the terrain in detail but feel the presence and then assume what they were doing.

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"They've been just exploring a few measly dungeons… Well, perhaps they were rather strong, but it is impossible to get strong enough to beat my new army in just a month. I've also haven't detected any new life forms aside from some weak plant-type monsters roaming the forest more commonly… and there is a strange new species of undead spiders in the forest as well, but that is nothing to worry about

" said Oggoth, he wasn't capable of detecting things that weren't filled with life force or strong magic.

nVeronica's clones were too many, this is why he barely noticed their presence and assumed that they were a new species of undead spiders as he could not detect life force in them.

nHe was incapable of detecting anything else because Ervas was constantly covering everything with his mana, which ended up covering everything from the detection of Oggoth. And because his mana melded with the nature of all plants in the forest, it seemed as if it did not exist or was just part of what already existed, the background mana of the Devil Forest.

nOggoth was aware of a few strong monsters with them, but he was confident that even if they had two or three Rank 6 monsters with them, his group of over twenty Rank 6 Gazer Wizards was enough to fend them off, he was aware that some lives would be sacrificed… but he was an evil Demon God who didn't care about the life of his children, and was fine with losing some strong troops if victory could be assured.

nHe was also completely unaware that right at this moment, a large tunnel down below his residence had just finished, where hundreds of Veronica's clones gathered.

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"So what are we going?

" asked a little one.

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"The main body said nothing of fighting!

" said a big clone.

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"We must secure the Rabbit-kin people and other tribes that were taken by Oggoth and then run away with them back to the Squirrel-kin tribe, if we stay to fight, Oggoth might become enraged and unleash his powers upon us, we cannot fight back against him unlike our main body,

" said a larger clone, in the form of a big carriage with giant spider legs instead of wheels.

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"Got it!

" said the hundreds of clones.

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"When we are doing it?

" asked a floating clone with the form of a fly.

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"In a few hours when most of Oggoth's troops leave this place to move towards the Raccoon tribes,

" said another large carriage-shaped clone.

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"I see! We can wait a bit

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nVeronica had been slowly building a series of tunnels down below the Devil Forest by abusing her hundreds of clones and the 'Mining' skill. She had been planning to save the people trapped in here for a long time, but it was the final time to do it.

nThis was, however, not the 'final battle' against Oggoth, but only a measure to quickly save this person from the horrible fate they are suffering and then regroup in the Squirrel-kin tribe.

nVeronica was aware of Oggoth's plans because Ervas and her created undead bugs that they used to spy upon Oggoth's whereabouts and whatever the god spilled in information to himself while talking out loud.

nBecause they were small and possessed no life force, Oggoth was incapable of detecting the undead bugs, and unknowingly he has been revealing his secrets to his enemies all this time.

nVeronica would have wanted this to be sooner, but because many preparations were needed to make the tunnels and the clones, it took a month, but her plans were finally unfolding.

nOggoth commanded his troops, checking to make sure everything was done, and then put his children, the Rank 6 Gazer Wizards commanding the troop of one hundred monsters, marching towards the Raccoon villages. The troops would end up splitting in two halfway through to secure both tribes immediately.

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"It's about time…

" muttered one of Veronica's clones, detecting the troops marching and leaving their hideout inside the dungeon, around fifty monsters remained alongside Oggoth's presence, which seemed to go to sleep as of now to save up energy.

nRaising their claws, each clone began to activate the 'Mining' skill.

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