I transformed into a demonic spider lily.

This time, Langyegan caught up with the pace.

"So, are you willing to let a human priestess protect you?!"

"I am willing!"

The white wolf immediately jumped up.

Me too!!!

Wolf Wild responded without thinking.

All the monsters and the spider lilies: "..."

Ugh, my head hurts.

The red spider lily couldn't help but put its hand to its forehead.

Chapter Fifty-Three: The Target, the Realm of Demons

"Wolf, wild, damn it!"

Gently rubbing her forehead, the other shore flower shouted, "The average IQ of our forest is not high to begin with, and you two have dragged it down by at least three percentage points. Don't ask me what percentage is, it's the extent to which you two are so incompetent."

Wolfy looked cowardly and didn't dare to speak. It had only responded with a sound of agreement, so why was it being reprimanded? Shouldn't the culprit be the white wolf?

"And you..."

Then, Bi'anhua looked at the white wolf, who was also cowering and clearly realized the seriousness of the problem. She could only sigh and say, "Speaking of which, don't you wolves have the habit of howling at night? You and Lang Yegan are both wolf demons, so go outside for a while and howl a couple of times. I'll explain things to you separately after I've finished discussing things."

"Oh~"

The white wolf's tail drooped, revealing her dejected mood, while the wolf beside her ran away as if it had been saved.

……

"Wolffield's leader got taught a lesson."

The group of N-level monsters began to whisper among themselves.

"...What do you know?!"

At this moment, Wolf Wild's "number one" stepped forward, scolding the monsters beside him for being ignorant fools, and began his reading comprehension, saying, "Haven't you noticed? Lady Higanbana values ​​Wolf Wild highly, not only urging him to cultivate, but also arranging him as the chief!"

"But the boss was still kicked out."

"If you don't understand, just ask," said another monster.

"Hmph! Then take a look at the other monster who went out with Wolf Mountain. He's carrying Lady Kikyo's bow. Things aren't as simple as they seem."

Waving its sickle-shaped tibia, the "number one" mantis monster raised its sharp, angular jaws and said, "And didn't Lady Higanbana specifically instruct Boss Wolf to explain things to them separately after the discussion is finished?"

"It seems like there is such a sentence."

The group of low-level monsters nodded.

"If I'm not mistaken, Wolf Wild Boss will definitely be entrusted with an important task afterward. The reason they're being cleared out now is just to prevent the news from leaking out. It's a staged performance. The boss left with a smile just now, which means there's something we don't know."

The mantis monster's earnest explanation immediately convinced the lower-level monsters nearby, who exclaimed in disbelief, "No wonder he's the leader of the Wolf Wilds!"

……

Meanwhile, outside the cave...

Wolf Yegan and White Wolf sat on the edge of the cliff. Night had fallen and there was only deep darkness. The two of them remained silent, giving a feeling of "snowflakes falling and the north wind howling".

Finally, the white wolf couldn't help but ask, "What should we do?"

"Didn't Lady Higanbana tell us to howl a couple of times? Well then, let's howl a couple of times, we're just killing time anyway." Wolfy Gan clearly didn't understand what sarcasm meant.

"Then go ahead and howl, I can't howl anyway."

My tears were welling up inside.

The white wolf remained in a state of utter despair.

"Alright, then I'll howl, Awooo—!"

……

"Let's continue our previous topic."

After the two troublesome guys were asked to leave, Biyanhua finally felt her head clear up a bit and continued, "The reason I summoned you here this time is not simply to reprimand you, but to discuss how to truly resolve this matter."

"Redouble your efforts in training, and we will become even stronger."

Steel Fang, the young master of the wolf clan, put forward his opinion.

"That's right, that's one way. The growth of individual strength can drive the power of the group. However, you've overlooked a crucial point."

The red spider lily first expressed its agreement, then retorted: "Since our birth, we have never stopped cultivating, and we have worked even harder to cultivate. Although it is a method, it is not effective because the time is too long. Ten years, twenty years, or fifty years. By the time you become strong, those powerful monsters will have weakened or died to protect you."

"Then what should we do?" Steel Teeth asked.

“Since individuals are not enough, let’s start with the group. Don’t forget, there are over ten thousand demons in our forests and mountains. One thousand of them are ‘enlightened,’ while nine thousand remain ‘strange.’ This is enough to exhaust the strongest priestess in the world to death.”

The other shore flower smiled and continued, "Of course, although we can kill the opponent, we can't intimidate them. In the end, it's just a lose-lose situation. But, if we have..."

"Awooo—!"

Suddenly, a wolf howl rang out.

The red spider lily paid no heed to the wolves outside.

"If more of our kind gather here, up to thirty thousand, fifty thousand, one hundred thousand, or even a million, then humanity will regard this place as a forbidden zone and dare not set foot here. Our power will be enough to deter everything!"

This is the purpose of the spider lily: to create a demon realm similar to the Ōeyama Demon Realm during the Heian period. However, ordinary demon realms are formed by the death of great demons.

For example, the Asura Demon Realm of the Asura Demon, and the Killing Stone Land of Tamamo-no-Mae, are places where countless demons are attracted by their demonic power, thus forming the territories of thousands of demons.

However, if we reverse the order of importance and gather that number of monsters first, their demonic power would be so concentrated that it could corrupt any land into a demon realm, thus transforming many ordinary creatures into monsters. This would be a virtuous cycle, but for humans, it would be a vicious cycle.

Once this step is completed, and she reigns supreme over a million demons, all problems will be solved.

"Great!" Even the monsters were amazed by the plan of the Red Spider Lily and echoed it.

"Awooo—!"

The wolves outside howled again.

"Then, look here."

Higanbana took out a map from her bosom, which she had drawn herself. It covered the entire eastern part of Musashi Province, including a total of seventeen forests and twenty-three mountain ranges, all of which she had casually noted down when she was out and about.

"This is..." All the monsters stared intently at the map.

"Since we want to develop our power, instead of waiting for other monsters to arrive, we might as well invite them ourselves and bring those of our kind who are still wandering outside into our forest, such as the fox demon chief that I brought from outside this time."

Having said that, the red spider lily pointed to the three-tailed fox.

The latter smiled sheepishly.

"In the same way, you..."

"Awooo—!"

You (damn it) get the hell out of here!

Before the other shore flower could finish speaking, the wolf outside howled again. Things shouldn't happen more than three times. I let it howl twice before, and this is the third time.

The other shore flower grabbed the oil-paper umbrella beside her and fired a magic cannon at the outside of the cave. With a "boom," the crimson beam of light plunged the world into silence.

"This forest is your target for tomorrow. Wolf Wild Man will lead the team to take it over, and then ask the monsters living there if they are willing to join us. As for the specifics of how to do it, those who know, know, so I won't make you spell it out." Higanbana simply said, having been interrupted repeatedly.

As for why Langye was chosen to do it?

There's only one reason: it's too noisy.

……

"Did you see that? Did you see that? As expected, Lady Higanbana entrusted such an important task to Boss Wolf Wild. That shows how much importance she attaches to it!"

The top-ranked fan is praising it enthusiastically.

"Wolf Wild Boss is awesome!"

A group of N-level underlings echoed this sentiment.

They completely ignored the cannon shot fired by the red spider lily.

Chapter Fifty-Four: Next time, I'll definitely take you there.

The next day, at dawn...

Wolf Wild Gan looked blankly at the group of hundreds of monsters behind him, completely unaware of what was happening. Only the mantis monster stepped forward and shouted, "Boss Wolf Wild Gan, all three hundred monsters have arrived. We are ready to set off at your command!"

Who am I? Where am I? What am I supposed to do?

This is the current state of the wolf, Yegan. When it howled last night, it only felt a blinding red light flash before its eyes, and then it fainted. When it woke up, it was inexplicably congratulated in various ways, completely unaware of why.

However, even if Wolfygan was an idiot, he roughly understood that it had been assigned some kind of task. So he turned to look at the spider lily that was seeing them off. The spider lily waved its hand, but it was unclear whether it was seeing them off or "sending them on their way".

"Boss Wolf, this is the target that Lady Other Shore Flower ordered us to attack. Please take a look." The mantis monster handed Wolf a simple map.

"What...?"

The drawing on it was a mess. If the other party hadn't said it was a map, Lang Yegan would have thought someone had gone mad and made some kind of ghostly scribbling.

However, upon closer inspection, it can be seen that the area painted green with grass juice and circled with red demon blood is likely its assigned target, which appears to be a forest.

Moreover, it felt somewhat familiar; wasn't it the area beyond the mountains? Then, Wolf Wild's expression panicked. How come it remembered that in that forest, there was a tree root monster that was even more powerful than it?

"Lady Higanbana, perhaps this isn't quite appropriate?"

Wolf Wild Dry had a miserable expression on its face, feeling that going there was like committing suicide. Don't be fooled by its status as the former master of the forest. The whole forest was full of useless creatures, and it was just one of the slightly less useless ones.

Don't be fooled by the small size of the forest marked by the spider lilies. Wolfy knows it doesn't have the strength to fight. It's good at summoning a pack of wolves to outnumber the enemy. The problem is that the tree root monster isn't afraid of being ganged up on, and its area-of-effect attacks are incredibly powerful.

If it hadn't run so fast, it would have been gone long ago.

"What's wrong with it? Just go if I tell you to. If you don't, I'll bury you in the crater of Mount Fuji right now and melt your ashes." Taking a deep breath, Higanbana showed some impatience.

"...Yes, sir!"

Seeing this, Wolf Wild dared not refute, fearing that the Other Shore Flower might kill him if she was unhappy. After thinking carefully, he figured there were several other demon wolves with strength no less than his own, so there shouldn't be any problem, probably.