Setsuna walked over and planted one foot on Phobio's head, which had already been frozen into an ice sculpture.
Bang!!!
With a single stomp, Phobio's head exploded into a shower of icy fragments. His fallen body shattered apart as well, leaving only a few blood-red shards of ice scattered across the ground.
After finishing him off, Setsuna turned her gaze toward Phobio's subordinates.
They were already scared stiff, standing frozen in place without daring to move.
"D-Don't kill us!!"
Without hesitation, they dropped to their knees and begged Setsuna and the others to spare them.
Setsuna and Lapis exchanged a glance, then looked away.
Just as the men thought they might have survived, Setsuna casually instructed the nearby Amazoness patrol members, "Clean it up properly. Don't dirty Takumi-sama's land."
With that, Setsuna and Lapis leaped away, contacting Takumi through the Divine Envoy Network as they left.
"N-No!!"
The men screamed below, but the Amazoness girls quickly "cleaned" them away.
The bloodstained street was soon spotless again, as though nothing had happened. The Shadow Demon Corps continued laying roads as usual, their construction progress not delayed in the slightest.
Meanwhile, Takumi was sitting in his office, reviewing the government affairs Kagali had been handling.
"These are the plans for the three-front campaign... Have you gathered enough people for the diplomatic teams?"
Kagali raised her head and took a deep breath.
"Slurp~"
"For the Magic Dynasty, the Dragon's City, and the Sky Kingdom, I plan to send Treyni, Shuna, and Shizue respectively, along with accompanying personnel."
After speaking, she lowered her head and threw herself back into her work.
Work made her improve. If she wanted that "promotion and raise," then naturally she had to put in the effort.
Seeing Kagali working so hard, Takumi watched with considerable "empathy."
"Those arrangements are all good. As for Treyni, though, I'll need to help reconstruct her physical body."
Treyni was a Dryad. Even after merging with a Divine Envoy piece and completing her evolution, she still hadn't truly broken free from that category.
Her true body still needed to be fused with her current "spiritual body."
That would also make things more convenient later when Takumi gave her special treatment, slipped her a few benefits, and handed her an opportunity to improve.
With that thought, Takumi arranged his schedule for the day.
Just as he was about to reward Kagali for all the hard work she had put in lately, Setsuna and Lapis sent him a message.
[Takumi-sama, we killed a few people. They were from the Beast Kingdom, and they even wanted to...]
After reading what they had sent, Takumi replied mentally:
[Well done.]
He then added, "This Beast Kingdom is no longer just an ordinary kingdom. They dared to provoke us first, so we need to hit them hard. Wipe them all out. Don't leave a single one alive. It doesn't matter if the buildings are destroyed either."
"We understand!"
Setsuna and Lapis immediately broke into excited smiles upon receiving the order.
When they had attacked those two whatever-their-names-were kingdoms before, they hadn't been allowed to slaughter freely or destroy the cities at will, which meant they had never been able to fully display their strength.
Now that Takumi had given them permission, they could finally cut loose!
After issuing those instructions, Takumi thought for a moment and sent the same message to Freyja, Kureha, Eve, and the others.
If they could slaughter them, then slaughter them. Flattening the entire country was fine too.
The only reason Takumi hadn't allowed them to do this before was because he needed "people" as raw material for generating faith.
Things were different now.
With the reincarnation ability of [Pseudo-Hell] in his possession, he could simply kill everyone and then have them reborn.
That would not only accelerate the conquest, but also make the power of faith he received much purer.
Besides, after being killed and reborn, their strength could improve as well.
As far as Takumi was concerned, the people he killed ought to thank him.
"I really am such a great philanthropist. I just need to spare some attention to collect the souls of everyone Setsuna and the others kill. Can't let any of them go to waste."
"[Lord of Wisdom], activate!"
In an instant, Takumi split off more than a hundred streams of thought and attached them to the various women.
His main consciousness, meanwhile, continued dealing with Kagali while carrying out the schedule he had already planned.
Doing a hundred things at once wasn't particularly difficult for Takumi. It was merely a little troublesome.
The women who received his orders became noticeably more motivated than before.
Even Kureha, the kindest among them, let go of the pity in her heart after learning that Takumi intended to reincarnate those people.
She wholeheartedly approved of his reasoning.
Allowing these people from a barbaric era to gain new lives and enter a utopian existence ahead of time was nothing less than an honor for them.
As for the cruelty of the present...
It was merely a little hardship along the road.
With her resolve firm, Kureha drew the Holy Sword Durandal.
The [Mimic Holy Sword], [Destruction Holy Sword], [Heavenly Flash Holy Sword], [Phantasmal Holy Sword], and [Transparent Holy Sword] manifested around her at the same time.
Takumi himself rarely used swords and had barely put any serious effort into learning swordsmanship.
However, his mind contained countless memories of fictional sword techniques and martial arts from his previous life.
Using [Lord of Wisdom] and [Lord of Creation], Takumi had integrated and recreated those techniques before passing them on to Kureha.
Having gone the furthest down the path of swordsmanship, she had also completely mastered the divine artifacts Takumi had given her: [Demon Sword Creation] and [Holy Sword Creation].
"Hah!! Ten Thousand Swords Resound!!"
At Kureha's shout, countless Demon Swords and Holy Swords appeared alongside those Holy Swords.
Aside from the six Sword Kings that had appeared first, however, all the others had been created through the divine artifacts.
Standing high above the heavens, Kureha looked like an immortal swordmaster descended from the Nine Heavens.
One sword fell—
And ten thousand followed.
A hundred thousand, a million, ten million blades transformed into a silver river pouring down from the highest heavens toward the Kingdom of Falmuth.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!!!!!
The scene was like hundreds of millions of high-yield nuclear bombs detonating at once.
A city containing hundreds of thousands of people was erased by Kureha in a single breath.
Batch after batch of souls were gathered into [Pseudo-Hell] under the control of Takumi's divided consciousness.
After destroying the city with a single attack, Kureha stepped onto her sword and flew toward the next one.
Tens of millions of gleaming blades followed behind her like a colossal silver dragon racing across the sky.
What she had just destroyed was the main city of the Kingdom of Falmuth.
Now she was going to wipe out every subordinate town and castle as well!!
Compared to Kureha's one-sword sweep, Setsuna and Lapis soon encountered resistance from the Beast Kingdom.
Sensing the approach of an oppressive concentration of magicules, Demon Lord Carrion immediately organized his forces and led them outside the city to meet the enemy.
When Setsuna, Lapis, and more than a hundred Shadow Demon girls arrived, a silent pressure swept across the entire battlefield.
The terrifying aura they made no effort to conceal gave Carrion a feeling that was no weaker than Milim's.
Where did experts like these come from? I don't recognize them at all.
Carrion frowned deeply as he stared fixedly at Setsuna and Lapis, completely unable to identify who they were...
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