After ten years, Holy Niflheim Empire completely fortified whole System Telos, creating a huge defensive line thanks to the three Orbital s.p.a.ce Defense Fortresses, each with power comparable to the Initial-Phase Marquise Rank, which was around Type 10 Divine Warrior Rank.
On the Telos Prime, current Throne World, they finished the building of the Magitek City of Yharnam and also, majestic Imperial Palace Anor Londo was also finished. It"s gothic beauty and wonder, together with the feel of Yharnam which was also, created with a base of gothic architecture was giving the entire place a whole new feel.
Currently, in one of the meeting rooms, there was an important meeting about the expansion progress of the Empire. There was a heated discussion about the next system they should invade and add to the dominion of the Holy Niflheim Empire.
"Currently, there are several unoccupied Systems around the Telos System. The exact amount is five. All of them, don"t belong to any force and are occupied by local warlords, which most of them are on the Peak-Grade Type 9 Divine Warrior, comparable to the Pinnacle-Phase Count-Rank. The only real problem is with the Signa System, which has a lot of humans, and the question here is, what to do with them. Enslaving always has the risk of the rebellion."
For many species of the Akashic Multiverse human race was enemy number one, which must be annihilated for good. This hatred was deep inside their genes, for thousands upon thousands of years already. So, n.o.body was willing to take humans as slaves, cause thought they were individually weak, they make it up in their numbers.
"Hmm... then I have a perfect solution. We could use them as food for the mutated beast. Strong humans could be used as material to refine Blood Essences, while the weaker ones, would be thrown to the Mutated Beast world to serve as food for them. Also, before we could use the weak ones, as the labor force to mine minerals on the planets we conquer, before disposing of them."
Said Lucien after some thought. After hearing his proposition, and thinking about it for some time, it was decided that this was rather a good strategy. No one was really inclined to the idea of taking human slaves, as that was a very dangerous step, so they agreed to Lucien"s idea.
"Also, we have found something rather interesting. Across the countless worlds of the G.o.d-Devil Plane, there was an evolution virus released by the G.o.d-Devil when he created this plane. His purpose to speed up the evolution of all beings here and also it was part of the Divine Warrior Cultivation System. This virus, we are calling it G.o.d-Devil Virus, was a.n.a.lyzed by Magister Isaacs, for last years he was working on it non stop, and finally, we have now result."
Said an elderly man with long beard clothed in a white lab coat. Everyone here was aware of the G.o.d-Devil Virus and its ability to create zombies that could evolve. This terrifying virus was able to destroy even more technologically advanced species of the G.o.d-Devil Plane in mere months.
"So, what are the results of the research from the Magister Isaacs?"
"Apparently the Evolved Zombies are very close in terms of physiology to the something between ordinary Ghoul and Sacred Devourer Ghoul. This was found out after Magister Isaacs experimented on several Evolved Zombies, they apparently gain intelligence similar to mediocre intelligent being upon their first evolution, so it fascinated Magitester Isaacs, and after some experiments, he came with another one. He injected a drop of blood from the Sacred BLood Crystal into the Evolved Zombie."
Upon hearing that everyone held their breath. Some of them realized what it meant... if it was successful and the experiment was able covert Evolved Zombie into the Sacred Devourer Ghoul, it meant they coýuld solve their population problem rather easily. The only thing to be done is to create a large amount of the Evolved Zombies and they just convince them to join them. That was an important step, as only by accepting the blood of Sacred Devourer from the free will, would be Blood bonding successful.
"Upon the injection... Evolved Zombie was able to evolve into Sacred Devourer Ghoul without any problem. Apparently the secret lies in the G.o.d-Devil Virus itself, it was probably created upon two components, one of them being an unknown creature with strong devouring powers and another one is the DNA of Sacred Devourer. If we are able to obtain a pure vial of the G.o.d-Devil Virus, we would have an even easier time doing the conversion, but alas that is still far ahead of us."
This was especially good news for the whole Holy Niflheim Empire. The birth rate of the Sacred Devourer Ghouls was very low, and their population was pitiful. Soon, when the Empire would be stretching through countless worlds, they would need people to maintain it. And now, finally, the way to obtain more population was found.
"How is the rate of Evolved Zombies compared to normal ones?"
Asked Lucien.
"One in million normal zombies would be able to become Evolved Zombie. Basically, they need a lot of Life Force to devour to evolve, and they are devouring either humans or other zombies. We can even help this quotient a bit, but not too much... still from the normal populated human planet, which has a population around four billion humans, we can get four to five thousand Evolved Zombies, which could be then converted to the Sacred Devourer Ghouls."
"Immediately prepare the fleet to depart for the Signa System. That planet with several billion humans is currently undergoing the Apocalypse, we need to speed it up so all humans are turned into zombies and then obtain as much Evolved Zombies as possible. population problem of the Holy Niflheim Empire must be solved as soon as possible, or we would not be able to hold all of our territories in the future. And also, by my decree, I promote Magister Isaacs to rank of Lord for his accomplishments."