Chapter 413: Reincarnation and Milim’s Arrival

Chapter 413: Chapter 376 – Reincarnation and Milim’s Arrival

“Pseudo-Hell: Reincarnation!”

Takumi’s divine will shone like supreme radiance, splitting into more than a million strands and descending into the million souls within [Pseudo-Hell].

Aside from those he had thrown into the “Eighteen Levels of Hell,” the souls of everyone else were cleansed by his divine will.

Most of their memories were erased, and a fundamental instinct of loyalty toward him was implanted into them all.

Once that was done, Takumi seized the million-plus souls in one sweep and instantly pulled them out of [Pseudo-Hell].

As he activated his divine power, rays of light flowed into the souls.

Their bodies were created from nothing and reconstructed in an instant!

Since Takumi hadn’t spent much effort on them, aside from a small number of attractive women, everyone else was only around the level of an intermediate demon.

However, all of them had gained immortal bodies along with [Pseudo-Infinite Energy].

“They’re just ordinary people, after all. They’re not worth the effort I put into Kagali.”

Takumi looked indifferently at the million people who had been reborn. With a casual wave of his hand, he sent them to live in the outer districts of the empire.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The sudden appearance of so many newcomers shocked the monsters and humans who already lived there.

Fortunately, the people Takumi had modified no longer possessed exclusionary attitudes.

After a brief adjustment period, they quickly grew accustomed to life there.

And because they were loyal to Takumi and had no particular racial prejudices, their arrival actually accelerated the integration of the empire’s outer communities.

As they settled into their new lives, streams of willpower and faith began flowing toward Takumi.

Watching his [World Crossing Gate Progress] rise rapidly, then looking at the pure golden radiance gathering in his palm, Takumi narrowed his eyes slightly.

He reached out and drew over a strand of gray-gold faith power.”

“The worlds of Redo of Healer and DanMachi both generate faith power too.”

“The problem is that their faith is mixed with too many impurities. Absorbing it recklessly could cause someone to lose themselves and become influenced by the believers’ thoughts.”

“But the faith produced by the newcomers I personally processed has already been purified.”

Takumi lightly flicked his finger, shattering the gray-black faith power in his palm.

After stripping away the impure thoughts mixed within it, he extracted a clean strand of faith power only about one-third the original size.

With each breath he took, traces of that faith power merged into his body.

Faith power was almost omnipotent in the way a god might be.

It was the manifestation of will itself.

It could be converted into divine power, or used to deepen his comprehension of Authorities.

If Takumi didn’t possess [Raphael, Lord of Wisdom], he definitely would have needed to stockpile this kind of power carefully.

But now, it was more of an added bonus than anything essential.

“A million people can already generate this much in such a short time.”

“If I could keep purifying more and more of it until eventually the entire world…”

Takumi’s thoughts began to wander, and the idea of becoming some kind of “Chosen of Khorne” suddenly popped into his head.

In other words, slaughter the entire world once, then recreate everyone himself as the “Creator of Humanity.”

“But that would be way too insane, even if it wouldn’t actually be difficult to pull off…”

If he ordered the Shadow Demon Corps to unleash their full power right now, they could absolutely destroy the world.

At most, only a tiny handful of people would be capable of resisting.

Even so, the trace of morality still remaining in Takumi prevented him from doing something like that.

“My bottom line is already low enough. Better to proceed step by step.”

“I’ll kill off my enemies one by one. As for innocent people… I’ll let them enter reincarnation peacefully first, then decide what to do afterward.”

Takumi let out a long breath and pulled his wandering thoughts back into focus.

He stroked Chloe, who was sitting in his arms, then looked toward Shuna and Shion, who were visibly itching to make a move.

As his two secretaries, they were desperate to “advance.”

Kagali had gone off to build her career, so naturally, the two of them had to find some other way to climb the ranks while sitting down.

After all, Shuna and Shion were never going to beat Kagali when it came to professional accomplishments.

Shion preferred fighting and cooking, but at the moment, neither of those talents was particularly useful.

Shuna had originally been in charge of logistics, but the overwhelmingly capable Shadow Demon Corps and high technology had replaced most of her role.

That left Shuna and Shion with only one option.

They had to use the back door.

Noticing the two women’s “ill-intentioned” gazes, Takumi pretended not to see them.

Chloe and Shizue were both present, so this wasn’t exactly the right time to let them advance while sitting down.

Sensing the arrival of a “guest,” Takumi raised a hand.

“We have a visitor. Shuna, Shion, go receive them.”

“A visitor?”

Hearing Takumi’s order, both Shuna and Shion looked surprised.

Just what kind of existence had to arrive for Takumi himself to refer to them as a guest?

“Skynet, confirm the visitor’s location.”

Shuna lightly tapped the bracelet on her wrist, and a 3D projection immediately appeared.

[Skynet] was an artificial intelligence handcrafted by Takumi’s Shadow Demon Corps for public use.

The bracelet itself was a recently developed [Phase Bracelet].

It combined the functions of a phone, storage space, and various other technologies.

After seeing the holographic coordinates displayed by the Phase Bracelet, Shion immediately took out a small [Phase Gate].

“Connect to the empire’s eastern district. Coordinates ****.”

Once Shion entered the information, the Phase Gate glimmered faintly before releasing a curtain of blue spatial energy resembling the surface of water.

Shuna and Shion stepped through side by side and immediately emerged from the Phase Gate installed in the eastern district.

Shizue and the others sitting nearby weren’t particularly surprised by the sight.

When the Shadow Demon Corps had first brought out this technology two days earlier, they had been completely stunned.

It had felt like country bumpkins entering a modern city for the first time—like they had been completely abandoned by the era itself.

Fortunately, after two days of adapting, they had all learned how to use the devices, so these things no longer surprised them.

Several minutes earlier, Milim had arrived at the eastern border of the empire.

As an ancient Demon Lord, Milim could already see the towering palace piercing into the clouds from over a hundred kilometers away.

The sheer magnificence of the central district left her deeply shaken.

It even made her feel a strange sense of embarrassment at how shabby her own surroundings seemed by comparison.

Then she looked at the reinforced concrete skyscrapers before her and the smooth, spotless paved roads stretching across the ground.

She was only standing at the border, yet the forest behind her and the empire before her felt like two completely different worlds.

Civilization and savagery.

Those two words instinctively surfaced in Milim’s mind.

She tightened the cloak around herself, concealing her petite figure.

“…What a strange place. And the people here… Huh!?”

The moment she spotted the patrolling Shadow Demon Corps and Amazon girls, Milim’s eyes widened.

She possessed the Unique Skill [Dragon Eye], which allowed her to see through the truth and inspect the abilities of others.

Yet the strength of the Shadow Demon Corps and Amazon girls before her was simply absurd!

Any one of them could rival Clayman…

No.

They were far stronger than him!

“Every single one of them has Demon Lord-level strength, and they’re not even weak by those standards.

“Unbelievable. This is completely unbelievable!

“Could some absurdly powerful existence have personally named every one of them!?”

Milim, who had lived for countless years, couldn’t help exclaiming in shock.

Feelings of amazement and even genuine emotion—things she hadn’t experienced in centuries—welled up inside her.

Something this troublesome was beyond even Milim.

Naming so many individuals meant giving away portions of one’s own power, and there was no guarantee that power would ever fully recover.

What ordinary majin would ever dare take such a risk?

In this world where the strong devoured the weak, no one liked losing their own strength.

And yet the ruler of this nation had actually gone this far.