Building a Monster Nation From Zero in Another World

Theoretically, as long as there are enough of them, by virtue of this intrinsic characteristic, the Direwolves could even forcibly break through to A-, which is around 9,000 magicules.

Imagine, tens of thousands of A-strength Direwolves surging like a tide.

The scene is quite unsettling to think about.

Of course, A-rank is also the limit for the Direwolf Clan.

After all, it is just an intrinsic skill (extra skill). It is impossible for it to grant the Direwolves the qualifications of a Demon Lord Seed like a Unique Skill would.

Furthermore, relying on the characteristic of "group is individual," when Rin bestowed names upon the eighteen clan leaders, another large sum of magicules was diverted to all the remaining Direwolves.

500 Direwolves, with an average of 3,000 magicules.

To make them evolve to B-rank with 6,000 magicules, it would require at least 1,500,000 magicules.

Such a vast amount of magicules, even if Rin included the 200,000 from Violet and doubled it, that would only amount to 460,000 naming magicules (magicules used for naming, Violet's discount is equivalent to doubling the effect).

460,000 compared to 1,500,000 is a drop in the bucket, far from enough.

But, the good thing is the Direwolf Clan's characteristic of "group is individual."

This characteristic greatly reduced the cost for Rin to bestow names upon the entire Direwolf group.

It didn't require 1,500,000. Only one-fifth, which is 300,000 magicules, was needed to complete the evolution of all Direwolf species into the Starfang Wolf.

"Master's magicules are recovering rapidly!"

On the other side, Snow Empress noticed the rapidly rising magicules on Rin and looked at Violet with some surprise.

"After the naming, our magicules reserves were only 80,000."

80,000 magicules, this was already a very dangerous number for both Violet and Rin.

Once a monster's magicules are exhausted, it is equivalent to the demise of its own existence.

However, what Rin did was not simply throwing money away, but investing.

"Investment means being able to receive returns."

The first feedback to Rin was 55,000 magicules from Hoshiga.

Hoshiga was a monster named by Rin, which meant that the magicules it fed back to Rin reached 15% of its total magicules, which is 8,250 EP.

Similar to him, there were also the other eighteen Direwolves, which is 15,000 x 15% x 18, totaling 40,500.

Including Hoshiga's, it was approximately 50,000 magicules.

This was only the feedback from the nineteen leaders.

What truly pleased Violet was the remaining 500 Starfang Wolf members.

Due to the wolf clan's characteristics, these remaining Starfang Wolf Clan members actually directly bypassed the follower stage and reached the rank of named monsters.

Yes, in the judgment of [Unique Skill: Convergence], all 500 Starfang Wolves were considered named monsters.

Thus, the 500 Starfang Wolves, with an average magicules reaching B-rank, which is 6,000 or more.

Even calculated at the lowest.

It reached a terrifying 3,000,000 magicules!

This was why Rin, regardless of anything, exhausted all his magicules to name all the Direwolf Clan at once!

Rin admitted that there was an element of gambling.

But he won the gamble!

The originally ordinary, C-rank Direwolves, instantly became the biggest taxpayers providing Rin with the most magicules feedback.

What Direwolves species?

This was clearly Rin's treasure trove!

What is getting rich in one go? This is getting rich in one go!!

"What a pity…"

Violet looked at Rin, whose magicules reserves had reached 990,000.

Of course, the extra 2,000,000+ magicules didn't disappear but were stored with Violet.

"What?"

Snow Empress was puzzled, not understanding what Violet meant by "what a pity."

"He cannot challenge the True Demon Lord awakening ritual yet."

"Why?"

Snow Empress had heard Rin say that a Demon Lord Seed could break through to an awakened Demon Lord by simply absorbing enough souls.

Just souls.

"No, it's not that simple."

Violet explained, "To obtain a soul, you must break through the Astral Body that envelops it."

Absorbing souls is not as easy as it sounds.

You see, there is a special energy called the Astral Body that exists between the soul and the outside world.

This energy protects the soul from interference by other forces, and it is one of the most mysterious and fundamental logics of the Cardinal World.

"The method to break through the Astral Body cannot use magicules. Instead, it must rely on one's own will to forcefully break through."

Violet didn't know how Rimuru in the original story managed to do this.

She could only say that the Star King Dragon and Lucia's remnant souls helped Rimuru quickly cross this chasm, which was pure cheating.

"But if that's the case, why were there so many awakened Demon Lord Seeds later?"

Snow Empress remembered Rin saying that Benimaru, Shion, and others all had the potential to grow into True Demon Lords.

In the original story, they awakened with Rimuru's help by absorbing enough souls.

"Souls and Astral Bodies are two different concepts."

If it is just a pure soul, then you can absorb it directly.

If Rin could obtain 10,000 souls, he could instantly show the Demon Lord Seeds of this world what it means to awaken into a True Demon Lord on the spot.

"But where would we get 10,000 defenseless souls?"

Such a massive amount of souls, aside from ancient Demon Lords like Guy who might have reserves, is impossible for anyone else to possess.

After all, souls follow the rules of reincarnation.

No one can interfere with the destination of souls, except for beings who wield ultimate authority.

Moreover, obtaining these souls isn't as simple as just killing 10,000 people.

The souls of ordinary people are too low in quality.

In the storyline where the Falmuth Kingdom attacked the Monster Country Federation, the army sent by the kingdom consisted of human elites.

Only souls of that caliber can meet the conditions for a Demon Lord Seed's awakening.

"Once an ordinary person dies, their soul cannot remain in the material world and immediately goes to the other side to be reincarnated."

"Only individuals with combat power above C-rank can temporarily remain and be absorbed by a Demon Lord Seed."

"And in this process, the soul's consumption will be enormous."

If 10,000 people die on the spot, a Demon Lord Seed would be lucky to absorb three or four tenths of the souls.

More souls would still be pulled by the rules of reincarnation, disappearing without a trace.

"So, according to you, the only way for Rin to awaken as a True Demon Lord is to directly face 10,000 souls enveloped by Astral Bodies and then forcefully absorb them?"

"Yes."

Violet: "Leaving aside whether this act would cause him mental discomfort."

"Just withstanding the impact of the Astral Bodies is a huge problem."

With Rin's ordinary human mental will, can he truly withstand the impact of so many Astral Bodies?

You see, Astral Bodies are nothing else but the emotions and memories accumulated by the soul in each reincarnation.

Rin can certainly achieve a forceful impact.

But what would be the result?

With so many memories and emotions piled together, could Rin maintain his original self, or would he be transformed into another person?

(To be continued.)