Monster Lord: The Goblin Offers the Saintess to Me at the Start

Sivis took a long time to calm down from the excitement in his heart.

He decided not to focus on the new talent's bonuses for now. It was already nighttime, but there were still a bunch of things left to handle, and it would probably take until tomorrow night before he could test the effects of the talent.

As for the partner...

Uh.

Sivis thought anyone would work!

The female knight was so amazing!

The young maid is also pretty good...

He ignored the new notifications popping up from the system, and the various requirements for "Upgrading the Monster Settlement" still flashed before his eyes.

The situation of his territory was already pretty well established, and the remaining goals, such as "increasing prosperity," required Sivis to occupy a territory that could accommodate new residents.

That wasn't too hard to handle. He could just pick any town in Hanseter or the surrounding areas.

"There's no difficulty in that."

Sivis didn't take this matter too seriously. He had two ways to acquire a new territory: either have more than 80% of the residents in his original territory accept his rule, or lead the monsters and directly conquer it.

Either way, with his current fighting power, he could easily crush any resistance. This was the imperial frontier, after all, where even Silver-Rank warriors were rare.

"After upgrading the territory, I can build the first 'Wonder'."

"But how do I get the faith-attaching item required for the Wonder?"

Sivis was a bit troubled.

In the game, you could obtain faith-attaching items by defeating other monster domains. But in reality, how did you find them?

Sivis couldn't find any monster domains at all!

But he couldn't avoid building the Wonder—it was too important for his territory!

After upgrading to "Monster Settlement," Sivis's territory could build a special building called a "Wonder."

The Wonder provided terrifying bonuses to the territory, including percentage-based power boosts for all monsters and for Sivis himself, and it also produced some special resources, like "Essence Grass" that could directly increase cultivation progress when consumed, and "Obsidian" that could strengthen weapons and grant anti-magic effects.

These resources were completely non-existent in the Gandanyir world. Only through the influence of the Wonder on the territory could special areas be created to produce them.

The Wonder was the most important part of developing a "Monster Settlement."

It boosted combat power and provided development resources at the same time!

In his previous life, some perfectionist players would repeatedly clear out every nearby monster domain or non-True God faction territory after upgrading to "Monster Settlement," just to farm high-quality Wonder items.

If they couldn't farm them, they would just delete the save and start over.

In reality, Sivis couldn't delete his save. He knew that besides the first upgrade to "Monster Settlement," each subsequent territory upgrade would grant a new Wonder slot, and old Wonders could be removed by consuming rare materials.

He just wanted one Wonder that could help the territory develop, produce useful resources, and give a little combat boost. That was enough for him!

But the problem was, Sivis didn't care about the specific requirements, and he still had no way to get the core item needed to build the Wonder!

In the game, you got them from defeating monster domains, but in reality, you couldn't just "roll for loot." These items had to be hidden in other territories in some reasonable way.

But Sivis didn't know how to find those items, nor did he know where those other territories were!

How could he get them?

He wasn't too worried about it.

The "Spiritual Fusion" talent had greatly accelerated his cultivation speed. Once he quickly reached Gold-Rank, the system's "Search Monster" feature would directly help him locate Gold-Rank monsters.

The combat power of his territory would skyrocket along with his own strength, which was different from the game — there was no such convenient "Search Monster" function in the game.

Even if he couldn't build the Wonder in a short time, it wouldn't slow down his development like it would in the game.

It was just… a bit of a pity.

Sivis was thinking about the "Search Monster" function when he casually opened the function's panel.

He had intended to make a comment about wasting progress, since the feature had been on cooldown for a whole day, but Sivis simply couldn't spare the time to search for Silver-Rank monsters.

However...

He found that the original countdown bar had changed into a positive count, and the bar was glowing faintly.

Noticing Sivis's confusion, the system panel sent a prompt —

[Host has now advanced to Silver-Rank. "Search Monster" ability has been enhanced: when no search is being conducted, the extra cooldown time will be converted into search energy, increasing the search radius and teleportation distance, allowing the host to obtain a stronger monster clan in one go.]

"Was there really such a good thing?" Sivis was a bit surprised. What surprised him even more was that the system prompt also showed [After accumulating enough energy, the host can perform a targeted search for specific types of monsters (note: targeted search may cause insufficient teleportation energy, requiring the host to inject additional energy).]

"Targeted search??"

"Only need to spend a little more energy? That's no problem!"

Sivis didn't take the system's warning seriously.

He did have a specific type of monster he wanted to search for — the demon race.

Demons were a powerful race abandoned by the "Duke of Hell" in the Evil God faction.

Behind them was a permanently torn hell gate, and near the gate, countless demons surged into Gandanyir as they awakened.

Originally, these monsters were supposed to spread throughout the world.

But the demons were blocked!

They were stopped by a group of warriors near the hell gate!

This place became the largest meat grinder in the entire world!

The Church spent centuries building a fortress called "The Chasm," and managed to hold the demons back!

That was why, even though the Church had become so corrupt, it was still able to raise a noble female knight like Vikalina — not because of anything else, but because they had truly suppressed the demons' attempts to invade Gandanyir, and had done so for nearly a millennium.

Countless people had died for this!

It was ironic that only the most faithful and devout members of the Church chose to go to the "Chasm Fortress," while the rest of the Church members in the world mostly showed up in incredibly despicable ways...

The reason Sivis wanted to search for demon-type monsters was very straightforward: these monsters were much stronger than ordinary monsters of the same level, almost pure killing machines.

However, demons were fickle and good at disguises, and no Monster Lord would consider taming them.

Sivis was different — he had the power of an Evil God, which gave him some degree of control over all kinds of monsters.

The demon race was nominally under the "Duke of Hell," but that Evil God had completely withdrawn to another world. Unlike the "God of Blood Sea," who still hid in a strange mental space and had a connection to the Gandanyir world.

Sivis's Evil God power was effective against demons.

Secondly, if he had the chance to steal the Duke of Hell's divine power, he could control the demons just as easily as he controlled ordinary monsters.

Most importantly, even if demons were good at disguising themselves — Sivis could directly check their loyalty. If there was any issue, he would just kill them on the spot.

"Don't get carried away..."

"Controlling demons is still too early."

"No! With Spiritual Fusion, it might only take a few months??"

Sivis was thinking, making a rough plan for the future development of his territory.

Right now, he had no time to capture monsters, and the energy he had accumulated wasn't enough to search for demons.

Plus, the main combat forces in the "Chasm Fortress" were at least Gold-Rank. Sivis naturally wouldn't try to capture Gold-Rank demons while he himself was still Gold-Rank.

That was just asking for death!

As Sivis was thinking, he suddenly heard a loud "thud-thud-thud" — a towering Crystal Stone Demon and the Goblin leader were approaching him.

He suddenly remembered that the names of these two had also appeared in the dense loyalty increase notifications he had seen earlier.

Sivis opened their panels, and sure enough, both had reached 99% loyalty.

The two monsters fell to their knees, excitedly: "Thank you, Lord, for giving us power! You broke the curse in our bodies!"

Through the Crystal Stone Demon and the Goblin leader's broken, emotional storytelling, Sivis roughly understood the cause of the situation: After the True God faction's victory, they had spread a "Holy Light" that covered the entire Gondania.

This light was a blessing for humans, making everyone born afterward strong and immune to diseases. But for monsters, it was a tragedy — many weak monsters were killed on the spot, and those who survived and reproduced had their potential permanently damaged.

Take the Crystal Stone Demon and the Goblin leader as examples. During the "Battle of Exorcism," they had been exposed to the Evil God's light and had been capable of Silver-Rank, even with the potential to break into Gold-Rank.

But by the time they reached Sivis, they had only retained Bronze-Rank potential.

Now, through the "Call Guardian" skill, Sivis had broken their potential limits, permanently fixing the Goblin leader and the Crystal Stone Demon at Silver-Rank!

Even though their upper limit was only Silver-1, the two monsters were extremely excited.

The Goblin cried out, expressing loyalty.

The Stone Demon couldn't cry, but it kept pounding the ground with its fists, making a loud, thunderous sound that made the surrounding people hurry even more with their work — they were terrified, thinking that the monster controlled by the Lord was angry.

Even two Knights from the Order who had been trying to come forward to report something were shaken up and looked disheveled, not daring to approach...

After the two monsters had expressed their excitement for a while, Sivis finally calmed them down. After upgrading to Silver-Rank, they also reported to their leader that they had gained some new special abilities.

First, they were able to spontaneously gather some monsters of the same race to enrich the territory.

Second, they could pray to the Heart of the Territory, sending messages to Sivis, their lord.

These two abilities had already existed in the previous game, so Sivis wasn't surprised.

But they were both pretty useful. Increasing the number of monster subjects in the territory was something Sivis definitely didn't mind.

This ability to communicate through prayer was especially important, as it prevented him from being completely in the dark when he left the territory.

It even allowed him to remotely control various developments within the territory.

Both were crucial. It was just as expected — just like in the game.

The Extraordinary Realm was the beginning of everything.