Eldritch Creature's Guide

After the servants returned together with their refreshments, meaning some drinks and some snacks to eat, both of them started to eat.

"Did you find some suitable Ruler-type Magical Beast or Monster for me to complete my Unique Quest?"

Samiel questioned Yvraine; now she knew that he was receiving the Quest from the Tower System; he could drop more responsibilities on her if he wished to do so, which certainly had its advantages. Of course, Yvraine commanded an enormous number of people on the 3rd Floor; thus, it would be more productive and easier to drop this responsibility on her.

Not only because he was lazy to do so by himself, but most importantly, it was not necessary, and it was useless. That was because the members of the Zephystrand's Military Branches knew the 3rd Floor way better than him and thus could find suitable Ruler-type Magical Beast for him to kill more easily.

"Yes, in fact, there are already several candidates for this thing. I ordered the City Guards and Silvermoon Knights to look for the ones who are commanding lesser hordes, maximally to 2,000 Magical Beasts, and whose strength is not crossing into the Silver-Tier."

Answered Yvraine, and even though it sounded grim, in truth, this was exactly the result he wanted to hear from her. While the 2,000 Magical Beast horde sounded terrifying in truth, it was not. Samiel currently held control over x255 Bronze-Tier Undead, and even he was a one-man army due to his abilities alone.

If those two were counted together, then it was to be expected he could deal with even 2,000 Magical Beasts on his own without any problem, probably he could deal with even more if he used his Undeads more smartly due to their very high strength compared to the average of the Floor.

Not to mention, in the Magical Beast Horde, which was small and its ruler was only Bronze-Tier, there would be only a few tens of Bronze-Tier Magical Beasts, so he would destroy such a horde in a matter of hours if he took his time in it.

"Excellent... which one is the closest?"

Samiel already wanted to complete the Unique Mission, so he could go and take the Inheritance or whatever the Akashic Records prepared as the rewards for this mission, so he could return to the Zephystrand City, and complete the Advancement Quest, and finally go to the 4th Floor.

"Actually, three. 1st one is a pack of about several hundred Wind Wolves, led by Level 50 Bronze-Tier mutated Alpha Wind Direwolf. 2nd one is a small colony of Gremlins in the nearby cave system to the Zephystrand, we don't know how many of them are there, but apparently, not many of them are Bronze-Tiers. And finally, the last one is a community of Trolls living in the ruins of some settlement which was overwhelmed by them several centuries ago."

She explained to him the fastest options, and truth to be told, neither one of them looked very appealing to Samiel. Not from the point of being strong or something similar, but they were all problematic to deal with; they were troublesome.

Wolves were a pain in the ass to fight; they were smart, their coordination was top-notch, and especially the magical, rich ones were very troublesome to deal with. On top of that, their Alpha was mutated Wind Direwolf and, on top of that, reached Level 50, so his combat prowess would be comparable to the average Silver-Tier Professional. Not to mention, finding them in the forest and not falling into their ambush would take too much effort, an effort he was unwilling to spare.

Gremlins... if the Magical Beasts such as Wind Wolves were a pain in the ass to fight, then Gremlins were a nightmare. Not because they were strong, Gremlins were typically relatively weak monsters. Still, they were very, like very intelligent, and extremely cunning. Even finding one Gremlin was troublesome because they never dared to fight head-on, and an entire colony of them... not that was certainly not the way to go.

And that left only Trolls.

Trolls belonged to the category of Greenskins. Similarly, like Ogres, they were driven by endless hunger to devour and eat anything that could be eaten... sometimes even that what can not be eaten, but that is not that important.

Trolls were like a weird mix of Ogres and Orks, a mish-mash of both of them, with extremely strong regeneration and less brain than Orks, though smarter than Ogres. Usually, Trolls ranged from Steel-Tier to Silver-Tier, sometimes reaching Gold-Tier, and only a few of their species managed to reach Legendary Level. Still, due to their fearsome regenerative abilities, they were used by Orks as cannon fodder in large-scale wars when it encompassed all Greenskins because Trolls were very hard to kill.

Coupled with their relatively strong defensive capabilities, then Trolls were a very problematic enemy, especially; Trolls had Magic Resistance Skin, meaning many spells were ineffective on them, depending on the Tier of the Troll and the Spell's caster.

"So, I take it that you are going for the Trolls?"

Yvraine asked, or rather stated, to which he just nodded in agreement, as it was indeed the truth. Trolls were most suitable for him and would require the least effort for him to deal with them.

"How many of them are still inhabiting the ruins of the settlement, and how strong is their Chieftain?"

Trolls preferred to live in ruins of buildings, under bridges or caves, in the sewer systems, or in other weird places. They functioned on a similar system of a tribal society, though it was less strict and less functioning compared to that of Orks.

"Probably several tens, maximally hundred... a lot of them are slowly being killed, and especially after their previous chieftain was killed, the new one is a cowardly idiot who is not leaving his castle or whatever you call it, no matter what. Even strength wise, maximally that Troll is at higher ends of the Bronze-Tier."

She scoffed at the cowardly Trolls because, contrary to Orks, Trolls were cowards. They were not cunning or fought dishonorably; they were just cowards. Usually, the only time they were fighting was when they were ambushing people crossing marches and bridges, usually killing them in said ambush and cooking them to eat.

"Then it is decided, we will go for the Trolls. They should be the easiest target to fight, especially if we use some baits to lure them out from the holes."

He grinned, to which Yvraine nodded.

"We can use that stupid lizard as bait."

She stated, not aware that her joke would bear fruits.

"Hmm... I don't know about that, but I suppose we can use Estrid as bait if we mask her dragon aura and her appearance."

He answered her, planning to use his "subordinate" as bait to lure the Trolls out of their holes. During this one year, she cost him over 650,000 gold coins in damages due to the collateral damage she caused.

Once, she fought with some members of the Yukimura Clan of the Oni Species, destroying several shops and causing entire damage in the height of almost half a million coins. Unfortunately for Samiel, as it appeared, Estrid didn't want to pay anything, and thus she escaped, leaving the debt problem to him.

Ultimately, he solved it by beating Oni and taking over 60% of his debt from him.

Sadly for Samiel, this was just one occasion, and he didn't have such luck next occassions.

Similar things happened additionally 3 times, be it either street fight, fight in the restaurant, and once, she beat a shop vendor. And because the Nesser Dynasty could be considered as some sort of ally of the Hall of Kadath, he was forced to pay for everything because Estrid wouldn't.

Now he cursed Cardinal Karliana several times over each day because she just wanted to get rid of Estrid and because of that, she ran away from the 3rd Floor as soon as it became possible. And he cursed at the problematic dragon girl with temper problems, who can't control herself, and why she can't go to other cities to cause trouble.

If she was destroying properties in other places that were not controlled or backed up by the Nesser Dynasty, then everything would be okey, but no, she chose to remain here and make his life hell.

"What, are you still angry over your wallet?"

Yvraine asked him jokingly; long ago, she noticed that Samiel loved gold and treasures even more than the majority of dragons, and now the politics were basically forcing him to part with it. It was hilarious for her to observe this, as he was forced to part with his beloved gold coins.

"Yes, I am. Why can't that dammed dragon go and play thug in any other place other than Zephystrand? There are more than 10 cities on this Floor and countless smaller ones and other settlements!"

He was getting frustrated from this, especially because Estrid, a week ago, demolished his favorite coffee shop, which was the place where he first visited when he was teleported to the Tower.

Right now, Estrid was healing from the brutal beating he gave her in a fit of rage, as he broke most of her limbs and ribs, leaving her in a near-death state. Though it would be severe for anyone else, but he knew that with her healing factor, she would be okey within several days.

"Mainly, because she knows she can piss you off, probably hopes that if she annoys you as much as possible, forcing you to impregnate her and thus she would achieve her goal."

Stated Yvraine with an icy tone, wanting nothing more than tearing the dragon girl apart, even though she had to admit that Estrid's strategy was excellent from a certain point of view.

Her thought process was simple: if she became unbearable to Samiel, he would agree to her request to impregnate her to father her hatchlings in his hope of getting rid of her. Probably it would have worked for a more weak-willed individual who would have relented to her advancement, but Samiel was getting just more and more pissed off.

Unfortunately for her, she was not as sneaky as she thought to be, and Samiel immediately saw through her plans, and because of that, he still held himself. If not, and if not for her being rather important in the Hall of Kadath, he would have long ago killed her in the most brutal way and resurrected her as an Undead.

He killed people for way less, and demolishing his favorite coffee shop was blasphemous.

"I told you that if you used the Ruler's Quest, we could be long ago gone from this place and, most importantly, from Estrid."

She scolded him lightly, as Samiel just frowned at her.

"And abandoning the rewards from the Tower System? Are you nuts? And aside from this, wasn't it you, who wanted to complete the Quest together with me, to be recorded in them and have a higher possibility to obtain your own or same as mine?"

He fired back, as she could just accept his statements. Indeed, the reason why Yvraine was constantly helping Samiel to complete his Quest from the Tower System was mainly that doing so would slowly increase her chances of getting the same treatment as Samiel got.

Meanwhile, Samiel, at first, was using Yvraine as means to complete the Quest and fill the lack of his background and knowledge; he was so used to her presence around him that he didn't wish to part with her.

Yeh, that sounded pretty idiotic, especially for someone like him... but deep inside, the idea of loneliness like on Earth was killing him from the inside. And as a bonus, she didn't really have any moral compass, though she had, it was pretty twisted like him, so they went well together.