Chapter 190

Chapter 190

Otherworld Demon King Survival Guide.

Episode 190: Dark Elves (1)

“First, try to save them if possible and gather as much information as you can. Vanessa, it seems you have a talent for interrogating prisoners. Can I entrust this task to you?”

“Understood. I’ll handle this. But if the dark elves die, there’s nothing I can do.”

“Yes, that’s unavoidable.”

Their proactive transformation was good to see.

Feeling satisfied with this thought, Vanessa blushed as she avoided my gaze.

“Don’t get the wrong idea! After all, we are dealing with dark elves… It’s purely about doing the job right since it’s directly related to our safety!”

“Who said anything? What misconception are you talking about?”

“Stop asking weird questions!”

How strange.

“Understood. Then I’ll leave it to you.”

The task of interrogating the prisoners was delegated to Vanessa, and we should plan our strategy.

I glanced at the leaders gathered in the dungeon and said,

“Based on the information we’ve gathered, it seems we’ve expanded our territory into the area of the dark elves. That’s why they sent warriors from their side to check.”

It felt suspicious that we’d let our guard down and get caught off-guard. But let’s move on.

“Buril, bring out the confiscated weapons.”

“Kekek! Just a moment, Master!”

Buril then came out, lifting the confiscated weapons.

“Look. They’re made of iron. The quality is quite good too. This is proof of proper facilities.”

Everyone nodded at that.

“Yes. Right. Their ironworking skills are quite good. A bit better than what our pixies have done.”

“It’s not quite what you’d expect from a forge… Right, Reika?”

“Well, yeah. They’ve made them quite well.”

Let’s ask the Lamia.

“Lady Juria, is this the level of dark elf technology?”

“It varies by community, but if it’s this quality… probably.”

It implied that such items could have come from a large village or city, even a kingdom. And it seemed the Lamia kingdom could also make items of this quality.

Could it have been made in a dark elf kingdom?

“Lady Juria, do dark elves use spirits?”

Pixies possessed the technology to operate small blast furnaces using spirits, extracting low-quality iron. Though it’s low-quality, it’s still better than carved stone. Did dark elves utilize something similar?

“Yes, they do use it. However, lamias can’t.”

“Alright. Let’s sum it all up.”

Summing it all up.

“There’s a good chance a large dark elf city or something has noticed our presence. If so, they’d be more troublesome than humans who are unaware of us.”

It seemed that we were headed for an all-out war.

“Kekek. Master, if they’re troublesome…”

“We’ll have to eliminate them completely.”

I always thought this, but we couldn’t share this jungle. There might be humans or angels invading in the future, and we couldn’t share the jungle with other races.

If we were to survive, we must conquer them.

“From now on, set dark elves as a hostile race. Exterminating them is our top priority. If such a race exists, we must eliminate them no matter what. Understand?”

Capturing female dark elves in the process would be a win-win.

“Kekek! Understood, Master!”

“Oh… Indeed. I see the makings of a Demon King.”

Buril responded loudly, and Juria clasped her hands, moved. We’d have to pause our expansion and prepare for war.

The next day.

As soon as I woke up, Vanessa came to report.

“I will only say what I’ve heard. You make the judgment yourself.”

“Of course.”

“First, we’ve been able to more accurately understand the purpose of their reconnaissance.”

“Ah!”

Vanessa’s explanation continued.

“They seem to have mistaken our local Lamias for inferior specimens.”

What? Inferior specimens?

“Why is that?”

“They act with the goblins. That’s how they judged. They think those Lamias are degraded enough to associate with goblins.”

“Ah.”

Lamias were a female-only species. They preferred strong males to fertilize their eggs, but for average Lamias, orcs were about the best they could manage.

And if they couldn’t even manage that?

There’s also a chance they’d associate with goblins. Such Lamias would be considered the weakest and most inferior among their kind.

“They thought these Lamias were weak, so they let their guard down. They thought they could easily handle Lamias of that level.”

“That makes sense.”

If that’s their misconception, I could understand it. How foolish. It seemed they thought they could behead the Lamias and take their heads as trophies.

This was why information is crucial… Wait.

Hold on a second.

“Huh? That means…”

“Um?”

“They don’t know much about us, do they?”

“If what they say is true.”

“I don’t think a prisoner on the brink of death would lie to that extent.”

Maybe if they were highly trained special forces, but not dark elves who had established tribes or kingdoms in the jungle.

Didn’t they say that even the Japanese army during World War II spilled all kinds of information as soon as they were captured? They hardly had any concept of interrogation or prisoners, so they told everything they were asked.

Moreover, it’s a desperate situation of pain. If they had the mental capacity to lie, they wouldn’t have let their guard down in the first place.

“That’s my thought. We should be cautious, but it seems almost certain they don’t know much about us.”

“If you think so…”

“I’ll just follow along. Anyway, well done. Kudos.”

I reached out and patted Vanessa on the head. Her hair was really soft.

“…”

Vanessa froze for a moment.

“Gasp!”

And quickly jumped back, startled.

“Why are you so surprised?”

“I’d better go back to the interrogation!”

“Is he still alive?”

“Oh, he won’t make it through the day.”

That figured.

The Lamias’ spears had pierced his torso. If it had been a female dark elf, I might have urgently infused my ‘White Stuff’ and tried various spells to heal her, but there’s no need to do that for a man. It wouldn’t work anyway.

Anyway.

“They don’t know about us.”

That made them ripe for attack. According to what I learned while playing with Juria, both Lamias and dark elves were ignorant of the tactics I used. They may have some degree of civilization, but they essentially lived barbarically.

We would be just like the Roman legions conquered the barbarians.

“I will do the same.”

Let’s start with reconnaissance then.

“Lady Juria, we will conduct reconnaissance.”

“Of course, we should. We need to find out where the dark elves are, right?”

“Hehehe, you’re quick on the uptake.”

“Of course. As you said, we must annihilate the dark elves. Hehehe.”

“Ah, but while we talk of annihilation, we will take the women as prisoners.”

The captured dark elves were indeed handsome. Not as much as me, an incubus, but still, fitting the elf racial traits, they were quite attractive.

Then the women must be the same. Undoubtedly sexy and voluptuous.

“I understand. You really do favor women.”

“The more women I take, the stronger my magic becomes.”

The magic that grew through assaulting women was greater than that extracted from killing monsters.

“Hehehe.”

Thinking of all the dark elf women that would be mine made me start to feel good. Acting like some corrupt noble, waging wars to take barbarian women.

But that was exactly who I was .

There’s nothing to be ashamed of. How else was I supposed to grow? It’s no different from training to increase my power.

“Understood. If we see female dark elves, we’ll capture them all.”

“I’ll praise you, so lower your head.”

“Yes.”

I touched Juria’s head as she bowed.

—Swish, swish.

It’s nice to see her tail wagging.

“Ah. If it’s scouting, we want to go too.”

“Serinu?”

“From the ground and from the air, the more accurate it will be. I’ll go with the Lamias.”

“Wow! Now you can think that far ahead!”

“You always emphasize scouting. If you stress it that much, we understand how important it is. And we know scouting gives us an advantage.”

“Exactly!”

Like the captured dark elves, we were not just looking around. We’re organizing operations and scouting! That would lead us to victory!

“Then, I’ll explain the troop formation and the operation overview. Please listen carefully.”

After the preparations, we sent out the scouts—an elite reconnaissance team composed of Lamias and pixies.

“We’ll raise the alert level a notch. It’s very likely that others will attack us.”

“Kekek! Understood!”

I should warn the lizardmen to be careful if they come. They’ve been sending a messenger every day as promised.

So far, they had been doing well by the lakeside. But it didn’t seem like they would defeat the dark elves. We needed to prepare.

“Sha, Master. Can we really defeat all the dark elves?”

“Of course. With the right information, we can defeat anyone.”

Elite infantry and powerful cavalry were in my hands; what’s there to fear? My opponents were not trained soldiers, but ‘warriors.’ Warriors might dominate in individual combat, but in group battles, soldiers always won.

In war, a warrior cannot defeat a soldier…!

“Now, then! Hobgoblins and Sharan! From today, stop making household items and produce only military supplies! Understand?”

“Sha!”

“Grak. Understood.”

We needed more weapons and armor.