Chapter 41

Thanks to the diligent information gathering of the Xiaohei cat heads, Cat already knows the upper dungeon situation like the back of his hand.

Not only the types of monsters, their living habits, and the various foods they produce, but also the most basic mechanism of this dungeon.

Most dungeon monsters are refreshed by the diligent dungeon mother.

Although they, degenerated from higher races, lack complete rationality, they still continue concepts such as tribe, reproduction, and cooperation.

The monsters in the upper levels of the dungeon are merely cannon fodder in the demon king's army.

Because they have no brains.

And the demon kings also very much want armies that have brains.

Now each one is being nurtured as if holding a treasure, fearing that the opposing side will discover and eliminate them first.

This is, from the information learned from the world truth fragments, the thing Cat is most grateful for.

That is, although it's a Purgatory-level difficulty world, the boss is still in its growth stage; roughly speaking, everyone starts on the same line, and whoever trips the other first gains greater say.

The reason why the dungeon is called 'God's filth' is not explained in the fragments, but this filth has become an excellent training ground for the demon kings to furtively develop.

The experience monsters gain from killing each other and hunting humans is also transferred to their owners in a tiny percentage.

(〃＞dish＜) Damn it!

Cat originally thought that only he, a single cat, was this smart in the world, having figured out how to utilize the 007 workaholic approach.

Upon seeing the cunning Colorless King's curse, he should realize that the exploited demon kings have become 'doing all evil' and 'not greedy without experience'.

(〃＞dish＜) Cat is still too weak in this aspect of exploitation; with his meager abilities, he doesn't even deserve to hang a streetlamp!

It's a pity; if in his previous life he could have strived to become a true capitalist, now when he utilizes the resources at hand, he could be more capitalist.

But it's okay; everything has a first time, and after the first time there will be countless more.

He can now start learning how to be a qualified capitalist.

Cat feels that, compared to other demon kings, he has an ace up his sleeve.

——Hero's enforcer

——Human forces whitelist

His current identity is that of a familiar under the Eastern Alliance's top student; as long as he doesn't personally do anything, there's absolutely no chance of his cover being blown.

The harmless-to-humans-and-beasts Cat does business among human forces to learn exploitation, and cultivates heroes in order to inflict true damage on his peers.

Hmph!

Looking at this demon king debuff that demands cat blood, the profit from cultivating heroes is far higher than his own leveling up.

Cat now even wonders how thrilling the justice buff that heroes give to demon kings really is.

Awaken, Witch Miss!

And what about witch heroes and such…

This subtle profane sense of justice makes the evil Cat even more excited with a taste for evil.

(p≧w≦q)

Speaking of doing business, when counting his loot, Cat already had the name for his future merchant guild in mind.

Impermanence!

How about it, is this name cool enough?

"……"

After a brief excitement, Cat finally realized he had been talking to himself for a long time amidst a vast snowy expanse.

The clones that could respond to him were all blown up by his own hands, damn it.

After finishing the plan to arm the dungeon, we must quickly create them, so a group talking to themselves won't be awkward.

While arranging for the tips to fall in an orderly manner via the teleportation array randomly landing in the upper levels of the dungeon, Cat's little brain again started thinking of bad ideas not to be a cat.

Cat thinks, since other demon kings can plunder experience in countless dungeons, as the current Black King without any folk following him, he's rather at a loss.

Everyone finds leveling hard, so why can you just freely pick up experience from the dungeon mother?

Is it just because the retinue Pikachu he created is too smart?

Or is it that to be listed among the 'world races' requires certain conditions, which he simply doesn't know?

But Cat thinks, this loss he cannot just eat for nothing; he must definitely think of a way to earn it back.

But even if he now launches a large number of Pikachu for a racial invasion, because they cannot be refreshed in the dungeon, his Pikachu compared to the endless monsters will always be at a numerical loss.

This is not just a simple catch-up problem; it's like comparing a washbasin to the ocean.

This problem should have stopped here due to being unsolvable, but…… Cat suddenly switched to a different approach.

Then, is there a possibility that he could make the experience plundered by other demon kings less?

According to the Canyon Relativity Theory, if his experience intake decreases and I plunder the experience he should have eaten, then wouldn't I win twice?

Monster snatching…

Then it would require using 'my magic' to slay the monsters that ought to belong to them.

One cat definitely won't do; we need many cats.

Puppet…

Transmissibility…

"Meow!"

"I've thought of it!"

(●ↀωↀ●)✧

……

Second level of B56 Dungeon.

Today is another day when the miner goblins diligently reclaim land.

Clink clank, it's the sound of a hoe striking the rock beside the crystal ore.

Two diligent mine goblins were conducting a diligent round of mining on the ore that had regrown at the edge of the passage.

But what made the mine goblin Xiao Xiong a little unhappy was that their boss, Chief Mine Goblin Da Lang, was still whipping them with a whip as usual.

Unhappy…

Ga ji ga ji ga ji.

What can he do when angry? He's merely a lowly mine goblin, not knowing if he'll survive until he evolves into a Senior Mine Goblin.

Today I dug up a lot of beautiful crystals, a full cart, ga ji.

Tonight I should be able to get a fragrant potato from the Chief Mine Goblin, meow!

Huh…?

Ga ji ga ji, why am I speaking like this, meow?

Meow?

Meow!

(●ↀωↀ●)!!!!

At that moment, the mine goblins' expressions all turned into Cat's likeness.

Damn worker, ga ji I quit, meow!

Thus, the angry mine goblin Xiao Xiong lifted his hoe and struck his coworker's head.

Ga ji!!!

A headshot attack caused the mine goblin to collapse directly onto the ground, his head full of little stars.

Ah, Xiao Xiong is hungry; one potato a day just isn't enough, meow!

This fainted mine goblin seems unable to wake up, meow?

Mine goblin Xiao Xiong looked at his fallen coworker nearby, and his saliva uncontrollably flowed out of his mouth.

Ga ji ga ji, what am I doing?

Forget it, so fragrant, so fragrant, meow!

He stood up, not even wiping the liquid from his mouth, mine goblin Xiao Xiong picked up his hoe and headed toward another passage.

He's so hungry, meow.

Ga ji want to eat more food, want to eat tastier food than potatoes, meow!

Ga ji?!

Meow!

After a series of clink clanks, the only sound left in this passage was the noise of tearing flesh.

"Huh… looks like the effect isn't bad?"

The Cat watching from the side evaluated his work thus.

After eating the flesh and internal crystals of his own kind, this little mine goblin's strength increased significantly.

Having hunted four mine goblins, the worker's panel now shows obvious changes.

【Mine Goblin】

【Level: lv26】

【EXP: 2600/3700】

【HP: 720】

【MP: 20】

【Constitution: 37】

【Strength: 408】

【Agility: 140】

【Intelligence: 23】

【Special Status: Meowification】:

Starting from the mind, it gradually meowifies, and exhibits behavior contrary to normal;

It will gradually become aggressive, with strength and HP receiving abnormal boosts;

After the virus Cat completely invades the body, it will gradually move toward demise.

【Special Status: Mutation】: Overdrawing life force to increase one's own attribute values.

Comprehensive increase of HP and strength, and continuous weakening of intelligence, will cause this mine goblin to gradually move toward self-demise.

Huh… for such brainless little creatures as mine goblins, this might be an epic-level intelligence enhancement?

Forget it, that's not important.

What matters is, just as Cat expected when first designed, after the mine goblin hunted two more of its own kind, it decisively rushed to the nest of the Senior Mine Goblin and engaged in battle.

While tearing the Senior Mine Goblin to death, this body had also reached its limit of endurance.

The mine goblin collapsed with a thud, foaming at the mouth and convulsing all over.

【Hunted 7 monsters, experience increased by 500 points】

Nice!

Monsters controlled by the virus Cat, when hunted, have this achievement counted toward the master Cat.

Just like before, he successfully snatched away the experience of at least seven monsters from an unknown demon lord.

First, the poor demon lord lost seven monsters, and let the Cat get a free batch of experience;

Second, the value that those seven monsters could have created was also completely snatched by the Cat!

Nice.

With this virus Cat, the plan to spread to the surrounding dungeons also has a vanguard.

In short, let's throw the dungeons into chaos!

Well... let Xiaohei No. 5 shoulder this important task.

Xiaohei No. 5 will be teleported to each dungeon, spread the virus Cat, and then wait for harvesting.

However, the only regrettable thing about this magic is that the loot cannot be retrieved.

Every part of a monster's body is a treasure that can be squeezed; eating the meat raises stats, eating the crystal strengthens level and grants skills.

Hmm...

Also, after a host dies, the Cat will devour the host's corpse and return to the 'base'.

This isn't a complicated spell; we just need to process the 'shadow', setting the initial point, i. e., the base, in Pikachu Village.

Anyway, these meat Cats won't eat themselves; just let Pikachu and the others eat them to get stronger.

As a leader, he still has this most basic willingness to sacrifice.

In that case, can the Frost General stored in his shadow also be eaten?

Roast it, sprinkle some salt?

Excellent ingredients often need only the simplest preparation to reveal their plain, unadorned deliciousness.

Then... does this giant count as an excellent ingredient?

Hmm... can it really be tasty?

By the way, are the crystals tasty? Crunching them raw?

At the thought of eating, the Cat suddenly realized something extremely important that he had always overlooked.

Although his rating is zero, he's still a monster, after all!

Even if this trial doesn't give experience, he can still find experience packs for himself!

He just needs to gnaw the Frost General's crystal, and that's it, right?

What do you mean no experience? It's just no double experience!

But... are his teeth that strong?

Thinking so, the Cat poked around in his shadow with his tail, and relying on his elongated tail, he finally managed to pull out that crystal, as large as a stack of over a hundred Cats.

"Gloop."

Looking at this huge gray crystal, the Cat's fear of giant objects flared up a bit.

The nausea from drinking the blood potion now feels like a lump in his throat; he glanced at the size of the crystal's cross-section, then opened his own mouth.

""

Magic Prism Cut.

Under the Cat's tail's perfect blade work, at this moment the huge crystal was cut into countless pieces, each the size of a candy that the Cat could eat in one bite.

He rolled one up, tossed it into his mouth, crack crack.

【You consumed 'Frost Demon General Crystal Fragment' *1】

【You gained a small amount of experience】

【You consumed 'Frost Demon General Crystal Fragment' *1】

【You gained a small amount of experience and understanding of ice-attribute magic】

【You gained a small amount of experience and a small permanent HP boost】

Eating it as a snack seems okay too?

This small amount of experience ranges from 10 to 200 points; the various sporadic stat bonuses range from 1 to 10 points.

Although the amount is small, but... looking at the crystal fragments stuffed full in his magic pouch, the Cat's urge to eat more rose again.

When will this eating ever end?

Moreover, if he keeps eating this crystal as a continuous buff, what if he also slays other monsters during this period?

This... this heck, he can't possibly finish eating it!!

Breakfast crystal, lunch crystal, dinner crystal, midnight snack, every meal...

Ahhhh!

(╯°Д°)╯︵┻━┻

Cat can't take it anymore.

Why must we always torment the poor Cat in places like this?

What did he do wrong?

Did he commit some heinous crime?

In his past life he didn't have any gluttony sin; does he deserve such punishment?

Although he really was a bit gluttonous in his past life, he's not the kind of Cantonese who doesn't even spare Fujianese, is he?

He really can't eat any more!

Isn't there any simple way for him to directly absorb the crystal's energy?

""

Seems not.

The crystal itself is a condensed form of energy.

Although eating it doesn't give a feeling of fullness, constantly eating it really makes the Cat a bit unable to bear it.

But there are too many things the Cat can't accept; reality won't give him a plan B just because he can't accept them. The little Cat can only be forced to accept everything, silently rolling up a handful of crystals with his tail, stuffing them into his mouth, and chewing with a gnaw gnaw.

The only thing worth celebrating is that, thanks to this batch of experience, the Cat has officially reached level 8, and there are still heaps of crystals left...

If he eats them all, even though the experience needed for his own upgrade seems absurdly high, reaching level 15 is definitely no problem.

The Sword Saint said the first wave of 10th-level evolution, he could still drag it out and work hard to brush up the numbers.

Just…! Is his experience bar really not written wrong?

From 8 to 9, it actually needs a full 5k experience points?

No wonder the Demon Kings are all driven crazy—who can stand such a long experience bar?

If the Hero's level-up also has a justice bonus, his Cat…… is the first to join the God-Slaying Small Team!

Carrying lots of, thick, almost drowning the small cat in despair, he decided to return to the fourth layer to check on his subjects, the Pikachus.

Just……

When he was transmitting to the big tree where the anchor point had just been set, he shockingly discovered—how does this fourth layer feel not right anywhere??

When he looked before, it should, seemed, definitely not look like this?