The Extra Prince Sets Out To Conquer The World

I looked around and oriented the map to match the actual terrain.

It seemed the map wasn’t drawn to an accurate scale, probably because it wasn’t measured by machines.

Well, it couldn’t be helped since this region was too dangerous to leisurely observe the topography and features.

“That looks like Chicken Head Rock… So around here should be good.”

I climbed the mountain and reached the starting point of the operation.

Now, from here, I just need to move northwest while attacking the monster swarms scouted by the rangers.

The reason for advancing from the bottom up is to avoid sending monsters downward as much as possible, and driving monsters to the west is to avoid interfering with the Red Eyes subjugation that will take place in the east.

“Don’t need the map anymore.”

I sent out 30 bat-shaped scouting dolls high into the sky in all directions.

The bat dolls that quickly scattered around emitted ultrasonic waves to scout the surrounding terrain.

The scouted information immediately appeared as a map interface to my right.

Scouting dolls have the disadvantage of being easily detected by enemy mages and cannot be used in wars between countries, but there’s nothing better when dealing with monsters.

“Let’s see.”

I repeatedly zoomed in and out of the map interface to observe the surroundings.

With each doll covering a diameter of about 500 meters, theoretically, 30 should be able to cover tens of kilometers.

However, since the surrounding area was rugged mountainous terrain, in reality, only a few kilometers appeared on the map, far narrower than that.

Of course, it was still incomparably better than the roughly made map.

A few kilometers is wide for a mini-map.

“According to the mana reaction, there are five monster swarms just in this vicinity.”

Most monsters that handle mana possess magic stones.

Then, it’s no big deal to locate the swarms by detecting the faint mana waves emitted by the magic stones.

In this vicinity, there were 300 small, 200 medium, 500 small, 50 large, and 1400 small monsters gathered respectively.

It would be fine to defeat them all individually, but that would take too long.

The enemy isn’t an army made up of people with reason. Then, I should thoroughly exploit that point.

“Silua, for now, I’ll ask for just 50.”

At my instruction, Silua flicked her fingers and brought out 50 as if summoning them.

Then, the locations of the dolls were marked on the map with numbers.

Interface synchronization confirmed, mana remaining amount confirmed, location signal confirmed, movement synchronization confirmed, damage status confirmed…

“Move!”

Following my command, the steel spider dolls quickly scattered and moved in all directions.

As a preemptive strike force, 5 dolls reached the closest and smallest group of 200 orc swarm.

According to the footage sent by the dolls, there were spotted patterns under the eyes.

I thought they were just orcs, but Gilbert, who saw the footage, said,

“They are Poison Orcs. Poison doesn’t work well on them, and they have poison glands in their necks to spit out poison. They said they’re rare, as expected of Bastille.”

“Really? That’s good. Even with a small number, they’re threatening.”

I made the dolls detour north and attack the orcs with mana bullets.

Perhaps because they can’t cannibalize due to the poison, the orcs looked quite starved. The poison doesn’t work well, but it’s not that it doesn’t work at all.

If controlled well, I could annihilate them with just 5 dolls using the terrain, but I only killed a dozen with long-range attacks and made the dolls retreat northeast.

The orcs mistook the dolls for prey and started chasing.

Before long, the 5 dolls reached a swarm of 50 large monsters…

“What monsters are those? Manticore?”

At my question, Gilbert immediately replied.

“They are monsters called Manticores. According to records, they are quite troublesome as they are strong and have a habit of forming groups. But they don’t leave their territory well, so the danger level isn’t that high if countermeasures are well prepared.”

Seeing Gilbert reciting the characteristics of the monsters, I asked,

“How do you know?”

“I thought it would be easier to deal with Geor’s dolls if I knew the characteristics of the monsters, so I looked it up and read in the library. There were quite a variety of types. It was more interesting than I thought!”

At Gilbert’s lively answer, I suddenly felt sorry.

Doesn’t it mean he became knowledgeable about monsters because of me in the end?

“…I’m glad you found it interesting.”

“Yes!”

The words that they don’t leave their territory well mean that they have a strong obsession with their territory, which is very good.

I should lure them here.

The Manticores only observed without attacking as I checked other monster swarms.

There was a swarm of red-scaled six-legged lizard monsters, a swarm of bear monsters with thorny fur, and a swarm of large hobgoblins.

I attacked each monster swarm with dolls and lured them into the Manticores’ territory with a time difference.

First, the Poison Orc swarm reached the Manticores’ territory.

The Manticores, with their keen sense of smell, immediately noticed the intrusion and attacked the orc horde with a brutal howl.

The Poison Orcs resisted, spitting out poison, and while the two forces fought, the dolls quickly retreated by climbing trees.

“Wow, the Manticores are strong.”

“Indeed.”

Gilbert and I admired and watched the fight with interest.

The Poison Orcs were massacred without being able to properly resist.

However, perhaps due to the habit of biting their necks to kill, about forty of them seemed to be poisoned after eating the poison from the orcs’ poison glands.

Intoxicated and staggering, trying to return to their nest, the swarm of over a thousand hobgoblins rushed in at that moment.

The Manticores roared with fury and began biting the lowly hobgoblins to death.

This time, perhaps because there was no poison, they fed as they killed.

“These crazy bastards!”

I was shocked by the crazy behavior of the hobgoblins.

The hobgoblins, instead of the strong Manticores, had their eyes turned to the fallen Poison Orcs on the ground and began scavenging.

Half of the goblin horde died from poisoning, and the other half were bitten to death by the Manticores. It was due to too long of starvation.

“The phrase ‘hell on earth’ is really no exaggeration.”

Gilbert clicked his tongue. I covered Silua’s eyes so she couldn’t see.

It was too gory for a child to see.

“Me too! I want to see too!”

“Oh no! You can’t! Here, Silua, try solving the puzzle I made.”

I handed Silua a special wisdom ring I made when I was bored while repairing dolls.

“Hmph.”

Silua made a crying sound but soon focused on the wisdom ring.

That poison looks useful, so I should collect it later.

I then lured the lizards and bears into the Manticores’ territory as well.

The poisoned Manticores couldn’t withstand the onslaught and eventually fell, and the remaining bears and lizards fought each other to eat one another.

In the end, only a dozen wounded bears survived.

I moved the dolls to completely eliminate the last surviving monsters and the young ones remaining in the swarms and collected the magic stones.

“I had a few other strategies in mind, but looking at the results, it wouldn’t be bad to use this tactic as is.”

Operating 50 units seemed like a waste of power, so I decided to reduce it to 30 and increase the scouting dolls for more detailed exploration.

“Hmm… Looking at it, I guess the worst thing is people after all.”

Gilbert muttered an obvious impression upon seeing the sight I created, and realizing his mistake, he panicked.

“Ah! I didn’t mean that you are bad, Prince!”

I flicked his forehead with mana in my fingers.

Flick!

A crisp sound rang out, perhaps because I put mana in my fingers.

“I know. And get used to calling me Young Master. Don’t call me Prince every time you’re flustered.”

“Tsk! I’m sorry.”

Gilbert bowed his head, shedding a few tears.

I drew out mana with all my might and scattered the dolls to the west of the mountain range in 30 units of 120 formations.

Now is the time to concentrate.

The Red Eyes ran westward.

The thick smell of blood wafting from the entire western mountain range stimulated the Red Eyes’ hunger.

It had been over half a month since it woke up, recovering from an injury that was over 20 years old.

When it first woke up, it caught and ate small monsters nearby due to extreme hunger, but the digestive organs that had stopped functioning for 20 years didn’t want to move right away.

As a result, it had no choice but to vomit everything it had eaten.

The Red Eyes, with only skin left on its body, forcibly swallowed to survive.

When it absolutely couldn’t swallow, it at least gulped down the blood.

After three or four days like that, its digestive organs finally started moving.

From the point it could eat something, the Red Eyes started devouring anything it could get its hands on.

It ate to the extent that the damage this spring would be drastically reduced due to the Red Eyes.

After eating monsters exceeding its own body weight for over half a month like that, a bit of the hunger began to subside, but it was still far weaker compared to before falling asleep.

“Grrr!”

The Red Eyes instinctively followed the smell of blood, and there it found piles of mangled monster corpses.

For the Red Eyes, who had to save its strength to the extreme, it was like a well-set dining table.

Crunch! Chomp!

The Red Eyes began eating the monsters in a hurry and quickly digested them.

Having recovered its size more than before the meal, the Red Eyes headed to another dining table set elsewhere.

Like Hansel and Gretel following bread crumbs.

I rode on a doll, moving and continuously manipulating the interface.

“Vice Master. Reporting that the average magic stone remaining of units 544 to 757 and 2325 to 2413 has decreased to less than 30 percent.”

“Vice Master. Reporting that the armor damage rate of units 244, 246, and 250 has exceeded 70 percent.”

On either side of me, Zillians No. 5 and No. 6 reported information, and I moved the dolls according to those reports.

I was a fool for trying to process all the information alone.

If I have operators reciting information like this, I only need to manipulate the movements of the dolls.

I should make use of assistants I can utilize.

“Send unit 3405 to Mount Heer with magic stones, send unit 3406 to Mount Dier. Call the damaged dolls back to the base… Zillian No. 7, how many spare exoskeleton armors are left?”

“Searching the library for information regarding Vice Master’s question, ‘How many spare exoskeleton armors are left?’ Search results show a total of 137 remaining.”

“Phew, it’s still fine, but I made a mistake.”

While moving over 3,000 dolls at once, I sometimes had control errors and made them charge head-on into monster swarms.

As I sighed, Silua, who was eagerly watching the interface I was manipulating, gave me words of encouragement.

“Father said this level of large-scale doll manipulation should be moved in units of at least 100! Yuan Oppa, you’re dividing and moving them in units of 5, so it’s not that you can’t do it! Honestly, I don’t think I could do it like this either.”

At her words, I chuckled.

“You’re putting on an act. You could do it better than me.”

There was no need for her to deliberately lower herself to give me courage.

Still, it was quite fun, like playing an RTS game after a long time, engaging in battle to draw out the enemy’s movements, and collecting magic stones for supply.

“No, that’s not true!”

“Ahahaha! Okay, okay. If you say so.”

If I operate more scouting dolls, the range that can be checked on the map will widen, and I can deploy more dolls, but with the current range, operating more than 3,000 units doesn’t yield efficiency due to reasons like overlapping routes.

Of course, supply is a separate matter.

“Rather, it’s frustrating that I can’t operate more scouting dolls with my mana. It’s inefficient for the base to keep moving.”

The reason the base, meaning me, keeps moving is to find new swarms after mostly dealing with the monsters on the map.

As expected, the scouting range needs to be wider.

“Oppa is a monster!”

Silua looked at me with a slightly disgusted face.

“Ahahaha, you’re exaggerating.”

At this speed, it seemed possible to complete more than 70 percent of the target amount of subjugation before sunset.

It’s 15 times faster than the planned schedule. The 20-day planned operation will end in less than two days.

“Now, let’s take a little break…”

Gyaoooooo-!

As I was about to take a break, stretching, a cry that shook the entire body rang out from afar.

The cry that made my hair stand on end and stimulated my survival instinct was literally like the embodiment of death.

There’s a monster that makes such a cry?

“Oh no! The smell of blood!”

When I removed the wind barrier created by Navi’s power, a thick smell of blood wafted from all directions.

I could soon identify the owner of the cry coming from afar.

The Red Eyes is coming this way.