-----

As Chaos began to wonder which skills to fuse first whenever he was to get the special accessory he asked Edward to make, an enormous colony of mimic monsters emerged, which were all fused as if it were a man-o-war, resembling an enormous titan of over 15 meters of height.

"GGRROOAARR!"

It roared with its multiple jaws as it released a deadly crimson-red aura from its body. Chaos noticed this presence as he quickly detected that this monster's power was around peak X-Rank! Perhaps around the same power as the Blazing Fire Dragon, to boot!

However, was that enough for a challenge?

Chaos quickly decided to ask his team members to gang on it, as he glanced at the massacre unfold.

Belphegor, Dura, Abyss, Natalia, and Erebus rushed towards the enormous monster, beginning to shower it with techniques.

Searing phantasmal flames even hurt a few of its multiple souls, as the beast groaned in agony. Dura's flames also added to the burning pain. Although the creature also had a powerful shell defense, as it used multiple stacked shells that resembled walls, ceilings, bricks, and stairs to defend itself, blocking the fire!

CLASH!

However, Natalia quickly focused her mind as she generated an enormous blade made of the crystallization of blood, rushing towards it and cracking the shell!

CRASH!

However, the beast groaned as it used its fleshy tentacles to take away the blade and regenerate the lost shell, a bad choice.

Abyss rushed towards its rear as the monster was busy, using her monstrous size and mass, she shaped her entire body as a fist and punched the monster into the sides, sending it flying into the ceiling and making it fall down once more. Many of its shells quickly broke apart as the soft and tender meat inside was revealed.

Natalia began to attack it with her amazing speed, with seemed to surpass all other members except Chaos. She was a specialized assassin/rogue/thief-type of girl, so her amazing speed was to be expected. Although her offense was not so good, after she became a Chaos Dhampir, her power over her own blood strengthened and she gained many new abilities.

She polished them and trained them through this small window of time since then, and was now showcasing it as she bathed the monster's tender flesh with hundreds of consecutive slashing attacks using knives coated in her blood for extra damage dealt!

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

Perhaps her damage output was low, but she merely needed to abuse her incredible speed and her dagger techniques and Jobs to rush towards the monster and bathe it with a multitude of attacks per second!

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

Meanwhile, several blades made of crystalized blood emerged all around her, which she controlled wonderfully, spinning around with her slim and beautiful body, slashing through everything with amazing precision and dexterity!

Erebus quickly rushed into the foe as well, as he shaped his darkness into spears of shadows and sent them straight into the monster, impaling it from all sides!

Belphegor and Dura combined their efforts and burned through the monster, while Abyss continued to hit it so it wouldn't run away.

Chaos pleasantly nodded, as he saw the monster being overwhelmed and promptly slaughtered in less than five minutes by the combined power of his servants.

He saw as each one gained a shared amount of life essence from killing it, those of lower rank like Erebus, Dura, and Natalia ranked up a few ranks slowly, approaching the peak of X-Rank and then Pseudo Demi Deity!

"Good work, now let's enjoy this a bit," said Chaos.

Chaos quickly unpacked some stuff from his inventory and enjoyed the grilled meat of the Giant Mimic Colony with everyone. Even Belphegor was able to eat, it was something he was able to do after becoming a Pseudo Demi Deity, which had happened just today.

His flames were still of spectral and phantom nature, but he was now having some hint of divinity within his power. Of course, he didn't have any crazy change of appearance, but he did get even bigger. Looking rather intimidating as he was a skull the size of an elephant coated in flames…

"I never thought that eating would feel this good! I have discovered a new and wonderful sensation, and it is all thanks to my lord," said Belphegor.

Undead that reached Pseudo Demi Deity Realm had several new powers, one of them was the ability to consume things and absorb their essence into mana, making them self-sustainable and without the need for external mana to nourish themselves. In fact, they began to produce their own mana in greater quantities.

Although still, the necessity to eat wasn't really existent in them, as they didn't felt hunger, but did still enjoy eating, well, some of them, Ainz seemed to not eat at all, and instead cultivated his Mana Core to enhance his Mana Reserves to even greater levels. Although it was said that when he died, he had around 50 million mana, which he had gathered through his entire life…

Meanwhile, Chaos had been born with two times that amount of mana and was now over double that amount in just around a week since he was born. His progress was more than outstanding, it was insane.

Chaos and his group enjoyed a 30-minute break where they ate a lot. Chaos ate most of it, of course, as even Abyss or Belphegor didn't seem to have a bottomless stomach as he did.

He also ate the shells and anything there could be, acquiring some more power and even new Skills.

Ding!

[You learned the following Skills]

[Body Division]

[Body Assimilation]

[Compound Body]

[Colony Connection]

…

This time Chaos only got four Skills, but all four of them seemed useful on their own accords. All of them seemed to bring insane new capabilities to his repertoire, things that perhaps no vampire or dragon would ever be capable of doing, or at least at such a young age…

Chaos felt as if his entire body structure changed while using these Skills, something that might drive mad anyone, but not him…

-----