Reincarnated and Regressed Villain - Make heroines beg for forgiveness

359  Chapter 359 - Finally Use of Horses

'Are the Grim Worms refilled?' Ryuk, moving towards the main palace and followed by Sam, inquired of the system about the Grim Worms, which he had been informed about several days ago.

While maintaining a steady pace and not leaving Sam behind—for they were in a place where he could be taken hostage at any moment.

[ Yes, today's amount is filled. ]

"Uncle...what should I call you?" Sam asked, moving while holding a ring in his hand, looking at it as he judged if it was suitable to give to his big sister. He finally decided to seek confirmation on what he should call Ryuk.

"Uncle? I am hardly a few years older than you," Ryuk replied while scrolling through the system window to check the condition of his enslavement grimoire.

To be specific, while inside this place, he had thought about why he couldn't control a mass amount of people.

The limitations were that he needed to touch each of them or transmit it through a means, but that was a small amount.

Just like how if he were to touch someone, he could influence them with his enslavement grimoire.

However, if he were to give it to a person, that person would not be able to infect more than two or three individuals.

This meant that if he enslaved an individual, it wasn't like that individual would spread it like a virus to multiple people.

There was a limit of two or three people at maximum if he wanted it to spread intentionally.

Regarding this, he was researching this particular issue with the system to understand if there was a solution to his problem—where he could use his enslavement grimoire like a virus, infecting and controlling numerous individuals.

It may initially seem overpowered that he had the ability to enslave anyone, regardless of their strength—just like Drishti—but the issue was that they needed to be close to him, or he needed to transmit it himself or through some object.

Even then, the effect of his ability would vanish on non-living things after a limited amount of time.

Finally, after researching, he learned that the enslavement grimoire heavily relied on Grim Worms, which were the basic carriers of his abilities' remnants to any individual whom he infected.

These worms' lifespans on living things were infinite, but for non-living things, it was just a few days or weeks.

Thus, thinking about placing them on clothes or objects delivered to someone after a year to get infected was not feasible.

Additionally, another hurdle was the number of Grim Worms he could produce per day.

Considering it was synthesized by the system, it was limited to 500 people per day.

This meant that if he started using his enslavement grimoire to enslave people, he could enslave only up to 500 people daily.

This was definitely an enormous amount if he were to enslave many strong individuals, but again the issue was that he needed to touch them or have Grim Worms enter their bodies through the aforementioned methods, which were not sustainable in the long term.

After all, he couldn't expect people like Drishti to roam around and meet him daily. This led him to research ways to spread the Grim Worms like a chain reaction.

The system said there was no method to increase the number of Grim Worms produced per day, but he found a sustainable way, something that could be considered a loophole but was also a self-discovered solution by him.

"Wh-what!? But why do you look so big, like an uncle!?" Sam was flabbergasted, halting as he looked toward the man beside him, who looked at least ten years older than him.

With a muscular physique, a heavy masculine voice, and a mature aura, Sam always thought he was definitely around the age of his father.

"Puberty, growth hormones, and all. Don't you know that?" Ryuk couldn't reveal that his memories were from the future, but given that his body was naturally much larger than his age due to the Devereaux bloodline enhancing his overall growth from an early stage, he appeared to be at least two or three years older than his current age. He replied while resting his hands in his pockets and looking toward Sam.

"Oh, puberty, hmm, what's that?" Sam tilted his head, inquiring as he pressed both hands over his head and continued walking, having never heard of such a thing.

The growth hormones he possessed were like giving him strength; being a Dariant, his body automatically converted the nearby mana into physical strength.

"That's—" Ryuk began, but before he could complete his thought, he suddenly saw four light streaks arriving in front of him one after another, as if teleporting, revealing cloaked figures with three horses and a man on one of their shoulders.

"Liege, as per your instructions, we come to greet you before leaving for the lower town."

One after another, all four figures knelt, giving him a bow as their sharp orange eyes, hidden behind the mask of their trench coats, concealed their personas.

Instantly, due to the pressure formed by their ranks, the whole area was filled with dense mana, pushing away all internal energy around the venue.

Those cloaked figures wanted to add more, but they kept their words limited to the asked question while noticing the steps of their liege as he made his way toward the horses.

Approaching the horses, Ryuk stretched out his hand and placed it on one of them.

[ Activating Grim Worm transfer. ]

The system once again activated the same process Ryuk had been using for so long, employing the horses as power banks to store his Grim Worms.

Indeed, the reason he had kept bringing these horses, along with Liu Wei until this place, was that he wanted to use them as bombs.

Considering that Grim Worms can only survive indefinitely inside living organisms, he decided to use these horses as storage tanks for his Grim Worms, which would act like explosives to spread around like pandemic viruses.

What could be a better place to find so many strong individuals gathered in one location than in a battle between Vampires and Cultivators?

NEIGHH!

The horse he had touched suddenly galloped as visibly its eyes and body started to turn black, as if a black liquid were moving over its layer of skin.

Though not visible, it appeared as if insects were crawling.

Thousands, millions of insects were moving inside its body, touring through it as it appeared to scream in pain; but again, it was not harming it, but just living inside. Nôv(el)B\\jnn

But again, sacrifices needed to be made in hope of achieving his goals.

'!?'

'This....' One of the cloaked figures noticed a black liquid trickling out of the horse as it automatically moved within it, causing his eyes to narrow.

He recalled noticing such a black substance entering his own body a few months ago when he first wore the clothes bestowed upon him by his liege, but he didn't doubt it at that time as he found no anomaly in his body.

It appeared that not only he, but also Ryuk had noticed his body language and reaction, considering he had intentionally let a few drops of Grim Worm trickle down to see what reaction this cloaked figure would have.

He leaned in closer, reaching the height of that figure, and said in a sharp and devilish tone,

"You...lack control over your reaction."