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人間とモンスターの距離As・Ashilica the ARMORED QUEEN BASILISK

The great me is one called Ashilica the ARMORED QUEEN BASILISK, Ranka of Kings of the Southern Region of this forest Island. A few days after the battle for that would determine the fate of the Island Forest for some reason I have been christened with this name.

I believe the one who named me would be the human who joined forces with us to repel the invasion of GOBLIN and ORC hordes. I did not know why but I kind of like this name, so left it there and somehow find myself introducing myself with this name to all my subordinates and even to the other RANKA of Kings.

The great me had woken up early today which is quite unlike me as I am a quite the heavy sleeper. But, I have to be punctual if only for this time after all it is the time for me to duel with that upstart RANKA of KING in the East.

I just became RANKA of KING 12 Cycles of the Moons prior (12 months in monster world). It took me 10 generations to get to this RANKA, the GOBLIN KING, ORC KING, MASTER ALPHA GORGILAZ and the ARMORED QUEEN ARMADOGU must have gone through the same or longer to achieve that RANKA.

Yet the new RANKA of KING of the East only achieved it in a fortnight. According to the sources, he was wounded in petty battle and lost his sanity. He would have become a Demon Lord but his MANA was too small for him to turn into one, he should have died but somehow his will was great and instead the world compromise with him and RAISED his RANKA to KING.

I hated him, for him to be so young and gotten that RANKA and so today I will be whopping his behind and teach him his place. Fufufufu.

*****

Monster Premonitions are roughly categorized into: RISING of RANKA, TRANSFORMATION, DOMINANCE and DEATH. There other categories, but this four are the most prominent.

The RISING of RANKA promises the monster an increase in Social Order in the Monster Society, like getting the RANKA of ELDERS or RANKA of KINGS.

TRANSFORMATION is a Premonition that promises one in becoming a DEMON LORD or DUNGEON CORE and sometimes but very rare we get transformed into humans or other animals.

The DOMINANCE promises great victory in our endeavors and long lived almost immoral existence.

And DEATH – DEATH promises ones demise.

.PREMONITION {

10 generations after being born from this world, a life of dominance shall be given leading to your kind absolute power.

12 Cycles of the Moon after past the island shall surface and hordes of mischievous evil born from the west will enflame the east rendering your senses dull.

In the state of confusion the vile king born from an Aberration and a Huma shall slay the King of the South.

}

This was how it was sung in upon my birth. And from that I was promised with two Premonitions: RISING of RANKA and DEATH. In the vague images in that dream like Premonition, I saw myself becoming a RANKA of KING and died 12 moons after it I would die. According to those images, my death seems to be caused with me unable to fight the GOBLIN KING properly due to the heavy stench from the burned trees in the Eastern Forest.

Just like everyone who has seen the Premonition of DEATH, we often try our best to try and defer this Premonition of Death. But no matter how one get stronger, everyone has told me that they had never seen this premonition deferred.

But, I was not just going to lie down and say ‘here I am you may kill me now’, we monsters also have our own will and our dictate from our natural instinct -that is to Live.

*****

It should not be so easy to defeat us BASILISKs, after all we have our hard armor and from our body we excrete both liquids that would render even dragons poisoned and paralyzed. But there are thing I needed to do in order to supplement that strength all for deferring that Premonition of Death.

First, since fire and smoke seems to be the reasons to render me unable to fight properly, as a countermeasure for that I decided to change the terrain of my home to a swamp where it would be abundant with water to help my Magic Core gather the needed water for my magic to activate easily.

Another countermeasure I saw implemented to defer that dreaded fate is to increase my brethren to guard me during my combat against that little shitty king from the west. However, this was proving to be quite of a dilemma.

BASILISKs like most of our lizard brethren were having a hard time producing eggs. While I can do it asexually, through parthenogenesis it had a great risk of producing hatchlings which were not yet immune to our poison to be killed.

I can take this problem if I go through sexual reproduction, as the male partner could just secrete the needed liquid to fertilize the female ovum without excreting that very poison. However, there were no suitable males who fancied me. They were either too scared of me or too impotent to fertilize me.

So really, I just went with the first choice and laid eggs asexually laying 500 eggs but of that number I had laid soon before becoming the RANKA of King of the Southern part of this island, only 152 survived the conception stage due to poisoning.

There were other things I did to make sure that will become protected from the invading Goblin Horde.

For one, I made sure to proclaim my authority in the southern side of the island by asserting my dominance over them. I made sure all Queen-like existence of all insects in the southern side is under my power of authority.

By doing this I made sure that they will eliminate any monsters that are not dominant in the southern area, as soon as they enter the southern side of the island.

I myself made sure that the strong Western or Eastern monsters will not trespass my territory at any cost.

As a last measure for this dreaded fate, I also made sure to hunt and lessen the number of those vile evil little things known as GOBLINS. I was relentless in the hunt and made sure they do not grow too big to come up with any invasion army. Whether this succeeds or not will determine my fate

With these preparations hopefully I would be able to defer my demise… I prayed to the gods and goddesses they will.

*****

Then the day I became the RANKA of King finally arrived, there was no night I would sleep without count the changing of cycles of the moon above me, for after the 12th cycle of that beautiful moon marked the day my death would welcome me.

I so did not want to sleep… I dreaded waking up for tomorrow. But it was growing near and there was no way for me to stop the days from moving from ever moving forward. I’ll just hope that the countermeasures I had laid beforehand will somehow be able to help me defer the fate promised to me by the Premonition of Death.

*****

Then one day I had smelled fire from the eastern forest one day, I knew it was all over I could feel it in my embers, I fretted thinking that there could have been other things that I could have done to stop this day from coming, or at least make sure that I can survive it?

But nothing came up in my mind the strong stench was starting to delude my sense of smell. I can hear death inching close to me… But then something that I did not see or hear in my Premonition had occurred.

A strong howl, no not just any howl but a Howl of Submission echoed in the eastern forest and from that howl the fires that should have engulf the forest to flames rendering the whole island reeking with the stench of scent of burning ash was somehow stopped.

I waited for the Goblin Orc to arrive and bring forth my demise but… he was nowhere in sight.

‘Is today not the day?’ I asked myself unsure if the day was indeed not the day. But, No I was sure of it. I have counted the cycle of the moons and more than that I was sure I felt my impending doom of that demise. Then just as soon after I felt that indescribable feeling of fear, with just one howl the feeling of fear stopped.

The GOBLIN KING who was supposed to come to me also did arrive, I guess it was only reasonable after all the even the GOBLIN KING could not fight me when I am at full strength.

What had happen?

*****

A few days after my supposedly death two RANKA of KINGs with a human in tow approached me they seem to have made an alliance to expel the GOBLIN and ORC hordes.

The two kings were the RANKA of KING of the West, the MASTER ALPHA GORGILAZ who exudes a wise demeanor unbefitting a monster who only acts with instinct.

The other was none other than the young RANKA of KING of the eastern forest who was supposed to have been the one to use the Howl of Submission that stopped the flames from spreading. If he really is the one who had helped me I needed to thank him for saving me, I needed to fight him. fufufufu

After our small talk, which ended with my victory even if I chose it to be a draw, I joined this so called alliance to expel the GOBLIN and ORC hordes.

You do not have to be sad with this draw, just wait little Upstart King, I will be getting your ass kicked once this battle is over.

*****

The morning after the end of the battle just before waking up, something that was never told to me by any of my predecessors visited me in a form of a dream. It was a second Premonition.

.PREMONITION {

Deferring the fates once foretold, ye be granted dominance over the southern island for eons.

Be proud king of south, your prayers have finally been answered.

}

From the new images and the lyrics of the song praising my defiance I was able to officially say that I have indeed successfully deferred my PREMONITION of DEATH.

Not only that, from the looks of it I was also promised the Premonition of DOMINANCE, which granted me a long life to protect my territory and current lifestyle. I was so happy I could not contain it. I needed to find a way to celebrate this jubilation… I really will have to knock a few lessons to that upstart how a true ruler fights. Fufufufuffu.

“You are not to cause fatal injury or death with your partners…” the one who was giving out the rules for our match is the only remaining King of the West. I believe his name is Wiezer. “…with that the match begins… now!”

“Don’t be too reckless you two.” a kind reminder of the old lady King of the North, Armorica.

“’Fufufu’ b*tch…” shouted the upstart King of East, Kizuari. “This time will be my win, for sure.”

The Huma who was part of this gallery was saying something, but since I can’t speak or understand Human language, I could only nod at him. From the looks of it he is probably just worried about this battle at least that is how I saw it in his facial expression.

But there is no need to be worried, after all this is merely a thank you to the one that who has saved me.

“Come at me upstart king!” I taunted, I need this upstart gains the experience of a true king, befitting the title of RANKA of KINGS.