The hidden room equipped with a portal beneath Avalon in Spica Castle was a secret chamber unknown to the guests.

The room, which was strictly off-limits to anyone outside the Legion of Wrath and accessible only to legion members, was connected to a specific facility outside the walls of Ras Vegas.

"Back then we didn’t have this and had to laboriously go in and out through the underground tunnel."

In case any issues arose with the portal, we decided to keep the tunnel as well. The humans still hadn’t discovered the tunnel, and thanks to that, I could safely infiltrate enemy territory through either the tunnel or the portal.

"It feels like ages since I’ve seen you. My daughters."

I shared a warm embrace with Meri as she rushed toward me. Line, clinging to Meri’s lower abdomen, also pulled me into a hug. To meet these two, I had deliberately brought just one companion and snuck into Spica Castle.

"Isn’t it dangerous for you to come here?"

"I’d be ridiculous if I sent my daughters somewhere dangerous and said I couldn’t come visit. Anything happen, Meri? Line?"

To receive a report on the situation at Spica Castle from my two daughters dispatched there, Meri and Line, I had snuck into the hidden chamber beneath Avalon via portal.

"Let me introduce you. This is Lime. Four-star now."

"...Hello. I love you, my daughters."

"It’s Mom Lime. Outwardly she’s totally human, but yeah, this is Mom Lime."

Gurgle.

The two of them embraced Lime as soon as they saw how different she looked, beaming with joy. With two Luna-class breasts pressed together in one spot, the volume was tremendous.

"So Mom Lime, you’re four-star now? You’re so pretty. You really look human."

"Pretty much. You want to evolve too?"

"I just want to level up. I like things as they are. If I evolve I’ll get older."

Meri only leveled up and refused to evolve to ★★★. Maybe because she’d watched Lune shoot up in size after evolving, she didn’t want to age any further.

"More importantly, have you had a go with Dad yet?"

"Just a check inside."

"Geez, Dad, you’re too much. If she evolved, you should be celebrating with a proper, sloppy pounding."

"...I called you to prepare for war, you know. Is it okay for me to get scolded like this?"

It was the first time a daughter had scolded me for not taking my wife to bed. Of course I would have a go to celebrate Lime’s evolution, but if I was going to do it, doing it while drunk on victory would be best.

"Meri. I heard about your situation first. So you’re using Line as a dildo?"

"The Baroness seems to be into that. When it’s just the two of us, she keeps bringing it up. Says she has dreams of being surrounded and gang-raped by orcs."

"The succubi are doing excellent work."

Each time she shared affection with orcs in her dreams, the Baroness’s resistance to monsters would lower. The plan to use Ras to bring the Baroness over to our side seemed to be proceeding without a hitch.

"Meri. There’s nothing particularly inconvenient about Line evolving, is there?"

"Isn’t it a bit hard to be a dildo when she’s not in slime form?"

"No. I tried it with Luna and Lime together. With Lime teaching her, she can do it just fine."

Lime was already teaching Line how to make good use of the protrusion shaped like my cock.

"Once the battle ends, let’s evolve Line too. She should be able to evolve to Slimahole without much trouble."

For Line to become a Slimahole, she had to devour more than ten individuals of a specific species. With Lime, we’d used the adventurers who invaded our dungeon, but right now, unless I deliberately used a magic stone, there were no prisoners caught in the tentacle tree for Line to devour.

"If Gremory’s side captures some prisoners, that would do it. Shame. Anyway, Meri, what happened with Gray?"

"The Knight Commander picked him as adjutant and is running him ragged. Except for occasional visits to Avalon, he can hardly come here." 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

"Hmm. So Gray essentially has to be treated as the enemy in this battle."

He hadn’t actually betrayed us, but given the circumstances, he had to draw his sword against our legion. Of course, just by bringing us information about the enemy forces and key figures, his role was more than fulfilled.

"Once it’s clear we’ll win the battle, I’ll send Andras."

The moment victory drew near, Andras would appear out of nowhere, grab Gray by the shoulder with her talons, and whisk him away somewhere. That would remove Gray from the front lines.

"When Gray comes, pass this along. I’ve added another operation."

"What kind of operation? ...Oh my."

Meri smacked her lips as she looked at the operational plan I’d laid out on parchment.

"Things were pretty fun at Spica Castle, but I guess it’s time to send her off."

"Why? Did you take a liking to her? Want her? Bringing a human in as a customer for the training room opening wouldn’t be a bad idea."

"No. It’d be better for Dad to eat the snack. That way you get to do it with Mom Lime more often. Heh heh. The other moms would give you the side-eye if you snacked on the sly, wouldn’t they?"

"Yes. I’m so happy I can snack legally."

There would be no more jealousy from eating something else within the same species. There wouldn’t be. Probably.

"So Meri, what do you think of this operation?"

"It’s good. But this is basically saying you’re going to seat me in a high office at Spica Castle."

"Same goes for Gray. If we win this battle, this land will essentially be ours. The people leave, and we take Spica Castle."

The entire barony would become our land. Then the front lines would extend further, but we could just expand our forces accordingly.

"We can’t keep rolling around at the bottom forever, so it’s about time to announce the Legion of Wrath to the whole world."

The expansion of the front line wasn’t limited to just the Seizure Battles. We currently had to run on a two-track system between the Seizure Battles and the all-out war with the Human Alliance, so we couldn’t simply ignore one front to fight on the other.

"So Dad’s name will finally spread across the whole world. Heh heh, the strongest orc, Rok..."

"For external use, I’ll create an alias. After talking with Shaitan, we decided to seize the names of the dungeon owners."

For example, instead of Rok Grimfang Shek, going by something like Rok Forneus would essentially announce to the whole world that the legion’s home base was the 30th dungeon.

"I’ll create an alias for when I’m exposed. Just as Solomon is called the Demon King, I will be known to the world by a different name."

I had a name in mind. It was a name that suited me perfectly, an alias that would feel like destiny.

"To announce that to the whole world, your role in this Spica Castle assault is huge, Meri. You can do it, right?"

"I can. Since I absolutely have to. If I fail, our company’s all for nothing."

"Right. We won’t be able to use this kind of Trojan horse again going forward."

If it became widely known that Meri’s company was actually a front for a demon legion, everything would fall apart.

The sexual relief for the fairies, the magic stone extraction through the succubi, the gathering of all sorts of human wealth, all of it would become impossible. Then I’d have to wrack my brain coming up with another plan, and my grand scheme would crumble.

"Stockings must spread far and wide. I have to make one pair of stockings per woman a worldwide reality."

The dissemination of stockings was important. On this one issue alone, the Demon King and the Goddess would join hands and reach an agreement.

"Lime, I heard your concerns about the stockings. So our legion decided to use a special method."

"A special method? Dad, I thought you wouldn’t strip them off because of their defensive power."

"The Knight Commander has a sharp eye, doesn’t she? So we won’t use the stockings. In this war, all my subordinates will wear this."

I shed my black robe. To deliberately show Meri my appearance, I had come into Avalon wearing what our legion’s soldiers would wear in this battle underneath.

"What do you think?"

"Wow, Dad, you really are a genius."

"Close enough to the real thing. So? Will they catch on with this?"

"Not at all. Unless they get up close and touch it directly, they won’t notice. And even if the Knight Commander suspects, what can she do? All that’s been distributed in Spica Castle is black stockings. Heh heh."

"Right?"

I stood in front of the mirror placed in one corner of Meri’s hidden chamber.

Deep, dark black leather.

The leather armor, made by drying and weaving together the raw hides of flame lions obtained from Vapula’s sub-dungeon, had a somewhat rugged appearance.

"That union boss bastard puts his whole heart into making leather gear for SM play, but does a half-assed job on things like this. Thank goodness the orcs know how to work leather. Otherwise we really would have ended up stripping off our stockings and fighting in the nude."

"For something that started rough, it actually looks pretty serious. Lion hide is super thick and tough. Looks like an average sword wouldn’t cut through it."

"That’s the saving grace. And on top of that..."

I raised my arm. Gloves, boots, knee and elbow guards, and the exposed forearms, thighs, and joints not covered by the leather armor were all wrapped in springy gray fabric.

"This is the real deal."

"This is the..."

"Yes. Our legion’s new material, surpassing Andras thread."

The new monster species, Harpy Aello, born from mixing existing harpies with Black Ravens. The thread made from the gray feathers shed from their wings had defensive power far surpassing Andras thread.

"The quantity isn’t enough to distribute to everyone, but there’s enough for all the executive-class members. Meri, this is a gift."

I handed Meri a new outfit divided into top and bottom.

"I made the top a bit roomy considering your measurements, so you shouldn’t have any trouble wearing it."

"A gift from Dad. Can I try it on right here?"

"No."

That’s something Solomon would slap you for. I tousled Meri’s hair with my palm, then handed her one more gift I’d prepared.

"Absolutely don’t let anyone catch you with this. The gray stockings are only for the executives, but the white stockings will be worn by our entire legion. If they catch on that they’re made the same way, that’s not good. Same craftsman, same technique."

"...So demons wearing gray and white stockings. That way, black stockings will end up having no connection to the legion at all?"

"Yes. The Legion of Wrath’s signature stockings will now be black leather and white stockings. Gray for executives."

Since black stockings had already spread far too widely through the human world, if our legion fought in black stockings, the chances of putting Meri in a tight spot were high.

So by choosing gray and white for our inner armor, the legion would have no connection to black stockings whatsoever, and by prominently featuring Andras at the forefront, we’d be announcing to the whole world that the company was at odds with the legion.

"Ahh, now the fight against humanity is the fight between white stockings and black stockings."

"Stockings were made by demons? But they’re so convenient and warm! I can’t give them up!"

Until stockings spread to all of humanity and became a necessity, I had boldly excluded black stockings from our legion’s combat uniforms.

"Then Dad, when do you wear black stockings?"

"Until the day they spread far and wide and even the Goddess wears them, black stockings will be reserved for the bedroom."

"Oh my."

Meri took a step back and slightly lifted the front of her skirt.

"Then I can keep wearing black stockings, right?"

"Hail Solomon!"

I delivered a chop to the crown of the head of the teasing Meri.

"Where do you get off teasing your dad like that!"

"...Tch."

Meri was genuinely disappointed. Because of that, my own heart sank harder.

"I already feel pangs of guilt sometimes when I’m with Lime, and you’re doing this to me?"

"Tch. It’s because of Solomon, right? Worried that if you do that, your system might get confiscated."

"That’s right."

It’s because of the system that our legion can grow this far. I’d said I’d accept any fucking that wasn’t silver-hairtail fucking, but giving up the system to commit that act would mean giving up too much.

"Then... I have a good idea."

Meri approached and embraced me.

"If Dad becomes someone greater than Solomon, then there’s no problem, right? If there’s no one to call it taboo, then there’s no problem at all."

"Solomon almighty."

It was an idea I’d never once considered. I pulled Meri tight into my arms, her eyes sparkling.

"Whose intelligence did you inherit to be this smart?"

"Maybe someone whose head is full of those kinds of thoughts? Dad. I..."

Meri ran her tongue across her lips and smiled coquettishly.

"You’re not going to leave me a virgin forever, are you?"

Unifying the entire legion, and surpassing Solomon, had just gained one more reason.