The Fiend's Creation System

Propagation Plan 1

‘My name is Erika… that’s right. It’s just Erika…’

Living in the slums of Worecrest City...there’s nothing much going on for me in life. My mother was just an ordinary woman who somehow married a rich merchant but was then abandoned after it was found out that she was pregnant with me.

It’s a sob story like any other person who’s lived and grown up in the slums. It’s not anything special, even Jack from the next house over has an even worse life than I do. He was abandoned here by slave traders that couldn’t sell him off and he was captured and his family killed right in front of him just because he had a different colored skin than the rest of us.

I don’t know why there are people out there who would do such a thing. Taking away other people’s happiness without any rhyme or reason. I’m not smart, but even I know something like that is wrong.

It’s been a few years already and I’m finally an adult, however, I’ve never been able to get out of this place no matter how I tried. Working in bars or as a maid inside a wealthy person’s mansion… I always get kicked out or fired for my behavior.

However, it’s not my fault. The customers at the pub and bars I used to work at were always disrespectfully harassing me while my job as a maid, the house owner always eyed me weirdly and tried making advances on me. 

I don’t like being forced or humiliated so I’ve always retaliated. I really can’t believe scum like them are better off than humble people like me and my mother…

“Mom...wake up. Here’s your medicine…”

“Thank you, child.”

A middle-aged woman who looked quite weathered from the years of hard toiling raised her body with the help of her daughter and quickly took the medicine that was given to her. 

This woman was Eiri, Erika’s mother. She came from a humble background and had attracted the adoration of a young merchant. They had their fling and when it was found that she was carrying the merchant’s baby, but the merchant disappeared the next day and was never heard from again.

A few days after that, her family was harassed to the point where they lost their property and the small stall they were using to sell off the meat and vegetables they grew. They were forced out of their homes and made to live within Worecrest City’s slums.

Even though she didn’t want to admit it, Eiri knew that this was probably the doing of her beloved. The merchant had a reputation to keep and he wanted to ‘naturally’ silence her and her family so no one would know about his illegitimate child.

That was the life story of this single mother and daughter. One of Julius’s mimics had been scouting around the slums of this city which was located within the Auxpex Kingdom.

Julius thought that he should start with a human kingdom that was close in reach and so he began operating his mimics to find out those that were living unfortunately within the Auxpex Kingdom’s major cities.

These major cities such as Worecrest showed off the kingdom’s prosperity but at the same time its hardships as well. The most fortunate and unfortunate crowds gathered in this place.

This mother and daughter duo was one of the few prospects that Julius’s mimics had scouted. Both mother and daughter were capable of using mana but didn’t know how to because they weren’t trained.

On top of that, they had physical features that were appealing to the eye and it was a wonder why the 2 of them hadn’t been eyed by the local thugs or slave traders yet. Of course, this was only because the family was still being ‘groomed’ to perfection. They weren’t ripe for the pickings yet.

Eiri was well past her 30s now while Erika had just reached the tender age of 18 and was now an adult. Julius’s mimics already saw that some unwanted people were starting to move on to the family but he let them be.

His mimics should only interfere when the family faced despair right in the face so that they’d be more grateful after he gave them a shining ray of hope to cling on. Manipulating a creature’s feelings was going to be key to the success of this operation.

He needed those who would undoubtedly be wholeheartedly grateful to him and his fiends so that they wouldn’t rebel later in the future when things start looking up for them. He didn’t need ungrateful people like those.

Only those that truly faced or have already tasted despair would be able to appreciate hope and kindness.

Julius was only monitoring his fiends doing their job and it was quite interesting. It was like he was watching a game and it greatly entertained him.

A group of scruffy-looking men were swaggering down the streets of the slums and making their way to Eiri and Erika’s house. All of this was being monitored by a few fiends that were disguised as humans.

“Haha, it’s about time we reap the fruit we’ve sown!”

“The boss had his eyes on the family for a long time! Thankfully our client let us do what we wanted with them afterward! They’ll surely be our gang’s cash cow for the next few years!”

“Do you think the boss will let us plow them first before they get sent to the brothel?”

“A beauty like her, I bet she’s been plowed a few times before. I’m sure the boss wouldn’t mind if we do it first.”

“No, we can’t! If she turns out to be a virgin, wouldn’t the boss reward us even more after that?”

“The little one has a point! We won’t touch the daughter...but the mother, a fine lady like her...she’ll do quite nicely.”

The thugs began to chuckle but one of them said this while laughing, “I hear that she’s been sick for a few years. Careful you get the reds brother Howe!”

“f**k you!”

“Bwahaha!”

They all began to laugh together and were already close to the house. Julius’s mimics eyed these bunch apathetically. 

They weren’t going to live much longer and as for the complications that would surface from the aftermath like the underground gang’s investigation and outrage. However, Julius didn’t need to care about that because his mimics would disappear after tonight.

Julius had a strict requirement in the people he was going to take in. Not only did he do a strict background check, but he also checked whether these people had good aptitudes and nature. Plus, he needed to make sure that the people he took in were physically compatible with his fiends.

If they weren’t, then the case that happened to over a few hundred thousand soldiers during the war with the Light Alliance might happen again. The fiends were giving the humans their life essences to produce offspring so the concentration of Fiend Energy was definitely higher than the Fiend Plasm.

Diona, the woman that had successfully passed his experiment and produced the first fiend hybrid offspring, had traces of Fiend Energy left within her body that was slowly changing her.

Thankfully, she was compatible with Fiend Energy, or else she would definitely meet a horrible end once that energy began to act out due to incompatibility.

Of course, Eiri and Erika had compatibility with Fiend Energy after Julius’s mimics did some experiments on them without their knowledge. It was why they were a target and not any of the other humans living in the slums.

Others had a more tragic life than these two but they were singled out by Julius because they were compatible. These two were going to be the first human citizens of his kingdom so he needed ones that were going to be useful and not just die after a single session of breeding.

The thugs were already at the door to Erika’s house by now and Julius’s mimics monitored the situation. When Erika opened the door, one of the thugs rudely pushed his way in without permission.

Julius’s fiends naturally heard her scream but they didn’t move yet. The thugs had already cleared out the surrounding area before they made their move so no one was able to hear Erika’s scream.

The rickety old house wasn’t anything special so the sounds of struggles of the two women inside were heard by the mimics. The mimics didn’t hear the sound of despair just yet but once they heard the desperate scream for help, they immediately began moving.

Of course, only one fiend made their move. There was no need to mobilize every single one of them just to deal with a few human thugs that didn’t have a speck of combat or magical mastery at all.

Inside the house…

Erika was being pinned down on the ground with her face a little bit bruised and her lip bleeding. She had a crazed look in her eye and the one thug that was pinning her down had a cut wound on his face.

Earlier, Erika had gone to the kitchen and tried retaliating against the trespassers. She had cut the cheek of the thug pinning her down but she was beaten up in the next instant for enraging the man.

“You little b***h. I’ll show you how to pay respects to the ones who helped your miserable dog lives. You were sentenced to death but here you are, living comfortably because of us! Now you’ll naturally have to pay back this life debt!”

“f**k you! Get off of me, bastard!!!” Erika screeched from under the man.

Erika was resisting, but she began resisting even more fiercely when she felt a hand feeling her up and something hard pressing on her butt. She could already tell what this thing was so she was scared that her purity was going to be taken away right in front of her mother.

“No, no, please!”

“Oh, don’t worry. We’re keeping you nice and clean, but your mother over there...hehe, we’ll have to teach you a lesson for trying to resist us!”

“What are you fuckers―”

Before Erika could finish her words, she was struck by the thug in the face and it cut her words off.

“AH!”

“Hey! Don’t hurt the merchandise. The boss will be pissed if he sees us roughing this one up too much!”

“...Alright…Shit…stupid bitch.”

The thug smacked the girl under him on her ass before getting off of her and tying her up.

Erika’s mom had just been dragged out of her bed and thrown onto the floor right in front of her.

“M-Mom! You bastards! I’ll kill you! I’ll definitely kill you one day! Don’t touch my mother!!!”

“...Erika...it’s alright…”

Eiri recognized the head thug and knew that the day had finally come. She was hoping that her daughter would have long since disappeared from this place but after she had fallen sick, Eiri knew that her hopes were dashed.

She could only apologize secretly to her daughter for being such a deadweight to her at the most crucial juncture of her life. If her daughter had been able to get out of this place, she wouldn’t have to live in the dark future that was waiting for her now.

“Well, Eiri, I told you I’d be back. It’s come to pay your dues since we spared you and your daughter’s dog life.”

“....”

“That merchant must have had a good time with you but he was stupid to leave you here. The years haven’t been kind to you but a little touching up and you’d have the looks of a first-class w***e!”

“Please...I beg you. Just take me away and leave my daughter alone…”

“Heh, your daughter was our main objective. You’re just collateral. However, collateral can also become property.  I’ll have to inspect the goods first, though.”

The thug licked his lips as he eyed the woman before he dragged her up by the hair and started pulling down his pants.

Erika saw what was happening so she started yelling, “Stop! Stop it!!! What are you going to do?! Stop it! Someone, anyone! Help us! Please! Help us!”

“Hahahaha, shout all you want, but no one’s coming!”

“Bwahaha!”

“Tie her up boys! Let’s enjoy ourselves for a bit first before we head back to the boss!”