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Volume 8 Chapter 220

The Sage’s Taming Magic

I was about to fight a formidable ogre—
But when I summoned the Imperial Sword from the Spirit Realm, suddenly, the ogre conceded defeat.
『I can never win against you, who wields that sword』, he stated.
How can you know without trying?
Ah, could it be?
True masters also excel in judging their opponent’s strength.
Maybe he saw a future where he’d barely win against me last minute and graciously admitted defeat.
Well, if he’s willing to come with me without a fight, that’s even better.
Since it seems okay to tame him, I deployed a magic circle and tamed him.
By the way, taming magic can be used from level 1.
However, level 1 taming magic has a very low success rate. There’s even a possibility of being resisted by slimes.
So, as usual, I broke down the mechanism of taming magic, combining the lowest-level magic with a magic circle formed by mana-generated characters to reproduce a taming-like magic.
Real taming also incorporates a ritual to enhance the subjugated monster.
Of course, I replicated that too.
I touched the head of the ogre as he bowed down to me and activated the spell to strengthen him as well.
The ogre, isn’t it an A-class monster?
And this guy looks pretty strong.
So, if I pour in about a million units of magic power, he’ll probably endure it, right?
With that in mind, I poured a lot of magic power into the enhancement ritual.
Surprisingly, a lot went in.
I ended up pouring about five million units of magic power.
And then—
His robust body inexplicably shriveled up.
Eh!?
Could it be… …did the enhancement fail?
I have not seen this happen before.
I have tamed monsters from various places and enhanced them, in order to place them in the dungeon’s floors. Most of them underwent changes, becoming stronger than before taming.
But only he, from a muscular ogre-like body, turned into a clean-cut figure akin to a human.
The only thing different from a human in appearance was the two horns on his forehead.
「T-This is—」
The ogre stood up.
He’s slightly taller than Ryuushin, maybe?
His face is entirely human.
I’d say he’s quite handsome.
Ah, could this be… … an evolution?
I remember reading in a book once that ogres, as monsters, can evolve into demonfolk called onijin.
Among demonfolk, onijin are one of the most powerful after the nine-tailed fox.
「My lord!」
The former ogre, after standing and checking his own body, knelt before me once more.
It seems he’s formally acknowledging me as his master.
「You’ve evolved?」
「Yes. With the immense power flowing from my lord, I have become a kijin. I will dedicate all the power I’ve gained to you from now on」
「Congratulations. Um… …oh, you still don’t have a name, right? Can I give you one?」
「If my lord sees fit to grant me a name, I will gladly accept」
「Hmm, then how about Orga?」
「Thank you very much. I, Orga, will pledge loyalty to my lord until my last breath」
「Yeah, looking forward to working with you」
Ideally, I would have preferred his original form, more fitting for a floor boss, but……
But having an ogre demon as a dungeon boss would also add a nice touch, wouldn’t it?
As planned, I decided to entrust him as the 18th floor boss of the Ruins Dungeon.
「Now, onto the next—」
「!?」
Approaching the woman who was sitting quietly.
She had been watching me tame Orga with a dumbfounded expression.
As I turned my gaze to her, a look of fear appeared on her face.
It’s okay. Don’t worry.
I won’t hurt you.
After all, I’ve found a girl who seems to possess the power befitting the final boss of my dungeon.
I won’t let you escape.
「Boss, she’s strong」
「Yeah, I think she’s demon-class」
「Isn’t taming her impossible then?」
My clones were worried about it.
But it’s okay.
I have something I recently learned.
「Well, just watch」
In my right hand, I used magic power to form the letters used by the gods— divine characters.
Until now, the only magic I could use with divine characters was teleportation magic to the divine realm.
Although I can read ancient runic characters, I couldn’t understand divine characters no matter what.
I could only replicate teleportation magic to the divine realm because I had seen the Creator God using it.
If you can’t understand the characters, you can’t create magic.
But I had a reliable ally.
One of my wives, Luna.
Luna was a reincarnator who came from the same world as me and had a cheat skill that allowed her to read any characters.
I studied divine characters with Luna.
And I mastered them.
「Tame!」
It was a taming magic that poured in an enormous amount of mana, far beyond when I tamed Orga.
A magic circle with hundreds of characters, all written in divine script.
With this, I should be able to tame her no matter how strong a demon she is.
「 —-Uh!」
The demon woman seemed to be in pain.
That’s strange……
I feel a resisting force against the taming.
It’s not her own, but another force.
I focused on the power sleeping deep within her body.
I thought it was natural for a demon to have the aura of the Evil God, but within her, there was a lump of the power of the Evil God.
It was interfering with my magic.
Since it was in the way—
「Holy Lance!」
I dispelled that lump of power.
The resistance against taming weakened, and I successfully tamed the demon woman.
With the disappearance of the lump of power of the Evil God, her own power weakened.
So, just like Orga, I strengthened her with an enhancement ritual.
To my surprise, she ended up absorbing almost ten times the magic power I gave to Orga.
She truly is a demon.
No, since she’s been enhanced this much, she might even have the power of a daemon.
She knelt before me.
「I am Citrii. I pledge my allegiance to my husband」