The Strongest Conquest System

Chapter 314: Food?

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Appearances were usually deceiving, and it wasn't like Azmond didn't understand that not everything should be taken at face value. But that also didn't mean that nothing could be looked at in such a way.

"Gold" He mumbled, drool practically drizzling down his lips.

That's right! Gold! Gold never changed in 'unit value'!

Sure, the price of gold would fluctuate in the markets and in different regions, but in the end, one gold would always be worth one gold!

Although such logic made absolutely no sense, that's just how he saw his financial status...

After scrutinizing every aspect of his existence, Azmond decided it was time to head back to Calista and Boundless.

Though it may not have seemed like it with all the thinking he was doing, in reality, only half a millisecond had passed in the real world!

Increased cultivation came with many boons, and hyper-thinking capabilities just happened to be one of them.

FWIP!

A silver foxkin disappeared from where a colossal monster once loomed.

His figure flashed toward a certain location a few miles out from the northern city gates of Avendale.

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Azmond found himself in a mall-like area. The walls were high and inlaid with advanced circuitry, while the rest of the interior was decorated with some sort of hologramsholograms that changed and moved in size, shape, and form.

The holograms seemed to act like some sort of multifarious object that could become whatever the user wanted them to become.

It was a neat invention that Azmond had first seen on the twelfth floor, as technology seemed to spike upwards from that point on.

In the beginning of his ascent into the Luminous Grounds of the Nightmare Council, he was a little puzzled over why the technological advancements increased with each Step you climbed up.

Like, why would the monsters not simply spread their highest technological achievements to all the floors below as well? Would that not better the monster community as a whole??

But after spending so much time in monster society, he realized that his way of thinking was skewed toward the human way of things back on his home planet.

Whereas, the monster's way of living was survival of the fittest, and what point would surviving to a point where you were at the top have if you had the same things as everyone else around you?

That was how the monster's and even a majority of the humans' in Asterion saw everything concerning worldly objects.

'If everyone else has it, what did I work so hard for?'

If that was how everyone thought of themselves in the Luminous Grounds, then the entire society would've fallen into ruin ages ago.

After all, monster society was made up of monsters. And what were monsters by nature?

They were savage! They were ruthless, and more often than not, they were fearless!

Now what would happen if a society comprised of hundreds of billions of monsters suddenly devolved into turmoil due to everybody owning and being accessible to the same things!?

The entire thing would fall apart.

Hundreds of billions of monsters would leave the Luminous Grounds at such a point, and where would they go..?

To the Human World.

Just imagining the bloodbath that would follow would be terrifying for anyone to think about...

Azmond had been thinking about these topics for the last few months, and he had come to the conclusion that the reason these 'Luminous Grounds' were built in the first place was to keep all the monsters on a leash of sorts.

The Luminous Grounds were nothing more than a huge cage to keep all the monsters in check. It was a cage meant to impede their destruction of the human world.

But what he didn't understand was why the monsters were still allowed to send out monster waves whenever they felt like it. That, and the reason why someone powerful enough to create a place so unbelievably enormous would go through the trouble of keeping the monsters in check,.

If 'they' were so powerful, then why not just kill all the monsters and be done with it?? For what reason would they wish to essentially 'supervise' them instead???

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'It's all so odd,' Azmond thought.

He made his way through the futuristic mall, pondering the mysteries that surrounded the Luminous Grounds and even Asterion as a whole.

However, something took him out of his reverie, as a bubbly voice echoed out through the large interior of the mall.

|Azmond! You came back!?| Boundless exclaimed with a joyful voice.

Following such a question, she leaped through the air and found herself on his back, latched onto him like a soft and squishy koala.

Her smooth face rubbed up against Azmond's as she waited for him to tell her why he took so long to come find them.

"..."

He wanted to tease the effervescent beauty some more, but when he saw the catkin girl who tagged along, he immediately scratched those indescent thoughts.

He instead turned his kind eyes toward both of them before he said, "I had to take care of a pest."

His voice sounded out in a nonchalant way as he tickled the brown-haired beauty clinging to him.

|Ahaha~! A-Azmond, Sh-Shtop it~!| Boundless giggled, her curves bouncing and moving in sync.

Azmond appreciated the view for a moment before he turned his attention toward the short girl with long white hair and misty gray eyes.

"Azmond?" Calista asked.

"Yes?"

"Food?"

"Yes."

"Mhmkay"

And that was all the conversation they exchanged before Calista hugged his leg with her arm stretched out.

Azmond extended his hand and grabbed hers before he, Calista, Boundless, and Emu headed in the direction of a Japanese-style restaurant a few hundred meters away.

He didn't even need to be told where Calista wanted to go, as he could see it in her furtive glances that she wanted to try some Japanese-like food.

|Hey, Azmond?|

Boundless ultimately managed to stop laughing as she asked the question she never got answered, and although she could simply use her admin-like abilities to see what happened, she found that all too boring...