Daemonium walked back inside the blight. Despite healing them he had to remove the blight in order to complete the quest. Walking in he saw Sanguisa talking to a few zombies, while others just appeared to be chilling and doing whatever it was zombies found fun. All the zombies and Sanguisa jumped up to greet the guy when they noticed his appearance. Daemonium put a large shirt over his fake armor before transforming back into his original form.

"Sanguisa," Daemonium asked. "How do you remove a blight without killing zombies?"

"Well," Sanguisa replied. "Blights are caused by the natural life-draining aura of zombies being strengthened when around some more of them, so just separating them should be enough. Why don't you want to kill the zombies though?"

Daemonium's eyes sparkled. "These zombies would do absolutely anything I say, I practically have an army of the undead! How cool is that?"

"I'm not much of a fan, to be honest."

"Sanguisa, I would very much appreciate it if you watch over these zombies and prevent them from creating a blight so that I can keep them."

"Only if I get a raise."

"A raise?"

"I demand more headpats next time."

"Okay, I guess. Anyways, will all of you follow Sanguisa's orders for now?"

The zombies obliged and followed Sanguisa's orders to herd them.

"Now that I think about it I should give them names." Daemonium grew excited at the idea of naming the zombies. He went up to the plainest zombie of the pack. "You will be called Purple. How does that sound?"

Purple gave a groan that showed he approved.

Daemonium then went to an androgynous one. "You will be Sam."

Sam was happy to hear that.

Daemonium went to one who had a large dick that was mostly still intact. "You will be Dicky."

Dicky gave a thumbs up for the name.

The next zombie was one with large and mostly intact breasts. "You'll be Booby."

Booby liked the name for some reason.

Daemonium then went to one that was missing an arm, a leg, and an eye. "You will be Pool of the Dead."

Pool of the Dead was confused at why it was so long but still liked it.

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Next was a tall and skinny zombie. "You will be Aberycusgentylis."

Aberycusgentylis also was weirded out by the length, but he was okay.

Daemonium saw a short one with spiky hair. "You're Wolfe­schlegel­stein­hausen­berger­dorff­welche­vor­altern­waren­gewissen­haft­schafers­wessen­schafe­waren­wohl­gepflege­und­sorg­faltig­keit­be­schutzen­vor­an­greifen­durch­ihr­raub­gierig­feinde­welche­vor­altern­zwolf­hundert­tausend­jahres­voran­die­er­scheinen­von­der­erste­erde­mensch­der­raum­schiff­genacht­mit­tung­stein­und­sieben­iridium­elek­trisch­motors­ge­brauch­licht­als­sein­ur­sprung­von­kraft­ge­start­sein­lange­fahrt­hin­zwischen­stern­artig­raum­auf­der­suchen­nach­bar­schaft­der­stern­welche­ge­habt­be­wohn­bar­planeten­kreise­drehen­sich­und­wo­hin­der­neue­rasse­von­ver­stand­ig­mensch­lich­keit­konnte­fort­pflanzen­und­sicher­freuen­an­lebens­lang­lich­freude­und­ru­he­mit­nicht­ein­furcht­vor­an­greifen­vor­anderer­intelligent­ge­schopfs­von­hin­zwischen­stern­art­ig­raum."

The zombie loved his new name.

The next one looked like a young girl. "You are now Abcde."

Abcde smiled to have such a great name.

Next was one that looked like an edgy teen. "Your name shall be Xyz."

Xyz expressed a liking to his name.

The next one was tall and muscular. "You are Abcdexyz."

Abcdexyz liked the name.

"Come on now," Sanguisa said to Abcdexyz. "Go on with the others." Abcdexyz followed her, and as he did so the blight started to dissipate. Daemonium was upset that he only got to name ten of them but didn't have enough time to complain. After all, half of the chapter was currently just naming zombies so we need to mix things up. He took off his oversized shirt and transformed back into Diamond, and did so just in time to see Calumnia sit there excitedly.

"You took longer than expected," she said.

"I wanted to have some fun," Diamond lied. "So I handicapped myself some to make it as fun as possible."

"Even handicapped you destroyed all of those zombies. Amazing."

The two decided to head back to the guild in order to receive their prize. In most other quests like this, the dead flesh of the creature killed would be presented as evidence of the deed, but this isn't done for zombies due to the relative uselessness of the rotten flesh they leave behind. Thus before they could get a reward they had to wait for a representative to inspect and make sure the blight wasn't there. While they waited Calumnia insisted that they went shopping for the remainder of the date.

"Man arrested for keeping wild Crocosaur as a pet." Diamond read the newspaper as Calumnia was trying out and outfit in the changing room. He was quite surprised that he survived for this long but was also quite happy that he got to live another day. His country did need a ruler after all and he was the only one for the job. He wanted to be there for his people, and we're sure that they were suffering without him right now.

"How do I look?" Calumnia comes out in a sexy blue bikini for fanservice and plot.

"Okay, I guess." That wasn't a lie surprisingly. Daemonium was more into the big titty older sister type than the small and cute little sister type. Calumnia was the latter.

"Come on, don't you think I'm a little cute?"

"Well, I guess you are but..."

"But what?"

"Cute in an 'I want to protect you and shield you from all evil because you are just the cutest little cinnamon roll' kind of way, the way that makes it look like you eating something sweet is cannibalism. Your cute isn't the type I would think of a girlfriend as being."

"I see," Calumnia said as she wrote down some notes on how to seduce him. "So what would make you see my cute in that way?"

"Big titties," was Diamond's quick response.

Calumnia looked depressed until she realized something. With so many gods there were bound to be a few who created spells dedicated to increasing breast size in some way. Whether it was temporary or not, Calumnia now swore that her primary goal in life would be to find this spell and use it to become seductive enough to charm Daemonium.

He's a harem protagonist though, so I don't see that happening.