Now that most of my training of [Godly Language] is done I want to explore the effects of the skill. I know it can affect souls but it can also bend reality, I could whisper "your sword is unbreakable" to Hana and it might actually become true. I will need to put many more points on it than the current 20 I am willing to allocate to it but maybe I can do it with very small things like "this lock is open" or similar.
"Can you show me how you bend reality with [Godly Language]?", I ask.
Kyros stops stroking his goatee and speaks, "Boy, that is dangerous."
"I know. But I want to learn."
Kyros frowns and looks down, he doesn't seem very eager to teach me that.
"Boy, if you ever try to alter reality do it small, very, very small first," he says with weary eyes. "If something goes wrong, you dying is the least worst thing that could happen, a lot of people could die if you try something foolish."
"I'm a very cautious person, but also very curious."
"Evidently," he smiles wryly, then he sighs and continues, "The secret to altering reality is by visualization, just like magic, the more you know, the deeper you can imagine, and the more certain you can alter reality.
"Keep in mind that you are altering the laws of physics and magic to your wishes, this can cause some chaotic things if you don't know what you are doing. For example, if you ask something like 'create light', the skill does not create a [Spirit Light] or a flame, it simply creates a source of light, completely devoid of mass, fuel, mana, or logic. It won't create a real, physics-or-magic-abiding source of light unless if you specify it.
"To create something safely you need to imagine every single little piece that makes it, I don't think even the emperor is capable of that."
I see, opening a lock won't be so easy if I don't know the how the lock works. But the emperor doesn't have my knowledge of Earth and physics.
"I understand," I lower my head, "I won't abuse it, I swear I will take extreme care in what I do."
He spends a long minute staring at my lowered head. Perhaps he thinks that if he doesn't teach me, then I will experiment on my own, which I admit is kind of a possibility.
"Very well," he finally says and I raise my head, he pulls out a small handkerchief and bunches it up on the table, "Imagine this piece of cloth is igniting, not that it's on fire, it's catching fire, as if someone is holding a [Fireball] below it.
"Imagine every small fiber suddenly combusting into fire, a normal fire that consumes matter and leaves ashes on its behind. Focus on a very small spot, it should be enough to make it catch fire."
I focus and concentrate. Fire, rapid oxidation of material in a chemical reaction that releases heat and light. Oxygen, fuel, heat, a chain chemical reaction.
"Now say the words, 'this handkerchief will catch fire'."
I prepare myself. I only have 10 points on it right now so here comes nausea.
"This handkerchief will catch fire," I say, using the skill.
*Foosh*. A small flame suddenly bursts on the handkerchief.
I feel absolutely horrible. My vision decides that what I'm seeing isn't real and every color twirls into each other; my stomach receives a foreign package and wants to return my breakfast to sender; my brain rejects this reality and goes back home to my man-cave to sit in the computer and exhale air lightly every time I see a meme; my muscles enter a strike and ask for vacation into a thai massage-with-a-happy-ending resort.
Kyros puckers his lips into the shape of asterisk. "What," he says in a weak voice.
"What?" I ask, barely maintaining my grip on reality.
"You weren't supposed to do it this fast," he says and extinguishes his handkerchief with a use of [Conjure Water].
"Well... I did," I shrug and groan at the bloody revolution happening inside my body. Maybe I shouldn't have done it seriously on the first try.
Kyros pulls out two red potions with a *poof* and rolls one to me.
"Drink it, will help with the feedback. Not that you are actually wounded it's just that magic helps the world stabilize."
While seeing double I manage to grab the HP potion and chug it, tastes like honey. In a few seconds a wave washes over my body and removes the sludge that took over me.
"That was really odd," I say, "way, way worse than just normal feedback or mana-radiation poisoning."
"Radiation?" He lifts one eyebrow.
"Mana leak poisoning during the gathering."
He nods in understanding. "Anyway, this is the feedback from a badly formed reality alteration. You now understand how dangerous this is, just a simple combustion caused even me to feel sick."
"I understand, thank you for showing it to me."
He nods repeatedly, "Well there's not much else to show, this is how you do it and the only way to get better is to improve your [Godly Language] or improve your visualization."
I calmly focus on my voice vortex, I had enough poisoning for today.
Space class is free practice, theoretical lessons are over so we are to focus on reviewing things until the final (and only) test. I get an idea about inverting [Gravity Crush] and trying to explode people, maybe I can teach it to Roxanne to improve her [Explosion].
I focus on my [Telekinesis], I have to chant it since I'm in front of class so I focus on using it to dodge by sliding backwards.
"Impressive," the gnome professor Ludwick says, "Are you planning on incorporating this on your martial arts?"
"Precisely."
"How novel. People would prefer to use [Fly] and fight at a distance. Show me the style when you create the skill. Actually, won't this be the third skill you have created?"
I can only smile wryly at his words.
"Three new skills alongside reviving an abandoned magic school. What an oddity you are, Mr. Ryder," he continues with a smirk and strokes his long white beard. " But then again, you do have a blessing from the Goddess of Knowledge."
"I will definitely show it to you, professor. I learned the most from your class so I owe you at least this," I smile faintly to him.
The professor gets very satisfied with my words and moves on in a renewed mood.
"Let's give Ciel and Lina a show," I say to Alissa during our trip back home.
"As if you had to ask," she answers.
At the bath I slowly wash Alissa's body, her soft skin, her cute breasts, her delicate hands, her cute ears, her fluffy tail. Slow and firm, enough pressure for pleasure and not enough for pain. I [Massage] her tail, giving it very soft tugs on it every once in a while. She closes her eyes like she loves to do and nearly falls asleep.
I pull her head backwards and kiss her while my soaped hand glides through her body, her tongue lazily plays with mine. I knead her breasts and squeeze them repeatedly, they easily escape my slippery hands, giving her jolts of pleasure every time her nipples are squeezed and then slip away, making her moan lightly.
I break the kiss and hold her on one arm with her head on my shoulder. With my other hand I grab her cheek and stare into her eyes as they blink slowly in sleepiness. I slide my hand upwards from her cheek and caress her hair and ear again. She purrs and closes her eyes again.
I lower her on the ground and lift her hips up to my mouth and dig in. Now she fully awakes, her legs quiver and her feet point forward "en pointe". She grabs my head and forces me deeper, so I use my tongue to penetrate her.
Her wet tail slaps on my belly as it wags wildly. Her eyes curve upwards and go white as she gets a whole body-shivering orgasm. Her thighs squeeze my head and her mouth opens wide in a silent orgasmic scream.
I lower her hips into my lap and she wraps her arms around my neck. I penetrate her and her tongue invades my mouth, she searches for my tongue and sucks on it with excitement, she wants to swallow me whole. Her hips grind into mine, her insides as hot as they have ever been.
We piston our hips in opposite directions, doubling the length my dick runs through her pussy. I use my index from each hand to enter her asshole and soon enough there's cream all over my shaft as she orgasms again.
I use my fingers to spread her asshole and she squeezes me tight, loving the little jolts of pain sent along with the pleasure. The feelings contrast and add to each other, spicy and fresh, bitter and sweet, savory and mild.
She breaks the kiss and hugs me tight. Her nails dig into my back and she gives me my own mix of pleasure and pain. She breathes hard on my ear and her moans go deep into my mind, making my heart tighten.
I look to the bath and see Ciel is anxious, she's biting her lips sensually. Her arm desperately moves below water, sending the rhythmic waves of masturbation. Lina is beside her, staring at Ciel's naughty arm and where it goes. Lina suddenly turns to me and I grin.
I force Alissa down and plunge into her the deepest I can. I let my seed flood her womb and I feel tempted to turn off the Ring of Fertility. I'm seriously developing an impregnation fetish.
Lina turns back to Ciel and stands up. Ciel notices Lina and looks into her eyes, yet she doesn't stop masturbating. They stare at each other for long seconds. Finally Lina decides grab Ciel's head and kiss her.
Ciel doesn't stop her arm, her tongue answers immediately and invades Lina's mouth. With her free hand she brings Lina close and spreads her legs. She rubs her pussy on Lina's legs as both of them kiss wildly and sloppily. They are competing in who is the one that's going to swallow who.
Ciel's free hand unwrap from Lina's waist and one finger enters Lina's pussy. I get hard again inside Alissa and start to move my hips, I turn halfway so we can both watch Ciel and Lina. Hana and Roxanne are the ones now who desperately masturbate in silence.
Alissa laughs freely and I remove my fingers from her asshole to clap. She hollers encouragements at the two for them to fuck harder. It may have worked as Ciel suddenly breaks the kiss and grabs Lina by the waist, she lifts her up and eats her pussy. Lina wraps her legs on Ciel's head and holds on for dear life, scared of the height.
Hana and Roxanne also start hollering.
"Lick, lick, lick, lick, lick! Lick that pussayy!" Hana yells.
Alissa's legs quiver again and her feet point forward in another orgasm. I cum right at the same time and overflow her womb. My semen makes the wet noises even dirtier as our hips slap together.
Lina yells a meow as she orgasms on Ciel's mouth. Ciel immediately lowers her and they resume kissing. Lina hungrily grabs Ciel's large bouncy breasts and kneads them like I do.
Lina pulls away from Ciel and chomps down on her pussy, making Ciel yell.
"Aah...! Don't bite!" Ciel pleads.
"Do bite! Bite that clit!" Hana yells.
Ciel loses her balance and hits the wall with with her arms. She lowers her hips to the edge of the tub as her legs quiver. Her hands grasp the border of the tub and her grip shakes.
Lina has no mercy, she spreads Ciel's black lips and eats her meal like a starving person. Her hand moves nonstop, pistoning into Ciel. Her mouth acquired a new small mustache and by Ciel's expression I can only imagine what her tongue is doing.
Ciel closes her eyes and grimaces, her legs lift from the water and fold. She opens her mouth and she lets out her voice.
"AAAAAAH...!" She creams on Lina's tongue in a toe-curling orgasm.
Lina slows down and removes herself from Ciel's pussy. She licks her lips and fingers and gives an impish smile. She approaches Ciel and kisses her, the two tongues entwine again with passion but they tiredness.
Lina breaks the kiss and hugs Ciel hard, burying her head on the chocolate breasts. I cum a third time inside Alissa and collapse.
"So, can we have a 6-way orgy?" Roxanne asks.
Ciel is catatonic and merely hugs Lina back, they both sink into the tub. Hana leaves the tub and goes to Alissa, she licks her lips as she sees the meal between Alissa's legs.
"Maybe..." Lina says shyly.
Aoi acquired a sixth-sense for sex, now that we are done she suddenly wakes up. Her claws untangle from Gify's and she swims towards the border.
Hana quickly sucks the cum and cream out of my shaft, then I enter the tub and cuddle with Aoi. She licks my chin and curls on my chest as I stroke her spine.
"Yes, Ciel, I allow you to have a romantic relationship with my slave," I say with a smirk.
Ciel jolts awake and stares at me wide eyed.
"I, I..." Her mouth opens and closes repeatedly. "I will take care of her."
"Yes you will," Lina says lowly and giggles.
She pulls on my arm and brings me to Ciel, then she sits between us, smiling adorably with our arms entangled. She finally took what she wanted.
Alissa is left breathless as Hana finishes the cleanup, she slowly raises from the floor and walks towards us. She hugs my free arm and rests her head on my shoulder, she closes her eyes and quickly falls asleep.
"We may be the most perverted family that has ever existed," Ciel says then snorts. "Maybe less perverted than the emperor's."
Evening is spent in a cuddle puddle as Lina uses both of us as her personal pillows. Ciel is awkward around Lina but the little girl is taking charge and keeping Ciel close to her at all times.
Today is the 17th.
Lina happily milks me and shares it with a very embarrassed Ciel.
Ciel swallows and frowns, "What's this obsession with semen?" She asks.
Lina's eyes dart between me and Alissa. We stare at her, waiting for her answer.
"It tastes good...?" Lina tentatively answers.
"Gih."
"Not fair, get out of my head," she curls into a ball and glares at a smug Gify.
"Giiih."
Lina spends a few seconds glaring at Gify but complies, "Fine... It feels filthy, and sexy, and hot. Like I'm corrupting her and turning her into a wh-..."
"That's enough, I don't need to hear anymore," Ciel interrupts and hurries out of the room.
Lina buries her head into her knees and her ears redden.
"Gihihihihih," Gify rolls on the bed, laughing out loud.
"Well, I have to agree with Lina," I say, causing her to groan.
"What, is, cor-rup-tion?" Suzy asks.
"Da-ma-ge?" Ted asks.
"No, it's an expression," I say, the golems tilt their heads in confusion. "It's a way of showing feelings, you do not feel so you do not understand."
"Yes," the golems say in unison and nod.
My [Dodge] and [Mana Control] increased by 1 (now 5+6 and 0+14) and I learned [Washing] with 1 point.
I spend my morning reading over the "Soul Map" the girls created. They started up by setting an orientation axis and using the brain as a measuring unit, so the map is graded in "sorains", soul brains.
Ciel made the organization and most of the writing, her handwriting is beautiful. Alissa has quite the hand for drawing, in a methodical manner she sketched what she saw very well. The other girls were mainly responsible for searching up Alissa's soul while they gave her cuts.
The map is far from done, specifically the skin, it's literally our skin stretched into a sphere so the distortion can get quite heavy. There's also plenty of "dead spots" where there's simply no structure, they are breaks in continuity of skin. I wonder if the lack of continuity has any effect on the physical skin.
"Did you like it?" Alissa asks me casually yet her tail is wagging.
"Yes, very much," I say and smile at her, "I love you."
"Love you too," and she gives me a peck on the nose.
"And you too!" I yell to Ciel practicing [Judgment] outside.
Ciel lifts her head and smiles, then she returns to concentrating on her practice.
I go to the window and take a look at Ciel, her hand is glowing faintly yet I feel a large "threat" coming out of that hand. It's like when you see a dog growling at you and you think "oh shit, I'm about to get shredded", it provokes an instinctual need to run away;
Ciel focus on her hand and I see the glow slowly leave her hand. It forms into a faint blade that hovers near her hand. Then she exhales and the glow returns to her hand.
She stretches her legs and lays down on the grass. Hana is standing beside her, slashing the air while a blurry copy of her strikes in a different direction at the same time.
"The blurriness decreased, if you strike fast enough it could easily confuse someone," a Roxanne made of fire says. She hovers above Hana and slowly descends.
"But it will only work once, I need it to be perfect," Hana says and strikes again.
"Maybe she needs more 'Perception'?" I ask Alissa.
"Hmm... I think it's her control that's lacking. Hana, maybe you should train more of the MP and 'Magic Power' routines," Alissa says.
"Sounds good," Hana says and drops on the ground, immediately going into meditation.
Roxanne shoots up into the sky and lands with a heavy thud. The flames dramatically spread and lick the grass but no heat leaves them. From the "SFX", Roxanne appears on all fours and proudly rises.
"Maybe do a three-point landing, the one on all-fours is quite, uh, not-cool," I say.
"What?" Roxanne questions.
I show it to her and she "Ohoh's" me.
"Certainly looks cooler, though a little hard on the knees," she says.
"I know, right? Your robe also makes it more awkward to use," I say.
*WOOOOON~...*
An air raid siren starts to scream. I jump in surprise and freeze.
Ciel straightens up and yells, "Harpies!".
I store the golems on my "Items" and we all quickly change into our armor.
"Ciel, get Lina. Everyone, stay together while me and Alissa check on the hunter's guild. I will use the lithograph for communication," I say.
The girls nod, I pull out the dinghy for Ciel with a *poof* and mount Alissa.
The hunter's guild is as hectic as the wyvern attack, many tables are put out in front where attendants search the names of fellowships and where they are supposed to go.
A shining bald head catches my attention and I find Silas, the guildmaster. He nods once to me and then continues stroking his magnificent white beard.
During my moment of distraction Alissa led me to Carmen and I receive a very charming smile when she sees us. The line of hunters moves fast and soon comes our time.
"Fellowship 'Helios', support for nobility, inner tower two," Carmen says and then she gives me a slightly worried look, "Good luck, even though you are fighting among the nobles it's still dangerous."
"Thank you for the concern," Alissa says and we take our leave.
The people hurry to their homes. A slightly organized chaos is underway as the guards make sure people remain on the right of the road while moving forward. Take that, British, even in fantasy worlds right is the proper way.
Our destination takes us to the slums so we wait on a relatively safe area. On the lithograph I write to the girls "come to me, we are going to inner tower two."
We wait a while until the flimsy dinghy lands in front of us with the other girls, then we walk towards the tower.
The reason the slums is a slum is due to the incredible danger in living near the southern wall, it's the wall who always gets attacked by monsters so the properties get devalued. There's also a high chance of the house getting fully destroyed in the fighting if monsters cross the wall. The noble's quarters and the high value houses are all near the northern wall.
The town quickly turns into a ghost town where the only sounds are of the boots constantly moving around and the jingling of armor. The population has already locked themselves in their own basements.
In a few minutes of hurried walking we reach the second inner tower. It's a massive round tower made of blue-gray bricks. Nearby we see the main road that leads to the south gate. This gate is only used by the military since no one wants to cross the slums just to get out of town.
We near the tower and see rather tight security around it. The guards look at our ID's when we enter and cross-examines a list of approved adventurers.
We enter and move up the stairs. The lower floors have only melee well-armed guards, the middle floors are empty, and the upper floors have archers and mages positioned behind the arrow slits. The top floor has double the walking space than the lower floors and there's multiple retractable rectangular planks of wood for us to take cover.
On the battlements I see Silvane, Nononya, and a few well-armed men and women. Nononya is summoning a second wind elemental, the elemental looks like a kind-looking mature wererabbit woman.
Silvane notices us and waves as we approach.
"A good day to fight, isn't it, Mr. Ryder?" Silvane asks with a wide smile.
"I would say there's no good day to fight but if we have to, then a sunny day like this one is perfect," I answer and bow lightly.
Nononya finishes her chanting and another mature female wererabbit elemental appears.
"Helloo!" She greets us with unbridled happiness, her bunny tail twitching wildly.
As the girls talk about the gruesome ways they are going to disembowel the harpies I fake my chants and summon 3 wind elementals and 2 fire elementals.
I have a good view of the forest on top of this tower, it's always amazing and also frightening the size of those trees. "Megalophobia" is what this feeling is called.
I see plenty of young men and women taking position along the wall or leaving for the field in front of the gate. They all have large shields and spears, the harpies are going to either suicide charge or pepper us with weak ranged attacks, most soldiers will only need to hunker down and wait.
Large stone structures are being raised by mages around the grassland, those are where the healers will remain, Hatara is going to stay at one of those structures but inside the town.
Most of the soldiers are slum dwellers, joining the guard is one of the most profitable jobs for the disadvantaged. You get free martial arts training, opportunity to level up and gain more skills, free meals, and some even get to live on the barracks, if you survive. Curiously most prostitutes on town are also part of the guard, getting protection by making friends with the guards and also some extra money on duty is too advantageous to let it pass.
"Your elementals are certainly impressive," says a voice behind us.
I look back and see a tall and buff brown-haired bear of a man in full plate armor. He has two golden armbands on each arm and he holds a helmet with a red plume under his arm.
"Captain Entoli, reporting for duty," he says and bows quickly towards Silvane. "I am responsible for this tower, I assume you are the fellowship 'Helios'?"
"Yes we are," I say.
"Since you were requested by the Rizeks I assume you know what you are doing," his gaze turns stern, "so I will leave you to act as you wish. But know that I'm responsible for safeguarding the nobility, so when the time comes you will obey to me, understood?"
"Understood," I answer.
He nods to us and moves on the new arrivals, two groups come out of a [Gate] each. One is clearly a noble family and their knights that I don't recognize; the other is Horvath, Helena, Lyle, and two plated knights with large shields.
"Wolf! It is finally time for us to fight," Lyle says and we shake hands. He and his family admire the elementals before the greetings continue.
"Marvelous elementals, and women," Helena says with a smirk.
"Do not stare too much, dear, it could irk Mr. Ryder," Horvath says.
The pair is wearing a dazzling shiny black robe and I see black scale armor below it. The petite woman and the villainous man certainly look good even in their armor.
Horvath has a gloomy looking ethereal little woman floating beside him. She has 4 transparent wings that beat so fast you can only see a blur, her body is made of dark clouds that occasionally light up with lightning. An [Electric Spirit].
Helena has a little water mermaid "swimming" in the air in circles around her. The mermaid has a cute face, hair made of algae, and a trident made of coral. She giggles softly once in a while. A [Water Spirit].
"Shouldn't you be with Haaran?" I ask Silvane.
"He'll be fine, I would rather keep my sweet Nono safe if I could help it," she answers and rubs one of Nononya's white rabbit ears.
We discuss tactics as we wait. Horvath and Silvane already fought together so it's only our group that has to know the other's abilities.
We spend a long while waiting. When lunch time comes we share lights snacks to keep the hunger away but not slow us down with a full belly.
I see water mages orderly cast [Filling Waters] into buckets, then every mage passes by and takes a drink. Since this spell is free extra mana regeneration then there's no reason not to use it.
A few wind and fire elementals appear around the other towers and the wall, our tower is certainly filled with elementals in comparison. I see small ethereal beings once in a while, the [(Element) Spirit] spells are seemingly rarer than elementals.
Thankfully Horvath's and Silvane's group had their own Blessing mage cast spells on them so I only had to apply the buffs to the girls.
Slowly a huge wooden platform comes towards the south gate. On top of it we can see multiple structures: four domes at each corner, possibly where the magic tools that keep it afloat are located; at the center is a house-like structure where multiple people can be seen coming and leaving it, the command center; in front of it a the border there's the biggest ballista that I have ever seen, the Dragon's Bane.
It's made entirely out of glossy brown metal, darksteel, an alloy of steel with emellanat that allows it to hold enchantments. Golden lines run through it and I see the glint of multiple, head-sized magic crystals at the base. It floats perfectly still while a man effortlessly spins it around and tests all the mechanisms. Bolts as thick as a person and as long as a bus are organized horizontally in a wooden belt.
"There's grandpa," Lyle says. He points to the 5 people standing beside the ballista. Lord Alaraste, his wife Giana, Haaran, Vanea, and finally Werner Rizek.
While it's impressive that Lord Alaraste is level 102, Werner has some impressive stats.
Soul Info
Name: Werner Rizek | Race: Human | Level: 140
MP: 26,240 | Magic Power: 10,011
I see the 4 members of Great Destiny appear out of the central structure of the platform, they stand behind the Lord.
The huge platform passes us and hovers over the south gate, to the happiness of the guards posted below it. No arrows will reach them while the platform is there.
A few minutes later Alissa narrows her eyes while looking at the forest.
"They have arrived," she says.
Captain Entoli hears Alissa and stirs up the bored soldiers. Slowly the entire battlefield seems to get ready.
Suddenly the sky is darkened by hundreds and hundreds of arrows that are lobbed towards us.
"ATTACK! GET TO COVER!" Bellows Captain Entoli.
We run towards our static cover and unfold the wooden boards, they are slanted and give us enough cover to sustain a frontal attack or one from the skies.
The arrows fall on the wood and a few crude bone tips pierce through the planks. The thuds of the arrows continue for a few long seconds until they pepper and finally stop.
Complete silence on the battlefield as we tentatively peek out from our cover.
"Seems clear!" A soldier yells.
"That was a taunt!" The Captain yells.
"KIII KIK BAKAWK!" Comes a chant out of the forest. "KII KIK BWKAWK"
The harpies chant their war cry a few more times then grow silent.
"Lord Alaraste!" Booms a male voice deep from the forest, the tell-tale signs of vocal magical enhancement are present. "I have come for your head!" The voice is strained and seems about to crack at any moment.
"You have said that the last time!" Alaraste answers, amused. His voice is also magically enhanced.
"This time I bring a surprise!"
"Is it babies?" Alarastes asks in an aloof tone.
"What!?" The Cooka-bleh voice's cracks.
"Babies, baby harpies. There is a new dish called 'hot wings' spreading through Rabanara," he says and pulls a bucket of Buffalo wings from his [Item Box], "The main ingredient is baby harpies, their wings and thighs specifically, but there's not enough baby harpies in town, we are in dire need of more of your babies," Alaraste says and takes a bite out of a thigh.
The harpy war cry starts to grow in volume again as they become more agitated.
"You, filthy, cannibals! Don't you have shame to eat a being so similar to you!?" Cooka-meh yells in an increasingly higher pitched tone.
"You are a monster, we eat monsters," Alaraste answers flatly.
"You dare eat MY CHILDREN!?" The voice booms so loud my ears hurt. The chanting grows louder.
"Oh please, Cookachickadoodoolee," Alaraste says the tongue-twister with ease and throws the bucket away, "we all know how limp you are, the harpies are your minions, not your lovers."
"My, name, is, KOTICK O'DOLEE!" The voice cracks again. "Your own grandfather named me this way. Show some respect!"
"Actually, that's the name of the adventurer whom you first met, he didn't give you a name so grandfather called you 'Kotick's monster' or 'O'Dolee's monster'. I'm sorry, but you don't really have a name, until I named you, that is."
An awkward silence lingers in the air for a few seconds.
"What?" the Cooka-thing asks in a faint voice.
"I thought you knew that. Did you seriously not know the name of the adventurer that found you? The one you loved so much?"
"I wasn't... I couldn't, I couldn't understand! I wasn't aware of the world during that time!" Cooka-ugh's voice breaks down and he seems to be crying.
"Please, keep your mental breakdown to yourself," Alaraste says on a tired tone. "Now, you said you had a surprise for us, so, is it babies?"
"Filthy, HUMANOOOOIDS!"
Oh the humanity.
The harpies chant again, louder and louder. Arrows fly again.
"TAKE COVER!" The Captain bellows.
This barrage only lasts a second.
"INCOMING!" A soldier warns.
I look out from behind my cover and now see a dark cloud of harpies approaching, fast.
"Gih." Gify pops out of existence, he's not necessary so he's just going to rest. See ya later.
Currently the cover boards can cover 3 people comfortably, so we spread like this: me, Alissa, and Nononya on a board to the left; Roxanne, Hana, and Aoi to the right; Ciel, Lina, and Lyle to the middle and behind; Horvath and a knight to the back-left; Helena and a knight to the back-right.
My MP increased by 320 (now 1170) and my "Magic Power" increased by 145 (now 440). [Increased Growth] could be actually helpful.
Alissa's MP increased by 230 (now 575) and her "Magic Power" increased by 155 (now 270).
Roxanne's MP increased by 640 (now 1910) and her "Magic Power" increased by 390 (now 690). She really didn't slack on her mana training this time.
Hana's MP increased by 190 (now 515) and her "Magic Power" increased by 100 (now 205). A few points in [Mana Overuse Resistance] helped a lot on Hana's training.
Ciel's MP increased by 295 (now 1180) and her "Magic Power" increased by 130 (now 400). Me and Ciel are now matched in power, though I have a bigger spell repertoire right now.
Lina's MP increased by 230 (now 680) and her "Magic Power" increased by 110 (now 275). I gave [Throw] to Lina with 4 points, now she can finally use the javelins we bought.
My skills and the girls are like this:
Info
Name: Wolf Ryder | Age: 16 | Race: Human
HP: 100 | MP: 1090 | Magic Power: 440
Level: 22 | Experience: 7146/7500
Stats
Strength: 11 | Endurance: 12 | Dexterity: 11
Speed: 12 | Intelligence: 21 | Wisdom: 16
Willpower: 17 | Charisma: 12 | Piety: 14
Perception: 16 | Sanity: 8+4
Other
Status Effects: NONE | Titles: "Good Luck"Nickname
Affiliations: Helios (Fellowship), Alissa (Blood Slave, Fiancee), Hanafuria (Blood Slave, Fiancee), Roxanne Succubus (Fiancee), Lina (Slave), Ciel (Fiancee)
Companions: Alissa, Hanafuria, Roxanne Succubus, Ciel, Lina
Crimes: NONE
Wolf Ryder Skill Report
Physical
Sword Use: 12+9 | Dodge: 5+5 | Parry: 5+5
Block: 2+8 | Shield Bash: 0+1 | Battlefield Perception: 1+1
Muscle Explosion: 1+1
Magical
Sense Mana: 3+6 | Mana Control: 0+13 | Mana Recovery: 12+0
Mana Efficiency: 5+5 | Reduced Mana Cost: 8+5 | Mana Overuse Resistance: 0+3
Fire Magic: 0+4 | Earth Magic: 0+3 | Water Magic: 0+1
Wind Magic: 0+1 | Electric Magic: 9+14 | Light Magic: 4+7
Space Magic: 11+22 | Summoning Magic: 13+17 | Blessing Magic: 4+21
Nature Magic: 0+16 | Conjuring Magic: 0+1 | Illusion Magic: 0+2
Golemancy: 0+4 | Redirect Mana (creator): 3 | Sense Soul (creator): 3
Miscellaneous
Cooking: 0+4 | Andraste Language: 4+6 | Dismantling: 0+4
Massage: 0+1 | Enhanced Semen Recharge: 0+7
OBS: Level means (free point)+(trained point)
Info
Name: Alissa | Age: 16 | Race: Fox-Type Wereanimal
HP: 100 | MP: 575 | Magic Power: 270
Level: 30 | Experience: 2034/8500
Stats
Strength: 12 | Endurance: 18 | Dexterity: 22
Speed: 20 | Intelligence: 12 | Wisdom: 13
Willpower: 16 | Charisma: 13 | Piety: 15
Perception: 17 | Sanity: 15
Other
Status Effects: NONE | Titles: Blessing from the Goddess of Love, Blinding Arrows
Affiliations: Wolf Ryder (fiance), Blood Slave (Owner: Wolf Ryder), Helios (Fellowship)
Companions: Wolf Ryder, Roxanne Succubus, Hanafuria, Ciel, Lina
Crimes: NONE
Alissa Skill Report
Physical
Sword Use: 9 | Bow Use: 26 | Parry: 4
Dodge: 2 | Sense Presence: 6 | Hide Presence: 4
Enhanced Olfact: 5 | Enhanced Hearing: 3 | Hawk Eyes: 3
Muscle Explosion: 2 | Quiet Steps: 4 | Quiet Action: 2
Enhanced Stamina: 1 | Tracking: 2
Magical
Sense Mana: 1 | Mana Control: 3 | Fire Magic: 1
Light Magic: 1 | Space Magic: 1 | Conjuring Magic: 1
Illusion Magic: 5 | Fox Transformation (innate): 5
Miscellaneous
Housework: 3 | Cooking: 4 | Cleaning: 2
Washing: 5 | Riding: 2 | Oral Technique: 4
Pain Resistance: 2 | Hand Technique: 2
OBS: Level means (free point)+(trained point)
Info
Name: Roxanne Succubus | Age: 21 | Race: Succubus-Type Demon
HP: 100 | MP: 1910 | Magic Power: 690
Level: 33 | Experience: 8910/10000
Stats
Strength: 9 | Endurance: 9 | Dexterity: 12
Speed: 9 | Intelligence: 18 | Wisdom: 18
Willpower: 14 | Charisma: 15 | Piety: 10
Perception: 11 | Sanity: 12
Other
Status Effects: NONE | Titles: NONE
Affiliations: Wolf Ryder (fiance), Helios (fellowship)
Companions: Wolf Ryder, Alissa, Hanafuria, Ciel, Lina
Crimes: NONE
Roxanne Succubus Skill Report
Physical
Dagger Use: 2
Magical
Sense Mana: 3 | Mana Control: 25 | Reduced Mana Cost: 3
Mana Efficiency: 9 | Mana Overuse Resistance: 1 | Fire Magic: 22
Water Magic: 23 | Light Magic: 1 | Space Magic: 8
Conjuring Magic: 5 | Alchemy: 3 | Potion Bewing: 11
Poison Brewing: 2 | Redirect Mana: 1
Miscellaneous
Housework: 1 | Cooking: 1 | Cleaning: 1
Washing: 1 | Riding: 1
OBS: Level means (free point)+(trained point)
Info
Name: Hanafuria | Age: 24 | Race: Fire-Type Dragonkin
HP: 150 | MP: 515 | Magic Power: 205
Level: 37 | Experience: 10040/14000
Stats
Strength: 19 | Endurance: 24 | Dexterity: 10
Speed: 13 | Intelligence: 11 | Wisdom: 11
Willpower: 19 | Charisma: 16 | Piety: 11
Perception: 10 | Sanity: 17
Other
Status Effects: NONE | Titles: NONE
Affiliations: Wolf Ryder (fiance), Blood Slave (Owner: Wolf Ryder), Helios (Fellowship)
Companions: Wolf Ryder, Alissa, Roxanne Succubus, Ciel, Lina
Crimes: NONE
Hanafuria Skill Report
Physical
Sword Use: 20 | Spear Use: 14 | Bow Use: 9
Two-Handed Sword Use: 9 | Pole Arm Use: 6 | Dagger Use: 4
Shield Bash: 6 | Block: 8 | Parry: 6
Dodge: 4 | Tatesomu Style: 4 | Muscle Explosion: 4
Battlefield Perception: 2 | Taunt: 3 | Intimidate: 2
Enhanced Reflexes: 2 | Enhanced Stamina: 4 | Enhanced Strength: 2
Enhanced Endurance: 4
Magical
Sense Mana: 1 | Mana Control: 1 | Fire Magic: 1
Earth Magic: 1 | Light Magic: 1 | Space Magic: 1
Conjuring Magic: 1 | Illusion Magic: 1
Miscellaneous
Housework: 2 | Cooking: 1 | Cleaning: 1
Washing: 1 | Riding: 3 | Massage: 1
Pain Conversion: 1 | Dismantling: 4 | Oral Technique: 1
Fire Breath (innate): 5 | Summon Wings (innate): 2
OBS: Level means (free point)+(trained point)
Info
Name: Ciel | Age: 21 | Race: Human
HP: 100 | MP: 1180 | Magic Power: 400
Level: 32 | Experience: 2950/9000
Stats
Strength: 14 | Endurance: 13 | Dexterity: 17
Speed: 18 | Intelligence: 15 | Wisdom: 19
Willpower: 14 | Charisma: 17 | Piety: 21
Perception: 13 | Sanity: 19
Other
Status Effects: NONE | Titles: NONE
Affiliations: Wolf Ryder (fiance), Helios (Fellowship), Templar Knights (Honorary Member), Temple Priestess (Former Member)
Companions: Wolf Ryder, Alissa, Hanafuria, Roxanne Succubus, Lina
Crimes: NONE
Ciel Skill Report
Physical
Glaive Use: 15 | Sword Use: 5 | Parry: 8
Dodge: 6 | Block: 4 | Imperial Spear Style: 2
Muscle Explosion: 2 | Battlefield Perception: 1
Magical
Sense Mana: 2 | Mana Control: 6 | Reduced Mana Cost: 1
Mana Efficiency: 4 | Wind Magic: 17 | Fire Magic: 1
Light Magic: 25 | Space Magic: 3 | Conjuring Magic: 1
Diagnosis: 7 | Redirect Mana: 1
Miscellaneous
First-Aid: 3 | Housework: 3 | Cooking: 2
Cleaning: 2 | Washing: 1 | Riding: 1
OBS: Level means (free point)+(trained point)
Info
Name: Lina | Age: 15 | Race: Dwarf
HP: 100 | MP: 670 | Magic Power: 275
Level: 22 | Experience: 6540/7000
Stats
Strength: 8 | Endurance: 8 | Dexterity: 13
Speed: 12 | Intelligence: 16 | Wisdom: 13
Willpower: 17 | Charisma: 10 | Piety: 12
Perception: 14 | Sanity: 11
Other
Status Effects: NONE | Titles: NONE
Affiliations: Wolf Ryder (master), Helios (Fellowship)
Companions: Wolf Ryder, Alissa, Hanafuria, Roxanne Succubus, Ciel
Crimes: NONE
Lina Skill Report
Physical
Hammer Use: 10 | Axe Use: 4 | Throw: 4+0
Parry: 5 | Dodge: 4 | Block: 6
Muscle Explosion: 2 | Shield Bash: 1 | Battlefield Perception: 2
Dwarven Pride Style: 2 | Enhanced Speed: 2+0
Magical
Sense Mana: 1 | Mana Control: 4 | Mana Efficiency: 1
Fire Magic: 1 | Earth Magic: 5 | Ligth Magic: 1
Space Magic: 1 | Conjuring Magic: 1 | General Enchanting: 9
Magic Tool Carving: 1
Miscellaneous
General Blacksmithing: 4 | Sweing: 4 | Housework: 1
Cleaning: 2 | Washing: 1 | Math: 4
Riding: 1 | Stonebody (innate): 3
OBS: Level means (free point)+(trained point)
The first wave of harpies falls to our fusillade. Every ballista, every mage, every archer, and a good amount of warriors are all firing at the exposed harpies. Only a few manage to reach the wall before being disrupted by the wind elementals, turning into easy targets.
Ervin Krampus, the demon race mage from Great Destiny, has his [Fire Spirit] throw fast [Fire Arrows] like it's a machine-gun with tracer rounds.
Another volley of arrows and before the arrows hit the second wave is already approaching. The harpy archers are trying to catch us exposed while we deal with the suicidal wave of harpies.
A harpy approaches our tower and gets an arrow to the eye by Alissa.
"'Blinding Arrows' indeed, hahah," Nononya laughs nervously.
"She's just getting started," I say with a grin and tap her shoulder.
Nononya is wearing some really fine scale armor, likely gifted by Silvane. She uses a short spear and a small kite shield, her martial skills are just enough to qualify her as a shield for Alissa but nothing more. She knows enough [Wind Magic] to keep harpies busy while me and Alissa finish them off.
Another arrow volley falls on us and this time the suicidal harpies are getting numerous.
A harpy dives towards us and gets impaled by Lina's javelin. The harpy flies backwards and falls down inside the town while screeching.
Aoi fires a fast fireball into the wing of a harpy and she crashes on the floor of our tower, she immediately gets decapitated.
"TAKE COVER!" The Captain reminds us just as another volley hits.
The few remaining harpies fall to their own arrows. Another wave is already closing by. The harpies are good with their timing.
"[Discharge]!" Lyle yells and a good amount of harpies fall from the skies, plenty fall in our tower and get butchered.
"COVER!' The Captain yells again and we hide.
The harpy archers start coming closer and the angle the arrows fall from start to reduce.
The next wave of harpies has leather armor and clawed gloves on their bird feet. They survive our barrage and multiple start to get close.
Who did they kill to get that armor?
"[Discharge]!" Horvath yells and a huge area is covered in sparks of lightning. A clearing opens as every harpy falls down, stunned.
A harpy falls down near me and I slash her throat, she gargles and writhes on the ground. She tries to fly away but an elemental disrupts her flight and a fire elemental explodes her head with a well placed [Fireball].
I retreat to our cover with Alissa behind me and another volley hits us.
Roxanne is calmly firing small [Ice Lance]s and collecting kills. The harpies are charging towards her, making them an easy target to her fast projectiles. Aoi is on her shoulder happily firing fireballs on the enemies coming from behind Roxanne's line of sight. The harpies are afraid of charging towards Hana, her ferocious smile and threatening posture makes her inapproachable by most harpies.
A harpy dives on each side of us.
Nononya keeps hers busy, threatening her with her spear while Alissa starts to fill the harpy with arrows.
I cast a chantless [Lightning Bolt] into a harpy and she nearly splatters on the ground. Now that her claws are below my chest the harpy is an easy target. I slash at her and she protects herself with her wings, causing one to be severed.
She tries to take flight again but a wind elemental disrupts her flight. Grounded and confused, she gets a deep slash from me across her chest. The harpy waddles backwards and receives an arrow through the eye.
"COVER!" The Captain yells.
"S-suicidal, ehehe," Nononya laughs but her eyes are open wide.
"They have no coordination so this is all they can do," I say as another enemy salvo falls.
"We'll be fine," Alissa says and points forward as another wave is about to reach us.
The lionfolk Grosnok from Great Destiny swings his scythe and cuts in two multiple harpies with every [Wind Blade] leaving his artifact. The Wind mages are bunching up the harpies for Grosnok to butcher.
A harpy dives past me, she's wearing gloves on her feet which make her claws as long as a knife. She scratch my shield and breaks a scale or two. As she stops in the air for a moment so she can turn around, I cast an [Earth Bullet] and hit her right in the ribs.
She's forced down on the ground by a wind elemental and Horvath's knight finishes her off.
Ciel and Lina are doing well keeping the harpies away from Lyle while he chants a spell with a manic smile. His father has an even more insane smile.
Ciel is doing short work of the harpies, she can easily chop off the wings of the harpies at a distance with either spell or glaive, then it's just a matter of slashing a throat. Lina lacks the follow up to finish off the harpies she manages to stab, but when an elemental disrupts their flight then Lina chops their wings and crushes their skulls with ease.
"[Discharge]!" Lyle releases his spells and more harpies fall to the ground. Hana and Lina butcher the vulnerable enemies
I stab a harpy repeatedly on the neck and face as she tries to crawl away. A harpy tries to dive me while I'm busy but I jump backwards and glide to safety with [Telekinesis].
Horvath's [Electric Spirit] fires a bolt into the harpy and she stiffens up. Now she's too late to try to find cover and gets peppered by friendly-fire.
The harpy archers get close enough that they are firing directly at us, which also means that they are in our range.
"NAHAHAH! [Dead End]!" Werner Rizek's laugh is oozing evil and sadism.
The archer harpies slow and stop in the air, having difficulty to move. Even their arrows that were already in flight stop. The level 60 [Electric Magic] spell makes everyone's "path" stop, forcing them to slow down or stop, the inverse of [Rush].
The archer harpies get shredded as they are basically immobile in the air. The mage harpies have some difficulty dispelling Werner's spell due to his inhuman power.
"ABOVE! LANCERS!" The Captain yells.
From above the archers comes a unit of harpies in thick padded leather armor. They hold with their claws a long lance pointing downwards.
Helena's [Water Spirit] spits high-speed droplets of water that enter the eyes of the harpies and make them blind.
Everyone casts high-damage spells towards the harpies and their charge gets blunted. It's annoyingly difficult to hold back and chant when I have been casting chantless for so long.
Lina casts an [Earth Bullet] and a harpy gets her lance destroyed. She veers off course and falls near us.
"MAGES!" The Captain yells.
The lancer harpy gets up and tries to crawl towards our cover. A kick in the face and a painful one between her naked legs and she's sent away with a shriek. Alissa looks at me with a frown.
Our cover that looks more like a pincushion loses chunks of wood as [Wind Blade]s and [Fireball]s hit it, there's also feathers of Needler harpies being thrown. The lancer harpy starts burning from friendly-fire as multiple [Fireball]s hits her all over her body. Alissa finishes her off with an arrow.
"Dear Gods," Nononya says, staring at the burning harpy.
"Nono! Incoming!" Alissa warns and fires another arrow.
An area spell starts being cast right on our cover and I interrupt it.
The mage harpies retreat and get ready to make another bombing pass at us. Their numbers are already greatly reduced, they won't last long.
More harpies, now with thicker armor, dive towards us.
Nononya skewers one harpy and her spear gets stuck. I cast an [Earth Bullet] on the harpy and knock it out, allowing Nononya to pull out the spear. I immediately turn around and slash at a harpy that's getting disrupted.
"Thank you!" I hear her say as I slash again.
The harpy's bodies are protected but not heir wings, I cut off one wing and wound the other. The harpy shrieks and writhes, trying to jump on me and claw my face. She misses but her blood is splattered all over me.
I kick it down and jab my sword at the back of her head, killing her.
With a glaive on the gut, a harpy is held down by Ciel until Lina comes and opens the harpy's skull with her hammer, spilling the brain matter.
I see Haaran and Alaraste are on a dance of death. They swing their flaming swords and crescents of fire fly out of them. I see that the swords are actually throwing flaming oil. The sword blades are in the shape of flames, completely impractical, they must be artifacts.
Vanea is behind them, freely throwing balls of darkness at the harpies while a knight keeps the harpies away from her. Her mother is beside her, doing the same with her own knight for protection.
Another salvo of magic hits our cover, blowing it in half. I cast [Grow] on it until it returns to its original size. Now there's bark on it, adding a little more protection. Lina casts [Earth Wall] and reinforces her cover. Roxanne pulls out a barricade from her [Item Box].
Silvane moves to another cover to help heal a wounded soldier.
Two harpies decide to focus on me while Alissa is busy. I cast [Discharge] and amp up the power until both fall down on the ground. I quickly stab the throat of one but the other manages to jump on me and latch on my chest armor. Her claws rake on my helmet while I stab her in the gut repeatedly, I eventually pierce through the armor and wreck her internal organs.
Her attack is slowed by my [Wind Armor] but it does nothing for the sharpness of her claws. I get a few scratches on the face and a painful cut on the neck, then the harpy pukes blood on my face and releases me. I quickly cast [Clean] on my eyes and see the harpy with the wounded throat right on top of me, she slams me and I fall backwards.
Nono's spear stabs the chest of the harpy that slammed, the harpy's armor prevents her from getting too wounded. Meanwhile a fire elemental burns the gutted harpy.
Another harpy claws at Nono from her flank, latching on her armor and pushing her to the ground. With a slide from my [Telekinesis] I reach the harpy and slash at her neck, nearly decapitating her. She passes out from sudden loss of blood pressure and slumps over Nono.
"You are now level 23," says the female announcer.
Alissa blinds the harpy with a spear on the chest by using [Ghost Lights] and fires an arrow on its eye.
I pull the harpy's body off Nono and pull her back to cover just as another magic salvo hits. The salvo's strength was greatly reduced, only two spells hit our cover.
I cast [Heal] on Nono and then on myself.
"Eh? Chantless?" Nononya asks, she looks at me with confused eyes and a face full of harpy blood.
"That's the first thing you say?" I snort at her.
"S-sorry, erm, thank you!" She bows lightly.
"Focus," I say and give her a hand chop on the head. Ah, she's so fluffy.
I move out and keep another harpy away while Alissa fires at her.
A harpy impales herself in Hana's spear. The harpy desperately tries to claw Hana but she kicks the harpy away and reverts her [Extend], easily pulling the spear off from the Harpy. Hana follows up with a stab on the throat, she forces the harpy on the ground and stomps on her until the harpy passes out.
A pillars of fire comes out of the forest, something exploded over there. Suddenly I see 3 huge balls of something on fire being lobbed at us from the forest. One veers off course and falls on the empty grassland, the ball breaks apart and burning oil spreads out starting a small fire. The second ball falls right outside the wall on the heads of unlucky soldiers, screams of pain arise and magical water jets immediately start to extinguish the fire. The third ball is slowed by the wind elementals and other mages when it crosses town but eventually it breaks apart and some burning oil falls in the slums, the rest is extinguished while floating in the air.
"Your 'surprise' wasn't really a surprise, Cookachickadoodoolee, pathetic," Alaraste says in a disdainful tone, his voice sweeps the battlefield.
"BAKAWWK! BAKBAK BAKAWWK!" The Cooka-(...) bellows and my ears ring in pain.
Another harpy comes and gets grounded by a wind elemental. Lina's javelin pierces her on the flank and while she's struggling to get up I step on her naked chest and stab her face until she dies.
Lyle stuns a harpy for Lina and she opens another skull with her hammer. Her armor is peppered by spatters of blood, brain, bone chips, and feathers. As a first it seems Hana is the one the least bloodied of the front line.
Out of the forest comes a huge black mass. A human face full of wrinkles, a very long and conical nose, triangular pointy and sharp teeth, a long feathered neck, a fat and brown huge chicken body. It's flight path is erratic, it's wings flap wildly and without coordination, it's a wonder it's still airborne. This is the Cooka-bitch.
"ALARASTEEE! BAKAWWK!" It bellows again.
"BAKAWK!" The harpies answer.
Suddenly the Dragon's Bane starts silently firing the huge bolts without anyone touching it. The Cooka-rooster has to jerk its entire body to dodge. The fat jiggles with every movement.
Suddenly a bolt enters the flabby belly of the ugly-ass-Cooka and it's sent back into the forest.
"I HATE YOOOoou~..." The Cooka-fat yells one last time and disappears in the Sea of Trees, for now.
"BAKAWK!" The harpies yell again and make one last suicide charge.
"[Discharge]!" Werner yells.
"[Discharge]!" Horvath yells.
"[Discharge]!" Lyle yells.
"[Discharge]!" I yell.
"[Firestorm]!" Roxanne yells.
"[Firestorm]!" Silvane yells.
"[Wind Storm]!" Ciel yells.
The sky is filled with the light of spells as no mage holds back their mana. The harpies lump together and get stunned, falling like rocks. Down on the ground the battle turns into slaughter.
"AHAHAHAH, OHOHOH, HAHAHAH!" Lyle laughs maniacally in the same tone as his parents. "AHAhah... Ooof~..." He slumps over as his mana runs dry and Lina catches him before he falls on the ground.
I jump over to their side and slash at a writhing harpy. I cautiously look around, searching for any harpy that could endanger Lyle.
The sky clears and a considerable amount of harpies retreat back into the Sea.
Their coordination was rather impressive, for monsters. They aren't even the breeder kind, the Little Cooka is only a leader-type.
Down below there's a few sources of fire being contained, adventurers and soldiers running around hunting for harpies and wounded, and priests working around their fortifications, healing the ones in most danger. Outside the wall the fire is already contained and the troops slowly reorganize, focusing on transporting the wounded to the healer's bunkers.
"Recover the wounded and finish your duties, soldiers! Then, celebrate! You deserve it, the town is safe again and we have achieved victory!" Alareste encourages us, his voice has a new reverb to it that brings a smile to my lips.
Our tower had a few wounded but no losses.
Horvath signals to us and we gather, the other noble house and Captain Entoli joins us and removes his helmet.
"No casualties, a perfect battle," the Captain says with a smile, "The elementals were a great help, the harpies were being constantly disrupted."
"Your boy has some talent for [Discharge], Horvath," says a male wereowl noble.
"Both my children do, Sir Rooter," Horvath says with large grin.
"Anyway," Helena says with an eye roll, "this year's fight was certainly a breeze. I would like to thank Helios and Nononya for their help with the elementals."
Silvane casts [Clean] on the blood spatters on Nono's face. She turns to us and says, "I can say that Haaran Anara also sends his appreciation for the help". She smiles at us and continues, "But now I must go down and join the healers."
"Should we go too?" I ask, looking at Ciel and Silvane.
"The temple is prepared to deal with this," Ciel answers.
"You are not prepared to deal with emergency healing, it could cause problems," Silvane says and bows lightly, "but thank you for the offer."
"The battle is done, you are all dismissed," Captain Entoli says to us and his subordinates.
"T-thanks for protecting me, Mr. Ryder," Nononya says and bows deeply, she's blushing lightly.
"My pleasure," I say with a smile.
"It has been a pleasure to fight alongside Helios, until then," Horvath says and turns his Emergency Ring green, a [Gate] opens and he leaves through it.
"Until tomorrow, Wolf," Lyle says and we share a handshake, "It was good fighting with you."
"Likewise," I say.
The wereowl noble silently observes us and then leaves.
Nononya is escorted out of the slums by two guards and Silvane goes to the south gate escorted by another two.
I turn to the girls and ask, "Right, no problems? No wounds?"
They shake their heads and Alissa pulls out a gnomic [Clean] tool to remove all the harpy blood from my body, then Ciel and Lina get a [Clean] too.
We wait for Aoi to finish eating a harpy's heart and we go home.
As I drive the dinghy home my heart beat slows and I feel heavy. It started and ended so suddenly I'm still processing things.
The town slowly returns to life as the population cautiously go out of their homes to check the damage. Corpses of harpies litter half the town, even a few blocks from our home there was blood spatter.
The harpy's suicide attack is just another part of life here, and also just another cycle for the harpies too. Their numbers grow until unsustainable levels, then they attack with all they have.
I'm getting used to the sudden need to fight. I won't have a second episode like on our first trip to the Morning Dew, but it doesn't mean that the aftermath is getting easier. The smell of blood is stuck on my nose, the screams of pain ring in my ears, the chaos of battle repeats in my mind.
How can the Lord get used to this? Seeing his own men die, see them cry before their deaths, the helplessness before such a large amount of enemies, the confidence that in the end everything will be okay. Warfare is so different from hunting.
We reach home and suddenly Hana lifts me off the ground with a bear hug. She takes me to the sofa in the living room and pulls down my pants with a yank. She pulls back the skin of my member and gobbles on it, I lift my head to talk but Roxanne's tongue keeps my mouth busy.
Roxanne's robes fall down and I grab one of her perky breasts. She breaks the kiss and sits on my face. I spread her lips and do my thing. I penetrate her with my tongue and nibble on her clit.
Suddenly Hana sits on my dick and I grunt, biting Roxanne's clit harder than I should.
"AH!" Roxanne yells. "Ow, d-don't bite so hard."
Roxanne spins around and they kiss while riding me. I feel Hana's hand come over Roxanne's pussy and finger her.
Hana slams her hips on me, squeezing her insides hard. She quickly wrings out a shot from me and pulls Roxanne to clean her.
"I want a baaath," Ciel complains.
Hana carries Roxanne to the bath and they continue their cleaning in there.
We spit roast Roxanne, Hana uses her mouth while I pierce her pussy. I use her tail as a handle and Hana uses her horns.
I pull Roxanne off Hana and hug her from behind. I twist her body so I can taste Hana on her lips. She gives me bewitching eyes that intoxicate me. I feel like kissing and biting every piece of her body.
Hana uses Alissa to get off, she sits on her face and rubs her pussy on Alissa. She grabs her by the ears and forces Alissa's head to rub her harder.
"Impregnate me," Roxanne whispers and I instantly cum inside her.
I get off her and she sits on the border of the tub. While she cleans herself I kiss and [Massage] her perfect thin legs, I lick her all over her thighs and lower my self to her calves. She moans sensually while I work on her.
"Oh yes, right there. Hm..."
I lower to her feet and start sucking on her toes. She stands and presses her foot on my mouth. Those delicate cute little toes, that perfect pale skin, her enticing slit asking for more dicking, her loose hair slightly covering her grin, her sultry eyes. I feel like cumming without even her touching me.
She lowers herself on my body, my dick touches her belly. She closes her thighs and drops lotion on my dick. With her hands she moves up and down, squeezing my dick on her thighs and rubbing my shaft on her entrance.
I continue sucking on her feet, I have to control myself not to bite her. I massage one foot with each hand and strongly lick the skin in between each toe.
I cum again in the air and most of it splatters on her hair.
Hana pulls Roxanne off and lowers herself on me. She does the same as Roxanne and pushes her feet on my mouth, but this time I'm penetrating her.
"NAAAAH!" Ciel yells and orgasms. Lina slows down her fingers then licks them and returns to sucking on Ciel's breasts.
I cum inside Hana again while Ciel looks at me with hunger, her feet pointing forward, trying to entice me.
I enter the tub and start working on her feet. I pull Alissa, who just entered the tub, and shove her on Ciel's pussy, who eagerly accepts. Lina kisses Ciel and uses her hands to stimulate her breasts. We keep going until Ciel orgasms again.
I lean on the tub and relax while Hana and Roxanne play with Alissa.
Lina straddles me and slowly moves her hips, my member massages her insides slowly.
I last a long while until I finally finish inside her too.
It seems everyone was in need of some stress relief.
After we finish our dinner everyone's faces are of content.
Gih.
Oh, right.
"So, Alissa. You never told us who your parents really are," I say.
"Neither did you," she answers calmly.
"We guessed you weren't comfortable talking about your family," Ciel says.
"I guess that you guessed right," I say and smile wryly. "I wanted to forget but it's not that easy."
"You shouldn't forget," Ciel says.
"So," Alissa claps her hands, "who are your parents?"
I breathe in deeply. I really don't want to talk about this but...
Gih.
Yeah, I should.
"My mother is a teacher, she teaches young children. My father was a factory worker, he's retired now."
"Factory?" Lina asks.
"Like a craftsman, but he works in a much more methodical way and with equipment instead of handcrafting."
"What did he create?"
"Cars. It's like a wagon that has a magic stone and allows it to move without animals."
"You said you don't have magic on your world, so how does it move?"
I smile at Lina's curiosity.
"Fuel," I say, "Think of something that's so flammable that it can explode when it catches fire just like Roxanne's [Explosion], on a smaller scale, though."
"Wait, how do you use that to move? It's just an explosion."
"Yes, we harnessed the power of explosion!" I open my arms wide and smile. "With a piston you can make the power of the explosion go in one direction instead of every direction. So you can move things in a line, but when you add multiple pistons and some intelligent mechanical engineering you can make the linear movement turn circular. Then you attach that to an axle and you have a way to move wagons without horses!"
"Ooh..." Lina's eyes gleam and the gloominess fades.
Maybe I found something for Lina to do. I have to give my engineering knowledge to her. Wait until I tell you how we distill liquid ancient dinosaur into fuel, technically not true but she doesn't need to know.
"Are, dra-gons, there?" Aoi asks.
"No dragons, but we use it a lot on stories and myths. Dragons are just as beautiful and majestic on Earth than they are in here."
Hana grins and Aoi breathes fire out of her nostrils, then closes her eyes in happiness.
"What did your mother teach?" Ciel asks.
"Math," I answer.
"Does your world teach the same things as ours?" Alissa asks.
"From what I remember they start with addition and subtraction, then multiplication and division, then algebra, there's something about kinematics too. That's just for children, teenagers go further than that"
"Every child needs addition so they can calculate their skill points," Ciel says, "but multiplication is only for the ones who want to specialize."
"I know the multiplication table," Hana says with a proud smile. "I use it when buying in bulk, if you don't then someone's going to rip you off."
Lina nods in agreement.
"So every children learns these things?" Ciel asks and I nod. "It's quite the interesting world. We must look so backwards to you," she smiles wryly.
"Somewhat, though you have more progress than us on other things," I say.
Not to mention how much we were killing our own world.
"What about potions?" Roxanne asks.
"This is kind of a weird thing. There's no potions," I say and she puckers her lips in disappointment," but there's 'medicine', a way of studying the effects of things on the body and how to cure diseases that's quite similar to potions," and she smiles.
"Well, the person we really want to hear about is your wife," Alissa says.
My heart pangs with guilt.
"Lily is... Well she's someone special..."
"Talk about cliche," Roxanne says and rolls her eyes dramatically.
"Oh come on, how am I supposed to start? I have to delay while I think."
"Sure, sure. Just don't be corny like you always are," Roxanne says and blows me a kiss.
"Well... Firstly, Lily has the same skin color and hair as Ciel. Secondly, she is shorter than me and taller than Lina."
"There's humans shorter than you?" Hana ask and lifts an eyebrow.
"Damn, you sure there's no dwarves there?" Roxanne asks.
"There's a physical condition called 'dwarfism', but this is caused by problems on the body and is not a different race of people. But yes, a lot of people in my world are shorter than the ones in this world. In fact, I'm not actually short, aside from my brother I'm the tallest of my family," I say and puff my chest with pride.
Hana stifles a laugh and says, "What? Y-you're, tall?"
"Maybe I shouldn't tell you these things," I say and narrow my eyes at her.
"Come now, my little Wolfy," Roxanne comes to my side and throws an arm over my shoulder, "Tall, short, does it matter? We are just commenting the differences in heights between the humans of this world and the dwarv-, I mean, the little humans of your world," she smirks at me.
"Well you are big in all the right places," Alissa says and taps my thigh.
Lina nods along and Ciel massages her forehead with a smile.
"Go back to Lily, please," Ciel asks.
"Alright," I breathe in deeply, "Lily is, kind of an asshole. She's mean and abrasive, but she's good only to me. She works in business, erm, trading-stuff, so she has kind of a domineering attitude but she takes it off when she's with me."
Hana blinks blankly and laughs again, "Ain't that kind of a woman's dream? I have heard plenty of women who want a rough outlaw to take them but do them gently and with love."
Oh boy, I heard that one before.
"That kind of explains how he fell for both of us," Roxanne says with an evil smile, "you can't deny your wishes to be dominated by us, Wolfy. Just be honest with yourself and submit."
Roxanne sits on the table and puts her feet on my lap. She pushes one foot on my face and a thin heel of her shoe digs on my crotch.
I growl and pull her legs off me.
"You want to know who's in charge? I will show who's in charge," I say. I grab her throat with one hand and push her down the table, with the other I pull out my dick and spit on it, then I penetrate her.
Her moans grow hoarse as I squeeze the life out of her, tears leave her eyes as she tries to breathe in vain. Once I release her throat she gasps for air repeatedly and creams my shaft with an orgasm.
I slow down and painfully squeeze her breasts.
"Maybe I should act like Roxanne too," Hana says.
I glare at her and say, "Do that and I won't punish you, I will ignore you."
"Awn..."
Roxanne bites her lips and tries to seduce me. Her body language changes, her legs flex to show her shapely calves, she pulls her hair back so it gets into a beautiful shape, her eyes gaze at me sensually, her glasses reflect the light and give her a mysterious look.
I choke her again and growl.
"Not gonna work when I don't let it," I say.
The intoxication fades and she moans loudly as I pick up the pace.
I finish inside her and leave her on the table like a used doll with a stupid smile on her face. Hana moves towards Roxanne's legs to clean her but Roxanne covers her creamed slit with her hands.
"Let me enjoy this, I love to feel his cum inside of me," she says. Hana shrugs and returns to her chair.
"So how did you meet Lily?" Alissa asks excitedly.
"You remember how I explained video games?" I ask, the girls nod and Roxanne grunts, "Well, there's a way to play with other people across the world through near-instant communication. It's like there's someone acting as an intermediary between you and the other person.
"I met Lily on one of those games. It's somewhat similar to how we fight in here, she was a vanguard fighter and I was a support mage. We were simply two players who did well together and became friends, we eventually started our own clan, it's uh, pretend-clan, not a real one. Some months later we realized we live close to each other and then we met.
"Then things went kind of crazy. Months of sexual tension culminating in us fucking like rabbits. It's kind of a trust thing, we just had some mutual trust on each other after relying on one another for so long. We just understood each other," my eyes start to burn, "I know how she thinks and she knows how I think so we never really had a fight. We had arguments yes but she's someone you can rely on, someone you know that even when she does something bad, you can be sure she didn't mean it. So why shouldn't we forgive each other for our mistakes? We had no pride or face to maintain, we were honest and straight. We were a team, a duo.
"Three years later, when we were both on a good place in our careers, I try to ask her in marriage but she beats me for four days, she asks me in marriage and I laugh at how much money I wasted on a surprise that she 'ruined'," I smile bitterly and swallow the lump in my throat, "We changed our reservations for a family party where we announced the engagement. We ended up spending more money splurging on the food of the ceremony than the ceremony itself, she's more of a gourmet while I like to adventure on tastes so we focused on food instead of the more traditional aspects of the ceremony, like the music, or decoration.
"Then during the ceremony I was transported here."
I clean my cheeks of the tears and keep my head down.
Guilt, longing, and fear. Those three emotions are a storm on my heart.
Alissa hugs me tight and the other girls find a piece of my body to grab. Aoi curls on my lap and Gify nibbles on my ear.
I control my tears and breathe in deeply.
I'm loved, I have nothing to fear, I will live my life here like I promised.
"Tears, means, sad-ness," Ted says on his usual strained voice.
"Why, sad?" Suzy asks.
Like the elementals, they hold the same knowledge as I do, but maybe they can't understand the deeper or finer parts of my knowledge.
"I am sad because I have lost something important that I won't ever be able to get back," I say.
"Im-por-tant?" Suzy asks.
"Yes, Lily was someone very important to me so I am sad that I will never be able to meet her again."
Ted and Suzy look at each other then back at us and nod.
Ciel and Lina grab them and bring them closer to us.
"Hugging helps with sadness," Ciel says.
"Then, I, hug, you," Ted says and his fuzzy arms wrap around my shoulder. Suzy copies him on my other shoulder.
"Awn..." Ciel gushes and cleans the corner of her eyes.
This hurts my heart. I know they are robotic and simple minded, they are merely applying their knowledge to serve me better, but it's still touching. Even if it isn't a natural response, what they do is what matters to me.
We spend a minute like this before I have the courage to speak again, "What about your parents, Alissa? Who are they?"
"The Chief and the Chieftress of the Misty Fox clan," she answers.
Not unexpected but something is nagging me.
"Why did you never called them mother or father? You only call them 'Chief' and 'Chieftress'."
She smiles bitterly and speaks, "Once I became a Blood Slave I wasn't their children anymore. Not calling them 'Mom' and 'Dad' is also a mental exercise, my past is irrelevant so I must keep it separate. I became a new person when I became a Blood Slave, so I need to look at my past differently."
"Remember that you are only a slave on paper, I already consider you my wife."
She hugs me tighter and bites her lips, then she kisses my neck repeatedly.
"I love you," she whispers.
"I love you too. I love you all," I say.
"I love you," Roxanne says and gives me a peck on my cheek.
"I love you," Hana says and kisses my hand.
"I love you," Ciel says and kisses the back of my neck.
"I l-love you," Lina says and kisses my other hand.
My relationship with Alissa is the most unhealthy one. Our dependency on each other is too great and no matter how much I call her "wife", she's certainly going to always act as a slave. I don't know how I should fix this, or if I can, or if I should. As long as we are happy that's enough, right? Right?
Slowly we disentangle. Roxanne cleans herself and we clean the table.
The evening is spent like all others, cuddling.
I summon the [Holy Spirit] repeatedly for Ciel, I tell the golems to chase the Spirit while Hana coaches them in how to better control their bodies, Gify decides to play along and let the golems chase him too. Roxanne keeps pulling and putting items in her [Item Box] for Aoi. Lina maintains our weapons. Alissa cuddles with me while we read one of her books.
"Do you have siblings, Alissa?" I ask.
"I have a little sister, Allura", she answers and closes her book. "Oh, you will lover her, she has fox legs. Fox, legs!" She turns on my lap a nuzzles up to my neck. "She got Mom's color, Dad's eyes, and possibly his height too."
"That sounds adorable."
"She is. I wonder how much she grew, she must be 12 now."
"You said you lived 3 years on your own?"
She closes her eyes and speaks sadly, "Yes, I couldn't see my family because of the training. Only Mom, occasionally."
"You finally started saying 'Mom' and 'Dad'."
"I guess so..." She slowly falls asleep in my arms with a faint smile.
"What about you girls?" I ask to the other ones.
"I have an older brother, Fuda," Lina says. "He looks just like me but a little more masculine."
"A little?" Hana asks.
Lina smiles and nods. She says, "He should be learning enchanting so he could inherit father's shop. He wasn't that excited about it so I wonder how it went."
"Were you the one who wanted to inherit the shop?" Ciel asks.
"Yeah, until I was sold. I was much more valuable than brother so I was chosen."
"If your family is still troubled we will help them. I want to travel to Mountainhome when we become nobles," I say.
Lina's eyes open wide and she smiles wide, then she nods repeatedly. "Thank you, master," she says.
"Don't go back to calling me master."
"O-okay," she lowers her head and keeps smiling.
We turn to Roxanne.
"I'm an only child," she says and smiles bitterly.
Now we turn to Hana.
"My brother is called Hermann and my sister is called Mizushina, Mimi, for short," She says, her gaze loses focus and she smiles. "Hermann was supposed to be like me but he's 14, he must still be training somewhere to be a guard for a noble. Mimi is older and was training to inherit Dad's position as the head, so she might be in a better position, like helping an accountant or something."
Alissa opens her eyes groggily and finally slumps on my arms, asleep. I massage her ears for a while until we finally go to sleep.
Hall of Fame of Patrons
The patrons who support Rupegia shall have their names sung by the bards for they deserve the glory and honor. Their names are:
Oracle Maximillian Hübner.
Lord Andrew Meyers.
Lord SenilePenile.
Lord Hope.
Lord Samuel Lim.