"Wait, so you fuck each other in a field of corpses, regularly? WHY?!" Elise couldn't help but be outraged, she'd questioned them about what they actually hunted and that was her answer? How do you wipe these images out of your brain?
"I mean, it's like activating all you instincts at once, so it works like an aprodisiac. One of the reasons werewolves are dangerous during full moons is exactly because many tribes have the culture of causing great maihem before starting a great orgy where everyone..." Aki tried to explain since to him it had already become something natural, plus not very far away from his natural bloodlust and sadism.
"NANANANANANANANANA, I'm not listening!" She childishly tried to ignore said conversation, even Anna was holding her laugh at this point.
"I thought you'd know about those things before having bedded two werewolves, not after. But yeah, to each their death wish." He snickered at her.
"Wait, but you were human before, would you really eat me?" The girl was even shaking a bit now, completely serious. So Aki practically teleported to her side and held her shoulders while grinning.
"I think we both ate plenty of you that day, didn't we?" He asked with a conspiratory look.
"It was very sweet." Anna nodded while sharing his look.
"Meanies!" She pouted when she noticed they were actually messing with her. She wasn't going to reject... *Smack*
"We're not doing that again so soon though." Aki said after having smacked her rear with a bit of strenght. "If it helps though, know that vampires are worse." He pointed out.
Though he was already beastial, vampires did a similar ritual, but instead they surrounded themselves with living creatures and made them bleed to death, even each other, while raping them and having sex with everything around. Everything.
Anyway.
"Back to what we were speaking before we were rudely interrupted about our private life, we explored some of the capital and have planted several surprises, but it seems there will be a need for more time to infiltrate the underworld of the city. It is fairly surprising to me that a government with such little care for the population has had such long stay in power, but there's nothing I can do about this world's low standards of life." Aki sighed and got strange looks from all his subordinates who actually had political experience. "All that aside, we are currently facing a marketing problem. Both our merchants and recruiting officers have received a welcoming even worse than expected. While racism and xenophobia certainly help, it seems the gods have launched incentives to the people that find themselves against us. This action was much faster than in our planing, so I called all of you here to talk about our own plans being pushed forward by a bit." He said, causing most of the pen pushers to groan.
"What are you making next? A bone farm in the overworld?" Sarcastically asked Samal, who was currently the minister of economy.
"Nah, the cement plant is much better and generates much more jobs, which at the moment is integral for our population." Aki imediatly replied, causing Samal to question how the fuck he knew what a bone farm even was. "No, we are going to step up our silk production with something very simple but effective." He said with a cheeky smile, leaving his subordinates hanging for a bit. When someone finally seemed ready to ask, it wasn't long since they knew he was waiting G for something like that, he said it. "Bigger spiders." Silence punched everyone in the face right about them. "Yeah no, I'm just messing with you guys. I actually found a race of emphatic spiders. Their intelligence are even higher than normal humans and they only wish for a place they won't be persecuted, just like the undead. Minty, you can stop doing that now." He said and suddenly there was a meter and a half, pink huntsman spider standing in the table right in front of Aki, waving at them with one leg.
"Hello everyone, I'm Mint." Said the voice of a sweet and caring woman in her thirties, in the minds of all those in the room.
"Gods, at least she sounds normal." Softly said Eric.
"The sarit will be taking over the command over the insects already producing silk and commercialize their own materials through us. All two thousand of them are to be treated as citizens and will follow the same laws. Further work hours will be alocated to the creation of laws and rights specially made for those that are aracnid and arthropod, plus some more to the ellaboration of laws for inteligent fauna and flora that deem to fall under me. Something you might want to know though, is that they have way more spiders than that number i just gave, but only the females are sapient. Luckily their culture isn't some other shit show even i don't know how to deal with, so they will keep to their more 'uncivilized' habits while inside their own homes for the benefits of the other races." Aki explained in his usual no-holds barred way. "Now, as the last item that needs my direct attention, i would like to request all personal to leave notes and ideas for rumors and fabrications to counter the rumors saying our beautifull city is actually hell. Those have festered enough already, so i will be ussing the vampires' network to send positive feedback in our favor over the continent and maybe beyond, but i'm only one person, so more ideas on how to implement an idea can always be usefull. I'd suggest to follow a story that is similar to the truth, but then again, i'm just a seventeen year old that never worked into these kinds of things, so i need advice here and there." He said with a smile before leaving the congress to discuss amongs themselves and familiarize with their new menber.
*****
As Aki trained with his new summon's skills:
"You really don't want to do this." Said the smiling bunny girl as she got up from her stool. Three man currently stood in front of Robin, their lustfull gaze going over her body. She didn't mind, they were just prey. Couldn't even hear the weak convincing that she was instructed to do before something like this happened.
Before she could hook the closest guy in the shin, he was suddenly punched and thrown out of her reach, the innkeeper was big enough for that.
"Out! You've drunk too much already!" The bear like man screamed at them, which caused the obvious reaction of three idiots running away. He sighed, a deep sound that showed his deep voice was tired. When he turned to face the buny girl, he seemed troubled. "Would it be too much to ask you to not do anything?"
"You noticed? I'm just a normal adventurer though, I was just going to teach them a lesson or two." (And their last after I'd played enough.) She mentally added while softly smiling on the outside.
"If you say so." He shrugged, completely not convinced. "And what brings a lone adventurer like you to a resting post like our village? The only things around are the road to Udir and the great south-weastern forest." He asked.
People would only come here as part of a peregrination through the wild, and she obviously wasn't one that carred much for individual lifes, or if they were looking for work in another country, but in cases such as those you would normally come with a team since stablishing yourself alone in a completly diferent country is financial and possibly social suicide. Besides the high risk of being robbed or captured in the way plus being kidnaped after reaching the very first city.
The deserts weren't a forgiving place.
"Looking to prostitute myself to man with bigger dicks." She said and gulped her bear before looking at the man with twitching eyebrows. "I'm just a wanderer. Seeing new places, learning new things and meeting people is what i do. Just explored a dungeon from here to Louela, but nothing my level. Been thinking of stepping up the game." She shrugged, going for her drink again before noticing it was empty. "Boss, one more~."
"Urrgg" The man groaned before taping a mug for the paying costumer. "You lucked out then. Louela was just taken by a necromancer. They say he is a otherwolder." He frowned and told her, wispering the last part, which made her get a more serious expression out.
'You have no idea~.' Robin thought. "Did he send undead over here?" She asked, in a mood completely diferent than the one she really had. She'd never admit this specific play was one of her best, but designed not by her own hand.
"That's the thing. He did. It came with a merchant and acted as a mage bodyguard, reading a book the whole time and dealing with trouble makers only when they were actually a problem. A skeleton. Sounded every bit the asshole it was, but otherwise just another person." He said as if he'd just told her the suns had risen from the north. "Don't get me wrong though, i only tell you this because it wasn't long since the caravan left, you might find them in your way or even in the city already. You may be strong, but so was the skeletal mage, and i don't want problem for anyone." The look he gave while saying so told her what he expected her actions would be. He wanted to convince her not to look for a fight.
Raising her hands in the air, the little spy couldn't believe something like this had actually worked, Aki really was very imaginative, to make an artifact that made it easier to cause an impression on people instead of one that made them forget about you, and she proceded to follow her script.
"I'll only deal with it if there's a pay involved. And with back up. From what you tell that sounds like a higher undead, something i don't want to deal with. It would be great to know more about Louela and said mage though. You know, for research on mad necromantic tyrants." She said, and properly got an excuse to be interested in the rumors over the city.
And they told Aki that listening to hours of DeD campaings would be useless since he'd never have friends to play with.
'Maybe this job really isn't too bad. let's see if i can get at least half the next bandit camp to become slaves before they find me and i start the massacre.' She said while sweetly smiling.
*****
"See, it's the thought that counts when you are giving someone a horrible sweater." Aki told Alma while laying the horrendous grey piece of heavy cloth over her petite body. It was obviously the first of it's kind, but it if got some red pallet over it, one could problably confuse it with something the 'mortally impaired' a certain guy in green armor hunts.
It even had the resistance to take a shotgun at point blank with only minor damages and maintaining a normal wear's weight. Like one of those ugly old vases that were impossible to break even if you tosed them in the ground.
"Are you really supposed to show something like that to children?" Asked Ella in mock indignation and worry.
"Oh, she's been to the internet, of course she's seen worse." He nodded, making the red head look at the little elf girl with messy golden hair, who could only nod as well. "By the way, how has it been the attempt to contact your family? I heard getting in and out of that country is quite hard." Trying to change subject, he asked, but imediatly regreted it. "Something happened?"
"They should have already gotten a message here even if the money for fast delivery i put with the letter was robbed. I'm afraid they're not comming." She replied with a sad smile and simply changed the page the baby on her lap was reading, but Alma simply turned around and burried her shin on her cleavage and looked her in the eyes in her little weird possition.
"I'ma gonna stop the dexterity training for a while then. Come on, spit it out, where's the last place you've know them to be? I'll be back and forth from there in no time." Aki said and got up from the chair facing the open window, the moonlight simply moving to acomodate his form in it as he smiled energetically at her.
"You don't have to..."
"I want to. Helping a friend with a problem i can easily solve is something i would not forgive myself for not doing. Now look into that little face and tell me you think she doesn't want her daddy to help aunty Ella" He told her off with a smile while pointing at the deep eyes of his foster daughter, who was actually playing along with him.
*Sigh* "Just don't go taking over the capital yet, okay?" She softly told him while hugging the incarnation of cuteness in her arms before describing the location and pointing it at his map.
*****
"And so, all trade with the new governmental body of Louela is to have the agreed upon tax reductions during the period of five years in exchange for a cease fire. I believe my Lord was quite precise and clear, so such agreements are to be easy enough to put in practice, in sight that nothing will effectively change. Truly, he is too much benevolent for a ruler sometimes." Samal finished reading off the paper he'd brought and sighed. The whole court of nobles and the king both felt they were being insulted by this unread, but they literally could not move. Their feet was already sinking into the ground from the weight and some less diligent nobles had passed out.
"This will not, go the way you, wish for." The king was somehow able to say between gritted teeth, but he could barely walk slowly in this gravity field, (Not so accurate, but close enough) nevermind strike the offending monster.
"Of course they won't. That's why I am broadcasting this to the whole capital. So all can see how you are helpless but to agree and slowly gather your puny armies or refuse and attack innocent merchants who are simply being paid better. Maybe you will even rob their wares or say some rebellious individuals did it, prove me right when I said it was the correct choice to march over your insignificant walls and bloody the streets with the remains of the fodder a useless king threw at their betters." The lich coldly said while making slight movements with his hands, as if indicating a choice of left and right. Than he laughed a villain's laugh. "That will only more space for my undead under our lords. Hear these words, human king, accept our mercy if you wish to keep your scum filled head over your neck." And he disappeared, together with the transmissions of sound and light circulating the capital with the cloudy sky as the back ground.