We finished packing up our stuff. It was a lot after four years of living here. I took the last look and we left. We purchased a place in the noble district near the walls so that we can keep our stuff safe but we needed to go out and experience the world. The carriages were filled quickly as I kept putting more and more things in it. My tigers walked around me making it a little annoying as we loaded it into the wagon behind the carriages as well.
After a couple of hours, everything was placed in the wagons and carriages. We set out to unload into our new home. I thought about the war that has so far ended up in a quagmire with neither side gaining territory. The Beasts had kept two kingdoms at bay and with the Dwarven Kingdom backing out of the fight after a mysterious explosion. What was once a hopeful war turned into kingdoms trying to make sure the other doesn't get to take more territory now into a quagmire with no end in sight. Many Adventurers went and died for nothing since I accidentally triggered this war. I had no idea what was happening on the front and decided that I would head in the opposite direction. We need to blood ourselves. I would be leaving Fluffy and Carol here to take care of my businesses and Stacies. Stacy has been hard at work trying to increase her strength. She would be no more than an F-rank Adventurer and was only amazing with clothing but she was adamite that she would not leave my side.
I was fine with this development and expected it. But I never pressured her into it leaving the decision to her with subtle manipulation. The road bumped as we reached the destination and we unloaded into a large mansion. I could have hired people to do this but I decided against it. We took the rest of the day unpacking into the Mansion it had three floors although the third was more an attic and it had a reinforced basement. This house used to be a rich alchemist but sold it and was moving south away from the war since he thought it was 'Tasteless' Peculiar man but that didn't matter. The yard was small and the walls of the Noble district were right there. Smaller Privacy walls also enclosed the space. This wasn't a Nobles home and I knew that I had the gold for it with Stacy's help but we decided against something so frivolous.
After a day or two moving in and making sure that everything was the way we liked it I started enchanting and sent a message to Miss Green. She agreed for a price and we set out to work. The enchantments that were here previously were not old but not new either. We changed them all into our own making the house suicidal to anyone below C-Rank and dangerous to anyone else. I couldn't make it perfect but I sure tried. After another week of that, we went to the Adventurers guild to get ourselves settled in to start our life as adventurers.
We walked to the noble district's adventurer guild and there was a line and the job board was full. I looked at Stacy and Freya both looking good in dresses Freya told me hers is tailored to help the summoning of illusions and perception of others on her is important. Stacy was a tailor by trade and looking good was part of it. She had decided to go down the route of equipment repair as an adventurer. I know she will never be strong but not weak either.
It would take work and experience for her to grow into the role. She had taken leatherworking courses in the last year and the same as smithing. Her arms were building muscles and were becoming more defined. She also loved more extreme pain play now I could stick a needle in her and I would hear moans. It always got me wet thinking about the play I could do with her.
She worked hard and her energy was building too her foundation was not as strong as Freya's or mine but she was beyond gopher G-Rank. She had no experience keeping her from the E-Rank. This was going to be settled with this signing up. I was looking to go down into the Demon lands and get out of the prudes of human society Demons seemed more my cup of tea and I wanted to check out how they were.
This world is interesting and I am glad that I had the opportunity to come here. It was full of good and bad times for myself but I enjoyed it. I was also looking forward to using energy in fights. With it, I learned that I could bypass a lot of Mana shields that Wizards put up and could kill in a single strike. It was less about images and more increasing the capability of the weapon your using.
Our line came to an end and we all put our names to register. With the Academy, we got letters of recommendation that changed our rank with no questions asked. In the last couple of years, they decided my rank was C-rank. Freya came out to D-rank considered to be amazing for the profession for her age. The receptionist was some poor guy that had to listen to Nobles all day and we registered quickly. It was going to take a day or two before they were ready. I started to look at the jobs and there wasn't any heading south. We would need to travel through the Prairies and I heard there was a dungeon there. Dungeons existed but were exceedingly rare and dangerous was how the academy taught it. Only B-Rank adventurers and stronger pillaged their depths and I was not about to try at this stage.
There were missions for a lot of things on this including a dungeon dive but it was too dangerous at this point. I look at finding nothing. I decided to head home for the day after doing some casual shopping. I was slowly traveling after enjoying a day with Freya and Stacy through the market as the days ahead were going to be different.
We got home and Fluffy and Carol had reports about the gang. Frank was doing his job as usual and a lot more members were becoming discontent with how we were staying out of the ongoing gang wars. I asked if that was a problem I needed to come in and solve with my claws and Carol didn't think so as our plans were about to commence. I thought about my travel plans.
"How close do you think it is?" I ask.
"Well Mistress, I think no more than a week and the place will blow up. We can clean up and take over with our current forces and Fluffy than it will all be taken care of." I ponder her words after she answered. I sit down in a chair and lay back.
"I will stay a few days longer you and Fluffy will head this. I will watch on the sidelines and observe if everything goes to plan and we take over the entire slums I will reward both you. If something happens that was outside the plan I will be there to clean it up. After three years of planning, we will not fuck this up. I did not realize it was moving this quickly through what changed?"
"Mistress, about a year ago a new gang called the Crimson Flayers rose in a closeby area. This created a controversy and more gang wars. A lot of their members were unhappy and betrayed their old gang to craft this one. They pride themselves on their brutality to everyone and doesn't matter whom they hurt as long as they hurt them. This has not sat well with the other gangs as they are trying to aggressively expand hurting their interests. We infiltrated them with our members just after they started and we have their treasurer and one of their higher up enforcers as moles."
"Good work Carol thinking on your feet I like that. Your talent was being wasted as a sex slave to some unknown idiot. You have come a far way from that and I am proud of you. I am looking forward to the execution of the gangs. Remember too this is just part one of multi-year planning. This takes time and all plans must be flexible. A plan that needs everything to go right is a plan that fails.
"Almost instantly I want that debt shit to stop after this war. All avenues for the Slaver Masters guild in the slums must be cut. Debt slaves in this city will slow to a trickle of what they were. Then with the ones that do still come up, we will start our own stores and undercut them. We don't need to make money on this but we cannot lose too much either I trust you know what I mean. I need the Slave Masters guild in this city to suffer a bit but we still need gold to expand.
"Next we need to set up a purple pepper farm and find a refiner or train one to make the drugs to circulate around. This is to lower public safety and put the nobles on the grill for it and why they are not dealing with it. That should be all for now and I will most likely be back before that. Please do not be captured or lose your place before that this plan needs to go through for my plans later. This is significant for my plans and my plans around other people's plans. It is the first of many chess pieces and all those other sayings. Without it, things will hurt and they will hurt for a long time."
I finished my rant that I am sure she has heard before and was probably memorizing. But I needed this to work. When I have made a large enough name to become a Noble among humans it has to be more solid than other nobles or I will need to flee this place. There is no Beast-kin Noble amongst them in the history of the kingdom even though there is nothing that should stop one from becoming one. But they are racist. With so many races on this planet all with preservation of the species and other things, it became a complex mess. A lot of races hated humans as well from things previously done in the past. Enslaving the bunny-kin comes to mind. They were now a powerful species that really dislike humans now.
This is just one of many examples littered throughout the history here. The cow-kin being used as cattle for milk farms instead of fucking cows was one that put me on the fence. I really wanted to dominate a big-chested cow-kin girl I was imagining it too. But this was the problem now with the war to the north as well. No one wanted to cooperate with humans. The beasts were becoming a problem but a lot of other races were content with letting them expand if they kill humans. The dwarfs and gnomes didn't care that much about relations with humans but something happened in there territory and I huge explosion happened they then dropped out with the beasts gladly letting the war between them end.
At the end, there was nothing I could do but try to change the political side of things by increasing my say before I even entered politics. I needed an information network to create blackmail on the Nobles. The best way to do that was be the rats on the street and get them to come to me to make said blackmail. I was happy with our progress with that.
"Freya, Stacy we are delaying our departure for a minimum of one week until the things are solved." I state my final position, "Let us have dinner now I don't know about you but I am hungry also three raw steaks for Rajah Zara and Ariel they have been fantastic all day I almost forgot they were behind me all day." I heard some discontent with my tigers and played with them as dinner was being made.
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