Standing in front of me hands on their waist tapping their feet away was two women who happens to be Silvia and my Mother.
"So let me get this straight just one more time for the record. You came here to make deals on a mithril mine and ended up slaughtering half the kingdom with an insane lich you snuck out of our kingdom. And now you've somehow become king by feeding all the homeless people fruits from your internal world and they refuse to let you leave?" my mother asks me.
"But they were starving and looked so pitiful and I couldn't just feed one homeless person and let the others starve." I say with a pout.
"And what are you going to do about the princess technically you killed her family." she asks me pointing towards the little girl who was playing with toys and coloring books I had got her in the corner.
"I don't know adopt her or something?" I say with a sigh.
"Well 'King' Ryan you better think up something I'm pretty sure I can hear the homeless people chanting your name everytime I pass a window." Silvia says with a smirk.
"Kroft! Wanna be king?" I shout to the lich.
"Nope you can't pawn this off on me." he says casually.
"Bastard." I mutter.
This kingdom was in shambles. There was almost nothing left in the coffers, the vaults were empty. They didn't have any forbidden or advanced magic books left as they had all been sold previous years for food and other things since times were tough.
Basically it was a barren kingdom with starving people.
I rub my forehead again.
"Any suggestions?" I ask.
"Killem?" says kroft.
"Pawn them off on father." Silvia says.
"Become king?" my mother suggests.
"Help me color in this duck." the princess requests holding up a coloring book.
"Ugh." I sigh before picking up a yellow crayon and helping color in a duck.
"Kroft use some zombies to distribute more fruits around the kingdom." I say making sacks of fruit appear.
He summons some zombies and they carry out the sacks. "This will just make them want you as king even more." he cackles before leaving.
"Whatever I've got some free time."
I feel a tug on my pants and look down at the princess.
"Does that mean your going to be my papa now?" She asks with excited eyes.
"Sure." I just give in to pressure man.
"Yay!" my leg is hugged by the child whose name is Amber.
I just pat her head.
Apparently her father was always busy so she was always passed around by the maids and her brother was a dick and always plotting so never paid her any attention.
"So your going to just become king like that?" Silvia asks with a raised eyebrow.
"Well since your technically my fiancée that makes you queen to be as well." I point out.
"What about me?" Sasha pops out with teary eyes.
"Sure you can be a queen too." I tell her.
She does a little fist pump before hopping back into my shadow.
"So what are you going to do first?" my mother asks me.
"Make sure everyone is fed and housed." I say picking up the princess and walking towards the exit.
"And how are you going to do that?" she asks me.
"Well we are mages." I point out.
I make my way into the city. looking at some of the buildings. There hasn't been any repairs done to them in decades it looks like they are all ready to fall in on themselves and a lot already have.
I pull out my multi tool and point it towards a collapsed building.
With a huge suction force the rubble and rotted wood is sucked into it leaving behind a clean empty lot.
going to the shop I buy tons of wood for dirt cheap.
I throw piles of wood out and wave my hand and they morph and warp into a simple livable house.
I do this for the houses next to them and slowly make my way down the street getting faster and faster the more I do it. inside the houses I place bags of fruit since I had that in abundance.
"Anyone who needs a home please take one. do not fight over them as I'll keep building." I tell the crowd of awestruck homeless.
There's shouts of joy and people rushing to houses.
I just keep making my way down the busted ass road fixing up homes.
There's a massive gathering of people following and watching and cheering me on.
It's a good feeling helping people out.
This is how the next few days would go. With me building things with wood magic. Digging wells and fixing the roads with earth magic.
Cleaning up garbage with water magic. With the help of soldiers and great full people we were doing a full spring cleaning. I had kroft use zombies as janitors to help out 24 hours a day.
My knight squad started helping patrol the city and stomp out crime along with the new knights I had apparently become supreme commander of.
The King Alex had sent me aid in the form of blankets, food, and medicines to assist in my recovery of the city. He figured I'm already his son in law so there's already going to be an alliance between us. Won't he be surprised when I start a war with him. Just kidding I didn't even want this kingdom I certainly don't want another.