"They are fucking like rabbits while pronouncing their mutual love right now, it's so disgusting and pathetic I can't even be turned on by watching this! " Scowled the woman in black robes.
"I mean, he could be lying to get some and inspiring loyalty. There must be a reason he got chosen." Pointed out the man by her side, ussing much the same spell to see through the enchanted walls.
"He's a danm good actor then, because that seems exactly like that guy from last week, all blind in love for his wife. It was fun watching him break completly when he saw she had already become my bitch but..." It was then that Aki stabbed her in the throat, calefaction slowly burning the dagger out of the wound as her blood vaporized and expelled it, the woman having already fainted from shock but not yet dead even as she fell from her point of standing in the roof of a manor.
"You talk too much, your pride is too weak." He lazily said, taking out a spear with a long and curved blade and fighting the remaining cultist on the roof, stepping into the air and walking on it just as easily as solid ground, quickly jumping to reach the slower man, who easily defended his blade, but had no hope in escaping, being thrown at the street of the noble district with great speed. "You didn't actually think my house was so defenceless, did you?" Snickering, Aki hit the man on the back of knee, his blade curving and turning into a scythe head, easily downing the man yet again and shoving a spike into his skull while he was downed, which somehow still made the man stager and stay conscious as he tried to regain some semblance of the life his status said he still had. There were a lot more spikes completly piercing him before he could do any kind of last minute magic. "And they say i'm resilient." He scoffed, this time for real, before collecting the corpse and it's blood while fixing the street. He had another cultist to torture for information.
*****
"You know, while i'm surprised someone actually fell for the old recording trick, i'm quite happy with the XP you guys give, your friend pumped me all the way to level sixty five!" Aki gushed, a big smile on his face as the blade on his hand made a cut on the woman's cheek as he got up, making the cut seem completly by chance while he acted like he didn't even notice it. "Unfortunatly, the job i have right now isn't one that can get much XP with these ridiculous modifiers over striking down someone so weakened. So there i was, wondering what i was going to do with you after i'm done with the whole information extraction business, when it suddenly hit me, i can just convert you! I don't give a shit about the gods, but the good the church can do is real, so you are going to be my appostle and do good in my name and in the name of whatever god seems to be a good one to mention at that time." He giggled, like a boy with a new toy. The bafflement on the woman's face very real.
"You know the funniest part?" He asked, the coldness she knew, oh so well, filling his eyes completly. "You are going to thank me for it later, like a good daughter to her father." Then there was darkness, followed by small, prickly spikes of pain that just dissapeared moments after she noticed them.
She didn't know when she had awoken, and her mind seemed like it was doing it's best impression of a slug. There was some disconfort on her middrif, then there suddenly was warmth.
Slowly, the little girl sat, noticing she was laying on a soaked bed sheet and blanket. Soaked on her pee. Imediatly getting up and seeing no one, she took the blanket off, extracted the liquid out and put the blob on her storage pouch after a brief moment of hesitation. It'd not be in contact with anything inside and she'd dispose of it later.
Doing the same with the rest of the foul thing around was easy and simple, but although she still felt tired, it would still be hard to get rid of the feeling of not being clean and she decided to at least go to the toilet to throw some water on her head, maybe make some warm milk before going back to bed.
And that's what she did, her little head bobbing with sleep but still finding the way on instinct. It was when she saw the light on the kitchen of the dark house that she stopped. She was afraid, but she was also currious. Slowly and stealthly, the black haired and red eyed child reached the door with light, her ability much the same as a professional assasin.
"DAD! You shouldn't be eating sweets this late in the night, mom will be angry." She quickly exclaimed when she reconaised the tall figure standing in front of the cold storage magic toll with a plate in hand. Forking one more bite out of the frosted cake, he smiled at her, calling her over. She reluctantly did.
"It's a brazilian tradition to eat sweets in the middle of the night when you are stressed." Aki pointed out. "Or if you had a nightmare."
"I didn't." She pouted.
"Then i guess we can make a deal, since we are both well. You don't tell either your mommies and i give you a slice." He seriously asked.
"And some warm milk." He smiled at her, letting the girl that looked between eight or ten years old hold his plate while he cut another piece of the cake they'd talked about earlier, levitating it and putting some milk on a glass cup before warming it in his palm with a quick spell. The extra plate and fork easily levitated to his hand and the cake was served.
"Here my little bat. Now sit with papa so we can properly honor your grandparents and eat while sitting on the floor." He said and she giggled at his antics, still following suit and sitting by his side in front of the fridge. "You cold?" He asked, still chewing the taste on his mouth.
"No dad~." She said before yawning a bit, which made him smile again and kiss the side of her head.
*****
The work on the villages had been as easy as he'd first expected, actually only needing him to stay a day in each so he could properly socialize and understand to which gods the villagers would pray more to.
It was, however, the perfect trip to use as an excuse to adopt the cute vampire that had attacked his house the same night he'd been preparing to depart without having to explain where he'd found the child. He'd surgically removed the death inplants on her body and made the same six or seven years younger, altered her mind to that of a grown eight years old with an adult personality, put locks on most of her memories, and added a geas that made her ask him about those when she felt she wanted to know something about them. There were some memory packets that made her have warm feelings about him and his wifes and some to explain to her about the house so she would not bumble about like last night, but otherwise, she was still a magically capable child in a new enviroment, scared but confident she could run away if her new family was not what they seemed.
This, however, led to her being very doted on.
Aki and Mari both being the kind that were scared shitless of the idea of having a baby and Xera being almost sterile, they were all very happy with the idea of adopting the little girl.
Claire had never actually had a family, sold by her enslaved parents to reduce their debt. By her teenager years, her master had already turned the hatred filled and lonely girl into a vampire. What happened next would be perfect material for a character in a a bloody vampire game, with all the sadness, sadism and edge you'd expect.
Considering how powerful the vampire teen had been before, Aki decided this might just solve a lot of his problems. She had been reduced to a rank four monster, but had regained her ability to change jobs. And gained the level 10 sunlight resistance thanks to being trained with it after receiving the blessing of Ark, which was quite easy to coax out of him when he explained his plan.
He'd also gained a new skill instead of the blessing the blonde god had been planning on giving him when he capped the Saint job.
It was actually through converting her that he had maxed the job, saying that Ark had seen potential in her, that she had to pay him back for the divine power used since it saved her life and gave her help in the form of a new family.
This, ended up with Aki being her teacher for most things because there was actually no school in town and mostly everyone on the temple was too fanatic to do a good enough job. Except the bishop, but he didn't want to traumatize the child or the like.
That made him treathen the whole temple and cut the bishop's connection temporarily so as to drive home his point that he'd be the one who'd teach the girl. Maybe he'd not even need some kind of personal tutor or the like.
Turns out, he is just as terrible as the child in geography and history, so he had no way of imediatly teaching her. Luckily mom was an experienced explorer with a lot of knowledge in story telling. And since mother was the only one that actually knew how to be a proper housewife, she was entrusted with teaching everyone properly.
Xera leveled several household skills that day, running her lovers ragged as they polished the house till it shone. The child was the only one sparred, but she still helped prepare dinner, which made the two defeated puddles of sweat cry in joy as they ate.
And thus, the three became four and directly went to a new part of their relationship.
And cultists kept coming every day, feeding Aki more and more prisoners and XP, having blazed through three jobs in six days because of the amount of times he 'Protected his pupil', 'cleaned a mess he made' and 'dispatched intruders by himself'.
It happened so much, that he actually unlocked the Apprentice guard job, and imediatly started getting levels because he was 'patroling' the whole place, maxing it out imediatly after defeating one guy without killing him. Them he took the Apprentice torturer job and maxed it out in the time it took for him to reach the basement, because he was in charge of some twenty something men and women of high power, plus his daughter.
Because, apparently, completly erasing her memory and turning her into all she stood against was considered such a fountain of torture that he could max out the torturer job in a day even if he did nothing. Faster if he made her love him more.
He imediatly selected it, no shame in getting XP from making her happy. He checked, she only had one memory that would have anything that resembled happiness, but after that, she basically slept or desperatly tried to feel something. Claire was 232 years old.
Many of the people he captured were much the same. No matter how old, they never surpassed a certain threshold of power exactly because the didn't live as much as they just wasted away.
There were, however, just as much people that enjoyed the most twisted and fucked up things he could think off, so Aki was more than happy enough to just let them experience their worst nightmares they could cook up while in a cell of the second basement till they expired.
None of them needed water, food or sleep to be kept alive for months, slowly starving themselves while suffering every time they closed their eyes.
For now it just ment they had to focus on not blinking, but it was not like the people he threw here still had any ability after he treated them, so they could only wait, be bored and die.
Even if he'd not slept much at nights, Aki could get ussed to this kind if lifestyle.