"And that's basically what changed on my status page." Said a grinning Aki as he held the family sofa, which currently held his whole family, while he ussed it as a weight over his head during some leg exercises.
"So that small buff on strength you got from the Knight Jobs, got fused to your other buffs, and now, would you at least stop while I'm talking." Complained Mari as she tried kicking him but simply making her husband laugh like their already guffawing child.
It was at this happy moment that a hobgoblin servant came in.
"I'm sorry to interrupt, but the next appointment has come." Said the head butler while keeping his smile.
"It's ten already?" Asked Aki through a stifled smile. Apparently a lot of nobles wanted to talk to him during the three weeks he was 'away', and now he had a whole list of people to talk to for the next three days. People apparently figured out they were back these last two days through the change in the servants behavior, though they'd hardly left the bedroom in that time.
These people indeed had years of experience in power games.
Before walking away, he made sure to kiss the lips of all his wives and the foreheads of his daughters.
Since he'd been showing off, he used the walk to the tea room to put on a social shirt, summoning it to his naked torso.
"Hello Madam I am... I see you are really precautious, sending a double instead of coming yourself, but I assure you, she will be returned with nigh a scratch and neither would you. Back to what I was saying, I am Aki, party leader of the Alastor adventurer team." He shrugged and went back to curtsing before sitting with crossed legs before the controlled woman drinking tea. She seemed insulted for a moment, but then her eyes became bloodshot, her face slack as her aura became cold. "I remenber your missive mentioning something about a personal bussines? Related to vampirism?" He asked, completly unbothered.
"You are better than I expected child, I will not deny that. You are not ready to face me however." She said, calmly putting her tea down and resting her head on her knuckles as she lazily sat there.
"I have some from fifteen to thirty years old if you want." He shrugged, calmly offering another beverage. "Little from the dwarven or elven side though, nothing someone like you would look into i'm afraid."
"I'm fine as is. I'll be direct, i want you. You have taken many of my combatants already, your worth is clear. Work for me and you shall have much more than what the gods offer you."
"Is that so? And what power do you offer miss pure blood?" He asked, completly unfased by the rank 13 monster's aura.
"All the women you desire, equipment for your research, resources for your crafts, rituals to raise your attributes, power you can't imagine." Her voice reverbarated on the room, her calm and the power she exuded in contrast.
"Interesting. Say, and who would it be that turned all of that possible? Who gives their blessings to such operations?" He asked, leaning over with a smile.
"Saretras, the dark god of tirany." She said, the words reverbarating and making the room look like it'd fall over any time now.
"Thanks stupid." Was all Aki said before letting go of the ball of silver shrapnell in front of her face, teleporting back to his home before the thing could realize what he'd done with her connection and comming back five seconds later to a molten figure of silver, blood and flesh, one bloodshot eye starring at him as the 'woman' tried to regenerate through the encasing of mithril and silver when suddenly a blinding light decended on her through the roof of wherever the fuck they were.
Calmly teleporting over, he started gouging out her innards with his bare hands. First her heart, then liver, intestines, kidney and ribs with some cuts of meat here and there. As he repeated the cuts of the sitting vampire starring at him with pure hatred with it's one remaining eye, he softly smiled, delighted in finding a good toy he could farm for materials.
Aki's two original arms continued forcing her regeneration to deal with the less important injuries that were not covered in blessed metals, so when he grew two new arms and started to impale her with several mithril stakes completly scribbed with sealing enchantments, Saretas noticed that he now couldn't take back the clone he'd ussed on the vampire, it's connection starting to dimn as panic and rage settled in the blob of flesh, bone and blades in the shape of an armored man.
It really didn't care one of it's chief believers were being butchered like a fish, her arms and legs slowly being cut open, flesh severed from bone several times until it reached a point where the limb was completly cut off and another stake with another tipe of enchantment being inserted in it's stead, her mind completly consumed by rage and pain.
No, the important thing was that it'd take hundreds of years for it to even begin seeing that divine power on that clone! It'd already have descended on that location were it not for the fact that if it chose to break it's seal now it's death was more than garanteed by it's jailer, nevermind that it was questionable if it'd be able to destroy that little bastard in the midst of such battle.
The brat in question couldn't be happier though, he'd just capped the butcher and monster butcher job after having thrown 'humanoid tamer' on the back burner yet again, but he couldn't exactly go on for much longer. Both his inventory and his time were running out, so instead of crusifying her once upon a box stile, he just got a big metal hook on her rib cage and judo throwed her inside his inventory, which no, wasn't ment for living beings or undead.
No time to lose, he began setting the UV bomb array on the spacious room filled with enchantments. He was about to starting setting the termite on the second half of the floor when a shadow barged in while breaking several locks, barelling a very teeth filled mouth towards his neck. Throwing the detonator to the air, Aki blinked and completed the spell he'd been delaying by feeding on the energy powering the room, the vacum he created not of importance to the already triggered granade exploding on the face of the vampire so close to him. Without any actual damage being done because of the fire power in it, the pure blood was infuriated, roaring his lungs out in the middle of the burning ground even he burned on.
He couldn't care less about the barely scorching temperature and was about to destroy the room in a blind rage, but then a great consentration of light mana surged from the mind caster, the chair still filled with vampire blood from that one that was just butchered on it, and the monster quickly sobered up, reconizing the descent of a heroic spirit or maybe even a god. It was about to run away when the bombs actually detonated, filling the exit with what it could only call pure pain!
"""That's one way to use light magic.""" Commented the three heroic spirits inhabiting the harbringer golem, already pinning down the vampire with gravity, telekinesis and pure brute force even as it melted and screamed in their hands, which was very confusing considering it was barely a skeleton at this point.
*****
One boxed vampire and half an hour later.
"It was trully delightfull having you over your grace, maybe we will have some tea on another date, but i need to accompany my child to a teacher-parent reunion at the capital." Aki claimed, actually preparing to go do exactly that after having entertained the noble puppet.
Having captured one pure blooded vampire did give him plenty of XP, but it was not exactly that amazing without some more multipliers, so he picked the 'vampire hunter' job, which had unlocked right about the same time he'd 'sealed' this one, and then the 'monster hunter' job because there was some extra XP and he could max it out. All this unlocking some more jobs, he was radiant about his day already really but there was something important coming, so he put his normal business smile and awaited for everyone at the teleportation station.
He wore a white shirt and black pants, Sera a purple shirt and brown pants, Mari put on a knee long and loose brown skirt to go with her pale yellow shirt, while Xera had a flowing black skirt covering her legs completly and a beige blouse.
"Do we look like a noble family?" Questioned Aki. Between Clair wearing the academy's special uniform, a black jacket with golden embroydments, white shirt and matching skirt and kneesocks/shoes, and literraly all his wives looking like models going for a photo session, he was starting to feel a bit underdresed.
"I mean, if you put that hair band from before and smile more than maybe we'd look normal for rich adventurers, but otherwise, yeah." The green muse shrugged.
"Me? If you put on a serious look, Mari smiles and Xera acts haughty, i'd be completly ignored from how attention catching you all are." He rebuted, confusing her. Mari held her shoulder after sighing a bit and looked her husband in the eyes.
"Aki, you're forgetting you are also handsome. Again." She said like it'd been the tenth time in the hour. "You're the one who puts the most care and practice in your face and expression, your skin is smooth like a baby's if you are wearing clothes, you're tall, exude confidence and control, plus your voice commands attention." She pointed out, numbering it with her fingers.
"Dad is amazing after all." Concluded Clair, exuding pride.
Said dad then started to kiss and caress her all over, his mood in the heavens already. He'd not have stopped smooching and hugging her for a long while if they'd not needed to be somewhere.
By the way, Kora really disliked formal stuff, so she'd not be going with them no matter how much Aki wanted to show her off.
Teleportating over, they were swiftly received by polite and efficient attendants and guided over to a giant podium that clearly ussed enchantments to expand itself, the four parents receiving honor seats thanks to their daughter being the valedictorian in everything on the sixth grade.
The staff was surprised when they'd asked for four chairs, but it wasn't the strangest thing to date.
Overall, there was a boring speech to begin with and then a bit of a talent show by the more artistic students before people were allowed to mingle as any actual announcement of school plans and arrangements for anything that would concern the parents was only going to be discussed after an hour or so, though that was mostly because most parents were nobles and didn't lose the chance to do exactly that, so the school was using that characteristic to the advantage of their staff.
Imediatly after getting up, Aki directed himself towards the teachers, he knew all their faces and family backgrounds, Mari went to spy on some students, and Sera got to introduce herself to Clair's classmates. Xera was going to do that as well, but got intercepted by a crowd.
The afternoon proceeded much like the morning, joy filling the young parent as he discussed his daughter's academics with her instructors, getting compliments and hearing praises. He finally, fully understood all those times his mother told him how proud she was of all his teachers said.
Then came a well suited and grizzled old man with great confidence in his stride. Aki imediatly recognized him even before he opened his fetid mouth.
"Professor Chapidi, we need to have a bit of a talk." He said, getting the man by the shoulder and fully intending on traumatizing the disqualified piece of shit pretending to be an educator at the very least.
The moment he actually touched the man though, his skills and experience informed, that one, this was a demon, and two, he was fucked.
"Barriers up!" He screamed, the black void suddenly showing through the orifices on the thing's face suddenly started expanding, the whole body becoming a black hole with seemingly similar suction force.
There was nothing left behind as the whole school body, guests and students confirmed with their bated breath at the spheric crater in the middle of their forum did not, in fact, undo itself.