Finally on the third day of being possessed Georgie was using Hal's body to finish drawing an array. It was the size of the entire camp and then some. In the end the demi god had used bone to complete the array. Usually some type of metal was needed, but Georgie had been able to cheap out on the metal by using slime cores.
Hal had had his mind blown when on the third day Georgie casually started experimenting with one of the slimes. At least it looked like experimenting, but really Georgie knew exactly what he was doing, because after operating for ten minutes the slime was dropped to the ground. It's usual orangish pink color slowly changed to a greenish yellow that became almost black at the thickest part of the slime.
'Slime mutation, this one is a metal slime now. Once it has time to reproduce for a few generations I will be able to use its core to draw the final array.'
So thinking Georgie called one of Hal's barrel/crab skeletons over and directly removed all the normal slimes and then carefully placed the metal slime into the 'barrel' of the skeleton.
Six hours later metal slimes were overflowing from the barrel/crab and Georgie started to slaughter them in droves adding mana and soul power to his skeletons it was true, but the real reason he did so was to use their metal cores in an array. Carefully, carefully he began to trace paths through, between, and around the camp. Everywhere he went he laid down a line of bone synthesized from the metal slime cores.
Fragile looking the metal Georgie laid down was mostly very dark green in color with occasional bright yellow highlights. It was like no metal that Hal had ever seen, but since Georgie was satisfied with it there were no complaints. Then clear into the night the array production finally finished and the demi god knelt Hal's body down so that it could grasp the two ends of the formation. Injecting Hal's spirit power directly into the formation the two ends merged and the entire formation lit up.
Green light filled the night in an eerie spectral feast for the eyes. Sort of like an aurora, but mostly green, a little yellow, and now pink at all.
'Well, that is it. Your women should be fine now. In the next few days they should all regain consciousness. At this point if any of them die it won't be because of the [Goblin Grease].'
Sighing mentally, Georgie said and then it seemed like he was about to leave.
'Wait! Where are you going? Don't you want to stay?'
Hal had been thinking for a long time about how Georgie was doing so much better at being a Lord than he was.
'Stay? I am afraid I have burned through all my divine power. I won't be able to help you for a long time.'
Again the demi god signed and again Hal felt like his connection to Georgie became even more tenuous.
'Please! Wait! At least tell me what this large array is for!!'
This time Hal said something that made the demi god laugh a little.
'Ha, ha, I forgot to tell you. Good thing you remembered!'
The demigod suddenly sounded really tired, but went on anyways.
'This array formation's purpose is just to stimulate all the female beings within its borders.'
'What??!! I thought the whole point was to help them stop being crazy sex starved nymphos!'
Hal was surprised and confused.
But Georgie did not react to Hal's desperate confusion.
'I can't work miracles, Hal. Not like Goddess Eir at least. I can't just wave a hand, turn back time and make it as if this never happened. When they regain consciousness they will have to make a choice. They can stay within these borders and continue to express themselves sexually or they can chose to move outside. At which point they will have to go through withdrawal, but it won't be life threatening just really difficult as in painful.'
'Why wouldn't they want to leave, though? I don't understand?'
Hal had been so focused on getting everyone off the [Goblin Grease] that he hadn't even considered that some might not want to stop.
'It is simple really. They would have to give up the benefits.'
Georgie said simply.
'Benefits? Like the increased mass of their secondary sexual characteristics? I don't think they will care that much... And doesn't it come at the cost of life essence?'
This was really hard for Hal to understand.
'Life essence? I think you have it wrong. If they stay in the field they can slowly accumulate life essence, that is the benefit of this array. Especially if you provide them with strong beast kills. No, that is not a concern. And as far as their secondary sexual characteristics? Not all of their secondary sexual characteristics is about mass. There are other characteristics that determine the supple texture of the skin or the natural glow. What woman could resist regaining a portion of their lost youth. You might see more women join your territory, actually.'
said Georgie philosophically.
'What that doesn't make sense. If there are so many benefits then why don't all women go all in for the benefits of being more sexually active?'
Despite every benefit that Georgie described Hal wasn't seeing the bigger picture.
'Well it is true, there are draw backs. The biggest of which is social ostracization, but that one doesn't really apply here, because you have an entire social community going through the exact same thing. Then there is also the drawback of having available men to ... ahem ... perform various acts of interest with. But you have also solved that problem. Of the big concerns a woman will have the last is that if you have a body that literally glows with natural health and there is also a certain sexiness involved with enhanced secondary sexual characteristics there will be some vanity. This one, you don't have resolved, but I trust you will figure it out. I think you will be forced to figure it out.'
Explaining further, the demi god faded even more in Hal's consciousness.
'What? Vanity? Why would they be more vane?'
Desperate to get in as many questions as possible before the connection was cut Hal asked another question.
'Ahem, ... , you are not a woman, so you wouldn't know. The truth is that as a woman's breasts and hips become larger wearing normal cloths just makes them look fat. Even if their mid sections, legs, and arms are thin, they will look fat. So a woman needs to wear skin tight cloths or cloths that reveal a lot of skin to display the fact that they really are skinny.'
Georgie's voice went into a 'you should really know this' type of lecturing tone.
'Wait! How do I fix the vanity problem for them? Please just one more question.
Hoping to insert one more question, Hal threw out one final thought.
'Well, honestly, you can't solve it for them. If I was in your position, I wouldn't try to restrict them. Instead it is more about you figuring out how to appreciate them. There will only be a problem with vanity if you aren't honest. Let them decide how they want to dress themselves and then appreciate them for their individual choices, no matter what they are. Remember to always be honest and you will find that everything will ...'
With this Georgie finally lost his connection with Hal and no matter how long the human Lord stood there reaching out for the mentor that had lead his little territory for three days the demi god was gone.
[Hal, get over it. He is gone and you have more important things to do!]
Flo was back!
'Hey, Flo, it is good to have you back. I missed you!'
It was true, in just the three days that Hal had started in this world he had come to rely on Flo to be his partner.
[It is good to be back. Those demi gods are such prima donnas! Thinking that they can boss system AI's around!]
Hal could just imagine Flo stomping her foot down, angry that they could just toss her around like they did.
[Enough of that, though. The system is about to drop an announcement. I think you are going to love it.]
'Ughhhh??'
Hal had no idea what she was suggesting. Just then a text box popped open for Hal. This time it had none of Flo's embelishments.
[Annoucement: After the 10 day novice protection the event [Tower Defense] will be held. Information about the event is now available in the system menu. Good luck, Lords!]
[See, isn't this exciting?]
Flo gushed after the automatic system message was displayed.
"Exciting? Sure, I guess??"
Hal said uncertain.
[You guess? I thought you would love a good game, you know something to distract you from all this?]
Trying to empathize Flo said a few things to distract him a bit.
'Yeah? Actually, yes! This is a great idea! Maybe I can meet a few Lords and maybe they will want to take over!'
Suddenly thinking about how the event could potentially help, Hal started to get a little excited.
[Ummm, that is not what I was thinking.]
Protesting, Flo tried to insert.
'No? But thanks anyways for sparking the idea. Yeah, I think this could be it. I could really find a great Lord to take over. Not like that last guy...'
Mumbling something Hal started to look forward to the event. Hoping that he could find some Lord that would take care of his people he shook off his malaise and headed into the camp to finally get some real sleep. While being possessed Hal had been aware the entire time, because Georgie had never gone to sleep. Maybe demi gods didn't sleep, Hal didn't know. But now he was really looking forward to going catatonic.
However, when he entered the camp's central area he was greeted with wails as a woman was being staked to the ground. She was crying out and desperately trying to make it back into a group of women who were standing resolutely as Meiyu's dad pounded a stake into the ground. The woman had a collar with a chain that was leading to the stake around her neck.
Gathering his courage Hal stepped out from among the surrounding women and spoke up.
"Hey, what is this?"
The women one and all refused to look in his eyes.
"Come on, no one is in trouble, I am sure we can resolve this easily."
Hal went on trying to reassure them.
Finally one women stepped out from among the women who had bunched up more thickly on one side of the circle.
"Hal, we had to separate her out. She has no place with us and since she is starting to wake up from her [Goblin Grease] haze we decided to do it now."
As the woman spoke Hal started to recognize her voice. It was difficult because the voice quality itself had changed becoming a little deeper and more full. Yet the mannerism and way of talking was familiar. It was Meiyu who stood before him now completely naked and unashamed.
Hal flushed red as he realized who it was that was talking to him. All the women saw it and whispered among themselves, but Meiyu just laughed.
"Hal, you are going to have to get used to this, aren't you?"
So saying she grasped her own breasts and waggled them at him a bit.
"They have gotten much bigger, right!"
Swallowing, Hal closed his eyes and wished that he was some where else. He could already feel his nether regions coming alive with the stimulation. Turning he looked at the woman who was being staked to the ground and realized it was Harumi. Clutching at her collar Harumi strained against her binding in a crazed animalistic way.
"But what about Harumi, what did she do to deserve this?"
Asking a question that had been his focus just moments ago and now had almost completely been lost in new developments.
For a time Meiyu just stared at his mid section, but finally tore her eyes away and said.
"It was her. Harumi posted some pics of herself on the chat basically naked and taunted everyone to come and claim her."
Finally Meiyu said what she and all the other women had realized.
"..."
All Hal could do was remain silent as realizations hit him. No wonder Harumi had been in the tent with the Goblin Lord. No wonder the Goblin Lord had come in the first place.
Shaking his head, Hal started to say something angrily, but then a realization dawned on him.
"If she taunted all the Lords in this region, then there will be more Lords attacking!"
Fear drove a spike through Hal's nervous system from the top of his head to the soles of his feet he stood frozen after speaking.
Meiyu nodded.
"That is why we can't trust her. There are several of us who want to exile her from your territory. She is the cause of all our ... all our recent ..."
However as Meiyu tried to reference the horrible rape that they had had to go through she couldn't put words to it.
A long protracted silence ensued. The woman, too ashamed of what had happened could not or would not speak and Hal had too fear to speak running through his brain.
'I wish Georgie was here, or at least any of my patron gods!'
Hal said in his mind.
[Hal! Stop, don't think stuff like that!]
The text box flared up, but before Hal had even had more than the chance to read it another voice boomed.
{Ha, ha, ha, ha!}
One of Hal's demi god patrons did indeed appear. Morrigan in her armored form appeared after a crow swooped down to face Hal. Now they were spaced to the four points of a cross. Meiyu with the women behind her were across from Harumi while the Morrigan and Hal formed the ends of the cross piece.
"Can anyone else hear her?"
Hal asked hesitantly, there were a lot of people looking straight at the Morrigan, but enough were looking in other directions that he wasn't sure if they could hear or see her.
"Of course we can see her!"
Meiyu said looking at Hal like he was an idiot.
Chuckling the Morrigan shook her head as if Hal was retarded then said.
{Mortal you don't fully appreciate my power and authority?}
Taking a couple steps back Hal brought up his hands in a shushing gesture.
"No, no, I am fully aware of and I deeply appreciate your authority?"
{Well, we will see how deep your appreciation goes later. For now release this woman!}
Morrigan made a lewd gesture that accompanied her first sentence, but then followed up with a command.
Instantly Meiyu's dad reached down and lifted the spike up out of the ground in one super human feat of strength. A few of the women's eyes went round with appreciation and there were murmurs that swept the crowd.
Harumi for her part ran to the Morrigan and fell weeping at her feet. Bending down the female demi god grasped the chain and then stood up. In her capable hands the wood stake at the end of the chain reformed to become a decorative handle.
Jerking the chain a bit the Morrigan demonstrated to the crowd how in control of Harumi she was.
{Enough playing around. I declare that this mortal woman has become my primary in the games to come. She is not to held responsible for her actions. Anything she does is my responsibility. If she betrays you, it is not her that is betraying you, it is I. Do you have a problem with that?}
The Morrigan looked around at all the women. None dared to do more than nod.
{Good. From now one you will worship me. There shall not be a leader, you shall all be equal before me, but as you collectively deem fit one may lead for a time or for an activity. Otherwise you will dedicate all your passion and desire to me. I will have it all!}
Again the Morrigan seemed to meet every woman's eye that was there in that clearing between make shift sleeping arrangements. Each woman gave their positive response and that was it. Morrigan did not allow for any back talk or negotiating. Everyone there was forced to meekly submit.
{As for you husband. You are to take this one to your bed and keep her fed and properly clothed as befits a Lady equal to your status.}
And then right when Hal thought she would be done the Morrigan turned to Hal and spoke.
"Morrigan, no, I don't ..."
Trying to put the breaks on Hal started to say something.
{Silence!}
But Hal's lips were sealed within moments. Falling to his knees he was forced to advert his eyes from her terrible beauty.
{Mortal, you shall do what I say when I say it. I only do what is best for you! Obey me well and I will give you pleasure you never dreamed of!}
Assuming that she had been heard and listened to Morrigan came up to hand Hal Harumi's handle and then turning into a crow the demi god flew into the night the beating of her crow wings loud in the night air.
Without anyone saying anything everyone dispersed back to their various positions through out the camp. There had been at most thirty women, But Hal knew that every single man, woman, and child and heard and seen what had transpired in the middle of everything.
'What I need it a God of building stuff. Then maybe we can have a little bit of privacy!'
Saying something in his mind Hal was not surprised when Flo piped up again.
[I hate it when those stuck up demi gods come! Can you please stop wishing for them to mess around in your territory!!]
Sure enough Flo had something to say about his indiscriminate god worshipping.
Once they were to Hal's patch of trampled down grass Harumi immediately started doing things to the spot between her legs. Groaning and twitching she passed the night in throes of pleasure. On the other hand Hal didn't dare move away for fear of disobeying the Morrigan. As a result the rest of the night was long and torturous. All Hal could think about was the idea that more Lords were going to try to attack to claim Harumi for themselves. Most likely when the Novice Protection period ended, but some might try to approach even before that.
'I am just glad that it has only been the Goblin Lord!'
[... No flags, please! ...]
But Hal didn't see or just ignored Flo's text box notification.