“It was a huge success! By using some quite intriguing secrets as well as a little bit of money, I successfully got a kingdom to attack the hometown of the hero whose fate I wanted to steal. This, coupled with a drug that increased the hero's rage and gave him an incredible amount of bloodthirst, pushed him to the fate of a villain!

It was quite the sight, to be honest. He slashed through his enemies like a madman, even going so far as killing those that only wanted to surrender. At the end, he finished his rampage by killing his own wife after I made here a little bit paranoid. I thought he would kill his two children as well, but those little girls got to live.

Now with his old fate, the fate of a hero, I'll be able to create a child that can become the strongest, someone who can take this world by a storm! Though I think I should be a little bit careful, the guy whose fate I took is crazy strong after all.

I should probably burn this note.”

-Destroyed notes from Jeff Rutherion's 'How I raised the Strongest!'

*Sirius POV*

I sigh as I take a look at my 'War Council'.

I gathered everyone of importance to discuss what we should do next and to introduce our newest ally to them. We are currently inside a huge round room and everyone is sitting on a stone chair around a black table that has a map engraved on it. The people currently in the room are Doro, the three fairies, Kaze, Kasai, Snow, Saxin and me of course. All in all, there's a lot of chaos.

Doro and Kasai are sitting next to each other, hugging, kissing and whispering things into each other's ears that give me diabetes, even though I don't have any blood.

Kaze is playing with a coin for some reason, flipping it into the air with his thumb and then catching it. He looks stupid while doing that.

Saxin is straight up sleeping and no one really wants to wake the thirty-meter spider up. I don't blame them.

Snow seems to be crafting some kinda mask she wants to wear. It somehow makes me a little bit sad that she doesn't like the face I gave her, It's very elegant and nice in my opinion.

But the most annoying things are the three fairies, like always.

“So he actually ripped your face off? Are you not mad at him?” (Rot)

“Hm? Oh, it's fine really. It technically wasn't even my face, to begin with, right? Now I at least get to make my own. Although, I'm still not so sure about what design to go with.” (Snow)

“Still to do something so cruel... how could you master?” (Grau)

“I'm not surprised. Actually, in my opinion, he should have continued with the rest of her skin. It kinda looks done half-assed now. Though I guess that's as much as you can expect from that guy.” (Schwarz)

“That would be really annoying though, right? I mean she would just bleed everywhere. It's kinda hard to get blood out of spider webs, you know?” (Rot)

“...Are we really fairies?” (Grau)

I sigh again, then stand up and cough really loudly once. Nobody turns his head in my direction.

“...” (Sirius)

I'm getting just a little bit irritated here, so let's try again, but this time with a little bit of hate in my voice.

“Do I need to punish someone again?” (Sirius)

This time, even though I spoke pretty quietly, everyone falls silent and looks at me. I can see a bit of fear on some of their faces. Saxin woke up as well, but she kinda looks excited.

…

Does my wife have some strange hobbies I didn't know of? Good thing I'm made out of bones I guess.

“Now, let's finally begin this meeting.” (Sirius)

“Oh just so you all know, I bought some sweet pastry a few servants made earlier today. I also got this for you Sirius, I made that one myself!” (Saxin)

Saxin reaches down towards me with one of her huge hands and gives me some sort of soft heart-shaped soft cookie while her other hand puts a basket filled with food down on the huge table. Doro and Kasai instantly reach towards the basket and take most of the pastry out of it, the other guys all get something as well except for Snow.

I look at the cookie, then at Saxin.

“I can't eat this.” (Sirius)

Saxin looks a bit shocked, then she seems to have realized something and looks a bit embarrassed.

“Oh, I was so excited about baking for the first time, I forgot about your current form...” (Saxin)

…

Is she getting a bit red? A blushing spider, huh? It somehow looks really disturbing...

I throw the heart towards Doro who jumps into the air like a dog and catches it with his mouth.

“Oh...” (Saxin)

Oops.

Damn it, there it is again. Saxin once again looks really sad. I still don't understand why she does this sometimes, but I think I should try to do something nice for her soon or else she might get depressed and leave me or something. I can't really afford to lose her support in my current state.

…

It's also a bit pleasant to talk with her.

“As I already said, let's begin this meeting. First of all, this here is Snow. She is my newest servant and resides within the body of that crazy lady that attacked us a few weeks ago. She was once a necromancer, but she lost those powers as well as most of her memories while spending a long time inside a ring. Lucky for us I infused the souls within the ring with ice, which seems to have granted her the ability to use ice magic. Introduce yourself, Snow.” (Sirius)

Snow stands up as I sit down and bows once in front of us.

“Hello, my friends. As our master has already told you, I am called Snow. A very fitting name in my humble opinion. I will try to be of use to you all!” (Snow)

Everyone besides me claps and snow smiles happily while bowing once again.

…

Things are getting a little bit too friendly here recently. I'll fix this later. Also, even though I like snows face, she looks incredibly terrifying when smiling. Maybe it's a good thing she's crafting a mask?

“Now with the introduction of Snow out of the way, let's discuss what we should do next. Usually, I always make every decision alone, which I will still do. No one besides Saxin and myself has any right to decide anything here. You can still feed me some ideas though.” (Sirius)

I look at the face of everyone and it seems like most of them accept this fact besides the two elementals. Especially Kaze seems a bit pissed off about this. Well, I did promise him he'll still have his freedom after swapping to my side, so I can see why he's mad. Good thing he doesn't have a choice and has to obey my every order.

“As you all probably know, my current goal is quite simple, stand above everyone. Questions?” (Sirius)

“...Wait, what? What do you mean? You want to rule this world?” (Kaze)

“Oh no, don't be ridiculous. I'm not the kind of skeleton to harbor unrealistic dreams such as world domination. I just want to stand somewhere no one can touch me, you know? I want to be the strongest, with the strongest army basically. Simple, isn't it?” (Sirius)

“...And what I said was unrealistic? What do you mean you want to be the strongest? Do you have any idea what kind of monsters walk on the surface of this world? First of all, there are X-Ranked Adventurers and crazy people like the Abyssal Mage Jehova. Then we've got the old ones, like the Aspects and the Ancient Dragons. Let's also not forget that even the Dark Monarchs that once stood at the peak of this world, stronger than the things I already listed, all fell at the end against the Radiant Star Emperor and his army of freaks!” (Kaze)

“Well, I never said it's going to be easy, did I? It may take a few hundred years, but it's not like we have to worry about dying of old age right?” (Sirius)

“I... I guess so, but still, if you mess with those people-” (Kaze)

“Stop being so negative. Weren't you supposed to be the free-willed crazy maniac? I haven't heard that annoying sound you always make in a while. The only thing you need to do is slaughter some people when I tell you to. That's what you enjoy the most anyway, isn't it?” (Sirius)

“Heeeeeh, I guess you have a point.” (Kaze)

“Of course I have. Up until now, it was pretty easy to attack villages and get free souls. Yeah, it was actually almost a bit too easy. But I think the times we can just attack in the night and vanish before anyone notices are over. The Authorities have noticed us and take us a bit serious as well. It seems though as if they won't be sending any real soldiers or assassins against us, which is good. We have no chance to win a real confrontation with the army of an actual nation, so we are quite lucky that they are currently busy with searching for someone.” (Sirius)

“Oh yeah right, someone killed the Sword Princess a few months ago. Her husbands are now searching for the culprit. Poor guys got their hearts broken.” (Kasai)

“Husbands? Like, the plural?” (Saxin)

“Heeeeeh, you don't know mistress? Well, I guess you Aspects usually don't really meddle with humans, huh? The Sword Princess was an upcoming new hero, still pretty low but destined to do great things. She was such a beautiful and charismatic girl that she actually managed to marry the four most important men of this country.” (Kaze)

“Oh yeah, I heard of this. She first got engaged to Archmage Theodore, though back then he was just a student.” (Rot)

“After that, she met and fell in love with Urk, the Destroyer whose known as the strongest soldier in this kingdom. Theo totally got cucked didn't he?” (Schwarz)

“She then got proposed to by the prince of the holy light himself, Julius of Lichtenhof. How romantic!” (Grau)

“And as if this wasn't enough, a few weeks later her childhood friend Denolius who recently managed to receive the title 'Blessed Soul' married her as well. Whoever killed her will have a bad time. Makes me kinda feel bad for that fool.” (Schwarz)

“Fufufu... Seems like she was quite the impressive girl, hm? Makes me wonder what she would have tasted like.” (Saxin)

“Not very good honestly. Her bones were dry like most people's are. Children are a lot more delicious, probably because their bones are still a bit soft.” (Sirius)

“...” (Everyone)

“...Right, I knew I forgot something.” (Sirius)

“WHAT THE FU-”(Kaze)

*Third Person POV*

Prince Julius, also known as the Kingdom's Blade is currently standing in front of a few trees with his eyes closed. The only visible movement coming from him is the soft motion of his chest as he slowly breathes in and out. Behind him are a few soldiers who look at him, a bit nervous.

“Oy! Julius! Try to relax a bit!” (Theodore)

A young, shabby looking mage who looks a bit out of place in this beautiful royal garden waves towards the prince from afar. Even though he looks pretty average, his fiery red hair and emerald green eyes still grant him a certain powerful aura.

A big bulky man who seems to be entirely made out of muscles next to him laughs loudly. His face is mostly obstructed by a thick great black beard and you can't see much besides his red eyes and a few scars. Even though his beard is so full, there's not a single hair on top of his head.

“HAHAHA! That's just how he is, right?! Always with his inner peace bullshit. Well whatever suits him, I guess. HA!” (Urk)

The prince slowly exhales once again, then opens his eyes to turn around and look at his two brothers. His long blond hair waves in the wind, making it look like fire-water, as his bright golden eyes look at both of them, a smile slowly appears on his beautiful fair-skinned face.

“So you guys finally appear! Took you slowpokes, long enough.” (Julius)

the young man laughs, signaling that he only made a joke and his brothers grin as well. But then suddenly the mage stops and starts to speak with a grim look on his face.

“I still feel like you should be looking for that dumb-ass that killed our wife as well. I know you can't really relax, knowing that he's still out there alive.” (Theodore)

“Yeah, I agree! Fuck that Necromancer guy you looking for! Come with us while we search for the murderer together with Denolius!” (Urk)

“No, I need to do this so that the people living here can rest in peace once again. I'll join you guys afterward. Speaking of Denolius, where is he?” (Julius)

“Well, he's currently busy with some things concerning the kingdoms safety or something. He has been very active ever since you gave him power.” (Urk)

“...which is a little bit suspicious, right?” (Theodore)

“What? Are you really suspecting our little brother to be having any ill intent? I mean, we are talking about Denolius for goodness sake, the most harmless person I personally know.” (Julius)

“Oh no, don't get me wrong, it's just somehow strange how active he has suddenly become ever since Yuna died...” (Theodore)

“Nonsense! He's just trying to distract himself! Anyway, the three of us will go to the Beast Kingdom next week to search for that killer. You are going today, right? Hurry up and find that Necromancer so that we can go together, brother!” (Urk)

“Haha, I'll try my best.” (Julius)

The three brothers keep on talking and laughing with each other, blind to the calamity that will soon find them.

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Authors Note: Do you like cookies?

Who am I kidding, everyone likes cookies!

Anyway, sorry for the delay. I said that chapters will probably come out slower, but I didn't mean THIS slow. I just kinda timed my comeback badly, since Monster Hunter World was released last week. As a long Monster Hutner fan I, of course, had to play it!

...A lot. I'm at about 100 hours actually...

In 10 days.

AND I DON'T REGRET ANYTHING!

As always, thanks for reading!

(Is anyone else playing the Game by the way? If so, tell me about your experience!)