(A.N. Poll is 4 votes 1 for each poll)

Medusa PoV

The rabbits are strangely good at training. They use their minion bihorns and attack in two’s. When I looked at this it reminded me of that golem training. These guys are good at earth magic and digging traps.

The last two days they took me to the library and had a strange Tengu, that seems to appear from nowhere, pick up spell books on earth and water magic. These were normal cast spells and not like the stuff the other demons use.

The reason there were teaching me normal stuff was because only true soldiers of the kingdom are allowed to learn the lost magic of using magic circles.

With a few basic spells learned I was put under attack of the rabbits again. I was constantly yelled at to get into the proper form. I learned to use the magic to pull the rabbits out but that was only a small distraction.

My fight lasted longer after getting magic but the rabbits were also allowed to use the same basic magic I used, and obviously they were better.

During the third day of training I met someone interesting. My presence was noticed by one of the beings I wanted. A god of earth. This was the lesser one born here and not the heavens but a god is a god.

I acted courteous to her, I think her name was Jesse, but for some reason she glared at me like she looked at my soul.

I hope I can impress the gods to obtain their blessing.

Later, I was told that next week I would go to the outpost and join the subjection guards that keep the forest safe. I can gain lots of experience from this. I'm going to get the earth god's protection before I rank up, I will even stay a Minor Lizard man so I can get a variant and not a Draken.

Jesse PoV

I met that stray Minor Lizard man today. The moment I saw her I felt uncomfortable around her. She tried to suck up to me after learning I was a god of Earth, and I found out why a bit later from the greater god of earth Aker. He told me the little lizard was fixed on getting the protection of an earth god.

He knew this because when one god gives the protection to someone all other gods watch him and the closest relatives.

I finally understood the uncomfortable feeling. It was her stare directed at me. If she continued being obsessed with getting the protection I would for certain NOT give her mine. I would leave it to Aker to choose if he wanted to give it or not.

Flow PoV

Returning to town with my catch I drew a LOT of attention from the public.

When I reached the main tower in the underground Lona was already there grinning.

Lona: I knew our little elites could figure out the problem quickly.

Flow: No flattery. I don't need it anyway I believe those humanoid fish are the culprits, the fish girl has nothing to do with it, please leave her alone.

Dok: WOW! A REAL MERMAID!

Flow: Oh, hI Dok been a while.

Dok: HI Flow, I came when I heard the commotion.

Flow: Is there some form of transport you can make for her so she can move around out of water. She can grow legs but can't walk.

Dok: If it's just that I can make a wheelchair. It will be annoying here but for the most part it will help.

Flow: That’s fine it’s just temporary until she learns to walk.

As we talked the strongest of the city guards appeared and I dropped the defeated Siren, but as soon as I let go I heard several of them start singing. I turned quickly and punched them in the face.

Flow: Beware of their songs. I heard they use sound to cast illusion magic.

The guards nodded and dragged the unconscious prisoners.

Lona: Well, with that done will you return to Galton.

Flow: Of course not. The guards in this city are a complete shame. I'll take up training them here and Lily has started with the fishermen.

Lona: Eh? Really?

Flow: I'll be using the dungeon below to train them. Which floor does it start in?

Dok: The City has 7 Floors, currently 2 below are city floors and the remaining four below are dungeon floors. The final floor is a mining zone and is heavily guarded.

Lona: A large number of guards are used in the final floor to keep the threat at its lowest.

Flow: Is that why there are much less guards here?

Lona: The lower the level the more guards. Those on floor three are the strongest leaving the rest to guards the town.

I face palmed myself.

Flow: Your thinking just like a dungeon boss for sure. Now tell me how will you defend the town if someone attacks while your best warriors are down there? This is why we rotate which guards are on subjection duty at the outpost. It keeps the level of guards even.

I take a deep breath.

Flow: I'll fix the guard system here after I finish interrogating the Sirens.

Lona: The prison is on floor two, just ask around. I'll tell the guards about the training and such.

Flow: Can I leave her with you Lona while I do the interrogation?

Lona: Sure.

I pull Tear out of the bubble and hold her in a princess carry as she turns human, and hand her over to Lona who was a bit startled by the transformation. I moved in close and whispered.

Flow: Be careful she is as innocent as a child to certain things.

She nods understanding.

Dok came with me after splitting from Lona. He was excited to show me the inventions he made and how he was industrializing the city.

When we reached the second floor, we ran into more dwarves and I found something that looked all too familiar but much more advanced now.

Some guards were Dwarves that grew from the Gnomes and around us many more Gnomes and a separate rank called High Gnome which was similar to Dwarves but they were less bulky and built for tinkering and delicate crafts instead of heavy duty blacksmithing.

What I recognized was the thing on the dwarves, the machine arms that Dok had invented. What was more advanced was that it was now more like a large suit.

(Steampunk dwarf. http://th05.deviantart.net/fs10/PRE/i/2006/082/d/b/Dwarf_of_Tir_Na_Bor_by_Blaquesmith.jpg )

The machine arms have evolved greatly. It now covers the actual arms and had a large engine on the back powering it. It also covered the chest helping to support the arms.

Dok: Hehehe I see you're surprised. After I came here with the blacksmiths from my guild we took up command of the gnomes and dwarves and they took a liking to my arm mech. I had Rava teach the dwarves real dwarves blacksmithing and I got in on it and started a company with them, and with their help I was finally able to upgrade it.

Flow: How strong does it make them?

Dok: The combat model can increase their power by almost half. The suit also functions as heavy armor which is good against the monsters in the levels below.

Flow: I forgot to ask, but what is down there?

Dok: Rock based monsters like Rock Rhino, Earth Golem, oh there's a really nasty one called the Rock beast. It’s a bipedal ape like monster with really high intelligence to the point of knowing how to turn hard mineral rocks into armor.

(something like this https://gotgame.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Behemoth1-e1421236674294.jpg)

Flow: Any bosses?

Dok: Yep Lona is the main boss but for minI bosses there are two. One is a unique roaming boss in the shape of a giant stone snake. It’s like a golem because it’s made of huge boulders which is held together by magic. The other one is a real annoying snapping turtle which took up residence near the best mineral spot on the sixth floor. It’s a huge turtle some 10 meters long and 5 high. It ate up the area and created a huge room for itself

Flow: How did something like that get in here.

Dok: Must have ranked up from something small.

As we walked through the floor just looking around we saw many jewelry and blacksmith shops. There was also a really unique one.

Flow: Hey what’s that?

I point to a building with a strange sign of a blue crystal and a chisel hitting it.

Dok: Oh that. That is a shop for crystal craftsman. It’s a strange job that appeared after we discovered a few veins of gems and a mana crystal vein.

Flow: What?!

Dok: hehehe, Mana crystal, you know mana that took a solid form. It’s the main reason the suits I made advanced so much. The engine inside converts mana from these crystals into power. The normally magicless dwarves can use that mana to power weapons which would be coated with said mana.

Flow: Isn’t mana coating an advanced technique. How did you add it at machines without the user doing it.

The bag on Dok’s back suddenly opened showing a new model of his arm machines which was much more advanced than the old one. From them two small plates popped up and he pulled a small bright blue circular metal plate and handed it to me. On it was a complex magic circle which I never saw before, but I soon understood it.

Flow: You learned how to make a magic circle this small for an advanced level skill like this.

Dok: Yep. Obviously I had to learn how to do the skill so I trained with Rachet, but after I got it to Intermediate rank I was finally able understand its workings much better and could make a magic circle.

Flow: But the size…

Dok: I already reached Advanced level Magic circle drawing. To make something this small has become pretty easy. The lights you see around town are all magic circles. The plates are inside the flat base and under that are a few mana crystals. The consumption of the spell is less than what the crystals absorb so they are always on. Oh that reminds me here. These are some new updated magic circles for the spells I left back at Galton. I also added all the utility spells as well like the magic torches so Baal and Lilian can start using them for things besides combat.

Flow: Wow. I guess the age of magic circles is returning and you are its center.

Dok: Oh come on. It’s not just me I have lots of workers with me.

I can only chuckle as I pick up the large box filled with books and store them.

Flow: Can you lead me to the prison now. I think it's been long enough and a few of them should be awake already.

Dok: Sure. Want some backup.

Flow: ...Can that arm heat its fist up.

Dok: Ya why?

Flow: Then come with me as back up.

Dok: What?

I lift him up by holding the arms and have him lead me there while he sulked.

The prison is a three story building made of very thick stones and from the looks of it, it’s also been enchanted with magic to make it even harder to break. Lona sure knows how to use the dungeons power to benefit.

I could hear a bit of banging on the walls as we enter. We found out why when we saw the Siren kicking the walls with all their power.

Dok: Wow they are stronger than I thought. I think they are at least 3 times as strong as land creature. The sea pressure must be hell to make them this strong just to live down there.

Flow: Captain, is there a room ready for me to use as an interrogation room?

A bulky Dwarf that was about 20 cm taller than a normal one said. His race was respectively a High dwarf. I found it interesting that the dwarfs that are born from Gnomes continue ranking up while normal dwarfs don’t.

The dwarf captain was armored with one of the armor suits and on his back behind the covered engine of the suit was a large war hammer. He led us to a room at the end of the jail. It had several magic circles each on one corner of the room aimed inward. I could tell it was a spell that cancels magic abilities.

Captain: Here, this wristband will protect you from the magic block.

It was a simple metal lock that like a shackle.

Flow: Bring any of them in.

Captain: Yes ma'am.

He leaves the room soon after.

Flow: Did you help make this as well?

Dok: Yep, they disrupt the formation of spells. I've had to learn so many spells I would probably outdo most mages.

Flow: Considering you never used magic before I would guess the machine on your back is your magic staff and it’s loaded with those magic circle plates.

He grinned and popped open the whole structure.

Inside the arm between the would be elbow and wrist was three rows of plates. At the front near the wrist I saw the plate for mana coating. Each plate was another spell or skill.

Dok: I took Baal's idea to make the arms shoot spells but it was after the mana crystals were found that I could make it more perfect.

The mana crystal themselves were in between the three rows of plates. They were linked to a moving ring that moved forward and back which moved to the position of the plate that would be activated before feeding the mana.

As I examined the machine, the door opened and the captain came in dragging the female Siren I blocked first.

???: You again!! What now, interrogation? You may be a god but you’re just some lesser god. I'm not telling you shit.

Flow: Captain, please strap him down on the chair.

The chair I was referring to was a sturdy hardwood chair with several metal shackles attached in.

He did as asked before being allowed to leave.

Flow: Well, first a simple question you can answer without much trouble I bet. Was it the Sirens that killed or captured our fishermen.

???: ...

Flow: ...

Not giving a response I wave Dok over and whisper into his ear.

Flow: Please heat your metal hand and touch her arm and hold it for three seconds.

He nods.

Dok: Right hand, spell 12, command 5.

Following the strange order the right hand came to life and with a click and a feeling of mana activating the metal slowly began heating until it was orange and slightly glowing.

Dok: Right hand, touch prisoners arm for a duration of three seconds then return to standby.

Walking next to her the arm did as asked. As soon as the hand touched her skin a blood curtailing scream left her mouth. It assaulted our heads but that lasted a moment as well as the spell in the room cancelled the spell leaving her to simply yell in agony.

Once the hand raised it returned behind Dok in its bag form.

Flow: Want to answer now?

???: ...it...was...us.

Flow: Why hunt land creatures instead of sea.

???: Siren...breed...with...our...own...but...we...capture...hypnosis...land males...because...when babies...are born...they eat...the males.

Dok: My god! What the fuck kind of breeding is that?

???: Babies...need...meat...desperately...after...birth. Sirens are...mostly female...so land males...are fed...in the place...of ours.

I felt disgusted but I could understand their need for males.

Flow: Why did the Siren capture the mermaid kingdom.

???: hehe...kingdom? Mermaids...are a...small tribe. The Queen’s...sister’s poor...leadership didn't...let them...grow. We took...over to...make them...grow more.

Flow: Tear said that the warriors were all killed.

???: They fought back.

Flow: where is the mermaid city.

???: Like I would tell you.

I sigh and look at Dok and nod. He understood and gave her another touch. And another two before she was near fainting, and he had her put back in the cell after being partially healed.

We had another one, a man this time, come in and I continued from where I left off.

Flow: Ok, that first woman stopped at this question.

I pulled out the map I got from the attendant at the dock and put it in front of him.

Flow: Where is the mermaid city.

???: Bite me.

Dok moved up but I held my hand up. I thought of a better idea. I don't know if Dok has sub-tier spells, so I'll do this

I stand straight up and I begin rubbing my right index and thumb together.

Flow: This might hurt a lot because I don't have that good of control over it.

I put my fingers near his left chest away from the heart. And spread them.

*Click**Click**Snap**Click*

Dozens of small flashes happen between my fingers and quickly I press it against him.

???: GGGRRAAAA~!!!!!!!

His body constricts and convulses for a moment before I let go. He continually spasm for a few moment before it was gone and he sat there numb and weak.

Dok: wow, that was lightning.

Flow: It’s a subcategory of air magic. Quite hard to control I must say. So, are you ready to talk.

The man was still numb but he was able to force his head up and down. We give him a moment for the shock to wear off. Seems the Siren have more water in their body than land creatures. Most are about 70% water but they are probably a bit more considering their place of origin.

After the Siren man got over the shock and his muscles were back to normal he answered.

It was north of where we found Tear. I let the captain take him after putting a spell to mute him and I did the same for all the rest of the Sirens. It pretty much told me nothing. They told me about 10 different places. Of these, 4 had been called more than once so I kept that in mind. Once it was done I had a good headache because most of them said the four spots while a few were saying random places.

I couldn't discard those options and if me and Lily searched the spots they could have planned for this and keep watch on those spots.

In other words unless we can hit each and every location at one time without giving them time and following them we may give ourselves away and they will move.

Me and Dok thanked the dwarven captain and we returned to Lona on the first floor and passed what we found out.

Entering the room we found Tear was laying down in a seat sleeping in Lona's office while she worked.

I showed her the map and each location that was mentioned.

Lona: Well at the moment I'm sure you know but we don't have the manpower to give. Our guards need to protect the city from the monsters below who are a pain in the ass.

Flow: If that is all then I know what to do. Starting tomorrow send the guards that go to the third floor up here those who are on floor two go down a level and the one on this floor go down as well. I will take command of the new floor team for 2 weeks and then shift them down once more. With the first floor team will stay 1 month and then it will become a 1 week rotation in shifts. This will equalize the levels throughout all the guards.

Lona: Ok I will pass that on tomorrow. And what of Lily?

Lily: If I know her train of thought she would give all the men in the docks lessons, and in their place she will fish so they can train.

Dok: How do you know for certain?

Flow: Because that girl would definitely want to train her water abilities near the sea and she would probably want to play in the water as well.

We laughed at that.

Dok: Well I should get going, I'm working on a few new tools that can still be attached to the worker model mech arms. If you need anything just come to the HQ and say your name, it should be more than enough to get you to me.

Flow: Thanks I'll go over to see how it is. I may even ask for a few things that will help with training.

Lona: So what are you planning for the rest of the day?.

Flow: I want to check out the lower level monsters. It will tell me more or less how I should train the soldiers and then I will move from that, to stuff Rachet teaches for normal combat. They know the basic forms?

Lona: I drilled it into them, yes.

Flow: Good that saves time. Well see you later Lona. Please watch over her, ok.

Lona just smiled and nodded before I left.

Lily PoV

I watch as Flow takes the Siren away and slowly a grin appears on my faces. I'm finally away from the annoying good girl and can now do think the LILY WAY. Fufufu I can't wait to go swI *cough* I mean start training the fishermen to fight.

Besides the foreigners who can't rank up the Demon Minor Lizard men, Imps, and Demon snakes here can very well rank up and I plan to make a really strong sea group.

Turning around I do a quick headcount without separating foreigners. There are 30 humans, 15 Elves no, dwarves,(obviously, little guys can’t even swim) 60 Demon Lizard men, 15 mortal world lizard men that left their tribe and are growing in number here, 50 demon Goblins and 5 underworld hobgoblins.

The difference between goblin and demon ones is that the skin is dark red almost like dry blood. Hobs gain some more red back and are pretty dangerous fighters. No variants have appeared yet but I plan to make some form of water demon soon from these guys.

Lily: Ok then everyone get over here.

The fishermen that were picking up trashed stuff or drops from the dead Siren looked up and walked over. Those inside came out after the ruckus was over so everyone was outside including the higher up like the dock master.

Lily: Ok good I don’t feel anyone that strayed.

Dock master: What’s this about?

He was a bulk human easily double my size but and stronger than the average human. By looks alone he looked to be a hardened sea admiral that retired.

Lily: Starting today all the fishermen will begin training to be able to fight above and underwater. Lily is going to teach everyone.

Everyone blinked and a few humans and elves began chuckling.

Lily: What's so funny weaklings. You let some fish easily overpower you while Lily easily took care of them. Also you demons should be ashamed to be so weak and should always be training. Those who are swimmers like you Lizard men and the snakes should be carrying weights when underwater to make you work harder.

Lizard fishermen: But then it will be impossssssible to hunt the fisssssh.

Lily: Learn to properly move underwater and even heavy weights won’t get in your way. From today on and until Lily sees it she will be the leader of this dock.

You have taken control of the Oreana Docks with your authority as one of the kings elites. You can now access the dock master interface and upgrade the docks as long as you have money.

Current funds: 5435 g, 214 s, 59 i, 87 c

Lily: Wow, didn’t know it would be so official like this. Dock master…

Dock master: Its Peter Grunt.

Lily: Ok Peter take Lily to where the dock master interface is. Everyone else clean this place up.

Everyone spread out and began cleaning the place and fixing the damage. Peter led me into the management building Flow and I went in before but this time I was led upstairs into the dock masters office.

Peter: Here it is just say Dock Interface and it will appear. We don’t have much funds and repairs will take a bit.

Lily: Don’t worry. Lily will deal with that. Let’s make a few upgrades to this tiny dock so it can make some real sailors. “Dock Interface”

Various screens appeared like when master does it in the castle throne room. It showed all the resources accessible from Oreana. What we have here and how much money we have.

Lily: Request funds from capital treasury in the name of Lily, King Baal’s elite Great Tengu (Crane variant)

Peter: What! There is no way the king will accept that just for a dock!

A moment later it returned.

Your request has been granted.

Money transfer successful. 120,000 g has been transferred to Oreana Docks for investment purpose under the supervision of the Kings Elite Lily

Lily: Hehe you were saying.

Peter: ...No way. I can barely get money from Miss Lona and you got 120,000 g from the king.

Lily: Lily is one of masters elites. Me and the other four are the most trusted of all the demons in the kingdom. Now then.

I turn to the map. The Docks have little infrastructure and is pretty spread out with the Shipyard very far from the rest of the dock with only a small path connecting it to the wooden dock.

Lily: First off let's make the docks stone from here up to half way to the shipyard and the piers double in width and extend 5 more meters out. Then this path here will be paved with stone and widened three times. The management building with be upgraded to a stone building with three floors and double in size. The two new stone warehouses will be built in this new opened space. The old ones will be upgraded to the same level.

Everything I just did cost 20k, the dock paving is 7k, the upgrade to the management building is 3k. The two new warehouses were 4k each and the upgrade to the single existing one is 2k.

Lily: Ok then in this space I will build a sailor's guild to attract more seafaring men and to have a place to teach proper sailing skills. The shipyard will be upgrade and will build 5 new small sail ships. The existing row boats will undergo upgrades to 4 man sail ships. On the other side near the road will be built a guards barracks and a training hall and adventures guild to handle the missions here.

This part cost a good 40,000 leaving 40,000 remaining from the funds gained from master. 10k went to upgrading the shipyard, 10k to build the 5 new ships, 5k to upgrade all 40 tiny row boats. 5k each for the barracks, adventurer's guild and training hall.

After that I took my finger and traced a line from the shore around the dock all the way to the cliff that the shipyard was next, the from the spot where the line began I pulled it some out to sea and then from the cliff I stretch a new line before stopping leaving a space between the lines then I touched a different object and closed the space.

Lily: Walls are to be raised around the docks 4 meters high but the ones in the sea are to be raised to match the height of the land ones. A large bronze sea gate will be made out at sea and normal wooden gate on the path that leads to Oreana.

50,000 g.

Lily: Finally the remaining 10,000 g is to be used to do this automatically through the interface.

As soon as I said that the dock funds returned just as it was before I asked master. I look back all smiles towards the dock master and he was slack jawed.

As he stared at me we began to feel the changes. Around us the management building began to shake and rose a level lifting this room up one. All the wooden walls turned to stone but the floors and roof stayed the same as decor but became much newer and with a nice shine.

Looking out the window we saw a wall rise on land and from the sea. A large sea gate also rose. From the interface I could see we drew a huge amount of resources from Oreana especially stone.

Below we saw a stone foundation replace the wooden one over the sand and stretch further and stop halfway to the Shipyard. I saw the dirt path continue on widening three times its original size and being paved and once it reached the shipyard it began to grow and expand gaining stone walls and more buildings to its structure.

In the space between the dock and the shipyard stones began appearing and falling to place and make two new warehouses and the one small existing warehouse was replaced with a new one the same size as the new ones.

To the left side of the docks near the path leading up to Oreana three new buildings popped up. One was a large 3 story building made for the guards the barracks. The next was a 2 story building with a large area behind it fenced in with many dummies and other gear. The last one was a tall 3 story building with the first floor made of stone while the top two were wood.

Lily: HAHA Lily did a really good job.

Peter: ya but there is no way we can use this entire place with so few workers. Normally you grow into a large place like this not just jump into it.

Lily: True but did you not see that message.

I pointed to a floating box in the interface which was visible to everyone in Oreana and the docks this moment.

Due to the massive investment in Oreana Docks the city Oreana has attracted huge numbers of seafaring adventures. Those stray sailors will seek shelter and work in its walls as it’s one of the few safe locations left near the shores.

Lily: hehehe looks like we should get ready to have more sailors arriving. The lever to the sea gate is in near the piers in the small building. Keep that under high security when this place gets more crowded.

Peter: ...Yes ma’am

Lily: Now then for Lily to start training all those weaklings fufufu.

I walk cheerfully outside ready to bring Rachets hell training to the sea.

Lily: Alright weaklings. Grab a spear, a harpoon, whatever you call a weapon and go to the training hall.

I then lower my voice to a deadly low voice that clearly transmitted my next threat.

Lily: Don’t even think of escaping because Lily will hunt you down and drag you back here and put you through an even worst form of hell then what you are going to face right now.

My words froze then on the spot covering every last one of the in cold sweat. Slowly one by one they force their bodies to pick up something as a weapon and they headed in and I began training them.

The only thing that escaped for the next week were the screams of the fishermen and the fish Lily caught and sold to pay for the days away from the ocean the fishermen were spending training.

Kumi PoV

Right now I’m leisurely following the Draken and the lizard men while invisible and completely silent. I was only about 100 meters behind the group but they couldn’t even sense me and with a bit of magic I completely got rid of my scent so I wasn’t leaving anything for them to pick me up with.

I followed for maybe 10 minutes before we reached a cave. It was a large cave complex that held what I would probably call a lizard man city if it wasn’t so primitive. I’m sure that if I made this a city and had money or minions I could have this cave turned into a massive city in less than a month and have it turn into a major stop point between our kingdom and the nearby ones.

From what I can see there may be at least 3 floors in this cave. The lizards here seem to be made of smarter stuff then normal stupid ones and actually mined the cave to make room for more of their kind.

After entering I cautiously follow the Draken Alduin to his chambers. Like they say to get to know someone you either do two things. Give them power or listen to them in private.

In his room which was sealed by a door but I was already in before he closed it.

Alduin: Tsch. ARGGAHHH~~!! I can’t believe I had to act casually to those mongrels. *huff* To think such powerful beings walked this world and came JUST to see if I was planning an attack on them. tsch I need more power to do that. I’d be crazy to try and fight gods and demons with this puny force of lizard men. I’m the only one that has ranked up and most of these are stupid.

Kumi: Ok he is smart at least. Though I feel like I can kill him right here and now for calling me a mongrel

Alduin: That girl though. Could she be a fire goddess. Even better reason to not fight them. I need to keep this divine protection. It’s the best thing for someone like me to gain power above all others. I need to slowly grow and gain more power. That stupid sister of mine also is bothersome I should have killed her instead of exile her. She is probably being trained by some divine being. If only I could receive something like that. Maybe I can get those gods and demons to teach me. The weakest ones those twins are still too strong for me so I can’t kidnap for training.

Kumi: Guess tyrant fits now. Power hungry check. Pyscho as well. I can see now why he exiled his sister, if she has the same feelings as him then she can become just as crazy. Maybe I should do a bit of brainwashing with the illusions I learned from the succubus. Nah let’s see with the others first.

To get out I take three small rocks with my tail and toss them at proper intervals and hit the door. The sound is similar to knocks.

He calms himself and walks over and opens the door but finds no one. While he is distracted I rush forward like wind and pass him with him only feeling the wind pass him which makes him look back but seeing nothing but a passing lizard man he closes the door again. I rushed out of the cave having memorized the path I took to get there and then ran back to the spot I started. The others weren’t there anymore but their scent was. I followed it until I found them in a cave. It was already night and the small fire they had built was already dying. The twins were curled up with Kitsu who had a frown as he slept because of it.

Kumi: *sigh* I’ll give them only today since it would be bad to wake them and not be able to sleep again.

I saw Kitsu open his eyes after I arrive but I put my finger to my lips to quiet him and jumped into one of the remaining beds and turned into my fox form and slept curled up like I used to.

The next morning I was woken by the started yell of Beth. She saw me there and was pale since she took advantage of Kitsu while I was away. The other one woke up soon after and reacted the same. Fufufu guess my “training” worked well. I tamed their lust for the most part but seems that being M is one form of love they want and now that they are part fox I’m sure they are getting close to the other form of love needed by a woman.

Kumi: Relax. The fact that I didn’t wake you up should say I let you sleep with my little fox.

They both visibly relaxed but were on guard for some form of payback. I taught them so well. Now they will be on guard all day not only against me but anything else that moves. Training these two was so fun because I made sure they felt pain that even their M side would never want. I’m sure those nightmares still appear in their sleep.

When everyone was finally awake, Aiden being the slowest to wake up since it was still early morning and a god is a day person unlike beasts and demons.

Kumi: Well to say things simply the tyrant has a cave city filled with minor lizard men with only him one rank up. He is a tyrant and he did exile his sister. He is crazy for power but he isn’t stupid to attack someone beyond his power.

Ideo: A smart pyscho huh should we kill him then?

Kumi: I was thinking of a little brainwashing.

The twins tensed up again.

Aiden noticed this and looked at me with a sharp glare.

Aiden: What kind of messed up stuff do you want to do with that bastard?

Kumi: My plan was to make him feel fear of his own power by making an illusion in his sleep like the Succubus do but scare him so much of his own power that he will think rationally. Afterwards I make more illusions showing that we are the only way for him to properly control his power and only being under our power will he ever control his power.

Aiden: It a somewhat sick plan. You learned too well from those underworld sluts.

Kumi: Fufufu you learned just as much as I did.

I smile as Aiden's face grew bright red and her hair gained a bright glow making it look like a low flame.

Kumi: Jokes aside let’s take seriously. Do you think we should do that. It may backfire and he becomes crazier.

Beth: Um didn’t you have a spell that makes a separate personality in someone’s head?

Aiden: It's a slow acting spell that takes over a year to complete. It only works fast on someone whose mind is completely broken to the point of the mind shattering leaving the body half dead.

Charlet: Well if he is crazy then a really huge trauma could break him.

Ideo: Or strengthen him. Some people who have trauma’s see is as an obstacle and may even go against it. If it's a person they will train to finally surpass him.

We didn’t get anywhere with this conversation for over 10 minutes before one suggestion came to mind.

Beth: Why don’t we make him paranoid?

Kumi: What good would that do?

Charlet: Oh I see what you mean. It’s how many tyrant rulers fall. When they begin gaining power they start to become paranoid of all those around them and cause discord in the ranks. We can get a good number of the lizard men on our side if we do that.

Aiden: How would we go about it?

Beth: ...Oh the sister! He exiled his sister for being a potential threat so let’s use her to make him paranoid. Besides him we can plan a few seeds of doubt within the minds of the a few stronger lizard men and slowly work Alduin until he is too unstable. It should be easier to take over his mind with a substitute as well as splitting the tribe for him and part for the sister. Since they are both like Baal and Lilian they can make two totally different races from a single tribe especially one so large.

Kumi: I see that could work. While we are here we can also keep an eye on them to make sure nothing to annoying happens. But this will take months then.

Kitsu: Ya I think so as well. This feels like it would last at least 2 or 3 months if we do it every night giving him nightmares.

Aiden: If it will take so long I want to go home.

Ideo: Best not short fuse. You’re a goddess of fire. You should know already he has Vulcan’s Divine protection. Even someone crazy would be stupid to attack someone with greater degree of power of the same power that granted him his protection. You should stay with them and I return and tell master what we found.

Kitsu: Sounds good to me any complaints.

Aiden: tsch I wanted to go home but if it’s like that then fine I’ll stay.

Kumi: Good Ideo head back and report to master. Join up with Rook and Plum and train that lizard well so she can rank up and be a match for Alduin we need someone with power rivaling his to make the tribe break up. We will work here so get going.

Ideo: Ok careful you guys.

He jumps out and flies becoming a blur as he reaches top speed.

Kumi: Alright time to have fun with some lizards.

Aiden: I’m going to.

Kumi: Ok but let’s wait for night time before going.

After that we began to explore the mountain and map the area out. At the end of the day me and Aiden left leaving only a cold glare at the twins as a warning to leave Kitsu alone. They nodded complying readily to my glare and lay down in their own beds away from him as me and Aiden left to cause some havoc in the lizard city.

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