《FERMI PARADOX》Chapter 8 Aristocrats
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"Hmmm, this palace seems quite large."
I realize that the magnificent and large palace building that I manage to develop previously will attract the suspicion of outsiders if they see it from a distance.
"The fences also quite low and feeble."
Therefore, I ordered some village residents to build a stronger and taller wooden fence today
to maintain better security for the village.
The wooden fences that I made together with the village residents are not made from ordinary wood but rather made from unique wood called teak.
I intentionally made this teak-wooden fence to cover the resident activities inside the village as well as a media that can be used to block outsider views.
However, even though the stronghold made before me were already standing firmly, the existence of the fences was still unable to block all the palace building.
At first, I was confused.
I'm quite dizzy thinking another way to cover such building
because the fences that I made previously will never be able to hide the size of my palace.
The outsiders will be able to see it from the top of the hill because its shape is tremendous.
After all this time, I thought; finally, I decided to remodel my palace into a smaller building.
"Scanning"
"Initializing"
"Merging"
"Complete"
"Zeng"
The palace becomes much smaller. The position of this building is in the middle of four hundred decrepit buildings belonging to the residents of the village.
My ability to turn the palace into smaller buildings in an instant still gives an extraordinary impression from the residents of the village.
Over the next few days, I increasingly mingled with the residents. The resident's behavior is no longer awkward with my existence. This condition can be seen from their attitude when laughing and joking towards me.
They always initiate to invite me in taking part with their barbecued feast when night falls.
Even at the party, I was often invited to dance and laugh happily with them every night behind a campfire.
Although at first the inhabitants of the village were still a little afraid of me, over time, they began to change their attitude to reprimand with me.
I sometimes like joking around with the village residents. For some reason, they respond to my joke with laughter even though my jokes are quite crisp actually.
On the other side, Ashwina, who is faithful to me wherever I am is always smiling when I start joking with the villagers. She looks delighted.
Likewise, Amrita, Ashwina's mother eyes seemed to glaze over when she saw the laughter of the village residents.
The emotion seen from Amrita's face is not sadness but excitement of happiness because, in Amrita's eyes, the village resident always live with worries every day.
Villagers, including Amrita, always live in fear that coming from uncertainty with food supplies to the problem of hunger.
But now, their lives changed one hundred eighty degrees when their god suddenly appear out of nowhere. For some reason, due to this matter, all the villager worries and burden just vanished in a flash.
Days went so fast, Ashwina who previously shy and formal towards me is also getting closer to me, for some reason she will always be there next to me all the time like a wife who takes care of her husband.
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Ashwina's appearance is also getting more and more tempting, I don't know, I am also confused, how come she is getting even more beautiful every day.
Ashwina often brings me breakfast with porridge that I like the most.
Ashwina also began not to hesitate to ask questions about foods that I like besides porridge.
She seems to be confused when I mention grilled fish as one of my favorite food because, in the eyes of the girl, fish is a food that is hard to find in this dimension.
Although hard to fulfill my request about the fish dish, Ashwina always cheers me up by answering that the grilled fish will surely be made by her when she finds fish soon.
Ashwina also began to have new habits.
Ashwina's new habit is to sleep near me. What I mean is not sleeping together in the same bed. I often find Ashwina sleeping on an extended bench right next to my bed; for some reason, she always comes at night then sleeps there until morning.
At first, I was a little tempted because the virgin girl kept sleeping on the bench next to my bed.
If you're a regular guy, what devil would pop into your mind?
Day after day had passed until finally, a group of warriors from the Aristocrat family came to visit the village to collect tribute.
My room is facing the entrance of the village near the window. The window box that adorns the building of my room is framed with classic wood nuances so that the shape looks artsy.
That morning I was still sleeping until suddenly I was quite disturbed by the sounds of horse treads outside the building.
When I woke up, Ashwina seemed to not sleeping on the extended bench beside my bed as usual.
I then glanced towards the right and left but could not find Ashiwna around my room.
Not long after, I heard the voices of several men who seemed to be discussing with residents of the village.
I then stood up and walked towards the window to see the commotion that was going on.
The men on horseback seemed to glance to their right and left then saw a large and sturdy fence before them.
They were a little confused by the teak fence before them because they had never seen this fence before.
Since when did this hamlet have such a large and sturdy wooden fence.?
They failed to ask that because their goal was to withdraw the monthly tribute they used to do previously.
"Where is the village chief?" Said one of the horned men with armor and swords on his waist.
There are about five horses ridden by five men with horns on their heads.
They looked very neatly lined up facing the villagers.
"I'm here, sir," Amrita said.
Seeing Amrita come facing, the soldiers from the Aristocrats were shocked.
"You? Who are you? As far as I know, the village chief is not you!" Said the horned man with an armor.
The man's eyes then glanced towards Ashwina then surprised, since when did this girl turn to be so charming? It seems like it used to be dirty, but somehow Ashwina became even more beautiful in their eyes.
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"Mr. Satrya, the old chief died while hunting, the villagers chose me to replace him," Amrita lied.
Previously Ashwina told the events that happened when the revival of god took place which ended with the death of the previous chief.
Hearing the story of her daughter, Amrita was surprised but began to think to lie if someone is asking the existence of the previous chief.
She also could not say the existence of the god because if the Aristocrats knew this, they would take the god from their village. Amrita and the residents of the hamlet certainly did not want this to happen.
The Aristocrats certainly could take the god by force.
Their circle might be able to persuade and incite the gods with the lucrative lure to come with them because after all to live among the aristocrats would be far better when compared to the life that took place in this village.
The Aristocrats would undoubtedly invite the god to live with them as much as possible if they finally found out that the god was present among the inhabitants of the village.
"Huh? Dead? Ckckckck, then, do you know why we are here?" Satrya said.
Amrita looked down, then knelt, "I'm sorry sir, we cannot give rice tribute to you gentlemen because the weather in our village is not very friendly with us this time."
Amrita was aware that her words would have consequences, but she had to do so because she did not want to violate the dictates of the gods who had previously said to no longer surrender the rice tributes to the Aristocrats.
"Ckckck, do you know what the consequences are? If you don't give tribute as usual, then I will kill one of you!" Satrya said.
Hearing this, the villagers trembled but did not dare to talk back to them because the Aristocrats were brutal.
They also have a complete combat fleet with potent fighting weapons, how is it possible for a small hamlet like the "Kalinga" hamlet to be able to resist the power of the aristocracy?
"Please forgive us, don't kill us," said Amrita, who was confused, what should she do if it's like this?
"The girl next to you, bring her here," Satrya said, pointing at Ashwina.
"Leave the girl to me. She can be a gift to our lord Dharma Sena! That way, I don't need to kill one of you!" Satrya said.
Dharma Sena was the leader of a large aristocratic family.
Seeing her only child wants to be taken by the aristocratic circles, Amrita begged for mercy "sir, please I beg you, sir, she is my only daughter, please do not take her away from me sir, I beg you, sir."
One of the horned men behind Satrya then walked towards Ashwina and forcibly pulled the girl.
Ashwina rebelled until finally, a piece of cloth covering her chest was torn apart from her body.
"Srekkkk"
Ashwina closed her exposed breasts with her right and left hand and spit "tch."
"You !!!, bring this girl forcefully, hahaha," said Satrya.
When Satrya's bodyguard was about to hit Ashwina, I immediately went to strangle the guard's neck.
"Whoosh"
"Arghhhh"
The bodyguard who was about to hit Ashwina now seemed to strangled up.
"You dare to touch my servant? Do you not know the girl whose clothes you ripped is my girl? Which hand do you use to rip my girl's clothes?" I asked furiously.
The bodyguard who currently did not move was silent and struggled to fight.
Satrya was surprised to see what happened before him, what was that? Why did he come so fast, even being able to lift the guards so fucking easily?
"You, you, who are you?" Satrya asked trembling.
"I'm not talking to you! You fucking dog shit! I'm talking to this bastard! Wait for your turn later! I'll take care of you immediately after taking care of the asshole who has touched my girl!" I'm getting furious.
Ashwina was surprised, but for some reason, she was so happy to hear the words of the god, this was the second time the god helped her, and only this time the god also called Ashwina as the girl's god.
Ashwina was so moved to hear the words coming from the god mouth. She even wanted to hug the god immediately while muttered in her heart, "my girl, my girl ......." Ashwina was happy when the god said, "my girl."
"Ashwina, please tell me which hand does this dog use ruining your clothes?" I said because I did not get an answer from the guards in front of me.
"The left hand, your majesty," Ashwina said, trembling.
"Krekkk"
"Argghhhhhhhhhhh"
Immediately I broke the left hand; then I dislodged his left hand from his shoulder.
"Srrrrrrrrr" blood flowed like tap water out of the hose.
"Arghhhhhhhhhhh"
The bodyguard struggled in pain when his left hand dislodged from his body.
Seeing this incident, the three other bodyguards trembled in fear, how could an aristocratic bodyguard be so easily defeated?
The level of bodyguards that Satrya was currently carrying had a high level of combat, but for some reason, the guards who were now strangling could not move before this mysterious man.
"Ashwina, tell me, is this right hand going to hit you previously?" I pointed to the right hand of the guard.
"I ... that's right, Your Majesty," Ashwina said, surprised by the drops of blood that came out so much from the body of the guard.
"Kreakkk"
"Arghhhhhh"
This time the right hand of the guard broke then I dislodged from his body.
Blood again poured from the body of the guard, and immediately the guard died with extreme pain.
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