Since Queen Mira had co to stop in and remind of the lovers around , things had not slowed down in the least. I sent ssages to my lovers, and I started to learn what had been happening to them. My ti was limited, and I wished I could spend more ti with them, but they all understood that I was incredibly busy.
To my stunned surprise, though, Ashasi and Trisha ca together with massive smiles. The Twin Elves were absolutely blasting their happiness to the world when they entered my office not long after I sent a ssage. They ca in with those smiles and Mana showing them at the B-ranked Adventurer status. Their opposite mana paths emanated from them as they took frost and fire as their specialties. They were happy that I finally contacted them after the war was basically over, but they had been busy advancing.
Which was a more tactful way of saying that they were happy with their concentration, and I would have been a distraction. They showed off their new strength, a little, showing Fire and Frost spells combining together. I was honestly intrigued by how their manas combined together and did things that should not be. Magic was sothing that was based on imagination, though, as my mother's electric snow was in account. Why she combined the two was sothing that I did not understand, but that did not an it was not happening in front of .
Ashasi and Trisha had combined their spells to freeze people and set them on fire, making their combined spells deadly. They were working on more things, including spells that they learned from how the Empire operated. Iceicles that could be sent a distance with fire inside to blow up in their faces. It was a great way of creating chaos on the other side.
Honestly, it was a bit of a bumr not to be able to see it happen before .
If only I could have seen them use their new combination spells on the Empire's army.
Unfortunately for them, they only broke thugh as they took a break from patrols in the City. They broke through only about half a month ago while I was busy slamming their general with Doorknocker for a month straight. Their excitent over their breakthrough and being able to show off to was palpable.
Then I was attacked by them, happily looking to soothe their desire. Sothing that I quickly understood was that all my won were missing. Each as they ca to soothed their lust as they attacked , and I learned of their exploits, which, while the war was still ongoing, were significant till we reached the Border City's conquering. Sothing that I learned from them is that many in the Elite army actually hated how they beca the human population's guards.
They knew they could do better in the front, but those other than the Succubi who went to the front were relegated to becoming city guard. IT was sothing even at the ti I did not wish to do, but it was a must. So, they all sat on their hands except for the small rebellion, which we quashed. So achievents for them went vacant against their own wishes.
Well, except for Taylor, who was having the ti of their life looking into the Necromantic mana in the city. She was researching why it was behaving in a certain way and how it had co to be. She seed oddly invested in the adventure and only stopped by for a bit of fun, and went right back to her studies.
Betsy, on the other hand, was now on the cusp of C-ranked, looking to break through and enter the ranks of B-ranked, and seeking that inspiration. She ca by a couple of tis in the coming days since I sent out that ssage. But she did not find inspiration from her lust being satisfied like my mother. Instead, she was out dueling other beast-kin to find sothing to bring her to that final cusp and beco a B ranker.
It was odd how independent they are, but I also liked that about them. I had my fun, and they ca to have fun with , and we cared about each other. But I also did not need to worry about them being bored while out of my sight. The only one I could think of that would be waiting for at ho, wondering how I am, just hoping for my safe return, would be Emily, and I hoped that she was with the kids, raising them for properly.
My heart ward thinking about Emily, but I had to concentrate on the world around .
Rose beca the woman with whom I had the most communication, as her letters began to report more frequently about the need for additional manpower and the shortage of carriages from Border City. Her outcry for more manpower and pregnant won grew, and so I went back to impregnating won one after the other when I was not otherwise doing other work. I started to put aside at least five hours of my day towards impregnating as many won as I could again, but I no longer could just sit in a dark room fucking.
Negotiations were also underway, and Duchess Greenwald was delaying the process; we discussed potential avenues for them to retrieve the rest of their soldiers. Then, the Demon Lands sent a massive force to assist with asking slaves whether they wanted to co back to the Beast-kin nation.
Things from there got extrely busy as the Beast-kin slaves were overwhelmingly choosing to co back to their original nation. It was surprising how many were choosing to stay, which I was expecting, about thirty percent of those asked under supervision to stay. At this point in ti, in just the capital, it was at a solid five percent choosing to stay. That was with a beast-kin soldier, a Demon lands neutral party, and an Empire soldier talking to them. They had to be removed from all sources of distress that might color their opinion, and all three signed off that they believed they showed that they were underderess, which ant that those who wanted to stay had sothing holding them there.
I could not save them all, but five percent was a shockingly low figure for those staying. I would not have been surprised if fifty percent chose to stay slaves. The mind is the biggest shackle when it cos to slavery, and the slave collars were not as common as I originally believed.
But because of all the slaves being freed in droves, we started to reach a new logistical nightmare. They were essentially refugees from slavers for centuries, finally coming back to their holand. They were broken people, many of them, and had survived horrors, and now we needed to feed, clothe, and shelter them before sending them back. Thankfully, I had a place for them to go, and beast-kin by the droves were being sent back to the city and from there back to their tribes if they chose to.
The humans that I was sending back would go in separate batches so as to keep the freed slaves from doing sothing to them. The slaves that were in Border City had long been freed and sent back to the Beast-kin nation if that was what they wanted for themselves.
But the war was not technically over, and months passed by quickly as negotiations continued to stretch. The Dragonic were getting annoyed that we had not either continued the war or brought it to an end. The populace I was hearing was extrely dissatisfied with the Dragonic for not pitching in more for the war effort. As the strongest Tribe, they were expected to contribute the most, but when it ca to spending, the Bunny-kin tribe spent the most, and a couple of the smaller tribes, like the Dog-kin tribe, spent almost as much.
Because of this, they started to wonder why the Dragonic was the controlling Tribe overall, although that did not an much in my mind. Still, it was sothing that I was happy about, and I knew that Rose and the Bunny-kin tribe were working on just this sentint becoming more and more apparent. The Dragonic Tribe ca across as weaker than the Bunny-kin Tribe because of my contributions to the war effort.
We were the ones to kill the first A-ranker. A Bunny-kin Elder was the one to destroy the walls of Border City. Although a bunny-kin was not the one who did everything, it appeared to be my achievents under my new army that did many of the major achievents. Where did the Empire falter, too? In a battlefield where I was in charge. These things were unfair to Isabelle, who was facing more and more pressure from her Elder Council to finish the negotiations at this point.
But with Duchess Greenwald doing her best to stretch negotiations even longer, there was nothing they could do. We continued to stay on a war footing for five months before I finally got another secret ssage from the Duchess.
The ssage was simple and ca through a note in a eting with herself and increasingly annoyed advisors.
The ssage was: et in no man's land five days from now in the north.
And so I went to et her with Queen Mira hiding in secret, and my mother in a place where she could be seen, but her mana hidden, so A rankers in the distance may not find her. I went to see what all of this delaying was for.
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