“Nothing, Demigod Boss. I just wanted to welcome you.”
I couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow. This guy was truly a strange one. “Thanks, I guess. Any updates?”
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“We’re finishing up the first building and once that’s done, we will begin working on the main mansion at long last! Well, as long as Demigod Boss purchases the materials.”
Now that’s what I liked to hear. “Good job, Ronan.”
He saluted and ran off.
Sadly my opportunity to keep delivering monster materials from Aldoria to the Breadon retired adventurer pair had closed, at least temporarily. To my greatest horror, they told me that I brought them more than enough items for the time being, so I couldn’t help but shed a tear of grief. That delivery job was the dream opportunity for a man like me who could teleport between towns.
I walked into the main building and up the stairs to the floor which were mine and my lovers’ until we moved into the main mansion. A surprising sight welcomed me. “Welcome home, master!” Six cheery female tones shouted. They were all dressed as proper maids. Anna and Beatrice were a given, but it seems they found four new colleagues. Emily, Dorothy, Cecile, and her mother smiled at me happily while respectfully bowing their heads.
“Now just what’s going on here?” I asked amusedly.
“Lady Lucille said it would be okay!” Anna shouted with a defensive tone as if I was about to rob her of her new friends.
“Is this what you want to do?” I asked while studying the four women.
“It’s the least I could do to thank your lordship for the unrepayable favor you’d bestowed upon us.” Dorothy replied in a fervent tone.
“Yes, and this is a good job opportunity anyhow. Not many people can call themselves the maids of a legendary entity. A good lord keeps his maids happy and safe, and not many people can do that better than you.” Emily added with a jovial but sly grin.
“Can we?” Cecile asked as she gazed at me with pleading, puppy eyes.
Her mother, Ilde, didn’t add anything but looked at me with eyes that told me all I needed to know. Those were the eyes of a person who thought of me as her savior. A bigger than life character.
I didn’t like being put on a pedestal like that, but far be it from me to ruin the peace this poor soul found at long last.
“There might not be enough work to go around for the six of you for the time being but welcome aboard. I’m happy to have you.” My declaration sent ripples of joy and excitement across my new maids. They each bowed and voiced their gratitude. These were simple women yet their decorum was already more regal than the last time I saw them. It wasn’t hard to tell that Lucille or one of my other noble-born lovers had helped them a bit.
I said my goodbyes and went to visit this woman of mine who seemingly made some choices for me behind my back. Now I understood why she asked for a portal to the nearby city. She bought the uniforms for them. Of course, I wasn’t mad, not at all. While they might not be the most catching eye candies in the world, looking at these tortured souls smile with unbridled joy in their features makes me feel at peace. If I want to look at peerless beauties, I’ll just glance at my lovers – like the caramel-haired mischievous woman lying naked in my bed with her legs spread apart.
“Now that’s a welcoming sight I like to see.” I declared while jumping out of my clothes at record speed.
“I thought you would say that…” She giggled slyly while parting her lower lips wide apart with her delicate fingers. “You’re already home, but are you really inside your home if you’re not in my deepest depths? Come, I’m already as wet as can be. I need to feel your warmth.”
“Woman, you certainly know how to get a man going.” I decreed while joining her for a lovemaking session.
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The next month went by in a flash. The people of Miri Town were well into their home construction. For now, they lived in tents and quickly constructible buildings, but it was just now turning colder as we reached the halfway point of Autumn. According to Iselda, the homes would be liveable by Winter, and that was all that really mattered. Firewood was plenty, so they would enjoy a cozy cold season.
I spent the past month mostly enjoying some obscenely hedonistic activities in the company of my lovers, but we also continued training diligently. I had multiple sword duels with Ayame, and I had finally scored my first official victory and she did get her promised spanking session, but I fear she enjoyed it way too much for it to be taken as proper revenge for the oath I swore back when she did her mummy wrap duel against me.
My victory didn’t mean that I was now a better swordsman, though, just that I had much higher stats to my name. I do not doubt that once she participates in a few battles with my [Blessed Seed] in her fertile womb, she will quickly reclaim her throne. After all, in pure swordsmanship, she was just a genius I had no hopes of defeating, but neither did I wish for that. She was my blade, the woman who wanted to become the greatest swordsman in the world.
I’ll just humbly settle for being the strongest entity in the universe.
As for my army, my soldiers had been fighting the monsters in Lumi Forest diligently. Their eagerness turned up a notch when I decreed that anyone who wasn’t level 10 by the new year would become a civilian. In this world, that would be an extreme punishment, since leveling up would mean extending your lifespan by possibly hundreds of years.
However, I was still careful not to ruin the ecosystem of the surroundings, so they were forced to establish outposts further away from town so that enough living organisms would survive in each region of the forest, keeping nature’s balance in place.
Now though, I’d gotten the news from my fellow Phenom candidates that the date of the tournament was set. The groups finished a bit quicker than Orianna estimated, but that was fine. I was ready.
Today we set off to the indicated location to at long last secure my spot as the Vesper Consortium’s Vesper Phenom ranked member.