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1.59% Epic of Caterpillar / Chapter 40: The Treacherous Kraken Witch: Mady

Bab 40: The Treacherous Kraken Witch: Mady

After finishing the trading contract and having a fulfilling breakfast, I told Caspian and Belle that we would go around the city and explore it first before going back to our Kingdom, we can't stay much longer as there is the impending invasion of the last troops of the necromancer coming in a day or two.

Belle and Caspian were kind of let down about this but wished us good luck nonetheless, we would keep contact through the System direct message function.

We won't be able to exchange population for now, so I told Caspian to maintain the city doors closed to anyone and to lay down, so the necromancer does not notice them.

I will also leave tons of traps using my skill | DEADLY TRAP | around the entire lake, which will cast a strong magic shield if anything attacks them.

"Very well, we wish you good travels, Lady Kireina, Lady Zehe, Lady Nesiphae, Lady Rimuru, Sir Wagyu and Sir Kekensha"

"P-Please take care! I'm very worried about this Undead wave… Its infuriating that we can't do anything about it…"

Caspian calmed down her sister.

"I also feel extremely guilty over leaving Lady Kireina and her Kingdom the total protection of the Grand Forest, but there isn't any other way. We mermen have grown too weak, we must start training again! Even my old bones will have to workout now! But for now, we will support you in supplies and food as much as we can, because that's the only thing we have plenty for now"

I nodded.

"Don't worry, Belle, Caspian. With your supplies and food support is more than enough, we have tackled down two big armies already, my people are quite experienced"

Belle and Caspian waved their hands as they said their farewells to us.

When we finally got outside the castle walls, we decided to explore around the city before completely leaving, exploring the countless shops and facilities. There was a lot to do.

The city was large and overflowing with people everywhere, people of every race was enjoying their daily lives, countless families were living in harmony, some little mermen kids were playing around while some families were enjoying some delicious food in a restaurant. What I noticed is that mostly everyone had a couple, merfolk doesn't like to stay alone and quickly find a partner to stay their entire lives with. Be it of their same race or not.

There were more inter species couples than same species ones. And I saw loads of hybrids too, with characteristics of Eelmen and Mershark, creating Long Mersharks, or even Mermaid with Scyllas, creating a race named Kraken, which had both tentacles and a fish tail. Some inter species couples would have a pure race child, so I assumed that the chance of giving birth to an hybrid are low.

There were also couples of two hybrids, creating a child with four race combinations, one would think that they would look like some kind of eldritch abomination, however, these children seemed like a beautiful creation between races, most of them had tentacles as their hair, while having a long and slimy tail, some would have the fins of sharks on their back, or others would have the beautiful gills of a merman. As I appraised these interesting hybrids, I found out that most had unique names as races, some were "High Kraken Shark" others had the lower half of a Tritonia with the tentacle hair and a big conch on their back, these were "Armored Ancient Tritonia", so I assumed they had inherited ancient genes while being an hybrid.

The genetic mutation potential on this city people was outstanding, creating countless new races every year. Most people were living happily with jobs and shops, so mostly no one trained to level up and become stronger, wasting their amazing potential away.

"Just by appraising some people I can already see outstanding talent, some of these people could become incredible warriors, mostly hybrids, who are born with the shared traits of all the races they are made of. Like that little Armored Ancient Tritonia girl, she has both Scyllas Hypnosis and Illusion magic skills, while also having Tritonias Earth magic and an incredible defense stat…"

My wives and servants listened to my observations carefully.

"There is also that Kraken Shark boy over there, he inherited the Eelmaids powerful Thunder magic, while also possessing incredible Strength for its level, all these younglings would become promising rookies… (I wish I could eat some… Hmm… Perhaps?)"

After I finished analyzing this people, I let my servants to go exploring the cities while I explored on my own.

My wives didn't liked this idea so much.

"Eeeh? B-But we were going to eat together…"

"Guuu…"

"Ah! Don't worry, I just have something that I need to do around, I will go right back to you after finishing, I can't wait to eat with all of you"

"Well, if you say so…"

"Guuu… Don't take too long, guuu!"

After leaving my servants, I quickly moved through the city and used my separate split bodies in the form of bats to analyze the streets around me.

"Found them"

What was I looking for? Those are lowlife thugs, bandits, assassins, etc. Those people that no one cares about their dying or not, I will lure some out and eat them, the more hybrids the better.

I was able to quickly lure some thugs out from the streets, a beautiful lady like me walking alone is a pretty nice bait, I also sealed my strong aura to make them think that I'm just a weak fairy tourist.

The thugs that followed me were a group of five, they were sneaking around the streets slowly tracking me, I purposely went to a dead end and waited for them.

One of the thugs, that seemed like the leader came holding a blue colored knife, he was a Kraken Shark, every time he smiled, he showed his sharp shark teeth.

"Gehehehe, what is a beautiful fairy lady like you coming to these parts of the city? Are you lost, sweety? We could help you out! Hehehe"

The other four thugs quickly joined their leader, there was an Eel Shark, an Armored Kraken, a Mermaid woman and a big and muscular Tritonia.

I wanted to play along them a bit longer so they get close enough to me.

"A-Ah… E-Excuse me sir… I got a little lost… Uh, w-why are you holding a knife…?"

"Oh? This? This is just my friend… We can help you out, for a price, how about giving us all your valuable things? Oh, and those clothes you're wearing too…"

"E-Eh? W-Why would I do that?"

The other thug finally came closer, seeing my frailness.

"Just give all your things nicely… And we might let you off…"

"Yeah… Maybe we could touch your adorable body a little bit first…"

"Not a bad idea brother… Hehe- Eh?!"

Fluosh!

I quickly let off of my aura and also conjured a small magic zone, trapping the thugs and me inside.

"E-Eh? W-What the heck is this?!"

"It's a magic zone?! How could such weak- Aahh!"

The thugs noticed my strong and intimidating aura, as if a big specter made of countless souls looked over them with a death gaze.

Some of the thugs literally piss themselves in fear.

The Mershark girl fell down to the ground, trembling, fearing for her life.

"Y-You fucking bitch! You tricked us! You are actually a monster!"

"W-We are done for…"

"P-Please spare me!"

The Mershark girl had a desperate expression on her face, with countless scars over her muscular body, her hair was red colored with golden eyes. She had a thing and slim complexion, with a ragged shirt that only covered her chest and let her muscular belly nude. She had short red hair over her shoulders and pointy fangs on her mouth, which she showed whenver she was happy or desperate like now.

"(I didn't come here to kill a cute girl… Sigh… Maybe I could enslave her and then brainwash her? But how will I explain this to my party? Uuh… I'll just say that she wanted to follow me because of my strength… And become stronger… In the path of the Mersharks! Yeah… That would do)"

I quickly got rid of the all thugs in one fell swoop of my hands, slashing all of them in half.

"Gyaaaahhh!"

"Gyyaaakhh!"

The horror that the Mershark girl went through made her faint on the spot.

| YOU GAINED 9560 EXP |

| LEVEL 1/70 EXP 9560/50000 |

"Hmm not bad EXP for four random thugs, maybe I should grind some more…"

I drank their blood and ate their bodies as fast as I could, leaving some meat for my servants, saving it inside my Item Box.

As I presumed the hybrids meat was delicious and had all the flavors of the races that made the hybrid, being a delicacy, even when completely raw and bloody. I also ate the shiny blue knife that the leader was holding and saved all their equipment, it could come in handy for my soldiers.

| YOU OBTAINED A NEW TITLE: MERCILESS MERFOLK KILLER |

| YOU OBTAINED A NEW TITLE: MERCILESS VIGILANT |

"Ugh that's quite the dangerous title, I hope Caspian does not see it…"

| YOU LEARNED THE FOLLOWING SKILLS: |

| MAGICAL AQUAMARINE KNIFE |

| MERFOLK THIEF FAST STABS |

| MERFOLK THIEF INTIMIDATING GRIN |

| MERFOLK THIEF STEAL |

| KRAKEN SHARK ELEMENTAL FANGS |

| KRAKEN SHARK HYPNOSIS GAZE |

| KRAKEN SHARK STURDY TENTACLES |

| EELSHARK POWERFUL THUNDER BITE |

| EELSHARK THUNDER MUSCLES |

| EELSHARK THUNDER REFLEXES |

| ARMORED KRAKEN POWERFUL ORGANIC SHIELD |

| ARMORED KRAKEN STRONG POISONOUS TENTACLES |

| ARMORED KRAKEN STRONG STAMINA |

| TRITONIAN STICKY BODY |

| TRITONIAN NOVICE EARTH MAGIC |

| TRITONIAN FLEXIBLE MUSCLES |

"Just as I suspected, very unique skills! Like this Eelshark Thunder Muscles… I have never seen the power to infuse elements inside of your muscles like this, it could increase my speed and reaction time a lot"

I glanced at the sleeping Mershark girl and used my Illusion and Hypnosis magic to browse through her latest memories, it seems that these thugs are working on a small underworld organization, she is a rookie and has been threated pretty badly. I quickly deleted some memories and made her seem as if I saved her life from these thugs betraying her, and that she decided to follow me to become stronger on the path of the Mershark.

I put her on a coma state and saved her in my Item Box, were time does not flow.

"Cute Mershark waifu obtained! …That sounds kind of fucked up… Anyways, she will surely have a better life than here, that's for sure. Now, lets hunt some more thugs"

I went through the streets luring more and more thugs, slaying and eating them, until my bats told me that there were no more thugs around, and that most ran away to their underground base.

| YOU GAINED 35800 EXP |

| LEVEL 1/70 EXP 45360/50000 |

| YOU LEARNED THE FOLLOWING SKILLS: |

| MERFOLK THIEF POWERFUL WATER STAB |

| HIGH KRAKEN POWERFUL INK ATTACK |

| HIGH KRAKEN INK CONTROL |

| HIGH KRAKEN SHARP BEAK BITE |

| ANCIENT ARMORED TRITONIA STRONG ORGANIC SHIELD |

| ANCIENT ARMORED TRITONIA EARTH AND HYPNOSIS MAGIC |

"I think I have already gotten most skills… Well, time to destroy a whole criminal organization, I don't think Caspian would mind this"

I easily made my bats follow one of the running thugs and detected their base, it was on an underground just below an old and abandoned building.

I used a Cursed Claw to completely destroy the building floor and jumped down.

Booom!

The thugs around trembled in fear.

"S-She's here! Run!"

"F-Fuck! And where would we even run?"

A big and muscular merman with long black hair yelled with all its strength.

"You cowards! We knew that something like this would happen to us! You got into this knowing it from the beginning! Defend our base to the death!"

"Big brother!"

"Fight!"

"She is just a woman with some magic tricks! We still got a chance if we attack at the same time!"

"Let's go!!!"

"Ooooorrrraaaaaahh!"

When the thugs noticed my visit, they immediately charged at me with everything they had!

Some even were able to cast spells, but were easily deflected by my magic shield.

"S-Shit! She got a magic shield?!"

"Attack! Use the magic guns!"

"Yeah! That should do it!"

Some thugs took a strange type of technology, it seemed like a futuristic gun seen in Earth movies. From what I got appraising it, it can work when the user infuses magic into it, each gun is equipped with various elemental bullets to shoot.

"These bullets are something else… I'll take some shots"

Booom!

"Ugh… That hurt?"

A fire magic bullet went through my magic shield without much trouble, getting inside my belly, because it was made of fire, I took some damage from my Vampire Weakness.

"Interesting… Group Heal"

Flash!

A small light covered my belly and completely regenerated the wound.

"E-Eh?! She got healing magic too! Fuck!"

"But that bullet did some damage! We still have hope! Everyone! Let's go!"

The thugs jumped over me trying to slash me with their swords and knifes, but they barely scratched my strong skin and magic shield, some weak swords were completely shattered on the spot.

"This people are indeed very weak, even the thugs that have a harsh life are extremely weak, Caspian was right…"

I quickly slashed all the thugs into pieces in mere seconds with just one Cursed Claw, making blood and meat rain everywhere. Using this opportunity, I quickly absorbed all the nutritious and fresh blood in one big sip.

| YOU GAINED 23600 EXP |

| YOU GAINED ONE LEVEL! | | LEVEL 2/70 EXP 18960/52000 |

| YOU GAINED +10 BLOOD STRENGTH |

| YOUR SUPERNATURAL BLOOD VITALITY SKILL HAVE LEVELED UP TO 1>2 |

Some other thugs kept shooting me with magic bullets but they barely did any damage if they weren't of the Fire element.

I easily got rid of them with my bare hands, crushing their heads and making them explode like a watermelon.

Splat! Splat! Splat!

| YOU GAINED 7830 EXP |

| LEVEL 2/70 EXP 26790/52000 |

I've been also trying to catch their souls when they die, bust most of the time the souls are quite fast and hard to catch, but I've gotten a fair amount now. Because I can't just store them inside my Item Box, I have been consuming them on the go, passively increasing my Soul stats.

| ALL YOUR SOUL STATS HAVE INCREASED BY 20, YOUR SOUL MUTATION RATIO HAVE INCREASED BY 5% |

Quite the weak souls compared to Emperor class monsters, but still fine.

"Phew, that must be it"

I decided to save the corpses for now and explore around the underground base.

On the way, I came across stronger thugs, some even having a different class than just Thief, there was even a Merman Champion. However, this guy was just boasting its class to get in the higher ranks and was even weaker than some previous thugs.

I took care of him with one slash, slicing him in half.

| YOU GAINED 22340 EXP |

| LEVEL 2/70 EXP 49130/52000 |

| YOU OBTAINED A NEW TITLE: MERMAN CHAMPION |

This blood had lost their delicious flavor, it seems that I can't get more Blood Strength from it anymore.

I absorbed their souls but my Soul Stats did not go up. However, my storage of Soul Energy increased, surpassing its max value, just like Stamina does. Which is funny, why even make a limit if you can store over it anyways?

When the thugs stopped coming, I came across a big room where they were storing countless stolen things and money, there was also the last thug waiting for me there, I think it's the boss of the band.

However, this boss was a beautiful Armored Kraken woman, with long and red colored tentacles and a beautiful shell in her back, she also had long purple hair with red eyes. I noticed how she had some make up over her face, with purple colored lips and big eyelashes.

She looked at me with incredible anger and fear, but still maintained a dignified pose.

"You… Why have you done this to us? You aren't even from this city! Did some nasty royal contracted you?! I can give you double his money!"

"Oh? Royals? (Maybe I should pretend I did) Yeah, that's right! He paid me quite a nice sum, lets end this quickly, shall we?"

The Kraken woman became desperate.

"W-Wait! Please! We can come to an understanding! You are a strong and intelligent woman, just like me! We are the same!"

"Hmm? Like what? Can you really pay me the double? Seeing all these riches around here, it's not enough, nope"

"Uggh… I can get you even more money! I-I have my connections in the underground! People know me as the Treacherous Kraken Witch: Mady! You are a strong mercenary, I could also use your services, so, please don't kill me! You are better letting me alive!"

"Hmm… (Connections? This could help me out to get a better understanding on this city, I feel like Caspian barely told me everything, that old man is quite sharp, he must have hided quite a lot of important info, specially these royal families that this woman is talking about…)"

Mady looked at me with a forced smile, sweating with fear.

"Hmm, okay! Just because you are quite beautiful…"

"E-Eh? Beautiful? Are you into girls or something?"

"Something like that… Anyways, I won't just let you go just like this, I will take… Half of the riches here…"

"A-Ah! That's fine! Please take it! T-Thank you…"

Mady tried to sneak out but I stopped her in place.

"One more thing, I can't just trust the boss of a criminal organization that easily, right? Let's set a contract, a pact"

"A… pact?"

I looked at her with a warm and cute smile.

"Hmm! A Blood Pact!"

"E-Eh?!"

"With this! Activate skill: Blood Pact!"

Fluosh!

Suddenly, a strong force made my blood and Mady's fuse together, ending with a shining red light.

Flash!

| A BLOOD PACT HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY CREATED WITH: ARMORED KRAKEN MADY COBALT |

| AMOUNT OF SLAVES 52/120(+20) |

When Mady fell down unconscious, I used this opportunity to browse through her latest memories, obtaining some info about what she deals with.

It seems that this small criminal organization produce and sell these powerful magic guns, and have won some recognition from the other groups and even royals.

Lately other groups have gotten on the handle of making magic guns and some have tried to sabotage her business, that's why she suspected that I was some mercenary that came for her head, completely destroying the competition.

"I haven't seen any kind of magic gun in the king castle armory, so I guess this is something still new…"

I used Illusion, Hypnosis and Thunder magic to create a small shock in Mady's brain, instantly waking her up.

"Ah! W-What the heck?! Eh?! You! W-What did you do to me?"

"It's called a Blood Pact, now you won't be able to betray me, that's all. I will let you off now, we will keep in contact through the System direct message function"

Mady stood up and raised her hand, pointing at me.

"B-Blood Pact?! How dare you do something like that to me! Are you saying that me, the Treacherous Kraken Witch: Mady is your slave?!"

"You could put it that way, yeah"

"Y-You Bi-"

Suddenly, a strong shock of pain engulfed Mady's whole body!

"A-Aaagh! It is really a Blood Pact… To think that one day a Witch like me will be enslaved… You are very strong… Most of the time, a Blood Pact would fail, the master needs to be way stronger than the enslaved being for the pact to be successful… What kind of monster are you…?"

I suddenly let go of all my aura.

Fluosh!

"A-Aaah! W-What?! What are you?! You are no mere mercenary!"

"I guess I can tell you, because you are my slave now…"

I gave Mady a small summary about my origin, the necromancer conflict and my Kingdom, the rescue of Belle was also included.

"Impressive… You are an outstanding being!"

"(Did she changed a bit after seeing my strength?) Y-Yeah… Now that you can't betray me, I will let you go… I hope you can tell me more about these criminal organizations and those royals… (Having Caspian trust and information, while also having a strong boss of the underground world as a slave will probe incredibly useful, making me get the whole picture of this city)"

"Hmmm… However, I really don't want you to get killed… You say you're a Witch but you're too weak…"

"Hmmph! Get killed? Me? I am the Treacherous Wi-"

"I know, I know. Just a quick appraisal on you and I already got disappointed, you got very weak magic spells… (Even Zehe was stronger than Mady when I first fought her)"

| NAME: MADY COBALT

| CLASS: ILLUSION WITCH

| RACE: ARMORED KRAKEN (HYBRID)

| LEVEL 43/150 EXP 011684/43000 STATUS: FINE

| ITEM BOX 78/250

| HP: 65/65 MP: 62/62 STAMINA: 153/170

| STRENGTH: 47

| DEFENCE: 92

| MAGIC: 63

| RESISTANCE: 42

| SPEED: 39

| CHARISMA: 65

| LUCK: 0

| SKILLS |

| HYBRID POTENTIAL | | STRONG ORGANIC SHELL CREATION | | KRAKEN TENTACLE ATTACK |

| SCYLLA HYPNOTIZING GAZE | | TRITONIA BASIC EARTH MAGIC | | MAGIC RESONANCE |

| NOVICE ILLUSION MAGIC: BASIC ILLUSION | | NOVICE ILLUSION MAGIC: DECEPTION |

| NOVICE ILLUSION MAGIC: ILLUSION ATTACK | | ILLUSION MAGIC AFFINITY |

| TREACHERY ARTS: TRICK | | TREACHERY ARTS: DECEIVE | | TREACHERY ARTS: CHEAP TALK |

| TREACHERY ARTS: BELIEVABLE LIE |

"Oh… Yeah your stats are quite bad… And you lack offensive and defensive spells, however these Treachery Arts are interesting, and you got some Illusion Magic too"

Mady sat down on her big desk and took out a small bottle of a cheap imitation of Star Fish Dew, and poured some in a cup, drinking it all in one go.

"Haah… Yeah… Illusion and Treachery… That's all I'm good at… These skills are what have kept me alive in these rough streets… I don't really have the potential to be of much use to someone as strong as you"

"I don't think so"

"Eh?"

"As long as the System exist, everyone has infinite potential, you must train hard!"

"T-Train? Hahaha… Maybe that works for you… In this city we don't need strength, we need to be cautious and a good liar"

"The stronger you are, the safer you are, specially in this city full of weaklings…"

"I guess we merfolk have become extremely weak over the years… My grandma used to tell the stories about the strong Scylla warriors and mages…"

"Sigh… It's better to do actions than talking with you. Now that you got my power, you should be able to get stronger right away"

"Hmm? What do you mean?"

"Are you hungry? Here"

I opened my Item Box and handed to Mady countless preparations and food, these included the Goblin Mages meat, some Troll meat, Gale Bird meat, Flame Salamander meat, Bloody Lotus, Blood Monster. Although in smaller quantities, saving more for my servants at home.

"Is this some joke? You just enslaved me and now are you forcing me to get fat?"

"Slave, by this Blood Pact, I order you, eat everything I give you"

Fluosh!

A powerful command made Mady eat everything against her own will. She though that I was making fun of her, looking at me with hateful eyes.

However, as she gulped on the food, a myriad of System Notifications popped out of thin air.

Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!

| YOU HAVE LEARNED A MYRIAD OF NEW SKILLS, PLEASE CHECK THE SKILL WINDOW |

"Ah? Aaaah?!"

Mady could not believe what was happening in front of her! She was learning a myriad of unique monster skills just by eating this weird food!

I discovered this some days ago, when a Slave is already named, they get to share my blessing right away. However, if they do not have a name, I must give them one first.

When Mady finished her food, she was extremely tired, with her small and once beautiful belly now looking like a balloon.

"Ugh… My belly… But these skills… Is this your power? The power that you grant to your servants? I can't believe… I can't believe this… I feel as if your attack was now more like a blessing than an unfortunate thing… This power…"

I also took a Synthesis Bracelet and handled it to her, while drinking some of the cheap imitation of the Star Fish Dew.

"Here, take this, you will be able to fuse skills with this, and create your own unique skill set"

Mady looked me with concern, and even a hint of sadness.

"Why are you being so good with me? Why are you going this far for me? We just met…"

I give Mady a warm smile.

"Well, my beautiful insider on the criminal organizations of this city needs the best of helps I can give to her"

Mady sighed.

"Sigh… You are so strange… But okay, I shall serve you, there is no other way, right? To think that my life has changed so much in just these last hours…"

"Hehehe, I will help you raise to the top of the criminal organization; I have left many little bats around the city, these will give us both valuable info on everything going on"

"How are you even planning on doing that?"

"You will become stronger, and slap every organization in the face, they're all weaklings after all, if something wrong happens, just contact me"

"Ugh… But why do you want to do that? You got Caspian support, the actual King of this damned Kingdom!"

"That old man is very sharp, he may seem like a nice person, but I'm sure that he is shred to the core, he may trust her sister, but certainly not us. You will give me valuable info about these royal families and the economy of this city, while also exchanging supplies and equipment"

"Hmph… Fair point"

"You will be like my avatar in this city, living for me and doing everything that I would do"

"Sigh… This old woman can barely handle these youngling thugs nowadays… But if you have such big hopes over me, then I shall accept…"

"You don't really look old; you are quite beautiful"

Mady blushed a little.

"A-Again with the weird flirting… Are you really into girls?"

"Well, I have three wives, does that answer your question?"

"Aah?! Quite the brave woman you are! So, you want a fourth with me or something? At least invite me to a date first… Sigh"

"That would be certainly lovely, but I'm too busy now. I got a whole army of Undead coming"

"That's true, you are actually protecting this whole Forest, that old Caspian is really a coward"

"Very well, I shall get going… Hmm… Because you are my slave now, I won't take anything from you, and even, here"

I opened my Item Box and took half of the Merfolk gold earned from the Blood Monster Mimic Chests in the Blood Dungeon.

"T-These are…! Ancient Merfolk gold coins! This is an incredible sum too!"

"Buy yourself some trusty thugs with this, also, get used to your new skills as fast as you can"

Mady nodded.

"Alright! This amount of money really gives me some motivation! Hehehe!"

"Now that everything is settled, I shall get going for real, my cute wives are waiting for me to have lunch with them…"

Mady approached me with a warm smile and lusty eyes, while touching my body with her hands.

"Hmmm… Perhaps it wouldn't be so bad to be your wife, eh?"

"A-Ah… M-Mady? I was half joking there…"

"Oh? Your blushed face says otherwise"

And so, I ended up doing some quick love with Mady, a beautiful and mature Kraken woman. Her body was perfectly mature and delectable, and her kisses were passionate and lustful.

Her tentacles were very lewd with my body, touching every inch. It seems that the money really got her excited.

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PERTIMBANGAN PENCIPTA
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Here it is! Kireina got herself with two cute fishy waifus this time! How big will her harem be in the future?! Thanks for reading!

NEW NOVEL IS OUT!

Check "The Protagonist's Sister Is Actually the Strongest"!

Bab 41: A Steadily Growing Kingdom

After I finished giving passionate love to Mady, we both quickly dressed back.

I patted Mady head and said my good byes.

"I never expected you to be so energetic in this regard, you are an incredible woman, Mady. Very well, I shall get going"

Mady sat on her desk and drank some imitation of Star Fish dew, while resting.

"Phew… You are very good for a youngling, fufufu… I shall give you an update of everything going on everyday"

"I would appreciate that"

While walking away, Mady stopped me.

"K-Kireina, w-wait…"

"Huh?"

Mady looked at me with a blushed face.

"I-I know that this was all very sudden… But, could I become part of your Kingdom in the future? When my mission here is fulfilled. I have grown tired of this place, of this city. Of its people… Since I was child that I always wanted to explore the outside world"

I looked at Mady with a warm smile.

"Hahaha, that's a given, Mady! Even more, you will become my wife too, but for that, I need to see your results first"

After hearing this, Mady blushed even more, but I also noticed a hint of determination.

"V-Very well then! I will conquer the Aquaria Kingdom underworld!"

I already predicted that it would easy with my backing and her newfound power. I can't wait to get a hold of this Kingdom underworld, using these connections, I can even manipulate those royals into submission. When I reach this point, I could even use these royals to blackmail Caspian to handle the whole Kingdom! Absorbing it entirely into mine. This is a nice goal to look forward in the future.

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When I left the slums, I quickly flew were my party was. It seems that they stopped on a big restaurant and were enjoying loads of delicious food.

When I finally reached the place, I joined them on their feast.

Zehe was drinking a small bowl of seafood soup, it also had noodles. She seemed to enjoy it. Her happy face warmed my heart.

"Ah! Honey! You took some time! The food here is very delicious!"

Rimuru was at Zehe side eating tons of fried food, from crab croquets to fried shrimp and fish. Getting all her face nasty, giving her an adorable look.

"Guuuuu! Munch, munch… Mastaaa finally here! Come with me! At my side!"

Nesiphae was eating a big red colored fish, it seemed to be an entire smoked Armored Fish.

"Master, you finally came! They even got big fish, fitting for my size!"

Wagyu and Kekensha were enjoying a big bowl full of different types of raw fish.

"Hmm! Master, how was your trip?"

"Master, you must try this! This raw fish is very fresh! It's still moving!"

Seeing all my servants, no, my family happily enjoying a meal made me extremely happy.

I sat at Rimuru side, at the other side was Zehe who give me a warm smile.

After some seconds, a cute Eelmaid attender came with the menu for me, it was all written inside a special kind of paper, that was infused with magic. To be able to see the whole menu I needed to infuse a small quantity of MP, which made the paper shine, changing its letters to the next "page".

It seems that the System itself is able to translate any letters to my original language, this also happens when talking to other people, some may have a different language but the System immediately translates it to the one hearing it. The System has pretty much made a universal language for everyone.

I ordered almost the entire menu, and ate t my hearts content, although I didn't get any new skills, the food was too delicious, making all the money spent worth it.

After finishing eating, I decided to pay with the Mermen Ancient Coin, the Eelmaid attender was surprised by this ancient coin, and said that the whole menu wouldn't cost as much as one coin, but I still give it to her and told her to kept the charge.

Due to this, she called the owner of the restaurant who give me his thanks over such a generous gift. The owner was a big and burly Scylla men, he seems to be a very talented cook, being able to use his countless tentacles to prepare the whole menu at the same time.

After giving me his thanks, he handled to me a small card made of coral, this card shined with various colors when exposed to the light.

He told me that it was a "VIP" card for this well-known restaurant, which would give us an easy access to the establishment without having to wait for a table. It would also grant discounts and even off-menu food.

After saying my good byes to the restaurant owner and the cute Eelmaid waitress, we kept exploring the city.

On the way, we came across loads of shops that sold beautiful clothes, and my wives forced me to get in, trying out clothes with them. Because I was once a man, I really feel uncomfortable trying all these clothes, but my cute wives forced me anyways.

There were beautiful rainbow dresses, gothic dresses and shirts, hats and even bras.

My wives used me as a dressing doll to their hearts content, putting me in every weird clothes they found. Some were quite decent but others were too much! Showing almost all my body.

Wagyu and Kekensha enjoyed looking at me trying out dresses, cheering me out.

"Impressive! Master is as beautiful as ever!"

"Hmm! I particularly love her looks on that gothic dress, it really fits Master style!"

I sighed.

"E-Even you guys… Geh…"

Because the merfolk doesn't possess a humanoid lower half, they don't have the necessity for pants or shoes of any type, even so, all my wives bought countless dresses and hats, and I also had to buy some, as they forced me to.

Having everything done, we quickly flew to the city gates and we were greeted by some guards, they already were awaiting us by Caspian orders, and opened the massive city gates, letting us out.

"Have nice travels, Lady Kireina"

When we finally got outside the city, the massive door closed with a big sound.

Boom!

The door slowly dissipated through the water, as if it was never there.

"An amazing spell, I wonder how powerful was this Old Ancestor of the Merfolk that Caspian talked so much"

According to Caspian, this Old Ancestor was a powerful Wizard, able to use its magic to create a space, putting the whole merfolk city inside. This space could be easily moved and manipulated, he used this ability to cross the ocean and settle down on this big Lake, in the middle of the Grand Forest.

He was also a talented Alchemist, being able to easily create countless magic infused accessories, these include the Appraisal bracelets that he specifically crafted for its descendants.

"I would had loved to meet such a person; I wonder if I would had been able to put a fight against him?"

Before completely leaving the Lake, we decided to do a quick hunt around, we decided to kill the biggest monsters around, leaving the big number of smalls ones alone.

We killed King class Golden Crowned Crabs, Armored Fishes, Flaming Eels, Rainbow Starfishes, Poison Spiky Sea Cucumber and Shadow Eyes Octopus. However, I will save these for my servants at home, so they can taste these delicious creatures.

| YOU GAINED 54870 EXP | | THE REST OF YOUR PARTY GAINED 27435 EXP |

| YOU GAINED ONE LEVEL! | | LEVEL 3/70 EXP 52000/54000 |

| YOU OBTAINED A NEW TITLE: MERCILESS AQUATIC LIFE KILLER |

When we reached the surface, I quickly went around setting Magic Shield Traps, using the skill | DEADLY TRAP | along side my Magic Blood Spiritual Shield. I was able to do this by firstly casting the skill | DEADLY TRAP |, when casted, a small lump of light would appear on my hand, and a command asking for "Trap Customization" would show up. From this Trap Customization, I can select various traits, mostly damaging and negative ones, but there was also the option to use my own skills, making the ability to create "good traps" possible.

These traps would activate whenever anyone step on them. It was also possible to set floating traps, covering the entire space.

Each trap would cost around 150 MP so I had to drink all my MP Potions for this. If I want to set more around my Kingdom, I will need to ask to do some | MP SHARE | ritual first.

After this quick hunt, we decided to go through the sky, over the forest, directly towards the East Rocky Mountains.

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After an hour of flying, we finally reached the Rocky Mountains, and saw something incredible.

Surrounding our Castle/Mountain, there was a small town already settled around, this town included hundred of houses and walls around, with paved streets and lamps.

"Is this…"

Looking closer at the streets, I noticed countless monsters walking around, having their daily lives, some of the houses became small shops and restaurants, and there were three big facilities that seemed to be factories of some sort.

"It can't be… This was too fast!"

To the other side of the town, there were a big group of very strong looking Undead soldiers, working together, constructing houses and paving the floor.

"The Undead are working very hard too, and some even evolved! Can they get EXP when constructing things?"

I also noticed that the Undead were being commanded by a group of monkeys, being led by Meiji and some of his spirits.

I also noticed how every Meiji Spirit seemed way mature, they already evolved!

My party was also surprised by the incredibly fast development of the Kingdom, seeing the town with shiny eyes.

Wagyu and Rimuru, who had accompanied me since the beginning, started to cry big tears of joy, being moved by how much our people has accomplished.

"M-Master! T-This is our Kingdom! Right? Our people! Our family! I can't believe how far they have come"

"Guuuuuuu! Mastaaa! Its so beautiful! It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen!"

"Hahaha… Yes, it's very beautiful"

When we finally approached my Kingdom close enough, all of my servants inside the town noticed us and cheered, waving their hands or paws.

"Its Master! She is back!"

"Masteeer! We have missed you so much!"

"You are finally back, Lady Kireina!"

"Look Master! This is our Kingdom!"

"We have worked so hard to surprise you!"

"Lady Rimuru, Zehe and Nesiphae are back too!"

"Such beauty! They are the most beautiful ladies of our Kingdom!"

"Rimuuuruuu! We have missed you so much!"

"Ooooh! Senior Wagyu and Kekensha are back!"

"They look even more tougher than before!"

"Awwoooooo! Senior Wagyu! Senior Wagyu!"

After seeing all my beautiful family receiving us, I felt a soothing warm on my heart.

"I'm home"

When I reached the town, hundreds of monsters jumped over us, hugging us and licking us.

"Guaaahhh! G-Go away! You ruined the moment! Gueeh! Don't lick me there! Eh?! Which pervert touched my butt?! Hey!!!"

"Lady Kireina! We missed you so much!"

"Ukiiiiiiii!"

"Awoooooo!"

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After everyone calmed down, I was finally able to greet all my servants properly.

Some of the servants that were in the castle quickly came flying, this included the rest of the monkeys, wolves, wyverns, spiders, squirrels and more.

Abellona and his brothers seemed way stronger than before, they seemed to have leveled quite a lot since then and their skills also seemed way more evolved.

A lot of the rookie monkeys evolved even more, and what surprised me the most were Kusuri and Kajiya, who managed to evolve! Something surprising coming from them, as they barely train.

Kusuri told me that they were able to gain EXP while crafting and synthetizing items and they were able to evolve just last night.

Both Kusuri and Kajiya evolved to a rare crafting-oriented monkey variant named "Mountain Crafter", they did not see a notable increase in stats but they obtained the skills | HIGH CRAFTING AND SYNTHESIS AFFINITY | alongside countless of crafting and alchemy related skills.

Their appearance remained mostly as monkeys, but they were more refined and less wild-looking.

Kusuri told me that he and Kajiya have been working very hard into making potions, armor and accessories for the entire Kingdom. Due to the increasing population, when the factory facilities were finally done, he had to move parts of his team into them, to efficiently keep the steady production of items. This also included the needed ones to keep expanding the towns.

"It has been a rough 3 days since you left, Master. We have worked very hard to keep everything going, we have expanded our Crafting Team three times already, we finally stabilized the production of items. Our growing population steadily needs these items to keep growing stronger while having their daily lives"

"Y-Yes, Master! W-We have worked very hard… I'm tired…"

I told Kusuri and Kajiya to take the rest of the day free and they happily accepted. They seem to have their own little house in this town too.

While talking with the rest of the Monkey Squad Leaders, they told me that in these three days, more than 15 baby Monkeys have already born, and that they needed  naming services right away. Instead of going to the nursery, the whole nursery team was already here with the babies, so I quickly named them all, I couldn't inspect their stats carefully because they were way too many, but each one was a different rare variant, having different colors and powerful classes.

About the other babies I named, they were already walking and talking like normal monkeys!

"You guys grew way too fast!"

"We will work very hard to serve our Kingdom, Master!"

The baby monkeys growing in four days to almost adult phase surprised me a lot, but according to Kizuato and Yukan, the Rocky Mountains Monkeys grow extremely fast, taking just eight to ten days to grow to a fully functional adult.

Kizuato and Yukan told me that they aren't even more than one year old!

"W-What?!"

"Hahaha! That's right, Master! We aren't even that old"

But even Kizuato and Yukan were surprised, as these monkeys only took four days to fully mature, probably because of being born with stronger variants.

It seems that the phase of growing for most monsters in this world is incredibly fast, and this phase can be even faster if you put evolution on the formula. For example, me, I was barely born as a Caterpillar around a month ago, and now I look like a young adult woman, of at least 19 years old. But what frightens me is that this fast-growing phase may come with a short life spawn, however, seeing how the former Monkey Emperor seemed to have lived for hundred of years, this theory gets destroyed already.

So, I just wondered, why do monsters grow so fast? Is this a survival mechanism in this harsh world? Perhaps pure humans won't grow as fast. I also know that merfolk doesn't grow as fast, as I clearly saw kids and adolescents in Aquaria. Probably the higher your humanoid heritage is, the slower you grow?

"How can they have such a short age?! But they look like very maturated people already! This world is nuts!"

The only ones that make sense age wise are the Wyverns, being Abellona the oldest one at 280 years old, which is barely considered a young adult. But wait, this is also nuts! What do you mean just young adult at 280 years?! When will he become a full-grown adult?! At 500 years?! No way…

While ranting over the weird aging system in this world, the Rin sisters finally came to the town, they all seemed extremely exhausted, with their hair being a complete mess and big bags on their eyes.

Even Rin didn't have enough energy to insult me in any way!

"You are finally back… Hahaha"

"Master… I want to take a nap…"

"Welcome home, Master… How was your journey… Hmm… Zzzz"

Did they just fell asleep while standing?!

It seems that taking care of the whole Kingdom was too much, even for three of my split minds, some of the Spider Maids that serve them all the time told me that they had barely any sleep these last three days, working very hard to maintain the Kingdom on a steady increase in production and population. From summoning Demonic Beings for training, to taking care of the constructions, to inspecting the crafting and cooking, the expansion of the usable land, signing documents, etc.

"Wait, signing documents?"

It seems that on my absence, the Rin sisters used Earth documents system to create contracts for easy transactions and trading.

They also created a money system, this money is made of simple copper and it has a number in the middle of it, showing its value. Anyone can obtain these coins while working on their respective fields, feeling rewarded for what they do.

They also made restaurants and shops possible, and assigned a big group of Hairy Spiders to the production of clothes for any type of monster. Now even wolves can find a fitting sweeter!

And while all of this was being made, also big groups of monsters started to join our town, as they saw how every monster race worked together.

Kizuato and Yukan told me that these monsters were always around here, taking peeks at our growing Kingdom, there were even later war survivors who have been surviving in the Forest barely.

Around 20 surviving Trolls joined out of nowhere, they seemed to have survived the war and ran away towards the West River, they told me that they survived eating the fish there but they were running low in food nonetheless.

Also, around 25 Goblins joined too, these ones survived on the Dark Forest, but slowly became too hungry. These nasty humanoids had to ask for mercy and after taking countless tasks they were finally able to enter the town as population.

These goblins seemed completely different than the war ones, who were bloodthirsty bastards, as they were very polite and educated. It seems that hunger can change people too much, flipping their personalities by 180 grades. They easily found jobs and joined the different crafting and production teams, the strongest ones decided to join the soldier teams on the training grounds.

Around 40 other monsters joined the Kingdom too, they were of various intelligent races, including Gale Birds and Flaming Salamanders. All of these groups were led by their respective King Class leaders. I should name them afterwards.

However, what surprised me the most, were the Dryads! I saw countless of beautiful Dryads walking over my town! They told me that the Dryad Empress herself decided to let some of the more adventuring Dryads to come here and live for some weeks. Around 25 Dryads are living in this town. But because their true form is a tree, I wondered how did they even moved to this place?

It seems that the most mature Dryads have the power to change its true appearance (the tree) into a different living plant, the name of the skill is named | TRUE BODY RESTRUCTURATION |. Most of them changed their tree structure to big flowers and stuck them to their ethereal bodies, being able to move around freely.

Dryads are not very good at working in almost anything, as they barely have any crafting talent, but some are very good at creating concoctions and special plants, and others can help plants grow faster, helping the overall feeding issue of our Kingdom.

Ah yes, another thing that the Rin sisters worked very hard to make was an official "Soldier Team", which would use the strongest warriors as royal soldiers of the Kingdom. Anyone who thought that had a talent for war and fighting was more than welcomed, as Kizuato and Yukan would train them to the core.

Leaving the Rin sisters to their well-deserved rest, I took the lead of the Kingdom now, deciding to inspect the various facilities around the town first.

When I was in Aquaria, I always wondered if we could make something similar to such place, and the answer is already in front of me, a big yes.

Accompanied by my wives, I browsed through the countless shops and restaurants. It seems that a lot of the Cooking Team monkeys split and made their own establishments. However, the original two, Chokumotsu and Kaen are still serving on the Castle restaurant, which is now paid. They have become official "Royal Chefs".

There were so many restaurants that I almost lost count, but I counted at least 16! Each one served a different delicacy that the Chefs specialized in, even though there was competency, it was still too early and each Chef always got a good amount of money each day, being able to maintain their Restaurants very well.

I asked Meiji about what did they do over the big consumption of ingredients for all these restaurants, and he told me that the Rin sisters increased the number of members in the hunting team and split it on three, making three big Hunting Teams. Alongside this, the Farming Team was also granted extra members, which included mostly the new humanoids (Trolls and Goblins). And they have managed to steadily increase the breeding of cattle.

Meiji also told me that cattle wouldn't breed so fast if it wasn't because of two monkeys evolving and obtaining a "Farmer" class. These two monkeys were the very old grandpas which Kizuato and Yukan told me once, who were very good at raising animals. The Farmer class skills are all related to raising cattle animals and harvest.

Using their newly gained skills and incredible experience, which also included a revitalized and younger body due to evolution, these two old grandpas increased the breeding rate of the cattle animals over 200%! They had skills that made the animals enter in heat faster, making them breed at an increasing speed, there was also a skill that made the animals age faster, reaching adult stage in a single day. Ready to be consumed or reproduce even more.

These skills would be completely useless in battle, but for the Farming process, they were extremely convenient and amazing!

According to their most recent reports, we have around 80 Giant Ice Rabbits already, to think that we started with just two! The rest of the cattle monsters, if combined are around 120 more!

But a big question came to my mind.

"How do they feed so many?!"

This is were the Nature Element manipulators come into place. Eshne, Tsuchimizu and Odayakana, with the help of the Dryads, used big chunks of MP, manipulating the ground and the plants around, feeding them with rich Mana, which made them grow incredibly faster, being ready to be consumed by the cattle monsters.

After knowing everything about the food and its production process, I couldn't help but praise my servants, they were extremely talented and intelligent to be able to figure out all of this on their own!

I also inspected the clothes shops, there weren't as many as the restaurants, being around eight. Each clothing shop specialized in a different type of clothing, for every race in this Kingdom, and if there weren't clothes for you, you could pay an extra fee and these talented Hairy Spiders would craft a personalized set of clothes just for you! I was surprised because there were even a shop selling lingerie, for any race! What?! You perverted servants!

Even though there was a lot of shops, they did not look as refined as the Aquaria Kingdom ones, only being inside small houses. With tiny windows showing the clothes and menus.

Some monkeys and spiders used their saved money to expand on their shops, paying a fixed amount of money to Meiji, he would send some Undead to expand their shops, doubling their size each time, adding new floors.

However, because they have set their shops just three to four days ago, only two monkeys were able to expand their restaurant for now, but I expect even more people to do so.

As I passed through the shops, every owner offered me with free food and clothes. I tasted loads of delicious food in the way and also received lots of cute clothes, which I will probably never use. No offense, spiders! Keep making them!

When I finally reached one of the big factories, I noticed how all the workers inside used alchemy and synthesis arts to produce a steady number of items for every day life. However, they did not just make Potions and armor, but also used these skills to make elaborated spices, using other spices as materials. And some talented monkey alchemist was able to synthetize a Pie! A Pie! Just by throwing ingredients into a hot cauldron!

The monkey offered a slice of the Pie and it was obviously delicious, it had a nice strawberry filling, and the dough was nice and warm.

He told me that he had a special skill named "Food Synthetizing" and he was the most talented of all the Food Synthesizers, having completed most of his Recipe Book skill already. On my absence, it seems that this new kind of hybrid between Alchemist and Cook was born, and lots of Alchemist and Crafter monkeys got these new skills.

Of course, Synthetized food would never be as good as freshly cooked food made by a Chef, but it was convenient and needed few ingredients. Ideal for a growing Kingdom.

While on the way, I came across the entire Slime Family, however this time, they all were evolved into humanoids!

"Aaah! Master is here!"

"Mastaaa!"

"M-Master! Sister Rimuru!"

"Eeeh?!"

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Here it is! A lot of things happen this time. Even when Kireina wasn't there, all her servants worked very hard to give her a big surprise! Thanks for reading!

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