74 A Drastic Change

-Two days later-

"Father, I am asking you as someone who can keep up with the others, please allow me to venture outside of the village and temper my strength!"

At this time, Maria was finally trying to talk to her father and to convince him to allow her and several of her followers who were all female to go on a small adventure outside of the village in order for them to become stronger.

Although the laws of the village were not easy to change on a simple whim like what she was asking for, her father could still make some exceptions due to him being the leader of the village and the head of their big family.

WIth his level of influence, it would be quite simple to allow his daughter to travel outside of the village to face different life and death battles. But as a father, he still felt the need to remain protective over his daughter.

Some would argue that the Chieftain would have acted in an over domineering manner by making that type of choice for his own daughter. However, Maria was his only offspring and he was unwilling to lose a potential future leader of the family.

In truth, the village and its situation took a complete turn for the better thanks to Leo's contributions. At this rate, even if he were to lose his daughter and all of her followers, the village would still continue to rise in power and potential.

Using this to her advantage, Maria finally tried to convince her father to start making some adjustments to the village laws. This way, she would also be able to take advantage of them, while increasing her own sphere of influence.

Maria was always training hard like the men of the village while the females of the village chose to do more house based work. This meant that Maria was the strongest female in the village by quite a large margin. Therefore, if the women of the village wanted to experience change on a political level, she was their best option to support.

Although some women had their husbands as backers for their own political power, the overall status of the women of the village was below that of men. Maria was not the type who wanted to lead a woman based revolution, but she knew that if she could take control of all the others in the village, she would hold a significant amount of power and control.

Waiting for her father's response to her plea, Maria started to become very aggravated as she continued to feed him more examples of why she would still remain safe even in the face of danger.

"Thanks to Leo, I have this guy backing me up when I ride him. Do you really think with such a physically strong pet supporting me, that I, Maria, your daughter is unable to cut down my foes?"

"Little one, I understand that you are eager to continue increasing your strength, but I have been thinking hard about another idea for you. Are you willing to listen to your father just this once?" The Chieftain said as he took a deep breath and exhaled.

"Once Leo and I return from our mission which is going to happen very soon, I will be more than happy to start changing some of the dynamics and laws of this village to allow women to have a bigger role in our village's society."

"So please just be a little more patient and I promise that once I return, that you can go out and explore the world with whatever squad you choose to make out of the batch of followers you currently have. Until then, I will permit the women of this village to start training in their elemental affinities."

"From what Leo has mentioned to me, the city not far from here is only as powerful as they are, because they allowed the females to train just as diligently. I am going to allow this change since our village needs to become stronger, and because Leo personally asked this of not just me, but the council as well."

After a moment of blinking out of the shock of her father's words, Maria's face started to let out a particular type of brightness as she smiled for the first time in many years in front of her father.

"Then father, please allow me to make the announcement tonight. It would be wise for the strongest female warrior of the village to make such an announcement to the rest. Thank you, Chieftain."

Kowtowing to her father to show her appreciation and to confirm that it was not just because she was his daughter that such a decision was made, Maria then stood up and left with her followers.

The reason she had done this, was so that when word got back to the influential women of the village, that they would be convinced that Maria was the one who fought for this change. By acting in such a manner, Maria with this simple gesture was able to solidify her new political standing in the village.