Chapter 162: Bang, Bang, Uh Oh Double Mission!

"Well, this isn't how I wanted our talk to start."

"I think it's fine for a commoner such as yourself, I am used to seeing the lower Wraiths walk like you. Since you are nothing more, I can stand to look upon you bodying without perverse thoughts."

I half-believed her, while she wasn't outright mean, she did just call me a commoner. Was I a commoner? I was the general of UW, that had to count for something right? Oh well, I'm not here to start some pissing match with her royal highness, but I couldn't just kill everyone can scoop up the princess, well, I could, but that won't solve anything.

"Dave Star Strider, General of The Watch, and I have some things I would like to speak to you about, alone."

"You make a request for me? Who do you think I am?"

"Listen, I just want to…"

"Silence! I will not speak to you until you have completed a task for me!"

//Special New Harem Member Mission: Make [Fiori] Fall in love with you within 72 hours to acquire 1 HMSP and 1 SP

Bang, Bang, uh oh double mission! Well, maybe this would work out in my favor, I could do a little looking around wherever I was sent. I waited for her to speak, but she was silent for a moment, as if in thought. 

Suddenly, throwing her hands in the air, Fiori yelled out my mission. Her high-pitched voice was cute but by the end of the speech, I was ready to tear my ears off. Basically, she wanted me to travel halfway across the world and back in two days to find a special type of coral that only grew in a specific spot, on the other side of the world. 

I made an indigent face to the proposal, trying to make it seem like a hard task, but really I would be left with a ton of free time to go see the girls and explore before I got back, hehe. Still, I had to play this off as worried and unsure to let her feel supreme over me. I would let it slide for now, but in three days, I would be the one doing the sliding in her! Bad joke, but I wasn't kidding, I was gonna pound the shit out of this angry little sexy fish woman when I got back!

"Fine, but I have no idea what the stuff looks like so I want to take one of your guards with me, the same one that brought me up to see you at the door there will do because I am just some lowly commoner with no knowledge of your fine and humble world! Please, see it within your power to grant me this one request!"

Honestly, I just wanted to take Tanaak with me so I could drill him about Fiori and the other things going on. Like the attacks on the Xenophin Hyrdoglobe cities and what the Unlife were doing. I wasn't sure what she was going to say, but she took her sweet time saying it; I think Fiori had a flair for being dramatic whenever possible.

While I waited, I was pondering another thing; the council members had been very quiet this entire time, not saying one word. It was kind of weird and it was making me think of a bunch more questions I needed to ask. Maybe it was because they underestimated me like Fiori did? Who knows, and it wasn't a problem to waste brainpower on right now, and then suddenly, like she was on cue and waited for the moment in my thoughts somehow to startle the shit out of me, making me jump in surprise.

"FINE, TWO DAYS!"

Then she hopped off her throne and bent her knee, then releasing like a coiled spring up and into a large hole in the roof of the room. Part of me wants to follow her and go paddle her ass for startling me, but I settled with getting back into Diamond and headed out of the room with Tanaak in behind me. Luckily he was a lot nicer than his little witch of a queen, and we left the room and started down the hallway.

Once we dropped a level, I stopped and turned on Tanaak who was the one following me this time. 

"So, once we are outside I want you to tell me about some things, but for now, what's up with the council members? Should that have been trying to insult me and make me look bad in front of Fiori?"

"No, they have learned her temper and know when and when not to push. To them, you are just as Fiori says, a commoner, no one because they are blind and can not see you are greater than them all. They think this task is an impossible one, and they are not wrong. There is no way we can make it to the spot in time and back!"

"Haha, don't worry about that, if that's the reason those idiots were being quiet, then I was right, and this will make it all a lot easier!"

"Are you not listening to me? It will take four days for us to reach there!"

"Listen, Tanaak, I'm not normal, at all, not even a little bit. So, just trust me, plus we have to go visit some people after and we are all going to have a nice long talk."

Tanaak looked like he wanted to say something, but I put up my hand and gestured for the door. He took the hint and let out a big bubbly sign, turning to lead the way. See, this was better, I lied to him to calm him down, and now we would make it out of the city away before I told Tanaak what my plan was. I was actually excited to see if a shark man could have a kitten, but even if she couldn't, he would soon, hehe!

When we finally got outside, there was no sign of the bodies I had killed, and no part of me wanted to know where those went. Did they eat their own kind? Who would you ask? I thought of other stupid ideas on what could have happened to them, and soon we were far enough that you could barely see all the purple lights, so I stopped Tanaak, and got him to turn around and face me.

"Hey, so, about those questions I wanted to ask, first off what's up with the Xenophin attacks?"

"That is just the king's jealous legacy being carried on by the council."

"So Fiori has nothing to do with it?"

"She doesn't know; the council keeps her trapped up there like a caged animal, but hey answer her every wish and play her games to keep her entertained and blind."

"Then how do you feel about them, the Xenophin, I mean?"

"I have no problem with them, and most of the people feel the same way, but the king before was a jealous man, and now the council has taken his approach as well. You will need to convince the princess of what is going on because that is when the council will start to argue with you, and you will have to win to impress her."

Win hey? I could do that. In fact, I was pretty good at it!

"Don't sweat it, we have to make a quick pit stop to go see my ladies, so I am going to get bigger, and then you are going to hold on to something on my back. Make sure you use all four legs and hold on as tight as you can and stay as tight to my back as we travel."

Diamond started to change into his larger form, and Tanaak hopped onto my back after I finished changing into the two-story version of Diamonds. Okay time to go, I checked on my time, and we had lots of time, so I asked Alta to set a course and set it on me to autopilot the Hydroglobe that the girls were landing at. I turned my speaker up and asked about the unlife.

According to him, they were building something strange, and he didn't know how to put the things into words, other than giant massive beads on a net. The whole thing sounded like trouble, and I would have to deal with that as well. Maybe I wouldn't have to do everything on my list. If I can convince Fiori to stop the fight, then I could easily deal

with the Unlife.

"You think you can just deal with them?! These are unliving monsters seeking to destroy our planet, and you're just going to DEAL WITH THEM!?"

I could hear his frustration through his words, and I just chuckled to myself; everyone called me stupid, but here go more people trying to set the bar a little higher, hehe!