Chapter 298 - The Silvaria Family

Kaiser had also noticed Serilla in the distance, he was just about to rush over to her side, but suddenly stopped when he noticed a familiar pressure envelop the air.

"Weapon Intent?!"

Serilla had gotten into a stance for her Divider and Kaiser widened his eyes in surprise at the familiar sword stance.

"DIE!"

Serilla disappeared in the next instant and appeared a distance away, the weapon intent that was pressuring everyone earlier had disappeared, but before the enemy soldiers could move, the ground under them exploded and the air that Serilla had flashed through was bombarded by exploding Sword Intent.

The technique that Serilla had just used had depleted most of her Ki so she used what little she had to retreat to Lucia and Quinn.

When she arrived back to where Lucia was using Supersonic, Serilla immediately began to cough up blood before she directly fainted. Her body began bleeding once she fell onto the ground. Her last Supersonic had dealt direct repercussions to her body and the constant use of her big techniques had also caused a backlash to her body.

"SERI!"

"MADAM!"

Quinn immediately rushed forwards, but another person had arrived next to Serilla before he could.

Anastasia pressed onto a few of Serilla's pressure points which immediately stopped her hacking and bleeding. "I've stopped her bleeding, but her bodies in bad shape..."

"Dammit..." Quinn punched the ground and immediately helped Serilla up. Lucia had wobbled over and she helped Quinn.

"You, the butler, go get your wagon ready, I'll help this little lady~" Anastasia commanded. Quinn was immediately startled, but hearing the authority and forcefulness behind the small woman's voice, Quinn involuntarily complied with her orders.

"Y-yes, Madam..."

"Alright, up we go~"

Lucia only stared at Anastasia in puzzlement. This woman was so nice to them even though they had only just met.

"Th-thank you..."

"No worries dear~ I should blame my son for putting you both in this situation, sheesh, he should at least be here when his wives are in trouble! What a troublesome child~"

"S-son? Wait... are you Cel's mother?!"

"We'll talk about this later dear~ you all seem so exhausted, so we'll have you rest up in our residence before we talk again~"

"Y-yes...t-thank you!"

"No need for thanks dear, this is what family should do~"

Quinn had already finished preparing the wagon and he compromised this time by letting all the injured onto the wagon. Many were surprised when they saw the interior of the wagon, but it wasn't time for that so they all found a place inside the 'house' to place the injured.

"How homely~" Anastasia commented when they got inside. They moved Serilla to the bedroom and let her rest, once the last of the injured were place inside the wagon, Quinn immediately drove the wagon in the direction which Matheus was guiding him to.

Angelia was inside the wagon as well and was healing all the injured soldiers before finally moving on to heal Serilla.

The other soldiers had much lighter wounds so she quickly dealt with them first, but Serilla's injuries were internal and external so it was naturally going to take much longer.

Inside the bedroom, Fatima was helping Lucia bandage her arm, while Angelia had half of her focus on healing Serilla and the other half on Lucia. She had a belly full of questions that she couldn't wait to ask.

"Thanks, big sis Fatima... I'm guessing that the people who came earlier are your family's people?"

"You mean 'our' family's people," Fatima corrected.

"Eh? Ahaha, yes... our family..." Lucia replied with a strained laugh before she started coughing. "Ugh... this is so embarrassing...I can't use mana so I showed such a poor performance in front of my in-laws..."

Fatima chuckled and patted Lucia's head. "Don't worry about that. Just rest, for now, we've been through a lot so we deserve this hard-earned rest..."

"Okay...you should rest too big sis..."

"Yeah, I will."

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Kaiser and everyone was able to quickly dispatch the remaining forces of the pursuing Merkruz army, but bad news immediately reached his ears from one of his people stationed within the Sky Piercing Mountain Pass that led to their kingdom.

The Merkruz Main Army was heading straight for their kingdom, they had somehow found the right passage and were cleverly avoiding all the monsters in the path and inching closer and closer to their kingdom.

It was a good thing that the mountain pass was situated at the back of the valley and they had already constructed a thick wall early on. It was the place where most monsters would come through to attack the valley so it was naturally one of the first places that the Silvaria Kingdom had erected a wall.

The wall was repeatedly upgraded and constantly under maintenance to improve its defense. A majority of the Silvaria Kingdom's cannons were located on this wall so it was the most heavily defended area.

Kaiser immediately began preparing his men and had sent out some to begin placing traps and mines in the areas in front of the gate and also on the path that the Merkruz Army would pass by to get to their valley.

He received reports that the Merkruz Army was at least 200 thousand strong and this was the number that the Merkruz Army had after Fatima had dealt them loss after loss in their war against Regulus.

The Silvaria Kingdom only had around 50 thousand trained soldiers and a few thousand trainees. There were many able-bodied men in the kingdom, but they weren't battle-ready and Kaiser naturally did not want to use them.

It would take around 2-3 days before the Merkruz forces came knocking on their walls, but Kaiser hoped to extend that by a few more days with the traps he had his men plant in the mountain pass.

Kaiser wanted to slow them down and at least take a hit on their numbers. 50 thousand against 200 thousand, Kaiser only saw a loss waiting for them no matter how he looked at it.

*******

A day later, Lucia and Serilla had fully recovered from their injuries thanks to Angelia and during their time together, Angelia was able to bond with the two women.

Angelia had constantly been questioning them about Cecil, but she was pleased to find out that her big brother Cel hadn't changed all that much. He had indeed matured but his basic nature hadn't changed all that much.

He was still the same caring, boring, and hardworking brother she knew. After finding out about her brother, Angelia immediately began asking more about the girls instead and she gave them her approval of being Cecil's wives after a lengthy conversation.

Angelia had hogged both the girls and kept her parents, siblings, and other family members from interacting with them. It wasn't until they had fully recovered that the Silvaria family was able to sit down and have a face-to-face talk with the two women.

Inside a room in the main mansion of the Silvaria Estate, Lucia and Serilla were sitting down on a couch with Angelia sitting in between them. Kaiser, who should have been arranging things on the frontlines, had taken time off to be at this important family meeting.

Sitting next to Kaiser was Anastasia while the grandparents were also next to them on the long couch, curiously observing the two beautiful, but nervous women.

Luca, Gabriel, and Matheus were also observing these two and couldn't help but nod in approval at their little brother's taste in woman. Luca who was the most outgoing naturally whispered to his brother, "Cecil's wives are gorgeous, do you think they'd happen to have any single friends that they could introduce to me?"

"Shut up Luca, you're embarrassing yourself."

"Hey, Matty, drop the act, I bet your just as vexed as I am! I mean look, Cecil married before any of us! We've just lost to him! Don't tell me your pride as a brother hadn't taken a hit from this?"

Matheus disdainfully eyed his brother and chose to remain silent. Luca turned to Gabriel, but his twin only replied with a yawn and a shrug. The laziest kid in the family didn't care.

Fatima and Rowan were naturally there as well and Rowan couldn't help but have a large sense of deja vu hit him. He had been put in a similar situation a long time ago and he couldn't help but feel a sense of camaraderie with the girls.

"So, before we continue, I think we should properly introduce ourselves!" Anastasia said with a clap of her hands as she broke the awkward atmosphere in the room.

"My name is Anastasia~ you both can call me mom since I'm your husband's mother~"

"O-Okay, it's nice to meet you, m-mom...I'm Lucia?!" Lucia responded nervously contrary to Serilla who had responded calmly.

"Nice to meet you mother, I'm Serilla, the second wife. My sister here is the first wife."

Lucia nodded nervously up and down at Serilla's words.

"So, Seri and...?"

"Lulu, you can call me Lulu, mother!"

"Umu, Lulu and Seri~ I honestly thought the order was the other way around~"

"Ahahaha, my husband met my sister before me, and I sort of barged in on them..."

"Oh my~ so it looks like our Cecil didn't want to lose either one of you~"

"A-Actually...he was a little indifferent..." Serilla nervously replied while playing with her fingers.

"Oh? Well, he is a little slow~"

"Ahahaha..."

Anastasia nudged her husband, but Kaiser was observing the two women before him seriously. He was able to notice that their bodies were athletically built so this meant that they had received some form of training.

He also noticed earlier while on the battlefield that Serilla and Lucia were both using his family's martial arts in battle, and it probably came from Cecil. He nodded in approval at these two girls before he introduced himself.

"I'm Kaiser Silvaria, you can both call me father or whatever. You both seem strong and have also trained in our family's martial arts. Was it my son who taught you both?"

"Y-yes, father! Cel taught me his martial arts during our travels! Most, if not all, of my sword techniques and battle styles use the Silvaria family's martial arts!" Lucia nervously reported.

Kaiser nodded at her before turning her attention to Serilla. He was intrigued by this wife because of the sword art that she had displayed on the battlefield. It was his family's Divider and she had used it with Sword Intent and had displayed a power much stronger than what was written inside her family's traditional manual.

"My martial arts are not as proficient as my sister since I've only recently started learning."

"I see, but you have Intent, don't you?"

"Y-Yes, yes I do..."

"Hmhmhm~ another genius like my son, he sure has chosen you well. Drop by the dojo sometime, I'll help sharpen your Intent."

"Y-Yes, father..." Serilla bowed her head in thanks.

"And Lucia," Kaiser said as he turned his attention back to Lucia.

"Yes, father?!"

"You just need a little more training. I can see that you have almost acquired your Intent so just keep working hard."

Lucia's eyes brightened and she immediately nodded happily, "Un!"

The rest of the family introduced themselves and everyone got to know each other better. Lucia and Serilla were able to quickly warm up to the family and soon they had begun talking about Lucia's adventures with Cecil back on Urrugdrasil.

The girls decided to be frank with their new family and told them about their origins.

"So you both are from Urrugdrasil, the next continent over?" Anastasia asked in surprise.

"Yes... we also know that none of you are humans of this world..." Lucia said in reply.

"I see...Cecil told you all about us then."

"Yes, he wouldn't hide anything from us since we're his wives," Serilla answered.

"Also...we're not humans..."

"Eh?"

Lucia snapped her fingers and dispelled her transformation magic on herself and Serilla.

Everyone in the room, including Quinn, was surprised to see Lucia and Serilla's forms.

"Oh my goodness, how adorable!" Anastasia exclaimed when she saw Lucia and Serilla's beastkin features. She wasn't appalled to see Lucia and Serilla's fox and rabbit ears. Anastasia was instead pleasantly surprised at this development.

Kaiser only stared at them curiously, but there was no disgust or aversion in his eyes. The same went with everyone else in the family. Angelia was especially intrigued and she couldn't help but squeal in delight when she was permitted to touch Serilla's bunny ears.

"Wow~ my two new big sisters are so pretty~!" Angelia exclaimed delightfully.