Chapter 145: Royalty – Part 1

Chapter 145: Royalty – Part 1

Hana kisses the tip of my cock with her luscious lips, then licks it as a small drop of precum seeps out. Her strong, lubed fingers grip my shaft tightly as they slide up and down, squeezing the pink mushroom head as they move past it, which causes a jolt of pleasure to run up my spine and another drop of precum to escape.

As the pleasure builds up, my fondling of Alissa's ears slows down, and I melt in my seat as my balls announce a big one coming out. Hana promptly swallows me whole until her lips kiss the base, then I unleash a refreshing load down her throat as her yellow lizard eyes stare intensely at mine.

She pulls her head back as I cum, and she catches the last drop on her tongue, which she promptly shows to me, then spits into Yunia's mouth, the last one to receive the gift of my hallowed semen. Hana also gives her a deep tongue kiss, just for good measure, and I sense that the proud elf wants to be forced to submit to the stronger dragon woman, but more lewdness will have to wait until after dinner.

We rejoin the men in their training and spar with them. After the exercises that revealed the extent of our power, even the werefoxes show us renewed respect when talking to us. Only Yunia is actually comfortable with their attitude, but the rest of us still try to remain casual.

The same can't be said for our adventurer groupies, who seem to have become even more excited about being around us.

"How hard do you have to hold back to not just trample over me?" Lolo amusedly asks as she parries my wooden sword.

We have a few more exchanges as I think, and I notice that I have difficulty fighting against her one-on-one using only melee skills, which means that her skills are more or less the same level as mine, which is pretty good for her, actually.

So I give her a sober reply, "I wouldn't say I'm 'holding back.' This is training, and it makes no sense to just unleash all of my spells at my opponent every time we spar."

Thunder thighs smiles softly as she whips back with a stunningly fast riposte, almost catching me off-guard. It's pretty obvious that she's "Speed"-focused, but I'm not used to sparring against people like her since most of my opponents have been "Strength" and "Endurance" focused, which are what armies favor.

"Fine, I get that you want to be kind to me, but how easy do you think it would be to kill me?" She rephrases.

"Why do you ask such grim questions?" I cheekily deflect.

And she narrows her eyes. "Are you always this protective of your women?"

But my grin only becomes wider. "So, you consider yourself to be 'my woman'?"

She pouts, then suddenly lunges with blinding speed as she uses [Muscle Explosion], her sword aiming to poke my chest. I feel like just letting her hit me, but the dragon wrestles control over my body and diverts her blade with my free hand, then he makes me use [Rush] to grip her sword tight, my sharp claws digging deep grooves into the wood.

She tries to pull it free, but I have the leverage advantage here, so she releases her weapon as she jumps back to gain some distance from the rapidly approaching tip of my sword.

"You can do whatever you want with me, so I'm yours," she soberly confesses. Ciel looks around, but she doesn't find Nik-boy nearby, so I guess it's safe to assume that he didn't hear that.

I cast [Grow] on her sword and fix the grooves, then I throw it to her, and she snatches it from the air. "After the 14th, you can leave at any time, but you'll always retain ownership over yourself, no matter what you choose."

She glances at the Companions watching us, then grips her sword properly again and points it at me, her face still serious and focused on our battle. I wait for her to reply, but she just strikes again, continuing our sparring match.

So I calmly add, "Why did you ask me that question?"

The bunny girl attempts another quick strike, but I deflect it with my free hand again, which seems to annoy her.

"I feel weak, compared to you," she gives me another confession after casually parrying my riposte. Ironically, I'm starting to believe that "Speed"-focused opponents are more annoying than those that are "Dexterity" or "Strength"-focused.

Anyway, her mood seems completely at odds with her other three adventurer comrades, who are having fun competing with Alissa and Hana in archery. I guess Lolo is feeling inadequate, believing herself to be nothing more than a sex doll that can't even be useful or protect the people that she respects so much.

I take a step back from the sparring and reply, "I find this tendency that people have to compare themselves with me or my wives to be very silly, really. God-Rulers don't exist, nobody is invulnerable, and no humanoid rules alone."

She readjusts her tied-up floppy ears to hear better. "God-Rulers?"

"It's what kings used to call themselves before the first emperor."

She knits her brown eyebrows confusedly as she thinks. "So, someone like you would be a God-Ruler before the Empire?"

And I gently shake my head. "No, I'm barely strong enough to be considered the child of one." Then I step forward again and lightly re-engage with her.

She slows down her counterattacks as she reflects on my words, so I slip past her guard and tap her luscious thunder thighs as I grin suggestively at her. She gives me a brief, wry smile as she catches my meaning, but then she quickly returns to being serious again.

"'No humanoid rules alone' is quite the saying," she finally replies.

I shrug. "I didn't come up with it."

"Hm..." She hums thoughtfully and goes for another quick strike that I parry, but then she quickly follows up with a spin of her wrist that's so fast that her sword bats mine away, opening me up for a stab.

I use [Muscle Explosion] along with my thick tail to lunge forward, then I grab both of her arms as she stabs my chest and pull her into a bear hug. In this position, my chin ends up right against her bra, and though she doesn't have enough cleavage for me to motorboat, I still enjoy this situation as she looks down at me in surprise.

I unleash my [Sexual Charm] at her and stare intensely into her eyes as I whisper huskily, "To answer your previous question, I could kill you in the blink of an eye, but a Companion will never face a Lord unless it's to save us from certain death. The Companions will follow the Ryders into every battle, but we also expect them to always return with us."

She doesn't immediately reply, so I kiss her exposed chest, causing a visible chill to run up her spine, then I release her and start walking out of the sparring arena.

"I-I didn't mean it like that..." She hesitantly replies, then blushes as she notices the teasing stares of the observers.

After Yunia and I wash each other, we enter the bath together, then we sink into the water, and she rests her head against my chest. I promptly delight myself in playing with her elastic ears as Alissa is too busy being molested by Edjo while Laguly watches with eager eyes, too shy to barge in on their fun, but Hana and Roxanne will make a move on the young Siren girl as soon as they've finished washing.

The Companions are here too, but they're mostly talking amongst themselves right now, still excited about their recent skill ups, and that allows the wives and I to have a small moment to ourselves.

"What are we going to do after we return home?" My elven Queen whispers wistfully and starts stroking my hard cock underwater.

"Laze about for a few days? Fuck a lot more than we already do?" I wryly reply and fondle her perky tits a few times, making her mildly aroused. Then I return to playing with her ears.

And she absentmindedly replies, "Resting for a few days might actually be a good idea. I'm starting to get tired of all of this... imperial unpleasantness."

"Just starting?" Ciel questions in disbelief while patting Lina's head, who's currently motorboating her tits just like how I love to.

I snort and point out, "Our Subordinate Lords back home aren't any better than the imperials."

"They certainly aren't plotting to have us killed... at least not in a timely manner," Yunia retorts with a rather bitter smile.

I hug her with my arms and tail and kiss the top of her head, both of which she finds to be very comforting. Then I decide to move the topic onto greener pastures, "Well... I'm looking forward to having enough time to study magic and develop our Institute."

"The reports coming from Escanso make me excited about the future of the Health Ministry," Ciel happily chimes in.

"I feel like the idea resonates with me, so I think I should help," Yunia thoughtfully adds.

And Ciel nods excitedly. "Yes, that'd be great!"

I make some baby golems, and I rethink my approach on how to modify their brains. I've been trying to apply Earthling knowledge to this, but a brain is basically a messy and chaotic pool of neurons randomly but also not quite that randomly connected to each other. Trying to do this manually is a huge task, so maybe I could just... I don't know, let the [Golemancy] skill do its thing?

At Rabanara's Magic University, I learned the theory of electricity before I learned [Electric Magic], so understanding the theory of how the brain works is the first step. I also know how spells are structured, though I can't explain in detail the path that a particle of mana takes to create a [Lightning Bolt] or even how to use the "Stats" to calculate how much mana is required to create a certain level of voltage with the spell, so I don't really need to sweat the small stuff.

Also, visualization is something that the professors really stressed, so I guess I need to visualize the kind of golem I want. The problem is that "a golem with amnesia" is a lot more abstract than "a bolt of lightning."

So I just mess with some things at random with [Infuse] and create a few brain-damaged golems, but I wasn't expecting instant progress, so this is fine.

Lunch is delayed for an hour as we wait for our newest guests. The Princesses were already in Mac Gantus; it's just that their men were still traveling from Faium, so the royals waited until their soldiers had arrived before making their extravagant entrance.

Leading the parade are the shiny, plated knights mounted on Rontis with equally shiny but rather light-looking barding. They're carrying two different designs of swallowtail flags with royal imperial heraldry: a white mountain in a blue field, with the Sun Man's sun above, and a black roaring bear in a yellow field, also with the Sun Man's sun above it.

The heraldry of their flags comes from their mothers, the empresses, while the sun symbol means that they're imperial royalty. The swallowtail means that they're a secondary house, which is a rare thing outside of the Imperial Princes and Princesses.

One day, our children might fly flags designed like these, but instead of the Sun Man's sun, it'll be my horns above the main symbol.

Back to the parade, behind the horsemen trotting in sync, comes a dozen horsemen wearing ornate armor, probably the personal bodyguards of the royals, and following them are the open carriages with the Princesses and their two allied Lords.

Sa'Haa is wearing a black feather dress like a perfect Disney villain; Urmeie is wearing jeweled and even more ornate, bulky armor; Decien Omari is wearing a nice black velvet suit, the standard for imperials; and Centum Mako is wearing a simple gray robe, which is as expected of the ascetic man.

And at the end of the column comes six large carriages with servants and other High Officers or High Court Mages.

The open carriage stops right before us, and we begin the pleasantries.

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