I stood before one thousand resurrected people. After finishing the first batch, I noticed I had way more Cores than I thought. That allowed to bring even more people with high HP pools back. anwhile, Rhenius crossed the ice with the Duke to make the surviving soldiers surrender. I had a budding headache from burning over a hundred million Energy. But this many people was a godsend as far as the {Wellspring} was concerned. In the few hours since we returned with the Duke, I recovered my full Energy pool and was back to eroding the random disability curse.
After Rhenius returned with the officers representing the rest of Acacius' expedition, I made my speech. Rhenius was on my left side, Duke Cadrel, and then Callisto. On my left the table with the two cloth golems.
"All of you pledged your new lives to . Now let tell you what is going to happen. You are going back ho then we are going to put prince Rhenius here on the throne. You will serve Rhenius in whatever capacity you are talented with. The first task is to make sure we have working ships to bring everyone back to the mainland. I make this a Quest for you."
I paid the Exp cost and relished the amazing faces they did.
"You can make quests?" Rhenius whispered as he asked .
I winked, "{Grandmaster Royal Order}. Work hard, prince. You gotta grind those Skill levels."
The ressurrectees went over the ships like a swarm of army ants. Marlowe and Sumsar went underwater to hunt monsters. I needed more low-level Cores. I also needed to butcher the thousands of creatures in my item box. The contracted mages took ten percent of my Exp but anything they killed was considered my kill.
On my side, I sent a ssenger bird to let Queen Eathelin know what I was up to. I also collected all the other ships and bodies, including the fused barge.
By the ti the sun rose in the east, we had everything ready to depart, except for the lack of provisions and the ice. I issued another mass Quest for the sailors, to bring the fleet back to dry land. With everything ready, we set sail.
It was uneventful. I filled my Energy pool and reactivated {Erode Curse}. It was sitting at a glorious 3.6%. I shoved it aside as a problem my future incarnation would have to deal with. My resource regeneration wasn't going to improve anyti soon as I was living on borrowed ti.
With everything in place, I got out of my cabin and looked for the [Prince]. I found him at the captain's quarters of the flagship. The room that belonged to his dead brother. As I approached, a knight standing guard next to the door knocked on it.
"Sire, Her Highness Arista is here."
"Let her in," ca Rhenius' voice from inside. As I entered, he was reading so docunts. "Please, sit. What can I do for you?"
I got comfortable on an armchair next to his desk. I saw a nautical map of the "Scorched Continent" coastline on the desk and took it, committing it to mory through my [Cartographer] profession.
"That secret vault your father keeps my family's ntos. Where is it?" I asked seriously.
"We'll get there in ti," he answered.
I closed my eyes, lowered my head, and sucked in a deep breath. After I exhaled, I t his eyes, trying to convey how serious the issue was.
"I won't risk damage to the vault contents during the fight. I'm going there now to take what's mine. And be glad I won't take your Kingdom, as I am the rightful heir of Ackerton. Also, be glad I intend to get in and out without being seen. Or having to kill anyone."
"There are several treasures there unrelated to--"
I slamd the desk, causing an inkwell to jump up and bounce off and down to the ground where it broke and splattered ink on everything. Rhenius quickly lifted a stack of docunts to stop them from getting splashed.
"Please be mindful of whom you talk to. If you don't want to tell where it is, I'll just go and take everything. You have no idea, Rhenius," I trembled and shook my head. "Do you want to know what triggers , what drives to kill gods?"
"Enlighten ," he hissed. The prince was pissed more because the knights outside were listening to everything.
"Family. Hurt my family or anything related to it, and kingdoms vanish. Gods die. Damn, your brother died because he insulted a girl that resembled my niece!"
He didn't reply.
"And slavery. A century ago I wiped out the Church of Bundeus from the Auvanini continent because they were using slavery to increase His amount of faith. I still have a few temples in my item box. I can think of so castles to drop them over."
Rhenius dropped the stack of docunts on the other side of the desk and leaned to assess the damage caused by the broken inkwell. Who doesn't nail their inkwells to the desk on a ship?!?
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"Second basent of the castle. I would like if you kept the treasury intact."
I stood and cracked my neck. Doing the best Batman impression a girl could do, I growled, "Should've cooperated from the start."
I shape-shifted into the needle-tail and took wing, going first intangible to go through the walls and then invisible.
An hour later I saw the first landmarks of the continent. I oriented myself and banked south-east. Another hour following the contours of the coast and I saw familiar landmarks. The cove where I fought against the [Dread Pirate] Ninefingers, my brother. I turned inland and flew in a beeline toward the capital of Virturia.
The city grew in the last several centuries. The farm where the Master had his secret training facility had been swallowed by the budding tropolis. The wattle-and-daub buildings beca stone and a shining palace stood on the tallest hill.
I landed on a tall tower near the castle and brought Marlowe out of the storage.
"They are good, I worked on so of them. I assu you are going to the Royal Vaults."
I told the [Archmage] doll.
I sent him to storage and beca intangible and invisible as I ran down the stairs, past the recovering knights and through the portcullis, gate and all. I'd reached the secret vault and discovered the reason it was so well protected.
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