Chapter 316 Days 116 - 119
Day 116
The day started off with a general assembly. Everyone presented themselves, lined up in rows of their races, with their leaders standing before . Reiman explained everything to them and so we assigned duties to them all.
The cyclopes intended to stay close to the Northern border of the West, making them virtually close to ho, but after hearing the explanation to build a city in here, they decided there was no point. Diane and dryads weren’t happy to hear about wanting to build a city here, so it took a bit of convincing to make her agree.
The cyclopes would be in charge of clearing the trees and altering the ground. The kobolds were in charge of transportation of any necessary resources like water and food for the cyclopes. It was unfortunate, but given how weak they were, they would have to act as errand boys for the labourers.
The new ogres and oni were also assigned to do the sa job as the cyclopes. I wasn’t going to allow those lazy bastards to get everything easily. Of course, so of the stronger ones were put on guard duty in various sectors around the West. The wolves and panthers were the main guard force surrounding Larm as their aesthetics fit the perception of ‘Wild Monsters’ more than ogres and oni in armour.
The orcs on the other hand had nothing to do for the day and would only start their share of the work once the ground-levelling was done.
Shockingly, Yokino and her bug group actually made an appearance. For obvious reasons, she didn’t bring the entirety of her forces, but she was present now and was glaring at throughout the entire event. I ignored her and focused on the remaining tasks.
You might be wondering why I’m already clearing the land without even having a plan. Well I had a plan!
Reiman had already co up with a blueprint for the city overnight. I was beyond shocked, but with the help of the agent, I added my own unique touches to the city to make it feel a bit comfortable for personally.
Personally, I wasn’t busy that day so I just spent it on mundane things like talking to Ulva, or testing how strong she’d gotten. Normally, I’d have the other s to converse with, but those guys were super busy inside . And newer s lacked any personality whatsoever. It’s like a personality kill-switch had been flicked after Hyakkun.
Speaking of Hyakkun, none of us could find him. I was starting to wonder if [Greed] had anything to do with it. Unfortunately, the skill couldn’t converse with , so I just had to accept that Hyakkun was gone for now. Maybe he’d return to us.
Later that night, we had dinner as usual, except this ti Rulis and Neburis were invited. I honestly expected them to reject the offer and take dinner in their rooms, but they were probably trying to not seem rude.
The guys were sceptical of the duo, and that dinner was possibly the most uncomfortable I’d been in a while. We ate in silence and the day passed by.
Day 117
Ugh. I’d completely forgotten that we were supposed to hold a eting in a couple of days with all of Larm’s leaders. I looked to Reiman, and apparently, he’d already sent out a ssage to all the leaders and was organising the venue.
The only problem was getting everyone to be able to attend in seven days. Larm was a massive place. Travel within a single portion of Larm alone could take up to 7 days, that is if you were travelling hindered by the monsters. Using shortcuts you could greatly reduce this ti, however that was within a single quadrant alone. Travel from one quadrant to the other takes a lot of ti.
Even for , the last ti I travelled to the South, I was fortunate both my escort and ride was Shiroi. From the beginning she was one of the fastest and strongest, giving us an advantage. With her being a native, travel was fast and fortunately, our destination itself was already close to the border. Several factors lead to our journey being shorter than a week.
I couldn’t say the sa for those living on the outermost parts of Larm. It would take them quite a bit to get to the West. Teleportating to their locations was easy enough and I felt it was the best option, but Reiman reminded of creatures like the Marsh Rusalkies that couldn’t leave their marshes. There were other creatures that were most likely unwilling to leave their places unless I, maybe forced them.
It wasn’t a part of my intention to command everyone with force. That could create resentnt towards , which in a roundabout way could lead to our downfall. In that case, we had to devise a ans to project the eting to them.
For the South, we could easily use the mist like we did the last ti. I doubted we could reproduce the sa effect as efficiently in the other quadrants. After all, the communication technology of this world sort of wasn’t the best. Letters were the main form of long-distance communication and those took weeks to be sent between countries. For common folk it could range from one to 3 months.
This was besides the fact that the creatures in Larm didn’t use letters. Communication here was in person, aning ssengers had to run about. Magic could be used, but given how complicated magic was in itself, doing sothing as trivial as sending a ssage was unnecessarily complex and tireso, aning most people didn’t learn how to do that.
Maybe Yuuna, Tsuna and Kara could do it, but that would take a lot of preparation to instantly send a ssage to a different location. However, doing sothing like that required a key component which was [Spatial Magic]. Apparently, this was the hardest to master out of all the magics, even if you had an affinity for it. I an, it was easy to because of the agent, but most people couldn’t perform the complicated equations and spells nearly as fast as I did, so spatial magic was a no-no.
It'd been reduced to simple party tricks like creating platforms to walk on or even to store so items. Advanced spells like teleportation required a lot of ti to actually build up since the person had to factor in the logistics of where they were going, the issues of quantum displacent and the mostly uncontrollable mass of mana that appears whenever a portal appears. However, so people found a loophole through using beacons as lightning rods.
The teleportation would end them up at the location of these lightning rods. These lightning rods were mana signatures that the users were familiar with. Unfortunately, not just anybody could do this.
This was why [Space Mages] were a high value commodity. That made [Teleportation rings] and equally high value commodity that was hard to acquire. Which was testant to just how powerful the ‘Sub-Circle’ was.
All this to say that as of this date, there was no efficient ans to have an online press conference with the leaders. The world’s level of technology was too low for sothing like that to exist and even then, the closest thing they had were projection stones.
[Projection Stones] were devices that recorded magical signatures in the environnt and converted them into perceptible particles of light, giving the users a sowhat accurate in-real-ti view of what was happening or a recording.
Unfortunately, these couldn’t transmit sound. Soone had to write what was said, show it to those on the other end, then continue from there. Or if so were good with lip-reading, the conversation could happen much more smoothly.
This was where the agent and Akkun ca into play!
Combining their forces, both had co up with a solution to this problem by simply teleporting both light and sound. I didn’t get the complicated bits of it whatsoever, but they basically used the [Projection Stones] as a basis for the light and worked in a way to send sound using quantum displacent.
In case you were wondering, quantum displacent here was the randomised rearrangent of particles entering through a portal. Using this, they were both confident in their ability to rearrange the mana particles we unconsciously gave off as we spoke to convert it to actual sound. Or at the very least, make it so these particles could reach the target audience and so sort of automatic translation in the sub-conscious would happen.
See? Complicated nonsense!
I quietly ignored them to let them geek out and figure out whatever the hell they were doing. I told Reiman to tell them that not all of them needed to be physically present and that I would have a solution soon.
The day flew by quickly afterwards. The cyclopes still weren’t done levelling up the required space and the orcs were put on set-up duty for the conference.
That night, we had an awkward dinner once more. Shitsuke tried to make small talk with Neburis, but she completely shut him down, clearly uninterested in a conversation with a monster. Ruli- Maya, on the other hand tried to keep the peace, definitely scared that I’d kick them out for rudeness. I found the entire scene comical.
Day 118
This morning I found Maou spying on from a relatively safe distance. Sohow, he’d noticed that I had questions for him and was avoiding . I managed to sneak up on him and interrogate him on the matters concerning the shadow demons.
He claid he had nothing to do with that and that rather, they suddenly stopped listening to him. I asked one of my shadow generals in front of him and to my surprise, Maou was telling the truth. According to the shadow general, there was sothing akin to a civil war happening in the Realm of Eternal Darkness, where they were from.
My patron goddess was currently battling against another god that governs the sa realm that she did. Realm in this case being her elent.
Basically, there were multiple gods of one elent. However, there was one major honcho of these gods and would be known as the Great God of that elent. Or in so case, the Primordial God of that.
Zatana was an ancient god. I didn’t know where she ranked in the hierarchy of gods as these didn’t even exist in the god rankings. According to the agent, the rankings for the gods were as follows: Primordial, Great God, Lesser God/Demi-god, in descending order.
She very well sat at any of these positions for all I knew, but from the sounds of things, her opponent wasn’t particularly easy to beat. The shadow generals couldn’t give more information beyond that. I just had to take it as fact.
Maou, happy that I didn’t find him guilty of doing that, still acted suspicious. I wasn’t sure what he’d done, but it definitely couldn’t be as bad as interfering with a war. I asked him, but he didn’t spill. It ca down to Julian to snitch and the butler wasted no ti.
I’d never felt so wrong in my entire life.
As bad as interfering with a war? This guy practically just set off a nuclear warhead!
He told Zana I had gotten myself a new wife and that I was forgetting about her. What’s more, after hearing this, Zana wanted to co charging to the West, but other duties kept her in the South.
I suddenly felt scared and confused. Zana wasn’t my wife, so I’d never cheated on her. This brat just created drama out of nothing and was laughing at . Maybe it was ti to take up the rod.
That evening, Rulis was the only one present for dinner. Neburis was nowhere to be found and I couldn’t sense her sneaking about the forest, aning she had left the forest entirely. Gently, I asked Rulis where she’d gone and she wasn’t really sure. This wasn’t the first ti Neburis just disappeared without notice and it wasn’t going to be the last. Rulis had co to accept that, so there was no point overthinking things.
But just in case, the next ti she ca back, I’d sneak a shadow on her to make sure she wasn’t spilling our secrets sowhere.
Day 119
First thing in the morning, I teleported to the South to talk to Zana. She’d been in a bad mood and that was showing through her fog that turned into smoke, making it hard to breathe. Fortunately, most of the south guys lived in water, but those that didn’t were definitely in a lot of trouble.
Zana was sulking in her room, pouting while being comforted by her assistant. Outside her little cave, the lizardman chief was begging for her to turn the fog back to normal.
She whined about like a brat for a bit and asked about Kara and if she was actually pregnant with my kid and stuff. I answered honestly and she looked at with wanting eyes. I perfectly understood what she ant by that, but there was nothing I could do to help her here.
The whole thing with Kara was a total fluke. Sothing I definitely didn’t intend on letting happen again. I an, if I could… I would. Like, of course I totally want to experience it again, but… the only way to do that is to magically reacquire whatever it was Kaleb Zen used on and that wasn’t happening anyti soon.
‘Is there a way to repeat that whole event?’, Curiously, I threw the question to the agent.
Having heard that, I was left stunned. Maybe, just maybe, I could get my johnson back.
Figures.
I went back to the West to check up on everything else. Kara called out to and it turns out her stomach was growing bigger. She wanted to talk to it…
Personally, I saw no need to do that, but Kara was probably going to be dejected if I didn’t do it. I ended up saying so weird and cringey things to the stomach, then ran away almost imdiately. I waited purposefully for Neburis to return by dinner, but she hadn’t. I was getting sowhat anxious, but everyone had lives to live. Hopefully, their lives weren’t going to intrude on mine. Because if they did, I wouldn’t hesitate to end theirs. The only person who’s happiness mattered was .
I spent that evening with Zana.
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