The Accidental Necromancer Successful Swimsuit

Valeria looked considerably less credulous. “Can you show us the spot where you fought the zombie?” she asked.

I shook my head. “It’s a pretty long journey,” I said. “And it was weeks ago. I haven’t seen anything like it since.”

“We should go check it out,” Talos said.

“But the divination pointed us to this area,” Valeria said. “Not the eastern edge.”

“Look,” Talos said. “How can you not believe a pretty face like that?”

My seductress passives were working. Valeria frowned and looked at . I tried to look my prettiest and most innocent. Naturally, that ant my horns itched. Hopefully they were still well hidden by my hair. “I still want to look inside that tomb,” she said. “It’s the logical place, and it’s right here.”

“No,” I said. “Not without a warrant.”

“A warrant?” asked Valeria.

“A custom, where I co from. Never mind.”

“And where do you co from, exactly?” Valeria asked.

Ooops. “Boston. Have you heard of it?”

“No.”

I shrugged. “It’s a big world.” And not this one.

“What are you hiding?”

A dick, I thought. But she probably ant inside the crypt. “Nothing that concerns you.”

I didn’t want to fight these people. One, because I wasn’t sure I would win. But two, and equally importantly, they weren’t bad guys. They were looking for an evil necromancer, which was reasonable. Their divination might have been triggered by Enash’s awakening, not by anything I’d done.

“Co on,” Talos said, tugging at Valeria’s arm. “Let’s go check out the zombie, and see if we can pick up the trail there.”

Valeria hesitated. “Can you give us better directions?” she said at last.

I wanted them far away, and I hadn’t been in the part of the forest I was talking about. But Xyla had drawn a rough map, so I did the sa in the dirt, drawing the outline of the forest, and then a Z at the eastern edge.

There had to be a better way of dealing with this, I just didn’t know what it was.

Eventually, they trudged off into the forest. The mont they were gone, Xyla stepped out of one of the oak trees. Not from between them, but right from the middle. I’d seen her do it before, but it was still unnerving.

Her leaves covered even less of her than the swimsuit had covered of . Barely. She ran forward, hugged , and kissed . “I heard about them, and I ca as fast as I could,” she said. “But I thought it best not to reveal my presence.”

“It’s nice to see you.”

“What was that about a zombie?” she asked.

“I made it up.” I explained to her that I was trying to get rid of them, because I didn’t want them talking to the trolls.

“If they try to kill you,” Xyla said. “I will show no rcy.”

“Hmm. I’m going to try very hard not to be killed. At worst case, I can just disappear for a bit.”

“They’ll try to get in the crypt. And then they’ll find the gate.”

“Good point,” I said. I sighed. “So now what? At best, I’ve bought us so ti, but when they find nothing, they’ll be back. And they may be back before then. I don’t think Valeria believed at all, and I’m not sure Talos did. I think it’s fairly likely he just pretended to so that they could go sowhere and talk about it. Like we’re doing now, I suppose.”

“I can bind them up with my vines,” Xyla said.

“Sure. And then?”

She was silent for a mont. “Um, yeah. Maybe they like that sort of thing? All tied up, at the rcy of two beautiful girls? We could make out in front of them and make them all riled up.”

“Sexy, if consensual, but not a long term solution.”

The long term solutions are kill them and turn them into zombies, or seduce them and give them a futanari necromancer fetish. Or you could seduce one and turn the other into a zombie, I suppose. Or give one a zombie fetish!

“Maybe they’ll hurt the forest,” Xyla said.

“Maybe, although I got the feeling that – well, maybe. What’s your point?”

“Well, then I could strangle them in their sleep, and it would be justice.”

Sotis I really like the way that girl thinks. There’s your answer. Charm one of them to start cutting trees. Sell the logs to the trolls, green tits will take care of the paladins, and you can feel you didn’t do anything wrong. Everyone wins.

I supposed it was progress that Enash was at least trying to work within so sort of frawork of ethics. I wished for a mont that I could get him to read Immanuel Kant or sothing. But the only way I could do that was by reading Kant myself. Once was enough. Besides, even if Enash understood an ethical system, he’d probably regard it the way a power gar sees a ga system – he’d look for the exploits.

“Capturing is fine, but no strangling,” I said.

Xyla pouted. “Even if they hurt the trees?”

“I’m not saying we can’t punish them for that, but we can’t just kill them.”

Xyla crossed her arms in front of her and looked at with that “you’re no fun” look. However, the action had the effect of making a shelf for her boobs and pushing them up and out, so I was a bit distracted.

Well, two could play that ga. “Oh, before they ca, I was lounging on the chairs in my new swimsuit,” I told her. “Want to see?”

“Swimsuit?” she asked.

“Clothing worn for swimming,” I explained.

“Why would you wear clothing for swimming?”

“Good point, well made. It’s an Earth thing.” I pulled my top over my head, and had her attention where I wanted it.

“It’s just two triangles and so straps,” she said.

I pulled off the jeans. “Three triangles,” I corrected.

Xyla grinned. “This is your best outfit yet.”

“I thought you might like it,” I said. I plopped myself in the chair. “So I was lounging, like this.” It hadn’t been quite like that, because I didn’t bother reading a book, and I arched my back a little to push out my chest, and between looking at Xyla, and trying to be seductive, my cock had started to peek out of the top of the lowest triangle.

Xyla jumped on . Swimsuits were like lingerie, I supposed. The more successful they were, the less ti they stayed on.

After we made love, Xyla had forest things to do, and I would just slow her down. The idea of lounging around out front didn’t seem as appealing with paladins roaming the woods.

If I’d imagined a world where paladins were hunting evil necromancers, I would have assud that I’d have said, “how can I help?” Instead, I was starting to regard them as pests. Although Valeria had been pretty hot. Objectively, Talos was probably hot, too, but I was biased.

Are you thinking what I’m thinking?

“Based on previous experience, probably not.”

Charm them both, have a threeso, they break their oath, and … what rhys with threeso?

“Yeah, that wasn’t what I was thinking.” But now that he put the idea in my head, I wasn’t sure it was going to leave. Still, mind controlling people into having sex with was not sothing I wanted to be doing. Maybe it was better than killing people, but even that wasn’t clear to .

Enash started describing the possible threeso configurations in detail, and I decided that I would be better going back to Earth for a bit. I wasn’t sure what was worse, the revolting parts, or the fact that occasionally he’d co up with an idea that was kinda hot.

I spent the afternoon prepping the rooms I wasn’t using for painting. I’d done painting prep dozens of tis, so it didn’t require my full ntal attention to do it well. I kept spinning on my paladin problem, without a great deal of enlightennt.

When the zombies were done with their daily trip to the trolls, they had directions to return to the crypt and guard it. They couldn’t get in, of course. Locks were beyond them. But that ant that I’d have a bunch of zombies standing outside, ready to be investigated by curious paladins. That would probably seal the case against , even if they’d previously decided I was too cute to be a necromancer.

Stereotypes were everywhere.

I decided that when the zombies ca back, I’d let them in for the night and keep them out of sight in the crypt. I didn’t like the idea, because they didn’t sll good, and it would probably take weeks to stop the crypt from slling like rotting flesh if they spent the night. I don’t know that the fresh air did them good, but it did good to have them in it. Still, it seed liked the lesser of two evils.

At about four, I got a text from the “doorbell.” Xyla wasn’t one of those girlfriends who texted all the ti. It probably helped that she had to go to the mausoleum to do it, rather than having a phone in the pockets she didn’t have. I pulled out my phone, and read it, but the text was blank. Maybe a squirrel had managed to push the button by mistake.

Or maybe Nutty had done it on purpose. I opened my laptop and logged onto the feed from the security caras on Amaranth.

Talos and Valeria had decided, apparently, that investigating the crypt was more important than finding the place where I’d supposedly killed a single zombie over a day’s travel away. I would have made the sa call. They poked at the door, and then Talos swung his mace at it, but it was sturdy and didn’t break. Then they had a quick confab, and pressed up against the wall, as if planning to ambush soone coming out the door. , perhaps. The security caras provided a top-down view.

If it weren’t for the zombies, I could just wait them out. But eventually the zombies would co back. They might decide that ‘guarding” ant stopping two people lurking outside, but zombie logic was weird. Either way, paladin logic probably ant killing all my zombies, which would an no more lumber service for the trolls. I could probably get the trolls to get their own lumber, but that ant letting them know the location of the crypt, and I didn’t love that, either. It brought them too close to the gate.

Since I didn’t give my zombies weapons, I suspected that two armored people with swords could probably make short work of them.

Valeria and Talos waited in ambush while I hurried down to the basent, carrying my laptop, and stripped off my clothes. I left the laptop behind, since I had a second one in the basent, and climbed down the ladder quickly. They were still waiting.

The zombies might be back any minute. Their return ti varied by an hour or so, and they didn’t always co back in a group, since if one of them tripped the others kept going, sotis even if it ant walking over their fallen colleague.

Colleague probably wasn’t the word that went through whatever passed for their brains. I pulled on panties, shorts, and a tank top, not bothering with a bra because I was in a hurry.

The paladins were still there. I put on tennis shoes, skipping socks. I didn’t have a plan. But I could pop out and say “hey?” And maybe start running in the other direction to make them follow? But no, I’d have to lock the door behind , and by then they’d be on and I’d have the key out.

Maybe I’d been hanging around Enash too much, because it crossed my mind that if they attacked , I could kill them and it would be self-defense.

No, it was better to let the zombies perish and accept the consequences. Except that once they’d seen the zombies, there was no way they were leaving alone.

I consulted my system display.

Dinsion Step: User teleports to any place within twenty ters that they can see. Consus mana.

Did looking through the caras count as seeing? If so, I didn’t have to open my door. There was only one way to find out.

“Dinsion Step,” I said.