Bait Traps

Back home I was beyond ready to sleep hard but I'd learned from past experience not to nap with a HUD alarm on so I checked my new levels before bed. Champion of Darkness had gone up two whole levels now to six, I'd only expected one with Alkadabuki's capture. I wondered if the plan to convert the Amazon nation to the Dark covered the other or if it had more to do with the Hornet Empress who while a Dark monster had not been playing for our team. Either way having a 600% boost to everything on top of my Pure Land Dungeon boosts almost made me feel ready to take on Tomoko. Almost.

The bigger shock though was the massive twenty level gain to Dark Inquisitor. Apparently converting a nation to your Goddess is worth a lot of xp for a Priest class if just the prospect of it did that. Some might have come from the ritual itself though, or just raising that much Undead. Not that I was complaining, forty levels in a high tier class was certainly something and now I had a bunch of new toys to unpack. Hellfire Strike meant I could blast large areas with the stuff from above. Claim Greater Undead would let me either wrest control away from another Necromancer or subjugate a free willed Intelligent Undead individual. That one was going to be a hell of a shock for this Vampire Queen when Leraje sent her over. And last but not least Soul Harvest let me rip a persons soul out of their body to fuel a variety of purposes. It had a big drawback though in that the more powerful an individual was the less likely it was to work on top of their likely being more able to resist it. Probably meant for sacrificing easy prey without needing a big ritual. Also not something I was likely to ever use having more than enough power to not need it. I had thought about doing something similar to try and give my guardian Emination her own soul a while back though. Maybe the next batch of dissidents from the Archipelago wouldn't go to feeding the flock this time.

That taken care of I went to my room to find it had gotten larger again, must have gotten some monster levels in there as well between the twins and Delta. The bed was big enough now that Snow looked almost normal sitting on it. As normal as a giant blue skinned albino with tits twice the size of her head can anyways. I climbed in myself and lay my head on that magnificent bosom then passed the fuck out. It turns out Frost Giant tits make for fantastic pillows, go figure.

I spent the next few days relaxing and waiting on word from Tits or Leraje. I knew what Buki was up to and expected her to be busy for a while but the silence from the Court Mage was worrying. Still I found plenty to do to keep my mind off of it. For one my bathroom was now also much bigger and Gaia decided to steal me for a whole day of hot tub fun while various other girls came and went trying it out or joining us in debauchery. Snow unsurprisingly did not at all enjoy the hot water but when she found out she could set a showerhead to a lower temperature spent quite a while under barely liquid water in another part of the room. My three Dragon Succubi daughters used this time to all get their turns for their "mission rewards" and I decided to give them daughters that were mostly Dragon with just enough Demon to ensure they looked more humanoid than reptile.

Then of course on the same day I got word from both women. The Queen couldn't stop gushing about the kids the twins had birthed, five total and all girls. Apparently no one had batted an eye when she returned and declared her sister and what used to be her sisters boyfriend were now her wives, or that they were pregnant. It's good to be Queen I guess. Eventually she got on to more important matters. The Undead Amazons had been a huge hit and the hundred easily put down the rest of the Hornets on their own being immune to their poison and had even managed to capture a handful of Hornet Queens thinking I'd want them. I certainly wasn't going to say no to more hot redheads even if they looked identical. Actually a small hive mind of beauties dedicated to pleasing me in bed sounded quite nice. Anyways Buki wanted me to know that things were going well with the fighting settled and the Undead making excellent ambassadors with what the Dark had done for them and many families were glad not to be in mourning. Also she had a plan in place to hand me Runa having asked her to come out and "help with the Hornets" to get her alone and give her a ultimatum. Alkadabuki agreed with my assessment of her being a coward and didn't think things would even come to a fight. She'd let me know when things were settled.

Less pleasant was word from Leraje. Reala was being a stubborn bitch in the Mage's own words and was refusing to meet with me. She agreed I'd done wonders for Lera but saw no need for any herself and apparently had no time for a "bothersome theocrat." She probably knew just what the Goddesses thought of her and didn't want to hear it again from me but that left us with a problem.

Luckily Leraje had an idea for our next move. The Vampire Queen she'd mentioned before apparently held sway over a large contingent of Dark forces, enough to make her a big pain in the Mage's ass normally but also enough to potentially sway Reala if she backed Lera up on something. Esmeralda was suspicious enough to see an offer of rejuvenation for herself as a set up since as a Vampire she'd hardly think she needed it but the Harpies were loyal to her and their leader was old and nasty. Lera's improved look and health had caused quite a stir at court so offering to have Aello rejuvenated as a reward for service to Esmeralda while she got to observe the procedure was bound to set the hook and the Vampire Queen would see it as the Court Mage trying to leverage for a favor. A lone Vampire, even their Queen, and Harpy would not be difficult to subdue and I really wanted Morgana back to study so I told Leraje to have her act as guide for our "guests" after agreeing to her plan. She was so used to Reala's arguing every petty detail that my simply accepting her plan left her speechless for a bit but eventually promised to personally teleport the women out the next day.

So that was one trap baited and another trap set to bait the bait for a third trap. Or something like that. Time to think about what I was going to do with Runa. Melanoche wanted her stuffed and mounted bad and to do even worse with her mind and soul I'm sure but Carnachias had seemed much more chill about the matter. Time to visit my temple again I guess. Maybe Carn won't leave me blue balled again this time. Yeah right.