Stirring awake in his room after the few hours of sleep he had gotten- plentifull amount for the current him, he was welcomed by the rather pleasant scent and warmth of Irina, who had snuggled up to him as soon as he entered the bed. He looked at the absolute beauty and gently caressed her lush red hair. this slight gesture stirred her awake, and noticing him in bed with her, her face beamed in a lustfull smile. She immediatly got on top of him and proceeded to his him with pasion and desire of a lover who had not met their special one for months, not a single week. Rex spent the next few hours satisfying her desires, and left his room after she had gone back to sleep- exausted and with content smile on her face.
After a quick shower, he found Aisha and the three human maids in the kitchen prepearing breakfast, and he saw the orc maids already moving around and doing chores. It has been almost a month since they started to eat meals and he could notice a stark difference in their appearances. Compared to before they had much smoother skin, and they exuded more vitality. Rex reasoned that if they keep this diet up, filled with top grade mana rich meat, their bodies will be purified further and further, raising their overall beauty over time. Given enough time any maid he auires could become an absolute beauty. He still didnt belive they could reach the level of Irina, since she looked almost divine, but they woudl still go quite farm.
After a nice meal with Aisha, he informed her of the addition of Val, Mel and Crystal, and then with the champion in tow, he went to Victors castle. In no time he was sitting oposite Victor, who was looking at him, and then at the champion he had brought
"Can I asume this champion is for the auction?" Victor asked, quite sure that was the case. He had seen Rex keep only girls and beasts in his mansion.
"You already know, judging by your facial expresion, but yes, to answer you question. Yes it is." Rex replied, miniscule annoyance in his voice. Both men then chuckled a bit, clearly understanding the joke exchanged.
"I am leaving it in your hands till the auction. Will switch owners one it has been sold." Rex added and stood up to leave, then as if remembering something added
"Eredar will have the meat as ussual." and with that said he gave a few orders to the champion, transfering the ownership temporarily to Victor, and left the city lords property. Then he visited Eredar and offloaded the rest of the meat he had farmed in the dungeon. Then they spoke for a few minutes and Rex left, visiting Grogni afterwards as well, and spent some time there. Then he returned home, and noticed he had guests.
Aina had come to visit as per ussual, and, as Rex had predicted, she was all over Crystal one the two met. Rex felt on few ocasions that Aina would start to drool any moment with all her gushing over the giant panther, but the elf girl somehow managed to keep herself from going that low.
"I have to say, I envy you at times. Quite a lot, in fact." Aina spoke suddenly, while mushing her face in the soft fur coat of the panther "To have such cuties all to yourself is a dream for most of the elves."
"While I cant complain about my blessings, princess, I doubt you had much, if any, problems in your childhood. So i firmly believe we both are blessed." Rex responded "And no, you cant have her either."
Aina pouted a little at this friendly jab, more as a theatric than anything. She was quite pleased with the man she had befriended. It was a breath of fresh air, not to be treated as something special, or royality when the other paty was fully aware of her status. And at the same time it irked her wery much. If he had any respect of fear of her backbround she would have a cub and a panther by now. Not that she would bring it up again. She it it once in jest and hoping to see his reaction. It left her mouth hang open. 'Sure' he had said 'Bring them over and we will see if they wanna mess with S class great sabertooth' he had spoken afterwards with the biggest grin, even adding some remaks that by the time her enforcers would arive he would have more such beats ready, adn sure enough, her sister was still on her way, and he had delivered on his part.
"I still expect to be able to pet them whenever i come by." she said, as she was sinking in the fluff of the panther once again.
"Hey if worst come to bear, you can even run to me and hide. I will take good care of you." Rex laughed at her demand as he was petting Snow. The cub loved to be spoiled by her master.
"Dont forget my sister arives in less than a week, so dont go and dissapear in the dungeon for a few. You hear me?" she suddenly spoke, a hint of seriousness in her tone.
"No promises. Dungeon, unlike her is a priority of mine" Rex again responded teasingly and laughed more.
"Keep this up and you will never get a wife." she jabbed back, and, upon hearing that, Rex started to laugh even harder.
"Auch, stop, you are killing me." he squeezed in between his heavy laughter "Why would I ever look for one? Havent you seen Irina? Val, Mel and even Aisha are beautifull as well, why would I look for some random wife?" he managed to speak a minute later, once his uncontrollable laughter had died down.
"And even if i were to look for one, the probability of finding a beauty who is not some sort of noble will be hard as hell. And you should know how the petty and arogant most of them are." and to Rex words she winced realizing the truth in his words, but she just responded wit ha simple haughty "phff" and dropped the topic. After a while more of apreciating the panther and some small talk, she left, once again reminding of the imminent arrival of her sister. Rex just waved his hand as he saw her off.
'Well, guess I should stay in town for now. Should not give her too much hastle.' Rex thought to himself. 'Guess ill milk Mel for her knowledge as an oracle. She should be able to help me advance my mana controll and manipulation.' he continiued to plan as he was going back to the mansion to find Mel. Irina had somewhat instantly recognised that the two new girls had the same additional tasks to perform as her, and she was having a rather long conversation with them once they had met in the dining room. Rex dragged Mel away with him after the girls had eaten, and he was milking her for all her knowledge and experience in the magecraft.
Unlike what Rex had expected, oracles were just a branch of water mages that focused heavily on healing of both physical and psycological wounds, with some strenghtening, and offensive spells in there to be able to at least somehow adapt to many different situations. The spells themselves didnt do much for Rex as he noticed he had minimal affinity with water, since he was a blood mage, and water was a large part of it. However his specialization was more focused on the ethereal, and as such the simplified version of water was just not quite good enough for his body.
What he did notice however thanks to his unique ability to see energy, or in this case mana, was the way Mel was circulating her mana when casting said spells, taking great interest in the way her mana was used to strenghten others with buffs. Since he saw dirrectly how mana was manipulated and morphed, all he had to do was to use it for himself. And he was able to replicate the action rather easily. All he had to do was change the volume and intensity to the right volumes to make sure his spell was stable, adn didnt drain him entirely, as one thing he noticed straight away was that buffs Mel used were timed, and once that timer is over, the buff ends. Rex wasnt quite happy with that and he reasoned that it needs mana source to keep going, so he was the mana source. He created the same thing but without the water medium, and with some extra mana consumption, since he was still a novice in this.
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Rex also saw another way to employ his mana- namely creating objects and hurling them at his enemies. The way Mel was shaping her mana missles gave Rex another idea how to make his mana chains more effective at killing his targets, since untill now he had used them as extentions to use drain with or whips to smash the enemies. The visual examples gave him a new and perhaps deeper understanding of mana capacity and properties.
Rex spent most of his time in the following days in the garden with Mel, of course making sure the oracle got her rest when needed and ensuring none of his three ladies were neglected during night. Both Val and Mel had gotten hooked on it almost as much as irina and so his night were busy. Luckaly he needed a few hours a sleep a day at most, so his study adn training time was not interupted. He had also noticed that Aisha had been looking at him a bit differently in the last few days, since Val was particularily loud when she was having the time of her life.
Another avenue that demanded Rex to develop his mana controll even further if he wanted the other girls to have the best nights sleep. Since Ainas sister would soon arive, his elven friend was bussy and hadnt have the time to properly visit him during his stay home and training arc. She surely had heaps of things to attend to, to ensure her sisters visit end without much of a hitch. And with teh addition on Val to his home retinue, there was now combat exercises for the girls in the mansion. She wanted to train the girls to be able to better defend their home if need be so one hour every day the girls trained with Val. Rex had approved of her initiative once he knew they would not be overburdened and it would not be detrimental to their performance as maids, and seeing their training for the past week, Rex was satisfied with both the regime and intensity. That earned Val a bit of extra attention, that she enjoyed wery much.
Rex was in one of his study rooms going over a letter victor had sent him, detailing the shit he had to deal with because a real contender for the throne in one of the elven royal families decided to visit his city, with previous information. Heirs like Aina was one thing, they were just lesser characters in their families and would support one of the main members vying for the position. The real contenders however, were a massive annoyance. Official repections, ass kissing and other niceties that Victor wanted to avoid, but could not. And while Rex was somewhat an involved person, being the most likely reason for such a personal visit, he didnt care much. His position as unchained person and a blood mage to boot afforded him the luxury.
And as he was sitting in the comfy chair Aish aproahed him, a bit nervous but curious in her own way about something that had been bugging her lately. Ever since little she had been trained as a slave and prepared to serve her msater. With all the special training she had gone through and the utmost care that was spedn in her raising she was aware that her master had paid a fortune for her, yet he was using only her cooking abilities. While not reaaly unhappy with the fact, she had grown up with training as that involve other avenues that would relieve her masters stress, and yet those skills were not utilised. Her trainers had told her that she is very pretty and that there was no way her master would not indulge in such a feast. And her master was definetly more than interested in women, the moans of of the three orc ladies at nights- an undeniable proof of the matter.
So after knocking on the door, and being called in, she aproached to table behind which sat her master, and in a nervous adn rather quiet voice she asked
"Why isnt master calling upon my nightly services? Am i not pretty enough?" she asked nervously. Irina was truly much more beautifull than herself, but Val and Mel were on her level, so she coudnt understand why?
Rex smiled a liitle and spoke "You are more than pretty enough, and i would surely enjoy fucking you unconscious, however, I consider your role as the cheff much more important than your ability to satisfy my lust." then he gestured her to come to him, and she obeyed and stood right next to Rex. Rex had made sure early on that his brands didnt compell his slaves to desire to sleep with him. Brands ensured loyality and obedience to his orders and comandments. It didnt affect other emotions. Rex had even planned out a different kind of brand that he named "brand of hate." In that case even loyality wouldnt be a core of the brand. It would only prevent the being from acting bot dirrecty and indirectly against him and his. He could use it as a punishment to some quite nasty enemies of his.
He stood up and gently stroked her silky soft hair "I will not call upon you to serve me at night, since you are satisfying everyone in this mansion with your cooking. And tha is something only you can achieve. However, if you yourself desire for it, i will be more than happy to enjoy you." Aisha blushed at his words, elated at masters praise for her cooking skills, and feeling quite special with such treatment. It was expected that the rich adn powerfull would use their branded slaves in any way they see fit, and that often resulted in quite rough treatment, since there was no way for slaves to opose their master. To be given as much freedom and as so nice life conditions was basicly unheard of, let alone the freedom to not warm masters bed as a wery pretty girl.
She thanked Rex and excused herself, saying she had to start prepearing the next meal, and rushed out of the study making Rex chuckle. Not being from this world did give him a unique perspective on how to treat his slaves, that went against any common sense and practice in this world. Rex reasoned that with society would not have developed to such high level with so liberty centric dogma if they had to enusre all the time that some Tyronasaurus didnt jump from some bushes, destroyed their settlements and ate everyone there. only in absence of an orgnic threat greather than themselves could one find the time to ponder on the purpose of life and mysteries of the universe.
Meanwhile Aisha was back in the kitchen, helped by the human maids, since they were with experience in hitchen, and she was beaming with joy. She remembered the horror stories she heard from servants working in their training camp, of masters more terifying than monsters. Cruel and sadistic ones who would enjoy the pain and suffering of their slaves, the constant abuse for every little mistake, the miserable living conditions and horrible food they would get, when and if they were fed. Sure, she also new she would have at the very least slightly better life, since she was pretty and trained as a high quality slave, but her master here was nothing like what she feared. Her master was the nice. All his slaves were treaded nice, fed the same food the master ate. As he had once said "Aint no way I will treat whats mine like shit.". She had even asked sir Eredar, sir Brogni and even miss Aina, about how slaves are treated elsewhere, and after hearing what they had to say, she once again concluded that her master is just different.
And now, he wasnt even demanding her night services. As Irina had told her, their master treats them better than an orc champion treats their sword. An odd comparison for sure untill she learned how much they coddled their swords, and sure enough, compared with the noem it seemd that he indeed did. Special treatment to ones bed slaevs was to be expected, but not all of them. She was sure that there is no bettermaster she could ever wish for, and she would work harder on her craft, make it even better, and one day soon, she would show her master just how gratefull she is for her new life.
Rex, reading Victors complaints was chuckling from time to time, imagining the man complaining in person, and how he himself would from time to time shrug and point out that they all have their own respective duties. Rex job was to get the champions to spread the rumors, and one for the auction, and just sit there and be, since he is the one doing the branding. And Victors, Eredars and Brogni's job was to ensure everything else works. Rex would even add that he had the hardest job, since who else would be going around subjugating champions? Evening was closing in and he was quite happily working on mana chains modifications when one of the maids brough over a another message from Victor. Its contents were
"I am so fucking done with this. Tommorow morning I am sending her over to you since she has been asking it over and over. Deal with her and get her the fuck off my back. PLEASE." Rex laughed once more, and then issued a few comands for his girls regarding tommorows guest. Since the incoming princess was not a trustworthy person, he would not show her group his cats and he would be in his full blood mage disguise. It was full on business mode tommorow, so to get himself in the right mindset he needed to reset his brain. So, after supper that felt even better than before, he thanked Aisha, for once again surpassing herself, making a few small requests regarding tommorows meals, since there might be some guests, and spent the night with his three ladies.