As Re was delving deeper and deeper in his idea for the whorehouse, Reigens face was getting more and more stupefied. And Rex ranting continiued untill Vivian coud not take it any longer adn started to laugh hard,
"What's so funny?" Rex asked, not seeing the humor in his words.
"Haaa, haaa." she heaved and tried to calm herself to answer her masters question and once she had calmed a bit she spoke
"While you are indeed powerfull, it is not that easy to capture and enslave either oracles or sainteses of the echlisiarchy."
"Bullshit!" she was interrupted by Rex "Already have one. Did not take much effort, and so I highly dount others will take much either."
"And who was the mighty saintess you captured?" Vivian asked with a light smile on her face, calling his bluff
"Elena Vex was her name i think? Busty blonde under thirty of age. She was quite feisty right untill she was pierced by my divine weapon. She is being trained by a goup of succubi right now to provide the best experience for the customers. No breeding though."
"ELENA OF THOUSAND SHCEMES?" Vivian exclaiemd a litle startled.
"Who now?" Rex asked back, having not heard of such a nickname before.
"Whats her rank?" Vivian asked, a spark of briliance and excitement in her eyes.
"Saintess. That much i know." Rex replied.
"Was she pure?" Vivian then asked?
"Yep, she was raging a lot as I claimed her first time, and then there was some incomprehensible ramblings some holy mother bullshit, cant be assed to remember hinestly." Rex replied. Another burst of laughter escaped Vivian and once she calmed down a few minutes later she explained her jubilant mood.
"Phew, tha twas refreshing. Now, I have to than you on behalf of our national alliance and most likely for any non Echlisiarchy country a months distance from echlisiarchy. That bitch was quite a menace with her strategic mind and schemes that have killed many capable men who stood in the way of her church, and most likely just as much if not more archons died becasue of her plans or orders."
"Sir, and would the guards of said establishment have any chance of hoping to try the holy merchandise of the place as well?" Reigen timidly asked. His answer was positive regardless since the man did not want to die yet, but, if the answer were to be positive, he would wilingly sell his soul to the archon in front of him for such a possiblility.
"Eventally sure, but not just yet, since I will not be using any of the whores myself once they start their servicing jobs. And as i said still have to make the damn campaign to their temples. That should be fun. Raiding, raping and pillaging those damn crazy zealots." Rex had relative sympaty for most creatures that were not inclined in eating or harming him, but the Echlisiarchy jus tso happened to fall right outside said most part, and was lumped in together with the bloodthirsty monsters and cannibals and such.
"I would have offered my services volunery if we were not in such a predicament as we are." Reigen spoke, bringing Rex back to the present.
"Aaaa, yes. A man of culture I see. Good. So, how should we proceed?" Rex mused for a second, then just shrugged his shoulders "Eh, fuck it, we doing it live." and branded Reigen. Once branded the man kneeled and bowed to Rex three times, each time his forehead hitting the ground. Vivian quickly explained Rex teh significance of teh mans actions, as they were acknowledging of ones master. That meant that Was Reigen no only branded, but he was actaully willingly regarding Rex as him master. Rex smiled a bit at the man and spoke
"Work hard for me, and will you not only be able to fuck teh working whores from time to time, but I might just grant you a nun or two as personal property."
"Thank you master" Reigen Immediatly bowed once again.
"Okey, now, onto the extortion part!" Rex exclaimed and looked to Vivian "How should we do this if we want the best outcome here?" Vivian though for a moment, then a sly smile appeared on her face. "Why dont we involve the city lord?"
"Elaborate." rex spoke and to his words the girl explained her plan, which was quite genious, Rex had to amit, so they moved towards the the city lord castle. On their way there, Rex tossed Riegen a slave collar "Put this on, we need them to see some sort of a controll device since I dont want to advertise here." And immediatly Reigen wore the collar without even thinking twice. The man was on a mission to prove himself and earn that right to raid thsoe holy temples. Rex was not aware tha tteh man had some serious nun and corruption fetish that he himself had not been able to exlore and enjoy, so when he saw the godlen opportunity he would have done literaly anything to have his chacne, and lo and behold, the world answered his prayers.
As per Vivians plan, Rex acted a rather arrogant and brutish, with Vivian doing most of the talking and quickly getting them an audience with the city lord. Once inside a very luxurious and expensive room, and in the presence of teh ruler of this city Rex kept his arrogant attitude, and interrupted teh man every time he triued to kiss Vivians ass or tired to ingratiate himself with said woman. And while not taking Rex anger seriously innitially, and only entertaining thr trio becasue of Vivian, the man got super serious and sweaty once he learned that some stupid people had hired an assasing to attack SS class warroir in HIS city. Now he could clearly see the thin ice he was standing on, and was sweating profusely since he had not only failed in his of sucking up to the top tier powerhouses, to which teh adventurer belonged, he had also tried to court the woman in said mans eyes.'shit, shi, shit.' teh governor cursed in his mind. Why does not everybody start their introdictio nwith rank and affiliation, and often play the pig to eat the tiger. So he took some strong berating and performed his very best ass kissing to appease the angered disaster machine and quickly sent messangers to summon the decision makers of the three offending families as well as the three masterminds behind the accident.
The governor had decided to just switch all the blame on the families and let them take most of the damage from thsi debaucle. It would also help him consolidate his own power over the city, and remind them who had the real power in this city.
Following his summons, members of the three families rushed over to city lords palace since they had to show the man some amount of respect, and this time, the message bore the official seal of the city as well as that of the city lord. This meant that it was an official summons, and could not be missed. In case the summons were ignored, dire consequences could befall the unobedient family, ranging from insanely high fines to even execution of said family head or elder council.
Soon all three family heads sat at the table, and behind each head were a few of the elders and a few youngsters from each clan. The older generation was educating the new one on how to properly conduct themselves in official setting and how to deal with the other influential individuals and families, it could also be construed as the families showing utmost respect towards the city lord, by bringing a few ot the elders and soem of teh future likely heirs along. At least that was the pretext they had given to most of the youngsters present, since only one from each family was mentioned by name, and such a skewed favorability did not sit well with other elders within the families who were backing other candidates for the position of the next head of said family.
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As the three families sat there they saw the city lord enter, accompanied by Vivian, who they all recognized as one of teh four godeses of this generation belonging to the Tyrant Dragon sect, an overlord within their nation. And the other was a young archon they had never seen before, yet the way the governor of this city was acting all polite humble around the youngster spoke volumes of his background. Their suspicion was doubly confirmed when not only Vivian sat next to teh governor, but the youngster also took a seat prepeared for him.
"I have been notified of a rather troubling event occuring within my city, and have summoned your families to solve it, seeing as members of said families were involved in said event." spoke the governor, then giving way to his guests to continue. His words were enough to tense the clan heads, since the start was not promising.
"Three little piggies, one from each of your clans hired an assasin against me. Sadly, as you can deduce from my presence here, said assasin came up short, since he did not know who he was dealing with." Spoke Rex wit ha hint of amusement in his voice and snaped his fingers. Followed by which Reigen entered the room, his slave collar visible to all, and since all the clan heads and elders recognized the man, gasps escaped their mouts at the fact that said assasin was not collared.
"I hate to waste a good henchmen, so the current predicament he faces, and due to his now unique situation I happen to have aquired the hiring contract." Rex words and actions had caused three particular young individuals to sweat heavily , and their nervousness was not missed by teh elders and clan heads of respective families.
"Could the contract be revealed?" asked one of the clan heads, to which Rex gave the contract recording to governor, who promptly activated it. The recording lasted some fifteen minutes as the trio were getting more and more nervous as they were screwd regardless of the outcome, and the expression of the clan heads were getting darker and darker. Rex could rather easily recognize which clan head gelonged to which family not only from the offending young master among their groups, but from the grim face they showed. While they were all quite grim, the least panicking was the Feng family head, since Feng Zhu, while capable and smart, swas only a son of a concubine within his family, and not even in a position of a contender for next clan head position. Cutting off such a liability was quite a simple matter hence the relatively lesser gloom on the mans face.
The Long family patriarch was more distrought, wracking his head head on how to solve said problem, since the one at fault was one of the few next generation pillars for their family, a well as one with the best aptitude and chances to reach S class, so losing such a potential member of the family would be a cripling blow to their possible growth, since S class and above was a treasure for any power.
But the most grave expression was on the face of Yang families patriarch. The one who had royaly fucked up was the next head of the family, and only son of said families patriarch. The man had not managed to produce any other male ofspring despite his numerous tries, so naturally the man was livid. Not only had they hired an assasin, who failed his task, creatung a whole slew of problems, but they did not even use proxies. They did not have time, since the target was leaving the city through a gate, so they had to act fast. As the two of the more implicated patriarchs were considering a way out of their predicament, one of the elders asked a rather obvious question, if the people present were not that shocked
"If you would allow me to ask, how has this debaucle inconvinienced miss Vivian?"
"Heh." Rex smirked "Three toads lusting after swan meat and getting angry at the mount Tai, said swan was circling." Rex words caused Vivian to giggle lightly, at the precision of Rex words, so she politely elaborated and explained the situation, that had most likely lead to this peculiar result. What brought a slight snicker from Rex was the collctive facepalm of the elders as Vivian finished her explanation of the events that transpired. Who in their right mind would so openly attack a person that one of the four godesses is trying to get. If a beauty and talent of such caliber is trying to claim someone for herself or her sect, only a moronic and overly arrogant and horny young master could make such a blunder, and sadly, there were three such persons in the room currently.
With Vivian speach concluded, Rex now got to the heart of the matter
"Now, here lies the question, what should I do with the offenders, and how are you going to act?" he adressed the three families in question, rather intrigued in their decisions, even if he had some inkling of the most likely results. Rex di not have to wait for long untill the first of the patriarchs spoke, and as expected it was the leader of Feng family. The man stood up, cupped his hands and bowed lightly towards the tro of governor, Rex and Vivian.
""It is indeed our fault for rising such a failiure of a descendant, so we will naturaly pay fines for the city laws Feng Zhu broke, as well exiling him from family so he can face whatever his actions had earned him, and as soon as he spoke the wails of said young master resounded, that included begging and the sort, that were propmptly stopped by one of the elders who struck Feng Zhu, rendering him unconscious.
"Apologies for the scene." said elder slightly bowed and spoke, dropping the now unconscious young ex master on the ground closer to Rex "All yours sirs." he bowed again and retreated to his family.
'As expected' Rex thought to himself. The Feng youngster was disposable and with no real merrit aquired within his family, so such a thing was natural.
"What would be his punishment under the city laws?" Rex asked governor as they waited fo the other tow patriarchs to speak of their decision.
"We do not care of how feuds are solved as long as it does not happen within city borders, but once killing, teh attempt happens, we have zero tolerance towards it." governor answered
"So, death it is?" Rex asked for confirmation.
"Indeed, as well as a hefty fine to the power affiliated to said individual. The one who was attacked, like you exelency in this case if free of any acusations."
"Hmm, why dont we allow your torturer to have some fun? Let the man castrate the fool, thne execute him, since their action caused inconvinience to Vivian." Rex words caused some people to vince, but then an exited "Thank you milord. I will not dissapoint!" Came from the side as an aged man spoke with a glee on his face.
"Apologies, that is my torturer." akwardly spoke governor, eliciting slight chuckle from Rex.
"There is no need, it is good to have someone who loves their job, regardless of profession." Rex's words caued said torturer smile once again and bow towards Rex.
Then the patriarch of Long family asked "May we inquire the name of young master who was targeted by our incompetent children?"
"You are not strong enough to have that right." Rex coldly replied, then added "Be quick with your decision, I dont have all day. We either solve it here, or I go and purge your clan, so on with it."
"Come now, they have barely anyone in S class, there would not be any fun for you, so be just a bit more patient, please?" Vivian spoke in light tone, causing Rex to grumble, and sit down.
"But just because you asked nicely." he replied, slightly annoyed by the tone in his voice, but sending a 'good job' message to Vivian trough the brand. Her interverntion have the families the proper scare, since they now coudl asume that the youngster their descendats had offended was SS class, explaining why governor was almost crawling up the youngsters ass with compliments and compliance, and why Vivian was trying to get her clawas in the man. Such power and potential was monster tier, and any sane power would try their damn best to aquire the man. And as Feng family was thinking of selling said information to three other powers that had the means to combat Tyrant dragon sect and Vivian, another oportunistic man had already done so, with the explicit permission of Rex in exchange for freedom to do whatever he wanted with teh three families, should they not comply with Rex's demands.
Then the patriarch of Long family spoke in a very polite manner
"It is truly a fault of ours for failing to properly educate the youngsters, and for that we are deeply sorry. We must nevertheless invoke a law of exchange, your exelency. It is stated within the laws of the city that offenders life can be bought in exchange for five others, if the talant value of at least one of replacements is almost equal to one of the sacrifices, or then others if not." And Rex glanced at the governor for elaboration.
"A yes, we have an old law like that. It is linked with the dungeon of the accursed, thats near here due to the species living within." spoke the governor, and seeing Rex inquisitive glance, he continiued with the explanation "The place is an eternal winter, with many diferent beasts and monsters that thrive in cold, and the only sentient species within are a race of barbaric humans. It is said that they are the descendants of a union between human and giants. They are all two to two and a half meters long and very strong. They have this tradition where the powerfull wariors that were captured can be exchanged with said number of women. So we had to make the rule, as they are more than willing to trade the prisoners they take when some foolish party does not steer clear from their hunting parties."
Rex looked to the guards standing to the side of the room, and ponted to a woman of two meter height and quite muscular build "She's of their blood?". And recieved a nod from the governor.