The group of four stood in front of the Chiefs hall, Rex's having finished the public execution of previous chief, now gently caressing Marys hair, who was hiding her face in her mothers bosom. Vivian was once again hooked in his free arm, almost as of she was drawn there by some mysterious power. A dozen or so minutes later, when Mary finaly left the sof and warm embrace of her mother, only light traces of her tears remained as the girl was trying her damn hardest to smile brightly towards Rex.
"You have promised to be our family from now on, so it would hurt me if you were to sacrifice yourself unnecessarily. Remember that there are countless people around you who depend on you and need you in their lives." She spoke with a slight pout once she had set her stage with that strained smile of hers just moments before. And while Rex and Vivian both would normaly point out the mostly akward transition, the girl did convey some valid points with her rebuke.
"I will take that to heart and only do things I am sure I can withstand." Rex responded with a light smile of his own, recieveing another warm smile from Mary and a comment from Diana.
"You better. With the time we now apparently have to spend together I have high expectations." Her teasing smile could be intrepreted in many ways, all of which Rex left as is, taking her words at face value. He reasoned that his wife expects plenty of love and great time ahead, something he believed he could provide aplenty.
"So, Kara, everything regarding the Warcaller challenge and other things to come are all in your hands to see through, what with you being the next chief and all." Rex said as he adressed the wise woman who wisely stood by the side and kept quiet. Rex was so much of a monster, and since she was lacking more info regarding his character, the smartest move would be to just keep silent, and only speak when spoken to.
"What?" she stammered, processing his words, quickly fixing her response "Whatever does your exelency mean? I am just a wise woman, no man would listen to me or my comands."
"ow but they will" Spoke Diana this time. ''It is the Warcallers right to choose the new chief, and anyone who does not like it,can take it up with the Warcaller himself. And I doubt there is anyone stupid enough to do it after that small display of aura. And please Kara, relax a little, my husband would like to not murder our people unnecesarily since he has a few plans where our people could be quite usefull, so, unless they activly try to achieve that result,very few would actually die during the takeover."
Her friends words did relax the shaman a bit, but she still was quite cautios during their following talks, where she explained the following events. She did lag once again when she saw that not only Diana but also mary had similar marital necklace. That caused a few laughs from Rex and Vivian, a few chuckles from the mother and daugter pair and one large fronw from Kara, once she regained her bearings.
"Just how powerfull is your husband to take on such monsters, and what kind of party does he do it with. Theremust be countless veteran warriors among their ranks, with many tales to recount, I am sure." Kara started to open up, her curiosity getting the better of her and causing her to loosen up. That stoped as soon as Diana corrected her.
"Hmm? What group? He went there solo."
Kara.exe stopped working then and there once again, and only rebooted a few minutes later.
"A-and what w-would someone of such power need little meak us for?" she asked with clattering jaw.
"Rounding up and processing thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of slaves. Maybee light skirmishing, by your standarts of course."
Kara stood there for a few moments, her mind working on a solution, and once she had figured it out she spoke
"We will need a few more tribes as well as an extended expedition to the outside world. Many would likely sow discord, not willing to leave our home for long periods of time."
"That should not be a problem Kara. We will deploy a network of teleportation gates to get you to the place of the work as well as to the camp that will used as the processing facility. The slaves will be religious zealots who believe, Archons are to be killed on near sight as well as other races being lesser beings than them. I find it poetic justice that they would be educated and processed by one such lesser race." Rex explained, a smirk appearing on his face due to the joke he weaved in the end there.
"Sounds quite poetic indeed. And since capturing slaves is quite common practice among our people we are very skilled in said pasttime." Kara aded, not the least bit against the idea, since such practices was part of their customs as well as the mode of their own movement. Gates would mean they were only moments away from their home and thus their peopel would be quite willing to exploit their skill set to the fullest.
"So, how does our plan look for the time being?" Rex asked Kara, who understanding his reason for inquery quickly answered.
"Today you are to relax in the Chiefs hall as the temporary leader of the tribe. Then, tommorow the Warcaller challenge will begin. You are to wait in the middle of the arena" She pointed to an area that had simple stands around rather plain arena of sorts, marked with a light, bone liek fence "and subjugate anyone who dares to challeneg you. And while it is not forbidden to kill your challengers, it is advised not to, since you would be culling your own army. Though, previous chiefs brothers are honor bound to challenge you, and unlike the rest of the tribe, they would most likely try to sabotage you on every opportunity. So in their case, quick death is advisable."
"Well, you know best I suppose." Rex answered, then looked at Diana "Anyone else who, should they raise to the challenge I should take out permanently? To cull all the troublemakers so to say."
Diana thought for a few minutes, but could not immediatly come up with any such people, so their shitlist remained quite short and concise. Thus they spent the remainder of their day as advised by Kara- lounging in the chiefs hall and going over several topics of interest, since Kara was with them for the most part, and she was incredibly curious regarding Dianas experience since she escaped a week or so ago. Not to mention her curiosity regarding the mother and daughters new shared husband.
Kara was invited to join their supper, to which the shaman agreed, and once again yet another refined lady was introduced to the magnifisence of the gourmet world, or in this case, the superior quality ingridients. And with their meal done, Kara excused herself, leving to finalize a few of her own duties she had to perform due to the coming challenge. They had come to an agreement on which tribes should be absorbed into their newly forming megatribe, under the leadership and controll of their Warcaller to be- Rex, or in this case Neo. To ensure no slips of tonue happened his girls used a few different words when outside, most comonly those were either master or dear. Now however, due to Diana and Mary, even Vivian elected to adress Rex as husband, and since Rex had no opinion on the matter, he was sure soon most of his girls might start adressing him like that.
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One would think that the brutal execution of the previous chief would ensure that their night would be rather grim and the like, yet Vivian could lighten up any sour mood, and so she did, keeping to her ussual antics playfully teasing Rex and the girls. TIn addition, the woman would take any and all opportunities to innitiate any possible contact with Rex, be it cuddling, kissing or downright sex. Nothing was off limits or out of reach, especially now that there were so few of his girls around to limit her options. So, as expected, Vivian recieved her share of nightly action, leaving her blissfully exausted an hour or so after they went to sleep. And since Diana and Mary were not begging to be included in hsi nightly actiities just yet, they were only dragged into the bedroom after Vivian was out cold.
The two Svergi women were quite nervous as they were pulled In Rex embrace, yet that was all he did before wishing them a good nights sleep, asuring he was in no rush to taste them, and would do so once they were ready. Its not like he was backed and desperately needed release, so he could give them time. He could only gain with such an action, so it was a no brainer for Rex. Rex also noticed a few people sneaking out of the village in the dark of the night, his mana and aura sonars easily picking up the few men sneaking out. He asumed that was some sort of a plot to retaliate against him for the chiefs death, but he took no action to stop it, his opposition was just that weak, besides, in case they were sent to bring over members from other tribes to exaust him more for a chance for a definite blow, Rex would rather thank them than punish the culprits. Revealing his knowledge of the sent out men, as well as thanking said culprits for playing along would set them up for retaliation from said invaders.
So Rex relaxed in the arms of two beauties, with the third close enough on the bed to be pulled in a cuddle puddle, and enjoyed his current situation, while keeping an eye out on any possible sneak attack during the night. yet another time the ability to not need any sleep whatsoever came in handy. As Rex had expected though, none present were stupid enough to attempt such a stunt, so their night was calm and peacefull. Their next interaction with anyone from the village came in the morning when Kara arived, ready to lead them to the arena and innitiate the claggenges second part, as tradition dictated. By the time the thewise woman arrived Rex and his group had already gotten up and eaten their breakfast, so they could follow Kara without any delay.
Soon Rex stood in the middle of the arena, with Kara performing a few small rituals, innitiating the rite. With her done, the tribes warrriors had the right, some would say duty even, to go into the arena and challenge the would be Warcaller to test his strenght, since only one as strong as the whole tribe could ever hope to be a true Warcaller. It was their role to lead the tribe un the path to greatness, be it taking over other tribes or engaging in largescale raids whereever the Warcaller deems profitable.
A few minutes passed without a single challenger untill a rather young man, who Rex remembered from the hunting party that had tracked Diana and Mary to the first floor, walked into the arena. The youngster stood a few dozen meters away from Rex, his axe in hand, then prompty planted said axe on the ground,sat on his knees and bowed towards Rex, speaking in a rather loud voice.
"Respects to the Warcaller, but tradition must be upheld." Then the youngster got up and took the axe in both hands and charged towards Rex.
"Good." Rex said in a calm voice, allowing the man to charge, and once he was in range and swung his weapon, Rex lifted his hand and simply caught the blade of the axe in his right hand and used the left hand to deliver light strike to the youngsters chest, causing him to fly a few meters back from the impact, yet doing only superficial damage to the man. Rex considered this youngster to be quite sharp since the man approached this with with and courage, showing respect towards his adversary and at the same time proving his potential to him.
"My loss." spoke the youngster as he slowly got up, having achieved his purpose. He had fulfilled his duty towards the tradition, showed both courage in the face of overwhelming might as well as respect towards his next leader, and surely impressed himm however small that impression might be. And seeing that Rex had gone relatively simple, going as far as to hand the axe back to the youngster, other males of the tribe started to come in the arena, the fulfill their duty towards the tradition.
Rex went easy on them all, not seeing any reason to damage his own work force before the take over, though he did not hand the weapons back to others, they had to pick them up on their own. No, such honor was reserved for the first man who dared to stand up in the face of certain death, should the man in the middle of the arena decided so. The fact that the youngster also showed respect just solidified his right for recognition. What caused Rex to wonder though, was the absence of the previous chiefs brothers, causing Rex to asume that the two who sneaked out last night were precisely them.
His suspicion was confirmed when closer to the evening, a guard from the rushed to the arena to inform Kara that members of two nearby tribes, clearly their warriors had arrived at the gate, acompanied by the two brothers, and were demanding to be recieved, as per traditions. They had come to converse about joint hunts and warrior training.
"Bring them here." Rex spoke loudly, so Kara could hear him as he drew a chair from his storage ring. "They must have some plans in mind, so why not see what they have cooked up. Worry not, no harm will come this place. It is mine after all." And Rex was right, there were no other chalengers remaining except for the two brothers, and all that was left was for Rex to wait untill the day ends for his trial to be complete, granting him the title of Warcaller.
"What tribes they come from?" Rex then asked "Warn that I will anihilate them should they cause trouble anywhere in the village during their visit.
"Understood." The woman guard bowed her head and dashed away, not knowing that every single little thing happening near the gate was beiing observed by her new boss. Rex was paying full attention to the two groups, not leaving out a single detail that he could track. He was going to make an example out of anyone who decided to act as if they owned this place and show no respect for him being the newowner of this place.
A couple minutes later, the guard lady was at the gate, explaining the message and allowing the two groups to enter after she had warned them. They had been warned, now, whatever trouble they make was on their shoulders, and haing whitnessed Rex aura, the guardwoman was sure their village was safe and souond from whatever attack it could experience.
With knowing smirks the leaders of the two groups asked once they saw themselves being led not towards chiefs hall but towards the arena.
"Whyever would you bring us to the arena, instead of the Hall?"
Guardswoman sighed, and responded.
"With the brothers by your side you should be well aware that our chief should be here, dont take me for stupid."
"My, my, how feisty you are." said one of the leaders "maybee we should aks for her to be disciplined once we are done here?" he continiued, causing the guardswoman to glare at him, but continue to lead the two groups towards the arena.
Upon arrival, everyone new there furrowed their brows, not seeing anything similar to what they had expected. The arena did not have any fresh blood splatters, something such an event should have undoubtedly created, nor was there any body parts lying around anywhere. What was even more unexpected was that the target of their arrival was leisurely sitting in the middle of the arena in a fucking chair, seemingly enjoying a relaxing evening.
They were expecting wounded and tired man, standing imposingly in a river of blood and limbs, yet nothing of such a scene was there.
"What is going on here, did he not take the rite yet?" asked the one leader who had yet to speak, swithcing his gaze between the brother of old chief accompanying him and Kara, since she was clearly the wise woman.
"That had nothing to do with you regardless if that is. or isnt the case. State your purpose here. We have much to do still, and cant waste it on nobodies." Rex interrupted any possible followups, mostly understanding the situation here.
"Or better yet, do tell me , what did those two fools offer you to come and meddle?" Rex asked with a smirk on his face, then noticing a quick shift of the leader eyes in the dirrection of Diana and Mary he laughed out loud, then a sharp inhale later his gaze seemed to almost pierce the two groups as he stood up from his throne like chair.
"You are all either stupid, too arogant or downright suicidal. maybee all three, so why dont I assist you in your departure then." Rex continued as he drew Limitless for the first time during todays ritual. he would not excuse someone lusting after his women and acting out to get their hands on them.