The metaphorical bomb Diana dropped on the two leader of Mountains Rage tribe left them stunned. they just stood there, mouths agape and eye laser focused on the marital necklace Diana had pulled into focus. And it the knowledge A man having killed an Apexus was not mindbreaking enough, the fact that Dianas necklace sported two sets of ceremonial teeth was. Mary, in large part due to Vivians mishievous influence decided to add fuel to the fire, jonining in on the fun as she added.

"Yes thats right, husband is just that strong, after all, my necklace is also like that." and with those words the two guests heads shot towards her necklace as well, purely on instinct, and at the sight of yet another two sets they remained stunned for quite a while yet. no one bothered to break them out of their stupor just yet, allowing them to slowly process the knowledge they had been granted. Kara on the side just smiled lightly. She has had to go through the same at one time. To understand the absolute depths of the power their Warcaller posseses, now that was quite the challenge, and even then, she strongly believed that he was still growing his might. He was incredibly young still, barely adult by their measure, as well as that of humans, and yet, there he was, hunting down Apexus like they were hares and he, a young greater wolf who was just fooling around with an unfortunate rabbit it had come across.

Some ten or so minutes later Diana suddenly clapped her hands, startling the duo out of their stupor. She lightly laughed, getting the twos attention to herself and spoke.

"Now, as the legend speaks, the meat of the beast is indded as miraculous as implied. It does strenghten ones bloodline. The only limitation, as you must have guessed is the amount consumed as well as just how much it can be purified in a day. Based on our own research, a single meal in a day is enough to cap out the rate at which ones bloodline gets improved. More than that is just a waste, unless of course one has unreasonable surpluss and wants to enjoy the bliss that is its exquisite taste." That was indeed a danger their own household had managed to avoid, in most part thanks to Aisha and her unreasonable skills in cooking. She had managed to bring earth grade meals so close to the heaven grades taste that they could happily enjoy the former without any gripes. And that was the reason why they simply could not enjoy the ordinary food most of the world made their meals out of. It all felt tasteless, if not feeling like something harmfull alltogether.

"So, I believe that to ensure the loyality and to be able to achieve said necesarry blood binding, all we have to do is help your wife here purify and strengten her blood. Something we are well and trully equiped to do. So, a promise, a deal if you will, can be made. One where we will provide the raw ingridient that is neccesarry for her to reach a point where a daughter worthy of joining us could be born. So, what say you Jorg, chief of the Mountains Rage tribe, does our offer sound enticing enough?"

Rex side did not have to wait for the mans response long, in fact it was instant. The moment Diana was done talking the man got out of his seat, stood back a sep or so to have enough free space, sat on his knees, hands on his thighs, and bent down his head.

"I thank you for the generosity, and humbly accept. We will raise a daughter worthy of you."

"Good." Diana spoke "But make sure she doesnt become battle addict or anything. While being strong is not wrong, a smart woman, like any spiritual leader is much better. We have all the strenght we will ever need in our husband after all. Wisdom and spirit is what the women should bring."

This time Mara noined her husbands side, kneeling in teh same position as he was, and she expressed her own gratitude.

"I thank you, and I promise that my daughters will be well taught."

"Good, now come, lets get you those ingridients, shall we. Let men talk of their wars and such." Diana smiled as she stood from her chair and called the woman forth. They had enough to discuss on their own. Both as the spouses of a leader as well as women and holders of their peoples lore. not to mention that Maras eyes were sparkling with curiosity and wonder when she glanced towards Dianas marital necklace. So, following Dianas lead, Mara followed her into another room, leaving Rex to deal with Jorg.

With that out of the way, Rex told the kneeling man to get back into his chair so they could get to discussing more important matters and once the man had done so, the real planning begun. They made a timetable and plans, discussed how long it would take for Jorgs people to prepare a few raiding parties as well as arm an army. The larger cities would need nothing less than that. Rex knew that by this point. His ravens had traveled all across Echlisiarchys lands, shown him the cities and villages and villas spread around said country. Rex in turn, based on all the knowledge he had, was developing a monstrous plan that was basdd on a spell of cataclysmic proprtions, utilizing a few dungeons as the sourse of energy for the duration it would be employed.

With his ravens as the anchors, and being extension of his reach to cast and controll his own spells, Rex could ling them to dungens to tap in that endless energy to fuel a spell continiuesly, then linking many ravens together, Rex could cast a barrier spell that would envelop the entire state, while seperating the inside into many seperate regions, ensuring both absolute controll in enemy movements, as well as their fragmentation. That single spell would allow Rex to judge each village, each city seperate based on the level of depravity and corruption said place had reached.

With enemy mevements locked, and using the gates to pull in his own armies, they could then take down his enemy, one barrier at a time, while ensuring that those who are still not rotten enough would be spared. The rest would recieve the punishement they had brought upon themselves. As for the actual raids and sieges themselves, Rex also had the perfect plan, to maximize their speed and efficiency. he would scan their targeted location and take out all of the S class threats and above, guiding Jorg and his elites to take down High A class entities, and leaving the rets of the culling and roundups to Jorgs army or raiding parties, depending on the size of their target. What they do with the slaves was of little concern to Rex. It would be their decision to make. To victor goes the spoils and all. Of course, the oracles, saints and other higher seated official members of the fairer sex within Echlisiarchies hierchy would be captured and turned in to Rex. He had other plans for them, yes he inndeed had. It was almost time to go into the second stage of development for 'Neos Holy Whores'.

In addition, Mountains Rage tribe would attain a much better land for their own usage. They could create their own villages and cities in the lands they would cleanse. And since they would be so much better than the lands of eternal snow they were inhabiting now, with the guaranteed access to their holy and sacred places in the dungeon through Rex gates leading back to their own home city it was an absolute win in the eyes of Jorg. He was more and more convinced that Rex was the champion sent to them by the god of their ancestor, even with Rex strong denial of such a possibility. By Rex words, if anything, he was just someone with a grudge against the Echlisiarchy and their prophet, and him being here was nothing more than a lucky coincidence. And unlike the stubborn Svergi man, Rex knew better. His patron was having fun with a hands off approach, letiing him do as he pleases, enjoying the show as it goes. He could understand though, just how much more fun it was when you did not know the story, how it would go, what new characters would appear, what plot would develop. The anticipation, the not knowing, it was what made such entertainment trully great.

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And so, with their immediate plans ready and ironed out, they waited for the women to finish they own chat. Once that was done, they would depart for the home of Jorg and Mara, where Rex would set up the gate that would becoem the central location for all of Svergi movement during their war activities. It another few hours untill the ladies in question had returned with large smiles on their faces. Rex saw Maras hand adorned with a space ring, clearly stuffed with heaven grade meat, but he did not care. The amount he now had, after the slaying and harvesting of the Apexus he had slain, was incredible, so a few hundred killos here or there was more than just insignificant. Hell, even Tigra, Crystal, Snow and Diego were nwo eating heaven grade for breakfast. Something the four cats had tried to drown Rex in saliva as thanks, due to them showing their appreciation and affection. His cats were a part of the family, and would happily let the girls ride them like mounts. All but Snow that is. While the white Byakko would happily get petted and spoiled, only Rex was ever allowed to use her as a mount. The cat ahd her own reasoning and principles, but that too was fine. She had grown considerably since the start of their heaven grade meals.

With everyone present, Rex thanked Kara for her hard work and set out with his women alongside Jorg and Mara to the home of said couple. They were also joined by the five warriors who had arrived alongside the two leaders of said tribe. The five were rather confused innitially by how respectfull Jorg was towards their new allies, but after a few hours of travel, and with the demonstration of Rex capabilities for destruction, they quickly understood that the man was one mean machine for destruction.

With Rex and Jorg clearing the path and outright scaring off most of the possible obstacles it took them less tahn two days to reach the main city of Mountains rage tribe. As one would have expected, it was a large city, built into the side of a mountain. Large stone walls encompassing it, making it a fortress of formidable proportions. Rex reasoned that without a few SS class entities to draw most of the defensive force efforts away from the common rable, it would be nigh impossible to breach the place. That would also explain how said tribe could find the time to focus on honing their skill as smiths. Such security clearly gave enough freedom to develop other aspects of their culture.

Luckally for Mara, who wanted to show offher home to the women of Rex harem, said man of the house stated that he would need some time to set up the gate, giving the woman all the time she needed to achieve her desire. Not knowing the exact time she had on her hands she wasted no time whatsoever and dragged to ladies accompanying them with her. Sure, food was not part of their possible destinations, but they did not lack other things to do.

While the girls were having their fun, Jorg brough Rex to a place he had reasoned to be in the perfect location for a gate to launch their invasions from. Said place was supposed to be used for a rather large market site once they had aquired another grand tribe as their ally or subordinate. The place had all the neccessary services nearby to ensure that all the slaves brough back here would be quickly and efficiently brought in line and set to work. Countless barns for storing all kinds of goods also were close enough, and the large area itself ensured that quite the number of soldiers could ge ammassed here before opening of the gate.

Rex in turn, made said gate with the intention that it would become a hub of sorts, the main central hub for countless arrivals and departures in the future. Since this was the heart of the future Svergi nation the gate too should be made in accordance to the future needs. But Rex was already aware that his gate should be able to reach that stage and so he had hept quite a few partitions of his mind working on perfecting and developing said technology furtehr adn further. Now, he could put those countless hours of work and planning to good use.

His group spent an entire week in this place, during which Rex rarely rested, emptying out more than just one barn of the Svergi warehouses that were housing some rather usefull materials for his work. Still, by the end of the week he was done, and the gate looked quite majestic. Rex had explained in detail just how impressive his creation was, and everyone who heard of the capabilities of said gate could only nod in agreement.

The eight day in said city was spent in a celebration. To hinor the completion of the gate as well as a proper party before a start of a rather large campaign to punish bad people and earn sizable amount of recourses and slaves. Mountains Rage would now train and prepeare for when Rex calls for their services, and the man himself guaranteed that it would not take too long for him to call the warriors to action. With that said, and once the celebration was done, Rex and his women left the city, returning to Long- Shu and from there soon they were back in Blythe.

It had to be noted that even though Rex had spent most of the week working on the gate he still found a night or two to spend with his women in Elysium, as well as performing a few branding back in Blythe in his capacity as Rex, the blood mage. He had succesfully seperated the tow for the time being. An action that the more mischievous of his girls made into a game of sorts. The game was quite simple for them. If, for example Rex was having some nice and steamy bedroom fun with Val, Mel, Irina, Aisha or any other girl that belonged to 'Rex', Vivian, Diana, Seriis or any other of 'Neo's ' girl would sneak in and join in on the fun, or the reverse would happen, when one or multiple of 'Rex' girls would sneak in to have fun with 'Neo' during on of his session. Then they would guiltily admit their own wrongdoings to 'their' man during another of their steamy sessions. Rex could only sigh to this, having to decide how to punish the two elven beauties who had started the whole game of theirs. And while quite kinky in its own way, Rex was not a man who would ever tolerate a green hat. Something his girls understood well, and were only fooling around precisely because both personas were Rex. Nothing changed between the two besides the way he fought in combat. Neo used teh close combat with light magic here and there, while Rex used large scale spells and mana constructs to lay waste to anything in his path.

So, yet another week was spent in Blythe, entertaining his girls, having meetings with Eredar, Brogni and Victor to plan further ahead. They had to start to slowly organize the next large auction, since Rex's actions, mainly the earth grade meat and other deep floor goods he was offloading through Eredar, and the top tier slaves Brogni was offering, had made Blythe into one of the centers of trade for the high quality and expensive goods. City had expanded multiple times over from it was originally, and now it could be considered among the greatest trade ports not only on the continent, but within the region. Such port cities wer efew and far between, each having some extremely unique and demanded recourse making it what it was.

As with the previous one, Rex left all the planning to the trio of his friends, each and every one of them now holding a great deal of influence in their own spheres and overall in the world. Such was the power of a superior blood mage and an adventurer with a raid team that could explore deep floors consistently. Such a feat was not recorded, since it would take unreasonable loyality and faith in their leader, as well as just as unreasonable skill of said leader to maintain said faith and loyality, since a single failiure could lead to the group shattering.

But Rex had not been idle as he was entertaining his girls this past week. No, on the contrary, he had summoned more of the cosmic ravens, sending them to take positions in numerous locations across the Echlisiarchy. He was setting all the pieces in their rightfull places, as well as working on a portable gate, one anchored to an item he could place whereever he needed, ensuring he could be mobile and with an army behind his back whereever he went. And he had succeeded, the gate was ready and the net was spread out. All that was left was innitiate the plan. And then, his revenge would finally start. His revenge, and the revenge of all the innocent archons and demihumans who had suffered at the hands of Echlisiarchy. Rex had seen much, heard even more, and he could not muster any sympathy or compasion towards his targets for what he was about to start. No sir, they had earned everything that was coming.