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Y’allaer PoV
I land on the balcony of her room. Lilith looks at me with a determined light in her eyes and holds my hands.
“Y’allaer, I lo-lo-” *BAM*
The door is slammed open and I look to who appeared there. Yoko sees us and a small smirk appears in her face. “You guys are mean! Why did you run like that? I was left behind!” She said with a crying voice, but I know she is older than that and is just playing. “I was afraid that the big Clockworks would smash me with their feet!”
She hugs Lilith who now had become red. She was flushed because she was holding my hands, and I could also see a small glint of rage in her eyes.
“You, who do you think you are to appear and enter in my castle as you please? Know your place. Sh-mua-mua-amu!!!” She started to vent everything on her mind, and she was even about to say a taboo word!!! ‘You can’t call her that!’ I sent through my eyes. She nods and I release her.
“I want to know. Who do you think you are?!” She points her index finger at her, a small amount of mana had gathered there.
“I am Yoko!” Yoko said with a small smile before running away from us.
“I should order her to be killed on sight…” Lilith muttered some words that I would need to change. If she does it everyone would die!
“You can't do that. She is more powerful than me or anyone else in the merc group. I think she would actually win against any god… If they exist… and I think just one person can control her… Alicia, the cook.” I sigh after explaining that to her.
“Gods? I think we have some… I think the humans believe in the god of the Sun, Horan, and the demons in the god of the Moon, Hyren. The elves believe in the god of Nature, Huwer, and the beastmen…” She made a thinking pose. It was cute and I wanted to kiss her lips that were pursed together. “The god of War, Yama. The dwarves pray to the Mining god, Glid. And if I’m not wrong, the Mechatronics believed in the god of technology, Atem. I’m not sure but I think those were the main gods. We probably had some minor ones, too.”
How have I never heard of them? My mom wouldn’t pray to any god. And I never asked her about everything...
“How could I have never heard of them?” I ask her. She chuckles.
“It’s easy. It looks like almost no one remembers them. They were very old and due to the battle between the races they probably had been remembered less and less with each generation.” A smile appeared in her face. “And I think we should sleep early today. Tomorrow we will need to prepare some things you would need for the raid, as well as a carriage. I should be able to create a good one by tomorrow morning.” I nod at her words and I tell her to not over do it.
She really is a cute girl. Thinking how we should bring the toys, I mean the kids, and change their mindset. She started to walk away, so I grab her hand and place a small and fast kiss on her cheek. With a silly smile I quickly get out of her room and I run to the knights' training ground.
I’m going to select the people that will accompany me to raid the human city!
I tell to her, if I don’t do this she will get mad.
Fine! Choose wisely! And you’re going to pay for running off like that!
I smiled wryly after reading her message. I arrive faster than I had thought at the knights ground. I wasn’t seeing anyone, but it would be meaningless to do it like that anyway.
Lilith had created a new type of Gondorrer, and now we shortened it to Gondo. It is small, thin, transparent sheet of something Lilith called "pass tick". It would sit invisibly over an eye and has been enchanted to communicate directly with a special machine purely via magic. This machine could convert a magic message to codes and send it as signal to the Mechatronics. Now I wouldn’t need to press any button to receive or send messages, either, and it worked with both my mana or the environment's. So to make it stop working you would need to seal every bit of mana I had and the mana in the whole area. I could even access some data of the mechas' network using it too!
It would be impossible to finish choosing the raid team alone, so Crys was helping me to finish it faster. Yoko was relaxing in the shade of a tree. It took us two nearly 6 hours to finally finish choosing the ones that will go with us. I had selected 150, Crys had chosen the other 350… Her processing power had upgraded a lot. They all had gathered in the knights' training grounds.
“You all were chosen to enter the mission we will start tomorrow. I want to see you all at the city gate at dawn! We’re going to leave when our Queen comes to see us off. We’re going to come back alive and with some prisoners to be trained as proper people of our nation! I wouldn’t want to see any of you killing them!” I said looking at their eyes or visor.
“They are going to be a good fighting force when they grow up. We’re going to create families of them. A male and a female together will help them grow as proper humans.” I was walking before them.
100 Clockwork knights, 100 Construct mages, 50 assassins, 100 marksmen, 50 scouts, 50 samurais and 50 chaos knights. They were the ones we had chosen.
“You guys will work hard and we will have 10 teams. Every team will need to have 50 men. The same number of every class divided equally.” I explained to them my plan. “Once the team was made you will vote for or otherwise choose a leader. Let it be known that if any team does not give me an answer by dawn I will nominate one of you as leader myself. And all of the leaders will report to me. Have you guys got that?”
“Yes sir!” All 500 voices raised together.
You ask how I learned to govern them? Well, I’m living with a Queen and got some lessons on how to show power before my subordinates, and how to talk to them in a way that will create respect.
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“Good. Every team must have 10 knights, mages and marksmen and 5 assassins, scouts, samurais and chaos knights.” All of them moved and created the teams. It was fast and without any disturbance I had seen in the hideout. “Very well, you guys can discuss and choose one you think is the most suitable one to be the leader. Call me back when you finish. You are dismissed!” They salute and walk away.
When they leave I sigh. “*Sigh* I’m tired! How it can be so tiring to be a leader? This is what Lilith and Lance have to endure every single day?” I wanted to take my shower and to relax in the bath.
I walk to my room. Dinner was getting near and I needed to relax a little before it, so I go to take my shower. I wash my body before entering the big bathtub filled with hot water. I could feel my tiredness melt away in the hot water. Lilith had made the baths. It would always have hot water and a fragrant scent of wood. It was so good. I could sleep here if I closed my eyes.
I spread all my limbs in the hot water. My wings, tail, legs and arms. “Ahhh! This feeling! I’m in paradise!” I said while I could feel the water relaxing my tired body. I took 30 minutes just feeling it. But my Gondo woke me up. Crys had sent me a message that dinner will be served in 10 minutes and it was time to get there.
I walk out of the water and dry myself. Walking to my bedroom I find Lilith finishing some kind of work on my table. Without bothering with her I go to the wardrobe and choose a red robe, a little surprised at how comfortable I feel being naked around her now. I wear it and walk to her. She looks to me and with a nod we go to the dining room together.
We sit facing each other as usual, talking about some of the things we did during the day. It was when I mentioned how I tried to act like an army's general that I finally got a hint on how to endure the mantle of a leader.
“After they had left I felt like I had been burned out. I wanted to know how you can manage it. I felt so tired that I thought I was a little boy again.” I said while we were eating.
“Do you want to know how we can endure it?” I nod to her question. “We find hobbies, and some other things we liked, too… or someone.” She continued to eat…
A hobby? I think I have mining and crafting as a hobby, it’s fun to do and I feel so good after doing it. Yeah I should do it today, but I need to wake up early tomorrow… Hmm… Let’s just go to bed!
We chat a little more before going to ours rooms. Before she entered her room she took my hand and tangled my fingers with hers.
“Do you know what I want now?” She asked. I shook my head. With a smirk her face come close and then she bites my ear. It was cute and exciting. It didn’t hurt but the feeling!
“*Cough* I think you two should go sleep already, you guys have lots of things to do tomorrow.” Yoko had appeared out of nowhere and was standing near us.
Quickly we say our goodnights and I walk to my bedroom. “*Sigh* What was that? My heart was pounding so hard that I thought it will explode.”
The next morning all of them had chosen their leaders.
“The leaders of the group. Take a step forward and introduce yourself!” I order them.
They did as ordered and stepped before their team. As ordered they all started to introduce themselves.
“Ace Thurin. Chaos knight!” He was the leader of the first team. He was one that could use lots of differents weapons together.
“Laura Magrav. Mage!” The second team leader continued. She is one of the best mages.
“Morgan Terry! Assassin!” The 3th captain chosen was him. He was one of the most silent assassins in this city.
“Karen Holq! Samurai!” I wouldn’t believe it if I hadn’t trained with her, but I know that she is powerful. She was the 4th leader.
“Wibre Louch! Scout!” Never heard about him… but he will probably be ok. If they choose him… That was the 5th.
“Mark Fry! Marksman!” I had seen him once in awhile, he is good using his pistols! 6th leader.
“Ruan Fort. Mage!” Oh! They had chosen a good leader. He is the guy that I almost fried once! He was chosen as the 7th leader.
“Luanna Fyt! Knight!” She is good with swords and her punches are heavy. 8th leader.
“Vlad Trend! Knight!” He is one of the best swordsmen and had developed a good targeting system that helped lot’s of people. The 9th leader sure is a good guy.
“Guran Kik! Samurai!” He can cut boulders with his iai technique. It is scary to fight him. The 10th leader was one of the scariest.
“Good! I see that everyone has a good leader. Now until we finish our mission I’ll use codenames to be faster! All the leaders will be numbered to 1 to 10!” Oh! I could see the excitement in their glowing eyes. “But note that the number doesn’t show difference in strength or importance! I will simply use it as a way to more easily send and receive messages! Was I clear?”
“Yes sir, you were!” All 500 guys shouted and I said that I would use the same order as they named themselves as their number. ‘Just to make it clear! It isn’t because I’m bad with names, ok?’ “I will use Zero as my codename.” It’s only fair that I use one, too. I would act alone. And that number would show that I was the commander.
Lilith appeared at that moment with a carriage. It didn’t needed to use any animal because she had created it to move using some kind of energy.
“This is the place where you’re going to gather the kids! Make sure that they are younger than 3 years old!” She reminded them. “Gather them in this carriage, it has a sleep function and it will help to keep the kids quiet. But remember, they will need to be fed! So Y’allaer! You’re going to procure food when needed!”
“As you command, Your Highness!” Me and others 500 voices answer at her voice.
“May the God of Technology guide your way! Atem, this time we will show you our pride!” She blesses us using their god’s name.
She walks up to me and grabs my hands. “Make sure to come back, okay?” Ah! How I wanted to hug her… but we’re before my team! So I should endure it… for now…
“I’ll be back to stay at your side, my Queen.” ‘AHHHHHHHHHHHHH HOW EMBARRASSING! WHY DID I SAY THAT LINE?!’ Lilith turns red, but without any other interruption we march towards the kingdom of a foolish king.