Hiro here. I was raised in a family where, some time in future, I would have to take a position of family head, I was raised in an uncommon customs, with plans of someday making me an imperial regent. Will that help me here I wonder, I hope my family and kids cope with loss fine.
I will have to rule in this castle until I get in contact with local royalty, they should be able appoint a proper lord later, so before I pledge allegiance to local royal or Imperial family, I must investigate the reasons to arrival of punitive force.
So I walk down the stairs with my loyal Belami and guardian mage that will throw away her life for me ‘Trudy’(Bertrudy), as I walk I ask of Belami,
“Who in this compound is good with intel?” to what he makes a complicated face and bends his head to the side, does this mean he doesn’t understand me?
“Who is the person that you rely on for info and planning?” as I finish my sentence he happily points to Trudy that is walking right beside me, looks like she isn’t just a mage but also a tactician I should learn more about this one.
“Trudy that’s your name now” I say as I point to the mage girl, she is 15 or something like that with fair and clean skin, gray eyes and long hair.
“Dusrugi what a weird name” said Belami.
“And your name will be Uno” I say as I point at a sinewy looking kinda hunky guy with green eyes, dirty blond hair, and tanned skin, with remnants of severe pox marks and some scars, covered in beard that was trimmed with a sword or an axe.
“Now this name sounds fine my King” why am I a king all of a sudden? Is it an effect of ‘Bend will’?
“Why do you call me a King?” as I ask he makes a face like I was trying to offend him.
“What else should I call the one, that I belong to and will dedicate my life towards?” well this is kind of excess attachment, in my opinion.
“If you want to refer to me, you can call me Sig, I don’t want to be referred to with unofficial title” that way people get ashamed as self proclaimed.
Before he said any thing I turn to Trudy and inquire info on current state of things.
“Now you will explain me the state of this place and reason to arrival of punitive force” she makes an irritated expression and say.
“Why should I help you, my only purpose is to die for you, after all now I am just a disposable pawn” she is sort of right, maybe I should change her instructions a bit, she will die for me even if there is no real danger to my wellbeing.
“GOL HAH DOV, You will obey my every order as I state ‘that’s an order’.” she stopped for a moment then looked at me with mischievous smile, for some reason creeps ran down my spine.
“You don’t have to die for me, you will dedicate your existence for my sake and only think of my vantage ‘that’s an order’!” her smile changed into concerned expression and she started visibly pondering on something, as we were slowly climbing down the staircase.
“Master we must clear the ranks of this gang, there is too much fools that will hinder your plans!”, well that’s an unexpected statement.
“First things first, do you want to explain to me, the current state of things?”, I must evaluate the level of her loyalty towards me.
“Why of course Master we will discuss anything you want, what information concerns you?” looks legit but can I trust her?
“Do you remember my previous question?” I hope she answers properly so I wouldn’t have to dispose of her, she is at least cunning enough to survive and conserve her beauty, in a gang full of rapists and violent battle junkies.
“Yes Master, This place is an important trading outpost between the empire and the kingdom, the main reason to send kingdoms punitive force here was, that they underestimated the battle prowess of rogue mages in this bandit gang, couple of mage’s ran from imperial academy towards the kingdom and joined this gang, me and my partner Lola, she is a ‘vector’ of wind and water she can defeat me if we fight, she is basically genius she mastered 2 elements in 5 years,” well that’s a bit of excess info but looks like she is loyal and why is she calling me a master?
“Why do you refer to me as ‘Master’?” interesting what does it mean in this world?
“The one that governs over me will be enlightened and esteemed, thee will rise to master all and rule all, you are my Master!”, now that’s what I call megalomania, but I am ok with her calling me that, I just need to make some maid uniform.
“Now then you think Lola will cause problems to me?” I am interested towards that ‘vector’ mage genius or something.
“Rora? Master must be talking about Lola? I don’t think she will be much of a problem even if she decides to rebel against master, but if we incite her, she will follow my lead and slay even her close acquaintances in this gang, we must create a perfect army for Master after all” I can’t grasp is this paranoia or megalomania?
“What do you think Uno?” I hope he is more normal than this maniacal maid.
“We do have a lot of useless fools here, might be better to throw them out or use them as meat shield in upcoming battles” what a hell is wrong with them they are talking about they’re comrades(仲間) or am I wrong?
“Aren’t they all your comrades?” or are there a close circle of comrades and then the little brothers?(舎弟 like in yakuza?).
“No, comrades can be made in army, this guy’s are just useful thugs that hang around, for food, drinks and women” isn’t that a very close definition for shatei?
“Okay then I will try to make everyone of them more useful and less disposable” that way we won't have to kill anyone.
“As expected of Master” as we were talking we got to throne room, there is a lot’s of metals stock piled around throne, even iron and steel? Why? Is iron and steel so valuable in this world?
“Why is there a stockpile of metals there?” my tone showed signs of confusion.
“That’s the most of what we took as tax, from the village a little bit of silver and a loads of copper, when the traders come we will take a toll from them too” I see so they just took whatever was shiny enough to look valuable?
“Is iron and steel valuable?” they must perceived irritation in my voice and hanged their heads.
“Master steel is an expensive metal most magic swords are made from, steel and iron are taxed to limit weapon production in the village” so there was that kind of reason.
“But what about bronze, I saw a lot of bronze daggers and swords in the village” why is there no bronze in the pile then?
“Everyone in the gang is armed with iron swords Zigu, bronze can’t win against iron” doesn’t that depend on skill?
“Well from now on we will stop collecting tax in village, and will not collect tall from passing traders.” I say as I sit on throne, I see rounded eyes of two shaken subordinates.
“Master then where will we get money and food?”, “And drinks Zigu all thugs will run away if we stop having feasts” that much is expected.
“We will issue monthly residential taxes and income taxes, but nothing more and Trudy will find a smart tax collector that will collect exact taxes set by me no more no less, and he will be in your direct control as I will set geass on him”, “Yes Master” then I think for a minute, on what to do with thugs,
“We will set monthly wages based on rank of a thug, loyal to us, first they all will have to pledge loyalty, then based on their prowess and merit they will be ranked, from little brother to big brother then minor leader and sub leader, also there is a position for leader that Uno will hold, and accountant Trudy or judge we will see who fits the bill better among our gang, now for wages little brother get’s 500 copper, big brother get’s one silver, minor leader get’s 2 silver, sub leader get’s 5 silver, and leader get’s 100 silver, then accountant and judge get 100 silver each” this should be about right.
“But Zigu where do we get that much money? Even if we pay in copper equivalent, We won’t have enough” as I smile to his statement I hear Trudy say
“Master will figure something out like penalties for mistakes or misbehavior” wow fast thinking, I am glad I didn’t kill you.
“Yes about penalties, if one fails to follow orders he will have to pay 3 wages, if one fails to do his assignment in time he pay’s 2 wages, if one brings shame upon our organisation he pays with his life, in case of unpaid debt, it will be collected as a section of a finger, I will add on to this penalties as we proceed to rise and advance our organisation”. I have a feeling that I am forgetting something.
“And finally everyone loyal to me may refer to me as Father and call our organisation Family” I guess this will be enough to set up organized crime in this world.
“Wow I never had a Father so Zigu will be my Father?”, “Master you will accept, lowly scum as your son's?” did she just call Uno(Belami) a scum?
“Why of course not they are my foster children” does that apply in this world?
“What about your own children will they have to compete for heritage with foster children?” what is she getting at? I don’t have kids in this world at least.
“No, foster children are like kings bastards, they don’t have birthright” this should be about right.
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“Call the one you can make a good tax collector out of, then call Lola and then the next in line by importance” better start recruitment and motivational speach.
Trudy returns with some obviously nerdish guy with squinting eyes, looks like they were keeping some merchant with mathematical knowledge as a prisoner to count the loot and keep tabs.
“This one was caught as a peddler, he has a poor sight and didn’t see us until we grabbed him, after we killed his mercenary, but he is good with abacus” said Trudy as if selling a slave.
“GOL HAH DOV, You will obey my every order if I state ‘That’s an order abacus’” now I think I was cruel naming him as a thing he will use to keep tabs.
“You will dedicate your life to serve me and follow my will ‘That’s an order abacus’” now I have some interesting idea.
“GOL HAH DOV, Thy eyes take a perfect shape and normalise this one’s vision” as I say that he closes his eyes and covers his eyes with hands as if something got inside.
“I see my lord I can see perfectly now, like I had never seen before” so I can command objects to?
“Pledge your loyalty and call me father from now on” I say as I point my finger at abacus.
“Yes father I pledge my loyalty to you I and follow your will to serve you for my entire life”.
A worrying thought popped up in my mind so I try something out
“Trudy do you want to follow my will now too?” I look worried at Trudy
“Yes master”, “Forget all orders said with abacus ‘That’s an order’”, “Jump Up once ‘that’s an order’” and nothing happend.
“GOL HAH DOV, You will forget all orders followed by ‘abacus’ and you will follow all of my orders when I state ‘That is an Order Trudy’”, “Jump up once ‘that is an order Trudy’” and she jumped up[good thing I can pick a shouts target].
“Abacus is your name now, what was your previous?” should I rename him?
“It was Noshhorn father” is it because his nose is that big? Well I think it’s a good thing I renamed him, but just in case let’s make sure.
“What meaning does that name carry?”, “It is the name of proud beast that spawns in dungeons with hot and dry climate” thought so.
“Abacus you will collect taxes from the villagers, based on the price of their house and lands, they will have to pay 5% of the price of property they own each month, also every one with income will have to pay 10% of their income per month, if they make any kind of product tax may be collected in equivalent amount their income.”,”Yes father”
“Trudy will control the tax collection so that no one hurt or oppose Abacus”,”Yes Master”
Now I see a girl about 10 years old about 125cm(4.10in feet) may be a bit taller, with green eyes and tanned skin she has remnants of acne marks must be bed bugs bites or something, her hair is dark and she looks like an asian of some sort.
“This is Lola, she was a commoner in the empire, until she started using water magic, as a local noble supported her to enroll her to imperial mage academy, he was expecting to take her as a wife after she ended education on elements, I was too promised to some old noble as a fifth wife.”, so now she gives backstory too
“Lola what is your life’s purpose?” I don’t want to bind a child with geass just out of my convenience.
“I want to eat well and read about magic’s” what an interesting child
“I you pledge loyalty to me you can call me Father eat well and read magic books to your hearts content, your purpose will be to study magic and then teach me”, “I pledge my loyalty Father when I get the books?”, “GOL HAH DOV, You will never go against my will”, “GOL HAH DOV, Thy skin get into perfect condition and health to accent this one’s beauty” as I finish my statement her skin starts to absorb scar tissue from acne and even out indents caused by inflammations.
“Wow I haven’t heard of magic or skill like this” now she will grow up to be as beautiful or even more beautiful then Trudy.
Then I plainly receive loyalty plages from multiple thugs, in succession as no one pics my interest I didn’t set any more geass, they all accepted the terms and conditions of service. Some look overjoyed and call me father right of the bat while smiling, others looked like they would die of fear while not raising their face of the floor.
As I finished up with everyone, I say to Trudy
“You will take the position of Judge and will help me with one’s who commits an offense, if it fit’s the penalty rules you will report to me for acceptance of punishment if it doesn’t I will set a rule to that particular offense. And Inform Abacus that he will be an accountant I hope I don’t have to explain what freedoms and liberties he has with our funds? Send him to when you inform him.”
Then I wait for their return and as they both enter I say,
“Abacus I entrust you with our funds, as an accountant you will get a monthly wage of 100 silver and a responsibility to distribute wages to everyone.” as I look at Abacus I think of a random thing and try out something interesting, {refid 0x01a9f0cb, bid Abacus} well as expected, {Abacus.SetAV Health 9000 [Health points set to 9000], Abacus.SetAV Healthrate 9000 [regeneration set to 9000], Abacus.SetAV Stamina 10000 [stamina set to 10000], Abacus.SetAV StaminaRate 10000 [stamina regen 10000]}.
“Trudy try to stab Abacus once” I say as I approach Abacus to heal him in case of failure.
As Trudy and Abacus look at me in shock for a moment, Trudy turns to Abacus and say,
“Yes Master”, As she stabs retreating Abacus-kun he screams bleeds a little, then starts to search for wound, not finding it he first looks at Trudy holding a dagger covered in blood then at me in plain confusion.
“I made you nearly immortal, but remember you are still mortal” I say as I smile at him.
{setessential Trudy 1 [set under gods mode], Trudy.setav health 10000, Trudy.setav stamina 10000}. Just in case first cheat doesn’t work I set up a safety margin to sustain some damage.
“Trudy go call for Uno”, “Yes Master!” as she happily runs to get Uno that gone to talk with thugs about something, Abacus asks me,
“How can someone become half immortal? Is it a curse of some sort? Did it happen when I pledged my loyalty to father? Is all of them are immortal now?” well that’s a lot of questions he’s like a machine gun, did that shocked him this much? I approach him a bit closer, while I equip ‘Healing’ to my right hand and fix his clothes.
“What? How? Who are you FATHER!?” I smile again and walk back to the throne, than sit down on it resting my head on my hand as I rest my elbow on a handrest.
As Abacus standing there staring at me in awe and confusion, Uno and Trudy enter the throne room {Uno.setav health 10000, Uno.setav heathrate 10000, Uno.setav stamina 15000, Uno.setav staminarate 15000}, they approach the throne and stop near the Abacus.
“Now Uno I want you to attack Trudy once as if you want to kill her”, without consideration or second thought, as he unsheathes his sword he said
“Yes Father”, and slash at Trudy at full force, Trudy wasn’t even had time to react to the attack, as she turned to look at me as if expecting the same outcome as before. But this time sword slipped on her neck without causing any injury, to what Uno, Trudy and Abacus were shocked.
“Now Trudy stab Uno once”, she smiled and said “YES, MASTER!” and stabbed Uno as hard as she could.
As before with Abacus this time Uno was patting himself on his probable wound location and not finding it, [It healed up before he reached it with his hand] then I say
“As you saw Trudy is now immortal and you two are almost immortal as I said before you are still mortal, so don’t get carried away with this newfound strength I grant you, now Trudy call Lola here” as expected Lola was near the throne room in library and was brought here almost immediately, as I look at her {refid 0x009fb8c8, bid Loli, setessential Loli 1 [set under gods mode]}, wait what? Well we will see.
“Trudy try once to draw a bit of blood from Lola”, “Yes Master” Lola looked at me as if thinking I was about to perform some ritual on her, kinda laid back thinking in my opinion, she wasn’t scared by drawn blade, is this admittance of my will? Or does she trust me with her life? Her face shows zero emotions, but then blade stops at her hand and starts to push it with the blade, she notice that it can’t penetrate her skin and then look at me, than ask.
“How you did this?”, “Everything done by me, that can be viewed as out of the ordinary, must be kept a secret”, then I look at one of copper coins littered around the throne {refid 0000000cf bid copper_coin, player.placeatme copper_coin 1000000, player.placeatme silver_coin 10000}, and then out of thin air appears a somewhat big pile of copper coins, then next second above that appears a coating of silver coins above copper coins.
“What?”(Uno),”How?”(Abacus),”Why?”(Trudy),”How?”(Lola)
“I summoned it, just like I made some of you immortal, this will be enough for the time of my absence, as I will leave you to go with soldiers to the capital”. As I promised I must deliver them to their families.