Sorry for the late. 

Part 2

There are 3 cities in the Queendom of Mulier at the moment. The capital, Mulier City also known as Queenstown.  I don’t know why common folks called it Queenstown, it’s not a town you know. It’s a city. 

This city is the center of the west where it is a self-dependent city meaning it can produce goods and services by itself not relying in export/import. This is a place where large populations of western races meet and greet here and all kinds of jobs, services and goods can be found here. This is the place where most of the ‘first’ from this world started. And that is because of me, Joe.

By the way, their culture or civilization level already reach the early modern era but there’s still a trace or a hint that the people here are from native tribes or came from ancient or classical era.

Second is the DancingQueen city. A city located at the west of the capital, approximately 900 km. It is the largest city by land area at the moment. It is govern by hive queens. 

Hive queens are ant queens, bee queens and butterfly queens with thousands of followers. They vow eternal loyalty to Mulier, Queen Eva. Most of the inhabitants here are insectoids but you can see other races living peacefully along them. 

Unlike insects where the queen controls the followers, here in this city, the followers have free will so they are not forced to work. The hive queens only guides people. Humanoid hive queens dislike controlling other people unless they are force to do. Controlling people is a stressful work you know and they are not violent or want dominance from weaker beings. 

Who wants to control people if you can ask obediently to do some things for you?

It seems they have common sense around here. The followers are just normal insectoids that wants guidance in their lives. Hive queens become guidance counselors to them instead of being a queen. 

They have also strong mind magic and can see through lies.

In this wild wild west, insectoids are different from humans who build and invent new things to keep themselves busy. Whereas non-human races just stuck in their everyday carefree and primitive life like eating, hunting, mating and pooping then repeat it for many years. Well, it’s not a bad life but boredom hits you know. 

That why they seek attention to others but misunderstood in the end. Luckily, they came to us. They want to be part of us to make their selves busy and enjoy more meaningful life like me. I can relate to them because I am bored at the beginning also.

They are peaceful creatures who want to get along with other races but other races misunderstood them and that leads to misunderstanding conflicts and worst, wars. Other races cannot win them because insectoids have exoskeleton that greatly enhances their strengths especially the antmen. 

They have proper and fast communication through their antennas to easily inform or adjust in the changing battle situations so they always win any battles especially group battles. 

Insectoids have human body and faces except for their unnatural irises, their two eyes and their antennae and some have wings. Their height ranges from 5 to 8 feet. Butterfly insectoids are one of the most beautiful creatures in this world because of their wings. They are our main clothing models. Oh no fashion again. 

They vow loyalty to us when they know that we don’t discriminate races. They only want to be part of us because they lack neighbors and social interactions from outsiders. It seems they are longing for the outside world. 

Well I understand them. If you keep talking to familiar faces for a long time to the point you can identify all names of thousands of people, they really need some change. And that change is us.

Well, there's no problem if they became our new citizens. We are glad that they come to us and we are able to help them. Another reason why they join us is because they seek protection which our country is capable of providing it. Although they can repel attackers, they cannot guarantee that their defenders return alive. So they seek protection from us. 

The wild wild west is full of sorts of danger you know and I know that there are a lot of lawless uneducated uncivilized prideful primitives or brigands harassing and plundering around plus dreaded viruses that silently kills its victims. 

Wow what a long sentence.

The hive queens are a variant to normal insectoids. They are a lot stronger and smarter. Their current number is over 100. I cannot believe that number. Surprisingly, there is no competition between them. How odd. And only females became insect queens or hive queens. 

Males can become king(s) in name only if they become a lucky partner to a hive queen. They hold no power and they are no different than any normal insectoids. They just king in name only.

 The insectoids became our main general army because they are many and strong. They only need some fighting training techniques and gun handling skills to make them efficient general infantry. The hive queens become generals, some become managers and others choose to be working as an employee to enjoy the jobs of common people. They are really interesting and unique race.

The city's name is from the dancing lady bug which is common bug in that place. They really don’t dance though. Those bugs are like dancing when they eat leaves. They move like dancing during their meals to help digest their food in their stomachs. Those dancing lady bugs have no control in eating so they 'dance' instinctively. 

Those bugs are our main ingredient in making medicines. We only collect naturally dead dancing lady bugs because they are easy to process and have a lot of nutritional values. We strictly put a law not to intentionally kill them or they will face harsh punishments. Identifying if it’s naturally die is easy to identify as it emits fragrance and mostly they die when they reach a fist-size body. 

Using efficient and effective natural resources is one of our laws that we promote around here.

Anyway, who the hell discriminate these sexy, alluring and insected-ly hot insectoids? 

Aside from their beautiful faces, good personality and charming nature, they have sexy hips you know? Of course except for males. Just who are those narrow minded sick idiots? I want them to explain!

Sigh.

The third city is named SandeReina. It is named like that because it’s a sandy place in the middle of a forested wild wild west. The word Reina is queen in Spanish. Located 1000 km southwest from Mulier City. The surroundings of that place is occupied mostly by native beastmen and other nomad races like elves and its varieties. 

The first one to live here are the wild elves who uses their magic wildly. They are really the wild in the wild wild west. Their homes are destroyed after their victory against Batia soldiers so they seek refuge at first but later on they decided to become our permanent citizens out of their free will when we hire them temporarily during the early days of this city. Maybe, they like their jobs which is comfortable, safe, fun and away from wild dangers of the wild wild west. (Wild elves vs Batia is found on v2-chap 5)

After that many nomads become our citizens. It seems these wild elves are good in socializing other people and have strong relationship with other nomadic groups. It seems nomads like to stay to comfortable places that’s why they wander around hoping to find a paradise or safe place. And the answer is this city, our country. 

Sandareina specialty is making mirrors and crystals products. Even it is a self-sufficient city, it produces mirrors and crystals as their major products because the sandy place is a unique place to mine these transparent resources. 

Crystals are main source for magic related things. Crystals are strong conductor to mana like the silver which is known the best conductor of electricity. 

Crystal technology is starting to bloom in the wild wild west, of course with the application of science. Thanks to that, we are able to reach a more fascinating crystal technology. 

Crystals are use as bullets in our current guns to add magical effect like your cliché elemental magic like fire, freeze, acid, and many more. Crystals amplifies magic so it is primarily the main raw material in making magic wands for magicians. There are a lot of technologies in crystals to tell but that’s for another chapter.

People living in this area are mostly nomad natives roaming around. This place is 10km away from Shahara desert. If you recall in my previous journeys, I purchased some lands and this one is one of those. I purchased this land because it contains resources needed for our country. Aside from sand and crystals, this place contains elixirs and natural oil wells. 

The elixir here is different from fantasy common uses like for eternal eternity or youth, for alchemy or any potion. The elixirs here are just oils and commonly use as cooking oils when I discover its unique property. It is a type of oil that makes food delicious and nutritious and its biggest secret or function is it removes any unwanted fats and substance in the food. So any fried food in this country is mostly have no fat content and no one will suffer from food poisoning. This is the most favored cooking oil in the wild wild west aside from natural cooking oils.

The oil wells here are abundant and the oils extracted from here are used as a lubricant or any machine related use and daily usage. I don’t make a fuel out of oil because it’s so smoky and inefficient in this world with magic. 

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The vehicles in this country are three-way powered that relies in magic, fuel cell and thermal to make it running nonstop. 

Oil maybe expensive in Earth but here where there are many alternatives like magic, they are one of our daily cheap products. And as for elixirs they are our irreplaceable cooking oil. Wives and females won’t eat a food if it’s not cook in elixir cooking oil.

This place is a bustling place where nomads from wild wild west meet and greet each other. I am surprised by their behavior when we visit the city. They show respect to higher ups especially to me and my queen. Even though they show primitive style of respect like kneeling or praising some kind of we are like gods, I can tell that they are different from brute and wild primitives. 

Sigh, I talked to them many times not to treat us like gods but they still worship us like gods. How annoying. Their primitive excuse is that they might anger us, their gods, for not praising them. Eventually they stop worshipping us after my Queen declares a harsh punishment to anyone worships us as gods. Oh, she is quick and clever on that.

Primitives tend to classify things or people as holy or godly if they witness new things especially the unexplainable ones. Those new things are just our powerful military, fast moving vehicles, ancient plus modern cities and modern set of clothes worn by our people which is not 'holy' you know. Sigh, I need to correct and straighten them.

I can’t believe that she really stop that nonsense idolism or else I will taste the wrath of True God sooner or later. Many ambitious people want to be worship and do extreme actions just to be praised by other people and regard them as gods. 

But here in Mulier, it’s the opposite, we authorities having modern cities, methods and technologies makes us gods in the primitives point of view. Those ambitious people will envy and jealous as we are praised and worshipped by ignorant natives. They will be more jealous and envy if those natives gives us precious metals like gold, jewelries, boulder size diamonds and many more. Luckily there is no live offering going around here. 

Well, it might be good if they worship us but it provides chain of problems in the future if we cannot stop their meaningless idolism. Problems like annoyance, possible authority abuse, tasting the True God's wrath, accidents, and they might build us embarrassing statues and figurines. 

The Mulier people know that. Everyone will get embarrassed if those natives crafted a nude statue of yours and they mysteriously know your three sizes. That’s sure is creepy and they might use it as sex toy which makes me blood lusty and blood boiling-ly angry just by imagining it. 

Thankfully, the Queen proposed two things to stop that nonsense. One is to have a proper religion and spread it in our country. Anyone is free to join or decline. Two is provide harsh punishments in worshipping living people and objects. This is to prevent paganism also.

Before I knew it, the religion of True God spreads like wildfire in and out of the country. I just gather people related to religion like priests and priestess and introduce a new religion. At first I introduce the three religions born from the middle east; Islam, Judaism and Christianity. 

I thought that they will combine those three religions as those three have similarities in it. But they betray my expectations; at the end they choose Christianity. 

I left the decision of selecting religion to people who specialize in it. It’s because putting right people in the right job is always right. 

After that I give them the material to start or found their new religion. 

When they scan the contents of the book, the Bible which I made by looking in Earth knowledge and print it, their eyes suddenly flashes with glowing light. Ah, my eyes. I am blinded! Okay, that is just exaggeration. I am not blinded okay. Their eyes just brighten and it looks like they receive enlightenment. I ask them how was it and is it possible to change their current primitive religion. They didn’t hesitantly say 'yes’.

After talking to them, it looks like I know why they are decided to say yes while having a calm and good faces like a good and behaved sheep. Christianity is one of the oldest and long lost forgotten religions in this world. The past priests wants to revive it but failed because of lack of books and Christian priests. 

Well if I remember correctly, the profession priest takes decades of training to become one even other religions have long training for becoming a priest. So it’s not surprising that the past priests failed in reviving it.

Mhhm, in other words, there are other long lost religions around. I will just stick with one religion as to not confuse the people of Mulier. Many put some negatives in talking other religions like they are awful, terror or they act like barbarians not being a religious person or not in line with teachings. 

Remember kids, remember this. Religion is a religion. People are people. Bad people are not the result of being part in that religion. Religion is one's belief and faith. It might affect the person's personality or their way of living or way of life but not entirely. A religion is like a guide to good path. But in the end, it is up to that person which path to take. 

Taking or having more than one religion is the same as serving two masters. You are two timing which is worst. You cannot serve them both at the same time. Remember that religion doesn’t save your soul, only your faith and only you, can save yourself. Oh man, sidetracked in religion. 

Let’s go back to the current state of affairs.

 As you notice, most of the city names are feminine. Maybe because it’s a place for their queen or inspire by females? Even in Earth, land names, country, ship names and other things are always feminine in nature like the mother land or mother nature. Here in wild wild west, matriarchal society is not rare. So most of the inhabitants here are ruled by females and that gave birth to city names which are feminine in nature.

If I build a city, I need to name it in a masculine city name. Just one is fine.

“Greetings your majesty, I have something to report"

The antwoman who disrupts my thoughts greets me. She is one of our finest generals. She is currently in charge in this soon to become a city under construction at the moment. She achieves many notable achievements during her 3 month of service. She is saluting me. We are like professional soldiers around here.

“Oh, at ease. General Luna. Let me hear it"

“Mataliit troops attempted to invade our borders and our fort. 30 km southeast from here"

Mataliit again. They start bothering us after they officially claim the country that borders us, the Meng Nation. I remember that Meng nation sends their pathetic hero to bully us before but perfectly defeated by us. But the real cause of their defeat is me.

 According to our spy agency named “Ispiya", the news of humiliation and defeat spreads like wildfire in the country and cause great social unrest and civil war. Most of the rebels or protestors are the families of the dead men which hold great authority and lands. Some wants revenge while others want to fulfill their desires and ambitions that lead to rise of many factions.  Feudalism is really unstable once all leaders and sub-leaders try to outdo each other.

The country collapses after the Mataliit Empire swallowed them because of lack of unity and hopelessness when the holy sword is broken and gone. 

The true property of that sword is made up of adamantite ingot and imbued with holy magic by a self-proclaimed god thousands of years ago. That sword will literally break because it is too old. It retains its original sharpness because of magic inside of it though. 

When my new machete clashed that old holy sword wielded by the pathetic hero, I already expected that I will win. It’s because logical things happen here.

 Unlike in fantasy novels where a thousands of year sword is the most superior, strongest or dreadful of all swords but here in this world, that sword is equivalent to trash. Long lost forgotten weapons and items tend to deteriorate over time so it’s not surprising that my machete easily breaks it. Hhahaha. Holy sword my ass.

 (An: Hero’s holy sword is broken after clashing with Joe's nanotech enhanced machete, the Fool's Gambit. V2-chap 6. ).

After the complete defeat of Meng, the Mataliit sighted towards us. 

They always send their self-proclaimed finest warriors in our lands but when they sighted by our defenders they always join the soil and ground to become fertilizers. Mataliit never know when to stop.

“The result?”

“They successfully become our land's fertilizers"

“Good job General. Tell the boys and the girls of that fort to expect bonus"

“Thank you sir.”

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