“Master, you must take a bath!”
“Master, bath with me!”
“Master, I’m dirty. Clean me!”
“Stupid, you’re supposed to clean Master!”
Instead of waking up in the arms of several beautiful women, I woke up with several little girls on top of me. Each one of them had exotic colored hair, not unlike the fae. However, they weren’t that mysterious race from overseas that had once proceeded humans as the dominant species on this planet. These were little girls that Astria had once experimented with, attempting to turn human beings into fairies.
She had eventually explained to me her logic. In Gaia’s world, mana was a substance that connected the world with the people in it. It needed to be continuously consumed to keep the world working. Mana allowed people to level, earn jobs and cast spells. It was responsible for the vague concept of experience, which was why killing monsters netted you so much.
Fairies were the native species of such a world, and while base fairies were closer to an insect, with a queen bee that controlled all of the drones, they were also capable of growing and evolving into other beings by accumulating mana and molding it into new forms. These evolutions affected how the fairies could create mana. A sylph could create mana with wind, while a dryad extracted it from trees. It wasn’t clear to me exactly how they did this, and they weren’t even able to describe it. It’d be like me explaining how I breathed.
I also didn’t understand how the new fairy was made. It had something to do with fairy dust, which seemed to be like catnip for fairies. Ultimately, Astria’s goal had been to create more fairies like Celeste, who was a half-human, half-fairy. She thought that if she could make such powerful fairies like her daughter, she’d be able to take back the mana stream and rescue her daughter from it.
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However, then I appeared and put a stop to her experiment. The little girls were healed and returned to their homes, only for them to turn out abnormal. First, their hair turned different colors. Then, they started exuding strange abilities. Ranging from about 8-13, their parents didn’t know how to handle the little girls, and they somehow ended up being hired by Faeyna, who was training them to be maids. They are neither fairies nor humans. They are different from the evolved fairies, another product of her experiments, but I didn’t use them in my battle for obvious reasons.
Now, about a half dozen little girls in maid-out fits were crawling all over me. I probably did stink a bit. I had been resting while the dungeon was growing and things were settling down. I was alone in bed because now that most of the girls were all back, they agreed they couldn’t do anything until Terra got her body back. It’d be pitiful if she had to watch the other girls have fun while she couldn’t even get in the bed with me.
Well, that didn’t stop the girls from sneaking into my bed for a romp, but that was a secret. Shao was a master of sneaking in the darkness, and Celeste could literally become any size and even become invisible. Miki could alter people’s minds and walk by any guard who wouldn’t remember her passing. As for Lydia, she also had her ways.
“Fine, let’s go bath.”
“Yay!”