The next morning they didn't continue their construction work but were gathered in fron of the small lake.
"So what do we do now?"
Someone asked as he faced Christopher.
"Now we elect the leader, if you follow me then you'll have to listen to my plans and do what I tell you to do, if you don't want then it's alright I will just take a small group of people and leave"
The second sounded like a threat, but most of the people didn't care, four however stood up from the masses the rich muscular guy, a woman in a business lady suit and lastly a shady looking man whom was probably a small time crook.
"I'm called Lukas XXX and I am more worthy of leading us to a bright future, I say we should go out and search for other survivors like ourselves!"
The one whom stole the momentum was the mulcular guy with a good speech and a political smile on his face that could easily win people over.
"I'm called Anna XXX and you might know me as a candidate of the GCP party, I say we should all begin with establishing a stable governing system and clear rules, so that everyone can share equal rights and responsibilities"
Said the businesswoman with the red necktie, whose looks were average and could easily be confused for a gnome, because of her short height and additional weight.
"I say we don't need no rules, we don't need no police and if out there, there are any more survivors, then let them come to us, why do we need to risk our necks walking a radioactive desert just to find more burdens, we have enough problems providing food for ourselves"
The shady looking guy said, while taking out a black bandana and tying it on his head, looking more like a pirate than a candidate.
Lastly Christopher came out with his speech.
"I have Information on the outside world, a way to find food and the ability to go anywhere around the world at will, what I want is to become a Tyrant"
His words made everyone shocked, his words were like the post election speeches of politicians in more humanly understood language.
Like saying vote for me and I will give you jobs, I will give you national pride, I will give you peace of mind.
Only instead of "vote" he shamelessly says "kneel".
there were 996 people voting and their campaign went on for days. Christopher was the only one whom did no move to take over voters, the other candidates would rally speeches, meet with people, kiss little baby bottocks, in general words building a good image for themselves.
A week passed and the three candidates were still talking about promises and trying to draw people to their side.
"I think that it's time to vote"
Christopher suddenly said, making everyone shocked, he was the only candidate whom did nothing but stalk Alexxa for the last week, making sure that no one hits on her.
"Wait this is too sudden, we need more time!"
Lukas the muscular guy said.
"Yes we need more time to prepare the ground!"
Anna said somewhat panicked.
"Elections here and now!"
The anarchist said, not caring if he will win or not, although he had made a few brothers over the span of the past week.
"How long do you think you can rest without working while our foodstocks go down?"
Christopher asked them, making the two unwilling candidates shut up, they couldn't say shamelessly, 'but you said you can bring us food!', that would lose them votes.
"Now lets begin with the final speech, you don't mind if I go first?"
Christopher asked them and then shamelessly went up the podium created by the others candidates, for their public speeches.
The moment however he went on it he disappeared in a strange purple hue, slowly fading away, making everyone shocked.
The other candidates wanted to shout "come back!", they were simply too dependent on him, since the food was running out and they had no idea what's the situation around the world.
five minutes later however Christopher reappeared, he was now holding a cardon box with cans and a bag from the super market full of goods. Making his appearance seem like a husband returning from the supermarket.
"This is my way of procuring food, I can teleport to alternate timelines and back, where I went there was no doomsday, thus there are lots of shops and greenery"
Christopher said as he put down the box and begun to take out some stuff from the super market bag, a pair of sunglasses a set of new underwear and a shampoo.
Making all the people shocked by his expanation, in reality no one believed him, in their opinion he was simply bullshiting them, there must be a super market somewhere in this wold and seeing the greek letters on the bags and box it mustn't be too far away, they had a few people with flying abilities.
But when they saw him take out a newspaper they were shocked, since the woman whom was next to them was on it, because it was elections, he had intentionaly chosen a newspaper with one of them on it.
"I'm sure you can all understand that these tricks cannot full my discerning eye, as if he could teleport to different timelines that's simply prepostrous!"
Shouted Lukas, not knowing how to win votes.
"I say that there is a supermarket somewhere nearby with still some stuff inside, we shouldn't be losing time debating but going out there looking for it"
This was his come back, a realistic plan with a fantastical goal.
"I say we rebuild democracy in the mother of democracy, here in greece, if you vote the others there will be no democracy at all vote for me and as your president I will allow other people like them by my side as the parliamentaries, after all we need people whom can think for themselves and aren't afraid to voice their opinions, we vote freedom, we vote for democracy!"
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There was nothing to say his speech was well done, a weak start, promises for the future, history lane and a strong come back and slogan.
"Don't listen to empty words, we are the people and as people we must fight for equal rights, you there, what's your power?"
She suddenly asked a timid looking man in the crowd.
"Me, I'm only slightly stronger than the average man"
The man said.
"You?"
She pointed at a wooman whom was holding a baby.
"I can make stuff float"
She said dejectively.
"And you my dear?"
she pointed at a girl no older than 14.
"I can make things explode"
She said with a bright smile, making all whom were able to see her feel somewhat sad.
"All of you are people, yes our powers are not useful, I myself have a power that makes my subordinates stronger, faster and smarter, I don't ask any loyalty or fielty like a king, what I ask is for you to work alongside me, to share the same burdens and enjoy equal threatment, equal distribution of labor and food, you can't have one people eat his fill and let thirty hungry"
her speech was radical and she had bombarded them with equality again and again, it was of course evident that since Christopher had divided them into groups depending on abilities there was no equality present, some groups were useful and others not.
"You must fight for your rights, vote for communism, what is mine, is also yours, vote for sharing love and hardships, a vote for values, a vote for dignity!"
Her start was slow but powerful, her middle was also long, but it contained some known facts and present problems, lastly she finished with a powerful slogan.
(do notice that 'what's yours, is also mine', is not included due to political reasons, because people hate other people taking their stuff)
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Non the less the reception was good and now the last person came up the pondium.
"I say screw democracy, I say screw equality, those whom are strong should rule over the weak, yes I'm not as useful in constructions, I'm not as useful at cleaning, but as a veteran of the special forces I can proudly say that I can kill any one of your present here in a hundred of ways, We are strong and we don't need people telling us what to do, let those whom want to work, go work themselves to death, let those whom desire to rule go rule themseves to death, what we need it to unite and take over...gulp"
Before he could talk any farther, he begun to have problems breathing, the healers from the group sped up and begun to heal the man.
The people whom were ready to get out of the croud and try taking over begun to think it over, they didn't know what had happened, but someone had seemingly done something.
"I propose we let him die, so that some others understand that there is no strong and weak, there are only the essential and the useless, what's the use of killing us all, do you propose a mass suicide or do you believe that there's some supermarket on the other side of the mountain, go outside and look, you can probably see all the way down from where we are now, just send a person to fly around and you will easily find that we are alone"
The one speaking was Christopher and this was his real speech, showing his disdain for those whom didn't know but dreamed, for those whom didn't want to work but wanted to eat, for those whom were scared to speak their mind but wanted to be threated as equals.
"I say I should teleport away all those I deem useless, like that person's mother, that mother's baby, that child whom known only how to smile and make things exlode, what will change? nothing even if they are there or aren't, nothing will change, the only reason why I'm however leaving them be is, because her son is essential to our survival, the baby's mother is essential to our survival, the explosive girl's brother will be in the future essential to our survival, you whom think yourselves useless, while there is time begin to study, there are a few specialists among ourselves, ask them to teach you, don't just stay there asking for equal rights, go gain them yourselves, don't go saying you aren't free, you are all free to leave if you don't want to stay, in truth there's only one person whom I will force to stay even if she tries to leave, but that's none of your fucking business"
Christopher said making the crowd shocked, it was true that they had been simply loitering around, not caring at all to learn new stuff, but can you really blame them, there were no plans for the future and nothing to direct them, they were completely lost and the hope of finding a source of food or survivors was probably wishful thinking a mere hope, equality too was an illusion as people can never be equal, they simply aren't born equal.
"Now I want everyone to whom votes for me to enter the rooms at the right, to the left side, everyone that votes for Lukas to head to the right and right side, for Anna to the left and left side and for the maniac to the left and right side"
Christopher said making everyone shocked once more saying to themselves, 'aren't elections considered to be secret or something'.
"I will say it only one time, I don't do these elections because I want to, I do them because they have to be done, for example we only have two doctors, they might not want to follow me, thus I won't force them, but since they are essential for our survival, I cannot leave them suffer if some people decided to take them for a walk on some roach infested forest"
Christopher said, making them all shocked, but generaly not understanding why these elections were held.
"Just get into the room of your choice, all but you"
Christopher said, teleporting Alexxa by his side, making her try to shove him away, but he didn't mind, he liked it rough.
The voting ceremony was unorthodox, but they didn't really mind, there were only a few still choosing between left and right.
In the end the winner was Lukas with 386 people, second was Anna with 251, next was the Maniac with 235 and last was Christopher with only 123.
Of course if you look at the numbers it looks like he had it tough, but in reality he was very happy, because the 123 were all essential people that he wanted to take with him, the rest could go kill themselves for all he cared.
"All those whom voted for me I will be taking them away, if you need anything from us you are free to trade stuff for services"
Christopher said as he took the people and teleported away, he left 875 people speechless with their mouths open.
That day however was a determining point to the future as from that day on, there were two underground cities, which were also close to one another.
One being the Democratic camp and the other the Tyranic camp.
The democratic camp had all the ratios and water, they even had a few water and earth mage and manipulators, in other words they could still expand their base and search for supplies and survivors.
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The Tyranic Camp could order whatever they wanted Christopher to bring back, simply making a shoping list was the right description, but they had to obey all of his orders as a return.
Christopher had them create a new hole in the ground, but this time they weren't making the entrance to be huge enough for many people to enter, but a passage where at most three people walking side by side can enter, they also didn't make it complex, Christopher only had them make one big room and then disappeared, till then the fire mages were their source of light, but when he returned with flashlights, a portable generator and a power cable they were all shocked, of course it took him around half an hour to get all the stuff(generator,flashlights,batteries,powercord).
"This is the plan, you will dig around a square, to the right will be the hospital to the left the barracks"
Christopher said, making the people shocked once more, not understanding.
"Just begin filling half of the room up and then make two tunnels to the left and right"
Christopher explained so that they could understand.
The people whom had nothing to do were writing down stuff they will ask for him to brink back from the "alternate timeline", they might not entirely belive its existence, but if he could bring them everything they wanted there was no problem with obeying some stupid orders.
"Now harden the walls there and there, you open a small well here and then fill it with water"
Christopher begun to order them around as the constructions went on.
"Tonight we have some delivery food and hot pizza I hope the stone tables are ready"
Christopher said as he handed over the hot boxes of pizza, the fried wings and potatoes, some refreshments and lastly two big bowls of pop corn.
"I'll go bring back the rest"
Christopher said disappearing once more and reappearing with more food.
It was strange how their life had changed by choosing to follow him, from heated food cans they could now enjoy hot baked pizza, potatoes and other things that three years ago were as common as breathing. That night they even had alcohol, what else did they need.
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At the democratic side they were now having a real orphodox election, where what you voted would be kept confidential, you could vote anyone you wanted as a person of the new parliament, but three people were already elected individuals, Lukas was president, Anna and Thanasis, whom everyone begun calling the Maniac.
Since they were only a small group they decided that the parliament would only include 30 people, and since 2 were already elected, 28 seats were open.
Of course there were plenty of ambitious people and connections played a huge role, as for the matters of expansion, procuring food and searching for survivors, those can wait, because today they were deciding on the candidates.
For tommorrow they had planned to create the parliament, a room large enough to house 100 people with a pondium and seats like those of an ancient theater, they were rather proud of themselves for its design.
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The next morning there was a huge commotion as Christopher almost killed a man, the reason was because he disobeyed one of his orders.
He drank one too much a drinks and then went to have a happy night with his wife, while Christopher had forbidden such acts until the hospital was up and running.
It took Alexxa a lot of pleading to save the man's life and even made it so that he was let off with a simple precaution instead of getting himself exiled.
It was a good thing that they had a healer who could regrow limps since half the man's hand was nowhere to be found.
Christopher was already irritated that the construction workers were late, but seeing people whom don't even non essential people disrespect his orders it made him mad.
Once everyone was up, Christopher begun to tell them a few things, first of all he has no patience for those not essentials, meaning the soldiers whom will be guarding the gate and the dead weights whom have no abilities of use whatsoever, but still trecked with them, thinking that this will be an easy ride.
Once the Camp is set they will be setting up the "Dwarven system" of currency, the stuff on the shelves will cost DP and he will be the one to set the prices for everything, if they don't like it they can go to the old camp and go back to eating cans.
Everyone still had an aftertaste from the fresh food and were rather reluctant to return back to their old food habits.
Thus the order was restored and since everyone had gone to Axis some begun to explain what the dwarven system was. It was generaly a system to turn people into slaves, there was sheldomly anyone whom became free before he was near hid death roes.
The worst thing was that you were forced to do low DP work and you could still enjoy the commodities, but if your DP didn't rise in a month you would be disposed off.
Of course there were many who didn't like the sound of it, but since they could freeload a little longer they wouldn't mind staying for a while longer before being kicked out, what's the worst thing that might happen, dying? who cares.
The room that would house the hospital was ready, but there were sceduled to be patient rooms right next to it, it was a pain the ass building it and it would probably take a year before they finaly build the whole camp.
At the moment only two rooms are ready, the barracks, which at the moment is a large empty room sheltering the 100+ people and the Hospital which is around the same size and as empty and desolate.
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When Christopher wasn't around giving them orders, he was teleporting back and forth from dimensions to bring them food and some essential things the girls asked him to bring, a rather large list, half of which he couldn't find in the super market.
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Ignorance is Bliss, while the people in the democratic camp were eating the cans Christopher had left them, they begun to joke about how lucky they were that they din't choose him, how he was probably slaving the others away day and night to build himself a fortress or something.
-Nope they're probably building him the pyramids
-with a nice sphinx nearby
-Do you think that the super market exist?
-Who cares all we have to do is go beat him up and ask him where it is
-But what if he teleports away?
-Then we will have our fun with his little missy
-What if he teleports us away?
There were tons of discussions going on as there was nothing to do, the elections for the parliament were still on and out of the 875 people more than half run themselves for the parliamentary.
the elections were set for next week and since they had a newspaper, they thought that at least they knew what day it used to be.
The most eventful thing to happen at the democratic camp was the water mages filling up the water lake Christopher had ordered them to create.
And although the parliament was already planned it's building could wait for until after the elections.
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At the Tyranic Camp the workers were going at a steady pace, Christopher had brought clocks to make sure that the schedule is done, a full 8hours, as for those with warrior and scout professions they were given hand watches and sent on patrols, they didn't have modern weapons, but they had their way when it came to hunting.
It was also this day that they encountered their first Roach, a horrible creature the size of a cat or a dog, it rushed towards them the moment it saw them like crazy, trying to bite at them.
It was fortunate that they weren't ambushed due to the scout's good sight and sensory power, but from that day on this was their job. They would be patrolling around the entrance and killing any roach in sight, not leaving any alive, if they found eggs they had to call a fire mage to torch them clean.
The roach although eddible wasn't the most appetizing of food stocks, thus they burned it to ashes and send them fly with the wind.
When the patrol returned they begun to describe their encounter with the roach as if they had slayed a dragon, an epic tale that would be more appropriate for the world of Axis, rather than the real world.
Of course when night fell there was no patrol outside, but there would be guards inside the tunnel holding flashlights trying not to fall asleep.
They had two objectives on their patrol, first not to let roaches into their new home and secondly to report any hornicating and immoral behaviors, which of course they wouldn't do, but just in case they disuaded people from doing so due to Christopher liking to go on night walks, appearing like a vampire in the middle of the night.
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Unlike the tyranicals, the democratic's first encounter with a roach was inside their own camp, it was eating on a human corpse and only after hearing a scream right in the middle of the night did they wake up to see the horrible scene.
The roach was easily killed, but before they could turn it into carcoal and ashes, the wise President told them that they had to keep it as emergency supplies, they could even trade the roaches to the tyranical camp maybe they can give them information on where the supermarket is.
Of course there were many opinions, but in general they decided to store it away turning it into a roasted roach.
The death of a person however had a bad effect on their morale.
From that day onwards they begun to patrol around their camp and would sheldomly see lights in the distance.
Of course they were shocked to find that the other camp had flashlights, but they had fire magic, which wouldn't run out of batteries.
There were five days till the elections and the people were getting restless. Not because of the elections, but because they lived in constant fear of waking up dead, eaten by a huge roach.
President Lukas said that they should form an army, they had lots of people whose only skill was fighting they would become their army and protectors, he himself volunteers to take the first shift(the one when the sun is still out).
When however the time to patrol came he excused himself in the middle to go have a dump and only returned before the end of the patrol, leaving everyone speechless, but they couldn't say anything it was after all human, taking a crap.
In the night patrol they once again encountered a roach, this time however they victoriously slew it with a single blow. Roasting and storing it like before, only difference was that this time there were no victims and morale was high.
Four days until the elections the patrols were now more organised and the muscular president suddenly announced that they now didn't need him anymore, thus he was retiring from the night patrols.
That day however they had a huge problem, one of the women in their camp whom was pregnant said that she was about to give birth, the people begun to panic, their only two doctors had left with Christopher to the Tyranical Camp, well they knew that it wasn't too far, but it was still somewhat unfair for him to take away both doctors, he could have at least left one behind for them.
Since however they couldn't have her suffer a miscarriage, they people begun to carry her to the Tyranical camp.
They weren't allowed entrance but the woman was taken on a stretcher inside, they didn't even allow the child's father inside, saying that he should get ready for the fee, asking him whether he was an essential or not?
Of course the man had no idea, altough in truth no only he was not an essential, but he was part of the ones with with useless abilities, even his profession as a driver wouldn't help him much.
When the Guards outside heard his ability they looked at him with eyes full of sorrow, telling him that he should go back to the old camp, he will probably only see his wife in a month or three.
Their words made him enraged, but he knew that if he tried to fight with them, then the sound from the battle might affect his wife's condition. Deep inside however he promised that he would return to take his wife, maybe in a week or so.
Three days before the elections three men came to their camp saying that they came for the payment, also informing them that it was twins.
The guards didn't understand what the payment thing was all about, thus they did what everyone would do, they went and woke up the snoring President and the husband to go negotiate with them.
"The boss told us that the fee will be rather low, only 100 fee for the proceedure and the bed, and another 30DP if you want the babies to be healthily brought up, which will take around 6months, he said that you could also order some baby cloth for 2DP a packet, the milk goes at 8DP and the creme at 3DP"
The person whom spoke used to be one of Maniac's people, but now he came bearing a list of prices and comodities, they couldn't tell why but this felt rather sureal, what they didn't however understand was what DP stood for.
"Could you explain the manner of payment again?"
The president asked rather politely.
"Have you been to the Dwarven Country of Munnero?"
The messanger asked him, but the President didn't have much experience, he had only slowly grinding for levels when someone defeated the demon god and sent them all back to earth.
"Well the dwarves have a sort of loaning system where you can by whatever you like but you have to pay afterwards, if you don't pay then you can't leave their mines, and if your debt is too large then you are kept as a mining slave, the worst however was when people couldn't make any DP in a month and were executed for their meager experience worth or to feed some beast"
The messanger explained, making the president shocked of how little he knew of the world of Axis.
The problem however was what did they want from them? Did they they want them to send slaves to them or something.
"Lets cut to the chase, since you have no DP at present, the Boss has told you to sent some earth experts ones whom know how to dig, their pay will be a generous 5DP a day per person sent, in other words depending on how many you send over they might end in one-two days, if you send more they might even get some left over DP you can use to order stuff"
The messanger's words made sense, but the president had another question.
"Then how much DP is it to learn the place of the marketplace?"
The president asked, making the messanger look at him as if he was looking at an idiot. By now everyone on the New camp had begun to believe that he was going to another dimension, otherwise there was no way for him to bring them hot food in the middle of the wasteland, another posibility was that he was going all the way to Italy, since he tended to bring a lot of pizzas.
"I'll tell you for free, he goes to Italy"
The messanger said while making a serious face.
"good one, well so how much do we owe again?"
The president asked.
"100DP for the operation and an aditional 30 if you want the babies to be taken care for for the 6 first months, you decide do you want it to be 100DP or 130DP"
The messanger asked.
"And what will happen if we don't pay?"
The president asked, making the husband somewhat nervous and angry, it was a good thing that he hadn't voted for him.
"Well in that case she will be kept at our base until she can pay off her debt"
The messanger said, making the people there a little angry, imagining lots of stuff with their minds.
"Could I pay it instead of her or help paying it off?"
The husband said, but the dialogue with him was rather short, they simply asked for his skill and then said a blunt "No".
"Come back tommorrow as we will have to hold a meeting on this occasion, after all the earth masters are still people, I cannot simply send them to you without asking for the public opinion"
The president said.
"There's no need for me to come over again, this time was special since you probably didn't know what DP are, just send the diggers over if they agree, if they don't then we will just keep the woman and the child, you will probably see them in a year or ten"
The messanger said making them shocked and before they could ask him more question he and the men behind him turned around and left.
"Wait! how much DP could we sell a roased roch for?"
The president shouted from behind and suddenly the three men turned around and begun to laugh.
"Don't tell me you keep those, we simply turn them to ashes when we kill them, we have killed around 30 in the past few days, if we knew you ate them, then we would be considerate and bring them to you just to see you eat one"
One of the soldiers next to the messanger said, mocking them to a degree that the guards wanted to simply kill the man, but they held back since they didn't want to go into hostilities in case they decide to escape and build their camp further away, which would cause them not a few problems especialy since they didn't have any doctors or way to procure food other that roaches.
"You know if your wife decides to become a prostitude, I will take good care of her"
Another man said, making the people of the old camp even angrier.
"Don't be nervous, everything will go fine"
The president put his hand on the poor husband's shoulder, successfuly calming him down.
A few hours later when everyone was awake they were called to gather at the hall in front of the lake and next the show begun.
"The Tyranical camp is blackmailing us, they say that if we don't send our earth masters to work for them for a month they won't let our fellow person's wife and children return to him, those of you who have families should harden their hearts and go, we ask only for volunteers, forcing people is their way not ours, so how many are willing to go prove that we at the Democratic camp have heart, have compassion, have humanity!"
The speech wasn't too long, but it moved quite a few people, the problem was that all earth masters were looking at one another, there was a reason why they hadn't voted for Christopher despite being part of those he called essentials.
They were the sort of people that when the boss turns around will begin to chat happily and work only when e looked at them, but Christopher was like a slavedriver, he liked to oversee everything it was as if he was holding a whip and telling them to work faster.
Whom of the remaining earth 32 earth mages and 49 manipulators would want to experience that for a month, even a week was hellish, as while the others had free time with the elections they would still have to work like slaves to finish the Democratic camp.
"It seems that I wasn't clear enough, the one month was meant if 1 person went alone, if 10 went then it would be 1/10 of that, if all of you went then it would probably end in a single day, but I'm really suddened to see that our democratic camp has no heroes"
The president's speech made them feel a little ashamed of themselves, but if it was only for a single day, everyone begun to offer to do it and even glorify the democratic soul, the heart of humanity(since some of them were mixed races, elves and dwarves).
Two days before the elections all 81 earth masters headed towards the tyranical camp.
One day before the Election they all returned took their families and left for the tyranical camp, thus 142 people left, 142 potential votes disappeared that day, the problem however didn't stop there, the people whom had left had spread rumors which in turn cause more people to start packing.
The problem was whether they would be considered essential or not, for example not all fire mages are considered essential, the same for earth and other elements, those whom are more battle oriented are considered non essential.
Of course there are also people whom are considered dead weights they are people whose powers are either too destructive in nature or provide almost no bonus abilities, like Costas power that simply boosts himself making himself stronger than average people, the problem was that a dwarf might be stronger than him, an elf faster than him and an ork, well...
Thus people begun talking about which abilities were considered essential, others talked about marrying essential people in order to move over, there was a huge chaos going on and it wasn't because of the ongoing elections.
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At the New camp today their number became double, Christopher now had no time looking after the work as he had to bring back enough food for a truckload of people.
He however didn't care since he had already explained his plans for the camp, the only problem was that the people coming from the old camp were like hungry ghosts, eating food as if there was a hole in their stomachs.
Christopher however was really enthousiastic since more workers means that the work will go faster and once the camp's ready then the dp system will begin to show its worth.
The next day there was a huge sea of people in front of their camp, asking to be accepted into their camp, he wasn't sure, but it looked like all the people from the old camp had come to kneel before him.
Thus instead of an Election for a parliament begun as selection or essentials and non essentials.
Essenials were imediately given a post and would have a steady pay just for being there in the camp.
Non essentials would still be given posts, but they would not have a steady pay.
Lastly there were the dead weights, whom would not be allowed to the camp unless they have some family members to take care of them.
Of course they were told that there were few possible punishments for dissobeying orders, most common being death, but depending on one's importance to the camp, some might be forgive, for example an essential will not be threated the same as a non essential for exactly the same offense, dead weights should better refrain doing anything against orders.
When the people heard the rules, many didn't agree and turned to live, more than half of whom had come turned around. Never the less around 300 people stayed to see if they could join, most of whom were mages, manipulators and healers, after all there were never enough healers.
When Christopher begun examining the people however he found that not many of them were what he called Essentials, well they weren't dead weights, but still not essential.
The problem occured when a really beautiful woman's turn came to be tested, but her ability made her a dead weight, something called a poisonous kiss.
Christopher sized her up and down, her looks body was half naked under the ragged clothes she wore, making her even more appealing, 2,5 years in the shelter did little to preserve her once fashionable t-shirt and jeans.
"Would you let me do you in to enter the camp?"
Christopher asked her, whispering to her ear.
The woman became sceptical, she begun to think that her ability was probably non essential, but the man was trying to take advantage of her due to her beauty and charm, she was rather self concious and knew that there were many people whom liked her, but why would she care, she let them feed her and look after her, but now a person was trying to take advantage of her.
"Never I would rather die!"
She said, making the people around understand the crux of the situation.
"Well you can always go find a husband I guess, your ability is a dead weight, I can't even think a use for poisoning creatures with a kiss, I highly doubt you have ever kissed a roach before"
Christopher said, making everyone laugh, but making her real angry with him.
"Call out the Boss of this place, this person is bullying me!"
She cried, but everyone begun to laugh even louder.
"Sorry, sorry, I just thought that you already knew that your ability was a dead weight and came as some sort of seeking a backdoor, but in all sincerity if you can give me a single use for your ability I might register you as a non essential resident"
To his words she answered with a single phrase.
"I could kill you"
The moment her words came out the guards around begun to summon their weapons, every one of them targeting her.
"Not enough, that's not useful at all, every single person here can do what you can do, even those without powers can do that if they found me sleeping"
His words made her sceptical, she didn't know what use her powers could have.
"For example can your poisons do anything other than killing?"
He asked her sincerely, but not exactly surpring she didn't speak at all.
"See even you can't find a use for your power, lets go for another road, what was your profession before the end of the world?"
The moment those words came out she begun to cry, truth was that she was only there on vacations and was swept with the rest of them, she wasn't even a local and was the wife of a millionaire.
"So no profession and no useful skill, leaving only your looks, but you wouldn't even let the boss of this place touch you, thus give me a reason as to why we should keep you, my advice to you, go find some useful guy to escort you in, after that I don't care what happens"
Christopher said, making her lost and still full of tears.
"Whatever seeing as you are good at acting I will ask for you, Does anyone want to escort the lady inside, she lacks a strong backer!"
Christopher shouted and many young and old men begun to offer themselves, problem was that they were morestly non essential people, meaning that her life wouldn't be much better, the worst was that the only essential one was fat and ugly.
"Can't you escort me inside?"
She asked him, after all he was only 19 this year and although he seemed average looking, he seemed to hold some prestige there, although she still hadn't understood whom he was.
"I don't do charities"
He said making her puff up like a small child, her cheeks having turned pink from crying earlier.
"Isn't here another way?"
She asked slyly and then looked at the few people visible from outside, they seemed to be looking at her.
"I already gave you two ways inside, but since you are asking for another if you agree to be my pet, then I might let you in"
His words made everyone there look at him with a new pair of eyes, the simply didn't have him as a pervert till that day, but it seems that he is still a weak willed man.
"Isn't that the same as the first offer?"
She asked weakly, the last offer for some reason sounded even more horrifying than doing her in.
"Oh, but it is different, if you take the first offer I will taste you and leave you to your own designs, with the second you will find a husband and with the third you will no longer be free, but I will feed you, pet you, love you and protect you"
He said making her feel somewhat strange, all women wanted people whom were willing to do everything for them, but she didn't understand how to interpret the not free thingy, was it as in a marriage not free or a prisoner not free.
"Choose your poison"
Christopher said, making her bit her lower lip trying to chose, but she didn't understand anything, there were still lots of people waiting for her to choose them.
"I chose to leave!"
She said with a victorious tone and went a few meters away from the camp looking at the other people going on with their selection, there were three other dead weights like herself, two males and one female, but they weren't given the same three options, all they could do was find someone to get them inside, the woman even said that she was willing to be fucked or even imprisoned for a place inside.
Christopher did the same he asked if anyone wanted to escort her in, but only the ugly fatty was willing, to her surprise the average looking woman was more than willing to follow him.
It made her remember how she had married her elderly husband because of his money, but before she could enjoy even a hundredth of his fortune she was swept in this mess.
Unlike the woman however the two dead weight men were less fortunate, since their looks could at most be called average.
One however was still allowed to go inside, as he found an ingenious use for his skill, he was a human calculator and although truthfully they didn't need him, but he had secondary abilities, he can calculate the angle of a canon, throw stuff with great accuracy and some other skills that sound rather unimpressive, what however he said he could do for the camp, it was measuring materials and space, meaning he could without tools cut a log to the right size to fit perfectly and in Axis he had survived as a blacksmith,potion maker,tailor and carpenter, he knew a little of everything.
His words might sound desperate, but Christopher was rather interested in whether he trully knew any of that, if he knew anything about tailoring and carpentry then he could become quite useful in the future, not the imminent, but still the future.
In the end only two people were refused entrance, she and the other male dead weight, but before she could get far enough from the camp the guy suddenly snapped and attacked her.
He begun to fondle her breasts while locking her arms behind her back, she tried to throw him off of her, but he was still a man of considerable weight.
"I want to see how deadly your kiss can be on my cock"
He said as he begun to take off his pants.
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That day the Elections for the parliament members still went on, but there were new candidates, since many of the old ones turned coats and went to the tyranical camp.
"I speak for all women, we are not just tools for men to relax their pent up stress, we are not slaves for their kitchen we have as many rights as they have"
You might have guessed it but the spokeswoman was the same pretty woman whom was almost raped, but her poisonous kiss was the real deal and he instantly died from a kiss on his...
"My name is Curie and I vow that I will protect our dignity as women"
Her speech didn't have much of an effect on the women presented but her outfit moved many men since her clothes were even more revealing than usualy.
After the Election president Lukas came to find her.
"You are vote three votes, but we could do something about it"