We made good time as we travelled through the Dwarven Kingdom. While I had an urge to go and explore the undermountain some more, we did not have time for such things. Eventually we arrived at the Dominion.

Lily was in charge of the route. She had acquired a map and I left it to her to plan the trip. I was more than happy to delegate tasks. She also bought ingredients in every town we passed and worked hard on her cooking every night. I approved.

As we left the mountains we saw a lush forest. Large trees which I could not identify surrounded the area. There was a border post manned by a mixture of elves. They watched the demons in our party warily.

I approached them with a smile. Before I could talk Lily rushed ahead.

“May I present Countess Amaya Delphinium and Countess Lucy Delphinium and their servants.” She introduced us.

Erin quickly followed Lily. “May I present my lady, the esteemed queen of the succubi, Lilith.”

A man studied us carefully. He was a wood elf wearing an ornate silver breastplate over some sort of robe. Then he consulted a piece of parchment.

“One moment, my ladies.” He said. Then he started conversing with his fellow guards.

We waited patiently until he addressed us again. I even got a small bow.

“Lady Delphinium, welcome the Dominion. Lady Lilith will be considered your guest. Is that agreeable?” He asked.

I had no idea what the laws were but I was already keeping Lilith in line. Not that she had tried anything too nefarious.

“That is fine.” I assured the man.

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We got a few more bows and entered without any trouble.

“That was easy.” I remarked.

“You are a Countess, my lady.” Lily pointed out. “Nobility entering their own country should be easy.”

“I suppose.” I had not thought too much about it. But this was technically my country. So far I had been a powerful sorceress, an archfey, moving around in different nations. Nations I had no official allegiance to. I was a walking army, but I was the Dominion’s army.

“Can I now officially demand tribute from people?” Adhira asked.

“Now, you are not going to extort people.” I told her.

“If everyone here is friendly, who are we going to slaughter?” Shani asked.

“Monsters. We might be able to hunt some monsters. It might be that you will have to wait with slaughtering until our next encounter with Beira’s forces though.” I said.

“Booo. I need to collect more blood!” Shani complained. Then she looked at Lilith. “Oh, could you summon demons? You have a lot of enemies, right? Maybe you can summon your enemies and I slaughter them?”

Lilith stared at her but it seemed like she was actually thinking. “Hm. That would cause some problems. We would have to make sure that the demons die permanently. So it would have to be a permanent summon, not a temporary one. And they could tie that too easily to me. But if you are willing to help me dispose of some enemies I would not say no, assuming Amaya agrees. In time you will likely be famous enough that your involvement will point to us. But as long as you are still unknown it might give me a chance to hide my involvement in certain actions.”

I looked at Shani. “We are not going to start a war with a demon lord. Well, a new war. We are already fighting Ashmedai.”

Lilith gave me a nod. “Very well. I will consider if there is something we could do.”

“If you summon something from hell, could you bring tasty monsters as well?” Lucy asked.

“Great idea.” I agreed.

Lilith smiled. “I will see what I can do.”

“Ok, let’s focus on our actual objective, the fairy realm.” I said, then looked at Lily. “You are in charge of the route. Where do we go?”

Lily was studying a map. “We should follow the main road for now. We will need to head west. Our destination will be the palace of the wood queen. We could go faster if we moved straight through the land but I suppose the roads are more comfortable. It will allow us to sleep in inns instead of tents.”

“I do like a good sturdy bed.” Lucy said, while smirking at me.

Looking at her face I decided to take some initiative. I embraced her with my arms and gave her a long kiss. Her tails swished approvingly.

“I shall ensure that any inn we stay at has a suitably sturdy and large bed for my ladies.” Lily said.

“I assume an archfey and a kitsune will need a reinforced bed.” Lilith teased.

I blushed. “Uhh…”

Lucy was still smirking. Adhira and Shani did not care. At least Sir Francis looked embarrassed as well. Despite serving a succubus he was not used to such conversations, it seemed.

“Uh, yes, eh… let’s be on our way.” I said.

Then I confidently marched forward.