Becoming Their Husband... Publicly

"Now, if you may. I have an army to raise, quite so." Heian Ciemnosc grinned at the envoy, who was perplexed still. The envoy frowned slightly, but Heian Ciemnosc passed on to ignore the envoy and walked forwards. The spaceship that came for him was enough for a million people plus crew members to board. However, that wasn't enough for 300,000,000 and a couple million kilometers-long Drake Blue and its family.

“W- what do you intend to do?” When the envoy saw the Blue Drake slowly float in the air and move towards the direction Heian Ciemnosc faced as the latter started to step into the sky with the rest of his people. The envoy felt somewhat strange.

“They let you name this land like this, but did the Calatida Region really give you permission? And, did the Kingdom just approve of it?!” The envoy shouted, unconvinced. Heian Ciemnosc stopped, seemingly stricken. However, he just turned around and looked everywhere around as if he was inspecting the corners of his new house. Then, he looked at the envoy and shrugged.

“...!” The envoy was flabbergasted. At that moment, the world seemed to rumble, trembling a little. However, not even the envoy, a Godly cultivator, could discern it. Heian Ciemnosc revealed an eased grin. His facial features put the inhabitants in the plaza at ease.

The exchange between their acclaimed leader and the envoy was slightly… something. However, the black monster’s attitude put them at ease. Heian Ciemnosc stepped into the air as his people followed right behind him, rapidly standing beside him in the air. Below them, the 48,000 elite soldier units, vice commanders, and Officers followed them into the sky.

WHOOOOOSHHHH~~... But then, the Blue Drake arrived hundreds of kilometers before Heian Ciemnosc, giving its back to him. Heian Ciemnosc ignored it and continued moving upwards, while the soldier units around the plaza started moving forwards as they also stepped into the sky. The scene was strange, at best.

However, as the minutes passed, the drakes flew everywhere around the Medium City. They didn’t terrorize the people, which made the envoy frown. Just as the world watched a scenery with drakes spreading beyond the scope of the 300,000,000-strong army, the Blue Drake king at the front extended its wings.

Its back suddenly became fearsome and imperious. It looked a little more obscure, and its wings were ‘aquatic’, besides wide and thick. Then, as the world started to turn, and the wind was affected by the few million drakes in the sky. A single flutter from the Blue Drake king stole all that wind and momentum.

Pshift- tiiiiiliiing~~~... …! SWWHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEE~~~SSSHHH!

The Blue Drake king’s wings emanated a gale of pristine, crystal clear blue transparent energy in midair. The wind became more powerful as blades formed everywhere, but when they passed by or near the soldier units, they weren’t impacted negatively. Instead, their bodies were covered with pure energy as a strange, thin trace of pure energy coexisted within them.

The soldier units were marveled by the sensation. But before they could revel in the feeling, brand-new, and even feeling like their hearts were about to open, it happened…

FLUTTER- PSAAASHH! WHOOOOOOOOOOSHHHHH~~!!

The drake king fluttered its wings once more. The motion turned the space the drakes had taken into a ‘tail’ of thin, light blue energy. It covered everyone within that range, but the soldier units remained visible to the people below.

Some inhabitants were sad, others marveled and envious… But before they or the soldier units could wonder, the drake king soared into the sky, with Heian Ciemnosc and the others already inside the Crimson vessel. The drake king’s motion wasn’t singular. It brought the ‘tail’ behind it with it, and with its drakes fluttering their wings as they shot into the sky.

The drake king immediately crossed half the distance from the ground to space territory. It arrived nearly by Heian Ciemnosc’s spaceship. When its body passed several tens of kilometers away from it, its momentum didn’t affect the spaceship, or the orbiting space stations they were nearing. Those have been rebuilt and have operated for nearly 10 years by now.

WHOOOOOOSH- RUUMBLEE…

“...” Heian Ciemnosc watched the twirling, freed Blue Drake king’s body as it soared past them. The king looked at the spaceship before it surpassed it, but now, it was gloating over the sensation of flying outside only water and heading into space. It forgot itself for a few moments, but it still brought hundreds of millions of soldier units with it into space.

Drakes and soldier units flew together. Although the soldier units were like mindless ants controlled by a higher being in the air, the drakes besides them moved nonstop with momentum. The wind around them was cut apart and left a brief contrail behind as they moved within the thin, light blue energy tail.

“Hmf,” Heian Ciemnosc exclaimed softly as he raised his head. His vision seemingly by passed the spaceship’s structure and landed on the Blue Drake king’s body. It no longer twirled… because now… it passed through the orbiting space stations. Its head spearheaded into space, leaving the Kingdom it had chosen as its home once upon a time.

Heian Ciemnosc felt its elation, its discovery and remembrance of what its Race might have once enjoyed like it could never think of. The Preternatural giant continued advancing until an enormous Carrier appeared before it. But before the drake could form a thought, other spaceships appeared beside it, exiting camouflage that the Blue Drake king couldn’t distinguish even as he was exposed to them, and they continued to reveal themselves.

… veeeem… The drake king looked at the Fleet’s emblem before moving towards them. Heian Ciemnosc’s spaceship followed behind it, moving at its own pace towards the Crimson Carrier. Behind the drake king, the long trail of soldier units and drakes it dragged into space extended from the last few portions of the Dragoon Ore Kingdom’s skies into space. It peacefully entered the Fleet’s range and flew to stop beside them.

. . .

10 minutes later, inside the Carrier’s main hatch.

“...” Heian Ciemnosc stepped out of the spaceship last. His people, Team, and daughter were already outside, waiting for him. When his feet landed on the hangar floor, Heian Ciemnosc felt his belly let go of the nonexistent air constricted in his body. He exhaled in comfort and looked at his right, where a beautiful red-haired, insurmountable beauty waited for and looked at him.

“... You’re back, black monster,” Alyona spoke so that everyone could hear. Heian Ciemnosc walked from the spaceship’s hatch. The soldier units he returned along their auxiliary units, and the vice commanders with the coffins were those who died also returned. Additionally, the Crimson Carrier’s crew members were also present, filling part of the hangar in a crescent shape with his people on the other side.

“Hua!” The Soldiers and Officers echoed in unison. Then, a Security Elder shouted in the name of the Crimsonbreaking Faction’s honor. He raised his opened palm in a diagonal-upwards direction. “Officer Black Monster has achieved the special operation’s goals with an unprecedented return. One in the Crimsonbreaking Faction! Praise the special operation’s supreme commander!”

“HUAAAA!!” The people roared in unison again. Heian Ciemnosc continued walking through the pathway leading to the Crimsonbreaking Faction’s Chairwoman, who smiled and slightly narrowed her eyes while staring at him. A unique, one and only treatment.

“... A young Officer, but no that young,” Alyona began speaking of him before he even arrived before her. The crowd quieted to her voice. With her hands behind her back, Alyona’s black-coffee eyes narrowed even more as she continued, “Led less than a hundred thousand elite soldier units, but commanded just a few steps lower than a billion before his return. That deserves merit… and honor.”

“Chairwoman,” Heian Ciemnosc finally walked up to his wife, his Chairwoman. He bowed and looked at her from a meter below. She was standing on top of a small staircase leading to the hangar’s gates to the Carrier’s interior. Alyona slowly stepped down until her belly was half an open hand away from his body.

Alyona was still a few steps up the stairs, and yet, she had to look ahead instead of downwards. Her smile extended from ear to ear as her eyes narrowed dangerously. Then, she lifted her hands and caressed his cheeks, making his darkest eyes close and blink constantly.

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“Today, I will let my Faction know of my love for you. Tomorrow, we will begin the Era of the Crimsonbreaking Faction’s rise.” Alyona spouted these words softly and with each at their pace. Heian Ciemnosc breathed into his lungs, but before he could say something, the Chairwoman spoke again as she walked down the stairs and looked at her people in the hangar.

“Officer Heian Ciemnosc has demonstrated where his talents lie… The highest in the world…” Low commotion and murmurs sounded in the hangar, but they quickly slowed down and became silent. Alyona spoke again only after the last murmur was heard, “With a cultivation base at the Farsighted realm godly stage, peak level, at the age of 69. I declare his position as a Security Elder as soon as he breaks into the Bright or Silhouette realm before his 80s.”

“GAAAASP…” If the words from before were too much. Then, now, the Chairwoman’s words were 10 times that. However, it wasn’t because of Heian Ciemnosc’s promotion. After all, someone so young might become a peak Third Step cultivator in less than a thousand years. However… Bright/Silhouette realm before 80 years old?!”

Not even a Great Sage 10 times better would be capable of that! Nevertheless, the living example was right before them. Heian Ciemnosc was not just held in high regard, and those rumors from before his departure resurfaced in everyone’s minds.

“Now, rest. It’s been 2 decades since you left your home. And when we return…” Alyona’s expression changed into her bossy self. She looked cold and irrefutable as she declared in a low voice, “Celebrate to your heart’s contents. For I promise my people, the Crimsonbreaking Faction won’t know peace until it is forged by us!”

“HUAA!” - “HUAAAA!!” - “HUAAAAAA!!!” The Chairwoman had spoken, and her people have responded. Heian Ciemnosc and Alyona looked at each other’s eyes, standing on the same level. This time, she had to lift her chin to stare at her husband.

. . .

At the Crimsonbreaking Faction’s base, where the dock and the rest of the Fleet had already docked. It was just afternoon when the Space Station’s media were all changed and focused on a big announcement.

In the ports’ district, another stage had been moved there, but this one was decorated with a small and bright white fabric with a dull, gray blue color on its edges. On it, Heian Ciemnosc stood in the middle. Behind him, Disciplinary Elder Fonso walked towards the front, whereas Alyona, Hong Mei, and Milyy stood half a step behind Heian Ciemnosc’s shoulders.

“Today, an announcement is made to this Space Station, but it only concerns our Faction.” Fonso, Heian Ciemnosc’s war mentor, spoke as he walked to stand before him. “The Chairwoman could have chosen to keep this from you still and continue living her life. She owes no explanation. However, she chose not to.”

“For several years, our Crimsonbreaking Faction has started to return to that place where we would be seen and others would flee first and ask later. We would even be visited by our victims and implored for their safety with bribery. But now, even a Third Step organization dares to move against us. Be it at war, or in the peacefulness of the Existences…”

“Our Chairwoman has never needed a partner, and she has led her people for thousands of years. There’s no Third Step organization that can face us. In the world, what one seeks is what they are. Military glory? Our Chairwoman doesn’t need more of it. Love? Who is worthy?” Fonso spoke as he walked back and forth on the stage, slowly and at ease.

“Even a Great Sage won’t compare to our Chairwoman,” Fonso said as he looked directly into the crowd’s eyes. They immediately responded, raging, “HUA! HUA! HUA!!!”

“But fate has brought them together,” Fonso said as he aimed at Heian Ciemnosc and Alyona, who stood on his left, holding his hand with hers. Then, Fonso turned his head towards them. His expression became gentle and warm. “More than 50 years ago… I remember Little Alyona bringing an unknown kid to the Carrier. At that time, the only one to care for him was her, and Little Mei.”

“Today, they announce their union… It is a love that transcends both necessity… and power.” Fonso stepped back but didn’t step down the stage. He held a few collars in his hands and bowed, remaining in that stance as Alyona stepped forth to stand with Heian Ciemnosc shoulder to shoulder before addressing her people.

“... When I found Heian Ciemnosc, I was curious, too. I didn’t think he’d become so notorious. Even going as far as to shock the world time and again…” Alyona looked at Heian Ciemnosc. Her black-coffee eyes hid no mirth on them. “Maybe he did them for me, for his family.”

“His first wife, Elena from the Wrath Nihility Academy, and us.” Alyona had Hong Mei and Milyy step up to stand shoulder to shoulder together. She looked at them and went silent for a few moments. Then, she looked at Heian Ciemnosc’s face while her voice declared, “We have joined each other in marriage, too. It was time to let you know of it. Because, in the future. When my husband leads us into battle. It won’t be because of glory, honor, revenge, or power… It will be… for domination.”

“... … … …HUAAAAAA!!” The crowd, still astonished from the news and processing, only needed a few more seconds to respond accordingly. The world became too loud from then on. Alyona smiled as they were finally seen by her people, by those whom he had fought hard to keep and improve over the years. She looked at Heian Ciemnosc’s left profile face when he turned towards her.

“...” Of course, Heian Ciemnosc didn’t say a thing and only looked at her. But weren’t these moments, be it in bed, standing alone in the dark, or in a stagnant moment in the middle of some ocean or pools and silence… the best of their lives?

“Oh, nearly forgot… I have… many things to speak with you… and everyone else.” Heian Ciemnosc picked her hands and joined them with Hong Mei’s and Milyy’s, who looked at them after forming a little group on the stage. Alyona tilted her head slightly to the left, and she felt a heavy thump in her heart. But Heian Ciemnosc drove those thoughts away from her head as he added, “But for later. First… come, let us go. Do you know how much I suddenly missed everyone?”

“Sigh, finally!” Milyy clapped, rolling her eyes as her little face beamed and seemed to ask them when they will go away and take their clothes off to put a show for her. But Alyona closed her eyes and shook her head, “Not yet. The ancient, very ancient tribe my Mother came from had a custom of using a collar to unite the marriage and possible other members of our… love.”

“I have one prepared for when Lady Calisneia…” Her voice became more silent the more she spoke as a blush covered her tender cheeks. Heian Ciemnosc grinned from the left corner of his mouth before looking at his mentor. Fonso saw this and nodded before walking towards them.

Heian Ciemnosc and his wives picked the collars. Then, under the watching, thrilled eyes of the crowd, the women placed theirs into their co-wives’ heads before taking it off one last time and giving it to Heian Ciemnosc. Then, Heian Ciemnosc placed his collar on each of his wives. Whenever he took them off, they left behind a dark mark around their necks before swiftly dissipating.

Finally, Heian Ciemnosc placed it around his neck, and with that, the brief yet critical ceremony concluded.

“WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH~~!!” The Space Station seemed to cheer all at once, erupting so loudly that it trembled its whole diameter. Then, under everyone else’s notice, Heian Ciemnosc grabbed Alyona, Hong Mei’s waists, and Milyy’s thin, slender waist across Hong Mei.

Bowwbooumb!! Thus, a dark dome appeared. When it disappeared, the 4 ‘newly’ wed also disappeared with it.

. . .

3 days later. Heian Ciemnosc’s bedroom in the Carrier. In a side bedroom beside his main bedroom.

“...” Heian Ciemnosc stared at the face of his sleeping Master. She usually never slept, and only let him see her meditation expressions. Fewer times did she rest, although she didn’t have it as bad as Heian Ciemnosc after they united decades ago.

“Wake up,” Heian Ciemnosc softly said. Calisneia opened her pale white and golden eyes. They gave Heian Ciemnosc an exhilarating sight as soon as they opened, and her face didn’t move as she stared at him dead in the eye.

“Zzz shee…” Milyy lightly yawned and made a cute noise behind Calisneia. She lifted her head and looked back at the bare beauty facing the ceiling and sleeping like a log. Milyy was a meter away from her and rested after they took turns with their husband. Calisneia blinked, feeling at ease, before returning to look at Heian Ciemnosc face to face.

“You’ve changed so much since your departure,” she said. Her voice hushed and extremely soft, making Heian Ciemnosc feel loved. His darkest eyes were her delight, and his irrefutable handsomeness, as always, made her Soul quiver knowing he was all hers.

Calisneia lifted her hands. Her fingertips caressed that face she… adored. Heian Ciemnosc fought those fingertips with the tip of his tongue before she had enough and put them in his mouth. Afterwards, while blushing like a maiden, she brought those saliva-coated digits into her own mouth and slurped them after luxuriating their flavor.

“To my liking. So, even Master has to learn from others, she’s such a good girl…” Heian Ciemnosc grinned and spoke. He grasped her face and brought his mouth close to hers. After she tasted and gulped his saliva, Heian Ciemnosc planned to charge her his part. Calisneia couldn’t help falling to his touch and love. She let him get on top of her as an intrusion flooded her mind.

And then, right before her daughter, their husband began impaling her without a care, even rolling a few more times and getting near Milyy without stopping their debauchery.

At last, when it was time, Heian Ciemnosc had to force himself to stop. Calisneia, Milyy, and Heian Ciemnosc walked back into the main bedroom, where Alyona and Hong Mei were already dressed up. Additionally, Anastasia and Heian Ciemnosc’s subordinates were also here.

“...” Heian Ciemnosc felt a little weird now that he saw them all in his main bedroom. They were all women. Should he bring his Team, too, so that Heian Ciemnosc wasn’t the only male here? He didn’t want to give the wrong idea that he was a perverted for every female that breathed, and it would also be a good introduction to his identity to all his people…

“Take a sit. Today, I will tell you something strange. Bear with it, I know you can. I don’t choose my subordinates b mere talent or attitude, as some put it. And my children are not alienated to unusualness.” Heian Ciemnosc spoke as he walked forth and sat on the edge of his bed. Anastasia walked to him as Grietta, Elyor, Fonso, Tania, Loon, and Oscilote were outside with the doors opened.

“...” Heian Ciemnosc caressed Anastasia’s face before staring at Alyona and his other wives, who didn’t need to be reminded of their position. “I don’t come from any Race, or Bloodline, for that matter…”

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