Chapter 11: Finally! A bath!
Xhemile sighed, startling herself with an apparently also changed voice. A mature voice of a woman. She sighed again, picking up her dress which didn't fit her anymore and threw it on her bed. After opening her small wardrobe, she finally found, after searching the entire wardrobe, a fitting dress. This dress was also white with a few golden ornaments, the dress had also a cutout on the side of her hips which let a person look at the bare sides of her hips. Dressing herself with the changed body was also a challenge as her center of gravity also changed. Another problem was that now even the biggest dress in her wardrobe barely fitted her, she now had a constant pressure at her chest area. Walking to the door also was a challenge, Xhemile almost tripped several times. Walking through the door was also a problem as it was apparently only designed for people of a maximum height of 1.80 meters. After almost crouching through the door, she walked the now cramped stairwell down. After reaching the ground floor with the summoning circle engraved on it, she felt her system message her.
{[Summoning circle upgradable! Would you like to upgrade it?] [Y/N]}
She clicked yes on the screen.
[Summoning Circle Rank 0 upgrade costs
100 units of stone
25 earth crystals]
[Upgrade?] [Y/N]
She clicked again yes. The circle then expanded to double the size completely covering the floor of the tower. She checked the circle then.
[Summoning circle Rank 1
Summons 6 subjects of the Karomama Tribe. Chance to obtain Rank 1 subject increased.]
[Summon 6 Subjects?] [Y/N]
She selected again yes.
[Summoned 5 Rank 0 Tribeswomen and 1 Rank 1 Tribeswoman]
She looked at her newly summoned subordinates and was pleasantly surprised by the Rank 1 subject.
{[Tribeswoman of the Karomama Tribe]
Name: (Unnamed)
Age: 28
Level: 0
Rank: 1
Class: Spear Militia
Loyalty: 75
Stats:
Strength (Str): 18
Constitution (Con): 17
Dexterity (Dex): 13
Intelligence (Int): 5
Wisdom (Wis): 5
Charisma (Cha): 8
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[Skills]:
(Trained Desert adaptably Rank 8) (Trained Desert maneuvering Rank 7) (Trained Spearmanship Rank 5)}
She named her subjects and named the Spearwoman Njoud. After that she walked into the living space of her castle, where Nane and the rest sat on the table. After hearing footsteps, they all looked at Xhemile and smiled worried.
“My Lady do you feel better?”: Nour asked clearly worried.
“Yes, I'm better. I had clearly better days, but this transformation isn't so bad as I first thought. It made me stronger and I now feel more confidence to achieve my goals.”: Xhemile said. Nane grinned mischievously and spoke in a joking voice.
“My Lady, if I were a man, I would do everything to get your child-UGH! ...cough!”
Nour moved very fast and punched her with full strength into the stomach. Nane then sank to the ground coughing and clutching her stomach.
“But I must say Nane didn’t say anything wrong, only strong-willed males will be strong enough to resist your allure my lady.”: Nanu suddenly said.
“Why?”: Xhemile asked.
“Well, your charisma stat now at least reached twenty, paired with your body proportions and the aura of the chieftess of the Karomama tribe you will attract many males. If we are unlucky, a noble will be interested in you, which will cause more annoyances as he will try to obtain you or woe you. But the positive side is, that many female tribe leaders will have a favorable impression of you.”: Neeth suddenly said.
“Can we please talk about something else other than my body changes and potential spouses?”: Xhemile pleaded.
“Alright, my lady. It is time that we start to craft some leather armor, other weapons than spears and tools. We could exchange the meat we obtained from last night for cloth, so I can craft comfortable leather armor. We also need feathers so we can craft arrows, maybe Iron to make tools, but bone should be alright for now.”: Neeth abruptly ended the topic from before.
“Alright, I will look around for those, anything else?”: Xhemile asked.
“Medicine, my lady. We need something to treat future wounds.”: Nane said, still a little breathless. Xhemile looked at the tallest woman of her first subjects and suddenly realized that she now was even taller than her tallest subject, which filled her with a weird sense of pride. Xhemile shook her head and opened the lord message platform, scrolling through messages.
[Messages]
“Everyone alright? I fine by the way.”
“Yes, I’m also fine.”
“Phew, I am glad that my subjects are powerful, they easily defended my barrier.”
“I’m not fine! I found out why my elves are so afraid of the orcs outside my barrier. When I send a small party out to kill them, they were easily overpowered! But they didn't kill my subjects! Instead, they started to rape them! The morale of subjects almost fell to a critical level! I still hear the screams of them!”
“I now know why the goblins look so weird at me. Scary!”
“Now I understand why my female subjects all hate goblins and orcs!”
“Please, every female castle lord out there, if the monsters which attack your barrier at night are any of those two, don’t leave the barrier or step even near it!”
Xhemile closed the messages again. She sighed heavily. Now I even need to worry which monster attacks me at night. She sent a small prayer to whoever is listening out there to heal those poor souls. She also felt antipathy against these races. She shook her head and looked at the requirements of the next castle upgrade.
{[Castle] [Karomama Castle]
[Rank 1]
[Castle heart durability 500/500]
[Upgrade
600 units of mudbricks
300 units of wood}
Well, I need more mud and reed. Maybe I could build the bathhouse. Yes, a bath would be nice. But I need more crystals as well as water. She ordered her subjects to hunt small parties of desert dogs and gather as many desert beetles as they could. By the late afternoon her subjects had collected enough so she could build the bathhouse. She designated an area and started the construction.
[Bathhouse of the Karomama Tribe Rank 0
Costs
1000 units of stone
1000 units of wood
1000 liters of water from the desert beetle
100 units of leather
250 earth crystals] [Build?] [Y/N]
She willed it mentally with a yes and on the designated area flashed a bright light. After 20 seconds of the bright light, it dimmed and gave free the sight of an open building with two separated pools. Xhemile almost cried in joy and stripped her clothing and jumped inside.
Finally, a bath!