Domina's POV
Domina and Jak were lying in bed without a care in the world, Domina's only problem were Green's calls which had been driving him crazy but he simply disregarded them since he was now a god.
"Jak what would you like us to do today"
Domina asked, after all he had everything he had ever wanted, maybe short of a harem, but who cares about that when you have the most beautiful woman in the world at your side.
"Why not conquer the world, after all you did say that before"
Jak remembered Domina's words from before, when they met on the Red moon and maybe her first spanking at the time.
"Why not, lets send an npc clone of ours to see what they would do, I'm really curious to see how we would have done if we weren't gods"
Domina smiled as he created two npcs that looked like the Doom Demon Domina and a human male Jak.
Demon Domina was even stronger than what the real one was and male Jak had a dublicate of all of Jak's equipments, maybe even better than her normal equipment.
The only diference of the npcs and the real ones was the they were like cute little dolls in size.
"How cute, why are they so small?"
Asked Jak, somewhat surprised while taking the Jak doll in her hands, who however stabed her with his rapier dealing her some serious damage.
Only because she had forgotten to turn on her damage absorbsion skills.
Domina had taken their past data to create copies of themselves, he wanted to see what would have happened if they had attacked Allastar like they had planned to do. Jak on the other side was more interested in fighting with the small Jak in a duel.
However he didn't create the Devil or Yummy, since they weren't of any importance.
From tiny Domina's prospective, he could see a large naked Yummy lying in bed with another godlike man but couldn't understand what was going on.
"Listern Domina and Jak, we are demon gods, after your death we have decided to send you as our avatars to conquer Allastar"
The godlike figure said self satisfied.
"What bullshit are you telling them, listen little ones, we are you and you are us, only from the past, in the future you Domina will become really stong and out of laziness decided to send two copies of us to conquer Allastar instead of going by ourselves"
The large Yummy said, but to the little Domina and Jak it sounded valid, since Domina knew about his psychic powers and Jak knew how lazy Domina was.
Only the large godlike person looked unhappy about her explanation making it even believable.
"I want a duel!"
Shouted the little Jak, this was of course what the large Jak wanted as well.
"Whatever, I'll change our names to Simon and Kaj, so that we won't have any mistakes"
Simon said and without even asking changed them to their real names.
Kaj after a duel with the now original size Jak was disapointed at how weak she used to be, or rather at how dependant on her psychic ability she used to be, the npc clone could only use the Rip part of the ability but could not kill with it, causing only mild damage to strong experts if any at all.
The clone of course lost for another reason, he fought like an npc would, after finding his pattern she won with ease.
Domina on the other side was sitting with Simon talking about stuff that happened and how he got together with Jak. Simon also gave him some advices, this Domina was rather pleasant to talk to, as they agreed at everything and this specific domina also had an anti-psychic powers field akin to his own psychic power, only thing was that it couldn't override the system like his real power did.
Domina also had the resist death and could change his own stats at will. Sounds unfair but these were Simon's original powers if not even more unfair.
They were now sitting at the table of the Hotel, looking at the Blue sun that was now visible.
In truth it was somewhat cold all of a sudden but little could be done because the Blue sun on Allastar represented Winter, it was the farthest sun from the planet.
The three suns Red(closest) representing summer, Yellow representing spring and automn and Blue(farthest) representing winter and automn.
At automn both the yellow and blue suns appear together producing a greenish light.
Allastar doesn't move like earth around a star, although it does turn around itself, three stars rotate around it instead.
"Now what sort of soldiers would you like to have?"
Simon asked the two npcs, who of course couldn't come with any new Ideas and just proposed already existing scenarios.
"Why don't you let us decide for you"
Simon said, it was rather stupid to ask npcs after all, they were simply no fun at all, Simon and Kaj after a small fight decided on their avatar's armies.
Kaj went for pirates and Domina for Doom knights, the funny parts however was that the pirates and Doom knights had a few beauties mixed in them, just for the fun of it.
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Max's POV
Max free to do as he liked after he hired a Jin to guard the town.
Counter to his expectations, the Jin looked like a young man in his twenties, mostly human if you disregard his green skin and snake eyes, called Hebijin.
Max didn't know what was so great about him but hearing from honda that this young man was a god, Max was even more disbelieving than before.
Many people came by and seeing the strange Helllion guild flag flying didn't really understand what was going on, most had just come for the fun of it but after seeing the constructiong going on and the large number of npc soldiers it made them feel as if they were already on the battlefield.
The ones however who had it the hardest were the spies, they of course were impossible to be told apart from the normal players but seeing all the soldiers and even famous experts coming to this almost neglectable port town made them bleed from their eye sockets.
They had thought that they were going for a catwalk, just comming destroying everything and leaving but now the plan was useless, with all these experts, their forces where nowhere enough to conquer this town and even if they were to combine all their forces they wouldn't be able to come in time before the constructions are over.
Of course the spies didn't know what a Jin looked like, after all only those who have the honor to ascend to the Heavenly City can meet the Jins, after of course becoming one themselves.
So far no player had become, neither a jin nor an Akuma, mostly because humans were neither saints nor evil at heart, they acted as they wanted and in different situations would choose a different course of action.
Probably only a child could become a Jin, and only if someone tried to intentionaly do every vile thing in the world would he be able to turn into an Akuma.
It of course only sounds hard, in reality, the most difficult part is the race changing quest.
For Jin they had to do numerous quests for the Emperor, who was the son of the gods or so he said and in the end they would be granted with a trial, which of course is different per person and extremely hard.
For the Yokai, they have to first turn into an Oni or other Yokai being, oni being the easiest of course, after they had to rise in ranks to reach the Yokai mountain city and there defeat the Maou to take his place. Although it's doubtfull if you have to turn into a Yokai or not, but ascending the Yokai mountain as a human is suicide.
Siting inside their Ships, the two leaders, Ieyasu and Oda were both at their wits end. They were strong, but they weren't prepared to fight a great battle for a small port town. Raiding port towns was like an event that went on for years, how could they have known that the Jin territory would take this chance to counter attack. They had even hired the worst person at the worst time, In truth they had promised Musashi that all the npc town people were to become his as he was to become the master of this exact port town after it was successfully raided.
They didn't care if it became a city under his rule since he was just a Yojimbo, they could just pay him later to use his fleet to further invade the Jin territory, without their ports, all those Jin players would have nowhere to run anymore.
Of course all this is just a fantasy now, since their forces aren't even enough to deal with half those experts, unless of course they attack a different port town, but what would that do?
After all their main goal wasn't to please Musashi, it was to destroy the Port town that was about to turn into a city and if the reports are right, this was not going to be a regular port city but a rather big one.
The two however suddenly begun laughing as they begun sending messages to the other Town and village lords, the reason was simple, the treat was no longer something small, it was a threat to the whole Yokai side. If they lost this battle, maybe many of the Yokai lords would lose their towns afterwards, even the whole Yokai side would feel this one defeat more fiercely than a thousants raids from the Jin players. In truth the reason why the Jin players only knew these two players was because they were the closest to the borders, each controlled the port town north and south of the Island and were friends in a way. Every time they would attack together any port town that was about to turn into a city.
In the Inland there were probably even more terrifying players, maybe even stronger than them but in truth no one knew since most town/village lords were shut-ins, they locked themselves inside their castles and had fun, some didn't even leave their towns even for a day.
Max at the time was rather busy, the constructions were being made but as a town/city lord he tried his hardest to put everything in place.
Progie and Red were left to roam around the town where dozens of people were now working, it looked rather strange how many people suddenly appeared overnight seemingly growing the town into a city.
At the moment even if the people from the Yokai side attacked there would be complete chaos and the only thing the town could do would be destroying the docks. Since they were most likely to come from the sea and large ships couldn't be docked in shallow waters.
Attacking however through the docks was also unfavorable to the Yokai since the castle was at a highground and players and npcs could shower them with arrows, since the docks had nothing but a few platforms and wooden werehouses, leaving them no further cover.
Max had also collaborated with the Benkei cops and they were waiting for even more elite players to arrive.
The players of course didn't come to defend the town, or better, not only to defend the town.
Their real purpose was to ride the ships and reclaim the lands taken by the Yokai.
All the big Jin guilds had now begun recalling their players from other islands, continent and even worlds, they were about to make history after all.
After so many years they were about to take back the Jin lands that sometime long ago belonged to them.
Days passed and Max was in front of a map of the whole Eal isle, next to him was his father and opposite to them were the other powerful guilds of Eal island. Of course their strength wasn't comparable to the Helllion guild but on Eal Island they had more forces, at least at the moment.
"It told you that we shouldn't trust these barbarians!"
Shouted the leader of guild Yagami called Kira.
To this the others only nodded affirmatively.
The reason behind his uproar were the small dots on the map, they were the towns that were to be liberated. If you haven't figured it out yet, they were trying to divide the towns they had yet to conquer. The Helllion guild had constributed the most to this since they were personaly paying for the town's upgrade from their own pockets and wanted a rather large part of the towns and villages near this port town.
Of course these towns would be the first to fall but they would also be the safest and richest towns, since the merchants prefered the sea routes to travel and safest because if they gained those towns the rest would have to fight inland to gain territory, which in part would border with the Yokai and there were 204 guilds that wanted a piece of the pie, the people inside were the twenty representives of those guilds, of course these were only the strongest guilds, there were millions of weak guilds that had formed alliances that in turned were under them and they would also want something in return for helpind.
In other words the three fort towns Leo of the Helllion guild asked for were too precious, or would become too precious.
Max who was the city lord could do nothing but endure their shouts as they had begun to call one another names. In a way both sides couldn't do without the other, since the Helllion guilds' players were still teleporting to the Imperial City and made their way to the town, but until they arrived the Helllion guild needed the players from those guilds to reduce their own loses in the future battles, after all they couldn't leave the Drogan continent unprotected and the troops they could send were also not many.
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Aside from the npcs very few players wanted to stay in the Eal Isle, most were only interested in going to have a look and helping the guild, after all most of them already had their own back lands in Drogan.
Days now as the constructions were almost finished they were arguing about the division of the to be conquered towns. Three port towns might not sound much, after all there were at least a hundred of them but the port towns that Leo had decided on were in really good positions, not only they were hard to conquer afterwards but also had other resourses like mines and forest nearby, making them treasure locations. Leo of course asking only three of the hundreds of towns they would gain had already done his study well, all the other towns could easily be conquered if his Guild held those locations.
In other words he didn't only ask them for three towns but indirectly for a fifth of the whole Island, after that recruiting players from Eal island was easy, they could just offer them a village or some gold and half of the total jin players would simply switch sides making the Helllion guild the No1 guild on Eal Island.
The smaller guilds probably didn't care since they had no revenue from territory owned by the larger guilds, but they could do nothing but despair.
The guild leaders knew that they had to act fast.
with a swift attack the twenty representatives overpowered Leo and Max killing them almost instantly and taking the Town for themselves.
The Town was not ready yet and the npc merceneries with Max's death were not under their control, if Max wanted to reclaim the town he could easily do so if they kept his soldiers inside the town.
Simply put the alliance of guilds expelled all the mercs and players who had already joined the Helllion guild from the town.
Max and Leo could only laugh as they respawned out of the port town. It wasn't that they hadn't expected a break in negotiations but they hadn't expected the players from the Jin guild to act so dihonorably. Attacking them twenty on two was a rather sad sight to be seen but they didn't care, in truth they didn't even wear their best equipment at that moment, knowing that something like that could happen.
Of course Leo and Max had no real attachment to eal island, but seeing the large mercenary army being expeled from the town made them laugh.
The Yokai spies were at a loss for words, not really understanding what was going on. The Yokai fleet was on standby not far away, they could attack any time they liked and right now, the moment all the mercs left, right at the moment that the Jin alliance was celebrating their quickwittedness and smartness a smoke signal emerged from their town.
The walls were ready, even the newly made gates were shut tightly, the castle was now like a mountain fortress as there were large hills where some constructions were still taking place but most of it was ready, the town at the moment was no better than a village since the polulation had already left, but people would flock back in no time when they defeat the threat known as the Yokai army.
One successfull defense is enough to turn the small town into a city.
The allied players after seeing the smoke signals knew that it was time to act. The town was chaotic, the remaining npc merceneries that were brought by the allied guilds were somewhat panicked at the moment. The reaso wasn't the smokes that rose from the city, but a swarm of dark dots approaching from the sea.
Quite some distance from the town a large flock of flying monsters and monster ships was closing in towards the city, as I explained it could be called a town no more.
Hideous creatures that floated in the air despite lacking wings and monsters that had a ship carved on their backs were approaching the city, on the two largest ships sat the Two leaders, they had long expected such an outcome but it still went even better than they had expected. They had thought that they Jin Alliance would betray the Helllion guild after they had mobilized their full forces and stayed in the sea to slow them down, how could they imagine that the Jin alliance would act up so soon.
This matter was already outside of Max's concern, as he stood next to Red and Progie. Leo smiling mildly and somewhat sad, he softly patted Progie's head, no one but he himself could understand what was going in his head right now.
Behind the scenes he had already talked with the Yokai side and knew that the Jin alliance would betray him, but it was simply too early.
If they had betrayed him later on he at least would have this port city left, in truth this port city alone was already enough since only Dublin wanted to stay on this island, making this whole endeavor rather pointless from the beginning.
Well at least they had gained some fresh players and begun establishing themselves in the Isleplains.
Dublin would stay behind and take over some small town or something in the Yokai side under the Jin Influence to show these fools what they had just lost.
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Mushasi's POV
The battle for the port city went on for days and after the Yokai reinforcements arrived there was no way for the Allied guilds to hold on to the already half ruined city, even the Jins they had recruited just left when their employers died. There was no reason to defend a town when there is no one important inside to defend.
The only one who probably was at a loss from this bussiness was Musashi, since he gained a ruined fishing village as a reward.
Even of the glorious fortress of a castle nothing remained but piles of dirt, it would cost thousants of gemstones to rebuilt the city into it prior state.
Musashi, a rather young good looking man was sitting on one of the debris. The other Yokai players had already left, after all there was nothing left for them to do here.
A strange looking ninja came towards him, Musashi didn't relly care if it was even hanzo himself but to his surprise it wasn't just the ninja, hundreds of Jin players and barbarians came to the ruined town.
"Boss, when do you think the town will turn into a village?"
someone asked the ninja.
"Who cares, we have been given full support by the guild to do whatever we like"
The ninja said with a happy expression.
Musashi was ready to cut them all in half if they bothered him, he was in no mood to talk with others, even their voices hit on his nerves.
What however made him draw for his blades were three pokes from the strange ninja that had just arrived next to him.
Musashi was about to turn him into macaronni before he realized his horrible reality.
On his waist there were swords, all his weapons and even his inventory had been ransacked, was this some guardian cheating.
In truth Musashi was also a guardian but it was the first time he saw something like this.
"What is this!"
Shouted Musashi, his mind still in a shocked state.
"Nice swords"
Said the ninja as he was holding Musashi's swords at the moment.
"Only a little too weak"
Said the Ninja as he threw the swords to the ground in front of the half naked Musashi.
The players behind the ninja had different expressions, some were shocked, while others who knew the ninja as Dublin just sneakily giggled, knowing full well that Dublin was real weak and all this was just an act in front of the new players.
In truth if Musashi had seen what they had, he would have been surprised, the one arriving with the players was most likely a shadow clone, an advanced skill of the ninja profession, while the one who stole his stuff and poked him was already behind him from the start. It was a cheap trick to which he fell victim quite easily.
Of course this kind of trick was impossible to have been made by anyone but an archon thief like Dublin.
"Who are you!"
Musashi shouted, his anger fully visible on his face, he was a swordsman and Yojimbo Archon and had mastered plenty of other fighting professions, but it was the first time he had seen a skill like the one Dublin had used.
In truth in the Eal isle there of course was a thief profession, but it was so weak that no one had it in their eyes, thief was one of the two required classes to become a ninja, the other two were assassin and fighter, of course of the three only thief wasn't mastered since it took too much time and it wasn't useful at all.
Dublin on the other side had already been an archon thief for many times and each time he used the archon sacrifice to gain some skill or item and returned into a novice thief again. A first sight it was stupid, but as he gained more thief skills it became rather easy for him to rank up his profession. In the end with each archon reward he gained skills that would help him become an archon faster, which of course raised the success rate of his skills and some even decreased the requirements of his skills. Level and statwise he was weak but his skills were at a terrifying level.
In truth in the span of these three pokes he had stolen all his inventory and equipments, put it back and stole it again and that had happened in the time span of no more than five seconds. No thief other than Dublin could have succeeded doing something like that, The reason behind it was that Dublin in the span of the time that the others had their adventures had already reached the archon rank two more times and this was the third time.
It was ridiculous to think of him as a simple thief, he was probably the King of thieves right now, if not the god.
His skills of course were impossible for people of this generation to triffle with, from stealth to action he was domineering and unless you knew about him you wouldn't care if he touched you right?
A simple touch is all he needed to steal an item and if you were unaware of him, one touch was all he needed to steal all your items.
Musashi of course was no pushover, even without his swords he was strong, tyranicaly strong.
Musashi had only used the Archon power once to gain an archon swordsman skill and then begun leveling like crazy, he was no worse than the best experts in the other continents. Even the Helllion guild knew about him, but they also knew his weakness, almost everyone knew his weakness.
"Do you want those two swords, or these"
Dublin said as he took out two beautiful golden jewel decorated katanas and threw them next to the other two rather ordinary swords, that Musashi used to use.
"Or these two swords"
Dublin took out two katanas that by themselves gave a domineering sense, these swords were imbued with spirit power and were enchanted to the limit of the Helllion guild's skills. of course the reason the Helllion guild would have katanas in the first place was because Dublin had a whole collection of such swords.
Musashi seeing the enchanted swords fall to he ground next to the golden swords could only gulp heavily. Even if he had worked for the other great guilds of Eal island for a century he wouldn't be able to gain swords like those, maybe if he was lucky he could gain a golden jeweled katana but the enchanted swords were beyond his capabilities to aquire.
He would probably have spit blood if he knew that all four swords were originaly stolen from their owners and later enchanted further by the Helllion guild, just to make them unrecognizable.
In truth Dublin had also stolen another of Dublin's swords, but that was long ago, when Musashi had visited the great Drogan arena.
Musashi to everyone's suprise knelt towards the last two swords and shouted.
"Master please accept me as a disciple!"
The reason for this outburst wasn neither the gold swords nor the enchanted ones, it was the ease with which Dublin had taken whatever he like without him even knowing it.
If he became his teacher, Musashi would probably be able to easily master the thief skills and become as proficient as him, but even knowing how he became as proficient was enough for Musashi to become stronger.
There was only Dublin's laugher as the scene was closed, this day came to be known as the most disastrous day for the jin, not because they lost the port town, not because they had lost hundreds of gold to the Yokai, not because the Helllion guild had arrived, but because Musashi and Dublin had become master and apprentice.