Gacha Kingdom Building

Chapter 120: Under Watch (R18)

- While not its focus, this chapter contains descriptive sexual content in the ending scene, please, be advised and proceed with caution -

Our raids in the dungeon have been going well. Ellie seems to have made peace with what happened between us and is now back to hitting her targets reliably.

Elizabeth is acclimating to her role as our battery... I mean, support. There's room for improvement in there since she's still unable to make complete use of her abilities in this role, but she's been doing fine for the most part, and she takes a lot of care to not harm our efforts.

Maybe it was the sight of someone as strong as Elizabeth struggling that made Anna realize there was no problem in asking me for help with her problem to handle her own strength.

I hope my advice helps her too, but as far as I can tell, she only needs a change of perspective and some chances to get used to her strength instead of always controlling it all the time.

Since we have Elizabeth with us and she works as well as any mana recovery potions, we are unafraid of going to the deepest parts of the floor, where most encounters require us to do our best without sparing anything. If our mana seems close to running out, we just get a recharge, and as for energy, we can always stop for a while to recover it.

But there are a few risks in doing so... even though the strength of the monsters was somewhat predictable thanks to our understanding of the path we were on, we can never be sure about their number, and with the dungeon being incredibly interconnected, it's easy for us to end up surrounded on all sides.

Once a situation like this occurs, we usually divide the frontline or have one of our mages clear a path for us. However, this time Anna decided to take on all opponents on our back by herself.

I was a bit doubtful of the results since their numbers were close to a dozen, and their levels were higher than hers, so I secretly asked Elizabeth to cast a barrier on her, just in case.

But in the end, there was no need for that...

Fighting one or multiple opponents at once was hardly a problem for her when they all had close to the same strength.

When they clashed, she made quick work of them. It was incredibly overpowering, and it made for a surreal sight when a bunch of monsters fell to the ground, looking up at her.

Her actions left the girls puzzled. It was no surprise that this would happen though, she has been holding back quite a bit for a while now, so even she probably didn't know that her power went that far.

Ellie: "This could have been a good chance for them, but they haven't moved..."

Miwen: "Anyone new?"

Ellie: "No... just five still..."

Ever since we passed by the settlement where the gate that leads to the forest resides, Mia, Ellie, and I noticed a group following us. We made sure to pass the word around without raising a fuss, and we've been exploring while keeping in mind that their group might attack us.

It was quite irritating since we had to leave at least one person idle to intercept them every time... I didn't think they would actually attack us without numerical advantage, but just to be sure, I told the girls to not hold back. This should prevent any rogue wannabe hero from doing something reckless.

It would also give them exactly what I believe they were coming here for... Information. As long as they felt like they were getting enough, the chances of them doing something dangerous should fall drastically.

What's more, showing off a bit of our power here should leave us in a better position for negotiations later, and would give us more credibility when we propose that we do what they are currently failing to do.

The fact that Anna is now showing that, not only our mages, but our frontline is also incredibly capable is just a happy coincidence on top of it all, so I hope they relay this information well.

Miwen: "I think we did enough for now... shall we go for lunch? We might even have some new friends joining us."

Claire: "That's quite optimistic... somehow, I doubt it..."

I see no reason why they wouldn't want to get along... If they just look past the self-proclaimed evil witch, the literal demoness, the pyromaniac destroying their forest, and the girl easily overpowering dozens of monsters alone, they would see that we're a very friendly bunch.

To invite them for our picnic, I headed their way, but they somewhat betrayed my expectations as instead, they decided to retreat and then quickly returned to their world.

Perhaps the fact that we were taking the exact same path as they did to follow us, without any deviation, scared them a bit... I can understand why they might've thought this was a provocation, but to be fair, between soon-to-be friends, this would only count as a playful prank.

Miwen: "Did you memorize their scent?"

Mia: "Yeah."

See? If they were serious about running away from us, they would try a bit harder to hide their tracks. This sloppy job could only mean that they wanted us to identify them later.

A clear indication that they wanted to meet again.

The only other alternative would be that their team of spies isn't that good, but a nation confronting others on their border would surely be ready for war and possess highly-trained teams...

Unless they aren't as prepared for war as they seem.

Licia: "Hm... but aren't they at war already?"

Miwen: "...that's debatable. Right now, they are only having skirmishes on their border."

Licia: "But they told us yesterday that the elves violated the treaty..."

Elizabeth: "While that might be true, it doesn't paint the full picture. Elves live for a long time, and when making these kinds of treaties, they love to use vague language so that they can then twist in their favor when dealing with generations that weren't there to debate it... Isn't that right, miss?"

Ellie: "U-um... I guess?"

One of the advantages of living for so long... With enough time, the reasons and the context for a document might start fading or changing. Normally, you can fill the gaps with some common sense, or update it every now and then to best reflect the current circumstances, but it's an active job, and it's impossible to predict every single problem that poor language can have in every single document.

With all the time in their hands, it's just a matter of finding a good opportunity to exploit the flaws that are bound to go unnoticed or forgotten.

Thanks to Ellie's words and the way I see her, somehow I ended up picturing all the elves as a way more victimized race in my head than they actually are. I don't doubt Ellie for a minute, but this situation is making it clear that they are more than capable of fighting back.

I suppose this is true for everyone though...

Miwen: "I'll have you know that the only one who can take me for an idiot is my lovely fiancee. Now, what do you think we should do with him?"

Anna: "Eh? You're asking me? I dunno..."

Bringing Anna along was deliberate. This guy is one of the familiar ones that Mia had talked about.

Which means he saw Anna's little display back there. Even though it was a bluff, he should be well aware that if she wanted to kill him right now, there was little that he could do.

Miwen: "Well... I suppose you didn't manage to hurt anyone, so I don't mind letting you go. Oh, but if you wanna talk, be sure to approach us in a more friendly manner, yeah?"

We needed to let them go before the soldiers of the cities noticed we had them captive, or this might damage our relations with them, and fighting the three forces combined would be too much even for Elizabeth.

Still, now more elves knew the extent of our power and how hopeless it was to try and fight back against us, so the pressure on their leaders was bound to increase.

They also saw that we were willing to resolve this peacefully, even though we could surely bring them down if we wanted to, so their curiosity and interest must have been piqued.

Our actions must be incredibly odd from their perspective. They must've confirmed that we didn't come from their settlement, so they know we aren't from this world, and thus, have no stakes in this fight.

Not only that, for reasons unknown to them, we seem eager to fight back against the forest advances, while also being reasonable enough to not hurt anyone while doing so. What's more, my intent on talking to them should have been made clear.

If there's anyone with a brain on their side, I'm quite sure they will come to talk with us soon...

For the time being, we had made enough of a scene. Bea and Elizabeth confirmed that there wasn't enough mana in the air for them to advance anymore, and if I had to guess, right now, they must've been talking about what to do.

As such, I decided to head back home to give them the time they might need. We also ended up getting 2 level-ups thanks to the dungeon raid and made around $3000.

Once we got home, it was time for me to face the most difficult battle that the day had yet to offer.

I had already taken a bath with all of the easy ones, and while Elizabeth and Anna surprised me a bit, I knew the biggest challenge would be Beatrice.

Out of everyone in the kingdom, her body is the most irresistible, and yet, it's the one I had to resist the most. A cruel joke fate had prepared for me.

With the orders in place, plus Elizabeth watching for her use of Arcanum, she has been quite behaved.

We both were aware that the bath would present her the best chance to try and entice me again if she wanted to keep going with that strategy.

Like Anna and Elizabeth before her, she didn't bother keeping any piece of cloth to hide her body and entered the bath stark naked. And as I expected, just the sight of her stripping was enough to get me excited.

Once inside, we actually didn't do anything lewd for quite a while, and for the most part, it proceeded as a normal bath.

Eventually, though, she asked me if I wasn't going to do anything.

Miwen: "What do you mean?"

Beatrice: "It's just the two of us... and I'm all yours, so... why not indulge yourself?"

I couldn't exploit the same weakness as last time, so this was a dangerous proposal. Still, if I wanted her to remember her position, I had to use every opportunity to show her body and her heart that she couldn't win against me.

Miwen: "...Hands on the wall. Point your ass my way."

Beatrice: "Heh~ But there's something I need to do before that..."

She got on her knees in front of me, and the curves of her body became way more accentuated as I saw it from above.

Without wasting any time, she grabbed my dick and had it embraced in the warmth of her mouth.

While her skill is nowhere near Anna and Licia's, it was still good enough to make me cum, even more so when I had the image of her completely submissive body as she did her best to service me with care and love.

And I couldn't notice that. Unlike other times, she wasn't trying to appeal to me with her sexiness, there was an honest feeling in her effort.

Miwen: "...What are you doing?"

Beatrice: "guAh... hah... sucking... you..."

Miwen: "You know what I mean."

This was way different from what I was expecting, so I couldn't help but question her intent.

Beatrice: "Thanks to you... I ended up remembering a few things... not all of them good but... all of them important nonetheless... this is how I decided to show my gratitude, so..."

Miwen: "...I see... I guess I misjudged you, I thought you were going to your usual scheme."

Beatrice: "Don't get me wrong. I'm still making you addicted today. The last time was just a fluke..."

True to her words, once I came to her mouth, we went back to a fierce battle that lasted longer than my session with Anna.

Even though I knew it was getting late, Beatrice refused to let me go until she was satisfied, which took way more time than last time as she didn't want to give in until the end no matter how much I filled her.

Thankfully the time limit came in clutch as Mia threatened to take down the door if we didn't step out.

While this one ended in a draw, I knew I was going to have to fight more through the night, so my standing soldier almost raised the white flag.