703 Toying With Lily
The air wasn’t transparent, having lots of black wisps dancing around. I knew this was the death energy getting absorbed by this seed.
Yet after another hour, just the magnitude of this process made me retreat even further to the rear.
And as this process kept going on, I spotted Lily leading out a large number of Hectors, marching towards my direction.
She was on top of her chariot, moving out as if she was leading a fierce elite force or something.
“I heard there is a big thing going on here, and I betted my scales over it being related to you,” once she came on board my chariot, she said while shaking off her head.
“I’m not a troublemaker,” I rolled my eyes in response to her comment.
“You are, but you are ignorant about the true nature of yourself,” she said with a short laugh before pointing out the direction of this pocket world, “what sorcery are you using here this time?”
“I’m not using any magic! I’m just doing something good.”
“I bet on my scales it’s something bad for your enemies.”
“Hahaha! Who told them to be this stubborn? They should lower their heads and follow my lead.”
“Arrogant, but I like you,” she said in such a soft tone that made me clear my throat to break free from her feminine spell.
“I see you got lots of Hectors this time,” I shifted the topic over to the big army she was leading.
Before this war, the total size of Hectors in my kingdom wasn’t exceeding a couple of thousands! But the ones standing down below were in hundreds of thousands.
It was a big increase indeed. I never thought I controlled so many during this war.
“It’s thanks to you, and me,” she said such weird words that made me look at her in doubt, “Sigh! You still don’t realise what this continent is!”
“Tell me then,” I shrugged. I have nothing but time right now. It seemed the process of making the pocket world would take longer than I expected.
“This is our world,” she said in a different tone and attitude, as if she was defending her people, “this isn’t just a random continent, it’s part of our world.”
“And it became part of mine.”
“You are missing the point,” she shook her head before adding, “this is our world! It means it’s not just filled with fighters and armies. There are towns and cities, families living in all of them.”
“And?” I got her point, but didn’t see how that was related to her Hectors getting larger in number in such a way.
“The ones you controlled and forced to follow you have families out there. I just let them bring them over, and that is what made the army look this huge.”
“You mean…” I turned my eyes towards the large number down below. And for the first time, I spotted many kids down there.
Yes, there were families! Damn! This Lily… She found such a brilliant way to increase the size of Hectors in my kingdom, a way that I never thought of before.
“What? You got any objections about what I did?” she mistook my silence for being annoyed.
“Not at all,” I said, “I like what you did! But all the new folks must sign a contract first.”
“Sure, as their men did it, they would also do it,” she simply said before asking again, “are you sure this is ok for you? I know you quite well, and this isn’t something you might encourage or welcome.”
“Why?” I looked at her in a weird way, “as long as they are useful to my kingdom, then they are welcome to join.”
“Really? Kids and pregnant women are going to be useful for you? How?”
“You just don’t know what I have in here,” I pointed at my head. For sure getting more of any race without having a good use for them wasn’t my style of doing things.
But Hectors? The ones who were responsible for the entire process of making potions? The ones who had such a fierce style of training? The ones who were strong warriors?
I would never say no to such a race.
But give me succubi or illusionists and I’d refuse even hundreds of millions of these useless trash races.
“Something is telling me you have crazy plans for us!”
“Bingo!” I laughed, “you are going to be lost in work during the next months, I can guarantee you that.”
“Bully!” she said in such a funny way, making me laugh even further.
“Alright, go down there and spread these contracts over the ones without any,” I started a spree of purchases, buying almost one million contracts. I started signing them while handing the ones I finished to her.
“Do you think I’m your servant girl or something? I have my own people to do such dirty things… Snap!”
With a snap of her fingers, a group of Hectors appeared cladded in similar armour.
“You even let them dress in such a way, you went way too much ahead than me,” I laughed and she just waved aside her hair in a showy way.
“That’s the perk of being the general of them.”
“And that’s the perk of being the lord.”
“You are a bully, but I’m a kind general.”
“It depends,” I laughed, making her pout her lips in such a funny way that made me laugh again.
During the next couple of hours, her boys led everyone to sign contracts with me.
“How can you know if no one here missed signing the contract?” After we got it done, she asked such a hard question.
“Watch and learn,” I simply opened my profile page, selected the contract section, and selected all the Hectors under my contract authority.
[Go south for ten miles and then walk in a circle before coming back here!]
“This…” just as I sent the order, the face of Lily changed before she forcibly moved out as everyone else.