Disclaimer I do not own Log Horizon, Harry Potter or anything else I may reference

Magic and Elder Tale

Chapter 35

10 August 2027

Plant Hwyaden base

"Your Grace we have received word from Maihama" Nureha's eyes locked onto the messenger as he kneeled on the floor in front of her. Besides herself there was the rest of their own little council sitting around a table while the fabric of their tent ruffled due to the powerful wind. There had been a storm the previous night and it had yet to go away, in the assistance they could hear the sounds of thunder echoing after lightning had struck the ground. At the same time the constant sound of raining hitting the canvas was apparent all the while candle lamps lit the inside of the tent since they couldn't use magic forever.

"Go on tell us what you have learned" After the initial attack on the AEF she had wished to alert the few who remained in Maihama so that they could keep track of each others progress. It hadn't been a major issue at first but on the day of the attack she hadn't received any word from two of her attack forces what so ever. That had concerned her, the group that had gone to sail through the Yokosuka straight hadn't reported and neither had the group who was to attack the Kunie clan. The latter of which concerned her the most since that was the only way to get the city of Akihabara to fall, if they failed then Akihabara could hold out indefinitely.

"Your Grace" The messenger gulped audibly as he looked at the queen with fear, it was never an easy job being the messenger they had a tendency to be specially targeted by attacking armies or just killed by their master because of the news they brought. Obviously the man's hesitation and fear had been caught as Nureha narrowed her eyes at him, normally the messenger was quick to deliver the news however the knowledge he had gave her a very bad feeling. "The leader of the home guard Crimson Night Slash, stated that the entire city of Maihama is gone" Nureha narrowed he eyes not at the man as much as she wanted to crush her enemies she wouldn't hurt a messenger for delivering bad news. However while she had a strong feeling what the messenger meant some of her Lander representatives didn't.

"Gone what do you mean gone" Gulping again as the messenger looked at the lord who was looking at him fiercely he couldn't help but wish to be out of this situation before he could carry on though the lord was shut up by Nureha.

"Be quiet, let him speak it's not his fault that he delivers certain news if you have a problem with that than you can make your way to the executioner" Now the lord gulped as he looked at the queen, she was strangely protective of the everyday person it was for this reason why they followed her. Despite her ways of going around this war Nureha had won the people to her side and they lived her like no other ruler had been loved almost like they were slaves to her will. Once she had finished reprimanding one of her lords the woman then gave a gentle smile to the messenger; instantly making him feel better than he had been before. "Now darling why don't you tell us the news don't worry we won't bite" A shot glare was sent at the lord who had yelled at the messenger making the man cower in his seat.

"According to Crimson Night Slash the city isn't even standing its nothing but rubble, everybody is dead and bodies litter the floor, nothing is left your grace" Nureha's eyes widened as she heard that, Crimson had been the one in charge of protecting Westerlande while they were gone. Their goal was to hold back what was the every six month incursion of invading lizard men however dread started to fill her stomach, she had never expected the amount of goblins there were currently, it was far too high. Her mind began to think of her lack lustre defences believing she was so safe to attack north when she had only been expecting a very small amount of lizards allowing her to leave only the weakest of the adventurers behind with no Landers to help them.

"Impossible those dam lizards don't stand a chance against our forces" The same noisy lord from before shouted in disbelief as he heard the news on the other hand Nureha looked troubled. Crimson might not have been a powerful adventurer being only level fifty however she trusted the woman. There would be no reason at all to lie to her but still that left the question how on Earth did Maihama apparently get destroyed, the AEF was small and decimated and had never gone south in the first place. As for the members of the round table the only one left was the leader of Britannia but he couldn't do anything stuck in that tower of his.

"Your Graces there is more, according to Crimson Night Slash every single city, town and village has been destroyed with all farms and fields destroyed" There were serious looks of disbelief on the lords faces as they tried to take in this information, the likelihood of this actually occurring was slim to nonexistent there had been spies sent all over Eastal to report the slightest amount of movement of armed services. Not to mention they would have received word of an attack days ago, Nureha shook her head and listed to her advisors.]

"Preposterous, this is nothing but a trick at most some people have managed to capture Crimson and force her to say something" Everybody nodded their heads even Nureha it just wasn't possible for that amount of damage to be done in a short time without somebody noticing and reporting it in. Instructions had been left that in the case of an attack Nureha was to be informed and nothing had the capabilities of striking so fast and so well as to prevent communication obviously it was some type of plan hoping to get her to pull her forces back.

"I'm inclined to agree this is nothing but a desperate move to force our troops back, I say that we should continue our plans of sacking every city in Eastal before we head for Akihabara only when they have no one to trade with can we finally force them out to confront us". More heads nodded with the plans already over there short time they had done incredible damage to Eastal taking and capturing every single city and major town.

"Indeed we have enough supplies coming in from the south to last us so we should continue the scorched earth policy and prevent anyone from raising a proper counter attack" There was general sense of accomplishment from the leaders of the military as they had made such amazing progress and ignored what was obviously a poorly planned resistance trap. It wasn't even a good one proving that whoever had taken Crimson hostage was terrible at this kind of business since if they had wanted to cause a panic and divert troops back south then they would have stated that an army was attacking.

"In a few more days the last village will fall and then we can get the goblins to follow us to Akihabara while we wait for our Northern friends. This war is going to be over by Christmas with Eastal conquered and us happily sipping wine underneath the Christmas tree" Cheers sprang up from the group as they looked at the map of Yamato there was no denying that they were winning and at their current pace their prediction would come true. Eastal would be conquered, Akihabara would become the new capital as it would be in the centre of Japan an when spring came the next year they would begin the invasion of Suskino.

"To a glorious Christmas" Lifting up her wine glass Nureha clinked hers with the rest of her subordinates there was nothing to worry about, the planned diversion that the enemy wanted hadn't worked. Not to mention even if the there was a group of soldiers trying to destroy Westerlande food they would soon be dealt with. As for Crimson though she would have to wait until after this war was finished when she decided on her fate, she had left the woman in charge of the defence of Westerlande and even if she was forced she gave a message that could have hampered the war effort. Not to mention it could have been one of those momentary confusion spells that was cast on her by an enemy lizard mage which mixed up her words.

"To her grace Nureha may you forever lead us to victory" More toasts were given to the woman as she walked out of her tent soon her other spies would return news from the other two battle groups on what they had been up to. As for now she wouldn't focus on the war, she had something much better to keep her occupied.

Unknown location

Darkness was the first thing he registered as his eyes opened, not quite so dark where a person couldn't see anything but rather the type of dark that hindered your senses enough to prevent you from recognising where you were. The next thing he recognised was that wherever he was he was rather comfortable, rubbing the material underneath him he recognised with some familiarity that there were bed sheets. He was confused where was he the last thing he remembered was that he had been shot down by an archer of some enemy army.

His eyes widened instantly as he attempted to push himself off the bed and what would likely be the floor below, as he pulled though he jolted and fell back forcing his mind to focus on his joints. With a quick look to his hands he saw that his wrists had been tied to the bed he had been in wit rope the same was done with his legs. He tried to escape but his movements only tightened the rope more pulling his body above the body until he couldn't feel the soft material anymore and the covers that had kept his modesty was gone.

A slight breeze from nowhere brushed against his skin at the same time a brief light shone in illuminating a figure, unfortunately however due to where the light was positioned he wasn't able to make out any facial features only a very basic shape. The figure had been incredibly curvaceous and so was likely a woman she also possessed fox ears and nine tails that had appeared as soon as she was alone. Before he could think anymore though he was interrupted by a beautiful and sensual voice.

"My love you have finally woken up" His eyes followed the figure as she moved around the area before then seemingly lighting candles wherever she want lighting the area up. Soon enough despite his naked bound and gagged state he was able to see the woman clearly. She was without doubt beautiful with her dark luscious black hair that fell down her back, beautiful carved face and creamy white skin as well as deep purple eyes and unbelievable amounts of curve that was only possible due to the adventures being in their game avatars before they had come to this world. Her black and purple frilled dress was also intimidating but went rather well with the silver crown that lay atop her head.

"My Love oh how I have waited for this day to be with you and it has finally arrived" Her eyes were staring at him lustfully, soon she approached him and trailed a long delicate finger up his chest to his neck before she soon leaned in and gave him a kiss on the forehead. "I'm sure you remember that day when you met me, I was only a low level player who was always a social outcast. I picked up gaming by accident and I loved it but I was struggling on my own in the beginning but then you came along and gave me lessons. You taught me everything I know and complimented me on my gaming ability my first real compliment and it came from such a nice man"

Shiroe tried to think back to the times when he had helped out this woman, it was entirely possible in the past he had helped out a lot of players in terms of tricks and skills before he decided not to. People always wanted to use him because of his experience and that was it, he had been nothing but a confident boost to people who wanted hymn in their party for bragging rights. Before that though he had helped out many players and so it wasn't impossible that he could have helped this woman but the fact remained he didn't remember it probably because he thought nothing of it and therefore she wasn't important to him at all.

However given his current circumstances he was wishing that perhaps he could remember her, if the last thing he remembered was being shot down by members of Plant Hwyaden and the next thing he knew he had woken up as a prisoner than he had a good feeling who this woman was. He couldn't speak because something was stopping him from speaking but the most likely person this foxtail woman was had to be the leader of Plant Hwyaden and the new queen of Westerlande Nureha.

His mind started to turn to rage as he realised what this woman had done to him, she was the one who had ordered the attack on the AEF and destroyed it as the group attempted to protect the people of the land. According to the reports he had gained from Soujiro as he flew towards the man in hoping to rescue him had informed him that dragons had been used but what was worse had to be the information that Nat had given him.

He didn't know how the kid had managed to locate the Plant Hwyaden spies but at this moment in time he couldn't care and in all honesty he hoped that the kid killed them for what their group had done. As for this woman she was the worst of the group she had been the one who would have ordered the attack and therefore have his friends killed. If he had been captured by her than that must have meant that she wanted information out of him as one of the big three he was fairly influential. However he wouldn't give the woman any information if anyone would have survived the attack than it would be Akatsuki and sure enough she would go and find Nyanta and Naotsugu to try and form a rescue mission to save him.

"My love are you okay" Nureha smiled lustfully as she bent down and whispered in Shiroe's ear making him shiver at the sensation, She could already tell what her beloved was thinking after all she had been gathering information on him for a while. She knew the way he voted in the round table conference who he had spoken with at the Eastal ball bur more importantly she knew who he had cared for and who cared for him back. "Oh there's no need to be angry, you can just relax this war will be over soon and you will get to stay by my side as my lover" Shiroe glared more at the woman as he couldn't do anything not even as the woman slowly crawled her hands over his exposed chest and to a certain part of his anatomy.

"There's nothing for you to be concerned about my love, the AEF is gone, soon the Kunie kingdom will be taken out and I will have access to the gold that looks after your buildings" Shiroe's eyes widened as he heard that something that Nureha noticed instantly, she too was slightly shocked she had assumed that Shiroe had been responsible and was not taking the credit to be humble. "You didn't know oh that's adorable my cute sweet lover didn't even know about the money you received from those bankers. Tell me darling who got you that money" By now Nureha was licking his neck while Shiroe tried to move it away but it was to no use as she simply exercised the power she had over him and got into a better position.

"Oh well it doesn't really matter the only one left of your little group is the leader of Britannia, let me guess you never once trusted him and left him at the city" Shiroe glared at the woman as she seemingly managed to figure out his intentions with the youngest member of the group. There were multiple reasons he preferred not to have Nat at the front lines one was because he didn't have any forces for him to command, secondly he had never once shown his combat ability and third he was shown to be sneaky and backstabbing using his wealth to buy his place on the council. The last part was the most concerning to him since when they had done the Yokosuka raid they had expected to the city to be exactly as they left it, not including the collapse of the city due to the storm the kid had managed to get control of the Cathedral.

"You don't have to worry about the guild hall anymore while I can't buy the thing yet one of my subordinates will take it since took the purchase of you when you were sleeping. After all I can't have you helping my enemies lover not when I'm so close" Before he could attempt to speak even with the gag his mind shut down as the woman stopped what she was doing and took a few stops back. He tried to look away as it happened but nothing he tried worked instead he could only watch as the dark haired woman slowly shed her clothing in a sensual manner until like him she was utterly nude before him.

"Do you like what you see my love because I've saved myself for you all this time just like you have been for me" Walking forwards Shiroe could only watch with mixed feelings due to his hormones going into overdrive as the woman picked up a blindfold and placed it over his eyes after that he heard some smug words since Nureha finally got to do what she had always wanted. "Come now my love time for some fun"

Ditch in the ground

He groaned as he woke up from his uncomfortable position, slowly he sat up straight and allowed his eyes to look around the hole he had slept in the previous night. It was brown muddy and had multiple creatures running around like spiders, worms and flies, the place wasn't petty but it had managed to save his life the previous night.

Turning his gaze to his chest he gingerly began to pull up his shirt revealing his skin but more importantly the bright red gash that went from his left shoulder down to his right hip. He grimaced as the memories of how that scar came to him; he alongside Soujiro and the others had managed to escape from the main group of the AEF and were looking for the safest way back home. Things had been going well and Soujiro had managed to inform Shiroe about the situation then from what he could work out Shiroe had tried to launch a rescue mission which went poorly.

He, Soujiro and the others tried to intervene and help their fellow Akihabaran people when they were shot down but it was all for nothing as Plant Hwyaden was on them in an instant. It was a short battle and one they lost quickly, the group who had come to save them crash-landed on the floor and had three things done to them. Either they died from the impact which happened to quite a few one of the most noticeable was Akatsuki as she acted as a cushion for Shiroe to just survive the fall. The second choice that happened was that they were killed by Plant Hwyaden or some were captured and to be used as sex slaves for people with one of the most noticeable being Shiroe as he was taken away by a rather stunning dark haired woman who seemed to be salivating at the side of him. Soujiro being the typical ladies man that he was had also been taken prisoner likely to be used by the women of Plan Hwyaden to scratch certain itches hat they possessed.

Most however were killed, He had also been taken hostage and was to be sold into slavery but there was a makeshift escape plan as they approached the base camp that Plant Hwyaden used. The plan went terribly Soujiro and a few others attempted to fight back and run he was among them, soon enough after reaching the forest one of the Plant Hwyaden members found him and attempted to kill him bys lashing across his chest. Obviously it had failed since he had fallen backwards down a large ditch that his attacker likely expected to kill but didn't.

That left his current position though; he was in the bottom of a ditch somewhere in a forest and a good distance away from anyone who could destroy Plant Hwyaden. On the other hand this scenario had many advantages, with all the other powerful members of the Round Conference either captured or dead preventing his plans it left only him and that dam capitalist pig Nathanael. He didn't know why they had left the capitalist in charge of the city with his young age, the kid had never once fought with them instead he simply resides in that tower of his all day likely sipping some expensive wine. Not to mention how he exploited the people under him, when the catastrophe occurred the people didn't have evil organisations controlling the wealth from themselves yet in a short time the child had changed that.

Britannia was a monopoly which people couldn't compete against, singlehandedly he controlled the food, clothing, technology, water, transport, book and many other types of business within that tower. Added to that to increase his power even more Nat had managed to get control of the cathedral leaving him sole control of who lived and died. What was worse through was that his power came purely by money and he had forcefully coerced people into help creating his business empire after all what other reason could there be for normal adventurers wanting to work in a supermarkets selling things for other people.

If that hadn't been bad enough when the Round Table Conference was created Nat managed to place himself as the political leader of the group and due to this push capitalist pig agendas. Calls from himself and those who believed that the people should have control of not only the banks but also all the property including the cathedral was promptly ignored and given a calm yet snarky reply. Even before then when the city had come collapsing down the child had denied any possible sort of general ownership of the entire city instead stating that the people should work together to build homes in of which once everybody was housed that people could then purchase land.

Shiroe and Crusty were also to blame but not as much as the capitalist dog who had been left in charge of the city, unlike last time when they had gone to war in Yokosuka under the pretext of saving women this war would have had them gone for months at a time. And that was another thing after all the people had gone to fight for that child to clear it of enemies not once did he ever give land away or hand it to the people instead it just stayed in his greedy little hands.

However he would change that, with the other indisposed he could return to the city and gain control of the city and give it to the people to rule. Sure there would be other capitalist pigs that hid in the city and would try to stop his glorious revolution however like their corrupt Britannia leader they would end up dead and be remembered as nothing but tyrants for the future generations. He could picture it now, the red flag hanging from Britannia tower, the ultimate symbol of communism over capitalism. And finally he Eins would be the leader of this glorious revolution that would sweep the nation for eternity and like Stalin, Lenin and Mao he would be remembered as a glorious and generous man.

Firs though before he could go back to the people's city he needed to escape this ditch or cave that he had managed to find himself in. Looking upwards where the sun was shining he could see that there was a straight vertical drop to where he was instead of some nice sloped ramp that he could crawl himself out of however that didn't mean that he was helpless. Bending down he stored power in his legs before jumping up, He jumped up higher than any normal human should have been able to do but then again he wasn't a normal human he had his game avatar as his body now enhancing his skills such as jumping to exceptional heights. As he flew upwards for a short time he grabbed onto a ledge before then repeating the possess of jumping until eventually he managed to get to the top of the ditch and land on the soggy wet floor in front of him.

Eins sighed again as he felt the rain splash against his face, like the day before it was cold wet and windy, fortunately though this played in his favour since people were less likely to catch up to him. Bringing up his mini map from the menu screen he was soon able to work out where he was and where Akihabara was. He wasn't too far away only a few days, with a goof pace he would be able to take the city before Plant Hwyaden managed to burn it all to the ground and destroy the glorious cause of Communism. It was just a shame that the people would have to wait so long before they were liberated from the tyranny that they found themselves long but they would rejoice when it was over. After all Communism could never be destroyed so when the corrupt child was gone he would lead the true sons of the red army to destroy the invading armies of Plant Hwyaden and decimate them where afterwards he would spread the glorious revolution to the rest of the world.

Rayneshia

When finally the sun dawned and came back around Rayneshia was able to make more sense of her surroundings as she got up. The strange building she had slept in was still the same without a single other person residing in it, naturally she found this strange after all shouldn't the owner have come back by now. Even if the owner had been a huntsman then they would have returned home to the structure and woke her up before berating her on why she was sleeping in another person's bed. However there were no clues that anybody had been in, no muddy footprints or clothes, no notes and as she walked over and checked the door it was still locked.

"Strange I wonder if Lord Curtsy would know what this building is" The man was annoying but rather knowledgeable as well as well travelled surely he would have come across this structure in his time. In the mean time however she could only hope to guess what this place was guessed for, besides her first thought of it being somebody's home she couldn't help but feel that it wasn't right. There were no hints of personalisation or even any wear or tear to the building rather it was kept in rather good shape almost as if people had actively maintained it for some reason. As her eyes searched around they soon focused on a piece of paper that had seemingly been nailed to the door of the structure, curious she walked towards it and began to read the writing that had been left on it.

To whom ever is reading this thank you for staying at the overnight lodge house, please feel free to use the facilities we only ask that you keep the place clean and tidy for the next lot of people to use. We know how difficult it can be adventuring without a comfortable place to rest your head at night especially with monsters around that is why we created this lodge house. You will be safe in here over night also, if you need to access an anvil or other facilities please use the trap door underneath the far right corner as you walk in to access them. When you leave the lodge please remember all of your items as there is no guarantee that you can get them back; in the meantime enjoy the facilities. Again we thank you for using this lodge house.

Rayneshia blinked that was a strange message but she understood what it meant, whoever had built this lodge house had done so with the intention for weary people to have a safe place to sleep and store their items. It was a rather kind gesture and once at this moment in time she was incredibly thankful for, on the other hand she had never heard of these rest stations so perhaps at a later date she could fin who was responsible. Again though that would have to wait until later in the meanwhile though she would treat herself to the facilities that had been left here.

Taking the offered advice she found the trap door in the top right and climbed down the ladder into the basement which very much didn't look like a basement in the slightest. It was large far larger than the top of the building but unlike the top which was nice and relaxing this area was far more practical. She explored for a small amount of time until she discovered what had to be the bath that had been left as well as a strange device that could apparently wash clothes. At first she didn't trust the machine but after seeing the Britannia Logo she realised that whoever had created this place had purchased some of the advanced Britannia technology.

Remembering that she had locked the door to the building the princess of Eastal stripped herself of her clothing before putting it in the machine and following the instructions and turning it on. From there she made her way to the private bathroom and locked the door again preventing anyone from peeping on her. With her ability to look at herself properly in a mirror for the first time since the battle at Chousa she could see just how badly she looked.

Covered in dirt and blood she had scratches, cuts and bruises all over her body as well as looking filthy the worst of which was her hair which had since become frazzled. She groaned as she realised that she had a lot of work to do not just to rid herself of the current mess that her body was she no longer possessed that beautiful body that she had to maintain as it was covered in dirt and twigs. However if she worked hard and managed to keep herself in a decent condition until Akihabara then perhaps she wouldn't need any major treatment to her hair and rest of her body. She sighed as she thought about how much her maid would scream and yell at her for getting in such a condition but at this moment she just frankly didn't care in the slightest.

From there like with the washing machine she began to follow the instructions that had been left out and activated the shower since it seemed like the best option as she did not want to bathe in water while she was covered in so much filth. Things went well and she moaned in comfort as the warm water began to slide down her head and neck, already she could start to feel the filth wash off her. Chunks of dirt and the occasional twig came out of her hair and dropped into the bath once she was sure that she had sorted out her hair she then began to brush off the mud on the rest of her face and body until finally she began to use soap to clean herself properly which was then followed by the shampoo that had been left behind.

As she showered she started to think about Crusty more, she was concerned for his safety after all she had woken up in a tree with no signs of the man and the appearance of a major battle. He had fought so bravely when he first jumped off the ship followed by the rest and she could only imagine what he would do when he heard the ship get blown up. He was a very kind if not annoying man always making time for her and pulling her out of boring meetings, she could easily understand why other girls desired him. He was a knight with exceptional talent with a sword, spoke and acted like a gentleman as well as being rich, famous, handsome and a brilliant leader and tactician surely he would be the one that every lord would wish to marry their daughters or sisters to.

He wasn't like the tall lanky one called Shiroe who hid behind those menacing looking glasses and had no sense of decorum messing up on his greeting. Neither was he like that other man who was also large and tall but seemed quite bashful and out of place in fact the only other one of the group who was seemingly not out of place was Nathanael. However what did the child have that the others didn't, he was a supposedly decent fighter with a sword but Crusty was exceptional, He was rich but the other merchant man supposedly had more money, He was young but that just meant that he was inexperienced and wasn't ready for marriage. As for his looks well besides the older and small looking gentleman he was the ugliest member of the round table conference and it hadn't been him who had attended the meeting with the scholars. Even in terms of manners the boy was still met with Crusty and unlike him Crusty hadn't asked to escort her to the ball and also had good conversations with her. As well as that she had also managed to learn that Lord Tempest generally wasn't liked by his peers with them generally considering him to be too bossy and not contributing much besides ideas for how politics should work. The green haired man called Eins had stated that he bought his way into the conference rather than earning it by gaining a monopoly on all important goods preventing people from competing. All in all from what she had learned Lord Tempest was the worst member of the round table group and despite acting like a lord was supposed to be a terrible person who she couldn't trust. All the actions he did according to Eins who was well liked by his peers not in the round table was to ensure his own power and he cared nothing for no one else's problems. It was for this reason why he had not stepped in the ship and gone to fight since he would betray the group.

Still despite this if anybody had a way to get into contact with Crusty than it would be Nat the only case was making her way to the city. Who knew what types of monsters lurked in the forest that she had managed to find herself in, the first group that came to mind were goblins something which had became a threat of unimaginable size. She wanted to know how did an army of that size just suddenly form and move without nobody noticing in the slightest, it had taken a group of adventurers away from the main group to spot the large group heading south. Either the adventurers were just plain lazy or the guards or watchmen of her grandfather's kingdom had truly failed at their job of looking out for threats and then reporting them. Not that it mattered anymore the AEF had been created on short notice and then put on a ship to fight the enemy only for the ship to blow up and her to be knocked out leaving with her no idea of what had happened in the mean time.

As she kept washing her body allowing the water to run down her beautiful body she started to wonder how her grandfather would implement the new technology into Eastal. Surely other lords besides himself would want the help of the adventures even more so since adventurers in Westerlande had conquered the kingdom and claimed it as their own. Adventurers were more advanced than they were far more so creating new pieces of music, art, literature, food and technology alongside many other things that people of the land could have only dreamed off. But this was having a price she had heard the whispers of malcontent among members of nobility about how they should declare war on Akihabara and take everything they owned as their and then used the adventurers to create new technology for them

Without doubt such an event would end terribly the adventurers easily outclassed them in a fight and what was sores as she had witnessed they all seemed to have training in strategy something that the average soldier didn't. Even if one made people of the land and adventurers equal the people would still lose since the adventurers had far better training and years of active experience fighting enemies. Perhaps that was why grandfather had been so adamant on making friends with the adventurers to prevent a war from breaking out since surely at the end of it the people of the land would suffer and the nobility would be killed. That was once of the many risks of being born into nobility she had been told since people would be jealous of her and would try to kill her since she represented something that other people would never have in their lives.

Upstairs

Bob was bored, he had been sent ahead of the small raiding group to find a good place to stay or to relax. The past few days had been rather eventful for him he had been part of a group which was to raid the water towns and steal anything they could, At first things had been going well he and a few other goblins was able to rush a few hooman towns after they had been struck by other hoomans and tae what they wanted in women, booze and food. However things had been starting to dry up, the towns and villages they arrived at were nothing but destroyed burning piles of wreck with nothing worth to steal as it had been burnt. Why Hoomans wanted to destroy food was beyond him when they could just steal it but what was worse than burning food was that whoever these hoomans were they were killing all the good looking hoomans.

Naturally the death of perfectly good hoomans was unwarranted and pissed him off after all hoomans and the other hooman races were far better looking than they were. For one they were far taller, secondly the she hoomans had such beautiful skin and big breasts that were fun to play with and lastly was the fact that they just made better sex than other goblins did. Already he and the other goblins had vowed that when they found the hoomans responsible for killing all the other good looking hoomans they would exact their goblin revenge on them.

Still that left why he was out alone and a decent distance from the rest of his colleagues on as beach, well you see Bob had been recognised as a great warrior and due to this was typically sent on scouting mission. For other goblins if they got caught by a guard then unless they acted very quickly than they were as good as dead however as an elite goblin Bob could kill guards and other creatures. All ready he had demonstrated this ability when he had broke into a rich she hoomans house while the other hoomans were attacking and had his way with the woman until the hoomans broke in and then promptly shot him through the head with an arrow only to than shoot the now defiled woman.

So it was due to this that while he preformed reconnaissance that he hoped to find a town or village to attack which hadn't been destroyed by the other hoomans. After all why should just he enjoy the she hoomans his fellow brethren were also in need of entertainment plus if he took slaves than he could earn his way up the rankings higher and maybe even one day be goblin king. Yes he would like that very much if he could be goblin king than he would own all the she hoomans not to mention he could command the other goblins what to do, he would also be bigger and tougher more imposing than the rest of his kind was like he had been before those two hoomans had burst into his home and killed his people.

He still remembered that day clearly the strange young hoomna who used magic to kill him in many ways, it was painful but perhaps it was best thing ever done to him. Magic hooman had forced him to be stronger to fight tougher and kill more plus thanks to magic hooman destroying his home he had finally managed to enjoy she hoomans as much as he wanted. On the other hand being killed again and again got annoying especially since no matter how hard he tried nothing ever seemed to work. He had even been killed by giant spiders ugly and stupid creatures had once eaten him and that was the worst death he had, unlike the other times when he had been burned alive or had his head chopped off or even when he had his stomach slashed open and allowed his guts to fall out nothing was a painful as that. Being wrapped in white spider stuff and then injected with the spider tail spike only then to have his blood sucked out of his body drop by drop to feed some ugly mother fucking creatures.

But those days were behind him now, at the rate he was advancing he would soon be one of the greatest goblins of all times forever remembered as Bob the great, He could just imagine the future generation of goblins learning about how he Bob the Great had gone from a lowly Goblin to leader of all goblin kind. He would be a great leader he would capture many she hoomans so that all goblins could enjoy them and after he had done that he would conquer this land and make it into a land for all goblins. All he had to do now id destroy the filthy hoomans and take everything they owned. But first Bob was hungry and that building up ahead looked good.

Perhaps the building would have food in it, if it did have food than he would steal the food and kill the owners before having a rest and carrying on with his mission of finding a nice place. Walking to the door of the strange structure he noticed that it had been locked, Bob would never understand why hoomans were so insistent of leaving things in chests where people could steal things. With goblins anyone could challenge anyone else for anything they wanted whether it was food hoomans treasure if you wanted something than you took it. Of course that meant that you didn't want to go around stealing from the wrong goblin, when you annoyed the wrong goblin there was always a fight to the death in a big arena where other goblins gathered and betted their stuff on who would win. Of course some people would refuse to pay up and were so then punished by having to fight against other non payers to the death until eventually only one was left and they could rejoin the clan.

In contrast Bob, had learned that hoomans had far more rules about what they were allowed to do with their life. However it didn't matter soon the hoomans would all be destroyed and made into slaves to serve them as far as they saw fit. As Bob looked around the strange building he found nothing strange but then he froze as a small scent wafted into his nose. Walking up to the source he saw that it had originated from one of the beds but what was more important was that it smelt recent. Bob licked his lips the scent was hooman but especially that of a she hooman, all ready he could start to picture the fun that he could have with a good she human. If he was really lucky however the she hooman would be incredibly pretty and one he could capture for his own amusement but that still left the case of where was she.

Sniffing loudly the goblin managed to track her scent; stalking it with lust in his eyes Bob soon discovered that the scent had lead to a strange corner. At first bob was confused there was nothing in this corner that could produce such a smell but as his eyes began to glaze over the surroundings he managed to indentify a latch. Yanking the piece of iron upwards Bob looked downwards to see some stairs where he could smell that the hooman had gone to also he could here noise. Sliding down the ladder the goblin found himself in a far larger area however he didn't care about the strange devices that littered the room, at this moment in time only two of them seemed to be activated. The first of which was a strange white thing where clothes were bouncing up and down behind glass for some strange reason, Bob did care it was another hooman device on the other hand the other device smelt much more promising.

The she hoomans scent got stronger as he approached a room where he could hear something constantly hitting the floor, at first he was confused but then he realised that it must be rain since rain was the only other thing which made that noise. Idly Bob wondered what the she hooman would be doing in there but it didn't matter their weapon had been left outside of the room just a standard sword that hoomans liked to use nothing special like those powerful hoomans owned.

Prying open the door of this strange room open Bob was treated to a glorious sight, in front of him was indeed a she hooman but this was a beautiful she hooman. Long blue hair creamy skin and while not massive as he had of like them well sized breasts, the she hooman was incredibly beautiful in fact she was the most beautiful hooman he had ever seen. Bob Smirked the she hooman would make a very good prize so good in fact that he would not share her with the other goblins; they would try to steal what was his. What was even better for Bob though, was that the hooman was already completely naked and somehow bathing herself in the water as it poured out from the top of the room.

Without delay Bob placed his small axe on the ground he would not need it not when the pretty hooman didn't even know he was there, this was soon followed by the rest of his clothing which with the shower continuing to make noise the hooman wouldn't know what got to her. Advancing forward with the she hoomans back to him Bob admired the girl he would soon make his slave, he had gotten exceptionally lucky with this one in fact compared to those other hoomans he had seen this one must have been some type of nobility. Bob growled pleasurably at the thought for some reason the noble she hoomans were always better looking than the other hoomans they also had a tendency to make much better sex slaves as well. With that in mind he looked upwards expecting to see his unwitting pray however the response he got was one he didn't mind either.

Rayneshia froze in terror as she heard the growling sound, turning around as soon as she could she came face to face with a completely naked goblin staring at her lustfully growling in a way that only goblins did. For a brief few moments she panicked what did she do there was nowhere to run behind her she was trapped in this bathing room after all. On the other hand if she just stayed there then the filthy disgusting goblin would capture her and use to his advantage, her first plan was to scream for Crusty to beg for help from the knight but then she remembered that she didn't know where he was.

It nearly broke her in that moment the one time she had truly utterly needed him here to help her and he was gone nowhere to be seen, then she started to have a brief internal panic she knew what this creature would do to her. I would rape her first here before then taking her back to its friends where she like other women would be used as nothing but toys to sate their pleasure for the rest of her miserable life. Then for some strange reason she could hear the words of the leader of Britannia that he had once said to her during one of their very brief conversations.

"The only person you can forever really on to be there with you is yourself, It's all well and good waiting for a hero but to believe that one will always come to your assistance is naive and will likely get yourself killed or worse. Therefore your grace all ways act, if you're stuck against a wall then run forward towards the enemy since its better than just dying laying down, running forward for the briefest moment may distract them and buy you a precious moment that you need" She didn't know why she was thinking of the youngest member of the round tables words but she couldn't deny that they reflected on her current situation. She was trapped, Trapped in a bathroom with a perverted monster who wanted to do nothing more than use her body to pleasure himself however the situation wasn't as bad as she had assumed. The goblin was unarmed and just staring lustfully at her, perhaps if she could get past the creature than she could get to her sword and fight the beast off.

She dashed forwards, taken by the strange action Bob didn't pay attention to the slippery floor thanks to the shower and so when he went to grab the princess his foot slipped slipping him up. With a mighty smash Bob was barely able to comprehend what had happened as his face slammed directly onto a shelf that was situated by the shower with great force cracking open bobs skull. With he impact came another fall and like when he had smashed his face against the shelf Bob then fell backwards cracking his head on the floor below him. Had he been a normal human or a normal goblin than his skull would have caved in and he would be dead instead however he was left in ultimate pain as he felt the blood drain from his head. Before Bob could comprehend anything else however a sword slammed into his throat sending blood all over the floor as the blade then decapitated the goblin turning him into bubbles.

Rayneshia whimpered as she stared at the blood marks all of a sudden she could start to feel the small breeze on her nude body and instantly she wrapped her arms around her body in hopes to feel warm. Quickly she found a towel and wrapped it around herself giving her something to keep her moderately warm as she thought more on the situation.

She had nearly been raped by a disgusting monster, the only reason she was even alive was due to the floor being wet and slippery giving her the opportunity she had needed to escape. And she had killed the filthy creature her, she who had never once trained with a sword once ion her life or even been in a battle let alone hunted anything had just killed a goblin. Crusty hadn't been there for her when she had needed him the most instead he was somewhere else and due to this she couldn't help but recollect on Lord Tempests words; she had been the one to kill the creature her not anyone else not her grandfathers soldier not the adventurers not Crusty, her. She and she alone had prevented what had happened perhaps she wondered if this meant that she could also affect other things like the rest of Eastal.

She had once promised to assist the adventurers with all her political power even though she knew she had none but perhaps that had changed. She would still need time but she could help the people of her country even with a pack of wild monsters ravaging the land she would just need help.