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Mr. Brown owns the books, I just like to mess around in them, for free.

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Tina and her pussies were competing with the Succubi in pleasing their coven sisters. The maids were next, with our minds linked, we took control over the maids, giving them several happy endings. Cerise was pounding on me in her dragon form, whispering in my ears word of love, and how pleased Hecate was with us. Well… I am pleased too, going from an old retired ordinary man to a young and strong man, fucking mythical creatures and hundreds of women… I can safely say I upgraded several levels.

Let's remove their fatigue, and go at it again, the night is not over yet.

22 The wall

The Revel lasted for hours, the coven linked together, and I showed them how I use my magic to please the women. I also told them not to use it on the groves, too much magic will change them into familiars. It is a kind of enslavement, one that the dryads have to ask for themselves. Just spread it in a one or two yards radius so the dryads can move into it and back out of their own free will.

Pelagia, her Nymphs, and naiads were getting spoiled from all sides, we moved to Demetrius his Grove and continued the Revel, Tina visited the single women's quarter and invited all that wanted to receive her Lords blessing. Over two hundred women of all ages responded, most were curious about the Groves too.

Cerise, Zoe, Corinna, and Pelagia, kept on chanting to Lady Hecate. Avilla and her apprentices were chanting to Hestia, Tina started to chant in ancient Egypt, calling on Bast with her pussies. Berri decided to evoke Idun, calling on her, for her favor.

The magic merged, the four Goddesses were happy with the Revel, and the magic and emotions that were offered to them.

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Well past midnight it came to an end in Corinna's Grove. We slept under the trees, guarded by the dryads. Avilla and Mira were cuddling Agnetha. Tina was sleeping in my arms. Pelagia was next to me.

Pelagia: "Thank you, my Lord, that was a Revel that could be compared to the time of Olympus. Can we invite the soldiers with their wives for a Revel? It will empower them. The villagers too, it will boost up their fertility and health, and our Gods would be pleased.

"Ask them tomorrow at breakfast, the single women too. Did you notice Berri calling on Idun? That was a smart move. We created a connection, and the Aesir can't complain we don't worship them. Can you guide her to become a priestess of Idun? Or is this overstepping some boundaries?"

Pelagia thought for a minute before responding: "We can guide Berri to be a priestess for Idun, she made the connection to Idun last night. Idun has a Grove, so my advice for Berri is to create one for Idun, at least as big as this place. If she can do that by herself, it will be as if it was a chapel, a place of worship. A place of power. There are enough of our people that want to continue worshiping the Aesir, offering the chance to worship Idun and get your approval, will get Idun a lot of followers here. Her golden apples are appealing to the humans, the dream of immortality is always strong in them."

"I will talk to her in the morning. Thank you three for your hospitality and that wonderful Revel. Goodnight."

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The next morning we made it at breakfast with sleepy eyes, the youngest coven sisters were tasked to remove our fatigue. I know it is cheating, but I don't give a shit, in war you have to take all advantages for yourself, and let chivalry die with your enemies.

Blom reported that Kozalins' Pride was docked in the harbor, and the Guardian was on their maiden voyage, to test the artillery. The fishing boats were providing a steady supply of fish and shellfish.

Luka reported four fully operational airships, the retired griffin riders were coming in today for a test flight. I suggested that they should try to let them do a bomb run. Also to take enough fish with them to supply the towns. The trial of the artillery would be supervised by Bjorn.

Demetrius: "A war party will leave today to raid the armies that besiege the cities. They have supplies for a month and have air support on call, we have an officer appointed to collect the information from the calls, and to organize a quick response." Marcus added the recruiting of new soldiers from the shelters went great. Our reputation of overkill, and safety of the soldiers, together with a spot in our keep, made the job attractive.

Ulla's aim for today was to finish at least three airships. The meeting went on, the daily troubles, the milestones that we reached, the women, children, and farmers who were working and playing in the keep. When we finished I asked Berri to wait with Pelagia, Cerise, Avilla, Elin, Tina, Mira, and Mara.

"Berri, last night you called upon Idun to be part of the revel. That was a smart move, that we approve of. Was this a one-time action or do you want to explore this further?" Berri mulled over the question.

Berri: "It was an impulsive action of me, I saw Cerise, Avilla, and Tina calling upon their gods, and thought about the fourth god that visited our coven. I felt that she had to be somehow included in the revel, so I called upon her. Exploring this further? I don't know how, I even don't know if Lady Idun wants it. I only know our lord wants to save her and her Grove, that makes her important to me too."

Pelagia: "Mistress Berri, we felt Lady Idun connect to our Revel, we felt her joy to be included, we even felt her approval of you calling on her. You have a chance to become a priestess of Lady Idun if you fulfill certain conditions. For example, Tina being changed into a cat hybrid, filled the condition for Bast to return to this world. I suggest you build a temple for Lady Idun, do what you do best, and create a Grove, fit to house a Goddess. Our Lord wants to save her, and her Nymphs and dryads need a Grove to live in. if you put an altar in the Grove it will become your temple, and a seat of power for Lady Idun."

Cerise: "Berri, Pelagia is right, only gods we invite in can look into our keep. We have warded this keep from all sides to keep the gods out. Building a temple for Lady Idun, is us inviting her into our lives, and offering her a safe spot."

Avilla: "Berri, you are free to do as you want. Build a temple or not, we are supporting you in whatever you decide. I felt the approval of Lady Hestia for including Lady Idun."

Tina hugged Berri: "I love you, either way, Berri. Bast was happy with Lady Idun, she likes her."

Mira nodded at that comment: "Idun is one of the most level-headed gods of the Aesir. It would be great if she was on our side. Berri, you get the best result if you create that temple all by yourself. The farmlands you created proves that you are able to do it. If you want help, getting children under ten years to help you, will give extra power to the temple. The willingness to help build her temple will grant you and the children her favor, so best not tell them that, or the effect is reduced."

Mara chuckled: " The power we gave the four gods yesterday was huge. The dryads kept on getting Franks's magic and offering it to the gods before they would become overpowered. The single women offering their selves to our lord was a power-play too, they basically put their fate in our Lord's hands. That is a powerful sacrifice. The maids, devoting their life and service to our Lord, helping him in the Revel, is another power. Whatever you decide sister Berri, we support you."

Elin gave her point of view: "Berri, make a list of what you have to do to create that temple then decide if it is possible and that you really want to do it."

Berri nodded at that advice: "Thank you all for your support, I will think it over, if I do this it will start tomorrow. It is a big change from a small village girl to coven sister, to a priestess of a goddess."

"Berri my love, you are not a village girl anymore, the body I gave you is stronger, faster, and most importantly smarter than before. Your brain is working at trice the speed from before, you have better memory, can learn faster, and think faster. The villager girl is long gone, now we have a powerful coven sister, smart, beautiful, and strong with body and magic. Think it over, now I have a wall to build." It is nice to have this Time Chamber, we can talk everything through without losing time.

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The girls were ready, Bella, Saskia, and Sandra have their teams selected, the skimmer with the ward stones was waiting for me with an adept.

Adept: "Adept White, my name is Hakan Gunnarson, and am here to assist you with the wardstones. I must compliment you on the stones you provided, every stone was the same length and weight, which made it easier to enchant."

"Well met Adept Gunnarson, we will start just out the keep with a watchtower. Driver, take us outside the city wall." We went outside the city wall, I erected a tower and created a draw bridge to my keep, the girls started to install the spear launchers, every fifty feet a ward stone went into the wall, I let the wall blend into the old one, fortifying it along. At regular distances, I put towers up in the style of the shelters, which will move the soldiers closer to the walls, and releases the housing pressure of the city.

At the city gates, I went for overkill with a double gate and an automatic defense. The city walls got an extra ten feet high and width. I took it slow, just getting ahead of the girls so they are always in sight. At lunchtime, I invited Adept Gunnarson to have lunch with us.

At the table Agnetha sat on my lap, explaining everything she learned today, often demonstrating it. Then she got off, went over to her dad, and hugged him, whispering: "I love you, daddy, mommy too." and went to the coven table.

Demetrius told us that the war party made contact with an ice giant group, we have more fell wolves meat now, the air scouting helped a lot in tracking the enemy, they were now on the way to the first city. Blom reported the artillery was working perfectly.

Hrodir told us all farms were planted and sown. He curbed his enthusiasm because of the strange Adept listening in. Anyway, the keep was running smoothly. The army was making dents in Loki's troops.

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I sped the tempo up, I wanted to finish the wall today, with a steady supply of ward stones, I left the girls behind. The wall went up in record time, I stood on top of the skimmer that carried the ward stones, the driver followed the wall that I created, only pausing when I erected the watchtowers or gates. When I reached the harbor, the last tower was standing in the river, extra strong and high.

Berri decided to help with the launchers, the pace went up when I was done with the wall, and came to help with the launchers too.

Every team had a power stone to bind their launchers to, at the end, the city launchers had five power stones to draw their energies from. I secured the stones in my keep in-bedded in the walls. I guess that show of power will come back and bite me in the ass someday, but I wanted it to get done and over with.

Adept Gunnarson became silent when I upped the pace, disappearing when the last tower in the harbor was done. If any of the Conclave had any idea of trying to control me, that evaporated this day. When the last tower went up, the citizens began cheering, their safety was doubled now. The troops were occupying the new towers, happy with the warm rooms and water supply.

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At dinner we celebrated our achievement, the launcher teams were praised for their commitment to the job. The young ones had already removed their fatigue, only the mental stress remained, being pampered by their coven sisters took care of it too. The launchers were erected by girls from Kozalin, Bella, Saskia, Sandra, daughters from adepts and nobility, their team's citizens from Kozalin. It put the conclave in a bad light, for not nurturing the talents of the females.

Well… you can use females for breeding only, but then you are wasting a lot of potentials. I admit the breeding is very important too, but the tasks between males and females have to be flexible, it has been since the old times when we lived in caves. The females helped defend their homes, the males helped prepare the food and remove the waste. The Red Conclave neglecting half of their potential is backfiring now.

Demetrius chuckled: "It is a good thing you didn't build the keep higher than their tower my lord, your wall will already make your dinner party tomorrow a bit awkward. The war party reached the first city, the carpet bombing that you taught us is devastating, we destroyed their camp with a single pass, flying slowly over it, the veteran griffin rider almost shit his pants with the result, he couldn't stop yelling in his communicator about it. We supplied the city and recruited the crippled soldiers with their families. We also took a lot of orphans in. Mistress Elin, is it possible to get some healers with the airships? There is a lot of frostbite wounds that are certain death out there.

Berri commented, "I could build a pocket dimension with an airlock and install med beds in them, that have a healing medallion integrated into the bed, with an on and off button, we can reduce the healers to one or two on each airship. The worse cases can be put in stasis and treated here."

Elin smiled at Berri: "That is a good idea Berri, we have a lot of coven sisters that have a healing talent, but they still have a lot to learn. They can go on short missions to get experience. We will rotate the tasks among us. We will start with three healers on an airship, to let them get used to battle wounds and to operate the med-beds. Frank, can you design all this please?" I just nodded, a day in the Time Chamber will solve it.

Blom added that the Pride and Defender needs a similar setup, he mentioned that the Defender has passed several towns and bombed the enemies' camps, helped by the air support. Cerise added that if the night elves joined, we need a lot more airships. Ulla and her team finished three today, totaling them at seven. The lack of skilled pilots was showing. The veteran griffin riders were not up for piloting, telling a bird where to fly is different than flying it yourself. They are handy as guides, and for bombing runs, but nothing more.

Finally, I situated Kozalin in comparison with my old world. Mr. Brown said it was in Denmark, but is more like the city of Hamburg on the river Elbe. Not that it matters a lot, frontiers shifted a lot in history, winners gained land, after some years they lose it to someone else. Or the children of royalty marry and are gifted large pieces of land. If the prince is a single kid, they can even merge two countries into one. It was done a lot in our world, the region I was originated, changed owners at least every century, Romans, Franks, Spain a couple of times, France also several times, Germans, Dutch, you name it and we had them.

Anyway, we are spreading our influence and killing Loki's troops by the thousands. Pelagia made her offer to hold a Revel once every week, everyone was invited, from little kids to the oldest residence.

Pelagia: "We hold the Revel to honor the four Goddesses our lord favors: Lady Hecate, Lady Hestia, both from the Olympian Parthenon, Lady Bastet from Egypt's and Lady Idun from the Aesir. For the children, we have a celebration with food and games. For the adults we have food and drinks, our influence in the Revel will increase your health and fertility, it will increase your feelings to your partners, and we will join your play when you want us to.

There will be no human sacrifices. We only do this with our enemies, we offer our feelings and energy to our Goddesses out of our free will. The happiness of the children when they play in our groves is also received by them. Because our Lord made women and children's safety his main concern, the energy from them in the Revel is increased. Tonight, everyone is invited, we rotate our Groves, today it is in Demetrius Grove." Marcus said he will spread the word among the soldiers, Hrodir said his people will join them. The rituals the dryads did in the pocket dimensions, had them convinced of their use. Hilda smiled and told us that yesterday was a good day, and tonight it will too. It will be a good opportunity for single women to look for a partner. Several of my coven sisters said to be there to provide magic for the ritual, little Agnetha will join the children.

I decided to skip it, having the boss around at a party every time, can be a buzz killer. The senior coven sisters were going to do rituals to fortify the keep. Tina and Berri will attend the Revel to invoke their Goddesses. Berri had decided to build a temple for Idun, starting tomorrow.

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In the Time Chamber at my workspace, I had Ulla and her team, Bella, and the Tova twins with theirs, some of them were healing apprentices, Suzanne came along too. First, we made a new airship, with the standard measurements they will fit through our doors everywhere in our keep. The girls were already enchanting it, I put the dimension pockets in, and created the medical section in the pocket that the supply cars can drive-in. An airlock to give the chance to leave the room in mid-flight, rows of stasis chambers, to keep the patients still while the bed heals them up. I showed the girls how to create the stasis chambers, although small, just a bed and space to stand next to it on both sides, fifty of them still took a lot of space. It took a lot of work to enchant them with on and off switches. While they were doing the chambers, I created the new med beds. I enchanted the grill under the mattress to have complete coverage of the body, I put priorities in the enchant, first stabilize the brain, stop the bleeding, remove dead tissue, put a new skin on, and heal the rest.

I estimated the beds could bring a person back from dying to full health in fifteen minutes. The factory stone was made in three parts to fit all enchants in. Suzanne was paying attention, went into the medical section, and started to produce the beds, linking them to a power source in the airship. As always, the power-stones that leave my keep have a timer on them, that renders them useless after a few months. I am not Santa, giving presents left and right, those power sources are dangerous in enemy hands. They also have a master kill switch, controlled by yours truly. Again, at war you don't give your enemies weapons, but also be careful with your allies, the allies of today can become the enemies of tomorrow.

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We spend the night in the Time Chamber in the usual way, with seventeen girls from the coven, and twenty maids to serve us for the day. I made sure everyone had their needs satisfied. The next morning after breakfast, the girls started on the second airship, the first one was already parked at the exit. I started back on my project of the portals. Maybe I should visit the conclave and study their portal, I just have to change the energy source. Sacrificing humans for ten minutes use is just idiotic. But first I have to try it myself, I have time-space magic, so the tools are there, I just have to find the right combination.

I knew I was on the right path at lunch but decided to relax for the next few hours with the girls, they completed two airships, I only helped to create the pocket dimensions, the rest was done by themselves. We spend the afternoon with some games, and a lecture about magic itself, how it interacts with this world and affects us. We left the chamber with three airships and seventeen happy girls.

Today's goals have been reached: build a wall, and fortify our position.

After a few hours Tina and Berri, with the coven sisters that attended the Revel, came to me for release, seeing everyone fuck like crazy, will get you horny as hell, and I was happy to do my part. Life was good.