Perseus12: Thank you for your support.
Cheesy Spaghetti: You're absolutely right. Also don't forget that Oestia has a very bad record with the orcs contrary to Alfheim. By comparison he is getting tolerant reactions in Alfheim.
XXxxxadisxxxXX: Sorry about that. I'll try to improve on that.
Alfheim was the first kingdom of the continent of Selenus, it was created by (according to ancient texts) the first race that set foot on the continent, said race is known as High Elves (although in the beginning they were simply called elves).
Due to the advantage of being the first, Alfheim had the title of the most powerful kingdom in all of Selenus, they were economically, militarily and culturally superior to any other kingdom.
But all that changed when one day three girls were born in the late Lucross house, Celestine, Serafina and the third a more mysterious girl.
According to ancient texts, one day in the homeland of origin of the elves three girls would be born, one with green eyes like emeralds, another with blue eyes like sapphires and the last one whose special trait was not described, the three would be the reincarnation of the Goddess Laurentia and would lead the world into a time of endless peace.
It is paradoxical that their first act was to start a war, due to a vision that Celestine had, the sisters along with the army of the house Lucross moved towards the north of Alfheim, where several small kingdoms were constantly fighting each other to extend their territory.
In those times the Lucross house was almost as powerful as the royal family of Alfheim itself and together with the divine powers of the three sisters it was easy for them to conquer each of those kingdoms.
That led to two things, the Lucross house disappeared and the kingdom of Oestia was born, Celestine was its high queen, Serafina its religious leader and the last one is not known by the general public what she does.
As said before, that was the beginning of the end for Alfheim, because the Oestia top regents were an ancient noble family from the elven home realm, these two realms always had good relations and functioned almost symbiotically for a long time. .
Alfheim completely neglected its political and commercial relations with any other kingdom than Oestia and little by little, while Oestia became more and more powerful, Alfheim began to depend more and more on the kingdom of the sisters.
Then the war broke out, Garan went to war against Oestia, although anyone would think that this would be an easy victory for the great kingdom of Oestia, the already 3 centuries of war show that this is not the case.
Olga Discordia, queen of Garan, also known as the dark queen or the queen of witches, is a great magician and thanks to her magic she did the unthinkable, she created the dead lands, between her borders with all the other kingdoms, making it impossible for anyone invaded Garan because the dead lands besides being... Dead, gradually absorb the vital force of all the beings that walk through it.
That was his first smart move that allowed him to never worry about an invasion, then he proceeded to subdue the monsters of the entire continent, with the use of his magic he made all the monsters of the continent travel to Garan and make their lives there. inhospitable place, being them immunized to the effects of the dead earth, with the monsters in their power, Olga used them as her soldiers.
Thanks to these two things the war dragged on, Alfheim as good partners lent their full support to Oestia, both with money and supplies and soldiers, so they were doomed.
After 3 centuries doing the same thing, Alfheim ceased to be the once powerful kingdom to become the possible weakest kingdom on the continent and that the kingdom of Asnolc noticed, they who praise a god who says that all that is not human must serving the humans decided that the weak kingdom of Alfheim could be invaded so they could get all the elves as slaves.
This war is only 5 years old and Alfheim was already losing it, Oestia was unable to provide their support because they were too busy against Garan and the elf kingdom could not hire mercenaries because economically they were barely standing, all that I take you to your current situation.
The princess had told Ushao all that, the Orsimer had kept quiet while she told the story of her people and what led them to the current state.
It was a surprise for all those present to see how at no time did he lose interest in what was being told to him, nor did he interrupt the princess and he never stopped looking her in the eye.
At least none of them realized that he kept looking into her eyes so as not to end up looking at something else, after all the transparent dress left little to the imagination which is a complete euphemism, it leaves absolutely nothing to the imagination.
—I see— It was the first thing he said —Bad decisions accumulated over 3 centuries lead to this… I would say I'm surprised, but that would be lying— And it's true, after all the Aldmeri Domain resurfaced because of the little attention that the empire carried to the original land of the high elves which triggered the great war.
Despite his words they noticed that he maintained a certain serenity in this matter, he was not offensive or unpleasant, he was neither confident nor carefree, his behavior was just calm and the princess could see in those strange eyes that he seemed to be thinking about everything. said so far.
"In any case, what exactly do you want me to help you with?" He asked, still keeping his eyes fixed on those of the elf in front of him. "Although I warn you, using me as a mere mercenary would be a complete waste."
—I didn't mean to do something like that— Eleenn looked at her companions, one was her best friend and the other two are the military leaders of both the royal family and the most powerful house in Alfheim, with the exception of the king in This room is home to the most influential people in the kingdom.
"The princess wants you to be an...advisor in this war...to grant us knowledge based on your experience," Lelanie pronounced.
Ushao looked at the human and then looked back at the princess in an attempt to confirm her words, when the elf nodded the Orsimer let out a light sigh.
—Seen seen, it is the best position I can hope for, now if you allow yourself to ignore my advice, I am afraid that will not do any good, so I will make ignoring me something too expensive, I demand my weight in gold as compensation for my services— four women paled.
You didn't need to be an expert in physiology to know that being before them is heavy, their weight in gold would be something they couldn't afford, not with a war about to resume and even less so with their economic status so precarious.
"Don't worry, I'm not stupid, half now, the other half at the end of the war." It was still a lot, they all thought. "Besides, look at it as a guarantee if they are paying so much for me, no one will dare to simply ignore my advice, in addition to my advice. They are clearly worth that price.
Now he was clearly showing off.
"I-I…I think that's a lot," Eleenn uttered which had already made Ushao frown slightly. "But we can provide it…on one condition."
That attracted the curiosity of all those present, both Ushao and the other females —What is it?
"A trial period, we need to see if your advice is effective, we can't just throw money away without being sure, we have your word, but you'll understand that that's not enough." Ushao began to admire this princess more and more, she clearly had more rulership than his father.
"Fair enough, then we have a deal. How do you seal deals here?" Eleenn's ears perked up at the question.
"A-a handshake." As she said that, she put her hand out.
The other three held tightly to the hilts of their swords ready to cut off Ushao's hand if he did anything out of the ordinary, the totally unconcerned Orsimer took the princess's hand and gave a light squeeze.
Comparing the two hands was inevitable, the princess's hands were the size one would expect from a woman of her stature, perfectly manicured without a trace of imperfection, her nails well filed and painted, in contrast Ushao's was large, both As if to make the princess's hand disappear completely into his palm, while it's not dirty it's clearly a warrior's hand, with calluses and scars on top of those eerily long black claws.
To the princess's companions it almost felt like watching her make a deal with a dark god, but to Ushao and Eleenn it was something else.
Ushao actually only reacted to Eleenn's reaction, when his sense of smell developed due to his condition as a bear-man reached a slight odor similar to one he had felt before, but only in an intimate… context, he couldn't help but let out a slight He smiled mischievously as he clearly smelled the princess's libido reacting to his squeeze.
When he released her, he could even notice a certain disappointment in the princess's eyes, now he could understand how it is that, contrary to everyone else, she did not react so badly to his presence, it seems that her mere appearance had an effect on the princess.
The war had been declared, and the troops were already moving, Ushao had started his work as an adviser which requires him to work a lot with Lelanie. Asnolc's first troop movements were three months ago when scouts posted on the border brought word that they saw many soldiers approaching.
They did not know the approximate numbers until Ushao went to check himself, a total of 50,000 soldiers had been gathered at the borders, apparently Asnolc has more soldiers than that, but obviously the others stayed to protect the kingdom while these 50 000 aim to conquer Alfheim.
—You don't get that amount in just one month— Ushao pronounced after returning from seeing the enemy army.
It was obvious that Asnolc was ready to invade Alfheim even before the wedding between Eleenn and the king of the slave kingdom was annulled.
That was further proof of how stupid the princess's father's plan was.
Ushao had advised to evacuate all the villages near the border and take them to the city of Agraliel where the villagers would be refugees to be as far away from the conflicts, also to recruit some and start training them, after all Alfheim has few soldiers in general .
Luckily, and until now, Lelanie has followed her advice without question, perhaps at the request of her princess or perhaps because she saw logic in it.
—Asnolc's forces advance slowly, the forest prevents them from moving quickly, they don't even have cavalry, they are purely and merely light and heavy infantry with some crossbow units— Ushao pronounced observing the map of Alfheim, on said map there are several statuettes that represent both sides.
—It is impossible to make a cavalry travel through the forests of Alfheim, at most one or another soldier on horseback, but nothing worthy of being called cavalry— Lelanie confirmed.
—Even so, they have an advantage over us, their number and weapons are superior in a direct battle we would lose, that is why we must start using guerilla tactics and harassment— Lelanie grimaced at Ushao's words —For everything The divine woman, is that or you and your princess will end up being a slave along with everyone in this kingdom, is that what you want?
"N-no…but it's dishonorable to wage war like this." Ushao let out a big sigh of annoyance.
—Woman, there is no honor in war, fighting honorably is what has this kingdom like Oestia as they have been facing an enemy for centuries only because they follow the path of honor— Ushao still had serious problems understanding the strange fact that these people prefer to fight a war with honor when their enemies clearly have none.
"They are the sacred teachings of the goddess," she pronounced with her head bowed.
"Some divine teachings must be ignored, especially when they prevent you from protecting those you care about.
Lelanie didn't seem very convinced by his words, but I accept it —How do we do this?
"Simple actually, we use small units that will sneak attack and ambush the weakest points of the enemy army, when they are deep enough into the forest we will attack their supply lines and at night we will also attack them...let's make them afraid when they hear what you say." the trees speak elvish.
Vault slammed the table in front of him furiously, Asnolc's report had arrived where the open war with Alfheim was resumed.
That slowed down all his plans, after all you can't conquer an entire country without allies, or at least you can't do it with the speed and ease that Vault wanted.
That was why in Vault's plan to create his great empire of sex, he needed the support of Asnolc who, in exchange for having a large number of slaves, would give their military and economic support to the black dogs in their conquest of Oestia. which would considerably reduce the time that the conquest would last as well as the difficulty.
Also, with Asnolc having Alfheim under his power that would be even better for Vault as Oestia's only ally would be out of the equation, but now they resumed open war instead of being the quick conquest their allies promised.
"Don't worry, Vault, the war won't last long, we'll have to slow down our plans for at most a few months, that's all," Kin pronounced, the leader of the magicians at the service of the black dogs.
"Months in which Oestia recovers from its recent losses!" The general reminded his captain, who was not at all fazed by the angry tone that in normal time would make men back twice their size and weight.
—Which will make no difference to our plans, anyway, we can't do anything, we either wait or start moving now without Asnolc's support, it's your decision— Kin's voice came out with the same calm with which he had spoken from the start of this conversation.
Vault wanted to start his plans as soon as possible, but in turn he had no desire to start the conquest without his greatest ally, it is true that he could achieve victory by himself, but that can end up taking years and Vault does not want to last years in a conquest just to take advantage of the fruits granted by his empire.
The angry growl —Well we'll wait for them, but only 1 year at the most, if by then they haven't finished their war we'll start without them.
"Don't worry, the war against Alfheim won't take even half a year, they should already have conquered the border cities," Kin said with total certainty, to which Vault nodded.
"How did all this happen?" General Laturca asked himself, Laturca is an experienced general from Asnolc who had obtained the greatest number of victories against Alfheim in the past, which meant that in this new war he was placed at the head of the army. conqueror.
An easy victory was expected, marching with the army to the nearest clearing and meeting the enemy forces to crush them…well, they hadn't even met the first army yet and their army is in a terrible state.
As soon as they were well into the forest things started, the first thing was the night attacks which forced him to reinforce the guard during the nights, then it was the various attacks during his advance, the traps, the rough terrain and finally and the more worrying, the absolute cut off of its supply line.
Laturca had underestimated the elves, she thought that this war would be like the previous one and the elves showed her how wrong she was, the elves began to fight in the most treacherous way possible and that was having an effect.
His men have low morale, they are already running out of supplies and of the 50,000 who had come with him now there were only about 37,000 left, and that without encountering any Alfheim army, it is more the towns for which They were totally deserted, abandoned and looted, leaving nothing behind.
The worst thing is that their water wells were poisoned and this was discovered by their men when in a single night about 1000 died from drinking water from a well in a town where they had stayed to rest seeking to flee from the attacks.
Therefore, they were forced to move away from the town looking for a river to retrieve water from, but that only made the attacks resume and now their armies begin to cry in fear when they see the top of a tree move or hear the bushes speak elvish .
—We must return to Asnolc and plan a strategy— pronounced one of his captains.
"Our king will not tolerate us returning so defeated," another pronounced, reminding the rest of those present of his sovereign's behavior.
"I prefer to suffer the consequences of coming back with a small defeat than a total one," resumed the first captain who had spoken.
—We cannot go back, we are close to Agraliel, if we turn around now we will suffer the same attacks as on our way here, we would return defeated and with fewer men, if we manage to conquer Agraliel we will be able to obtain their supplies and contact Asnolc to ask for help— Laturca said knowing that no city of Alfheim has walls and therefore they are easy to conquer.
—My general… at this rate we will arrive with about 20,000 and our men will be exhausted and half starving— Laturca bit her lip, she had planned all this as a common battle of yesteryear, she did not foresee that things would go like this and now she was paying for it.
—We have no choice, if we turn around we would return to Asnolc being 10,000 and with low morale— In addition to the strong blow to the morale of the entire kingdom that would be receiving such a defeat —We must continue— The general sentenced without knowing that he was being heard.
A bird that was perched just above the meeting place of the general and the captains listened to everything with great interest, when they finished the bird took flight and went straight to Agraliel.
When Ushao arrived, he returned to his natural form, stretching his arms a bit numb after having flown, upon arrival he found the presence of Almia and Narrus —They plan to continue towards here, we must intensify the attacks if we do those they would arrive here being about 15,000— Ushao uttered as he began to walk alongside both women.
"It's still a great force, we barely have about 420 soldiers counting the new recruits, we would be overwhelmed," the high elf fearfully pronounced.
"That doesn't matter, the 15,000 will arrive hungry, exhausted with low morale, they will be much less effective, and remember that we won't follow that stupidity of facing them directly," the Orsimer reminded the blonde.
"Right...I'm not entirely happy with this way of being, but I have to admit that it's effective."
—Actually, without my espionage our results would not be so good, but that doesn't matter, we must prepare the city for his arrival— Both women nodded and separated from the Orsimer.
He had returned to Agraliel some time after the war began to be more present in the war, right now he was returning to his rooms that had been granted to him for the duration of the battles.
—Welcome— Dinelynd pronounced as soon as he saw Ushao enter the room, the voluptuous elf with long purple hair is sitting in front of a small table on which rests cups and a teapot which, due to the smoke it lets out, can be assumed to be it is full of tea.
As the traitorous elf is technically speaking Ushao's slave she is obliged to accompany him wherever he goes, and that is why she finds herself in this place to the disgust and pain of the local lady and her heiress, and all the women who for their guilt were abused.
For her own safety she must stay in the Orsimer's room which no one has the courage to enter even if he is not present, that also made no maid enter to clean the place something that Dinelynd has to do.
Ushao let out a heavy sigh as she stretched out making her bones creak and her muscles stand out, after that she went to the small table and took one of the cups which in her hand looks comically small, the elf served a little He stops you and then takes a sip at his own rate.
While the Orsimer calmly drank, Dinelynd couldn't stop himself from staring at him, although he has been in contact with Ushao for some time now, he still seems to him something so unusual and unreal that sometimes he can't even believe it.
Of course she is happy not to be abused or mistreated, but the uncertainty is something that is consuming her more and more, why does she want me? It was a question that she keeps asking herself constantly.
If recent times were any indication, he would say that he only wants her as a maid because until now he only asks her to clean the room in which they both sleep, and to receive him with some tea, which he seems to like quite a bit.
But apart from that, he doesn't ask her for anything else, and much less does he see her with the desire that one would expect to see in a man and even more one similar to an orc, that led Dinelynd to think that perhaps Ushao likes his own gender which, while absurdly unusual for something similar to an orc, is not so unusual for more civilized races.
When he had the courage to ask that question, Ushao just raised an eyebrow and asked him why he was asking such a question, when Dinelynd explained the reason he just laughed loudly before saying "Don't confuse things woman, just because I'm not drooling when I see you doesn't mean I don't find you attractive" and after that he went on with his business.
"In fact, I never asked you why the hell you had an idiot rape your sister and niece?" According to what they told me, you were exiled for practicing forbidden magic, but to come back with so much desire for revenge for something like that...with what I've been interacting with you doesn't seem to be your type— Ushao pronounced after finishing his drink, his strange eyes remained fixed on the face of the elf who did not even have the decency to adopt an embarrassed expression.
In normal time she would not have answered such a question, but she still wears the necklace and is forced by her magic to obey any order given by whom the necklace considers to be its master, in this case it is Ushao.
—It's much more complex than that— Ushao raised an eyebrow upon hearing those words —I wouldn't know where to start.
—The beginning is usually good— I pronounce the Orsimer dryly.
Despite the time they have been together, Ushao never changed her attitude towards Dinelynd, always treating her with adversity, tolerating her more than anything else, something obviously motivated by the despicable act that she helped that human to do.
—Yes… it was 3 years ago, at that time the war was not going well at all, and Agraliel is the one who had the worst time being borderlands with Asnolc, at that time she was only my older sister's adviser— The expression of the mage began to change as she remembered that time —I couldn't do much for our people, back then I only handled the ancient magic of the high elves, which you surely know is mostly defensive and healing spells, they weren't enough for my presence to turn the tides of battle, not when Asnolc outnumbered us in everything and every elf he healed died two seconds later.
Ushao remained silent, listening attentively to each word pronounced by her, obtaining the greatest amount of information both from what she says and from the expressions she makes when remembering the past, and Ushao, seeing the melancholy expression of the elf, began little by little to become a stronger opinion.
—If things continued like this we would lose, and Agraliel and Alfheim would suffer for it, looking for a solution I found ancient tomes hidden in the castle library, magical tomes that allowed learning the magic of the dark elves, the complete antithesis of the magic of the high elves, attacks, curses spells made to inflict damage a lot of damage and to a lot of people... I began to learn them and the following battles were victories for our side— Again Dinelynd's expression changed.
For a few moments when she talked about her victories, Ushao could see happiness on her face, but that happiness faded to give way to anger and sadness.
—But my older sister discovered where the new spells she used came from, in our laws using the magic of the dark elves is a sin, so I was declared a heretic and criminal and being a noble I could not simply be sacrificed, only exiled I was aware that this could happen and being honest I accepted it I had helped my people I was happy with it— Those last words managed to surprise Ushao.
But immediately he began to feel a bad taste in his mouth, if she wasn't upset about being Exiled then there was no reason why she came back with so much desire for revenge, that means something had happened.
"But everything was ruined when my sister spoke, she didn't exile me so I could go anywhere outside of Alfheim, that damn bitch!" I exile myself to Asnolc— Dinelynd's outburst of fury was understandable to Ushao —What do you think happened when I stepped on Asnolc? I was captured, for 3 years I was sold over and over again to each worse scum, abused from sundown to sunup over and over again without stopping without letting me rest, humiliating me physically and mentally, she could have exiled me to any part of the continent, but he sent me to the lands of those who see us only as slaves for their enjoyment, that's why I came back, that's why I made that human rape her, because I wanted her to feel what I felt for her decision.
Ushao remained silent, she could have considered everything a lie, but she is aware that the necklace that Dinelynd wears does not allow her to lie to him, so everything she said was true.
In addition, they had given Dinelynd as a slave thinking precisely that he would abuse her, which is why Ushao did not have much difficulty in believing that her sister sent her to a kingdom to be abused until her death... her own sister, the one who tried to do anything to help his people.
"I see, how did you escape?"
—An oversight, they took away the necklace that contained my magic while I was conscious, I took advantage immediately and escaped using my teleportation spell, it was then that I began to plan my revenge for those 3 years of mistreatment and abuse— Ushao nodded and He walked towards the door out of the room without saying a word and leaving Dinelynd alone.
The Orsimer's hands were fisted and his teeth gnashed, the fury that rose in him was increasingly difficult to control, after hearing the reason why all this had happened it was impossible for him not to be furious with the Lady of Agraliel, that the same one that purposely sent her sister to a place where she could have no other destiny than to be enslaved, the same one that gave her to a being that in her eyes was a monster that would abuse her, the same one that puts on a nice innocent smile while being actually a bitch.
"Ephildis!" The Orsimer shouted loudly and furiously, a cry that immediately froze the blood of all those present in the throne room to which he had just entered.
Sitting on the throne is Ephildis the lady of Agraliel mother of Almia and sister of Dinelynd, the beautiful and voluptuous elf was startled to hear her name being pronounced with such fury by the Orsimer and that fear became even greater when she saw his expression fury directed at her.
Acting quickly, Narrus drew his sword, landing in front of his mistress to prevent any aggression, but as if his presence did not matter, Ushao raised a hand and using the Telekinesis spell, he lifted the dark elf from the ground and immobilized her in the air.
The other guards in the place tried to move to help their leader and his lady, but with his other hand Ushao released a wave of green energy which paralyzed all those present who fell straight to the ground as if they were statues, he approached to fast and strong steps to the throne of the now paralyzed and absolutely terrified lady.
He stopped walking when he was in front of her and still watching her furiously, he pronounced —I want to hear right now. Why did you exile your own sister to Asnolc? And I don't want you to play the idiot, you knew very well what would happen to her when she got to that place, besides that later you give her to me as a slave believing that I'm like those damn brutes you call orcs.
Due to the paralysis Ephildis was unable to respond immediately which caused Ushao to release her and only her from the spell.
As soon as the lady felt free of the magic that had paralyzed her body, she tried to flee, but just like Narrus, she was raised from the ground by the telekinesis spell and placed right in front of Ushao —I asked you a damn question— I pronounced this still with fury.
Ephildis looked at the terrifying angry face of the Orsimer and for the first time she felt that the being in front of her is even more terrifying than a normal orc —S-she…she committed heresy— Pronounced the lady with her broken voice.
"That's not a damn reason to purposefully send her to that damn place," the Orsimer snapped.
Ephildis, still trapped, tried to find some way to escape, but as soon as her eyes left the Orsimer's face, he moved her closer to him and forced her face to stay fixed and look at him, and then began to telekinetically squeeze the high elf's neck with more and more force.
"Speak now, the truth. Why did you send Dinelynd to Asnolc?" Ushao demanded.
As the high elf began to have her face covered with tears caused by the fear of dying in this way, the same fear was what finally made her speak "She... she was having too much fame, she won too many battles against Asnolc, yes." we exiled her to any other place thousands of elves would have followed her to be loyal to them, we had to prevent it, exile her to a place where no elf, no matter how loyal, would not follow her, we could not allow ourselves to have separations at that time— The lady pronounced with effort .
Ushao nullified the telekinesis spell which caused Ephildis and Narrus to fall to the ground with a bang.
"Your own sister, your own sister you sent to be enslaved and raped when her only crime was helping her people…I can forgive her bad deeds considering what you did to her…but yours, what you did to her, that was disgusting— The Orsimer spat at Ephildis's feet before starting to walk away from the place —If it wasn't for thousands of innocent people paying for that, I can assure you that I would let you deal with your enemies on your own.
And with that Ushao left the throne room, leaving a terrified Ephildis and Narrus who was trying to comfort her mistress.