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Consolidating the Holding Part 1
A been a few hours since the conquest of this village. Since then I looked at the mansion for a quite a while before I remembered something I almost forgot. "Alright men!" I clapped my hands catching the attention of my soldiers. They turned to me as I began to issue another order. "I almost forgot something important." I walked towards one of the servant which was a made that looks very fragile and scared at the same time, by the looks of it she looks like in her young adult age and has some blond hair.
She literally was about to faint when I was in front of her as I stared at her with intense glare in the body of my predecessor. "I-I-I-I-I-I-is th-th-th-th-the-there s-s-somth-ing y-y-you want?" the poor girl stuttered her words while trying to make a proper response. My expression did not change but I had some pity over the girl, only a bit not that much
Soon an old butler quickly came to her side, sits beside her and making some assurance gestures. The old butler faced me with some worried emotion. "Forgive her my lord, she had some troubles in the past where count Vans does not take kindly towards her."
"Hmmmmm, well it's not my juristic to go into deep knowledge so I'll spare you some time...what was your name?" I asked of him what's his name.
"Oswald Beno sir." he answered my question.
"Well then Mr Oswald. How many years have you served in the Van's household?" he must've been quite old now, almost like retired workers from different companies.
"For...for about 15 years my lord."
"I see, then you've been with the head of Vans for a quite a while now. I was wondering if you know where he keeps all of his valuable, his money, gems and precious artifacts he keeps with him." I know that I am antagonizing one of the protagonist family, but the options are without odds now, this was truly unexpected when I learned that he's a family member of Vance household.
The old butler ushers the young maid away as she shows some worried looks to Oswald. He nods his head to the maid as if he'll be fine. She quivered for a bit before she stood up and walked away from me. I took a glance to her which she flinched at my gaze before I returned my gaze towards the old man as he hesitates to answer for a bit before he finally spoke "I...I do my lord."
"I sense some hesitations here, now don't be shy now, I won't work an old man li-"
"Hah! You can't break into lord Vans vault!" One of the loyalist shouted at me while still being captive. I did not faze his taunt as I turned around and look at the smug loyalist like he won a lottery ticket. "His vault is kept securely tighten with magical locks that can rival the churches security! There is absolutely no way for you to breach it, you might as well give up!"
Dear oh dear, it seems they are still not disciplined. It seems I need to take some dramatic issue as what Xehanort would say? "I see, and I would love for you to tell me about these locks and the vault but I'm in a bit of a hurry, so I have cut this chat to a down bit." I coated my hand with darkness before stabbing the loyalist in the chest, turning him into a Soldier Heartless.
The rest of loyalist flinched in both fear and shock at his transformation, hell, one of them piss themselves at the transformation.
I ignored them as me and my men went inside the mansion, which we heard screams of pain from the second floor, most likely Rick torturing the member of the Vance household. "RICK! Stop fuck-torturing the poor man and get the hell down before I put you down again!" The screams stopped before Rick jumped down from the second floor.
She glared at me but shrugged and leaned on one of the pillars in the main room. "What? I was stomping on his dick when you call me." Some of the soldiers flinched and hold their balls at the thought of their balls being stomped on. I shrugged, not minding the fact that she was stomping on somebody's ball, as long as she doesn't do that to me or my people.
"Do you know anything about a vault in this building?" She nodded, "Yeah, he was crying and telling me everything just to not be tortured. He even told me about the locks and that it requires a key to open it, a fact that he kept from everyone to keep them from looting his 'treasures' but I was able to pry the key from his broken hands, don't judge me."
She grabbed somethings from her trench coat and tossed me the key, which was shaped like an angel with wings on key piece. "The vault is downstairs in the basement, the entrance on the left side of the stairs that leads to the second floor." She then jumped to the second floor and went back to torturing the noble. The troops and I looked at each other before following the direction she gave us.
We went to the left side of the stairs and saw a hidden door once I pushed the wall to look for a switch for the door. We walked downstairs after grabbing some torches when we saw how dark downstairs is. We went down for a few minutes before seeing a hallway with a huge door at the end of the hallway, magical seals are seen, circling the door every seconds.
"Stand back!" I order my men to stand back as I slowly walked to the door before plugging the key to the small keyhole at the center of the door. The runes on the door and magic seal light up showing some angelic language which is mysterious to me even but with the system's translation I'm not going to read them. The runes suddenly died down and the magic seals disappeared which indicates that the protection is gone now and it's safe to open the safe now.
I opened the door and saw the amount of money, along with some armors, high-quality ones apparently, and some very nice forge-made weapons, including some axes, swords, and a bastard sword. There were some trinkets there as well as some preserved foods that could last this village for a good half a year before needing to farm and hunts for some goods. My grin turn into a full-blown smile that stretched my face across before showing my teeth. I glanced at my soldiers with a joy tone. "Looks like we hit the jackpot boys." they seemed to agree with me as their smile became similar to mines while looking at the room for a while now, even some went to the gold coin pile and personally examined it.
I was about to store it all to my inventory before one of the soldiers walked up to me with a weary expression. "uhhhhhh excuse me my lord."
"Hmmm? What is it?"
"Are you going to give some of these monies away? Because uhhhhhhhh from my perspective the count must've gain much money due to... taxes."
…...Fuck he's right, I know for a fact that these kinds of people like him launder money by stealing, raising taxes or just plain wright say the money belongs to him. Ugh system, how much percentage of money did the Count got?
About a 85 percent of taxes, which is illegal in Vance County punishable by death, which nobles are allowed to take a 25 percent of taxes.
Wait, said what? That means the noble was breaking law that could kill him. Then that means if someone would tell Lord Vance that this asshole was stealing from his people, he would be executed. But the most important is that if a noble increases taxes or takes money illegally then it would considered a death sentence and people rioting against their lord.
I am in a bit of a dilemma here that I'm having problems with one hand I can just keep all of this money to myself while still portraying myself as a hero, but the cons are that people will get suspicious on why I went to the vault and I'm not an idiot who knows that they will investigate the matter which is a no go. And the second is that I have to make myself as a fair leader by giving their money back the Lord Vance has taken from them.
But on the other hand I would lose a lot of money and only keep at least 25 percent of money to myself. Ah kingdom hearts dammit this is so hard! System, can you give me some tips for this I'm stuck in between the decisions I'm making.
Sorry host but you're on your own in this one, the system cannot interfere with this matter, you have to make your decision on your own.
Oh goddammit, gee thanks for the help.
Your welcome.
That wasn't even a complime...you know what forget it I might as well think on what to decide. But I suddenly remember that the loyalist I turn into a Heartless told me about this vault. I smirked, glad that at least that little problem would be solved and then I also remember that I would get gold from the dungeon room. So I would be okay in the long term of the grand scheme.
"Boys, grab those gold and take them upstairs, I think the loyalist have a few things to explain about this, the noble too." The men nodded and after seeing some bags hanging by the wall, grabbed the bags and started putting the gold in the bags. I took some of the gold for myself of course but I'm glad things didn't get more complicated than it was previously.
I walked back upstairs, "Rick, get that noble down here, I need him for something." No words spoke back but suddenly the noble was flying over the railing and down to me, making me dodge. The noble was naked, covered in bruises and blood from several wounds and his dick is missing, the spot where his dick was bleeding hard. I flinched at his state and looked up to see Rick looking down at us with a smirk.
"Did you had to be cruel with our guest now?"
"Hey, you said I can do whatever I want with this bastard so don't fucking complain boss." Rick rebuked at me with a sneer.
"mmmmmmm whatever you say Rick." I waved my hand off before facing the noble again which he looked to be shaking right now due to experiencing the torture Rick inflicted on him. Maybe I should just think ahead before I send people to Rick because sometimes I won't know if I need people alive for answers or not.
"I have done a graceful deed by letting you go from my associate Lord Van of House Vance but there was a bit of one problem I have with you right now." I said with a heavy accent.
"w-w-w-w-w-w-what I-I-I-I-is it my lor-"
SLAP!
"AH!" I slapped him hard that made him fall to the ground while clutching his cheek in pain like a child. I grew frustrated and irritated and slammed my foot on his fat stomach and caused him to look at me with pained expression.
"OFF!"
"I have a big problem with you now. A huge one, you see I have a few questions for you to answer." my foot began to put pressure on his stomach a bit further as he groans in pain. "Why do you have a vault on your mansion?"
"i-I-I-I-I-I-I-its so I can k-k-keep my p-p-personal belongings!"
"I can see that very much well and relate to that, I understand that part as well but there is so much money to even buy a whole village and I very well know that much that it shouldn't be possible for a noble like you to have. My question is where did you get the money?" I already know the answer to my own question, but I need witnesses like my guards to know the truth.
He paled and knew if he tells the truth then he will get killed. I saw he is conflicted in his decision, so I decided to help him along by pointing to Rick. He looked around to see if there was a way out but there wasn't one, forcing him to tell the truth. "Fine, fine, I been stealing from the people along with doing what I been doing since a month of my rule in this filthy village. For years I been stealing their money by taxing them heavily and lying to Lord Vance about it since its my land, I can do whatever I can do, I inherited this land which gives me the reason complete control over these peasents."
The former guards of Lord Van scowled at him, as well as his former citizens, who began berating him at his illegal taxing, they actually thought Lord Vance change his policy since it was known that he hated the Queen's Blade and wanted to dismantle it. But the former noble confession changes everything, making them want to kill him and executed him for his actions.
I scowled at him as well, yes I was happy that I have a legitimate reason to hate but really, I want to kill his ass now. But he just said it out loud like a proud person, even when being captured and tortured he still has the audacity to even be arrogant and proud?
You know what fuck this shit, I just let the people have their fun with this asshole, sides, they need their stress relief before I even think of ruling over them. "Hey everyone! Do you want payback for all the year you have suffered under his rule? Well I've grown tired and annoyed by his arrogances, you can do whatever you want with him, but alas I do need him back alive, not well, alive." The people who Lord Van formerly served smiled malicious at the former lord, making him paled in fear. "NO, PLEASE, I DO ANYTHING! JUST DON'T LET THEM NEAR ME!" I ignored him while I threw him at his former citizens and guards, making them beat the absolute hell out of him.
Rick jumps down and looked at the beatdown with a smirk and, if I am seeing this right, slight lust at the beatdown.
Affection: -30/100 + 20 = -10/100 (For making her wet for seeing this wonderful beatdown.)
Obedience: 30/100
Ugh I'm not going to stare at this pathetic human being, as much as I really want to kill him I can't. That would make me an enemy towards the Vance family, Leina's family and I'm not even sure if I'm in the canon time or not. But if I don't get these people to put their full trust on me then I would have to execute him.
If I do execute him I would make an enemy towards the main characters family, if I don't I would only get partially trust among the citizens I just 'rescued'
Decisions, decisions, decisions.
I'll think about it later, right now might as well give the people their tax money back but keep the 25% this pig has kept. A small price to pay in order to give their trust towards me. I walked towards the vault again and told the system.
"System, absorb 25% of money the former count Vance possess."
Acknowledged, scanning by...absorbing 256,780 gold coins into inventory.
Soon enough I see only some piles disappearing and headed straight to my inventory as I checked my status screen.
"Status."
HP: 1070 (320 HP regen per 15 minutes)
MP: 1400 x 0.06 = 1400.84 (250 MP regen per 15 minutes)
M. ATK: 18.75 (18% increase damage for magic attack)
M. DEF: 22.5 (24% resistance to magic attack)
STR: 25
END: 32
VIT: 17
AGI: 18
DP: 20
INT: 25
WIS: 25
CHR: 17
Currency: 306,780 gold
It seems I'm progressing very well for the past days, if kingdom building hadn't limit my time from grinding then I could've leveled up more easily now. But holy shit is that a lot of golds, just how much was this bastard stealing that this was the result.
About 50 percent more than initially before grabbing more and more to fill his greed.
….
…..
I am going to kill this motherfucking piece of shit. But not before I deliver him to Count Earl Vance for his crimes, but I will probably not explained how his dick was cut off. Also, I need to, reluctantly, save his ass before those people killed him.
Anyway after I gathered the money I turned around and faced my soldiers. "You." I pointed at a random guard.
"uh?! M-me sir?" he looked in surprise at me before he pointed at himself.
"Yes you, I want you to...gather the rest and give these money back to the people, its time for them to no longer live-in poverty." I said while hiding my displeased tone as much as I don't want to give the money back to the people as much as it pains to see all those golds gone.
"O-oh I will sir! I'll get the others as soon as possible!" he saluted at me as he was about to leave to inform the others about my order, but he stopped one moment before he looked at me one more time as he asked. "But what about the artifacts? Do those belong to the villagers?"
That was a bit of a good question the soldier asked me. It seems that the former noble have taken some family heirloom from the people he ruled over. And it would seem that if I have stolen their relics or family heirloom, it would make things more complicated for me. I really REALLY wanted those relics for my own. I'm honestly thinking that it would be best to say that giving back the money is already good enough.
"No they don't soldier, do not ask me anymore question and get to it!" I lied to him before barking my orders at my soldier as he squeaked, saluted me again before running away from me.
-10 Reputation from Village for taking their artifacts. (30/100)
Damn it. Oh well, I need to see the artifacts he just mentioned, oh and game, deposit 10% of my gold into the vault, the villager definitely need the money to get back on their feet.
30678 gold lost
You now have 276102 gold
"It is for a good cause, it is for a good reason." I told myself while I head to the former noble's bedroom to see if there are any mention of the artifacts, and in fact there were, at least 6 of them. I could recognize two of them as companion gems, how Van got his hands on them I never know. The third artifact was an egg-like object, that is pulsing with green glows on the cracks. The fourth was a sword of some kind, with a pipes in the center of the two blades. The fifth was …what the fuck!? Is that a Ghost Shell from Destiny!? How in the….never mind, I asked him once these people have their fun with this ass. The final one was a card, probably a summon card.
Looks like he has, or had, a collection of things that could help me in the long run once I figured out what the egg and sword is.
"Observe."
Hive Egg
Description: Once hatched, becomes a Hive Thrall.
…Shit, that is bad and good, in an awesome sense. The Hive were a major antagonist of the Destiny, hell, some of them were able to craved reality to create their personal worlds called Throne Worlds. Not only that, but the ones who created their Throne Worlds were gods of their own rights. And the only way to kill those gods was to entered to their Throne World and kill them as they couldn't be killed in the physical world. However, that is a problem in itself as the people who enters into the Throne Worlds has to play by the gods rule. I need to find a way to deal with the Hive thrall before I decide what to do on it.
I looked at the sword and figured that one would be different.
"Observe."
Gunblade
Description: A literal hybrid of a gun and a sword, capable of shooting projectile and hacking and slashing.
Well well well, what do we have here? The infamous gunblade from Final Fantasy VIII, Squall Leonhart. Why am I surprised that this weapon is here. Was there...someone who is helping me from the shadows? Tell me system why am encountering items and stuff I know about whenever I'm finishing a quest?
This system does not know nor cannot pinpoint out the victim host, best be assured you need to keep your guard up host.
Yeah, I think I might. Anyway as much as I would love to wield the gunblade I don't need such a thing, I'll give it to someone who is both best in close combat and range. I put the gunblade away from my inventory and was about to head back to my command center.
+20 Reputation from Village for giving their money back from the count Vans (50/100)
Reward of gaining reputation from Village
[Peasant Lord]
Description: You gain a 10% increase in affection, reputation and obedience from villager and others of their level of status.
This just keeps getting better and better now.
10 Hours Later
Now that I'm back at my command center after grabbing Van once the people was done with him, Jason was already with Sakura talking about something, it wouldn't be any of my attention.
"Hey, do you know the Queen's Blade tournament is coming?" Jason commented to Sakura.
…...until I heard him saying the Queens blade approaching. This has caught my full attention now as I began to listen their conversation.
"Queens blade? What's that some type of an event?" Sakura questioned Jason.
"You don't know what the queens blade is? Everyone knows about it! How the hell do you not know what the Queen's blade is?" Jason exclaimed at Sakura who starts to get annoyed.
"Well excuse me, I haven't heard one bit about this event your saying. Whats so important about it?" Sakura asked Jason again with an annoyance.
"Oh come on have you been living under a rock the whole time?" Jason looked at Sakura's annoyed faced as her eyes began to narrowed at him. "Seriously I'm starting to think you have been sheltered your entire life until your like right no-'
BAM!
"Ow!"
"How about a little taste of a knuckle sandwich?! I'll show you how much sheltered life got me to!" Sakura glared at Jason with his lips split from Sakura's knuckles sandwich, which admitting looks so hot. "Sakura, calm down but she does have a point Jason, you can't assume that everyone knows about Queen's Blade."
Jason nodded as he got up and rubbed his mouth in pain. "Got it boss but damn does that hurt, lady." Sakura smirked and crossed her arms, making her breast looked bigger, and making me slightly blush at that. "Maybe you shouldn't insult me but saying I have a sheltered life, just to let you know, I have a life of hunting and killing demons." Sakura informed Jason, making him looked at Sakura in shock by the fact that she killed demons for a living, making him slightly jealous of her.
I saw where this was going, so I put a stop to it as soon as I did. "Look, can you two speak about this later, I need to concentrate on consolidating our holdings in this village and that village." Sakura glared at Jason for a moment before relenting and left the building, huffing as she did. Jason soon went to the healer tent after Sakura left. I went up to my bedroom on the third floor, making me sweat just a little, not enough to be seen.
I took out the egg and placed it on a pillow before setting it on a chair, while I took out the two companion gems. "Observe."
Companion: Solomon Grundy
An undead being that was resurrected by the necrotic powers of Gotham's Slaughter Swamp. A massive brute, his speak was normal like a normal human being but he often sings a verse, "Solomon Grundy,Born on a Monday,Christened on Tuesday,Married on Wednesday,Took ill on Thursday,Grew worse on Friday,Died on Saturday,Buried on Sunday,That was the end,Of Solomon Grundy."
Companion: Origa Discordia
An dark elf who led a massive war against her former friend and archenemy, Celestine Lucross. She led an army of demon that kills men and rapes women to reproduce their numbers at a massive rate. However, her powers started to wane little by little, making the demons believe that she was not strong and thus, join Volt in his scheme to create an empire of sex slaves.
Interesting, very interesting. A DC villain undead and a popular hentai dark elf, I think I must've hit the jackpot already. I'm tempted to just even summon the both of them already, but I can't. I am not strong enough to make or charismatic to make Solomon join my side and for Olga, I don't know much about her but considering she's a dark queen she might plot a rebellion against me it's too risky now.
+1 WIS and INT
Yeah yeah only a dumbass would try to do something stupid without a plan.
Lets get back to business, I headed to my command center and prepared for a massive kingdom building.
END
Good Chapter and Ending, am i right? In this chapter, Xehanort has gain the respect and loyalty of this village and the second village to be apart of his fledgy empire, however, unbeknownst to him, bandits will soon be crawling out of their hiding spots soon. Not only that, the corrupt noble Van have been stealing money from everyone, which is illegal in Vance land. But there's more, the noble have a collection of a few items, including two companion gems, an egg from Destiny, a summon card, which will be revealed in the next chapter, and a Final Fantasy weapon, the Gunblade.
In the next chapter, Xehanort will be on the road to level 10 or possibly level 11. Small groups of bandits will be causing troubles. The Vance general will come due to a letter being delivered to Earl Vance. And Xehanort will be (officially) the lord of village he conquered, unbeknownst to the Vance family. Also, beware of zombies cause Solomon Grudy will be born!
Ciao!