Book 1: Chapter 47: The Only Asylum in the Quarantined Town
Book 1: Chapter 47: The Only Asylum in the Quarantined Town
Outside of the town of Sakerid’s Dak inn, the Dragon Sentinels and party of beauties that had encircled the inn suddenly withdrew. Allowing the defender 【Flower Demon】 Pittmanz to let out a deep breath that it had been holding. It was still wondering what had happened to cause these invaders to pull back, if they had forcefully attacked, they would have at least a 70% chance at winning, but now they had retreated so swiftly, leaving behind a bewildered Pittmanz.
What 【Flower Demon】 Pittmanz didn’t notice, was that on the other side of the Dak inn, an invisible flying vehicle had been idling by a window on the inn’s third floor for a while already. Through the balcony, Bella was able to evacuate Kriss, Ariel, Susan, and Ivy onto the strange craft with some help from Hadias.
This hovercraft was something that 【Machine Creator】, Andrea, had sent to aid Bella’s rescue operation and was similar in function to one of Earth’s search and rescue helicopters. However, as it came from the technologically superior Machine Dimension, the specs of this hovercraft were levels ahead of even Earth’s most advanced search and rescue helicopters.
Ariel had originally not wanted to leave with Bella, but wasn’t given any chance to turn Bella down as the latter had forcefully dragged her into the hovercraft. Ivy and Susan were already quite tired and fell asleep soon after they had boarded the craft, while Ariel and Kriss remained awake. The two of them didn’t seem very shocked at the sight of such a futuristic vessel, possibly because both of them were transmigrators?
An hour later when Pittmanz entered the third floor with his subordinate Demon Sentinels, all that Pittmanz found was an empty room that seemed to be taunting Pittmanz’s earlier cowardice.
“What happened here, weren’t you guys keeping watch on the entire second and third floors?! Where are those girls!? Don’t think you guys can escape punishment at the hands of 【Night King】-sama later, but I’m also going to get punished for your mistake!”
“Pittmanz-sama, 【Corpse Demon】 Jerome-sama had entered the third floor a while ago, Jerome-sama should be the one that took those girls! We’re just lowly subordinates, we didn’t dare to resist Jerome-sama’s actions.”
“Isn’t Jerome 【Death King】’s subordinate? Why would Jerome come here and fight with 【Night King】-sama for a few bodies, anyways 【Night King】 has already found a suitable body to reincarnate in, there’s no reason for her to send Jerome here. Are you sure that it was Jerome you saw?”
“We’re sure of it, Pittmanz-sama, the intruder had Jerome’s ‘Imprint of Immortality’, all of us saw it clearly. It was the only reason that we let anyone in!”
“This… you all should know that instigating conflict between demon kings is something punishable by death. If its found out that you all are lying, guys know what’ll happen to you?”
“We wouldn’t dare to trick demon king-samas, it was true that we saw Jerome!”
“So be it, what’s done is done, we retreat for now. It was hard to find such suitable bodies, what a shame… I’ll have to report this back to 【Night King】-sama, she’ll be the one to decide your fates!”
Seeing these Demon Sentinels that seemed to be confident in their words, Pittmanz could only trust them for now. This was a matter that could greatly affect the relationship between two demon kings, Pittmanz wanted to get back to and report to the 【Night King】, and let her make the final decision on whether this news was true or not. If this was true, than the consequences were unthinkable, it would be a huge problem if a member of the 12 demon kings had gotten some form of contact with those damn celestial gods.
Neither the Demon Sentinels nor Pittmanz had ever seen Jerome in person, and the only way they recognized Jerome was through its ‘Imprint of Immortality’. Because of this, they were easily tricked by Bella, who had managed to throw all the blame on the 【Night King】. Right now, Bella had already gotten quite far away, there was no reason in being drawn further into the situation now that their mission was completed.
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The largest inn of the town of Sakerid, the Nasani inn, was situated near the heart of the town. This large and luxurious inn had fallen to the infected in the first moments of the outbreak, Edwin and Leonard were the only two of the many noblemen and wealthy merchants who were residing in the inn to escape.
The two fortunate young masters had only managed to escape using their last teleportation scroll that they had bought from Lisha previously at a high price, this might be the last time that they were so fortunate. The entire inn had just been ‘recaptured’ from the infected by 【Machine Creator】 Andrea’s advance force.
The entire inn had been disinfected and cleaned by some mechanical janitors, one could hardly tell that this inn had been the scene of a terrifying outbreak just recently. There were three layers of defensive fields set up around the town, made of up lasers that would cut anything that tried to forcefully enter into pieces.
Between each laser field was an isolated defence zone patrolled by guards and giant robotic beasts. Every guard was covered head to toe in metallic protective clothing and equipped with specially made ray guns. Preparations had been made to be able to respond to any situation that came up suddenly.
Outside of the third laser field was a large open field that had been cleared of all forestation, buildings, and other obstacles in order to give the defenders a clear line of sight at what was happening outside. A group of around 100 infected had gathered just in sight and were currently launching themselves at the de.
Against the sudden assault of the infected, the defenders calmly gunned down all of the zombies using a strange type of liquid bullets that left nothing more than a few smelly puddles. The infected had already attacked numerous times, but had not yet been able to force their way in.
In the sky above the Nisani inn flew a large amount of various flying crafts and mechs, keeping watch over everything that happened on the ground below. The entire scene looked like the scene of a zombie apocalypse, but one set in the far future. The only thing that didn’t seem to belong was a bright orb placed on the highest point of the inn’s roof, radiating warm light-type magic that enveloped the entire inn and kept away the countless malicious spirits that wandered Sakerid.
This orb was something that 【Light Creator】 Vianne had given to Bella, it was called ‘Light’s Gift’ but was also known as ‘Vianne’s Blessing. But was actually just a spherical rock that Vianne had randomly imbued her power in, forcefully turning a normal rock into a ‘divine’ stone.
The main and probably only reason why 【Machine Creator】 Andrea had sent aid to Bella was because of those sweets that Bella had gifted to 【Extra-dimensional Creator】 Alfreia, who, as the first Creator to have come to Bella’s aid, received large amounts of sweets and snacks as payment. After seeing the large amount and variety of the snacks that Alfreia had received, Andrea was jealous and decided to give Bella her help as well.
Currently, the entire inn had already fallen under the control of Andrea’s advance force and was probably the only asylum in the entire town of Sakerid. Bella, Hadias and the four girls they rescued had already returned here after the evacuation, while Noesha and the others who had been covering them returned not long after. The rescue mission could be considered to have been completed successfully.
Noesha and the others had already arrived, as for the Dragon Sentinels, Lisha had let the Church of Darkness’ 3rd unholy maiden, Liz, to return them to their dimension. They weren’t in a rush to enter the inn and instead curiously looked at these robots and mechs that they had never seen before.
Of course, there were a few of the beauties that didn’t seem as curious. Angel and Mia didn’t have any visible reaction at all, probably because they had already seen all of this before. Noesha didn’t even need to be mentioned here, as she was a frequent guest to Alfreia’s 33rd dimension. Lisha was only a little surprised, but quickly regained her composure. During her 5th incarnation on Earth, Lisha had watched her share of sci-fi movies, so she wasn’t that curious about these futuristic machines and technology.
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The Nasani inn’s most luxurious ‘room’ was located on the top floor, according to Earth’s standards, this ‘room’ was on par with a 5-star hotel’s presidential suite. The entire room was extravagantly decorated and adorned, the room’s door also had a defensive-type magic formation that could only be opened by the guests staying in the room or the inn’s manager with the key, it would be almost impossible for anyone else to enter this room.
During the initial outbreak of the virus, this room wasn’t affected whatsoever, and the defensive magic on the door could stand firm against even a hundred zombies. It was a shame that the two who had booked the room were Leonard and Edwin, who had used their teleportation scroll before the zombies even reached the top floor, abandoning this top-tier asylum.
Bella was now the new owner of this room, and was currently lying on the large and comfortable bed, feeling up Susan who was currently in her embrace while Ivy laid to their side with flushed cheeks. Ivy had already been ‘taken down’ by Bella earlier, a full bodied massage along with a constant assault by Bella’s tongue while they were kissing had deprived the black haired swordswoman of all her strength.
Kriss and Ariel were relaxing in the nearby indoor pool while the princess of the demon world, Hadias, remained beside the pool awaiting further orders while scattering various types of flower petals into the pool.
“Hey Kriss, about Bella, does she… like… girls…”
“I’m not sure, but… I don’t dislike her. Ariel, why are you asking me this?”
“No… no reason.”
Ariel hadn’t relaxed like this in a long time, she was long tired of having to hide her true beauty using a thick wizard’s robe and hood. The only thing that she wasn’t very happy with was that after that perverted girl, Bella, had brought her back, she had left Ariel aside and went to enjoy herself with some other girls. What kind of person leaves a girl alone after they’ve done… that… to her…
There was also the fact that Bella didn’t help Ariel with her lack of clothes, evidently not wanting to let Ariel go so easily. Ariel had wanted to drag Kriss along and voice their complaints towards Bella, but Kriss seem to have had a little something against Ariel’s intimacy with Bella prior and chose to decline Ariel’s suggestion. Ariel wasn’t able to understand this as she wasn’t sure where or when she had gotten on Kriss’ bad side and the two of them had gotten along just fine earlier.
“Hadias, how much do you know about your owner?”
“Owner… I don’t know much either, don’t ask me, go experience for yourself!”
Naturally, Hadias wasn’t going to answer Ariel’s questioning, everything that she said would be known by Bella through the power of the Master/Servant contract between them. Hadias decided that it would be best to not discuss about Bella behind her back, or else if she ended up saying something that ticked off Bella when she found out later, Hadias’ future wouldn’t be very bright!
“Bella, spare me! Go for Ivy….”
“Susan-nee, you’ve seen those Dragon Sentinels, you already know my secret. If I let you back to the Church of Light, you might expose me to your holy maiden peers, I think that I should keep you…”
“I won’t, I promise, I swear… I swear on the god of light!”
“Nope! Demons never trust the oaths sworn to a god, I’m not letting you off so easily! Holy maiden-sama!”
“Then you should just kill…”
“Out of the question, you’re my captive right now and your life and death is in my hands. It would break my heart if I were to…”
Susan tried weakly to resist Bella’s violation, because her body was still weak from the effects of the toxic smoke earlier, she wasn’t able to resist Bella at all, despite not having her arms or legs restricted. Previously, Susan had always thought that Bella was a member of the Church of Light’s Salo faction, but only now did she realize that Bella was a member of the dark side, and seemed to be a powerful boss from the dark side as well.
If she had known earlier, she wouldn’t have let Ivy send a distress signal to Bella, while they had been saved, only now did Susan know that they had not yet escaped danger. Susan knew that, at least openly, every member of the Church of Light had sworn to be enemies of all things evil or aligned with the dark side, even the Salo faction didn’t dare to deal with the Church of Darkness in the open.
If Bella really belonged to the dark side, then their friendship would be something that was forbidden by the Church’s edicts. As Bella had not only helped, but had also saved her and Ivy before, Susan couldn’t bring herself to hate Bella, despite how much she had despised the dark side before.
Ivy, who laid limply beside them, had already given up all resistance, without much ‘effort’ from Bella. Ivy was currently still lost in the feel of the deep kiss that she had received from Bella, and her tongue was still a bit numb from Bella’s ferocious onslaught. Ivy wasn’t that devout a believer of the god of light, among the 5 great human empires, the Octavian Empire(Knights) was the empire that was most firmly under the Church of Light’s influence, while the Gabriel Empire(Swordsmen) were comparatively less so.
I’ve decided that since Bella wasn’t a male, there was nothing really for herself to lose by allowing Bella to take advantage of her. Anyways, Bella was the person who had helped her obtain the magic core [Ground Dragon], Ivy decided that this might as well be a part of her payment towards Bella. As for the fact that Bella belonged to the dark side, Ivy was also quite shocked when she had first learned of it, but she had gradually come to accept it.
Even from a young age, Ivy had never really believed in the Church of Light’s preachings, and didn’t have any evident hatred towards the dark side, meaning that she was able to accept this fact much more easily than Susan, who was the Church’s 3rd holy maiden.
“Little Bella, I beg of you, nee-san is one if the Church of Light’s holy maidens, I can’t…”“
“Hmph, Susan-nee, your holy maiden peers have already… you should just give in! No one has ever been able to escape me after I’ve laid my eyes on them!”
This wasn’t the best plan that Bella had in mind, but she was forced to do so as there was no way Bella could hide all of these beauties aligned with the dark side from the holy maiden, Susan. Especially Hadias, who was the demon world’s princess, there would be no way for Susan to not be able to sense the terrifying aura of the demon world from her. So, Bella decided that she might as well tie Susan to her in some way, and what way was better than some good old skinship! Anyways, the other 3 holy maidens already knew that Bella wasn’t a good girl, in more ways than one, it wouldn’t really bother Bella if a fourth found out as well.
Back at the Dak inn, it wasn’t very safe, nor we’re there any beds comfortable enough. Now that they had reached the safety if the Nasani inn, as well as the fact Noesha and the other girls hadn’t returned yet, made this the best time to ‘conquer’ Ivy and Susan, and Bella wasn’t going to let this golden opportunity slip from her hands.
“Hi, is Bella-nee there? My subordinates told me that you’ve already arrived at the Nasani inn, please respond if you can hear me.
Right as Bella was going to steal Susan’s first kiss, the bouncy Lolita voice of 【Machine Creator】 Andrea came from the communication stone that Bella had left on the side of the bed. Bella could only spate Susan for now and receive Andrea’s call
“Yes, I’m here Andrea, do you need me for anything? Has Noesha not given the stuff to you yet?”
“She has, those lollipops are really good… uh, almost got sidetracked there, that’s not the thing that I called you for. Are you busy right now, Bella-nee? If not, could you come out to the place about 1000 meters behind the inn?”
“I’m bit really that busy, but why do you need me to go there?”
“My drones have sighted 【Tenebrous Demon God】, Bloomfield Elise, if you don’t go and meet with her, the system has calculated that she would reach your current location in exactly 25 minutes and 35 seconds from now, you might as well take the initiative and see her yourself!”
“Is she not a hostile? We just recently gave her subordinate void monarchs a beating. To see her now is a little…”
“She’s your… you’ll know when you get there. Don’t worry, I swear on my title as the 33rd dimension’s Creator that Elise definitely won’t hurt you, she’s currently quite…”