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                   Location: Near Campsite                                                 Year: 1066 AD

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(POV: John)

 

 

 

"We all know who would win this, she should quit while still she can" some of the minions ridiculed,

 

'I also don't know why Master is keen on making these girls fight, what's the point? they can only be half good as men',

 

Master had arranged a one on one combat between me and Kolin, 

 

With a sneer, I entered the snow, and dirt mixed ground towards my opponent,

 

Kolin stood there opposite to me, Showing off most of her parts like abs and muscles while covering her busty chest with wrapped clothes and wearing leather trousers, unlike her, I'm not a northerner, I can't fight without my upper clothes covering me in this cold.

 

 

"Are you prepared for this?" she asked with a seductive smile while stretching her legs.

 

"Come on Sergent John, show her who's the strongest!" few comments like that thrown out, but most of the boys are here only to check her out.

 

"I will" I replied with a grin, 'This is nothing new to me, I was there when Master first put out the rules, This will be easy'.

 

"kick his ass Kolin" a short-haired brunette archer girl cheered for her.

 

"Ready?" Taylor shouted since this fight involves a female, she had to make sure nothing goes wrong, there was that one time a boy grabbed a girl's chest but he got a straight kick to his balls after that no one tried to do foolish things like that,

 

"Start!" shaken off my thoughts I concentrated on battle.

 

I slowly walked towards my opponent, after a lot of fights I learned to be calm naturally, First tire the opponent and then pin them down to make them yield.

 

When she was within range, I punched downwards towards her since she was shorter than me,

 

she dodged instantly, I increased the speed the next few times but she still dodged all of it by leaning left and right, crackling my knuckles I gave out a powerful strike,

 

My hand hit the air while she dodged again to the left "Is that it?" she asked with a mocking tone,

 

'She's fast, it's gonna be hard if I don't conserve my strength and take her down with one move, I'll have to bait and pin her down' resolving myself jumped back making some distance,

 

"How Cute~, Big John seems scared" 

 

I waved my hand to taunt her hoping she bites the bait, "alright, here I come" 'She fell for it, Idiot' I simply smiled,

 

She kicked up the snow and dirt as she charged at me aiming at my chest,

 

I underestimated her charge, the moment her punch landed I almost lost my footing,

 

recovering from my initial surprise I quickly used the chance to grabbed her hand,

 

"can't escape now, can you?" I said sarcastically as I raised another arm to hit her,

 

But before my fist landed on her she caught my fist,

 

"Nice try big boy, but not enough if you go against a northerner" she replied soon after started crushing my fists,

 

'From when did she got this strong?' I screamed, I kneeled gritting my teeth as to not shout in pain, the very second I knelt she started kicking my face with her bare foot making me eat dirt, maybe she was waiting for this,

 

Unable to bear it I let go of my grasp on her hands and she let go of my poor fists, she is free again making our position back to square one,

 

"It seems to be getting chilly, Are you still so sure you can win this?" she asked as her long light blonde hair fluttered in the wind,

 

'Yeah I can feel the cold wind alright, Damn it!, I shouldn't have slacked off like that',

 

"Ready or not Here I go" she charged again, this time she pounced on me with her right leg kicking my stomach,

 

Clutching my stomach I fell back with a face of agony groaning endlessly.

 

Everyone who watched this, even the girls lost their marbles, not able to register this fit blonde girl's triumphant smirk nor my groaning,

 

"Wha... Yeah, that's it Kolin, show them who's the Boss now" Somehow recovered Jill cheered running to her while some boys carried me to Master's Tent or more exactly like how they carry the hunted boar clutching all four limbs while its skin gets peeled on the way grinded by the ground. "Why do you guys carry me like I'm some kind of corpse and not a live person?" After my shout, they carried me properly,

 

Once inside, they put me on a bed before leaving me still groaning, soon after Master, his Maids and Kolin also came.

 

"Great Job John! Your performance was Superb! As I promised you will get your favorite Lamb Roast this whole Week" Master praised me with a Thumbs up, But I was in no condition to react to it as I was still groaning from Pain.

 

" *Clearing Throat* I understand your dedication but you won't get Oscar if you do acting in front of the Director instead of the Audience, You can drop the act now," getting close to my bed he patted my Stomach where it got hit,

 

"Master Argh! I'm not acting! It seriously hurts!" He gave 'you're kidding me look' turning to Kolin who was playing with her hair while lowering her head,

 

"Sorry Master I went a little overboard thinking that he can endure it~" she said with her tongue out in the end which gained facepalm from Master,

 

"How dare you hurt my Poor John?, He's like my Newborn baby," He scolded her but in the end, he whispered this to her "You're promoted for defeating John, and from now on you're Sergent Kolin", "And for your brave sacrifice you'll get roasted lambs for an entire month, So enjoy!... and recover soon" he patted my shoulder before leaving, 'imagining roasted lamp has already reduced some pain',

 

'That's Right, The whole thing was a Charade where Kolin challenges me cockily and wins me while I groan in pain in the end, well at least that is what master called 'the Skirpt', The main aim is not to make boys respect girl's strength but to make girls believe in themselves, to instill confidence in their hearts, he calls this 'Empowering females, saying Taylor wasn't enough to give them courage so something like this is needed, But she kicked my arse for real',

 

'Kolin was really strong than I thought, Just you wait for it Kolin after I recovered I'll train like there's no tomorrow and stomp your Face just like you did to me, Until then Lamb Roasts for days' My smile was back at the reminder of reward.

 

 

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(POV: Aymar)

 

 

Every time I remember it, It feels like yesterday even though it happened months ago,

 

They weren't kidding when they said they'll only serve beauties and just like he said every one of them is a unique flower, The Priest also said Capital Church has more of them, what if I have an Army of beauties who only Serve me?,

 

No no, Although it sounds good, I need to leave something for my Minions as well,

 

Besides, when the Priest did the whole ritual thing, I didn't felt like it was just spouting some bullshit but a proper Slave Contract, I feel like a bond with my Six slaves (Kolin didn't bow during the ritual which is an act of Defiance), I can tell that they won't develop feelings for others even if I told them to, They'll only serve me,

 

From their eyes, I can sense some form of fanatical and absolute reverence towards me, But they still retain their personal feelings completely, So if I buy some slaves again I have to tell the priest to don't do the ritual thing, I don't want them to be my literal Slaves even though it ensures Loyalty in my army.

 

Shaking myself out of my thoughts, I returned to the present where I'm feeling this thing, My attempt to recreate something Great,

 

'The Bra',

 

*Rhythmic pants* *slurping sounds in between*

 

Ignoring the background sounds I focused on this item in my hand, This piece of cloth is stitched in a way capable of housing both mounds, and instead of straps this has long cloth things coming from sides and from the top that you have tie knot, It has ugly stitching parts showing outside so that user don't have to bother with the discomfort of these prickly stitches,

 

I know it looks amateur but this is already great considering that Sia's maids just learned how to sew from one of Castle Maids and they accomplished this somehow with these poor medieval tools, I don't know whether or not I can improve their tools but I can always invest more to make them stitch more of these, I told them to make one for each themselves as well so that they can experience different things and learn something new, I ordered them to make these Bras Every year.

 

*Rhythmic pants* *sucking sounds in between*

 

Tossing it to the side I turned my focus towards Sia.

 

"Haa Haaa, Aeemaah dfuu Ai rheely hade thwo dhoo dhwis? *gulping Saliva* " Sia asked me with her tongue hanging out.

 

Sis is doing squatting exercise, unlike your standard one, this one is special, A version where she stays in squat position only moving her Ass up and down,

 

And on top of this, she does Ahegao face with her tongue completely hanging out breathing with her mouth making her saliva secrete out of control running down her chin and dripping down on the floor.

 

Looking at her Ahegao face panting like an animal, I replied with the satisfied expression"Of course it is important training for the Future",

 

I'm engraining this muscle memory in her brain so that she does the same when I actually do her, 'Say what you want but looking at her innocence just makes me wants to corrupt her', 'I have also increased her daily food intake making biscuits every week and also increased her meat+veggie input,

 

At the current stage there is no obvious result on her flat chest buns but it will show in long term I hope, With this rate, She could rival my Mom's O cup size in the future becoming Super THICC Ahegao Goddess' with clenched Fist towards Sky I hailed Chungus.

 

*Door Knocks abruptly*

 

" *Coughs* Who's that?" I cleared my mind before asking,

 

"Master it's Eddie, I have to report this is Emergency" Sergent Eddie said

 

I whispered Sia to continue this later and let him In,

 

"So what happened?" "Master we think we found Ferocious Beast trail on today's Hunt",

 

'Ferocious Beast? They're dangerous, I need to assure the safety of hunting party' I made up my mind,

 

"Halt hunting for a week until things go back to normal and increase the Patrols, Meanwhile I'll investigate this personally and relay this command to Taylor cause you're coming with me, also call Kolin" I ordered.

 

"What! no Master you can't risk your life or we'd be all dead" he panicked,

 

"Fool You're always near danger camping next outskirts, Easy for any Beast to knock our base and cause blood carnage, so get your weapons and just follow me" Clutching his shirt I said it to his face(since his dress doesn't have Collar).

 

 

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Its been more than a month since winter ended but this forest still has Snow and hanging Icicles all over the place,

 

Winter may have left our barony but on the East winter fades slowly, as for the North it is Winter Hell all three sixty-five days.

 

As we ventured deep I could already notice few animal trails on snow, "Jackalopes?",

 

"Yes master, this is one of few Jackalope areas" I nodded on his words,

 

Further going in we could finally see the so-called Beast trails, Even a blind person could tell that something definitely crossed this place,

 

It's like a huge metal montrosity crossed the Forest , Rows and rows of Trees had been smashed down in this area, Creating a twenty-meter wide path similar to Highway Four Lane Road only leaving some super sturdy Giant trees,

 

These pine or spruce whatever they are called are knocked down and kicked to the sides of their Road Path,

 

I can clearly tell some herd has passed by, most probably DireBoar variety, I can't imagine anything else wreaking havoc like this,

 

There's also poop here and there, This round and many times larger than pizza's size Dung looks slightly frozen, It looks like elephat shit,

 

After further inspection of the footprints all over the place, I realized that this hoove footprint is huge and slim compared to that Lion Hog bastard, This should be probably Deer's Footprint?,

 

"I know this sounds far fetched but I think that this track belongs to Deers" I finished my Theory,

 

"Antler Deers to be Precise, They are migratory running down south during winter risking their lives for warmth and goes back up north when winter is over"  Kolin said before continuing,

 

"They are two times a person's height and tallest one is three times average human height, They are always hungry, Look here! at these fallen trees! weirdly without leaves or needles, they knock the tree down and then eat all their leaves,

 

And look at this Dark green dung, it is evident of all the leaves it ate and also this is the best manure you can get, if used correctly crops can grow verdantly, some of the clans up north know how to get their hands on these, Master we should collect them, the barony can get a good harvest if they use this" she said excitedly prodding the dung with a stick,

 

"Calm down Tiger, Crops can wait but my priority hasn't changed I have to assure the safety of hunters, we need to first confirm that there are no other beasts and then we can worry about this freezing pile of shit, So now we'll split out, You and Eddie walk along the Antler road to check the south direction and I'll go the opposite direction, keep watching for any 'other' beast footprints or weird thing and stay vigilant, return after two times of Campsite lap distance we'll meet at this same spot," I said as I marked the nearest Tree with my sword, They accepted albeit unwillingly as Kolin looked disappointed for some reason,

 

I decided to go alone since I have [Mini-Map with me, while Eddie is experienced in these forests even before joining me so he'll help Kolin.

 

Taking my lonely time I strolled towards the northern path, The further north I go, I can see more icicle hanging from tree branches, snow loaded Crowns and frozen poop splash,

 

There is an eerie feeling that someone is stalking me when I'm near the woods, Just before I completed the two laps of Campsite distance, I could see a mini cliff hill structure a small distance away from Antler made Road,

 

It piqued my curiosity, It's not hard to see terrain elevation and pits, it's just I haven't seen a proper Hill at least not in these Woods,

 

For a moment I almost didn't notice the black spot on the cliff's side at all, It was a small cave entrance but the cave mouth is facing forty-five degree angle upwards coupled with the uneven cliff wall protruding at some places and hollow at some places so that Its hard to detect at first glance, other than that everything about the hill is normal,

 

I returned 'There's no way in hell I'm going to investigate this alone without proper preparation, I'll come back later for that',

 

After a short while, I returned to our meeting spot that I had marked, They haven't returned yet unlike me they don't have any form of distance measurement so it'll take them a while to return,

 

I started inspecting one of the Giant Trees, actually, it's not that uncommon to see this big trees around here but what makes it out of place is the curved branch due to heavy Icicles' weight almost reaching the ground,

 

Looking at the tree itself, which has thicc trunk, if the average giant tree trunk diameter is four, this one is five meters,

 

'It should be decades old to get this big or centuries perhaps' underneath its Huge shade I speculated before turning my attention to the Icicle which I grabbed, "Shilll-" Immediately let go and rolled to the side,

 

I rolled out of the way and at the same instant, Icicles fell on my previous spot,

 

For a long minute, I stared at the Icicle away of me blankly with my ass on one of those shit and thank goodness it was frozen hard so it didn't stick to me,

 

I grasped the icicle again like previously,

 

Letting go of it I clenched my fist and closed my eyes trying to get what it was, A slightly familiar sensation, But unlike the cold and absolute nature of Slave contract ritual this is more natural feeling,

 

But Strange enough, I can understand this weird feeling, ...this I don't know what to call it,

 

And most importantly I can feel these snow or Ice surrounding me without seeing for myself,

 

A part of my soul that I never knew existed, like I have an extra limb or something but it lasted only for a moment before fading away as if it was never there from the start,

 

I'm completely stumped as to what's happening to me right now,

 

It took me more minutes for me to recover from my confusion 'Did I somehow triggered Final Destination by not playing by its rules and now gets back at me by making me go Insane?',

 

Clearing my mind of unwanted thoughts I closed my eyes again, This time trying to recreate the same thing that I felt now,

 

Trying to concentrate harder and harder to get that feeling again which made my head hurt and break some sweat,

 

"Master?" , I jumped back at the sudden interruption which almost made me shit my pants,

 

Of course, its Eddie and Kolin looking at me with puzzled expressions,

 

"When did you guys came?" "Just now Master" only Eddie replied while Kolin came near my previous position,

 

She crouched for a moment before picking up something,

 

Piquing both of our curiosities I asked "What's that?",

 

"You dropped this Master, some weird shaped Ice" she showed us both,

 

It's just a small Icicle as small as a finger but both sides are sharp,

 

"It's just an Icicle, don't tell me you guys don't have Ice up there" Eddie mocked on her discovery,

 

"Look again idiot, normal icicle are lance-shaped having thick stem but this one has both sides pointy,

 

"Let's go back, it's getting late" I replied trying to ignore the subject,

 

Even with lingering headache, my skill had already found out what that is while these guys were arguing,

 

 

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(POV: Karen)

 

 

 

(Inside Parlour)

 

'A Decade, It took me almost a decade to get to this position from a helpless concubine'

 

Sipping on the southern Amber water while listening to these foot lickers changing conversations to kill time,

 

A Noblewoman with green Tudor clothes retaliated "What do you mean Stanny's group is up to something?",

 

Another Noble Woman with Barbette replied "They are prying about forty-seventh one",

 

"That one wearing revealing clothing?" for her question she replies "Yeah that one",

 

"No one can help it if they pull some prank on dumb one, let's move into the important matter," She said rudely and further continued,

 

"Remember that night after commotion where Fourth Prince embarrassed himself, It seems that some Baron have offended him and now they think that we also got some golden fur to support them, Like how can someone spread such baseless rumor about Her Majesty? Those fools don't know when to close their Lids"

 

"There is one thing that can be done, Her Majesty can charge the D'kmans capital offense for offending Royalty"

 

'I do remember the commotion but I only knew that he tricked some minor nobles and not the details of it, but if it is true then I have to do as she told in order to correct it and feign neutrality, There's no reason to hold back if they are not my allies' I decided.

 

"Noooo, Please don't Mother" Chloe who would never care about politics other than her hot cup now started pleading frantically,

 

"Oh Dear, haven't I told you to not interrupt while Adults are talking about an important subject? Or do you have a better reason to say?" I gave a gentle smile warning which says 'Not Now', I can tolerate her taking the reins for slandering someone for personal motive but not for something like this.

 

"Bu-but I have ..." she started talking hesitantly "What?" I pressured not wanting her to continue making an idiot of herself

 

"... a Friend and h-he's..." "You want me to ignore it just because he's your friend, That doesn't justify any proper Reason at all-"

 

"I apologise for interrupting your Majesty, I think what your daughter trying to convey is that Majesty should not to take rumors Seriously" suddenly a voice interrupted,

 

Turning my attention I caught the owner of that voice, Unlike others, she sits at a spot where people can't see your face, so I can only see her dark silhouette wearing a slanted Hat, 'For a moment I almost forgot who she was but I would never forget her voice in my life, This is the First time she talked after joining me, Marchioness Grenade of House Amber, she's one of the important pillars that helped me ascend to where I am now unlike those bitches, so of course I would naturally show face irrespective of her reasons to defend some Barons'.

 

"Oh lady Amber is right, We have to discern lies and rumors from the truth, now is not the right time to rush," I said smiling outside but inside I was pondering the reasons but I know nothing about them, I have to investigate this matter and talk with her later privately,

 

 

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(POV: Me)

 

Patting Head of Sia who was snuggling with me on the bed I said "Sia, It's Time",

 

"No" rubbing her face left to right as she was burying her head on my chest she replied,

 

"If you don't I'll force you some extra 'exercise' tomorrow" I threatened her,

 

"What? Nouu!" She squirmed as a show of how reluctant she was on not letting go off of me which made me happy inside but still I got shit to do,

 

"Yes"  "Why are you chasing me away" she finally showed her face to me her almost watery eyes,

 

"You should spend some time with your father too" 

 

"Why?" she asked as if that's was the most stupidest excuse,

 

"You are his only family so maybe he'll feel sad when he gets back to an empty home, wouldn't he feel lonely?, and he'll hate me more for that" honestly I don't care about him but I don't have many reasonable excuses for now,

 

For a moment she thought about it and felt guilty visibly "What? I didn't know, I-I'll go immediately" saying that she left the room,

 

*Sigh*

 

Closing the door I started to concentrate with open eyes, the same familiar feeling made me excited as I watched a small fragment spawned out of nothing,

 

Slowly but steadily it started growing as I concentrated more,

 

But Since my vision affects my concentration I closed my eyes for a better outcome,

 

And it immediately showed effects I can feel the shard's growth more clearly now,

 

After a few minutes where I no longer feel it growing, I finally stopped concentrating,

 

Wiping my sweat I looked at the final product, The chalk sized Ice on my hand,

 

Putting that in front of me as I watch it melt and with my still lingering Headache I gave my [System] to calculate a possible estimate on the Antler herd's size in the mean time,

 

'Magic really exists',

 

But my excitement died down after using it,

 

After touching the Icicle at the Forest I have awoken this consciousness where I can feel all snow and Ice around me with closed eyes,

 

And this consciousness has also given me this weird tool, It's like you have this weird machine that does an action if you press a button, 

 

Still, with my current state, I can only make this one small Icicle and end up having a headache for half a day,

 

I checked my stats after forming this Icicle, if something reduced or changed in stats but nothing seems changed,

 

MP still stands for Mental power, I dunno why, But What I do know is that I just scratched the surface, I have to learn how to weaponize or use it as defense and whatever the potential it has until then I'm your 'The Champagne Boy Aymar'. '

 

*Ding*

 

As I was watching the half-melted Icicle a familiar sound came out of nowhere,

 

I almost jumped away from surprise,

 

Finally, I noticed what made the sound, It was my skill, it got leveled up,

 

'But it never had sounded like this, only notifications' thinking that I opened my status,

 

 

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Looks like stats grew respective to my age except for stamina which increased has increased due to my hard work, I had to train even harder if I want to push them up,

 

'But where is my magic skill?, Where's my ice maker acheivement?, why does it not shows up here?' I wondered but I literally can't figure out why,

 

Seems that some of my skill's features are gone and got some new ones as "well explain them",

 

[Data Management] - manages all known Data,  'Wow that's a helpful explanation',

 

[Autopilot] - Executes Automatic Functions Overriding User's Control as tasked by User or against his/her Will, Settings can be Customised,

 

"Wait Is this skill trying to possess me like how cyborg loses control of his body on the face of death, If you want my body You must be hot as my Sia, do you hear me?" Of course no response,

 

Opening the [Autopilot] Tab I could see a gallery of GIFs of me punching or kicking or using swords, these GIFs are automatic responses for every circumstance, Each circumstance have like fifty plus actions as a solution but it auto sorted best optimal response, honestly, it was good I have it, I can react to dangerous situations without petrified from shock. This [Autopilot] has other features such as changing Handwriting completely or doing repetitive tasks without having to do yourself (like AFK) and it even has drawing skills where I can draw what I see without having a talent for it like from 'I R*bot'.

 

[Simulater] - Simulates and Calculates all known Data

 

I'm not sure about its usage but I opened it anyways, First thing I see is the Antler Herd Estimation Task Results with Antler footprint thumbnail but what made my brows raise was something above that, there's another task with alarming Red outlined which twitched every two seconds,

 

I didn't remember giving [system] this task, It's thumbnail was a picture of woods and two yellow lights from shadows,

 

It said 'Potential threat to user's Existence', 

 

Expanding the Task which was short clips of woods from my house, Campsite, and Forest itself,  but at every scene, either at plain sight or at the edge of the view, I can see two yellow or white or gold light similar to eyes,

 

That was not the end of the creepiness, As I scrolled down I could see the last clip with Red letters at edge similar to News channel, this one says 'Live', in the picture at the side of view through my room windows which is facing the inner courtyard, I could see a black round silhouette protruding above the roof with two white lights which must be its eyes reflecting the moonlight.

 

*Gulping saliva*

 

I stretched my arms feigning tiredness as I jumped on my bed, Pretending that I didn't know its presence I rolled on my bed before turning towards windows in a casual manner, It was not there anymore.

 

I couldn't sleep properly that night staying awake, trying to see If I could catch a glimpse of whatever that is, and finally falling asleep due to tiredness.

 

 

 

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Family List

- Annabelle D'kman (Mother)

- Payn D'kman (Father)

- Galeron D'kman (Brother)

 

Love Interests

- Annabelle D'kman

 

Lover

- Chelecsia - {Race : Shapeshifter}

 

Slaves

- Jill

- See (5) others

 

Personal Servants/Minions

- John

- Eddie

- Taylor

- Kolin

- See (58) Others [ Old 23 Servants  +   New Recruits 35 (28 Infonet informants, 7 others) ]

 

Acquainted 

- Boris (merchant's Son)

- Chloe (Princess)

 

House Servants

- Sauze (House keeper)

- Valter (head Butler) - {Race : Shapeshifter}

- See (34) more house Servants

 

D'kman barony Townspeople

- See the List (874)

 

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