Chapter 196: To Mayari

As I look at the woman lying on the ground in front of me, I have the perfect description for her. She's like a Japanese Mulan that became a samurai so that she can follow her brother's footsteps, but she suddenly became a rogue because her lord died or something, so she became a fisherman, or a fisherwoman, whatever you want to call it.

Well, I can't really say anything about her appearance except for the fact that she has her heart gouged out, and judging by the blood in her palm, it was gouged out by herself.

_Apparently, she is so powerful that she can cut anything that is made up of the three main states of matter, she just have to be so unlucky and maybe stupidly holds on to the honor or something of the samurais, so she didn't escape the more conceptual power of Aoi... speaking of her, is she still immune to illusions despite me having 10 million mana count? Well, let's not find that out._

As I was brooding about such a thing, I already used the [Necromancer] unique skill to resurrect her into my undead, and unlike Ruphas, she knelt in front of me like the normal cutscene every time I do something like this.

"Thank you for turning me into your loyal servant, my lady."

I nodded at this, unfortunately, I would love to have your brother too, but like I said, I can't resurrect someone who have turned into carbon, actually, I'm lucky that I didn't turn into one earlier with Urduja showing me why she is called the hero of the sun for a few seconds.

"No, problem, but we have no time for pleasantries, your post would be..."

The whole territory of Kamatayan is now officially bigger than Urduja if Thanatos is to be counted, it stretches from mainland Kamatayan to Indio and Stardust and then to Tydings and then the stretch of beach that was being claimed by Stardust despite being far away from it (sounds familiar, huh?), well, this is kind of unfair for Urduja, but because she have claims to the whole of Leviticus and it's numerous islands that she have already started to "negotiate" with, that's not really the case. She will just have Gjallarhorn and Mayari as a territory in Genesis, but can do anything she wants to the land of Leviticus... so.

Going back, that stretch of land is the one I have to defend, so all of my generals are spread thin to defend that place; that's why it's a logical development for Eleanor to be on the backside of Valentine.

The good news is that I don't need to outstretch my heroes in this war, as the logical developments of the powerhouse fight are: Me vs. Eris, Urduja vs. Loki, Eleanor vs. Hebi, and Bakunawa vs. guess who on the side of Apolaki.

You should have searched for Bakunawa's name by now...

Anyway, that means I just have to randomly put up my generals against random generals of the enemy, as it was confirmed by my [Perfect Simulation] that somehow, these fights can be done by anyone, anywhere... I guess that's because every Sophia has different subordinates, that's also the reason why Mantis and Oni, the two who are the ones responsible for the security of the undead sector of the Queendom to participate in the naval battle.

After finishing all of the business in my navy, I went back to my capital, to my office to be exact, well, I still had to prepare for our second get together with Urduja... politics is often about looks and strength, so I actually don't need anything here except the official agreement that we have signed during our casual talk that needs the signage of the empire of Mayari to be official, the one that I will provide soldiers for their invasion, in the surface to have right to fight for my claims of the lands of Apolaki, but in truth, Urduja and I wanted to make it so that their council can't say no to her "peacefully" negotiation to acquire their lands, like having her as your aggressor is not scary enough.

Well, enough with that, for the moment I rolled my copy of the agreement, someone knocked at the door, I sat down on the chair of my desk and said "Come in" and then came in is Sisa... she was supposed to prepare for the war by changing her oversized clothes, but all she did is to use a belt with two holsters for her daggers to fit it by the waist, she's still using her obersized white clothes... she looks like Lady Dimitrescu by doing this.

"Are you sure that outfit is good enough for a war?"

Ah, well, it's not like I'm the one to talk; my clavicle is visible during my fights wearing a literal gown, after all.

"Ah... yes, this should do it, I don't have the habit of engaging in long drawn fights, and even if I occasionally have to, I'm not comfortable wearing tight-fitting clothes as I feel like they will rip apart..."

Sisa then walked towards me and then stared at me in the eyes for a second, unfortunately, my eye discipline is not that good enough when it comes into these types of clothes and also, because Sisa seem to adapt well into my lover role, she became braver than before... that, or her assassin intuition said that I won't harm her in any way.

"See, if it can distract Lady Sophia, then it can distract enemies, so I don't need to worry."

Sisa smiled, nodding approvingly to herself as I was stunned speechless for a moment. Are your children really that big of a pull to your personality that you became so endearing in front of me when it's not even a day that you're here? Sigh... well, maybe that's because she is formerly an assassin, she can adapt to things so fast, and is now assuming a very good role as my lover.

_But still, just because it's the final arc doesn't mean you can just do whatever you want with your novel... this is not a cheap harem novel after all..._

It's a cheap action novel... Well, I shouldn't break the 4th wall just because I can enter the 4th dimension, so I just awkwardly nodded.

"I... see... though it's not very reliable if you make me the reference... if that works for you, then you should use it"

I then looked at myself and then back at Sisa.

"Well, it's not like I'm the one to talk, so you can do whatever you want."

After such an exchange, we started to converse with each other for a little while before Sisa went to her children and ask them if they were allowed to go to war, but they seemingly casually, yet adamantly rejected it and said that I did not permit them, this relieved Sisa as one, her children are not against me being her lover and their new dad, and second, because they readily accepted my orders despite what they have said about me because I have coaxed my mom to kill herself.

Well, I should say that illusions really work wonders sometimes, or all the time if it's used by me.

_Now, before going to Urduja again to meet Urduja and then accompany her in her negotiations in Mayari, I have to go to the catacombs of Gjallarhorn... _

I have a lot of things to do in just half a day to meet the requirements of the time loop, It's a good thing that the talk between Paraluman and me didn't consume any time whatsoever.

Thinking of that, I ended the conversation between me and Sisa. I still have a lot of time, relatively, of course, as all of what I'm doing right before my fights can be done tomorrow if not for the fact that they have to be done today according to the time loop.

Well, no time to complain.

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"Do you think this bag of bones will be of any use?"

Kampay, out of boredom asked, poking her fingers into the bones inside a golden casket.

"Of course, they will."

Upon hearing this question from her, I immediately answered, causing quite the fright for [Guide] and Kampay, though they immediately straightened up and greeted me, this is the same conversation that started right after I ended the conversation between me and Sisa for I used [Unquantifiable by Time] as a mode of transportation, there, even if I started watching One Piece or the two main anime of pokemon, the next second I exited that state, I will still be in the same time I entered it, it's like going on a higher plane, it's not that grand and maybe can only be fully used by me and Eris... no, actually, I can drag someone here too because I saw how did the prophet of the undeads was able to do it, while Eris might have never fought anyone beyond those calamities during the war of gods.

"How?"

Kampay, who had straightened her back, asked, still skeptical, which prompted a look to [Guide].

"He will be fixing the divine relic of the undeads... well, mission accomplished, go to your next post for the war against Valentine."

The said post is as usual, the beach I have recently acquired, the strip west of Thanatos, apparently, it was not sealed by Aerendil because he want to make his naval presence be felt there and to ambush Kamatayan, to that extent, he used magic circles that conceals large areas, to no avail, unfortunately.

After saying that to Kampay, I also ordered another commanding duty to [Guide], which he answered firmly and affirmatively, after that, I touched the golden casket and then used [Unquantifiable by Time], and as I did, the usual red to blue color change of my eyes and the time stop happened, according to [Perfect Simulation], this is what I should do to make the prime of "The Fixer" as they call this Roselle, someone who can fix anything in a magical and molecular level resurface, it was also confirmed that he can use all his power, as the Roselle who stole a shard of the undead crystal to fix the crystal itself.

I just have to time my resurrection when the image of the king is in his prime, in the 30's part, in which I need, it took me 5 seconds (or what I would normally call 5 seconds) to time my activation, and when I did, I immediately stabbed the scepter in the ribcage of Roselle the Fixer, causing my eyes to suddenly return to red and time to gain normality, this person, as I simulated is someone closest to the level of prophets, the hero of a subsidiary god of the god of the sun, so it's only normal that his return needed the scepter as a catalysis, the bones started to gain flesh, then organs, and then organ systems and then skin and then eyes, those things turned from blood red to pale grey, the hero looked at me with bewilderment.

"Who... is Sophia?"

That's what he asked me the first time he saw me.

"Me, I will be the one you will serve from now on."

As I said those words, it came as a surprise that the hero did not oppose to this idea quickly, maybe because he was bound by the staff and also because I am of higher strength than him, in any case, I did not ponder about such things and immediately declared my orders.

"I want you to go to the sealed land of Thanatos, cooperate with Aerendil, whom I also killed and subordinated, the moment he unseals the land of the undeads, you have to fix the divine relic the former king of elves destroyed, do you understand?"

At my words, specifically the part were I said that I killed the king of elves, The Fixer Roselle's eyes widened in shock, but for inexplicable (even for him) reason, his mouth curled up slightly, as if proud of my achievement, this is a weird quirk for undeads, well I don't know because the time loop never made me focus on experimenting with the [Necromancer] unique skill, but I am sure that this characteristic was even intensified for the ones I have not killed but resurrected.

Anyway, that's not what I have to think about right now, I immediately gave The Fixer Roselle a paper with pentagram and then ordered him to go to his destination as I used [Unquantifiable by Time] again and then entered the office of Urduja who have changed her clothes already, which is quite strange as she looked quite ready with her polo.

Urduja pulled out her copy of the contract, and so did I.

"Let's go?"

I asked, and the Urduja nodded and stood up, her hand aiming at my back, which is something I don't like, so I swat her hand away.

"Aww..."

Gross, what the fuck is happening to this woman?

Sigh, anyway, I ignored her shenanigans and then activated [Unquantifiable by Time], causing time to stop measuring the two of us and because of the planetary warning of Paraluman to me earlier, I did not dare look at her figure, as there might be something that can jeopardize my plans over there.

I just have to ask her afterwards if there is anything afterwards.

Oh, and yes, I said all that to my living generals and Sisa without even starting our negotiations.

I mean, it's not like Kasikis of Mayari have a choice.