Chapter 460 – Killing a Temple

*** Armirynth ***

"She's safe, Lady Armirynth," Kou says. "I just got word from her second body that her main body is back in this world. She isn't saying much about where she went, but she wants her wives to join her in bed."

"Have you seen her?" I ask. "Is she fine?"

"Aurora has seen her, Lady Armirynth," Kou says. "Annoris is there as well. I'm not sure how she got out of her cell. But, I think the show is done for today."

"My baby does need some sleep," I say.

"I'll take you to her," Nakuma says, wrapping Yuki up in her arms as well.

"Thank you," I say.

"Is it..."

*** Alzi ***

"BABY!" Mommy yells, and I get covered in arms and furry tails. "You scared me! You silly girl! Your Mommy was so worried about you! Are you ok? Did they hurt you? What happened? You're pregnant! You can't go running off like that!"

"Sorry," I say. "I'm fine. They didn't hurt me. Just something weird happened. I can't remember anything else about it, but I'm fine. I feel a lot better, strangely enough. I'm sorry for running off. I didn't mean to."

"The kids are happy," Mommy says. "They were kicking like crazy, but they're happy again. Don't run off from Mommy again. She needs you. I need you, baby."

"I need you, too," I say. "I never wanted to, I promise. It didn't go as it was supposed to, but everything worked out well. They're dead. They all died as they needed to. It was better than I thought, and it went so well. The ending was just a little scary, but it worked out well. It worked out!"

"That's good to hear, baby," Mommy says. "That's so good. I'm so happy to hear that. We're finally free."

"We still have all the royals around," I say. "But most of them are under me now, so that's fine. I'm tired."

"I'm sure you are," Mommy says. "Let's get in bed. I think most of your wives are going to be coming in soon with Nanoka."

Oh, it's Yuki and Nakuma who came here. I only saw Yuki's tails and thought they were all Nanoka's. I guess that means she made it in time somehow. Probably Kitsune warning them or something.

"I'm sorry, Your Royal Highness," Aurora says. "You only asked for your wives. I should've tried to make it more specific."

"That's fine," I say. With Yuki already here, bringing them all isn't the worst thing.

It's been a good day, so she can have a night of rest before returning to Nakuma. I've got to give her some hope here and there.

Mommy, Mai, Ilka, Akhae, Nakuma, and Yuki are the first batch to arrive. Annoris is cowering on the far side of the mattress, leaving plenty of room for us all to move the hug to the bed. And then Aurora drags Annoris over to the group as they swarm me.

"My Queen," Kou says. "You said wives, but do you want concubines as well?"

"I already have Yuki, Annoris, and Aurora here," I say. "Just make it everyone for tonight, if the bed will take them."

"I'll make it work, My Queen," Kou says. "I'll have some staff keep the kids out."

"Thanks," I say. I hear the door open, my vision still blocked by some fluffy tails and bodies. The bed sways as they all climb in. The bed is big, but how is everyone going to fit? I have some big girls in the mix, and some of the small ones are now heavy with kids. And then there's Annoris and Aurora.

"Where is Sarania?" I ask.

"Killing some Priestesses," Aurora says.

"Oh," I say. "Is she ok?"

*** Sarania ***

Well, Fyserreia has really shown her anger tonight. The first few Priestesses were just coming out, scared by the explosion, easy enough to kill if you don't care about attacking women who aren't prepared to defend themselves. We are more than happy to do that if needed, but when they fell, things got a lot more interesting.

The guards all know who we are and know better than to intervene on behalf of the temple. But they weren't willing to cross the temple either, meaning we had to handle the crowd and the temple staff.

The first armed woman we faced was an adventurer who just didn't understand what was going on and didn't know how to figure it out. She came at us with her sword raised, and found herself painting the stone road with her blood before she had a chance to do anything. Fyserreia won't let anything stand in the way of her killing all the Priestesses.

I was starting to get worried that we would have to paint the street red with adventurers' blood instead of the Priestesses', but I think the quick death and our bountiful chests got the rest of the adventurers to look the other way. Osanna is a known noble as well, and there must be a good reason for her to be attacking a temple.

I just hope that single death doesn't cause Alzi any trouble.

Of course, the Priestesses aren't completely stupid. They may be following a worthless Goddess, but they have to have some brain functions. After the early deaths, they came out as a group, in armor. Ten of them, in full armor, shouting about justice. Most had swords, with just two seeming to be mage-focused.

Justice always did love delivering her stupid beliefs in person. It isn't hard to see why her Priestesses would mostly follow in her footsteps. If only they remembered that when they left the dirty work to random workers, while they just sent messages to the front desk about how the poor peasants were out of luck.

Maybe Fyserreia has a point in her extreme desire to kill them all. Nature's Priestess must've loved talking about justice as they beat Fyserreia.

The Priestesses' screams were cut short as Osanna launched another explosive Skill at the charging group. One idiot died on impact, probably a recruit. The blast sent the rest flying, with only one Priestess managing to stay on her feet.

Fyserreia ran in to torture her. The adventurers must've let out an audible sigh when they saw what happened next, realizing that they made the right choice not to defend the idiots. The High Priestess didn't stand a chance. She wasn't even standing for long. Fyserreia took her legs first, just above the knee, with a clean cut. What she went after next, I don't know. I had to deal with all the ones that got flung around. But their screams told a very vivid picture.

I'm not good at fighting, so I tend to find a different way for each person to let out their strong emotions. It makes for a much better and cleaner show. The women all came out here to die together, so I thought they should show their love for one another one last time before they die. More than a few were using a bit of tongue and slipping their fingers past their armor. And at that point, it isn't too hard to find a way to kill them. People are quite distracted when fucking.

Osanna was in charge of the two mages. Her failure to kill them, I blame on the overeating. She is a bit soft in the stomach. But once I gave them a little distraction, Osanna blew them up quickly enough.

By the time all of that was done, Fyserreia had chopped the High Priestess up into a dozen pieces.

"A bit of overkill," I say.

"She deserved it," Fyserreia says. "The ritual has started."

"I can see that," I say. "I doubt a massive pillar of light is a normal occurrence."

"What do we do now?" Osanna asks, eyeing an alleyway.

"You think you can run off?" I ask.

"I'm pregnant with Goddess knows how many kids," Osanna says. "No, but a girl can dream."

"Not you," I say. "Not you, not until Alzi is stable. She's had a lot of trauma over the past few days. You're lucky not to have to deal with that right now. Come on, it's time to return. The ritual should be over soon. You struggled with those mages."

"I'm not thousands of years old," Osanna says.

"I didn't say you didn't have a reason. I'm just saying you struggled," I say. "Fyserreia, you don't have anything else you want to do, right?"

"No, it's too bad we can't take Nature's temple. I would love to slit their throats."

"We can try to work it out with Alzi and Mother later. For now, the three pregnant women can return home," I say. I grab Osanna's collar and start dragging her back up the road. The useless guards can clean the street. It would've been nice if they had at least kept the adventures back. They could've saved a life that way.

Fyserreia takes a few moments to join us on the walk back, but soon, she's snuggled in against me, with a bit of revenge now settling in her stomach.

"Thanks, Zogloraz," Fyserreia whispers.

"Please, don't bring that name back," I say. "I can't be both her and Alzi's servant."

"Here and there wouldn't be too bad," Fyserreia says. "She was a lot of fun."

"A lot of danger as well," I sigh. "We can work it out with Alzi. Our Mistress gets the final say on these things. We have to be ready to accept our punishment for this little excursion. We risked our Mistresses' kids for this."

"She'll understand," Fyserreia says.

"Probably."

*** Alzi ***

"On her way here," Kou says. "I'll let them explain themselves, my Queen. It's something you should hear directly from the source. Don't be afraid to give them a bit of punishment."

"What, did they burn down a temple?"

"They did, my Queen," Kou says. "I don't really have the power to stop them, and Fyserreia has a very narrow view sometimes. They also took Osanna with them. Sarania reports that they're all fine and already inside the castle. They should be here shortly."

"If they have a good reason, then everything should be fine," I say. "How is the bed looking?"

"Full, my Queen," Kou says. "But warm. I've had to expand it a few times, and it now takes up the entire room. Don't worry, your more permanent room will be much bigger."

Everyone is trying to touch me. Well, at least all the pregnant women, which is almost everyone anyway. I hope Yzzorres is able to sleep fine by herself. I'll need to get a portal or something to her cave. I'm sure she would love to have a group of my wives curling up with her occasionally. But probably just the dragons, so that she can stay atop her gold pile.

"Sorry, my Mistress," Sarania says. "Fyserreia wanted to help out a bit. Why don't you explain what we did, sister?"

"We helped distract Justice," Fyserreia says. "That's hardly something to be sorry about. We didn't do anything stupid like enter the building. We just stayed outside and convinced them that they needed to leave and fight us outside. We were hardly in any danger, killing them all before they had a real chance to do anything. I think it went well. My Mistress."

"You should try to remember Your Mistress earlier in your excuse," Kou says.

"Well," I say. "You're pregnant, so you shouldn't be fighting so much. But if you're unhurt, I can forgive you this once. You just have to join us all in bed."

"My Mistress," Sarania says. "There is a small village on your bed. But we're happy to join."

"Good, because my eyes are getting kind of heavy, and I'm really warm..."