Crusader King, Chapter 9

With but a short meeting to check in with Artoria and Castoria, the Knights of the Rose Order already sent another caravan ahead to the kingdom of Ur to bring the money and the members of Shadow Garden to begin filtering them into the city. 

And beyond that, by first light our caravan was moving with my carriage being pulled by a team of four large horses due to the size and weight of my carriage that was more of a minature bedroom then anything.

Thankfully! The carriage was actually outfitted with some springs and a rudimentary shock system, so riding within the carriage wasn't too jostling or anything. Besides I was rather busy with... Things.

While capturing the merchant's illegal goods, the knights of the Rose Order made sure to bring me a collection of books containing magic-based information that the merchants had collected over the years.

Though I would like to say the knights also brought me some wonderful enchanted weapons, armor, or something like that... But that wasn't at all the case.

The only enchanted things they found were aphrodisiacs, mind control tools, or 'weapons' to seal someone to render them helpless.

Obviously, nothing I was interested in, so I allowed the knights to dispose of them however they saw fit as Artoria said that she had channels and uses for some of the stuff.

But the magic books however, weren't so... Uselessly driven to a perverted edge. Sure all of the books had at least one ritual/curse to mind break a bitch or whatever. But they also carried more widespread magical information I could use.

'The magic of this world is based on cause and effect... I would say it relied on equilvalent exchange of energy equaling to effect. But that's not the case at all.' I mused with a soft hum, leaving me as I lowered the thick tome to rest on my stomach as I stared up at the ceiling.

As lying between my spread legs was the two forms of Anna and Grace that were sloppily making out with my cock between their lips, and even as their tongues met the other's and wrapped around my cock.

Their heart filled eye's were staring up at me in adoration as I had made sure to properly fuck Grace after I got back some energy last night. And then in the morning after the carriage began moving, I fucked them both again to keep them in a fucked stupid stupor.

So while doing some homework and reading about magic, it was only natural I stayed comfortable with my dick being taken care of... Dear god, this world was already tainting me with its degeneracy.

I shook my head as I refocused on the book. 'Binding the five elements, and Yin with Yang.' Basically ,it was a book that focused on the five eastern elements I was more drawn to via my own elementalism power.

Even if my power's far outstretched the normal classical five eastern elements. As for the binding yin with yang... Well it was certainly something interesting, which allowed to flood a woman's cunt with magical energy after sealing off her ability to ograsm.

And then, when I reached my own orgasm and flooded her womb with my magical energy, I could release the seal, making her violently orgasm. Which would open up her soul, allowing me to rip her own magical potential out to add to my own, along with binding her soul to mine.

To say the least it was evil as shit. But a powerful way to gain strength, and honestly. 'Princess Prim, and Alicia certainly don't need their magic or ki... Alicia herself gets captured by some random fat bastard without any magic, martial arts or anything, and she gets mind broken by some random fat dude.' I thought with disdain.

I mean... Come on, it was at least 'somewhat' respectable to go out fighting some great monster only to be defeated. At least the bitch tried. But Princess Alicia? Yeah, she just got her mind broken by some random chancellor who served under her and wanted her in return for betraying the Kingdom of Feoh to Vult and his armies.

But the thought of Vult made me consider things honestly. Having been in this world for a couple of weeks now, I have learned the truth of this world.

'Even if I run off to kill Vult to be a hero, and manage to do so. What then? Olga has already lost 99% of her power and is just going to get forced upon by the lusty monsters. And myself? What, should I just remain Princess Prim's court mage for the rest of my days?' I mused to myself.

Honestly... 

I pushed Anna's head down on my cock making her moan with joy as I came to a powerful realization... And came more literally as Anna's throat pulsed as I shot my cum down her throat.

Being the hero wasn't at all in my best interests right now.

'If I let Vult do his bullshit, weaken his army in slaying the monsters that can't communicate to reach Olga. I won't need to worry about dealing with the haughty cold bitches that is Olga and Chloe.'

Oh there wasn't a fucking chance in the world, I wasn't going to get Chloe gagging on my dick and fucking a half breed baby into Olga the dark elf queen. But I was well aware that they were cruel mistresses that would happily slit my throat in my sleep.

As that was literally what Chloe did to her master, who didn't properly break her in when she was enslaved by a human, and was the reason she hated humanity.

'So, I just need to lean back and just allow Vult to bring the world to its knees... And then, with how he is a strong knight with ki, I can just nuke him from a distance, poison him, curse him, and any other variety of things. I just need to snatch Olga and Chloe when his armies come down to the south to conquer the world and mind break Celestine.' I mused.

Though there was a major hiccup, I needed to worry about... 

'Hmm I will need to deal with Kin De first before anything. He is a magician who was able to summon armies of demons and other things.' I mused before I heard a loud rumble from outside that was followed by a series of drums.

"Dammit, more orcs." I cursed as I moved Anna aside before I hopped off the bed and flared fire around myself to burn off the overwhelming scent of sex off myself, before I threw on a pair of pants and a shirt within like thirty seconds.

The sounds of heavy war drums would carry for literal miles in the forest and as I threw open the door of the carriage. I could hear the drums all the clearer.

"You two stay here and lock the door behind me." I ordered Grace, who had thrown on a dress and was looking scared, as she herself knew all too well what orcs were like.

With the door to the carriage being locked, and my women secured from a casual orc attack for at least a while. I was obviously noticed as I flew into the air unsteadily via the flames pushing me up.

"Lord Viscount! Return to your carriage at once!" Princess Alicia ordered firmly, but in answer, I fell out of the air with a curse as a large rock-lined net shot past me.

Then the drums became even louder as it seems that the orcs were of the 'smarter' variety as a large group of them including an even larger number of goblins, hobgoblins, and giant spiders they had obviously tamed, attacked from the other side from where the sound of drums came from.

'My advanced party with Castorice should be fine. They left before day even broke, and they are all fanatics.' I thought as I did notice none of the other knight's reporting any sights of battle or anything while making our way here.

And before Alicia could make another order to me, she obviously had to focus on the orcs, goblins, spiders, and... Giant fucking bullmen that I wasn't sure if it was actually a minotaur or something that came up from the drum sounding side.

"Knight's of the Rose Order! Slay the evils that haunt these lands!" Artoria called out firmly as she began glowing with a silver glow as she pulled up her life lifeforce.

With a moment of thought, I realized that killing the leaders of the monsters would break the smaller monsters' morale faster then myself killing dozens of the smaller ones.

So in quickly looking around, as I transformed my body into metal so that the monsters using crossbows couldn't snipe me... Like the poor bastard male knights that followed Princess Alicia in very thin plate armor,r it looked like.

I found what looked like the leader of at least the 'minotaurs' and the confusion about the minotaurs was the fact their heads were that of a human plus horns, while their bipedal form was otherwise a bipedal bulls.

The leader of the minotaurs was clear, because not only was he fucking massive in being five meters tall, and muscles that looked like it came from some kind of body building competion. But the Bull had an extra set of two horns on its head.

I charged towards the bull leader who was armed with a fucking massive axe it had probably made itself with how it was a tree trunk that had a stone axe head fixed at the top. And as I got close, I allowed it to swing its massive axe at me.

And then abruptly I stopped my roaring charge... Making the axe whiz by in front of me with the minotaur's eye's going wide as the heavy axe made it's body turn with the mighty momentum it had used to try to cut me in half.

I held up my hand, and then the early morning darkly shaded cover of the forest became blue bright as I conjured up burning flames of pure oxygen that would burn a lot hotter then if I just transformed my body into 'flames' itself.

The minotaur pitched over, its face and upper chest blackened by the three seconds of flames it endured before its body naturally pushed itself to MOVE the hell away from my flames. 

But by then, the other minotaurs ,noticing me going after the leader, roared and charged after me directly. Making me mentally curse as I thought. 'Dammit, why aren't you going after Princess Alicia or her other hentai knights? Why are you bothering me?'

I mean, they were monsters, dark creatures that almost exclusively had to 'use' humanity and the other races to breed more of their foul kind. So why were they protecting their leader?

But a loud bellow rang out and I looked back to the leader of the minotaur's who stood up with the aid of the handle of his axe.

His face was half burnt away by the blast furnace of flames that was meant to cut through metal. As in, I could see the white of his skull in places along with one of his eye's being ruined. But his other eye was fine.

And that lone eye was filled with a blood-thirsty rage as he roared with utter fury and his form glowing with a dark miasma.

'Is it going to cast magic?' I thought with some trepidation, then my lips twitched as its muscles grew, its thick cow-like fur darkened from brown to black, and then it grew another meter tall!

"Just more physical power?" I said with exasperation, and then even as it continued to transform... I just stomped my feet, using my elementalism power to control the earth to open a thin but deep ravine that went down a hundred feet using a good bit of strength.

And there was a split moment. As the Minotaur's lone good eye stared at me in stupification at how I interrupted its grand transformation. Before it fell into the ravine with a scream and then with a deep rumble, that ravine slammed shut with gore shooting up into the air.

I then turned to the other minotaurs and fell upon them with fire and lightning, their melee weapons carving through my elementalized form without causing me harm but instead hurting themselves greatly.

All the while, I could hear the screams of combat everywhere. There were two hundred knights here, a hundred and fifty of whom were men serving Princess Alicia as the bulk of her forces with more than half of them being men.

And those men died quickly.

The cruel arrows of the hobgoblins were covered in utter filth... Literally shit was encrusted on the arrows with what was likely pine tar to keep the filth on the arrow as it was moved around and fired.

Even worse, the plate mail the men were wearing, were utterly garbage it looked and sounded like. As I saw sharpened wood spikes peirce through the plate mail of one of Princess Alicia's knights.

Which was... Just fucking stupid honestly. My hentai knights now covered in somewhat revealing leather armor actually had better protection than the tin foil armor the other knights were wearing.

But besides the sound of dying men that filled my ear's were the sounds of fallen hentai knights that were overwhelmed by sheer numbers. Having a complete lack of skill, or otherwise just mentally breaking at the sight of a half dozen orcs and their rising manhood approaching them.

Then there was Artoria. Even with her wearing a lewd leather outfit that was embossed with a rose that was encircled by a thorny heart that was her new emblem for 'some reason'.

She was a beacon of utter slaughter on the battlefield with her oversized lance that had blades on it's sides. It would be one thing if she was valiantly fighting, but she had clearly gotten too deep into the slaughter.

As I watched even as I was killing a small group of goblins that was fallen onto one of Alicia's hentai knights and had simply moved her titty armor bikini and her bikini under her chainmail skirt.

Artoria impaling a large orc on her spear in the upper chest, clearly getting it caught on the spines of her spear in its spine area. And then she, silently with an utterly cold expression, used the orc impaled on the end of her three-meter-long spear to beat another orc to death.

"Fucking get off, you little shits!" I snapped as I ripped a goblin off the hentai knight and I transformed my hand into lightning that fried the goblin... Even as the despoiled hentai knight looked up at me fervor at being her 'hero'

But it's not like I could stay and comfort her, as this battle wasn't going to be a loss due to how several of Princess Alicia's hentai knight's actually had some strength and skill.

I got back into the thick of things as I saw that Alicia herself was fighting hard against a massive orc that was missing it's lower body, but had the lower body of a giant spider of all things.

Coming over to the battle, I started things off by controlling the earth to slam a large spike of earth into the bottom of the spider making the orc scream in pain as the earth spike shot the spider into the air.

But the spike didn't pierce through it all the way like I wanted. Its body was obviously too strong, but it was raised up into the air. Allowed me to stop holding back as I stretched my arm towards the monster with my arm turning into a bolt of lightning that 'punched' a hole through the orc's chest and through it's heart.

"Get off of me! No! I don't want it in my mouth!" I heard a woman scream and I turned away from the leader of the raid who was likely close to death ,and if no,t then Alicia could handle it.

-

Five minutes later, I sat in a small chair as I recovered my energy, as I hadn't ever fought so hard before. As Princess Alicia consoled the rest of her knights, got them cleaned up, and did other things.

But there was one obviously issue. "Every... One of her men died on this caravan." I spoke slowly and without understanding.

Artoria, who was standing beside me, sighed and said quietly. "Humanity and the other races have to live within the walled in cities for good reason, my lord. Although we can easily slaughter an entire army without issue using the walls and other fortifications a city has..."

She drew off as we saw Alicia bend over to instantly silence the choking groans of a dying man who had taken a bolt through his throat and four filthy arrows that had clearly pierced his guts as they stuck out of his 'armor'.

"Men are always slaughtered first and foremost. As monsters are much stronger than most knights themselves. Even if they touch upon Fighter's Energy, they will be targeted by all means to be slaughtered. Leaving monsters having to always be careful when fighting women, as they want to capture us." Artoria finished with her giving my shoulder a squeeze.

"But you are different, my lord... No mere monster can face your magic, so you must beware the monsters often abandoning all to hunt you."

'Hmm, that explains why those minotaurs were focused on me. They wanted to kill me, before they went after the other women.' I mused before I looked up to Artoria who was standing beside me.

"And my knights. How did MY knights fare this battle Artoria?" I asked with a bit of weight as my anti-force tools in spiked clothes that were difficult to remove did help it look like.

Artoria hummed before she said calmly. "One of them was taken down after being outnumbered fifteen to one via hobgoblins, but she wasn't despoiled, my lord. Other sisters came and helped before anything that could taint her happened."

I remained silent after that, but any further conversation was ended as Princess Alicia finally finished checking her surviving soldiers, and walked over to me.

"You disobeyed my orders to remain in the carriage." She said quietly as she folded her arms under her breasts.

I nodded and said equally quietly, seeing as she wasn't lambasting me for all to hear. "I wasn't going to sit in my carriage while people were dying around me."

There was a moment of silence as Princess Alicia stared at me, and then she exhaled and said. "I appreciate your aid, Viscount... You bring my cousin honor with your attendance at her retinue. But I just, please follow my orders. I do not want monsters to focus on you."

A small smile escaped my placid expression, and I said firmly. "So long as it's not a magic-using monster, I have little to fear. But very well, I will reside in my carriage then."

With that, I gave Princess Alicia a nod before I headed back into my carriage with the caravan moving on in a few minutes.

-

The rest of the ride back to the Kingdom of Ur went without any other major incident besides a small group of centaurs riding into capture one of the knights but failed due to the large number difference between knights and the five centaurs.

Besides that little kerfuffle, we arrived back in the Kingdom of Ur by the end of the day, and even with my carriage's shock system. I was, to say the least, ready to get the hell out of it and back onto some stable ground.

As I climbed out of the carriage with Anna and Grace following behind me. I saw Castorice and a couple more knights were clearly waiting for my arrival. "My lord, welcome home. Would you like for these knights to escort your friends to your quarters?" She asked respectfully.

And I nodded as I knew that I was going to need to meet with Princess Prim Fiore before I did anything else. "Yes, thank you Castorice. You two get settled in, and hopefully we can have dinner together before we retire for the night." I said to the elf and the dark elf.

Grace came in and pecked me on my cheek with her whispering gently into my ear. "Make sure to come to me tonight my husband... Having our new bed remain cold on our first night here, would be quite the disappointment wouldn't it?."

I gave Grace a good squeeze around the hips before I disengaged before I took a deep breath, and with Castorice walking behind me slightly I strode into Princess Prim Fiore's castle.

Heading straight to the fourth floor, I questioned a couple more knights of the Rose that had already arrived from the early convoy holding the members of Shadow Garden as to where Princess Prim was. To which they pointed me in the direction I needed to go in.

"Where is Shadow Garden being based now, here in the city?" I asked quietly as we moved across the large castle towards the balcony where the princess was supposed to be.

"They are being trained outside of the city, in a secret underground system that attaches to the river system that deals with the cities sewage system." Castorice quickly answered but quietly.

'Good, they are out of the way. Yet still able to respond within probably twenty minutes.' I mused to myself before mentally shrugging, as it was the best I could hope for.

Knocking on the door, before I opened the door to the large open room, I saw the pink-haired princess was sitting 'primly' upon an elegant couch with her hands folded across her lap. "Oh? Jake, I didn't expect you so soon... Or more like, I expected my dear cousin to escort you here." Prim spoke a bit sheepishly.

I shrugged and then, with a sigh, I said rather flatly. "Unfortunately... I had to get my hands rather dirty on this venture. So let us be clear. Are you going to throw me to the wolves?" 

Princess Prim blinked at my words, then she said in complete confusion. "Huh? Uhh no? We hang criminals, which you aren't. I wouldn't be so cruel to throw you to the wolves to be eaten."

Prim just shook her head, and then she took a deep breath before she continued.

"Jake, more than anything. I am glad my knights are fine... Even if some of them were despoiled before you could save them. If anything, I just wish you had brought the mayor directly to me, so that I could have executed him. There wouldn't be any fault in you, and the other nobles would keep quiet."

"And what of the other nobles? What will you do with all the evidence of their actions?" I asked quietly, as it was most certainly a sensitive topic.

As the mayor of Anarchia for his own purposes, kept a hefty ledger of blackmail on his fellow nobility who had been buying his trafficked women and mind-broken people.

To say nothing of the merchants of Anarchia who had done the delivery's of such 'products' and kept their own records.

The princess sighed, and my heart sank as she said quietly. "Jake, winter is coming... I can't have half the nobility executed for treason and crimes against humanity when I will need their leadership, and men to block the tide of monsters that come from the north, west, and east." 

'This useless hentai princess... Even after the winter, she won't do a damned thing with how soft hearted she is.' I thought with my placid expression hiding my disgust.

Privately I considered having Shadow Garden slay the local nobility to clear the way. To clear the evil and horrible people that were so twisted by their pervisions that they literally looked like pigs.

This world honestly followed part of One Pieces logic on appearances. The more twisted and perverted the man was. The more of an ugly bastard they were.

So when I say some of the twisted nobles looked like a pig... That wasn't at all an exaggeration.

"I see. Then I suppose this coming party with the visiting nobles will be interesting." I said knowing it was likely going to be more than just 'interesting' to say the least.

Prim as naive as she was. Still knew I would be in for a bit of trouble in the future, regardless of how she shielded me. But she said comfortingly. "You are still my court magician, I will not leave you out in the wind. Now, lets go meet my cousin! I have missed her dearly."

And at the mention of her cousin, the princess was super energized and clearly excited to just go right now.

"Alright alright, lets get going then." I agreed with an exasperated laugh, as having Princess Alicia seeing me in still good standing with Princess Prim Fiore would settle things at least with the Princess Knight.

She stood up and then following the local noble etiqutte, I walked slightly behind the princess as she quickly made her way through the castle towards the guests chambers. Though to be honest I was watching the princess's ass bounce as she walked in her high heels.

"Alicia!" Prim cheered as she saw the other princess who was relaxing and taking a drink as she sat down after riding a horse most of the day.

And seeing her cousin that she loved as her own sister all but running over. Alicia rolled her eye's but stood up and made a slight grunt of noise as Prim threw herself into Alicia arm's in a tight hug.

Then seeing me being Prim, Alicia raised an eyebrow before she nodded to tell me she also was letting me off without any difficulties. Or at least that's what I imagined, as I said calmly.

"Princess Prim, Princess Alicia, I hope you both have a wonderful conversation. However, I must get my own dinner, and I look forward to relaxing after the journey back here."

They both said their own prefunctory goodbye's and I left the room, knowing all to well that they were totally focused on one another. As Princess Alicia was already telling Prim of the orcs and monsters she slayed on the way here.