Chapter 71: Sharia
"…" We all remained silent as the platform sailed through the starry northern sky. We had already spent a total of five hours traveling through the skies on the stone platform, and it had been painfully monotonous. Not that I was complaining. This is actually better than spending months traveling by carriage. But I would like to simply teleport to Sharia in an instant. However, neither Rinia nor Pursena have rings… I had hoped to make rings for them at some point, but that wasn't a priority right now. My only priority was monitoring Sylphie's hands, which were suspiciously close to my crotch, massaging me in swirling motions.
I glanced at her, and her cheeks were flushed, and her little ears were moving up and down gently.
The worst part was that my mother and Eris were standing next to her, turning a blind eye to the elven girl's movements.
"Sylphie... what are you doing?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.
"D-don't you like it?" she murmured as her caresses became softer and her hands moved down to my cock...
"Yes, but why now?" I said in exasperation, and she simply looked away.
"Well...uuhh..." she mumbled, losing her words, and I sighed again with a slight smile.
"At least wait until we're alone," I whispered to her, as she pulled her hand away, her face completely flushed.
Eris and Zenith smirked, causing her to blush even more and shrug without saying anything.
So we continued our journey through the air. We would arrive in Sharia in a couple of hours, so it wasn't the time to rest if I wanted to get there early.
...
In Ars, the royal capital of the Asura Kingdom, three people lay in one of the royal gardens.
A tall, handsome, and slender young man with brown hair, a beautiful sword at his waist, and dressed in fine clothes, Luke Notos Greyrat.
Beside him, a slightly older young man with glasses, dark brown hair, and a black robe, Derrick Redbat.
And in front of them, sitting at a table drinking tea and eating pastries, was Ariel Anemoy Asura, the princess of Asura.
"Princess Ariel, you should be more cautious. Yesterday, someone tried to poison your food. If it hadn't been for Lady Klenne, who was making sure it wasn't poisoned..." Derrick spoke reproachfully as he recalled yesterday's scene. Klenne collapsing immediately with a single spoonful... dying in mere seconds...
"Haaa... don't remind me... I even had to repay her family out of my own pocket," Ariel muttered as she stroked her temples.
Derrick immediately frowned at this, and Luke simply shook his head.
"I was about to take her to bed..." was what he murmured in his mind.
"Even so...that it was Klenne and not you was extremely lucky, Your Majesty. We don't know if we'll have the same luck later..." Derrick continued to insist.
After the event a little over a month ago, where Ariel almost lost her life, had it not been for her bodyguards, who defended her from the black boar of death that snuck into the castle gardens.
After that, the blame was placed on Prince Grabell's factions, and they didn't take it well at all, so the already common assassination attempts on the part of Darius and Grabell became increasingly risky and daring.
This left Princess Ariel in a deplorable state, both politically and emotionally, so the idea of fleeing the country had become a reality for her. The difference now was that she didn't have Sylphie to support her.
"Hmm!" Ariel simply snorted in response. "Of course I know, but more importantly... do you already have information on that boy named Rudeus Greyrat?" she asked hopefully, but Derrick simply shook his head in embarrassment.
"...I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but we haven't been able to find much information on him," he said, and Ariel simply sighed again, sinking into her seat.
"So useless..." she muttered in her mind.
"Your Majesty, I never understood why you would be so interested in that person. Is there something special about him?" Luke asked with a raised eyebrow, jealousy rising slightly in his chest.
"Isn't it obvious? There's something off about him," she muttered more to herself than in response.
Ariel, like every princess of Asura, had her own intelligence network, as well as her own network of spies, although fewer than her brother and Minister Darius.
She was undoubtedly shocked when she discovered that Darius had led the Northern Emperor Aubert Corvette and the Northern King Wii Taa to assassinate him and kidnap Eris Boreas Greyrat, never to return.
Furthermore, Darius had a spy in the Boreas hunt, and he reported that a boy named Rudeus Greyrat had been chosen as a pupil of the Sword King Ghislaine herself. Furthermore, it was presumed that he was a Saint-ranked mage without enchantments before he even turned 10.
Obviously, if Ariel had been anyone else, she wouldn't have believed a single word of it, but the fact that Darius was holding this information as an absolute secret proved its veracity.
"If I could recruit him to my faction..." she muttered, a sadistic smile forming on her face, unable to wait to get her claws on such a promising young man.
The best course of action for Ariel and her small faction was self-exile from the kingdom and her current destination was the kingdom of Ranoa more specifically the city of Sharia with the excuse of going to study, there she could regroup and increase her forces, although she had no intentions of being the queen as in the anime she still had the need to become more powerful.
"Haaa... well, that doesn't matter anymore. The important thing now is to gather our forces so we can leave the kingdom undetected. How many people are in our faction?" she asked.
At this question, Derrick scratched his cheek as he thought back.
"With Klenne's sudden death, we've lost the support of the Elrond family. However, we have the support of the BlueWolf family, RedBat on my side, and the support of the Notos faction through Lord Philemon Notos Greyrat..." he said.
Ariel immediately frowned at this.
"Only two minor noble families and the fluctuating support of the Notos..." she muttered in her mind while drumming her fingers on the table, then let out a long sigh.
"It doesn't matter, we'll do what we can once we get to Sharia, for now... Luke, tell me how it went with that Maid? You weren't especially quiet last night, you know? Even considering I was mourning the loss of such a loyal ally, you couldn't even keep a single day of tribute," she murmured with a sadistic smile as her pussy slowly began to wet.
Derrick immediately blushed at this and decided to leave because he was from a minor noble family and wasn't used to the perverted world of nobility.
Ariel and Luke saw this and just shrugged before continuing to share their perversions with each other.
...
"Mom, Sylphie, wake up, we're here," I whispered to the two women huddled together.
They both woke up slowly but when they looked at me they smiled warmly.
"Rudy..."
"Darling..." They both said in unison as they stood up.
For my part, I smiled and walked towards Eris, waking her up in the same way.
"We have arrived, we landed an hour walk from the city so as not to attract unwanted attention, here we can quickly get to Sharia" I said.
"If I remember correctly... You said that two of my nieces are in the magical university, right? What are they like?" Ghislaine suddenly asked.
She had been quite surprised to discover that I had engaged to two of her nieces but nothing more, now she just wanted to know about them.
"Well, they're quite loving and clingy to me and they're scared of Eris, I guess you know why," I said with a smirk.
"Hey! They don't fear me!" Eris retorted with a pout and crossing her arms, but I could see the doubt on her face, which made me laugh.
"Hmm... I see, I'm eager to meet you, after all we will still be family but now closer" Ghislaine said with a smile.
"Well... If it doesn't involve flying around in that thing ever again, I'm in," Philip said as he quickly jumped off the platform.
"Hehe, obviously, besides... Rudeus isn't safe there, we'll have to take care of Rudy or else he'll end up impregnating the entire campus of that university!" Kishirika said with her typical shark-toothed smile."Hmm? And why is that?" My mother was the first to react while Lilia just smiled slightly with her eyes closed.
'Indeed... The young master is the sexiest man in the world...' she murmured in her mind.
She could even remember how Aisha murmured Rudeus's name in her bed, completely blushing, while tightly hugging a pillow.
That filled her with pride and encouraged her to embrace her feelings even more and tell them to her father, but the poor girl was still very shy.
The same thing happened with Norn and Ghislaine mentioned something similar, so the three women came to an agreement to instruct their daughters to win their father's heart in the future.
But it was not time for that so she quickly shook her head while holding Aisha firmly in her arms.
...
So the group began to walk at a medium pace along the road towards Sharia.
At some point Aisha asked me to hold her, obviously I accepted and when I picked her up she let out a giggle while snuggling into my chest.
I could also feel the jealous glances of my daughters and fiancées...
But I ignored them as best I could and so we arrived at Sharia after an hour and a half walk.
"Wow... This city... It's more beautiful than Roa..." Philip murmured as he saw the buildings and structures of Sharia.
And it was true, both cities had been used as forts for the Human resistance in the second Human-Demon war and only vestiges remained to this day.
"Yes, that's why I decided to stay and live here. I hope you understand, father-in-law," I said to Philip, who just smiled with a grimace.
The magical university of Sharia was larger than a castle so it could be seen from a distance even from the entrance to the city.
I looked at Roxy who had a complicated look when she saw the building but I quickly went up to her and took her hand, squeezing it lightly.
She immediately looked at me and blushed when she realized it, but instead of moving away, she snuggled into my shoulder.
"Rudy... I know this may seem strange to you, but... I want to go with you to the magic university... there are things I have pending there," she whispered in my ear and I nodded with a smile.
"Of course, you can do it, also I want to take Eris, Sylphie and myself to register" I said making signs to these last two which ran towards me happily.
"Now that I think about it, teacher Roxy had already mentioned this place to us, right? I'd like to go see what it's like," Sylphie said upon hearing the idea.
"As long as I can be with Rudy!" was Eris's response while blushing and crossing her arms.
"In that case, please Ghislaine take care of the others and find an inn for tonight. We'll come back later," I said, and she nodded.
"Leave it to me," she said.
Elinalise looked slightly anxious and walked towards me taking my arm.
Laws saw this and with a spasm in his eyelid he looked away.
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"Rudy dear... If you allow me, I would also like to go with you" she said, holding tightly to my arm.
I smiled at this and nodded.
"Of course, do you want to sign up too?" I asked and she nodded fervently.
"If it's to be with you then I'll be wherever" she said as a blush invaded her face.
Laws just listened to this with the worst headache in his life but he couldn't do anything else.
"Then it's decided, see you later." With that, the five of us separated from the group in the direction of the magic university.
Elinalise and Sylphie were chatting animatedly making up for lost time next to us, Eris was looking around with a curious look but Roxy was especially quiet as she hugged my arm tightly.
"Are you still worried?" I asked in her ear and she blushed at the stimulation.
"Y-yes... It's just that I ended up on bad terms with my teacher when I graduated and... I'd like to apologize but I don't know what he's going to think if he sees me again" she said and hugged my arm even stronger than before.
I remained silent at this, not really knowing what I could respond to, so I came up with the corniest phrase I could find.
"Time forgives everything, even this. I don't think your teacher will still hold a grudge against you after all this time, and if he does, then it'll just be a matter of making peace...And if none of that works then... He never deserved your forgiveness in the first place" I told her.
Roxy immediately blinked several times as she processed my words and a warm smile appeared on her lips.
"I-I guess you're right," she whispered softly and leaned closer to me to give me a long kiss on the cheek.
'Hehe... With these cheesy lines I conquered my harem, isn't that impressive?' I muttered to myself before focusing back on the road.
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