' Did you say something to him? '
[ Just gave him a peaceful death. Told him that I'll take care of his loved ones. haha ]
' You're a devil. '
[ A devil that has charmed you ]
' shut up. You're irritating and cringe. '
[ No one takes me seriously when I speak facts ]
Just as Alex and Cynthia were chatting, the women around them fell to their knees.
Their eyes unfocused, and their faces pale with unknown emotions.
' Pitiful. '
Cynthia muttered, as she felt a little horrified in her heart, feeling afraid of the consequences of falling into a Player's hand.
[ Don't worry. I'll always protect you ]
Cynthia felt her heart melt, so to avoid embarrassment she cleared her throat.
" Cough. Cough. "
But, just then one of these woman's eyes turned sharp and with complete abandoment she launched at Cynthia.
" Die!! "
" W-What? " Cynthia was surprised, as this woman's speed wasn't that much lower than her own.
With the surprise element, she didn't even have time to use her mana as the Stage 3 woman's fist appeared in her face.
If that fist connected, she would definitely... not die. But, that would look ugly.
Punch to the face was biggest disrespect!
But, at the correct moment her head automatically ducked to the side, as she lost control over her own body.
Cynthia then suddenly held the woman's hand, and turned her around while clasping her neck by her arm.
With a little bit of mana, the woman was completely immobilized.
[ You were careless. How many times do I have to tell you to never let your guard down ]
In her mind, Cynthia was severely chastised by Alex.
' Whose fault is it! ' Cynthia shot back with red face.
[ Throwing blame around like hot potato. You'll get punished today ]
Cynthia shivered, as she heard of punishment.
' Y-You can't be serious... Don't do that to me again... '
[ We'll see. Now shut up and let me handle this hot milf ]
The woman in Alex's grasp struggled for few moments, then she gave up.
Her hands weakly went down as she laughed in self deprecating tone.
" Haa.. Kill me... Kill me already. "
" If you think dying is so easy. Then I'll let you die, " Cynthia's voice appeared in the woman's ears, as she closed her eyes.
But, next moment she felt some foreign energy invading her body.
" Arghhhhhnn. " The woman who had given up completely started struggling massively.
Her hands held Cynthia's arm trying to pry it off, as she writhed like a fish out of water.
Her face went paler and paler as she felt painful sensation in every part of her body.
And that sensation was slowly increasing.
" Didn't you want to die? Just wait for a minute After feeling this you'll definitely die. "
" No... Stop... It hurts... Arghhh... Stopp! "
" You don't want to die? "
" No... Don't... Stop.... "
" I'll kill you if you want. Now you can go die with your lover that was already killed long time ago by that Player that humiliated you. "
Alex used mana to directly send his voice into the woman's brain, so that even through bouts of pain, she could clearly understand what he was speaking through Cynthia.
Surely the woman in his hands shivered and after few moments her struggle intensified even more.
Her hunger to live had returned.
Most likely she was one of the women Bryan really cared about and had genuinely spent affection on while she was under him.
That was why, this woman had lost control even after getting freed.
Women were sensitive creatures, they were fragile to sincere feelings. Bryan had at least made a space for himself in this woman's heart.
Such a woman was definitely dangerous to keep unchained...
The woman in Cynthia's hand now started clawing at Cynthia's hand and started kicking her severely.
" Don't kill me.... Stop... I don't want to die.... "
Through painful moans she conveyed what she wanted and right then Cynthia let her go.
Cynthia then kicked this woman away and then stared at all of the other pale women.
" Anyone else who wants to die? " She asked.
These women's eyes now surely went to the woman lying flat on the ground.
Their eyes retained some clarity.
Princess Savannah was the first to stand up with trembling legs.
Her beautiful eyes looked at Cynthia like a hurt hamster.
She was beautiful and cute.
" T-Thank you Cynthia... I don't know what happened... For what just happened... " Princess Savannah tried to hold back her tears.
Alex shook his head, " You were under Player's brainwashing. It's not your fault. What exactly happened? I think by now all major powers should know about Players. So, how did you get captured? "
Sometimes explaining would make it easier to forget things...
Savannah sure enough stopped trembling and held Cynthia's arm, " It's true... Father knew about Players. He even warned me and didn't want me to leave Capital. But, seeing how severe the situation is for our country. I myself volunteered to persuade you personally... "
" When I was persistent, father finally agreed. It's found that, Players have a way to identify other Players. So, he even made sure to send only male guards with me after cross checking that none of them were Players. "
Savannah sighed in regret once again. She now understood that coming here was the greatest mistake.
Alex wasn't surprised at her father's futile tries, these natives were quite thorough as expected.
" But, amongst the male guards one of the imposters slipped in... " Princess Savannah spoke while glaring at the Stage 3 woman that was man handled just now by Alex.
" She is Iliad Bourbon. You might know her, since she's the current family head of Bourbons. Her ability allows her to impersonate any person that she has seen, " Savannah said.
" She infiltrated in and when time was right she killed everyone except me... With her strength no one could even send a signal back. Then what happened you can guess... "
Princess Savannah shivered in fear.
Alex gently hugged Savannah and patted her back.
Handling Cynthia's body he held the Princess to his heart
[ As expected Cynthia's boobs really do have a calming effect. When we meet next time you gotta let me sink my face into them ]
' Shut up, ' Cynthia's face blushed.
Sure enough as the girl calmed down, she couldn't stay strong as she started sobbing soon enough.
Alex looked around and found that except for Savannah all of these women were at Stage 2 , while Iliad was at Stage 3.
She was hot and sexy with lavender tinted hair that were made into a single long braid, her breasts and asscheeks were milf-like and seemed to have lots of potential to squeeze in.
[ Do you know that woman? ]
' I couldn't guess she was famous Iliad Bourbon. She's actually supposed to be in her 80s. If I'm correct Bryan Bourbon was her only grandson. He was also very popular as one of the three most handsome men in Capital. '
[ Not as good looking as me... ]
'Narcissistic bastard. '
Cynthia and Savannah embraced each other for quite a while, so Alex returned the body's control to Cynthia and admired two beauties hugging.
Cynthia who could feel his gaze felt uncomfortable, but she tried to ignore it.
Finally after few minutes, their close bodies separated with Cynthia wiping away Savannah's red eyes.
Her eyes then went to Iliad who was approaching her.
Now Iliad's face was no longer pale, but still was quite haggard.
Her eyes looked especially pained.
Her single braid was hip long and moved behind her like a scorpion tail, and with each movement tapped on her bubbly buttocks that Alex wanted to part apart and slam his cock into the two holes hiding under them.
" Young girl from Iwanosky family... For a moment then without even that devious skill of the alien I wasn't able to think straight... I apologize for attacking you... "
Cynthia felt offended when she felt that this woman was looking down on her even through apology.
Her gaze was that of a senior looking down on a junior.
Without hesitation, she used her mana to pressurize Iliad into dropping to her knees.
" My name is Cynthia Iwanosky and for you that'll be My lady. Do you understand Iliad Bourbon? " Cynthia didn't give a fuck about age, in this World now power mattered.
Alex had already ingrained this into her.
Except for Alex, she didn't need to bow her head to anyone else.
Iliad who was forced down struggled before her, but her Stage 3 strength was miniscule when Cynthia's mana invaded in her body.
Begrudgingly she could only give up.
" ... I'm sorry my lady. I was wrong... "
Cynthia was surprised.
Iliad sure enough was a old hag who had lived almost for 100 years and was even the head of one of the main families.
[ Don't worry. Tonight once we train her. She won't go South if you tell her to go North ]
Hearing Alex's voice, Cynthia nodded.
She knew woman like Iliad was impossible to tame unless used some unconventional means.
Iliad didn't know why her spine shivered. Her instincts told her that she was in for a big shit today.
Cynthia nodded to her, " Good. Take rest here. "
Hearing so Iliad's eyes narrowed, as she watched Cynthia leave towards the control room of the ship followed by Princess Savannah.
She was disgruntled to give up such an useful artifact, because she was the one who had solved most of the barriers of this artifact before.
Now everything was falling into this girl's hand who wasn't even 1/4th of her age.
She turned to the Bryan's ex-women.
She knew all of them since they were all female death servants of Bourbon family.
After initial shock they had also composed themselves back and were even faster than Iliad at it.
" Everyone. We're leaving. Let's return to our ship, " Iliad ordered majestically. Her aura regal.
She now decided to return back to Capital and use all of her resources to catch Players and use them to increase her own strength.
For her grandson... No... For her lover she had to take revenge.
She was determined.
Amongst highest hierarchy, Players no longer were secret and almost every strong power was using Players as token-giving slaves.
They would kidnap them and force them to inseminate women, and then once these women became completely attached with Players, they would blackmail them into levelling up.
This was how everyone was amassing Stage tokens. Even King was now at Stage 3 due to this method....
Iliad thought so, and tried to leave the ship.
But, she now noticed a barrier that she couldn't break at all around the flying cruise.
" Damn it, " She cursed, guessing that Cynthia had trapped her.
Inside the control room, Cynthia easily took control of the artifact because she had been taught well by Alex.
" Wow. You really know how to use this. When we came here. Bryan needed one hour just to find out start button of the ship. "
" Fufu. I've just had a good mentor, " Cynthia chuckled.
Savannah was stunned, " A mentor? "
" My experiences are my mentor. The fight with giant whale gave me a lot of insights, " Cynthia said without skipping a bit.
" Ohh. I heard that battle was magnificent. I only saw some photos which were also blurred since, due to high mana intensity cameras didn't work well, " Savannah said.
" Hmm. I'll tell you later about it. What's the situation in Capital? "
" It's currently stable..."
" I'm asking about Capital's strength, " Cynthia shook her head.
" That... "
" If you can't speak then let it be, " Cynthia understood that there should be some secrets, she needed to act to get them out of this girl's mouth.
" No. You saved me. Least I can do is tell you everything honestly... Strongest in the Capital should be Brother Dalton with Stage 4 offensive artifact and personal Peak Stage 3 strength. "
Cynthia nodded, " There's no Stage 4 human? "
" Honestly as much as I know there isn't, " Savannah said, but she didn't look sure.
But, Alex believed that it was likely to be true.
These natives were blackmailing Players' women to level up.
The efficiency was surely going to be low, since these women were only half hearted in their work.
They couldn't compare to his women who were led by their love and affection for him.
" Father and everyone in Capital is getting really anxious due to the monstrous Player in South. It's said that, the villain's women are so numerous and have become so strong that in 100 kilometres around Hiesta City has become a peaceful area with human rule. Most of the people around are shifting there... " Savannah said with fear, hatred and uncertainty of good or bad.
But, by now she was really afraid of any Players.... That much was clear.
Alex was surprised at being mentioned.
Cynthia was also stunned, " Numerous? How many woman could he even have... "
" Cynthia you might not know, but we have our spies sent into new Hiesta city. That Player has a whole city full of his women. His till now known Stage 4 women are at 4. The high standing officers in Melbourne aren't even able to sleep fearing that they'll be attacked soon. They most likely have already planned nuclear bombardment... If Central Government really approves this then the casualties will be in hundreds of thousands there... " Savannah explained with worry.
On one hand she felt that Players were devil spawns, at the same time she was worried about those innocent women like herself who will suffer without any reason.
" They really plan to launch nuclear weapons!? " Cynthia was suddenly worried.
' Alex!? Isn't this serious!? Shouldn't you leave that place right away!? '
[ If I die will you take revenge for me? ]
' I'll not let you get killed. We also have nuclear weapons in Aquarion! If it comes to worse situation I can stand by you and threaten the Government! ' Cynthia spoke in her mind.
She couldn't hide anything because these were her true thoughts.
[ How cute. Don't worry. I already have mana barriers in place. Even if they do launch nuclear weapons, they'll never be able to hurt me ]
' Can it really cover whole city? '
[ Not only city. It also covers many kilometers outside it ]
' Really? That's a relief then... ' Cynthia sighed in relief.
But then she with calm mind went over Savannah's words and was stunned.
If she was correct in maths and if Alex had around 4 Stage 4 women... then realistically, Alex should at least have 35 thousand women or may be even more.
' You bastard, while you speak with me here you have fucked almost 50 thousand women?? ' She cursed Alex in pure hatred and jealousy.
[ Hehe. Cutie,You jealous? ]
' You son of a bitch. Don't speak with me again, ' Cynthia snorted and stopped talking with Alex even when he said sweet somethings again and again.
She only chatted with Savannah, ignoring his voice completely.
[ Your punishment is doubled ]
Finally Alex spoke coldly and went silent.
Cynthia felt that her connection with Alex was cut and he was gone.
' My care is really wasted on you ungrateful bastard! ' she cursed in her mind, but Alex was already 'gone'.
Her legs trembled wondering what kind of pleasant yet painful torture she would experience tonight...
* * * *
In Hiesta City, Alex ordered every Department Head to arrive in his throne room.
It was now time to completely move to the next phase of conquering.
If the natives of this World had any special threat to him, then that would be their nuclear weapons.
Being considerate of these weapons of destruction, Alex had long created an array around his city, which was supported by mana.
Each day, one of his Stage 4 women only needed to continue ingesting her mana into this array for it to work without stopping.
The array had enough capabilities to stop any nuclear bombardment.
It's major limitation was that, it only covered his city and some area around.
If nuclear bombardment occured, the area outside its range will surely be destroyed and morphed into the land of radiation.
The zombies in such area will grow even stronger...
Alex didn't care about these Stage 3, 4 or even Stage 5 zombies, but the transportation will become a real hassle, if the land around was messed with radiation.
The roads will be destroyed, the railway lines will be messed, the plantation will be annihilated.
Also, population incorporation will become a true trouble.
As a Player, Alex needed women to grow stronger, and it would be even better if women were talented and had backbone to fight zombies.
Such women were likely to not die, and would level up faster giving Alex higher Promotion Tokens.
Alex sighed, knowing that even though he had abundant number of women, most of them were being forcefully levelled and staged up with help of their seniors who were also levelled up like that....
Throwing such thoughts away, Alex thought about his current situation again.
For now he had believed that the native Government won't just murder 500 thousand population of current Hiesta city.
After all, he hadn't openly encroached upon their land till now and was only doing humanitarian work by saving people.
But, there was always the factor 'if'.
So, for that he needed to defeat local forces and become a deterrent with nuclear power himself!
He needed to show them that, he wasn't a tiger without claws but a soaring dragon that can burn heavens down!
Best way to do this was to control Melbourne and take over their arsenal of nuclear weapons.