From inside the prison compound, you could hear the entire city erupting into panic and screams… the Guards were disorganized…
Maro was still looking at the guards besieging the prison "I'm waiting for my skulls… remember, one skull for every person you want to save"
All the guards looked uncomfortable… but they held firm, ignoring the chaos behind them.
Kadrin felt the need to say something, so he stood atop the wall and faced the guards.
"I am Kadrin the Reclaimer, one of the Four Heavenly Kings of the Moon Empire" he paused for dramatic effect.
He stared daggers at every Dwarf in the guard below… "While you were here ignoring the hardships of our people, while you were here serving fucking Goblins and Orcs like slaves… While you were here shaming your ancestors… We reclaimed two of our ancestral holdings, we slew and killed hundreds of thousands of Goblins and Orcs, we slew Scarredlips and destroyed the entirety of Grond's mercenaries"
"No, you see this was Human land in the past, they are in their ancestral holdings. The Dwarves here are extra disrespectful… Two orc skulls to save your lives." Kadrin pointed at the Guard who spoke out against Maro… "You will need 10 for your insolence…Repent for your shame towards your ancestors, Repent for your shame Towards your KING!"
The Dwarves started to grumble extra hard, the Orcs were starting to get riled up. The environment was extremely tense… until one of the Orcs did them a favour.
He struck the Dwarf that spoke out, with a Mace to the head, instantly killing him.
"HA HA HA, this is what your loyalty gets you for serving these vile demons!" He spat off the wall
The melee erupted below, they had triggered a race war. Orcs dumber bigger and stronger, started cutting down confused guards. After a couple seconds the Humans and Orcs banded together in a shield wall and returned to the fight.
"Should we help" Goldie asked, raising his bow
"No, they earn their skulls on their own merit" Kadrin gritted his teeth… he really wanted to re-ignite the Dwarves.
By the time the melee settled down only 35 Humans and Dwarves remained, each having more than fulfilled their skull quota.
Kadrin nodded at Maro, Maro flew down while doing his dramatic Angel act and healed the Guards… if the city's destruction wasn't enough to change their minds then the Angel act would.
Work it did, after being healed and instilled with his aura's the guards all cried for forgiveness.
"Go get your families if they are in the City, spread the word about the cost for your freedom… My men will raze this despicable city to the ground" Maro stared at them.
Most of the guards ran off to go grab their families, while a couple younger men entered the prison to wait out the sack.
Maro flew back up to Kadrin…
He felt like he was missing something… something extremely important that was put to the side by the intense emotions he had from entering the first brothel.
He looked at Kadrin and then looked at Goldie.
"Fuck, Gnarlo has the head start on looting shit"
Kadrin and Goldie suddenly snapped back to their old selves, Maro grabbed one of the guards who paid the toll.
"Quick, tell me where the Overlords mansion is, tell me where the City Treasury is"
The guard stammered "uhhmmm its its on the northwest side of the City, if you fly over it you won't miss it… one of a kind gaudy monstrosity"
Anything Gaudy was a Gnarlo magnet… they had to hurry
Maro turned to the Captain of the Special forces and told him to hold the fort, his eyes caught a glance at Alexis, and her deep purple eyes stared back… the look lingered for a moment before he grabbed Kadrin and Goldie and flew off to the Northeast.
As soon as they got high enough, they immediately saw it… Gaudy was an understatement… the entire City budget went towards this mansion, everything else was in complete disrepair even their defence… but that mansion had gilded accents everywhere… a home fit for Gnarlo.
Goldie, held up like a child by the back of his shirt, took the opportunity to keep sniping Orcs and Goblins below while Kadrin just kept spitting on every Dwarf guard he saw.
Maro, not wanting anyone to get a headstart on him, dropped Goldie and Kadrin outside of the front gates, yelled "Finders Keepers" and then flew straight into the top floor window, leaving the other 2 cursing. Goldie even pierced one of his wings with an arrow, good thing they were made of magic.
"My god" Maro stared… it was just a guest bedroom but it had golden candle sticks, golden bedposts… everything was either gold or gilded.
Maro kept busting down doors until he found Scarredlips' room.
"Fucking sweet", he was the first one here… Goblin mannequins filled one side of the bedroom, each completely draped in gold and jewels. He ran to the bed, took the silk pillow case and started loading up, after one bag was filled he another and then a third one with all just Jewelery.
There was a door that led behind the Goblin's room. He entered it… beautiful weapons of all kinds draped the wall… he ran back and grabbed the huge fur blanket and set it on the floor.
He grabbed a beautiful ornate Great Sword off the central stand, with a Ruby the size of a Goblin fist in the pommel, gold inlay… and Dwarven runes too… Kadrin would be pissed but "finders keepers". If the Great Sword accentuated his power like the Maul, this was an amazing find. He kept going, swords, maces, axes, bows all beautifully made and possibly artefacts.
He looked at the fur filled with weapons and his three bags of jewels, he wrapped it all up and put it on the roof of the building so no one could get it… If he hadn't become a Crusader he wouldn't have been able to lift all that loot.
Maro slapped himself on the face, "Fuck not a single coin… the Treasury is in the basement…nooo"
He took out his Great Maul and infused it with Holy Judgement and exploded through every floor until he got to the basement… Only to find Gnarlo, Kadrin and Goldie splitting and counting sacks and sacks of gold and silver.
All three men turned to him laughing "Finders Keepers"
Maro was upset, how did Gnarlo even get here on time… "Dammit" he groaned in frustration and lightly hit the wall with his Maul, only for the leftover Holy energy to blow it down.
"Fucking Idiot, you can heal yourself we can't dumbass. Don't bury us in rubble" Gnarlo coughed as he was still counting coins.
As the dust died down, Maro stepped into the hole in the wall… the other three followed quickly for fear of losing out on loot…
It was another temple to the Goddess… nothing new… just some gold objects and then another statue of the Goddess.
Kadrin was ecstatic, they could open a second temple at Last Bastion.
"Maro can you infuse the statue with holy energy again, to see if its solid gold like the other one" Kadrin was curious
Maro had a devilish smile on his face, walked up to the statue, grabbed the boobs again and blasted it with Holy energy.
God tier asmr, literally, flooded his mind again. "Mmmmmmhmm Maro, uggghhh please stop"
Maro was blown away but he kept really really quiet… it had been a while and he actually came in his pants… luckily he was wearing his armour… he wouldn't be roasted by his King friends.
The beautiful statue cracked again to reveal solid gold.