The stist who made me was a fool, why was he so i on preserving the inal? If he just accepted that the ultimate species o with a different mi, he could have realized he succeeded long ago. No matter, I will finish what the fool started, and carve my own nation out of the arrogant sor alliahe First lord of Mazurio

  "Get him Urist! Fug end him!" Urist goes for his knees, but is blocked by a swift kick from his opposition.

  "A'm tryin ya rown fish! The manling isn't letti close!" The son of t Lifstein goes for another kick. Instead of hitting Urist, his leg gets punched by the dwarf. The noble backs off in pain. Before he recover, Urist uppercuts him is, ending the fight.

  "Nevah insult my designs again!" Urist spits a bloodied tooth on the floor.

  "Which design was he even talking about?" The dwarf has made too many to t at this point.

  "Dunno." Urist is apparently as clueless as to what was actually insulted as me. Instead to remember, he simply climbs on my shoulders again.

  "Well whatever, I got some more designs from the royal library to discuss." I sp down a few blueprints oable, the ckeys of the Lifstein boy pull him away while sending me a gre, but they are too scared to do anything more.

  I y the blueprint oable, from what I tell it's some sort of zone device. The dwarf takes a look as well.

  "Fancy thing, lots of rare materials, and mainly made fron bits. Its purpose seems to be disrupting magic within an area, using the dragon bits as catalyst. Too bulky to use in bat except for ambushes, the design is... three hundred years old, and issioned by a paranoid emperor at the time who believed the demon lord would e to the capital." For all of Urist's crude nguage, he really knows his stuff.

  "Esstrey are you unraveling imperial secrets with Urist again? You know, one of these days, yonna stumble on something the Emperor won't like you looking at." Alicia approached quietly at some point, and as is standard, gets jealous she wasn't included.

  "Rex Alicia, if big E was so worried about what I was doing, he would send those cloaked people to stop me. I am not unreasonable... for a price." I'm not gonna just drop things without getting some money out of it.

  "What did you even do with the bow you got from winning fourth pce?" The rest of the tour was a lot less exg, right up until I faced Edehe end. That bst of light is both painful, and disorienting as all hell. That little hammer of his also packs one hell of a punch. Of course, Ky did end up winning the tour with rather ease, because when she faced Cathy she just dropped her in an up-sized version of the crevice she used in the first round, and when she faced Eden she overwhelmed the arena with dark magic. That effectively put ao any magic Eden would be able to deploy.

  "We scrapped that elven hunk of junk, and repurposed is together with Ky into something more fit for a friend of the dwarves!" Urist uhe now arbalest from my back, It's still a pound crossbow, but with the strength of the world I don't think knowledge of a pound crossbow is something worth killing a craftsman over.

  "You butchered it! It was said that this bow was gifted by a high elf of the eternal forest to imperial forces so they could destroy the undead! You tur into monstrous siege equipment!" Alicia looks in horror, as the once golden bow is now a bck crossbow, it has also beuch too big to be used by a lohan four meter.

  "Why would I need a on good at destroying undead? I have met two undead, and one undead sympathizer so far, and they don't seem too bad to me. If anything it py little act wheerials turned bck when Ky transmitted the entments over." Alicia pouts, no doubt still angry that Ky woour.

  Cathy chooses that moment to enter, if my experience is correylchai and Ky shouldn't be too far off.

  "Lady Esstrey, I have discovered a book in the [library/knowledge repository/book ste] that speaks of our kind. Could I trouble you for some time to read me a [bedtime story/pre-sleep speech/Q????'???????w??????i?????n????????k????????a????????r???????a?????n hug]?" Cathy has also gotten a little more gy tely, I don't mind as she is apparently an expert on dimensional travel. Sadly, not enough to get me bae.

  "Sure, Cathy, let me just see what you have here." She hands me the books with only a mild amount of reverence, as if the book could disappear any moment. 'Creatures of the beyond and you, by Manius Civillis'. The first mad emperor wrote a book? If it's a book on what is usually done by the northern tribes, it isn't that surprising that it ended up hidden away.

  Suddenly I hear shuffling, and a lot of people suddenly leave the cafeteria in a hurry. The reason for which is clear as Ky enters, sg off everyone.

  "Why is everyone so afraid of me now? You two are sitting right there!" Ky points at Cathy and me as she enters.

  "Because there have been rumors that you used the favor of the Emperor to be allowed to transmogrify imperial nobles." Alicia sips her drink as she says it. At least someone here is up-to-date oest gossip.

  "What!? Who would start such rumors? Nobles are terrible for transmogrifying! You need someone physically strong to be a good transmogrification target, just look at the thin arms of those nobles!" She points at a group of students who hadn't gotten the hint of leavihey overhear what Ky says, and quickly pack up to leave.

  "I started those rumors of course, my association with you is raising eyebrows, but by portraying you as the plotting demon lord you are, I use my retion to you as a on. Thanks for being such a lovely deniable asset." Ky's face turns as red in anger, and she begins to gather mana in her hands.

  "YOU WHAT?! HOW DARE YOU DISG-" But her rampage is instantly stopped by a dark elf spping the back of her head.

  "Behave Ky! Do not prove her right by ag like this. You wao get better at politics, right?" Ky begins f herself to calm down. She actually gets pretty far until Alicia opens her mouth again.

  "Don't get cocky just because you won a dinky little tour, you are still as mortal as the rest of us." Alicia procims it arrogantly... to the demon queen. I try to think of a way to stop her, but before I think of something, Cathy taps me on the side.

  "Try [pulling/ping/stretg] her ear." Yeah, that should work.

  I pull the ear of the rambling princess, the moment I do Ky goes from hidden fury to instaertai.

  "You ain't immortal either, so quit trying to start a pissing test with the demon queen. Take it from me, you won't win." And just before Ky gets too happy with the result of all this, I send a gre her way. She knows what she did.

  "I am getting my gu week, and I will not have some petunt try leaders ruining the reunion with my precious ballistics!"