"Ahh... ohhh... I'm so sorry... ❤❤ I'm just a stupid, insolent brat... I'll apologize wholeheartedly to the villagers and adventurers I enslaved, so please make me your female slave, Lord Erio... ❤❤ I'll do anything for you... ❤❤"
The morning after they had successfully repelled a night attack by the Strong King Faction that controlled the mountain village of Hoodria.
Mesga Kira was kneeling in the middle of the village, where all the illegal slave contracts that had been made between the villagers and adventurers had been terminated, and the members of the Strong King Faction had been completely restrained and knocked unconscious.
There was no trace of the violent criminal who had controlled a section of the Strong King Faction.
The small rat beast girl was trembling and wearing a fawning expression, and it seemed as if her personality and everything else had changed drastically.
Seeing Mesga Keira like that, I broke out into a cold sweat.
"Damn, I went too far...!"
Yesterday, I felt intense anger at the things Mesga Kira had done, and I let that anger get the better of me...but I was too friendly with her.
From halfway through, Pepe and I had to work together...
At worst, it might have been fifty percent more intense than when I was satisfying Alicia.
Perhaps because of this, Mesga Kira was in this state even without being given orders through a Master-Servant Contract, and she was like a completely different person.
Even the villagers who held a grudge against Mesga Kira were shocked, saying, "What kind of torture could he have used to do something like that...?!" so I quickly hid Mesga Kira from everyone.
There are small children in the village, and if they were to see something like this it would definitely have a negative impact on them!
So, together with Alicia and the others, I asked Mesga Kira, with whom we had a firm Contract of Master and Servant.
"Well then, I guess it's time to tell us. What was your purpose in forcing the villagers to explore the dungeon?"
Even though it would be hard to be noticed in the mountains, it must be extremely difficult to enslave an entire village.
When I asked her why she was forcing the villagers and adventurers to explore the dungeon to such an extent, Mesga Kira responded with a faint glow from her lewd mark, "Yes, I'd be happy to tell you!", and began to explain the reason.
"We have received strict orders from our boss, the demon god Sigma. He told us to deliver the nutritious monster materials we can find in this area to the dungeon city owned by the federation."
"In a dungeon city...?"
A federally owned dungeon city.
It was the place where the Strong King Faction, responsible for the kidnapping of Her Imperial Highness the Princess, was planning to demand that they surrender it in exchange for the hostages. It was the city we were heading to.
As our eyes widen, Mesga Keira continues.
"However, no matter how much I questioned my superiors, they kept it a secret as to why they had to deliver it to the dungeon city. But they were always asking for large quantities, so when I desperately asked for slave items, they gave me lots of them. So, in order to clear the required amount, I had my subordinates take control of the villages scattered within a radius of several dozen kilometers around here, and sent materials to the dungeon city. I ordered not only my slaves, but also my subordinates to explore the dungeon."
"...?! Are you controlling other villages?!"
It's true that there were dungeons and villages nearby in the mountains around here that were rich in nutritious materials, but taking control of many of them and sending the materials to the dungeon city would be an incredibly big job.
And the reason for this is kept secret even from his executive, Mesga Kira.
I could only assume that there must have been some very important reason behind this for the Strong Kings faction.
"...Originally, there was talk that there might be something going on in the dungeon city...but it seems a lot more suspicious than I thought..."
"...Yeah...I have to go and check it out quickly...Also, I'm jealous of Mesuga Keira who seems to have been treated so violently by Elio..."
Sophia and Alicia seemed to agree with me, and we nodded to each other.
And so.
After enjoying the basic hospitality of the villagers, who were incredibly grateful to us, we asked Carrie to take us out of the village immediately.
The members of the Strong King Faction, who still seem to be controlling the surrounding villages, were rounded up with a combination of false orders from Mesga Keira and the dispatch of the National Knights - and we hurried to the dungeon city with the information we had obtained from Mesga Keira about the smuggling route for materials.
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"Hey, what's going on?!"
It was a dimly lit space deep underground.
A scream-like voice echoes through the hideout of a terrorist group known as the "Strong King Faction."
"Just the other day, I thought the thieves' division that ordered the kidnapping of Wang Si was wiped out, and now we 've lost contact with the mountain village control unit that was in charge of gathering food for that thing !?"
"Captain Mesga's village, which had the largest harvest, has reportedly been safe for now... but it seems that the rest of the village has been unilaterally destroyed by the National Knights..."
"What do you mean?! It was the same with the Thieves Division, but I gave those guys some pretty powerful weapons and magical tools!? It would be one thing if Irina, the leader of the Beast Knights, had made a move, but that kind of information... in the first place, there's no way their plot would be exposed so easily!"
The terrorist activities, which had been going well up until then, suddenly suffered a number of major losses, and the leadership of the Strong King Faction, lurking in the shadows, was thrown into chaos.
But in the midst of all this.
"...A force we don't know about has emerged."
One woman, who was clearly exuding a different air about her, let out a low whisper.
A bear beastman. A slender beauty full of wildness.
Shaking her shoulder-length black hair, the bear beastwoman continued calmly without losing her composure.
"If they've noticed the control of the mountain village, it wouldn't be strange if they've noticed the flow of the collected materials. If so, then the next unknown force threatening us is... hehe, perfect timing. It's a bit earlier than expected, but with the hatching imminent, it 's probably about time it wanted some special food, so I'll go and see for myself. It saved me the trouble of luring the kingdom's forces by demanding the cession of the dungeon city."
Saying this, the black-haired woman looked up at what was - a gigantic mass of flesh.
The thing, which took up most of the vast underground space, throbbed and slurped something down from a large tree-like tube stuck into the ground, and was also devouring the flesh of monsters that had been brought in from all over the Fang King Federation through its mouth-like parts.
He gazed with satisfaction at the hideous spectacle,
"All the commotion we've caused in the Federation up until now has been a bluff to temporarily divert the attention of the Royal Capital from the Dungeon City, buying us time to gather prey. We'll make the unknown force that's getting in our way our final sacrifice… and put the finishing touches on our plan."
The black-haired bear beast-woman - the beautiful woman known as the Demon God Sigma - made this assertion with eyes colored with madness.
While touching the hilt of the sword, which exuded an ominous presence that an ordinary person could never sense.