Chapter 55: Chapter 16: A Demon Lord's Visit [1]
Lancelot watched Merlin performing his silly intro with a smile on his face, the new students who hadn't seen it before were amazed by it, but for him and Guinevere, it was a little nostalgic but rather embarrassing to think how they acted back then.
"Now then, I imagine you are all excited to experience the wonders of Avalon! But please wait your turn, as an error in the coordinates could send you into a horrid land rather than the human territory."
"Maybe the feral and violent Beast Empires or the dreaded Undead North."
"Worst of all, you might even fall into the most deadly and harsh area, the Demonic wastes, home to the many Demon Kingdoms."
With his final words, the fingers of Merlin snapped, causing a huge aura to resonate in the room as the first mirror began to shimmer the surface like a river being tapped—small waves began to fill the exterior before it settled.
A beautiful silver light flowed across the surface.
"Now then... Ahem! The top 10 from the tournament will be the first to enter, starting with Lancelot du Lac... then..."
Lancelot, Meru and Guinevere were quite fast to stand up and stand in their positions; on the podium below the first mirror was a small stage with 10 indentations with runes painted around them.
Lancelot and his friends stood on these while Meru hugged his arm and stood on his feet, being cute.
She would automatically be teleported with her master. Still, some males found it infuriating as Lancelot flirted with the beautiful rabbit girl, and the women envied her, wishing they were the rabbit girl.
"Phew... Master's thing is so big and hard..." Meru left one final dynamite line causing the closeby students to feel despair—she was speaking about the hilt of his sword, not his manhood.
Merlin's body began to glow with a purple and blue swirling arcane light, the crackle in the air causing students to cover their ears from shock at how loud.
"Now, children, prepare yourselves for this might take some time to activate! Do not panic or leave that space... Otherwise, you may die!"
-> Would you like to enter Avalon?
Yes/No
The display was ready for Lancelot to visit Avalon for the "First" time. He watched as the first one to vanish was Sumika! Her little cheeky smile reflected in his eyes before she teleported.
'Let's go then... thankfully, we were linked beforehand... I should be able to speak and trade with her... but let's build the right buildings first.'
Lancelot quickly pressed yes, because even Guinevere was registered with him now, or rather she forced him to as they would meet later tonight.
He didn't mind either way—knowing where and how she was doing was a great help.
However the moment before he teleported, Guinevere's hand reached out, grasping his, holding tight as their bodies suddenly became frozen...
They were being teleported.
The blue and purple lights began to assault his vision causing Lancelot to experience that lovely sickening spiralling feeling, but this time his stomach was okay. It didn't start churning and making him desire to vomit.
*Crackle*
His body felt the familiar warmth and soft flesh of a woman he spent most nights with underneath him as he opened his eyes slowly.
The throne was filled with all his summoned troops, with Marimo and Ikumi kneeling to the side.
"Morgana, why are you sitting underneath me?" Lancelot asked with a flat face.
"Because I like it when you are on top~ Fufu!"
Lancelot could only cover his face and feel this woman was too smart and sneaky to go the extra mile to do this and set up her little prank.
Her body was like soft dough, squishing and sliding from beneath him as she wrapped around him and sat on his lap, kissing his lips with a short peck.
"My King, we waited for you after seeing such a brave fight~ and all of your loving subjects became even more enamoured with you~" Her hot breath blew his cheeks while stroking his cheek with her fingertips.
"I see," Lancelot tilted his head and looked at his cute troops. "Have you all been well?" He bellowed as they suddenly looked up from their bowing and kneeling—some of their eyes were shining bright as he smiled. "Stand, my cute ladies; I am happy to be back."
The twins sat together behind Marimo and sulked, but they still blew Lancelot a kiss.
"So, how are things progressing, Morgana?" He whispered in her pointed ear, stroking her back gently with a smile as the cute troops all began to stand, so many from what he started with, all of them were more meaty, muscular and stronger than back then.
While waiting for her to speak, he checked the building log and their current resources, knowing they would soon need to go out of the walls and attack another Demon Lord.
Resources: [192 Wood] [50 Stone] [330 Cloth] [150 Iron Ore] [210 Coins]
'It seems the stone took the biggest hit from building those walls—our Cloth Iron and Coins are rising quite well, though...'
Morgana climbed from his lap, taking a serious post as she took out a parchment and cleared her throat. "Ahem..."
"The Western and Northern walls have been finished with 3 Stone Guard posts along them—we have built 20 Frost Hare huts to adjust for the future and have started upgrading Cottages."
"I see, that's good. Who's idea was it to build 20 and then look to upgrade them?"
Lancelot had let the living conditions and amount slip because he never needed to care before—goblins would sleep anywhere without penalty.
Morgana's face looked towards Ikumi before she sighed in defeat.
"It was Ikumi, My King"
"She thought that building lots might look ugly and we should build them "like this" as she drew a neat pattern with 4 rows of 5 and then pointed to the upgrade chain, and thus we started following this path for all troops."
"Further, we have moved the various buildings without permission to make space for future troops or races that might migrate here. Now the village is close to Town level with four districts."
"The Residential, Military, Production and Merchants district for future trade with other lords and intelligent creatures..."
Lancelot nodded and found this interesting as she handed him a small parchment with the current layout as it updated on his system panel.
The Military were in the northwest, close to the Western wall and guardhouse.
The Residential remained in the southwest, just further from his shrine and closer to the walls.
The Merchants district was opposite the Military in the Northeast, slightly away from the eastern wall that was 80% completed.
Finally, the Production District was in the Southeast, just beside the walls, with the forge, blacksmith, furnace and smelter closer to the outer wall than the inner town.
"Good work, this works out well, leaving much space in the centre for future development."
"Ikumi, you did well. I'll be sure to reward you." Her cute feet began to tap on the ground as her nose wrinkled, happy at his praise.
Morgana then took another parchment and let him read it, which detailed the habits and likes of all the Female Hares and Succubi. "this is for my lord to study when giving rewards..."
"You're the best, Morgana—I appreciate it."
A sound suddenly appeared in his mind when he was about to pet her.
-> "Hey~ Master Sumika's village is super cool! Her foxes can kill the little goblins with one stab!"
-> "Lancelot... there's a problem... I am not in the human lands... but in the demon plains... and a Demon Lord is close by... My archers are not afraid, but his troops are succubi and another, but the imps I killed didn't speak more under torture..."
Listening to the words...
Lancelot looked towards Morgana and opened his lips. "Morgana, am I called "Demon Lord" by the surrounding monsters?"