18 CHAPTER 18

"Welcome back, My Dear; we received from Lord Edwin about our victory and handed me the documents for my formal promotion to Viscountess, obviously along the benefit of lands, incomes and authority granted" saluted me a really amused Kuesu, who was being served some tea from some new maids I had never seen

"Kuro-kun! Me and Shizuka were so worried! Are you hurt?! Let me visit you" said a worried Aki, while she and Shizuka circled around me, looking at my bandaged body and checking for untreated injuries

"I'm fine Aki, Shizuka so get your giant tits out of the way for now, I'm not in the mood to bear your clumsiness and panties and bra's flashes" I grumbled, really of a bad humour

When I first received all that tons of Points, the new functions and the chance to see the dead thot's memories I was fucking excited but what I saw left me with bigger fears and questions; what I saw was her life…or rather her two lifes, both when she was alive on hearth and here: in her past life she was a simple woman, only daughter of a single family, went to university, studied and then headed into a career as businesswoman before marrying; then she was cheated by her husband and in a rage outburst she killed both of them and suicided few days later out of regrets.

Her second life, before being killed by me, didn't start equally well due being born as an half-elf from an elf mother and an human father who apparently abused of the former; the mother and daughter tried to escape into the elf kingdom but even there they were disdained, due the common belief that half-elf were considered 'tainted', until Jenna started to gain renown as adventurer and in twelve years became an A-rank, considered pretty fast from a long live race's point of view, and at the age of fifty and a body of someone in mid twenties she became an S-rank thanks to her System.

Yeah, her System…a System completely different and, in my opinion, 'nerfed' if compared to mine; she was just able to gain occasionally Quests,therefore Exp much faster than normal people, and personal skills that turned her into what could be described a magic swordwoman…until that day, that day when she was kidnapped by a group of hooded crazy strong people who used powers that I could recognize being from anime: Ninjustsu from Naruto, Alchemy from FMA, the motherfucker 'All For One' from Boku No Hero and so on…she was kidnapped by fellow Wokens, much stronger than her and able to use my same 'source' of power from their Systems.

The next fifteen years of memories were like an horror-splatter movie: caged alone in a small dark room for half of the day while the last half she was put under atrocious experiment that turned her into that giant meat blob but the most scary thing was that it seemed that group of Woken was able to 'extract' the System from her and turn it into a small black liquid…

Apparently it took lots of time for Jenna to escape from their grasp and ran as fast as she could from them, or at least this was what she initially thought because five years later she received a 'visit' from two of them and making a deal with them: she could mantain her facade as strong ans influent adventurer while being under their orders…and their main orders were find people like them, other Woken; fortunately it seemed that Jenna accepted only to stay alive and I discovered that neither her or them had precise tools to track the remaining Wokens.

Unfortunately the rest of her memories were pretty useless to me, mostly her building her fake identity and party made of magic meat clones, complying quests and commissions from influential people of various kingdoms and occasionally sending a dozen of poor bastards caught here and there to the Woken group to 'examine them' and the last period where she apparently sensed me the first time but given that my level was too low she didn't consider me worthy and the period of the war.

Now I was left with more doubt and questions than before: who was that misterious group of Woken? How their System worked? How they were able to remove Systems from other Wokens? What was their objective and why they searched Woken to experiment on instead of just killing them?

Too many unknwons about them and given how they were easily able to capture Jenna ans treat her like an harmless guinea pig before her escape meaned that they were far stronger than her and therefore, at least in term of stats and skills, above me; for now I really need to level up as quickly as I could, buy more powerfull allies and Soul Equipments, expand my network not only inside Silva Kingdom but even further…fight a secret group of powerfull people with another…

???'s POV

In an underground maze-like structurer, thousand of miles away from Marthbar and Silva Kingdom, a group of people were chatting without a care in the world, while few feet away from them lots of painfull scream could be heard coming from a strange looking dome-shaped cage with apparently no door or window.

"The Trackying Crystal of Jenna Samson has deemed off, that mean that there is a 96% chance she was killed and a 4% she was able to remove of her own or with the help of a third party the Crystal" said in an indifferent tone a stern-looking woman with light green hair tied into a bun wearing large round glasses and a modern looking office suit, who was taking some notes while looking at the source of the screams

"Ehhh, you mean that ugly Blob Thot? So fun <3! Finally someone took care of her, she was really hidieous to see every day while you guys experimented on her" replied an high-pitched male boy with bobcut dark blue hair and wearing dark short pants with breaces and a white shirt , who seemed about fourteen playing with a dagger and laying on a sofa kicking the air

"I think both of you should be more worried about the situation; even though that trash was a defective experiment, she still possessed a prototype artificial-made System, making her far stronger than a common thug" replied a third voice, belonging to a dog demi-human with red hair and an eyepatch on the left eye wearing a scarred armour.

"The Boss is now outside, negotiating with some Elder Dragons and Demi-Gods and his last orders were gathering people to implant our aritificial System and find other Wokens from who extract their personal ones for further developments" said a deep thunderous voice of a strangely well dressed minotaur of over 8 feet height with a massive muscle build and imposing horns.

"Yeah you are right, Cow-wy <3; but I'm so booooored and all this screams are making me become deaf…Hey! Why don't you let me go to sniff about who killed the Blob Thot?! Can I, can I?! pretty, pretty please <3?" exclaimed suddenly all excited the strange young boy, who now was pointing his dagger to the other figures.

"Absolutely not, you crazy midget! Last time we sent you unleashed you destroied a kingdom on the other part of the continent" snorted the elegant minotaur, holding to the others some glass filled with a wine-looking drink

"Umph… you old boomers are no fun; so what are we doing about the one who killed her?" asked with a pouting face the small boy

"I already sent the Twins to investigate about the matter; if the responsibles are non-Wokens, they will dispose of them, otherwise they are tasked to 'persuade' and bring them to us" said a new hooded figure appearing from nowhere in a whispering yet audible voice, immediatly imposing a menacing pressure on all the others.

They immediately stood up and lined up in front of the figure, clear dread and respect on their faces.

"Voice…we didn't expect you were already back; this mean the Boss's mission has succeded?" asked the woman, adjusting her glasses with a trembling hand

"Change of plans; the Boss told me to refer you to focus on the search of Woken and non-Woken compatible with the artificial System" replied the whispering figure, the face completely concealed by a crow's mask

"As you wish…and about the matter of the defective's death?" asked the minotaur, the hand holding the wine glass slightly shaking

"Deal as you seem appropriate with the Twins, such small fries will be of no interest to the Boss" and said that, the figure disappeared like it come

"Well…can I have my juice now?" said the child, trying to return to his usual demeanour despite the clear fear in his voice

"Take it and then go with Epsilon and Omicron to gather more subjects, it doesn't matter if they are Woken or not, it's easier to find this world's people compatible than other Wokens…after all the few that are not affiliated with us are either rogue or with 'It' " commented the woman, taking a sip from her glass and heading back to the source of the screams of pain

End ???'s POV

Me and the girls were now away from Marthbar, in a part of the new terrytory granted as war spoils to the new Viscountess Jinguji, whose smugness has been reaching new heights in the last days on par with my worries about this new phantom foe whose I didn't have any kind of clue.

We were residing in a two store country estate, where all the main servants were dismissed to let the rest of the girls take their place including Aki; thanks to the various 'hooks' that we created in the higher up offices of the various Guilds she was no longer needed doing office work and now she was fitting for her right role, aka my and Kuesu's relief toy together with Shizuka and more than occasionally Chacha.

It was also a logistic choice to move to this new location, given that almost all the hired adventurers under Kuesu's paybook were currently around the villages and towns, helping with the purge of low Rank monsters for the expansion of the cultivation villages and given that in 'our' territory Soi Fon and Akame could easy go all out without being scouted by some strangers.

For myself, after some days spent recovering from the faigues of the fight and almost being crushed by my worries, I was of a far better humour after using the Gacha Coupon for a 5* Soul Equipments ans seeing who I had obtained: His Bone-r Majesty, Ainz Ooal Gown.

I admitted that for a moment my deep buried Chunnyobou-phase from middle school remerged and I couldn't help but exclaim on top of my lung (after accurately make all the girls leave me alone in a sealed empty room)… UNLIMITED POWAAAAHHHH.

The big skeleton overlord just at level 1 of 99 gave me +200 in Vitality,+250 in Energy and +150 to Speed and Strenght, and almost caused me an headache due all the skills it gave me through the single skill Overlord, that filled my head with all the abilities that Ainz had used during all his story, including the light novel…heck there was even the mind blowing Fallen Down that he used against Shalltear and holy moly if it cost so much of my Energy!

This really rose up my morale but also gave lots of extra work to do to get accostumued to all this new abilities, forcing me to change my fighting style due the fact that now I could even swarm my enemies with hordes of skeletons and death-dealing magics or whatever.

Honestly given that I wished to avoid any more direct confrontations like with Jenna, it suited me but I was a bit uneasy to throw away all the experience gained in head-on-head confrontations, so I decided that I would more a Sung Jin-Woo's way of fighting: let the small fries being taken off by skeleton mobs and then being assisted, being either on short or long distance, with the main force of my group with the biggest fish…God bless that Webtoon, a pity I could never know its end.

Another thing I did was invest that crazy amount of Points to buy a new 5* Summons, someone whose power was strong enough to crash everything even at miles of distance and still cute enough to be eye-candy: I'm talking nonother than the S-class hero at 2nd position, Tatsumaki aka the Perfect Legal Loli with some heck of legs and a perfect gropable loli ass…and it cost me 600k Points!

It doesn't need to be questioned that I had to do lots of modifications to turn that really arrogant green-haired midget esper into an obedient minion; talking frankly, even though I was impressed by her background story of the manga, it would be just an hassle to my objectives so in the end I decided to make her in a perfect emotionless cute doll-size weapon because Kuesu's inflated ego was already enough for me to handle.

"Oh, she is so small and cute! I want to pinch her-Kyaaa! Ghh.. Somebody help me!" screamed Chacha, who tried to pinch Tatsumaki's cheeks, only for the latter to block her on the ceiling of the room with her telekinetic powers.

"Unauthorized contact from stranger subject, incapaciting with minimun level of strenght" told Tatsumaki in a robot-like tone.

"I forgot to tell it Chacha, but Tatsumaki is programmed to receive orders and be touched only by me; Tatsumaki, release Chacha without hurting her, then follow the previous instructions I gave" I ordered, pinching her cute small ass.

"I comply the order from the Programmer, estimated time for completing the orders: three hours and twelve minutes" she said, not caring about my blantly molestations.

She removed her telekinesis grasp from Chacha, letting her fall into the room's carpet and flying out the window heading into the air.

"Where did she go?" asked Kuesu curious while she lightly tapped with a fan the knocked out yet unharmed Chacha.

"She is gonna keep guard around the house from high to intercept any intruders and comunicate with us through telepathy once found them; futhermore she is also putting a barrier around the house that would block eventual attack from outside, I want every house we are gonna stay with at least this level of security…now I think I'm gonna go enjoy some relax time" I said while walking into the modest living room.

In that room there were all the girls wearing cosplay bought from the System for cheap Points, because when you have over 500k spared Points you care a little about an hundred or two: Aisha wore a Sailor Moon outfit, blonde wig included, and her uncomfortable face in wearing something so 'feminine and frilly' on her opinion was funny; Jiro wasn't exactly a cosplay given that it was just her hero costume but it suited her rock style and personality so kudos on her; Kuesu was cosplaying with the standard Bayonetta suit (magic gun not included) and showed off her nice ass and legs; Ikumi more a slutty chef costume than a proper cosplay…not that her usual outfit while cooking was so modest, but the short white skirt that barely reached the thigs and the huge clevage her white chef coat exposed was quite the catch; Kotegawa was dressed as the DC disastrous film Harley Queen including the wooden hammer and messy make up, just because it seemed funny to me dressing a girl known for her sticking to rules and common sense into a crazy pseudo-anarchic thot; Aki,Shizuka and Chacha were dressed with the skimpy dress of Jessica Rabbit…I mean they shared a similar crazy smoking figure, and I even made them dyed their hair red, even though the tanned skin of Chacha really was a punch in the eye for the contrast with the red dyed hair and the sparkly red dress of Jessica Rabbit.

Lastly but not least, Koneko and Lili were dressed with cute bunny pajama and their petiteness made her too cute to let people think of lewd them; Akame and Soi Fon were excluded from the cosplay show and roamed around the house freely while Kalifa, being the really good secretary she was, spent the rest of the day to finish office work.

Let me be frankly..did I enjoy Aisha playing as a tanned slutty Sailor Moon? Aki, Chacha and Shizuka making out in an incredible cosplay threesome yuri scene? Kotegawa trying to 'mantain order and common sense' despite being dressed as Harley Queen? Jiro going wild with a rock guitar and making the room even more noiser? Yes,yes and again yes! But after this relaxing, erotic moments I will have to spend a nice bit of time to level up my new abilities.