A Loophole

The sun was already at its peak showing that it was already afternoon. Zen wriggled his eyes open and felt a weight on his left arm.

Turning to look, he saw Sakura who had a healthy blush while she laid by his side while hugging his arm between her breasts. As soon as he saw her, the events of last night came back to him causing Zen to smile wryly. It was unexpected.

Some minutes later, Zen walked out of the room fully dressed, black singlet, black trousers and boots. He saw a woman dressed in maid uniform, which made him to raise an eyebrow.

"Who are you?"

"My name is Reya, in order to pay you back for liberating me from my hell, I decided to serve you, and always be at your beck and call" the woman said as she bowed her body which gave Zen a full view of her cleavage.

*Cough**

Zen coughed as he scratched his cheek, he shifted his eyes to look at his surroundings while stealing glances at the woman's bosom. "Oh... Okay... So what brings you here?"

Reya rose her head and gave a sly smile as she saw Zen's demeanor but she still answered, "the third miss, said I should call you concerning the arrival of General Daichi"

"third miss?? " Zen asked and Reya covered her lips with her hands as she turned around and scurried away, which surprised Zen.

"she's talking about Scarlet... "Sakura said as she hugged him from behind, Zen did not look back, he only just caressed her hands that were around his waist.

"when did you all have a hierarchy?" He asked which made Sakura to chuckle as she whispered into his ears.

"In the eyes of everyone, you have three women now, I, Raven and Scarlet "

"Eeh? " Zen was surprised before he shrugged and continued walking, Sakura just smiled as she hooked arms and they continued walking.

Meanwhile, on the ground floor, in th lobby, General Daichi sat down while looking around, he did not come with any soldiers only the woman who had been with him during the meeting.

The woman looked at the three ladies and the three girls who were staring at them with vigilant eyes. She shifted her gaze to the tan skinned man standing at the corner with folded arms, his eyes were closed but the woman could feel that he was watching them.

A lady in maid uniform walked in and stood at a corner, she had a blush on her cheeks. Later on, Zen walked in with Sakura while linking their arms. Scarlet, Raven and Anna looked at the duo before their eyes moved towards their linked arms, each made a different expression from the other.

Zen looked at Raven's frowning face, Scarlet's forlorn look, while Anna just stared at the distance with a blush on her cheeks.

"Big brother" "Uncle" "Papa" Three voices called out as the three girls jumped into Zen and hugged him. One was Xi, the second was the girl who he had saved from the chubby man while the last one was the pale skinned girl who Zen had named Yuki.

Zen smiled wryly as he patted their heads one after the other, he felt he had become a father, but he enjoyed it either way cause who would not want to pat some cute little girls to favor you.

Zen walked over and sat down on the couch just opposite General Daichi and the woman. Yuki sat on Zen's laps, Xi and the other girl sat on Zen's left and right consecutively while the four ladies and the man stood behind him.

"So, General .. what brings you here... If it's about the beasts, sorry but we already tamed one and killed the other two..." Zen said as soon as he felt comfortable.

"Hahaha... No, that's not why we came here, it's concerning something more important" General Daichi said brushing off the mention of the beasts like it was nothing. He glanced at the woman beside him and gestured towards her, "... Well, let me introduce you to Lt. Lyla, she's one of the first order humans under me"

When she was introduced, Lyla looked at the people in front her expecting some idolizing gaze, except from the initial surprise, there was nothing more. She decided to release her pressure but General Daichi stopped her.

"Lt. Lyla, do you think being first order is anything impressive?" Zen said as he looked towards Lyla who frowned as she looked at him.

"Ignore my subordinate, let's get down to real business " General Daichi said as he sweated a little to which Zen just shrugged and relaxed back.

" So? "

" There would be a horde of aberrants and beasts coming from the north, our scouts have brought reports that every other settlements they met, if it was not properly defended was destroyed. Ten out of fifteen settlements had been destroyed"General Daichi said in a solemn tone.

"So, how does that concern me? " Zen asked.

"What do you mean by that, these are lives we are talking about here, being able to render services for the good of the nation is what you should be considering... "Lyla shouted as she stood up and pointed her finger at Zen.

"Render Service in this kind of situation... General Daichi..." Zen said with a sigh before he shifted his gaze from the woman to Daichi."... I remember saying, the law doesn't mean anything in this world anymore"

He looked back at Lyla,"Woman, you guys came here to ask me to help, if this is how you convince someone to work with you, I'm sorry I'm not interested... Don't end up like Dr. Fuka"

"Lyla, apologise..." General Daichi said which made Lyla look at him with shock in her eyes. When she saw the fear in the general's eyes, she swallowed back the words she wanted to say and apologised, though begrudgingly.

"No need, General Daichi ... When do we set off?" Zen asked.

"We could set off now, since the horde is set to reach our settlement in two days" General Daichi said and Zen nodded.

He was about to say something when he paused, he smiled before he continued but everyone knew why.

[Congratulations on reaching Level 30...]

[Checking requirements to first order awakening]

[Requirements not met, therefore awakening has been delayed till all requirements are met]

[Experience Points, Stats Points and any other loots won't be dropped if you make any kills (kills from summons do not count)]

Zen looked at the last prompt and he smiled widely, he found a loophole, his summons could earn him exp and so and other loots.

He looked towards the door, as Nyct, Yun and Daji walked in, he smiled brightly at them while General Daichi and Lyla looked stunned.

"He has two more?" General Daichi thought inwardly.

A/N: What do you think of this Chapter?