Chapter 11

After they had their fun in the palace Richard and Ashara decided to tour the Dorne, they traveled together for a few weeks. One day when Richard was flying over Gaston Grey, a truly beautiful sight for both of them when they noticed a few ships on the coastline a little farther ahead.

Deciding to investigate Richard flew over to them when he noticed people in chains being hauled onto the ships. Slavers, Richard thought darkly. They were for the most part thing of the past in the Dorne Sea. The predators that lived in waters often managed to crash the slavers or pirates' ships but few of them still got through.

Inspecting the crew from the air he the crew consisting of around 150 people split upon 4 ships. Deciding to intervene he landed a short distance from them, dropping Ashara on the ground he quickly transformed into a human.

"Wait for my love, I will be right back!" Richard said.

Ashara knew that there was not a point in persuading him so she just gave him a kiss

"Be careful love"

"Of course I will be careful, who do you think I am?" asked Richard in overly dramatic style putting a hand on his heart fighting to be offended.

"Oh, you! Just go a come back quickly ok?"

"As my Lady commands!"

Richards started running in the direction of slavers and from one stride to the next he transformed into his massive bear form, ground creaked as 8m tall multiton monster of wood and old roots let out an earth-shattering roar and started charging at them.

Slavers finally noticing him started to cry in alarm, most of them already on the boats tried to set sail to escape this monster that emerged. They let their comrades and slaves that were not already on the ships and tried to run.

Richard ignored panicked slaves as they tried to get out his way and charged at the first slaver, he picked him up in his maw and tore him to shreds, some of the slavers tried to shoot and arrows at him but they just got broken or get stuck in his bark. Richard quickly dispatched the remaining of the ones that tried to run and then focused on ships. Three of them managed to get out of his bear form reach but one was just a little bit slower than the rest and that resulted in it being caught. Richard's jaws pressed into the wooden construction and with one mighty pull, he was dragging the ship out of the water.

Most of the slavers jumped into the water before the ship managed to get on the coast and the rest was killed by him changing to his Cat form and ripping their throats out. When all of the remaining slavers were killed he focused on escaping ships. Taking a short start-up he jumped few meters above the water transforming in the process into the crow, he flew until he got into the deeper waters and transformed into a 20m long monstrosity in form of a shark made of old greenish wood and roots.

From the ships, the slavers could only see a green glow underwater that came out of his jaws. Most of the ones that jumped off before realized their mistake and tried to swim to the coats, but they didn't have a chance as Richard started to crush and tore their bodies.

After he caught up to the ships that taken off sooner he bit off back sections of the ships then jumped on them. Changing form to cat and proceeded to rip the rest of the slaver's throats out.

When every single one of them was bleeding on the board he jumped back into the sea and with help of his shark form pushed ships back to the coast. He didn't stay around to help slaves he just send raven to nearest keep to take care of them. Picking up Ashara he had enough of sand that got everywhere and flew in the direction of their home.

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Back on Trant Island Richard had found himself again swarmed with paperwork, and even worse! His mother scolded him, that horror!

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, or something like that.

So swarmed with paperwork and bored of his mind he started thinking about something that would take care of it for him, sure he could use CM to do it but he would still be sitting behind the desk and not doing more productive things, like making his lover happy in most compromising positions available.

So he got an idea, if he can make an AI for Treants and Ships why could he not create himself and a secretary that would take care of all boring paperwork and let him just sign important papers. So he assigned a project to CM *Design and Treant variant capable of handling finances and development of my land with a focus on prosperity and growth of our people, making money for our treasury, and handling the day-to-day run of my land.*

For the first time, Richard found that CM didn't design exactly what he had in mind. Instead of treant in humanoid form. From the ground grew the tree that had chambers all over it filled with green liquid, coming closer to his creation Richard saw in one of the chambers something move and soon after it burst open and from it young-looking green and bark skinned woman with leaves instead of hair and bright blue eyes with a black pupil in middle. (Think Sylvari from GW2)

Ste stood up and observed her surroundings, upon noticing Richard she got on her knee

"How may I server creator?"

Richard could already hear the long-suffering sighs that are to come after he did something stupid again.