The Heavenly Martial Empress Returns Chapter 21: A Slice Of Life (Patreon)

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The next morning arrived, with sunlight coming from the window. I slowly opened my eyes, and the first thing I saw were two beautiful, black-furred, and naked wolf-beast girls to my left and right. They were cuddling with me; their soft fur was so warm and nice to feel over the skin of my naked body. They were cuddling machines, I swear.

I started to playfully kiss their little snouts, and slowly, they started to wake up. Urbosa was first, quickly wondering where she was and then calming down.

“Phew… Last night was sure intense.” She yawned. “Did you like it?” She smiled back at me.

“I-I loved it… I hope we can do it again…” I said shamelessly.

“Sure, if it's you, any time.” She kissed me a few times; her kisses were so lovely and full of warmth.

“Hmm~” I kept kissing her without stopping. “Ahh, shit… I am falling for you too! This is not fair for a being such as me to be so weak against mortals.”

“Hehe, you’re not bad either, Bing Xue.” She winked at me. “I hope you don’t mind someone who had a mate before."

“I don’t!” I said it nonchalantly.

“And my daughter... You don’t mind her?” She wondered.

“Hekita is such a cute girl! Of course not! I will treat her like my daughter, even.” I said without hesitation.

“Gosh… Okay, fine!” She laughed. “I’m all yours too… Now hug me and let’s cuddle a bit more…”

I never thought that it would be so gratifying and amazing to fall in love with someone and even to care for each other and like one another. I don’t know if we truly love one another completely yet. But I wouldn’t mind trying to get to that, even if it might be slightly hard.

Just cuddling on the bed while sleeping with these two fluffy beauties is all I could have asked for anyway. I ended up sleeping for a couple of hours more until the sun had completely risen over the horizon. Then, I decided to quickly wake them up and cook them some delicious breakfast.

Naturally, made using the most gourmet ingredients of my inner realm. I took note of their likings; mostly they liked meat, milk, and fruit juices, so I quickly prepared them a huge breakfast made of a lot of roasted meat, warm milk, and freshly squeezed fruit juice.

I also invited little Hekita, the little treasure of a girl who helped me prepare for her aunt and her mother, as I had already served breakfast to the rest of the tribe inside of my Inner Realm, and they were now eating while getting ready to depart a few hours later.

“Oh, they’re still sleeping, huh? Such sleepy heads!” I giggled.

“Mama likes to sleep a lot! She never wakes up early!” Hekita giggled. “Mamaaaa! Auntie! Wake up! It’s morning already! Don’t be lazy buns!”

“Hmm? Ah! Did we oversleep again?!” Merkite gasped. “Oh, little Hekita- Bing Xue! Good morning! I-I didn’t think you would make us food…”

“It smells so good…” Yawned Urbosa. “Ah, baby girl! Did you make this with your auntie Bing Xue?”

“Yep! She taught me how to roast meat and make fruit juice! I made this fruit juice for you, mama! It has a lot of fruits mixed together; it’s colorful like a rainbow!” Hekita gave the glass to her mother.

“I-It is certainly as colorful as the rainbow! What kind of fruits did you use- Hmm?! It’s so sweet and refreshing!” Urbosa immediately enjoyed the juice, feeling refreshed.

“It is made of several magical fruits, just the best for you two.” I winked at them.

“A-Ahahah, nobody has ever treated me so nicely before…” Merkite blushed. “You’re only going to make me fall even more for you, you know?” She even pouted a bit.

“Yeah, not even my late mate ever did this…” Urbosa started eating a large piece of roasted meat. “Hmm, so soft! This is so nice to have in the morning! Thank you so much, Bing Xue!”

“Fufu, it’s nothing! Let’s enjoy something delicious together.” I smiled as I gave a gentle head pat to the little Hekita. “You too, dear, here. I got this for you.” I offered her a few snacks. They were salty, meat-flavored crackers.

“Ooh, what’s this, auntie?!” She immediately wolfed down three in a single bite. “Nom, nom! Oooh! Meat flavor! But so crunchy! Tasty!”

Because the little girl was around, we decided not to address what happened last night. Or, well, I decided to do that; the twins weren’t addressing it just because I wasn’t bringing it up. But what surprised me the most was the little girl’s words after we finished eating breakfast.

“So you will become my new papa, Auntie Bing Xue?” She asked. “Please, please!”

“E-Eh?” I felt slightly embarrassed; she had already guessed everything that happened here! “H-Hekita, dear, I don’t think you should be asking me that out of nowhere, haha…”

“But you and Mama mated! Right? So you should take responsibility!” She nodded with a confident and cute smile.

“Hekita! Don’t talk about such things to Bing Xue!” Urbosa reprimanded her. “Don’t get involved in adult problems!”

“But mamaaa! She’s so awesome! She has superpowers, a big world inside of her belly, and tasty food! And look at her eyes, so shiny!” Hekita adorably pointed at my eyes.

"Listen, dear, it’s not that I don’t want to; this all depends on her decisions, okay? So let’s not pressure her into anything for now.” Urbosa smiled.

“I mean, I wouldn’t mind at all becoming your papa if you really want to, Hekita.” I giggled. “But yes, let’s take it slow for now, alright? I at least can promise you that I will protect you and your mother and auntie with everything I have.” I gave her a gentle kiss on her fluffy cheek.

“Really?! Yaaaay! Papa!” She hugged my legs tightly.

It made me pity her a bit; she must miss a father figure quite a lot to be so desperate like this. Her words only made the twins more embarrassed than anything. And once we all had our meal, we went to take a warm bath in the inn’s large bathroom.

Hekita was also invited, so her mother washed her really well. We used a variety of perfumes and shampoos I brought with us, leaving the wins and little Hekita fluffier than ever and smelling really good.

“I feel all refreshed!” She said. “Papa, lift me up, please!”

“Lift you? Fufu, okay, fine.” I giggled, holding her gently and then placing her over my shoulders. “How about carrying you on a piggyback then?”

“Yaaay! Papa’s so tall!” She raised her arms cutely.

By the heavens, this little bundle of love was already healing my heart.

“I’m sorry about this, Bing Xue; I should have taught her to respect others a bit more before.” Urbosa apologized.

“It’s fine, honey.” I gave her a kiss on the lips. “I am her “papa”, right? Fufu, I don’t really mind it.”

“W-Well, I guess if you don’t mind it…” She smiled sweetly. “Then it’s fine.” She kissed me back. “Let’s go find your mom and your sister, so we can move to the village. I’m sure you’ll love the place.”

“You’ll sure do!” Merkite nodded. “There’s a lot of stuff there; our house is also yours now, so come along. We’ll let you sleep in our bed together, of course. We also raise some cattle. A few sheep, rabbits, and ducks! You’ll love the animals!”

“Oooh! I’m looking forward to it!” I simply let myself go with the flow. Perhaps for the second time in my life, the first being when I met my mother and sister again, I actually felt so happy that I was simply smiling all the time naturally, without forcing that smile. “Once we get there, I’ll also make sure to leave some strong barriers and wards so your village is never attacked again.”

“Really? Y-you can do that, papa?” Little Hekita asked.

“I can! Your papa’s very strong!” I giggled.

“Wow! Awesome! Mooch!” She suddenly gave me a big kiss on my forehead. “Papa deserves a big kiss for being so nice to Mama and Auntie!”

“Aaww...” I felt like my heart was melting.

Once we walked outside of the inn and into the wide world outside, I spread my doppelgangers rapidly. Although I was now moving to greet my mom and my sister in the Adventurer’s Guild, I still had a few things I needed to do. Now that I am here, I might as well just not let anybody ever become the victim of these terrible bandits and rogues.

My doppelgangers leaped from place to place, searching and scanning the areas until they started to find groups of thugs and bandits. Based on what they saw them doing, they were either immediately killed or restrained and thrown in front of the guard’s office.

I did this for a couple of minutes, but after 10 minutes, the entire city was clean, and I had killed roughly three hundred bandits. There were also a few more people kidnapped that were freed; I left them with Augustus to take care of. Among them, there were some more high-level players and a lot of Earth people here.

I guess they had a whole underground slave trafficking ring. Well, that’s completely gone now. And I ended up killing two more Avatars of that horrible god. It looks like, unlike the goddess, he likes to mingle with the most deplorable sh*t imaginable.

Ding!

[You have slain a large quantity of strong rogues, bandits, and members of an evil cult!]

[You used {Extraction} on the corpses of hundreds of victims, gaining additional EXP!]

[Level Up!]

[Level Up!]

[Level Up!]

[Level Up!]

[Level Up!]

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[Your Level has increased from Level 616 to Level 631/999!]

[All your Stats have increased. You gained Stat Points and Skill Points.]

[The Levels of Several Skills have increased! Many Skills have reached Max Level.]

[The Skill: [God Predator (SSS): Lv4] Skill effects have been activated. You have devoured the Divinity Fragments of the Avatars of the {Lord Of Deep Darkness}!]

[All your Stats have increased by +2.000]

[You gained +3.000 Divinity.]

[You learned the Magic Skill: [Dark Enslavement Curse (S): Lv1]

[You learned the Classless Skill: [Evil Abyssal Torture Arts (S): Lv1]

[The Skill: [Divine Class Absorption: Lv3 (SSS)] Skill effects have been activated. You have devoured the Divine Classes of the Avatars of the {Lord Of Deep Darkness}!]

[You devoured the [Dark Enslaver of the Deep] Divine Class!]

[You devoured the [Evil Abyssal Torturer] Divine Class!]

[You have earned +4.000 Skill Points!]

[For having slain an Avatar of a Tower God, you gained +200.000 Credits.]

[You have killed three Avatars of the [The Tower God {Lord Of Deep Darkness}!]

[The Tower God {Lord Of Deep Darkness} has also lost their entire cult within Nexus City. His dark influence on the city has been completely taken away.]

[The Tower God {Lord Of Deep Darkness} groans in agony and pain, swearing to take revenge against you!]

[The Tower God {The Brilliant Mother Of Light} agrees with him; both have revealed they have always cooperated together!]

[Both Tower Gods increased your bounty by 200.000.000 credits!]

I managed to extort them out of a lot of valuables they had, and I ended up getting an accumulation of roughly ten million more credits as well! Now I had over 14 million right away. How easy it was to get them! These rogues and bandits truly were packed with so many valuables that it was insane how they were left alone. I suppose the righteous forces here weren’t truly righteous.

It was completely a possibility that both the Goddess of Light and the God of Darkness were cooperating together to both create problems and solve them, further boosting the Faith Points they gained by creating conflicts and heroes that could solve them.

Such wicked monsters don’t deserve to be called Gods. For now, I’ll concentrate on the present while weakening them and stripping their influence over everything. Once they’re at their weakest, I’ll crush them. For now, the Goddess of Light is at her weakest, so it should be easy for me to kill her now.

The thing is, I am now rather busy with my two cute girlfriends and my new adoptive daughter!

"Wow, papa, your body’s overflowing with a golden aura!” Hekita pointed it out.

“A-Ah, hahaha! I just got stronger by beating some baddies; don’t worry.” I caressed her fluffy hands, which were touching my ears.

“You’re a surprisingly good father, Bing Xue. I guess my little baby girl has already conquered your heart as well.” Laughed Urbosa.

“Don’t believe everything she says, though; Hekita is quite a troublemaker back home!” Merkite giggled. “You’ll see!”

“E-Eh?! Auntie, don’t say that!” Hekita panicked.

“Fufu, I don’t really mind. Children sometimes must be allowed to be children!” I smiled. “Now, oh, there you are! Good morning to you two.”

“Katherine! Good morning!” My mother greeted me.

“I guess you brought the whole family, huh?” Ruby laughed. “So how was it, huh? Did you finally lose your V Card?”

“W-What are you talking about, Ruby! Shut it!” I reprimanded her, perhaps for the first time. “Don’t say such things in front of a child!”

“Ahahaha, okay, okay, sorryyyy~” Ruby teased me. “Anyways, let’s go to the guild!”

“Yeah, yeah, let’s go.” I nodded.

FLASH!

However, at that very moment, time itself froze completely. Everywhere I looked, everyone was completely frozen, and everything had taken on a gray-colored color as if becoming static and unmoving.

This is most likely Time Magic.

“As I imagined. As strong as you are, nobody can go against the power of a Chronomancer.”

A man wearing blue robes and golden accessories walked in, phasing through material matter like a spectral ghost.

“Bing Xue, right?” He laughed. “I’ll be taking your bounty now.”

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