Bloody Evolution Chapter 5 (Patreon)

The following days while waiting for my dual arm cannons were spent running between the local library and other places for Prinz and I to get used to this world. I had learned more about the Royal Family of Vale, and the important Duke's who were a very minor kingdom in of themselves that held a fiefdom outside of Vale's walls.

First of all, the Valian Royal Family had an inherited semblance as did all Royal families which was how they kept track of the bloodline. But the Valian Royal Families bloodline was called Peerage. In which a member of the Royal Family had sixteen slots to take in vassals.

The vassal would be made a great deal stronger with the royal being able to pump magical energy and aura into the vassal from an unlimited distance, and combined with their specialized magic focus that allowed them to greatly boost the physical limits of people in should they take to the battlefield in far larger numbers. They were the ultimate support unit.

But there was just one... Little issue that stopped me even thinking about taking the vassalage mark from a royal even if I was willing to subordinate myself. Should the royal die, every single member of the peerage would die as their souls would be ripped out of their bodies to follow their lord to whatever afterlife this world had.

So there was that... But beyond the royal families scary as fuck Peerages that were all A or S rank Grimm and dissenter slaughtering machines. The Duke's were also very interesting.

As in this world, Dukes weren't just members of the royal family who bowed out of the succession races for the most part. No, Dukes were people that were so horrifically powerful on the battlefield that playing political games with such a force of nature was completely illegal.

Literally, the dukes were so powerful that the Royal family just about said. [Dumbasses, I am making it illegal for you to stick your dick into the light socket... If you ignore the clear warning and law to not do so? Whatever happens to you and yours is just nature going about its course.]

One of the examples of that was a new Duke/Duchess here in Vale was Kafka the Jorogumo, her Semblance allowed her to create permanent stupidly highly toxic razor-sharp threads that she regularly filled the countryside with to slow if not stop wandering Grimm hordes. To say nothing of her masterly over chemical and magically conjured biological virus/parasites.

Another more recent example of a Duke-level entity was the new General who rose to power in Atlas in Isaac McDougal The Glacier, He wasn't a magician or an accomplished magic user at all yet... But he had the stupidly powerful semblance of being able to absorb snow and ice to create Ice Dust in which he was a master of.

Either way, Dukes were an entity of power that allowed themselves to stop, slaughter or halt a whole Grimm Tide on their own... And that's what I wanted to be.

I could already see my title with my abilities honestly once I got myself going. 'Jake Bariss, The Admiral.' That had a damned good ring to it honestly.

Though I was still stuck with one major issue... Make more Wisdom Cubes to summon another Shipgirl was a fucking pain in the ass, I didn't have enough depth in my aura to make one without slowly forming the thing over the course of probably a couple weeks so at this point I was only half done with forming one as I had a lot more time to meditate to increase aura recovery.

When I got to Beacon my free time to spend it just meditating to refuel my aura would be cut in half obviously.

"Hmm, well I think its about time we go get my arm cannons and then I can make my sword. Are you done with lunch?" I asked Prinz as she was elegant sipping straight fucking condensed oil from a metal cup out of a thick straw.

I saw her lips compress and my lips twitched as she made a thick slurping noise as she drank the last drops from the tin before she boredly tossed the can across the room and into the trashcan with a loud clatter.

"Alright let's get going. I have been getting bored just reading, I am a woman who needs some action." She said as she stretched her arms above her head as she got to her feet.

Then she elegantly stepped forward and as she came away from the chair her form glowed as her rigging appeared on her body with her smiling as she took my arm against her chest and said. "Now my Admiral lead on hehe."

I then put on the ammo crate, I had in mind for the arm cannons I commissioned and then after one last preparation, I was ready to go.

I nodded with my free hand summoning an officer pistol that I slipped into a holster on my waist to arm myself as I knew this world was dangerous as hell even if the criminal element hadn't really shown itself to much to what I could find.

However, that could easily be attributed to any real criminals being sent to the penal legions to quickly die on the front line against the Grimm or show promise and be reformed.

Prinz's initial issues with my heritage as an American quickly wore away when she realized I was... A very easygoing person, and the best type of person she liked in someone she could tease and sometimes turn the teasing back on her without getting butthurt. 

And with the bond, we had as her being my Shipgirl and myself being her Admiral, we quickly clicked into closeness with her very touched starved, abandonment issues coming to the fore resulting in her being very touchy-feely with me.

"Alright, there is the store," I muttered seeing the familiar store logo of [Undying Hearts Armory] 

We came into the store and I nodded seeing Velvet sitting at the store front. "Hello, I am here to pick up my order, those two arm-mounted cannons?"

"Hello! Uhm yeah they were completed yesterday, just give me a minute to text my sister to bring them out of the workshop!" Velvet said quickly with a small flush crossing her face that made her adorable ears twitch.

I nodded with Prinz giving a small giggle as she was far less caring of Velvet's embarrassment as she coo'ed and whispered. "My god, she is adorable isn't she?" 

My face twitched as Velvet flushed deeply with her pulling her large rabbit ears to block her face as Prinz loudly giggled and I said with some exasperation. "Don't bully the little rabbit Prinz... She can hear you all too well, and you know it."

But before the interaction could go further another female voice spoke out. "Ohya, big sister are you having fun with friends?" 

I looked over to the source of the... Rather matronly voice and my eye twitched as I thought. 'That isn't a fucking little sister!'

As Velvet's sister was a lot more full-figured with almost a milf's soft body that hid muscles underneath the padding with blue hair and white rabbit ears atop her head.

And oh my god... Her eyes just radiated 'Hug me, for I am mommy.' energy. Like how does a teen have a milf's aura? It was impossible!

"So you are the client sir?" The younger sister turned towards me with a gentle smile and I nodded with myself coughing as I said.

"Yes, hello miss, I don't think I got your name." I asked respectfully as I held a hand to my heart and bowed my head slightly in greeting.

The new rabbit Faunus gave a soft chuckle that made her large breasts bounce as she carefully put a large case onto the metal-topped table in front of us. "My name is Alice, Alice Scarlatina, I am Velvet's half-sister." 

I walked over to the case as Alice undid the clasps and locks on it and then she spun it around to face me as she said with a knowing smile. "Go ahead Jake, open your present ufufu." 

Carefully removing the padlocks from the case, I lifted open the case with Prinz's soft chest pushing into my side as she tucked her chin onto my shoulder as she got onto her tippy toes to look.

And it was... Exactly what I hoped for.

Full metal gauntlets and arm armor that held the firing mechanisms for the two-arm cannons were built into the top side of the arm armor. Also with two mechanical ammo belts that would feed from a store of ammo in a backpack that I could just endlessly conjure ammo to fill into.

As simple as ammo, even Dust ammo wasn't an issue for me. I had experimentally formed a hundred large cannon rounds, and it barely made a dent in my aura. It was only the powerful supernatural things like Wisdom Cubes that drained my aura heavily.

Now I just needed a full suit of Terminator Power Armor and I was basically Warhammer 30K Perturabo!

"Alright! Let's get this on me, and see how it fits haha!" I laughed joyfully as I took out the ammo-feeding crate on my back and I saw Alice's eyes blink before she spoke with a wry smile.

"My oh my, most huntsmen fight with agility and strength in mind knowing they will need to retreat once they run out of ammo or get low on aura." Alice spoke.

And in turn I shrugged and said honestly. "Yeah... Werll I got Prinz and others to do front-line fighting. I am an endless armory that can make any ammo they need, food, drink, and even spawn more simple weapons that they can use to say nothing of myself summoning a particularly large naval cannon should something get too close."

Just imagine... A dumbass giant Deathstalker, a giant scorpion gets past my ship girls and I respond by summoning an artillery cannon to shoot it directly in the face. Now that would be funny.

Not to mention that Prinz, once I made her Unique Augment and other special equipment would get even stronger and more dangerous.

"Velvet, help our knight get his arms ready." Alice spoke more seriously and I saw Velvet blush slightly before her face firmed and she wore a serious face as she came over with Alice saying. "Raise your arms please sir."

Raising my eyebrow at how formal they sounded, I nodded and stepped back to hold out my arms at shoulder height as the girls came and with an undescribed formal sense they unclasped the cannon-mounted armor and I quickly learned that the naval-style jacket I conjured got in the way with how the armor went all the way to my shoulder to distribute the impact and recoil of the cannons.

"Prinz, tear off my sleeves please," I spoke with the ship girl doing so without a word and the two bunny-eared girls continued their work with Velvet stepping close to my chest as she snapped the clasps shut on the armor binding the armor to my arms while running thick leather straps across my chest and back from each arm to the other arm to put the weight of the armor and cannons on the straps.

"The firing mechanism is set that only when you have your fist pointing straight will the cannon fire when your thumb is pressing on the button on first digit of your index finger's gauntlet," Alice spoke softly and I gave a hum of acknowledgment to that.

So a two-step feature for safety and Velvet continued to speak as she poked my left hand that she was working on to make sure everything fit and was in tip-top shape. "The right hand is your dominant hand, so it has the firing button, but your left-hand controls the fire rate in switching to burst fire, automatic, or single fire for when you are using more powerful rounds."

And despite the armor and cannon being rather hefty on my arms. Even as I let my arms sag downwards or held them upright in a firing position, I could feel the straps on my back and chest helping deal with the weight. So I doubted arm soreness would be too much an issue compared to swinging a huge melee weapon around.

"You guys did great work." I said with a smile as I flexed my hands in and out of fists to get an idea for the feeling as Velvet went to work attaching the 'mecha-shifting' ammo belts that could stretch seamlessly to transfer different types of ammo without issue to the cannons.

They could also fire a lot of different types of ammo with all the room they had seeing as it wasn't also a melee weapon.