Chapter 1155: Departure
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"Will we ever see you?"
"Can you pleasee back at least?"n/?/vel/b//in dot c//om
Aqua and Rose were constantly swimming around us, asking for us toe back quickly. They
were sure going to miss us, maybe miss me more than the rest, but yeah.
"Sorry, no promises, girls," I said. "Erm, also don''t wait for us... or me, get married to someone else if possible, alright?"
"Ugh..."
"Really?"
Are these girls for real?
"Yes, really! Anyways, farewell, take care, okay? I''ll open a Shadow Portal here only I can ess, so if I evere back, it''ll be through here," I said. "I do n to start doing some trading between your nation and my vige, maybe make a connection with the dwarves as well."
"So you''reing back!"
"Alrighto!"
They were pumped up, but I just decided to ignore these mermaid princesses, our worlds were too different, and I would prefer if they remained living their leisure lives down here.
"Please wait, as ast gift, we would like to give you this," the King said. "You''ve in the King of the Depths, so the least we could do is gift you half of our treasury!"
Suddenly, a gigantic carriage brought a huge pile of gold, jewels and treasures, there were also many weapons included into the pile.
"M-More things?!" asked Lucifer. "Oi this is too much, you''re going to fall into poverty like this!"
"Poverty?" wondered the Queen. "Well, we don''t do trading with anybody, so this is mostly useless... We are rather self-sustained after all."
"Unbelievable..." I sighed. "Okay, if you insist, I''ll take some of that!"
I didn''t hesitate at the end, taking what they offered, it was better and less insulting to take and ept their generosity instead of just rejecting it. I opened a portal to my inventory, and everything got sucked inside.
"Maria! Isn''t this excessive? I don''t feel right taking advantage of their generosity..." Lucifer was perhaps too nice at times.
"Worry not honey, they''ll be fine," I said. "I left them some protection. Look."
He looked into the seas surrounding the city''s bubble, realizing there were a few thousand undead sea monsters, most at S Rank and above.
"If you want to put it that way, they''re paying me to protect them," I said with a smile. "Does that please you then?"
"I-I... I guess so?" he wondered. "Hah, whatever the case, let''s just go, I''m tired of these overly generous people. Nobody else in the world will you find people openly gifting you treasures, and gold like them."
"Hahah, yeah, they''re a very generous bunch,"ughed Partner. "So how do we go back home- Woah!"
Partner stepped into the Shadow Portal as we all instantly teleported from Aquarose to the vige.
Yep, once I pinpoint the locations and ce my Shadow Realm Fragments in them, I can use Shadow Teleportaiton to teleport from one ce quite literally to another.
What greeted us was a beautiful grasnd surrounding a small town, or perhaps arge vige? Whatever the case, the town was surrounded by tall walls and a near invisible barrier.
The sky was clear, and the sun shone brightly, the sun was nice indeed.
"We''re really back home~ It has been a while!" said Emeraldine.
"Yeah..." Partner nodded.
"So this is your home?" wondered Nia wondered. "Such a beautiful and big ce, and this coldness... It is certainly different than the deserts!"
"Woah, I feel... stronger here," said Celes. "Not as strong as in the sea but, the humidity is nice."
"It''s no longer snowing all the time now!" Nyx jumped around happily. "Celes! Let me show you the ce! There are farnds over there, and then there''s the forest over there, and the mountains, and dungeons!"
Nyx grabbed Celes hand and started showing him the surroundings, not physically bringing him there, of course, but she was mostly teaching him where all things were.
"For anyone that isn''t familiar, wee to my home. I am not an ambitious woman, and I do not aim to create a nation," I said. "I have only created a smallmunity of hard-working people, and with their help, we''ve built a small home, a vige of sorts. I don''t aim for anything grander than this, but I guess my people is different... I don''t know how this will change in the future, but it has already changed quite a lot- Ah, right, anyways! Wee! And please, try to feel like at home."
I distributed warmer clothes to everyone that came from the desert, Fabian and his friends were looking around in surprise, Eustace, and Nia too, amazed by the beauty of thesends of fertile green and humidity in the cold air.
"Woah, this ce''s amazing!" Fabian said.
"Such a beautiful town!" Spectra nodded.
"It sure is huge!" Beery nodded.
"Quite so..." Garon gasped.
"Ahh, I don''t know if I like the style of the houses..." Nickmented.
Fabian and his friends entered the town once the gates opened. Guards,posed of tall hobgoblin-like people, with muscr frame and horns, Majin, and also Rabbit-kin, greeted
us.
The Rabbit-kin also looked oddly different now, most of them had white and gold fur rings around their brown fur, and their eyes held a celestial, golden gleam to them.
What did happen here while I was gone?!
"It''s Lady Maria!"
"She''s finally back!"
"Wee back, everyone!"
"She''s back, she''s back!"
"She has brought many friends!"
"New people? So many new faces!"
"Surprising..."
The people quickly ran out to greet us, all kinds of people. I couldn''t see any goblin anymore other than the youngest children. Everyone else had fully evolved into something beyond
Hobgoblins.
"Hello everyone! Hi!" I greeted them. "I''m back! Just to chill for a bit."
As the people mored our return, I heard some familiar voices.
"Oh,dy Maria!"
"Auntieee!"
"She''s here... Finally!"
"It has been quite some time."
I was greeted by three green-skinned people, former goblins, and friends of mine, and also
two rabbit-kin people, also friends of mine.
They were all people I once rescued, a long while ago, before everything truly began, when I
had yet to even pick a ce where I could stay.
Old friends...