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Chapter 1153: Chapter 1152: Momentary Interlude
Chapter 1153: Chapter 1152: Momentary Interlude
Kat Pov
My leg swung at paced intervals as I joined the others in idling around, the comfort of our temporary encampment only growing with each time we got to practice setting it up and making improvements to it.
A week had passed since we had visited Hajar, and upon the return to the capital we were immediately sent back out to quell the invasion happening at another city; this one had been a war of attrition instead of one against another set of elites.
The city was thoroughly in the grasp of the invading Fingers, and the reason it had taken us a handful of days to to reconquer was entirely due to the fact that we needed to keep the citizens alive for obvious reasons.
They had been turned into hostages and meat shields, and casualties were sadly unavoidable in a situation like that, but we had tried our best to have as few of them as possible as we slowly reclaimed that city for the Sultanate.
Despite the time sunk into throwing off the yoke of the invaders, the battles themselves were rather bland since it was just waves of soldiers running at one another, and after the first infiltration from Saif, Zahrah and I the invaders smartened up and closed their ranks immediately.
If we wanted the hostages to live we needed to stop, and even then we would find new heads adorning the walls each morning, though that only earned the Fingers a fate worse than death as they were captured and tortured by both the soldiers and the freed citizens, their bodies paraded around outside the walls as both sides resorted to barbarism.
Leone had tried to advocate for a more civil outlook on the entire thing, but even she had to admit that civility was useless on these lowly cultists acting on their base instincts after we were made to listen to the screams and pleas of women all night long, only to find their corpses draped across the walls the next morning.
The morbidity of it all had earned the cultists a more immediate loss served to them as we dug them out of the city and eradicated them entirely, and it had only been one of two cities that we had fought in during this last week.
Right after that happened we were given orders to head to the next location, and that one had been another day long battle waged against another two Ka Fiends, though this time it took more finesse and effort to kill them.
A giant two legged tortoise creature with a shell hard enough to absorb most blows and reflective enough to block most spells was a tough nut to crack, and it only made it all the more disappointing when it shattered upon the death of the Fiend.
The other had been another four armed variant of a mortal wielding some basic weapons, though the skill displayed with each was quite high, and the stamina, strength and durability were all well above what we expected as well.
new sword.
"I can't wait to have my new daggers... never thought I'd need to replace them, and yet here we are, right? The Begum has our gratitude and then some for spoiling us so~!"
Her eyes shone with anticipation and reverence as she watched Anput strut proudly back into her forge before reemerging with another blade, this time resting it on her shoulder as the weight of it demanded some proper technique.
Saif accepted her new cleaver with a deep bow, and I could see the burly Death Jackal's tail swishing behind her as she inspected her new blade closely, the idea of sparring against the Demoness no longer mattering to her much to Jahi's disappointment.
"I just hope she's not over exerting herself right now... the new gear is much appreciated, but we are supposed to be riding to another battle tomorrow morning, so..."
Zahrah turned back to me with a knowing smirk as she asked "You're only saying that because you don't want to have to do all the work tonight, aren't you~?", making me roll my eyes
again as I decided to not answer her question.
When it was just followed up by a repeat of her earlier one though, I was reluctant to answer
despite it not being that extreme, and soon enough the Death Jackal as poking and prodding at my mind for all sorts of techniques and suggestions to try out tonight as well, further
confirming the suspicion I had that Saif had relented.
Not only had she relented, but apparently they had come to the understanding that they were rather compatible together, and that only made Zahrah's already lustful and needy nature all the 'worse' for Saif, though right now she was more than willing to keep up with the
demands...
With the conversation becoming what it was, Jahi eventually moved over to sit with us as the Demoness felt the slight rush through our bond, and when she pulled me onto her lap Zahrah shot me a knowing look before continuing her questions confidently, which my lover matched as she teased me to her hearts content.