The Grand Opening of Las Vegas
Morning arrived. The Baron, having barely managed to pull his unit together, grabbed his stiff neck and sat up in bed. "......." He couldn't actually get up. Due to the leather straps binding his limbs, he couldn't escape by his own power unless someone untied him. He wondered if he would suffer some terrible fate if he just stayed like this. "......I’m a madwoman." In reality, the opposite was true. It wasn't just about suffering a terrible fate; Gei had tied him up because he was worried the Baron might do something terrible. He didn't want the Baron spreading his legs for just any man, or stabbing a sword into the vitals of a man who came to ravish him again.
"Tsk." The Baron felt a pang of regret, thinking he had missed a golden opportunity. If he could only make Knight Gei his man, he could form a blood alliance with a prestigious family that boasted significant influence in central politics. But Gei had sensed his intentions like a ghost and even resorted to the extreme measure of knocking him unconscious. "...Is anyone there?" The Baron called out in a dignified voice once more. Soon, the tent flap opened, and an old knight who had served the Baron’s family for a long time stepped inside.
"...My apologies for last night, my lord."
"It is nothing. ...We shall not speak of last night’s events. Where is Sir Gei?"
"He has finished regrouping the soldiers and organizing the camp. Since the mission is complete, we can launch an offensive immediately."
"...I had intended to begin the siege the moment Sir Gei returned." The Baron felt a surge of fury at his own pathetic state of being defeated so easily. He hated and was annoyed by the enemy who had carried out a pheromone terror attack, rendering his camp useless and causing such a loss of troop strength.
"We must go and attack, even now. Let us depart."
"My, my lord. ...I believe it would be best if you did not come out just yet."
"Why is that?"
"...The soldiers are still in the middle of 'draining their water'."
"???" The Baron did not understand the slang. And it wasn't until all the soldiers had sufficiently calmed the fury in their loins that the Baron stepped out before them and assembled the entire force. A short while later, the first wave of the punitive force, led by Knight Gei, slowly marched toward the north of Zabyaba.
* * *
Thump, thump-thump, thump. The soldiers stomped their feet, burning with fighting spirit. The twelve hundred human soldiers were lined up in formation, just outside of range.
"Look at the kids' faces; they all look like they haven't slept a wink. Hehehe." Even though the distance was quite far, their expressions were clear. They were all exhausted, their eyes glazed over. It looked like they had each 'drained' at least three times.
"How is it, Gremory? We’ve shaved off quite a bit of their combat power, haven't we?"
"Yeah, it’s effective. And you are a truly trashy demon bastard." Gremory cursed at me to my face. The other executives behind Gremory were also cursing me with their expressions. They couldn't openly insult me, but they were all sickened by my cruel and ruthless plan.
"What’s wrong with a demon acting like a demon, and an orc acting like an orc?"
"Orcs are known to be honorable warriors, you know."
"There are two types of orcs in this world. Traditional orcs who value battle and honor, and orcs who fight to survive by any means necessary. I am, in every sense, the latter."
So, I intended to use any means necessary this time as well. I carefully pulled on the iron chain in my hand. Lily, wearing tattered clothes that looked like a prisoner's uniform, stepped forward, and the chain I held was connected to her neck. "...Does it hurt?" The chain was something actually used on prisoners at the guard post. It was old and the surface was rough, so the skin where the chain was bound was already turning red.
"My skin is chafing a little, but I'm fine."
"Then that’s enough. If it hurts, tell me, even if it’s just a little. I can adjust it accordingly. Now, Arthur. Step forward." Following my instruction, Arthur stepped forward holding four chains. The female hunters squealed and stepped forward, holding hands. If they weren't wearing prisoner uniforms, one might think they were going out on a date, they were so excited.
"Arthur, can you handle it by yourself?"
"I will try." Arthur steeled his resolve. Among my brothers, he was the one who lived up to his level, and like me, he had a certain greed for what he considered his own. Thanks to that, I entrusted the four of them to Arthur without any burden.
"Then next, you guys...."
"Hah, haah, Commander...!" The Las Village hunters were already panting and trembling. Unlike the clothes they usually wore, their bodies, also clad in prisoner uniforms, were constantly brushed by white feathers.
"C-could you perhaps reduce it just a little?"
"No. I have no intention of changing it. Just do it." One of the hunters, the 'squad' of the premature ejaculator, consisted of a whopping ten Harpies and Harpy Angels. Every time I looked at his state, the phrase 'too much is as bad as too little' always came to mind. But it was enough to prepare more than one could handle. Thus, the preparations for the hunters were complete. The actors were all ready, so it was time to set the stage.
"Then, begin installation!!" The Harpy Angels used their talons to lift up wide, thick planks. The planks, riddled with holes in the middle and perfectly sized to fit over the wooden fence, were sturdy enough to support five people standing on them.
"Lily." I pulled Lily, the key actor of this operation, toward me. Although Ryun and Eila were looking on with envious eyes, this was a role only Lily could pull off. "Do you trust me?"
"Of course."
Creak, thump. The Harpy Angels installed the stage between the watchtowers. Andras, who had been scouting from the sky, finally descended. "Master, the enemy is marching to the north."
"...Is that so?" It was a bit sudden, but everything was already prepared. I hugged Lily’s waist. "Then we should give them a greeting. Let’s show the whole world what happens to cities occupied by our Legion."
It was time to show the true face of Las Vegas. I took Lily and climbed toward the northern watchtower that Andras had pointed out.
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The soldiers headed north. It was the position with the relatively fewest watchtowers, and a place easy to enter and exit as long as there was a gate. "Sir Gei, did you know there used to be a gate here? Even before the wooden fence was erected, a long road connected this place to the south." Sir Faiz scanned the traces of the road that had once led from the north to Zabyaba with a wistful gaze. Before the fence was built, it had been a quiet and peaceful city without even a watchtower, let alone a fence, but as the war with the Demon King’s army intensified, the road was severed and logs were lined up in a row.
"It was Sir Ramatio who strongly urged the previous Baron to fortify Zabyaba. I want to take revenge on the Demon King’s army that is insulting the fence that such a man built with such difficulty."
"Yes...." It was a silent pressure to fight hard without holding back. Gei thought he was doing his best in this punitive force and was the one who had achieved the most, but the 'slacker' image he had shown until now had become his shackle.
'It doesn't matter.' Gei planned to perform brilliantly in this dungeon subjugation, get his achievements recognized, and leave straight for the capital. If the safe rear was no longer safe, he just had to take advantage of that rear and produce flashy results.
"You will surely be able to take revenge. Although the enemies have occupied Zabyaba, they are, in the end, nothing more than monsters. Since we have Priest Francis and adventurers who can be called experts against such enemies, this battle has sufficient chances of victory."
"To think we have to entrust the battle to mercenaries bought with money.... Ah, no. It’s not that I’m looking down on them."
"It is fine. They are jackals who joined the battle for money, not for a great cause."
And those jackals would be the core and the greatest contributors to this battle. Gei just needed to draw attention when he subjugated the dungeon later. Knight Gei, the one who cut off the head of the dungeon master. For that sake, now was the time to hold his breath.
"Sir Faiz, no matter how much your anger rises, please keep in mind. Our role is to draw their attention. So that the enemy can focus on us."
"Of course. But Sir Gei, please entrust the vanguard to me. I will personally hold the shield, climb the ladder, and jump over the wooden fence."
"That is, as much as you—...Huh?" Gei raised his hand without realizing it. Following his signal, the archers waiting behind raised their bows. Beyond the wooden fence, Harpies in black clothes flew into the sky, and they gripped ropes with their talons, fitting thick, wide planks onto the wooden fence.
"Sir Gei. What does that look like to you?"
"...It doesn't seem like they are trying to interfere with us installing the ladders."
If anything, it looked like they were helping them climb up more easily. He wondered if they were trying to deploy archers to fire, but for that, there were only planks left hanging without a single railing. "What on earth is that?"
"Hahahahahaha!" A booming voice echoed over the wooden fence. A green shadow popped out from a watchtower near the fence. Gei and countless soldiers were shocked by the hideous appearance of the orc.
"Welcome to Las Vegas, you little humans!" The orc, who had a red tattoo on his face, shouted while slapping his belly hard with his hand. The orc, who had only the front of his lower body covered with cloth, appeared in a near-naked state, holding a brown podaegi at his waist.
"This is Las Vegas! Occupied by our Legion of Wrath! Get lost!"
"Are you the leader of the Demon King’s army who occupied this city!" Gei cleared his throat and shouted at the tattooed orc. The pot-bellied orc grinned and slapped his belly like a drum. The sound was so loud that the entire city seemed to vibrate.
"Kahaha, what a statement full of prejudice and preconceptions! I shall break your prejudice and preconceptions today! Open your eyes, and watch carefully!"
Whoosh!!
The tattooed orc threw the brown podaegi backward. Inside the brown robe, a woman in a prisoner uniform was trembling in terror. "Th-that, that, that!" Gei felt the veins in his neck bulge on their own.
"You bastard!! Taking a hostage is cowardly!"
"What, you bastard!! Be grateful I didn't kill everyone! This is why you shouldn't show mercy to humans! You occupied only the city and let them live, and now you have the nerve to talk back after returning the favor with swords and spears to take back our Las Vegas!"
"Shut up! The land you are trampling with your dirty feet is our human land!"
"It’s my land now, so get lost!!" The pig orc was arrogant. Gei thought about snatching a bow from an archer to shoot, but the orcs on the watchtower were all aiming their bows downward, waiting for instructions. The moment the punitive force fired, the orcs would return fire.
"You bastards, it’s a good thing you came! I will show you with your own two eyes what happens to those who covet my Las Vegas!!"
Rip!!
The orc grabbed the cloth wrapped around his waist and threw it high into the sky. The humans felt nauseous at the snake the orc pulled out, and at the same time, they swallowed their saliva in fear. It was too massive to be called a penis. The penis, thick enough to be similar to a blonde woman’s forearm, dangled over the wooden fence, and it poked its head out from under the skirt of the woman who had lost consciousness and let her head droop. Gei’s mind went blank at the situation that defied common sense.
"Th-that...."
"Behold! This is the end for the humans who invaded Las Vegas!" The orc bent the woman’s upper body downward. And at the same time, he committed the terrible act the punitive force had only been thinking about.
Thrust!!
"Ughhh!!" The blonde woman, gagged, screamed. The orc shouted while pulling the chain around the woman’s neck with his hand.
"This is the end for those who covet Las Vegas!"
Smack, smack-smack. The orc mercilessly thrust his waist against the woman. Under the skirt, the orc’s massive member that had entered the woman’s body began to make obscene splashing sounds. The soldiers were mesmerized by the shocking scene of intercourse that had suddenly appeared before their eyes.
"Whoa!" The orc lifted the woman’s belly high. Thanks to that, the woman’s entire body was lifted, and the orc grabbed the woman’s waist with both hands and thrust his hips. The woman was suspended in mid-air, unilaterally ravaged by the orc.
"Watch carefully, this city is Las Vegas!"
"Hee-heung, heu-eut!!" Only the sound of flesh colliding, the woman’s moans leaking out even with the gag, the obese orc’s heavy breathing, and the sound of soldiers swallowing their saliva echoed around Las Vegas.
"It is the most open city of pleasure in the world!!" The orc quickly thrust his hand under the woman’s crotch and spread her two legs wide to the left and right.
"Oh my." At the excessively intense and open welcome, Gei almost dropped his sword.