Primordial Villain With A Slave Harem

"So this is how it works." I said, or at least tried, but no sound came from my lips due to Vex's [Hex of Null Presence] spell.

<Are you girls fine? Can you do what Vex did?> I asked, unsure if all of them could replicate Vex's tree-climbing maneuver.

<Shouldn't be a problem.> Ayame declared confidently, followed by Seraphiel replying in the affirmative.

<I'm eager to try.> Lucille stated. Her physical stats were growing at a great pace; she was catching up to Ayame and Blossom in levels due to lower levels consisting of much less XP.

<Blossom will have no problem… She is just feeling very weird.> Blossom replied last; her frightened state had already greatly diminished, though she didn't seem eager to let go of my hand.

Iris didn't reply, for she was already midway up to the top of these gigantic trees, effortlessly following Vex.

My girls replicated her actions as they climbed to the top without issue. I stayed on the ground just in case one of them fell and had to be caught.

After that, I turned toward the remaining people still on the forest level, who were Raika and Ryker's team.@@novelbin@@

The former bent down into a squat before launching herself toward the skies with an entirely unimpressed expression as if it was just another normal maneuver. Her ability to do so told me that Vex climbed up the way she did to show us young ones how to do it, for I doubted she couldn't just jump straight to the top if Raika could.

Next, I saw Ryker's background characters climb up, meaning only he and the vile woman in his arms remained, alongside me and Aurora, similarly comfortably nestled in my arms.

The white-haired Plump Fox stared at Aurora smugly, with a face that spoke volumes about how she thought her ride was superior. I didn't quite understand why she would think so, but perhaps due to the fact that as a dedicated physical combatant, Ryker had higher physical stats than me because I was a hybrid putting lots of points into the Magic stat.

Ryker looked into my eyes and wordlessly told me he thought this was a competition. I didn't know why these two mongoloids always felt the urge to one-up me when I couldn't care less about them, but I suppose it was just their inferiority complex demanding they let the world know of their existence and continued value. Only if they knew what the heads thought of them…

<Are you comfortable?>

<Yes!> Aurora purred while nuzzling her head into my neck. My plump alchemist did not give a single damn about the woman glaring at her.

"[Airwalk]" I intoned, casting my intermediate wind elemental spell. I could've followed after the others by making use of my physical stats, but I would rather run freely on thin air than on branches.

I could cast spells despite no sound coming from my mouth. This made Vex's spell even more broken than it already was, for silent casting was so rare in this world that I'd never encountered it before this moment.

Truly, the upper echelons of combatants were just something else.

Ryker and his owner in his arms gawked at us with disbelief as I casually hovered off the ground, supported by the swirling currents of my spell. The shock on their faces was quite comically exaggerated - clearly, they had forgotten who I was in reality besides the annoying super rookie.

I was an Elemental Sovereign capable of bending the elements to my will.

The woman's expression twisted from bewilderment to an ugly sneer as realization dawned on her. Ryker's jaw clenched as he forced himself into a stoic facade. Then they turned their heads away from me, refusing to recognize my existence.

I shrugged my shoulders, for I couldn't care less about their petty insecurities.

After that, I ascended to the treetops with a speedy sprint. The others were gathered together, waiting for the last of us. Well, besides Raika, the wild woman was nowhere to be seen, already off on her little adventure. Vex greeted my arrival with a playful grin emerging on her beautiful face, and I saw her eyes glancing down to observe my airborne stance with amusement.

She knew I could cast this spell but evidently didn't expect me to do so. I wasn't concerned about the spell running out before we reached the Beastman Confederation's lands, and I would rather use it in the human lands, as I was more worried about getting across the border than fighting off enemies on the other side. My being in the air could allow me to quickly counter an ambush instead of being mid-jump from one branch to the next.

With that out of the way, our journey to the border was going as swift and seamless as I assumed. The slow ones were getting carried, and the fast ones were superhumans that could easily embarrass Olympic gold medalists by running laps around them. We encountered numerous patrol groups, letting me know how serious the human side was about potential beast-kin invasions. Explore hidden tales at My Virtual Library Empire

I'd learned that the greenskin invasion that has been plaguing the duchy ever since my transmigration was a tactic by the beast-kin tribes. Those vile monsters were merrily living in their territories, acting as natural deterrents against human invasions; however, they elected to instead herd the greenskins into human lands, where they were wreaking great havoc. Numerous citizens died and infrastructure got destroyed as a result of the beast-kins' strategy.

To that end, the humans deployed more guards to the borders so that the situation doesn't worsen even further than it already did and were in the middle of doing their best to exterminate the monsters from human lands as well, with rather mediocre results to show for their efforts. Word is that the nobles were waiting for the king's elite army to show up and help them out.

Anyhow. Time passed, and within a few minutes we were already seeing smaller and thinner trees, marking the coming end of the Greenvale territory.

Maneuvering became proportionally more difficult as a result, so I kept hovering around Lucille and Seraphiel, the two I was most worried might end up slipping off and plunging to the depths below.

<Blossom can't wait to introduce her family to her new family! She's been dreaming about this moment for months!> My dog-girl's cheery tone sounded in my mind as well as in the minds of the other ladies.

Ayame was quick to voice her thoughts. <I'm truly happy for you, Blossom, but I'm afraid any thorough introductions will have to wait; we can't remove our masks in front of our allies.>

<Sight is not important! If Natalie and Poppy can smell Blossom's new family, that's more than enough. It'll tell them what kind of people Blossom loves.> Aww, what an adorable girl. I already knew some info about Natalie, who was Blossom's mother, as she often used to compare motherly women to her, such as Lucille. Though she stopped doing that after the berserker joined the harem.

As for Poppy, I didn't know much besides her being Blossom's sister.

<Let's just hope they don't go into heat from sniffing Mister Primordial Breeding Physique over here…> Seraphiel murmured coyly.