Chapter 24 Flying Fortress as home base!
A black and dark red color aura with some metallic energy surrounded Lucia emitting intense pressure around her. Beside her is her lover standing and looking at her with a worried face. Even Yuriko has having unusual expression. After all, she finally found someone she could love and that person is standing like a statue surrounded with weird energies.
"When did she become like this?"
"After we killed the mutant zombie," Saya asked and Saeko answered.
"Mutant zombie?"
"Yes, she said that before she became like this."
'If it's a mutant zombie, there are possibilities of more advanced zombies will appear later. No, let's leave that for now.' Saya shook her head and looked at Lucia again.
"From what Shizuka-sensei explained to us, Lucia must be in the process of evolving."
"Hmm? How so?"
"You can call me big-sister, Saya-chan…" Shizuka cut in and Saya looked at her with a deadpan look.
"Yes, yes. I understand Nee-san. Back to the main topic, from what we know, she has a locked skill and it will be unlocked at level 40. Earlier you two kill all zombies and from the look of the size of the zombies, there will be at least a few thousand. You have already reached over level 30 too right, Saeko-senpai?"
Saya said and Saeko nodded.
"She also did say there will be race changing right? She is already gaining some level before she meets with us too. If so there is a high chance she reached Level 40 and forcefully evolving right now."
Everyone nodded in relief and Saya continued. While they were talking about using Shizuka's 'Divine Magic of Archangel' Skill, Shizuka saw some blood appear at the corner of Lucia's lip and she cast the skill because of worries.
"Shizuka-nee, why did you suddenly cast it?!" Saeko asked because they might interrupt the process, Yuriko and Saya also asked Shizuka the same way.
"Umm… Lu-chan is bleeding from the corner of the lip. So, I was worried something might be wrong and cast it."
They turn to look at Lucia, worried about something going wrong and they see the energies start to stabilize and her aura become calmer than before. They sighed in relief and were about to say 'thank god nothing happened' but suddenly Lucia vomited blood and there were many sword wounds appeared on her body and bleeding heavily.
"?!"
"NOOOO!! Lucia!" They were freaked out because of Lucia's sudden injury and thought of getting backslash. After Lucia injured she collapses and the aura which is surrounding her disappears. The girls hurried to her and started to nurse her on the spot. Saeko has cleaned out the zombies, so they are safe for now. Lucia's eyes trembled slightly and opened slowly.
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(Lucia POV)
"Mmm…"
When I opened my eyes I saw the worried faces of my lovers. Their eyes were slightly moist. Lucia seeing them like this hurt her heart.
"Hey… why are you girls being like that? I'm not dead yet… I have regeneration ability, all right?"
"We know… It's just we don't like you being like this." Saeko answer.
"I-I'm sorry…" Shizuka said as she started to tear.
"Wait! Why are you sorry for Shizuka?"
"Because I used the skill on you, you were injured…"
"Ah…" I looked at my body which was covered in blood and understood what she was talking about. I sit up and start to explain what happened in the abyss realm. After I explained, Shizuka sighed in relief and I took her into my embrace.
"It was not your fault Don't be guilty okay?"
"Mmm…" Shizuka nodded in my embrace.
"Hmm… Abyss realm? So it was like entering the trial ground to get legacy."
"? Legacy?" Saya talked and Yuriko asked.
"It was similar to cultivation novels, Mama."
"Eh? You read those?" Lucia asked in surprise and Saya's face burned in embarrassment.
"I-I read them for research purposes! I-It's not like I enjoy them." Saya said as she closed her eyes and crossed her arms under her breasts.
"Why are you embarrassed? It's okay to read them. I was just shocked to know you read those too."
"Ahem, anyway, what happens to your eye?" Saya asked me and the rest also started to pay attention to my eyes. The last time they saw I had two red eyes but now one of them is turned to silver-grey color.
"Is that so? I'm also feeling some kind of energy is there. I will check those later." I said and the rest nodded.
We were chatting and all the girls calm down.
"Okay, we will leave here now as we don't need to go back to Tagaki Estate."
"Right now? What about clothes and things?" Yuriko asked
"Tch, you really can't wait to get another woman?"
Saya said and Yuriko was laughing while looking at her daughter. I already explained I was going to pick Rika up and stay for 100 days here as we traveled this world. But the truth is, there are only 95 days left to finish the mission.
"I love you…" I grab Saya and whisper in her ear. Saya's face becomes red and covers her face with her hands.
"If we go to Rika-san, we need to cross the sea right? I can't drive boats."
Yuriko said and the rest nodded.
"We can't drive boats, too."
"It's okay, I have a plan! Wait a second girls"
The girls nodded and I started to talk with Rin.
'Rin… Why the hell did you not tell me about dragging things? I almost die!'
[Lucia, sorry. The creator is designed like that and is not allowed to warn about it.]
*Sigh*
'What the hell is that guy thinking? Forget it, I will just prepare in advance for this kind of thing later. But wait, will my girls will also experience like this?'
[No need to worry. Their systems are not like yours, so they will not.]
'That's relief. I will check about this later, for now, we need a base… Rin'
[Understood]
I already decided about what kind of base we will be using. I searched in the shop and found it.
"Here is a surprise for you girls," I said as I smiled at them and they all blushed. Well, they are already head over heed because they have already reached the highest affection. Yes, Yuriko and Saya also reached 90 and not 100 yet because they have not sealed (Kiss) them yet. To reach 100 affection points and become an official lover, at least a kiss is needed to be acknowledged by the system.
A big shadow is hovering over us and the sun is covered. All the girls turn to look up their mouths wide open because of how shocking the thing they were looking at is. They couldn't speak as they lost for words.
"W-what is that…?" Yuriko asked as she looked at the floating building.
"It's our base."
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(General POV)
On the sky, there is a majestic fortress, floating as it covers its shadow over the whole city. People who saw it looked at it as their jaws dropped. Of course, they are people in the Tagaki Estate. All the people were murmuring differently as they looked at the floating building.
"Oh my god… "
"Aliens invaded?!" (A/N: there are always people like that. 😂)
"Impossible…"
"W-what is that?"
"Is it her again?" Souichiro said as he looked at Flying Fortress.
[Hanging Gardens of Babylon {A}: A flying fortress from Fate Apocrypha, Used by Semiramis. It is an enormous fortress capable of housing thousands of soldiers, assembled with systematically ordered floating masses, covered in floors of marble, stone balconies, many pillars, and every kind of plant life entangled and intertwined over the construct in a manner described as a "unification of unsightly disorder and luxurious beauty."]
+ 500% MANA Regeneration (Only when inside of the Babylon)
+ 500% HP Regeneration (Only when inside of the Babylon)
+ 200% Magic Damage (Only when inside of the Babylon)
(Cost: 25,000,000 Coins)
(A/N: Picture a comment)
'It doesn't have any offense but we can use it as a flying house. But I can install all kinds of weapons later. Still, it's really large. Most importantly I can show off with it. What if I put my army there? I can attack any kingdoms, or countries in another world if they are pissing me off. Hahahaha. '
"Girls let's go."
Lucia said and the girls came to their senses. Shizuka rushes to Lucia and hugs her as she asks about it. The rest also start to join as they chatted and Lucia commands it to take them in. They disappear from there and reappear in the fortress.
As soon as they entered they saw magnificent silver walls and crystal block floor. The walls were designed beautifully and decorated with the stones which are shining. It has quite different inner designs from Fate Apocrypha anime because the inside of it was really beautiful that it was like Crystal Royal Palace.
"Waaaa… It's really like Royal Palace!" The girls were super excited and started to explore the hallway which is decorated with beautiful designs. Yuriko touched the golden lines of Dragon's figure on the wall.
"Is this real gold?" Yuriko asked and the rest also turned their head to Lucia as they also wanted to know.
"Well, Rin?"
[Yes, it is. The whole Fortress was decorated with Silver, Gold, Mana Stones and many valuable and strong materials.]
'I see… That's why it was so expensive than S-rank skills even without offensive or defensive abilities.'
Lucia told the girls just like Rin explained to her and all of them became excited after hearing about it.
"We were only in the hallway now, I want to see how much beautiful it would be in there."
Lucia said and the girls nodded as they also couldn't wait to see it.
"Shall we go 'My Queens'?"
Lucia said while looking at her lover. The girls looked at each other as they laughed and nodded as they replied to Lucia.
""Of course, 'Our Empress''"
Then they walk into the Majestic Golden Door and continue to encounter many shockingly beautiful and majestic designs.
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In an airport waiting area, many people were sitting and watching the news. Unlike from original anime, they can still use electricity because of the plot change and no explosion of an EMP bomb. Among the people who are looking for news about rescuing them, there is a tanned female with purple hair looking outside of the airport from the glass window. Beside her is a long black case which is stored sniper.
She is resting for a while after she killed many zombies in the early morning. She is the only one who can shoot accurately in her team and clean up zombies that come close to their building.
(Rika POV)
'It's been almost a week that zombies appear. I was thinking about how to go back to the city but Shizuka said she was coming here. I hope she is safe…'
I look at the zombies walking on the ground. There were not many zombies coming near this building since we blew the gas tank. I was thinking again about what happened before and turned to look at my cell phone.
'Should I call her now?' After thinking for a while, I put it back into my pocket and stood up. She might be in the middle of coming here, so if I called her the phone might ring and alert the zombies. It was better to wait for the call from the other side. I made vibrate mode to the phone and walked to the upper floor as I grabbed the case.
'The food will run out soon because many people are here. It's only been 5 days since zombies appear here. I'm worried people might go crazy and do the bad things.'
I walk to the stairs and glance at the people who are sitting and looking at the news. Some kids were sleeping on their mother's lap and some kids that saying they wanted to go home. Some people who were listening to them might be patient for now but I'm sure there won't be long.
'It won't be peaceful like now when Shizuka comes here. She said she had a surprise for me but what might it be?'
I smiled slightly as I thought about her.
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(General POV)
In the ridiculously large bedroom, five people were sitting on the sofa and watching anime that was shown on a large TV which is installed on the wall. In front of them, a long table with many snacks and drinks was placed. They were enjoying the fullest in this broken world which is full of zombies. They are Lucia and her lovers. She is showing them anime because it is good to know the future events of the world they will be going to.
(Flashback)
When they entered the large Golden door, they saw a throne room with many silver pillars supporting the top which was decorated with many gold and mana stones shining and lighting the whole room. The floor is covered with gold and red color carpet with silver at the tip of the side, it was placed in the shape of '+' and the center of it is a throne. At the end of the carpet, there were large golden doors.
On the ceiling, many beautiful drawings are colored with lighting stones and covered with crystal glasses. In the middle of the ceiling, they can see the blue sky and sun from there as if there is only a glass place there. But the heat rays from the sun can't reach to the throne as if the glass is preventing the hot rays from coming into the room.
In the middle of the room, there is a throne which is colored in dark-blue and slivers on the hands of the throne. The majestic throne is built quite high and if someone sits on there, they can look down at the people on the floor. Their jaws dropped looking at the majestic throne room, including Lucia.
'What the hell… This is just too amazing! Should I just start a real kingdom? Flying Kingdom would not be bad!' Lucia is thinking weirdly. Even the rest of the girls were thinking like that too.
They were chatting there and playing like a Queen as they sat on the throne laughing and smiling happily. Even though they are not kids, owning this majestic palace is just an unbelievable thing. Even richest people can't build something like this. After all, the materials used to build the whole fortress are not just bricks and wood with some gold!
After a while, they leave from there and head to the bedroom. They walk to the golden door from the wall which is behind the throne. Earlier, they entered from the front door which is in front of the throne.
Before they enter Babylon, Lucia gets full control of the whole Babylon and she can use it with just her mind. She tried to give full access to her girls too and they could look at the light blue panel appearing in front of them and control it freely now, too. It was like she gave her lovers the house keys. She told them about it when they were playing on the throne and they were very happy about it and gave her a peck on her lip.
Because of that now, Yuriko and Saya have become her lovers from lover candidates. They were only level 0 but that was not a problem because they wouldn't be in battle anyway and their level will increase as Lucia or Saeko kill monsters (or humans). However, if they want to join battle she could give them fighting abilities and skills too.
When they walked into the bedroom they saw a super large room filled with beautiful and elegant furniture. It was 1/4 side of the throne room, the bed size was really large too. However, there are no TV or electricity items.
'Rin, can I buy a TV from the store?'
[Yes]
'Oh… how about anime and novels from my old world?'
[Yes, you can also buy them too.]
'Hmm… if so can I install electricity things and use them with mana?'
[It can also be done, all the things you want can be installed in this Flying Fortress and change the places or building to your liking. However, it will cost your Coins to change it.]
'Nice, then install TV, Computers…'
And so, Lucia installed modern things in their bedroom and bought an Anime series. Lucia looked at her Coins again and saw '510,000,000 Coins' left.
'I'm still rich.'
(Flashback end)
"Lucia, when are you going to make us truly yours?"
Saya whispered into Lucia's ear and she blushed because of her embarrassment. After all, she is a tsundere character and not used to doing this but if she stays just like before she knows Lucia won't attack her if she keeps doing like tsundere. She knows this because Shizuka and Saeko were flirting with Lucia from the start and not long after that they become lovers.
"Why are you embarrassed when you are seducing me?" Lucia said as she smirked.
"W-why are you asking like that? BAKA! Hampf" Saya said and her original tsundere character resurfaced again. Lucia smiled warily and shook her head. She pinched Saya's nose slightly.
"Don't worry about changing yourself, I said I love you don't I? I'm not going to leave you just because of this and…"
Lucia closed her lips to Saya's ear and whispered, "Tonight will be a long night for us…"
"Wawawawa… What are saying?! BAKA!" Saya shouted and covered her face which was turning red with her hands.
"Then enjoy with her alone tonight, we will join you tomorrow," Saeko said as Yuriko and Shizuka nodded.
"N…no…"
"Huh?" Everyone turned to look at Saya who just rejected it.
"I-I… m-mama should also join… " Saya said while still covering the face.
Everyone was shocked, especially for Lucia. They never thought Saya would request to do it with her mother.
"Ahahaha… Saya, you are becoming a nasty girl." Everyone starts to tease her.
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(A/N: Hope you all enjoy this.) 😂