Chapter 161: Chapter 2: The Fairies Go To War!
The moment she played her flute, more than twelve beautiful round magic circles began to flutter and dance around Maria's body slowly. On the magic circles, a mixture of various colours from the rainbow merged—a total of twelve fairies appeared, but they were different from normal fairies.
"Ah... so cute..." Maria whispered, seeing the cute females.
Each fairy was wearing a special chainmail and plated armour enchanted by both elven and fey magic.
These twelve guards were born to protect the Queen and were much larger than normal fairies, each of them over eighty centimetres in size and four fluttering wings that were thicker and much more powerful than the normal fairy units.
The Queen's guard they were called.
"Maria, they are now yours and one day will evolve with you to become The Empress's Guard. I hope that you can fight beside him now you are not alone and make sure you smile lots in the future."
"Melody? Why are you speaking like you would disappear...!?"
Melodica just looked at Maria with a soft and gentle look before her small body, hugged Maria's soft cheeks, and kissed them as a family would—her eyes seemed to shimmer and shine with the sights of the future.
"What are you saying, Mariri... I won't be marrying Lancelot, too, right? Hehe~ but he is a stuff. Maybe if I ask nicely, he'll marry me too."
"Eh!? No... you can't!"
Maria's voice was louder than usual as she suddenly realised her shouting voice attracted the looks of many snow elves and fairies before she turned away with a pout.
"Why not? I am sure he can love us both, right...?"
"Hmph... you are too alluring. What if he only cares about you and forgets me..."
Melodica found this girl's worries to be so adorable and could only laugh while her wings fluttered, making her roll in the air, causing Maria to pout more before slapping the fairy queen's ass in retaliation.
"Maria!? Don't be jealous~ Lancelot loves your cute butt the most; trust me; he is a butt lover."
"How do you know! You just got here today... I've known him for years. I have watched him every day..." Maria realised she was growing too upset and felt a strange jealousy that Melodica could fly towards him and tease him when she had been such a coward and never built courage until now.
"See~ you know best what he would like. Take that confidence and drag him into your bed!" Melodica giggled as their forces began to move out, seeing Lancelot standing on the wall with the strange female who was short but gave the fairies a sense of heavy oppression just standing there while hooking his left arm.
"That's your competition, little Mariri! Do your best; a black dragon is a fey race's worst enemy!" Melodica teased Maria, causing her to realise the strange dragoness woman was holding Lancelot.
"Eh, why is she holding his arm!!" Maria's voice almost reached a shout while the beautiful dragoness turned towards Maria and pointed her sharp-clawed finger with a threatening glare while Melodica watched Maria's snow wings flapping, leaving a trail of cold ether.
"Ah... My little lady is changing." Melodica could feel Maria's strong emotions and felt proud... because she didn't back away... but flew onto the beautiful walls with her graceful flight, taking Lancelot's right arm without even a moment's hesitation.
The dragoness Tyr felt Lancelot's hand pat her head before laughing cutely. Her large wings flapped, and she left Lancelot's side, floating a little further from Maria with an evil smirk.
"New wife!?" Tyr pointed and laughed as Maria felt shocked and began to blush and panic before she squeezed his arm tighter as Lancelot watched her and then stroked her soft hair gently as if trying to ease her worries...
"I am the big wife! Obey me or be kicked out! Hmph!"
Maria just snorted and flicked a frost shard into the eyes of Tyr and spoke with a very soft but adamant voice, "I do not care who is first or last—I just want to stand beside him. But you... You can wait at the end and wash my feet!"
"Ah, don't use your dirty magic! That's cheering!" Tyr complained cutely before Lancelot just laughed wryly.
Melodica was cheering Maria on quietly and began to sing loudly while flying around Maria and Lancelot, "Our mastah has another wife! Make sure you treat her well, Lancelot!"
Maria froze while Tyr gasped with shock and trembled... Lancelot also sighed before his raven wings unfurled as his long, scaled tail moved and wrapped around Maria's small waist, pulling her towards his side while looking at Tyr.
"You're all precious—don't be so quick to bicker. I like my girls to get along. Now, let's attack them."
Like a ninja, Marimo's beautiful black fur appeared as she jumped onto the wall and knelt to Lancelot without a single complaint or word and whispered the state of the enemy forces to him, then waited in silence for her next order.
Melodica watched Marimo and realised something... "Damn, she's too good..." Lancelot laughed and nodded... He was beginning to change everyone and improve their growth by interacting with them.
"Maria, Melodica, Tyr, Marimo, we attack together. Are you girls ready?"
"Yes!" All his beautiful women agreed together, with Maria looking into his eyes gently before nodding with a smile that caused snow to flutter about her body and snowflakes to glisten around her eyes—they all began to giggle as the trolls outside heard strange sounds from inside and tried to smash their rotting club against the Blue and white walls.
Lancelot didn't even take a moment to wait—his body dropped from the wall, using his wings to increase his height and drop speed dramatically as he held a long black greatsword, his eyes closed, with a relaxed look on his face when facing the huge amount of trolls.
Maria, Melodica, Tyr and Marimo watched Lancelot dropping like a meteor before Melodica began to snicker and teased Maria gently, who suddenly bit her lip anxiously before shouting with worry as his feet hit the ground, shaking the earth, and dozens of Trolls fell back from the impact.
"Be careful!" Her adorable, sweet voice caused Lancelot to nod without looking as flames grew along the sword he was holding...
His body instantly spun around, slicing through the bodies of the trolls that were stunned, his left hand snapping his fingers as countless black blades shot from the ground and impaled them, tearing their skin and flesh apart as the frozen ground began to burn like it was hell.
"Tyr, do it!" Lancelot's deep voice resounded as Tyr instantly appeared beside him, her massive wings flapping before she grinned... her long black hair waving as she opened her mouth, wider than normal towards the trolls, releasing a strange aura.
"Dragon Breath!" Tyr's words were simple as her open mouth spat a blast of black flames towards the majority of the trolls in a frontal cone.
All the dead and living trolls turned into charcoal, yet the flames did not touch the beautiful ice trees and frozen flowers.
"Good work, I will treat you, little dragon girl."
"Who is little... my chest is this big!" Tyr beamed as she replied to him; the next moment, an avalanche of ice lances and frost spells was cast towards the few trolls Lancelot missed as Melodica and Maria unleashed their wrath.
"Heh, bragging with that small chest! How about I freeze you!" Maria's words caused Tyr to blink—her heart feeling strange hearing this fairy girl speak so proudly. Then she noticed the huge bulging chest of her robes... and for the first time, Tyr identified Maria as an enemy; they were both short, with plump thighs and good assets, but the fairy was far superior!
Lancelot watched them killing the remaining trolls swiftly; their cooperation was better than he had hoped. Marimo jumped from the walls and joined Lancelot—he smiled and noticed her little spear was covered in blood but not troll blood.
It was a strange blood that smelt close to goblin and orc but was something more dark and twisted...
"Marimo, who are these enemies?" Lancelot pointed to the strange goblin-like corpses before Maria flew from the walls, landing behind him while Melodica rode on Tyr's head since she flew closer, grabbing her hair and treating her like a horse.
Tyr's face looked miserable and betrayed as Melodica kicked her horns playfully... "Lancelot... I used the name goblin at first, but these goblins are warped into something else. I would call them corrupted goblins—they are weak individually, but they are resistant to magic... and the leader is strange, and I believe he can use magic and make it disappear..." Maria answered Lancelot seriously.
Melodica chuckled—Tyr seemed to shiver from Maria's serious gaze that analysed the goblins perfectly, "Mariri is good at scouting and information; it's a talent!" Tyr listened to her boasting and began to stamp her feet like a child about to cry and wanted the queen fairy off her head...
Lancelot stood quietly—he was looking at the corpse and heard Maria's words... ah, this event would be troublesome.
He wanted it to be just his hunch or a wrong thought...
Maria will die if I don't do something... without ether or magic, there is only my sword.