Sophia Demiurge

By the way, because I have been putting off this matter for far too long already, I decided to let my generals train the undeads with training regimes from the combined medieval period, Chinese dynasties, and feudal Japan, this is so that they will be able to train without me. The Luna sharpshooters will still be selected and trained by me though.

This is also because of the threat of Valentine while I was gone, for the prophet warned me about their existence, though it seems like he still has a lot of secrets, it is understandable because he is not my prophet. I would be suspicious if he instead divulged all of them to me.

I cramped every public duty I had in those three days, huh? The bad thing however is that the private (business) ones have to be postponed like the meeting with Sipnayan who seems to be keen on creating a restaurant, surely it is a welcomed business as she is the very first entrepreneur in my Queendom, but unfortunately, I have already set up a commitment beforehand and have to use the authority card to make her wait.

I sighed as I checked myself in the mirror of my room, wearing a black Filipiniana with some white complimentary color, my hair was not tied or anything, making them twirl with me as I spun around to appreciate my modest figure.

Just as I finished, the mananggals that were tasked to assist Eleanor zipped the zipper of Eleanor's Filipiniana, honestly, this was the first time I saw a ceremonial dress from my country look so hot, Eleanor's hair fixed in a bun with braids that holds the bun together, now the semi-modern style Filipiniana that I instructed to decreased the conservativeness for my enjoyment has its neck part of the Gold white Filipiniana upto the cleavage is see-through, creating a semi-oval shape that showcases the fair skin of my wife as well as part of the gap of the two mountains hanging on her chest, more so the tightness of the dress outlines the perfectly proportioned and curvaceous body of Eleanor, but it seems like Eleanor is not used to showing off this much skin.

"Y-you did this on purpose, didn't you?"

Eleanor suddenly spoke as she let her hand explore the cloth of her dress, busted almost immediately.

[I busted you two days ago.]

Shut up, I want to enjoy myself, okay? I have been drowned with work since the day of establishment, it's no fun. 

That's what I want to reply to, but unfortunately, [Guide] cannot hear my response because I am blocking my thoughts through the anti-mind reading magic that I created, I am planning on not removing this ever again, but it will be boring without [Guide].

Back to the topic at hand, I smiled a genuine one that Eleanor did not buy because of her squinted eyes as she looked at her bulging breasts and then toward me.

"I... invoke my right to remain silent...?"

Eleanor sighed, and then went towards the mirror, now looking at her backside.

"You're not the only one who will be enjoying the sight of these, please remember that."

I slowly walked towards her, grabbed her hands, and then made her look at me as I smiled.

"Don't worry, I'm also not the only one who will murder anyone who will try to do more than soothe their eyes. You also have to remember that."

I remembered what Arachne said, Urduja has a lot of wives and adopted children, all or most of them are warriors, in addition, there will be no nobles that will try to do anything malicious, and of course, let's not forget Eleanor itself, she is smart and strong, I am sure nothing will happen to her.

"Well, that is true, that's why I'm worried, I don't know if you are, but my mom tends to be extreme and I mean EXTREME in protecting us, I don't want to be the cause of a scene..."

 I shook my head a little and used magic to meet her eye-to-eye.

"If a scene happened, it's not your fault for being too beautiful, it's theirs because they cannot control themselves."

Eleanor looked at me, somehow still worried, honestly, I do not know to what extent the extremeness of Urduja, but given how scared she is of the consequences of wearing a dress that highlights her beauty, I can say that it's something that I don't want to think about, but on that note, should I be worried because I was the one directly responsible for designing her dress?

Well, that is not the problem right now.

"Be more confident in yourself, okay?"

I held her cheeks and then made her look me directly in the eyes, her face started to redden as she averted her eyes towards mine and nodded silently, I smiled brightly, probably the first time I smiled appropriate to my age in a very long time in my two lives, I then turned off my magic and then landed softly to the ground.

"Good, now let's head out."

I grabbed Eleanor's hand who still had a blush on her face, and as we were just about to move out of the door, we saw a lady with her upper half holding the door frame silently looking at us whilst her lower half was leaning on the frame, seemingly relaxed, it was even making a "4" using her feet under her maid skirt, the two... or one of them stared at us for solid 5 seconds before speaking.

"Hara Sophia, Lady Eleanor, are you two done?"

Me and Eleanor immediately blushed hard seeing that the Mananaggal was not even fazed by what she just saw. Well, it is not very pleasant if two public figures' private affairs are watched by other people right? Anyway, this crosswise maid of mine will pay for this, though it is not the time for any kind of punishment, I forcibly calmed myself down with a cough, though Eleanor's personality will not make her calm down that fast.

"Yes, yes we are."

As I answered, the crosswise maid attached her two halves and then gestured for us to go outside.

"Then, Hara Sophia and Lady Eleanor, General Bakunawa is already waiting outside the hall for your arrival, allow me to guide you."

By the time the maid said such, Eleanor already recovered from her blushing feat, I see that she already improved in terms of composure, in any case after I said: "Lead the way." the maid walked in front of us, isn't this just for formality because we know the whole set up of my city hall? Oh, but I do not know that my city hall is also my personal resting mansion when I am visiting here in Bulawan City, so I guess this is fine.

After about a minute of walking, we arrived at the door in which two manananggals were stationed, they put their right hand on their left chest and bowed slightly at us, the maid that guided us then also stepped aside, doing the same gesture pair, those two maids then opened the door, I don't know if this is caused by the birthday of The Hero of the Sun, but the light that went through the entrance is quite blinding, but because of me and my wife's exceptional eyesight, we saw the person who is waiting in front of the door.

"Hara Sophia, Lady Eleanor, allow me to escort the two of you out of danger on your way to the domain of Duchess Urduja."

Like Me and Eleanor, Bakunawa is also wearing a Filipiniana, a silver colored one as she seems to cut her hair that fits perfectly well to the pin on the right side of her head that has a giant serpent biting off a part of the moon, of course, it was her creation and was made by ice, the pin let all of her hair go to her left side, making her look extremely attractive, actually so attractive she is that I just noticed now the two knights with golden armor that are standing side by side in the carriage despite them having shining armors.

"Then escort us, you shall."

I honestly didn't know what to say because this was the first time I saw Bakunawa without her silver armor-like scales from her neck downwards, though I am sure that the scales are the Filipiniana, it is still awe-inspiring to look at.

As I responded as such, we started to walk side by side, Bakunawa was behind us by a few steps.

"Are all the preparations complete?"

I asked Bakunawa, she looked at my back, and I could feel her gaze, slightly annoyed.

"You seem to be nervous."

The two of us are conversing through hivemind, I replied.

"Well... I know a strikingly similar scenario when a ruler goes to a state visit and then suddenly..."

Yes, it is very clear to me, that a certain slime who created a nation of monsters got pounded good at that time (though he pounded them well too), I don't want that to happen.

"Don't worry about that, I can assure you that the defensive formation you created exists just three days ago and counting, your order of slaughtering humans and any other races not native to the Queendom that will try to enter the city, soldier or not is very extreme, but I honestly like, plus if what you are worried about is Valentine, the two rulers of that Kingdom will not personally make a move nor will they wield the Army of the Kingdom of Heaven so recklessly, vampires and devils have centuries of lifespan, they won't be used recklessly, but there might be attacks, I mean if those two already woke up, but it will be targeted against you and Urduja, surely you can deal with their lackeys, so relax."

Bakunawa said, not having any change in her facial expression as we finally arrived at the place in which the carriage specially arranged by Urduja is in, right at that moment, all of my worries about Valentine went away, for you see, I saw something that... I kinda missed it but did not expect to see it. The crest of the Urduja is a golden sun with eight rays, the background is white and in a triangular formation, three smaller stars can be seen in the crest.

_Is this..._

My thoughts were glued to the crest, but Bakunawa and Eleanor had their eyes on the horses that were pulling the carriage, they were pitch black, contrary to what people would expect from someone who has the "sun" on their title, except if they think of sunburn, but anyway, the steeds have cracks on their body with little embers spouting on them, I am sure though that if they are in fight mode, the embers will become scorching flames, or much cooler, lava.

I then looked at Ruphas, who was sleeping as usual, he didn't even try to mock the horses because he was stronger and bigger, he was a herbivore, and as long as he was not attacked, he would not fight.

The horses didn't seem to mind as they enjoyed the attention given by the two beautiful ladies, after a while, the two golden knights that are somehow disheartened (probably because of Bakunawa) coughed a little as they opened the doors of the spacious carriage, I can see that there is a space for two sets of sofas to fit in, there is a table in the middle with tea cups and ready-made pastries, the two ladies finally got tired of the horse and then went back to our former formation, actually they are too absorbed with the horses that they did not notice Kabuto diving in my shadows with a cage on his hands.

The golden knights are too low-level to even notice the existence of my shinobi, of course, they also did not notice spiders entering the carriage.

"Let's go?"

I said as I looked at Eleanor and offered my hand, she smiled at me and accepted my offer with a: "Yes, let's go." as a reply.

Bakunawa is still behind us, she will be our guard and a showcase of my nation's military might, so I have to have her by my side, a little bit annoying because me and Eleanor cannot do stuff that is probably brewing in both of our minds.

[3rd Person POV]

_How weird._

Bakunawa thought so as she stared at Sophia, she found Sophia strange, especially when being compared to Urduja. Her charisma, her dynamic, the way she uses her power to protect what she just wants to protect, and not all that needed protection, hell even their fancy for women, all of them are traits present to the two of them.

That's why it's weird because Urduja indulges in debauchery day in and day and night, as narrated by the prophet to discredit anyone that doesn't serve the god of the undead, honestly she doesn't care, because Bakunawa who made contact and fought against Urduja a lot of times when Urduja is a mere hero prospect knew that "Debauchery" is the only thing that the hero's body lusted for, she didn't lust for wealth or power. She just wanted women.

_If that's what Sophia's body only wanted from her, why would she deprive herself of it?_

Bakunawa could not help but ask, for she could see it, the unconscious gulps when Arachne was in front of her naked, or when Wokung's daughter started her stretching on top of the walls, she could see Sophia peeking at her in the seams of her window, and her gaze is not just inspecting, it was sticky and... inappropriate and hell, even Bakunawa herself, she can feel just how subtly Sophia is gazing at her figure, with the eyes of the predator rather than a ruler.

_Why is she restraining herself from the only thing that can give her pleasure in the painful life of being a monarch? Can't she at least release herself of her desires?_

Bakunawa squinted her eyes, realizing that her worldview was still too shallow.

_It seems like I am yet to fully understand my master's mind, I hope I can ask Urduja about it._