The Heavenly Martial Empress Returns: An OP Xianxia Returnee LitRPG

Chapter 73 Part 1: Targeted Rulers

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I spent more time than I imagined with Yanisse and Fiery Hair. Urbosa and Merkite were quite interested in getting to know them better, as they called the two my “future mates."  I don’t know how to even react to this feeling, to be honest.

I felt perhaps both embarrassed and excited about the thought, but I decided to stay calm as always and simply live in the moment without overthinking things, at least for now. I used to overthink things a lot before.

Now that the sect announcement has been made, big things are to come. Within my Inner Realm, I am already preparing all the materials for my Giant Floating Pagoda Divine Relic, which will be both the home of our sect and a relic of its own, capable of moving alone, defending, and even attacking.

It will be a powerful “sentinel” of sorts that will keep New York protected even better than before. I might create access to it in different areas, only accessible to people who have become my disciples, however.

Although the response of the King will be what decides my next move, I am quite interested in what that man has to say about this entire subject. He’s someone rather mysterious that I have not seen at all.

I had no idea there was a king. To begin with, I had completely forgotten that the USA used to have a president and not a prime minister. I wonder what happened to the previous president. Did he die?

As the girls chatted to get to know each other better, I quickly checked my phone and looked for the president’s name.

Dead.

He died when the white house was destroyed.

A monster attack destroyed half of Washington, apparently.

Come to think about it, didn’t something similar happen in Russia? The equivalent of their white house, their former president, and most politicians all died similarly.

Doesn’t it feel a bit… strange?

It feels like the figures of importance for each society’s politics were targeted first, or is it just a coincidence?

I checked more to see if something similar was happening in other countries.

And I found them rather quickly.

Almost the entire royal family of the UK was killed in another catastrophe; there are barely two survivors, which were young princes that were on vacation somewhere else.

The same happened in Australia, and most African and Asian countries, the prime minister, and the old imperial family of Japan were all killed similarly. Even when the Imperial Family of Japan isn’t even managing the country anymore.

“What in the world...?”

Were the gods that created these gates purposely targeting these politicians and leaders to cause even more chaos and destruction?

Naturally, if all governmental forces were suddenly destroyed, the countries would enter into even greater chaos.

Was this intentional?

And... can that king control gates too? Is he related to the gods?

Could it be that he and others have purposely killed the governing figures to take over the countries?

This is... fucked, to say the least.

Not only is humanity being butchered by monsters, but even intelligent invaders could be aiming to conquer humanity and use them as slaves while taking away all our resources.

If that’s the case, then I wouldn’t hesitate to kill that king or any equivalent.

However, before coming to conclusions, I must first see the evidence; I can’t act rashly after all.

For now, I’ll leave that for later, though.

“Alright, it is getting quite late…” I said. “I should go to rest…”

I wanted to chat more, but this was a very long day, and I wanted it to end already.

“Ah! We didn’t realize; it indeed got quite late. Urbosa nodded.

“Wait for us in bed; we’ll go right away once we clean,” Merkite smiled.

“Ah… I’ll try, but I am quite sleepy~” I shrugged.

I could actually wait just fine but giving them this sense of urgency probably made them more excited.

“Ah right, Fiery Hair, come back to my Inner Realm for now, your tribe must be missing you,” I told her.

“Oh… But… Hmm, okay.” Fiery Hair wanted to stay, but after considering her family was waiting for her, she nodded. “But later… Can we live... outside?”

“Of course, the thing is, we’ll need to relocate you all somewhere where you could rebuild your village; it can’t be here…” I sighed. “Perhaps on the outskirts of New York, it is quite verdant there, or maybe on the First Floor of the Tower…”

“Outside good!” Fiery Hair seemed to like the idea. “Big city beautiful… but the family might get scared of it all. I must be careful not to upset my dear family.”

“You’re so thoughtful, good night then.” I opened a portal to my Inner Realm.

However, before leaving, Fiery Hair quickly gave me a big, strong hug with her giant, muscular arms.

“Mate Bing Bing, love,” she kissed my forehead, rubbing her face on my own.

She was, honestly, really cute!

I never thought a primitive girl would be this charming and endearing.

“Hehe, okay, okay, now go,” I petted her head.

“Come? To bed with me?” she asked me with puppy eyes.

“No, not yet, sorry,” I said. “Perhaps later… Okay?”

“Uhh… I… understand…” Fiery Hair looked a bit saddened, as if I had broken her heart for rejecting spending a night with her.

Well, now that I have two other mates, I can’t just do this so easily.

She walked back inside the Inner Realm, where she met with the rest of her tribe and the Hawk Eye tribe.

They briefly talked about several things before everyone went to sleep.

There were children and the elderly in this group; they were at least over two hundred if I combined both tribes. I think they still left half their tribe back home, but it was still quite a lot of people.

Thankfully, they’re doing well near the golden palace; they even started building their huts on their own and hunted the weakest martial beasts I left for them to hunt on their own.

They didn’t like that I offered them everything on a silver plate and took pride in doing things themselves, so after I offered them the opportunities, they began doing everything on their own.

I remember there was a third tribe that chose not to help us; they scattered into the outskirts, probably trying to find a way back themselves.

The only lasting gray portal is still there, but its properties are strange; it is constantly releasing energy from another place but not letting it pass through from here.

It means that the spatial and time energies are constantly letting things out but won’t let them inside. I had already tried sending a Doppelganger there.

But it disintegrated halfway through. I could probably pass through with my full body after taking some damage.

However, I would rather not risk receiving damage and ending up weakening as a result. I believe that as long as I keep comprehending the Dao of Space and Void, I could eventually get through it or modify the Gate.

But until then, the Grandfather of Time is a league above me in terms of spatial and time manipulation. My space-time manipulation is more about manipulating the world around me.

Meanwhile, his space-time manipulation not only does that, but it can also manipulate everything else he can set his eyes on or expand his powers into.

Meaning that he can do things such as breach space and time and bring threats and beings from different timelines—a power so ridiculous that not even I could fathom.

Why? I had no idea parallel timeline worlds even existed!

So, until I can figure out a way for them to get back by modifying the Timeline Gate, as we’ll call them, they’re stuck here pretty much.

“I hope they can safely go back home; I am honestly worried about them,” Yanisse sighed.

“I will figure out a way eventually, in the near future. It is not completely urgent right now,” I said. “I have the means; I just need some time.”

“I see, you’re so reliable despite all these things happening.” Yanisse said she slowly approached me, holding my hands and looking into my eyes with her beautiful blue eyes. “Thank you for everything, Bing Xue.”

“Ahh, it’s fine, really.” I smiled back. “Don’t worry about it, Yanisse. You can stay here as long as you need; I hope that King responds eventually.”

“I’m sure he will…” she sighed. “Ah, I’m so sleepy. I’ll go to sleep now; is that my room?”

“Yes, that one. Good night,” I said.

“Goodnight,” she said.

She was about to close the door, but then walked out and stood up on the tips of her toes, kissing my cheek.

“Thank you again.”

She quickly walked back to her room.

Ah, her little kiss was so cute, though her lips are quite cold.

Still, it’s hard to believe things escalated this quickly.

“Oh well…”

I walked back to my bed to rest. There were several system notifications I had not checked, but I wasn’t in the mood to see any of them for the moment.

I decided to see them tomorrow if anything; after all, I couldn’t waste my time seeing this when Urbosa and Merkite were coming.

The door slowly opened as both entered the bedroom.

“We’re back; sorry for being late~” Urbosa smiled, quickly sitting by my left side.

“Yeah, there was more to wash than we thought,” Merkite sat by my right side.

“You two didn’t really need to wash if you didn’t want to; I can easily clean things with my abilities,” I said, as I felt their fluffy tails wrap around my waist.

“Well, we just wanted to be good "wives,” as your kind often calls this relationship we have now, right?” Urbosa smiled.

“We heard from my mother-in-law that a good wife washes the dishes…” Merkite nodded.

“Wait, my mom...” I muttered. “Ah, I bet she just said that, so you would wash them for her... She’s shameless, huh?”

“How was your day, though? We saw you on that “TV” thing with your family; you spoke about a lot of things,” Urbosa said. “Are you truly making this sect?”

“Yes, that’s right. Of course, you and my family are all honorary disciples as well,” I smiled, caressing Urbosa’s fluffy hands. “Well, it could be said you’re one of my first-ever disciples after Mom and my sister.”

“That’s quite amazing…” Merkite nodded. “You’re really shaking even this world too… I hope I can live up to your expectations; knowing you’re so great makes me slightly nervous. I won’t be enough…”

“You don’t need to worry about such things, dear; calm down.” I held her hand, caressing her face. “You two are just perfect as you are, and... Well, I’ve grown to feel more of this feeling for you, this "love,"  to the point where I simply can’t really think about another day without you two by my side.”

“Bing…” Urbosa blushed. “Really?”

“Of course.” I petted her head; her long black hair was silky and soft. “You two are already precious to me; it’s hard for me to admit it. Seeing how I’ve lived so long, I imagined I wouldn’t feel attached so quickly to people.”

“I-I love you too… I’m glad I’ve been able to soften that old heart of yours, even if a little,” Urbosa smiled as she kissed my cheek. “It makes me happy that I am important to you in some way…”

“Yeah…” Merkite nodded. “There’s a lot of things we’ll be doing the next few days, I imagine... It’ll be a busy week again.”

“Indeed, will you two help me out? I could do things mostly on my own, but some help is never bad,” I said.

“Of course, in whatever you need,” Urbosa nodded. “And if we don’t know, then we’ll learn.”

“Indeed!” Merkite agreed. “We’re here to help you as much as you can, as you’ve helped us before.”

“Aww, you two are lovely; what would I do without you two?”

As we cuddled in bed, we started kissing a lot. These girls were definitely very horny once more.

A long night awaited me…

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