'Is there any way we can mark this place? I want to come back here before we leave the island. I think this might be something important, but I'm not really sure.'
[Done. I have it marked on the general map of the island I have. You also have access to it, but it is not detailed and is only a basic overhead view. I should have told you before now, but I had forgotten about it after you decided to completely ignore me.]
I looked away from the Gnolls that were almost completely gone and sighed. I could have saved everyone a lot of trouble if I had taken things more seriously in the beginning.
[more than likely, but that was yesterday, and only now and tomorrow matter. You are doing better now, but in the future, you are going to have to work on a base of operations.]
I started to run again, weaving through the trees as I thought about Hero's words. I planned on making some kind of Ranch like my system suggested, but I couldn't do it yet.
'Once we get to Gardania, I will start looking for a place to set up shop, but it will have to be somewhere that works for everyone. That's not going to be easy to find.'
[The system will help you create a Base, and then it will help you set up places for each of the girls. I agree that you will need to wait to set up a big one, but you should consider setting one up on the boat as you go. It will be better for the women if they can be more comfortable in their own environment.]
This was true and definitely something that I would have to think about and consider how I could do that on a boat. I was also curious about what the girls were building.
[That will be interesting. I almost would be tempted to place a bet about it.]
'Oh? What would you like to bet on? The better question is, what is the prize?'
[Winner picks?]
'Oh, that's not even funny!'
[Sorry, bad taste, but if you win, I will comply with a single request, and the same goes for you. It has to be something that is within either of our abilities to do.]
'Sure, that sounds fair. While I don't think that you liked me much back in the day, you obviously are a good person if you chased me in here. So, what's the bet, Boss?'
[I bet you that the girls don't get anything completed, and they fight the entire time, and you will have to go stand over them. I don't think that Jilly and Lizy are ever going to see eye to eye.]
'Sure, any day of the week, I'll take that bet, and you had better get ready to pay up!'
[What?! You think that those girls are going to work together?]
'Yup.'
The two women would probably fight, and it would probably get pretty bad, but if all the other girls were there with them…
'One hundred percent, they will work together in the end, and they will have decided on a design by the time I get back.'
[Hmm, well, I am excited to make my request when you lose!]
'Dream on Harold; I believe in the girls. I only asked them to get along, and while I know that is a lot for those girls, it's not impossible. Jilly and Lizy were friends at one point, but Lizy betrayed her trust, so it's not like it's impossible.'
I was starting to feel demons ahead of me, but more than four times as many as at Neft's Village. The feeling of them spread out farther and farther as I got closer.
'How can there be so many of them?'
[it isn't as many as you think. There are less than two hundred.]
'Oh yeah, you're right, that is so much better.'
I noticed the trees starting to thin and become ashen and burned as I came up to another crater like the Fire Lake I met Fireden. I could see trails of smoke coming from hundreds of buildings as I came closer to the edge of Crater City.
[It really isn't that big, it just looks that way.]
'Listen here, I am the one about to go for a walk through all those demons, and what about the rest of them? And how am I going to sterilize all of these? What about the ones that are with the girls?!'
[Talk to Dao first and see what he wants. You are stronger than him, and if you really wanted, you could kill every demon in here without much effort; most of them couldn't use a sharp knife to stab you. The spears the Nether Knights threw at you at the Keep wouldn't have pieced you because you leveled after killing the second Behemoth.]
'Hmm.'
I guess I was overthinking this. If worse came to worst, I would kill Dao fast and draw enough power to incapacitate the island. Then I would just have to find a female Demon that would join me in the center of the island.
[That is a good idea to just do.]
'Maybe, but I want to hear what he has to say. I might be able to get some information out of him before we have to do anything so drastic.'
[Fair. Just remember that he is a Demon.]
'True, but what does that really mean? What are demons really? If the demon women are changing back to whatever they were before, then what about the men? Are they different?'
[That is a good question, but I don't have the answer to that question yet. I think we will figure it out in time, so many of you are right to be hesitant about killing him.]
'Oh no, that bastard is getting his. He has been the cause of far too much pain already; he will have to make it up in his next life.'
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