Chapter 371: Iron Will
Thump, thump thump.
Sounds no one wanted to hear rang in their ears. A sight no one wanted to see unfolded before their eyes. But closing their eyes or covering their ears would mean never seeing or hearing anything again.
"Baroness...!"
The residents wailed. Tears flowed freely at the baroness’s resolve, enduring violation by the orc even after being stripped bare before everyone.
Virginia Virgo.
A woman rumored to have assassinated her own father, the previous baron, to seize the title.
A cruel woman who had framed and executed a butler who had served the house faithfully for years on embezzlement charges.
A woman called a witch for supposedly bringing women to her bed every night to indulge in same-sex affairs.
An incompetent woman who, despite sending two subjugation forces, had not only failed to destroy the dungeon but had lost Zabiyaba to monsters.
No one had ever looked upon Baroness Virgo favorably. Every night, they cursed her incompetence without fail, bowing their heads in her presence while silently spitting venom behind her back.
And yet, that same woman.
Despite having the chance to save herself alone.
"Go on, finish already! Hurry up and finish!"
"Nnngh!!"
The baroness bit her lower lip, holding back her moans. The more she endured, the more violent the orc became. His rough hands mauled her chest, his thrusting hips drove harder, and when nothing seemed to work, he forced the baroness down on all fours like a dog and began pounding from above.
"So this isn’t enough, is that it?! Heh heh, bring me the aphrodisiac!"
At the orc’s command, a nearby orc soldier brought over a viscous aphrodisiac. The orc began smearing the red, sticky substance all over the baroness’s body.
"Ah, haahhngh!"
When the orc pinched and twisted her nipple, the baroness threw her head back and let out a moan. As the baroness’s moans grew louder, despair settled over the crowd’s faces. The aphrodisiac was so potent that the baroness’s cries, which moments ago had been purely of pain, began to carry notes of pleasure.
"Ngh, hnngh, khhgh...!"
"Go on, say it! Say you came! Say it!"
"N-Not yet...!"
The baroness, her eyes growing hazy, clenched her fists tight. Swallowing her shame, she scanned her people one by one, grinding her teeth.
"I...will never...come...!"
"...."
The orc’s expression hardened. He even stopped thrusting.
"Impressive."
Smack! The orc brought his hand down on the baroness’s rear. Stripping a noble bare and spanking her in public was a humiliating act, yet the orc’s expression and demeanor seemed almost reverent.
"Never have I met a woman of such iron will! Baroness Virginia Virgo! I have witnessed your resolve! A human like you is worthy of bearing my seed and birthing my child!"
"Wh-What...?!"
Horror descended upon the residents’ faces.
Even if one were violated by a monster, the sin could be absolved by purchasing an indulgence from the Church. A monster’s traces could simply be purified with divine power.
But the moment one was violated by a monster and bore its child, the monster’s taint would remain in the human in a way that not even a priest could purify. That woman would be branded a ’witch’ by the Church and receive the baptism of purification through burning at the stake.
"Baroness! I shall give you one more chance!"
"The, the bet isn’t over yet...!"
"Nonsense! You’ve already come three times!"
Smack.
The orc struck her rear again. The baroness hung her head.
"Every one of your people standing before you is a witness! Did you think you could hide your climax just by stifling your moans?!"
"N-No...! I haven’t come yet...!"
"You might not know, being a virgin. Then I’ll make it undeniable!"
The orc seized the baroness’s hips with both hands and drove himself in. A powerful thrust, burying himself to the hilt; the baroness could endure no longer.
"Haaahhhng!!"
The baroness’s cry of ecstasy burst across the square like a dam breaking. A full hour. For one hour, the orc had tormented the baroness without rest, and though she’d held out for over an hour, she had finally broken.
"B-Baroness...!"
In truth, she had climaxed several times already. The residents knew it too. But the orc had pretended not to notice, as if to mock her, and the baroness had pretended she hadn’t come for the sake of her people, enduring and enduring.
"I’m sorry...!"
But she could take no more. No matter how much revulsion underlay it all, there was nothing to be done once the aphrodisiac was in play. The residents wept at the baroness’s valiant struggle.
"Baroness. I shall give you one final chance."
The orc lifted her by the waist and stood at the edge of the railing.
"Will you bear my child and survive alongside your people, or will you be the first to fall to your death from here? I respect your fight... I vow not to kill anyone who doesn’t resist. I swear on my manhood."
"...."
The baroness swept her gaze across her people. Since everyone had been ordered not to look away, the residents met her eyes with a myriad of expressions.
A gentle smile.
The baroness simply smiled at them.
"...A noble’s duty."
The baroness set her jaw with resolve and turned her body toward me.
"If it means I can save my people...!"
"Heh heh, a fine choice!"
I lifted the baroness high once more for all to see, spreading her legs apart.
"Baroness Virginia Virgo, bear the orc’s child! Graaah!"
"Haaahhhng!!"
Spurt, spurt.
I released my seed inside the baroness. As I came, the baroness’s body went limp. I carefully drew her into my arms and bellowed to the square.
"From this moment, this woman is mine. Originally, I intended to devour a hundred or so virgins among you, but... heh heh, a woman worth a hundred is more than a fair trade. Never forget. Today, you owe your lives to the baroness you once served."
Would the residents ever realize? The baroness they’d cursed with every foul word had already, truly, been consumed, and the baroness cradled in my arms was a Slabdoll wearing the baroness’s shape.
"Per my bargain with the baroness, I will spare your lives. You are all hostages and prisoners. If even one of you tries to escape this castle...."
Thud.
I lifted the Shax that had been prepared behind me and drove its axe blade into the wall.
"Every last one of you will bear an orc’s child."
The women’s faces went rigid. I swayed my hips with a lewd glint in my eye.
"Men included."
The men’s faces went rigid too.
***
The orc carried the unconscious baroness inside.
A heavy silence settled over the square, and people began to sob, one by one.
"Baroness...!"
It was painfully obvious whose sacrifice had saved them. The baroness could clearly never return to human society. The moment the Holy Knight Order’s commander leading the subjugation force learned what had happened, she would certainly be burned at the stake.
A noble’s duty.
The baroness, who had seemed incompetent at first glance, who had seemed cruel at first glance, had simply been an ordinary noble all along. It was merely that monsters beyond the barony’s ability to handle had appeared.
"What’s going to happen to us now...?"
They had barely clung to life. But what fate awaited the residents, now prisoners? Ghouls guarded the gates, and crow figures patrolled to seal every gap in the walls. Succubi flew brazenly through the sky despite the glittering sun, hunting for people still in hiding.
"Attention, everyone."
The residents gathered in the square focused their gaze on the orc standing atop the fountain. Distinctly different from the potbellied orc who had violated the baroness, this orc was visibly muscular and wore a form-fitting white garment resembling stockings beneath his leather armor.
"From now on, we will begin selection."
No sooner had the orc given the order than a group of orcs began pushing through the crowd of humans. They looked around as if appraising something.
"Brother, I’ll take this woman."
"Kyaahh!!"
An orc hoisted up a woman in a black suit dress. Her beauty was notably more refined and striking compared to the other women.
"Oh, oh no...!"
The residents realized the identity of the women being singled out by the orcs. They were Avalon’s fairies; some of them had been dragged into the square and selected by the orcs.
"Brother, I’ll do her right here."
"N-No! Why me?!"
"Because you’re so damn pretty it turns me on."
The woman was left speechless by the orc’s backhanded compliment. Without another word, the orc pinned her beneath him, tore through her cumbersome stockings, and yanked his trousers straight down.
"Eek!"
The orc’s member, far thicker and larger than a human man’s, bored into the fairy.
"Hoo, hoo. This woman...is mine."
The orc began forcing himself on the fairy in a somewhat awkward voice, mimicking what their leader orc had done. It was the same elsewhere.
"Aaahh!!"
"N-Noooo! I, I don’t want to bear an orc’s child!"
"S-Someone help me! Please!!"
The women screamed and wailed without exception. But even the people standing right beside them couldn’t stop the orcs. Even the young men who hadn’t gone off to the war simply stood there.
"Hmm, who shall I pick, I wonder~"
The succubi flying overhead sauntered with seductive strides, scanning the human men. The harpies joined the succubi in appraising the men as well.
"I choose you."
A succubus straddled a young man wearing glasses. Unable to resist at all, the young man could only move his body as the succubus’s hands directed. The succubus subdued and began puppeteering his body.
"P-Please don’t...! Please! I’ll, I’ll be burned at the stake!"
"Oh. For men, just ejaculating alone means immediate burning? Hehe, don’t worry."
The succubus manipulated the young man into mounting her himself, grinning suggestively.
"Just don’t cum, and you’ll be fine, right? Keheheh."
"Ah, aaahh!!"
Spica Castle square.
The monsters’ orgy of madness had begun.
***
[Shortly after, in the lord’s castle study.]
"Well done, Lime. A flawless performance. Did it hurt at all?"
"Not at all. Let’s do it again sometime, Master."
Lime, still maintaining Baroness Virgo’s appearance, stepped out of the baroness’s study and kissed me. Unlike the outdoor spectacle where she’d deliberately broken character for the act, here in the study where she didn’t need to worry about prying eyes, Lime was moving her hips on her own.
"Meri. I’m going to issue a proclamation across the entire barony. Effective today, you are all citizens of the Demon King’s Army’s Spica Castle."
"Will that be all right?"
Meri, sitting at a nearby table and sifting through the baronial castle’s various documents, looked uncertain.
"There were more cases than expected of people resenting being under monsters. They’ll definitely try to flee under cover of night."
"Anyone who runs, I’ll leave be. Rather than torturing and breaking in people who risked their lives to escape, it’s better to sweet-talk the ones who gave up and stayed."
Rather than crushing the will of those determined to resist, it was better to win over those who’d accepted their situation. That was precisely why we’d held the ceremony first.
"Are the fairies ready?"
"Yes. They’ve been preparing since dawn. Everyone was looking forward to it before it even started, you know? They’re probably having the time of their lives right about now."
"...What incredible women."
To truly make the baronial castle ours, we needed a few more sacrificial lambs. Just me taking the baroness alone wasn’t enough to instill fear; we needed targets that would hit closer to home for the residents.
Their very neighbors. The people they’d been living alongside.
By pretending to violate them by force, the occupation of Spica Castle would be complete. They wouldn’t dare even think of resisting. The moment they did, orcs and succubi would come pouncing.
’Resist, and you get violated.’
Try anything foolish, and you’d be pinned down by a monster on the spot. And we’d use the fear of ’being burned at the stake by the Church’ that underlay any act with a monster, turning it against them.
Those who had already been intimate with monsters would be left thinking, ’I can never live in human society again!’ Making it so they wouldn’t even consider fleeing anywhere other than our legion.
"I’m not worried about the others, but... pass the word to the fairies. Tell them not to get so carried away that they break character."
"Don’t worry. With two or three of them clinging to each person, do you think they’ll even have the presence of mind to notice? "
I had set the example as an ’orc’ violating a human woman. Naturally, my subordinate orcs had to do the same for the residents to feel genuine fear of orcs.
The orc unit that had crossed over to Spica Castle with me, their partners were none other than Avalon’s fairies. In reality, a single fairy had enough libido to easily handle three or four orcs, but at least outwardly, it would look like the fairies were being gang-raped by the orcs.
"Were there any adventurers who put up a fight with swords? Women would be even better."
"We subdued about five. They’re buried in concrete right now."
"Pull them out and mix them in with the fairies. It’ll make it more convincing."
For those ones, it would effectively be real assault, but I couldn’t forgive anyone who’d dared draw a blade and tried to harm our soldiers.
"Let’s rename Spica Castle too. How about... Raspica?"
"Do you think you can just slap ’Ras’ on anything?"
"...I mean, it works, doesn’t it? Ras Vegas, and now Raspica. It’s a clear marker that it’s our legion’s city."
"Legion Commander!!"
A man with a familiar voice burst in screaming. I was stunned to see the familiar face.
"Gray?"
What are you doing here? He was supposed to be on standby at Ras Vegas with Harpuia, yet here he was at the baronial castle, his face white as a sheet.
"Ras Vegas is under attack! They’ve...breached the walls!"
"....!!"
