Overlord Blue Citadel Alternate

『Springs』

After Jack had set up a hot spring bath reserved for Enri, on the vacant ninth floor, so that she could relax and heal. Using teleportation rather than forcing her to walk, seemed to be fairly adequate.

Holding her as she initially had trouble walking on her own, Jack watched as she dipped her feet into the water first, and smirked seeing her jump in surprise to feel how hot it really was. It wasn't hot enough to scorch someone, but it was definitely brilliant for skincare.

"Enjoy it, for the time being you'll be alone here. I'll let Teetle know to bring your sister here, for now I have some matters to attend to."

"I see..." She stared up at him as she took a step away from him, already wincing and stumbling. Her legs almost gave out as they trembled under her. She had done plenty of exercise in her life, but she had never felt so sore before. "Can you... Help me in?"

Nodding as she seemed to be struggling, he gave her a gentle smile and guided her into the water as she clung to his arm. Allowing him to kneel by the pool until she was finally in.

"Mmm..." Groaning she kept her big brown eyes up at him as he rested her arms on the stony floor surrounding the hotspring.

Watching her for a split second, he would stand up to fix his pants.

She closed her eyes partially as she settled into the steaming water. The Hot spring room seemed to have the illusionary appearance of the outdoors. It even had a soft breeze which would cause anyone to clamber back into the hot pool once exposed.

The bath itself was large enough for at least a hundred people to fit in comfortably.

"Why don't you..." She trailed off as she went to look for Jack from where she sat in the pool.

As she looked around, and watched as Jack made his way out of the place, her eyes trailed along the bamboo fence that surrounded the 'edges' of the room.

The artificial sky above was a night sky, a copy and paste from his room, not that she would know. Above the green bamboo fence was tops of evergreen trees, giving the illusion of being surrounded by a massive forest or woodland. There were even the sounds of the night, which were rather tame compared to what she would hear from the forest in this world.

She almost felt at home in this little room, though a little afraid of a being who could create such as place. It was as if she was in the labyrinth of a Great God, or something close to one.

"Aaah..." She let out a cool breath, resting her head back against the stone, letting her arms limpy float in the water at her sides.

Letting out a settled sigh after taking in a deep inhalation, she closed her eyes and sunk a little into the hot springs. Looking over her reddening fair skin, enjoying the feeling of the heat.

She splashed the water up her arms and long her collarbone, caressed her breasts. She could easily recall how Jack had vaguely touched and explored her moments ago as he had violated her chastity.

She bit her lower lip.

Between her legs stung from the heat, but her fatigue was being taken away. She had a feeling of being completely revitalized. Sifting a bit, side to side in the bath, she poked her toes out from beneath the water and giggled.

"So used to filling a bucket with cold water and dumping it over my head or sponge bathing..." Of course she didn't have a sponge persay, she used a cloth, as a sea sponge was expensive.

He gave her woolen day clothes to some maids outside of the room to clean and to have some more personalized clothes crafted with finer material.

He believed she would enjoy more choices of clothing, if she didn't already have them. If she didn't want them, she could sell them, or keep them for her sister for when she was older.

Her life was in his hands, so he also had them look into modifying her woolen clothes with enchantments. However they were quick to find that the Data Crystals from the gameworld didn't do anything for the clothes. They didn't do anything for any of the items in this world, as none of them were equipped or designed to accept these crystals.

It was strange. So many mechanics were the same in this world, yet there were so many others that were not the same. It wasn't the game world, this was a New World, he knew this. It was hard to ignore the fact that he couldn't see the hub, but he could feel and somewhat utilize it.

Returning to the throne chamber, Jack would walk over to what looked to be a node directly beside the throne. He placed his hand on it and a large interface appeared in front of him.

"So this still works... Even though there isn't a hub," Jack looked over what was there and it all was just like the game. Except slightly different. All of the money in the treasury was noted on the left hand screen, and there were various options for mercenary creatures and fighters.

He could spawn mercenary monsters and NPCs from YGGDRASIL into this world. However most of them seemed to be related to the City itself, such as Automatons and machine based golems.

He was beginning to grow curious. If he were to purchase them, would he be able to resurrect them again should they die with magic? Or would they just dissipate like in the game? He was beginning to grow curious about that with the other NPCs as well.

If a Guardian were to die, would he be able to resurrect them normally? Or would he have to pay for their resurrection through the treasury? At least they all had Resurrection Items, and if those worked, it was likely he could use True Resurrection to bring them back if their bodies disappeared. Though if that worked, he would rather exhilarated. However he wasn't about to test it on his Guardians, that didn't leave a good taste in his mouth.

Looking through the system, he could see the place was still on high alert. Multiple locations in the city were now with Greater Dimensional Locks, which stopped teleportation for enemies.

There was even a map which showed the entire city and even the castle. It had blue dots with names of friendlies and then there were white dots with no names for Enri and Nemu.

There was only one red dot, the female from the Slane Theocracy, it seemed she was being accompanied by two guards. Namely Anika and Jarod.

Looking over the traps that could be set up and the various other things that could be purchased through this system, he glanced up towards the door which he had left open when he returned.

Silva was standing in the doorway with the faintest smile across her lips as she strode into the room. Her eyes looking over the supreme leader of her people as she returned to her post behind him. "So... How was it? The Village girl?"

Jack froze for a moment hearing that question come up behind him, a hue of red assaulted his face. "I don't have anything to compare it to, so I'll say... It was good?" His neck creaked as he slowly turned it to look at her. "Was it really necessary to ask?"

"Yes, as Head Guardian, it is my duty to know."

Jack's amethyst eyes stared through her red ones, her face was bursting out blushing within seconds. "Really? Is that really what you're going for?"

Silva nodded and turned her head away, nervously, itching the tip of her nose with the finger nail of her forefinger. "W-why else would I want to know, Jack-sama?"

Rolling his jaw at her, his eyes went up and down her Victorian dress she had changed back into. "Silva, would you like to research the latest fashion trends of the neighboring Kingdoms?"

Blinking at him, her head lulled to the side. "Jack-sama?"

"Do you?" He raised a brow as she didn't give him an immediate answer.

"Yes!" She bounced in place, as if a chihuahua was bouncing from its oh so 'powerful' bark.

Jack nodded slightly, "Go grab a Mirror of Remote Viewing and go see what the 'lesser' mortals are wearing." He then turned his attention back towards the system as she quickly went to skip out of the room. "Oh, wait..." Taking a ring from his item box, he looked up at her as she had halted and glanced over her shoulder.

Immediately Silva's eyes lit up as she saw the Guild Ring in his hand and darted over to him, almost like a pup, "A ring of power!"

"You are the Head Guardian, so it would only make sense that you'd have one of these..." Her flexed his eyes slightly at the idea of her calling it a 'Ring of Power.' Though he knew it was her chuuni speaking out.