CH.444 Amilie’s Sentence
<span style="font-weight:400">It was a few dayster, and we were once again returning to the Dragon coast. But this time, we were nning to go even further, to the Nixie n’s city.
<span style="font-weight:400">We had been invited toe, as the n was ready to give Amilie her final sentence, and they wanted our, Cailie and I, opinion on it. Plus, Larkos and Kikumi lived on HomeBase currently, and we had to bring them over as well.
<span style="font-weight:400">For our travels, I decided to go with teleportation. No, not all of us would teleport, but I did leave that seal te with Lady Janina for a reason. So I’ll be teleporting there, while Lua will pilot B.E.S. Crystal Core.
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<span style="font-weight:400">And yes, Lua dide with us. She wasn’t therest time, because she didn’t want to take too many days off of teaching, but this is just a day trip, and she can take a day off.
<span style="font-weight:400">Ria also wanted toe, but Lua said she’d need to cover for her, so sadly no Ria on this adventure. But I did promise Ria a few days off, so she can visit any ce she wants.
<span style="font-weight:400">Agunan ended up asking for the same days off, and I think the two were nning on going somewhere together. Hopefully they won’t end up breaking anything.
<span style="font-weight:400">But their vacation is up anding, while our meeting is today, so let’s get back to it.
<span style="font-weight:400">First of all, my teleportation went fine. No lost body parts, or anything else like that. I think I’m getting used to it. … somewhat. Still can’t teleport with items in my hands.
<span style="font-weight:400">I then spent the bit of time I had training with Lady Janina and entertaining the dragons, but once Crystal Core got there, I had to stop, and I got into the spaceship.
<span style="font-weight:400">From there it didn’t take long for us to reach the ind, and after saying hi to J and the other water dragons, we dove into the water.
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<span style="font-weight:400">Once we got to the underwater city, I was happy to see it be a lot more lively than on ourst visit. I guess doubling the people and removing a dictator from power will do that for.
<span style="font-weight:400">Our group got a warm wee to the city and we were quickly guided to meet with the ‘old man’ and the rest of the dungeon council.
<span style="font-weight:400">Yes, I’m still calling him ‘the old man’, even though he is an old merman. Neither he, nor his name, are that important, so he is the old man.
<span style="font-weight:400">After I quickly introduced Lua to the council, and Lua and Alice leaving the room as they aren’t in any way a part of the council, we began our meeting.
<span style="font-weight:400">And yes, both Cailie and I are technical members of the council. Yes, we aren’t active members, but we are technical members. They ask for our opinions onrge decisions. I guess saving the n will do that.
<span style="font-weight:400">And yes, they do have a way ofmunicating with us. It is a type of link between the dungeon cores of their dungeon and HomeBase’s citadel core. I didn’t link it with the true core, because that might be a bit too risky, but the citadel core will work just fine for this.
<span style="font-weight:400">So with that, we could send messages between the two dungeons, and once I made a dungeon program for it, we could even have video calls. That is how Larkos and Kikumi have been able to take part in meetings, despite them being at HomeBase.
<span style="font-weight:400">Also, if you were wondering about dungeon programs, they are exactly what they sound like. They are programs or sets of instructions the dungeon core can run through as long as you start themand chain. Generally, they are used for monster and resource management, but you can do a lot of stuff with them, as long as you put in the time to program themands.
<span style="font-weight:400">And thankfully, I have this cheaty programmer called Tahlia in my mind, and she is quite skilled with themand chains. So she can domands that allow two waymunication between dungeon cores, including the aforementioned video calls.
<span style="font-weight:400">And if you ask her, she will say it is only a prototype for her real goal, which is using the same magic the Hero’s country uses for the guildmunicatorwork, to build us a full inte.
<span style="font-weight:400">But enough about long term goals, we have a <span style="font-weight:400">bitch<span style="font-weight:400"> … a very annoyingdy, to sentence.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Death.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Death.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Both the old man and the middle aged mer-folk agreed that Amilie should be put to death.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... maybe we could have a different punishment?” Larkos said. “I understand that she deserves a death sentence, but … I’ve been learning things from Sir Brian, and … I don’t think that will really be a good punishment.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I agree.” Kikumi said. “Death is instant. Amilie deserves to suffer for at least as long as she made us suffer.”
<span style="font-weight:400">… I didn’t teach her that. Don’t look at me. Nope. … okay, maybe I may have alluded to it, but … I’m mostly a forgiving person. Mostly. I hate abuse of authority. So anyone who does something like Amilie did deserves to suffer forever.
<span style="font-weight:400">We were throwing around a few ideas, which weren’t just killing her, until I suggested something that I think may be cruel enough to be epted.
<span style="font-weight:400">“We could make a prison inside Agunan’s volcano and trap her there. I can pull some favors with the dragons so that she’ll get food and water delivered to her, so she’ll just have to suffer in the heat. Would that work?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...” Cailie was speechless, just looking at me like I just suggested something extremely questionable.
<span style="font-weight:400">“You can do that!?” The middle aged mer-folk called out.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... Yeah. I think so. I’d have to confirm with Lady Janina first, but I don’t see why not.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... what if Amilie is able to escape?” The mer-folk woman, who was the leader of the banished half of the n, asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Her skills are already sealed, so she can’t use them. Thssa also removed the blessing she had, so she really can’t do much. And I can make ava golem to make sure she can’t escape without dragon level help.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... Brian, are you sure that isn’t too much?” Cailie asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Cailie. I understand that you might be worried, but you have to realize, this is sufficient punishment for what Amilie did. What she did is unforgivable, and even the Goddess agrees on that. So in all honesty, this is sufficient punishment.” I reassured her.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... won’t she dry out and die?” Larkos asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“She might, but I think I can make it so that she won’t. Probably. And if she does die, as long as I get to her quickly enough, I can resurrect her so she can keep on suffering.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Brian!” Caile yelped. “Okay. New rule. If Amilie does die, she may stay dead. We will just drop her body into the volcano and let it burn away.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... and you said I was cruel.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“You are!” Cailie insisted. “... I was nning on turning her into a ve or something.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Not toote to do that. I do know a few people who can draw a ve mark.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">In the end, we put it to a vote between a few options.
<span style="font-weight:400">Option one was death. No questions, Amilie will be killed.
<span style="font-weight:400">Option two was my volcano prison, with ava golem guard.
<span style="font-weight:400">Option three was very, and she will serve the n.
<span style="font-weight:400">Option four was very, but she will be sold off to someone outside the n.
<span style="font-weight:400">Oh and in case you were wondering, even if she’d be sold into very, I wouldn’t remove the Skill Drain I installed into her. She will be without her skills for the rest of her life.
<span style="font-weight:400">And yes, the n did try to add an option where Amilie is turned into a ve and made to serve HomeBase, but I refused to let her in. I mean, if I let her on HomeBase, I’d probably ‘identally’ teleport her to floor 42 or 49, the two ocean floors of HomeBase, and let the monsters there eat her.
<span style="font-weight:400">But yeah. After the first vote, volcano prison had three votes, very to the n had three votes and death had one vote. I do know who voted for death, so we could have just asked the old man break the tie, but instead we had another full vote, this time ending in a five to two split, and the volcano prison punishment winning out.
<span style="font-weight:400">Don’t know who switched sides for the second vote, but it also doesn’t really matter to me. We still have one more person''s punishment to pick before I get to build a prison.
<span style="font-weight:400">The other merfolk we had to punish was Iremur, or as I call him, Amilie’s boy toy. He was still failing to see just how bad Amilie was to the n, and was demanding Amilie be freed. … he was also currently in prison inside the dungeon, but he didn’t have his skills sealed or anything.
<span style="font-weight:400">His punishment was very and serving the n. At first I thought that would mean I’d have to visit a ve merchant, but luckily the dragon heart dungeon was able to mark someone as a ve who would do as the dungeon master, or in this case masters,mand, so we did that instead.
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<span style="font-weight:400">Getting permission for Lady Janina was easy, especially as Agunan is the technical master of the volcano, even if he isn’t here anymore. I did have to bribe a few other fire dragons though, but I do have some good karma with the dragons, so it wasn’t too difficult.
<span style="font-weight:400">Bribing them to bring Amilie food and water was a bit more difficult, but after I promised them a weekly feast, they agreed to my suggestion. I’ll just have to teleport her once a week and give them a bunch of food made with Mystik Wok and they’ll be happy.
<span style="font-weight:400">Making ava golem was simple. Because I have a card called Lava Golem. And guess what, Lava Golem even has a nice birdcage for Amilie, so I don’t even have to worry about that.
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<span style="font-weight:400">I used an A-rank monster core and some of the magma from the volcano to build a makeshiftva golem, before I installed the card into it and brought the Lava Golem to life.
<span style="font-weight:400">I then added Waboku to the cage to protect Amilie from any environmental damage. She would still be hot and bothered inside, but she shouldn’t take any actual damage. And best of all, it should prevent her frommitting sudoku inside the prison.
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<span style="font-weight:400">I then returned to the n, and told the council that the prison was ready.
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<span style="font-weight:400">The transportation of Amilie was a bit of a show. The n wanted to see her go, so I did make it into just a bit of a spectacle, with me holding her with both Telekinesis and Dark Chain.
<span style="font-weight:400">I naturally didn’t let any of the mer-folk to follow me all the way to the prison, but I’llter show them the recording of me taking Amilie all the way there.
<span style="font-weight:400">At first, Amilie was screaming and crying, trying to get anyone onto her side, but as the n members just watched with indifference or disgust, she stopped until we were alone.
<span style="font-weight:400">She then tried to sweet talk me into letting her go, which was honestly hriously bad. She really assumed her dominatrix personality would work on me, but I just told her that I’m already engaged to her sister.
<span style="font-weight:400">That really got her going, and she screamed the rest of the way, to the point where I ended up showing a dark chain into her mouth to shut her up.
<span style="font-weight:400">Once she saw where I was taking her, Amilie really went off, but I didn’t let that stop me. I shoved her inside her little bird cage, locked the door and threw the key into the volcano, before I let her go from the hold I had on her with Dark Chain and Telekinesis.
<span style="font-weight:400">I then exined to her how often she’d be getting food and water, which was once a day all at the same time, and rmended that she learn to split her meals from what she gets, before flying off and returning to the n.
<span style="font-weight:400">There I showed everyone the recording of me taking her to prison. Some did seemingly think that it may be a bit much, but they didn’t voice their opinions. And another simr, if notrger number of mer-folk voiced that she should have just been killed.
<span style="font-weight:400">The old man didn’t let them argue about it, simply stating that this is the punishment the council had chosen and they would have to ept it.
<span style="font-weight:400">Larkos and Kikumi then asked if I’d be willing to take a few more mer-folk students to HomeBase, which I agreed to, so I let both of them pick two toe with us to study on HomeBase. As long as the rest of the council agreed to let them leave.
<span style="font-weight:400">Kikumi picked her younger sister and her sister''s friend, while Larkos picked two young mer-folk males.
<span style="font-weight:400">So with four new additions to the HomeBase student roster, we returned home.