Elizabeth arrived in front of Jenna and Lily easily enough, she bypassed Selen, Lily, Asher and Magnus. She couldn't deal with them, not right now.
Not after seeing the photos of the four student council members and having their student council president get nude in front of her to tempt her like that.
"Elizabeth?" Jenna asked when they saw her materialize in front of them, "Is…everything all right?"
"...Problems….?" Lily also asked in her usual one-word speaking mode.
"Everything is okay," Elizabeth said, how does one expin what happened inside? "We can leave."
Elizabeth didn't want to think about that, worse of all was the fact that Rossie and Rena had seen it all.
She had thought about censoring some of that, but the fact that Evangeline removed her blouse and bra stunned her, so it was too te to censor it by the moment she had thought about doing just that, and worse of all was the fact that since she got distracted by that fact she was pulled out of her game.
So when the pictures of the OTHER members of the Student Council came around she was too shell shocked to think about censoring them too, not that it would work, since Evangeline was very ADAMANT about having Elizabeth join them and for her to turn the whole Student Council into her personal Harem.
Not that she minded having a Harem, she kind of had one right now, being in a polyamorous retionship qualified as a harem…to some degree, not that she was pnning on expanding it.
And not because she was missing potential suitors for it, even if she respected Rena and Rossie's orientation and only went after other girls, she had plenty targets to go after.
Aura and Mordred were two possible objectives, Aura had shown some…physical interest on her, even if the girl had cimed it to be mere jokes, or experiments as she said. And Elizabeth was sure that Mordred would accept it, the girl was…well.
She was a minion still, so she could very well groom her into a lover if she ever wanted more members for a harem. Not that she would do that; she would never go after one of her minions, no matter what.
They all saw her as…well, as a [Goddess], so more than likely not a single one of them would ever say no, if one was to ever say no to her it would be Aura, and even she would probably not say it. Elizabeth wasn't being vainglorious or anything; she knew how beautiful and gorgeous she was.
And Aura clearly had a thing for her…or something close to that.
And if she went for personal preferences…well, Elizabeth liked men too, even if she wasn't actively going after any, she didn't mind them. Her type was the muscur manly one, though, so Asher was definitely not on her radar.
She liked people more like how Papa looked after all, so right now the only one like that was probably [The BeastMaster], since [The Juggernaut] turned out to be a cute blue-haired childhood friend.
And that was another one; she also had as an option the childhood friend route (Jenna), the silent type, socially awkward teacher (Lily), and whatever it was [The Tinkerer], probably the socially inept genius type?
She had plenty of girls around to go.
"Okay," Like right now, Jenna wasn't questioning what the deal was and only nodded, "Can you teleport us away Lily?"
“Hmmn…..barrier…..wards…..isoted….need…” Lily started speaking, was she saying that the barriers and ward isoted the space? If that was all… Elizabeth raised her hand to get Lily's attention and opened a portal made out of shadows. “....never….mind….that…..good….enough….”
The shadow portal opened into the Shadow Haven, and Elizabeth yered the exit of this portal into Germania, the st pce she had an open portal access that wasn't on her home.
She trusted Lily, of course, but she wouldn't open a portal to her home, not here…
And just in case, she didn't left any opening between the two portals within the Shadow Haven, that way no mana from there leaked, so to the casual observer it looked like Elizabeth had opened a portal outside of the MPI.
Not like she hadn't done something simir before, she had teleported away from the MPI during the second year here after all, so it shouldn't be too weird for her to do this. She suspected that they had set up restrictions to prevent her from doing that…
So that was why she was doing it like that, and doing so as a helper and not the main perpretator, that was important.
"Hnng…..Mass Teleport…." Lily said, and a fre of light surrounded them.
Elizabeth turned to look at the student council building just in time to see the doors open and Selen and Lily running out, they seemed…confused.
But Elizabeth paid them no extra attention and merely allowed the teleportation to take hold of her, she was getting tired of this school drama. Maybe if it had been thrown at her gradually across the days and weeks? Instead of in a few hours?
If it was to be written as a story, perhaps if it was set up as a whole volume or book, it could have worked. As it was, hazardly thrown at her as if discarding something that had been at the back, it was annoying and too troublesome to deal with. So Elizabeth decided to not deal with it, take the important data and leave.
She would not be using the [Virtues] anyway, she couldn't discard her power like that, her World was already being built upon [Sin Gems], so accepting [Virtues] would probably destabilize Terra Nexus.
So better to continue her current Path to power, Elizabeth had already picked her Path of ascension after all, even if it was thrown at her and she had little to no option. Well, she had the option of not taking it too, but she needed the power to deal with her problems, so really, there was never an option to being with.
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The light of teleportation finished and soon Elizabeth found herself….outside the same clearing that they had fought [The Shadow Tide]. It had been the pce that she had opened the shadow portal from within the Shadow Haven, but she had expected Lily to take them farther away.
"We are back here? Why?" Jenna asked too, so it wasn't some kind of silent talk between her and Lily?
“....this….was….the….other….side….of…..the…..portal….” Lily said pointing at Elizabeth, “....mana…..weird….didn’t....want…..to….risk….it….”
So she thought the mana was behaving weirdly so she only did the shortest Teleport possible?
"Weird how?" Jenna asked, confused, "I didn't detect anything wrong with the mana? It is weird that the MPI is connected to Germania, I always thought they were on the middle of the ocean or in one of our moons though."
“....School….not….on……germania…..” Lily started saying.
"While that is interesting and all, I would rather not discuss this here, Aura could you kindly…?" Elizabeth said speaking to the purple-haired maid.
"As you wish Mistress," Aura said as she materialized between the three women, "This will take but a moment, we are leaving for a more secure location now."
And before Lily or Jenna could say anything, Aura's Space Mana embraced them and whisked them away.
Elizabeth was curious about where the purple-haired girl would take them, but soon enough, she got her answer; they stood amidst a city that reeked of Shadow Mana. It wasn't as bad as what [The Shadow Tide] had going while he was ravaging all the shadow users that he found.
But it was close.
"Where…?" Elizabeth was about to ask when she turned around and found a local that she remembered visiting before, it was a restaurant hidden between high rise buildings, it was somewhat abandoned, but the food was good. "Really? Why of all pces here…"
Elizabeth found this type of things….annoying.
"This is the best pce if you want to hide away from those that were attempting to teleport after you," Aura said smirking at Elizabeth as Jenna and Lily seemed to need a couple seconds to recenter themselves, why were they having these issues? "They may need some time to recover since I couldn't set up proper defenses for international teleportation."
Protections?
"Usually….*Blerg* International teleportation requires some extra adjust, even if your body can withstand it like us," Jenna said while emptying part of her lunch, "If it was someone else they would have ended up ripped apart…your….friend is quite good, but not many can withstand the chaotic space…at least she shielded you…"
“.....not……polite…..bad…..girl….” Lily said as she tried her hardest to keep her food within her stomach.
"You should have protected them, Aura; you know my body is sturdier," Elizabeth said, turning to Aura; this was one of the reasons Elizabeth was confident that Aura would reciprocate her feelings should she ever attempt…
"Oh I know you can withstand it Mistress, I didn't even bother to shield you either. Faster that way," Aura said, smiling while nodding, "Besides, they will be fine. They are peak power grade here; I would be disappointed if an S-Tier can't withstand chaotic space."
And like that, Aura turned to look at Jenna and Lily, "Besides, the sorcerer is only pretending. While Mistress Jenna will adjust soon enough…there, see?" Aura said pointing at Jenna, a fsh of mana came from the ground and soon Jenna's face seemed to recover its color. "No harm no foul."
How….what kind of skill was Jenna even using there?
"And why here? Why Camelot?" Elizabeth said, turning to Aura, "Is it because of the Shadow Mana? What even happened to make it this dense? It wasn't that bad st time."
"I can answer that one…" Jenna said taking a deep breath, "... I'm feeling better now."
Jenna took a couple of seconds after saying that to look around and bring out her phone. Wasn't that dangerous right now?
"This one is safe, you can trust [The Tinkerer] to make safe phones, only she can track them, and if they ever are stolen they teleport away." Jenna said turning to Elizabeth and nodding at her, "I am sure you know about that part."
Elizabeth did know about that, she lost a phone like that.
"Well, I'll be returning to my usual work Mistress. Do call if needed," Aura said, making a small curtsy and teleporting away.
"....I don't know where your parents hired that one, but she is too powerful for a maid," Jenna said, shuddering, "Did I tell you that before?"
"She is one of my minions," Elizabeth said, "But I also wonder where she came from sometimes, especially since she wasn't technically summoned by me."
Elizabeth was gd of having her, of course she was, she was a great help. But even so, she sometimes questioned some parts of Aura, she was too powerful for her origins. She had started as a Minion, yes, but even that was…weird.
She was one of the first to gain sapience, true sapience among her minions, but the way she did it was…weird.
"Right…anyway, Camelot!" Jenna said turning to Elizabeth, "After [Advent], do you know what happened to the [Tainted]?"
Elizabeth of course knew.
"They stopped being [Tainted] and could use their skills freely," Elizabeth answered, "It made it easier for them to fear no longer lossing control, some shed out against the world while others took this chance to fulfill their dreams."
And to be honest, Elizabeth would probably have been among those that shed out against the World for the ostrization, she didn't like how they treated her as a tainted and she barely spent time as one!
"Yeah, but not all of those that were tainted acted like those two examples," Jenna said shaking her head, "You mentioned the two extremes, those that wanted revenge for the bad treatment they got, and those that rose above the circumstances."
"Was there another option?" Elizabeth asked confused, at least to her, it was easy to see herself doing either.
"Yes," Jenna said, pointing to the eatery where they had shown up. "Come with me."
And so Elizabeth followed Jenna inside, Lily a few paces behind.
"Ah right, before we go…Let me…" Elizabeth said opening a new portal behind them, barely a second after she opened she was tackled into the ground.
"Eli-Eil! Thank you!" It was a comet of pink-haired color, "Thank you, thank you, thank youuuuuu!!!!"
"We are truly grateful Eli," Followed by a red-haired girl who walked out more calmly, "We know how much it…bothers you what we do, and what we want to do to you, so we are truly grateful."
Both Rena and Rossie came out, and while Rena had some evidence of light makeup near her eyes and nose to hide the fact that she had been crying, Rossie did nothing to pretend or cover it up, as she was crying while hugging and sticking her face into Elizabeth's chest.
“Thaaaaank youuuuuuu…..” Rossie continued crying while chanting that, "I'll give you my first born to you, and the second, and the third…hell we can even have and start making one right now!"
"Rossie!" Elizabeth said while attempting to protect her dignity, "Wait,wait,wait!"
Elizabeth, of course, didn't mind giving her firstborn to Rossie, or having her firstborn…or both!
The problem wasn't that!
"Calm down! Expin!" The problem was the mess that Rossie was leaving and making, "What happened?"
"?" Jenna and Lily seemed also confused by this.
"We heard what you spoke with that bitch," Rean said as she spat the st word, that was the first time she remembered seeing Rena like this, it was….refreshing on its own way, she hadn't seen this side of Rena in quite some time, one that seemed to irradiate pure Hatred.
“Oh…right….” Elizabeth said, remembering what that whole thing had been about, "I'm sorry you had to see that,"
"What happened?" Jenna asked confused, "I know the Student Council wanted to offer you a spot on their ranks, but why is that an issue?"
"A spot on their ranks?!?!?" Rena said angrily, "That harlot did more than that!"
You could even see the fires of Wrath in Rena's eyes, it was interesting, so far Elizabeth had only seen this type of phenomenon with Rossie, and that wasn't as common as of te either.
She kind of missed Rossie's heart eyes.
"Rena," Rossie's quiet voice seemed to soothe the fires of wrath within Rena's eyes, "That's enough. Eli-Eli showed that nice dy her pce."
….Elizabeth was scared.
"So we should be understanding too, we don't want to do anything that could upset or disturb our future pns do we?" Rossie said turning to Rena as she stood up and helped Elizabeth stand. "We have important pns after all."
"...You are right, Rossie," Rena said as she calmed down, "I'm sorry, I lost my cool…"
"It's fine, that just show how much you love Eli-Eli!" Rossie said, bringing Rena into the hug, "We don't need to mind what corpses do or say!"
"Yes, you are right. We don't need to mind what they do or say, the dead care not for the living, so why should we care about them!" Rena said, smiling brightly, a little too brightly.
I'm sorry what corpses?
The Student Council wasn't dead, though!
They were alive!
Hello!?
"So….they insulted Elizabeth?" Jenna asked from the side, "I didn't think they would be the type…"
"It's fine, Elizabeth dealt with it and put them in their pce." Rossie said nodding, "And what a way, I don't think I would have been able to do it as well as she did in her pce."
"How so?" Jenna asked confused.
"Let's go inside, and I'll expin it," Elizabeth said, sighing, turning to look to Rossie, who almost had hearts in her eyes, even without the mana going rampant, then to Rena, who still had some fire inside her eyes, quite literally, "Might as well and eat I guess."
Besides, Elizabeth wanted to check on this pce, to see if it was indeed what she thought it was.