154 Chapter 151 Princess Bimbo…Lili (2/2)

'Summoned his own hero to help his side, and gave him a daughter, or succubus, to get their cooperation?'

(WHERE DO YOU COME UP WITH c.r.a.p LIKE THAT?)

Joseph sighed, then concentrated on Stella.

-STELLA?-

-JOSEPH!!!-

The princess suddenly stumbled back, prompting the nearest guard to grab her elbow to help keep her from falling on her b.u.t.t. The other guards around him drew their swords as Stella stepped out of his shadow.

(WHEN DID SHE LEARN THAT?)

'In the time stop. Surely you didn't think all she did for nine years was bake cookies?'

(I KNEW SHE COULD MOVE THROUGH YOUR SHADOW, BUT ACROSS REALMS???)

”AH! A demon!?” screamed the princess, holding her hands before her face.

Stella looked around, then turned her back on them. They weren't a threat to her.

”Who is the s.l.u.t in costume?” she asked.

”The second Princess of the kingdom, Lili,” he answered, as Joe spoke up.

'Ah, so that's what that bit is for. Finished a.n.a.lyzing the circle. 90% of it is incredibly inefficient. Half of the circle is made to account for variances between realms. Another third is set to narrowing down the targets to the opposite gender of the summoner, and a similar age, and localizing them. Things like, including them as a native of the world means they can't be banished, get the system in this case, and speak the languages of the summoner. You could take the same circle and it would work on about 99% of all worlds, it has so much devoted to error and exception handling. Only the last 10-15% is involved in plane s.h.i.+fting. It will take about a week to a.n.a.lyze it and compute home realm coordinates so we can go back.'

'Ok. I'll help when I can, but first, I need to figure out what is going on.

'System, there isn't a copy of META in this realm is there?'

(OOH! LET ME CHECK…NO SORRY.)

'Figures.'

MIND-READING.

He turned to look back at the princess, to see what she was thinking.

(She seems to be a guard, but does he have some way to subjugate the demons and force them to do his bidding? I'm more beautiful than her, but she can probably do weird demon things in bed, so it might be harder to seduce him than I want.)

(Father trusted me with this hero, after all, eldest sister's hero is still in training. He's too soft on the demi-human slaves in the army. He should just kill the demons and not worry about the slaves. This is my chance. If I can get ahead here, then I might become queen, since brother was poisoned.)

”Oh, hero, who is the being brought forth from your shadow?”

”Her name is Stella.”

”Joseph, what was that?” asked Stella, looking at him funny.

”Oh. I learned their language when they summoned me. You didn't get the benefit since you came through my shadow. Don't worry, we shouldn't be stuck here more than a week, and you don't want to know what they are saying anyway.”

She nodded as he turned back to the princess. His speech returned to his normal tongue when he talked to Stella, but reverted to their common language when he spoke to them. It was very interesting.

”You should understand how loyal she is if I trust her to guard my back since she can inhabit my shadow, correct?”

He wanted to see what this world was like, so while the princess nodded her pretty little head, he dug deeper into her memories.

MIND-SEARCH.

A human with cat ears and a tail would be a demi human. A cat standing and walking around like a human, would be a demon. Were-creatures were considered monsters, not even demons. Bird and mammal people are demi humans. Lizard people were demons no matter how human they looked. The current demon king was expected to be a dragon-kin.

'System, are there true dragons in this realm?'

(NO, ONLY LESSER DRAGONS. SOME ARE INTELLIGENT BUT NONE ARE AS POWERFUL AS THE DRAGONS IN YOUR REALM. THEY WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO SAVE EVEN A PIECE OF THE WORLD, IF THE WORLD TREE WAS CORRUPTED.)

'This world has a world tree?'

(OF COURSE. THE ELVES IN THE FOREST GUARD IT. I CAN'T GIVE YOU A LOT OF PARTICULARS BECAUSE I'M NOT BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE WITH THIS SYSTEM. IT'S TOO OUT OF DATE.)

'Could I teleport the world tree to our realm and solve our problems?'

(ENACRA WOULD PREFER YOU NOT STEAL THE WORLD TREE FROM ANOTHER REALM. TECHNICALLY ITS 50-50 IF THIS WORLD TREE WOULD ALSO BE CORRUPTED OR WOULD FIX THE OTHER.)

'Shavist. Fair enough. I knew that was too easy.'

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