CHAPTER 186: BOTH

"I see. So she is the first of the Weapons?"

"Yes. She is also Bianca’s adopted sister. Although human, Bianca considers the Snow Wolves and the Beowolves to be her kin. Remember to be respectful."

Alpha and the Centaurs bowed their upper bodies and placed their hands over their hearts. "We understand, Tyrant."

"Wow! Looking like this, you really sound like a proper leader now, Elian," Fluffy teased with an impish smile.

He waved her off and turned to leave.

"Compared to you, the Naga are saints. The Slinky Corps is Bianca’s pride and joy. She wants them to serve as examples to the Beowolves."

Fluffy crossed her arms and looked at Alpha’s group with contempt.

"Eeh? But they are weak? Naga invaded our dungeon before and they didn’t even get past the door. We tried searching for them but never found their lair," she whined. "If we had, we would have butchered them to the last."

Despite her blatant racism, Alpha and the other Naga stood motionless and said nothing.

Annoyed, Fluffy flicked her ponytail and approached the Alpha. Despite having a humanoid body, Fluffy was just as tall as the Naga centaur on four legs.

"What do you say, you snake bastard? Want to take me for a ride? Although you seem more like a confused misshapen gecko with an identity crisis. Why do you have horse legs on you? Shouldn’t you be crawling on the ground?"

Elian could practically feel the animosity and bloodlust from Fluffy. Considering the power hidden behind her lithe frame, it was doubtful whether Alpha could win.

However, contrary to what he expected, despite Fluffy’s unfriendly challenge, Alpha only gazed at her and answered in a steady, almost emotionless voice.

"I am no longer Naga, Lady Fluffy. I am a Weapon of Valestra. I have horse legs as they make me run faster; when the time comes that something else arrives, I will change my body as needed. Didn’t you do the same?"

Fluffy then threw her head back and laughed boisterously, "Haha! You got that right, you snake bastard! As expected of my bro! Call me big sis." Doing a 180, the wolf girl grabbed Alpha by the neck and began rubbing his snake head roughly.

"We are Weapons. Now that you are one of us, no one gives a crap what you were before. As your eldest, I will bring you up to speed. We have only three commandments of our kind." She then pointed to the other centaurs and called them over.

"You bastards too! Come here. This is something the Beowolves wrote to unify everyone."

Elian couldn’t help but marvel at the sight in front of him. Alpha grew uncomfortable as Fluffy practically shoved his face into her chest. Although they came from different races, even different worlds, under the name Weapon, they were family.

Although I too have yet to hear what these commandments are.

"Commandment number 1: Weapons are family. We do not kill our own. If you have beef with another Weapon, brawl it out until you are satisfied, but no deaths."

The Weapons from Ysh-Natul all nodded their heads in understanding. Fluffy, who noticed their childlike wonder, continued while acting like a smug know-it-all.

"Commandment number 2: We protect our own. If you hear or know of someone who killed a Weapon, tell us immediately. We will mobilize and butcher the bastard’s family, race, and world to the last."

Fluffy then looked skyward as shadows flew overhead. Elian followed her line of sight and saw Bianca, Epsilon, and the rest of her unit return.

"Finally, Commandment number 3: Weapons never retreat, nor do we surrender. If anyone challenges us to a fight. We will not stop until they are dead. Any enemy our Tyrant or Anchor chooses, we destroy. Do you all understand?"

Alpha closed his eyes and had a solemn expression. As if ruminating on the commands, he took a moment before he nodded. "The Weapons of Ysh-Natul understand, big sis."

Fluffy nodded in satisfaction while knocking on Alpha’s head, "Prepare yourself. I will train you all when we get back to the city." Not waiting for his reply, she walked towards Elian, or rather the woman landing beside him.

"Sup, pervert! Made any babies yet?"

The nerves on Bianca’s forehead twitched. Elian could even hear the sound of her gloves tightening. She tried to maintain a smile but approached Fluffy with heavy steps.

"I suppose spewing trash is to be expected from those who have mediocre intelligence," she remarked with irritation.

"So that means a no," Fluffy said with a heavy sigh. "Just how much of a prude are you, you scrawny magic-girl reject? Even stripping naked didn’t work?"

Bianca’s body flinched, and within seconds, her aristocratic demeanor fell apart.

"It’s not my fault, okay! We kissed! Alot! Elian just has really good morals! Something a petty virgin pretending to be a love guru wouldn’t know!"

"..."

Fluffy and Bianca glared at each other in silence. They had similar features and looked cut from the same cloth. Yet their exchange caused everyone present to pause, except for Elian. He was smiling.

As the Naga and Fluffy’s squad mates grew flustered, the two women insulting the crap out of each other laughed heartily. Then, much like Elian’s meeting with Fluffy, the two gorgeous women threw themselves at one another and hugged affectionately.

"I am so glad you are all right, Sister. I have missed you very much,"

Bianca confessed in tears.

"Stop crying... if you do, I’m going to cry and hick... ah crap... WAAAHHHH!!! I MISSED YOU SO MUCH!!!"

"WAAAAA! MEEE TOOO!!!!"

The wolf girl couldn’t even finish her sentence before she broke down and cried. Like a pair of wailing children, Bianca and Fluffy hugged tightly as they screamed their lungs out. It was silly; it was stupid, but Elian could understand.

His fiancée and Sister-in-law were quite close. And they clung to one another, terrified of the other disappearing. This was the first time they had separated for more than a week.

Elian approached the two of them and created a cart. Using Living Metal, he moved the sisters into the cart as they bawled their eyes out. He gestured to all the Weapons around them and pulled the cart slowly towards Crestfall.

Bianca and Fluffy cried the entire way.

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"Sniff... and you know..."

"What? He did! The bastard!"

"It was so hard!"

"There. There. My poor sister..."

"Right? It was a miracle."

"Have you tried a different approach?"

"Ah you mean..."

"Yes! Exactly that!"

Elian and the rest of the Weapons were forced to listen to the near telepathic conversation between Bianca and Fluffy. Despite wracking his brains, he could not make sense of how the two understood each other.

Eventually, they reached the city. A group of Beowolves welcomed them and escorted them into the city. As they used an entrance reserved only for Weapons, they didn’t encounter any humans.

"Wow, the city has changed quite a bit," Elian couldn’t help but exclaim.

"Yeah, Silas and Charlotte splurged like hell on it. Wait till you see the insides."

The walls of the city looked newly reinforced; there were new mana and kinetic turrets atop the walls. Elian couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow when he saw the people manning them. Not because of the people themselves but the gear they wore.

"Did Katri, Ned, and Char make the decision to distribute our gear to the humans? Even just basic guards have them?"

Fluffy shook her head, "Nah, those three are crooks. They bought good-looking armors made from cheap materials and had me coat them in Living Metal. Apart from us, no one would know the difference."

Hearing the ruse, Elian couldn’t help but chuckle. No wonder he felt weird sensing the gear. He felt the presence of his metals, but he could not move them at all. Turns out it was because there was too little to begin with.

"More importantly, Elian, Bianca. Woody and his daughter arrived a week ago. He shared some stuff about the crucible." Fluffy’s eyes turned sharp and all the humor in her voice vanished, "We are doing it right? Killing the Big Three after the invasion?"

Those who knew of how badly Bianca suffered from the humans, especially Fluffy and Silent, were like deranged avengers. The three leaders and their people were humans with whom they could not coexist.

Which suited Elian just fine. As he was the same.

"Yeah. Naturally you all will be joining me when I summon them. Whoever they decide to bring..."

"We will simply butcher them all."

Elian’s statement was finished by Fluffy, and the two nodded in understanding. Until Bianca was avenged, the Weapons as a faction, could not move forward. Everything they did was all for that battle.

Only after could they begin to save more than they killed.

Fluffy licked her lips in bloodlust. So much so that those around her drew back.

"So? Who are we invading? Averignis, and Karnathi will not even need a fight. Fralhame a few. Dunno what the situation is for Ysh-Natul, but there are plenty of hostile planets to choose from."

Epsilon raised her hand as she declared, "Ysh-Natul would also be hostile. In order to command the planet, we would need to break it first."

"Hmm, don’t we also owe a visit to Virexar? Yearns said she would make her world an axis planet for Earth if we helped her become a Tyrant,"Bianca countered.

However, Elian answered in a way that no one expected.

"Who says we can’t do both?"