Chapter 45: An Insane Plan
I stood with my hands on my hips, staring at the towering structure in front of me. My once already-huge palace had expanded again.
It now covered the entirety of the mountaintop, and it stretched upward with so many floors that it looked as if I was trying to build a staircase to the moon. I hadn't been the one to request it be expanded, but Raya had insisted on it.
In her own words, it was to 'celebrate my victory' and so that 'Tiamat wouldn't feel left out.' That wasn't necessary, as Tiamat had both a human form she could take as well as being able to shrink herself as my familiar, but the thought was nice nonetheless.
Two months had passed since my defeat of Tiamat, and things had changed quickly. Very quickly.
Now that the entire forest was under my rule, the actual civilization-building had accelerated. The forest barely even looked like a forest anymore, at least in some parts, as a large portion of the trees had been cut down to make homes.
Now, there were more than a fifty flourishing cities within the Familiar Forest - or, as the new floating box above the territory called it...
[Owned Territory: Domain of the Beast King]
The cities were rather divided based on races, as there were still hard feelings left over from the war. The dwarves in particular still largely lived in the 'Land of Iron' - which didn't actually exist anymore, but they lived in the portion of the forest where the kingdom had once been.
The huge wall surrounding it had been torn down, and now the entirety of the domain was connected. The majority of the succubi also still lived in the area that had been the Meadow of Love, and even most dire wolves were living in the area directly surrounding my palace.
But there was some progress being made as far as racial relations went. Many of the cities within the center of my domain, between the three former separate territories, were populated by many different species.
The wall around the entire domain had also been finished, turning the majority of my large territory into a fortress. But I said 'the majority' for a reason.