Chapter 71: Cleaning Up
"So, I can just... pick one?" Latia asked me slightly doubtfully as we walked through a forest-esque area.
I was back in the former territory of Tiamat within my kingdom, which was still the only area of the Familiar Forest that was actually a forest. I'd brought Rias' peerage along with Ravel and Yubelluna here to find familiars a while ago, and I was back to finish clearing it out.
"Whichever one you feel drawn to," I shrugged, glancing over at the other woman with us, "You as well. I don't think there are many particularly powerful ones left, but whatever you want, I'll ensure you get."
"Got it," Adalina nodded at my words, being the other of the two women with me.
I had been meaning to come finish clearing out this small area of forest left for a while, but I'd been pretty distracted by my hostages. I had wanted to make the most of them being there, as I wasn't certain when Ajuka would make his move.
I had wanted my reputation with them to be as high as possible when that time came, but I wasn't as worried anymore.
Now that Rias and her peerage were living in my palace, and both Serafall and Ravel had come to visit twice already during the near week since the hostages' release, that was less of a concern. They were attached to me already, even if they actually could leave whenever they wanted.
So, I had brought Latia and Adalina to come get familiars while I finished clearing out the area. The Hydra had been the strongest creature here, aside from Tiamat of course, and there weren't any other particularly notable familiars besides Catelya and Akeno's Raiju.
But I'd still let the two women search for one that suited them, and I didn't mind having an excuse to spend time with them. After getting the Greed Island card, I was rather determined to spam more gacha pulls and try to get an item from Hunter x Hunter that would let me use Nen, which meant I needed to start farming reputation.
Luckily, the card was more of a backup plan than a major part in my actual plan, so the low odds of that happening weren't too daunting.
As we walked through the forest, I casually either killed or forced every monster we met to submit with [King's Aura] and [King's Command]. Most of them were just variations of monsters I'd already used [Devour] on, but I found my first new one pretty quickly.