Chapter 65: The Mainland War – Chapter 29

The next day…

Beastmen Plains, Mousemen Prison, The lost Gopher 

 

Mousemen are a race that doesn’t use their eyes very much, like all rodents they relied mostly on a powerful sense of smell. When it came to the construction of their prison, they made it incredibly accommodating to rodents. Cells would be annoying, instead, they get to enjoy countless narrow tunnels in a place without light. They call it the lost gopher because even a rodent would get lost inside these tunnels, and now this wonderful place was being used to accommodate prisoners.

 

“I’m so hungry! I don’t want to eat beetles or worms anymore! Why do they keep shoving those disgusting creatures in here with us?!” An Elf called in horror.

 

The bedrock was their prison, created by the gophermen and many mousemen.  Without tools, the elves had no way to escape, and they couldn’t navigate, only dark elves and a few others would be able to see down here. Greko had been told to treat them well, as the Supreme Cheese had use of them, he gave the prisoners one of the mousemen’s favorite spots inside of Rattholme.

 

“All of the water just turns muddy, they seem to expect us to drink it from the pools as they do. I have had diarrhea since I came here!” An elf cried.

 

“I can’t see anything, there is no sunlight down here!” 

 

“Stop complaining, the mousemen don’t care.” A female voice answered. “What you should be asking is why they took us, prisoner?” 

 

“What do you mean?”

 

“Beastmen don’t take prisoners! Yet, they took every single survivor of that horrible smog! Have any of you wondered why they would do that?” The female continued. “Where did the mousemen even come up with such a nefarious weapon?! Cough! Cough! Cough! ” 

 

“Captain Lyserra!” A female called out as she tried to steady the other shaking female elf.

 

“I am alright.” The female elf said.

 

If there was light the female who served under the older elf would have realized that the captain was lying, none of these surviving elves could be considered healthy, and the Captain was one of the ones in the unfortunate category. A scarf around her face helped filter out some of the gas and was the reason she wasn’t dead, but the poison gas was truly nefarious. A violent cough would come on if she spoke more than a few sentences without a break, this made conversations slow and tedious. Worse was the damage that was done to her nerves, her hands shook constantly, and she wasn’t able to do delicate work with them anymore.

 

Casting spells had become an impossibility, this was true for many of the survivors of the poisonous gas. Shakes, coughing, shortness of breath, and blindness, were all similar effects to the poisonous gas of world war 1. While artillery caused the most deaths, the thing that drove the most fear into soldiers was the poisonous gas that everyone started using. Every country began experimenting with its own blends of poisonous gas during the first world war, it was to overcome the stalemate caused by trench warfare.

 

“Captain, we have only been here for a week, but I am worried that if we are kept here for too long then the rest of the mages will go insane.” The female said.

 

“We need to figure out what the mousemen want, they refuse to speak to us using Elven or the Beastmen tongue, all they do is shout about ‘Cheese and Beer,’ we will need to figure out what this is.” The captain reported.

 

“I heard we are going to be sent to a work camp.” A male elf said between coughing fits.

 

“Where did you hear that?” The female attendant called out to the male in the dark.

 

 “One of the elves managed to find a gophermen who was willing to exchange words with him in the beastman tongue, they are selling us to the ‘Supreme Cheeks’ whatever this creature is.” The male elf replied with some confusion.

 

“Supreme Cheeks?” Captain Lyserra muttered.

 

The image of a large mousemean with very vivid red cheeks appeared in her mind, he was covered in thick corded muscle. Since he was such a unique creature, the captain had given this mousemen vivid yellow and black fur. Since he was the “Supreme Cheeks” she made these bright red. She figured that this creature was responsible for the smog, she made it more monster than beastman.

 

“I guess we can only see what this Supreme Cheeks wants.” She said.

 

***

Meanwhile…

Succubus Homeland, Plating factory

 

Rex led his guards inside of a large building, all of them had looks of wonder in their eyes, and then they all saw how empty the building was. It had many work tables and benches made from metal, but in the entire factory, only a single succubus could be seen. As they got closer and closer the succubi guards were soon able to recognize this compatriot of theirs. There weren’t any windows in this large building, so all of the succubi assumed that it was some kind of fantastical process that allowed their guns to turn from boring metal into beautiful gold.

 

“It’s Shou! She is the only succubus to ever be allowed to work inside of the plating factory!” This caused all of the succubi guards to take in the special succubus.

 

Shou on the other hand did not have a lively expression, she looked like she had experienced one of the most harrowing times of her life. All of her careful friendships had turned into anchors as they desperately began to try to persuade her to plate every weapon in their arsenal. Shou herself owned a little over 37 guns, and this was considered modest for an older succubus, even the Shore Defense teams were trying to convince her to plate their cannons. She just wanted to be like all of the other succubi, and now she had found herself on a pillar.

 

When Shou saw all of the succubi guards following her boss, she suddenly had a feeling of trepidation. From the start she never wanted this job, she was happy just working in the weapons factory. She looked forward and her eyes focused on the man with dirty blonde hair, he was the husband of the great leader. He had his usual smile filled with calm and confidence, it was that very smile that was said to have captured their leader.

 

“I let myself get charmed by my guards, today was supposed to be your training day, but you will be completing your first orders as well,” Rex told her. “You don’t need to worry, it isn’t as hard as you think, it will be coating things, that is the crappy job.” 

  

That is because he wanted to establish electroplating as quickly as possible, that was because it had so many industrial applications. Corrosion resistance, rust resistance, anti-wear, and various, just like oil and lubricants this process would also be needed when it came time to start building large-scale production machines. It was almost uncommon for any metal in the modern world to not have been plated with something. He couldn’t use a slow process like what he had been doing with foil up to now.

 

The succubus guards had used their charms to get exactly what they wanted, a gun meant for guarding, and all of its metal pieces needed to be in gold! The specifications were ridiculous, but until he created this new system of weapons for them then he needed to plate all of their current firearms! They would be the only ones aside from their leader and her mother who would have this treatment. On the backs of each of these succubi were large sacks, they contained all of the weapons they wanted to be plated.

 

“I already talked to the dwarves and had them send me some bars of metal to plate steel with,” Rex said as a pair of dwarves who were following the group placed down a large crate and opened it up.

 

Inside were bars of gold, zinc, chrome, copper, silver, and cadmium, it radiated a variety of different light when it was revealed inside of the large factory. The tails of the succubi guards instantly stood straight up in shock when they saw this and they all began to quickly speak to each other in whispers. They had never thought to ask if other metals were able to be used in the plating process, they had used their charms to extract this promise out of him and now he was wearing an anti-charm enchantment. They had to carefully decide on the best use of this, this could affect the future of all succubus guards.

 

“If we all select gold, won’t we be setting a precedent for all future guards?” One of the guards said with a look of hesitation.

 

This caused a sober expression to appear on the faces of several of the guards, that was because this service would have prices attached, and gold was a valuable resource on the island. The mine produced a pitiful amount, so most of it had to be imported from the Elven lands and this meant that it would be more expensive normally. This was the excuse they all used as each of them had a different bar of metal in their hands, they then began to carefully inspect all of them for color and several of the succubi had already started taking their guns off their backs.

 

“I think they are going to be a while, so I will be teaching you what you will be doing,” Rex told Shou.

 

She nodded several times as Rex led her to a large metal tub with an enchanted plate above it. Various copper frames sat off to the side that he had some succubi mold for him to make part hangers. Inside of the metal tub was just some water at the moment. 

 

“Let me see your gun,” Rex told her.

 

Rex was handed a rifle, and he quickly began to strip it down on the table next to the workbench. The succubi weapons were made with as much plastic as possible to reduce their weight, only the barrels and some parts of the receiver were metal. It took him less than a minute to free the barrel and all of the metal parts of the receiver, he then grabbed some copper wire and began to use it to suspend the metal pieces into the frame.

 

“What do you want it plated in?” He asked.

 

Shou wasn’t like the succubi guards who were busy debating how the various metals highlighted features of the succubi; she already knew what she wanted. She came back with a bar of metal that was bright silver with a slight blue tint, it was a bar of enchanted cold iron. Shou decided that since she had been responsible for the creation of the metal, then she also wanted it on her rifle! Rex was left with a shocked expression as he saw what she wanted.

 

Is that even possible?

 

This thought fascinated him, the metal hadn’t welded properly, but it had incredible properties, it was already used in barrels for machine guns due to its ability to rapidly dissipate heat. Then he wondered if he could reach a similar effect if he was able to plate the guns instead of spending all of the time it took to make them from the metal directly. 

 

“I am already so happy that I hired you, I think that in time you will be running this factory,” Rex told her.

 

Shou thought of how this honor would earn her a place in the succubus history books, already the great succubus philosophers were carefully writing the first edition of it. She knew that she would be placed in a section of it and all of her dreams of a normal life with normal succubus friends began to slowly disappear. Grief began to fill her heart as she realized that no matter what she did she kept moving further and further away from her sisters.

 

“I changed my mind, plate it with whatever you want! Just let me go home, I don’t want to work here anymore!” Shou said this with tears in her eyes.

 

For the last 3 days since word spread that she was the only worker in the plating factory, she had been treated like some kind of superstar. Succubi even stalked her, observing her every move in hopes of finding out why only she was selected to work in the plating factory. Other succubi had taken a much more direct approach to getting what they wanted, using past friendships and interactions in hopes of getting services out of her. Just in the last few days, she had been hounded by succubi that she barely knew, all of them dragging massive bags filled with firearms. 

 

“Shaya, this is a great learning experience for you, let me explain.” He ignored Shou as he began to explain things to the little succubus next to him. “Production is all about speed and reducing the costs. Steel is much cheaper than cold iron is, but if we can get some of the properties of cold iron while mostly using steel we can cut costs and production time. Instead of drilling one hole, find a way to drill 10 of them at the same time.”

 

He watched the little succubus carefully as she went into thought as she organized this information, she then nodded at him signaling that she understood. Without schools or prepper teaching staff, he would need to carefully groom professionals that could be used to teach future generations. Right now they didn’t have many children, but he hoped that would change with the succubi and the beastmen. His goal was to eventually open a college and use it to slowly spread his ideals to the rest of the world.

 

He paused when he realized something, Shaya seemed slightly shorter than he remembered her being. This had been something he had noticed since he had woken up, the amount of energy he had seemed to be higher, and he didn’t feel as dreary anymore. When he thought about everything he had been through with the succubi, it had all started with Kira. For the last 7 years they treated him like some weird anomaly, he had been the first non-succubus to stay among them and marry one of them.

 

In the beginning, they mostly ignored him, then over time things began to change for the better, they now waved at him and greeted him. He had begun learning some of their names, and he now was able to interact with them without Kira present. They were also slowly starting to become more organized, even if they still stumbled along the way.

 

Boom! Off in the distance, he could hear one of the shore defense cannons go off.

 

“Woah! You hit that large shark right in the head! That was incredible!” He could hear a succubus from a different shore defense cannon comment on her sister's accuracy.

 

“We have problem!” Borscht said as he walked into the factory.

 

“Oh, what’s going on?” He asked.

 

Rex paused when he noticed that his good friend was starting to put on weight, and a considerable amount at that. It was so much in fact that he found himself momentarily stunned.

 

“The big guns onshore keep killing monsters! We can’t eat fast enough, my cave is filled with meat!” Borscht said with a look of sorrow.

 

This admission caused Rex to pause, his then slowly began to open till it was no longer capable of opening any further. The Pride of Men had converted a large cave into a freezer unit to store meat, and the dwarves had several. For times of emergency on the island, he had also constructed several of them that he planned to use to freeze dry meat and store it for much longer. Now he was finding out that he might need to do something even more drastic.

 

“Can we build more freezers?” Rex asked as he thought about a certain corner of his research facility.

 

A pyramid of magic stones that was taller than he was, was stacked carefully to make full use of all of the space. All of them came from large ocean monsters that the brave succubi at the shore defense cannons had killed. Each of the large artillery pieces had an effective range of 12 miles or about 20KM, this was if you didn’t use special shells that could fly even further. The succubi had carefully learned how to use these weapons to their greatest ability, and if it was within 10 miles(~16KM) it almost was certain that the succubi would be able to hit it.

 

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“We have already built 5 of them! My cave is filled with meat, I must eat my way to my bed!” Borscht said this as he stood up and caused ripples and waves to flow through his large bulk.

 

“No wonder Kira left while I was unconscious, there are so many problems being caused by the succubi!” Rex said angrily as he thought about how Kira had gone on an ‘Adventure’ and no one would tell him what she was doing.

 

He paused and looked at Shaya as he thought about this problem of having too much food and not enough cold storage. Canning would be an excellent way to preserve the food and be able to store it for an incredibly long time. Just as he was about to consider making this another industry of the succubi, he paused as something entered his mind. It was a lump of bread that had no flavor or texture, it was something that still haunted his dreams.

 

The succubi bread… the greatest cause of constipation on the island…

 

“I will come up with a solution shortly, for now just come up with some way to store it and I will be down there once I am done here,” Rex said.

 

***

Meanwhile…

Beastmen Plains, Near the shore

 

Kira and Welch were moving into the second round of their battle while they waited for the ship to make its way to shore. Two women stood at a table before a pair of rifles that had a single magazine of bullets. In front of them, a pale succubus with red eyes and a top hat stood with her little dress. All around them was dense jungle, and the sounds of different types of birds and monsters could be heard.

 

Sara felt proud when she saw her leader standing before her, in the competition of fishing Kira had shown what true succubus valor looked like. She refused to give up until she had clinched victory in her little hands, it was truly inspiring to Sara. It made her wonder if one day she would also be battling for her husband!

 

“You beat me by 20 pounds!” Welch said angrily.

 

These words made Kira puff up with pride, to a succubus all that mattered was winning, it didn’t matter how they had to do it!

 

“5 bullets to determine who can get the best catch,” Kira said to the female elf.

 

Kira had determined that she needed someone else to help her protect Rex, and besides Borscht, Welch was the best choice on the island. She had nothing else going on but her training, this meant that she could spend the bulk of her time protecting Rex. Ever since he had started plating weapons, this had caused his value to rise once again in the eyes of the succubi. Just as Kira was about to reach for her rifle, she was interrupted by rapid wingbeats.

 

“Leader Kira!” A succubus called flying from the direction of the island.

 

“Report,” Kira commanded the succubus who arrived.

 

The succubus landed on the ground and ran up to the table and stood in front of Kira and Welch.

 

“Your husband has awoken, he has developed a magical stone.” She reported.

 

“That is wonderful, he will be able to protect himself better!” Kira said happily.

 

“His guards then proceeded to charm him and use the opportunity to get the weapons and plating they have always dreamed of.” The succubus reported.

 

Kira’s hand stopped as it was slowly reaching towards her gun for the competition, and her pupils constricted. Suddenly a burning rage began to build inside of her, it took every ounce of her willpower not to turn around and begin flying back to the island. Welch heard this statement too with shock, she looked at Kira with awe mixed into her shock.

 

“How did you train such terrible guards? Isn’t this what you were trying your hardest to avoid in the first place?” Welch asked her.

 

Kira had a straight face as she looked back at the female elf, there were a plethora of retorts flying through her mind. The whole point of this competition was something the two had started as children. The winner of this competition would be the one that Rex married and the loser would only be allowed to look on from afar. When Kira had seen Rex collapse after the plant monster kissed him, she was reminded of all the times she had seen him getting hurt. 

 

She decided that it was time to properly subjugate this elf, and make her the new leader of Rex’s guards. She was taking every single match seriously, their next stop would be the mousemen’s home. There they would collect the elven prisoners as well as compete in the third leg of their competition. Currently, she was trying to decide if she should keep competing or leave to go protect her husband.

 

“A problem has also occurred.” The succubus said.

 

“What is it this time?” Kira asked.

 

“Do you remember how when your husband was designing the defense system for the island, he created the blueprints for that marvelous weapon, the one that needs tracks to move?” The succubus said this and excitement could be seen in her eyes when she thought about it.

 

“The railway gun?” Kira asked.

 

“Yes! All of the shore defense succubi have been doing everything they can to get noticed, they have killed so many monsters that the island is flooding in meat.” She said.

 

Kira could remember what happened when it was revealed that a massive weapon would be assembled and stored inside of the mountain. It was a monster cannon that would be able to fire over 30 miles(~48KM), and it would be a bullet that was as large as a person. It was codenamed the “Great Succubuster Cannon” and it was built as a part of a train. Anytime that Rex did not include a name, then the succubi took it upon themselves to create a better one for him.

 

This was ignoring the actual blueprint, where the word “Big Stick” was crossed out and replaced with what the succubi had come up with. There wasn’t a single team on the Shore defense force that did not see that moving cannon platform as the dream and were eagerly trying to prove themselves. Every single day any high-tier monster that poked its head out of the water would find an artillery shell flying right into their brain. The waters around the island had never been safer, and they used a large amount of metal every day.

 

“How much farther until we reach the mousemen’s territory,” Welch asked.

 

“3 days,” Kira answered.

 

“How many prisoners did the mousemen take in total,” Welch asked.

 

“More than 200 and less than 600,” Kira said as she shook her head.

 

“Why such a big divergence?” Welch asked.

 

“A lot of the mousemen were drunk from all of the beer, so they all had a different count,” Kira said sadly.

 

“They are being treated well, right?” She asked.

 

“Of course, Greko said he put them in the best spot in the mousemen’s territory while he waits for us to show up,” Kira said. 

 

Suddenly Kira recalled something and turned towards the succubus who was reporting to her.

 

“Did my husband put anti-charm devices on?” She asked.

 

“Yes.” Kira paused as she remembered a group of succubi.

 

Kira had the mamas run the hot springs on Acid Island for all of the tired succubi who were in the middle of their flights. Copper in backpacks had turned into the main thing that was flown between the island and the shore, this was on top of Borax and all of the other things the succubi imported. A large network of succubi was required to keep these trade lines open, and it was all handled by Dora. One of the main goals of the ships was to reduce the amount of energy the succubi spent flying items from one location to another.

 

Kira’s hand darted forward and gripped a rifle, she then picked it up and pulled the bolt to chamber a round. This was a rifle that Kira had asked Shaya to create for this competition, instead of a bullet, they fired a dart that was gunpowder propelled. The dart was filled with a tranquilizer agent, it was made from another poisonous plant that grew on the island. Kira pushed the magazine into the rifle and pulled the bolt to chamber a round.

 

“I originally planned for this to take three days, but I think we need to finish our hunt in one or two,” Kira muttered.

 

***

Meanwhile…

Succubus Homeland, Plating factory

 

"Right," Rex said as he stood in front of the large vat.

 

A weak acid had been added and the bar of Cold iron had been placed inside of the solution. The gun parts were suspended on the copper bracket by copper wire, he then took out an enchanted plate, it used the same enchantment he used to complete electrolysis. So far all he had done was use the same enchantments since he had so few of them to work with. He then reached into his pocket and pulled out a small dripper bottle filled with thick oil that was filled with mana, removing the rubber cap, he filled the glass tube with fluid by squeezing the small rubber top and letting it inflate.

 

"3 drops is enough to run it for 20 minutes," Rex said.

 

Placing it on the enchanted plate that was connected to the copper frame that held the gun parts, bubbles could be seen forming in the solution. Rex watched this with a bored expression and walked over towards a chair and took a seat, Shaya was busy watching it closely with a paper and clipboard.

 

"Is that it?" Shou asked with shock.

 

"Yes, that is all that is required to plate something. It is a lot of waiting." Rex told her.

 

Gloves to avoid acid burn? Useless for a succubus who often danced around naked in rooms filled with acid fumes. Rex had already figured they would be perfect for this. 

 

"Next is coating, alright this one is tedious," Rex said as he leads her to another set of equipment. 

 

A massive oven had been built that was large enough to fit several cars inside of, it used the same heating enchantments they used in the oil refinery. Inside was a large metal tub, and he grabbed a metal hose that was on the outside that had two hoses attached, one at the bottom and one at the back of what looked like a gun. Reaching over he turned on a switch which turned on a small-scale engine that was connected to a compressor, he waited several minutes for it to build up enough pressure before he began to spray a waxy white powder on the metal that stuck and started to build upon it.

 

"This is called powder coating, once the entire thing is coated then you just need to push it into the massive oven in front of us and let it cure for a few hours," Rex explained. "Industry is all about making things simple. If a person is not required to be there then all the better!"

 

"This is it?" Shou said in horror.

 

"What do you mean?" Rex asked. "I thought it was about as simple as what you have been doing?"

 

She didn't know how to answer him, she thought this process was something magical and incredible. It didn't take Rex longer than a few minutes before he pushed the tub across some rollers into the large oven. Everything was mana-powered and simple to run since it ran until it was out of fuel. Rex had calculated everything when he created all of these tools for the succubi who would be working here.

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