Monster Empire 2 by Michael-Scott Earle

Author:Michael-Scott Earle [Earle, Michael-Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

With my livestock hopefully protected for the foreseeable future, we finished our tour with a walk around the few fields I’d started my crops in this spring. Torrance was already impressed with my operation by this point, but I could tell the prospect of farming such extensive crops again was what put that extra spring in the older man’s step. His green thumb power seemed to be itching to get back into action, and as I watched him pacing along the edge of my muddy rice field muttering under his breath to himself, I wondered if this was how all powers in this world worked.

I didn’t know anyone beyond Torrance and his family, and I recalled the man mentioning Matilda wouldn’t be of age to learn her own powers until she was eighteen, so I didn’t have much to go off of. As far as I was concerned, I felt more like my goblin-wife had directed me toward the last two monster-women I ended up bonding with rather than sensing my powers were itching to get to work.

I had a while to think about it, though, while Torrance was in the zone, and especially with regards to Ruby, I did recall feeling an overwhelming urge to help my women when I first met them.

Nika had been surrounded by kobolds when I stormed the cave and helped her gain the upper hand, and Calliope was almost cooked alive before Sawsaw and I destroyed the troop of goblins responsible. Then there was Ruby, who was well guarded by her own handy trap work, and this was where I began to understand my power a little better. Only her impending suicide mission threatened Ruby’s life at the time, but she was also part of a dying race living in squalor and fear of extinction.

At the time, it didn’t matter how many curses she threw my way, I was rooted to that cave of hers no matter what, and I wasn’t going to leave until I was positive she would stay alive. Then I opened my mouth, and a slew of promises to protect and love her tumbled out before I even registered what I was doing. Now, I began to wonder if the leaden feeling in my chest, and my fierce determination to save her life, had been my power eagerly building in my veins in the same way Torrance seemed to be feeling now.

He was practically glued to my fields and couldn’t resist sorting through dozens of prospective plans to get things growing as amply and as quickly as possible.

So, maybe Nika wasn’t the only one determined to gather more wives and build an army of monster babies. Maybe this was what my power wanted for me as well, which meant my destiny wasn’t in either of our hands, really. If the power Granhelga prophesied was really as ingrained in my being as implied when I first arrived in this world, then who knew how many wives I’d have by the time I took over this realm?

The idea made me wonder if I had the ability of restraint anymore.

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