Chapter 270: Utilization
"So Honey, I have to ask, How are you using that System?"
Shock hit my face. I looked around and saw no one else in the room. My mother chuckled as she walked into the room. "Don't talk about that!" I snapped back.
"Honey, You are insane for not utilizing something so helpful. I told you in the past to use it to the max, but despite the progress you have made lately, it is nowhere near what you grew in the years before you settled down a little. It is not normal for people to leave the C rank as early as you did. You becoming a B ranker set off some waves, but since then, without this war, you have stagnated. I have been paying attention in the war, and you are starting to learn to fight. In fact, I have been impressed, but I know you have a System that you are not exploiting. Why?"
My mother was serious, and I looked around and sighed. "Because it means impregnating more and more women, and I WANT TO RAISE MY KIDS," I said with a sneer.
"You are NEVER going to be able to raise all your kids already, Chelsea; you are a typical Bunny-kin, unlike your father and me. I never really liked him and preferred the soft touch of women, so every time I got pregnant, I was through planning and barely being able to touch each other. You have a bunch of half-siblings who are not recognized as Loveknots at all. So why are you holding back?" My mother said, her voice cold.
After playing with my new Harem member, the sudden conversation took me off guard. "Because I want to raise my kids!" I shouted.
"You won't be able to!"
"DOESN'T MEAN I DON'T WANT TO TRY, AND IF I START IMPREGNATING EVERYONE, THEN I CAN'T DO THAT!" I snapped, yelling at my mother, who stood with a cold face.
"You are going to die with that mentality, " my mother said, her voice chilly. The Empire is not going to take our latest Advance lightly, and I know your plan is to hold our ground. You are even limiting the Logistics Army to force your hand on this."
"I am not limiting them on purpose, Mother," I told her bluntly, "I am literally low on carriages, wagons, and supplies in the back. Our food supplies in the tribes are low, and we are now purchasing from the Elven Forest and the Demon Lands. Gold is running closer and closer to the bottom as we race towards bankruptcy. Our Economy is not suited for this fight! I have been using the humans here as labor, and their food is keeping us mostly fed right now. So, no, WE are at our end of the survivable supply chain without building boats on this damn river, and even then, we would need to build docks which would take more time. WHICH once the entrenchments are complete, I will be putting up a makeshift harbor to have boats ship the supplies to reduce the burden on our carriage and wagon supply lines. then there-"
"I get it; I was wrong about that. I have been listening to why you want to park there too. What about your plans back in the Beast-kin nation?" My mother asked, and my eyes narrowed.
"Which plans?" I asked.
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"The ones your little harem members have been working on. Particularly Rose, that elven woman?"
"I want to start educating the populace," I told her.
"So, you need that much land for an education center, please? I am smarter than that. You have something massive planned, and it is more than an education center."
"It is a City around Educating everyone, Mother. An Entire economy based on Educating EVERYONE, indoctrinating Everyone to my view of things, and making a Military from the ground up instead of being a bunch of fucking barbarians. Making a bank so businesses can get minor and major loans and start businesses, taking some power away from me and you, and giving some to the weakest so they can participate and do more than just slave away for us. Is that what you wanted to hear, Mother?"
My mother looked at me, shocked. "The Elders would never go for it, neither will your father."
"What they don't know, they will vote for," I told her, "If we hold this border, we are going to need more and more educated and powerful Beast-kin of all races. We are going to need more food and population, and we cannot let our children just go out and die. We need to structure how they make their journey and give them ways to succeed and something for the Failures to do so they are not burdens. We can make a class system that works better than our current one. Can you imagine my surprise that I could have just lazed around in a fucking library if I failed Mother?" I sneered. I could imagine a way to make more people want to fail other than the social stigma that came up with it. They were leeches on society in this world. If they made it back alive, they would be shunned, and for Nobility, that meant being put in a corner where no one could see them. If you were poor, getting a job was next to impossible because someone who succeeded would take it.
"No, I would structure it in ways they could swallow, like we need more fighters at the front; instead of novels, let's teach more citizens to go to war. Let's make it a mandatory service after we teach them. How about a way where our treasury is not uselessly sitting there, and people can get loans? We have the entire Elder council in the Silvermoon tower just sitting here; why not open the doors and let people come in and request loans?" I sighed, "Mother, there are so many small ways I can sell the changes that I want to do without the Elder fucking council knowing what I am doing. Are you going to let them know that I want to make our Nation actually strong? Think about what we are doing right now!" I snapped, yelling now. "WE JUST ATTACKED THE EMPIRE AND THE WORLD IS WATCHING US! They are seeing if we get hurt and how hurt the Empire is. The Kingdom of Arlin is right beside us! They are in if they decide to attack right now, ignoring the war with the Northern Beast mountains. WE ARE FUCKED! That war is in a quagmire with neither side moving an inch. So, now, we have us, The Demon lands, and the Grand Prairies all watching what we are doing. The Prairies are allied with the Empire. The Demon lands have a history of taking land from two exhausted opponents! We either change and get stronger, or we disappear into history."
Silence rang in the room.
Minutes turned into an hour, and I went back to my paperwork.
"Take all the humans you impregnate and send them to the school," My mother suddenly said.
"What?" I asked.
"You can impregnate humans and send the women and your kids to the school, and you will be raising them in the way you want with the education that you want, and you can exploit that System thing you have."
I opened my mouth to snap at her and paused.
She wasn't wrong; I could do that.
"The humans would think that I am kidnapping their women, and it would enflame tensions," I told her bluntly.
"Easy, make it voluntary with the benefits of being back in the school city you are making. You can even impregnate women with husbands and send them back with your kids and the husband to have the men be labor for you."
"You're insane," I said, but I thought about it. The men might hate my kid," I said slowly.
"Then set up a fucking boarding place or an orphanage exclusively for your kids with people from our family. Using the last of our failures! DAMMNIT CHELSEA YOU ARE DOING EVERYTHING YOU CAN NOT TO USE THAT DAMN SYSTEM YOU TOLD ME YEARS AGO ABOUT!" My mother seethed and took a deep breath, "You have come up with excuse after excuse; you can break things and come up with solutions afterward!"
"How do I explain my actions? The school is not set up."
"I will put my name and some of my businesses behind it, and we can get moving on it sooner and start then."
I closed my eyes, and I was lost in thought about it. Something inside me thought mass impregnation was just so immoral that it was ridiculous. I could come up with Genetic reasons for it and the fact that I would have so many kids that it would reduce the number of other children that my kids might fall in love with their half-siblings without even realizing it.
I took a deep breath and realized this was my mother now throwing her weight behind my actions back in the Beast-kin nation, and I sighed heavily once more. "Fine, but I will not start unless I have a place to send the women to. I will contact Rose and get an update, and we can go from there. It should take no more than a week or two to start getting your weight behind it in the proper way. That way, within a month, we can start getting volunteers. Does that work for your mother? Because you are right; I have been avoiding this system. So if we are going to exploit it, let's do it while being responsible."
"Good Girl, I will start to look into my finances as you write up your letters. I will talk to you soon," my mother said. Then she looked at me in a different way that had Doorknocker twitching. I may have come here to fix your attitude toward something useful, but later, you can pay me back." My mother kissed the air and left the room, and I felt Doorknocker waking up with no one around to take care of him.
I watched the door for another minute, then pulled out a blank paper and started to write the letter to Rose, providing specific details and what was needed.
My mother was right, though. I was at war, and I had some seriously close calls. It is about time I put a stop to that and use everything I have available to me.
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