Building Harem And Dungeon With Monster Girls-Chapter 161 - 162:Bounty?

The mayor motioned to some of the men. They rushed forward and took the bound adventurers. The barbarian was the most stunned. All the fight melted out of him. He glared at me with such accusation like I had broken the rules or something.

I didn't care. I just wanted to see everyone prosper. The rules were stupid. Dungeon builders didn't have to be the scourge of the world.

As the prisoners were led off, the remaining men began milling about. They looked so confused. They were terrified of me and hated me, and yet I wasn't doing anything to them. I wasn't attacking or threatening them. I wasn't enslaving them.

"Lord Shorvin is not happy that you are extending your influence to his lands," said the Mayor once the prisoners were gone. "We're his vassals. He will not take kindly to you holding his territory."

"Holding his territory?" I gave him a piercing look. "Wait, are you claiming I conquered you?"

He flicked his gaze to the monster girls and then back to me. "You did fight to defend us and now are declaring your domination of us." freewёbnoνel.com

"By saying I'm going to protect you?" I said, disbelief rippling through me.

"People do not protect what isn't theirs."

"Sure they do," I said. "You've never helped put out a fire in a neighbor's house?"

"That's to protect the village. Fires spread. My house could be burned."

"Never helped out in the harvest or something?" I said.

"Lord Shorvin is well aware that you have staked a claim to Astovin. He has put out the word, summoning every adventurer he can. He wants the dungeon builders in the area put down, especially you."

"For doing the right thing?" I demanded, anger rippling through me.

The mayor swallowed. "Please, do not punish me, Lord Leo. I am merely reporting what Lord Shorvin has declared."

"Jesus, I'm not going to punish you. I'm not a monster." I fumed. "So more adventurers are going to come."

"He has added a bounty." The mayor shifted. "I'm sorry. We are, of course, appreciative of you saving our daughters, but..."

"But this ass wipe who wasn't protecting you against Jindag is now butthurt that I'm doing his job?"

"Er, I suppose if I understand your words," the mayor said.

This just got better and better.

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Mrs. Zoe Baldwin had never had a more surreal shopping experience in her life. The dryad felt everyone's eyes on her naked form. The nudity didn't bother her--she was a dryad, a creature of nature and clothing seemed so silly to her now--but the suspicion disturbed her. She had never felt like people didn't trust her.

They even feared her.

After her son and lover had defended these people from attack and rescued their daughters, they were still terrified of him. What did these other dungeon builders do to this world?

If even half of them were like this Jindag her son had killed, then she could understand. It was all so terrible. Her son fought against the pain, but she could see how the villagers' distrust hurt him deeply. He had risked his life for them. He hadn't done it to defend himself or his women. He had suffered, almost died, and they had no gratitude.

Anger simmered in her. A motherly wrath. It simmered in her. She fought against it. She knew the destructive power of anger. Her deceased husband could have a temper. Not one he ever took out on her, but it could burst out of him in great shouts after being bottled up for too long.

She feared the same stress in her son. He had power. He could raze this village, burn it to the ground, and no one here could stop him. Their weapons were all feeble. She could feel the roots of the plants growing throughout the village. She could command them to seize anyone who threatened him. Even her toes could grow into woody roots and seize and hold.

She had the power to cause harm.

Mrs. Baldwin swallowed down those impulses and put on her most welcoming smile. "What lovely vegetables," she said to one farmer as she inspected the onions and leeks he was selling. "You've grown them with skill."

He swallowed, though his eyes did fall on her ample bosom.

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