Herald of Steel



As Alexander ate his meal, the atmosphere suddenly turned a bit awkward, as it seemed that the two of them had run out of things to say.

"Oh, are you not interested why you never knew this secret before? Why everyone acted as if I had no husband before?" And as that stifling silence overtook the table, Lady Inayah at last added that reminder, before giving the answer by herself,

"Well, it's because Alozmer had commanded so."

"To pretend that I never had a husband. Or son"

And that finally explained to Alexander why Mikaya said the thing she had.

While Lady Inayah ended her reminiscence by saying,

"And so after this many years, people have simply gotten used to it."

"Many may have even been forgotten."

She had a very light tone to her voice as she quieted, but Alexander still imagined detecting a trace of emotion hiding within her.

It appeared despite whatever flaws that man might have had, he was at least better than Alozmer.

And the truth was even now Lady Inayah would sometimes imagine what would life be like if she was with her first husband.

But those memories were increasingly becoming blurry over the cruel passages of time, as it slowly chipped at her memory.

"I see," While feeling the deep atmosphere, Alexander could deeply nod and go back to eating.

And as that uncomfortable silence returned, it was Lady Inayah who again broke the silence, flashing her hands around to lightly say,

"But enough about this old woman's troubles. You tell me about your own problem!"

And as soon as Alexander was given that way out he quickly grabbed it and began to eagerly discuss his own pressing concerns, such as his fear about his city, his frustration at Ptolomy's casual disregard, and finally his thoughts about wanting to reinforce it.

And as he asked if Lady Inayah had any good idea, she naturally suggested simply using the forces of his retainers under him.

Now, this idea of course had crossed Alexander before.

After all, significant parts of all high-level noble's armies were almost always composed of forces from his retainers.

But for Alexander, that immediately raised the question of loyalty.

Given Alexander was an outsider and Adhania's inherent dislike for them, as well as the incident of some of the nobles already breaking the armistice and attacking him, and then again being burned by Tibias, it was understandable that Alexander had developed a somewhat cautious nature.

And hence felt that if he revealed a weakness now, even his retainers might turn on him.

His half-paranoid nature could not make him trust them.

So much so that in fact, when he had informed others of his predicament, he had been careful enough to keep it just between the top levels of the court, i.e.- Ptolomy and his close retainers.

But now, given Ptolomy would not give him any troops, and the others such as PF really had no men to spare right at the moment, with Lady Inayah's urging, Alexander felt that turning to his retainers might be the last option.

And as he considered the option, he asked Lady Inayah this a very skeptical voice, "Will that be safe? Will the nobles comply? I have not told any of them for fear of them joining Tibias!" wanting her opinion on his new retainers

To which the ebony lady a first looked a bit surprised as if she had not even considered that, before she simply started laughing loudly, her glorious peaks shaking temptingly in the process.

And the reason for her laugh was actually because she really could not believe someone as smart as Alexander had actually done something so needless.

So she pointed out, "Haha, oh Alex, why are you bothering about something so trivial now?"

"Have you not realized it already? There was a huge battle right in your territory."

"Which is right next to their territory."

"You think any of the nobles are unaware of this? That they can be unaware of this?"

"Why are you even concerned about that?"

Lady Inayah's tone was as if she was pointing out a child's little mistake before ending her sentence with a teasing smile, and this, "My, my dear, Alex, when did you start slipping? *Tsk*, *tsk*!"

With only these words and that crafty smile, suddenly all the gloom and heaviness that had lingered in the room due to all the previous serious topics seemed to melt like dew under the morning sun, while it also made Alexander instantly flush for he felt he had just woken up to his mistake.

She was right!

The Tibian border city of Thesalie was about only 100 km from Zanzan.

And so given that such a huge army had crossed the border and was making its way to Zanzan, of course the neighboring nobles there would know something about it.

After all a moving army would be many times described as a moving tornado or locust swarm, laying waste to much of the landscape, especially crops around that area.

So there was little chance of hiding it.

And as Lady Inayah bought Alexander's attention to this point, he could not believe he hadn't thought about that before.

'Darm! The shock of the loss has completely fried my way of thinking,' Alexander wanted to slap his forehead for this complete oversight.

But fortunately, his mistake did not cause any major harm and he still had the time to fix time.

So he quickly lightly bowed his head towards Lady Inayah and very gratefully said,

"Thank you for your guidance, my lady. Without your help, I would have led myself quite astray."

To which Lady Inayah only breezily chuckled and teased, "Haha, think nothing of it. After all, it is an elder's job to teach her juniors,"

Before her tone suddenly sultrily as she noticed Alexander had finished eating, and so she very coyly whispered, "Well then my lord, how do you intend to reward me…for helping you?"

"And to compensate me for bringing up this old lady's past. Hmmm?"

At this point her fingers were already trailing very suggestively along Alexander's chest, her nails digging into the flesh, while her eyes become very amorous.

"...." And Alexander could only gulp.

He had always noticed Lady Inayah would call him 'my lord' when she wanted to have sex with him, which was actually a technique she had picked up over time, after noticing that men like to have their egos stroked especially during the intimate act.

While Lady Inayah, seeing Alexander offer no resistance, quickly got him out of his chair and started to lead him over to her bed, giggling, "Hehehe, well come, my lord, the night is still young."

"And I can think of one very special way you can repay me."

Lady Inayah seemed to be in high spirits.

And Alexander went along with light footsteps, while also rolling his eyes inside his head a bit.

For they had quite the session just that very afternoon, where Alexander vividly remembered quite comprehensively filling Lady Inayah up in all three avenues, even making her leak copiously from two of them.

And so could not believe that still had not been enough.

But the fact was the middle-aged lady who was around the same age as the Queen Mother could be said to be in the most mature and fertile stage of her life, with her libido at the peak, meaning she simply liked that act.

And the other fact was Lady Inayah also liked sleeping with Alexander, especially after his transformation down there, as he could poke her at spots deep inside the canal and make her feel things she had yet to experience.

Hence the eager invitation.

And with Lady Inayah being very interested in round two and with Alexander having little to do to pass the time other than this, what little clothing either of them had were very quickly discarded.

Thus soon Lady Inayah's melodious moans started to echo across the room, as well as quickly followed afterward by the accompanying wet sound of flesh slapping against each other as Lady Inayah rode Alexander especially fiercely as if she was trying to forget all the previous bad memories that had been stirred up through this act.

And as if to stimulate Alexander even more, and make him thrust harder, the sexy woman even turned around as she rode him, showing him her huge naked, caramel butt and that forbidden second pink hole that keep peeking out, the sight of which really worked to make Alexander gouged out her insides like no one had done before.

While for Alexander, as he engaged in this pleasurable act, could not help but thank the shiva drugs, for he felt without that he would never have been able to satiate this hungry cougar twice in just one day.

But even with that miracle drug, it drove Alexander deep into the night to satisfy this hungry, mature woman.

Though he did manage to do it eventually, with it being quite late when the two exhausted bodies finally drifted into a deep peaceful slumber, as Lady Inayah at last felt her world of worries and previous unpleasant events be erased into a world of white pleasure, while Alexander was sucked too dry to worry about anything else.

And hence both of them woke up early morning feeling very refreshed.

With Alexander, after having a quick breakfast, immediately decided to call a meeting with all nearby nobles of Zanzan and actually managed to sit with them at midday that very day.