Demon's Virtue

Eiro dropped off the last one of the people that had been captured and held on the flying island, and then turned over toward Solomon, "So you'll take care of them for now?" He asked, and Solomon immediately nodded his head.

"Yeah, don't worry. You just find a place where you can 'Hide' the island, and make sure to bring all the monsters to that village... but please, I beg of you, make sure that they won't somehow randomly attack people, alright? These guys are a lot different to the monsters already in the village, right?"

"That's true... but don't worry, everything is going to be fine. The monster leaders are mostly under my control, so the others will fall into place pretty easily as well."

"...If you say so, I will trust your word. But please keep me up to date, alright? I really don't want these personal projects of yours to completely get out of control without me knowing about anything that's going on there." The King explained, while Eiro slowly scratched the back of his head, "Again, everything is going to be fine. I'll make sure to deal with it, and then give you as much information about that village as absolutely possible."

"Perfect. Thank you." Solomon said with a relieved sigh, before slowly turning around, "Also, make sure not to stay away too long, your children are already missing you. Whenever I saw them, they would just talk about all the things they wanted to tell you about once you came back."

"Oh? Really?" Eiro asked with his brows raised, "I can't wait to hear about it."

And with a smile on his face, Eiro flapped his wings and shot right back into the sky, soon standing at the edge of the island again, where the others were still waiting for him, "Are you sure you want to come with me for this as well? You can just go take a rest if you want." Eiro pointed out, but James was the first to reply, "Hah, right. Nah, we'll properly help out, don't worry. And it's not like this trip is going to be all too long anymore. We expected to only come back in another week or so anyway. This island is so much faster than some carriages." The light elf pointed out, while Eiro lightly chuckled.

"Got it. Thanks for the help. Then I'll head back to the crystal cave, and we'll head off. Make sure to stay inside though, it really is incredibly windy, and it's going to be hard to steer out of the way of any storm clouds we may come across. The weather in the area of the mountains is never the best, if you remember." 

"Right, right, don't worry, we're not idiots." Krog added, and Eiro shrugged as he moved past them to head back to the center of the island, "Eh, debatable."

"What'd you just say..?" Krog asked with a wry smile, and Eiro couldn't help himself but smile a bit, "Just joking around."

--- 

Eiro slowed the island's movement down completely in a very specific spot in the mountain-range. It was a place pretty close to the monster village, so it would be easy to get all the monsters from here to there, and it was a relatively flat terrain protected by the mountains that surrounded it. And the best thing was that the whole area was mostly large enough to fit the floating island into if he just tried. He just had to dig out part of the ground and then try to fit the island in there, letting it hover in place there. It should be decently safe from any possible curious eyes.

The vast majority of people didn't approach this kind of area simply because it was too dangerous. It would be too exhausting to climb the steep cliffs. The only reason why there were official, detailed maps of this area was because Skyhart had hired a large hunting party to accompany a group of cartographers to this place, and that was a few decades ago. Since then, Eiro doubted that anyone was even thinking of coming here anytime soon.

That being the case, Eiro flew down from the island and quickly started his work excavating part of the terrain underneath where he wanted to keep the island for now. If he needed some other form of protection for this place afterward, he would just plant some trees around here that he knew would help keep people out of this place. It took a few hours to just dig out everything alone, even with Eiro's level of magic and Gondos helping him out.

The issue was that Eiro wanted to make the hole a bit larger than what it actually needed, since he wasn't one hundred percent sure how exactly the crystal cave determined what parts of the island it took with it. He didn't want to accidentally rip out part of the mountain and cause some kind of huge cave-in or something like that.

But once he was done, Eiro could slowly but surely control the island to move downward ever so slowly. Luckily, he did the calculations of what he had to do for this in advance, or else the island would have just crashed down into the ground, something that Eiro really wanted to avoid.

Then, Eiro made sure that the island would keep a level position, as if it was going to lock itself into the space that it was currently occupying. And then, he rounded up all the monsters that were left in the city, and brought them to the edge of town, where he then started creating a pathway for all of them to take toward the village.

Of course, Rashi and some of the other monster leaders were sticking very close to Eiro. Some of which were forced to, actually. Since the fish-type monsters of course wouldn't be able to move through this mountain range on their own, Eiro was moving the water that they were swimming in instead, to bring them along with him.

A few more hours later, the large group of monsters, plus three people, finally made their way to the monster village through an entrance that hadn't existed before Eiro forcefully created it. Of course, the Orcs, Kobolds and Goblins that were standing guard around that area were startled at what happened, but it didn't take long until they recognized the true lord of their village.

"We welcome you, Master Eiro!" They exclaimed, nearly in unison. This seemed to be one of the few phrases that they were able to say. Gobo, Kitsue, and Boju seemed to have raised them pretty well. As far as Eiro could tell, the 'slums' of the village had nearly completely been cleared out, with just a few exceptions that still had to get used to not having their monstrosity control their lives.

"Bring me to Gobo." The Demon said, and the guards quickly realized what Eiro was asking of them, and brought him over to the other side of the village. Of course, Eiro made sure that they were taking a path where the monsters following him didn't end up bothering the monsters that already lived here too much.

Soon, they reached the large, carved-out space that acted as the city hall of this place, and Eiro stepped in there alongside Jess, James and Krog, while he made sure the other monsters were peacefully waiting outside.

Eiro quickly approached the room that Gobo was in, since he was the closest, and pushed open the door. In there was the Hobgoblin, training to become stronger. He immediately turned around with a glare, angry that he was suddenly interrupted, before he saw who actually came here.

"Master!" He exclaimed, and immediately abandoned his training to rush over to him with a broad smile on his face, "What are you doing here?!" Gobo asked, clearly excited.

The Demon crossed his arms with a smile on his face as well, "We have some new monsters that are going to live alongside you all here." He explained, and the moment he did, Gobo's smile disappeared.

"Ah... Erm... Master... we kind of already have trouble finding space for all the monsters already here in the village..."

"Don't worry, I've thought about everything. There are a few different races there. Some of them will go to live in the nearby lake, others are avian and will live 'above' you, basically, constructing their nests where you guys couldn't reach yet. And there are also some monsters that will help you expand deeper into the rock-walls, since they're innate cave-builders. Don't worry, I wouldn't just throw this sort of thing onto you without thinking about everything that might happen." Eiro explained to him, and Gobo slightly sighed as he thought, moving his hand once to use his own magic to get rid of the sweat covering him, just like Eiro would always do when he was this sweaty.

"Alright, then that's something else. But we're probably going to need your help planning everything out... And are there any monsters that can act as representatives?"

"Yes, I actually only brought groups of monsters that had a sort of leader. Again, I've already thought about everything." The Demon explained, and Gobo simply smiled at him, "I know, I was still just worried. Well, I guess we should try to meet the others then... Oh, and..."

"Yep, don't worry, you'll still be the head of the whole village, Gobo, don't worry.. Your position will always be a step above the others."