"With their training and your promise to buy their armor and weapons they stand a pretty good chance to be successful." Erin explained.

"How soon until the oldest turns eighteen. The oldest boy will turn eighteen in seven months. The oldest girl is two weeks younger than him." Marry said into my chest.

"That gives him seven months to train and prepare himself to become an adventurer then." I replied.

"You are giving these kids an opportunity for a future nobody ever imagined for them before. May the Goddess bless you." Mary said.

"The Goddess has already blessed me with fourteen sisters of her temple to bear my children. Soon to be eighteen once the orphanage is rebuilt." I said.

"Then I will not waste her blessing. I will give you as many children as I can." Mary said.

"So will we be leaving the city tomorrow once my turn begins?" Erin asked.

"Most likely. I need to hunt orcs and my wives need to hunt goblins. We need to level up." I said.

We finished bathing and walked around the city until it was time to return to the hotel to meet the children returning from school. The sisters took the children to the training grounds and then to the bathhouse before returning to the hotel. After dinner we went to bed.

The next morning Erin and Lisa were sitting next to me. I took Erin’s virginity and filled her with my seed before pulling Lisa to me and filling her too. When the sisters returned from taking the children to school I gave the third communication artifact to Mary.

"Sarah is twelve weeks pregnant today. I checked her and she is at the end of her first trimester. It matches with a forty week pregnancy." Lucy said.

"Are the babies healthy?" I asked.

"Yes, all four of them are perfectly healthy." Lucy answered.

"Good. We need to level up so we can protect them." I said.

"Let’s go then." Sarah said.

Sarah, Amber, Lyra and I put on our combat gear and left the hotel with Lisa and Erin. We left the city and entered the western forest to hunt goblins and orcs. Lyra ran ahead to scout our path. We walked until midday when we stopped for lunch.

"How is everyone doing?" I asked.

"I’m fine." Lyra said as she bit into some dried fruit.

"I’m bored. I want to kill some goblins." Amber replied.

I looked over and saw Sarah fidgeting with the straps on her armor.

"What is it?" I asked her.

"It’s my armor. For some reason I can’t get it to fit right today." She moaned.

"Maybe it’s because you are 12 weeks pregnant with four babies." Lucy chimed in.

"Are you calling me fat?" Sarah glared.

"I’m calling you pregnant with four babies. This is the time of your pregnancy when your belly starts growing to hold your growing babies." Lucy smiled.

"Sarah, this will be your last trip into the forest until after you give birth. I don’t need you getting injured because your armor doesn’t fit right." I said.

"Then find me some goblins to kill so I can level up a few times before I have to become a housewife." Sarah grinned.

We finished eating and began walking again. An hour after lunch Lyra returned to the group.

"There are people out here. A lot of them." She said.

"An adventurer party?" I asked.

"I don’t think so. I think we are getting close to an outlaw hideout." She said.

"How far?" I asked.

"About four miles. I saw two different patrols at their perimeter. Several of them are at least level twenty." She said.

"We stop here. I will handle them if they are hostile. Set up a decoy camp and keep the real camp hidden." I said.

The girls doubled back two hundred meters and set up camp, hiding it with fresh brush for camouflage. I stayed in place and set up the decoy camp. I built a fire pit and hunted a small animal to cook intending the smell of cooking meat to draw attention. I sat on a large stone in full armor with my sword still in my ring. The girls hid in their camp. After twenty minutes I began hearing movement in the forest. I could count a dozen distinct sets of steps spread out as they approached me. Ten minutes after I first heard them the first man stepped out of hiding while the others remained hidden.

"Hello stranger." He said.

I remained silent as I inspected him. He was human, six feet tall. He was wearing normal clothes. No visible armor or weapons. I sensed his level to be in the high twenties.

"Not very talkative huh?" He asked as he stepped forward.

"Here’s the deal. You have wandered into the wrong part of the forest. Turn back now." He said as he stopped walking.

Just then I heard a dozen more people approaching in the forest.

"Why would I do that?" I asked.

"He speaks." The man smiled.

He paused for several seconds.

"This part of the forest has been claimed. And you are not welcome here." He added.

"Is that so? And what if I don’t turn back?" I asked.

The man grinned as he inhaled.

"Then this is as far as you go. We can’t allow you to go beyond this point." He said.

He raised his left hand and two dozen people stepped out of hiding. I used my aura to gauge their levels. None of them were higher level than the first man.

"That’s not enough." I said.

The man laughed as he summoned a sword from a storage ring.

"We’ll see about that." He said as he ran toward me.

I jumped from where I sat and ducked below his sword as I summoned my own. I continued past him and quickly killed the nearest man behind him before turning back to the leader.

"You’re quick." He smiled.

"Who are you?" I asked.

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