To complete this quest, Edrick would need to do a lot of different things and juggle around–Because messing up on one point could hurt the other fulfilment conditions of the quest. For example, if he tried to do the part telling him to establish rites and festivities around him, but failed to correctly gauge how much they actually liked him, then it could run back the desire they had for his dominance.

Thus, he needed to act carefully. This was why he believed that he would be bedding a lot of Underwood Elves. There was a need to build a solid foundation for a reputation if he wanted to accomplish some of the harder conditions… What better way than to subject as many Underwood Elves to the pleasure he could give out?

The system seemed to want him to become their leader and to pretty much be worshipped as an idol that was to be erotically desired. So it only made sense to take this approach from the very beginning…

He had already bedded many of the chieftains, but he had not yet gotten around to dominating the so-called ‘greatest hunters’.

It made sense to put attention on them, though… Hunting was the primary manner in which Underwood Elves fed themselves. Most chieftains were excellent hunters, and they usually surrounded themselves with a sort of council composed of other great hunters.

As such, to fully seize authority over an Underwood Village, one needed not just to have the chieftain in their pocket, but the hunters as well… So, for good measure, Edrick was just going to be moving from one village to the other, and do it with literally all hunters.

It would do good in the long run anyway. When the time came to push for things that clearly implied that he believed himself to be in a position of power over them, having as many elves who had experienced his affection would help him.

He looked at the quest again to make sure he wasn’t forgetting anything:

Make The Underwoods Yours: Dominate all Underwood Elf chiefs. Dominate all of the greatest hunters. Make all Underwood Elves crave your dominance. Establish rites and festivities involving you and the desire of the elves for your affection. Be recognised as a leader by all of the elves. Expand the existing Underwoods whilst maintaining the culture and current level of development. Establish at least one new Underwood, and get rid of all the safe places created by humans from the outside

The first two points were simple enough considering the ‘preferences’ of the elves… And if some resisted his charms, then he would just come back to them in the company of the Red Guardian… 

The third point went with the first two for the most part. The fourth could only be attempted once he was very confident in his popularity. Otherwise, it could walk back a lot of progress.

The fifth point basically came with the fourth. If he were capable of adding new traditions which were about him… Then he was already well on his way to being the leader. As for the sixth, it definitely did require him to be the leader. No one could just order such a thing without great authority.

The same went for the seventh. As for the eighth… That would be easily done, and it might give the occasion to loot some stuff as well.

In any case, to go about completing this quest, Anoteros headed to a nearby Underwood and decided to follow a group of three hunters around using his enhanced stealth. They didn’t seem like the stuff worthy of being called ‘greatest’, but he went for it anyway.

In fact, they seemed to be somewhat of beginners, judging by how sparsely they were using their invisibility. Clearly, they were not yet good enough to maintain it at all times.

He stalked them for a while, until they reached some sort of small camp surrounded by wooden, spiked walls. The walls were not made from logs. They looked rather easy for him to knock down or shatter, but it was most likely more than enough to keep the beasts away.

From there, they split up. It seemed like they were competing with one another. Since they were going to come back, Anoteros settled in a tree, hidden by the leaves, as he took a spot that would allow him to see everything inside the small camp.

He made himself comfortable and patiently waited–Waiting for the right occasion to approach them… However, he was instead pleasantly surprised to find himself a show to watch…

The three soon returned, each with their own assortments of prey.

“I managed to get an adult Earth-Carrying Boar, and a few rabbits”

“I was able to get two Nature-Blessed Wolves. It was quite the risky move, might I add”

“Damnit, I only got a bunch of birds…”

The three hunters announced what they had caught.

The first to speak had the pointy end of one of his ears missing, the second had a small, almost unnoticeable scar on his chin, and the third had one of his piercing yellow eyes a lighter shade than the other.

Other than this, it wasn’t too easy to notice differences between the three Underwood Elves–All three were of the noticeably twinkish variety, the sort that required no drop from the ring to be ‘edible’.

“Well… Seems like we know who the loser is this time!”

“We are in luck today!”

“I swear, this isn’t fair. There was nothing in the direction I picked!”

“Blame your lack of instincts”

The light-eyed one sighed as the other did something that soon revealed what exactly it meant to lose in their hunting game.

The catches were put aside for now, and instead, the two winners took off their clothes, stroking themselves.

“Come on, undress already. No need to pretend like you don’t like it”

“I just prefer to win when I play a game, alright?”

“You could say that you won, in a sense…”

Light-Eye took off his clothes and went down to his knees. His two hunting fellows surrounded him, still stroking their half-erect dark-bluish rods before removing their hands so that Light-Eye could grab them instead.

He stroked them in their stead, the poles quickly hardening to their maximum sizes. Underwood Elves did not really have large sizes. In fact, from pounding many elf twinks, Edrick had learned that they seemed to be either slightly above average in human male, but only in one category at a time…

By that, he meant that they either had a bit more length, but were very sleek down there, or had slightly superior girth, but shorter length.

All three of them belonged to the second category. Not to say they were small–Everything seemed pitifully small next to the scion’s equipment. It was merely an observation.

‘Now… This is a nice show’

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