Feicui Long and the others continue the journey. This time, he is not hunting, as he wants to get home quickly.
So, he almost makes the group do a forced march. Even so, Isabella still insists on taking what is hers.
This is why he and Isabella have several encounters every night, lasting until late at night. He doesn't understand why he can't resist her, all of this is so strange, she captivates him more than almost every woman, including Reiko, with only two exceptions.
His confusion comes from this fact. He and Reiko could also have several encounters at night, but he enjoyed her company more, so they weren't in this mode all the time, of course, Reiko's beauty differs from Isabella's, not only in terms of their bodies but also in their type of beauty, Reiko's beauty is seductive, passionate, and fiery, with a touch of sweetness.
While Isabella's beauty is more sacred, heavenly, with a forbidden sweetness like the forbidden fruit, yet she can also be very sexy and provocative, many might say she can't be sexy, but that's because they never could see her face, when he pushes her onto the bedroll.
If it's not the difference in beauty, one could say it is, of course, because he prefers Isabella, but that's not true. Although she captivates him more, he likes Reiko just as much as Isabella. Since he and Reiko spent three years together, even visiting each other almost every day, Reiko has won a place in his heart.
Even more, he has to resist taking Reiko with him, because he doesn't want to hinder her progress, since in Vienna, with his father and her dragon, she has a better future, although this last part isn't really necessary, he wants to return for her, gather the necessary strength and bring her with him, so he has to let her stay in Vienna.
If it's neither one nor the other, then what is it? This question confuses him deeply, not only because their bodies are extremely compatible, but above all because she's like a drug to him. When he looks into those gorgeous eyes of hers, she awakens a feeling that he thought had long ago extinct and rekindles his inner fire. She also stirs an obscure and forbidden desire within him.
Feicui Long doesn't know it, but he is also like a drug to Isabella. Since that first night between them, she hasn't been able to stop thinking about him, to the point that an inner fire inside her takes control of her.
This last night before Feicui Long arrives home is no exception, for both of them this is a time to they enjoy.
This situation makes her party a bit uncomfortable, especially to certain warrior priestess, which makes her even angrier, since Feicui Long only made one Fragment Formation and he has to cover the whole camp, they can hear all the sounds of all of the fights between Feicui Long and Isabella from his tent.
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The next day.
Feicui Long finally arrived home. When the little girls and the twins hear the sound of the carriage. They all come running like as if there's nothing else in the world mattered.
Then Feicui Long gets out of the carriage and helps Isabella and other women down. However, only two of them, Caroline and Arianne, accept his help. Andrea steps back, looking slightly anxious and Freja... Let's just say the only reason she doesn't hit his hand with her mace is because of Isabella.
The girls, every one of them, Melina, Callista, Karla, Aura, Alma, Teresa and Monica. rush to hug him. He can't resist and caresses them, then lifts little Monica into his arms.
This is too sweet for Isabella, she can't help but imagine her own sons and daughters, as for the rest of Isabella's party, for Arianne and Andrea, it's the same. For Caroline it is a little surprising to see this side of Feicui Long. Even Freja can't help but have a slightly better opinion of him.
Feicui Long guides everyone to the center of his "home". The girls are a bit surprised, as a skilled alchemist not only lives in the middle of nowhere but also in a tent with seven kids.
Feicui Long, aware of this, proceeds to explain this to them: "Yes, this view a little weird, but that's why I bought construction materials."
Then Feicui Long points to the spatial sacks a version of the spatial bags specialized in storing a larger volume of items. However, they can normally only carry weaker things than a spatial bag. At this level of quality, these sacks can only hold mortal materials or low energy materials like the black iron o black steel.
He bought around 15 of them, all filled with materials, enough to construct a few buildings.
Although the party still has a few questions, they decided to ignore them for the time being. After all, they are a bit tired.
...
Since there's still quite a while until night, Feicui Long takes advantage of the fact that other party members are busy setting up their tents, to give orders to the golem, instructing them to carry the sacks to the places he marked for construction.
The first building he will construct is his official house, to start, he begins emptying three sacks, taking out the granite blocks, cement, iron bars and wood planks.
Curious, Isabella asks: "Honey, why didn't you buy bricks? Isn't it cheaper?"
Feicui Long begins explaining his reasoning to Isabella: " I decided not to buy them for three main reasons. First, I plan to strengthen the walls, pillars and floor with inscriptions. Since in order to inscribe an inscription, you need to carve into the material, you can paint it but the effect is not as good as carving, especially in certain areas like energy storage or energy flow."
Then, after moving few granite blocks, Feicui Long continues: "This means you could destroy a brick by carving too many inscriptions. One of the inscription methods involves carving in layers, starting from the exterior to the interior. Of course, if you have good skills, you can optimize and make the carving with minimal depth. I have that ability."
Feicui Long walks back and forth, loading and unloading the blocks with help of his golems.
Thereafter, he resumes the explanation: "The energy flow, energy storage, energy absorption, energy efficiency and effectiveness and others, aspects related to energy are really bad in mortal bricks, especially in the early ones, it is so bad that just the energy flow alone can break the brick. Also, carving inscriptions makes them thinner and more fragile. but there's a third point."
After finishing the first layer, he starts carving inscriptions into each block.
Subsequently, Feicui Long says: "The last reason is simpler. Granite is better in all aspects. Not only is the most resistant mortal stone, but although it is not the most durable stone, it is still one of the most durable stones. So, it is far better than a normal brick. Of course, if we talk about energy materials, energy bricks can even compare to an energy granite, like the white sacred granite in the walls of Vienna."
Finally, he starts preparing the cement in the steel mortar pan, which he also bought in town, to lay the second layer.
To finish his explanation, he adds: "Besides that, if you combine it with cement and iron bars, you get a really strong structure. Even more so if you support it with inscriptions, not just to increase the resistance or the strength of the material, but also to protect it from the elements. in the future, I want to make pozzolana, a better form of cement using energy materials, energy iron and energy granite to combine, but that is something for the distant future."
Isabella, understanding everything, can't help but think that Feicui Long likes preparing everything in advance too much. And she isn't wrong. Because of the special eyes of his species. His eyes being little more special, as only a few of his kind are born with this version of the eyes, he has developed a habit of always trying to predict everything and be prepared beforehand.
Isabella shakes her head and comes to help him, at least by mixing the cement and carrying the blocks.
...
This work continues until night, fully completing in ONE DAY. This is just a sample of the Sovereign Quartet's power, Thanks to the golems, which may be a little simple and have difficulties with complex orders, because their spirit, soul and mind are dormant, especially those golems created by ability and the ones without a personalized core.
Since the born in the nature ones and those with a personalized core have more spiritual energy, soul energy and mental energy, they are more intelligent and have a higher chance of awakening their spirit, mind and soul, by the way all of this explication can be applied also to undeaths and puppets.
And yes, golems can be born naturally, because they belong to the Elemental clan.
Of course, Feicui Long didn't complete the house only thanks to the golems. Isabella helps him, but her party also decided to help. Even the twins joined helping with the construction. Afterall the twins also are cultivators.
This is the last night that everyone sleeps in the tents, so to celebrate, Feicui Long takes the quartz deer, he has been keeping this deer, because his flesh is a delicacy, one pound costs around 50 silver coins.
Everyone is happy eating this deer, which was prepared by him...
...
Before dawn, Feicui Long wakes up startled and carefully gets out of bed to avoid waking Isabella.
He goes outside, to the edge of the formation, and sees it, something that looks like a cross between a eye and a tear in the sky. It is bright, with an amethyst color, radiating a terrifying energy to others. But to him, this energy feels familiar, because...
This is space energy, pure space energy. He sensed it in his dream, which is why he woke up. by the way, that thing in the sky is a space rift[1], a special one, called eye of space, someone has opened one for some reason.
He wants to approach and see who opened this thing, but he can't, since that would be a suicide.
But even if he had tried to go there, he couldn't, since the space rift closed quickly, disappearing in the middle of the night.
Feicui Long sigh. He has been sighing too much lately, but there are so many things he can't help but resign himself to. For example, not only can he not search for the creator of the rift, but he also can't even profit from it. His bloodline could help in cultivation using the emanated energy or if he could use his cultivation techniques, he might even be able to craft space bags and other space items! Upgraded versions of these "spatial" bags or other "spatial" items.
For example, his necklace is a space storage necklace, which is why it has so much space compared to the bags. It is also more stable and is more resistant.
But now, he can only leave empty-handed. As he returns to his tent, he is unaware that four people have been watching him from the shadows.
[1] Changed from space rend to space rift, because I didn't want to cause confusion with the Feicui Long technique.