Chapter 1209: Chapter 1208: Creation Bonanza (2)
Chapter 1209: Chapter 1208: Creation Bonanza (2)
Kat PoV
"You... are just incorrigible, you know that..?"
Pushing the Demoness off of myself, I let out a huff and crawled backwards, away from her ravenous, gluttonous hands as I put space between us so that we could stop this here and now. We had things to do besides laze about all day, and while there was the obvious desire we both held to keep going we truly did need to stop, which was why Jahi so easily pulled away, sitting on her haunches and regulating her breathing as she calmed herself down.
"Yeah, I know. Anput's making all those weapons, Leone's brewing potions... so what are we going to be doing?"
"I'm going to be enchanting those weapons if they want them enchanted or helping Leone brew all those potions. As for you... I don't think it really matters just yet now does it? I imagine the Sultana wouldn't mind a spar or having you pick her mind."
The Demoness gave me a slight pout at that soft dig at her, and after a few seconds of staring at me as she contemplated what she should do she just waved me off and found her clothes, though when I rubbed the small of her back she glanced at me with a small smile.
Cleaning ourselves off and getting dressed, we emerged from our tent for the first time in a long time, the sun almost reaching its zenith as we apparently had taken a much longer time than I had realized.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
I made my way over towards Anput's signature stone forge and slipped inside, joining the Jackalkin inside and finding her standing before a half dozen newly forged blades that were all quite beautiful.
Hearing me enter she turned and flashed me a grin before resuming her hammering, eventually saying "I managed to work pretty quickly all things considered! I was gonna finish this one out and deliver 'em to their new owners before taking a lunch break. It is roughly noon, right?"
"It is. You managed to get this mana weapons forged this quickly? That's incredible."
"I know right? It'd be more impressive if two of them weren't simple daggers - one broad, one stiletto - and another wasn't a mace, which was honestly more of a glorified brick attached to a stick... But still, they were forged, so they count.
Anyways, yeah... I'm guessing you were coming over to offer your services as an enchantress, right? If so, the mace wants a simple weight increasing enchantment while the stiletto and rapier want Wind Piercing enchantments. Then that longer scimitar wants the typical suite - sharpness, durability, battery - and nothing else just yet since you don't have the ability to enchant with Fire Mana at this moment, right?"
I nodded, approaching the wall of weapons and carefully retrieving the four weapons that Anput told me I needed to enchant before taking a seat out of the way as I prepared myself to aid my lover in fulfilling her obligations.
Chordeva PoV
"Delayed again, huh? Thankfully it seems it's only by a handful of days, but still... has she ever shown up on time?"
The Empress just gave me a soft smile as she shook her head, making me sigh as I got up from the table and said "Well, if that's the case I'll go and find something to do then, I guess. Unless there was something I was needed for..?"
These days spent waiting inside of the Palace doing nothing at all were... intriguing to me; I was so accustomed to mountains of paperwork needing to be completed within the hour that having all this free time was getting to me.
There was only so many times I could spar someone or so many books that I could actually bring myself to sit down and read... so of course I had been 'exercising' day in and day out in hopes of creating something again...
Whether or not that was going to be the case was a whole separate issue to be tackled simply by giving them both some more loving whenever I could, but for now I had little to actually do... but I was happy to have this break.
Getting a shake of the head from the Empress and having the various women sitting around either ignoring me or shaking their heads as well, letting me know that this meeting was over and I was free to go.
There had been nothing to do so the waiting for the arrival of Lilith had been keeping me excited for each day, but now that she had delayed her arrival by about a week I was back to doing more waiting, which meant I needed something to do.
Making my way back towards our room, I found both Ria and Julie lounging on the couch together with the children in their arms, the sight reinvigorating me heavily as I moved to join them, scooping both Alessandra and Lakshmi into my arms with a grin.
It'd been far too long since I had finally accepted and began to yearn for achieving my dream of having children - truly having them, caring for them and watching them grow and not just the act of conceiving them - so actually being able to hold two little mortals that were my own was soothing on the soul.
Even if the little Elf half glaring at me wasn't mine by blood, she was still my daughter, much like the other girl that had been born from Julie; they were all my children in some way, but I'd be lying if I didn't say the babbling, lavender skinned Demoness staring up at me didn't take more of my attention.
I gave them both a kiss before lowering myself to the ground and letting them crawl free, with Alessandra making her way back to her own Mom while Lakshmi draped herself on my chest and began to sleep, making me want to chuckle but forcing me to hold it in as she drifted off instantly.
It was peaceful here, and the bliss was wonderful, though it was tempered and darkened by the knowledge of what was happening over in the Sultanate, something that I tried to keep myself as informed of as possible; a letter was due sometime soon though, so I was hoping the news was good.
If I had known how good it was I definitely wouldn't have been as restless that night, that's for sure... but I don't think Ria or Julie complained too much about that, nor were they wanting me to stop anytime soon either~!