Outer walls of western warlords palace
Eastern gate!
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Two silhouettes could be seen on top eastern wall above the gate, one man and the other being a woman!
Damn! This position... it's entirely wrong... it's... it's...
The man was laid down over his back, present below the woman who had seated on top in an embarrassing position!
Naturally it was Mark and Xena to begin with!
" Let's start! "
Pushing her back a little, Mark stood fast and took a disk shaped array piece from his storage space which caused her to blush red.
" Right here? Isn't it a bit too open? "
Xena started panicking, and couldn't help but wonder weather Mark had a fetish to do in open.
This girl!?
Just what's with her? Had something gone wrong with her brain... Why does she want to hook up that bad?
Mark was naturally ignorant about the fact that Xena was aware of his conduit in beast men base, and was also aware that he almost had lost his life there!
She believes that Mark had risked his life for her sake, and apparently loves her dearly!
As such she want to love him the same, and cherish the moment when she could.
After all future was uncertain, and who knows what variables might pop, which might separate Xena from her cherished ones... or even end her life to begin with?
Mark was not privy to her thoughts, as such he could only return her words with a smile, as he couldn't read her completely!
" Princess I know what your thinking... but is this the time for that? Enemies are present over at our doors and we need to make preparations quick! "
Make preparations?
" l need your blood... your fresh blood to install my array! I have already strengthened it with mine... it's just that adding yours will reinforce it! "
" The more powerful a bloodline is the more stronger the array would be! And you should probably know, your lineage is one of the strongest known blood in humanity, so princess serves the ideal candidate for it! "
In a single breath Mark exclaimed out and made his words clear which brought embarrassment to Xena, who initially had lost in wild thoughts which were about to happen between them.
Is this what Mark mean by that... ... back in hall? Damn girl, I thought he was about to make love...
You require my blood... why wouldn't I?
" Yes, right now we should focus on dealing with the enemies! What my Mark says makes sense! "
She took a deep breath in and resolved
We should focus on fortifying our defenses! That stuff... it can be done later! He.. he..
Xena then smiled graciously, before extending her slender hand to ask him to pick her up.
" This girl! "
Mark paused at there, controlled his temper before helped her get up only to get teased by her.
" My Mark... once everything settles down for good, we can do... that! "
Do that? Like hell we would!
After all, once the defensive array is built... i wonder ill see your face again any time sooner!
Mark merely smiled in response as the thing which Xena was imaging was just her blind fantasy, which she merely made up with!
And had Mark decided to clarify her thoughts with the truth... he wonder whether this woman would remain cooperative or not?
As such he had to tolerate her for now and complete the array fast, after all it was for her own good right?
Drip!
Xena then took the array piece from his hands, dripped few ounces of blood over it to enhance it with her blood.
Whoosh!
The array piece resonated with her after sucking in blood, as it had registered the memory of person at hand!
Good!
Mark appeared surprising enough as Xena resonated with array piece without a resistance!
After all system did warned him about high rate of backslash, had he failed to instill. Still looking at the current situation where it wasn't, he felt assured!
Mark then put the array piece down, which slowly mended into it wall and completely disappeared from their sight as if it wasn't present before to begin with.
"Good with this, she's as good as trapped for good!"
"Fuck yeah! I'm free of a major problem which earlier troubled me!"
Mark sneered internally as the array was special! After all... it was brought directly from system right?
Looking at the array piece which mended into the eastern wall, Xena became flabbergasted!
At the same time she couldn't help but ask curiously weather her interpretation was correct or wrong.
" Mending into surface! Isn't that the characteristics of array pieces which are grade 5 and above! "
Mark gave a nod of confirming and exclaimed
" Princess, we have enemies of peak order aura emperors and probably above! If not for it being a grade six array piece made by me, would this Mark be brazen enough to let princess bleed? "
No matter what, she was a princess, and even his mission and future was dependent on it, so he atmost expect of her to not make troubles...
After all she was notorious in rumors about her bad conduit right?
As such he needs to have good relationship with her, but with a bottom line of tolerance!
If condition were right she could become a potential ally who could lend him thousands of experts to wipe half mutants at later times.
So Mark needs to be courteous around her, and considering that his identity as a young master of Milton house hold, he atleast needs to act in regards to hierarchy, so as to not let the others gets suspicion about him.
And since he could not divulge about him getting the array pieces by purchasing it from system, he could only bluff it by taking the credit of its creation over his head.
After all explaining about the existence of system was a taboo right?
A grade six array?
And also made personally for me?
Marky... why do you treat me so dearly?
Hearing that it was a grade six array and the one to make was Mark, she felt moved!
Grade five corresponds to arrays used against low rank aura emperor and below, while the grade six array was usually made to deal against high ranked emperors that were very hard to deal with.
The royal capital which had the greatest array ever made was in their imperial castle, but it was a grade seven master piece completed after the combined effort of three generations of the Royal inscribers!
Even mid ranked transcendent dare not take that array lightly! No wonder the princess got the confidence to survive if she were to go to Royal palace for protection.
But inscribing arrays were no joke and the array master would constantly receive backlashes, which could cumulatively threaten ones life or even decrease vitality, if underestimated.
So when Mark brought a complex grade six array just for her sake, she felt moved to tears.
"This girl... she even know to shed tears? But why at this occasion?"
Unless Mark explains the real reason behind array's existence, he's likely not going to receive an explanation for this!
" One over... seven more to go! "
After completing their work at eastern gate, Mark quickly traversed to north-east gate with Xena and installed the array pieces as before!
One after the other, Mark traversed to eighth principle gates of western warlords palace and reinforced with his array pieces which could easily be activated at his will.
After completing their business at outer walls Mark grabbed her tight and did multiple traverses until he reached the inner walls, where he continued the same.
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10 minutes later.
" Hah! Finally it's overed! "
Mark sighed in with excitement, wiping the sweat over his head with accomplishment!
He was already imagining about the scene where he would crush his enemies to death, when they are least expected it to be.
Any person who's declared enemy by him would face death within the confines of array, unless they were aura emperors to begin with!
Even if they were aura emperors, unless they were of high order or peak order existences, the enemy at hand would be suppressed to aura kings who could then easily be killed without much effort earning him tons of experience which was as intended for!
And the thing which Mark needed the most, probably at current timeline was Xena's safety!
As such imbibing her blood into array pieces will register her as array core, as such it's entirely impossible for her to escape the palace by herself.
Even if she might necessarily be kidnapped, unnoticed, Xena would automatically get teleported back to palace almost instantly!
Such was the array which was fearsome, after all the things which almost drove him to poverty with lack of slayer points wasn't anything but simple right?
As such the western warlords palace was now both a safe haven and binding cell for her which was intended to protect her life for time being!
Unless transcendent realm experts were to shamelessly come to assassinate Xena from hidden, Mark was sure that he could handle the situation as he has enough fire power to protect Xena currently!
Phew! Now its time to...
Before he necessarily could cheer up form completing this array, a trembling body of a woman resting over his chest while holding arms, who earlier had bleed enough to make her look pale!
More than 50 ounces of blood ( 1.5 liter ) was bled from her, which ultimately made Xena to collapse down in tiredness.
One must know that Xena had already lost enough blood in earlier conflict with possessed general, and now that she had lost her blood again, she had all signs of weakness written over face!
If not treated well, she might to hemodynamic shock which is less likely as she was a peak order aura emperor to begin with!
After all a third of her blood was emptied out her body, so it was natural to feel tired... Yet Xena was such that she wanted to make use of this opportunity to act pitiful!
Let's heal her then!
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A minute later.
Mark then traversed back to her mansion and brought Xena to her bed chambers where he decided to heal her fast.
Since time was not at hands, and enemies might attack any second from now, Mark was a bit reluctant to waste time and heal her before.
Now that the array was installed and all it needs was a mere thought from him to activate, Mark took his time and slowly brought his hands to her abdomen to heal her from within.
Hope she doesn't misunderstand this...
Princess felt a bit embarrassed as she interpreted Mark to the advantage of her when she had collapsed from tiredness.
" Seems like he's more eager than this Xena for that? "
Xena chuckled internally and laid down on bed for Mark without resistance.
Felling the smooth touch of his fingers which were caressing her bare abdomen, Xena felt shy and a faint blush could be seen developing on her beautiful face.
She crouched back her legs a little before pushing it back to place, and made an embarrassing moment which Mark acted to play ignorant.
Whoosh!
Golden threads of mana started entering her body from his fingers, which started revitalizing her from within.
This... This...
At first she felt a bit of pain from this process, which she decided to bear by clenching her fist.
But as seconds passed by, this pain slowly started to disappear, which was ultimately replaced with immense pleasure, which made her release a breath of ecstasy, which was as expected!
" Fuck it's happening again, but it's the most ideal method to revitalize one immediately! Once all this is overed, I better clear away this misunderstanding... it's not wise to get entangled in mess of royalty! "
Unlike her nobel sense from earlier which made her look a bit elegant, the current her appeared a mess and looking at her desire filled gazes with restless body, Mark couldn't help but recall the term called seductress!
Few seconds later, Mark had completed with the basics as he felt it's ideal enough for now and was about to leave behind the panting body of her which seemed extremely misunderstanding.
Catch!
She abruptly caught his arm tightly, unwilling to let go as if she want to experience the same rush of energies for an another time.
" Wait! We have just stared, I want to go through an another round! "
With unwillingness in her eyes, Xena pulled him back, asking him to make her feel ecstatic like earlier.
" Princess, I have work to do, so I'll excuse myself from here! "
In haste Mark traversed out the place, leaving the pouting self of Xena behind.
Still she wasn't any but upset as it was her personal life to begin with!
Princess...
They earlier had failed to notice a small opening in the side window, though which maids of her had peeked the scene within
And hearing that these couples had just begun and wanted an another round, they couldn't help but blush and evacuated the scene to provide some privacy to their princess!
Damn! We discovered big!
Princess and... young master from Milton are having affairs!
As such, the matters were prone to spread though gossips and who knows what unexpected situation it may arise at latter part of time?
Well that's for future and Mark needs to go meet up with Wendy as war was about to brew any second sooner!
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Author's notes:
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Status:
# Mark - 7th stage of refinement! ( High order aura emperor equivalent )
# Wendy - Peak order aura emperor!
Wendy's undead forces
1. Initial order aura king - 20,000( peak-initial)
2. Middle order aura king - 5,000(peak-mid)
3. High order aura king - 1,000(peak-high)
4. Peak order aura king - 400(nearing HSAE)
5. Half step aura emperor - 900 ( mostly piled up from half mutants and green rank base leaders )