[Would you like an introduction to the relationship module?] Alina asked Zane to which he nodded slightly.
'Save it for when I'm alone.'
[Understood.]
After a few parting words the 2 wyverns left
Zane collapsed to the ground in exhaustion.
"Brother!" Alice voiced out in worry as she rushed over.
"I'm fine, just exhausted…" He said with a smile to Alice.
She breathed a sigh of relief, Zane's other sisters, his brother, and his mother also arrived.
Zane smiled gently seeing all of them looking at him with a concerned gaze. Even the usually nonchalant battle manic Amelia revealed slight concern.
"What do you wanna do now?" Elaine asked clearing her throat.
"Preparing for the golden dragon ruins would be the best option honestly."
Elaine nodded "You should cultivate, you've been so busy you haven't had the chance." She said worriedly.
To which Zane nodded, fully agreeing. As such he went inside the palace.
He sat down and cleared his mind of all thoughts and worries.
'Begin the introduction.' Zane said.
[Alright, the relationship module is actually quite simple. Simply put it allows you to measure one's affection for you and what they consider you as. For example, try to use it on Elaine.]
Zane nodded he thought about Elaine and sure enough her details popped up.
[Name: Elaine]
[Species: Wyvern]
[Affection: 87%(Beloved child)]
[Notes: She has fantasized about you leading her clan to eternal glory. if you do manage to do this, you might be able to bestow a green hat to her husband.]
Zane's mental state was shattered seeing the 2nd sentence's remarks. He couldn't help but chuckle.
'Are you wanting me to start a harem full of women I stole or something?' Zane joked.
[No, though it would be interesting to see how you entertain 100+ women.]
Zane's eyes widened.
'I… I can't do that! No way!'
Alina laughed [Of course you can. At the saint realms creating clones is as easy as breathing.]
'Isn't that cucking myself?' Zane couldn't help but think.
[…]
[Fair point.]
'Anyways, no way in hell am I gonna do that. A harem is full of problems. Catfights, hatred, toxicity, etc. No, just no.'
[*Sigh* Then what about the women who grow to like you and you like them? It's certainly going to be more than 1 in a world like this.]
Zane shook his head 'You think I'm some sort of main character from a novel that can't learn to say no? Feelings will be hurt, I know that. However, more would be hurt if I did start a harem. At most I will only have 2.'
[You say that now… But 2 might turn into 3, then 3 into 4… Don't get me wrong I don't doubt you will limit yourself, but it definitely will be more than 2 or 3.]
Zane sighed.
'Maybe, but I will cross that bridge when I get to it.'
Alina didn't respond.
He sighed and cleared his mind again.
'The saint dragon scripture… One of the best scriptures exclusive to dragons in this world due to the bloodline requirements.'
Zane focused on sensing the spiritual energy around him, in the end, he chose the spiritual essence that he had remaining.
He started circulating the energy according to the saint dragon scripture.
As the spiritual essence circulated through his body in a peculiar manner, certain parts of his blood began turning blue.
To complete the first stage of the cultivation technique, he needed to turn his blood entirely blue.
Eventually, he managed to turn 1/100th of his blood blue after 10 minutes.
The foundation of cultivation is the body, the body must have a certain level of strength and energy to cultivate.
Right now he was transforming his blood to contain more energy.
This could be described into 6 stages.
The blue stage where he transforms his blood into a blue color, the violet stage where he turns his blue blood violet, the amber stage, then the bronze stage, silver stage, and gold stage.
After that, he would have to condense his blood into something called blood essence.
Then he could form his spiritual core.
With this in mind, he slowly continued circulating his blood and spiritual essence.
4 hours passed and he had managed to convert 1/4th of his blood into blue blood. This speed is actually really fast, a normal saint dragon would take 8-16 hours to get to this point.
During this time Zane felt his strength slowly increasing. Right now he felt he was around 30% stronger.
(A/N: Feel like I should stress something. When he was fighting the sky realm elder wyvern before, both of their cultivations were sealed. So this doesn't mean he can beat the shit out of a 1st sky realm now. In fact, his strength is only stepping in between the 9th mortal realm and the 1st martial realm. Otherwise called a half-step 1st martial realm.)
After that Zane went to sleep. Tonight Anne, Alice, Amelia, Zeldris, and Zane were all sleeping in the same room with Elaine. A royal sleepover of sorts.
When Zane walked in, everyone was already in the royal chamber.
"Brother Zane, thanks for earlier today…" Anne thanked him sincerely to which Zane who was in his demi-human form smiled.
"It's nothing, you are my sister now. Even if I have to go to the depths of hell and back I will be there for you." Zane said with a genuine smile.
Anne blushed.
"Brother… You shouldn't say stuff like that…" She muttered.
"Someone is having lustful thoughts." Elaine teased causing Anne's cheeks to become bright red like a tomato.
"Mom!" Anne scolded to which Elaine laughed.
"If you or any of your sisters want him, I'm fine with it. I knew very well such a possibility existed."
"Oh? So does that mean I might get a green hat?" A voice sounded from the ceiling of the room.
Zane looked up and a miniature wyvern was there.
Elaine rolled her eyes "Honey, you are always so insecure over me. I'm not gonna do that, I'm just saying if our daughters like him to go for it."
The wyvern changed to human form. Love could be seen in his eyes.
"What can I say, all of you are my only weaknesses."
Elaine changed to her human form and kissed the wyvern king.
He held her waist "Shall we give the children some time alone while we… do something else?" He asked with his hands roaming over her waist.
She nodded and the 2 disappeared.
The room had an awkward atmosphere for a bit, no one was stupid, they knew what the 2 were doing.
"That got steamy very fast…" Zane muttered.
Zeldris dryly laughed.
"I… I think I sh-should leave too…" Zeldris said.
Zane didn't stop him, he figured it was pointless to stop him.
After Zeldris left Zane was left alone… With his 3 sisters.
Zane sighed "I should go too. I need to keep cultivating so y'all don't have to protect me."
"Please stay… Zane." Alice suddenly said.
"Why?" Zane asked.
"We understand you don't want us to see you as just trying to get our affection, we do. But we don't see you like that Zane. Just these past 3 days, have been enough to prove that you are not a bad person. Sure you have a few flaws, such as being slightly impulsive, but who doesn't have flaws?" Alice responded kindly.
"So, please… Stay with us tonight. Don't create a barrier between us for something so unnecessary."
Zane hesitated.
[I say go for it, doesn't hurt to have a few beauties every now and then.] Alina chimed in.
'Perverted system.' Zane retorted in his mind without missing a beat.
Alina didn't respond.
Seeing him stand there for a few seconds Amelia chimed in. "Hey, stud, if anyone says anything I'll just beat 'em up for you, don't worry about appearances. Besides, no one would know if you don't say anything. Besides it's not like you're having an o#gy with your 3 foster sisters, It's just a sleepover."
"Hahaha, direct as always." Anne said lightly chuckling with her dainty hand covering her mouth. Though she was blushing.
Zane had flushed cheeks but nodded in the end.
Large sleeping bags were laid out in the room. Zane laid down on one as he was rather exhausted. The girls chatted for a bit, bringing him into the conversation from time to time, trying to be inclusive.
"Zane, I have a question." Anne suddenly spoke.
Zane nodded with his eyes closed "What is it?" He asked curiously.
"Say we weren't your sisters, which would you fall in love with first?"
Zane was stunned into silence for a few moments before going into thought.
"Alice or you, Anne. Though if I must choose for sure, Alice's kindness that's true to her name mixed with her noble aura is fatally attractive. Such character is not too common I think."
Alice blushed.
"What about me?" Amelia asked slightly pouting.
"I'm worried you would work yourself to death leaving me single." Zane responded. That was indeed one of his concerns, he had seen her training, and it wasn't pretty.
"I-If I toned down my training would you consider me then?"
Zane finally opened his eyes and looked at her.
Her human form had beautiful scarlet red eyes and wavy scarlet hair with an hourglass figure, if he had to estimate her cup size it was probably C cup.
"Do you want me to consider you?" He asked her a question instead.
She turned flustered confirming his suspicions.
"Why?" He asked curiously.
"Sure, I stand up for you girls even at the risk of my own life, and I'm pretty reasonable. However, I don't think I have many attractive traits."
She cleared her throat steeling her resolve.
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