After some time, Austin let Lya rest for some time as she was still tried from being revived, it was already good that she managed to be awake for that long.
This is a representation of her will that she wanted to apologize to Austin and feel him again.
Anyway, Austin arrived at the entrance of the forest before he walked inside, heading straight to the Core where Victoria was recovering.
He knew that she had used that spell that she was working on before the battle began. It was such a dangerous yet powerful spell but its drawback was the extensive use of mana and Victoria used it when her mana reserves were low so to compensate for the rest of the mana required to cast it, it consumed her life force till only a drop left but that wasn't enough for her to live on as eventually she would die, so Leona's quick decision by taking her to the home dimension and send her to the core was the best as it could replenishing her life force but it would on a very slow pace that she may wake up so many years later.
But Austin had an idea, which was turning his mana to life force and send it to Victoria's body.
This was only possible because he had an endless mana pool.
Leaving that aside, Austin finally reached the core to see Victoria laying there under the tree with her eyes closed and her breath steady.
Walking to her, he kneeled down and caressed her cheeks before looking at her for a last time then kissed her lips.
The kiss wasn't your normal kiss as Austin's mana was turned into life force and being sent to her body through that kiss. Austin did that because it would be more efficient if there was a much more close physical contact and what is better than a kiss?
However, during that process, Austin failed to witness how the giant tree glowed in a green light that provided him with life force but more intensively making him surprised and shocked before he shrugged that off as it wasn't that important now, then he continued channelling his life force to her body replenishing it many times faster than before that her snowy white hair turned back to the usual pink and her pale skin became rosy and alive.
The process was successful as Austin could feel her life force going back to normal.
After some time channelling life force to her, he stopped as now he had replenished all of her life force.
Austin then backed away and looked at Victoria who after few seconds began to open her eyes and looked at him.
Her eyes returned to her usual pink color as her life force filled every part of her body cancelling the after effects of using that spell.
Victoria saw her husband in front of her and felt a swirl of emotions running wildly inside her. But then, her eyes teared as she remembered the things that happened after the battle.
Austin who saw this, smiled as he pulled her in a hug and started to caress her short curly pink hair making her feel the warmness and feeling of longing that was lingering inside her heart became even more prominent making her tears increase as amidst this coldness, there is a warmness that could make her feel like she is in home.
Feeling how she began to sob and her trembling body made Austin's swear the same thing he swore to Lya. He won't let anything bad happen to his wives or make them sad and cry like that ever again.
He felt sour in his heart with just the thought of something bad happening to one of them.
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He let Victoria cry silently for some minutes before she calmed down and was ready to go back.
He stood up and pulled her up then kissed her lips and forehead much to her happiness and joy before whispering some words of love in her ears to make her feel even warmer and better and it worked.
Now thinking back at all of this. He found that everyone of his wives became his without making any efforts or through weird and incomprehensible circumstances. It made him think that Freya manipulated their minds so they could fall in love with him or something or even manipulated him and everything around him was just a dream and he was still in his own room in his original world.
Like the case with summoning, the journey to the other world where he got Anita, Stella, Victoria and the nun group as his wives or with the case with Asagi where he was sent to her world as her husband.
The only one seemed logical to him was Ingrid as the woman thought about her relationship with him many times before making the decision and Violet, well because she was perverted woman and wanted someone to put some sense in her head but it seemed that he put it with an overdose.
Sex was always and would be another way for a woman to love a man as some just wanted a man who could make them forget all of their pressures and anxieties and rest for some time in the embrace of a man who could comfort them and give them the sense of safety they wanted.
Shiranui wanted a man who she could lean on and support her and Austin demonstrated this by his actions with her and of course showed her the warm embrace of a man who could be with her and stand for her.
Regarding Sakura, well he didn't understand why she loved him from the beginning. It said that she love him from before, which made things sus to him.
The summonings, are they just a characters from the their respective anime or manga with their minds or personality altered? Or mind controlled so they could love him or what?
He needed to ask Freya about that, and that would be right now as he wanted to know everything before taking any next step or accepting any reward. Maybe that Freya wasn't even her true name and just a façade.
He suspected her since that day he met Selena because he wasn't comfortable with the whole thing regarding 2B or Selena becoming his wife as he felt something from her. He can't pinpoint it, but it was strange. Her aura or to be more specific her soul wasn't normal not like his women at all as if she was.....an unknown entity.
Didn't like it any one bit to become unaware of the things around him.
"Vica, you go to your sister and stay with them or go back to your room to rest if your are tired, I will come back after some time. Remember to tell them that." Austin said with a gentle smile.
But she felt that there was something wrong with him as she felt that his mood changed for some reason, she felt like he was upset, annoyed or...angry?
"Don't worry, I just want to be mused with myself for some time."
"Um, but darling, remember that no matter what happens I will still love you and adore you. You are the most important person to me after all~" Victoria said with deep love in her voice mixed with seriousness and Austin didn't need her to do that to know that she wasn't lying.
He cupped her cheeks and caressed them before kissing her forehead then her lips.
"I know, and I love you for all that your are my dear."
Victoria smiled before giving him a tight warm hug then kissed his lips before whispering.
"This is for good luck~"
Then she walked away while shaking her wide sexy hips to him as she knew how he liked her body and she was proud of it.
Austin just shook his head with a smile before taking a deep breath, then in the next second his smile disappeared and was replaced with a cold and firm expression.
"Freya, come down here. I know that your are watching."
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Austin stood in his place beside the giant tree and didn't move an inch.
Then few moments later.
"How did you know that I was watching?" A melodious beautiful voice resounded in his air as he felt the woman hugging him from behind.
Now it's time to face the truth and not stay in the hidden anymore.