Kai has been building the house for the orphanage and he made sure to have a big enough building incase many orphans come. He wanted a European castle style but he had to reduce the size to house only 4 thousand.
The outside seems like it will house a few hundred people but Kai knows space magic and he can increase it any time. He didn't want to use up too much land because he still wants to farm.
The waste land is being watered with spirit water two times a day to replenish all the missing soil nutrients.
"Director!" A young voice came from the side. Kai saw a small baby she has a large fox tail and two fluffy ears. She is just adorable.
"Mercy what are you doing outside so early in the morning?" Kai looked towards the child and saw many other small children the same age as Mercy watching the workers bustling around.
"Go take a bath and brash your teeth, nanny help them wash up before they are late for breakfast."
"Yes. Come with me little ones."
"Bye director." The children left but two people suddenly approached him.
"Mr. Kai. Are we going to be kicked out?" Barth asked while two young girls stood behind him.
"No. Why are you worried about that?" He saw the two girls coming out of the shadows. One girl has red skin and a lizard like tail. The records said she is a descendant of the red lesser dragons demon.
The other one has a big body with a large rhino like horn on her forehead. "This is Po and Gil they are worried you might chase everyone away because of their demi human status. They are prepared to leave the orphanage if the others stay."
"Again, why are you guys worried about this? Are you free to have time to think conspiracies in your heads? I thought your schedules are full, should I add something else for you to learn?" Kai frowned.
"Ah we have to go to class. Bye Mr. Kai."
"Bye have a good day." Kai laughed when he saw their horrified expressions.
The beautiful building is still being fitted with windows and the like. There are several balconies for all the floors from the first floor to the sixth floor.
Kai let his golems cut the nearby trees for the work. There is plenty of glass from the factory in his space.
The paint was also provided by Kai from his space, he chose a cream white color with light yellow window and door frames. The wall outside is painted with marble black color. Looks like black glass making it very beautiful and the stains will was off with a bit of rain.
The large house needs a lot of things still so Kai drew a new blueprint for a spell to carve on magic stones to put inside his working golems.
Puppetry masters use these spells to grant their puppets magical powers. Kai had been busy before and he didn't have much time to including this spell but now he can do it. After having a clear blueprint of the spell he started processing the magic stones.
The children are now living a good life and they have to attend classes. Learning to read and write are skills available only to the nobility in this world but Kai doesn't care, he wants them to learn these skills so they can find good jobs in the future.
There are 29 kids in the orphanage 8 are demi humans. Not only do they have to take bitter medications they also have to meditate. Kai had them start their body refinement as soon as he got here. This world respect the strong he will make them stronger so they will have more options in the future.
At first the children were horrified by the foul smell coming from their bodies but a nanny explained that it is to clean their internal system so they can be able to get stronger with less effort.
In this world humans are the weakest race and even their mages are physically weak compared to their enemies. Therefore humans rely on the power of the spirits who bestow their blessings to a chosen few.
There are 9 spirits in total and they can each bless as many humans as they like. But these beings are a proud race, they only bestow blessings according to their own preferences.
There are churches where humans pray to show their gratitude. The world will some times have a hero who is blessed by more than 1 spirit at the same time. Humans will then use this person as the image of defiance to the demons.
The rest of the humanity however has to rely on talent and hard work to get stronger. This place that Kai is building here is a haven but as soon as the children go outside they will be eaten alive. So they need to get stronger for their own sake.
The servants collect and shape wood for the house while Kai in his space is fitting new magic stones and having them practice using magic. They have recorded spells in their database. Kai worked for a few days and ended up with 1350 mage golems he will refer to them as his mages.
Probably only the famous organizations have that many mages after the royal family.
From then on the work pace tripled in speed. Kai wants to avoid using guns so he only has guards who use swords and other cold weapons since he can not have knights. The guards have enchanted weapons. They can handle them with ease because of the simulations training.
They are more people now. The house was finished in only a few days. When the children saw their new house, tears fell from their eyes and they all thanked Kai.
"Girls in the third floor, boys in the second floor and the staff members in the first floor. Everyone gets a room. Rooms on the left side are for the youngest. If you are a 14 and above you stay in the right side. Happy choosing." Kai smiled and missed his own children dearly.
The rooms for older children have personal bathrooms because they shave and need special sanitary supplies than the children.
Kai made sure to design a drainage system that will keep his place clean. The location for the conservatory tanks will be cleaned using his medicine every week. It is a good think too because he is making the children refine their bodies.
The new dinner hall is very big with neatly arranged tables. Even the food served is sumptuous and plentiful. As body cultivators they must eat at least six times a day.
Kai moved into his own room in the castle, he has a lift that will take him to the 6th floor which is exclusively his. The house has four other lifts incase there are crippled children.
The fourth and fifth floor are the school classes and training grounds for the children. There is no harsh weather here so there are no pocket dimensions with beasts for training but there are weapons training rooms, gravity chambers, meditation rooms. There are chambers where each student enters a bathtub that closes only showing their heads.
The entire body will be submerged in medicinal solution to heal and prevent damage from excessive training.
The six floor has three bedrooms, a study, a seating room, a kitchen, an indoor pool with heating. Then there is his training facilities since he can not take up the ones downstairs.
He has a house keeper who will clean the house, wash the clothes and cook for Kai. His place has the best furniture. A king size bed to the comfortable couches and floor carpets. He released June who went around the new place curiously.
Kai had put a new magic stone inside June. He is now more beastly than before. He can also use sound attacks, and fire blasts.
Kai decided to take a carriage to the county town today since he finished all the paperwork he found out the county is supposed to give him a contribution from the kingdom taxes. According to the records, the orphanage never received anything from the office.
Kai had recorded the state of the orphanage and the previous conditions the children lived in. He doesn't want to be accused of taking from the nobles later on. He is planning on recording his conversation with the officer in charge.
The old orphanage is a small distance from Kai's land the new building is with in the wall while the old orphanage is within the barrier but a distance away from the wall encompassing Kai's territory. Kai will leave the place untouched because technically it belongs to the authorities.
Humming, he got dressed after a soothing medical bath. He used the medical baths as well, although his recipe is far more powerful than the kids.
Kai decided to learn about the slavery mark and any other magical contract that can be imposed on him in this world. He found out the slave mark is a type of curse.
There is a spell that requires a large amount of magic that can protect Kai from any and all types of curses. He needs powerful materials to make a tattoo. After he made his spell he will be safe from similar curse magic in the future.
Kai doesn't have a carriage but he has horses raised in his space. The horse he chose is the closest to an ordinary color because the others have all grown bright. Kai had taken them into his space when he was buying cattle from the country side before the apocalypse commenced.
But they have been eating his space spirit fruits which is full of different elemental power now they are all like fantasy animals. Others are covered in fire, while others are snow white exuding ice magic. He didn't want to take them out before because he worried they will be eaten by the apocalypse starved people.
These horses are clearly mutated beasts now. They are in the mountains inside the space. The number is not known. Of all the animals the horses were never given to any of his bases before so they have been growing in numbers without being disturbed.
Kai chose this horse because it seems ordinary enough even though it radiates power like the rest. He helped it cover the energy with a simple stealth pill now it can be seen but can not be felt.
Kai left the orphanage in a steady pace while watching the thick forest all around his territory. This may have been a problem for someone else but for him it is a plus.
When he has gone half the distance he heard a sound coming from the side and a fast moving beast almost crashed on him but the horse sped away as if it has lightning body like Kai. In truth, all the good qualities of the horses on his space have been increased several fold. This horse looks normal because it has wind power.
"Oh? How curious!" It turns out the beast is being ridden by a man. Kai took a closer look and he recognized him.
"Oh what fresh hell is this? Are you following me little man?" Kai rolled his eyes and nudged his horse to speed up.
To his surprise the speed of his horse is almost equal to when he covers himself with lightning aura. "You are full of surprises." Kai laughed happily as he whooshed through the path leaving his pursuer in the dust.
Kai soon reached the town. When he entered riding a fast horse, the people watched him in awe. He took his horse to a rental stables where mounts are kept by travelers.
Walking away from the stables he went straight to the housing office. Delighted to find a new manager. Kai smiled a radiant smile. They made small talk during which Kai pretended to be surprised there is someone else today.
"So you are the new orphanage director huh? How did my cousin get someone so young to take on such a thankless job?" The blond man sat in the chair but unlike the last one whose breath was full of malice, this one is complex.
"It is not something I came here to discuss, I came for the orphanage allowance that I am supposed to get here every month." Kai unbuttoned his outer coat and sat down elegantly.
"It says here you are 22 years of age. Why aren't you at the academy studying magic because I can clearly feel power emanating from you?"
That surprised Kai because he had made sure to hide his power. He looked at the man curiosity clear on his face.
"How much power can you feel?" He asked.
"Not a lot but the school may have ways to help you improve." This made Kai happy. At least he can somewhat hide his power. What is with these people able to find things he is trying to hide.
"What is your name?" Kai asked the man.
"I am called Darren Binusin. I see that you are not a noble. This shouldn't be any reason for you to throw your future in this desolate place."
"I have always wanted to be a farmer. I came to this office on that day to buy land and live my dream but your cousin had other plans for me." Kai said with a dry tone.
"You want to farm in that waste land? Nothing has been able to grow there for decades. That dream of yours will be hard to achieve."
"You let me worry about that. How is that allowance?." Kai asked Daren.
He came here to make it clear that it was them who refused to give the money not the other way. Darren seems surprised by Kai's nonchalant attitude toward money.
"The money allocated by the duchy is an annual fee and the one for the local orphanage has been used by my predecessor." Daren studied Kai closely whether he will see disappointment on his face but Kai seem to have expected it.
"It is not my place to question a noble but this will reach the authorities at some point and I am not like the old guy who had to sell children to get some food. You are the new officer here now find a solution. I have already recorded the state of the orphanage to serve as my iron clad proof."
Kai took out a magic disc that shows the recorded state if the orphanage when he first came there. It shows the dry and destitute conditions of the land, the falling walls of the orphanage house and the children who wore dirty tethered clothes.
The molding furniture, cracked walls and falling ceiling, all of it is clearly shown in the disc. These are very expensive in this world only the rich families would have them some people like the man in front of Kai has never even held one before.
When he saw the faces of the children on the video he realized just how much of a piece off shit his cousin is. "I will talk to my father about this and perhaps we can come up with a way to rebuild the orphanage but in the mean time please be patient."
"That won't be necessary. I have only come for that which the orphanage is supposed to get but if your Count family is not able to hand it over, then it is okay. There is something that your office can do for me and the orphanage in the mean time." Kai smiled amicably.
Daren can smell a shake down coming. This guy thinks he will squeeze something out if him because they embezzled orphanage funds.
"What I want is to be given privilege to conduct business in this town so that I can make money for the orphanage. This way you may not need to pay the allowance since we will be doing business ourselves. Think it through. Keep the recording I have plenty." Kai smiled even as the other man's face turned gloomy.
"Are you threatening a noble family Mr. Kai?" Daren's tone became cold.
"I am not. These are to show you and your family the state of the orphanage and so that when you see what I have done with the place you don't play funny games and try to take it from me." Kai was initially recording his lands so that he will prove they were once barren and a waste land but he decided to take a few recordings of the orphanage as well.
"Why would we do that?"
"The man whom I bought that waste land from showed me how vile you nobles can be. You can think of it as a threat but I am thinking of it as an insurance to keep my property incase you come after me because of greed." Kai explained.
"Why would anyone be greedy over that place?" Daren is confused.
Kai just smiled at him. "In any case Please have the answer of a location for me to do business here tax free."
"You must be joking." Daren became angry. Does this boy think them fools?
"I am housing and feeding all the street kids who would otherwise loiter around stealing and committing acts of violence on the streets of your lovely town. This will be how you thank me Mr. Daren." Kai spoke while looking straight at Daren's golden eyes.
Even the eye lashes and eyebrows are a bright blond color making him fit the fantasy character description.
"I will bring the suggestions to the higher ups." He is not sure that he can make such a decision by himself.
"Please come back the day after tomorrow."
Kai agreed and left.
The moment he came outside the man from the other night stood waiting for him.
"You have made this lord very upset. I had half a mind to barge in there and drag you out." The man huffed but it only made him look cute. White red hair, swimmers body an inch shorter than Kai's 1.9 centimeters.
Those red eyes are very deep like emeralds. "Hello again. Did you follow me here?" Kai asked when he was done ogling the beauty of the other man.
"Yes. I want to befriend you." Victor said to Kai who raised an eyebrow.
"Didn't you attack me for entering your place last time?" Kai asked.
"I know what you were after so I don't suspect you anymore. How about lunch?" He said it like that makes up for everything.
"Sure." Kai readily agrees because he hasn't had food from this place.
"I will treat you to magic food as a greeting gift. My name is Victor, what's yours?"
"Kai."
They entered a lavishly decorated restaurant and went to a private room. "Kai, how are you so powerful?" Victor asked suddenly.
Kai almost spit out the water he was drinking. He is saved by the waiter who came in with refreshments. There is spirit energy in the drinks but it is mild.
Magic, like spirit energy is also in the world energies but unlike spiritual energy it is easier to accessed. It is also gentler than spiritual energy which is harder to obtain and is far more powerful than magic but the two are not very different from each other because they are both power that is used through the use of spells.
Magic spells are powerful but not as aggressive as the spells used by cultivators which is domineering to the extreme. This is why mages can perform magic using their weak bodies but cultivators are refined by the spiritual energy to be stronger vessels of power.
Kai felt the magic in the fruit juice. It is refreshing and if one has never had spirit food they will be happy. Kai on the other hand frowned unintentionally but schooled his expression. The observant demon saw this and became surprised by it.
"Have you had magic food before?" Victor asked Kai with a curious expression.
"Why are we here? I understand you must want something, what is it?" Kai asked the man who became amused by his vigilance.
"I want to befriend you. Not many people can be my friend Kai."
"Let me ask you a question." Kai said
"Yes?"
"In your establishment, are there children there serving customers?" Kai glared at him because he knows the answer.
"Yes. Humans sell their children to my establishments all the times. It is not my fault that you all have such despicable desires for the young. Besides, they learn and grow. They can only work after they are 15 years. That is the normal marriageable age."
"I can not be friends with you." Kai said in disgust.
"Really? If I got rid of the children, would you be my friend?"
What a simple way to view things. "If you do that then I will consider it."
"Only that? I am losing money here. And aren't you being too ruthless? I at least give them a place to stay while you want them dead." Victor said while blinking like a child.
"I don't want them dead. Bring them all to my orphanage so they can grow and be children again." Kai explained.
"Fine. But there are all sorts of races for this kind of thing. Can you handle it?" Some of these children are half demons. They are not well received in the demon kingdom so they wonder and end up into slavery.
"You have to be prepared they will run as soon as they are released from their slavery status." Victor warned.
"I am not planning on keeping them by force. If they run, it is their freedom." Kai shrugged.
The food came. When Kai ate it he is disappointed by the lack of spices. It seems the medieval world lacks this much. Apparently salt and sugar are very expensive products in this world.
"You seem disappointed." The two have been eating and chatting but Kai couldn't help being let down.
"I will let my servants cook something for you when you bring all the children to the orphanage. As a thank you." Kai said.
"I am invited into your home so soon?" The demon showed delight and surprise at this.
"Of course. We are friends after all." Kai said.
"Victor. Call me Victor. Kai is it?" His red eyes looked straight into Kai making him shiver unexpectedly.
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