House is not just box made of wood or stones, it's more than that. First you need proper blueprint to atleast know what and how you want to build it.
Second to create a firm base on which the house will remain stable and general format for the actual house, later with risen wall, puched windows and doors. Of course not without making the completed portion tough and durable so it can withstand last remaining and most crucial structure of this building.
A roof.
Supported above by heavy and general structural pillers and walls. Roof should be steady and sturdy so does not crash down.
Eren did as it was written but reality is always more detailed. Eren first build a wooden house but it came crashing down the second Alena rejected it.
" I don't want wooden one." She said.
Eren wanted to smack her on her face but couldn't do anything, it was months worth of efforts crashing down in instant.
Obviously he was angry especially since she let him continue all the way till end, only to break it. Only if she had told him earlier, it would've saved lot of time.
But as always, eren accepted her choice and started making new one, Now with cement, bricks and same concept.
It took him another few months and a year passed just like that, his daily life completely regular.
Few minutes of torture every night followed by sound sleep, day with working on the construction and evening reading through books.
In another few months he finally completed the house and next second Alena broke it saying it was too small.
In fit of anger eren broke all the tools. Even tried fighting Alena only get smashed into ground without even knowing how.
It angered him but he was again reminded of his weakness. He wanted to leave yet part his heart couldn't agree.
Next day Alena apologised, although a bit arrogantly and eren forgave her, why?, simply because he was indebted to her in many ways.
But he firmly told her not to do this kind of stunts ever again, something to which she mildly agreed.
Eren again started his adventurous life of building a mansion, afterall in which measures she asked, it was no longer just a home.
And learning from his past mistakes, he finally build a mansion worthy of her gaze in another year.
Alena didn't praise it and eren wasn't asking for it but it made him realise of highly demanding Alena was.
Now that he was finished, he felt absurdly free and that irritated him. He had nothing to do except reading some left out books but even that ended in few days.
His vocabulary, speech and intellect increased as he gained knowledge. Working with continues labour and usage mana, his build had also became taller and sturdier.
And he could feel small marble of coagulated mana inside his chest, slowly progressing and from his estimation he needed another two years to complete his core.
Right now sun is slowly vanishing into horizon, a beautiful morning but eren is too focused on something else.
Right now he was lazing around of soft bed, reading last remaining book with intense gaze. But unlike rest of his reads this was different, he was reading a romance novel.
Yes,last option left. it was interesting at first and later it got absurd with weird incidences bringing male and female lead closer and then some cliche advice from one of female lead's friend that crashed their relation but with again forgiving each other they got back together, only to fight again. It was weirly addictive with how well it was written, especially since the writer added Murder mystery going on background and highly detailed sex scenes, expressing their emotions and emotional growth.
It was just getting to fun part where eren was about to learn who was the killer when a voice came from behind.
" That's in my latest collection." Spoke Alena, lazing around outside in orange shade as she peeked in his book.
" yes great choice, but I didn't imagined you having this taste." Eren joked, from his experience Alena joked a lot and she could because she was smart and intelligent. She had all her question resolved unlike this book where half of characters were confused about smallest problems.
Her intelligence was bound get in the way of understanding this.
" Why?"
" Because you're too logical." He answered not getting in to too much detail.
" you're right, what was the point of marriage if they weren't sure of their feeling." She spoke annoyed, remembering the pages.
" Yes, also lucy got angry just because daemon once shouted on her, Are they stupid?" said Eren, and lucy and daemon were female and male lead of that romance novel.
"I think that was justifiable, wouldn't you get angry?" Asked Alena, trying to learn about his emotional state.
" I would but if it's someone you love then wouldn't you try to understand them, At the end with proper conversation everything will be solved." Eren didn't had much of an experience in this but he had some thoughts.
" Well if it were that easy, Emotions are powerful. It makes you remember or forget most important things. But sure if you don't lose yourself in fit of rage and have proper conversation before lashing out like a maniac, there will be no fight and breakout." Alena didn't meant it but eren heard some other implications.
" Does that mean I shouldn't have killed those vampires?" Anger, regret, fear and confusion mixed in his heart. The question about morality and justice still haunted him.
Just where was this conversation was going.
" They did unthinkable, Maybe to many people but what if they did have family.
small childrens,aged parents, brothers and sisters. What about them. Did you not think that?" Asked Alena, eren was pushed in dark further. Grief stuck in his throat.
" Then I was wrong?" he asked, althought a bit angered just thinking about what those vampires did.
"No." her answer surprised eren greatly, What was she getting at?
" Why?" he asked.
" They did bad things knowing about consequences and If they thought It wouldn't come back to them then they were stupid.
Every action has consequences.
It's Selfish world Eren. Everybody have something to hold, something to protect, something to value.
Only those with power can protect it.
It's your choice who'll you chose.
Their children whom you don't even know or your family and friends, Those you love." At the end, Selfishness was a personality, not everybody was born with it and not everyone could live with it.
Choice was inevitable.
Eren fell in dilemma, what was he supposed to do?
He could ignore all others for his loved ones but that would be inhuman, He would be no different then the monsters he hated.
" It's better to live as monster than die every second as saint.
And just so you know, I'm truest of monster." Eren could feel her emotion, she meant every single word.
" You're right, I don't want to lose anyone else." He was ready to be one if that's what it took.
Eren's word were immature, Alena could see he still hadn't understood what it meant. Halfhazardly spoken words will bite him back and as his mentor and teacher Alena didn't wanted that.
" Let's go." She said and next second eren found himself floating out of window, Eren was aware of her unpredictable behaviour time to time so didn't say much and let her took him. And they took off.
Eren felt strong wind passing, To which speed Alena was running everything was dark to eren. His mana sense couldn't keep up with Alena's speed. Yet despite unbelievable speed Eren's body remained unaffected. Alena's magic barrier protected him.
Within a minutes they were out of forest.
Another few minutes passed and Alena stopped.
Eren didn't knew where they were, he could feel slow and almost stagnant warm air, he deducted it to be a closed chamber of a sort with one way out and with his mana sense he confirmed it to be true.
He looked around but Alena wasn't there, he heard extremely shallow and weak breaths. There were two people. He looked toward one corner.
Their presense extremely weak and vitality almost lost.
Nauseating feeling permeated his insides, his stomach churned with disgusting smell that soon came to his attention. He knew what that smell was, blood and shit.
He was familiar with both.
His heart that was calmed till now pulsed rapidly. His thoughts in disarray but he had some clarification.
Just like always he needed to decipher what Alena wanted to convey through her action. He calmed his heart, cleared unnecessary thoughts and walked towards two laid living beings.
Upon closer inspection their appearance became more clear, still grey and black but now much more detailed. They were children, barely ten.
His heart shook in terror as observed them further. Their body leaking with green vitality from everywhere, they were wounds and next moment one of the body lost all his Lustre and light.
Scared Eren hurriedly took a step back and that alerted the boy.
" No master,.. No..Please."
" Please.." His hoarse voice rang in Eren's head like huge crash, did he mistook him?, is he blind?
' This is a nearest vampire town and right now you're in the basement of one of the house. Owner has two wives, two children.
In here he has other two kids, not his own ofcourse but for his entertainment.' Her voice directly sounded in his head, she held no compassion at all, as if she was immune to their pain.
'Their blood is mostly sucked out, left off is bleeding. Their eyes are gauged out and limbs are broken. Multiple part of skins lacerated, some Burned and some skinned.
One is dead while other one is still have few hours left in this suffering.' This time it had some emotion, pure disgust.
Eren didn't say anything, he thoughts ran fast and being blind added more pressure.
' They've shit their pants.
They must've been tortured for few days, their body is weakened and malnourished which suggest they haven't eaten in days.'
" Enough." Eren spoke meekly but Alena stopped instantly and kids stopped begging.
" I'm here to help." Eren spoke gently as he bent down to kids but kids scuffled back in fear.
' Death is only help you can give them.' Alena's word in head struck like thunder.
" Can't you do anything?" Eren had lost his composure from the start but this was not what he expected, Alena's silence gave him bitter answer.
" Who did this?" He asked to kids, his hands slowly caressing a young boy's bloody hair.
For a moment boy couldn't stop shaking with his body instinctively reacting to anyone but Eren's hand's warmth reached his head, his senses that were obstructed by fear were regained a little as he understood that someone came to help him and his brother.
" Brother we're saved look we're saved." His voice filled with vigour as he called his brother but there was no response, he didn't realise when his brother passed away in pain.
" Your brother is dead." Eren looked towards cold corpse even younger boy, his heart ached even more.
" No..no..no" As if mania had occured, the child couldn't accept it but what could be done?, His heart that held on single thread of hope stopped and he died on his own denial.
Eren hadn't deal with his emotion yet when Alena's voice rang in his head again.
' Those who did this is currently having a peaceful dinner above.'
" We should mourn to dead." Eren knew she was cold but in his heart, he wanted alena to be emotional. No some emotionless monster that she made herself to be.
Eren stood up.
His vision saw two corpse now cold and empty, their fear and pain finally gone. It gave eren some comfort knowing that they were in better place.
Same time he couldn't help but imagine those kids torture, their moment of misery and it made his heart trembled with sadness
A moment of silence as he mourned to dead and in the next second all what he felt was just emptiness, he wasn't even angry.
He left the room, walking upstair towards where they were dining.
His presense were soon visible to everyone as he walked closer to table, his mana vision observed five people.
As Alena said, A husband, two wives and two children. One boy and one girl. And all of them vampires. Their lavish food smell permeated Eren's nostril but there was something else he noticed as well. Smell of iron, upon closer inspection he saw each holding glass filled with liquid. It held green vitality to it. He didn't needed to second guess, that was blood.
Eren stood their with perplexed emotions.
Male vampire saw him yet Instead of being wary of eren, he was joyous.
" Looks like we're having party." He said in amused smile.
" He looked delicious unlike those dirtbags." One of the woman spoke and other couldn't help but laugh.
" It's fun, isnt it?" Spoke eren, his voice dead cold and face darkned with blank emotion.
" Alena What should I do?" He asked but he had already made his decision.
' You don't have to do anything, just say what you want and I'll do it for you.'
" Then kill those three adults in most painful way."
" Done"
" Guaaahhhhh..."
" Nhhaahahhahh....." Each three screamed on top of their lungs, their body pained from unknown cause but They knew one thing, death was close and the boy in front was responsible for it.
Their screams lasted few minutes and it finally died down, childrens were terrified. Too scared to speak anything.
" You gave them easy death." It was not in any way an easy death but eren wasn't satisfied.
" They were weak."
Eren sighed and walked towards kids, he stood before them.
" Those kids in the basement died."
" Please spare me." Boy begged and girl followed his steps.
" If you answer me truthfully then I won't kill you." Said eren, his voice cold with no emotion whatsoever.
" Did you know about those kids?" Kids flinched in fear hearing Eren's question but with some courage the boy answered.
" No."
' He's lying.' Eren didn't ask her how and why, he had no time for trivialities.
" Kill them." Asked Eren but reply came shocking.
' It's your turn now.' Eren felt fear but he was aware what she wanted to here.
Eren hesitated but just for a moment and then his emotion went cold,
Slow wind rose in the dining room, atmosphere still and among those circumstances Eren made up his mind and picked up a knife.