Chapter 91 - Chapter 91 - Return to Sanctuary

These experience points continued as I flew southwest toward Tófton City. I found it odd that the Konungdómr Kingdom named some of their cities directly after whoever was in command. Others, like Viscount Landskyld, were apparently too lazy to change the city's name. Then again, Landskyld could have had a reason why he didn't change the city of Skattgjöld's name.As I flew, I marveled at how something that I had once dreamed of now seemed monotonous. In my previous life, I remembered that teleportation and telekinesis, which I would use to fly, were two of the powers I dreamed of having. Now that I could fly, it wasn't as exciting as I had expected. More and more though, I was starting to think teleportation might be the better choice.In fact, it might even be the answer to my current dilemma. If I was able to either teleport myself or some of my followers to distant cities, it would save me a lot of time. Of course, that left me with a problem. I still needed to create the Twilight Contracts. Then again, maybe I didn't need to do that. I had already created a Ritual of Sacrifice.I could always make it so that when someone completed the ritual, they could exchange for the Twilight Contract. Then the problem would be that I would need to spread knowledge about how to cast the ritual instead of spreading the actual bloodline contracts. I could get around this by offering a quest for those who had already obtained the Twilight Contracts. They could be the ones who went to other places to spread the knowledge of the ritual.Realizing I might have solved the problem, I couldn't help but smile. It actually sounded feasible. Deciding that I might as well give it a try, I found a nice spot to land well away from everything else. While I might have been able to make the changes while gliding, I actually still felt a little nervous that I would make a mistake since flying was new to me.After landing, I pulled up the Dragon God Contract System to make the changes. Hmm, that isn't the best acronym. I need to come up with something better, I thought. I frowned when I had to decide how many Draconic Points I would offer, and what those Draconic Points would be for. Would it include how far they had to travel or just the fact that they shared the ritual with another person.Finally, I decided to go with teaching the ritual to another person. However, I knew how people thought. I could easily imagine people gaming the system by teaching the ritual to a bunch of kids or people who might never use the system. Because of this, I decided that when the person they taught the ritual to used the system to make a purchase for the first few times, the teacher would get a kickback of the Draconic Points that were spent. Nodding at my genius, I smiled, quite pleased with myself.As the final adjustments to the Dragon God Contract System were made, I stretched my wings and launched myself back into the air, deciding not to visit the city after all. Instead, I was going to head home. The problem of spreading the system might have been solved, and I really didn't want to visit some unknown city anyway. I also knew it would still take time to see how effective my changes were.For now though, I was glad that I didn't have to keep on flying around and could just go home. Anyways, I needed to go back home and start making more Twilight Contracts. While I was at it, I could also make some Soul Contracts for the undead. It wasn't like I had to rush from one city to the next anyway. Now that I was a dragon, I had centuries to do whatever I felt like doing.In my previous life, I had been a homebody. I didn't even want to leave the house to get food. I suppose, even back then, I was a little like a dragon. I just didn't have a hoard, unless you counted the thousands of science fiction and fantasy novels that I had bought and read over the years. I had also been just as lazy as a dragon too.No, don't disparage dragons, I reminded myself. Dragons are innately superior. Any talk of them being lazy is just jealousy.The journey back was quicker than I expected. What truly caught my attention, though, was the activity. Sanctuary was alive in a way that it hadn't been when I had left. I spotted a group of winged kobolds practicing aerial maneuvers. Some of the kobolds were even flying closely together, as if supporting an injured brother or sister from plummeting to their deaths after simulating an aerial attack.My heart swelled with pride at the sight. They had taken to the skies as I had, their movements coordinated and graceful, though still rough around the edges. Once I got closer though, I realized that several of the winged kobolds weren't coordinating their movements or roleplaying saving each other. They had taken their bathing pool activities into the sky.Seeing this, I felt like facepalming. Really, I thought. Oh my me…that is not what I want to see. "And no, I'm not jealous," I muttered to myself. Still, I guess I shouldn't complain, I thought, deciding that my followers were just acting according to their nature.Not wanting to get mobbed by my throngs of admiring believers, I cast the Invisibility spell on myself and made my way inside. Soon, I found myself in the dungeon core room. Nothing had changed, which I found reassuring.Since I was home, I decided to clear out my divine realm. While there hadn't been a lot of divine offerings in return for Draconic Points while I was away, I had accumulated some gold pieces. As for the food, as soon as it was offered, I had been eating them. While I knew I didn't need to eat any longer, I didn't want the food to go to waste and I needed the storage space.As for magic items, they had mostly been useless junk which I had extracted the magic from to increase my magic point pool. After that was done, I decided that I needed a permanent solution to that problem as well. If my Draconic Dragon System became popular, then I would need to either expand my divine realm or make it so that the offerings were automatically shunted to my lair instead.From what I could gather, I needed to use Faith Points to increase the realm size. Unfortunately, the bigger the realm size, the more Faith Points I would need to maintain the realm. At the moment, I received almost 3000 Faith Points every day. Unfortunately, a lot of those points were being used to maintain the Dragon God's System. Yeah, that sounds better than the Dragon God Contract System, I thought. It took a lot of points to create the Twilight Contracts as well.Because of this, I was a little hesitant about spending a lot of Faith Points to upgrade the divine realm. Technically, if I had enough believers, I could already qualify as a lesser god. Unfortunately, I didn't have enough followers to make that jump yet. I was pretty sure that I was close to advancing to become a rank 2 minor god though. That was also one reason I was trying to spread the system. I needed more believers.Once I had enough believers, I could worry about expanding my divine realm. For now, I decided to create a permanent portal to connect the dungeon core room with my tiny divine realm. My goal was to streamline the process of the sacrificed items and gold being dumped into my dungeon core room instead of needing me to take out the items periodically.Actually, now that I thought about it, I decided that wasn't the best idea. Who knew what stupid items the people might try to send me. I could even see some tricky, sneaky, backstabbing human sending a bomb as an offering? Yep, I definitely need to make the connection somewhere other than where I sleep, I decided.However, it also needed to be someplace that could be guarded. It should also have a holy feeling since it was connected to my believers. That meant a church. In fact, a church had already been created by some of the builders. They had felt that I needed something to denote my status as a god. Of course, I could hardly refuse my subject's request.Sighing, I realized I was going to have to interact with my followers again. For some reason, while I loved them, they also tried my patience. It actually brought back memories of when I was working with a group of kindergarten students. They were adorable. They were almost like little puppies who were always yapping and barking for attention, surrounding me and pestering me with question after question.Reluctantly, I called out to Geyma, who I had noticed was guarding the entrance tunnel to the dungeon core room. She came rushing towards me like a red and black speckled Dalmation and leapt onto me, wrapping both her arms and her wings around me. I was confused at first. When did her wings get so big? Did I forget something?Shaking my head, I shoved such thoughts aside as I tried to extricate myself from her embrace. Somehow, I didn't think this was how a believer was supposed to approach their god. Wait, what was she doing? Oh, fudge no, I thought, quickly realizing what was about to happen.