Going back to the capital, we didn’t had much, beyond the Sand-Whale coming out every now and then. We almost got devoured, but other than that, we were fine.

Back at the capital, I did had a small quarrel with the towns guard about Ayla, and they even asked if they could have a ‘taste’ of the product. After I threatened cutting off their ‘tools’, they did tried to accuse me of aggression, and tried to ‘jail’ me… If by jail, you mean cowering, and pissing their pants.

After giving the same letter from the day I shown the GM of the city’s guild, they did let me pass without a problem… If you don’t consider what just happened at the gate.

Also, I already had the ‘perfect’ script on my head of what would happen with Ayla dressed only with my coat.

First, a kid would come running towards us, and pass right by, lifting up the coat by ‘accident’. Oh, a kid’s running towards us… Shame that it’ll hit the Shielding Badge barrier. 3, 2, 1 aaaaand…

“Guh!”

“OH MAN! YOU! CAN’T LAUGH KENJI! DON’T LAUGH!”

Seriously though, the kid was running at full speed. So much so, that the kid lost conscious…

““Tch!””

Did I just hear a chorus of Tch’s? Was that only in my mind?

Second! A group of guys will try to hit on her. Oh, there they are! They’re coming. I yawned, while letting a ‘bit’ of the [Killing Instinct] sip through. They all froze in place… No really. They’re frozen stiff.

“Heh!”

Chuckling, we kept moving, avoiding more ‘Accidents’ with children, and some more idiots who tried to walk towards her, we finally reached the castle.

““WHO IS SHE?!””

Aaaand that’s the first thing I hear when I arrive at the Sheikh’s castle. I rolled my eyes in annoyance, and glanced at the 3(2, if you count Kasumi as a fox) girls staring at Ayla.

“Good time! Why don’t you 4 go and talk things over? I have things to finish it up. BYE!”

Glancing at them while rushing to the room the Sheikh was, they were already ganging up on Ayla. Not my problem!

Reaching the room, I entered without knocking, walked towards the couch on the left side of the room, and face planted on it.

“Hrmmm…”

“Uh… Kenji-dono?”

“Just a sec…”

“Uuuuhh…”

After a minute or so, I got my body around, facing the ceiling.

“Okay… Let’s get this over with.”

I said, while still on the couch.

“So, you got the Relics?”

“Yep. Also already selected some… Don’t worry, it didn’t had much that REALLY interested me. I think, what? 8 things? And 6 are related to food. Or is it 5?”

“Related to food?” Suzuki asked.

“Yep! Like a jar that after storing milk, I mean, any kind of liquid, it can replicate it, without any problem, or another jar that can support super high temperatures. Speaking of which…”

I informed them about the Oni princess, omitting the Vampire part. Also that one of the Artifacts, is already on her, which is a Slave collar. Of course, I also omitted the part where the owner can dictate the rules of the contract. No blasting way I’m gonna tell them about that.

“I see. Then, you’re not interested in anything else?”

“I mean, no? I have an entire log of the things I found there… Also, I had a fight with a monster at the room, so, some of the relics were… I mean, are, dust now. Meh.”

“I-I see… So? Where are them?”

“Inside my Digi-Storage. If you want, I can label them all, with their names, and what my Scan said about them… Of course, I might have missed something, since I just stored them all… I might find something interesting there… Actually…”

“Y-Yes?”

“Do you have something, like, that can reproduce some small materials infinitely?”

“Something like that?”

“Kaddrad-sama… We… actually, do have one…”

“Hm… Okay then, what’s the problem?”

“We… don’t want to give that away…”

“Then let me copy?”

“What?” “Huh?”

“You know, I can create things, that can AT LEAST reach a descent result. If you don’t want to give this relic or artifact away, then let me copy. You can stay with the original. How about it? I think it’s a good deal, to finish all things for good.”

The 2 looked to each other, talked, started shouting at each other, lowered their voices, and finally the attendant got out of the room.

“Oh, here. This is the Sand-Whale controlling thingy.”

I gave the Sheikh a flute. Yeah, a flute. It was small, but it had a small version of the worm inscribed on it. Said worm had some symbols in Spirit Language. To be exactly, the entire sentence meant: {To summon the Whale of the sand depths, play the tune, and it shall answer its new master}

“With this! We can-”

“I wouldn’t recommend use it right now. For 2 reasons actually.”

“And those being?” The Sheikh glanced at me annoyed.

“First, you need a certain tune. Which means you need to know the music to play, so to be able to control the Worm. And secondly, I don't think there will be a good result, playing this flute in the city, don't you think?”

The Sheikh opened his eyes wide, and put the flute on the table.

“W-What about this tune? Do you have it?”

“Hmmm… There are some… Scrolls…” I said while looking at the list of items. “Hmm… I’ll need to check them out. There’s over 50 scrolls. And they don’t have identification, showing what they really are… Tch! More time wasted.”

After that, we awaited more for the attendant to come back, and he finally did, with some kind of box, around his arm. He gave back something to the Sheikh, I think it was a key, and gave me the box.

“Open it. It is inside.”

Opening the big box, revealed a smaller one, the size of lighter. It was a really small cube. Or, actually, a rectangle.

“This is it? Really?”

“Yes. We reached the conclusion, that it would be able to power both magic guns and magic bows with an infinite amount of mana.”

“So it works like that.”

Scan analyzed the thing, revealing it to be a Magical Mana Replenisher. I think I can make a version to use on Satz and Schicksal. Can I make them to my other weapons as well? Unfortunately, Scan blinked red. And it showed me why.

I would need at LEAST! SSS-Ranked cores. Which… well, are hard to find. It also informed me that this Relic isn’t THAT good. Now would be, but it said that on the future it wouldn’t be. Why’s that? Once more, Scan left me on the dark about that.

“Well, I certainly can make something with this. Not to all of my weapons, but for my handguns I can.”

“Do please give that back to us.”

“Not a problem. Here, thank you.”

“What?”

“Hm? What did you expected? I already got the entire blueprint. Of course, I can’t replicate it. It would be impossible.”

“Wha-? What?”

“That thing, was created with a Triple-S Ranked core. I wouldn’t be able to replicate such thing. I can make a lesser version to my weapons, but that’s it.”

“All of your weapons?”

“No. Only to these 2.” I took both Satz and Schicksal off of their holsters. “If I wanted to make for the other weapons? It would need each of them a Triple-S core. So…”

I shrugged, and walked towards the exit.

“I’ll give you everything back tomorrow. I think in the afternoon. Bye~”

Walking out, I rushed to the room that was given to me, and the girls. I asked one of the Maids at the place for another bed. The maid darted her eyes around, and apologized, but they couldn’t bring it to my room, since it was too big.

I showed her that I could store things, even ‘big things’, and she apologized for not knowing that. She showed me a bed that was being unused, and I took it from that room.

Knock Knock

“Hey. I need to enter.” No way in hell I’m entering a room full of girls. Thank you very much.

“Kenji-sama!”

“I’ll enter.”

“Okay.”

Entering the room(thankfully), there wasn’t any girl naked. Well, except for Ayla, she was still using my coat.

“Yeah… I would work on something else, but your clothes comes first.”

Yawning, I walked to the table, taking out a notepad, which already had some designs. I tossed her the notepad, and a pen.

“What’s this for?”

“Inside has some clothes, armors, and oh so on. Choose one of them, and if you don’t like it? Draw your own design. I need to separate the relics and artifacts I found there, so! Good luck!”

Taking a sheet of paper out(a few), and a pen, I started listing the entire log that appeared to me when I was storing the Relics and Artifacts on the ruins. After… will it matter the time I took? No? Meh, it was already night, by the time I noticed.

Stretching myself, I glance to the right of the table, finding some food on a barrier, probably Kasumi did this. I ended the entire list, and sorted out the items. And as I thought! Nothing really worthy that much… For me, that is. Why would I need a copy of Ravager? Or even Verdammnis?

While I was eating, I had that feeling someone was looking at me. I thought it was Lucy or Amara, since they sometimes keep looking at me, specially when I’m working on something. A bit bothered by such a sensation, I turn around… and held my yelp.

What? Don't judge me, okay?! Even you would be scared to find a person, with red eyes glowing in the dark, with long fangs, looking at you from the dark. Oh yeah. And the moonlight made a perfect combination with all of that.

“Aaah… You scared me, you know.”

“Sorry… it’s just…”

“And… why your canines are longer?”

“Hunger… 300 years with no blood, remember?”

“Ah, you need blood. And there is no better quality than me!”

“I-I didn’t said that!” She got all flustered.

We were shouting while whispering. Heh! We used to do this on the orphanage too… While telling terror stories to one another. Hehe. I think I left out a smile, cause Ayla was looking at me in curiosity, tilting her head to the side.

“What?”

“Nothing…”

She was gulping audibly.

“Okay, fine.”

I got up from the chair, stretching my back, walking towards the bed, and sat down. Taking out the metal part on my neck, I stored it, and cracked my neck.

This metal part, was what activated my [Agility Mode], and also protected my entire neck. It was a complement of the plate on my chest. I stayed still, waiting for Ayla to do her thing, but she was simply frozen on my side.

“What you waiting for? Isn’t here more faster?”

I say as I pointed towards my neck.

Ayla approached me, slowly, and got right behind me. She held my shoulders, approaching more and more to my neck. I could feel her hot breath on me, and then… A sharp feeling. It wasn’t really a bad feeling, but… How should I say this? Intoxicating? I even felt like I needed that more. Blood is coming ou- The blast?

My surprise was due to her hands moving around, instead of staying at my shoulders. Her left hand moved and caressed my head, while her right hand got down to my abdomen. She hugged me, basically. And her grip was getting stronger.

I tried loosening her grip a bit, but then, she started using her tongue, and started to suck stronger. It’s like she’s having a feast. Oh yeah… Scan did informed me about that.

C’mon… think about it? Who’s the ‘Pure Mana Source’? Scan gave me a quickly sum of what the Source is: A source of Mana, purer than anything that exists on the world. And there’s another reason why Vampires drink blood. It’s to both fulfill their hunger, AND to satisfy them. Yeah, it’s satisfying. And guess who’s having a feast right now?

Problem right now, was that my vision started to get blurry. And her grip was getting even stronger. I’m a human, not a full size meal.

“Ayla?”

“Hm?! Puah!”

She let go of my neck, and cowered to the corner of the bed. She was turned towards the wall, and I could notice she had her hands covering her mouth. I used [Restoration] on my body, making the blurry vision, and wobbly feeling lessen, even so slightly.

“Hey? Are you okay?”

She only nodded fiercely. What the blast happened?

“Well, I’ll finish my work. You can sleep, I think.”

She nodded, and when I got out of the bed, and she took the blanket so quickly, and covered her completely. I glanced at her, still holding my neck, and at the drawer to the side of the bed. The notepad was there, and when I took it, I saw her drawings.

They were sloppily made, but I still could get the hint of what she wanted. This is way too revealing. She really wants to be dressed like this?

“Are you sure about this?” She put her hand out, giving me a thumbs up. “Alright, if you say so.”

And I got to work.

The design was quite simple actually. I thought it was too revealing, but if she wants it, who am I to judge?

First the lower part. It was a mix of 3 types of fabric. The first, would be a white fabric, with a red above it, and finally, a dark gray, or black one.

She drew them all with tattered tips. You could put all of that together, and in the end, it would be basically a skirt under 2 other skirts. Awkward. Would it even offer protection? No, but I can make it do! MUAHAHAHA!

The top part? What part? Remember when I said, ‘too Revealing’? Well! It was exactly that. She would have a sarashi covering her breasts. Both her hands, to her elbows, would have a gauntlet like mine. It was basically a Kote like the samurai armors.

“Really? No protection at all? I can make do, but… Hehe! It’s a challenge then… Nice~”

I took some Mythril, Mondálium, and Adamantite Alloy to make the skirts. I used [Thread Manipulation] and [Transmutation] to help me with that. It made things easier. The threads, or better, wires, weren’t that hard to make this time. Practice, leads to perfection, huh.

Weaving the wires, while remembering a nice music, was the best solution to keep me working, and not miss anything. Of course, I was whispering, not shouting the air out of my lungs.

The sarashi was made out of Mondálium, and I put some cotton around of it, making the sarashi looks like it was actually cotton. After that, I also made some spandex, so that if the wind lifted her skirts, it wouldn’t make her uncomfortable. It was made out of Adamantite Alloy, and cotton around of it.

“Speaking of which, I need more Adamantite… Meh, I’ll buy it later.”

There was also another part, like a shoulder protection. Interesting enough, said protection was only on the left shoulder. It would cover her shoulder slightly, and would reach her elbow. And… it wasn’t connected to her body… She wants a floating protection? I’ll need some Floating Stones then… If I found a floating Island… I can find some.

And that was it! Her weapons, for what the image showed, were 2 curved blades… C’mon, who am I trying to fool? It were 2 katanas… No wait. One was a Katana, while the other was a Wakizashi.

“Wait… There were 2 swords like that on those ruins.” I glanced through Digi-Storage, and sure enough, they were there. “Owner: Lizia le Gant. Hunh… Maybe this woman is… her mother?”

Shrugging that, I finished everything, and left the ‘clothes’ there. No, I didn’t forgot to enchant them. Basically, the enchantments were very simple. There were some scrolls with enchantments on the pile I’ve found on the ruins.

One of them, of course was the tune to control the worm. The others were either spells, or enchantments. Of course I copied all of them, duh. I’m paranoid, remember?

Anyway, the enchantments, were:

• White Skirt (Mythril Wires) – Speed Enhancement +AGI

• Purple Skirt (Adamantite Alloy Wires) – Strength Enhancement +STR

• Black Skirt (Mondálium Wires{Damn this was hard to make!}) – Body Enhancement +CON

As for the sarashi, well, I just put some ventilation on it… What? Yeah, I know it’s… strange, but there was an enchantment that was exactly that. Oh, and added some protection to that area as well.

Speaking truthfully, these clothes/armor(if it can be even considered as an armor), is very resistant. And if her CON stat goes up as I think it will, she won’t have problems about being slashed at. She won’t die, but it will hurt. And she can stay alive as long the Nether-realm still exists, so…

“A name for these? Uuhh… I’ll give tomorrow. Else it might create some light, and woke them up.” I wouldn’t make something that would impact on them. “Now, I’ll change about ma 2 babies~”

Of course I was talking about Satz and Schicksal.

Lucky me, since I faced some strong monsters recently, like the Khnum, and the Discharging Mandrill, I had some S-ranked cores. So no problem with it.

“With these I can replicate that relic. Of course, let’s add some more perks to it.”

The 2 S-ranked cores would be for later, as for the blueprint I got? It was hard to replicate with magic. Point. With Magic.

I created some bullets out of the materials I had in hand. Tungsten, Adamantite Alloy, Caidrum and Mondálium. I made 2 of each as a test, trying to replicate the effect.

The magic part, was basically Alchemy. Mana Condensation and Mana Shaping. Those were the 2 that the Relic had. And you might say: But wasn’t that what you made on Schicksal? Nope. This thing does that instantly. And Schicksal simply creates beams and shot them ahead. That’s all. Even Ravager has the same use.

Not gonna lie, the Condensation of mana and Shaping thing were, useless. Mana can be blocked, but material things can’t. I mean, they can, just with more difficult.

My objective, was to, instead of Condensing Mana, Shaping it and then shoot, was to just replicate the FMJ bullet, and then put on the chamber, ready to shoot. Guess what? It was hard as hell to do so.

First of all, the bullets needed the powder, primer to ignite them and shot them ahead, and even the empty cartridge, where the powder would be stored.

“So, magic alone will recreate the bullet, but not the primer and the Mana Infused Powder, huh. If I add tech on this, will it be able to?”

Adding some technology, and by adding I mean changing the entire thing, I was able to do it. Changing the entire thing, and by that I mean creating 2 more ‘Magical Mana Replenishers’ to the mix, I would be able to. Of course, I couldn’t make do with only Alchemy…

“If you think about it, the thing I’m about to create have the ability to Create things out of mana… This sure is crazy.”

Creating a HUB for the Magic Circuits… Which about now are classified as Techno-Magical circuits(didn’t knew). The Circuit wasn’t hard to build. This time though, I used Adamantite. Oh, shock, that was hard to do. Why did I used Adamantite? Cause of the amount of things.

Mythril is resistant, but not AS much as Adamantite. And for most stupid that it looks like, Mythril wouldn’t be able to replicate the same amount as that. So basically, the Adamantite could handle the amount of things I wanted to create, while Mythril couldn’t.

I made 2 versions of it, and pulled the S-ranked cores… Wait a second.

“I almost made use of an S-ranked Lightning core, for this. Almost.”

Storing the S-ranked Lightning core, I pulled another Khnum’s core. Instead of making the Relifacts(I knew this wouldn’t come out as an Artifact, anyway) apart, I put Satz and Schicksal on the table, with the 2 devices, and the 2 cores.

I took the cylinder out of Satz, and the false clip out of Schicksal. Satz had the appearance of a long nose 44 Magnum, While Schicksal remembered a Desert Eagle 50AE.

Putting everything together, I focused, and started the creation of the Relifacts. The Devices I just made melted, and so did the cores. The 2, or better, 4 pieces mixed together, not shining, but simply joined, like water and alcohol. Then, they fell, and I Scanned them.

► Techno-Magical Ammunition Creator ◄

A REALLY stupid powerful Relifact.

This Relifact is completely different from the others, since it can create a certain type of Ammunition.

These 2, can only create small bullets, that can pair with Satz/Schicksal. Anything other than that, it won’t be able to replicate.

It absorbs the Mana of the User, creating the bullets, with the primer, powder, and the cartridge with no problem at all.

“Really now, this thing has [Creation Magic] imbued on it, even without having the [Creation Magic] itself. Nice one, Kenji-kun. Oh, and it can only be used by you of course. Since I already said it was a Relifact, I’ll be quiet now. Bye~” With Love~ Ziuna, Goddess of Knowledge

“I’ll pretend I didn’t read this. Now, for you 2.”

Ignoring what Scan had shown me, I grabbed the clip, and the Cylinder, infusing them on Satz and Schicksal things together. They mixed, but stayed floating. So I took both my handguns, and approached the 2 floating ones. They float to each other, and then! They clicked in place, with a small blue lightning coming out of them both.

“Okay… What now?”

Taking one of the 3 bullets I made, I put the Caidrum ones close to the 2 Handguns, and they were absorbed. Scan shown me that a slot section appeared on the 2 Handguns… Satz had 3, while Schicksal 2.

I took the Mondálium bullets, and it happened the same. And lastly, I put the Tungsten bullet on Satz. I finished by Scanning the 2.

► Stupidly Overpowered Handguns Satz & Schicksal ◄

2 Handguns, one based on a 44 Magnum, and the other in a Desert Eagle 50AE.

These 2, got even more powerful than before. They have now the capability of creating bullets out of Kenji’s mana. They can still be enhanced with Elements, making the bullets even more powerful.

Still Relifacts, by the way.

“Okay. Now I’ll be out, working on a new way of transportation. Since Raubtier won’t be enough.”

I glanced at the beds. 4 people at total. 5 with me. A car would be nice… Nah, I’ll build a van already. Since I’ll have more people to transport when I rescue those 2. The car I’ll let for later.

Getting out of the room, I walked to the courtyard. It was almost 6AM I think, so everyone would be awake by that time.

Ayla’s Point of View [Author’s Note: This is basically her talking to herself]

What. Was. THAT?! It was so! Delicious! It was like a full meal! It was as delicious, if not more, than the food he prepared recently. And what is this? It’s like… I feel connected to him.

Since when he arrived at those ruins, I felt strange. It was like my entire body wanted to be close to him. I almost jumped at him, while he was doing his things.

But… It sure is strange feeling. I did remember mother saying that she knew what Victor’s plan was. She said she had some, connection with him. That she could sense what he would do. Now… I have that with this guy.

It’s not a bad feeling, but… soothing? I don’t know how to say it. He’s human, but could defeat the monsters that idiot sent at him. Even after facing that other giant one, he wasn’t afraid. In fact, he was itching to fight it. It was strange.

Now, after drinking his blood… I want more… I want to… be connected with him somehow.

“Wait… There were 2 swords like that on those ruins.”

My swords! They’re with him! I can get them back!

“Owner: Chiyuki le Gant. Hunh… Maybe this woman is… her mother?”

Mom’s swords… She… gave them to me, before… that…

Guh! He’s stupid! He’s not afraid of dying, I noticed that! But… It actually doesn’t feel bad. Those other 3 have some connection to him. But… is he dense? It’s obvious that those 3 like him, and not like a good master-servant relationship… They really love him. But why he doesn’t show that?

“What does he have, they’re feel so… attached to him?”

Well, I think I’ll discover that while I’m with him. It’ll be short, but I think he and I will be able to see each other better. And I want to drink his blood again~ NO! That’s not the point! AAAAAH! MOM! WHAT DO I DO?!