Upon arriving at the Elt clan, Fingmi was surprisingly not immediately ‘used’, and was instead dressed in a maid uniform and made to work alongside the Housemaids… Only that, as an uncrested person within the residence, her status was lower than dirt. It did not help that everyone had been instructed to work her to the bone and not show her an ounce of kindness. She was only allowed silence–No one even bothered to look in her direction when giving orders.

Meanwhile, Edrick wasn’t thinking much about her at the moment. He planned on letting the young woman marinate for a while before defiling her. For now, he focused on cultivating and training. Underwood Elf Champion Unique Cultivation Technique, in particular, was his top priority, and it was advancing at a steady pace.

The only times Anoteros would leave his residence were to check on the two protagonists within the clan and meet with some older clan members. Neither of the two truly required much of his attention, as Lui and Zhenluo were taking good care of them.

As such, the scion focused on his own residence and his personal growth in strength–Though he did pay close attention to his first wife. As time passed, her pregnancy became more and more prominent, and alongside it, it seemed like her hormones grew as well. Fanqia was growing rather needy in terms of bedly affection, and was also insistent on feeding her husband with her milk…

Edrick certainly didn’t mind either. The former was understandable considering that everything about her pregnancy had been exaggerated. Therefore, it was not surprising that her hormones would go all over the place as well…

As for the latter, her milk production was delicious, and her melons were always filled to the brim. Anoteros could literally live off just Fanqia’s fat lactose cannons.

In any case, regardless of Fanqia’s increased libido and the needs of his other wives, he was nonetheless still spending most of his time cultivating without pause. The progress was only smooth because he dedicated himself to it and truly meditated whilst he was at it, utterly focusing on cultivating to the point of ignoring his surroundings. Of course, his natural talent and many buffs to his energy circulation helped greatly as well.

Truly, his decision to use all of his inner energies to cultivate instead of just one had been a great decision on his part. It made cultivation faster as his body was nourished much better in this way. He would have once wondered why this wasn’t the norm, but as per usual, it was a matter of talent.

Basically all nobles–Save for those practising techniques which were very specific in their requirements–Cultivated in this manner due to the advantages. Only the lesser cultivators who couldn’t manage it had to fall back on just a single kind of energy… Usually mana.

…All of these factors coupled together made for a very straightforward path of cultivation for him–One with basically no bottlenecks on the road.

After several weeks of focused training, he had become much more capable in the use of the invisibility ability granted by Underwood Elf Champion Bloodline, although it could only be used whilst transformed. He figured that this was something that would be remedied once the technique was mastered.

This time, when he opened his eyes inside one of his training areas, he realised that he had gone on for much longer than usual. It was nighttime, and he was drenched in sweat… He must have reached a certain point and been invigorated to keep on going without realising it.

It was a good thing that he always cultivated, either with just a lower garment or nothing covering his body at all. It avoided having to deal with clothes drenched in sweat and possibly impurities that he might expel when reaching certain thresholds.

He slicked his hair back as they glistened with his sweat, which he was certain many would be willing to lick off his body just for the benefits that it could bring them… 

The scion wiped his forehead and stepped out of the room, heading for a recently installed addition to the main bathroom of the residence. He had gotten the idea of adding one of these ever since the time he had shared a random adventurer with Lui. After the fun, they had both gone into something his Jhila referred to as something akin to a ‘rain maker’.

It really was just a shower like what had been common in his former world. The people here were just more used to bathing or dousing themselves in water from a bucket. However, they did have the means to create showers with relative ease–It just wasn’t a common thing.

By using water crystals and an ingenious heating contraption, showers could be made to spew basically endless amounts of warm water.

It was a rather nice addition.

Edrick stepped into the shower. It was wide and open. He didn’t bother lighting any candles and simply turned on the water in the dark, letting the warm droplets fall upon his body. The spot where the water came from covered the entirety of the shower space, but he stayed close to the wall facing opposite from the shower’s entrance, simply standing still whilst thinking, while vapour slowly began to fill the bathroom. This created a most relaxing atmosphere…

Steam, silence, and the darkness. Perfect to cool down after a long day of training… He took advantage of the fact that the water wasn’t going to turn cold, and simply stayed there for nearly thirty minutes, barely budging a muscle, before he heard the door of the bathroom open.

‘Mmh…?’

He recognised the bare feet stepping upon the tiles of the bathroom and smiled a bit, as he was soon joined inside the shower, feeling delicate arms wrap around his muscular body.

“Isn’t it a bit late for you to still be awake, Honey?”

Edrick spoke before turning around, pinning the amorous intruder against the wall and pressing his lips against theirs, grabbing both of their wrists and holding them above their head against the wall while running his hand upon the curves of their luscious body.

“Sneaking out of the room to come tempt me in the middle of the night… Not very fair for the others, is it? Very bad… I’ll have to punish you…”

Anoteros whispered in the nighttime visitor’s ear as he began stimulating them in the darkness, listening to the soft moans quietened by the running shower.

“Do me a favour… And use that body of yours to clean me. I want to feel your soft skin against mine”

He could feel his lower brain starting to rise to attention… 

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