640 It's Not Easy Being the Master of the Household
One part of Kemun's words really stuck to Vaan like glue. It was something he had thought about before but wasn't sure. After all, it was just one among many possibilities he thought of based on limited information.
But now that he had more information, this possibility had increased greatly and couldn't be ignored.
According to Empyrean Scarletsea, spirit energy was a fundamental element of life. Where there was life, there would also be spirit energy. One did not exist without the other. Vaan had also learned that an unknown force was devouring all the spirit and divine energy in the world.
That was why it seemed like spirit energy had never existed.
This fundamental energy, which cultivators from the Divine Realm used to advance to the peak of life, was robbed from Pangeans, preventing their growth and development in the field of spirit energy.
Although Vaan was aware of the happening, he never figured out its purpose. But now, he had a strong hunch the spirit energy was withdrawn to hide the planet's life potential from the foreign invaders.
Following this train of thought, the foreign invaders didn't necessarily seek to destroy all life, only life above a certain level. The foreign invaders didn't seek complete destruction but a reset, like pruning overgrown trees.
The more Vaan thought about it, the more he felt this was likely the case.Updated from novelb(i)n.c(o)m
However, only time will tell if his guess was correct.
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"Our future doesn't look good, Supreme Leader. Not only do we face threats from the other side, but we also face threats from this side. The threat on this side isn't something we can resist," Astarot said with a heavy expression.
Beyond True Divinity-level threat was something almost no one could overcome even if they had all the time in the world to train. Of the countless lives in Chaos, the number of beings who possessed the qualifications to reach such a level of existence was probably no more than a handful.
If this unnatural disaster visited them, there was really nothing they could do to stop it. They were just mere specks of dust in front of such existences.
"Our future look certainly looks grim," Vaan admitted with a nod before suddenly adding, "But it isn't without hope."
"If those foreign invaders come for our world, only death awaits us. That's an unstoppable disaster, so let us not worry about it. Because even if we worry about it, there's nothing we can do to stop it. We can only focus our efforts on Gehenna."
"Compared to an unstoppable disaster, Gehenna's threat is something we still have hope in overcoming," Vaan said, pulling out a piece of refined uranium from his Heaven-Swallowing Space.
The unknown block of metal quickly attracted the attention of the nine dragon lords. They stared at it with both curiosity and wariness. They weren't sure what it was, but they could sense the danger in it.
"Supreme Leader, this is..."
"Deep-Sea Steel, according to people from the Great Ratholos Empire. It's a restricted mineral with no public information. You can say a good friend gifted me all of his family's Deep-Sea Steel, and it could be considered my greatest gain during my trip thus far."
"What do you intend to do with this kind of item, Supreme Leader?" Third Peak Lord Sondrei inquired, adding apprehensively, "I can feel harmful elements emanating from this thing..."
He was also interested in exploring the compatibility between electrical and magical power and the fusion of science and magic.
However, that was something he would have to leave for another time.
Although Vaan was long aware of it, he was once again reminded of the convenience of magic. With the dragon lords' mastery of magic, the process of building nuclear warheads sped up by countless folds.
It only took two hours to build a simple fifty-kilogram nuclear warhead from scratch.
However, this fifty-kilogram nuclear warhead was still incomplete. It only had the form and not the functions. It couldn't be fired on its own, nor would it necessarily achieve the intended nuclear explosion upon impact.
It was still missing core components.
However, Vaan had purposely created a flawed design to leave room for the dragon lords to improve and complete it. Only their runic knowledge could replace the computing component it was missing for remote activation.
Nevertheless, Vaan didn't stick around to see its full completion.
After leaving the rest of his uranium supply for the dragon lords, Vaan departed from the Red Dragon Tribe.
It was the middle of the night, and most people would be resting at this hour, sleeping until morning. But for Vaan, it was bound to be a restless night.
Vaan made a surprise visit to Eniwse, who was at a relatively new branch of the Shadow Witch Order in the southern region of the Holy Knight Empire.
"V-Vaan?" Eniwse gasped in surprise, but her gaze quickly softened with longing.
She had been so busy setting up the Shadow Witch Order to acquire intelligence from the continent that she had not made any time for anything else. But the moment she saw Vaan, she immediately forgot all about it and only had Vaan in her eyes.
Few words were needed between them as they had already established a tacit understanding of the roles they play. They didn't need to explain anything to each other every time.
At the very least, Eniwse didn't need Vaan to explain anything to her; she only needed to keep supporting him and receive his comfort. As such, without saying much, Eniwse had already thrown herself at Vaan. Their clothes quickly disappeared, and the pants and moans of sheer bliss soon followed.
Without bothering to set up a sound-insulation spell, Eniwse's lewd voice escaped her main office. It dumbfounded the hardworking witches in the southern branch as they all turned their gaze to the main office in wonder.
They didn't expect their usual stern and strict leader to make such lewd noises.
But as they listened, their leader's depraved voice started to make their imaginations run wild. The intense stimulation made them hot and short of breath.
'Oh my god, who on earth is so capable of making our usual stern leader sound like such a bitch in heat?' the shadow witches wondered.
The intimate session lasted three hours before Vaan kissed Eniwse farewell and left to look for his other women and satisfy them in the dead of night.
Haiz, it was not easy being the master of the household.