Chapter 723 Chapter 722: Weeks Progress (4)
The dawn of a new day came around swiftly, and like the day before I remained in bed a little while longer, watching as Anput woke up first and slipped into the bath, the Jackalkin determined to squeeze out as much time as she could from this week to forge new things for us, and the workaholic woman had promised me that today she would be making that special dagger for me today, since she had to finish up the prep work for the entire week yesterday.
Of course, she demanded payment for the work she was going to be doing for today, and that payment was expected to be as thorough and earnest as possible after she completed her work, the Jackalkin making that rather clear to me last night, to the point that it was mildly - very mildly - irritating.
So watching as she quietly made her way out of the room to head towards the forge, I smiled softly as I thought about what was considered acceptable payment for her, before landing on an idea that made my lips curl up just a tad bit more than usual; an idea that I had contemplated doing for a little while now, and she had just given me the motivation to make that happen.
Stretching myself out, I gave Jahi a kiss before doing the same to Leone, just waving the Demoness off as she murmured something about not wanting to get up just yet, though her actions spoke otherwise as her hands pulled me closer and she pressed herself even further against me, before rolling to lay on top of me.
'Waking' up for Jahi was an easy task when we were in bed together, and the Demoness came alive quickly enough as she 'wrestled' with Leone and I for a few rounds, going from dead asleep to panting in mere minutes as she took a bite from us both, sating her early morning desires and waking us both up even more as she savored each and every moment between the both of us.
She never wanted to get out of bed, either wanting to sleep more or 'sleep' more, but once she got up out of bed she was raring to go and do anything, not wanting to slow down until she was slightly tired or just bored; like I had already come to realize, my Demoness lover was a rather simple woman through and through, even if that simplicity was sometimes a pain to deal with.
I watched her get up as well, Leone following behind her dutifully as they went to bathe, leaving me alone in the bed to just lounge around as I continued to rest, not wanting to leave the warm embrace of our bed for just a few minutes longer.
By the time that I did get out of bed and cleaned up, the sun was already fully above the horizon and illuminating the Empire in its golden rays and the others had already awoken, with Jahi heading out to train again with the Marquess while Leone remained in the room, hovering behind Mother and Bessie as the two women showed the Vampire Princess some more tips on how to cook.
As was her routine now, the Countess was enjoying her time with the babies on her rocker, a book in hand as she read quietly to them, the story enrapturing them as always as they read alongside her, focused on the words that they so desperately wanted to understand.
Joining them in the kitchen for a moment, I looked around at the various pots and pans on the stove as well as the large mixing bowls full of what looked like some kind of pie filling, which was exciting to think about for after dinner tonight.
But, too many bodies in the kitchen was never a good thing, so I stepped back and began to work on some more spells for myself as well as the spell that I wanted to place on that special dagger that Anput was making for Leone.
I had a few ideas bouncing around in my head, and the primary one currently was how to make the dagger something that would harness the garnets in a worthwhile manner whilst still being something that I could confidently place on the dagger, as well as being something that I could be proud of.
That idea was to make the dagger the 'core' of a larger blade made entirely from Fire Mana, which could be empowered by both the garnets as well as the mana from Leone as well, and the other part would be the Ritual Circle for condensing and compressing that mana further, in an attempt to further empower the blade and strengthen the flames.
If strengthened enough and given enough fuel, those flames could cut through quite a lot of things without issue, so even if it was a simpler enchantment, the experience I gained from using mana imbued gemstones to power an enchantment as well as more experience using the Magic Pens was worth it, and this way the margin for error and possibility of failing was very low.
Simple but effective, though that didn't mean I could just wing this enchantment; I still needed to?plan it out and make sure that the runes all interacted in the ways I wanted them to and that there was no problems with my spell, which would require a second look from the Countess and Leone just to verify I was correct.
So as I was scribbling down a few variations of the spell I wanted, I would occasionally glance up to see what they were doing in the kitchen, my heightened sense of smell giving me good clues onto what they were potentially making, and each minute that passed was another dose of something good being sprinkled into the air.
Eventually, the door to the room opened and revealed Anput, who came in and placed a cloth bundle in front of me, grinning and giving me a kiss before happily leaving the room just as quickly as she came in, just dropping the bundle off and giving me another reminder about what was supposed to happen.
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