Inheriting a Lost Bloodline, My First Task is to have heirs?!
Chapter 95 - 95 - Where's Nische?

Day 41 in Athanoviya Empire, World of Aeocrescens

Day 30 in the New World Tree Realm within the Eieneos Empire

I am honestly quite excited for this day. No matter how I was averse to the idea of having an "entity", to be specific "a tree" as my third linked soul, it's not like I have any choice or it's not like the said entity did anything wrong to me so I can't bring myself to get angry at that cute little seed. Once he was connected to me through the soul link, I can feel the little fluctuations to his emotions when he feels sad, happy and all the other emotions in between.

One of the things I have learned about having two husbands beforehand was that men that have soul links with me especially the highly resonant ones, the said link also serves as somewhat like an innate lie detector for my men. I can't say it has the same function for them though since I have a way to block the emotional fluctuations from my end. It was kind of unfair but what's really fair in this world, anyways?

I purposely asked for leave from the academe today while promising to take make-up classes for the missed day as soon as possible. Nische is more important as of the moment than these boring classes or the academe points at that.

I gave Ioannis a detailed summary of what I need to do for today and why I can't bring him with me. I don't want him to feel worried or find the need to overthink of where I am spending my time and with whom. I also gave him the same earring that I gave to Kayden for his peace of mind before so that we can check on each other whenever we feel like it.

It is so hard to maintain relationships with men in this world! It is even harder if you have more than one and you have to give equal attention to each of them as much as possible!

Once everything has been explained and all permissions have been received, I went to the headmaster's office which is currently my favorite place to teleport from when I need to get somewhere quickly. Nobody would doubt that someone from this room has the ability to teleport since this is an office of a high ranking magic user. As for my destination at this time, I have to be very careful in hiding my tracks and the destination of my teleportation.

Once all safety checks are set, I did my quick chantless teleportation and arrived in Eieneos within 10 seconds then made sure to remove all traces of the connection from the previous point within the next ten seconds. I have done this several time but not to Eieneos but still I am getting better at this flawless operation!

After reaching Eieneos, the first thing I did was to take a tour in my little paradise. More places have been fixed since the last time I was here.

The previously crumbling houses and business stalls have at least been restored into livable and usable spaces that seemed to be newly built. The gardens are flourishing with budding flowers and leafy green trees, shrubs and grass. Precious herbs have also started growing in the part of the garden that I especially designated for it.

The pond has clean water now and some colorful fish are swimming in it. The palace doesn't look haunted and creepy anymore since the moat water is clean and the castle's outerwalls are no longer damaged, mossy and covered with thorny vines. They look as clean as the time they were first built.

The interior of my room had also been overhauled in terms of my preferred colors which were midnight blue, royal blue, silver, gray and black. As for the rest of the palace common areas, I left it to the previous colors which were in the shades of old rose pink, maroon, brick red and dark brown.

After the thirty days that I was away, besides the things that have been fixed, I noticed that the map of this place has widened a bit. I guess that the more places I repair, the larger the territory I can claim from the thick fog blocking the outer part of the area of this imperial city.

This is a very interesting feature and I can't help but feel excited as to what will be revealed beyond those foggy areas. At these times, however weird it may seem, I can't seem to avoid feeling like I am the main character of a role-playing game. To be exact, I feel like being in a castle-building sim game whenever I am here in Eieneos and being in a Dating Sim game whenever I am in Hoffen. I can only scoff and shake my head at uncanny similarity.

Next stop was to do a quick check on the four sleeping beauties and fortunately, they don't seem to have been turned into raisins or beef jerky so far even if they are continuously providing mana to support the rebuilding of this kingdom together with me. They still look as etherially beautiful as the time I saw them from the memories of the past from more than four centuries ago. I can just continue with how things are going for now.

There isn't a single person that they have to take care as of now in this kingdom anyway. Honestly, I'm just delaying waking any of them up. They are still helpful this way so why make things complicated.

Once I have checked everything and everyone, I went to the small plaza where the teleportation portal to the new world tree realm is. I did my usual silent chant and closed my eyes.

The next thing I felt was the cool breeze and I smelled the scent of fresh flowers. Hmm...That was unusual. When I opened my eyes, what I saw was a beautiful field of fresh flowers. I couldn't help but gasp in awe and spin around slowly to appreciate the whole area. It's really beautiful. It was a total makeover from the dark atmosphere and the dry, stony and burnt ground I first saw when I created this realm.

I continued looking around, expecting a gorgeous man to happily welcome me since he promised that he will have his handsome, adult human form after thirty days but there was no one.

I have been standing here for about five minutes and there is still no one welcoming me. I started to worry and I couldn't feel any emotional fluctuations from him whether it was happiness, sadness, excitement or fear. There was nothing. It was like he did not exist in this place where I clearly planted him.

I hurriedly spread my mana around the area to find any living thing that may be hiding from me and I only found one. It was a glowing tree that was less than a hundred meters away from me standing silently in the middle of the flower field. I hurriedly walked towards it and saw the familiar sprout that I last visited about a month ago.

It has more leaves now and about double my height but the trunk is still quite thin. It was definitely not a tree that looked three centuries old. Did I get the date wrong?

I touched the trunk of the tree and closed my eyes. I sent my mana into the tree trunk to check if Nische was okay. When my mana has fully enveloped the tree, I saw within it a sleeping boy in a curled up position floating inside it. He has beautiful and wavy green hair and a cute and angelic face but he was pale as if he was very sick or in pain. He definitely doesn't look like an adult right now. At most, he was about 8 years old.

I checked on the storage and he definitely used up all the plant fertilizers and vitamins as well as the drops of blood I sent him but why didn't he grow into an adult and he isn't he waking up too?

My vision started to blur and then I felt tears streaming down my face. Why was I crying? This is so sudden. I called on Lia and asked in a panicked voice, "Why isn't he taking on his human form? Why is he sleeping and looking sick like this? Did I do something wrong? Is there something I forgot to do? We're the stuff for plants and the blood I provided not enough? What should I do?"

Lia was quiet for a few seconds and then she spoke in her emotionless voice, "Calm down. It is indeed true that he looks really weak and sick. I think he wasn't that honest about the time frame as to when he will wake up. He is technically 300 years old now but instead of strengthening himself, he created this field of flowers for you as a gift."

I was surprised at what she said and asked with irritation in my voice, "What do you mean? I don't need this gift. I just want him to be healthier. Everything else doesn't matter for now!"

Lia answered, "It may take at least half a year for him to take on his human form. It seems he gave up almost all of his mana and life essences during his previous life. This field of flowers is a gift and an apology because he can't meet you for now."

I can already feel my irritation slowly turning to anger as I said, "What do you mean half a year? What is really happening? Are you hiding something from me again, Lia?"

She then said in a voice that seemed sad which was a tone she never used before, "Your soul is linked to him. You can look through his feelings and memories using that connection. I think it would be better for you to find out what happened before, with your own eyes. It is not my story to tell and I made a promise to him not to say anything that would worry you."

I stopped asking Lia questiolns and simply put both my hands on the trunk of the young tree, closed my eyes and traced the soul link back to the boy who was deeply asleep inside the consciousness of this golden tree. Sorry, Nische. Since you do not want to tell me the full story, I have to squeeze it out of you my own way. I then used a spell to go through Nische's memories at the time before the previous world tree realm was about to get destroyed.

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