"What do you think?"

Amelia proudly showed her new creation to Orion with a huge smile on her face.

The house was only one floor high, but massively larger. It was made to receive at most six persons.

Even though the bedrooms were smaller than the ones of the main house, they were the same size as the temporary one Kamala rested in that was on the second floor.

Orion whistled, impressed.

"That's one fine craft. Are you sure you were not born to be a house builder? Even I wouldn't think of such design."

In his head, when he heard that it would be a six room building, Orion expected to something similar to his own house.

"I'm impressed, this is not what I was expecting at all."

'Though, she shouldn't care about my opinion that much, it's her own creation to be proud of.'

Amelia giggled and turned her face toward the house.

"Glad you like it. I'll show you inside, so come with me."

Orion, Kamala, and Florian entered the house, with Karteira staying behind since she's already seen the inside and learned what she would be working on, that is, the doors.

Like at the beginning of the first house, there was no doors, no appliances, no lightings, no furniture, and this time, no flooring.

"Amelia, do you want wooden planks on the floor?"

"I knew you would guess immediately. Yes, I was hoping you would agree. Though, I know it costs a lot more than me creating the flooring from nothing. I'm so-"

Cutting in mid-sentence, Orion shook his head.

"I don't mind, we don't use it other than for that purpose. We still have a the money to make whatever you want a reality."

Florian caught his breath rapidly before his thought leaked from his mouth loudly, instead, he leaned to Kamala and silently asked.

"I'm sorry, can you enlighten me? Are these two a thing?"

Kamala closed her eyes and answered.

"I thought you already knew?"

"Seriously? I didn't saw them like this when I talked to them during our first meeting."

"You were an enemy to him, of course he won't show you his weakness openly. If you can call that a weakness anyway."

Remembering that that same weakness, being Amelia, was a ruthless woman that had almost the same raw power as Orion made her slightly laugh.

She also added a little something.

"You can whisper all you want, be I'm pretty sure he can hear you. A hunter has keen senses."

Moving his eyes slowly toward Orion, he saw the small smile on his face, showing that indeed, he heard everything.

'But if he's smiling, that means he doesn't mind?'

At first, he was nervous, but then became calmer after realizing that Orion wasn't mocking him by any means.

He stayed where he was, exchanging a seemingly warm gaze between them.

'Congratulations, I hope you can be happy, even in this horrible situation.'

Orion returned to look at Amelia after a few seconds.

He couldn't read minds, so Orion only received the warm gaze. That was enough for them right now.

They moved further into the house, as they were still standing inside the main corridor.

"Oh."

That's all that left Orion's mouth when he saw the size of the main room, and how it was built.

"What? You and Karteira had the same reaction."

"You've outdone yourself. How do you even think of such a thing?"

The four of them were in the middle of the largest room of the house.

"I don't know, I just get ideas. Then I asked my elements to work on it and they improve the result by themselves."

Kamala, behind Orion and Amelia, was curious about the place.

"What is this room going to be?"

Turning around, Amelia answered.

"This is supposed to be the main room, the gathering place, a relaxing place, whatever you guests want it to be."

"We'll had everything you need, couches, bookshelves, tables, whatever you want."

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"I see, that's great. With that, we don't have to go into each other's rooms each time we want to discuss something."

Amelia nodded to confirm Kamala's words.

"And what about those six openings there? Are these the bedrooms?"

Florian pointed at one side of the corridor, then to the other.

"That is exactly what they are. Of course, they are not done yet, like the rest of the house, but they should be spacious enough inside."

The bedrooms were located on the front side of the building, separated by the corridor leading outside, with three rooms on both sides.

The left side was for the women, and the right side for the men.

Let's describe how Amelia built the rooms. She wanted space for the bedrooms, so her first plan was to make an elongated building with six rooms in the back, and one main room.

Quickly realizing that many things of daily life would be missing, like a kitchen, or bathroom, she quickly scratch that idea.

Then, the idea to separate between men and women came to her, and this new idea popped.

One room will be on the front, one will be in the corner, and the other on the side. Like this, there was enough space to have a large gathering area, and two other extensions for the guest.

There was a lot of windows in this house, with one in each bedroom, except in the corners, where there was two.

Amelia was kind enough to think about the people staying in this guest house. They would be either friends, or important people to them.

Back to Florian, he took the liberty to check one of the rooms.

"This is indeed more spacious than expected. And this is fine work too. I'm sure none of the human builders would compare to this. This is sturdy, and incredibly stable."

Touching and feeling the walls, Florian used his lightning to feel the structure of the building, and it's integrity.

"Wait! Is this all made with magic?! How is that possible? I thought there was already the materials at disposition and that it would only be moving stuff around!"

His eyes wide open, and an expression of disbelief on his face, he returned to the group.

"Then now you know that too. That shows how far she has mastered her elements."

Orion smiled at the shocked Florian, who kept receiving critical information all day long.

This was beginning to be a recurring theme, where Orion, Amelia, and Karteira shocked the newly made ally the first time they met.

"I can't process such a thing. Are you telling me that having the five elements, which is supposed to be impossible, gives the possibility to create such marvelous creations?"

Looking at Amelia, who was happy to here the word 'marvelous' toward what she made, he then proceeded to look at Orion, who shook his head.

"I'll be correcting you there. Her creations cannot remain unless you keep feeding it magic. It works the same as your lightning ability."

"When you stop feeding it, the magic stops, and the building collapse to it's used materials, and in this case, nothing, since Amelia created every single part. If there was real material used in the creation, let's say, a rock, only that rock would remain."

Florian placed a hand on his chin and nodded.

"But then, how is everything staying in place? It might be a guess, but she isn't showing any signs of magic exhaustion, or even signs of uses."

"That's because we have a storage unit that keep everything working when we are here."

'I should check the state of the storage later with Amelia. I'll replenish the bracelet too.'

Discreetly, Orion glanced at his bracelet.

"That's interesting. I never knew such a thing existed. There is so much to learn by being near you, so much things I could use to improve the lives of the lamias!"

But his thoughts where instantly interrupted by another one. His face stiffened.

"I need to find the reason why the lamias aren't birthing many males. There's also Leonis who needs to be dealt with."

This was his goal. To finally find the reason for such a tragic happening, who would eventually lead to their demise.

Orion and Amelia looked at each other, and nodded, thinking of the same thing. They had a thought about the reason. So Orion gave him some words of encouragement to hold his thinking a little longer.

"Florian, we might know what the underlying problem of the lamias is, but not now. We'll discuss that at a later date. After we've dealt with that worthless coward."

He was referring to Leonis, who left Julian to die at the hands of Florian.

If there was something Orion despised, it was cowards. People who would forget every good deeds they were given, and forget about the people that supported you only to save your own life in dire situations.

'This one is going to have a slow death. Unless someone beat me to it.'

His face darkened, showing to everyone dark side.

"Orion, let's continue the visit?"

Amelia was unfazed, because she knew there was no reason to be scared of. Even Kamala only looked surprised.

It was not the same for Florian. The pressure he felt coming from Orion was stronger than the burst Amelia released earlier.

"It only took an instant, but I felt in danger when I looked in his eyes. His hatred for the Apostles is real, and I should never underestimate it."

Florian was known to be on par with Laylah in terms of knowledge and strategy, but he was sometimes letting his knowledge cloud his actions.

He knew that one single mistake, one single action, could lead to his death. Being in the predator's den was certainly not an enjoyable trip.

'Calm down. Calm down... I'm not his enemy, and I have no reason to be his.'

With a loud gulping noise, and the sound of clearing throat, Florian calmed his nerves.

"Yes, let's continue. We'll help you with the lamia problem later, Florian."

Orion looked at him, who had regained his composure just in time.

"That's fine by me. I'm not pressed by time since I'm in here anyway."

A laugh came out of Orion's mouth.

"That's true."

Amelia walked further in the building and entered the rightmost room.

"I was thinking of making this room a kitchen. This time, I made sure to prepare the counter."

She turned with a smile toward Orion, and they both remembered that moment.

"A kitchen? We can even eat food here?"

"You might want to know how to cook, because I won't let Amelia do everything for the guests. Grown adults should be able to-"

Orion received a tap on his back before he could finish.

"You're one to talk, you don't even know how to cook."

'Well, that was unexpected. Kind of funny too.'

Kamala and Florian looked at this, a blank expression on their faces, before laughing.

"I won't argue with that, but don't bring that up every time I talk about cooking, please."

Amelia ignored him and turned away, walking toward the room opposite, on the leftmost side of the big room.

"Let me guess, the bathrooms and the showers?"

"You got it."

The moment you entered, you were inside a corridor that led to the changing rooms. At the out corners of the corridor, two doors led the bathrooms, one for the men, one for the women.

The men's was at the end of the corridor, while the women's was at the entrance.

It took a small space from the changing room, but that wasn't really a problem. After the changing rooms, the showers and baths would be here.

"Well, that's all I can show you. There's nothing else to explain either."

Amelia began to walk toward the entrance of the unfinished house. They all followed and found themselves outside, where Karteira was, playing with the hairclip Orion gave her.

When he saw that, he smiled gently at her without her noticing.

'I'm glad they liked my gift to them. I haven't seen them without since that day.'

Amelia always had her pendant around her neck, and Karteira her hairclip in her hair.

The group reunited, and then began to talk about what to do next.

"Alright, now that we know what to do, there is something I want of you Florian."

"What could it be?"

Florian was expecting some funds request, or military deployment, but was completely unprepared for what was to come.

"I request a meeting with the lamia queen."