"We've got a little time before he comes back. What are we doing in the meantime?"

Unknowing of the events that were happening with Orion, Amelia and Karteira both looked at the closed portal in front of them.

"I was thinking of having a look at the tablet. If we have some notices to complete, it might be best doing them now."

"You're right. We don't even need Orion for that."

They both turned around and were about to leave.

*Brrrrrrrrrr*

When they heard the sound of a portal opening, it made them turn around again.

"Have Orion forgotten something?"

Karteira looked at the portal behind them, but it remained inactive, which meant that it was another portal opening.

Since the portal to Turric was the most recent, it was located on the far left. The very first one on the right side was the portal leading to Hocride.

"If it's not this portal, which one-"

Before Amelia could finish her sentence, two women walked through the second portal.

"Sis! Move your feet faster!"

"I know! Stop dragging me around!"

Drania and Dramia came through the portal leading to the fairy realm, in quite a rush. Once they stopped, they noticed the girls on their right a few meters away.

"Amelia, Karteira!"

Drania used her fastest speed and stopped in front of them. Dramia caught up with them on foot.

*Brrrrrrrrrr*

Halfway through, the fifth portal also opened, with another individual slithering through right in front of Dramia.

The two women looked at each other, surprised.

"Uh... Have I taken the wrong portal?"

Deveralna, who appeared from the portal in her palace situated in Lahro, thought that she found herself somewhere she shouldn't be.

"I don't think so."

With her usual cold tone, Dramia crossed her arms and answered.

"That's a relief. I thought that I inadvertently went to the fairy realm. I was ready for diplomatic problems."

They both knew each other from the birthday event, though, they weren't friends.

Dramia relaxed a little and let out a strained smile.

"Even if you had come in the fairy realm, we wouldn't have gone this far. We know how to receive guests, even uninvited ones. Though, that's a fair expectation coming from a queen."

She remembered Orion and Amelia's first arrival in the fairy realm. There was no other uninvited guests besides them anyway. Kamala was also a guest, but she was not uninvited since the agreement between her and Tiohr-nam took place.

"Thank you for understanding. Might I ask why you are here, if it's not too disrespectful?"

Having finished explaining everything to Amelia and Karteira, Drania suddenly appeared in front of Deveralna.

"Tiohr is furious! She wants to see Orion immediately!"

With a worried expression, she spoke without giving any answer. Dramia hid her eyes and shook her head in exasperation.

"Did you explain the same thing to them? I knew I should be the one to tell them."

But Karteira arrived to calm the situation.

"You don't have to worry, we managed to understand. Mother is furious because Orion formed a connection with another Remnant? I should have expected that."

Removing her hand from her face, Dramia shook her head.

"Not only that. She was expecting Orion to pay her a visit to explain himself, but he did not come at all. Even though we told her multiple times that we came back just to tell her everything that we learned."

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She shrugged in exasperation.

"..."

Deveralna stayed silent, since she also had a part in this.

"Why are you here, Queen Deveralna of the lamias?"

Amelia approached everyone too.

"I said it before, you can drop the honorifics. Out of the throne room, I am but an ignorant person."

'Just like us.'

Dramia kept this to herself, though she wasn't a perfect 'Queen' from a genetic perspective, just like her sister. If they could maintain their position until now, it was because they were the oldest 'fairies', and the ones caring for the Fairy Tree.

"I'm here because I wanted to get some insight from Orion about our father. The lamias have been troubled, and there has been a separation between those who reject him, and those who accept him."

She looked quite bothered.

"Well, I'm sorry. Orion left moments before you all came."

With an apologetic smile, Amelia left the portal hub, and walked toward her house.

"That's how it. If you need something from him, you can either wait until he returns, or you can come back tomorrow. But that doesn't guarantee that he will be there tomorrow at this time."

"And since it looks like these are matters neither Amelia nor I can resolve."

Karteira followed behind Amelia and returned home.

Dramia, Drania, and Deveralna looked at them leaving, before they stared at each other.

"What do we do, sis?"

"Good question. If we return now, I can picture how Tiohr will react."

"The same will happen with my mother. She wants helps from Orion, the cause of all of this, at all cost. I can't return empty handed."

They all had the same problem, but the answer was relatively easier to find.

"I guess we stay here until he returns?"

Drania disappeared after that. She went to ask Amelia if it was alright to stay. Once she got the answer, she made a thumbs up in their direction.

"She's quite the energetic kind, your sister."

"You have no idea."

Both Dramia and Deveralna caught up with the others.

...

While Orion was having fun with May, the girls were checking the tablet.

"So that's the 'device' that controls this space?"

The lamia, completely ignorant of the technology in the world, looked with stars in her eyes.

"Yes. We still don't know everything about this place, but this will probably help us to uncover more in the future."

Karteira answered, before Amelia took other.

"For now, we can 'terraform' the squares of ten by ten meters. We can dig, or create hills. We can't create buildings, neither can we create life. It's thanks to this tablet that we created the Siren Sea."

Dramia and Drania knew the tablet existed, though only Dramia saw it in action before.

"Can you change the white floor to anything?!"

For some unknown reason, Drania was excited.

"Not everything. We can't create with compounds or forged materials. It has to be a completely natural element found in nature. You won't be able to create a wooden floor, or a metallic flooring either."

"Bummer..."

Her disappointment was visible at Amelia's answer.

"So, all of this..."

Deveralna drew a line between the dirt and grass, and the white areas.

"Is free terrain? There is nothing on it?"

Both Amelia and Karteira nodded.

"All of the white part is considered as training ground for us, but we usually do it there, far from home. We have no need to create other projects unless it is necessary, like it was for the sirens."

*Bip*

A notice appeared in the corner of the tablet, catching everyone's attention.

"Warning! A new project has been found."

Karteira spoke out loud what was written.

"..."

They all looked at the devices with their mouth opened.

"What did Orion do again?"

Amelia brought her hand to her brows and felt the headache coming already.

"There's not much to understand except that it has something to do with that woman from yesterday, May."

"True."

Karteira caught on the most important point.

'Something definitely happened. We shouldn't make any assumptions right now, because it could be more important than we think.'

"That first question mark line, it's a building, right?"

Drania, with her small height, tried to click on the device from behind Amelia, without succeeding.

"That?"

Seeing the poor Drania struggle, Amelia lowered the tablet.

"Yes, this one."

When she clicked on it, the device refused to react.

"Oh."

Karteira clicked on it right after, and a picture of a blurry beyond recognition building appeared.

"Why?!"

Pouting, Drania looked at Karteira with jealousy.

"We said it before, Orion only authorized us two to use this. No one else but us can make it work."

"I want the authorization too!"

She tapped her feet on the floor in anger, before Dramia slapped the back of her head.

"Stop being a child."

"But! Aren't you curious? Something happened while Orion is away, and I want to know what this project is!"

Deveralna thought of the words that appeared on the tablet.

"I'm sure it won't take long. There's only two days to complete this project, so it most likely took the time needed for that into account."

Drania stopped bothering the group, and fell in deep thoughts.

"What stupid things are you thinking about right now?"

Her sister knew something was on her mind, and she had the same. She simply wouldn't allow herself to speak first.

"I want to see what this project is!"

All the women around Drania smiled warmly.

'How easy to read she is.'

From that moment, the five of them decided to follow Orion. They also decided to hide the knew project from him, so that he would not overthink about May, and cause something to go wrong.

~

"You're fast."

Orion smiled, acknowledging Nylon's speed.

"I am a beastman. We have speed and stamina, but thanks anyways."

They both stopped outside of a forest, since Orion still had to wait for Nylon to find Logran. He couldn't go all out and leave him in his dust.

"So, have we arrived? You wouldn't have asked me to stop otherwise, I'm sure of it."

Nylon nodded.

"Yes, Logran is inside this forest."

'No wonder I couldn't find it. Not many humans have found Auro either.'

Entering the forest, the air became warmer all of the sudden, as if entering a new area. There was no signs of snow inside.

After walking for a few minutes, behind some trees, a high wall appeared.

"Welcome to Logran."