Titania and a few of the other females in the gathering found themselves nodding. What Jörma said made sense. Almost everyone here was in the 4th Realm, with some even being rulers of entire races or even groups of races, so naturally, they were all proud.
Although they wouldn’t dare to go as far as to say ‘nobody was worthy of mating with me’, the people who were worthy were so few in number that they could be considered less than 5% of the Continent’s population.
When they were young, they had been pleased by the lustful attentions, finding the fact that they were desirable prospects for mating a wonderful feeling, but once again, they were all the most powerful figures in the continent, and that meant that most of them were 1st generation lifeforms, creatures that were even older than Magical Energy itself, which made them 172 Years old (Not counting the 1st generation Elves that spawn every month). In other words, they were old and had become immune to such juvenile pleasures.
Nowadays, they were becoming increasingly discontent with the lustful eyes of lower lifeforms who could only stare and wish but do nothing. It was a little frustrating.
But it wasn’t so bad.
In fact, most of them hung around their peers most of the time (for example, Supreme Dragons hanging out with other Supreme Dragons and Elf Grand Elders hanging out with other Grand Elders) and they didn’t mind the occasional lustful attention from them at all, sometimes quite the opposite. After all, everybody wanted a mate eventually.
On top of that, some of them would go into seclusion for long periods of time, and after all that time, almost any attention would be welcome after that.
So it wasn’t until Jörma had said such a shocking thing that resonated with their hearts that they even realised that they were having a problem, no matter how insignificant of a problem it was.
Titania saw the change in faces of some of the people in the vicinity and felt a surge of joy. How could she possibly not? The more people interested in the idea of covering their reproductive organs, the more traction her clothing business would obtain!
As for where the idea of a clothing business had come from, naturally, she had obtained it from Ciera’s inheritance. When Ciera had gifted her with knowledge, clothes and business had been included in the memories - not necessarily together, but with the implementation of businesses in the Elven Kingdom, it didn’t take long for the most valuable resources in the Kingdom to be sold via various businesses, with clothing being one of them.
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Nevertheless, only a few of the Elven Kingdom’s businesses had managed to stretch out of the Kingdom itself, dealing with other factions and raking in more resources. But the extent of that was merely the other neighbouring factions within the Dawn Forest and nothing outside. This did not mean she was not capable if she put in her best effort to expand the various businesses, but the return on interest was too low, especially in this dangerous World.
Every ruler was competing with each other, overtly or not, and their entire race relied on their rulers to be as powerful as possible. So if she had actually made the decision to focus on business rather than cultivation, causing her cultivation to fall behind her peers, such a thing could put the whole Kingdom in jeopardy, and then what would be the point of all those businesses? They would only be devoured by somebody else! Ridiculous!
But with what was going on now… Titania saw an opportunity to make at least one of her businesses become continental! At a swift pace at that! If she could actually make the clothing business become continent-wide within 5 years, even 10 years, then the resources she would rake in from the entire Continent would make the time spent away from cultivating worth it by many folds! What a beautiful dream!
All she would have to be worried about was having her life or that of her people be targeted because of the allure that a system that took from the entire continent would have, but she wasn’t too worried. She had honed her charm for many years and knew how to de-escalate violent confrontations with many methods, but even if the only option left was to fight, not only was she very powerful by herself, but she’d have the entire Dawn Forest alliance to back her up! She understood that if it came to that, they’d probably want a cut of the business, but she could afford that. She might even get lucky and they wouldn’t even think that the profit of an entire business could be divided, they were very likely to just ask for a big sum up front and leave her alone after that. What joy!
The only variable in that situation would be Dragon King Drako, since his loyalty to his sister was greater than his loyalty to the alliance, but that could be worked out.
‘This is wonderful!’
Thinking about the benefits that could come from this meeting, Titania’s all-white eyes began to shine as her emotions temporarily slipped out of her control.
But before she could say anything to provoke more people into feeling upset by their nakedness, the sound of buzzing could be heard in the distance. Her glowing eyes abruptly dimmed and her raised brows dropped. She didn’t need to turn around to know what exactly had arrived behind her but she did anyway, but what she saw made her frown even further.
‘They increase in number too quickly…’
A few thousand metres away, the sight of a white sparkling smoke could be seen encroaching the land towards them like a tidal wave, making a strangely melodious buzzing sound that got louder the closer it came.
Soon, it got close enough that those who had never seen ‘them’ before could finally make out their true identity… and they all felt shocked. For what they saw was a far cry from the odd musical smoke that they had perceived from a distance.
Not even close.