Getting the villagers setup in a new valley closer to Irelia’s region wasn’t especially hard, but it did take several days. I actually portaled over several houses directly so only the burnt out houses and the ones they didn’t want to keep were left behind. We burnt down the rest of the village just in case anyone came looking and even left a body double for Ahri and the villagers even if it did nearly wipe out the nearby boar population.

Regardless, as we climbed up to Irelia’s manor at the edge of the Navori province. We had investigated her past here and it was more or less what we had got from the game info. Her family was killed. She awakened her powers, led a guerrilla campaign and took her home back from the invaders. Then became an advisor when needed from then on. Apparently she does occasionally teach, but mostly people visit to watch her and her blade dances.

As we walked up to the manor house at the top of the hill I had to suppress my glee at seeing the closest thing I had yet seen to a cultivator. I was not disappointed initially. She was beautiful. She was already dancing and the blades were following her in a mesmerizing weaving pattern. However, I noticed immediately her soul didn’t seem to be as strong as I would have expected her to be. She was also a little older than I expected.

The six of us waited and watched for nearly an hour before she stopped and slowly stretched before returning towards her home. Glancing at the others I shrugged and we slowly followed her towards her house’s entrance and stopped before the door. I thought about knocking, but before I could do anything I heard a soft but firm voice. “Come in and tell me why you have decided to bother me.”

Hiding my wince, the six of us walked in while taking off our shoes. I had to admit that even though we had the same rule in our pocket home, it was a little nerve racking doing it here in this stranger’s house.

As we walked in we found Irelia sitting at a low sofa sipping something while staring at us. Gesturing she pointed towards another sofa across from her and I nodded before everyone except Ahri sat down. When Irelia raised her eyebrow Ahri simply smiled and pointed to her tail. “I apologize, but sofa’s likes these are not pleasant to sit on if you have a tail.”

Irelia simply nodded and turned towards me. Clearing my throat I smiled. “I wish to bring up three things if you are willing to listen, Madam Irelia, blade dancer.”

Ireliah snorted. “I am nearly 72 years old, boy, I am well past the point where you need to butter me up. I get enough of that from my two daughters and grandchildren.”

All of us blinked and I looked down the line. Everyone except Ahri looked shocked at the woman declaring she was older than everyone here combined except for Ahri with grandchildren to boot. She had some minor wrinkles, but if she was a normal woman I would have pegged her in her late 30s or early 40s.

Catching myself I chuckled. “Well, I have to say that your beauty does you justice. I wouldn’t have put you more than perhaps 35.”

Irelia snorted again, but I continued. “I don’t really care if you believe me, but I have to say that I find you simply breathtaking.”

Out of the corner of my eye I saw Amy smirk and Sabah subconsciously nod. Irelia simply waved her hand in dismissal. “Get on with your three requests.”

I sighed. “If you won’t listen to my compliment I am thankful that you are still willing to listen to my requests.” Sighing, I continued. “The first is that we would like to petition for some instruction in fighting, martial arts, anything you can teach us.”

Irelia slumped in obvious annoyance but I continued anyway. “We do not have a large amount of money, but the six of us have skills we would be more than happy to help you or the nearby town with.”

Irelia frowned but then waved her hand for me to continue. “I can open portals that allow materials or people to be moved anywhere within a day’s walk instantly, and even further if I prepare. Amy is probably the world’s greatest healer. Taylor can control bugs for about a mile. Sabah can create clothes and minor telekinesis. Dinah can predict events with incredible precision, but is limited in the number of questions she can ask. Ahri joined us recently, but has incredible illusionary skills. All of these skills can be used for anything you need while you are teaching us.”

Irelia’s eyebrows rose more and more as I continued my explanation. After several seconds of silence following my explanation she hummed. “Well, you are certainly more interesting than the normal rift raft that tries to get my attention.” She paused and tapped her lips. “I think that opening your services for two hours each day for me or our town would be sufficient. But that does make me curious what the other two items you would like to bring up are.”

I tried to smile reassuringly. “The second is just an extension of the first. We would like to try to copy your empowerment method more directly. I have heard of methods of combining life energy into the body to empower it, slow aging, and perform mystical abilities and I hope we can recreate it. Especially if Amy is able to inspect your body via her ability by holding your hand. In return she can cure you of any medical issues and even reverse aging temporarily. Although be aware it will resume when we leave.”

Irelia once again hummed. “I am not sure about that, but I will see as time goes forward. It is a big ask to give you all of my secrets, but it does make me curious what your third request would be.”

I smiled, but this time I tried to look sheepish. “The final thing relates to the other half of my ability. You see, I am also a soul mage in addition to a dimensional mage. So while I can open portals I can also move between worlds if I prepare correctly. I have also been able to tie my soul to this world along with all of my girls here except Ahri who is still deciding if she wishes to join us. So between Amy and I, we can not be killed by any normal means. This means we are mostly immortal and I am looking for women who are smart, kind, and powerful to be wives and travel through the universes together with me. From everything I have heard about you, you fill all three categories spectacularly.”

Irelia’s eyes widened and she finally sat up straight and narrowed her eyes. “What exactly are you doing to these girls?”

I scoffed but was inwardly nervous. “I have not done anything to Ahri and she knows I treat my wives carefully. I have also not touched Dinah or Sabah, yet and won’t until they are physically and emotionally ready respectively. Plus, Amy can tell if I am lying and Dinah can predict the future. Do you really think I have any secrets between us?”

Irelia started out tense, but slowly relaxed as I continued my speech. It was good she thought of the girl’s safety, but honestly in a straight fight I was the weakest one here except for Dinah and she would probably see it coming. “Fine, I will allow the first request. I will train you for 6 months, no more. You will help with your powers. If I like your effort I will allow Amy to examine me, but nothing else. I am not going to consider your third offer. I am here for my people and I won’t leave them.”

I winced internally. That was a much stronger rejection than I had hoped for, but it was probably what I could expect.

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As we explained we didn’t need housing I was surprised when Irelia insisted we stay in her home. Maybe she wanted to keep an eye on us, but I suppose it wasn’t a big deal regardless.

The next morning we were up at dawn exercising before running down the steps to help the villagers for another two hours before running back up the hill to prepare for sparring practice.

As we arrived I saw Irelia standing next to several sets of hard wooden swords. “What are you waiting for.” I could feel the blood drain from my face. She was just going to throw us right into it wasn’t she?

I was incredibly thankful that Amy had improved our bodies because before the changes I wouldn’t have made it through half of those morning exercises, let alone everything else. Instead I started the sparring practice only mildly sweaty and tired. I wasn’t sure, but I suspected that we were near Captain America level’s of strength, agility, and focus. Not truly superhuman yet, but we were making progress.

However after sparring practice where we were beaten up for six hours straight it was dinner time and then the five of us crawled back towards our beds. Surprisingly, Ahri wasn’t particularly winded, but while she never landed a blow on Irelia, she also was rarely hit. I suppose it was her animal instincts or something.

The following month was entirely the same. I was surprised when I found out Runeterra had some sort of rest day on every seventh day as well. I didn’t understand how that worked, but apparently it was important for us to have a rest day as Irelia didn’t even let us help the town on that day.

It was our seventh rest day that Sabah stopped by my room. Amy and Taylor had switched off visiting my room once or twice a week. Sometimes they would both arrive for the rest day, but Sabah had still not made up her mind to come yet. So I was surprised when I opened the door to find Sabah standing there.

Smiling, I stood to the side of the door allowing her to enter if she wanted. “What brings you to my room, Sabah?”

Sabah frowned but before she could say anything I saw Amy come around the corner before rolling her eyes. “Just ask, it will be fine and I will be there the entire time.”

Sabah looked back and forth between the two of us and then simply nodded before pushing gently into my room. Inside there was only my mattress, a small desk and small dresser. All three items were in a sudo-japanese style, but to my great relief the mattress was significantly thicker than expected of a futon. Sitting down on my mattress Sabah hesitated before slipping her top off showing only a lacey sports bra underneath.

Raising my eyebrows I paused for a moment before I smiled as Amy walked in and sat down next to her doing the same. “I see the two of you have become closer. I am glad to see it.”

This time I was able to enjoy both Sabah and Amy. In fact most of the time Amy was holding Sabah. It was incredibly cute. Still, as we all cooled down I had to let the two know how I felt.

Looking down I smiled at Amy and then at Sabah. “Welcome to the family for real, Sabah. I know this is not what you had planned, but we really will try to make sure you will enjoy your time with us.”

Sabah stayed quiet for a moment before she leaned forward to kiss me. I was a little surprised, but after a moment eagerly returned the kiss. Sabah then pulled back and smiled. “I still think I prefer girls, but I have to say that wasn’t bad either. I, uh, might ask for a repeat sometimes.”

Amy and I smirked again and wrapped her up in our arms. Sabah ended up being spooned by me while Amy nuzzled into her breasts. I smiled down sleepily at my little mocha wife and smiled to myself. Life was good.

That didn’t stop Irelia from driving us even harder into the ground the next day. I forgot she had incredible senses and probably heard the entire thing. Embarrassing for us, but then again we were all adults and obviously consenting, so maybe Irelia was just embarrassed for listening in.

The following months really pushed each one of us. I wouldn’t have called us masters at anything yet, but we certainly were strong enough that when Irelia brought in some thugs to attack us we felt almost no threat from them.

It helped that Amy had actually made us weaker than we had been, but vastly increased the twitch strength of our muscles. We were now much, much faster than any human had a right to be, but were still only maybe two or three times stronger than an adult man.

As our time wound down we tried to imitate Irelia’s cultivation technique, but no one but Ahri was able to make any progress, and even that was basic at best. Amy and I weren’t sure if our souls or bodies were somehow different, but Irelia’s deadline was approaching.

The only other major project we worked on is understanding why and how Ahri consumed souls. We still didn’t have anything conclusive but with some tweaks by both Amy to Ahri’s body and my efforts at tweaking her soul, Ahri had found she only needed to consume a soul once in the final 4 months of the training despite how hard we were working and she felt she could easily go several more months beyond. Amy and I had decided that somewhere between 6-9 months between feeding was more than sufficient for our first effort. Ahri was equally pleased.

As we prepared to leave, Irelia actually called us once again into her sitting room.

I was just about to wonder what she wanted, but she spoke up. “I am not ready to come with you. I admit that I am tempted and if you ever return please come to talk to me as I might have changed my mind, but for now I feel I must continue to rebuild my people. We are still only one generation out from the General’s war.”

Nodding my head I sighed and looked at the woman in front of us. “We may return, but may I ask if I might safeguard your soul in a gem the same way I have done for my companions. If I place said gem in my message tube I will be able to know if anything happens to you.”

She scoffed and rolled her eyes. “No one would want to fight with this old Grandmother.”

I rolled my eyes in turn. “And I swear that virtually every straight male and virtually all women regardless of orientation, plus a few gay men, are enraptured by your beauty.”

Scoffing Irelia smirked, then sighed. “... Fine, do as you wish. I suppose joining you after I have truly finished all my work here might not be terrible.”

The binding to one of the diamond rings was completed and we were actually surprised when Irelia actually jumped in power slightly. She laughed it off though. “I think I can feel my soul a little better now or at least focus on it a bit better.”

The ring was then placed inside the tube and Irelia buried the tube inside an old temple a few miles away.

Finally it was time to leave and I turned to Ahri. “What do you want to do now, Ahri?”

Ahri smirked and then rubbed the back of her head. “I… I think it is time that I get a family. As long as you promise to keep an eye out for people like us. ”

Smiling, I reached forward and finally scratched those ears before I placed my other hand on Ahri’s stomach. About 40 minutes later we had our own mommy fox in my harem.

She hadn’t pushed to enter my bed, but I was definitely looking forward to it. Especially since all three of my mature girls had been eyeing the woman. I suppose her fox tail had been intriguing for everyone, not just me, even if Taylor just looked curious.

Surprisingly, it was Dinah who claimed first victory by sitting in Ahri’s lap and stroking her tail as we finished up. The rest of us loaded up preserved food and supplies for our trip. All of our help in the local town had meant business had boomed and everyone had been thankful for our help. Enough to offer quite a bit of help as we left.

It was now the seven of us and we grabbed the mug that contained the leader of the mercenaries that had attacked Ahri for popping away. However I looked at each of the girls.

I would really like to learn magic as soon as we can. Are there any complaints if I am for Harry Potter? Everyone blinked before shaking their heads, mouths curving up for a smile. Even Ahri had apparently read the books during our time here.

Amy put Dinah down into her traveling coma and the rest of us warned Ahri while we did our final checks of Lung’s soul and bodies.

Pulling the mug closer I focused on magic, school, training, magical girls, right at the start of schooling and after I got a target I popped us away.

We were off to learn magic.

Interlude Irelia:

Irelia watched as they all portaled away. It had been kinda nice while they were here.

No, she really didn’t have any intention of going with them, but only a fool would burn those bridges before she was completely sure.

Still, the soul modifications were interesting and she hoped she would be able to make a few more breakthroughs in her sword dancing art despite her advancing years.

It would be something she could pass along to her children and grandchildren.

She sighed and looked out at the courtyard before blushing just a tiny bit. At least she wouldn’t be woken up in the middle of the night from their activities anymore.

Then again, it wasn’t like she hadn’t enjoyed it when her husband had still been alive.

Humming, she tapped a long finger against her chin. Maybe she should consider getting a new Paramore if she wasn’t going to be taking Max up on his offer. He had said she was beautiful, often enough, hadn’t he?

She hummed before walking back into her courtyard to practice again with the new feeling she was getting. It was something to consider, she supposed.

She turned and looked out at the place that Max and the girls had just been standing.

She frowned. Max, Dinah, Amy, and Taylor needed to each work on their issues. Their intimacy was helping them grow closer together, but they needed to actually address the root causes of their issues eventually. Still it wasn’t her place to force them to address their problems.

It was actually a little sad that it was all the younger members of the little family that were struggling with issues. Once again she sighed, she wished the very best for them, hopefully they could get the help they needed.