A New Life Starts

"Woah..." Heian Ciemnosc heard an exclamation. After he was sucked into the Carrier, he felt the vast force stop and accommodate him in a hallway. When he opened his eyes after being helped inside and heard that exclamation, his darkest eyes shrunk when he saw Alyona tilting her head left and right as she sized him up. Her hands were on his shoulders, and Heian Ciemnosc could barely move sideways, let alone back and forth. Alyona turned her hands into a knife stance and poked his body, feeling each piece of muscle and flesh on his body's front.

"..." Then, Heian Ciemnosc did the same and lifted his pale right hand to cup her left breast, and only then did Alyona stop and look up at him silently. Heian Ciemnosc lightly tugged it sideways, squeezed, and let go when Alyona's left eyebrow playfully rose. She smirked, and her lips twisted even harder as she couldn't contain it anymore. She embraced Heian Ciemnosc's hug and locked his body in place to the point he could only move his legs, arms, and mind.

“Did you miss more my breasts than the one who owns them?” Alyona whispered in his ear, letting her nose caress the side of his head before burying it in his neck. With difficulty, Heian Ciemnosc moved his arms to hug her back, lovingly caressing her upper back and left shoulder blade. Then, his sweet and gentle words went into her expecting head. “Why are you talking about me twice and the second time from a fourth point of view?”

“...” Alyona kept hugging him, but the levels of speechlessness she felt were rising to unthinkable heights. Heian Ciemnosc’s hug maintained her calm, and she could discern from his energy fluctuations how safe and content he felt from seeing and touching her again. It was one thing to communicate via the Universal Conveyance whenever they weren’t at war, but meeting at last after so long was like giving the panacea to the world. Her palms were kept at his back as they enjoyed this moment which they longed for so long.

“Hm…” Heian Ciemnosc buried his head wherever he could. Since he was no longer as ‘short’ as before, he couldn’t bathe in the scent and warmth of his first wife’s bosom and could only let those divine cushions flatten on his chest. Right now, though, Alyona closed her eyes and seemed asleep in Heian Ciemnosc’s arms. Slowly, her forcing lockdown of his body receded, and he could take her into his chest more comfortably, letting her turn vulnerable under his touch.

“You are warmer,” Alyona said as her eyes slowly opened. She separated 1 cm from his chest, looked up, and kept her forearms up her chest, like a delicate princess being too shy to move her hands everywhere. Heian Ciemnosc looked down at Alyona, and her black-coffee eyes enthralled him. He couldn’t want to see Hong Mei. Would she be baffled that he was almost as tall as her? Would she become silly like Alyona?

“Mhm, you’ll know how I also became more… pokable in a few minutes, I promise.” Heian Ciemnosc said, easily letting his words and intentions invade his wife’s mind. Indeed, Alyona’s eyes turned hazy, and her creamy beige skin gained a rosy tone on her face, with the tip of her nose as the epicenter. However, before their stupid moment could continue, Alyona grabbed the upper hems of his dark coat and wore her serious, deathly expression.

“Why is your Soul like that?” Alyona’s eyes were looking into his chest and seemingly finding some remnants of what he had done to his Master and what his Master had done to him. Heian Ciemnosc lifted his hands and gently cupped Alyona’s jaw, making her look up at him. Alyona’s hands slowly relaxed, and he spoke softly, comforting and spoiling this scary woman throughout the world. “That’s how I saved my Master, partially. There is a side-effect, but it’s nothing for me. I may not be able to cultivate through the Blossoming realm for a couple months.”

“Mn, with that cultivation base, there is nothing you can help with our current operations. You can take missions if you want. If there’s a special occasion when useless people of your cultivation base are needed, I’ll bring you in.” Alyona said, biting her lower lip as she took 2 steps backward. Heian Ciemnosc felt tantalized to chase after but restrained himself for the moment. Alyona sized him up again. This time, Alyona had glints of pride and contentment in her black-coffee eyes.

“But even though that’s the case now… to manage to cultivate to this level after 21 years of cultivation… You’re my man, alright.” Alyona said before going back into his embrace, and then, when they locked eyes again, and she leaned and hugged his body with what seemed to be the strength of a civilian, young woman. She protruded her lips upwards and closed her eyes as Heian Ciemnosc lowered his head.

“... Sooo, do I really have to get married to him, too? And how do you guys get married? I have the sensation it isn’t an official ceremony or something humble,” Milyy’s voice interrupted the connection of 2 pairs of attractive lips entangling and drawing on each other’s meat, saliva, and tongue in between as they looked in the same direction where the hatch was. Milyy was there, with a bratty knit of her eyebrows and pointing backwards with her right thumb as her left wrist, serving as support for her other elbow.

“The guy outside has already been picked up. Are we moving out yet? Oof! I have so many questions. Can you start answering them for me already?” Milyy said. When she finished speaking, Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes changed glint. Milyy jolted her head backwards negligibly. He straightened his back and said to her like a scolding Elder Brother. “Milyy, behave well. Alyona’s Faction is bringing you into the world from now on, and she didn’t even ask me any details before accepting.”

“I… I know, b-” Milyy’s knitted eyebrows creased lower instead, and her voice became slightly saddened. But Heian Ciemnosc interrupted and walked over to her as Alyona stayed behind and watched. Heian Ciemnosc stood before Milyy, but his stern expression suddenly changed to a doting one but Milyy didn’t reject his touch this time as he held her cheeks in his pale hands. Her lips pouted naturally due to his action, but her turquoise, hot pink mixed eyes looked at him brightly with some sadness still present.

“Now, I know you don’t want to be bad, but can’t help but feel like that in a new place. Don’t fret. I will be here. And I know you’ll still feel not sure enough when I have to leave for other tasks, but I have someone in mind who can help you get through it.” Heian Ciemnosc’s words made Milyy feel somewhat at ease, but she murmured under her breath after he finished speaking, drawing her eyes to a corner of their sockets. “As if I want someone else. Why would I need to… I don’t want to…”

“She is also involved in that marriage your mommy told you to go ahead with as soon as possible,” Heian Ciemnosc said, still not having let go of her face. Milyy looked at him immediately and dropped her eyes somewhere else again before speaking, “Fine…”

“Oh,” Heian Ciemnosc exclaimed but still didn’t let go of her face, and Milyy didn’t shuffle away from his touch. Heian Ciemnosc took a step closer, and Alyona nodded after receiving his little Soul message, contacting that ‘someone’ immediately. Milyy’s breath became a little tougher with Heian Ciemnosc’s body nearly up against her as he finally spoke. “Come with me. You can follow me anywhere I go… except when I go to my wives’ bedrooms… or mine when if I leave you in one of theirs.”

“...” Milyy blinked consecutively at his honest words before adopting a bratty expression again. She crossed her arms before her belly, further separating their bodies, and kittishly acquiesced in a louder tone. “Fine!”

Heian Ciemnosc looked back as Alyona nodded slightly before walking towards a parked transporting vehicle. Heian Ciemnosc looked around at the red walls and dull-beige floor as he and Alyona entered the vehicle, with Milyy taking 3 seconds to inspect it before deeming it ‘worthy’ to be used by her. She got in, and Heian Ciemnosc started it, immediately accelerating with Milyy nearly blown off.

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Without using her capabilities, Milyy was forced to cling onto Heian Ciemnosc’s neck from behind, which thankfully didn’t hurt him because she was already not utilizing any of her strength. It wasn’t until 2 minutes later, when he finally slowed down to a regular speed during peaceful periods, that Milyy bumped into the back of his seat but said nothing, already embarrassed enough to have clung to him for so long.

During the remaining time of the route, Milyy was silent as Alyona held hands with a more relaxed Heian Ciemnosc after Milyy was soothed. Knowing how much Heian Ciemnosc cared about things like these and the people he chose, she kept quiet and let the other young woman in her husband’s pants in the future grow curious as she looked at everything in the surroundings. They went through some dinners for First Step cultivators and citizens, and a few training modules where thousands were going at it to their utmost limits.

Vroooom, vroom. Tap, tap, tap, tap… tap!

Finally, they arrived before a huge gate, where Milyy looked as if she knew something stupidly unnecessary like this would be in such a place. But when her eyes went past the gate, her feline eyes shrunk, and if she had brought her tail out, it would have been wiggling in a daze after confirming what was behind. Her mouth silently uttered a ‘wao’ that looked really cute, and she clearly wanted to go inside immediately.

“Come,” Heian Ciemnosc said as if nothing was happening and as if Milyy’s face wasn’t one that made anyone want to do anything for her. He turned around and walked with Alyona towards the gates. Milyy only asked him in her mind if it was all alright before following behind them. She turned into a flashing figure that slowly trotted forth at Heian Ciemnosc’s pace. Meanwhile, Alyona and Heian Ciemnosc constantly turned to look at each other as if they were talking through Soul.

Milyy was a good girl, so she didn’t try peering into their conversation, but she could tell it was all about Heian Ciemnosc telling that first wife of his about his adventures this past decade. This made Milyy feel content, as she was told first before the wife. Not knowing she had a home-wrecker talent, Milyy continued to feel self-pleased as she became more excited about growing closer to the gate.

Futhump! The gates opened, and before Milyy’s gloating eyes, they were revealed a paradise of vegetation on the other side. She didn’t even notice when his fiance and future co-wife entered the garden, the core of this Carrier, but she kept looking at it from the outside as if just stepping inside would dirty it all. That was when Heian Ciemnosc spoke in a loud voice to her from within the garden, “Get inside! The gates will close and won’t let you in if you keep waiting!”

“Gyaah!” Milyy jolted on the spot, and after flashing Heian Ciemnosc her grateful eyes, she stepped into the garden at a visible pace. When her body entered, she felt her skin numbing as it rippled with a wave from below to up. Milyy closed her eyes at the sensation as if the world she knew was lightly and finally greeting her with open arms. For the first time in her 3 decades of lifespan, she felt like the world was just before her, at her arm’s reach!

“Go around. It’s a little path before we meet with my second wife. Go on.” Heian Ciemnosc wagged his left wrist amidst the air to instruct Milyy, whose eyes shone and glistened with excitement. Milyy didn’t even say something before moving on her four legs around the vegetation, exiting the small path towards the center where her eyes couldn’t see through the mist, and started greeting various flora as she went here and there at the usual speed.

While Milyy spent some time playing in the garden filled with many different florae, even from the Fourth Step’s utility, Heian Ciemnosc and Alyona arrived before the tall tree in the center of the Carrier’s core. When they arrived there, a female beauty without clothes had her back facing them as she attended to one of the tree’s roots. Her back was painted with some gray and green colors, but only around her lower back.

Step, step- step, step. Rustle~.

Hong Mei stood up, revealing her tall beautiful figure to them before turning around. In her arms was a jar filled with some thin pieces of bark and mud. She wore a light smile, and her large brown-green eyes turned the sweetest after noticing the two of them. Her jar floated in the air as she let go of it and quickly stepped towards Heian Ciemnosc. She was stained with a mug from her knees to her soles, but Heian Ciemnosc didn’t move away and welcomed her into his arms.

“Mmm!” Hong Mei closed her eyes and showed her teeth as she hugged Heian Ciemnosc’s upper torso and rubbed her face left and right on his neck. Heian Ciemnosc had no choice but to lift his chin a little and let her bask in his scent, new warmth — for them — and stronger body since the last time they saw each other. Hong Mei had enough physical affection as her front was glued to Heian Ciemnosc’s front, and she lifted her head as she did her hands to clasp the back of his head.

“I didn’t know I’d miss you so much. Even though I was used to loneliness, I longed for this moment, mmm!” Hong Mei said while being face-to-face with Heian Ciemnosc. She gave Alyona a skipping glance before smooching his pale red lips and bringing his hands to her sweet, flat bottom, just as Heian Ciemnosc remembered and adored it. After a minute-long session of showing off to the first wife, the second wife separated and blushed all over her nude body.

Hong Mei slowly dressed up with leaves, petals, and thorns as Alyona looked calm. Deep down, however, she wanted to start fighting in an all-3-way battle right here and now. Heian Ciemnosc looked at his wives and… oh well, he was used to their presence in his life and what they meant to him, but he still fell into deep thought, dazed, that they were his lovely wifeys. When everyone was decent and the initial chatter commenced that a cautious kitty walked towards them.

Step, step, step… She stopped beside Heian Ciemnosc and looked at the Earth Elf, who reeked of Heian Ciemnosc as her little nose sniffled and twitched nonstop. She ignored her instincts to seek for a fight, remembering her mommy’s teachings and after Heian Ciemnosc deliberately showed his first wife she was important to him, and asked in a lower tone than she expected to talk with. “Where is this place? Why is it so much like this? I want one…”

Milyy was riddled with some roots, thorns, leaves, petals, and even dirt grains around her short hair, shoulders, and below her knees. After she spoke, Hong Mei smiled and walked to her. Milyy intended to warn the intruder to her private space, but she strangely didn’t in the end and allowed the tall beauty to touch her all around her body and pick those pesky, gluey things off her clothes and hair.

“You know, I usually entrap and kill anyone who comes to this nucleus when I haven’t taught the flora here to accept, as I did with your future Husband and elder sister. However, when you came close, besides that ridiculously high cultivation base, I felt I wouldn’t need to do anything. I think I was right,” Hong Mei said as she picked the few leaves stuck between Milyy’s hair, and the latter looked at the former like she was indeed some kind of interesting ‘elder’ sister.

“You see these?” Hong Mei clipped the leaves from Milyy’s hair and showed them to her. Milyy looked at the leaves cutely, as she had enjoyed playing with them as if playing to wrestle with some roots before, and looked at Hong Mei innocently. “These are poisonous and can make anyone, even in the Fourth Step, fall into an illusion where they believe they’re growing hotter from within. Although the cultivation base may slow down its effect, it makes one’s brains melt without the need of any change to the surroundings.”

“One affected by them is practically killing themselves without knowing it, hehe.” Hong Mei said before picking a few roots that were stuck in Milyy’s skin. Meanwhile, with just those words, Milyy’s face was astounded, and her eyes widened as she looked perplexed. Was she that close to death?! Of course, she was a being, something no millions or billions of Godly beings can ever compare to, but she was still known to it…

Hong Mei started explaining the uses and effects that the flora Milyy played with, explaining how deathly and awful those things were. Slowly, Milyy’s perplexed face turned intrigued, and she wanted to hear more and more of the tall beauty’s voice and know more about these florae. At this moment, Heian Ciemnosc did the comparison from the videos Alyona sent him to the current one and couldn’t help but marvel for the umpteenth time.

Hong Mei wasn’t in battle mode, where she exploded her enemy’s limbs before striking the head or stabbed with a couple tendrils as thin as a wing’s cicada into the enemy’s bodies before millions came out and spread everywhere in space to target spaceships and cultivators in the same stage as hers, turning them into hopeless little flies.

“... Milyy, she is my second wife, Hong Mei. She will host the procedures of our marriage here, in this place.” Heian Ciemnosc said after Hong Mei explained nearly 200 different flora to Milyy. They looked at Heian Ciemnosc when he spoke, the former with a sweet, large smile and the latter with a dazzled, embarrassed face. Milyy stepped towards him, faced him face-to-face, and said as she looked up at the tree and its surrounding space. “Here?”

“... Right now?” Milyy’s eyes brightened and opened wider as she directly stared at Heian Ciemnosc’s pale, pervertedly handsome face.

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This is the beginning of Volume 7 — Era's Burgeon.