Chapter 187: Glammed Ring
Kir’s leg bounced as he waited on his bed, laying with his back against it and his clawed, sandaled, digitigrade feet touching the floor, his claws clicking slightly with every bounce.
Today was the first day he would actually be able to leave the manor that had been his home for the last two months.
Those months had been very productive for him, but he was getting sick of hiding during the day and staying on the grounds at night... but such was the life of someone who was supposed to be dead.
Kordia was still with him, but she’d started volunteering to help with the construction of the new Academy. Given the number of mages in Norneau, it was going up pretty quickly, but it grossly lacked the grandeur of the flying tower it was replacing.
The bottom third of the four sub-towers had each been moved to the underside of the promontory, now turned into support pillars. Meanwhile, the Arcane Knights school had been taken over, and a new, much larger facility was going up for them using half the burnt-out area from the lowest tier.
The middle district had gone largely unscathed, but it had been determined that student housing for the Academy and Arcane Knights School was more important than having hotels there, especially given the worsening climes and the increased difficulty of travel from roaming monsters and bands of demons.
And speaking of demons, he hoped Stella was alright... most likely she was probably "playing" out in the city instead of doing the task he’d sent her to do in the middle ring; delivering an anonymous commission to Enumasam, the city’s best forgemaster, who had finally reopened his shop after months of doing nothing but commissions to help rebuild the city. Given how easily Stella could slip about the city despite the presence of angels, it was no wonder the cubi - succubi and incubi - were feared as infiltrators, despite their rarity amongst demons.
Outside of the first wall, a new wall was going up to protect the new residential district, which had been built first, but beyond that, an army of beastkin and dwellers of the western forests was presently camped, on guard against another demonic incursion.
If not for the druids they brought with them, the force of fifty-thousand would have eaten the city clean. And above them floated...
"Look right! There’s another airship!" the voice in his head said. Kiryu Narumi - Triple PhD in Quantum Physics, Applied Physics, and Theoretical Physics, Masters in Archaomanufacturing, BA in Additive Manufacturing, and Computer Programming, and Pottery - had an oddly giddy appreciation of the craft, which looked like actual ships with flattened bottoms, suspended by massive mana crystals. Kir turned his head and watched the vessel towing boxes to the top of the promontory.
In two months, Kir had discovered surprisingly little about the man, though the scientist had filled in some of the gaps in Kir’s knowledge. Especially with regards to quantum physics.