Chapter 79 – Draconic Mastery of the Mystic Energies Technique.

Ten days have passed since that meeting, during which Feicui Long inscribes inscriptions and formations on the houses. Then the next day, he raffles them off, inscribes again, and the next day, raffles again. It is a routine mixed with short free moments he uses to cultivate, teach his nieces, his daughters, Mariane, and Isabella. As for why he doesn't raffle them the same day, it's because he needs to have a life. He isn't going to spend all his time on duty, and even the slaves understand that.

In fact, some become closer over time and even decide to stay in the village long before being freed. They have already made their decision. Among them are the three Mantussi sisters, Clarissa, Alexa, and Milena, but also the muscleman Alexei Ognev, his wife Alina, and his daughter Mila, as well as his sister, the scout Irina. They are not many, but it is surprising that they already decide.

There are others who are close but have not yet made their decision. Of course, besides closeness, there are probably other reasons why some decide already, like Clarissa and her sisters, whose kingdom was destroyed by the Bloody Thorns Devil Palace and have nowhere to return to. Still, whatever the reason they choose to stay, that is Feicui Long's goal. Today, he is finishing lunch after completing the antepenultimate house. He eats with Isabella alone behind some trees in front of the house under construction.

They are finishing their meal when loud noises are heard from the house. Shortly after, the sound of blows erupts. It sounds like several people are fighting, and the hits are quite loud. Feicui Long looks at Isabella, and she actually nods and follows him to see what is going on.

As they approach, a man's angry voice is heard shouting: "You damn bastard, you want to get us all in trouble. Wasn't it enough to nearly provoke the young lord and test his generosity, and now you steal food, when they give us plenty, you damn scumbag!"

After that, a man flies out of the house, and several others follow to beat him. When Feicui Long sees who the man is, he immediately knows. It is the shadowy man. He can't forget that man with pale skin and that dark personality who insinuates a threat toward those he loves and who required much self-control not to kill on the spot. It is likely that from that moment, he becomes a pariah among all the slaves, and based on what he hears, the fact that he steals something is the trigger for them to unleash their grudges on him.

Still, Feicui Long can't stand still and watch them kill him, especially a single father of a little girl. So Feicui Long approaches with Isabella and says: "What is going on here, why is there so much commotion?"

Upon hearing him, the crowd freezes. The people beating him stop and clear the area a bit. That's when the muscular man, Alexei, who sees everything, explains: "Young lord, this guy stole several sacks of food from Miss Clarissa without her noticing and was hiding them in the construction site. After all, since he's the only one without a house, this would be his." Alexei immediately points to the sacks, which clearly don't have the marking that identifies each family by house number.

Feicui Long looks at him, and taking advantage of the arrival of some of his troops, he says to everyone: "Lamira, have your unit members take the sacks and the man. As for the rest, everything is fine. You can continue your work. I'll take care of all this."

After that, everyone returns to work, while Feicui Long, Isabella, and Lamira go with the troops carrying the sacks and don't stop until they reach where Clarissa is. She is surprised that someone steals sacks. She herself is a slave and has lived like one for some time. She knows how serious this is. If it weren't because her young lord is patient, this slave would be hanged or whipped.

Then Feicui Long takes the man and brings him to a place where the slaves can't see. He tells Lamira to make sure no one comes with the troops. Then Feicui Long looks at him and says: "We're going to do this. First, tell me why you stole the sacks, and afterward, I'll heal you using potions."

The shadowy man, hurt, bruised, and bleeding, looks at him. Though he remains silent for a while, in the end, the pain forces him to speak: "Lately, the food assigned to me and my daughter is disappearing. Someone is taking it. I think they're doing it to bother me. I couldn't just sit there and watch my daughter go without food."

Feicui Long looks at him and says: "If that's the case, why didn't you just tell me, or why not use contribution points to trade them for food? This is unnecessary."

The shadowy man replies: "If I traded food, they'd probably steal it too. And if I told you, would you even listen to me? I doubt it, not after what I did. Or if you did, the harassment would probably come in another form."

Feicui Long sighs heavily. He knows the man is partially right, so he says: "Alright, I won't do anything to you. I'll have several of my troops and undead patrol at night so they won't rob you. That said, take this." Feicui Long hands him a fifth-grade healing potion. That should be enough to heal him, especially since the man is only at elemental realm level 4.

As for why a cultivator is so badly injured by other slaves, it is because most of the slaves have cultivation even though they are in the elemental realm and at low grades, with only a few exceptions who will probably end up cultivating as well, since he plans to give them all basic cultivation techniques. Only the 35 that had been purchased, among whom this man is included, are at intermediate or high grades.

Then Feicui Long takes the man with him again and says to Lamira, the hobgoblin unit leader who keeps watch with her greatsword: "Lamira, tell the others 15 people will patrol at night. They'll do it together with a few undead and golems. Also take this man to work and leave troops to guard the construction. Also tell them they must assign 2 to 4 people to watch Clarissa's stall to prevent theft."

Technically, with the patrols and the fact that he is going to have his house, they will no longer be able to steal from him easily since after all the houses are well protected with resistance formations, including blocking ones. So with this, peace has been restored. Feicui Long goes with Isabella and they finish their lunch, since soon the house will be finished and he has to inscribe the inscriptions and formations, but also because winter is approaching...

...

Almost two full months pass. In these two months, few important things happen. The plans go as they should. The stable is completed, the market is completed, the workshops are completed, even the other workshops are beginning to be built and the same goes for the training zone.

The cows now have high-breed bulls with them. They have 20 sheep and 3 rams, all that along with the pigs and chickens is fine. Also, the crops were harvested on time two months ago and now there is an abundance of vegetables and other products. They also have a good amount of money. In only 2 months, they have earned 5 platinum coins, a massive amount, a result of Feicui Long now having more time to create more medicines and artifacts, but also from selling meat from the quartz deer and leftover materials from them.

The beacon stones from Leechwald Forest are almost all placed, only one is left in the central area of the path, but that one will be left for last. Also, thanks to Irina the scout and her loyal giant raven, her beloved and strange Kagetsume who keeps saying she is 3 million years old, even though he already verified her soul and it is a new soul, Irina manages to detect resource nodes. Before, she already had it mapped thanks to Kagetsume, but being able to see from the ground is much better in certain cases like these.

In fact, he feels satisfied and even more eager to take the forest, since he has detected a large energy stone vein very close to where the draconic fortress once stood, the one that guarded Carlotta while waiting for her arrival. But unfortunately, he must calm himself, he only has 10 miners and few troops.

Speaking of troops, the experiments of contracts between the creatures he creates or tames and his troops have been successful. For example, the unit leader, promoted to captain like the others, the lesser giant Ada, who not only advances thanks to her cultivation technique to the mystical realm grade 1, is the first successful experiment. She is now accompanied by two rock golems, two undead faun archers, and two undead lizardman spearmen, as well as having two black deep wolves. For now, only 20 have undergone the process out of the 35 troops.

As for the other 15, they are still waiting, since Feicui Long likes to wait a while to see if there is any possibly negative change or if it affects them, and he also has to choose which companions are best for each soldier.

It must also be added that the 35 slaves that were purchased to join his army have progressed a lot. Many of them were adventurers, mercenaries, and hunters, while about 5 were soldiers, so even though they had combat experience, he had to train them militarily. Luckily, equipping them was not a problem, since he brought the equipment with him. Curiously, half of these troops are men and the other half women, which means he currently has more female troops.

Feicui Long sighs as he thinks about everything that has happened. Even though he has freed himself from many things, several things are still left to do. For example, Arianne's sister has finally agreed to come, but only if her artistic wishes are respected and also if the statues are finished. So he needs to build her house, but also manage the trade routes. Elise is effective and in just these two months, always going with the same 15 to town, she has found several important buyers, but with winter entering a harsher phase, they will not be able to make many trips.

Besides those problems, he has others, especially this one in front of him, completing this cultivation technique for Annie. It is meant as her gift, since her birthday is on the first day of the fourteenth month of the year. Even though the technique is technically finished, it does not work well, specifically in two areas: mana and elemental energy. He has already used it 10 to 15 times. The cultivation technique is a technique of mastery of the mystical energies, meaning it uses mana, elemental energy, spiritual energy, and psychic or mental energy, just like the basic technique he gave her after forcing her to sign the servitude contract at the time to keep her identity secret.

But although he as a dragon, like all dragons, has a powerful innate domain in elemental energy and mana, not just the elemental dragons or those of basic colors, since they are born embodying them, which is why they are the ones who created from those laws the magic clan and the elemental clan and also the reason they are so resistant to both magic and all elements, from the 15 primary ones to the secondary and tertiary ones, of course with exceptions, especially for pure elemental dragons who can be weak to opposing elements.

Feicui Long actually does not have much experience in the use of those energies except in his lives as a mortal and his lifetime then is relatively short or specialized, not like in this one where he follows the master path of mystical energies.

In fact, the only elements he really has experience with are the wood element, the crystal element, and the metal element, the first two because he is an emerald dragon, since the emerald attribute in the name emerald dragon is the result of a combination of those two elements plus life energy, and the third because he is a golden emerald dragon. The reason is simple, he has focused on mastering the dragon attribute, space, and time, so he saw no need to use the others.

Honestly, Feicui Long would like to say that he would use the technique of his sister, the Supreme Goddess of mystical energies, as a base, but he does not actually have it, he only possesses Fernando's because he gave it to him and Aldebarán's because he confiscated it, so this one he has to create from scratch...

Now he finds himself frustrated because of this. It has been days since he let Annie go away for a month to visit and bring her family with her. Well, in reality it would be a month and a half or 42 days, since the months are 28 days long, but now during the last week it does not work and he has not found how to fix it, and Annie returns today and her birthday is tomorrow.

Feicui Long, frustrated, places the book on the desk built in the carpentry workshop in his now fully furnished private study and sighs as he says: "Ah, definitely, I have failed as a dragon. I managed to solve the mana issue, but I still cannot balance the 15 primary elements. What is happening...?"

Then a thought crosses his mind for a moment but he quickly dismisses it, saying: "No, it's too dangerous. I can't afford for it to get out of control."

It is then when a girl with emerald hair and eyes looking at him says: "How long will you keep fearing me, Feicui Long? When will you stop fearing yourself? When will you forgive yourself?"

Feicui Long almost jumps like a cat and nervously responds: "I don't fear you, Esmeralda, I don't know what you're talking about."

Esmeralda says: "You lie. You forget that I've seen everything you've lived, that I can see what you think..."

Then Esmeralda hugs him from behind and says: "Don't fear it, Feicui Long, don't fear the power, don't fear the dragons, accept yourself. What happened with Lucretia is a shame, but neither you nor she could have predicted it. Besides, she was the one who forced your hand..."

Feicui Long sighs and then holds Esmeralda, who at this moment takes the form of a little girl, and places her on his lap. While stroking her head, he says: "I know, Esmeralda, I believe I know, but dragon energy is uncontrollable and untamable. I worry about the unforeseen consequences it might cause..."

Esmeralda smiles and says: "Then tame it, Feicui Long, dominate it, subdue it, force it to obey you. If it's you, I believe you're capable of doing it, both for this technique and for yourself. I will always support you. After all, we promised to always be together. I am your supreme divine authority, you are my Supreme God. Together with Amethyst and Topaz we are a family and we always will be."

Feicui Long knows he cannot argue. The reason the technique Destruction of Existence got out of control at that moment is not due to the space or time energy included in the technique, but because of the dragon energy. The damage it caused Lucretia, even if not physical or even in the soul, left a mark on her psyche. That shadow, like his older brother, he has never been able to forgive himself for it...

There is a reason why he has such a large number of techniques created from the time or space attribute, but from the dragon attribute he only has a few and in fact only uses 4 or 5... because he fears it. Yes, a dragon afraid of using his main source of power. What a joke. But if he kept using it... who else could he hurt?

Feicui Long, now in the room in silence and after thinking about it for a long time, finally decides to do it, although he is still very afraid that this could be bad for Annie. Especially because, unlike Marianne who possesses Feicui Long's bloodline that he gave her in his first life, and Isabella who possesses the 10 drops of blood essence that he and Marianne gave her plus the green divine dragon's blood, he wants to give this gift with all his heart. So if he wants to make the elements stabilize in this limited time, he only has one option... to force them to obey with an energy so superior to the others that they cannot resist.

The day Annie arrives with her mother, her aunts, her grandmother, her sisters and cousins, all the family members still alive after the destruction of her small village... that very day and at that very hour, a technique with incredible potential, a unique technique of its kind, comes to light in this universe... after so long, the technique created by Feicui Long is named Technique of the Draconic Mastery of Mystical Energies. Soon, tomorrow will be day 1 of month fourteen of this year.