Preparing The Ceremony

“This here will be your office. You are now my official merchant, and you shall be my right hand when it comes to managing my future businesses. You’ll work closely with Yifei, who is in charge of the accounting and legal affairs. Her own office is right next to yours. You can’t miss it”

Following the inn debacle, Anoteros did not waste time bringing Shu back to the residence and getting her settled into her new role, which she would occupy for the rest of her life.

“You might feel like this is a lot of responsibility, and that’s because it is, but I have seen you in action. You have skills in that domain, and I want you to develop those skills for my sake, understand?”

“I understand, Master”

“Good, familiarise yourself with the place first… Work well, and you’ll be rewarded”

That matter was quickly taken care of.

Edrick now had eight maids within his residence–A fairly good number.

He did not have much time to focus on this achievement, however. Now that he was back from the secret realm, he had to prepare his marriage ceremony with Jania and Tylia. This couldn’t be pushed back either, as Milerva had taken the liberty to announce the event whilst he was away.

‘That might be the first time someone isn’t charmed after I got busy with them so thoroughly…’ in fact, Milerva Oie might just hate his guts even more now.

It seemed like the intense pleasure had only been temporary and hadn’t actually left that big of a mark.

‘What a feisty woman’

Not that it mattered much, honestly. As far as he was aware, Xiao wasn’t budging from the Myriad-Arm Sect for now. The only thing that he had scheduled was the ‘meeting’ with Chang Sheng.

So for now, Edrick merely focused on the two quests his little operation on Shu had just completed.

Ravish an inner disciple

Humiliate any disciple and enjoy their beloved one's body

The first didn’t yield anything out of the ordinary. The second one, however… It seemed like the sort of ‘humiliation’ Edrick put Shu through had pleased the system in some way.

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Immediately, the ring on Edrick’s finger was once again melded with the newly acquired one. The ability of this one was rather interesting. It was only something temporary, but perhaps that had its advantages. Those upon whom it would be used would certainly feel quite humiliated afterwards.

This was a welcome addition to his arsenal, but Anoteros felt that he should be thinking about moving his residence. He had many plans for it, but most of them would require the cooperation of Labyrinth Palace–Or for him to learn their architecture techniques.

For now, he could only move his residence elsewhere, and the question was where exactly?

As of currently, albeit a bit of a rising star, Anoteros was still not very famous. He didn’t have much to his name either. He couldn’t just go anywhere and expect everything to be alright.

His first thought was simply to claim land within the territory of his family, the Elt clan.

Right now, keeping close to his family seemed like the best call. It would show that he had the clan’s interests in mind and that he hadn’t been forging relationships with the Myriad-Arm Sect only for himself. It would also allow him to create stronger bonds with his family.

Since the real Zixuan Elt had been a disappointment and a wretch, he had spent very little time within the actual family, and just like all great clans, the Elts were numerous. The main family branch had many people, but there were also the lesser branches.

And amidst all of this, Edrick had probably dozens upon dozens of siblings and cousins... To only mention those that should roughly be of the same age as him.

It was truly a shame that Zixuan Elt had such a bad memory, or that perhaps Edrick couldn’t access them too well. This meant that he knew very little about the inner workings of the clan. He had had to get information from Ku Xing and Ting Zhenniao through pillow talk.

And although close, the great clans preferred to keep mostly to themselves when it came to the inner dealings of the clan. Only a few individuals truly exchanged much together, and unfortunately, the two female elders Anoteros had access to weren’t exactly the biggest chatterboxes.

…Apart from all of this, there was naturally the surprise his wives had prepared in celebration of Fanqia’s achievement of unlocking her bloodline.

To commemorate this incredible milestone, his wives had all worked together to the best of their abilities, and… Baked a cake.

Frankly, since Edrick had been doing his best not to pry too much through the crests, he had not been expecting a cake. But of course, it was far from being a regular cake, as after eating it, the residence turned into a house of orgy for an entire day.

As it turns out, Fanqia had used her bloodline abilities to manifest various ingredients, Linmin had done the cooking to the best of his abilities, Hui had been the one to scour through recipe books to find the perfect cake to bake, and Luxuli had furnished her recently fallen horns as an additional component of the cake.

With their combined capabilities, they created a cake that was packed with such a strong aphrodisiac that it could probably kill some people.

This resulted in frenetic and mindless mating for a full twenty-four hours. Basically, no one within the residence was left unpleasured.

Only Deormann watched the scene with an impressed gaze. Truly, his father had to be the greatest sasquatch in existence to be capable of mating with so many females, so many times in a row!

Clearly, his mother had great taste in males.

Despite the incredible potency of the cake, Edrick eventually felt the effects die down, and a few days later, he found himself sitting in an office with Galdon and Milerva Oie staring at him.

The lord of Oie might feel it a bit odd to have both of his daughters marry the same man, but he could not conceal how great it felt to be becoming the father-in-law of an Elt. That was an achievement that was unmatched throughout the Oie bloodline.

This was certain to bring riches and prosperity to the city like never before.

Milerva, however, sent a piercing gaze at Edrick. If looks could kill, the young noble would have already been wiped from the face of this world a thousand times over.

The reason why she was so outwardly aggressive was simple, though.

After the meeting to prepare the ceremony, she pulled Edrick aside and stated it plainly.

“You damned brutish bastard! Did you have to do it inside?! Getting pregnant was not supposed to be part of our exchange! You better have a good explanation...”