Chapter 311 – Skirmish, Beast Core and How to take care of Mei

Aiko's 'small' wolf jumped at the Dragon's oversized Dragon.

The wolf clawed and bit the oversized Dragon, but the Dragon only observed.

The wolf was dealing no damage to it, which made the wolf angrier.

It growled for the first time and increased the pressure towards the oversized Dragon, but Grandpa's Divine Sense just made his own popcorn to much on.

The Dragon also picked up what was left of his own popcorn and munched on it. This made Aiko quite angry and her Divine Sense became even more ferocious.

The Dragon narrowed his eyes, but didn't say anything. He was trying to gauge Aiko and the behaviour of her Divine Sense, so he didn't want to interfere too much for the time being.

...

After some time, Mei woke up and Aiko scurried away from the Dragon. The Dragon's Divine Sense was uninjured, but Aiko was completely exhausted.

She was looking for comfort from Mei.

Mei who just woke up saw even more blocks of dirt in front of her and almost fainted.

"Do you want to overwork me to death?!" Mei cried out and Aiko smiled innocently.

She felt much better being comforted by Mei. "Of course not, but there is more of it, so we need to process it before it spoils!" Aiko smiled again.

Mei whined, but these were precious Herbs and Aiko was not wrong with what she said.

Mei would have to stand up and harvest those Herbs, since neither Feifei nor Aiko could do this for the time being.

Feifei hadn't unlocked her Divine Sense and Aiko's Divine Sense was not gentle or precise enough to do this.

That made Mei and possibly the team deal with this, but she didn't trust them with such precious resources.

"Don't look at me, my Divine Sense would munch on it." The Dragon turned away with his Divine Sense, but one could see that the oversized Dragon was salivating at the Herbs.

Mei groaned unhappily, but there was no helping it. She would have to do it, otherwise no one would!

...

Mei and Aiko took turns in harvesting, resting, and training.

Aiko had blocks upon blocks of dirt with Herbs, so Mei was harvesting a lot of it.

There were also times when Aiko would go away for something, which Mei capitalised upon.

"Old friend." Mei spoke to the Dragon.

"What is it?" The Dragon gazed at Mei.

"How much do you know about multiple Beast Cores?" Mei asked him an important question.

"Hmmmmm..." The Dragon fell silent for a moment. "Is it because of the little one?" He asked with narrowed eyes.

"Yes." Mei nodded.

"You don't have to worry about it." The Dragon shook his head. "The way I can see it, those two Beast Cores are acting in harmony. It's like you would take a Beast Core and slice it in half. That's the feeling I got."

He then lay down. "She is in no danger, even if more Beast Cores appear all of a sudden. You could see it as her natural form of being."

"Is it because of her 'Origin'?" Mei narrowed her eyes.

"No." The Dragon shook his head. "Someone used Providence to aid the little Fox, so that she wouldn't be hurt by multiple Beast Cores, but it got so ridiculous that the Beast Cores actually act in harmony." He chuckled unhappily.

"They act in harmony?" Mei didn't believe it. She also saw the Beast Cores' strangeness, but she didn't expect this kind of oddity!

"You don't have to think too much about it. What you have to think about is the Techinques you give and allow her to use." The Dragon warned. "If they are improper or unfinished Techniques, it could have undesirable effects on your mate."

Mei nodded. "I do have a few complete methods, but it would depend on Aiko's attainment."

"Can we also get those?" The Blood Fox asked. She was rivals with Mei, but that didn't mean they wouldn't help each other, right?

"You need to strike a good balance with your Divine Sense before I'm willing to give you anything." Mei nodded. She had planned on giving them some things so that they could somewhat keep up with Aiko.

On the other hand, it was also important to have a strong enough Divine Sense to exceed your peers. Why was that? Strong Divine Sense means strong Mind. That means that if you encounter a bottleneck, it can be solved much easier than for those who don't have Divine Sense.

You can also understand Techniques better since your Divine Sense can assist you with them, but that's an advanced application. And Aiko's team has yet to achieve balance, so Mei would not cross that river just yet.

"Okay." The Blood Fox nodded. She and the others worked on their Divine Senses under the tutelage of the Dragon and while he did have a different Divine Sense; he also had a great insight!

Aiko returned to a strange atmosphere. "Are you alright, Mei?" She walked towards Mei.

"I'm fine." Mei narrowed her eyes. "You wouldn't happen to be replenishing your 'block' reserves, right?"

"Ack!" Aiko coughed awkwardly. "Of course, I wouldn't do something like that." She avoided Mei's gaze like it was a plague and whistled innocently.

Mei sighed. "Fine, how much is left?"

"Less than half." Aiko immediately confessed and Mei fainted.

"M-Mei!?" Aiko immediately ran next to Mei to check on her. She then decided to place Mei in the nest that she had created and let her rest.

"I didn't expect this..." Aiko murmured.

"Did you really already steal so much?" The Dragon asked. He could not believe that this little Fox was so greedy!

"Yeah. My tails are starting to get more and more full." Aiko nodded. She almost arrived at the point were her shrinking storage space became a problem.

She would soon have to take several trips since there would not be enough room to store the harvested Herbs and those blocks of dirt!

The Dragon shook his head. "You will overwork your Mate."

"But they are precious... and Mei's eyes also shined." Aiko looked sad, because Mei liked those Herbs, but at the same time, it seemed like she was getting hurt by Aiko.

The Dragon sighed. "Neither of you understand the word moderation..." He murmured before making plans in his head. Since Aiko liked to overdo things, he would over-prepare for her Evolution. That way, he won't be surprised or caught off-guard.

"What?" Aiko couldn't quite hear him.

"Nothing." The Dragon shook his head. "Take good care of your mate."

"I don't know how." Aiko tilted her head.

"Caress her hair when she sleeps and do it gently, no ruffling!" The Dragon proclaimed.

The Blood Fox liked this training, but she didn't like the fact that Mei would be the first test subject. She was more than willing to become the first test subject in case something wrong happened.

"What is it?" Aiko tilted her head.

"Nothing." The Blood Fox shook her head and left. She would train her Blood Abilities on the captured sluts. That way she will be able to advance, but also not think about this situation.

The Dragon shook his head. This whole team was a handful. He didn't know how bad it would get at later stages, but there are at least 2 love triangles, if not more!

While it was amusing for a while, later it would become a problem and he would also be one of the affected parties, so he would have to solve it...

He didn't want to spend his time on this. They were all adults... mostly, so they should talk it out.

The problem was that one was unable to be honest, another was oblivious, the next one was jealous... and so on.

This was just brewing for a disaster, but the main culprit was completely unaware of it! What's more, it also feels like they will be all fine and just duke it out in the background!

He could not understand this whole thing at all!

...

Mei woke up with a pleasant feeling in her head. She wondered what it was, so she opened her eyes.

"Morning." Aiko greeted her and the feeling in her hair didn't disappear.

"What are you doing?" Mei asked. It was suspicious that Aiko was nice.

"Grandpa told me that you would like this." Aiko answered and kept massaging Mei's head.

"It's not bad." Mei frowned, not at Aiko, but at her old friend. He did something unnecessary again! Just this time she didn't mind it...

Aiko kept caressing Mei's head so well that Mei fell asleep once again.

[The possibility of registering User into the system increased!]

Aiko blinked a few times. It seems that Mei will be part of the system soon, but how soon?

She did not know, but she did want to gift Mei her own Bloodline and then test other things like Cultivation gifts and so on.

Aiko narrowed her eyes. She would have to do too many things, but there was limited time once again.

She didn't know how long and how severe her next Evolution would be, but she would have to persevere for now!

Aiko was also happy that Mei would join the rank of the system. That would mean she could observe Mei's growth in real time!

Aiko was very much looking forward to that one, but she also worried that she would uncover secrets that Mei might not want her to know!

She was quite worried that Mei would hate her for it!

...

The next day, Mei woke up even more refreshed. She was smothered by something soft and nice, so she didn't want to open her eyes.

Aiko didn't mind that Mei slept so much. It meant she was recovering well and there was no need to worry. She would have to do this once in a while to properly let Mei rest, but it was unachievable to do it all the time.

Mei sat down and grasped the soft things. She would really love to wrap herself in it!

"Kya!"

A squeak drifted from behind her and Mei absent-mindedly turned around.

She saw Aiko blushing, stammering at her. Her ears were low, but twitching. She looked like a cute little innocent Fox.

Mei looked down, on what she was grasping and caressing. A similar blush appeared on her face when she noticed that she was holding Aiko's long tails.

Both of them grabbed their own tails and didn't speak. Mei's face burned quite a lot. Fox Tails were sensitive, but they all indulged Aiko since she was small.

Aiko was no longer small, but she still sought them. They were at first confused, but they just dismissed it as part of Aiko's shenanigans and affection.

But now that she grasped Aiko's tail, it seemed like Aiko realised what was wrong with what she was doing.

Let's hope that Aiko will learn from this and not indulge her...