Chapter 131: Chapter 131: Another Trouble
"So, the twins beat me to it, huh?" A voice filled with annoyance and amusement attracted the attention of everyone present, and at the same time, the temperature seemed to increase significantly.
When the people traced the source of the voice, they found a phoenix emerging in the bright blue sky, its majestic wings ablaze with vibrant hues of crimson, gold, and orange.
Its feathers radiated with an ethereal glow, each wingbeat leaving trails of scintillating embers that painted the air in a transient dance of sparks.
The phoenix had three tails, mesmerizing cascades of flames trailing behind like a comet's tail, leaving a trail of ephemeral brilliance and powerful sparks.
Then, the transformation became undone, revealing a young woman with flaming golden-red hair that left wisps of flames as it danced in the air.
Her wine-colored eyes looked at Amelia, Lenora, Mia, Ophelia, Aurora, and Nisha with unknown amusement, growing especially more when her eyes fell on a particular white-haired dragon girl with dark black eyes.
Ignoring the others, her figure disappeared and landed before Sam before she abruptly jumped on him, pressing her lips against his, giving him a deep, hard-to-forget kiss.
While kissing him, the girl sneakily opened her eyes and glanced at the women, especially at Ophelia, with a sly smirk that seemed like blatant provocation.
"This woman, not even a hundred reincarnations could change her, could it?" Ophelia shook her head as if she had enough of the way the phoenix was acting.
"We are our husband's eternal companions. Even if eternity were to pass, the essence of our being will remain unchanged. It might get modernized, but it will remain unaltered in its entirety," Mia explained.
"Eternal companion?" Helena and others who were unfamiliar with the concept grew curious, especially Sophia and Lorraine, wondering if they could qualify to become eternal companions.
"I will ask them about it some other time," they thought to themselves.
When the girl separated herself from Sam's face, her face was flushed as if she was drunk, and her drool indicated the intensity of their kiss.
"I missed you, darling," the girl said, holding his hands.
"I can see that, my fiercely gorgeous wife," Sam, uncaring about the flame wisps, ran his fingers through her dense golden-red hair, burning her image into her brain.
"Fufu, you always loved feeling my hair, didn't you?" The phoenix girl, her name was Ruby Von Ignacia, the princess of the Ignis kingdom.
In her past life, she was the mother of one of Sam's daughters, who was also the progenitor of phoenixes.
"Oh? I was late? That's bad."
"Mm, all the sisters are here except those two?"
Two young women appeared in the sky, both of them obviously gorgeous, rivaling Sam's other wives.
One of them had silver hair similar to Lenora, and bright blue eyes that seemed to hold endless curiosity and boundless love for a particular man.
Her wild heart that loves to make chaos could only be moved by the only man who could ever handle her immense love.
She was Rin Yagami, the princess of the Kingdom of Minra, the largest kingdom in the White Tiger continent. She was a beastkin, a tigerkin to be exact.
Her son, the progenitor of heavenly beasts, was similar to Lenora's son, the progenitor of lycans.
If the lycan progenitor was able to make supernatural shapeshifters of dog-shaped beasts similar to werewolves, then the progenitor of beasts had the ability to create supernatural shapeshifters of cat-shaped beings, like tigerkin.
The other woman had light blue hair with blurred white accents at the end of her long, silky hair.
One of her eyes had a yellowish hue, while the other was blue, exuding a gentleness like the calm ocean.
Her eyes were entirely on her fellow eternal companions, her husband, her family.
She was the next queen of the High Swan tribe, Mina Megumi, one of Sam's wives.
In her past life, she was the one who gave birth to Sam's daughter, who would later become the progenitor of Divine Swans.
Both the lively woman and the gentle woman looked at Sam, giving him a lovely smile that seemed to melt his heart.
He seemed to fall in love with them all over again.
He wanted to shout that it was the best feeling in the world, but the words were stuck in his mouth, and his eyes involuntarily shed a few drops of happiness and love.
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It was almost dinner time, and from morning to evening, Sam spent his time with his wives.
There was only one of them who was absent, and it was Sumire, the saintess of the World Tree and princess of the Nine-Colored Heavenly Butterflies.
A race that were half spirits, but unlike other spirits like dryads, they didn't born from the roots of the World Tree.
They actually had a progenitor who was also a part spirit, giving birth to a unique race who were half spirits.
"Why isn't she here?" Mina, the Divine Swan princess, looked at the table.
Everyone except Sumire was there, and she didn't like it one bit. Like Sam, she also liked it when the family is together.
"She is the saintess of the World Tree; she couldn't leave that territory, not unless my sister grows to the middle stage of her phase," Sam said in a low voice.
"I miss her," Mina muttered.
"Brother, carry me," Jane pulled at his hand, making her face look all cute.
Sam smiled and made her sit on his lap, patting her head. "My Jane is a good girl, isn't she?"
"Mm, Jane good girl," Jane giggled cutely, satisfied with the spoiling she was getting.
As the oldest sister of the twins, she brimmed with jealousy when she learned that Lily was playing with her brother all night.
Of course, Jane didn't know that Lily was playing with their sweet brother in her dreams, which she could control to a certain degree due to her innate ability, the dream walker.
"I want to sit on sap too," Lily, like a sponge ball, bounced on the ground, expressing her desire for attention from her brother.
"My adorable Lily," he made her sit on his empty lap, which made her very happy for some reason, like she just got handed the prettiest doll in the world.
Not far away, Mira stood. "Why do I feel like they are becoming more of his sister than mine?"
She told herself that she wasn't jealous and definitely didn't need to be spoiled by him like they do, but her facial expression said otherwise.
"Wait, I'm also his sister, right? Will he treat me like that as well?" She shook her head like a machine, covering her face, trying to hide the redness.
But it failed, as expected, as it did not escape the vixen eyes of women like Mina, Ruby, Amelia, and Lenora.
"I heard that Sumire is the current saintess of the World Tree. Are you going to the Black Tortoise Continent next, to meet her and your sister?" Yuna looked at Sam, who was chatting with Lily and Jane as he fed them their dinner, smiled, and asked.
"I want to, but there is something I have to deal with first," Sam said.
"The corrupted beasts that have been spawning inside the area of the Temple of Apollo," Ruby said, remembering the issue that's been bothering the entire continent, especially the Golden Crows, Night Ravens, and Divine Peacocks.
Everyone instantly became interested in their conversation, especially Adriana, as the leader of a major clan, actually didn't know about this.
"It was unknown what caused this, but corrupted beasts began spawning out of nowhere in the area of the Temple of Apollo."
"It wouldn't have been a great problem if they were just mindless beasts; we could have ended the problem by just burning them into ashes," Aurora Solaris said, holding her chin.
"But the problem is that these corrupted beasts seem to be invulnerable to all attacks, both spiritual and physical, and their numbers have grown too big that the joined forces of the Golden Crows, Night Ravens, and Divine Peacocks seemed miniscule in front of them."
"Even if the numbers are immense, it's not something a couple of Boundary Emperors couldn't clear?" Adriana asked. As a Boundary Emperor herself, she knew how strong the Boundary Emperors are.
"That's where another issue arises. When a Boundary Emperor tries to exterminate dozens of beasts, the corrupted energy released from its body at its death is absorbed into a monolith that slowly corrupts the land."
"The lands that have been affected the most are the territory of the Divine Peacocks. That is also the reason why she isn't with us right now," Nisha Lunaris continued.
The one they are referring to was the princess of the Divine Peacocks race, also the mother of the progenitor of her race in her past life and also Sam's wife. She was Melina Beifall.
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