Chapter 29 Ascendent Tier

"I apologize, My lord but currently we do not have the materials to make the blueprints you speak of right now, most of the humans we have have been focused on gathering food and using the materials that they do gather for construction work." I say, sighing a little at the lack of raw materials her lord had stockpiled.

"However with the surplus of humans the ash trees are producing we can spare a couple dozen to create a few resource gathering teams."

"That's good, what about food, do we have enough to feed all my subjects if we suddenly assign some for resource gathering." My Lord asks me.

"That is not my area of governance, however I know that we have to devote a large amount of our forces to gather food. If you want to know more about the specifics you would have to go and ask Melia."

…

Once Tama had left the house Darwin took out the talent upgrade token.

I stared at his color watching the hesitation flicker back and forth.

"Do it…" I whisper to my beloved giving him a peck on the cheek.

Understanding Darwin crushes the token.

Immediately he is cloaked in an expansive green aura.

My sight talent was so overwhelmed in that moment that I was physically pushed back from my spot atop Darwin's lap.

The monochrome world I could see was gone. Instead filled with nothing but a cocoon of light surrounding the kaleidoscope of colors that was Darwin.

What felt like hours passed as I was stunned silent just watching, staring at the cocoon as it made major and minute changes to Darwin's color.

A moment of reflection passed me as I realized the color of Darwin isn't just a color but his soul.

It was so obvious to me but I guess up until now I had just not thought of it.

Another brilliant flash of light and the kaleidoscope that was Darwin's soul had finished its metamorphosis.

I walk up to him and pick up his slowly falling body.

Darwin's eyes were closed, a deep sleep obviously caused by the growth of his soul.

Carrying him to the bedroom I only hit myself on a couple things.

I was proud of that seeing as how my only means of vision was disabled by the evolution of Darwin's soul

…

I woke to the sight of several system messages.

[Congratulations your talent has been upgraded to the ascendent tier.]

[Talent: Evolution*(Tier: Ascendent)]

[System Evolution: Your talent of evolution now not only can evolve living and non-living beings but can also evolve system buildings.]

[Dual Evolution: two beings of your choice now evolve together. Warning: Dual Evolution is inherently linked, any two beings evolved together will grow so close that it would be painful for them to separate.]

"Aoif, wake up" I gently nudged Aoif as I tried to wake her up.

"Nnn" she groaned, hugging closer to me trying to snuggle my arm so that it couldn't nudge her anymore.

Seeing that Aoif didn't want to wake, a weird instinct arose inside me telling me to wake her with a different method.

Instead of trying to nudge her awake I steal her lips.

"Ahh" a small moan is muffled by my mouth as I deeply kiss her.

As our lips part a pout appears on her face.

"You decide to take the initiative now?"

Flipping us over her on top of me she continues.

"When I was asleep. You could have done it at any time and I would have reciprocated"

An intense look appears on her face although she most likely did not realize it.

"You weren't waking up and my instinct told me to do this"

"Mm… instinct"

Ignoring her little flush at my answer I continue.

"I wanted to inform you of my upgraded talent"

Taking a deep breath I read out the description and the added note on what had upgraded.

"Wait, we can evolve together now!?" Aoif sounded so excited at that notion that she had forgone all notions of volume control and yelled in my ear.

"Yes, we can, although before we do anything more I want to check if I can upgrade the house with my talent now." I respond.

"Mkay" Aoif responded, getting up from her position on top of me.

…

[Crowns house]

[Tier/Level: 8/1]

[can be evolved up to the personal strength of the talent holder ignoring the material costs.]

"Ah" I pouted. Although I could forgo the needed materials for the upgrading of my territory I could only evolve it up to my personal strength. Which right now is standing at the same 8/1 as my house.

…

I had gathered the necessary resources needed for the building of the warehouse.

It hadn't even taken the better part of thirty minutes to gather the wood and stone that was needed for the building of the warehouse.

Although the most time consuming task was the gathering of an iron tier aether core.

We couldn't just take from our stockpile of aether cores, most of what we had been hunting for food had bronze tier cores and rarely would we come upon one that had a green bronze tier core.

We had never truly hunted for the aether cores as it had not been necessary at the time.

However it was needed this time.

So I had ordered a group of my subordinates to go and hunt down one.

Although kitsunes could inherently find prey in short amounts of time, it took over half a day to find a tier 7 existence that they could kill for the iron core.

It was like this place had been scrubbed of higher life forms.

However, thinking about it now, it made sense.

This place was supposed to be the landing point of a new species entering the Great Realm Competition, it wouldn't do for them to be instantly killed by something that if given enough time they would be able to conquer on their own.

Anyway I approached the Lord's house intending to inform the lord of our success in our objectives.