With the finishing of the Shields made of Tiamat's Scale, the last week for everyone to train (and rest) was upon everyone inside of Drake's Divine Realm. With the instructions of the Venerables that decided to aid Drake and his allies, everyone had grown several times stronger than before.
The Venerable of Dreams, with her expertise over Souls, helped everyone enhance their own Souls and make them dozens of times larger and stronger than before. This, coupled with Drake's new Soul Elixir, which he had mass produced, enhanced everyone's Soul Ether to SSS Rank.
This allowed their Souls to gain a series of new abilities and powers and strengthen them enough for them to be ready for the incoming battle against Pandemonium and his mysterious ally, which many guessed could be related with Oberon.
Aside from that, the Venerable of Ice, the Frost Queen, used her intensive knowledge about Divinities to teach everyone to get the most out of it. Before, many of Drake's allies had risen to Gods in a rather "rough" way, absorbing Divine Elixirs, which made their Divinities appear very quickly and without letting them properly process their strength.
Therefore, this made it, so everyone's Divinities were mostly weakened, and unable to unleash their true strength. However, the Ice Queen's guidance, this changed. With her ruthless training at a similar level to the Vixen, everyone's Divinities awakened their power fully, which ended helping them become even stronger than before.
Therefore, this made it, so everyone's Divinities were mostly weakened, and unable to unleash their true strength. However, the Ice Queen's guidance, this changed. With her ruthless training at a similar level to the Vixen, everyone's Divinities awakened their power fully, which ended helping them become even stronger than before.
Abilities such as Divinity Aura, Divine Domain, and Divinity Materialization, which Drake's allies couldn't unleash properly, were now already mastered, and everyone had gained much more confidence on their own power.
The last week went on slower than the rest, the tension rising with every passing day. As Drake was finishing his last preparations, Surtr brought with him the shields, carrying them to his palace, which he had temporarily moved inside of Drake's Divine Realm to benefit from the super time dilation compared to his own Divine Realm.
The palace was a large fortress-like castle he had built using materials mined from the mountain where the Fire Giants were located. It was sturdy and incredibly strong, and with his abilities, he could move it wherever he wanted. However, it lacked a soul like Fuyu's castle.
In there, not only did Surtr, Mia, and Nia lived. It was big enough to house mostly the entire Fire Giant Tribe with them, which they had brought with themselves. Alongside the second Fire Giant Tribe that served the Oracle of Fire and his sister, who had escaped from the Emperor of Flame's Divine Monster army and were saved by Drake and Surtr promptly after Drake's arrival in Muspelheim.
The palace was always bustling with people, the surroundings were made into enormous gardens where the people could harvest and produce all kinds of herbs, fruits, and mushrooms endemic of their mountains.
However, they weren't there to stay permanently, and only chose to come temporarily to make use of the time dilation of Drake's Divine Realm while they all prepared for the Fire Venerable's Inheritance. Of course, it was to help Surtr with many things, such as generating enough materials for his creations. Despite his intensive training, that also included reinforcing and cultivating both his soul and divinities, he was also constantly preparing armor and items for Drake's party, he wanted everyone to make sure they would be safe and prepared for the exploration.
Because of this, he couldn't do everything alone, and the fire giants decided to repay him for all his protection so far by assisting him for these four months. Although at first they were rather reluctant on leaving their home, after a small while, they grew used to the palace and the beautiful surrounding landscape, and many of the younger generations began to wonder if it would be better to just live in here from now on…
However, none of those things truly mattered to Surtr right now, other than his beloved wives. The two girls that hatched his egg years ago and saw him grow over time into the mighty adult dragon he was now, those girls that had confessed their feelings for him and ended taking away the last fire dragon's virginity along.
Mina and Nadia, the twin Fire Giant sisters of the tribe.
"A-Are you sure we should wield these?!" Nadia gasped, the tomboyish young fire giant woman gasped as she lifted the shield with a single of her strong, bulky and muscular arms. "These shields are also Soul Gear?! These are too fancy for us, Surtr!"
"I-I agree…" Mina sighed; her delicate complexion took a while to grab the shield with both of her arms. While her sister specialized on physical prowess, Mina was a full magician, specializing on maximizing her magical and ethereal powers instead than her physical strength. "Surtr, my love. I am grateful but-"
"No buts! You two are always stubborn about these things…" Surtr sighed, crossing his bulky, red scaled arms. "You will be coming with us, right? Despite my efforts on stopping you two, you're still coming anyways. Even though both of you are pregnant… Four months in."
"Yeah but we don't think we'll… Err…" Nadia was trying to make up excuses.
"No excuses!" Surtr roared. "You two are using those two shields. I poured all my soul and power into making them with Drake and everyone else. And he allowed me to bring two more for you two. Equip them into your souls as Soul Gear. I am sure your Soul Ether is already SSS Rank, right? It'll protect your soul and body well enough, the babies shouldn't be hurt, as long as you don't jump into a direct hit out of nowhere."
"Sigh… Okay." Nadia shrugged. "Fine, I guess if it's for the baby…" The muscular warrioress gently patted her slightly swollen belly, barely visible that she was pregnant, as Fire Giant women had such large bodies and hips that even their children could fit perfectly fine inside without their bellies swelling too much to notice the pregnancy.
"Okay then~" Mina shrugged as well. "You're such a thoughtful husband, working so hard for you two wives, maybe you need a little reward~?"
Mina gently walked towards Surtr, who was on his humanoid form, beginning to touch his crotch.
"W-Wait, right now?"
Surtr couldn't resist though, as the two girls pushed him into bed…
