"No, I was just trying it out, but it does feel strange to call his name like that." Anna blushed. She had been calling him big brother for so long that to start calling him by his name now was not something she could change so quickly.
"I figured as much. Do not force yourself. Just act as you always have. Blake will not think any differently of you." Lillia and Anna talked for a while before Anna took Chi back to her room since she did not have a room prepared for her in the palace yet. Plus, Lillia said her cravings for blood might be a bit more intense the next few days.
Lillia walked over to where Blake was sitting and threw her arms around his back. "So…. Do you regret it?"
"No. She will now always be protected. My love for her has not changed, but it will slowly change to that of a man loving a woman." Blake replied honestly.
"You sure did not seem to have an issue with sticking it in," Lillia said jokingly.
"I am a man, after all. We are not really related. I was only looking out for her this entire time. No matter what, as my wife or my sister, she will always be my family that I will protect. She chose to be my wife. So I granted her wish. Plus you also wanted this right?" Blake turned his head and looked at Lillia.
"She was the best candidate to be turned. Tina did not want to, and it's not easy to get a semi pure drakani. You have turned into an almost one hundred percent pure blooded drakani. By turning her, she is now about seventy percent drakani. When she gives birth to your child, that child will be a purebred. In a sense, you are reviving the entire drakani bloodline." Lillia explained.
Blake only scratched his head. "I am not sure about all of that, but it will indeed help her survive more. I could have turned her, and she would have become a drakani without being my wife, but no matter what, I would have had to have sex with her. This would have made things awkward no matter what."
"This is true. Anyway, to change the subject, how are things going here?" Lillia asked as he pointed at his devices. She no longer wanted to talk about what had already happened. She was also very interested in Blake's project.
"I am still in the testing phase, but everything seems to be going well. I have only changed the frequency once, but I can change it slightly to get more and more wavelengths of mana which will not be absorbed. So far, from all my tests, nothing is able to absorb the mana that I changed the frequency on." Blake explained. He felt really proud of his work.
"Not bad what else do you need to test?" Lillia had been quite interested in Blake's project, but because Destiny had always been down here helping him, she left it alone. But now that she got the chance, she wanted to find out all about it.
"I still need to test many barriers, which I was going to talk to you about. You know mostly all magic in the world, so I was hoping you could help." Blake knew a lot himself now thanks to his bloodline memories, but on barriers, Lillia was still the queen.
"Leave it to me but first…." Lillia looked at the room and pulled on Blake's arm. "We need to disinfect this room. Destiny and the girls can't come down here until it has been fully disinfected!"
"Alight. Let's do it then." Blake stood up and then put a barrier over his work before flapping his wings and hovering in the air. Lillia also stepped on air before waving her hand and incinerating the entire room with fire magic. After that, she used water magic to flood the room before incinerating it again.
Once this was done a few times, she was finally happy. She dusted her hands off as she looked at Blake and said: "Done!"
"Thanks. Next time I will change places." Blake also felt he should not have done that in this room. But things lead to one thing and then another.
The group spent the next few days testing barrier spell after barrier spell. Only on the third day did Blake finally feel things were perfect. "While we do not know if this will work for all barrier spells, the few thousand we went through and the minor changes we made to the inscription have really made this worth all the work."
"So, what do you plan to do now?" Lillia asked.
"I will now create a kind of neural network brain for my golems. They will be linked to a central hub where they can get continuous updates on any changes. So if one learns something, the others will as well. This will make things very efficient. I do not know how you programmed the slime golem, but this will be much different as they will learn each task separately or together but will all learn it at the same time. But to start off, they will all learn the same things together. Once one perfects something, they will all learn it, which should speed up their learning capabilities." Blake had all kinds of plans. But this was his main goal. He wanted them to first learn combat and magic.
The more Blake explained his goals, the more Lillia felt amazed by his way of thinking. His concepts really proved that a different mind and knowledge could change the way things worked and bring about huge changes to the world. "This can really go far…. There are more applications to this whole system than I could ever think of."
"It will allow a lot of the things we want to do to come to fruition. If I can really get my golems casting magic by using inscriptions to take in the mana to supply the magic circles they create using our same method of spell casting, it can then be applied to weapons and things." Blake really wanted to see the future now! The research is fun, and all, but seeing proper applications of it all was the thing he wanted to see most.
