"None of that." Dyon waved his hands, patting their small heads. "You all have high potential for body refinement as beasts. There is no better environment to take that step than here. If you all want to remove the shackles that are holding you down, this is your opportunity. Do your best!"
Dyon watched as the four toddlers disappeared into the surrounding forest, a stern expression on his face. In the end, his thoughts were interrupted by Madeleine's giggle.
"You really went out of your way to scare them."
"I have to, or they won't take it seriously. Their lives have been too comfortable until now." Dyon sighed.
His words weren't wrong. From birth, they had been fed with the best beast nurturing pills. They only ate high grade beast meat and spiritual fruits. Even their training methods and rooms were of the highest order.
With all of this priming, their meridians had been dilated to the absolute max, their bloodlines had been cleansed to perfection, and their constitutions were the peak-most they could be given their birthed talents.
As things stood now, they were perfectly prepared to improve their bloodlines to the next level. In fact, Dyon could have done so long ago, after all, he had access to the second floor of the tower. With it, he didn't need blood essence. He could improve the bloodlines of beasts with normal blood.
However, Dyon had held back until now. He believed that the sturdier the foundation they had, the greater improvements they would experience. His goal wasn't to just improve them to the Supreme grade, but to elevate them to the status of Kings. This required their greatest efforts!
If right now they were the equivalent of eight tailed kitsune. If they became Kings of the supreme grade, their talent would reach what Ri's would be if she hadn't also had a god grade constitution. They would finally tap into the true talent of a supreme beast!
Madeleine wrapped her arms around Dyon's, leaning onto his shoulder. "You can fool them, but I know you placed monitoring arrays in them."
Dyon smiled. "Maybe."
Madeleine didn't respond. She felt intoxicated by Dyon's presence. It had been too long since she had spent time with him. Such a realization made Dyon's heart ache with guilt.
"Alright!" Dyon's voice boomed. "You, first wife of Dyon Sacharro, have a very difficult decision to make."
"Oh?" Madeleine's beautiful violet eyes blinked.
"Mhm." Dyon nodded seriously. "Would you like to see a mountain of silver? A river so clear that its crystal filled bottom is clear from above? Would you like this husband of yours to catch a rainbow scaled bird for you? Oorrr, would you like to visit one of those floating castles that happen to be hovering above our heads?"
Madeleine's smile brightened. Despite having seen what it meant to be a dao formation level beauty, Dyon's heart still fluttered at the sight of this wife of his.
"All of them." She finally responded.
"Good!"
Unlike others, Dyon had no need to diligently spend his time looking for treasures. With his divine sense, even with it handicapped, he could cover fifty thousand kilometers in excruciating detail. Although this was only 10% of the Mystical World, with the time they had, he was confident that he would be able to travel its entirety as it would be anywhere between two to three more years before this world closed.
He made mental notes of areas his divine sense couldn't penetrate, knowing that these were likely the best treasures. At the same time, he didn't ignore what his divine sense could see. What he needed now more than ever before were resources!
In such a world, even the worst of treasures would cause an uproar in the outside world. How could Dyon ignore them?
Sweeping Madeleine into his arms, Dyon placed the dissected beast corpse into the tower while ignoring the parts he decided to discard. A simple teleportation array later and they had appeared before a mountain the shone with an otherworldly beauty.
It raised what looked like half a dozen kilometers into the sky, having a base twice as large as that.
"This mountain… It's made entirely of Coarse Silver?" Madeleine blinked in shock. It was no surprise she would have such a reaction, after all, Coarse Silver was not only at least five times tougher than steel, it was considered a Master Grade metal! Just for context, even though steel was a metal of the mortal realm, it was still good enough to nearly be considered a practitioner grade metal!
Although a mere master grade material wasn't so expensive, when multiplied to the size of this mountain, it was definitely worth several hundred dao stones.
Dyon smiled. "Not only that, but its core regions have been under so much pressure for so many years that they've formed a metal I've never seen before. But, from its profile, it seems to be of the grandmaster grade and at least twice as tough as this outer coarse silver. Plus, there's an even more central region my divine sense can't pierce through. I believe that it should be of at least the comet grade."
Madeleine rested he head on Dyon's chest. "You seem very happy today." She said faintly.
"Of course I'm happy." Dyon grinned brightly. "How could I not be? Just a few days ago, I finally found Amphorae, and now, I have all the time in the world to spend with you."
"Really?" Madeleine said with a knowing smile. It was as though she had seen through Dyon a long time ago and was just waiting for him to tell her this truth. Although their souls were connected, it wasn't as though Madeleine could read his mind to the most stringent of details.
"Mm." Dyon responded, his expression becoming serious. Even he didn't understand why he said his next words, but he felt almost compelled to.
"Do you know who my first love was?" Dyon suddenly asked. "It was you.
"You know. If I had never met you, I would probably still be alone today… Clara would have died along with her father because I would have never brought her to the martial world. The Elvin Kingdom would have fallen to the Daiyu because I wouldn't have saved them due to my relationship with Ri. And, I very well would have already died in my second trial years ago."
Although Dyon's last words seemed like an exaggeration, they weren't. The passing of the second trial wasn't just made easier by having Amphorae fall in love with you, it was a requirement for success. It was an impossible trial to pass without her full devotion, this was why Dyon was the only one in the trial's history to ever pass.
"You opened up that part of me. If it wasn't for you, no woman would have ever entered my heart." Dyon said seriously. "No one can replace you."
He squeezed Madeleine body to himself, resting his chin on her head.
In that moment, Madeleine suddenly felt a weight she didn't know she had on her chest fall. She had always been completely selfless in love, so even she didn't know when this weight appeared. But, Dyon somehow saw through it and spoke the exact words she had wanted to hear.
She listened to Dyon steady heart beast silently, a content smile gracing her beautiful features.
Dyon grinned. "Let's go see what's hidden within this mountain."
With a thought, a brilliant array started to slowly form on the mountain's face. In a full circle type of moment, the array formed was none other than the very same on Dyon used during his first date with Madeleine.
Back then, he had used it to allow them to step through the glass exterior of Focus Academy, but now, they used it to walk through the solid mass of a mountain as though it was nothing but air. That said, this array was far more robust due to the density of the metal they needed to pass through.
The couple slowly made their way through the silver mountain. It was odd walking through a mass of dense blackness knowing that it was actually a solid object and not air, but soon, they found that this large mountain was actually filled with veins, veins that all led to a vast open space that caused Dyon's eyes to widen in shock.
