"EHHH?" Damien's jaw slacked as he was shocked hearing those words coming from her mouth.
He wondered whether he misheard because he couldn't understand why Valentina would suddenly suggest something like that.
Damien cleared his throat and said, "Valentina, you are just a little girl now. We can't sleep like that."
Valentina's lips quivered, and her eyes became moist as if she was going to cry any moment.
She said in a shaky voice, "Is it because...you don't want t-to be close to me?"
Damien hugged her and said in a gentle tone, "Of course not. What makes you think that sleeping together without clothes is the only way to be closer to someone else?"
Damien wondered what made her suddenly feel that he didn't want to be closer to her.
"B-But...I want to feel Big Brother's warmth...can't I?" She looked at him with tear-filled eyes.
Looking at her puppy eyes Damien's heart melted, and he sighed, "I will think about it when you grow up, okay?"
He thought that what he said would be enough compromise for her as he didn't want to see her cry or let her think that he didn't want to be closer to her.
Valentina's eyes lit up and said with a radiant smile, "Okay! I will remember your promise, Big Brother."
'Promise ehh...' Damien had no idea what he had just gotten into as he had abruptly said something to calm her down. But seeing that she calmed down, he didn't say anything else.
Valentina was now more determined than ever to grow up and be more intimate with Damien.
She now thought that Damien would be more close to her once she grows up.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64ce79d606107d003c23ea27", id: "pf-5140-1"})But he felt that something was off as she was fine till yesterday and didn't have any such requests.
Damien didn't overthink about it and closed his eyes to sleep with Valentina in his embrace.
It was early morning as Damien mentally asked, "Luna, today do you think I should continue concocting pills?"
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'Ah, I forgot she's still sleeping. Sigh...why do I feel like I am already missing her…' Damien felt a sort of emptiness in his mind without hearing Luna's usual banter.
He realized that he had slowly gotten used to having Luna always in his mind despite being together for more than a month only.
Damien was surprised yesterday when Valentina told him about her breakthrough. He didn't expect her to breakthrough six levels in a single go. He felt that she was similar to him in that aspect.
And when she told him her soul was also at the Middle Soul Transformation Stage, he realized that what Luna said about her soul cultivation overtaking her ethereal cultivation might be true.
Usually, one wouldn't breakthrough to the Middle Soul Transformation Stage until they are at least at the High Level of the Spirit Ethereal Realm. But Valentina was only at the Middle Levels of the Spirit Ethereal Realm.
Thinking about the things to do today, he had some plans for Lily other than training her.
"Valentina, wake up. It's time to go."
"Hmm...." Valentina whimpered as she slowly opened her eyes and sat up.
"Today, after you study, you can also stabilize your cultivation. After all, we would be leaving for the Xeton Empire soon, and I want you to know about worldly matters and strengthen yourself because the Xeton Empire isn't as simple as the Rong Empire. Every step we take should be careful and well thought and I don't want anything like before happening to you again. You understand me, right?" Damien asked in a concerned tone.
"Big Brother, I...Mn...I understand." Valentina wanted to say something else but after hearing Damien's words she decided not to.
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"Come, get on." Damien said as he patted on the bed.
"Y-You want to do that 'stuff'? Is this why you sped up today's training?" Lily asked as her face already started to turn red when Damien suddenly put out a bed, inviting her to get on it.
She speculated that Damien finished today's training a bit faster, thinking that he wanted to do the things they did together yesterday.
"You naughty girl...why do you always think about lewd stuff? I am calling you here for another matter." Damien teased.
"Oh." Lily felt relieved but at the same time disappointed that Damien wanted to do something else with her. She felt perplexed, unable to understand her mixed feelings.
She was expecting Damien to do something like yesterday and even put on a nice dress to look good before him. However, she was curious what Damien wanted to do with her on the bed.
Lily shyly walked up to the bed and sat near Damien while looking suspiciously at him.
"Yes...what do you want to do?" She asked coyly.
Damien said, "Take off your dress."
Lily raised her brows as her face turned beet red, "So it is as I said...you—"
"Hey hey...what do you take me for?" Damien slyly smiled.
He continued with a serious expression, "I want to do something to you to make you stronger."
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "663633fa8ebf7442f0652b33", id: "pf-8817-1"})Lily had a blinking expression and asked, "Stronger? What do you mean?"
Lily was surprised and wondered how Damien wanted to make her stronger and what it had to do with her getting naked. But seeing that he wasn't joking, she was curious about what he planned to do.
"Before I tell that, there is one other important thing you should know."
"What is it?" Lily asked curiously.
"You don't have three elemental seeds but four! And your constitution is known as the 'Celestial Heart' constitution."
"What?? That's not possible...how can you know that...and which element do I have and why didn't I know about it?"
Lily was bewildered hearing his words. If she had 4 elemental seeds how could she or anyone else not know about it?
"Trust me. You have the Light elemental seed. And the reason you didn't know about it is that nobody knows what Greater Laws are, and because of that, no one was able to detect the talent you had for Light Laws. Only when someone knows something can they use it. Because you never even knew about the existence of a Light elemental seed, it laid dormant in you as you never nurtured it." Damien said in a serious tone.
He continued as he explained about Greater Laws and how there were also Laws above it.
Lily had a perplexed expression and had a hard time processing all this new and astonishing knowledge.
She now started having a different view about the Law's one can comprehend. She never expected that she possessed talent in one of the Greater Laws.
She looked at Damien with astonishment, thinking where and how he got to know about all these things. But again, she knew he would have told her if it wasn't related to his secrets.
Lily sighed, thinking what would happen if the whole world got to know about this fact? Wouldn't the other empires be even more desperate to make her marry into their family?
Without Damien telling her, she already knew not to reveal this fact to anybody else.
But she was also inwardly happy, thinking that she was more powerful than she thought and can be more helpful to Damien.
"Okay...I believe you. But before I ask you how to make use of my Light Laws, how do you plan to make me stronger?"
Damien gave a confident smile as he said, "Of course, by activating all your ethereal core points."
