CH414

“My head feels like it’s going to explode,” Sonya muttered over breakfast as Ben poured her more water. “I’m never letting Ceselee talk me into having that much again, everything hurts.”

Thera placed a hand on her aunt, using her life magic to help get rid of the hangover and sped up her body taking in the water she drank as she came back to life.

“Much better,” She sighed before leaning into her niece. “Sorry about that, I didn’t do anything too embarrassing, did I?”

“Nope.”

“No aunty, you were fine.”

If she didn’t remember what happened then neither of them was going to remind her, even if the night still hung in both of their thoughts.

“By the way guys, I’ll probably be home late tonight so I won’t be able to cook dinner,” Ben told them. “Got a bit of extra work to do.”

“That’s fine, it will let me get some practice,” Thera said, giving him a smile before they all split up for the day.

Ben’s first stop being the guild, with Ceselee waiting near the front entrance for him instead of her office, looking as bad as Sonya had right up until she’d gotten healed.

“Alright, let’s get this over with,” The guild master grumbled. “All of your land is at the west gate so I’ll point it out and then no more outrageous purchases like this. Do you have any idea the reaction I got when I told them you wanted the land today?”

“You’re the best Ceselee, I appreciate your work,” He told her happily, tapping his card against her own to transfer over the outrageous sum he’d just spent. “But before that, let’s just swing by the shop, I gotta see if the contractor I hired is out there waiting for me.”

“Fine fine, let’s just get this over with.”

He briefly wondered about whether they should stop at the clinic first but brushed it off. Ceselee was an adult, if she wanted to then she didn’t need him suggesting it so instead they made their way to Falk’s store, finding it open with two large people already inside.

The first was his teacher, the yeti looking tired as he spoke with the hooded man before him, his form hidden away except for the large white hand placed comfortingly on Falk’s shoulder.

He wondered for a second if he should give them a bit of time alone, but both noticed his entry and they dropped the serious mood they’d been carrying.

“Boy, I hear you’re already planning something outrageous,” His teacher told him with a hearty laugh that the other man, Abrus joined while Ceselee winced at all of the noise.

“Could the two of you have some consideration for the suffering of others?” She grumbled, making Falk laugh all the harder.

“If you didn’t go so overboard all of the time then you wouldn’t have to deal with it. Just go to the clinic already.”

“Never, if I can get hangover resistance then it will be worth it.”

“How many years have you been aiming for that now?”

“We aren’t going to think about that, it will just make me sad.”

“Okay, ignoring the fact that the guild master is a victim of sunk cost fallacy, shall we go get this done?” Ben asked. “And want to come along Falk, see firsthand just how outrageous I’m getting?”

“Ah, sure boy, why not? Spending a bit of time out won’t kill me.”

Once all of them were ready, Ceselee was quick to rush them along, eager to finish up so she could enjoy the quiet of her office as soon as they were all done.

The lot of them walked through town, drawing a few eyes before they got out the western gate where Ceselee pointed out some marked boundaries, giving him nearly half a kilometer of space to work with.

“There, that’s all of the area you bought so just give me a heads up when you’re going to actually start construction and I’ll let the town know.”

“Huh? Ceselee, I wanted it today because I’m obviously starting today. Speaking of, here you go Abrus, think you could make this happen?”

He pulled out some basic floor plans from his pocket for how he wanted the new section of town to be arranged as the great earth spirit glanced it all over and nodded.

“It looks simple enough, just give me a few minutes to get it done.”

“What?”

Ceselee didn’t get an answer though. Before she could, Abrus began, flattening and compressing each section where new roads would be before identifying the areas where houses would stand, digging out basements and separating the dirt into raw materials before recombing them as need be, building up walls and roofs for houses before working on the two biggest parts, his research center and storage room.

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He noticed Ceselee looking shocked by it all which he hadn’t expected either. Since she was friends with both Falk and Sonya, he’d just assumed she’d known their connection to the queen of Anailia, but if that was the case then she should have understood just who was doing all of the work before her.

Oh well, word was always going to spread fast about this so what’s one more surprised person?

As Abrus was working he was keeping one particular base element from all of the ground he was extracting. Carbon, specifically to save him the trouble of having to materialize it himself for the next part of Ben’s request, the thousands and thousands of diamond sheets he would need.

“Of course, I’m going to materialize some of them,” He said offhandedly. “If I pull too much from the earth itself then I’d be killing the ecosystem around here as well, so this is still going to be pretty costly.”

“I always knew it would be, you know I’m good for it.”