[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-city-of-desire-kingdom-building":3,"chapter-city-of-desire-kingdom-building-city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-400":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","City of Desire [Kingdom Building]",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1846253,2449,"Chapter 402: Spa I","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-400",400,"\u003Cp>Rutto\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Greltheaven, once again,” I said as I walked down from the ship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had come here nine months ago but needed to return immediately. Those bastards didn’t even let me enter the city and sent me back from the port.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was embarrassing for me in the court. It had ruined my reputation and made me bankrupt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If not for that, fortunate incident, that brought me back to the good graces of his imperial majesty. I would have been still in that hellhole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those months were the worst time of my life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Coming here is a dangerous decision. Seeing the undead could capture the city, but there was no future in the court.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is also not safe. Especially for me, who could barely protect himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To me, this place will be much safer than the court.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Prince Grelt is dead. That bastard Darrow is also dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without them, the old man is no threat. I would have really liked it if the old bastard had been here. I wanted to take the revenge on him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked at the city and the barely visible tower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, I will be its guardian and all that emotion essence will be under my control. So are those precious plants, that his majesty wants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention the whores. I didn’t get a chance at them last time; time, they will be mine. …\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Homers\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ding!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chiming sound rang out, as the doors of the elevator opened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We stepped out and immediately felt the familiar sensation of the legacy that filled our souls, and this time; it is far more powerful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I still remember the feeling of last time and what I had felt last time pales compared to what I am feeling right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a moment, I thought the legacy had advanced. Which is obviously not true. It is still Grade I, but more powerful than the last time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is not just the power of the legacy, that overwhelmed me, but also the enthralling smells and beauty of the plants around me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I thought the plants in the lobby were the most beautiful, with the most wonderful smell, but I had been wrong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These plants are more beautiful and the smells coming from them had reached my soul. They have started to bring out emotions that I hadn’t felt in a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked at the beautiful plants and the emotion mist covering them. They look so beautiful like the parts of heaven brought into the mortal world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I found tears had started to come out of my eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked around and saw nearly everyone had tears in their eyes. The only one among us, that felt less affected is Baroness Leila.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even her eyes are misty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman is very good at controlling her emotions. I had never seen her show emotions when she didn’t want to, but this place had affected her, too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Welcome to the velvet spa, ladies and gentlemen,” said a young voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only to see a young woman in a white dress standing in front of us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She is a teen girl, of fifteen-sixteen years. She had short blond hair, barely reaching her neck, and pale green eyes, that highlighted her delicate face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had been there from the beginning. We just didn’t notice, as the feeling of legacy beauty and fragrance of plants enveloped us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Please follow me,”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The teen led us through the beautiful hallway covered in plants, into the room with mats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gasps!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The gasps rang out around me as they saw the marvel in the center of the spa.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mistral Cascade; it covers all four floors of the spa,” informed the teen with a bright smile on her face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is a spiral vortex rain waterfall, and it is not common water flowing through it, but water, that is densely mixed with mist of legacy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had turned every drop velvety, and the sound they made seemed to soothe my soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah,”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I moaned as my legs became weak and I sat on the mat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, the spa had only overwhelmed my visual and olfactory senses, but now even my auditory senses were overwhelmed with this waterfall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These three together created such cadence that emotions rose out of me in bursts and began to flow out through the tears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I lost control over my emotions, and I didn’t try to control them. Instead, let them flow out through the tears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The world is hard, and at every moment, I need to guard my emotions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I needed to do that every day after we became nobles and intensified when the barony separated itself from the Greltheaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had bottled all those emotions and now they are coming out of me in a flood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Minutes passed when finally, the flood of emotions stopped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I felt calmer than I had never felt become. It felt like the mountainous weight that had been on my shoulders had lifted up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt so good that I couldn’t describe it. Nor did I try to. I simply closed my eyes and enjoyed the feeling of peaceful emptiness, that I am feeling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I kept my eyes closed for minutes, before finally opening them with a gentle smile on my face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked and saw myself sitting on the mat with mist covering me. I looked around and realized there were people everywhere, sitting on mats covered in dense mist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I hadn’t noticed them when I had come into the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had mist covering them and it was dense enough, that I couldn’t see their faces, but through their body language, I know they are also crying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked at my husband and saw him shaking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could tell he was crying too, and I wanted to comfort him but stopped myself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is extremely personal, and even I don’t have the right to invade this moment. I wouldn’t have liked it if Elias had come when the emotions flooded out of me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked at him for a while, before turning to others. All of them are crying, especially the men; they are crying hardest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which isn’t surprising. Men aren’t allowed to show emotions or cry. From childhood, they keep it all bottled up, rarely letting them out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, it is all coming out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I saw a door opening and three more people coming inside the hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mist had enveloped them as they came through the door. I couldn’t see their faces at all and I don’t think my ocular skill will be able to peer through it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mist felt strong, and I didn’t forget the suppression that I felt here when I activated my skills last time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three people shook as we did, but the woman helped them sit on mats before they could fall on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within a second, they begin to shake wildly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was looking at them, when a woman in her middle age, with Nazarian features, wearing in spa uniform in fuchsia colors, stopped beside me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My lady. If you are emptied, I could take you to the waiting room.” She said, in a most soothing accented voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I nodded and even took her help in getting up, which I wouldn’t have if it had been under any other circumstances.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She opened the door without any sound and took me out of the hall to the waiting room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is huge and beautiful with plants, and the waterfall, which I think connects to all the rooms. They have built rooms around it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What was that? The sensory outburst was sudden and controllable,” I asked the woman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The legacies are places that harvest emotions. When it mixes with things that overwhelm the senses. It triggers the flood of emotions,” she replied in a calming voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It was extreme,” I said, and the woman smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That is good. I am sure you have started to feel the benefits of it already,” she said and I couldn’t help, but nod.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am feeling calm as I had never before; even calmer than after the spa treatment last time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She led me to a seat, and I sat down before handing me a catalog.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thank you,” I said, and the woman smiled. “If you have any queries about any treatment, please ask any of the assistants,” she said and walked away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I watched her leave and look at the assistants. The teen girls strategically stood around the different parts of the waiting room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I turned to the catalog and started to read.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first time when I came, there were only two treatment packages. One for men, one for women; each one offering four treatments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, there are over twenty packages, offering every type of treatment possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hun!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was reading it when I noticed a woman coming and sitting by me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is none other than Baroness Husk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She looked different; a few lines on her face seemed to have vanished, making her look a little younger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It had been a decade since I cried like that,” she said, with a small peaceful smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But it feels good, right?” I asked, and the woman nodded. “Like the load, I never knew lifted from my shoulders,” she replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few minutes later, Baroness Leila came, and then Madam Silver. Who, for the first time, looked calm since coming to the city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wonder how long that is going to last.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was getting worried about Elias when I finally saw him coming, making me feel relieved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sat down in front of me. Our eyes met before he turned to the catalog. We didn’t talk, nor did we need to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I know he is fine, better than fine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tap on thebelow to read20Advanced Chapters.\u003C\u002Fp>",1626,"2026-06-09T06:54:39.600Z",1,"novelbin.me","336d27f3a8ef56a5af84ceed6df9771d8c7ccdbdd9b3ba659e8469369c5a0644","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-401","city-of-desire-kingdom-building-chapter-399",917,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcity-of-desire-kingdom-building-cover.jpg"]