Chapter 327: Secret Lover

From noon until evening, Lei En finally emerged from Ao Xi Li Ya's room, his face fresh and invigorated.

Back in the castle, his complexion unchanged, he held a grand welcome banquet for the newly recruited Extreme Warriors.

He had intended to have Ao Xi Li Ya attend as well, to appear publicly before the crowd.

But Ao Xi Li Ya refused.

She calmly told Lei En that she did not wish to announce their relationship publicly.

Moreover, she hoped Lei En would keep it secret and, in public, refrain from overly intimate actions, maintaining the pre‑friendship, unadvanced state.

Lei En was initially surprised, then promptly agreed.

From a man's viewpoint, he had scored a great bargain, gaining a stunningly beautiful, powerful and clever secret lover, yet felt a pang of guilt. Clearly Ao Xi Li Ya cared not for the status that ordinary women value; she had her own considerations and could only acquiesce.

After the banquet, Lei En claimed to be traveling for over a month and retired early.

As soon as he returned to his bedroom, he opened a teleportation gate to the Weizelan Tower and headed straight for Ao Xi Li Ya's opposite room.

For several consecutive days, Lei En, aside from casually embedding teleportation runes into the Extreme Warriors' armor so they could freely use teleportation arrays, did almost nothing else.

He could not be found anywhere in the castle.

People assumed the lord was constantly busy in Fu Kong Cheng, but in fact he hadn't even seen the teacher, nor visited the Great Library.

He spent all day in Ao Xi Li Ya's room, never putting on his clothes, endlessly reveling in the exquisite experience.

In the Ai Lun E Si world there is a universally known saying: dragon nature is inherently lewd.

Female dragons are the same.

Ao Xi Li Ya is a legendary dragon breed, vastly different from ordinary great dragons. She had no prior experience or need, but after Lei En awakened her, a century‑plus of desire erupted like a volcano, thrusting her into estrus early, as if to compensate for years of lack.

The iridescent dragon already possessed an extremely robust physique; after receiving a steel body from Lei En, her combat power became terrifyingly high, seemingly never knowing fatigue.

Fortunately Lei En is also an iron man, having even faced deities, truly experienced.

Finally, on the fourth day, the passion between them gradually waned, Ao Xi Li Ya released all the emotions accumulated over years, ending her estrus.

"I will begin studying magic; I cannot waste the Willpower of truth and the Key of Doors you gave me."

After Ao Xi Li Ya dressed herself neatly, she reverted to her clear‑cold beauty, though a faint, alluring springfulness lingered at the corners of her eyes, unnoticed by ordinary people.

Lei En heard that line and silently exhaled in relief.

In truth, he was also a bit overwhelmed.

So he quickly donned his clothes, gave a light kiss, and returned to his own castle.

If anyone observed closely, they would notice that the Earl of Glamorgan, who could defeat a Legendary High-rank death knight in direct combat with sheer force, walked with a slightly floating gait, his legs soft as an ordinary person's.

After resting half a day, Lei En's vitality finally recovered, and he began attending to the domain's official affairs.

"Boss," at noon the next day, an Extreme Warrior entered the study to report, "the teleportation array by the canyon has shown activity."

"Alright, I'm coming right away."

Lei En calculated that Blaymit had been gone for five days, two days later than he had said, assuming an accident had occurred, but at last he had returned.

He went to the castle's teleportation hall, where centaurs and two Extreme Warriors stood guard at all times, stepped onto the teleportation array, and triggered the teleport using soul‑energy‑condensed runes.

This single‑person teleportation method was far more uncomfortable than passing through the Key of Doors.

The surrounding spacetime warped; it felt as if he were tossed into a rotating drum washer for hundreds of spins, his body compressed, each part torn by forces from different directions. For an ordinary person with slightly weaker physique, the teleport might end with them turned into a pile of shredded flesh.

Seconds later, the scene before Lei En shifted, and he found himself inside a crude rock cave.

"Boss!"

Several Extreme Warriors stationed in the cave shouted in unison.

Lei En nodded, looked down at the teleportation array beneath his feet, and saw a rune in the middle of a mithril‑plated array pulsing with regular glimmer.

This indicated that another teleportation array had sent a docking request.

Only with precise spacetime coordinates can two arrays dock; Lei En gave the coordinates to Blaymit and opened this array's docking window.

If the window is closed, coordinates are useless.

Finally, someone on this side must respond, adjust the runes, and align the spacetime coordinates of the two arrays.

Coordinates, window, and docking—missing any one makes it impossible.

One could also fully release the array's permissions, allowing automatic docking with just coordinates, but very few would be so foolish; it is practically courting death.

Lei En stood within the array, carefully sensing the incoming information from the opposite side.

From the spacetime coordinates, the counterpart was also within the Ai Lun E Si Prime Material Plane; although an exact bearing could not be computed, the distance was not far, suggesting dwarves from Rongyanbao were sending the request.

Rongyanbao lies at the end of the Shi Jie Shan Mai's Yu Long Great Snow Mountain, adjacent to the Empire's southwestern border in the Klad Province, and is the dwarf kingdom closest to the Empire, with the most frequent contact.

Lei En adjusted the runes, accepted the docking request, and stepped back.

Buzz—

The rune array quivered gently, began to operate, the energy of the Aetheric crystal coursed through the entire formation, each etched line and rune ignited, and in the center of the light a teleportation gate opened.

The gate gradually expanded, revealing the opposite scene.

A grand, spacious hall's outline emerged; once the gate stabilized, a dwarf crossed first—it was Blaymit.

"Ha, Lei En!"

Blaymit rushed forward enthusiastically, exclaiming, "I've already gathered the finest batch of craftsmen from Rongyanbao, so the two‑day delay is over; we can start immediately…" Mid‑sentence, he halted, scrutinizing Lei En with a strange gaze, his massive nose sniffing twice, and wondered, "What scent is on you? It smells off, like a dragon's aura."

Lei En's complexion froze; that fellow's sense of smell was absurdly keen.

Truly, he's a legendary hunter!

He's been intimately with Ao Xi Li Ya for days, inevitably absorbing some true dragon scent, mingling with a dragon‑rider's aura, and even his blood‑red cloak couldn't fully mask it.

In fact, the blood‑red cloak, being large, wide, and an epic item of resilient material, often served as a carpet beneath him, absorbing some unknown fluid that hadn't yet been cleaned.

"Cough…"

Lei En let out an awkward, light cough, about to explain that he was decomposing a green dragon, as more dwarves stepped out of the gate.

The leading dwarf was broad and muscular, his linen shirt nearly bursting from rock‑like muscles, most of his face hidden by fiery red beard, braids hanging on his chest, looking hardly distinguishable from Blaymit.

In fact, to other races, dwarves all look almost the same.

Especially when dwarves belong to the same clan and even their beard and hair colors match, outsiders find it hard to tell them apart. This dwarf had a hammer, a short hoe, a chisel and other tools hanging from his waist, and as soon as he stepped out he asked, "Which one is Lei En?"

"I am." Lei En replied.

Bu Laimei introduced, "Lei En, this is Bulestein, the chief master stonecutter of the Rongyanbao Stonecutter Guild; any problems or needs concerning the fort's construction you can raise with him. Bulestein, this is the Earl of Glamorgan, Ryan Augustus, your employer for this project."

Lei En's spiritual eye saw that this chief master stonecutter was immensely strong in appearance, his build two sizes larger than a typical dwarf, and at first glance everyone would take him for a warrior.

In fact, Bulestein is a dwarf wizard.

Moreover, his wizard rank is very high, reaching level fourteen, equivalent to a legendary Mid-stage wizard, mastering a great many earth spells, and his power is extremely formidable.

Lei En felt a slight alarm in his heart, but smiled and greeted, "Good day, Lord Bulestein."

"Earl of Glamorgan." Bulestein nodded. His voice was very resonant, his temperament straightforward; without a single polite phrase he immediately produced the Jin Gang Fort blueprint that Lei En had previously given to Bu Laimei, and said, "Your design has many problems and must be changed; I need to make that clear to you first…"

Lei En assumed a posture of eager listening.

He is not a construction professional; these blueprints were copied from a architecture book in his phone's library and then altered a bit, so they must differ greatly from Ai Lun E Si's architectural designs.

Professional matters should be left to professionals.

That has always been Lei En's stance; most of the issues Bulestein raised, he accepted and made the corresponding adjustments.

Only a few were deliberately designed by him for training projects, and some were reserved for possible future facilities; after negotiations, Lei En insisted on keeping them.

Bulestein did not understand, but the employer's demand could not be refused, so he had to agree.

While the two were arguing, batches of dwarf stonecutters stepped out of the portal.

These dwarves clearly came from different clans; their skin tones, body shapes, and beard‑hair colors varied, but they all shared great strength, evidently the result of long‑term physical labor, yet not mere drudgery, possessing power comparable to that of transcendents.

When the portal closed, there were a full two hundred dwarf stonecutters, including nearly ten dwarf wizards, all master stonecutters proficient in earth spells.

After Bulestein finished communicating with Lei En, both parties signed a contract, and Lei En prepaid 10,000 Gold Shields for the project.

At the end of the canyon where a pool lies, a warning line was drawn.

Bulestein did not step across it, and sternly warned all dwarves that no one may cross that line, or they will bear the consequences.

After completing the terrain survey in the canyon, Bulestein gathered the master stonecutters, assigned tasks, and immediately began work.

The first step was to quarry stone.

The dwarf wizards skillfully used "Stone to Mud" to split the rock; massive Jin Gang stones were neatly extracted, while the other stonecutters took out enchanted tools, and the hard stones became as pliable as mud in their hands, quickly being chiseled into the desired shapes.

In just half a day, the cavern where the teleportation array stood was dug inward dozens of meters, expanding into a spacious cavern ten meters high.

A construction within the mountain's interior had already taken shape.

Outside the cave entrance, the fort's foundation excavation also began; the dwarves' diligence and efficiency left Lei En awestruck, and at this pace the work would surely finish in less than three months.

I got caught in the rain yesterday afternoon, caught a cold by night, felt dizzy, and ended up sleeping until noon today… sorry, sorry…

(End of chapter)