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Gabriel led the party over a carriage towards their new home, a large area in the east area of the capital, surrounded by smaller houses, a few larger buildings, and other manors around.

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However, the territory alone was rather big, being at least 50 meters square, the garden was vast although badly taken care of, and there was also, well, the manor.

The manor was a large building with two floors, each floor was big enough to have over 10 rooms each, the first floor also had a large hall, a kitchen, three bathrooms, and two living room areas.

Frank wondered why no one had tried to buy such a nice place, but then he remembered that Gabriel said something about a whole family getting assassinated here, which was said to have haunted this place.

However, that was not so far from the truth, as Frank quickly meet the entire family that was killed here, they were indeed haunting their own manor, although they were not aggressive at all, and rather sorrowful.

"Well, this is the place, do you like it?" asked Gabriel.

"Yeah, it's nice and cozy," said Vheslia.

"We'll manage here for the time being, thanks sir," said Frank, trying to send Gabriel away so he could speak with the souls of these people.

However, Gabriel hanged out for a good while showing off each little tidbit of the house, until it was already like an hour since they got here, and he finally went away, mostly due to Frank's aura that was beginning to be scary.

"W-Well, I am going now then! Take care, Vheslia," said Gabriel, waving his hand and walking away.

The door closed and then everyone sighed.

"Damn you friend is good at speaking a lot," said Cathyl.

"What an annoying man," said Gwendolyn.

"Eeeh? Come on, at least he's a good client! And without his help, getting a manor and this territory would have been hard, it could have taken hours, and way more money," said Vheslia.

"Not like money is even an issue anymore, seeing how Frank can create gold in the shape of coins through his Skills," said Kamei.

Indeed, the way they got money, aside from selling items to Adrian, was by Frank's powers.

In specific, his Creation Skill let Frank create some types of things that did not need too much power or anything within. After spending a few thousands of Mana, he was able to generate real gold, which he shaped as coins through the Golem Creation Death Attribute Spell, which made souls possess the material and manipulate its shape as if it were slime.

"Welp, now that everything is done, let's go outside, we have to let Yurei fuse with this," said Frank, as everyone nodded, and they walked outside.

Frank quickly generated a barrier using Cosmic King Magic, shaping space slightly, making it seem as if nothing was really going on inside, seemingly like an illusion of sorts.

Then, he opened a large portal to his Divine Realm and a giant haunted house emerged from it, Yurei!

"Guuuooooonn!"

Boom!

Yurei jumped over the floor and then began to extend its entire body over the manor, without wasting any second, they immediately began to fuse herself with it!

"And there goes my house…" sighed Gwendolyn.

"We have a lot of memories there…" said Annabelle.

"Well, this new manor will have all the materials from the original house, so technically it is an upgraded version of it… See it like that at least," said Frank.

"Well if you put it like that… I suppose you are right. If we see it as an upgrade…" said Gwendolyn.

"I guess that just takes away all the emotion we had over it…" said Annabelle.

As Yurei underwent her fusion with the manor, the souls of the family that was killed here requested to be fused with the manor they once lived in as a family… which Frank accepted without really thinking it too much, adding them into the mix.

After the fusion finished, the Yurei quickly took the form of its manor, but within the inside of it, everyone would quickly notice that it would remind them of their former home a bit, but perhaps even bigger now, and with way more space than it truly looked like from the outside world.

Everyone got inside rather quickly, noticing such changes.

"Uwah… I really feel like our house," said Annabelle.

"Even the smell and everything… Indeed, this is… like home," said Gwendolyn.

"Also, is it my idea or it feels like there are more rooms than it should have seeing it from the outside?" asked Vheslia, as the party explored the manor.

"That's due to Yurei's "Space Expansion" Skill, it lets her have a greater space inside of her own body, the distance increases a few meters with every level, so this inner space has indeed become quite wide. Well, there is my Divine Realm too, but I guess that's more like a secret. This inner space can come in handy, we could even make up a labyrinth in here…" said Frank.

"Oh? For intruders and other stuff?" asked Cathyl.

"That would be pretty evil!" said Kamei.

"I like it, but who would even come inside the house of a Rank 5 anyways?" asked Hilvera.

"More than you would imagine… While we were walking around, I sensed several spies monitoring us. Our presence is too strong, and those that dominate this place are already aware of us and want to find what we are," said Frank.

"Oh, I see, so those presences were spies," said Gwendolyn, who had realized the same.

"Yep, most likely that's it…" said Vheslia.

"They are still outside, so they probably didn't saw any of this… Let us make Yurei lower her presence so they can sneak in, then we can capture them," said Frank.

"Oh, sounds like a good idea! Now, what should we do? I guess it is getting late… Should I cook dinner for everyone?" asked Gwendolyn.

"That would be lovely," said Frank with a gentle demeanor.

"Alright, maybe if they come after dinner we can have some time to interrogate those fools," said Gwendolyn, happily walking to the kitchen alongside some of the other girls.

However, before everyone could completely leave, a phantasmagoric presence stopped them all…

The figure of a young woman around her twenties with long white hair, a white dress, and aquamarine eyes emerged in the middle of the hall, surprising everyone.

"A… ghost?! Frank, did you called her?" asked Vheslia.

"Hm? No… Wait… You are…" said Frank in surprise.

"My lord! I have finally attained a level of consciousness! It is me, Yurei!" said the young woman, surprising everyone even more.

"Eh? Yurei?! Wait, my house is her?" asked Gwendolyn.

"Well… It could be said so. Although Yurei is the amalgamation of many souls," said Frank.

"O-Oh, I see. Well, welcome… Yurei," said Gwendolyn.

"It is amazing that you managed to get consciousness. As I created you with mostly animal and monster souls… I suppose the souls of that family combined to give you a sense of self?" asked Frank.

"Indeed, my lord. I possess their memories, and it could be said that I am also them. They wanted to fervently serve you, so I was created to do such a task! I can do a variety of chores too! Oh, please, let me help you cook as well!" said Yurei.

It seemed that Frank now had a personal maid within his new and upgraded manor, and it was Yurei herself.

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