Aftermath

(AN:\IMPORTANT!! From now on, I'll use: [This is how they are going to talk through their bond.] and "This is how they are going to speak with others by using their mind powers, though that's further away."

Alice's POV:

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The next day we woke up in the afternoon. This was our first time, but it felt heavenly. The room was reeking from the smell of our lovemaking. Now that our minds were connected both of us woke up at the same time. We opened our eyes at the same time only to see each other's eyes. We greeted each other with a happy smile.

We didn't need words. This feeling in my chest, it felt so great, so perfect. I felt Hiro inside me, inside my soul, inside my deepest parts and he also felt me. Now that we are connected, we can feel each other's emotions, hear each other's thoughts. We share all of our experiences, emotions, knowledge, memories be it now or the past. Thanks to his memories now I can also smith...

I could also use any of his unfair skills, but he was the same with mine. We could also cultivate in the other's place. Of course, we aren't going to do that, too much... Since Hiro has numerous minds, he won't have to hold back at using them, otherwise, he could have cultivated continuously thanks to his four parallel minds. He is going to use one to help me out till I develop my own parallel mind.

The only 'downside' of this soul bound was that both of us would die if any of us are killed, though that's kind of impossible considering the skills we are going to have... We were embracing each other tightly and after the happiest kiss of my whole life, I woke up. I- I'm just feeling so great! It seems like this feeling isn't going to go away. I love Hiro more than ever. This is bliss~

We sat up, only to see how the room was a total mess. We could still see undried ‘body fluids’ at some places. We went at it crazily like there was no tomorrow and did it in all kinds of positions, even upside down... I felt good~ but we couldn't help it. We just couldn’t control ourselves and totally lost our heads.

I'm sure that this wasn’t the last occurrence, but we at least weren't going to repeat this for a while. However, having sex daily became a necessity to me, to us. I can't help it but want to feel him. The closer the better. I'm crazily in love. If I had any doubts before about Hiro, then I can tell it now for sure, that he is completely perfect to me.

We got up from the bed and dressed up. I wore tight black leather leggings and a straw colored sweater with a thin belt around my waist while Hiro picked up a T-shirt and a pant. We cleaned up the room by burning the ‘liquid’ with fire magic. When we were done, I went in front of Hiro and kissed him deeply as a good morning kiss.

“Thanks for the night,” I said as I turned around. He embraced me from behind as he put his chin on my shoulder. "Anytime, my love," he said as he gave a kiss on my face and then released me.

Both of us went out of the room and went towards the gates. We were in need of cores, so we had to hunt. There was a problem, though... Whenever we passed by someone he/she would look weirdly at us and we knew the reason for it... Then came the worst thing. We saw Shao Xian and his daughter walk by. They were also looking at us weirdly with their stupid red faces, making us feel our shame.

We felt really awkward. Our heads were red from top to bottom, as we stopped and greeted them. “G-Good morning Shao Xian,” said Hiro with a forced smile and I seconded it in the same manner. Seeing our reactions, he eased the mood slightly by chuckling. “Haha~ Being young sure is great, though I don’t think that I’ve ever done something like that!”

Being in the mood he didn’t constrain himself from teasing us. Probably everyone heard us. Since we were in a higher realm, people had good hearing. Usually, everyone used wind magic to cancel out any sound, yet we totally forgot about it.

Although there was a party, when it came to an end and everyone went back to their own courtyards, probably they heard us doing it... the whole night. Using magic, or the space around you, later on, was common sense when you spoke or else everyone would hear what you are talking about, all the time.

Besides the family head, even his daughter, who had her face flushed didn't dare to look into our eyes, yet she still chuckled after hearing Shao Xian's remark. Seeing that the family head was teasing us, Hiro straightened his back and looked him in the eyes. He felt the need to defend the pitiful me.

"Be it as it is... It felt great! Anyway, we are going out to hunt for some cores or else Alice can't concoct pills," Hiro said without any feeling of shame. Feeling and seeing his shamelessness, I also felt freer. Why would I feel shameful? This night was the mark of our love. If someone doesn't like it, then they can come here in front of me and tell me so! Let's see who is going to dare to argue with a Dragon God!

“Alright then. We still have a lot of metals so you can use those. Oh, but wait. You can make stronger pills with high-level cores, right?" He questioned me while looking at me with an inquiring face. "Yeah. If you want to, then you can also send out your soldiers to collect high-level cores, since we aren't powerful enough to do so, yet."

"In that case, let me help you out in that. I'm also going to profit from your work, so the better its quality is, the better it is for me too!" He said, offering up his help. "Alright, though we are still leaving. We need to move our bodies a bit," Hiro said unwisely. Naturally, others wouldn't leave out on remarking on his sentence after such a night.

"Haha! Even though you probably move a lot yesterday night!" Shouted Shao Xian while laughing. "Father! Stop it! Let's go already!" Shao Xiu helped us out by stopping her father. She even slapped his neck. "W- What? Oh... Okay. But it was so much fun!" He said shamelessly as he left. So he took great pleasure in teasing us!

The truth about soul bonding was that it could be used on even more people, though it was rare. Soul bonding has many uses and the only ‘drawback’ would be that if one of the bonded cultivators die, then all of those that are connected to the person's soul are going to die. This is one of the main reason, it’s not widespread. It's mostly used only among crazy lovers, like us.

What was best, was that we could talk by using our bond. Cultivators can talk by using their mind powers, but it can be heard by others if they have stronger mind powers.Contrary to that, our bond can't be sensed and no one can hear what we are talking about. This means that we can talk any time without anyone hearing us. But this was only the smaller thing.

What was even better, was that we could control, feel or do anything with the other's body. This would come in handy in a battle! Thanks to our bond, we can fight in perfect sync with perfect coordination. Now that we are connected if you want to find which is the best coordinating team in the universe, then you can easily point at us!

We left towards a nearby forest and hunted quite a lot of monsters and used their cores to cultivate with. When we came back, we also searched for a good spot on the huge courtyard of the Shao family and built a house on it. We used nature magic to grow a nice and straight tree, then chopped it into equally long and thick planks.

Using those, we built a small and cozy wooden house and stole the bed from the Shao family. What can I say? It was quite flashy as we ran through the courtyard with a bed above our heads... We also used earth magic and made rock walls grow out of the ground. Hiro stole an anvil from the forge and put it inside.

Now he can smith while I can concoct behind him. Being in the same building, close to each other was a necessity to us! A few soldiers soon appeared with bags of cores in their hands. Hiro started smithing weapons and armors, while I started concocting pills. All of these pills could easily restore about eighty percent of the high-level cultivators' energies.

For us? I could restore about fifty percent of our energies. What did you expect? We are True Divine Beasts! We don't have such a low capacity as the other races. All this while Hiro was madly hammering in the forge. He was creating one sword, blade, spear, hammer, axe or mace after another. While he kept on practicing, he became more and more proficient in infusing elements into the weapons he made.

He also realized that he could infuse the weapons with other elements even later on. He just had to control his mind power and add the required attribute to the weapon. [Hey, let me try doing it. I've got interested in it. You can concoct some pills.] I sent my thoughts to Hiro. [Hee~ A busty, smithing woman! That's going to be a nice view! Sorry, but I'll have to slack off and look at you while you are working!] Hiro denied my words jokingly.

"Haha~ as you wish, " I said happily. Thanks to knowing what Hiro knew, I was able to make as good weapons as Hiro, on my first try. He also tried concocting some pills, but it wasn't any harder for him to concoct than to me to smith. Our bond was indeed great!

After playing around for a bit, I went back to making a few pills to us. I also made quite a lot of Bursting Pills, which were good after a good exercise. [Do you want to go out? I'm itching to fight. I know that it hasn't been long, but... we should also advance in our cultivation.] Hiro offered up as he finished his last weapon.

We were itching to have a good fight! Although it’s true that we have left WU planet only four days ago, but our last breakthrough was almost a month ago! We were at the peak of the second stage so breaking through wouldn't take much, especially now that we were able to cultivate in every moment. [Yeah, let's go. I also want to break through to the next stage!] Naturally, I answered positively.

I wouldn't say no to my love even if I'd have a differing opinion, but that was unlikely to ever happen... On the way out, we met the soldier who was ‘guiding’ us before. None of us wore those black capes and upon seeing him, I had an awkward feeling.

[Damn it, just how could we forget about using wind magic? For fuck's sake!] I thought disgruntled. This stupid soldier was looking at me with the same eyes as Shao Xiu!!! [I know Alice, I too have learned from my mistake, but admit it that doing the same thing in a forest would be thrilling and there is no one to hear you!] Hiro threw his idea into my mind with a smirking face.

[B- But I don’t want to have a lovely night while being watched by animals alright!?” What if they were to attack us?] I retorted upon hearing his thoughts. [“Hahaha- you know that I was just kidding. I’m not an exhibitionist.] He said through our bond while laughing inside. [...] I'm not sure if that's true... [!?!? What? You think I am? But you know me!] Hiro started refusing the truth.

[You know me, n- no?] He thought with a despaired face. [Let’s say y-y-yes?] I answered him ridiculing his stuttering. Of course, I wasn't serious. I'd never hurt him in any way.[You pervert you like the idea of outdoor sex haha!] After searching for my thoughts, he started laughing at me. [Noo! Shut up! Anyway, let’s move. This guy is still looking at us.] I shouted in my mind, wanting to get away from the truth.

Sometimes knowing yourself could cause you to feel shame when you think about what kind of person you are. “Uhm guys, why are you looking at each other as if you would be talking?” The soldier said. Talking through our mind and bond was much quicker than speaking, so all this have happened in at most a second and our speed is only going to increase.

“Oh sorry," Hiro said with a stupid face, forgetting that no one knows that we are bonded. [I think that this will become a habit of ours. This is a really convenient way to talk.] I said through our bond, thinking about our future. [Yes and no one can listen in on us! Hahaha!] Hiro thought with an evil laugh while sending me all kinds of perverted images and thoughts. W- What's with that pose!? His imagination is boundless!

“You are doing it again... Are you searching for boss Xian?” The soldier said awkwardly. Whenever he looked at me, his face became flushed. "Nah, not. We are just going to hunt some monsters," I answered him, already imagining a plan in my head to tease him. Being teased all the time wasn't fun, but doing it was another thing!

"Oh? But boss Xian can send some high-level cultivators anytime, why would you bother to-" He wanted to say, but Hiro cut in his words. “No, we would like to go. To begin with, we aren’t accustomed to staying in one place for too long. We enjoy being here, but we are still going to move out from time to time," Hiro explained our reason for leaving.

[We are going out to fuck you mean? ] I questioned Hiro, which caused him to chuckle as he continued. "So what I mean is that we like moving around, it's rare that we stop in one place." "I heard it last nig- more like today..." The soldier mumbled with a low voice.

“Did you say something?” Hiro questioned him with a smile as if we haven't heard anything. [You bastard, you didn’t even use wind magic, of course, I would hear what you said!] He raged on, in his mind, but it was our fault... [Yeah, he said it on purpose. Should I cause him a restless day?] I offered up. I don't like if other men are looking at me, nor does Hiro like it.

But we wanted to take revenge for his remark! [Haha! Do it!] Hiro agreed on my words with a smirk as he looked at the soldier's face. Hiro 'accidentally' dropped the sword in his hands to the ground. I turned around to pick it up. In my leather leggings, the figure of my taut and plump ass was well visible and Hiro even slapped on it. "Ahn~ What are you doing?" I said as I stood back up.

As I stood back up, my decolletage was also visible. I heard the soldier gulp a big one. "Ehm... I have some things to take care of, so if you don't mind, I'm leaving. Hehehe..." He said with an awkward laugh as he quickly walked away. Hmph. Go and suffer, you idiot! You shouldn't have remarked on us!

We moved out of the castle and went towards a forest. While we were at the Shao family we saw a map of this sector and this planet too. Cultivators could easily remember anything after a single look. The whole map of the planet was in our minds so we knew every forest and city. We didn't even bother to visit the information building and touch the memory crystal.

When we reached the forest, we started hunting for two whole days. We got into it too much because of the instincts of our own race. We were craving the bloody battles so we spent two days before going back to the castle with a huge amount of cores and a big pile of leather. We made a tow out of branches and loaded it with the hides. Naturally, our ‘playing’ outdoors didn’t remain only a topic of talking anymore...

When we got back to the city, everyone was looking at us. Killing so many monsters in one go, was quite rare. When we got back to our places, we started crafting leather armors, pills and weapons again. Shao Xian saw how much we had hunted and that we were working hard to make weapons for his family. This got him in a good mood. What he didn't know was that we used up most of his herbs for our own goals and that we picked out the best metal he had to make our own weapons.

The weapons that Hiro made and the pills that I concocted were handed out to the lower ranked soldiers and everyone was very satisfied with our work. The higher ranked soldiers didn’t mind it too much since they knew that as our proficiency increased, they are would be the ones to get the better pieces of equipment.

In the next two days, the mid-level soldiers got their weapons, armors, and pills too, which were already of better quality. Upon seeing this the highest leveled soldiers were filled with a feeling of anticipation for their new weapons and those legendary pills, which were so rare in this realm and unseen in this sector before.

I was the one making the armors, while Hiro was making the weapons since concocting these low-level pills didn't take too much time. Days passed by like this. Sometimes we hunted for a week and sometimes we worked for a week. Our time happily and peacefully passed by. Of course, hunting wasn’t that easy. Numerous times, we went too deep into the forests and we had to fight for our lives.

One and half a year passed by like this and unexpectedly the Wu family not even once came to this planet to take revenge on us. However, Shao Xian was getting news from his spies that the Wu Shan has contacted the other two world’s main powers numerous times and that they had started grouping up their remaining people.

It seemed like they were preparing for war and maybe they would get outside help too. But after so much time, we were more than prepared. We reached the peak of the fifth stage of Space Founding realm, while the whole family was armed up with the best kinds of elemental weapons, armors, and pills we were able to make.

The chess pieces were ready and the players were at the table. All that was left, was to start playing the game and as they saying goes: The die is cast!