The Fallen Vampire

Chapter 200: Making Family Decisions

As Vermeil promised, Taira was indeed treated to a very pleasurable night.

There truly is no experience that quite compares to having sex after a long time apart.

Taira and Aveena never even left the field of flowers behind their home.

One by one, the rest of the girls trickled out into the garden to shed their clothes and join them.

Even Inadu was unable to resist when her mind was filled with the hoarse, moaning voices of everyone calling for her.

So she ended up putting sewing on hold… again.

Almost 10 hours later, the garden had gone quiet save for the occasional light snoring of Enyo.

The lot of them lay in the grass staring up at the ceiling of the cavern.

Lucia, Taira, and Aveena were the only ones still awake after several hours of very high intensity exercise.

The three of them were all bundled up rather tightly together; each of them acting as the bed to hold up another member of their family.

Aveena noticed the way Taira was affectionately stroking Ina's hair as she slept in his arms.

Before she knew what she was doing, she was reaching out to touch her too.

"How is our newest adjusting..? Is she comfortable?"

Taira nodded softly. "As far as I can tell. Though sometimes it seems as though she puts on a brave face to avoid tipping off my worry."

"Does it work?"

"Not at all."

Aveena didn't find that revelation surprising in the slightest.

"Buttt, we are trying to make her feel as loved as possible before we go pestering her for anything deeper." Lucia interjected. "She's getting more and more comfortable everyday."

Aveena smiled softly at the two of them.

"How nice… I look forward to deepening my bonds with her later as well. But for now…"

Aveena slowly sat up while shifting a sleeping Vermeil off her chest.

"I think I've been away for too long and spent too much time out of the loop. Would my husband mind catching me up on all I've missed now?"

"Business already?"

"I think we've already had more than our fair share of pleasure… Unless you wanted to go again?"

Taira almost said yes without thinking.

But when he remembered that there really was quite a bit to catch her up on, he decided to keep it in his metaphorical pants for now.

He sat up quietly and shifted Inadu over to Lucia, who was already being dog piled by Enyo and Keran.

Aveena started to get up on her own, but Taira lifted her into his arms in a princess carry.

"I-I can walk on my own two feet, you know..?"

"I'm sure you can, but then I wouldn't get to see all of the cute expressions you're making right now."

It didn't matter if Aveena was a 6'4 muscle-bound oni. For her husband, she had always been as soft and delicate as a gentle young flower.

It was one of her most charming aspects if you asked him.

"Wow, our love is so timid. To think you were underneath us screaming so lewdly just a few moments ago." Lucia teased. Discover hidden tales at M V L

"Y-You be quiet! I'm not responsible for anything I say while undressed! Or hungry! Or horny! Got it?!"

"Sure, sure. But how are you ever going to get pregnant if all you ever do is ask for-"

"T-Taira, let's get going now! Let's leave this debaucherous reptile out here to freeze!"

Taira chuckled to himself as he walked past their discarded clothes towards the house.

"Umm… My clothes?"

"You don't need them."

"But we-"

"You don't need them."

"…Horndog." Aveena rested her head on Taira's shoulder as the two of them stepped back inside of the palace for a debriefing that would hopefully end with her legs in the air… again.

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The first thing that Taira did was tour the palace with Aveena.

As he showed her the new amenities and caught her up on the happenings of their sect.

Though they were lovers who adored each other tremendously, they spoke as if they were strictly business partners.

"The ranking for the cultists that we discussed has already been implemented smoothly." Taira continued.

"I thought they might take to it well… How is Shakti as our hand?"

Taira actually snickered which was incredibly rare for him.

"My love?" Aveena tilted her head.

"Sorry… as our hand, she is exceptional. The respect everyone has for her cannot be understated. She exells at keeping the children in line as well."

"Then why the laughter, darling?"

"The task she seems to have the most difficulty with is keeping her new second in check. Vaal is quite the handful."

"Oh? So you decided to anoint Vaal after all?" This was the first thing that Taira revealed that his wife seemed to actually be surprised by.

"At the behest of Velreth, yes… He seems to hold the position in quite the esteem. I'm eager to see if he will apply this passion to his training."

"I see." Aveena giggled. "But speaking of training…"

The oni placed her hand over her husband's chest and closed her eyes.

"You feel… different. Did you change your breathing art perhaps?"

"I…I did." Taira admitted in shock.

Aveena smirked. "Why so surprised, my darling? After fifty years together, I know your body better than even you."

"That's not-"

"Do you know about those cute dimples you have on each butt cheek?"

Taira fell silent; but one couldn't tell if it was from embarrassment or shock.

"…So that's why I can always feel you girls staring at me when I get out of bed."

"Now you know." Aveena sighed. "A fifty year marital secret is now brought into the light. How sad."

"Oh, I still have some secrets of my own."

"Really? Let me hear em."

"Can you handle it?" He asked in a low voice.

"If it's your fetish for pubic hair, we already know that. Why do you think none of us ever go bald?"

"No, it's not that… I've never told anyone this, but I have a secret child that I've never even met before."

"Don't play with me, Taira Amarok!!"

Aveena strangled her husband with her newly monstrous strength.

Nogitsune are trickster spirits, and Taira is certainly no exception. Even if his wife didn't find his joke funny, he found it hysterical.

After fifteen minutes of some mild abuse and possessive declarations, Taira and Aveena finally got back on track with their 'meeting'.

Though he did have some new bruises around his neck that kind of turned him on a bit.

"I think we've discovered a way to solve our sect's most pressing problem." Taira finally said.

This immediately piqued Aveena's interest, because she didn't even need to ask what he was talking about.

One of the great things about having an upper realm power house floating around your home is that you get the chance to ask lots of questions.

One of the first things Taira and Aveena asked Velreth was very simple. 'How come lower realm existences cannot cultivate and use arcane?'

The answer was even simpler. It's the qi shortage.

Qi in the lower realm is so dramatically thin compared to what it's like in the upper realm.

The excess amount of energy in the atmosphere enhances the bodies of those who live there; magnifying their potential and enhancing their inborn abilities.

In Tayar, most anyone who tried to cultivate and use arcane would, at best case, feel as if they had sprinted headfirst into a brick wall.

They are born with the aptitude for one or the other, not both.

So how does one fix that problem in the lower realm?

One method is by giving a mortal a body that has had its potential raised to the utmost.

The other is by raising said mortal in an environment where qi is plentiful, vibrant, and undeniably pure.

The cavern was okay. The secret realm was a little better. But neither of those places could really aid the sect in the way that they wanted.

"So how could you have done it?? Are we moving again??"

Taira only shook his head and began walking down a particular hallway.

He carried his wife down a flight of steps, placed his hand over some spelled double-doors and led her into the family's treasure trove.

Every rare item, material, weapon, armor, and manual that Velreth kept in his pagoda was all stored right here.

But even he admitted that even this place was practically rubbish compared to it's most recent addition.

At the very back of the hall, a final pair of doors waited quietly.

Even before they had fully reached them, Aveena felt as if she were about to break out in a sweat from whatever was contained inside.

Taira pushed open the doors and a mass of water rushed out over his feet.

The entire room was covered in his signature black ice that was miraculously already melting.

A lone pedestal stood in the center of the room.

On it, there was a two liter glass bottle filled with a strange five-colored liquid that seemed to give off it's own unique heat.

"Lucia's uncle refers to it as our 'golden finger'." Taira explained. "And Velreth estimates that the benefits it will give our sect members over time… are nearly incalculable."

Aveena was stuck. Completely gobsmacked.

But she wasn't at a loss for words.

A small smile formed along her full lips and a single tear slid down her cheek.

"My Abbess, I hope you are still watching. The future of The Divine Black Myth is sure to be bright."

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Oh shit chapter 200!

I really didn't even realize we hit this until a couple of minutes ago so I'm writing all of this on the fly but I just wanted to express my thanks to any and all supporters of this story.

In terms of potential and longevity, I've always believed that this story could go farther than both of my other novels combined.

It took me longer than I thought to reallly find my footing and hit my stride with this project but I like to think I've finally arrived..

But to everyone who was here supporting the story while I was still figuring stuff out, I owe you more than I can say. Thank you for the support.