(Hidden Spoilers)

"I can charge up a storm of fire balls and I can somewhat control them now, able to curve my shoots somewhat instead of firing straight all the time and..." Noku said walking outside into the moon light.

"Awooooo!" He howled.

"Awoooo..." And another howl answered.

"..." Over the course of the next minute nearly twenty more joined and howled in response.

"They should be arriving in just a moment." Noku said looking to the eastern entrance of the village.

Not long after a group of exactly twenty one wolves arrived just outside the formation.

"Aima."

"Got it." With a flick of her sleeve the now teenage looking Aima opened a rip in the formation around where the wolves wanted to enter.

Walking in the twenty one wolves moved with caution clear in each and every step as though their instincts were telling them to run as far as their legs would take them.

This wasn't surprising however since the formation itself was one made of malice and evil intent making it very unpleasant to enter for creatures that had no affinity with that sort of thing or those who were sensitive to malice.

"These are my subordinates, I subdued them by chance, this is the maximum I can have in my pack for now but as I get stronger I'll be able to contain more of them." Noku said beaming with pride from his every orifice.

"Well done! But I think I've got something better." At this time Foren spoke out, his face plastered with a smug smile like someone who was about to hit you with a sick one liner.

"Then what do you have to show for this week?" Noku said his eyes run aflame with competition.

"Glad you asked..." He said trailing off into sinister laughing, reaching into his sleeve.

And in the next second everything changed...

"Hahaha! That thing is what your so proud of!" The moment that thing was shown Noku burst into a fit of laughter, Aima too was giggling, because what was in his hand was a clay golem, small and fragile looking one of its arms falling apart.

"Oi! Don't belittle this guy he's super strong, probably just one could subdue your whole pack!" However Foren wasn't disheartened but instead was stoked by the flames of competition.

"Oh? Then let's test out that theory, I bet my dinner tonight if you win!" Not one to back down Noku was the first to drop a bet.

"I bet my whole weeks worth of dinner! Ha, Get ready to lose." Foren quipped back.

"Then I will be witness." This time Aima spoke, with her as witness it was a said and done deal that his golem and Noku's pack would compete.

However the air around the two wasn't like that of fierce rivals but rather of brothers who were trying to outdo each other by boasting about who's achievements were the best, while Aima sat as judge giving off the aura of a little sister who was happy just to be involved.

"Anyways, I think I obviously won so you two will just be fighting for second place." Saying so the little sister like aura Aima emitted simply amplified.

"Then what did you get!" As though their pride was wounded they looked towards Aima whose aura simply radiated smugness.

With a slight smile Aima waved her sleeves once again and from behind her, blood began congealing into near solid form, creating a soldier like all the others, however this one was very clearly much more powerful.

"This is the new and improved blood soldier, after much molding and failures I finally got him to work, this blood soldier is five times as powerful as the originals and takes double the amount of blood, essentially meaning that before I was able to make one hundred blood soldiers, now I can make fifty but these fifty are equivalent to the strength of two hundred and fifty normal blood soldiers making each one a very powerful existence, not to mention, he can fly." Saying so she snapped her fingers and summoned the other 49 blood soldiers behind her their wings stretched out like blood devils, the aura of malice omnipresent in each and every step.

"But not only that, I've also completely cleaned up this town and even improved it using the more sturdy wood from the forest as well as making a mansion on the hill for all of us." With this final killer blow both Noku and Foren couldn't so much as let out a peep to deny that they had anything on her achievements.

"But you can all say that I've lost if you can top me?" She said simply gloating at this point, with a slight smile looking towards the two, her eyes creased in a gloating arc.

"Guhhh, What happened to that innocent girl from before."

"May that girl rest in peace!" With a few mumbles of prayer the three caught each others eyes and started laughing.

"So a whole week has seriously passed! Being in that house for so long with my nose in that book nearly drove me insane! Noku you gotta bring to see around the territory some time and Aima you've really grown in these few days you'll have to be my guide with this new village!" Saying so Foren smacked Aima's back and roped his arm around Noku's head.

"And you, you nerd you'll have to show me a few cool magics after so long! And Aima you've really grown way to fast just yesterday you were a pipsqueak but now your almost a fully grown woman! Literally! Who said you could grow like that!" Laughingly speaking Noku smiled in his wolf form making for a terrifying scene to anyone who didn't know him, tilting his head near the little girl and giving her a lick.

"The two of you are a couple of meanies! Leaving this poor defenseless young girl, me, to fend for herself over these last few days!" Pushing Noku's head she put on a look of anger that looked more like a pout and turned her head staring at the two with round eyes provoking another wave of laughter.

"Then let's check out the mansion on the hill, it ought to be awesome considering its builder." Saying so Noku sent away his pack away to a clearing where tree's had been felled within the formation protection.

"Yeah! Let's go check out the mansion, I've never been in one before its gonna be so cool!" Foren to fell to the excitement, after how could a young boy not get excited with a huge mansion to call home after living in a dump for so long.

"Then allow me to be your guide." Aima said, blushingly trying to keep her composure, with a snap of her fingers all of the blood soldiers disappearing back to their posts.

"We'll be in your care!" Saying so both Foren and Noku fell into step behind Aima.

"Then we'll leave the mansion for last, after all, you don't get to eat the desert first without an appetizer." Just like this they started their tour of the new village.

"First stop is the black smith." In front of them stood on open air black smithy, the anvil and other tools missing from the place, but over all a large building, two stories tall with the bottom floor being the actual smithy and the second floor being living space.

"Its so cool, where'd you find the stone though?" Foren was first to notice that within the smithy several parts were made of stone rather than wood.

"You'll know in due time no need to be so impatient." Aima said with a small smile creasing her lips.

"So mysterious, now i'm curious, so where to next?" Noku said popping his head through the side door.

"Next is the housing district!" Aima said clearly sounding excited at the mention of that place.

Once they arrived the two of them clearly understood why.

The housing district each had two story houses made of stone foundation and strong wood, though the number of houses were few and far between it was most certainly a top notch house with only electricity missing from the equation, the entire 'district' or better said street of houses looked completely out of place with the tree's and forests in the surroundings.

The ground on this street was also made of stone, each stone placed to perfection making for a very smooth path.

"This right here is my master piece of the village, using the two of you as measurements each house could hold ten people." Aima said feeling proud of her master piece, her chin pointing up and her pride seemingly poking holes through the clouds.

"Your pride is well founded this place is even better than houses before then." Foren praised, a small tinge of sadness in his voice at the mention of then though not for long.

"I've never been inside a house accept for the stone house but I can definitely tell you that these houses look much nicer than those days." Noku also gave his praise, his voice too falling a bit at the mention of then.

"Then? What then? I don't understand?" Aima then poutingly spoke, giving the two a rush of realization as to why she was looking so bewildered instead of happy at the compliment.

We never told her of then!!!! The two both thought feeling like complete morons for forgetting this point.

"We'll tell you later at the mansion for now let's keep looking around!" Foren said dodging the subject for the time being.

"Yeah! Let's go see the rest of the village, just the housing district has me all fired up, let's get to the mansion already!" Noku yelled his voice in clear excitement, hiding the nervousness within it near flawlessly.

"Ok." Aima said her eyes switching between the two of them constantly before finally a small flicker went past her eyes and she smiled moving to the west.

"This here is the commercial district which is still in construction, but the idea is to make this a center of commerce in the future of this village." Just looking at the marketplace to be both Noku and Foren could tell that it would be a beautiful place in the future.

"Now on to the mansion!" Excitedly Aima yelled out and started heading over there, this time very clearly in high spirits to show off her grand center piece to the whole village.

"Let's go!" Running ahead Noku yelled back his fur a curious gleam under the morning sunlight.

"Let's get there faster I wanna be in a mansion!" Foren too started running, his pitch black eyes showing glimmers.

"Right let's go." Aima who originally didn't want to run decided to change into her bone form and take the lead heading to the mansion.

"Last one there is a rotten egg!" Noku yelled.

"Ha get ready to lose!" Foren said as he caught up coming in neck and neck with Noku.

"The two of you are so childish I'm obviously going to win this one!" In her bone form Aima unknowingly had been pulled along by the current and started going as fast as she could just barely getting a tiny lead.

These two are suck freaks, i'm flying and their running how is it so hard to keep the lead! She thought looking at the two behind her running at top speed sweat gleaming off of Foren's every pore and Noku with his tongue already flopping out.

"As if I'll lose again!!!" Suddenly once they got near the mansion Foren burst out with a small chant and his speed explosively increased taking the lead.

"So that's how you wanna play it!" Noku to slowed down for a split second before a wave of soul power rushed into his body and reinforced his legs increasing his own speed and catching up to Foren in a split second.

"If you want to use magic then you will both lose this one to me!" Screaming this one the already exhausted Aima stopped spinning and instead lined herself straight forward, accumulating the soul power into herself she focused it behind her and released, shooting forward like a bullet straight and true.

Bang!

In the next moment the three who were so focused on winning slammed into the gate of the house.

"I won that!" The three yelled.