Prelude to change 2.209

-Come on, father, get out of the carriage- said Viggo.

At this time Hephaestus' carriage was in front of the huge mansion that Semiramis had built. A construction made of white rock with blue domes at the top and surrounded by a fence made with cement pillars and twisted irons that looked like spears pointing to the sky.

Kain got out of the carriage and then it was Kiara's turn, who wore her usual nun's clothes. Viggo helped Kiara down and she didn't let go of his hand at any time, even if he touched the ground. The three looked at the wide fence more than a thousand meters wide by a thousand deep. The white rock, blue-domed construction at its top was placed in the center of the property, surrounded by wide grasslands and flower islands at the entrance. Carpenters, painters, and masons could be seen working throughout the construction. Everything should have been ready two months ago, but thanks to the addition of Rosewisse, the doors and entrances had been enlarged so that she could access the house with ease.

However, Viggo and company did not come for that. They needed to carry out a complicated and secret construction under the mansion. Viggo's "painted" paintings were piling up, each with different motifs. Mostly to please their wives and give them a place of entertainment. For Rosewisse it was a floral island of Alfheim. Scheherezade with the hills of Sparta, with the old house of Viggo and the surrounding pastures. Sakura and Anna had asked for the city of Sparta, the entire hundred-meter perimeter around the pond on which the three of them sat to eat apples and let the afternoon fall. Semiramis had kept his proposal, she wanted to think it through, the same Tsubaki. On the other hand, Viggo had created the first painting "painted" with a utilitarian purpose. A desert and rocky area so that Rosewisse could practice and experiment with the respective memory stones, wands and magics. Now they would no longer have to worry about someone spying on them.

So, with all those "painted" pictures Viggo had to find him a safe location, where no one, not even the gods with their special abilities, could enter. For that Viggo had brought his father, who would build an underground, solid, wide, and closed while Kiara would worry about generating an environment using paints and that there was oxygen, in addition to putting a defensive barrier. She assured that not even Uranus, with all his power, could set foot in that place.

At the entrance, behind the two huge doors, was the foreman of the work. A dwarf with a prominent belly and a serious face. The guy opened the gate while Viggo, Kain and Kiara walked to meet him.

-Good morning, Hargus- said Viggo with a calm, confident smile.

-Hello, good morning, sir- said Hargus with a gentle smile, but he felt concern in his eyes. Every time he saw Viggo he felt small in the strict sense of the word.

Viggo and company entered and advanced as Hargus instructed a worker to close the gate. Viggo looked at the large green grasslands with huge oval islands filled with flowers. The road along which they were advancing was thirty meters wide by two hundred meters long. At the end of that road stood the three-story mansion with numerous rooms and four towers, one at each corner. Each tower had a blue dome, and the center of the mansion was also a larger one.

The entrance was in the center of the mansion with two huge solid wood doors. Hargus advanced ahead and came in front of the door, opened it, and let Viggo and the rest pass. Then they saw the reception of the mansion, wide with more than fifty meters wide and four high. In the background was a huge wall spanning the lower two floors with a staircase with metal railings on the sides. Below the stairs could be seen two wide corridors that surely led to the center of the lower floor.

-Hargus- said Viggo -you can leave us here-

-Really? As you say, sir-

-Yes, thank you- replied Viggo.

Hargus bowed and walked out of the mansion. Inside you could hear hammers and chisels. Saws and other tools, but no one to be seen in the vicinity.

-Guide us, Father- said Viggo.

Kain moved forward and went to the staircase on the left -come with me, I went ahead a little and came the other day with your mother-

-I hope that mother doesn't start telling Semiramis everything she doesn't like- Viggo said

-Well, I hope the same, but you know-

-Semiramis has more important things than fighting with mom, I would like mother to understand that-

Kain didn't respond because he understood that many families have their way of interacting. Telling his wife not to disturb her daughter-in-law was like asking her not to talk.

-Does Semiramis want to paint a mural here?- asked Kiara, looking at the big wall between the stairs. She, Viggo and Kain stopped to look at the wall thirty meters wide by eight meters high.

-I don't know, for now she told me would think about it- Viggo said -but she asked me to think of something ingenious and artistic for the third floor, where the dome is. I already feel headaches just thinking about filling all that space, plus do you want it to be a single topic? How?-

-There is a lot you could do, Xiao loves modern things, especially the worlds where magic is extinguished. Ask him, he sure has some ingenious and wonderful idea that you could copy-

-Semiramis will not like it-

-Maybe but give it a try. It's not so easy to create a masterpiece-

-I imagine, father has been teaching me how to make rings and necklaces with elaborate finishes, but I'm not good yet. It's harder every moment that I think I'm moving forward-

-Perseverance, boy- said Kain -only with perseverance and practice can great things be achieved. Come, let's go to the third floor, there I made the elevator that will take you to the subway-

Viggo made a sly smile and said -I hope it's as cool as you promised-

-That will be great, boy-

That way they climbed the stairs to the second floor, with the rooms on the left side while the tea rooms, library, dining rooms and others would be in the center of the mansion. Complete madness, Viggo thought, but Semiramis came from a culture where kings had numerous wives and descendants. She thought Viggo would be no different. After all, he already had six wives.

Once they reached the third floor, they entered a huge room. Viggo's room in Hephaestus' mansion was fifty meters long by twenty meters wide. This room was a hundred meters per hundred meters, a real madness, but considering Viggo's hobbies, Semiramis said it was a suitable space. All the walls of the room were white, except for one that was rock gray.

Kain approached the said gray wall and placed his hand on the surface and the wall fell apart as if it were sand, inside there was a huge dark space with a gray rock floor with runes engraved on the edges. Viggo did not know these characters, but Kiara knew them very well, they belonged to the world of the dark soul.

-Come, let's go up- said Kain and made a gesture with his right hand and generated a sphere of clear light over his head. He entered the dark space and positioned himself on the rock floor. Viggo and Kiara followed and Kain stretched out his hand and raised the wall again. Now the air was scarce, the atmosphere quiet and it felt claustrophobic.

-Boy- said Kain -you see that convex button in the center of the ground, step on it with your foot-

Viggo looked at his father, then looked at the center of the floor and saw the convex stone button. He stepped on it with his right foot and suddenly felt the weightlessness of starting to descend, he felt fast and soft, but strange at the same time. Not even the elevator of the tower of Babel was so smooth and fast. In just a few seconds they reached the underground, a wide and dark space. The light above Kain's head couldn't illuminate everything, so he made several gestures creating spheres of light and throwing them into the distance. The space was as wide as his room, one hundred percent meters. All made of solid rock with four pillars in the center. Unless Viggo lost his head and hit the pillars with all his might, he would never collapse.

-The paintings, Viggo- Kiara said -me and Kain may be fine, but I don't think you're okay with so little oxygen-

Viggo felt dizzy and nodded. He unbuttoned the leather bag from his waist that Rosewisse usually handled, but which had been lent to him today. Viggo took Alfheim's painting out of the interior and held it with both hands. Kiara pointed her right hand at the paint and the levit painting. Kiara made the painting fly to a wall, glued the paint to the wall and then made a gesture with her hand. Then the painting let out a pure wind of fresh air that made Viggo feel better. At the same time, on the sides of the painting appeared grass and some herbs with leaves that emitted a celestial glow.

-That's much better- replied Viggo, then took out the rest of the painted pictures and Kiara placed them on the walls. Everyone helped ventilate the armored underground

-Should I be with that?- asked Viggo.

Kiara denied, closed her eyes and her hands, and then opened them at the same time, then a net was created around the underground that glowed a phosphorescent color and then went out, as if it had never existed -with this is fine- said Kiara -no god or mortal can enter this place without your consent-

-That's a relief- Kain replied -these things are very valuable and dangerous-

-Father, Kiara, since we have arranged this, I have a question associated with another topic- said Viggo, crossing his arms and admiring the pictures painted on the wall -My master gave me a hint, I already have access to my divine power, but he only told me that I should take the divine power with my divine strength and then introduce it into my chest-

-I understand- Kiara said as if she could know what Viggo thought -I think it's a bit risky, but it's better than letting a power be lost-

-What's going on?- asked Kain -Don't I know?-

-Kain, Viggo is not like you, he must take his own risks. Their futures are different- Kiara said, looking him in the eye.

-Will he survive?-

-Ninety percent, yes-

-Doubt-

-There is always a point of doubt, nothing can be taken for granted-

-Please stop fighting- Viggo said, looking into their eyes seriously, he seemed to be calm and confident. He was not interested in what they thought, only what they could advise him -how can one realize the obtaining of a divinity?-

-Water- said Kiara -imagine you want to drink water. You put your hands together and bring the water to your mouth, process it through your body and absorb it. The same is with divinity. Whether it is necessary to have access to your divine power is true. Look, imagine you have an external water sphere. You can't introduce it directly into your body, but you can create a sphere of divine power around your soul. Then you absorb the divine power, and you convert and fill the sphere of divine power around your soul. It is a long and painful process. Don't worry, you have a great chance that everything will turn out well, but like all the things you don't develop on your own, it will be limited. Your body will not be able to support that power-

-Really?-

-Of course, it is something old and too powerful. Even your father, knowing all the magic he knows and having a body with a high affinity for magic, can't bear the discharge of all his power. It would fragment-

-No need to tell him that- Kain said.

Viggo looked at Kain in amazement -can't Father use all his power?- he asked.

Kain denied -only eighty percent- said -if I occupy more than that, my body will crumble like sand-

-I understand-

-You don't have to worry- Kiara said -even if you can only handle thirty percent of the power you take, it will be more than enough to sow fear in the hearts of all your enemies. Just remember, don't go crazy and don't forget who you are, Viggo Dragonroad-