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I wake up in between Kia and Athena and I send a command to the ship to take us to the island directly instead of fooling around. This island we are going to has a destroyed alchemy city like Olympus but it's higher level and I can use it to repair my broke one and maybe even level mine up so it can support more ground and troops.

"Hmmm, Nova~ Don't do that...." Kia's voice tickles my ear and I slip out of bed before I lose my motivation to be productive.

"See you two later." I open the door and head to the dining room to see if Zola is up yet, if she is I can talk to her about dragon island. It's supposed to be close to storm island and I want to get in contact with them, Zola's mom is the grand elder of the island so maybe she can find it?

Either way her opinion on how to find it will go a long way if she is willing to help out a little, she might not want to though. An elder tried to force her to marry his son but she broke the guy's balls or something, I think at least that is what happened it has been a while since I read the story. She might have just robbed him but I know later on the one she was supposed to marry was a fem boy and almost tricked Chen Rui with his looks.

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"Zola the most intelligent living person in all of the worlds, will you help me with a problem that has been bugging me." She takes a bite of her cereal and doesn't even bother to look up. "I need to find the dragon faction in the human world and I honestly have no clue how to go about tracking them down. Could you give me some advice or tips to finding out?" She stiffens for a moment but plays it off and I slide into the seat next to her.

"Go away Nova I am busy, can't you see that." I bring out a map I bought and show her storm island.

"Here is where we are going, there wouldn't happen to be an island where the dragons live anywhere close to this is there?" Worst case I just go to the human empire again since they have dragon riders and I can just track the dragons back to their home.

"No there isn't." I shrug off her denial, she probably is scared to see her parents again it took Chen Rui meeting them and telling Zola they miss her for her to finally go back and meet them.

"That's fine, I will find them one way or the other." I roll up the map and a Lamp spirit sets a bowl of Cereal down Infront of me. "Really?" I ask her and she nods proudly, I didn't want eggs or something anyway. I was wondering why Zola was eating cereal and it turns out that's what the Lamp spirits are serving.

Lazy little shits, they have all the material in Olympus to learn from to make better meals and once they discovered Cereal and mashed potatoes it's all they make. It's also the only thing I see them eat though as well so it's not malicious. They might just really like it, they don't need to eat as they get powered from the power cubes but they still can and do. It's like how there not organic but have fully functioning sex organs that also double as a cultivator for the kingdom owner to steal their life force from to power up.

I would never do that to them as even if they are troublemakers sometimes the other ninety-nine percent of the time they are beyond excellent. They are just happy that I am throwing resources into upgrading all their lamps to gold while studying a way for them to go beyond gold.

And it just so happens that on this island in the broken alchemy kingdom there is a maroon spirit lamp that is demon overlord power. The story behind it is a man was obsessed with someone and made the perfect lamp spirit modeled after her and even programmed it to look at him with disgust as he molested it. He eventually couldn't take it anymore after the real woman died and stashed her away in her lamp and put it in storage so he wouldn't see it anymore.

The dude wasn't right in the head that much is clear but I can honestly respect that he had a taste and went for it and in the process broke through the 'limit' of what was possible. Maroon lamp spirit isn't the only thing he managed to do as well, he used wind elementals that are native to storm island to make wind titans and they are almost kingdom rank and I think some do make it to kingdom rank.

The wind elemental king found out and helped them free and keeps them as friends to his wind elementals and that's a huge benefit for him because the titans are stronger than even he is in some aspects. So huge bodyguards for his island and they feel indebted to him because he helped them break the control of the kingdom.

The wind titans are a big resource item to study if I can, I want o recreate them without the enslaved mind inside that suffers. I want to find a way to make titans of all the elements and have them be a more perfect version that doesn't have a will or at least wants to serve. I still feel a bit bad for the Lamp spirits sometimes but they can't leave the kingdom or they depower and that is a coma that can be similar to a permeant death.

"Nova, good morning." Izzy sits sideways on my lap and takes a bite of the cereal I was just about to eat. That had to be the most childish use of her flash bloodline talent I have ever seen.

"Good morning, want your own bowl?" She shakes her head and opens her mouth slightly for me to feed her more.

Damn, she is turning into a cat and I find it adorable, what is with those hopeful green eyes that drives me to just give in and feed her.

"Fine, here." I give her another bite and she nuzzles into my chest, yea catlike for sure.

The boat trip is almost over as I was just needing to visit the island and had no intention of taking them on it, too many potential threats. I will come back alone with the shadow cloak and do my digging around. But once we arrive I will take them back and store the ship for a different cruise at a later time.

I wonder if I should schedule a different vacation as this one was kind of fun. Catherine and Shea need the distraction now and then.

Hmmm, something different though like maybe a camping trip? Camping can be so lame though when you have magic and can teleport back to your comfy bed.

I will put a pin in it.

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"So this is the storm island." We kind of just sailed through it like we weren't even in massive waves and hurricane winds.

"Why did you want to come here?" Athena asks as her hair is blown around and some even get in her eyes.

"The wind elementals and a few other goodies, but now that I can teleport here we can leave. I will come back with the shadow cloak and explore without worry." Alice who is only standing without the wind blowing her because Zola isolated her from the elements slams her foot down and pouts.

"I want to go exploring as well! We can find the treasure together and it will be much more fun that way!"

"No Alice you have to take lessons again and can't waste time playing, you are going to be the Lord of Dark moon and you need to learn all the important information." Shea cuts all of Alice's hope and causes her to slump.

It was pretty hard to convince Shea to appoint her sister but when they are only a single magic circle away from each other she eventually gave in. Though it cuts into her work as my company will suffer without her I gave a lot of the tedious work to Friday in Olympus and the rest is taken care of by gremlin mechanics.

Lamp spirits couldn't figure out the paperwork, or just didn't want to and failed the assessment so it was passed off to the more technically intelligent gremlins.

"Nova tell her we would have fun and she is ruining it!" Alice tries to pull me in but I simply turn and face the storm and tune her out. Not worth pissing Shea off when she is starting to open up, she might even shut me out on purpose and not by habit. "Traitor!" Sorry, Alice, you have to suffer the boredom of becoming a successful lord before you can play outside.

"Let's go, Alice." Shea gives me a nod of approval for siding with her and Alice has tears running down her face. I give an apologetic look but I still send her down the river to school with a quick teleport they are gone.

"You going to send us back?" I hear Freya ask and I nod as I summon a circle for them.

"Yes, but I am going to go with you so let's go." Everyone moves onto the circle and we soon are transported back to the demon world.

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I hold an orb of destruction and feel it and see it in every way possible with every tool and ability at my disposal, and I don't feel any 'enlightenment'. I have knowledge that came with the trait but I don't have any knowledge about the things that were in the original novel.

Is it because it's different destruction or is it because what I know is all there is to it and it was over-explained in the novel?

There is only one way to find out and it's to find the other cases and see what happens, but before that, I need to master this power. Chen Rui was able to allow himself to be conceptually destroyed and rebuilt himself in the moment of his destruction with the new ability her learned which was creation.

Not the same but similar to how a certain red hair Satan can transform himself into destruction or that is his true form. Either way, one or the other would be useful to face the false gods in the demon world and might help me understand what is stopping me from going to kingdom.

This feeling of nothing progressing despite the efforts being made to prepare the demon world is suffocating. I feel like the next step is on the tip of my fingers and I just can't grab it, I need to take a step back and get a neutral view of how a kingdom is normally created.

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"Alright, so your goal was and is still to create the six-element kingdom of god." Zola nods and holds up the earth's origin source.

"Yes, I am making decent progress after seeing the element of earth like this but there is much missing to take that step. But even the four and five-element kingdoms can leapfrog ranks in power with their abundance of power. It would be worth even waiting hundreds of thousands of years to get the six-element kingdom." Sorry sweetheart we don't have that kind of time so I need to hit you with some pay-to-win and get those other sources of elements.

"Alright, that's it! Catherine is in a bottleneck and is busy with her empire and you are the next in line to get kingdom. I will go get those sources for you and you will make your kingdom and I will finally see what it is that I am missing." Soon I will figure all this mess out and be able to move on.

"I will go with you, it's for me so I will accompany you." I hesitate and realize there is no reason not to bring her and shrug.

"Let's go and get the water source." She nods and I suddenly get a call and pick it up.