New homes.

After a while the trio walked into Collin's house and began to eat the snacks, but the trio were not as enthusiastic as they might normally have been. Soon the massive pile of snack food was reduced to a few small crumbs.

"Come on, let's set some buildings." Collin said as he headed towards the back of the compound.

After walking about a hundred feet or so behind the female servants' quarters and close to the outer walls, Collin placed one of the buildings down on the ground. After destroying the size reduction inscription, the small toy like building began to increase in size till after a minute it was at its full size.

Collin ordered the trio to a different corner of the building and after some adjustment, the building was in its final location. The building made some light creaking noises as the weight reduction inscription was destroyed. The entrance was located in the front of the building, it looked like the front wall was missing. A thin glowing membrane was all that separated the inside and the outside of the building.

Looking inside, it was obviously five to six times larger inside than the outside, thanks to the space expansion inscriptions. As long as the inscriptions were undamaged, and there was a supply of energy then building would function indefinitely. But if the inscriptions were damaged or there was no longer energy for it to absorb, then the building would be destroyed in a violent explosion.

Stepping inside Collin released the titan ape into its new home. The titan ape looked around and saw a sparsely forested land with several small rocky hills. With a wave of his hand a small pile of fruits and vegetables appeared from Collin's space ring.

"I told you I would get you a place to stay. I also got you some snacks. But eventually, you are going to have to fight, if you don't live up to my expectations, I'll get rid of you." With that Collin left the ape alone in the building, but he could feel that it was worrying about what he had said. This brought a little smile to Collins's face, if the ape was as uncaring as it acted, it wouldn't be worth nurturing, and he might as well sell it now then waste his time and money.

For the next ten minutes were spent setting the other two buildings in place. After placing the buildings was settled, Collin dismissed Julie to continue studying the Nine-Desolate-Dragons cultivation method, while Valter and Viktor were made to strip the bodies of the robbers of their clothes. Valter was given one body to strip while Viktor was given five to strip because Collin was still upset at his foolishness from this morning.

After Valter finished his task, he was going to help his brother was stopped by Collin and sent to study. Collin moved the body closer to the beginning of the swampy area, then he released all but the extra five wood element flood dragons into the swamp. He watched as some of them ripped small chucks of flesh from the dead body, then quickly swam off away from the other flood dragons to eat. Collin figured the body would be stripped clen of flesh in a few days, but in a week or so he would have to give them more food.

When Collin arrived at the last building, Viktor had stripped two of the dead bodies and was looking a sickly pale color. As the child of clan elder, this was the first time that Viktor had to deal with the death of humans, and it didn't help that Collin had given him all the mangled corpses. Three were missing heads, one had a massive gash in its chest, and one had turned a grotesque purple color and its limbs had several hundred new points of articulation thanks to the trashing the raptor gave it. As he handed a space bag to Collin, he looked like he wanted to vomit all the snack food he had eaten not to long before.

Collin released the raptor into it new home, before telling Viktor to hurry up, or else the raptor might start to look at him as a slightly fresher snack. This was reinforced by the raptor staring at Viktor while it floated in the swamp water. If Collin didn't tell the raptor not to eat Viktor, then it really might have eaten him. Collin was under no illusion that the raptor was anything other than a violent murderous monster, but since that was what Collin needed, that is what he bought instead of the numerous other choices he had. Collin also gave Viktor a warning that he should leave before the raptor starts to eat its snacks, due to the horrific sight of it feeding on humans.

Walking into the alchemy room Collin began making poison pills, after a little over two hours later and several failed attempts, he succeeded. In front of him were five glowing green pills that the sight of would make normal people feel disgusted and unwell. Taking one of the flood dragons out of the beast orb, Collin forced the pill down its throat. Even before the pill got near its mouth the little flood dragon tried to resist, but it was still under the effects of the control rune.

A minute later and the same green glow of the poison pill was dying the little dragons veins the same color. It then began to scream and violently trash its body around before the sounds of bones breaking could be heard, then it stopped moving and became silent. It had died. This was within Collin's expectations, the pill he had feed it was meant to evolve the little flood dragon into a venomous wyrm. Any flood dragon that took the pill had a fifty-fifty chance of dying in the first stage of evolution, it also had the same odds of surviving the second and third stages.

If a flood dragon did survive all three stages, it would become an amphiptere dragon. Its two stubby front legs would grow longer and become wings, its body would become two or more times longer, and it would start producing an extremely venomous poison. If Collin decided to evolve it again it would grow two back legs and become a wyvern, which depending on who was asked, was less than, equal to, or greater than a normal dragon.

While Collin didn't like seeing the little flood dragon die like that, he wasn't going to stop trying to evolve them into venomous wyrms. He was planning to become what most would consider a True Alchemist, one who could make pills to heal cities or poisons to kill cities. And to create the best poisons would require a unique poison that only Collin had access to. The best unique poisons are those from rare venomous plants and animals. Venomous wyrms, have a unique, unique poison, simply because every venomous wyrms poison is different from each other's poison. If Collin were to evolve ten venomous wyrms, then he would have ten unique poisons to choose from, whereas a poisonous frogs poison is the same as every other frog of that species.

The only problem was that evolving a flood dragon into a venomous wyrm takes luck. It was like flipping a coin three times in a row and having it land on heads all three times, sometimes it works the first time you try it, and sometimes it takes many tries to do. The best thing that Collin had going for him in this gamble was that he had time, he truly wouldn't need to use a unique poison till he got to the Foundation Establishment realm, but since he saw a large tank full of flood dragons and had the ingredients for the pills, he decided to try. He bought five extra wood element flood dragons simply because he thought that he only had enough ingredients to make five pills after wasting the first few sets, but he succeeded in learning to make the pills faster than he thought and had enough to make two more.

The remains of the dead flood dragon were placed into a spare space bag, and another flood dragon was taken out and force fed a pill. This time the little flood dragon died in the second stage of its evolution; the third flood dragon died in the first stage. The fourth little flood dragon survived all three stages of its evolution, before curling into a ball and secreting a large amount of slime that quickly hardened into a cocoon around it. Collin did try his luck on the fifth flood dragon only for it to also die in the first stage.

Collin placed the cocoon into his beast orb, he wouldn't know if he was truly successful until the amphiptere hatched from its cocoon. There was a small chance that it would be defective, and he would need to start over, which is why he was planning to purchase more wood element flood dragons tomorrow. If he was lucky, they would just be more breeding stock for the future use, but if he was unlucky, he would have to keep trying until he succeeded. Success or failure would be determined in a few days.