Chapter 37: Yup, I overdid it (Part-1)

Dinner was rather peaceful with my parents looking at me with different expressions plastered on their faces from time to time. I was feeling awkward but didn't bother trying to clarify myself.

I was clamping my legs tightly while trying to eat food without any reaction on my face but the pain I felt when moving my arm made me scrunch up my face every time I brought the spoon to my mouth which resulted in them imagining everything they could.

I could guess what they were thinking by looking at their expression but well... My dad was looking at me with a knowing grin while my mom was looking at me with a worry-filled gaze.

"Was it something to worry about?" Yup, it was.

They knew about the way any awakened lord's body reflects everything outside the territory as per the experience I had inside my territory. But, Who would give a damn when given a chance to let your imagination wild.

Even I wouldn't bother thinking logically if I got the chance to let my imagination go wild by the way I was sitting and eating dinner.

" By the way what kind of Daemons have you recruited in your territory till now?" My father was the one to ask me with a thoughtful face while Mom glared at him with disapproving face.

" Succubi… and" I knew I made a fatal mistake looking at the grin plastered on my father's face become even wider. Dang, He didn't even let me properly reply after listening to the first daemon I had recruited on my territory. I even wanted to slap myself.

" Haha… You sure are lucky to have the company of one of the most beautiful people(Daemon) in your territory from the beginning. But isn't it a bit fast for you to indulge yourself even before properly establishing your territory? I mean has it even been a week? Hmm..." My dad looked at me with an amazed smile plastered on his face.

"No, it hasn't been a week," I replied pensively.

Also, I was speechless listening to him, " How was he confident that I was indulging myself in the territory? I mean I was an adult but... Wasn't he thinking a bit too... well... " It was something I wanted to know the reason for but would never get the answer to.

"Honey, Are you Done?" She was glaring at my dad.

Ahh, my mom is the best.

"Haha, Yes." He smiled sheepishly towards Mom before getting back to eating. He didn't forget to grin at me from time to time though.

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Beep... Beep...

 Today, I woke up at 4 a.m., even earlier than other days, and was fully refreshed without any cramps or pain in my body. Haha, that's one of the perks of evolving your body as a lord. It is believed those truly powerful lords could even revive themselves from a drop of blood if their bodies were destroyed when battling.

I didn't think more about those mighty lords for now so I quickly took a relaxing bath and entered the Territory with the determination to train my skills and raise their proficiency, the pain from yesterday and the decision to train for only about an hour, it was already out of my brain, turned into shreds by the determination and vigor.

<Welcome master>

Lilith welcomed me before I even got the chance to look at the SF points and drops collected by Lily and others. They had killed a pretty large number of monsters in the forest as the SF points had increased by 2000 points along with items that I didn't bother to look at.

The meat and other edible items were handled by Lilith and Lily whenever she got a chance while the materials collected were all under Uncle Deron's control from yesterday. I was hopeful to obtain some decent equipment for my recruits through the tier-1 materials collected till now,

Now I think about it I didn't have any work to do inside my own territory due to the presence of competent and powerful Daemons recruited by me. And I wasn't even a lord who had properly established my territory by facing the cataclysm I might face after the spatial film protecting my territory dissipated within a month after awakening the territory.

So, The only job for me as a lord was to train my skills peacefully till any major incidents that required my attention didn't plague my territory for now. As per the way I was able to clear the forest surrounding my territory without any problems, I did not think I would be forced to take control over my territory for now.

"Then, Which skill should I train?" I thought while moving towards the Peak Recruitment space with Lilith following beside me.

Woosh!

I was able to recruit two more peak tire-2 Orcs increasing the strength of my territory. Lilith took them to introduce our territory while I moved toward the lair of the Nightmare hounds. 

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"Good morning Uncle Deron." My next stop was the smithy where Uncle Deron was working with the Materials collected by us after killing the monsters outside the territory.

He was basically segregating the materials according to their tier and only storing the materials he required in the smithy for preparing pieces of equipment. He was literally throwing any tier-0 materials as trash while only selecting tier-1 materials on the smithy.

"It was several Spatial Currency worths of materials he was throwing away like waste If I sold the materials to the federation." He definitely had high standards as I was able to tell he wasn't even impressed by those tier-1 materials in front of him. He was only storing those materials because he was forced to.

<Haha... Good morning young lad. Are you here to ask about the equipment for your warriors?> He replied without turning at me, still rummaging through the materials in the storage.

"Haha.. I am not here to demand or ask you anything regarding the equipment as you are the one in charge of the Smithy. I just wanted to know whether you like it in here." I could only shake my head looking at him still rummaging through the materials in front of him.

<It is good. The Daemons you have gathered here are fun to talk and spend time with. Hmm... only thing bothering me the lack of some good Ale in your territory. Do think can let this old man taste great quality ale on planet, Lad?> He was combing his beard while smiling at me with bright eyes while talking about Ale.

" He definitely is Dwarve with love for Ale," I thought before nodding towards him.

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I was sitting cross-legged inside the lord's cottage after promising to bring some good quality Ale to Uncle Deron. Lilith was beside me ready to help me whenever I was trapped inside the Illusion with a serious face.

I decided to focus on the Deceitful Charm the whole morning before training the Housemaster with Lily during the daytime. The reason I wanted to train 'Deceitful Charm' but not 'Housemaster' right now is because I wanted to eat something and make up my mind before going into the forest with Lily and other Daemons to get some real training by killing the monsters by myself.

"Let's Start the training"

I told Lilith before activating the skill. The Illusionary flare in the environment was slowly gathering towards me while I was utilizing the Soul power in order to control the Flare rushing towards me with a serious face.

The step that gave me problems while utilizing the skill was me being unable to find the Delicate balance between Soul power and Illusionary flare that was attracted towards me due to the activation of the skill.

I was patiently trying to control the Flare while also searching for the balance between the Flare and Soul power when the Illusionary Flare started to rebel and broke out from my control, trapping me inside the illusion instead.

Lilith came to my help utilizing the soul power and controlling the now rampant Flare in the environment. It took some effort from Lilith to break the Illusion I was trapped inside even with her perfect mastery over the skill.

I took a long yet calming breath before once again activating the skill with a serious face. I failed once again and was once again trapped inside the Illusion with Lilith once again helping me to destroy the Illusion.

" Once more" I was once again trapped inside the Illusion.

"Once More" Once again I was trapped inside the illusion.

"Once more"

"Once again"