Catching Ais out of the air, Tiona suddenly shouted, "Ah, that's not fair, Ais! Nobody said anything about using transforming!" Ais, while hanging around Vahn's neck, simply lifted up two fingers in a victorious gesture with a smile on her face. As for Vahn, he held one arm around Ais' waist, holding her body as if it were perfectly natural while asking, "What is this about? Did you have some kind of petition?" Tiona nodded, pointing to Ais as she said, "Yeah, we were racing to see who got to spend the night with you! But, Ais, she cheated! I want a do-over~!" Ais shook her head in response, hugging Vahn with both arms as she said in a curt and calm tone, "No. You never said the rules and tried to cheat from the start. This is my win..."
Hearing Ais' explanation, Tiona looked like she had turned into a statue with her finger still pointing towards the golden-haired girl. Realizing she had indeed set the 'precedent' for cheating, Tiona suddenly felt all the tension release in her body as she plopped down powerlessly to the ground. Tione, who had shown up almost immediately after the two, just stood at the side with her arms crossed, clearly dissatisfied with how things had turned out. Vahn just shook his head in response, holding Ais in his embrace as he said, "Don't be too upset. Now that we have the orb, there is plenty of time for us to spend together. After all, we have six days in here every single day that passes in the real world."
Jumping up from the ground, Tiona also clung to Vahn's body with a happy smile on her face, laughing as she said, "That's right~! Even if we spend a day training, we still have five more days just to play around!" With the rules that had been established for the orbs use, a proper balance between work and play was very important. After all, though everything within the orb was real, it wasn't the same as living a 'normal' life in the real world. Cooping yourself up inside the orb all the time, while efficient, could cause you to feel out of touch with the rest of the world.
It was originally proposed that the orb should only be used at night, essentially making the eight hours people usually slept equate to 48 hours worth of time. However, as there was currently a lot going on in the real world, these restrictions had yet to be implemented and the only ones that weren't allowed to spend all their time in the orbs were the young girls, the children, and anyone that was pregnant. Today was an exception to the rule, but only because everyone was very curious about what it was like inside the orb.
Promising to make time for them once everything was finished, Vahn returned to his work while Tiona, Tione, and Ais all sat with Tsubaki and talked amongst themselves. What Vahn was currently working on, other than laying the foundation, was allocating space for various facilities. The girls would spend a lot of time in the orb for training so Vahn needed to make sure they had a place to rest and relax. There also needed to be living quarters for everyone, including an area where they could enjoy some 'privacy'.
More importantly, however, Vahn needed to make sure there was a system in place so the girls could have a place to 'relieve' themselves, meaning he needed to lay the framework for a water and waste management system. Fortunately, such things were relatively easy to take care of by implementing wards that produced clean water, sanitized an area, and 'destroyed' waste products. By setting the ward in a secure area, similar to a septic tank, Vahn could set it to periodically 'destroy' everything that acc.u.mulated inside. Hopefully, there would never be a time when he had to replace the system as it would be buried within the sturdy foundation he was currently laying.
Everyone that had gone out to explore the orb had eventually ended up congregating around the area where Vahn was working. There wasn't much they could do to help him, as he was using various unnamed spells and abilities like telekinesis to move things, so they just sat at the side while eating snacks. Under the insistence of Erika, they even started discussing magic since all of his daughters had been pletely enamored by watching him move materials around through the air with slight movements of his hands. However, the biggest catalyst behind their sudden interest in magic was watching Terra literally moving acres of dirt and mulch while floating lazily through the air. If she had been doing such things in the real world, it would have looked like a natural disaster with how terrifying the sight was.
Erika, sitting between Eina and Tsubaki, asked, "How can Papa and Terra use such powerful and unique magic? I've read a lot of books about the subject and it doesn't cover most of the things they're doing." Thus far, none of the children had started training and, while their education was progressing, it didn't go into great details about magic and trades. Erika had mainly been going through the books in the Library, meaning she didn't have an understanding of the unique system of magic that the girls had actually been developing under Vahn's guidance.
Tsubaki, playing with some loose strands of Erika's hair, had on a soft smile as she patiently explained, "Before you were born, your Papa learned magic from a powerful mage named Evangeline. Because of her teachings, he is now one of the most powerful people in the entire world. Now, he has been teaching everyone else how to use magic while developing a curriculum that will allow people all around the world to do the same." Erika, who understood that magic wasn't something that anyone could use, at least according to what she read, asked, "Papa's magic can be learned by anyone? Really?"
At this point, Tiona burst into the conversation with an excited smile on her face as she said, "Yeah, your Papa is super amazing! My entire life, I've never been able to use magic at all, even to the point where my Magic Parameter is still listed as 0! But, your Papa wanted my dream of using magic to bee a reality so he made me an awesome wand and, even though I didn't think it would be possible, I've slowly been able to learn some basic spells. Here, watch this~!" Wagging around her index finger in a peculiar pattern, Tiona happily chanted, "Practe Bigi Nar "Burn
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