novelraw Chapter 95: Why would such a beautiful and intelligent woman lie to herself?
Chapter 95: Why would such a beautiful and intelligent woman lie to herself?
"Ah... there’s so much to be done." Ethan shook his head, a bitter smile playing on his lips.
There were nearly five hundred people, but they had only a hundred houses.
In total, for all the families still homeless, they would need at least another hundred and twenty.
More houses than the walls of Goldenveil could currently accommodate.
Ethan turned his face toward the opposite end of the hallway, where a door swung open, revealing a stunning, voluptuous black beauty.
She was, as always, dressed in an elegant black gown, her hair carefully styled.
Her full, firm breasts strained against a tight neckline that seemed one deep breath away from losing the battle, the dark fabric creasing where the heavy swells of flesh pushed outward.
She paused as soon as she stepped out of the room, her eyes falling on Ethan.
A smile curved her lips.
"My lord... did you sleep well?" Elena approached, maintaining a certain distance, a subtle unease glinting in her beautiful brown eyes.
"Yes." Ethan nodded, his hands instinctively reaching for her delicate waist.
Elena shuddered under the young man’s grip.
She leaned in slightly, and her breasts pressed against his ribs, their plush weight spreading against his side.
"Is this relationship between a master and his servant really appropriate?" she asked with a soft sigh, which Ethan ignored.
"Well... you shouldn’t have given me so much yesterday if you didn’t want me to fall in love." He gave a small smile, reveling in the sweet, stifled giggle that escaped her lips.
"Don’t you think I’m too old for you?" Elena finally spoke, pressing her hands against his shoulders and pushing him away slightly.
Her breasts bounced with the motion, the heavy mounds jostling against one another before settling back into place against the straining neckline.
"Why would such a beautiful and intelligent woman lie to herself?" Ethan replied, and before she could even retort, he already had her in his arms again.
His right hand, resting on Elena’s thin waist, slid upward to the lower curve of her enormous tits, feeling the warm weight of those succulent orbs.
The soft flesh molded around his forearm as they walked side by side down the hallway, each of her steps sending a faint ripple through the generous mounds that his hand cradled from below.
"Ah... such a vigorous young man... I can’t keep up, can I?" Elena smiled bitterly, her face flushed.
Lying to herself... was she?
She couldn’t believe she was doing this.
When they reached the office, Ethan immediately grabbed the Green Fairy wine, pouring a glass for himself and another for Elena.
"It’s called Green Fairy Wine, an exclusive creation from Goldenveil that will soon be our main source of income. Drink up." He smiled, taking a sip.
He had forgotten about it the night before, but today he would have a little with her.
Elena studied the wine with curiosity.
It was rich in Mana and Aura, with healing effects and a subtly enchanting scent that rose to her nostrils even before she touched the glass to her lips.
When the wine finally met her tongue, her eyes widened.
"Ah~~" She gasped, drinking in greedy gulps, feeling the liquid slide down her throat, sweet and with a smooth yet intense alcohol.
"It’s... delicious," Elena finally said, looking at Ethan expectantly. "Is there more?"
"Just two bottles; this is the second to last. Old John will be making more soon."
Hearing that, Elena was a little disappointed.
It was rare for her to try something so good that it got her hooked right away.
’It’s almost as good as his cum...’ Elena thought, closing her eyes immediately.
What the hell was she thinking?
She didn’t want to remember the taste of that hot, viscous semen dissolving on her tongue, because she knew that if she thought about it too much, she might want more.
Ethan watched her expression and sighed.
Elena was acting strange.
Was it because of the handjob the night before?
He had his doubts, but in the end, he preferred to give her space to think.
"I have a few more things to show you. Would you like to come with me?" Ethan asked, his words bringing Elena back to her senses.
"Of course, my lord." She linked her arms with his, just as she had the first time they met, pulling his forearm toward her ample breasts.
His arm sank between her tits, swallowed by the pillowy warmth of her cleavage. The soft, heavy flesh closed around him from both sides, their considerable mass wobbling against his arm in a slow rhythm with every step.
"What kind of ability is this?" she asked.
For Ethan to want to show her, it must be something big.
He didn’t answer, guiding her to the wall and placing his hand on the aged wood.
Immediately, he activated instant construction, his eyes scanning the many enhancement options that unfolded before him.
There were even concrete walls reinforced with steel bars and multi-layered armor, fortified by magical arrays that boosted the density of Qi within.
Obviously, those were far beyond Ethan’s budget.
Even though the price was per kilometer rather than a fixed amount, he wouldn’t be able to afford even a hundred meters of such an advanced wall.
In the end, he chose a simple and inexpensive one, at two hundred gold coins per kilometer.
[Name: Stone Wall with Battlements and Parapets.
Description: A stone wall with towers every hundred meters and a parapet for guard patrols and defense. Its gates feature small dormitories for a guard of up to twenty soldiers (per gate).
Price per kilometer: 200 gold coins
Price per gate: 100 gold coins
Wall resistance: 12090/12090]
It was so far superior to the walls guarding Goldenveil that comparing the two felt almost crude.
With a single tap, Ethan spent nearly half his fortune. Six hundred gold coins vanished from Goldenveil’s vaults.
A steep price, but a necessary one.
The current walls were at their limit, and building houses outside them, in the Eternal Forest, was suicide. Even with the incense to ward off beasts, if it lasted more than a week, that was already a lot.
The Eternal Forest was, after all, a cruel place, where most of the population lived enslaved by their own cities and only the brave ventured beyond the walls.
In total, Ethan purchased two kilometers of walls and two gates, one to the north and one to the south.
With that, he could easily expand Goldenveil’s farmlands.
Even considering that the houses would retain their private yards and fields, it would still be possible to accommodate over a thousand homes.
That excluded commercial and government buildings, such as the lord’s mansion and the barracks.
Considering how large families in that world tended to be, it was easily enough for a population of three to five thousand people.
The central problem was that, with such large walls, they now needed to be defended. With only fifty guards for two kilometers of wall, it would be difficult, but that was a problem for the future.
After all, although they seemed large, two kilometers represented only six hundred meters from one gate to the opposite gate.
For second-stage warriors, whom Goldenveil now had in ever-increasing numbers, covering that distance quickly was easy.
With a broad smile, Ethan took a step back, the ground beneath his feet trembling.
’If Ulric ever returns to Goldenveil with bad intentions, he’s in for a nice surprise, hahaha.’ Ethan chuckled to himself.