Inheriting a Lost Bloodline, My First Task is to have heirs?!

Chapter 52: Chapter 52 - Luna, the kingdom rebuilder

After leaving the room, I asked my ever reliable guide a question out of the blue, ”Lia. I’m just trying my luck here but is there a way I can manage this realm and gradually build it via a game screen type thing? I don’t know if you get what I mean like I can see everything from a central control system of some sort? I’ll understand if it isn’t possible.” Lia was silent for a while. As for me, I continued walking around this palace and found another huge plant-less garden at the back. There was a gazebo or what remains of it. It would have been nice to drink some nice hot chocolate and have breakfast there while looking at beautiful flowers and breathing some fresh air. I chuckled at the thought since I have always wanted to live a slow and chill life in a farm away from the city and maybe marry a husband who loves me and have a child or two. I then shook my head and told myself, ”Well, I got a palace and even a harem now. I might not have gotten the slow and chill life now but if I work hard now, I can still do that in a few years. I don’t even have to be the one that gets pregnant. Living in this world isn’t such a bad thing after all.”

After having my thoughts wander around, I was surprised to hear Lia’s voice. ”Is this what you need Luna?” Together with her question, a huge game-like screen appeared in front of my face like how the interface of Sim City looked like. All I was able to say in my head was ”Wooooow...” I then spoke to Lia and said, ”I’m quite sure you did a lot for me to get this. Lia, are you sure you are not a system assisting me to win this harem-themed world or something?” If Lia had a face, I could imagine her looking at me like I’m some kind of an idiot. Lia then answered, ”I am not a system but I have similar capabilities. If I was a system, I would have given you mission after mission and gave you rewards. The only thing I know is that I used to be somewhat a royal from Eieneos’ earlier time and I’m here to guide you as your ancestor so things won’t be too hard for you.” Ooohhh. I have finally gotten information as to who this voice is. I smiled and said, ”Thanks, Great Ancestor Lia for this kingdom building game interface.” Lia then answered in a seemingly irritated voice, ”Just call me Lia as usual. No problem.”

I looked into the interface and it showed some kind of a progress bar which says, 0%. It had zooming features and there is a blue dot that should be me. As I zoomed in, I saw the plaza where I was teleported in and then the palace where I am currently inside of, up north on the map. Hmm... Is this touchscreen? I tried to click the plaza first and it showed a separate progress bar at 0%. There was a red exclamation point on the side of the progress bar. Of course, I clicked it! Hmm... It says I have to provide mystique mana to fix the area. Wow. That’s convenient. I did not need to get construction materials or workers. This world is really just supported by the mana of its people. This would be good training for my mana reserves since from the book I read, regenerating mana over and over after it has been used up, hastens the increase in the overall mana capacity of a person which is what I need to do the most to get my body used to it. I wonder how much mana is needed to fix the huge plaza and the fountain. How do I even insert my mana?

As I was tinkering with the screen, a small black orb appeared floating in front of my eyes and beside it was a glowing golden seed as well. What are these? was the first thing that I asked in my head. Lia answered, ”Orb to insert mana for realm rebuilding and World Tree seed” Ohh.. I forgot that I need to manage two realms. Ugh. Where do I even plant this thing? Does it need a special soil, water or fertilizer? Lia then gave me a book out of thin air. Oh, reading time.

I first took the two items, placed both in my storage and started pouring my mana to the black orb gradually then I started reading the book. This time, the book is about how the World Tree Realm started. I quickly read through the book to see what useful information I can get. After about an hour, I finished reading the book. It was like a short summary of its functions and management, the rest was like reading a gardening magazine or manual with supernatural phenomenon involved. The book said I have to power up the magic circle in the smaller plaza to get access to the world tree realm but the one before was destroyed so I guess I need to find or create a new one that is compatible to grow the world tree in. The two realms will then be connected to each other like soulmates supporting each other’s existence.

Next thing, if my understanding was right, this black progress bar is for my mana. Then whatever mana I save, I can then assign which project or part of the territory will it be put on and that will be the one that gets fixed first. So, to summarize this situation, I’ll just keep feeding this black orb mystique mana, set the things to fix in a queue and then everything will be automatically fixed as long as I fuel this cycle? Isn’t that too convenient? Well, not that I was complaining.

Wait... Why do I have to be the only one providing mystique mana here? Those four are living in this realm for more than four centuries for free. I almost shouted and spoke loudly, ”Lia! Can we take mana from those four to make this kingdom rebuilding finish faster?!” After a few seconds, four more orbs appeared floating in front of me. The first one has the color of the desert sand with swirls of white, the second was fiery red with swirls of yellow, the third was like a beautiful abstract of different shades of blue and the fourth was dark purple with swirls of gold. I clapped my hands, so happy that I could hug Lia if she had a corporal body. I ran back to the room with the four beauties and loudly announced my presence to the four sleeping guys. I cleared my throat and as the only royal here, I used a tone as if I’m giving honors to my subordinates. ”Samir of house Yehia, Luxiel of house Flynn, Touya of house Amagai and Altair of house Casimir, as the current crown princess of Eieneos, I will use your bodies and your essences to rebuild the two realms we have lost four centuries ago.” I then used my mana to float the four orbs towards the four domed beds. As if the orbs know their destined owners, they floated on top of each of the sleeping guys and attached themselves on top of the transparent domes. My kingdom rebuilding screen then came up again and this time it showed, 5 bars of different colors. The black one is already at around 23% percent which should be mine and the other four bars with the colors of gold, red, blue and purple are already starting to trickle its way towards 1%. Hmm... That’s a good start. So I only need to fill up this bar everyday? Lia who has been quiet answered, ”Yes. A kingdom isn’t built in one day. We will take small steps and before we know it, we’re done. You can just set goals on what to build first. Any unused mana after the goals for the day have been completed can be kept for another project for the days to come.”

This is getting exciting. As per Lia’s instruction, I set the goals first to rebuild the main plaza, the smaller plaza which will be the entrance to the new world tree realm and of course, this palace and its nearby areas to make it less creepy and filthy. These should be fine for now.

I just noticed that this realm is on eternal dusk mode. It has been dusk when I got teleported to the plaza and when I looked outside the palace window it was still dusk like everything was a stand still since that war four centuries ago. I wonder what those four will do once I wake them up in the future. Will they blame me for taking too long to appear? Will they even honor the wishes of our ancestors?

This dusk setting is making me feel depressed and insecure all of a sudden like I have always felt back when I was on earth being alone all the time and not having a social life unlike most people. Well, you can easily lose track of time because of this time setting and your head gets filled with negative thoughts.

To distract myself, I went to the kitchen to see if the stuff in there are still working and luckily they are with some kind of luck. I started preparing a simple meal with the ingredients that I have inside my personal storage. I ate, used cleaning magic on the tableware and went to the room that looked like a master’s bedroom to sleep. All this thinking, planning, reading, building and mana donating that I’ve been doing is exhausting. Oh, everything ends with an -ing. Ugh. My thoughts are wandering to useless things. Let’s just sleep. I laid on the bed and slept like a log till the next day.