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

Chapter 200: Chapter 200 - The days of the two full moons

Today is the eve of the first of the several days that the two moons will shine their brightest and strongest on Freyheimr. Back on earth, the full moon usually lasts 3 days at most. As for this world, they have two moons that are full for a span of 7 days or a week whenever both of them are full at the same time. This world also has 14 total months in a year so more instances of a full moon or two full moons. The two moons have different jobs, each telling the people what month and season it is in a year. For this festival, it was an event where both moons will be full. The first moon, ”Mayari” is full since it is the end of the month while the second moon, ”Kadeyuna” was full since it is the end of the season of ”Koch” or spring in these parts which lasted for 4 months. By the next month, it will officially be ”Llov” or summer which will last 3 months. Most of the races here, as if the world was trying to ensure that the next generations will atleast survive, have their heat or mating periods scheduled throughout the Koch and Llov seasons where food is quite abundant and the temperature is warmer. The length of pregnancies may be different for each race but at least, the parents of the unborn child will have enough time to gather as much resources as possible before the child is born thus making the chances higher for the father and the unborn child to live.

The light of the full moon is what the races treat as an external aphrodisiac of some sort. It intensifies the heat and increases the chance of conceiving which is, if you think about it, are both very good things but the problem was that all good things have a little bit of a drawback. In this case though, it was not a little bit for the elves and heralds. Those that are of age and without official mates or partners, go crazy during the nights of their heat period due to the moonlight, their instincts to procreate messing up their conscious mind and controlling them so they end up sleeping around at night with no recollection of what happened the next morning. If I think of a relatable example, maybe it was like being dead drunk then waking up naked with someone or at times even a group of people you don’t know the next day in a place you don’t know how you got into. This will happen every night too for a span of a week so you get the idea.

This period was also dependent with the length of the full moon period in this world which is exactly a week, therefore, they are sex-crazy for a week. One day is already devastating for someone’s sanity but with my example above it will happen for seven consecutive nights and they may end up pregnant too with low chances of being supported by the mother of their child. It is definitely a cruel punishment or curse if you ask me.

As for the other elves and heralds that are married or have partners and those that are still young, their bodies weaken just like that of a young human child so they have to hide somewhere they will be safe in or they may end up abused, kidnapped and sold or killed with no ability to defend themselves. It was a very vulnerable period for this territory and its people. If you are asking me if I care, not that much really. I will help the people not be killed or kidnapped at least but for the abuse or events brought about by the full moon’s power, I don’t plan to meddle on that. I still have grudges for this race and if my people dired for them to get this punishment, why would I save them. I will only save who I want to save. You can’t save everybody anyways.

The first day of the full moon period is exactly tonight so I have to start working on finding the useful people I want to bind to myself for life. I have been checking out on the unmarried males in the middle district for the last couple of days. My plan for the outer district is already in place but if my goal is to crash the economy of this territory, I have to take in non-slaves as well but of course I will use the proper way.

As a chosen seed bearer (it is what they call the invited women for this festival), you can take willing elves with you when you leave the terrirory but you will need to pay something like a dowry that is set by their families or the person himself. It is similar with marriages between rich people, I think? I do have the resources to pay that and my next agenda is to approach the men I was targetting to take with me today.

Most of the professions I saw in the middle district that I find useful are the smiths for weapons and armors, botanists, scribes, bards, hunters, cooks, tailors/ weavers, jewelers/ enchanters and woodcraftsmen. It would be best if I could get one of each but if not, I will try to take as many different types as possible through the dowry or the beauty trap method whichever is applicable. Let us not forget that this is the perfect time to make offers since I plan to capitalize on their desperation to avoid the effects of the full moon. I believe they would rather spend the whole week with just one person than to sleep with random people the whole week. I think this trip in the middle district before the full strength of the moon arrives will be very fruitful.

I gave instructions to Vaelion to go straight back into the villa and prepare the rooms. He easily understood what I meant. I hobestly wanted him to be safe just as the light of the full moon reaches the ground. He almost ran back after I gave him some tasks to do like heating up the soup I made and preparing thick towels, clothes and the warm baths. Overall, though I felt gloominess in his actions, he was still obedient to my arrangements.

As for me, I revisited the stores of my target mystiques and this time, I was more direct in my offer to be their partner throughout the full moon period as well as the week after that wherein they will still be recuperating from the effects of the full moon. The first guy I approached looked surprised at first and then I saw grief and helplessness afterwards. He eventually still nodded his head in acceptance though he seemed to be forcing himself to say yes. Don’t tell me that saying no to offers to mate apply to non-slaves as well?

My curiousity got the best of me so I just had to ask and the guy simply nodded. I offered to pay the necessary ”dowry” and his eyes widened in disbelief. I asked about why he looked so surprised and he said that no woman has ever offered to take responsibilty for any man here since this festival gives them full permission to be hooligans for a week or two and that I was the first one he met in his long life who gave a formal offer. He then said that some of his childhood friends are in the same predicament as he is and if it was possible for me to give them the same offer I gave him. His sudden request was quite shocking since it means that he is willing to share the same woman with his friends. I understand the reverse harem concept of this world but this offer came in really strong for me, not that I am planning to say no.

He closed up his store earlier than usual after he accepted my deal and he hurriedly accompanied me (almost pulled me, actually) to the other houses and stores owned by his ”friends” and surprisingly, there were some of them that are part of the list of my original targets and some other people with quite useful professions.

With just meeting the first guy who was a weaponsmith, I got to meet an armorsmith, a tailor, a weaver, a woodcraftsman, a jeweler/enchanter, a botanist (they also called him a healer for some reason) and a hunter. I guess people here are born knowing what job they want to do when they grow up and its common to be friends with people with professions that are interconnected with yours. He said that they were friends since they were young and they help each other procure raw materials for their crafts, buy each other’s wares and support each other’s stores by recommending it to their regular customers. Overall, it was a friendly and beneficial relationship with each other. They shared that parental bonds were very weak, even non-existent for elves and heralds so I can treat them as orphans of some sort. I told them that I can take care of the future children if they don’t want anything to do with theml and I saw fear and hurt in their eyes. They all suddenly made a soul vow using the ancient elven language that they won’t be like their parents and will help in rearing the children if they were given the chance to bear a child in this lifetime. Good job, capable nannies are always welcome.

I asked them if there are other outstanding people that they think will accept my offer and all of them looked at each other with knowing looks. They said that they have one more friend who rarely comes out. He is a scribe and a researcher of some sort so he’d rather stay inside his home, reading, writing and thinking theories rather than spending time with them. They told me too that besides that scribe guy that they lost contact with, there are four other friends that seemingly went missing several years ago for some unknown reason. They boasted about the other four guys being a very alluring bard, a skilled archer, an excellent mage and a druid who just loved the forest very much. They were hoping that these guys are still alive and were just pre-occupied with their professions. Why do I have quite a familiar feeling with the circumstances of those five missing friends of theirs as if I have met them before or maybe I really did unknowingly?