CHAPTER 562: CHAPTER 562 - MINI FAMILY MEETING (PART 2)

I started with the more serious stuff as I asked, "Mother, Father, you do know that one day, I won’t have a choice but to have a conversation and a deal with those dragons, correct? Why are you asking me to be weary of them and deal with them last?"

It was the first time I saw my father get serious about something. With a deep voice that I have never heard him use, he answered, "For one, they are greedy in every aspect, may it be power, money, resources, mates, children, everything. Though they don’t look like it, they are the most desperate of all the races to have children in this world."

I looked at my father in confusion and asked, "They live for a very long time, right? Even if they don’t have children for hundreds of years, they will just be fine since they have a lot of time."

My father gave a helpless smile and responded, "You are correct. They indeed live for aeons but you have to consider that they have to find a mate first then try to have children after. They don’t wait for just a decade to have children, not even a hundred years. We are talking about thousands of years here. Some never have a single dragonling to this date. Due to the curse, they haven’t had a dragonling born for thousands of years. The last ones that were born aren’t that exceptional except for a few since they are born amidst the time of the scarcity of mana."

My mother was the one that spoke this time as she said, "Most likely they will send their most talented unmated dragon kins to try their luck on identifying you as their mate. All unmated male dragons have a strong desire to continue their bloodline and of course, to have that life bond with someone. They are kind of obsessive with both their children and their mates."

I looked at my mother then my father then suddenly smiled sweetly. The confusion on my parents’ faces were evident. It is obvious that they are somewhat trying to dissuade me. Am I supposed to like feel disheartened, scared or end up avoiding them after this peptalk?

I sighed and responded to my parents, "All my husbands have a tendency to be jealous and clingy with other husbands whenever there is more than one of them in a single area. I am sure they all have that greed and strong desire to have children too so what makes those dragons any different. It doesn’t change the fact that I am still the matriarch of this family so my rules are law. If they don’t want that, I can just use the room of beginnings if they anger me to get over with the mission."

My mother looked at me and shook her head helplessly. She then said, "I totally forgot that you were never a pushover just like me but you are also petty and a little vengeful just like your father here." My father scoffed and looked away as if telling us that he does not care what the whole world thinks about him.

I chuckled and responded, "Well, I honestly need them here in the World Tree Realm to lighten Laerad’s energy use in maintaining it. I want him to focus a bit more on the children especially that there are three of them. I don’t think I can avoid getting more arranged marriages, mother. I guess I can only try to like them in the future well, that is as long as they don’t anger me too much."

Ioannis and Laerad were surprised on how nonchalant I was talking about making deals with the dragons in exchange for their unique energy supporting the World Tree Realm. I also discussed about matching the speed of time between Eieneos and the World Tree Realm as well as rethinking about the amount of rent based on the number of members per race or tribe to further lessen Laerad’s energy expenditure.

My mother looked dotingly towards me then at Laerad and agreed to the solutions I have discussed with them. Still, she reminded me that dragons are very stubborn and they may not follow the rules that I set. I simply responded and reiterated that I can also stop following the rules if I am angered.

My mother knew that I preferred using the Room of Beginnings when dealing with men or races where I did not find any man I fancy or wanted to be with me willingly. I am still quite stubborn about making sure that me and my husbands like each other so if do not have feelings for anybody in that race then I will use other options to complete my mission.

After we have discussed our plans to reduce energy expenditure to maintain the World Tree Realm and how to deal with the dragons, I asked a totally unrelated question to my mother which is based on an idea from video games back on Earth.

I asked out of the blue, "Mother, is there a way that you can make me a progress bar but this time it is for my mission? You remember how you helped make some of those when I was rebuilding Eieneos? This time I want one for the bloodline mission. Is that possible?"

I held Laerad’s hand and then leaned my head on Ioannis’ shoulder as I talked, making sure that I am giving attention to both of them. I was making funny faces with the twins making them smile and giggle.

My mother was quiet and had her eyes closed but I knew she was thinking or maybe making something in the background for me. I did make a request from her before and she showed me what i wanted after a few minutes.

My mother’s abilities are quite amazing but she said that she attributed it to the fact that she has accompanied me back to earth but it is just that she wasn’t strong enough to make her existence known. Thus, I started hearing her voice in my head after arriving in this planet which had more mana.

I remember previous asking my mother to make some absurd things that I only ever saw in my previous planet that she was surprisingly able to replicate and tweak to the function that I want it to do. I remember asking her to make me some progress bars too but those are for renovations completion and gauges for energy extracted from me and the four fiancés with the option to automatic allot them for repairs based on priority. She proactively given me detailed maps for Eieneos and the whole of Aeocrescens based on the places I have visited and also from Laerad’s point of view as a caretaker of this world too as a plus.

After about a quarter of an hour, while me, Laerad, Ioannis and my father are all just leisurely eating and sharing short stories while giving my mom her own space and quiet to do what she needs to do, my mother finally opened her eyes. She immediately looked at me and gave a comment, "Your mission was quite interesting and extensive if placed in such a detailed interface with all these progress bars and percentages."

I smiled widely and suddenly straightened my sitting position as I excitedly said, "Were you able to make one for me, mother?!"

She nodded her head and said that my description of what I expect from it and also based on the things she has seen with me while I was still on earth helped a lot to make it possible. She then jokingly said that it looks like somewhat a shopping list or a bucket list but with sublists and a lot of progress bars with different colors.

She touched my hand and transferred the newly created tool into my mind and my eyes widened then I couldn’t help but wince. Damn! That was kind of traumatizing to my eyes. The clash of colors was just too flashy. Was this based on each race’s mana attribute or something?

I looked back at my mother and asked, "What’s with all these colors, mother? I know you said it has different colors but I never thought that the combination of all of them can make someone blind."

My mother laughed a bit and replied, "I already checked on those. The colors indeed clash with each other. I think they represent the mana attributes from each race. Some races can use several attributes at once, thus the multiple colors on some and one solid color on others."

I sighed in exasperation as I decided to make each one solid colored. Heck if I can make everything black and white, I would. This is just too much for my sanity to look at everyday.

As for the progress bars, details and everything else, it is perfect. I quickly tried to turned everything to black and white and fortunately, it changed. Now, it is easier to look at and read.