Chapter 224 224 - Statue


    *Pio?


    Looking down, Ryan saw the little flint passing its head on his leg. The little bird seemed to be in high spirits, walking around with happy little hops as it hummed through the center of the vige.


    "He''s gotten a bit bigger," Ryan said, as he looked at the little obsidian bird that seemed to be the new attraction in the vige. Both the maids and the sand people seemed to be enamored of Flint''s cuteness, and it was understandable that this would happen.


    Secondster, Ayumi and Lux appeared next to Ryan. "Flint is going to be huge," said the Kitsune, who crossed her arms around Ryan. Approaching her master''s neck, she kissed him, whispering, "I want that kind of treatment too. Just like Nyx got"


    Just then he felt the kitsune''s hand run down his back, giving him a little shiver that wasn''t ufortable. With a sideways smile, he nodded. Then Lux grabbed her master''s hand, "Can I... May I y with Flint?" she said, with eyes that looked like a child''s. Ryan''s smile turned into a smile.


    Ryan''s corner smile turned into a full smile, and nodding, he gave her the signal she needed. Lux flew off at high speed to the little bird, which epted her caresses quite easily.


    "How you''ve grown!" She said, while running her hand over the bird''s head.


    Now that the tforms were ready, moving between the inds would be a little easier. Previously, it had simply been impossible to expand between the various flying inds that were almost next to each other.


    For a moment, Ryan thought about the possibility of building bridges connecting the ces. However, that wasn''t the best idea to solve the situation, the chance of the inds moving and breaking the bridge was too great. Floating tforms were a simple way of dealing with this problem, they are reliable and easy to use, both for getting around the ind and outside. It was for this and other reasons that the neodrazzil academy used this type of technology.


    Ryan was curious how the tforms had turned out, so he opted to walk towards the crystal lizard farm. Now that the ntation was thriving and mining would provide a stable source of ie for the vige, maintaining that farm was no longer such a lucrative idea.


    However, the meat and materials derived from the lizards were still interesting, which made it in Ryan''s interest to keep them, even if on a smaller scale. That way, the vige of Sunset would be able to produce textiles, artifacts, crystals and iron.


    As Ryan walked around the main ind, he noticed the small houses and ntations. The former inhabitants of the desert had already adapted easily to the ce, and it hadn''t even been two weeks since they had moved. The paths made by Toki and Pona werefortable to walk on and could even support carts, which made walking much more peaceful and prosperous than before.


    Around the concrete path there were many flowers, the grass was being carefully pruned to maintain just that lush sea of color.


    Ryan took a deep breath, feeling the fresh ind air and appreciating the transformation that was taking ce on Sunset. He wondered how the inhabitants were coping with the changes and if they were satisfied with the progress.


    "I hope they''re getting used to it by now..." he said aloud as he lifted his face to look at the sky.


    "Sister! Look! It''s Master Ryan!" said a little girl, who started waving her arm from side to side as she said hello.


    "Master Ryan! Hello!" said the older sister, who was carrying the girl in her arms. The two had chosen a house a little way from the ind. It was a small wooden house, one of the furthest away.


    There were two fruit trees in front of the house, a small swing and a small garden with some decorations made of rough stone. All this reinforced the effort that the women of the vige were making to make the ce even more weing.


    The smiles on their faces at the sight of Ryan warmed his chest a little. The undergrowth grew in length along with the number of flowers, there were trees scattered around the ce, and the walksted a long time, as Ryan wanted to take the time to think.


    Amidst the sound of the leaves moving, the birds singing in tune with the insects, Ryan observed the gigantic stone tform that had been built by Aiden and Brigitte. Resembling a saucer, it stood on top of a square of concrete that rested near the edge of the ind. Walking over to it, the moment Ryan stepped onto the tform, his mana began to energize the device.


    "In the old days, I couldn''t use one of these on my own," he said with an uneasy smile.


    >"Your old days are in the past, my master, there''s no need to worry about that.


    Ayumi''s thinking was right, he didn''t need to bother with something that had already happened. Secondster, Ayumi appeared beside him with her arms crossed.


    "I thought you were going to stay in the center of the vige," he said.


    The kitsune walked slowly up to him with a cheeky grin on her face, "I''d rather stay with my master, that ce wasn''t as much fun as being by his side," she said.


    "Besides, Lux was a bit annoying, she kept screaming thinly while talking in a baby voice to that little bird," she continued.


    Ryanughed at Ayumi''sment, and then the two of them set off for the second ind where the crystal lizard farm was.


    The lizard farm was much bigger than Ryan could have imagined; the creatures were eating crystals non-stop in quantities that rivaled those of elephants. As a result, even the cubs that had just been born were already more than big enough for ughter.


    This quantity and avability of meat was the reason for Aiden and Brigitte''s happiness, as well as that of much of the vige that had received the good news. Knowing that the tform had be a sess, Ryan gave Ayumi the task of mobilizing some employees to work on the meat and leather production.


    Wiggling her ears, she said, "Are you sure these creatures won''t multiply too quickly? They have toorge a stock of energy...".


    Ayumi''s question was valid, but Ryan still couldn''t answer that question at the moment, the only thing he could be sure of was that the lizards were growing at a high rate of speed. With that, he went to the extra trouble of checking how many births would ur.


    If each femaleid around twenty eggs a week, in less than four weeks the poption would already be gigantic. However, this wouldn''t be a problem with the rapid increase in size, as it would only be necessary to cull.


    "I think that''s enough," said Ryan, who had just put up a wooden board to leave papers with the markings. After that, Ayumi and Ryan returned to the vige at a slightly faster speed.


    The main area of Sunset Vige was still bustling, mainly because of the party Brigitte had chosen to throw without telling Ryan. With Rin''s support, she bought alcohol and started distributing it around the town, which made even Pharah''s most serious warriors drunk and happy.


    "My master, I apologize for the behavior of your servants," said Pharah, who knelt in front of Ryan as soon as she saw him.


    Shaking his head and his arms, he replied, "Don''t worry, in fact, I''m d they''re enjoying themselves." Seeing the women of the vige happy was, in a way,forting for Ryan, like a reaffirmation that his efforts were working.


    The festivities continued until nightfall, and with Ryan''s support, a big feast was started. The maids began preparing the meat of the lizards while enjoying part of the first harvest, and Pharah and the rest of the desert warriors obtained other types of meat from the forest.


    The feast was tost until after dark, but Ryan left before the celebration could really take ce. He wanted to sort out some things in the first world, and looking at his cell phone with no inte connection, he remembered the conversation he would have the next day.


    Saying goodbye to the girls in the vige, Ryan left the ce against the wishes of the majority. However, he promised Pharah, Toki, Brigitte and Pona that he would return if he still had a little time.


    As he walked towards the portal, the sound of the vibrations it emitted consumed his ears until he crossed the threshold and was thrown to the other side of the dimensional rift. The Silvermoons'' courtyard was quite disorganized, which was somewhat annoying Ryan.


    Although Kyouko hadn''tined, it was clear that this wasn''t the best ce for it. Firstly, because there wererge quantities of magical iron being transported and secondly, because of the wooden boxes that were being incorrectly stored in the center of a luxurious pce.


    "That''s going to be a problem..." he said, while looking at a gigantic marble statue of his own face that had beenmissioned by Rin.