NOVEL NEXT Chapter 128 – Blue
Everyone continued to work on their biome projects, and the two tigers were especially active with them. Having gotten tired of the all-white nothingness above them, Sophia suggested to try and create a fake blue sky as their savannah wouldn't need any clouds and the likes to make it look natural. With the help of their favorite parakeet, Blu, the duo tried to paint the sky blue with their magic.
“It’s actually working!” The tigers returned to the savannah the following day, and Sophia was fascinated by the new sights above them.
“I was expecting a bit more blue, though.” Anna was also looking at the sky, but she wasn’t entirely happy with the very pale blue above them. “Don’t get me wrong, this already is incomparably better than the pure white, but it’s still kinda white. It’s more of a hint of blue.”
“That’s probably because the magic we amassed wasn’t nearly enough to make it have the same color as a regular cloudless blue sky.”
“It was SOOO much, though!”
“If anything, I’m shocked it worked at all.” The blonde was surprised about something else instead. “Admittedly, it doesn’t look that good right now, but it should be decent if we do the same two or three more times!”
“That’s one hungry sky!”
“It yearns for magic~.” Sophia nodded a couple of times. "Should we keep feeding the sky, or do you want to do some more savannah building?"
“Mhmm, I think we should keep feeling blue.” The princess smiled at her. “Sorry, I had to do it.”
“Totally fine~.” The blonde liked the playful tiger. “It will probably take a week or two, though.”
“That’s fine by me.” Anna didn’t mind it. “I don’t want the savannah as fast as possible. I want it as best as possible!”
“That’s the spirit!”
“That gives me some more time to think about the details and placement of things, too.”
“This might be the best opportunity to do some more traveling.” Sophia lightly clapped her hands. “Being in the regular world is the best way to reset and amass some good amount of magic! Also, there’s a new technique I want to try to get magic into the domain, so that would be perfect.”
“Do you think the others also feel like traveling?”
“Should be.” The blonde nodded. “Steph definitely would love it, and Maya hasn't really started anything in here, so she shouldn't care. Chloe and Fen are waiting for that log cabin for their holiday home, which I still don’t get why they need a holiday home together, but all the power to them, I guess. On top of that, Aura and Ari are waiting for their forest to stop burning, soo…" She scratched her cheek, already knowing that it would never stop. "Additionally, the mom foxes are so busy with each other after Fey turned humanoid that they won’t accompany us, anyway.”
“I wonder if Chloe will get a little sister soon.” Anna knew what she was talking about.
“Ahaha.” She had to chuckle at that. “I guess being humanoid has some benefits in those areas, huh? Not that I necessarily want to know how fulls have fun, but I assume the activities are a little more basic there…?”
“So, traveling time?” The princess didn’t feel like continuing the topic.
“Traveling!” Sophia also happily dropped it.
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The tigers finished up on their project for the day and returned to the cottage. However, before that, Sophia went and collected the others to tell them about the plans.
“Let's go!” Hearing the suggestion of resuming their travels, Steph immediately got excited over it. “The domain is amazingly fun, but I’ve been waiting to see more of the other world!”
“Seems like a great idea to me!” Chloe agreed with her. “It really has been some time, and I also would like to see more of the area. Feyfey already has shown me so much of the world, but there’s so much more left to see!”
“I wouldn’t mind seeing more, either.” Maya just nodded.
“Same.” Ari did the same. “Ah, as long as we can skip the snowy mountain range!” She remembered where they left off the last time. I won’t be accepting any more snow near me for the rest of the year!”
"A very valid point!” The cat-girl liked her condition. “Let’s definitely skip the mountains!”
“I support this idea, too.” The princess also had enough of it.
“That should be arrangeable.” Sophia smiled at her fellow cats. “Once we’re back on the mountain, I’ll take another portal stone and throw it so fast and far that it will end up in the future!” She gave them a thumbs up. “Or maybe a couple of kilometers away, so we skip the mountain range. Whatever I can achieve the fastest, I guess.”
“I’m hoping for the time travel!” The dog-girl preferred the interesting-sounding option.
“I’ll try my best~.”
"Once we're on the other side, could we try to head over to a city from father’s list? I know we agreed that we wouldn’t specifically go for them, but I’d really like to visit another city.”
“Sure thing!” The blonde smiled at her. “If you can guide us to one, that is.”
“Ah.” The princess scratched her cheek. “Ari, please help, okay?”
“Of course.” The jaguar nodded. “Once I find a point of interest I can categorize, that is.”
“Thank you!” It was good enough for her.
“I’ll join you once the portal out of the snow is ready.” Fen joined the conversation while shaking his head. “The pink ball of fluff already subjected me to enough lately, so I’m done with it.”
“There was always a healthy distance between you and it!” Chloe glared at him. “Stop whining, Fenfen!”
“Speaking about whining, how long will it take before you ask Aura or me for a ride because we’re walking too much during our travels?” He stared back at her.
“…” She went silent.
“They get along well, huh?” Steph smiled at her sister.
“True.” She nodded. “They always have been, too.”
“I don’t mind if you ride on me.” Aura was okay with being a taxi.
“YAY!” Chloe happily clapped her hands.
“Don’t spoil her so much.” The male wolf shook his head. “She has to get some more stamina.”
“True.” Steph suddenly nodded.
“HEY!” The pink fox didn’t like that.
“What?” The dog-girl tilted her head. “You getting more stamina is an absolute win for me! For various reasons!” Her expression turned into a smirk. “With that, I mean horny reasons.”
“There was absolutely no need to elaborate.” Ari shook her head. “We all know.”
“Better make sure!” Steph didn’t care about her objection. “I mean, I’m sure you also would like to have Anna more stamina, right? For various reasons.”
“…” The jaguar went silent.
“As if you could handle playing with me any longer.” The princess didn’t appreciate the baseless slander and glared at her girlfriend in return.
“…” She continued to stay silent.
“Stamina training, it is!” The dog-girl clapped her hands. “Let’s go!”
“Should we head out right now?” Sophia’s eyes wandered between all of them. “It’s still early, after all.”
“Sure!” No one had anything against it.
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“Brrr!” Arriving in the mountain range, specifically in the cherry blossom valley inside it, all the cats had the same reaction.
"Shush!" Steph and Chloe just rolled their eyes.
“Babies.” Aura also sided with the cold enthusiasts. “It’s not even cold at all.”
“You’re 70% fluff and fur!” Anna, Ari, Maya, and Sophia unionized and glared at her.
“To be fair, in our defense, it is a lot colder than the cottage area from my domain.”
“That’s just because it’s too warm there!” Her sister didn’t accept the excuse.
“Anyway, let’s get out of here!” The blonde didn’t feel like entertaining the topic any longer. “I just need to know in which direction, though.” She looked around while awkwardly scratching her cheek. “It might be a shock to some, but I’m actually not that good with directions.”
“It’s a shock to NO one.” They all shook their heads.
“Fair enough.” She couldn’t blame them for their reaction. “So, which direction would lead out of the mountain range?”
“We came from there, soo…” Chloe pointed to her right before turning around. “If I had to take an uneducated guess, this would lead to the other side.”
“Yes.” The others just nodded.
“Okay, that lines up with my detection magic.” Sophia ignored the condescending tone in their voices and simply continued as she had no intention of improving her directional awareness any time soon. “I can sense a little city around 30 kilometers in that direction. “Alright, let’s go that way!”
Saying so, the blonde took one of her enchanted portal stones out of her storage and did a quick warmup exercise with her right arm. A few moments later, she roughly imitated the movements of a baseball pitcher and sent the stone flying in the direction everyone was pointing and where she detected the city.
After around a minute, she gestured for everyone to return through the portal they came from to relocate to wherever the stone ended up in through her portal hub on the other side. There, they also picked up Fen, who had refused to go to the mountain range before, and everyone looked at the new portal while Sophia made it see-through.
Revealing what was on the other side, yet another simple green plain with a couple of trees sprinkled here and there, they walked through it to finally resume their exploration after a long time of having gotten sidetracked by virtually everything.
