"And here we are… Home sweet home"

    Mars muttered such as he stepped through the tear in space and arrived in his castle, Mercury and the others soon followed after him, though his attention was on something else

    ''Any second now…''

    "MARS!"

    Mars sighed before he spoke to Mercury in a low voice

    "I want to be buried a sea"

    "What?"

    In the next instance ''something'' appeared in front of them, she was laced with so much bloodthirst that Mercury''s dragon seal almost reacted, though the seal was smart enough to figure out that the blood lust was focused on someone else than its host

    "Mars!"

    Before Mercury noticed Mars was kneeling down in front of the female elf in front of him as he spoke out loudly

    "I am so sorry dear Chloe, it''s not my fault, actually it''s Victoria that called me to save Mercury"

    Chloe that stood and was partially fuming in front of Mars visibly calmed down before she showed a scary smile... Clearly she wasn''t calm at all

    "So it''s all Victoria''s fault?"

    Mars nodded righteously as he threw Victoria under the bus

    "Yes exactly dear Chloe"

    Chloe cracked her knuckles before she asked, her face showing the perfect smile

    ''"DId you think I would fall for that!?"

    To Mars, however, this was the smile of the reaper, Mercury only managed to detect two subtle moments from Chloe before Mars suddenly took flight and escaped, as he did Chloe''s figure melted into the surroundings, it was, in fact, an afterimage, she had appeared right where Mars had been kneeling seeming having reached out to clutch where his neck had been mere instances ago, Chloe let out a deep sigh before she clicked her tongue and looked over at the group of onlookers, more specifically right at Mercury before she spoke

    "Oh, you''re here again… And I see you brought some friends this time, I am sorry Mercury as I have other things to attend to I''ll leave your room assignments to a servant, Julie"

    "Yes, lady Chloe?"

    "Find some rooms for our guests"

    "Yes, at once"

    Then the ground beneath Chloe suddenly shattered as her figure, or rather afterimage melted away, Mercury turned to the maid that stood at the side of the courtyard as she gave a slight bow before she spoke

    "Please follow after me, dear guests"

    The group followed after the maid and soon was assigned their own rooms, as it was the middle of the night there wasn''t much activity in the castle and Mercury''s past experiences told him he needed to rest before the coming day, of course, that didn''t stop the girls for barging into his room, first was Asma that held a pillow against her chest as she spoke a dangerous sentence

    "Want to sleep together… No good?"

    Next was Marie that sneaked in not wanting to wake him if he was asleep, and then finally came Julia that loudly declared

    "I am here to play~"

    Mercury sighed before he spoke

    "You might want to save your energy, Julia… That goes for the two of you too"

    Asma tilted her head, so did Marie and so the night passed without any ''playing'' Mercury woke up early in the morning and woke up the girls and got dressed along with them before they left the room, right outside stood a maid ready that bowed slightly to them before she spoke

    "Right this way"

    Mercury nodded, so did the girls and so they followed the maid through identical corridors until they arrived at a training courtyard where Mars sat in the middle with closed eyes with a pale bone sword in his lap, Mercury noticed that he was wearing the same pajamas from yesterday and showed a slight grin before he spoke

    "So Chloe banished you to the courtyard huh Mars?"

    Mars opened his eyes and nodded and spoke with a slightly strained smile

    "Yeah, I did miss our appointed cuddle session with 6 minutes and 47 seconds after all… Anyway, looks like you''re all here"

    Mars visibly switched gears before he stood up and spread out his arms wide, Mercury noticed that Jey, Ben, and Nailia stood in the corner of the courtyard already, Mars continued speaking

    "Welcome to Ular, or as it''s better known the city-state of immortals"

    Julia''s eyes widened a little before she asked bluntly

    "That means you''re the famed immortal?"

    "Yep"

    "The one that cut the Salen sea with a single stroke of his sword?"

    "Yep"

    "The one that slew the remaining 3 traitors of the dragon council?"

    "Yep"

    "The one immortal capable of granting mortals eternal life?"

    "You are making me blush…"

    Julia looked more and more stunned for each question she asked, eventually she fell silent and then she looked him over again, no matter how hard she looked all she saw was a lazy man in his late 20''s wearing slightly dirty silk pajamas, then she nodded and spoke

    "Ah… I see why dad said to never meet your heroes… Turns out they''re a lot less impressive in person..."

    Mars'' eyelid twitch slightly before he cleared his throat and spoke again

    "Anyways… Let me introduce you to your instructor, Varvei dear will you take it from here?"

    "Sure"

    Mercury felt a chill go up his spine, the voice came from right behind him, he turned his head but saw nothing then he turned back and came face to face with the tip of a viper spear, it was millimeters away from his eye, still, he didn''t flinch, Mercury just reached up and moved the spear away from his eye while complaining

    "That''s dangerous"

    "Hoo~ You pass Mercury"

    A half-dragon woman stood in front of Mercury, she had a long scaled tail and horns growing from her forehead, both were vermilion red  as were her vertical slit eyes, she quickly looked over the people present before her eyes stopped on Marie before she nodded

    "I''ll take her"

    Before Marie or Mercury managed to complain Marie and Varvei both disappeared from view, then another person appeared, it was a blonde half-elf, she shaded her eyes from the morning sun as she looked over the remaining people before she spoke

    "I''ll take him, and… Her"

    She pointed at Ben and Nailia, then after Mercury nodded the 3 of them disappeared from view, Mercury asked

    "That''s one of your women right?"

    "Yeah, here comes another, Hey Chloe dear, have you slept well?"

    "Yes I slept well, how about you Mars?"

    Mars looked at Chloe for a moment before he detected her sheeting anger had not cooled down at all since last night and quickly showed a teasing smile

    "You weren''t lonely at all~?"

    Chloe showed an equally teasing smile as she responded

    "No not at all, I had Victoria as a bodypillow afterall~"

    Mars clicked his tongue and muttered

    "Traitor…"

    Chloe showed a victorious smile before it faded again as she looked over the remaining people

    "Hmm… I guess I can teach her some archery?"

    She pointed at Julia and when Mars nodded both of them disappeared from view, the only people reaming now was Mercury, Asma, and Jey

    "Hmm…"

    A voice sounded out from the courtyard before a figure appeared, she had pure white wings on her hip and carried a divine aura as she looked at the people present, then she walked over and touched Jey on the cheek before she whispered something to her, to which Jey nodded, then the angelic woman looked back at Mars that nodded, then the two of them disappeared from view too, now only Mercury and Asma remained, then another woman appeared, she had ears like an elf, horns like a demon and fluffy wolf-like ears on top of her head, she tilted her head when she looked at Asma, Asma tilted her head too causing her f9oxlike ears to tilted slightly more than her head, then the strange woman nodded and said

    "I''ll take this child"

    "Sure 78, have fun"

    Then the two of them disappeared from view, then finally the lesser beast woman Elsa appeared, she was wearing a maid uniform as last Mercury saw her, she had a frosty look on her face as she looked at Mercury and muttered

    "Smells like Party… No way I am training him, Mars, do it yourself"

    "Sure, sorry to bother you, dear"

    "...It''s fine, I''ll get back to work then"

    Elsa disappeared again leaving Mercury and Mars alone in the courtyard, Mars showed a smile and stood up before he stretched his back, then he cracked his neck and spoke

    "Shall we go to the playground?"

    "The what now?"

    Mars showed a smile and slashed out with his pale sword, opening a rift which he walked through, Mercury sighed and muttered

    "If this is a BDSM room I swear…"

    Then he followed after and arrived in… A normal looking Workout room, he quickly got a pop in his ear and swallowed his spit to equalize the pressure, then he closed his eyes for a moment before he opened them again and looked down at the polished rock floor and muttered

    "This is bedrock?"

    "Yeah, we''re exactly 53.203 meters down from the city-state of Ular, welcome to the playroom"

    Mercury looked around the seemingly ordinary-looking gym and asked

    "What''s so special about this place?"

    Mars shrugged and picked up a hand wight and handed it to Mercury

    "Feel that for your self"

    "Sure..:"

    Mercury received the weight and nearly dropped it, it was heavy, he quickly inspected the side of the wight and saw a number

    "10? As in kilograms?"

    Mars showed a smile before he corrected Mercury

    "No, Metric tons"