“So, how is it?” Tina asked as she sat next to Lillia. She reached up and placed her hand on top of the head of the girl who was much shorter than her now.

“It’s actually not bad. I feel more powerful, but my breast size and height… Sigh… I was proud of my chest! Then again, Blake doesn’t care about that. But it does feel weird to be smaller than before.” Lillia replied, leaning her head against Tina’s shoulder. “Are you going to go through with it as well?”

“Mmm… not now, though. I plan to in the future, but for now, we have a lot to do. And we need to get our blood reserves up. Chi and Olinia are to be promoted to wives later on, and we only have the two concubines who can go through the process with the wives. Although if I had to pick, I would pick Yiki. She is on the smaller side and looks easy to bully.” Tina grinned. Lillia could only shake her head and glare at this sister of hers.

“I can feel your hand already, so please stop. Why do I have a feeling that when the girls get older, we will need to save them from you.” Lillia gave Tina a suspicious look only to see her pursing her lips.

“I am not a sicko! Those are our children!” Tina snorted but realized her words still sounded ambiguous, causing her to quickly correct herself: “Even if they were not my children, I still wouldn’t!”

“Pfft! Hahaha! Your face is so red!” Lillia let out a laugh as she snuggled into Tina’s arms. She found this sister of hers to be very cute.

“It’s because you are making fun of me!” Tina pouted as she poked Lillia’s cheek. She then turned her eyes towards Blake, who was laughing and chatting with Bret, and smiled. “We are very lucky.”

“Mmmm…. Blake is able to bring happiness to those who are without hope. Even though we lost so much in the last war, the people are still laughing and enjoying themselves. Time goes on even when the dead have passed. We need to grow stronger and stronger. So I think us wives becoming drakani will allow us to be a step ahead. It will boost all of us to new heights.” Lillia stared at the man across from her with eyes full of passion and love. She then looked up at Tina and smiled as she poked Tina’s belly. “You should get pregnant again.”

“Oh? We having sons this time?” Tina asked, giving a knowing smile.

Lillia averted her eyes as she answered: “I have no idea what you are talking about.”

“Yes, yes. It is just a coincidence that all the wives thus far have had only girls.” Tina giggled as she played with Lillia’s hair. “I do not mind. Right now is also the best time with things in a calm state. We are slowly expanding, but there is no need for a major war at this time. I think all the major clans are probably much farther away.”

“Then tonight, make sure you grab hold of our husband’s baby seed. Use the technique I taught you to ensure it stays within you for a few hours after.” Lillia had also used said technique to keep the seed in her belly for quite a while.

“I will do that.” Tina nodded. She leaned down and kissed Lillia’s lips before leaning back on the chair and staring up at the starry sky. But she noticed that the clouds overhead seemed strange. “Hey, Blake!”

“Hmmm?” Blake looked over to see Tina pointing at the sky. He turned his head skyward and frowned. “Hmmm? Is that a radioactive cloud?” Sighing, he got up. “I will go check it out.”

He took out a geiger counter from his space and flew up into the air. He was not afraid of radiation poisoning anymore, but he still did not know what it would do to the plants and other inhabitants. He waved his hand and put a barrier around the city to block any rain before heading to the cloud. But before he got too close, he suddenly felt his whole body wrapped in magic and pulled backward.

He landed gently on the ground and looked at Lillia in confusion. “What’s wrong?”

“That is a death cloud! That thing is made of death energy. If you got too close, it would have started sucking the life force from your body! I put up another barrier so you can cancel yours, as it would not block this kind of rain.” Lillia answered as she shivered. “When there is a large battle, and the dead are not taken care of, the energy from the dead bodies will be released into the air. It will cause green clouds to form, and they will move across the land until they dissipate. These ones are rather large, so they must have come from a nearby location. At least a few hundred miles away.”

“I see…” Blake was thankful Lillia realized this before he got too close. He quickly put his radiation detector away before turning his head skyward again. “What happens if you get caught up in that rain?”

“You will have your life force drained, turning you into a zombie. Once that happens, there is no changing back. You will become an undead. If you are lucky, you will keep your sanity and can still live a semi normal life. If you are not lucky, you will end up a mindless zombie wandering the lands, trying to eat any living being that moves. But that is not the worst of it. The dead bodies or skeletons underground that have already absorbed lots of mana and have soaked up any of this rain will also begin to rise. And with the number of humans who have died in the past, they are sure to rise up. While mana alone can create undead as well, it is a longer process. But if you add in death energy, it will speed the process up by a thousandfold.”