“You’re saying… to buy land? You want to buy land in Redwood City?”
Anna didn’t quite understand Enya’s decision.
Sometimes, a city’s poverty wasn’t due to the people being lazy, but because of poor geographical location.
From Anna’s perspective, Redwood City wasn’t worth investing in.
If she had that kind of money, she’d rather go to the Westwind Empire to do business.
Whether it was the business environment or the spending power of the people there, it was incomparable to Redwood City.
The current lord was indeed capable and impressive, but that didn’t mean she could suddenly change the entrenched poverty and weakness of the territory.
Enya didn’t explain why but continued, “I’ll provide the funds; you just handle the rest.”
Anna thought it over for a moment.
If Milly succeeded in advancing to the fifth rank, she would leave Redwood City, which meant one less member in her adventurer team.
Besides, after this life-and-death experience, they no longer had the same passion for adventuring as before.
So she had to consider what she wanted to do in the future.
Looking at the mysterious figure clad in armor before her, whose face she couldn’t see, Anna thought this might be an opportunity.
After a few minutes of contemplation, she fixed her gaze firmly and said to Enya, “You can rest assured, I will do my best!”
“Mm.”
Enya nodded lightly.
Anna was about to ask some details when the door behind her was knocked on.
The sudden sound startled Anna; she first glanced back, then looked toward Enya.
Enya gestured that she could open the door, so Anna walked over.
She gently unlatched the door and saw that striking silver hair—Estelle was standing at the doorway.
The girl’s pale golden eyes glanced at Anna before immediately looking inside the room.
Seeing Estelle, Anna’s expression turned worried.
“Estelle, why are you here? Lady Phil said you need plenty of rest.”
“…”
Estelle didn’t respond to Anna but stared intently at the armored figure inside the room.
She took a step forward and slipped past Anna’s arm.
Anna was a little stunned.
Peeking outside the door, she saw everyone was there—Milly, Ruby, Mapelle, even Lady Phil. What was going on here…
Estelle walked straight up to Enya.
She looked up at Enya and said, “I want to learn swordsmanship from you.”
The girl’s gaze was extremely resolute.
Her eyes seemed to say, “This sword—I’m definitely learning it from you!”
Although Antiros had separated Enya and Phil into two independent existences, sharing the same mind, Enya naturally knew that Estelle had rushed out as soon as she heard from Mapelle that Anna had gone to see the armored figure who saved her.
Enya tossed something toward Estelle.
It was a golden ring.
Estelle raised her hand to catch it, opened her palm to look at the ring, then raised her eyes to Enya, showing a hint of confusion.
Enya came over, placing her hand on Estelle’s shoulder as she said, “Focus on recovering your body first. When the time comes, I’ll come find you.”
“…Really?”
Estelle’s eyes widened as she looked at Enya, a trace of excitement appearing on her face.
Enya nodded softly.
She glanced once at Anna, gave a subtle sign that they’d meet again, then instantly left the room.
Estelle noticed her departure and shifted her gaze back to the golden ring in her hand.
Once Anna confirmed the aura had disappeared, she exhaled in relief and walked over to Estelle’s side.
Seeing the golden ring resting in the girl’s small hands, her eyes widened slightly.
“Looks like a Space Ring!”
Estelle turned her head to look at Anna behind her.
Anna was surprised Estelle didn’t know what it was, so she explained the concept of the Space Ring.
Magical items in this world were divided into four grades: Lesser, Greater, Supreme, and the rare Legendary magical items.
The Space Ring, as a Greater magical item, required extremely advanced magical technology.
Moreover, the materials used to make it were scarce, so it was very expensive, priced according to the volume of space it could store.
In recent years, the price had stabilized at 1,000 gold coins per square meter.
“I wonder how much space this ring has. That senior gave it so readily—maybe she wants to take Estelle as her disciple?”
“Disciple…”
After Estelle came out, Milly and the others approached and asked, receiving a nod from the girl.
They all looked quite happy.
They even planned to go out for a nice meal together.
However, Anna excused herself, saying she had other matters.
Phil said the dishes at home hadn’t been washed, so she had to go back to do that and left as well.
Their departure left Milly somewhat downcast.
Lady Phil, dressed in a white blouse and long black skirt, walked slowly into a deserted street, exchanging glances with her original body who had long been waiting.
Then, the two smiled at each other.
Enya: “I still find it a little weird, seeing myself like this.”
Phil: “Yeah, yeah.”
Phil was now observing the silver-haired Dragon Princess before her with great interest.
She walked quietly behind Enya and fixed her gaze on that thick, chubby dragon tail, almost as thick as a thigh, a smile curling at the corners of her lips.
Those sinfully beautiful hands reached out directly.
Her meticulously manicured nails traced over the shiny black scales, all the way down to the base of the tail.
Enya turned her head to look at her, frowning slightly.
Though they shared the same mind…
One was the version others perceived, and the other was the true self.
Their thoughts and personalities were somewhat different.
Phil grinned mischievously and reached underneath the tail.
The upper layer of dragon scales was hard, but the underside was soft and tender, and the tail was plump and fleshy.
Enya, being the one having her tail stroked, felt a ticklish sensation.
When Phil pinched the base of her tail, her waist instinctively stiffened.
Her legs clamped tightly together!
Frowning deeply, Enya shot a glare at the other self.
“Alright, stop it. This is not comfortable at all!”
“You’re just fooling yourself.”
Phil smiled brightly, wrapping her arms around Enya from the side.
Before merging back, she lightly bit Enya’s crimson long ear, then the beautiful and gentle Lady Phil transformed into a swarm of colorful-winged moths that settled on Enya’s body, gradually fading into nothingness.
The long, pointed elf-like ear peeking through Enya’s hair twitched, and her plump dragon tail swayed, but the feeling of being touched lingered.
“Spirit Calm Technique—Silent Mind.”
After casting a calming magic on herself, she finally forgot that strange feeling.
She was busy with important matters now; there would be time to play when she got home.