I became a vampire princess and then a dragon girl?

On the other side, Eve and the others had already arrived at the side of the rainforest far away from the feathered serpent. Since they might stay here for a month or two, Eve did not plan to simply set up a tent.

For short-term residence, it is obviously more appropriate to build a small house, and this kind of rainforest seems to rain frequently, so having a house high above the ground can make life much more comfortable.

Taking into account the possibility of the river flooding due to rain, Eve finally chose a location upstream from the river for her camp. Since the ground in the rainforest lacked direct sunlight and was very damp and cool, Eve planned to use several trees to build a suspended tree house.

As for why they didn't use magic to build the house, it's probably just for the sake of romance. After all, who can resist the opportunity to build a secret cabin with their own hands? This is a secret base! And it's a tree house!

"Okay, I'll go collect some wood, and Tina and Arcana can go find some vines and big leaves. We'll build a house! We might have to live here for a while~"

"Good~"

Seeing Eve's excitement, Istina smiled softly, and then prepared to go look for vines with Arcana.

Then Eve looked at Ilvia again.

"Viya, please stay here in case we get lost."

"Ok!"

Since Eve can sense the two weapon elves and Istina has Arcana by her side, they can find their way back no matter where they get lost, so it is foolproof.

As for Eve, although she said she was going to look for wood, she had no intention of cutting down the surrounding trees. Instead, she started looking for bamboo.

After all, it is not easy to grow trees, especially in the rainforest where there is a lack of light in the lower layer. It is quite difficult for trees to grow. But bamboo is different. It grows fast and in groups. It can grow again quickly after being cut down. It is simply a perfect building material.

"Ah, I found it."

After wandering around in the rainforest for a while, Eve finally found a small bamboo forest.

Then, after selecting some tall bamboos that had already grown, Eve followed her intuition about Ilvia and returned to the camp. Well, I never expected that I was the one who got lost. At this time, Akana and Istina had also returned with vines and leaves.

After measuring the trees in front of her with the bamboo in her hand, Eve began to split the bamboo. This time she planned to do something hard-working that combined natural products with artificial technology.

In simple terms, she was a little worried that the house she built would leak, so she planned to put the tent inside to keep out the rain.

Because they had enough manpower, they built the house quite quickly. First, they used several bamboos and rattan to build a rough frame, and then laid bamboo as the ground. At this time, Ilvia used rattan to tie the bamboo together to prevent it from falling.

The surrounding walls and roof were made of broad leaves and bamboo, and the tent that Eve bought was set up inside, and a simple bamboo hanging house was completed.

Eve looked at the house in front of her and fell into a state of satisfaction. As expected, secret houses are romantic.

"Okay, it's getting late, let's call it a day and get ready to cook."

Then he looked at Istina again.

"Tina, the family ceremony is scheduled for tomorrow morning, so be prepared."

"Yes! Don't worry, brave man!"

"Very good, then let's get started."

Snapped

With a snap of fingers, a bonfire illuminated the lower layer of the rainforest, which was gradually sinking into darkness. Due to the layers of tree canopy above, it got dark very early in the rainforest.

The dinner time was spent happily chatting with a few people.

At night, in the tree house, Eve took out moisture-proof mats, sleeping bags and other items from the demiplane and began to spread them on the floor of the tree house.

If you look at their tree house from the outside at this time, it will be absolutely shocking. Countless purple-black butterflies are landing on this tree house, making it seem like a house made up of butterflies, like a scenery that only exists in a fantasy world.

In the tree house, everyone except Eve had fallen asleep. As for Eve herself, although she had just told Istina to have a good rest, she had no plans to sleep tonight.

At this time, she was sorting out some of her experiences in controlling power, mainly about how to adapt to the destructiveness of magic and control it. After all, if she couldn't control it well at that time, she could still have Ilvia and Arcana to share the burden, but Tina didn't have that.

And if things get out of control, then she's prepared to watch the training ground incident and then add a rainforest special edition.

However, even if she loses control, there is no need to worry about Istina's safety. After all, we can borrow her power as external aid, and it will be no problem to protect Istina when she loses control.

"Hmm... In that case, let's first have Tina practice using my power proficiently. Once she's safe, we can then start practicing controlling it."

As for borrowing power, being able to borrow it is a skill and not shameful.

"Next is the destructive aspect of controlling magic. Hmm, I wonder if Tina can use my method."

Eve now uses a combination of blocking and releasing methods to deal with the destructive power in her magic. First, she lets them offset each other and destroy themselves, then guides the remaining part to be stored, and finally releases this part of the power in battle, which can make the power even more powerful.

However, Eve had no idea whether this trick would work.

"Hmm... Anyway, let's write it down."

As the night deepened, the day's journey came to a temporary end.

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§ 84 Preparation

Next morning

Today, Eve did not wake up Istina in advance but sat beside her and watched her sleeping quietly.

"Well…"

Suddenly, Istina's brows slightly furrowed in her sleep, and her closed eyes opened a little. Because she had just woken up, one side of her eyes seemed to be half open.

"Hah~~ Um, Mr. Brave?"

While rubbing her eyes and sitting up, Istina looked at Eve in front of her and asked in a daze.

"Good morning, how are you, did you sleep well?"

"Hmm, ha~yawn, but is it already morning?"

Noticing that Eve didn't say good morning, Istina asked with some confusion.

"That's right. After all, we might have to carry out the Attachment Ceremony today, so I thought I'd let you sleep a little longer. Breakfast is ready, come out and eat."

As she said that, Eve jumped out of the tree house and took down the stove on the campfire. Inside was the red date porridge that she had been cooking for a long time.

"Okay, I'll be right there~"

After saying that, Istina tidied up her hair which was a little messy from sleeping, and then jumped out.

However, after leaving the tree house, she suddenly noticed that the color of the tree house behind her was a little wrong. How come the tree house, which was green yesterday, suddenly turned purple and black?

At first she thought she was dazzled because she was not fully awake and rubbed her eyes deliberately, but it turned out that she was not dazzled. In front of her, countless purple and black butterflies fell on the tree house layer by layer, turning the tree house into purple and black.

"Eh?! Master Brave, what is Dier doing?"

"Ah? Well, Dier said she likes to stay closer to me, so she landed over there."

Eve scooped out a bowl of hot porridge and handed it to Istina.

"Okay, hurry up and have breakfast. You'll be busy today, so remember to eat more."

"Eat more? Isn't lunch coming soon?"

While blowing on the porridge in her hand, Istina ate it in small bites and asked casually.

The porridge in her hand was slightly sweet, as if some sugar was added for seasoning. In addition to rice, there were also some pitted red dates mixed in. Because it had been boiled for a long time, it had become soft and glutinous, and tasted very delicious.

"I'm not sure how long it will take you to wake up after the Familiar Ceremony, so you'd better eat more just in case."

"Is that so? Well, I won't be polite then."

"Feel free to eat. I made quite a bit."

"Ok!"

Breakfast time passed in a flash, and Eve brought a few people to a place some distance away from the camp.

"Hmm... this distance should be about right."

Looking at the tree house hidden in the shadows of the trees in the distance, which was already not very noticeable, Eve roughly estimated in her mind the damage that might be caused if it got out of control, and finally chose this place as the location for the ceremony.

To be precise, it was the location where she was going to construct the demiplane. After all, she had no idea how loud the noise would be when the ceremony was performed, so naturally, she had to reserve enough buffer space for everything.

"Alright, then Ilvia and Arcana will stay outside. I'll leave the responsibility of reinforcing the demiplane and preventing it from causing too much damage if it loses control."

"Ok!"

"Don't worry, Master"

Then Eve looked at Dier again.

"Die'er, come in together. I remember you can absorb my magic power directly, right?"

"Yes, that's right, my Lord."

Due to the destructive nature of Eve's magic, it would be very difficult for others to absorb her magic if she did not take the initiative to eliminate it. The purpose of calling Dier in was to allow her to absorb the magic released during the ceremony, reduce the pressure on the half plane, and also serve as a replenishment of her magic.

"Okay, then I'll trouble you to absorb the excess magic power."

"Yes, my Lord!"

Finally, Eve looked at Istina, another protagonist in this ceremony.

"Tina, just relax and cooperate with me, or just follow your feelings. Your desire to become stronger will be answered."

"Ok!"

After listening to Eve's words and taking a few deep breaths, Istina's tension was more or less relieved, and her expression became a little more relaxed.

"Alright, let's get ready to start 'Constructing the Demiplane'."

As the glimmer of light appeared in Eve's hands when the magic was activated, she was particularly careful in constructing the demiplane this time. After all, unlike the disposable small demiplanes that she usually built and discarded, this demiplane needed to pursue a certain degree of stability and increase its ability to withstand instantaneous forces.

Although she has prepared for the demiplane to be blown up, it is better not to blow it up if possible, don’t you think?

The contingency plan is to prepare for any eventuality, but no one really wants to take a chance. Although the probability of the half plane being blown up here is much greater than one in ten thousand, the probability is about 40% to 60% on both sides. By the way, the probability of the explosion is 60%.

At this time, Eve was carefully adjusting the state of the demiplane according to the fluctuation characteristics of the space here, while constantly strengthening its stability and the strength to withstand the upper limit of instantaneous force.

Finally, almost ten minutes had passed before Eve stopped what she was doing, and then a translucent half-dimensional door appeared in front of everyone.

"call…"

Eve breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the half-plane gate appearing before her, but she immediately began to stack various defensive magic outside the half-plane gate.

"[Anti-magic], [Strong shield], [Iron wall]..."

Finally, after a series of magic spells comparable to reading out the names of dishes were all performed, Eve looked at the others and continued to make arrangements.

"Okay, I'll leave the rest of the protection to Via and Arcana. We're ready to go in."

"Ok!"

As she responded, a faint glimmer of light was released from Ilvia's hand, adding to these defensive magics to make them more stable.

Compared to Ilvia who responded immediately, Arcana felt a little helpless at this time. Eve was too cautious!

The defenses she had set up outside were practically like a small fortress, so were the two of them really necessary to reinforce them?!

Of course, no matter what she thought, her hands did not slow down. A translucent barrier appeared and was put on top of the layers of defensive magic, but she still couldn't help but complain.

"Master, you are too cautious."

"Ahem, well, just think of it as the aftereffects of losing control once."

Facing Arcana's complaints, Eve laughed awkwardly. Ever since she blew up the palace training ground once, she always felt that it was never too much to take precautions against accidents.

"Okay, let's go."

As she spoke, Eve took Istina's hand and looked at Dier beside her.

“Huh… Yeah!”

After taking another deep breath, Istina held Eve's hand in return.

"Well, see you later~"

Following a wave of fluctuations at the entrance to the demiplane, the figures of Eve and the other two disappeared into the gate.

§ 85 Family Ceremony