While Jake had thought about Vesperia coming to Earth, and it was even theorized she could, he hadn’t actually known it was possible before now. What’s more, Sandy had returned with her, making it a double-whammy of creatures he had partly helped “make” come to the planet.

“Where is she and Sandy right now?” Jake quickly used the magic telephone Arnold had installed in his lab to ask Miranda.

“They already left and are heading your way, sho-“

Right then, Jake saw a giant worm appear above his lodge through his sphere. He smiled and cut off Miranda:

“They’re here, thanks for telling me, and good luck with… stuff!” Jake said as he also cut the connection without admitting he genuinely had no idea what Miranda was dealing with these days. Hopefully fun stuff.

Hurrying up from his laboratory, he saw how Sandy struggled to find a good place to land without breaking anything. The valley Jake’s lodge was placed in wasn’t that large, and Sandy eventually shrank down a bit before finally touching down on the soft grass.

Getting outside, Jake smiled as he saw the giant worm. “Hey, Sandy! You look all healed up.”

“Eh, I’m getting there. Still rebuilding stuff. Next time we go on an adventure, I would prefer if it didn’t end with me dying,” Sandy answered.

“Can’t make any promises,” Jake joked. “I heard you also brought along Vesperia?”

“Oh yeah, I did,” Sandy confirmed. “She’s just finishing up some work inside one of my stomachs. Did you know she also has a stomach-like thing for all her bug friends? Well, more bug slaves, but my point is she also got a big subspace.”

“I knew,” Jake nodded. “What are you having her help with?”

“Convinced her to leave one of her spawns within one of my stomachs to create stuff. Very efficient at gardening and stuff like that,” Sandy explained. “Also, quick question, you’re her dad, right?”

“I… won’t really say that’s accurate,” Jake muttered. “Not really. I don’t actually think there’s any normal word for the kind of relationship we have. Calling me her creator also feels wrong, so I really don’t know what you would call me.”

“She calls you Sire. So I guess you sired her?”

“Again, all of those things feel very weird to put into words,” Jake sighed. “Anyway, back to you! Have you remade that resurrection egg yet?”

“Nope, gonna be a while. Super expensive to make and damn time-consuming. They also take this kind of special resource that isn’t even a real resource that shows up anywhere. I just know when I’m low on it, and it regenerates super-duper slowly, even if it is sped up when I get levels and stuff,” Sandy explained. “It’s a bit hard to understand, so it’s all good if you don’t get it; all I’m saying is that the egg isn’t ready yet.”

“Pretty sure there are few people who understand better than I do,” Jake smiled, as Sandy had effectively just explained his Jake Juice. And no, Jake wasn’t going to explain back in kind, nor would he use the term Jake Juice, as that would definitely get a lot of comments and jokes from Sandy.

“If you say so…” Sandy didn’t really seem to take his words seriously. “Oh! Vespy is nearly all ready!”

“Vespy?” Jake raised an eyebrow.

“A cute nickname for my little sister,” Sandy joked.

know that if you insist she is your sister, that would mean Sylphie is your big sister,” Jake

come from an egg, I was born before

also

count,” Sandy left no room for argument. “Besides, Vespy is fine with me calling her Vespy, so

say anything more as the familiar yellow figure of Vesperia appeared before him. She still towered over him and wore a silken dress with a striped black and

said with a smile as he looked up at Vesperia. He saw her antennas twitch a bit

seemed a bit nervous for some reason. Jake couldn’t even begin to guess why, as he really couldn’t see any reason why she would be,

have you been? Did everything go well when you returned to the Endless Empire? Did your sisters, the other True Royals, treat you properly?” Jake asked a slew of questions. Vesperia did look like things had been good over the last few years, but he still felt the

most excellently,” Vesperia answered in her usual polite tone. “I have also laid claim to much of my heritage that was left behind when

hear that things had been good. She definitely wasn’t lying about the growth either… in fact, she was higher level than he

Queen

so high that Jake couldn’t help

have you gone to Nevermore?” Jake

massive risk, and finally, we True Royals have many secrets we wish to keep hidden from others. Secrets that we do not wish to reveal to the Wyrmgod for him to spread to

off. One also had to consider that many of Jake’s secrets were related to his Bloodline, and not even the Wyrmgod could fully analyze and detect what that did during the World Wonder. The same wasn’t true for

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secrets for Jake due to Villy. The Primordials all had some odd bond and a lot of deals and whatnot, something the True Royals didn’t have. So, yeah, he could see why going to Nevermore was a huge

spot, and a way to bang out some dungeon clears for

in Nevermore,” Vesperia commented after

worse for sure,”

but when I left, none of them were voicing words of protest anymore, only well-wishes for my journey,” the True Royal said, shaking her head. “The Endless Empire truly does want a good relationship between

of the Endless Empire, we’re automatically on

she smiled and nodded her head again. It was also only now that Jake had noticed she had lowered herself to be about the same height as him by going down on her knees. Jake wanted to point it

problems with the Automate if you state that publicly…”

vampires, and

the Viper some enemies, like Yip of Yore and all his cronies, but wouldn’t life

lot of people unwilling to make you an enemy for no reason and even more wanting you as an ally,” Vesperia

you’re not,” Jake shook his head,

create diplomatic challenges, so to hopefully make up for any problems my presence might cause, I’ve brought along some gifts. They aren’t something you, Sire, can use but more something to support the budding empire

happy with any resources she can get,” Jake said.

of metals, gems, wood, bones, leather, carapace, and many other raw resources to support the

like good stuff,” Jake nodded, unsure if it

gifts, please let me know if

being so weird toward me?” Jake suddenly asked, having finally gotten enough of Vesperia acting off. “You’re being overly polite, and

not to mention how she looked like she had no

did not mean to cause any

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