Dragonborn Chapter 71: The Opening Day

A week pa.s.sed since the conversation with Nurina and Laaneth.

I completely stopped my magic training after my meeting with the Augur, and now I am training my body like the old times.

My strength has increased due to the increase in Vitality. It is the energy of life after all. The more one have, the more stronger he gets, and it also vary in quality.

My training became more extreme. I enchanted some objects to make them heavier and also ran around the circular roof of the College.

I did go to town lately from time to time and checked on everything, it all was all going smoothly. The Whistling Mine business is getting better and they started to build some lodging outside the mine for the miners. The Master Huntsman was also working smoothly, his group survived an attack by a bear thanks to a scroll I gave him for situations like these. The lumber business however was not smooth at all. Those who wanted to lumber started leaving the town to the south of the hold so I made business contacts with them and they will provide us when we need.

I also sent Ongeim to Solitude, he was to buy a lot of furniture for the Bathhouse and my Manor too, I had my eye on few places in Solitude so it will go smoothly for him. The s.h.i.+p will also go to Dawnstar to buy boats and fis.h.i.+ng tolls, the fishermen in Winterhold lacked all sort of the important stuff so I extended a hand for them.

The General Trader, on the other hand, started running a while ago. Birna was buying from me and selling to the town folk in the reasonable prices they could afford. This may have caused some decline to the inn's business but no one can complain about that.

All these good events added to the towns liveliness and to my popularity. Adding the Bathhouse which will flood the town with money, I think I did a good job.

Trudvar kept recruiting more boys from the town, I was putting together some groups to guard the businesses I own and the ones I am investing in. The best way to cover this force is by enlisting them as my sailors as I nearly have 43 of them.

I never knew this but buying weapons for that number of guards attracted a very unwelcomed attention. The Imperial Legion's fleet that was stationed in the northern waters sent few people to question about the weapons once they heard about. Apparently they heard the news in Dawnstar or someone ratted my business here.

With few nice words of me doing business and establis.h.i.+ng a small trading company, they left me alone leaving behind some words of warning. This made me change some of my plans.

Now, I need my own blacksmithing workshop.

My best choice is the townsfolk, there are two old blacksmiths that had some problems with work and needed money. Guess who showed up!

I convinced them to work together and take few students. They needed a tanner and some other craftsmen so I started doing my best to answer their needs. I also convinced them to work in a big workshop that I will construct for them when I have the chance.

I actually own the land necessary, or I own one forth of the town's land, but all the masons were busy. Also they will take a rest after the work in my Bathhouse and my Manor so it will take some time.

Speaking of my Manor and the Bathhouse. They are almost done. My Manor still lacked most of the necessary pieces of furniture but the Bathhouse was already good to go.

More importantly, the opening day is tomorrow. It felt like a boulder that was finally cracked after the long work.

The good this was the reaction of the College's people. Some were really looking forward to this more than even me. I guess advertising was never a problem here.

The real business will start with the Bathhouse tomorrow, before I leave for my journey I need to make sure that everything is working smoothly and Korir wouldn't do anything funny. Even though he was restrained by the 'Programming', I don't know what accident may happen when I leave for nearly half a year.

My first plan was to make it impossible for him to mess with me, but also I decided to leave the town in secret and spread a rumor that I am making an intense closed door training in the College. There actually is something like that.

After finis.h.i.+ng my daily training, I headed to clean myself and eat. My head is still distracted with the business though.

My room was warm and cozy, Jull was not here as she went to the roof for spell spamming training. This only left me and Nefert.i.ti which was left with Nurina from the morning.

Nefert.i.ti was playful as ever, she liked to jump on everything and go into every crate. I even made her a small house from wood and she called me 'best hooman ever'. The next hour she started having a bad mood and got angry all of a sudden when I sat on my desk and started studying some spells. I don't know the exact reason but she was acting spoiled most of the time lately.

Speaking of my studies, the spell that I found in Hob's Fall Cave that was called 'Corpse Explosion' is something really nasty.

I now can cast it perfectly and also went to the Midden and tried it on skeevers. I must say that this spell is invaluable when it comes to wars, when the undead or a corpse explode, all sorts of nasty diseases spread. I burned down the place I experimented in just from the idea of something leaking out. This may cause a plague.

The spell can be casted on already dead corpses but it would be much easier to use it on one's own undead. It ravages the fake soul of the undead so it causes it to explode, to use it on corpses actually needs more energy.

Imagine if one rallied his undead into the enemy lines then used that spell, both physical, biological, and psychological damage would be great.

I was satisfied with this spell and couldn't wait to use it in battle.

My next study was on the Anti Undead spell. The Sun spells are the best counter to undead and I had my mind to on a new one. An Expert level spell that casted as a 'Missile', it is a strong one and needed time to evoke, charge and cast. I called it 'Ultraviolent'. I decimated the undead on its path like nothing. I even asked Nuruna to conjure a strong undead to try it on and the result was satisfying.

After that I learned a spell Nurina gave me, it was the 'Bind' spell, an Alteration spell that can trap foes and bind them with aspects of 'Speed' and 'Weight'.

I wanted to put some time in training Inner Magicka Control but it was not good with my current condition.

After a day of boring and dull work, I took Nefert.i.ti and played with her until she slept. Jull came late and stayed in the room to take care of Nefert.i.ti.

I dressed myself and went to town.

I had to make sure that everything is perfect for tomorrow.

Upon descending the bridge, I walked to the Bathhouse building that was being guarded by five of my men.

My appearance caused their sleepy eyes to sober and they stood for the Boss. It feels d.a.m.n good to be the Mafia Boss around these parts.

I went into the Bathhouse and the place was quite. The building us divided into three areas. The main building which had a courtyard and few rooms around it, the design was made to allow water to flow around the rooms, under the courtyard was the bas.e.m.e.nt that had most of the magic machines for pumping, desalination and filtering the water. The other sides of the building were the south wing which served as home for the girls and the north wing which was the management and the services, also the manager's office was there.

I walked into the building and looked around, I didn't sense any presence here. When I used 'Scan', I found them in all in the south wing.

I walked there nonchalantly and knocked on the door. Few seconds later, Elishka opened the door while peaking outside.

"What's up!"

"Oh! It's you Boss. What are you doing here?"

"Came to check! Something wrong?"

She barely opened the door and all I could see was her face.

"Just give me a second!" She said and closed the door then opened it a minute later.

"Come in Boss, but keep quiet."

I didn't know what was going on so I walked inside lightly.

The place was warm in here. Looking at Elishka, she was barely dressed, her curves were visible under the light clothes she was in. And it barely covered anything too.

"I am seeing something nice here!" I couldn't hold back my grin.

"Sorry Boss! We didn't know you are coming and I was in the middle of training the girls before tomorrow?"

"Training, huh! Getting ready for the big day?"

"Yes Boss!"

"Hmmm!" I smiled slyly, "Can I peek?"

Elishka giggled and said, "You are the Boss so you can just take a look around."

"I don't think the girls are that comfortable around me yet." I said, "And it is much fun to peek."

Yes, I maybe me but I learned peeking at a very young age. Who taught me? Well, it was Delvin and Brynjolf. The main target was normally Vex who always found us, I wasn't taken to be taught anyway, I was just the scapegoat who get caught while they run. Well, that was the case until I tied Brynjold once and left him under the mercy of both Vex and Tonilia. I couldn't do that with Delvin yet.

So, peeking in my own Bathhouse sounded so much fun no matter how anyone thinks how wired it is.

Anyway I heard a lot of pleasant voices from the wall next to me, according to Elishka, the girls were training with each other.

"Look like they are having fun!"

"Thanks to you Boss, these girls found a warm home and a good place to live in. They have food and all what they can ask for. Also if you compare them to the before you will get surprised!"

"Yeah, I saw some of them actually gained some weight and look healthier."

They indeed don't look pale like they used to be, and they look much better now.

I walked with her and inspected the place well, some girls pa.s.sed by and the started gathering their clothes that were as light and revealing as Elishka's but they only got glared at by her.

"Mistress, did th... oh! You're here Boss!"

A girl came and greeted us, she looked familiar.

"Oh! You are that 'Make Winterhold great again' girl."

"Hehe! Yes Boss, my name is Jvanka!"

"What?"

"Jvanka!"

"....."

"Boss..."

Oh! I remembered something unpleasant! Must be a coincidence! Gotta be!

"No! Ehem, sorry, ehhh! nice name, heh heh, who, who are you named after?"

"I don't know Boss."

"And your father is?"

"His name is 'Jonald the Drumph'. A stone mason."

"....."

"Boss..."

Oh! I remembered something unpleasant again.

"A, a stone mason huh! He must have build many walls!"

"Yes Boss. He always dreamed about building the biggest wall in Winterhold!"

"....."

"Boss..."

"Oh! Thank you Jvanka! Excuse me."

I just couldn't hear this anymore, and took myself away.

This is madness!

"Are you okay, Boss?" Elishka followed me when I walked away.

"Yes, just remembered something."

My head was spinning from the headache that a.s.saulted my out of nowhere. I was having some second thoughts about the walls in Winterhold now.

"This way Boss!"

"Where to?"

"Didn't you want to peek?"

Ah! I almost forgot.

Where Elishka stood was on the stairs to the next floor. There seemed to be an opening in the wall enough for one too peek on the whole room.

Just as I looked through it, the blood ran through my head and I felt a weird sensation in my nose.

Retreat! Abort peeking!

I looked away immediately!

No! I must be strong! I must withstand it?

I will look again.

I am ready this time!

Let's do it!

"This... this is!"

"Like what you see Boss?"

"d.a.m.n!"

Some girls were doing this! Some girls were doing that!

Point is, I don't know what was this or that!

This was mostly a girl on girl action and it was my first time seeing in live.

"Hey Elishka!"

"Yes."

"This won't do. Let's find a room?"

[A/N: Read the +18 part in the side novel, it's name is Skyrim: Amorous Adventures, SAA.]

My senses came to me so I checked my stamina again.

It increased, huh!

"I still can go two more times."

"I don't think I have any power left."

I guess Zena took most of the burden from her last time.

"Anyway, I need to wash some!"

"Come, the first one to bathe in the Bathhouse will be us."

"Well, we own it so why not!"

We went to a bathing room naked and bathed for the whole night.

I can't enter the College now anyway so I'll be staying in Elishka's room.

During the bath, we got closer in relations.h.i.+p and became more familiar with each other, more than just the wench and the client relations.h.i.+p from before.

Anyway, this was my official first night with my s.e.x friend and business partner, Elishka.

Next morning, I sneaked back to the College.

Nonetheless, I was excited as anyone else, the Bathhouse is opening today.

I had arrangements with the boys today. We are going out to celebrate.

Rusning who was busy in his research lately as well as Holman and Svadall, I also brought Morbagog and Mahran who worked with me in most on this Bathhouse.

We met at the afternoon and I took them to spend money in the Bathhouse. The College students were flocking the place and it seemed that business has started earlier than usual.

The day was spent quickly so as money, of course I was earning money too but no one knew that, all that was told to public that I only invested here and made the Bathhouse possible!

I also sat in a place to hide from most people, I wanted to see how people will react to the Bathhouse in the first day.

Of course I made prices high to just suit the students and not the townsfolk, it was going my way anyway.

At evening, some unexpected visitors popped up.

First, it was Eilel whose nose was bleeding, I had to make the guards chase her out.

Next, some teachers came in, I was expecting them anyway.

After that, some Altmer boys came while hiding their features, they didn't want anyone to know they came. Sigh! Typical High Elves.

The most expected one was teacher Tolfdir, the old bones was healthy as ever when he came, he was hiding his features too but I found out.

This was better than I thought, with this much customers, I don't think I will have to worry about the towns economy anyway. This is a true game changer.

I left the place to Elishka and the girls with some words of encouragement and went back to the College.

I had an exam in less than a month and I have to be prepared.

-Bonus-

▪Bad Hooman!

"Hooman!" (Nefert.i.ti)

"What do you want cutie?" (Jon)

"You abandoned me, Nya! Bad hooman, Nya!" (Nefert.i.ti)

"What's with her Jull?" (Jon)

"She is in a bad mood since yesterday!" (Jull)

"Yes, Nya! I smell another one on you, Nya!" (Nefert.i.ti)

"Another what now?" (Jull)

"Jull, When did you start to understand Nefert.i.ti? No, wait! wait!..." (Jon)