Alaric looked at the new black gate that shone in the afternoon light with a satisfied smile. It was the same gate as before but just painted and reenforced.

The gate was opened by one of the crew and he drove in. A tall blonde haired woman wearing a construction helmet walked towards him the moment he stopped the car and came to a stop just a step away from the opening door.

Alaric got out of the car and extended his arm in greetings.

" Good afternoon miss Clinton, having a good day so far," he asked politely as he shook her hand.

" Just call me Bailey," she said rolling her eyes, " and no the little thing we called you about is down in the basement."

Alaric nodded and followed.

Bailey was the head of the project and he had personally signed the contract with her. In her online portfolio she was well liked and praised for knowing what to add and organization and design.

A week had passed since the construction started and Alaric could already see the difference between the old and new.

The lawn had already been mowed and flowers of different colors were growing. The outer wall was fully painted in black and a small amount of red.

The moment he entered the house, he was stunned. Even though not complete he could see the mesh in colors and the repaired parts of the house.

In the ceiling at the entrance were incompetent murals he had personally customized and he couldn't wait for them to take shape.

Bailey at the front walked briefly until they reached basement door that had been expertly blended into the wall. Unless you knewwhere it wSas located.

The chances of finding it were close to zero. She opened the door and led him down the stone staircase. They had not changed the design by his request.

A few minutes later they arrived at the basement.

" It's inside," Bailey said as she stopped by the door, " anyone who gets inside is instantly attack."

Alaric nodded. When he had received the call that there was a problem he had thought the walls had fallen or something hazard until Britney had told him there was something in the basement, probably an animal or something else.

He pushed the door open slowly making sure it produced no sound. He closed the door quietly behind him and locked it.

The basement was half complete and he could feel the mana in the room. He had not put any of the seals in the mansion as he wanted to wait until the whole place was completed.

He activated soothing precense even though he didn't know what he was dealing with and started to walk deeper into the basement.

The place had already been sectioned into different rooms and it seemed that whatever was inside was delaying the progress.

Alaric was grateful Bailey didn't call someone else for clearing. He didn't want the basement to be discovered too early. It would be a secret haven for those who want a dose of mana plus a woman or man in their arms.

Alaric saw a flash of light from the corner of his eyes moving very fast towards him.

He summoned his whip and whipped it towards the coming figure but it dodged the whip expertly and still headed towards him.

Alaric pulled the weapon back and slashed it to the side as it made a crackling sound in the air.

The flash seemed to sense the oncoming danger and changed direction mod air and jumped to the side.

Alaric didn't get Tim to look at it's appearance before it flew toward shim again.

From the size of the blue, Alaric could already guess that it was a small animal. He could exactly pinpoint which but he knew, it had probably been affected by the mana and mutated since it wasn't uncommon.

Or the uncomfortable fact that it had always been in the house and he had not noticed it at all. Then he remembered the inspectors words.

He had told him he might not be alone and he thought it was just normal banter. He had been too tensed to even care about anything.

Maybe the others in the house was probably the flashing animal. It was probably scared out of it's mind.

He put away his weapon and raised his hands ready to catch it. The moment it rushed to him again he extended his arm to catch it but he was unlucky.

He only managed to brush against it. It was soft and had had fur but he had not seen it's color.

" Round two," he said to himself as he waited. It sprung to him from behind a stack of boxes aiming for his face.

This time round he was ready. The moment it came into the aspected radius, he extended his arm around it's and brought it in the middle together.

This time he managed to catch it off guard.

" Caught you," he said excitedly as he looked at what he had caught. It was small and warm and his hands could almost fully cover it.

He looked at the uncovered part of the animal and immediately identified it was a cat and a young one at that. It was orange.

He opened his hands slowly to only be net with a very angry stare. Alaric felt like it could understand him just by its reation and it was mutated.

It seemed to be a few months old with how little it was.

" Whoa there, don't run okay. I'll give you food," Alaric whispered to kitten that had already raised it's hackels against him.

Alaric felt stupid for talking to a cat but he just felt like it could get him. The moment he had mentioned food it stopped raising it's far and looked at him as though waiting for what he had promised.

" If you want the food, you will have to leave here since there is nothing,":he said. He silently waited to be slashed in the face but nothing happened, the cat just sat on his hands looking at him. He smiled at it and stood up.

" Well guess I adopted a cat," he mummered as he carried it on his arm . He wondered how it had even ended up there. Well he had to take it to the vet and also see it's breed, he thought to himself as he took one last look at the incomplete basement and opened the door.

" Britney,I think I found our culprit," he said showing the sulking kitten in his hands.

Britneys face lit up, " it's a kitten, " she as she raised her hand to try and touch it," what trouble you've caused us."

Alaric took a step back," I wouldn't do that I were you, it's mutated," he said rubbing it's head. The cat dug it's nails into his palm. He immediately stopped.

" Ooh so thats why, it must have been scared," he said as she started to head up the stairs . He followed right behind her.

" When do you think you will be done?" He asked.

" With this delay we may add three to four days," she said then continued," I got the house designs and arrangements you sent me we've already completed most of the bedrooms according to your designs."

Alaric had sent everything the girls had wanted to her, they couldn't do it themselves with all the deadlines so everyone just stated what they wanted in different parts of the mansion and Alaric become the messanger.

They were in their second week so by next week they should be able to move in and settle plus prepare for opening.

He had several ideas on what to do as an opening ceremony and he just had to pick one.

" Take care,I'll be back in a week," he said to Britney as he backed out of the driveway and floored the van leaving the mansion behind. The road had already been smoothed over and floored so the problem of bouncing was not there anymore.

Alaric arrived at the vet shop and took the cat inside. He pushed open the siding door and entered. The hospital dealt with both mutated animal, normal animals and tamed dungeon beasts.

There was a tamer profession that was quite popular, and the awakeners who awakened taming as their abilities were eye Candy.

" Okay, what do you have here," the vet said taking the surprising docile cat from Alaric's hand.

Alaric was staring in shock where had his fierce cat gone?

The doctor noticed his shock and chuckled.

" Don't be shocked, I have an affinity to all animals so I get along with them pretty fine , " he said.

" Ooh that's why," he said looking as the doctor checked it and asked," what breed is it?"

" Ooh it's a main coon," he answered then runbed the cats head and looked at him with a smile," he's already a big breed but with him mutating I'm not really sure how big he's going to be."

Alaric swallowed, he thought he was going to have a small cute cat that he could cuddle, not that big. Fate really slapped him in the face.

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