"Your Highness Illymoyas, I have a Territory now. My people are building you a magnificent palace." Annan admired the elegant length of Illymoyas's dragon form.
Two heads peeked out from the distance, a little closer than last time, their innocent eyes fixed on them.
"Remember your promise..." Illymoyas said.
"I won't forget."
The Teleportation Portal vanished. Annan muttered in confusion, "What promise?"
Eli Gravel arrived like a rolling barrel, interrupting Annan's attempts to remember.
Eli's plans for Gemstone City already reserved a site for the City Lord's Mansion within a hundred meters of the Arcane Core. He had placed the Blue Dragon Lair to its right. It would look like the one in Star-Moon Bay but be expanded to the same size as the City Lord's Mansion. With so many Greater Earth Elementals working on it, construction should be finished within a month.
But Annan wasn't satisfied.
Dragon's Nest lairs tended to be primitive. Dragons, who had no civilization and preferred solitude, generally lived in the wilderness or abandoned castles. Only ambitious Red Dragons liked Magpie Nest Occupation of human territory—hence the Evil Dragons who ruled palaces and abducted princesses in knightly tales were usually Red Dragons.
Blue Dragons were unusually social for the Dragon Clan, maintaining ties through their bloodlines. Eli Gravel had therefore made the Blue Dragon Lair as large as the City Lord's Mansion. He had designed several "guest rooms" for Illymoyas's dragon relatives and friends.
He had kept the appearance of the Star-Moon Bay Lair because Blue Dragons liked living in caves—and because Illymoyas was sentimental.
Annan thought it was too plain.
Blue Dragons liked gemstones, especially sapphires, but gemstones that large didn't exist. Even if they did, Annan couldn't afford them.
Could he use glass instead of gemstones?
The Dwarves had invented it, and humans