Dominic looked through the letters of invitation. He found himself getting bored. He had observed the clan to see if they were worth the investment as strength alone would not be enough to maintain a nation. What if the leader is a weakling, the heir is a fool and people are scared of war and looks down on scholars. He had to ensure that they were good.
He ate with some of them, he visited many, he observed the dynamics as long as it was not hidden forcibly as, the external act was all that mattered. When three men come together, there will be politics. It is impossible for a clan with power to not have some dirty things in known among them. But if they are not even willing to act in front of others and hide it, then they are not worthy of being his ally.
Anyway, it only took a day's observation to understand all about them. The rest of the times was spent enjoying some lone time. Anyway, the problem remained that they were strong and every now and then, they would go to hunt the demons in the abyss. Want to find who is the strongest, go hunt the demons, want to celebrate, go and hunt a new batch of demons. Feeling the coffers are drying up, hunt more monsters. Needs energy source for strengthening the body, go and hunt another batch of demons.
At least this ensured that their strength would not be low. If there was someone who he hated more than than foolish and cowardly among the nobles, it were the saintly dogs willing to bow down to other races for the so called harmony.
So he who was really free now and had found that he had enslaved enough demons as they would enslave further, had enslaved a few hundred trolls and let them reproduce more and was still trying to find the location of the hidden elf settlement or an elf, thought about enjoying the way he enjoyed while he was a noble.
So when he found the letters of invitation, he sighed as he really wanted a standing location. He wanted a land of his own and a castle. Even if he was to buy a castle in the imperial capital, it would cost a lot of money. He would need to sell at least 20 million gold to buy an ordinary castle. He thought about it and decided to sell the essence water he could create easily.
Any essence energy consumables were sold, depending on the energy in it. One with one star energy cost 1000 gold and 2 star energy cost 10,000 gold and so on. Higher grade essence water was too costly and he planned to make some money in this manner.
It was one of the few things that would be sold off for even when ti was available in excess as gold was nothing more than a metal. There was a reason why pure gold is not accepted as currency and the gold coins used as currency needs a nation with proven background as their gold coins will have value.
The Atlantis was one such nation, acting as the basis for all trans-racial transactions.
He kept looking through the invitations. He finally chose to go to the coming off age party of the Venus who was said to the prettiest lady of Roman empire. It was said that she was prettier than the prettiest lady of the Greek empire named Helen. No one could say who was better looking as only ladies of age greater than 16 could appear in public places.
Anyway, he was getting old enough to be married.