Following days became a blur of events. As soon as I returned to the mansion, I informed my father about my decision to go official with Rina, Yuki and Trish. Rina and Yuki signed their papers right then and there becoming my official fiancées, as for Trish my father told me that he is going to take care of that.
Following day I was surprised by Elizabeth. I didn't expect her to want to see me after what happened but to my surprise, I found her waiting for us in front of the guild. Ready to go on an adventure with us. Since Trish was training on her own after she received the guidelines from Yuki, plus she was taking care of our business she was not going out for adventures with us. She was not planning on adventuring or fighting even after she graduated but since she was required to go to the academy, she might as well go to the one where her fiancé will be going to. Those were her words not mine. That was the reason she decided to train to be strong enough to get through the academy.
Elizabeth asked if she still was a member of my party and before I could answer both of the girls told her that she indeed is. The mood in the party was kind of weird first few quests but then it all somehow fit into place and Elizabeth adapted into the friend slash party member role.
Her father was not so understanding when he heard what happened and had a pretty long chat with my father where he tried to appeal for his daughter. Elizabeth apologized for it about a million times to me and my father explained to marquess Duchell the whole story. It was for him hard pill to swallow but after confirming with his daughter he calmed down and promised not to do anything rash. He was still dropping hints every chance he got, but that was all he did. He didn't try any dirty tricks on the baron since my father declared him to be under his protection, so dropping hints was all that was left for him to do. Honestly what surprised me most was that nobody reacted to the fact that I tried to assault Elizabeth, she handled the situation right away without issue but still, I tried.
As for my engagement with Trish, everything went smoothly. Trish's father was more than willing to cooperate so it only took a few days for us to be officially engaged. After this I decided to give to the girls something special, there was no custom of giving engagement rings or anything like that in this world but I decided to do it anyway.
I visited the best jeweler in the city and had him craft three identical rings with different stones inserted into them, one for each girl. They were not just for show, I had them made with a practical enhancement to boot. They received enhancement that completely blocked first attack that the wearer would receive each day and thanks to the fact that jeweler was able to fit the resizing enhancement next to it I didn't need to care about ring size. Since resizing enhancement made sure that ring will always have a perfect size.
It took two weeks for the jeweler to complete my order. The rings were delivered to my mansion, and once I had them, I invited the girls out to a dinner and there I gave them the rings.
Rings were made out of pure gold and were shaped like eastern dragon that was about to bite into its own tail. The stone was inserted to serve as the eye of the dragon.
First ring I gave out was the Trish's ring. Her ring had the green sapphire inserted into it to match her eye color.
Next one was Rina, with her beautiful blue eyes. She received ring that had a blue sapphire inserted.
Last one was for Yuki, with her almost black eyes. Her ring had a very dark almost black pearl inserted into it.
As they received their rings, they were shocked. I explained that this was my gift for them symbolizing our bond, symbolizing that they are now my fiancées. Symbolizing my love for them. They were very happy and started to show their rings to each other, holding them next to their eyes checking if the colors matched, and they indeed matched every time.
Our adventuring got once again a little awkward when Elizabeth saw the rings, but just a several days later she once again calmed down. Speaking of adventuring I managed to grab a perfect pair of butterfly swords for Rina and had made nice armors for everybody from the leathers and skins we gathered on our adventures. I was not able to get a weapon for Trish yet, since I had no clue what she is going to be using. Her expertise was business and it showed, our grand party was making loads of money. So much that it caught eye of a whole lot of people. We became talk of the town at first and later role model for multiple ambitious young nobles that tried to repeat our success.
Our training progressed very well. First milestone we achieved was Elizabeth's class. She became lightning maiden, very strong lightning themed caster class. She received skill that could empower her next lightning spell and both of her spells became lightning ones as they were in game.
Next milestone was mine and Rina's level 5. The level when we had a chance to unlock our unique skills. We both managed to get one. Mine was named 'light in the darkness – darkness in light', it made it so that after I used dark skill my next light skill was empowered and when I used the light skill my next dark skill was empowered. Since all of my skills used both affinities this skill meant that all of my skills had their power doubled. Since every empowerment gave the skill 50% boost and each of my skills activated and triggered both at the same time.
As for Rina's unique skill, it was named 'Blade from darkness'. It was passive skill that empowered any attack or skill on the unaware target.
Yuki was dancing around when she first saw what we got, not only we both received unique skills they were even perfect match for what we were doing. Elizabeth felt that she was lagging behind for a while but not so long after us she also received her unique skill. Hers was called 'Thunder-caller'. It empowered each and every lightning spell she casted.
I was very happy after this; I knew that we had plenty of time to empower Elizabeth even more and make her into perfect member of the main character's party once she falls in love with him. I wanted to make sure she is nicely geared and leveled for him so that he can rely on her in tough situations.
I was planning on taking Trish into my party while in academy, so that I can make sure she is fine during practical lessons, tests and other party based activities. Even after doing that I will have to pick up one more student to fill out the party, since Yuki already graduated and she would not be able to be in party with us because of that.
Speaking of Yuki, she decided to be an instructor in the academy for the time I will be studying there. She managed to get special contract, it specified that she would be only teaching my classes. I could not grasp how she managed to do it.
After reaching level five in the class, it was long hike to the next milestone so we just stuck to getting our mana and stamina higher. This started to cause the issues for me.
After we went official, I informed girls that we are going to spent our first night together on my eighteenth birthday few weeks before entrance exams. But as the time went and my mana rose, it became increasingly more complicated to wait. The fact the girls enjoyed teasing me by sucking on my fingers, dragging my hands all over their bodies, nibbling on my ears, making out and so on, didn't made it any easier. It was starting to get unbearable.
My father, Sebastian, Trish's father, maids, gardeners and even my own fiancées started betting on how long it will take for me to have sex with them. Nobody believed that I was capable of holding out until I was eighteen but I was determined to do it.
When I was almost seventeen my father asked me when I was planning to throw the engagement banquet. I agreed with him that it was about the time and we decided with the girls on the date. The same date I would be seventeen years old.