Arkinslize
Honestly .....Lucia and Xi would make excellent wives. also pretty sure Xi would shut off thier connection in order to give them privacy. I also kind of hate the trope of long lived characters forgoing meaningful relationships just to save themselves from grief. Grief helps you grow and mature.
It's good and not cringe!!!! We can fell your ankwardness and it's fine because that make it all the more realistic. Who wouldn't be ankward in such situation? I still wish a bit that Xi and Jake would be more honest with their feelings. They both know the truth, but keep being evasive about it. Makes it cute though, so I'm not complaining too much ^^
I have a question. In the previous chapters it was said that oracle prioritizes quality rather than quantity and that it brings more aether to their universe the more powerful people exist in it, so I am interested to what happens when a powerful individual becomes corrupt? does the universe lose aether supply?