Atomic Mage by Garrett Carter (short books for teens txt) 📕

"How will we fly this giant building as Mina called it?" Sabine asked as Cade's attention was drawn back to his wives.

"I can show you better than I can tell you. If you beautiful ladies will follow me for a demonstration." He said in his best salesman voice as he made his way out the front door to wait for his wives on the porch.

As Mina and Sabine stood to the side of the door, expectant looks written across their faces, Cade couldn't help the grin that threatened to split his face in two as he created a shield platform at the edge of the porch just out of their view.

His grin devolved into a stomach-splitting laugh as they both lurched forward to catch him as he stepped off the porch onto the platform.

He almost fell off the platform in his mirth before he took a second to shift its attachment point to his feet as he moved the platform smoothly forward a few feet before turning around to look at his mate's dumbstruck faces.

"And that is how we are going to travel from now on, in style," he said with a wide sweep of his arms.

Cades grin turned smug as he brought himself back to the edge of the porch and almost broke his neck as he barely released his feet from the platform in time to only stumble instead of face-planting in front of his chuckling mates.

"As amusing as it was to watch you almost kissing the ground we walk upon my Cade, I fail to see how that little...." as Mina trailed off he finished her statement for her.

"I have been calling it a platform."

"Platform? Well, I fail to see how that little platform will carry our house anywhere." Mina finished.

His grin was back in full force as he drew power from their house's mithril power supply and created a platform that would fit underneath their floating home a few meters in front of them.

"That is how it will work. Just give me a few minutes to get it set up and we will be on our way. Those slaving assholes won't know what hit them." He said as his grin spread from ear to ear.

"Very well my Cade as long as it doesn't drop us out of the sky unexpectedly I wouldn't mind soaring to our destination. Come Sabine let us retire to the armory and get prepared for our battle."

Mina walked back into the house after placing a kiss on Cade's cheek quickly followed by Sabine as she gave him a quick peck on the other.

Cade for his part gave them both a firm smack on their asses as they passed him.

He smirked at Mina's purr and Sabine's cute squeak before he moved the large platform underneath their boathouse.

A small tidal wave of water splashed over the porch as the displaced water settled.

Cade attached the platform to the bottom of the house and tied it to the house power supply.

Visions of their house flying through the clouds drifted through his mind as he tried his first test lift of a few feet.

His pride in his achievement was short-lived as he smelled smoke coming from the house.

Setting the house down in a rush he was almost knocked off his feet by the rush of water that came over the porch.

A mental sweep through the house was all he needed to find the source of the smoky smell.

A groan escaped his lips as he found the house's power source had scorched the inside of their kitchen cabinet as it heated up under the strain of keeping the house aloft.

As he removed the scorched material and the smokey smell from the kitchen with a thought he sent the ash from the charred surface along with the smoke out the door on the breeze he conjured.

His arms crossed over his chest as he thought through the problem for a few seconds and had a eureka moment as he figured out how to fix the heating issue and the problem he had missed of how they were going to get fresh water without the river under them.

Running out of the kitchen he stopped on the porch once more and pulled power from the house supply as he expanded his senses downward.

His anxiety grew by the minute as he feared not being able to find another deposit of mithril so far from the massive deposit he had discovered in his first days here.

His relief was palpable as he found ten deposits that were sand grains in comparison to the gigantic one he planned on making his empire on, but should hopefully suffice for what he had planned.

As he felt the deposits rise through the earth around him, Cade split his focus and pulled a few of the trees up from the banks around him and used them to complete the framing, walls, and sloped roof of the second story of his home.

Mina and Sabine ran out to see what the commotion was to be waved away by Cade as he fought to maintain his focus and keep all of his projects in motion.

Finishing the upper floor project he blew out a breath, glad to have only one part of his mind actively engaged again.

"Sorry ladies, I didn't think to warn you of the renovations. We now have a second floor, and as soon as I get the plumbing up and running hot and cold water tanks." He said to his dumbstruck mates as his mithril deposits came into view.

His face grew confused at the google-eyed looks on their faces until he