Riches and Bitches: I have a gate to an isekai and leveling-up system!

"This is starting to really weird me out…" I muttered, standing at the foot of the new headquarters project.

A building that neared its general completion just a little bit before the sun hid behind the horizon. And yet, when I approached it roughly half an hour into the night…

The work was still bustling all around.

'Back when we first came to visit this place together, the work was already dying out…' I thought, staring absentmindedly at all the hustle around and within the building itself.

Even with Kash going away to work on the more important gateway project, her hand-picked brigades returned to put in just a little bit more time and effort before the end of the day.

Satisfied with their tasty and warm meals, well-rested after the break, the imperials continued to pour their sweat to add some important, finishing touches to the whole project.

To the side, one brigade was constructing what appeared like a utility shed.

Looking past the building, at the pile of resources already gathered nearby, I could spot quite a number of long, steel pipes. And even from a distance…

I could they those black tubes of steel were way too thick to serve as piping.

'A water tower?' I thought, raising my eyes when I spotted four, curved pieces that could fit together into quite the massive water container. 'It would need to be higher than any tap it would feed into…'n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

I turned my head and took a look at the massive frame of the actual headquarters.

There, what looked like two more brigades moved in and around, carrying all sorts of critical pieces of equipment. And with a narrow and shallow stretch of a half-completed corridor going half its height into the ditch in the ground, the entire thing finally made sense.

It would be a long time before the whole camp would get access to what modern civilization considered to be the two most basic utilities.

Water and power.

The aspect of water expanded into sewage and access to fresh and clean water. The power could provide both heat, but also electrical energy to operate all sorts of convenient tools. Even the kitchens fell into this category with portable electric stoves filling the gap.

From what I could see with just a quick glance, the shed on the off-side of the headquarters had the makings to house both a powerful generator and also a series of pumps necessary to move the water around in the system. And while there still would be a need to resupply the tower with fresh water, once it would stand up…

'I never expected we could get toilet and tap water so soon,' I thought, mildly impressed by the efficient and consequential manner in which Makary's engineers and planners pushed all the projects ahead.

'And if everything works out, we might get a fresh source of all the resources we could ask for in the world.'

Taking a deep breath, I cast yet another look at the nearby imperials before shaking my head and picking up my pace.

Crossing the distance to the main entrance of the administrative cube within seconds, I soon climbed the stairs and rushed to the top of the building.

All around me, there were imperials busy with all sorts of construction tasks.

Some moved the tools, others moved various materials. There were those spraying some sort of strange, foam-like paint over the walls, covering the building's insides with a fluffy layer of modern, reactive thermoisolation. Others laid down pipes on the floors, securing them into the wall with special strainers.

The work was moving all around… And the effects of all this work really showed.

What used to be a raw skeleton of a building just some time ago, was now turning into a project in the middling stage of its full completion!

Still, the moment I climbed all the way to the top and…

I didn't even get to open the doors. Because, in fact, there were no doors to block off the exit of our apartment. Instead, a black, vertical plane filled up all four corners of the door's frame, blocking both the view and sound.

Unsure, I slowly raised my hand and conquered the last few steps leading up to my new house…

Only for my hand to pass through the black barrier with no resistance as if the entire thing was a mere illusion.

Still, the moment I crossed over and stepped into my apartment I was to share with Fay…

I blinked my eyes twice, struggling to reconnect the sight before my eyes and what I considered to be real and possible.

The entire layout of the apartment changed.

Stepping inside, I was met with a short but generally spacious hall, leading up to an open kitchen in the corner, a walled-off and sizeable bath, and a single room taking over more than half of the entire space.

'What the…'

The dividing walls were made with marble, something Makary definitely wouldn't splurge on. The doors consisted of several, massive leaves arranged in some sort of an array. And without a single moment to think about it, I somehow knew just how to press those leaves to make all of them slide aside.

The floor was covered in a strangely magical, moist moss. Just the fairly-like look of the rose glistering like pearls amidst the soft, soothing greenery made me feel like I was committing a sacrilege by stepping on it with my military-issue shoes.

"Oh, honey, you are back!"

Like a fairy queen appearing amidst the flowers of her kingdom, Fay, whose very name referred to her fairy-like beauty, opened up one of her strange, leafy doors and stepped out.

There was nothing in her looks that made her look like some dignified, mystical being. She wore a simple, white shirt that reached the bottom of her hips. She covered her legs with simple sweatpants, currently covered in all sorts of mud, vines, and stray sticks.

Her long, white hair fell heavily behind her head, thick from all the pleasant and somehow fragrant moisture permeating through the air.

"I…"

Speechless.

This world truly described how I felt and how I was at this precise moment.

The profane of Fay's ordinary look and vibe mixed with the sacrum of the surroundings she created… Only to create a perfect mix of justified dignity and well-earned profoundness.

In this one, particular moment, Fay simply peaked before my eyes.

My earlier imagination of how hard she was going to work on the room shattered when faced with results that could never be achieved with my mere expectations.

No.

To transform the bare walls and floors of our apartment into what I could easily interpret as a masterful improved recreation of modern comforts…

My face softened, quickly followed by nearly my entire body. Before my knees would give up as my entire existence melted down, I reached out and grabbed Fay by her shoulders before slowly, gently pulling her into a casual, light hug.

Still, rather than keeping my hands on Fay's back or greedily reaching out down for her ass, I moved my right hand up and to the top of Fay's head. I then pressed it down on her slightly moist yet still perfectly soft hair.

"You've worked hard, didn't you?" I hummed while gently patting Fay's hair down before I finally managed to squeeze it tightly enough to caress Fay's head.

My entire body gave up, kept upright with only a desperate construct I somehow improvised and fed just enough aura to keep myself up.

I felt as if my entire existence was compromised by some potent drug, causing everything to simply… meltdown.

"Hehehe…"

As startled as Fay initially was, she quickly let out a satisfied giggle. She then brought her hands up to my chest before pressing the side of her head right above my heart. For a moment, she just rested while enjoying the head pats, only to then swing her chin up as she raised her eyes to my face and smiled gently.

"You did too, didn't you?"

Fay reached out with her left and pressed it against my cheek.

"We both worked hard, so…"

As Fay's smile turned from gentle through warm and welcoming all the way to full of emotional longing and bodily desire…

Ring, ring, ring!

The radio on my hip forced us right back to reality.