《Daydreaming magic swordsman》 Prologue-Transported to another world Happiness is a very relative term for different people it means very diffferent things. For me at least, the most desired form of happiness is fiction and escapism. The reason for this was that from a very young age i had social anxiety disorder. Though it was not cripplingly bad it did prevent me from making friends or any meaningful relationship. Needless to say I was very lonely. My greatest medicine was roleplaying games. When I created a character I became or at least tried to become the character I was playing as. It was one of the few ways I could interact with others without self-deprecating myself and so it became my most common social outlet. This led me down a spiral where i became a true homebody. Let me give you a picture of how bad it was, i always was frail so my parents descided to homeschool me, my dad was an I.T. guy and worked from home so I just took over the family business. I ordered my food, appliances or anything I needed for my computer(Thank the gods for the miracle that is the internet). Going out once a month was something the only thing connecting me to the outside world(the only reason I did even that is because my parents were very and iI mean very adamant about it). Today however, was not that time of the month and since I was done with my work I fired up my gaming station for my daily dose of fantasy with online randoms or friends whichever floats my fancy. That was when it happened, as I started my rig, my monitors flashed with a blinding light and then the world went dark. ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­ When I next opened my eyes the first thing I saw a blinding flash of brilliant green. I immediately shut my eyes and groaned in mock agony. When I reopened them, I squinted so as to not be blinded and what I saw shocked me. There on the vast blue cloudless sky was a sun that shown green(What in the actual fuck?!?). Right then like an unstoppable tidal wave a flood of memories that were not quite my own invaded my mind. The process was so disorienting that I fell on my back and blinked rapidly for a couple of minutes. The new memories were that of an aristocrat. The brief summary of it was that this boy was a an asshole and spoiled brat. Using unearned power and fame he did whatever he wanted but no action is without consequnce. He bit off more than he could chew and so he paid the ultimate price by which I mean was killed. A thought struck me and I immediately checked for the lethal wound my chest. Suprise colored my face when I saw there to be no injury only a whole in my clothes where the attack had struck. A new thought, why was I so calm about all of this and panicking. I dug a bit deeper and found the answer to be the new memories, you see the biggest reason for panic is the loss of everything that is normal and not having a step forward, my circumstance gave me a cushion against it and allowed me to accept it to be normal whether all this was real or some vivid imagination or dream was a whole different matter. I did allow myself to fall into that rabbit hole. For the time being I would think of this as some bizzare vr experiance and run with it.The alternative was to worry to madness and I saw too many movies of that outcome to want to choose that option. A ruffled through my aristocratic memories to find anything of immediate need and hit something that I was subconciously avoiding because of how out there it was. This world had RPG game elements to it. The pleaseant shock of it made me laugh out loud. I did what any "lifeless" gamer would do in that situation I called up my character screen.
Name: Simon Drake E.X.P:1098 Age:15 Gender: Male Class: Noble(experience growth +10%, bonus charisma +100%) Titles: Noble Scion(bonus charisma +20%), abusive master(bonus charisma -20%), trash of the family(bonus charisma -20%),Stolen content warning: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. Ignorant fool(bonus wisdom -20%), Dimension traveler(grants unique skill:omni experience boostx4, status arrangement),Greater soul(extreme increase to magic regeneration +360000%,magic growth +100% ), Rapist(bonus charisma -20%, boosts sexcraft skill gain +50% from unwanted copulation from the other side)
Unique stats(discovered) Charisma:16
Physical Power:48 STRENGTH:13.8 VITALITY:12.6 AGILITY:10.5 DEXTERITY:11.1
Magical Power:179 MANA:734 AFFINITY:WATER MANA REGENARTION:84/sec SPIRIT POWER:55 INTELLIGENCE:11.3 WISDOM:1O.3
SKILLS UNIQUE SKILLS: STATUS ARRANGEMENT(allows to spend),OMNI EXPERIENCE BOOST(x4) PASSIVE SKILLS: PAIN ENDURANCE(LV1)(physical damage recieved -1%), DETECT PRESENCE(LV1)(awareness of life +1m),POISON RESISTANCE(LV3)(poison damage recieved -15%, effects of poison on self -15%) GENERAL SKILLS: THORAS LANGUAGE(LV4)(above average understanding), DUMUS LANGUAGE(LV2)(below average understanding), APPRAISAL(LV2)(identify effects of unknown objects:vey little information,gives some information of known objects), SPEECHCRAFT(LV4)(+20% chance to convince others(the target must understand you)) PHYSICAL SKILLS: SWORDSMANSHIP(LV2), RIDING(LV3)(+6% animal power boost while mounts,+3% self power boost while riding), DANCING(LV2)(+20% performance rating, can somewhat adapt to unknown dance moves), ARCHERY(LV1)(+5% accuracy and damage of arrows or bolts,), SNEAK(LV2)(+20% silence while moving, -10% detect rate while attempting to stay unnnoticed), SEX CRAFT(LV3)(+30% performance rating, +15% affection bonus on successful pleasure provided to partner) MAGICAL SKILLS: WATER MAGIC(LV2)(learn low grade water spells), WATER MANiPULATION(LV1)(allows aqua genesis and aqua kineses, +10% power and control)
Goddamn, there were some cheat skills in there for sure along with some very and I mean very questionable skills and titles. The one that caught my eye the most was the experience boost, though dont get me wrong 4 times is insane as any good player will tell you, but the mp regen. I mean common that level of regen just tells me ''here you go have infinite mana'' which is overpowered to say the least. Infinite mana/energy in games is usually a staple of cheese strats and I am very sorry to say I am not above the cheese, I love cheese and tell one person who does not have at least one type of cheese. The only reason I was not thanking whatever god/developer/trauma put me here was because apperantly I was a sexual offender in world, by my memories, was very and I emphasize very lax on human rights and such laws. Slavery is straight up legalized in most of the world which blows my mind. What gives me pause however, is how easily I take and accept that information. I know for a fact that it is the fault of the knew memories because the me from the old world would probably already vomit from sheer number atrocities the powerful are allowed to do, me included. I pulled myself out my own reverie which was spiraling again as it tends to do. My first goal was to decide what build path I was going for, I know to the average person that this might sound crazy and they would say ''take stock of your situation, find shelter and sustenance'' etc. but newsflash I am not normal even less now that I have the memories of 2 very diffierent people in my head and since I am used living vicariously through the characters in fiction and grinding was sometihng I enjoyed not to extreme levels mind you, but I liked to feel a bit overprepared I when went into dungeons or boss fights. Also remember I have a very big out which is that this body is already someone in this world and he already has a routine which I easily slip into. So yeah time for builds. First of all, because of mana and mana regen the magic power side tends to be a bit bloated. If my memories are anything to go by I am more physically capable than I am magical and I could become a warrior, a mounted swordman if I take my skills into consideration. however, to not use the godfather of all cheese provided to me is criminal so I could jump ship and become a pure water elmental magicaster with an unlimited manapool. Then I realized I had a gargantuan exp boost so why could I not do both. The more I thought about it the nore the idea appealled to me, after all the biggest reason people dont split there attention is because the commitment required to be good( not great ) at both, my boost made that a nute point. Decision made I decided to wing the rest, after all if you are overleveled enough strategy is no longer necessary and I could brute force the rest. Thinking back I realized how stupid that thought process really was. Chapter 1-Banished to the academy I was os lost myself in my own thoughts that I very soon dozed off. A familiar voice pulled me from my slumber. When my eyes reopened I saw a young maid softly calling me. Before me stood a girl with fairy like beauty. Though older her frame was very petite making her seem younger than she was. Her short stature gave a lot of prominence to her curves with milky white skin that felt like silk to the touch.She had perky breasts and a rear that were bothe a delectable handful. Her very attractive but approachable face large bright azure eyes combined her sky blue could enthrall any man. Sadly those eyes had very little life in them causing them to lose quite a bit of the luster and even more regrettable was the fact that I was the cause. ¡®First young master is calling you.¡¯ Her voice lacked emotion, like she could not be more monotone if she tried. What made me want to kill myself was the fact I, the guy before, preferred her this way. Desperately holding back a sigh, I tried to put on a smile. For a moment I could see a shocked expression but she immediately went back to her melancholy look. (Don¡¯t worry, I swear on my sister¡¯s name that I will rectify all the wrong the previous owner has done to you and make amends.) ¡®Yes, tell him I will be right there.¡¯ ¡®Young master, I also need to inform you that he called you to the library.¡¯ (Library? Is that not where our uncle likes to spend most of his time. I wonder what is going on.) Whilst thinking so I absentmindedly made my way to the library. The whole way was an adventure cause everything felt so familiar and yet so foreign. The artistic features made the hallways so majestic that it blinded me. The original guy might have taken it for granted but everything was so dazzling to me. I was smiling and my eyes were sparkling with glee. This expression on my face was so rare that every servant that came across me looked twice to make sure the person was me. I could even hear some murmurs among them which I am sure is about me. (Get used to this everyone for now I am changed man, literally. Also please stop staring at me like that I am not used to being the center of attention.) I gave a plea I never voiced out as I arrived in front of our library. My uncle lived with us and loved to collect books and so we had quite a grand library. None of us siblings liked to study at all but the rest of them could get away because every single one of them were geniuses. The current me had no problem with studying in fact I welcomed it. I used to be a college student and in our culture we had to make wanting a second nature. I was actually pretty good but both my parents were P.H.D holding super nerds so unless my scores were the best in the school I would be scolded. Here I could study at my own leisure and reading was something I actually enjoyed. As I entered the first thing I noticed was that my father was also there with my brother and uncle. My heart immediately sunk because according to memory all of the males of our family only gathered when they needed to reprimand me or they were about to make a life changing decision for me.This tale has been unlawfully obtained from Royal Road. If you discover it on Amazon, kindly report it. (No wonder that girl had said my brother had called. I or the previous owner of this body anyway would never had come here if I/he knew all of them were gathered here even after knowing that it would not help.) Nothing I can do about it now so I grit my teeth and timidly went towards them. ¡®Son, do you know why I have called you here?¡¯ (FUCK!!! That man never called me son before. This is something really major. I hope it is not because of the previous guy molesting that princess that one time or I might have get ready to face the wrath of that kingdom) As my heart stopped in apprehension I nervously shook my head. My brother sneered and had malicious grin as he looked at my nervous form. My uncle seemed to be indifferent to it all and continued to read his book. ¡®Recently it has been brought to my attention that our house cannot properly control you, so to make sure you grow up properly I will be sending you to the Sky Helmet Academy.¡¯ I sighed with resignation and relief. Sky Helmet was a well-known name in this house it was like the ultimate punishment for any of us. It was an academy run by the five great guilds were students were trained to become guild members. What my dad did was essentially disown me. 8 people were sent to this academy throughout its history only 2 managed to gain enough merit to reestablish the relations to this family. ¡®Yeah¡­.. I never fit in this family to begin with so I guess it was only a matter of time before this happened.¡¯ My father looked at me. A flabbergasted expression could be seen on his face. ¡®Uh¡­ it is good that you understand. Don¡¯t worry I will transfer a sizable sum into your bank and will grant you two servants to aid you in your travels. Also you will always be able to return home if you gain enough.¡¯ (Wow! This is the first time I have seen this guy trying to console me or talk to me in this way. To think a change in attitude could bring about something like this.) The expressions of the others were not any different and this actually made me want to do a victory pose. Since I was not really attached to this family¡¯s fame and fortune it did not bother too much even with my new memories. This was because for better or for worse I did not inherit any of that guy¡¯s personality traits so thing like this now had little influence on me. ¡®You can go now, you will be leaving at the 1rst of Wind.¡¯ At first I was surprised but soon nodded in understanding. I remembered that this world had seven months in a year corresponding to the seven attributes: light, fire, water, wind, earth, lightning and darkness. They came in that order and every month had 52 days. Since now was 27th of fire I had like a month and a half left. (Well shit¡­ I wish I had more time to prepare but beggars can¡¯t be choosers. Since it has come to this might as well ask.) ¡®Um¡­ Dad, I was wondering for the time left here can I be given free access to the library.¡¯ The look they were giving me right now was one to remember. ¡®Uh... sure as long as you promise not to damage any of the books.¡¯ I bowed in appreciation and left. (Did not think they would agree so easily. Oh well, I have to use the remaining time to study up cause that guy was really too ignorant. I need to know more about this more about its crafts, cultures and especially its magic) I was absentmindedly thinking up a routine to follow when I realized I handled this in a much calmer fashion than I should have. I had come to another world and accepted it as is without questioning how the fuck did I get here and what the hell is with my situation. I already knew the answer though, it was the memories of this life that made me feel that nothing was out of place and I was really grateful for it. I went to my room which was pretty luxurious and lay down to get some sleep. After realizing that I will not get a wink of sleep I went back to the library to get some reading done. When I entered I found that only my uncle was there with a couple of his librarians. He noticed as the large door makes quite a bit of sound as one entered. ¡®Yes? How can I help you Simon?¡¯ I gave him the whole list of what I wanted to read and after some thought he told the librarians to get me a whole stack of books and move them to my room. Afterwards he warned me not to damage them and told me he would take them back after I left. The whole time he had this profound look on his face. I went back to my room satisfied. I was being kicked out but this was only the first chapter of my life. Chaptet 2- learning and leaving humanity by mistake 17 days have passed since that announcement and I was getting used to my life here. Learned a few new things about this world. Although I hated agreeing with my old man he was right when he said that whenever you need some info turn your head to a related book. I will never forgive him for his Spartan teaching methods which give me nightmares to this day. One thing I am grateful for though is that it ingrained the need to learn and excel in me. One of the most useful books I got from my uncle was one about general trivia. From it the most useful thing learned is how the stats, skills and exp worked. Exp upgraded your base stats only if you trained them, essentially exp is used to increase you parameters after training in a respective stat. So no matter how much you trained unless there was stored exp your stats would never increase. In retrospect if you gained a lot of exp but never trained your stats would still never get better. There was three ways of gaining exp: sleeping, eating and killing. The last one is a bit harsh but is the most efficient way to earn exp and I would have to learn to kill if I wanted to reach my goal. The thought alone gave me a sense of nausea. Skills were much more diverse, different skills had different requirements. Some just needed diligent training, some required specific actions or situations, and some required ingestion of certain foods and so on. However one could not increase skill level with exp. This made me realize how broken my skill status arrangement coupled with exp boost x4 really is. It not only allowed me to freely add stat points using experience, it also allowed me to increase skill level with the experience. What takes someone decades of training I could learn within a day provided I had enough exp. Magic was the next thing I put priority in and I was not disappointed in what I learned, the magic in this world was vast beyond measure. Beyond the seven attribute based magic, people learned to use it to make their life better. Magic was this world¡¯s technology. There are many magic variants of the gadgets, machines and other stuffs available in our world. The only thing that was a bit weird for me is the culture. It is a mix of modern and ancient. There are many modern aspects to it like the school system, public welfare and so on. But there are also many that were outdated ownership of people being the most glaring one, though I was not complaining as it would make finding loyal companions easier. A very fantasy esque feature of this world was that there were multiple races. Although I did not learn much about them I got basic idea about them. The ones that were on friendly terms with humans were the dwarves and demons. The ones that were hostile were the beastmen, elves and fairies. This was due to a long standing war between the six races. The reason for the war was due to a clash between nature and industrialization. The elves, fairies and beastmen wanted growth of nature whilst humans, dwarves and demons wanted industry. The war would still be blazing and would not be a ceasefire if not for the fact that our war irritated dragons. They are few but beyond insanely strong and they brokered a ceasefire by separating us to two different continents. In this continent the most powerful beings were not the kings, the most powerful beings in this continent were the five great guilds. They were the adventurers¡¯ guild which was the pretty standard fantasy guild, then there was the merchant guild which was involved in every trade deal imaginable, the warrior¡¯s guild which was essentially the guild the king would get their soldiers from, the mage guild which was equivalent to today¡¯s science community and finally the craftsman guild from where all our builders and artisans came. The academy I was going is one of the few that is run in collaboration with all five organizations.The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation. That pretty much summarizes what I learned up to now. I had become a great deal stronger. I found out that it is general knowledge that aristocrats are stronger than the common man. This is mainly because of how luxurious and exp rich our food stuffs are, even more so for a family so high in the social ladder such as mine. It was embarrassing to say that I am strong because I ate a lot of good food. Although eating too much does run the risk of becoming fat my status arrangement negates that factor. Right now my stats were something like this
Name: Simon Drake E.X.P:98 Age:15 Gender: Male Class: Noble Titles: Noble¡¯s son, abusive master, trash of the family, Ignorant fool, Dimension traveler, Rapist, Hardcore student, Siscon, Water elemental
Physical Power:78 STRENGTH:18.8 VITALITY:22.6 AGILITY:17.5 DEXTERITY:19.1
Magical Power:399 MANA:1734 AFFINITY:WATER MANA REGENARTION:184/HOUR SPIRIT POWER:1255 INTELLIGENCE:21.3 WISDOM:2O.3
SKILLS UNIQUE SKILLS: STATUS ARRANGEMENT, EXPERIENCE BOOST(x4), SPIRIT OF WATER(MEDIUM) PASSIVE SKILLS: PAIN ENDURANCE(LV5), DETECT PRESENCE(LV5),POISON RESISTANCE(LV5), AQUA FORCE(LV5), AQUA ABSORB(LV5), FIRE RESISTANCE(LV5), PERSEVERENCE(LV5),AQUA AURA(LV5), DETECT SPIRIT(LV5) GENERAL SKILLS: THORAS LANGUAGE(LV5), DUMUS LANGUAGE(LV5), APPRAISAL(LV5), SPEECHCRAFT(LV5), READING(LV5), ASTRAL VOICE(LV5) PHYSICAL SKILLS: SWORDSMANSHIP(LV5), RIDING(LV5), DANCING(LV5), ARCHERY(LV5), SNEAK(LV5), SEX CRAFT(LV3), BODY OF WATER(LV5) MAGICAL SKILLS: WATER MAGIC(LV5), WATER MANUPULATION(LV6), GENERAL MAGIC(LV5),LIFE MAGIC(LV5)
(I really want to dig a hole and bury myself in it. I always knew that I was a bit of a siscon but it did not need to be displayed like this.) Other than that unnecessary title, I really fucked up right off the bat. I got about 1000 exp a day after the extra steal from the kitchen and if you added the 4X boost, I had a lot of exp to play with. I messed around with my stats to see the effects. Most of them were pretty apparent and some a little vague. The one stat I understood too late was the spirit power stat. At first I increased it a great deal because it was the second cheapest stat to increase next to mana and I got epic skills from it. Later I found out that the spirit power stat was the connection to the attribute itself. The stronger your connection the greater it could change you. By giving it so much exp I unwittingly stepped away from the path of humanity and became a humanoid elemental. The process was irreversible so it was too late for regrets and I just had to roll with it. The reason I was not too worried other than a few added bonuses and a couple of restrictions I could still lead a human life. I upped most of my stats to level 5 because it made me feel like I put equal effort in everything, a habit of the past. Although I was being a bit extravagant right now I have to be more careful about my exp expenditure in the future because I could not blindly master everything and had to choose what path I had to take in life. Chapter 3-Pet and progress in relationship I woke up on the 33rd day to find the bed fairly wet. This has become a daily occurrence and I could not stop it at all. The culprit were those little water spirits that started to hang around me like it was nobody¡¯s business. (Guys I get it is fun to be around as I am like the best source of water attribute energy around the area but can¡¯t you guys show some moderation.) Tiny balls of blue light emanated out from the bedand started to rest on my lap. ¡®Good morning. Did you have a good night¡¯s rest?¡¯ ¡®Yeah sure. And guys I know you mean well and just want to hang around me but you got stop drenching the bed every night it is hard as fuck to drag the moisture out.¡¯ ¡®Sorry! We tried, we really did but we are spirits of water sono matter what we do as long as we are there water will gather. It is a real miracle that you don¡¯t attract water to yourself even though your water attribute is so pure.¡¯ ¡®I already told you many times before that I am part human so I don¡¯t work likeyouguys.¡¯ I got up from bed. The six balls of light moved to my shoulders and one to the top of my head. It is awesome that people can¡¯t see them otherwise I would be hard pressed to explain my situation. Now started my greatest practice of magic for the day. I closed my eyes and tried to feel the world around me. I could feel the world itself as though it were another person, I could feel the presence of the hundreds of spirits all around the castle. This feeling was really empowering. When I opened my eyes I saw my whole body covered with a soft blue glow. I extended my hand forward and rolled it into a fist and then rose it. As I did so the moisture rose from the bed and collected into a ball of water right above it. Then I gestured it to come to me and ball of water floated through the air and entered my body. The amazing part was I did not increase in mass or volume even though all that water entered me. As I broke my concentration the blue glow died down and connection to the world weakened a great deal. It is possible to stay in that state for as long as I liked but there two reasons I did not. First my hair and eyes became blue every time entered that state which is difficult thing to explain to my folks, and I became a spirit magnet, my life is already difficult trying to handle the six spirits on top of all my shit and I would be screwed if it increased anymore. I started to dive into my books for the time being without freshening up, when you are aspirit of waterone helpful aspect is that you can escape all things bathroom related. After I read for like an hour my breakfast came along with my signature dead pan maid. My mood plummeted every time I see her like this. Making her smile aroundme wassecond on my to--do list and it was a work in progress. She left immediately after taking the dishes when I had finished my gargantuan breakfast. After I left I bought out my notebook where I jotted down everything down everything I learned of the maid whose name was Tear. I firmly believe that she had that name just so the world could troll me. My current object is to make her smile more often and I spent the four hours in the morning when she is not attending to me to do just that. My stealth skills were very decent and I would spend these four hours in the morning stalking her. She always went to the gardens in the mornings and it is the best time to see her smile. Our castle has a huge pond in the garden, to the point I thought it is a lake, where one of my dad¡¯s concubines reared swans as is her hobby. The creatures are magnificent, they are 10 times the size of the ones on earth, are powerful combatants, beautiful to the point of otherworldly even by these world¡¯s standards, were very intelligent and the coolest part is thatthey could both fly and swim , and it is possible to ride them. The only downside, they are not very friendly and it was a chore to tame them. She would sit on the edge and watch them swim and it was one of the rare moments I would see her smile. On cue, one of the swans saw her and went up to her. She started caressing the swan and started to converse with genuine emotion in her voice, it¡¯s just that the contents depressed me. Using the spirits as a relay I could hear what she was saying to the swan. ¡®Blue, what did I do to deserve such punishment? Papa always praised me for being a good girl and I have never done anything wrong. Even when I was told to serve Master Simon I did everything right, I was praised by nana to be the best among the new maids, so why is my master so cruel to me. I don¡¯t remember doing anything to upset him. Papa always said that my life would be better after I started to serve a lord but he lied. In my old home I could not eat properly and would sometimes go hungry but we never starved and I was happy. I really wish papa could take me away from here.¡¯ Somewhere along the lines tears started streaming down her face and after a while she started to sob and muffled it using the breast of the beast. The swan wrapped its long neck around the girl which seemed like it is trying to console her. After a few minutes like that she let go of the bird which kept on staring at her.This novel is published on a different platform. Support the original author by finding the official source. I felt hollowed inside, every time she met up with blue the conversation would steer in this direction. One would think after the umpteenth time I would get used to it, but no it is still as painful as it is in the beginning. It is probably because of the perseverance skill I am still ok and not turned into a sobbing mess. The next part is even more painful though in a different sense. After she left I came out of hiding. The swan noticed me and came running to me with a look that clearly suggested that she wanted to be praised. I get frustrated as fuck when I saw the look on her face. (I know you don¡¯t care about her but could you at least try to show a little sympathy to her plight. Sigh I am a very hypocritical person aren¡¯t I.) She nuzzled her beak across my face as sign of affection and I grudgingly gave her a piece of meat infused with water attribute as a reward of what she did a while back. The friend Tear thought she had was nothing more than an illusion I had set up. It was very wrong of me to toy with her emotions like this but I was out of options. Among the entire list I got, nothing made such a significant change to her as did a swan. If she ever found out it would breakher heart and she would probably never heal from it again. But the situation she was in right now was not any better. Before I came up with this hoax, I found out that she was not eating right, she had erratic sleeping habits and she tended to over work herself. She would probably break if it continued for much longer. However after I started this horrible scheme, through surveillance I found out that she started to gether health back in order and she started to look a lot better too. This made my plan worth it. I had experience because I would also make such elaborate schemes when I needed cheer my younger sister up when she was depressed. Although she would never show it, I knew her so well that I noticed even those supple differences in her behavior due to mood shifts. This swan, which I also named Blue, was relatively easy to train. Communication was extremely simple due to astral voice and since swans are beasts of the water attribute they would flock around me whenever I shifted. Talk about hero¡¯s luck I somehow managed to do just the right things to help me tame a swan which helped me in my endeavors. After reading a couple of informative books from the library on beasts I found out some rather helpful things. Even with my bonuses it should not be this obedient, the only reason it is because I managed hoaxed it into a familiar contract. Mages with magic lv of 4 can contract a beast of their respective attribute, the reason was mages were not usually the hardy type and the extra protection from the beast went a long way. One could make only one contract at a time and it lasted till the beast or the contractor died. One could even make a contract with a human if the other party was willing. It allowed the contracted to draw the magic energy and reap some of the passive benefits in exchange for obedience. Blue and I were telepathically linked and it was easy to relay orders especially since she had high intelligence. Since I could control her it seems I can also can use status arrangement on her and herstats were something like this
Name: Blue E.X.P:123317 Age: 4 Gender: Female Class: High swan Titles: Object of beauty, servant of spirits,
Physical Power:101.8 STRENGTH:34/40 VITALITY:43.5/50 AGILITY:13.2/15 DEXTERITY:11.1/15
Magical Power:85.7 MANA:541/1000 AFFINITY:WATER MANA REGENARTION:21/50/HOUR SPIRIT POWER:93 INTELLIGENCE:6.3/10 WISDOM:4.3/1O
SKILLS UNIQUE SKILLS: PATH OF EVOLUTION(LV1), CONNECTION(LOW) PASSIVE SKILLS: PAIN ENDURANCE(LV3), DETECT PRESENCE(LV3),POISON RESISTANCE(LV3), AQUA FORCE(LV3), AQUA ABSORB(LV3), FIRE RESISTANCE(LV3), PERSEVERENCE(LV3), FEATHER ARMOR(LV4), BEAST AURA(LV2),BEAST INSTINCT(LV4) GENERAL SKILLS: INTIMIDATE(LV2), FISHING(LV5), SNEAK(LV1), CHARM(LV3) PHYSICAL SKILLS: CLAW(LV2), BEAK(LV2), WINGS(LV1), SWIMMING(LV5) MAGICAL SKILLS: FLIGHT(LV2), WATER MANUPULATION(LV1)
She had a lot exp to spend but I was determined not to do anything till I got some more reading done and was absolutely sure about what path I wanted her to take. After spending a minute of quality time with her I quietly left so as to not arise suspicion. I went back to my room quietly like always, very few people knew that I actually moved about the castle due to how sneaky I was. Most thought I spent all my time in my room. I softly entered to find her cleaning my room while humming a soft tune. (PROGRESS! Yes! First time in god knows how long she had such a natural look on her face. I really want to do a little victory dance right now.) She saw me standing there looking at her and immediately froze. I gestured her to continue and took a random book pretending to read all the while carefully monitoring her behavior. No luck today either, she was still uncomfortable around me even with my sudden drastic change in temperament. It was better than how it was at first but she still closed her heart to the whole world except that bird. The rest of the day was just me reading and hanging with my water spirit buddies. I lay in bed promising myself that I would healher heart even if it is just a little. Chapter 4- Future worries and arrival of first crush It was 55th day of the 77 days I have left in the castle and I felt that life is good. The main reason for this was that I saw Tear having a fun conversation with another servant for the first time since I was here. That was five days ago and now her conversations with others have become a regular thing. I was still out of the question but she did not seem to hate royalty in general as I saw her chatting up my eldest brother so there is hope. The swan therapy was literally doing miracles for her, or she could bounce back from hardships easily, as what should have taken her months if not years to heal from is being repaired as fast as days. I just hope she never has to find out about the horrible deed I did. Currently I was laying on top of the roof, it has been a while since I last came here. This place brilliant when one needed to think and currently in need of some enlightenment. As the day of the departure came creeping in I realized I needed to take care of a lot of things. I am not taking Tear with me as that would be tantamount to hurting her and she was currently in a very fragile state. She was improving but any attack to her psyche could reverse all the improvement she has made. Although all this knowledge is from movies and games I am willing to bet not everything shown is a complete sham. My most pressing issue is how to separate Blue and Tear without destroying Tear. Blue was my familiar and come with me even if I told it otherwise, she was a little spoiled like that but she was also valuable team mate so leaving her is not an option. The next issue is my growth, in what direction did I want to move. Right now it is not a very big issue but I would suffer later if I did not have a clear path to walk on. Then there is the subject of what I wanted to do, I acclaimed that I wanted to be a hero but there is no demon king in this world. It is not plagued by anything or threatened by anything. It is a very stable world from what I have read. This world has nothing I need to save it from. My current hope is that something exciting develops that would propel my journey as a hero. The thought of wanting the world in peril was in itself evil but it is not like I was actively trying to do anything, it was just a harmless wish. But I had to set up an alternate path in life just in case that does not work out. My train of thought was broken by my spirit friends. ¡®You seem like you are deep in thought. What is anything wrong?¡¯ ¡®No nothing serious just wish things were not so vague and complicated.¡¯ ¡®Vague and complicated?¡¯ ¡®Ah. I forgot that you area spirit and have no human worries whatsoever. Don¡¯t worry it¡¯s just some human crap.¡¯If you spot this narrative on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. ¡®I told you many times already you should ditch this human nonsense and be free like us spirits. Life would be so much fun.¡¯ I sat up as it was getting rather uncomfortable lying on wet tiles. ¡®Not so easy my friends. You see I was born human and I have certain feelings that are very different from fairies.¡¯ ¡®First of all don¡¯t mix us with fairies that is an insult to any spirit and secondly not true, I have been alive for 277 human years and found out that our emotions were just like humans. It¡¯s just that we have less of the bad stuff.¡¯ (You make it sound like that the humans are bad. Sure we have some bad qualities but we are not without merit.) ¡®Oh yeah, Simon there is something I have wanting to ask you but I just keep on forgetting. What is sex?¡¯ ¡®Wait what?!? Do you guys not know what sex is? How are you guys even born?¡¯ ¡®Well you see low spirits do not have a physical body so we cannot have any physical needs or wants. We are born from nature itself and cannot do anything to the physical world unless someone else uses us. We merely exist and observe, if by some miracle we obtain a physical body and become a mid-level spirit the world becomes a whole new domain for us.¡¯ (Wow this conversation just took a depressing turn.) ¡®Wow did not know you spirits had such a rough life. Why the sudden question anyway?¡¯ ¡®Well you see, sometimes we here you yell the words ¡°I wish I could fuck someone already¡± when you are looking at a picture while vigorously rubbing an organ in your nether regions that become surprisingly rigid and stiff. You would also mutter the words ¡°sex¡± when you are asleep while the same phenomena happens to your nether regions. Sometimes I hear you whisper ¡°sexy¡± when you see a passing maid or look at Tear.¡¯ I am shocked beyond words and my jaw dropped. (Where is my privacy!? I take back all the sympathy I have for you guys. Just disappear already!) Of course I never voiced that thought. I tried stay as calm as possible. ¡®You¡­ you see that¡­ that is something like a natural urge which needs release which every man has and¡­ is needed for the continuation of the human race. You saying this has brought some things to my attention. There will be some new rules from now on, when you feel something of the nature you just described about to occur again you will make yourselves scarce and not observe is that agreed.¡¯ ¡®Okay, I do not see why you became so flustered though.¡¯ ¡®Well¡­.¡¯ Our conversation was cut short by the sound of loud horns. These only sounded why someone really high on the social ladder, even higher than us, decided to visit. Curios I created a thin ice bridge to the tallest tower to get a clear view. I was mesmerized by the sight. A phoenix like creature larger than any bird I have ever seen landed in front of our castle. This bird was called the high-flame swallow and it was the royal carriage of the Flame emperor family and its presence alone dimmed the majesty of the whole castle. On closer inspection I saw a carriage like structure and people coming out of them but I was too far to make out anything concrete. I knew the carriage and even knew who came along. My brother¡¯s fianc¨¦e and my previous body¡¯s first crush was here. Chapter 5- Drastic development The last visit was 4 years go and then they had come for a marriage proposal. My dad jumped at the chance and now my brother is betrothed to the star of the flame empire. It goes without saying that she was very beautiful in my memory. From that tower I jumped into our family¡¯s grand fountain. When I fell in there was not even a small splash and I was as dry as a desert when I hopped out. Using my superb sneaking skills I sneaked to the front gate to catch a glimpse of that girl. I see my family waiting on them, first time I have seen all of them together, and quietly joined them. One by one they come out of the carriage. Each of them are clad in bright red ceremonial garbs and had such an aura that made everyone else feel insignificant. Finally she came out and when I saw her my jaw dropped to the floor. If I have one word to describe her, it would be ¡°PERFECT¡±. There are two types of beautiful women, ones you feel attracted to sexually and then there was the type that were so beautiful that you have a feeling of worship when you see them. She is clearly the latter type. From her long blazing red hair, to her long eyelashes, to her magnificent chest, to her perfect wide hips, to her long smooth legs, it was as if she was a goddess incarnate. Her skin was fair and smooth without blemish. Her eyes were of a deep crimson that seemed to peer directly at your soul. She was the most beautiful creature I had ever seen, second only to my sister. By the time I came back to myself when she saw me and gave an inquisitive look I found that I am drooling while staring at her. I immediately regained my composure and put on my indifferent face. I still kept looking at her from the corner of my eye trying to memorize every feature for ¡®research¡¯ later. Hey, I needed to act like a cool guy in front of everyone but nobody said I could not be lecherous in secret. I mean I am a healthy teenager after all. After her, a young man came out who were a very gaudy red armor with similar blazing red hair and crimson eyes as Eos. His name was Sol and he was Eos¡¯s grandfather. He was over 80 years old but he looked barely past 20. Among the many gifts common to their family, one was youth. The founder of the empire is a woman who is blessed with eternal longevity and I hear she is one of the most powerful and beautiful ruler in all across the continent. This among other things made their family a hotspot for marriage proposals, though have of them are remarriage proposals for the empress. One could imagine just how good my brother is for them to personally bring the marriage proposal to us. Just the thought made me depressed. All of a sudden something seemed to hit me, I am ogling the wife to be of my own brother. I silently sighed and left as being there any longer would spoil my mood even further. I silently went to my room and just dropped to my bed. Right now I was feeling jealous who could get married to such a marvel while I was being banished, how could she get married to him? Was I lacking in any way? I tossed and turned in my bed trying to think of how I could get her to notice me. I suddenly had a very rash idea and opened my status bar to see it come to fruition.
Name: Simon Drake E.X.P:98 Age:15 Gender: Male Class: Noble Titles: Noble¡¯s son, abusive master, trash of the family, Ignorant fool, Dimension traveler, Rapist, Hardcore student,This story originates from a different website. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there. Siscon, Water elemental, Great spirit
Physical Power:158 STRENGTH:38.8 VITALITY:42.6 AGILITY:37.5 DEXTERITY:39.1
Magical Power:839 MANA:3734 AFFINITY:WATER MANA REGENARTION:384/HOUR SPIRIT POWER:11255 INTELLIGENCE:41.3 WISDOM:4O.3
SKILLS UNIQUE SKILLS: STATUS ARRANGEMENT, EXPERIENCE BOOST(x4), SPIRIT OF WATER(GREATER), ETERNAL LONGEVITY PASSIVE SKILLS: PAIN ENDURANCE(LV5), DETECT PRESENCE(LV5),POISON RESISTANCE(LV5), AQUA FORCE(LV7), AQUA ABSORB(LV7), FIRE RESISTANCE(LV6), PERSEVERENCE(LV5),AQUA AURA(LV7), DETECT SPIRIT(LV7), ENHANCED BODY(LV5), ENHANCED MAGIC(LV5), AQUA SOUL(LV5), MENTAL RESISTANCE(LV5), DIESEASE RESISTANCE(LV5), CHARM(LV3) GENERAL SKILLS: THORAS LANGUAGE(LV5), DUMUS LANGUAGE(LV5), APPRAISAL(LV5), SPEECHCRAFT(LV5), READING(LV5), ASTRAL VOICE(LV7) PHYSICAL SKILLS: SWORDSMANSHIP(LV5), RIDING(LV5), DANCING(LV5), ARCHERY(LV5), SNEAK(LV5), SEX CRAFT(LV3), BODY OF WATER(LV7) MAGICAL SKILLS: WATER MAGIC(LV5), WATER MANUPULATION(LV8), GENERAL MAGIC(LV5),LIFE MAGIC(LV5)
I chose to become a greater spirit, I thought it would allow me to one up my brother who was a once in millennia prodigy and she would only look at me. It takes 100000 exp to get enough points in spirit power to get this evolution. I stole and ate some of the rare herbs meant for my other siblings to give me an average of 1000 exp per day and you get 1 exp per day per every 100 points in spirit power, this allowed me to garner enough exp to become a greater spirit who are supposed to be very powerful beings according to the books. I also upped my new skills that came along with it. I smirked to myself thinking about how I was better than my brother and she would love me over my brother. All of a sudden I seemed to calm down and my thoughts seemed to clear. I suddenly felt weird, it was impossible to suddenly loss all my jealousy. Actually something started to bug me, no matter how beautiful she is I should not have acted the way I just did and since when was I jealous of my brother and his skill. I barely even knew her and I acted like I was deeply in love with her. As I brooded about this development my spirits suddenly popped up. ¡®Thank the great spirits you are back.¡¯ ¡®I am back¡­..?¡¯ ¡®Yeah. You may not realize it but you suddenly suffered a subtle mental attack when you were not looking by that girl and it suddenly dissolved itself just moments ago.¡¯ ¡®Wait what?!? That bitch! Wait till I get my hands on her. I will make sure she pays for this.¡¯ ¡®Wait Simon why do suddenly feel so empowered?¡¯ That sentence brought me back from my tantrum. I immediately grabbed my head and squatted down, I really did it this time. I have completely left my humanity behind. This time my mood really turned sour after all that prep I blew it just because someone decided to bewitch me. All the while the spirits started to celebrate around me as tough it was the greatest thing that happened. After squatting for a good thirty minutes I stood up. If this happened then it must have been fate, I was destined to leave my humanity behind. Since this has happened I decided to just roll with it. A knock is heard. ¡®Speak.¡¯ ¡®Young master you are requested at the dining hall.¡¯ ¡®Ah, yes. Coming right out.¡¯ I move to the door and come out. The moment Tear looks at me she gives a surprised look immediately followed by dead-pan. I decided to ignore and made my way to the dining hall. Whenever I passed a servant I got a weird look. I did not let it bother me and I arrived at the dining hall. I am not normally asked to dine with them so it must be for the guests. When I entered I found everyone was already seated. I quietly made my way to my chair hope to lose myself in their conversation. I started to eat, this time I did not wolf them down like I normally did and followed proper etiquette. This time I only looked at the table and my food, I did not want to involve myself with that vixen anymore. ¡®Son, did something happen?¡¯ (Why did dad ask this random question? He is not normally the talkative type.) ¡®No. why father?¡¯ ¡®Well it¡¯s just your hair and eyes are blue.¡¯ The line shocked me. I looked up to find all of them staring right at me. Well how do I get myself out of this one? Chapter 6-interrogation I am currently the center of everyone¡¯s attention. The room is livid with expressions it ranged from a very pleasant surprise to shock and envy. At any other occasion I would find this funny but right now I am too worried about my shit. My first thought is to say I dyed my hair but I immediately abandoned that thought. Dyeing did exist and it is not prohibited to dye ones hair, in fact it is pretty popular among the upper class. The problem is that is considered blasphemy to color ones hair in the color of the seven attributes as it shows disrespect to the great spirits and spirit kings. It is known fact that if the spirits find someone dyeing their respective attribute terrible calamity befalls that person. There were many documented cases to support this claim I tried to think of several things when a realization hit me, I was supposed to be the stupid son. Even after I started to take books I believe they think it is just me trying to show that I changed and not really reading, after all it is really hard to believe that a person can change personalities overnight. I could use that to my advantage. I decide to act dumb. ¡®Uh¡­. What father?¡¯ There is a slight pause (Come on believe that your son is still an idiot. It would be really helpful please.) ¡®What I asked was that why is your hair blue? If it is dyed, son, I think even you are aware of the consequences. I will implore you wash your hair at once before the water spirits find out.¡¯ Choice, do I say it is dyed lower myself in the eyes of everyone even further but be done with this troublesome situation. Or I could say the truth which would probably increase my standing in the family but this interrogation would continue and my secrets may come to light which is the last thing I want. I made my choice and am about to speak when I was stopped by the voice of another. ¡®Don¡¯t berate the boy, Daniel. I do not believe that his hair is dyed. It may be possible to dye ones hair but there is no mistaking those ocean blue eyes or that soft blue glow imperceptible to regular eyes.¡¯ I could hear gasps of surprise all around with a small click of disappointment mixed in. (Fuck you old man, why could you not keep your mouth shut. Just what does everybody of the flame empire have against me?) The spirits are still dancing around me and there is a significant increase in their numbers. I am relieved that they could not understand human language otherwise they would be rioting at the insults I got. ¡®Sorry, Sol. It¡¯s a rather unexpected development and it is something I could have never anticipated.¡¯ (My father is acting meekly. A miracle has occurred, really wish I had something to capture his expression right now. I am sure it would be a priceless treasure.)Help support creative writers by finding and reading their stories on the original site. ¡®It¡¯s quite alright, you are still young and a lot to learn. When you get to my age you will find that there is very little that fazes you anymore.¡¯ I almost choked at this. From a third person point of view it looked like a lively 20 year old young man was teaching a 40 something year old adult about life and that 40 year old was someone like my father. ¡®Now, boy could you tell me exactly what happened?¡¯ ¡®I really do not know, sir.¡¯ ¡®That is quite alright, can you just tell me what you were doing the last couple of days?¡¯ I really needed to make a convincing lie otherwise if they decided to go through all the trouble of using a sacred mirror to look at my stats I would be found out and would probably be trapped in the plot of higher ups seeking to take advantage of my power. Luckily I actually have already made up an excuse if I ever got in trouble like this for my blue hair. I read up on books related to cases like mine rare as they may be to make the perfect lie. Clearing my throat and got ready to produce the lines I rehearsed so many times. ¡®You see, sir, what happened one night was that a great blue light came to my dreams one night. That night I was rather depressed and needed any sort of support. The blue light asked in an enchanting voice whether I wanted power or not. I jumped at the chance and agreed, did not listen to what she had to say any further. Afterwards I became able to sense blue light all around me and could do some cool new things. The feeling was addictive so I continued to do the exercises that light told me to do. She came to me in my dreams for about a week always saying that I was really special. She left me afterwards instructing me to continue my training. I did so which led to the events of today. I did not realize that this training would cause any physical changes.¡¯ Everyone at the table listened to my story with great interest, high speech skill added an extra flair which enticed everyone to listen. After listening to my story Sol rose an eyebrow. ¡®Why did you not tell any of this to your elders? You have a good reason I presume.¡¯ This bastard was crafty but I already had an answer for this question. ¡®I never measure upped to any of my siblings. To show off to my dad that I was better than them I kept it a secret. When they would make fun of me again I would challenge them to a duel and beat them showing my father how good I am and I would become the favorite son.¡¯ Every one of my family members showed an expression that they understood my line of reasoning. I was happy how easy it became to string them along. ¡®Hmm, your line of reasoning is pretty valid. There are no immediate loopholes in your reasoning. One would think your reasoning was perfect, a little too perfect in fact. I makes one wonder whether it was practiced before.¡¯ At that statement I started get nervous, this old man was way too intuitive I would have invested more in the speech craft skill if I knew it would come to tis. Too late for regrets now, I decided to reinforce my lie. ¡®What reason would I have for lying?¡¯ ¡®I don¡¯t know, you tell me.¡¯ ¡®I really am not lying.¡¯ ¡®Enough, Sol. He is 15 years old and never left the castle, I already checked his status when he was younger and I do not believe he has anything that great to begin with that he would need to hide it.¡¯ ¡®Hey your son your business. This little guys persuasive skills intrigued me is all, if you don¡¯t believe there is anything wrong with him then let¡¯s go with that.¡¯ I felt that he was implying something when he said that but his words were too cryptic to get anything usable. I also thanked my dad for getting me out of that pit that I had fallen in, though he was really gullible. At least for now my secret is safe. Chapter 7-Incident I am told to go to my room while they decide how to respond to this development. The funny part is that the topic of the entire table shifted from my older brother¡¯s marriage to my new power. I really wonder how my older brother will react to this. As I absentmindedly went to my room. As I am about to turn the other way a spirit popped up, the one I ordered to monitor Tear. ¡®Tear is crying, she looks like she is in pain. I cannot understand them but those people are probably being mean to her.¡¯ ¡®I will be right there. Thank buddy.¡¯ ¡®You¡¯re welcome.¡¯ She stood at a secluded part of the hall where I could sense the presence of a few others. At first I hid to take a sneak peak at what is happening just to make sure I get the whole picture. ¡®Man look at this slut, acting all pure and noble.¡¯ ¡®I know right. After all that fucking you did you probably have a high sex craft skill, am I right?¡¯ ¡®We are not asking for much. Or you prefer we tell the lord that a man tried to break in when everyone is busy attending to the guests. I think that man is your father am I right? Cam can you tell me the punishment for breaking into the Drake castle?¡¯ ¡®I think the lord specifically said to exercise the death penalty if the identity is known and the person is no one of interest.¡¯ ¡®Oh is that right. Did the lord mention how to exercise this penalty?¡¯ ¡®No. I believe he said to use whatever method we see fit.¡¯ ¡®Interesting. Do you guys think throwing him in the dungeon without food or water while letting our torturers use him as a guinea pig a fitting punishment?¡¯ ¡®I believe it is. After all he tried to enter this sacred domain using such an evil method.¡¯ ¡®Don¡¯t worry we can look the other way and pretend he never came here, all we ask is that you give us a little benefit in return, say accompanying us for a night every once in a while. After all you are one of the most beautiful maids in the castle and it is not fair that only the young lord gets to hog that beautiful body.¡¯ My hands are rolled into fists and I squeezed so hard that my nails dug into my skin and droplets of blood kept rolling down. I did this to calm myself down, the three guards surrounding her would not come out of this alive if I went in with current state of my mind.This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it (Calm down, calm down. Blindly raging about would do no one good. If things got bloody it would hurt Tear more than it would help her, besides I never killed before.) ¡®Hey, is it just me or did it just get rather chilly in here?¡¯ His words made me realize that I is currently glowing with a tremendous amount of spirit energy circling around me. I took a deep breath and calmed down. The gathered energy slowly dispersed but not until it brought down the room to sub-zero temperatures. This all happened in a matter of mere moments. Seeing Tear shivering in the cold alarmed me and I hurriedly came out of hiding. ¡®What is going on here?¡¯ The shivering guards froze upon hearing my voice. They timidly turned their heads and I could see their faces sink. When Tear saw me she ran to me, grabbed the hem of my clothes and kept bawling her eyes out. At this point I is worried that she is cursed and would never be able to stop crying. I looked at the guards accusingly. ¡®You see¡­ you see young master that maid¡¯s father is found sneaking in the castle so...¡¯ ¡®Oh and the fact that you are demanding sexual favors, I wonder what that is about?¡¯ My tone is very cold and they immediately panicked. ¡®Forgive us! We swear will never touch her again!¡¯ They prostrated themselves in front of me. ¡®Try to hurt her again, miss treat the prisoner or tell my father about the trespasser, I will make you people regret ever being born. Is that clear?¡¯ ¡®Very clear! We swear to it young master!¡¯ ¡®Good, now get out of my sight!¡¯ I am known to be ruthless and irrational among the servants, did not think it would come in handy here. They stumbled as they scrambled to get away. After they left I relaxed and suddenly felt light headed, my vision turned hazy and it is hard to stay awake. I fell on to Tear and lost consciousness soon after. The next I knew is that I is lying in bed being treated by the family doctor. My head ached severely and it is difficult to think. ¡®Ah! Finally back with us little one. Here have this it should help.¡¯ Something really bitter entered my mouth and I almost spat it out in reflex. He held my mouth shut so I had no choice but to swallow. Almost immediately my head ache dimmed and my mind became clear. I sat on my bed to find to find my father, uncle and the young grandpa standing across it. Each of them had a different expression. One is pride, one is shock, and the other is intrigue. ¡®Well, little one are you alright? Do you feel an ache anywhere or feel a bit dizzy.¡¯ ¡®No, I actually feel much better after that thing you gave me. What exactly happened?¡¯ ¡®Nothing serious. You over taxed your mana is all, the herb I gave just jump started your mana regeneration allowing for a quick recovery.¡¯ ¡®Oh. I guess freezing an entire room would do that to you.¡¯ This time it is Sol who is surprised. ¡®Boy. Do you not realize what you did?¡¯ At his words I looked at him in a confused manner. ¡®Son, you have brought the entire castle to below freezing temperatures. Thank the gods that Sol is here, otherwise everyone would have been in trouble. You really did it this time.¡¯ His words are accusing but great pride could be felt in his tone. I is too mentally taxed to get it immediately, but when my brain caught up I immediately get shocked. I came out of the frying pan and fell directly into the fire. Chapter 8-Getting a backer I thought I misheard what he said. ¡®What did I do?¡¯ ¡®You basically froze the entire castle, boy. An impressive feat for any mage twice your age, you being able to do it now proves you are very capable. Adding to the fact that your mana is so pitiful makes this even more surprising. If you are worried that the stunt you pulled caused any serious damage I will stop you right there. Nothing happened.¡¯ ¡®If so, then why are you all standing here? It feels like you want to say something.¡¯ ¡®Son, it is as you say. First of all I wish to say sorry for treating you so rudely for all these years.¡¯ (That¡¯s it? That¡¯s all you have to say for alienating your son for all these years. Well you can take your apologies and shove it up your own ass. I swear to my sister¡¯s name I will never acknowledge you as my father or this family as my own. The only reason I am not severing ties with you gullible bastards is because this family name may prove to be useful in the future.) His expression suggested that he felt that he apologized enough. He changed topics quickly to as cover the fact that he had to apologize. Sol looked at him and sighed in disdain. Even uncle gave father a pitiful look. Father was of course oblivious to anything that could hurt his pride. ¡®Son I believe you are too good for that petty sky helmet academy and as such I am sending to the same place as your brother. The royal emperor¡¯s academy.¡¯ (No way, I will not become a pawn for the family dad. You wanted to banish me but now that you see I am useful you want me to go to some aristocratic university to help you further develop the drake family in the future.) ¡®No way I do not want to go to the royal academy, father.¡¯ My father wore an expression of shock. This was the last straw, I did not care how good a future I had in this family. I am being used like an object, I was unofficially kicked out of the family but the moment it was found that I had talent the matter is forgotten and I have follow my family¡¯s footsteps. ¡®What did you say son? I probably misheard. I think I heard you say you did not want to enter the royal academy.¡¯ ¡®Yes, you heard right father. I want to become an adventurer.¡¯ ¡®Who put those idiotic ideas in your head?! Do you know how hard the life of an adventurer is?!? Trust me become a lord it is much safer and more comfortable lifestyle.¡¯ ¡®Yeah but there is a tone of restrictions and responsibilities, something I know I am not ready to handle. Why are you suddenly changing your mind anyway father? I thought was being sent to sky helmet academy or was that wrong.¡¯ This is a trump card I played, my father hates admitting that he is wrong about something especially is it someone his junior. The fact that it is me his once useless son makes it even worse and he would rather die than admit he is in the wrong. Thank god my father tended to become easy to handle once you started playing with his ego. ¡®No, son it was not my idea. I still believe that you should go to the sky helmet academy but others said that now that you show promise it would be waste to just kick you out.¡¯ That was a straight up lie, but I could use this to my advantage. ¡®But dad when did you start to listen to what others say? I thought you knew what was best and once you said something it was final.¡¯Reading on Amazon or a pirate site? This novel is from Royal Road. Support the author by reading it there. The expression on my father¡¯s face was to die for. Both the grandpa and the uncle looked at my father with a smirk. ¡®Yes it was supposed to be final but I was forced to reconsider because of the pressure I received from the rest of our family.¡¯ Wow, I really started to doubt my father¡¯s intelligence. He was digging his own grave and he could not have made this any easier even if he tried. ¡®Really dad? I thought your words held most weight and no one in this family dares question them.¡¯ My father suddenly closed his mouth and then as if he came to a conclusion spoke. ¡®The royal academy was just a thought, if you do really well in your three years at the sky helmet academy I will enroll you to the royal academy.¡¯ Even a kid can easy how flimsy his excuse was but I let it go as my goal was achieved. My father believing that he was able to deceive me quickly left with uncle and doctor following in toe. Sol, however, stayed behind. ¡®You are smart one kid, shame I did not come over last time, otherwise you probably would have been the lucky guy for my granddaughter.¡¯ ¡®Yeah¡­. Not happening.¡¯ I regretted it the moment the words left my mouth. I suddenly felt like I was being crushed by an unknown pressure. ¡®Oh. Are you meaning to imply my grand-daughter is not good enough for you?¡¯ ¡®That¡¯s not what I meant. I do not want to get married to someone I barely know. I want to fall in love first.¡¯ The pressure vanished all together. I released a relieved sigh. ¡®Did not peg you for a romantic. Are you really sure you are a 15 year old spoiled aristocrat? I do not mean to brag but my Eos is very mature for her age but even she pales in comparison to you.¡¯ I was rather surprised, I really did not think he would give me such high praise. ¡®There is one thing bugging me though, I can easily detect when someone is lying and I really you were lying back at the table. Although I know you are not someone bad because I cannot feel any hostility or ill-intent, I really do not like being lied to.¡¯ ¡®It is as you say, I have some secrets I do not want to share. Can we leave it at that?¡¯ ¡®Hmm, fine. I will not pursue.¡¯ One thing kept nagging me a lot so I asked even though it could be a bit of a landmine. ¡®Why are you being so sensible? What do you gain out of this?¡¯ ¡®Clever. Don¡¯t worry it is nothing detrimental to you, boy. You might be the salvation to someone dear to me so I am willing to invest on you a bit. Don¡¯t worry I am no using you as pawn, all I ask in return is that you take along this girl I know. She is a bit special but is rather lonely. She finds it hard to make lasting relationships due to her high spirit power and special position. I think you are her best option.¡¯ I wondered for a bit, support from a high ranking official in exchange of taking care of someone, not a bad deal. However, there had to be a catch. Otherwise it was too good to be true. ¡®Why is she your illegitimate child or something?¡¯ ¡®Yes, she is blood related. She is very lonely and is in need of proper companionship.¡¯ ¡®Why me? I am pretty sure there is a lot of people you know a lot of people from whom you can ask help from.¡¯ ¡®Yes. But you are a bit special and I think it may be good for her if she gets to know you.¡¯ ¡®Oh please, you barely even know me. How can you not say that I would take advantage of her?¡¯ ¡®Oh. I am not worried about that one bit, she is a strong girl who can take care of herself. So what do you say? I assure you there are only benefits from doing this.¡¯ ¡®I feel like I am waking into a trap, but fine I accept.¡¯ ¡®Thanks kid. You will not believe how big a favor you are doing for me. I assure you I will have your back as long as the little lady feels satisfied.¡¯ ¡®Just to be clear, it is not your grand-daughter right?¡¯ ¡®Oh god no! I will say that you accept our proposal, you will have a new follower in a few days. I will make up an excuse for your father. Please, make her happy.¡¯ ¡®Again, we barely know each other. It feels earie that you have such confidence in me.¡¯ ¡®I like to believe I am a good judge of character and I believe you are a good guy. Besides I can only entrust it to you because of your special constitution. If you are that worried about the whole deal. Just think of this as some ploy to attract you to our side.¡¯ I knew it so he wanted me to join his group but sine he is being sincere let¡¯s go along with it. Maybe through that person I can pull Sol to my side instead. ¡®Huh so that¡¯s how it is. Well I already accepted so no sense worrying about it now, hope we get along.¡¯ He spoke no further and quietly left my room. Finally some peace and quiet. I put everything in the back of my mind and decided to think later. I get ready to get some sleep when I see Tear enter with an anxious and teary look on her face. She come closer to my bed and then dropped to her knees and started begging. ¡®I will do anything you ask. Please save my father.¡¯ Fuck how could I forget?