The daily life of a demon teen
Disclaimer: I do not own How to train your dragon or Halo
KEY
'Thoughts/memories'
"foreign language/projected thoughts"
Emphasis/yelling
"Magic incantation"
(A/N: More training and tinkering.)
Review responses
CajunBear73: He wouldn't be Hiccup without making at least one mistake. Cyrai certainly does. The measurement system she explained is "a" Metric System, just not the human one. The Demon race Hiccup became a part of has interacted with humanity throughout their history, as with her mention of the roman libra. The Demon realm is more advanced because of their use of magic by a couple hundred years…, well most of their world.
Guest: Knowing Hiccup, that might not happen.
FlameShadowG: Diggy hmm… Diggy, Digman, Digster, Digdig. You know what, I like it.
OechsnerC: Human, nope. Demoness, eh maybe if I can think of a way to make it work.
Reader: I like to think of Grayson as an ancient Demon King, a step up from lord. Do you mean all romance or just between Hiccup and Astrid, I'll agree with you if it's the latter.
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Chapter 3: Fieldtrip to Dragon Island
Nar POV
Morning, Two days later
Hiccup had fallen into a regular schedule of training since settling in his cove. Currently he was doing exercises to build up his physique, which indirectly increases his mana reserves. "Thirty-seven, thirty… eight, thirty…... nine", he groaned out as he did another pushup, dressed in his newly created workout outfit of a gray t-shirt, red shorts, and his converse.
Cyrai was propped up on a nearby rock, "C'mon Hiccup, one more!".
His arms wobbled as he grunted, "F-forty!". Hiccup gasped as he rolled onto his back, in between pants, "Wow, a… new p-personal… best!". He walked to the stream and dunked his head in. Gulping down the cool water, He pulled out his head and whipped his hair back, "I feel soar and great at the same time". He picked up a towel by Cyrai and dried his face, his smile hadn't faded. It grew as he looked at his new home that the constructor had finished the day before.
The three-meter-wide by three-meter-long by two-meter-tall 'shack' that the construct had completed would serve as a temporary housing for Hiccup, as he ordered the constructor to begin working on the main house adjacent to it. Inside was his padded cot converted from his former bedroll, his workbench was snug against the opposing wall.
The workbench was created by him with Cyrai's guidance, allowing him to upgrade or modify the constructor. Hiccup pulled off his sweaty shirt and used the dampness of the towel to wipe off the leftover sweat. He tossed the shirt in a basket by his hanging everyday outfit beside his shack, then changed into it. Hiccup pulled on his hoodie and walked inside with Cyrai under his arm, he sat at his chair in front of the workbench and called out, "Hey Diggy, come here please".
It finished printing the window of the main house and flew into the shack, Hiccup leaned back to let it land on the etched magic circle on his stone tabletop. He placed his right hand in the recessed handprint and pumped in mana, the etched circle glowed and levitated Diggy. Translucent red rings appeared and held it in place, Cyrai was lying beside the floating construct, "Looks like those upgrades really came in handy".
"I know, right?", he tilted and spun it until he saw the pair of upgrade slots adjacent to the top plate, they took the place of two triangle glass facets. One of the metal facets was slotted with the coin-sized disc enchanted with "Wood rot", allowing Diggy to harvest wood from the dead trees around the cove. The upgrade expanded its harvest capabilities past just minerals to build a wooden roof on the shack and the soon-to-be house.
The other metal facet was slotted with a disk enchanted with "Fly". Without it, Diggy could only hover to waist height. It used its new flight to venture out and gather sand from the beach for glass windows and such, allowing light in but keeping the cold out. Cyrai sees Hiccup pull out a blank discus and magi-steel chip, "What upgrade are you going to give it next?".
"I was thinking of giving him some combat capability for training and security", Hiccup held the disk in his palm. He closed his eyes and the disk hovered up, "Enchant object: Aqua bolt". A small magic rune etched into it and glowed sapphire blue.
"Smart, non-lethal to you, dangerous to mortals", Hiccup place the metal chip on a pedestal next to the floating construct.
He held his hands in front of the automata, "Swap matter", red miasma flowed from his hands. The last adjacent glass facet became liquefied and floated away, the magi-steel chip melted and formed into place of the space. A circular slot molded into the facet; Hiccup placed the enchanted disc in the slot. Once it locked into place, he deactivated the holding rings, "Follow me".
Diggy hovers up and followed Hiccup as he carried Cyrai with him outside. He set her down on the stump and began training, not noticing small patches of grass growing from the craters of the prior day training. She opened and fluttered to the combat magic chapter, "Alright since you're ahead in offensive magic, I think it's time to move onto defense".
"Agreed", he turns to the constructor, "Alright Diggy, go over there and when I give the signal, use Aqua bolt on me". It pulsed once and flew five meters from Hiccup, "Ok… now!". A sapphire blue magic circle appeared, then a glob of water formed and shot towards Hiccup. He summoned his shield, a translucent red hemisphere appeared in front of him like a wall. The bolt flew wide left, completely missing the shield, "Wha?!".
"Ah right, the constructor 'Diggy' lacks a consciousness, so it has extremely poor accuracy", Cyrai said while holding back a snicker.
"So, giving Diggy aqua bolt was pointless?", he let out an exasperated breath.
"Kinda, unless you find or make a soul for it", Hiccup called over Diggy, "However, due to you lacking an external source of mass mana, making an artificial soul is too dangerous to try"
"So, I must steal someone's soul?!", he asked while holding his construct, "What am I, a demon?".
"Yes", she states as a matter-of-factly.
"Oh right, I forgot", Hiccup commands it to resume constructing, "Just because I am a demon, doesn't mean I have to act like one".
"So, what are you going to do?", he walks to the waterfall.
"I'll meditate on it", undressing and stepping under the cascade, the numbing waters help him concentrate on bringing out his wings. They were black, bat-like and with a wingspan of just under three meters. The first time they came out of his lower back, Hiccup freaked out until Cyrai explained that all demons are born with them. By channeling mana through them, he could take to the air without casting fly.
After a couple of minutes, Hiccup emerged out from under the waterfall, "Did you figure out a solution?".
He dried himself with a towel, "Kinda, does the soul have to come from a person?".
"Not really, but a beast soul will have less cognation than one from a human", Hiccup began to redress.
"Well, it's not like I'm asking for it to write a sonnet or anything like that", while fixing his hoodie. He pulled his hair from under his collar, "Time to hunt". Hiccup picked up Cyrai and went inside his shack, then emerged with her in his messenger bag. His wings popped out from under his shirt and flicked several times, their membrane glowed slightly as mana flowed into it. Hiccup crouched down then shot up, clearing the cove walls.
An Hour later, in the sky above the other side
Hiccup POV
'Nearly an hour of flying around and still nothing, I guess my slice of paradise isn't appealing to everything else', I looked to my bag, "Hey Cyrai, you picked up anything yet?".
"Nope, I've been casting 'Sense life'. However, I have limited capabilities, so the range is short".
"You think I should try?".
"Go for it", I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, "Sense life". A barely visible pulse of energy radiated out from me, I circled around the area for a bit. I heard a ping and sensed something below me, "Did you hear that?".
"Nope, did you pick something up?", I nod.
"It's coming from that clearing in the dead forest", I banked and flew down to it. I looked around when I touched down but couldn't see anything, "Huh, must have been a fals- ". A loud cawing cut me short, a crow was floundering in the open. I stepped closer and its flopping grew more frantic, 'Why don't you just fly away?'. I spot its wing, twisted in an unnatural angle, 'Poor thing'. I reached into my pocket and pulled out my leftover loaf, I tore off a piece and offered it to the crow. It swung its head away from my offering, "It's food dummy".
From the corner of my eye, I see Cyrai's gem flash, "He's dying Hiccup".
"What, we should help him!", I try to reach for it, but the crow hops away.
"He knows his time is close, the wound is infected", I looked at it, the gash was yellowish green, and puss filled.
"Can we heal him?", I knew the bird must be suffering.
"No, your level of healing magic won't work, the infection has spread too far", I bit my lip, "You should grant him mercy and end his pain".
"Poor guy, isn't there another way?".
"Well… you could give him a quick death by extracting his soul, it's relatively painless compared to his current torment", I gave her suggestion some thought.
"You said its quick, right?".
"Yep", the crow stopped cawing, probably too tired. I agreed to do it, she opened and fluttered to a page depicting a person strapped to a table, 'Ugh, that's disturbing'.
After reading the incantation, I took a deep breath, "By the reaper's hand, I tear spirit from flesh: Soul riven". The bird fell limp, a wisp of dark blue flowed from its body to a drop cut mana crystal in my palm. The gem was useless by itself, drained from one of my experiments. The crystal's hollow gray color was replaced by a midnight blue glow.
Cyrai's gem flashed again, the gemstone in my grasp reacted, "Soul gem data: origin species-corvus, intellect level-average, control level-stable".
"You think it'll work?", I stuffed the gem in my jean pocket.
"Yes, that soul should grant your battle construct good accuracy", I took off back into the air, "Plus, it will allow it to handle more complex commands".
"Good, let's head home".
Hiccup's cove
Nar POV
Hiccup landed half an hour later, pleased that he found a soul for his automata. He sighed in pride as his gaze landed on the nearly complete small modern cottage, the sculpted stone house dwarfed his shack. Stepping through the front door, Hiccup walked into the living/dining room.
In the back of the room was his small kitchen, an enchantment enhanced stove dominated the small space. A metal sink was placed beside it, fed from a reservoir piped from the waterfall nearby. The cupboards below it stored his tableware, the one above both would hold his foodstuffs. Inside were the last of his bread loafs and bag of yak jerky.
To his left were doors leading to his bedroom and workshop, the first was empty until Hiccup would get around to securing the proper materials. Magic can do a lot of things but creating one kind of resource from a different one was incredibly mana inefficient. Hiccup opened his cupboard and pulled out a strip of jerky, he walked back out while munching on it.
He whistled, "Hey Diggy, come down", the constructor stopped layering the wooden gamble roof. It floated down to Hiccup, "C'mon, I got something for you", he held out the soul gem. The construct gave no response, "Whatever, just go over to the workbench", it did so. Hiccup reclined Cyrai on the wall atop the table, "So how do I put the soul into Diggy?".
"Same as any upgrade, although this one will be permanent", she opened and fluttered to the same page before.
Below the first depiction was another, a cloaked person held a gem towards a humanoid automaton, "Huh, seems straightforward enough". Hiccup placed the soul gem on the pedestal, he repeated the same process as before, but stopped, "Hey Cyrai, Diggy won't start cawing, will it?".
"Of course not, you idiot, imprinting a soul just allows a construct to learn and understand more!".
He shrugged, "From flesh to metal, may you bring life anew: Soul bind". The gem floated up as its glow intensified and with a flash, a midnight blue wisp flowed from it to the constructor. The crystal crumbled away when a series of string-thin hard light rings appeared around Diggy's mana core, "Did it work?".
"Affirmative master", a synthesize voice* answered, causing the rings to waver and Hiccup to fall backwards out of his chair.
"What the hel was that, you can talk?!", he kicked up and stared at Diggy with bewilderment.
"Affirmative", he replied.
"So, you can answer my questions besides yes or no, right?", he tilted forward as if to nod.
"Affirmative, cognitive functions of this unit have been increased by three hundred and ten percent", he floated over to Hiccup, "Would you like me to resume my fabrication of your quarters or attempt combat training once more?".
"We really need to train you defensively Hiccup, afterwards Diggy can finish your home", Cyrai suggested.
"I concur with the other", he turned to Cyrai, "With the increase in processing power, the completion of your quarters will be done before nightfall".
"Works for me", Hiccup motions for him to follow. With Cyrai propped by the stump, his training began.
The first few bolts were cast before he could summon his shield, hitting Hiccup like baton rounds, "Master, would you like me to decelerate my casting time?".
"No, in a real fight, I won't have that option", the welts under his clothes were already healing.
"Understood", Diggy replied with concern for his user but resumed his role in training. The next two bolts struck Hiccup, one under his left collarbone and the other in the solar plexus. The pain caused him to cough up saliva, "Master please reconsider!".
"No, I need to do this!", Diggy felt compelled to comply. He launched another bolt, expecting it to inflict pain upon his master. The translucent glob sail towards a determined Hiccup, who smirked when the bolt drew near. Faster than before, he summoned his shield and blocked the bolt, "YES, I did it!".
"Well done master", Diggy felt relief that his user didn't get hurt.
"H-how did you manage to do it?!", Cyrai was surprised.
"Easy, like the first time it happened", Hiccup dissipated the shield, "I didn't think about it, I 'felt' it".
"Do you wish to continue master?", Diggy called out to him.
"You know it".
Two hours later
Diggy unleashed a flurry of bolts, one every second at a fleeing Hiccup, "Keep it up master!". He dodged the shots by ducking and sliding, with an occasional cartwheel or front flip. Those he couldn't evade, he blocked with a flash of his shield.
Hiccup continued to evade the bullet storm until it was time for lunch, Cyrai praised his agility, "You're amazing Hiccup".
He sat on the stump and watched Diggy put the finishing touches on his house, "Thanks, I only wish I could have another construct to train with while he's busy". Hiccup swallowed his bite of loaf, "Speaking of, you keep mentioning an 'external source of mass mana', what is that?".
"In the demon realm, it usually means a mana stone", he raised an eyebrow, "Ugh, a large crystal made of mana that has condensed naturally over centuries".
"I doubt I'll find something like that on Midgard", Hiccup washed down the last of his bread with a swig from his water container.
"You never know", he set down his drink, "Like you said, 'nothing ventured, nothing gained'".
Hiccup chuckled, "Glad to see I'm rubbing off on you".
"So, should I try?", he nods, "Alright, I'm gonna need you to transfer your mana when I say so".
Hiccup places his hand on her cover, "Ready when you are".
Cyrai's gem began to glow, "Here we go… "Mana Sense-Maximize range!". A pulse of energy radiated out from her, washing over the cove and beyond. He felt a dull ache as she drained a large chunk of his mana reserve, "You ok?".
"Y-yeah, just… need a breather", Hiccup picked her up and placed her on his lap as he sat on the stump.
After a minute or two, the dull pain faded away, "You sure you're okay now?".
"Good enough, did you find something?", Cyrai's gem lit up and projected a hologram of the cove, she zoomed out to display the isle of Berk.
"Yes", she continued to zoom out until the other islands of the archipelago were shown, "Besides you and Diggy, I've located a high concentration of magic energy here". The projection panned north west until it showed a volcanic island surrounded by a fog bank, then zoomed in on the west side of the center volcano. 'Is that… it is!', Cyrai sensed his excitement, "What is it?".
"I think you've found the dragon's nest, Helheim's gate", Hiccup couldn't believe it.
"Helheim's gate, like the demon realm?", she chuckled, "There's no portal to that place from here".
"Believe me, I know", he peered closer at the hologram, "There could be hundreds of dragons waiting for us, I should make armor". Hiccup walked into his shack, fumbling in his pack until he found his blacksmithing tools. He went under his workbench for a couple of chunks of iron ore and the last of his cloth tarp, 'Guess this will have to do for now'.
He walked back to the stump where he left Cyrai, "What are you going do?".
"Since I'm gonna need to save my mana for the journey, I'm going to forge some armor instead of using creation magic", Hiccup set the iron ore chunks on the flattest rock he could find. He closed his eyes and summoned a jet of fire, then began to heat up the chunks, 'This will take too long!'.
"Why don't you try using your plasma blast?", suggested Cyrai.
"Plasma blast", the vermilion magic circle appeared, "Augment spell: flame stream". Another ring of demon-script runes appeared around the circle, spinning in the opposing direction. When Hiccup felt sure, he released his mana into his palm. The jet of plasma discharged from his hand and sent him spinning backward, he grunted as he tumbled. Hiccup recovered and came to a skidding halt, "Okay, that was new".
"No kidding, the compound of those two spells must have translated to an impulse effect".
He dusted himself and walked back to his makeshift anvil, "Ok, I might adjust the mana input". Hiccup summoned his plasma jet again but limited the amount of mana channeled, the much smaller jet was easier to control. The stream made the chunks glow within seconds, he hammered them to shape. When they cooled, Hiccup would hit them with a jet of plasma. After a half an hour, the iron chunks became two halves of a small chest piece. He spent the next fifteen minutes making a vest from the remains of the canvas sheet, finishing by slipping the plates into pockets sewn onto the vest.
"You should enchant it with fire resistance, since you've recovered some mana".
"Right, dragons breathe fire", he placed a hand on the primitive plate carrier vest, "Enchant object: Lesser Fire Resistance". Hiccup removed his hand and sees a faint rune for fire resistance glow on the center of the chest. The enchantment's power binds to the vest, which he puts on. "It's a little snug, but It'll work", he walks over to his constructor, who had just finished his cottage. "Hey Digdig, Cyrai and I are taking a trip, want to tag along?", he flew down to Hiccup.
"Certainly, I will gladly sacrifice my existence if it means your survival master".
"I appreciate your enthusiasm, but It shouldn't be too dangerous", he gave a small smile. Hiccup retrieves his bag and places Cyrai inside, Diggy perches on his shoulder, "Alright, everyone ready?". Both said yes, "Here we go!", he summons his wings and takes off in the direction of Helheim's gate.
Noon, above the sea near Helheim's gate
Hiccup flew at high speed, the fog bank in the distance drew close, "Hiccup, you should slow down and conserve your mana".
"Why, we're so close", he could see the tops of sea spires poke out above the fog.
"I concur, we do not know if we will have to engage the creatures to escape", the wind buffeted Diggy as he held on.
"Alright fine", Hiccup reduced his flight speed, entering the fog. "Cyrai, keep using 'sense life', we don't want to get ambushed", her gem pulsed as she scanned the surrounding area.
"No life signs are close, are they sleeping?", he weaved his way through the spires.
"Don't know don't care, as long as they don't find us", he replied, diving under a stone arch. Five minutes later, the trio broke through the fog bank. The hellish landscape of lava flows and jagged rocks didn't faze him, "If it wasn't for the dragons, I wouldn't mind building a winter home here".
"Master please, I find your sense of humor illogical", the possibility of his master's death by the island's hazards frightened Diggy.
"Eh, tough crowd", he rolled his eyes.
Hiccup banked and flew around the westside of the volcano, "There, the signal is coming from that crevice!", he scanned the cliff face until spotting the fissure.
Flying towards it, Hiccup came to a stop and hovered outside the opening, "You sure it's there?".
"Positive, about fifty meters in", he shrugs and flies in.
He lands and retracts his wings, the dim sunlight reaches only four meters in, "Diggy, stay frosty".
"Acknowledged, perimeter defense", he hopped off his shoulder and hovered behind Hiccup.
"Cyrai?".
"Still nothing, are you sure this is the nest of the dragons that attack the mortals?", he too wondered where the dragons were.
"Alright, since you don't sense anything around, let's get some light", Hiccup held out his palm, "Magic light". A small orb of red light appeared out of the circle in his palm, he smiled as the light reminded him of his Pops. His group walked deeper through the maze-like caverns, "Hey Cyrai?".
"Take the next left, Yeah?".
"Are there other demons with sentient grimoires?", a far-off rumbling echoed at a pattern, 'They must be sleeping'.
"Not that I know of, take the right ten meters ahead".
"So that makes you special", Hiccup turned right.
"I appreciate the compliment, stay left at the fork ahead".
"Did you talk to Pops before he was sealed?", he was too invested in the conversation to notice the light orb growing brighter.
"No, I only revealed my sentience to you and your ancestor", the light grew more brighter, "He shared some similarities with you".
"Was he an outcast or did he experiment with magic?".
"A little of both-wait, its close", Hiccup feels a stimulating sensation coming from the passage ahead.
"I feel it too", he took a few steps towards the source, "There, Diggy come here!".
He pointed at a section of the cavern, "Acknowledge, initiating excavation protocol". His beam widens as he begins sweeping vertically, creating a squared cavity. Layer by layer, Diggy dug into the igneous rock.
After several minutes, the cavity reached deep into the stone, "We must be getting close, I'm getting goosebumps!". Diggy finished a sweep and was about to start again, when some rock chipped off and revealed a chunk of crystal that glowed sea blue. "Wait!", but Hiccup was too late as Diggy's beam contacted the exposed mana crystal. A loud screeching hum reverberated throughout the tunnel as it reacted to the beam, Hiccup held his ears until the hum stopped, "Oh no, that was too loud".
A loud roar echoed from deeper in the cave, "Hiccup, I'm detecting a massive life signature as well as hundreds of smaller ones".
"Diggy, concentrate on digging out that rock!", he moved deeper into the tunnel, staying within earshot.
"What will you be doing master?!", he replied, switching back to his narrow beam and digging around the crystal.
The tunnel expanded out, Hiccup turned to his light, "Augment spell: Flare". The light flared out, its expanded range revealed dragons crawling on every centimeter of the vast vertical shaft, "Buying time". He took a deep breath, then released a storm of plasma blast in random directions. The orb's burst of light blinded the dragons, making them easy targets. Hiccup's blasts stunned dragon after dragon, sending them plummeting into the darken pit below, "Are you almost done?!".
"Only a few more volleys and the object will be freed", he fired another stream of light.
"Good", Hiccup ran back to Diggy and launched a blast at the roof near the opening, collapsing it and sealing the tunnel. "That won't hold them off forever", they heard claws scraping at the cave in. He turns to Diggy, "We gotta' move", then grabs the glowing gem. With a slight pull, the meter diameter crystal falls and drags Hiccup to the floor.
Bits of rocks roll off the blockage, "Hiccup, we should leave the mana stone, the dragons are getting through!".
"We came all this way, so I'm not leaving emptyhanded, 'Lesser Strength'", he cast the buff, but didn't feel any loss of mana. Hiccup tried to lift the crystal, it didn't budge, "Nope, ok, 'Strength'". The lesser level spell was consumed and boosted the power of the buff, his hands shone ice blue.
He strained to lift it once more, larger rocks fell off the pile, "Master please, the creatures will break through in less than a minute!".
"I almost got it, 'Greater Strength'". The second buff was consumed and further boosted the third, the shine extended to his elbow. Hiccup huffed, "There… oof, let's get out of here!", he held the large crystal in his arms. A jet of napalm shot out of a gap in the blockage, missing him by a couple centimeters, "Move, Move!". He took off down the passage just as a mass of dragons broke through, crawling after him on the walls and ceiling.
Hiccup sees light at the end of the tunnel and extends his wings, he kicks off and shoots out of the crevice, "Uh Hiccup, we got company!".
He looks back and sees dragons spew out of the opening, "Diggy keep em' off me!". The mana stone hung below in his grasp, preventing Hiccup from using attack magic. The dragons unleashed a firestorm at the fleeing demon, nadder jets and nightmare streams shot around him.
"Acknowledge, engaging targets", from his perch on Hiccup's shoulder, Diggy shot at dragons who opened their maws to breathe fire. Like a tail gunner, repeating aqua bolts rained down on their chasers, some hitting sensitive parts like eyes and nostrils.
A gronckle blast struck a sea spire ahead of Hiccup, who barrel rolled to avoid the collapsing pillar. Some pursuing dragons crashed into it, splitting the mob chasing him in two, "My bad, sorry!".
More and more dragons collided with the spires of the maze, the fog around them thinned out, "We're almost through, you think they'll give up?!".
"Hopefully", Hiccup looked over his shoulder, Diggy continued his barrage as the mass began to slow down little by little. Breaking through the fogbank, he spun around and prepared to face his pursuers. He waited… and waited, 'I guess they did give up', he blew out a breath of relief. "Let's head home", he ordered Diggy to stand down, then turned back and flew in the direction of the Isle of Berk.
Afternoon, Hiccup's cove
Hiccup touched down in his cove, a little way from his house. He set down the stone, "Ugh, my arms are killing me". Hiccup looked at his hands and forearms, the skin that was in contact with the stone was greyish blue and cracked, "That's… weird". He sat on the ground and pulled out Cyrai, setting her down beside him.
"Hiccup, oh my-does it hurt?!", Cyrai sees the condition of his arms.
"Kinda, feels more like pins and needles", he opened and closed his hands, the discomfort didn't change.
"Stop moving, you're making it worse!".
"I don't even know what 'It' is", Hiccup felt a residual charged feeling alongside the discomfort.
"You're suffering from mana burns, damage sustained from prolonged contact with mana stones".
"Is that why I didn't feel any drain while surging mana into my wings to keep myself from crashing into the sea with this boulder?", he remembered the strain his wings felt trying to keep a loft with the weight in his arms.
"Yes, you drained mana from the stone instead of your reserves, it's the same principle that the mana siphon uses to provide an external source of magic energy", Hiccup reached over and picked up Cyrai.
He stood up and walked to the mana stone, "So, with a stone this size, can I build my own 'Mana Siphon'?".
"Yes, I would recommend constructing it from magi-steel, human iron wouldn't handle the stress of conducting mana", a smile crept on Hiccup's face.
"We would need a lot of charcoal then, right?", Cyrai could see where this was going.
"Yep, we would", he sent Diggy to begin laying the foundation of the housing for his future mana siphon near his cottage, "Besides, you need to burn off the excess mana to metabolize it and speed up your healing".
Hiccup summons a plasma blast in each hand while grinning, "Sounds like a plan".
(A/N: *Tim Dadabo's voice (343 Guilty spark). The next chapter will include the freeze setting in (Winter), so time skip incoming. I don't know if it should match my other story's length and intensity or should I be more lenient. I was thinking how Hiccup would acquire more stuff could be along the lines of stumbling onto a dead trader, they could've been either trader(traitor) Johann, Eret son of eret or a nameless OC. I'm going to make a poll to give you guys the choice.)