CHAPTER 5

Even though this an enormous castle and there are countless animals inside it is really a daunting task for 5 years old to catch one of them. Almost everything is feral here. Even the mangy dogs and cats look like dire wolves and lion to me. It took me almost 5 hours to corner a terrier looking small dog.

"Come on good doggy, come here big bro will give you this bread , come here." When the dog saw it was cornered it started to growl and bear its teeth. Because it looked like it would attack if I got close. I tore a piece of bread and threw it in front of the dog. It stopped growling and started to smell the piece after deciding it was a food it started to relax a bit. The dog started to look at me and the bread on the ground. After seeing I wasn't trying to get close. It eat the bread on the ground. It started to look around for another piece after seeing I had one in my hand, all of its focus collected at the bread in my hand when I moved the bread it kept following it with its head. It was really funny to see. I extended my hand it started to get close while sniffing. It eat the bread in my hand and I started petting him.

"Good boy" lets see if I can make a connection. I focused my mind and only thought of establishing a connection. Mana inside me started to move but it felt like I was trying to reach at the other side of a giant chasm. I kept pushing with my mana but I was starting to feel drained. My mana was not enough. But I realized something after one attempt I had my conjectures about how to make a connection and what caused the failure. Is this the effect of 5x skill. I felt like the animal was to big.

I set my eyes on the sky and shouted " Does every skill you gave me have to be useless at the start!" do I have to tame a squirrel or a mouse as my first animal.

Waw waw

When the dog started to bark I stopped contemplating. "what, do you expect me to give you more food? " sorry don't have any more food." It really looked like it understood me. It stopped barking and looked around and to me one more time than started running into the alley. It looks like I need to start from the smallest animal I can find. The good think is at least the 5x working just fine.

"I think I m going to love this 5x skill more than any other." I should go back to the keep.

When I got back someone jumped on me from the corner." Got you!" we fall down to the ground and he started to mount on top of me than said "Do you yield?"

I was shocked for a second when I calmed I realized it was Robb Stark that tackled me.

"That is cheating Robb."

"No, it is not. A knight needs to be prepared for everything." He got up and reached his hand to me.

I took his hand and swept his leg and he fell right next to me and we started to scuffle on the ground. Our strength was close to each other so none of us manage to pin the other to the ground after several minute we laid on our back heavily breathing on the ground.

Robb turned at me and said " you made the right choose by giving up"

"You gave up first!"

He got up and said" No, I didn't not. You did !"

"No, you did!" we did this a few more times and decided it as a draw. It is really tiring to act like a normal 5 years old.

POV CATİLYN STARK

Me and my lord husband was standing at the balcony and looking at the front yard. Then I saw them. My boy was playing with that common boy again. I turned to my lord husband and asked "My lord does he need to play with that common boy? I don't think it is proper for a highborn to be friends with a smallfolk"

"it is proper in The North, that common boy's father saved my life, only reason you have husband and your children get the know their father is his father died instead of me. In The North the life of highborn and smallfolk is a bit more blurred. It needs to be we don't have time to waste on things like that when the winter is coming. If he has half of his father's talent in sword he will make a good soldier for our son and if he shows the same mettle as his father he might even be knighted."

I looked at them from the balcony and said "if it is what you want, it shall be." I know I m being a bit harsh to the boy I m not heartless. I pity the boy he become an orphan at such a young age. Most likely he won't even remember his parents when he grows up.

POV MC

Me and Robb played for a few hours and after that I retreated to a quiet place in the backyard because I realized something . I have wrestled with him for at least 2 hour but I didn't felt like I gained 5x wrestling experience. To test my hypothesis I got up and took a long branch. I held the thing like a sword and started hacking it and swinging with it for two hours. Nothing happened like I thought. This time I held the branch straight and started to do a vertical slash with focus while thinking about the swing and how to make it better. I kept swinging for a few hours. Then it came that feeling of comprehension. Yes it was miniscule because of the little time I trained but it was there. It was really small but it was there I was learning. So it only activates if I focus or contemplate about something. If I do something mindlessly it will not work.

"hmm, like the other skills intent is the important part." If there is no focus it will not work.