Chapter 18
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POV NED STARK
When Rodrik and a maid came in to my solar, I was leaning on the wall and looking at the fireplace. They started waiting for me to speak to them. this child needs to be raised as a true north man. Should I take the permission I gave him to train on other things. Would it be better for his sword training. "Rodrik, what is Aermir doing with his free time do you know?"
"I saw him play with your sons and train his archery at the range my lord other than that people usually see him either go in to the Godswood or the library my lord." Then the maid raises her hand. I signal her to speak.
"My lord I sometimes see him play with his ravens in his room."
"He has ravens?"
"Yes my lord, he found them in the Godswood as chicks and raised them."
After hearing that I thought he is still a child and needs play time too. I sit down on my table then look at the maid.
"I have punished Aermir for something and he is to be locked in his room for a month. In this time he is to be fed only 2 times a day consisting of bread and water, bringing his food to his room going to be your responsibility. You cannot pass this responsibility to someone else. This is your first priority for the month. Of course no one is going to open up the bread to look if there is meat inside of it." When I said that her eyes grew with surprise.
" Do you understand what I mean."
"Yes my lord."
POV MC
When I reach my room the soldiers stood in front of the building my room is in so I wouldn't leave it. From now on I have to be ready, I was too naïve to think everything going to be okay just because I have talent. No, in this world status mean talent, status mean power so I have to reach higher and higher but I have to start somewhere. This made me realize I can't be content with only been a good swordsman. I have to be good at everything I do. I have to be the best at everything. I have to get powerful fast. The thing that will make me the most powerful is not the sword but the mana. I have to work on it more but there is a drawback. The majority religion in this continent the seven bans magic and declares it devils work so I need to be careful about showing myself. I can't do magic out in the open until I m %100 sure I can protect myself against them. I can't go to the Godswood to train for a month but I can still use my most useless skill infinite training skill. It is a pocket space of 4m x 4m room without anything inside but at least I can use all the spells, I want and no one will know. But first thing first I need to connect with Erebus. I come next to it and try to take him in to my hand then he tries to bite me.
"HEY! Don't be an asshole, it has been a bad day already." When I get angry at it and shout. He looks at me and rises his wings and challenges me while cawing.
"Okay, then I won't play with you; I will only play with Poe. Come Poe let's play."
I got up from the chair and go lay down on the bed with Poe and play with her. Because my back is turned at Erebus he can't see anything and ravens are social and curious creatures when he gets near me I get up and go to the other side of the room and keep ignoring him and only play with Poe. If I try to catch it forcefully and try to bound with it. It will resist and I don't have enough mana to do a forced connection with a raven. I think I would need at the very least 45 mana to do a forceful connection. I only have 31 mana.
I kept doing what I was doing for the next 2 to 3 hours and Erebus kept getting angry about it. Ravens are really smart creatures I think I heard in a documentary they are as smart as 2 years old humans. So time later Erebus comes next to me and starts pulling my cloths to get my attention then I turn to him and offered my hand again this time he come closer to me then jumped on top of my hand. After that I hold him in two hands and start the bounding process. This time I feel the mana move more smoothly and I know what to do and when to do things. I love 5x. it is like I did many bounding. I even know why the first one took so long and spent so much mana. I basically spent at least 5 mana for no reason other than being impatient. When Poe pulled back I should have waited a few seconds to let her adjust but I never let that happen so because of that I spent more mana and more time to pull her back. This time I was patient. It ended at least several minutes early and I spent 4 mana less. But I realized something I can't just keep bounding with other animals my soul have a capacity I can feel It. Right now I don't have space for another creature. I would say my soul space is at %80. But I realized one more thing. I have close to 3 times better sight. Like I thought every connection provides me with a buff.
Rest of the day I spent training my mana. First I trained inside the space around 3 hours because I can only stay there 6 hours a day, after spending all my mana, need to get out so I wouldn't waste my time inside. After that the plan is to take a nap to fill my mana then I go in again for 3 hour around evening, when I was getting ready for physical training so I wouldn't get rusty. Brise comes inside the room bringing me my food.
