"Huff, Huff, phew, finally. I am done for now." I say in tiredness as I stand on an empty plot of land on the outskirts of the city. Around me, clear signs of destruction could be seen all around as I finally finished exhausting all my regular magic reserves to the absolute limit.

As it turns out, this world's magic really works in a way almost entirely separate from that of magic circuits. It is honestly impressive how similar and different the two are.

From what I gathered after my research, this world's people all come with a natural 'mana core' of sorts that constantly produces energy, something like Artoria's own core that gave her bullshit levels of magic reserves. Only, this world's magic cores are, well, unstable.

Well, that is not quite the right word. More like, from what I studied, the magic core size and quality is completely modifiable until one reaches ten years old more or less. The more it is used, and the more you stress your core, the better the core becomes. From the moment I realized this, I started a routine to, three times a day, empty my reserves to the limit exclusively using this world's type of magic.

"You done, Inari?" My bratty sister Eris asks on the side as she and her guard stand there watching over me as I finish emptying out my reserves.

"Yes, I think I am." I admit as I take out a vial from my side and drink it up.

"Yewl, you actually drink that potion you made?" Eris said with disgust.

"What? You want some as well?" I ask teasingly and she looks like she is one step away from punching me for merely suggesting such a thing.

She REALLY doesn't like this thing, huh. Well, I kinda expected that after her first time trying it where she ended up puking it all out and cursing me in a very unlady-like fashion for making, and I quote, the most disgusting thing she ever tasted.

Honestly, I don't blame her. The taste is quite awful, but it still works wonders as an energetic to help give me that humph to keep moving after my mana is exhausted. That it also seems to help a bit with my mana recovery is also quite nice.

I guess all that alchemy knowledge together with all the unique herbs and monster parts one can find around really leaves me with plenty of things I can do.

Looking at the guard of my sister and, in all honesty, myself I smile.

"So, should we get started,mister knight?" ask the knight who looks a tad annoyed at my words.

"Again, it is not you that decides that sort of thing, bastard."

"And yet, I do so regardless, mister noble knight." I tell the pompous idiot.

The man looks very much irritated at that, mostly because he actually buys into the idea of human supremacy as well as noble blood, or some shit like that.

A shame he is currently the best swordsman the estate has, as he is a gigantic pain in the ass to deal with. He especially hates me due to, well, being everything he dislikes. A bastard child of mixed blood, I basically spit at his beliefs by simply existing, and it doesn't help that I am so highly favored in the household.

"Finally! We can begin!" Eris says, as usual, chooses to ignore the words of the annoying knight who also gets on her nerves. After Eris sees that we can begin she turns her eyes at me in an almost predatorial fashion. "I will definitely beat you today, Inari."

"Sure, sure, you will definitely beat me someday, just not today." I tell her and she looks at me intensely at that.

"You told me the same thing yesterday and the day before that." She says and I shrug.

"And I will keep saying it, until you prove me a liar."

"Oh, you!" She says as she takes out her training sword and dashes towards me. Her red hair flies all over as she darts over towards me.

I smile at that, she has once again fallen for my rather basic taunts, moving over as I ready myself to face her.

With the two of us being six years old now, and with the knight training the both of us for the last two years daily, it is not any surprise that both me and Eris have been improving rapidly with our swordsmanship. And, also unsurprisingly, Eris has a greater talent for the sword than myself as well as more dedication towards it.

It IS said that the Sword God Style is more suited for simple direct people as it is one where one focuses on hitting fast and hitting hard the enemy before he can even defend himself. Eris, being as direct about everything as she is, is all but tailor made for this style.

At least the knight was not such an ass as to completely disregard or try to fail his orders, so he trains both me and Eris honestly and properly, giving us proper evaluations of how we do.

For instance, he has told me that I had great talent for swordsmanship as well, but I would fit much better for the Water God Style of fighting instead of the Sword God Style. In his eyes, if I were to focus on that style my talent would likely only be a bit weaker than Eris' own, if not just as good as her. As for the North God Style, I likely would also be able to reach a very high level with it, but how far I can go he can't really say for certain as he hasn't practiced this style as it is far more common for mercenaries.

Father informed the two of us he would be searching for greater teachers for our martial pursues later on, but neither of us could forget or ignore our other responsibilities.

Well, he says this, but the only 'responsibility' I have is helping him for about two or so hours a day to revise the documents regarding trade and whatnot of the household and surrounding territory with him, and learn magic as much as I want.

Better than Eris who must spend hours every day learning lady lessons over etiquette and whatnot.

Avoiding the strike from Eris by ducking down I try to slash up at her from that angle but she kicks the ground to move away from it and opens some distance she then uses to try and hit me once more.

I parry her strike as I shift her blade to the side before moving fast and going for a counter, scoring a point right at where her neck is.

"Guess I win again." I tell her and she looks extremely annoyed at that.

"This is unfair, why do you keep beating me?" She says in irritation, but it was not me who answered but the knight.

"My lady, it is just the natural advantages of each style. The counter and defensive centered Water God Style works best against the direct and aggressive Sword God Style, as you two are more or less equal right now it is only natural his winning rate would be higher. Add in that beastkin tends to be stronger than us noble humans in brute strength, it is only to be expected he could win against you for now."

"Ghh, I still want another go." She says and the knight nods before starting a lengthy explanation regarding what mistakes she made and how to improve, while for me he barely spent a few moments fixing my stances.

Well, he at least does his work well, even if he clearly is reluctant to help me on anything.


It was around three hours later that we returned to the mansion. Both me and Eris were very much exhausted, with her having trained harder than me in regards to her physical training, and I having exhausted my magic reserves once more after physical training before coming back. Both of us were walking through the town of Roa as if we were half dead, but the people of town were not making any sort of fuss about it as this was relatively normal for the two of us at this point.

Eris might be the heiress of this place, and I can also be the son of the current lord of Roa, but we both have been going to the hills nearby to train like this for over a year now, and basically every time we end up in this state. By now, it has long since become a routine for the town to see us like this.

As we pass through the food stalls, I smell a delicious scent in the air and want to drag myself in that direction, but if I do so I wouldn't have the energy to get to the mansion afterwards (I know from experience). As such, I have little choice but to let it be for now, and come back when I have the energy to move around.

Soon we enter the state and I see mother standing there, looking at both of us with great irritation.

"And why are you two out until so late? Lunch has already started to go cold by now." She says without preamble.

She approached the two of us and gave a single sniff before speaking.

"You both stink, we can't have that at the dining table. Jessica!" She says loudly to the maid who was right beside her.

"Yes, mistress Hilda?"

"Tell the maids to prepare a new set of clothing for the two, I will take the children to the baths right now to make sure they are properly cleaned up." Mother said before she began to move.

Mother is truly a beautiful woman, elegant and kind to no end, but whenever she decides on anything she is all but a hurricane who doesn't know or comprehend the meaning of slowing down whatsoever.

As such, it takes us little more than three minutes before we are all standing in the baths and, yep she is as naked as us.

Looking over her body, I can say without a doubt she is a natural redhead, as the bush matches the head and it was just as untamed as usual. I wonder if this sort of thing is normal in this world, I want to check it out later if possible.

You know, for research.

Eris doesn't hesitate to jump into the bath then and there, but as her body hits the water she jumps up and says.

"COLD!"

"Well, of course it is." I said with an eye roll. "I have not yet heated it up, neither have you done it."

I have long since helped her figure out at least the basic fire spell for fireball, after all. If she wants to heat up the water, she can do it just as well as me, even if it would take longer than if I were to do it.

"But it would take too long, and it makes me even more tired." She wines and I shrug.

"You know that spending your mana now will make you have more later, so no complaining." I tell her and mother nod her head, the movement making her big tits move up and down as well.

"Your brother is right, you should do this for your own good." Mother said before pulling me along towards the side to clean myself before entering the bathtub.

It is a bit too much of a japanese setting for a bath, I know, but it is what it is. Besides, it helps that mother likes to clean me herself, thoroughly and without missing any place at all. She spends quite some time at it as well, doing it all while rubbing her breasts against my back and, yep, one of her hands is in her pussy as she is masturbating as she cleans me up, especially my dick area, taking extra time cleaning it up and playing with it.

Well, she is an Asura kingdom noble so she being a perv with unique tastes is kinda expected. I just haven't seen her do that to me before now so she must really be getting pent up since father only fucks the maids and doesn't really care too much about human women by comparison.

This family is quite the fuck up in that regard. Not that I particularly mind as my step-mother 'molested' me for her pleasure. I just hope she has more of a soncon fetish instead of a shota fetish, it would make potentially seducing her later much easier this way.

Finally, after a good while, mother finally came and made my back all wet. As she came down from her high we both moved towards the bathtub where Eris was… yep, the girl was floating tits up in the place. It would be kinda erotic, but I am still too young to even get an erection so I can't really feel all that much from the scene.

After the bath was done, mother went with Eris for her lessons while I went to father to help him out a bit with his work. I have engraved in my mind, clear as day, just what is it that I can accomplish thanks to the source of my power, and the fact that it made me all 'noble' and 'kingly' like as well as gave me amazing ability in everything related to management of lands and such sounded like an terrible thing, but it worked out honestly pretty great in the end anyway.

Father certainly appreciates my help, if the amount of times I can catch him balls deep in a maid is any indication.

What? It may sound like a weird indicator, but if the man has more time to do that, then I clearly am helping him a lot.

But, now that I think of maids…

"Father, what of the maid I requested." I ask him who stops what he was doing and looks slightly troubled by it.

"I am sorry son, but it is being a bit hard to find the right person for the job. You know as well as I do that we can't just let anyone in the mansion." Father said and I sighed, agreeing with him on that.

We may not be particularly great or important nobles, but father still almost got poisoned five times over the years and grandpa is said to have faced twelve different assassination attempts as well, and in most cases it was the staff or someone recently hired who did it.

Father and grandfather are justified in being extra careful about the selection of new staff, however…

"And yet, we hired eight new beastkin maids which I have seen you and grandpa making use of during this time." I accused and the man looked quite sheepish at that.

"Well, they passed the tests and background check and-"

"You thought they were hot, I understand." I told the man who looked at me with a troubled expression.

"Sometimes I wonder, why are you so mature about these sorts of things?"

Not missing a bit I shrug and answer.

"The knights talk a lot, and you or grandpa are not discreet about whatever it is that you adults do when you keep hitting each other's buttocks on each other or something." I tell him and he looks even more troubled now.

Seemingly wanting to end this troublesome talk, he proposes.

"How about this, there is a friend of mine who works with slave trading, I will ask him to come over with a good selection and you decide who you want from them. Just remember, whoever you buy you must release and offer a proper job afterwards, we will not be like that disgusting swine that is the prime minister." He says and I cheer up at that.

"Really? Thanks dad, I knew you were the fourth best in the house for some reason!"

"Only fourth?" He says amusedly.

"Well, first is Eris, second is mother, and third is grandpa because he would sulk if I said he is beneath you in being my favorite." I tell honesty and father looks dejected at that before he just waves it off.

"Fine, fine, just tell me one thing before you go see if you can find yourself a maid. How is your progress with magic going." He asks.

"Well, I am a bit stuck in how to go further than intermediary class since I lack a teacher and our books are more about swordsmanship than magic, but I reached that class on all types of magic and am able to cast any who doesn't demand a magic formation without any need for chanting. Also, I made this." I tell father as I take out a rather crude, in my eyes, mystic code.

It was just a somewhat regular dagger I found amongst the weapons to be scrapped, we always had plenty of those from the fights against monsters. Using alchemy to modify this dagger as I wanted was child's play.

"And, this is?" Father questions and I merely smile as I give him the dagger.

As I see him holding the thing, I speak up.

"Try it, just put in it your magic energy. Just a little bit is enough." I told my father, who looked skeptical, but did as I requested.

"I don't see anything much." Father says as nothing seems to happen and I just say.

"Try hitting it against some stone wall or something."

He looks dubious, but does as I ask and is shocked as the blade cuts right through the stone like if it was nothing but simple butter.

"This, this, this is-"

"A magic item, yes. A rather crude one, but I lacked materials to experiment and make it better." I said with a shrug. Well, it was only a half truth since I could probably do better than that, and it is not a 'magic' item, but a mystic code.

Well, the principles are all the same, so whatever.

Father just looked at the dagger in his hand for a while before turning to me.

"How hard would it be for you to make more of these? For our knights to use and for selling it." He says and I think for a bit.

Honestly, that dagger to be transformed into a mystic code was pathetically easy. I just had to use alchemy to imprint around four runes into its structure and it was done. It is that simple of a mystic code.

Honestly, if this world had the same natural degradation of magecraft that one can see in Nasuverse, making this sort of mystic code would be at least three times harder to make this mystic code, and it would still be seen as very easy there.

"I think I should take around two weeks to do so to be able to equip all the knights, and I would want sixty percent of all profits from the selling of the weapons afterwards." I tell my father who nods in agreement. If there is one thing he always made sure I understood is that I cannot and should not ever accept any overly detrimental deal and always value my work. I am letting him take forty percent mostly to help with the family finances as well as because he knows way more merchants that can get us a much better profit later on "But before that, I want my maids!"

I had to keep up the pressure, or my old man might end up 'forgetting' it again and use the money that would be spent on that in another beastkin slave for him to fuck.

It is a bit paranoid, but he and grandpa are far too horny for beastkin and I am quite sure neither can control themselves when it comes to this.

"Deal. I will send him a message right away for him. The man is trustworthy enough and he has plenty of options, I am sure he would have some elves for you. Now, you can get going as it should be around the time for you to go do your usual routine." He tells me with a smile and I roll my eyes at him before speaking.

"If possible, he can bring as well those who are young, as in around my age, and those who have injuries or scars. I need people to test my healing magic."

Father gets a serious face as he hears this and says.

"Son, I will see what can be done, but remember that messing with healing magic could cause more harm than good for others. We should not do such a thing lightly."

"I understand father, but with how the Milis Religion hoards all Saint level and above diving spells I can only do it this way. But don't worry, I won't test any spells on humans and such before I have tested it with rats and such." I tell father who looks impressed, probably because a kid was showing this sort of concern, before nodding his head.

"Very well then. And why do you want other kids?"

"There are no kids for me and Eris to play with in the mansion. You and grandfather only buy girls or 15 and older, I want to have friends and they would be happier here with us than with others." I said and Father smiled at that.

"Good boy. Now, off you go, your father has things to do."

More like maids to do, considering I have cleaned up most of your work for the afternoon, but whatever.

I have more important things to do anyway. My magic reserves are finally back to full and I can feel that my magic core has increased around 1% again, so I better go and empty it out before it is late at night.

Then again, tomorrow is the first time that I will be traveling far from town, and the path may be mostly safe, but one never knows. Better see if I can prepare some mystic codes to help defend myself just in case

"And for a budget…" I questioned him lightly as I was just at the door. Father thinks for a bit before answering.

"Considering this is a gift to my beloved child, and the work you will be doing for us, I think perhaps sixty golden coins should suffice." He says and I counter.

"Add a bit more and I can see how to improving the shields as well."

"Eighty five it is then." He says instantly and I nod at that leaving happily knowing that, after talking with grandpa about it, the value would at least double.

What can I say, father likes to be cheap about things, but grandpa loves showing off, especially about how much he likes us. Besides, I know that even a completely unskilled and regular beastkin costs at least thirty golds, and elves are more expensive. If I want a particularly pretty one, and one that knows how to be a proper maid, I would need a lot of cash.

Speaking of which…

I quickly return to my father's office and ask.

"Dad, would it be possible for you to maybe open a small clinic somewhere in the city? I want to better practice my healing magic and I think this should be helpful."

"I think we can arrange something." He says with a smile and I can almost see the money signs on his eyes. Damn my father loves money, not that I particularly think this is bad seeing as this means he goes along with whatever I want as long as it means either I get stronger, which is good for the family in general, or can produce more coin, which is also good for the family.

Well, as long as father doesn't try to take more than forty or so percent of the profits I am okay with that. Since he is the one who houses me and has my food and such necessities covered, I just need money for my experiments and such, after all, and monster parts and several other materials can be obtained relatively cheaply if you know who to ask.

Namely grandpa, because he likes to indulge me and Eris like that and he doesn't overly care about the budget of the house.