Day 42

When you woke up it was to a feeling of… well, dismissal would be the best word.

To what you didn't know, but you felt it anyways.

Still, you're back to where you were and you had some unfinished buisness…

[World hop cooldown: 21 days]

And you immediately got up to complete that business, beginning your search for that thing again.

This time, it comes to fruition. With you finding it sitting on a branch.

Only for it suddenly turns towards you, seemingly having heard you, and leap up into the sky to fly away. Or at least it tried to.

Because the moment it left the branch you were already behind it and had its skinny tail in your claw. Which you pulled back, to pull it towards you, and then you slammed all your claws together on it.

The splatter of blood was very satisfying, and even caused some deep part of your mind to relax.

… though you didn't know whether to feel happy or not when there was a crystal left in your claws. Obviously having been squeezed out of the thing.

[You gained 3548 xp]

[Your hatred for ice birds has been lessened somewhat]

[Tiny nice smelling crystal gained]

And no sooner had you killed itthat you heard the sounds behind you.

Sounds that turned out to be a bunch of humans, similar to the ones who were hunting you long, long ago. When you were far smaller and could only walk on all fours.

Humans that were now also frozen, for some reason…

Well actually, you knew the reason. You could sense the fear wafting off them.

Looking at them, specifically how weak and useless they look, you eventually come to a decision, after remembering vaguely that deal you made, and begin walking over to them.

Once you're close enough to grab them you, ignoring how one of them made the sound which you remember meaning not to move, grabbed one of them and lifted them to your face.

Then you used your claws to slice the metal off them, repeating a couple more time till all of them were no longer shelled.

After that you carried them, two in each claw except the one you held it, the metals and the crystal in, to where you remember the white demi-human being, finding it hanging the corpses when you break trough the treeline.

And then you drop the humans in front of it before siting down, ignoring the emotions that you felt explode off it, waiting for it to retrieve the metals.

Which it did eventually, even if you were saddened by how small it was compared to your current size. Barely even worth a bite.

[Weirdly interesting looking non-metal stuff from the humans] gained

Ava really didn't know why it came to this.

How she, a [B-rank] paladin of the church of radiant light, managed to find herself stripped of her very expensive origin enchanted armour by a monster and left freezing inside a demi-human village.

Well no, that's a lie. She knew why it came to this.

She and her fellow paladins had been chosen by the arch-bishop to deal with the monster that had destroyed a town. The same one that had already killed the squad sent after it.

So they'd taken up the special arms presented to them and set out on this holy journey… and then let the monster strip them when they encountered it.

"Don't move," her ass!

It wasn't a dammed tyrant lizard that can't see motionless stuff! Seriously, when she reunites with the boys, she's going to give Michael a piece of her mind for that stupidity.

"Uhh, so," she immediately turned towards the entrance of the hut she was in, seeing a white furred arm holding clothes poking in, "these are the only clothes I could find that'll fit you… but they're a bit tight."

"It's fine sir, I'm just glad I'm not going to have to always hold up the clothes on penalty of giving everyone a look," she thanked the demi-human, meaning it as well, as she retrieved and put on the clothes.

She swears she's gonna become an adventurer after this, at lest they get to pick the difficulty of their quests.

Once you finally had the metals in your claw, you finally began looking for a place to make a den. Which eventually led you to find a particularly solid looking cliff right next to that pillar of ice you'd found before.

And you really meant looking because the moment you finished digging a massive cavern in it, one that was filled with slightly glowing blue mist, it immediately collapse.

…maybe you shouldn't have dug with two claws full of metals.

Learning your lesson, you first put down the metals and interesting stuff onto the ground before you began to dig your den again.

Which really helped as, a short while later, you had a fully functional cavern again. This time with compacted walls and even different chambers for you to sleep and put your stuff into.

Some of the blue mist, that had been there the first time you dug the den, was even still present. Giving the cavern a pleasantly cool atmosphere.

All of which were blocked by large chunks of ice, including the main entrance to the cavern.

It was after you finally finished the last touches on your new den and went out to retrieve the things you'd set aside.

And then you finally began eating, popping the metals into your mouth first. Then came the corpse of that thing, which you enjoyed crunching down into a fine mush.

Finally, was the tiny little crystal… which caused you to immediately feel drowsy as you ate it, just as you expected.

But seeing as you were about to sleep anyways that wasn't much of a problem.

[Good metals eaten]

[Shard of the primordial pool] consumed

[? 4/9]

[? 2/10]


Day 43

You woke up feeling… more alert?

Yeah, more alert than you had before. More than enough to easily get up to do what you planned to.

And the first part of the plan for the day was you going to the flower fields and stretching…

And really that was more or less your entire plan, since you just stayed in your stretching pose in that field for the better part of the day, constantly releasing shockwaves that scared off the nearby smaller creatures.

At one point you even saw a demi-human near the edge of the fields, but they too were scared off from the shockwaves.

Still, by the time you returned to your den again you felt you had strengthened what you were trying to strengthen to the limit.

Then, when you went into your den, you saw the small pile of non-metal interesting things out of the corner of your eyes.

And it caused something in your mind to twinge, a part which urged you to go and take a look at the things.

Which you did end up doing, since you didn't see a reason not to, as you sat down on the ground and picked up one of the things. Specifically, what seemed to be a… pouch? Made of skin?

Still you held it up to your eye and turned it around with the very tip of your claws, immediately throwing it away when things fell out of it.

Things which were way bigger than the actual skin pouch.

It took you a little more messing around with it to discover that anything, that wasn't too big, you brought to one end of the pouch would be surrounded by this weird thing mana that just sort of… twisted?

Which cause the things to shrink and enter it…

And then you discovered that the weird thing mana was in you too, and you could make it move around. It was surprisingly hard to move it around… to the point that you completely failed when you tried to replicate the skin pouches.

Still, you wonder what you could do with this newly discovered mana inside you.

[Neutral magic] Learnt


Day 44

You woke up once again.

Only this time everything felt completely different with the newly discovered presence of Mana in your body.

And maybe it was because of that discovery that you decided to do something that you hadn't done in a long time.

Specifically, you began to club and tear into yourself. Even pushing your core to infuse yourself with power…

That's how you discovered that hitting you own scales meant getting hit by your own scales. Which really only helped the process, even if it made it significantly more painful.

And by the time most of the day had passed, and you'd finally stopped hitting yourself, the ground of your den was filled with pockmarks where your blood had splattered, and your scales were far stronger.

Even your bones felt stronger from that… somehow. Something you fell asleep knowing, while also not knowing how you knew.


Day 45

You wake to the feeling of phantom pains across your body.

But still, you got up for the day.

…and then you carry on with what you were doing yesterday anyways.

This time though, you focused on using the blunt force of your tail to hit your bones in an attempt to strengthen them. Which ended up not quite working that well since you kept missing the bones themselves, due partially to the fact that you kept missing.

You don't even know why, it just kept happening.

Still, you did end up strengthening them somewhat. Even if it was after adding several dents into your den.

It was after you got tired of missing constantly that you decided to just switch over to training your scales instead…

… and you may have gotten a bit too…

Well, when you started you just sort of blanked out as you tore into yourself. Sending splatters of blood everywhere as you did so, to the point that at a certain point the walls whole den was a metallic black.

Which didn't last that long since your blood evaporated away after eating away the den's walls and floor.

By the time you finally came to yourself you found that your scales were covered in a multicoloured nimbus, composed of every colour you could think of. Which was then absorbed back into your scales when you instinctively willed it.

Most surprisingly though was the fact that you didn't even feel any pain at all, not even phantom one. Meaning that the reason you felt pain after hurting yourself may have been due to how you trained.

… your den was also slightly bigger now, something you noticed as you fell asleep.

[Achievement: Transcendence] gained


Day 46

Waking up you can't help but pause.

Then you step out of your den to look at where the humming is coming from, quickly discovering that it was coming from the ice obelisk. Which was pulsing with a very faint blue light.

… then you ignore it.

When you get back to your den you once again begin to do something you… not failed, but didn't do well yesterday.

Beating yourself with your tail enshrouded in glowing white energy, aiming specifically to put as much of the damage into your bones. And unlike yesterday, you didn't miss!

Which isn't really as great as you'd expect it to be, what with the pain making it far less enjoyable. Even if your bones were stronger than ever when you went to sleep.


Day 47

You once again woke up to the sound of humming.

Except far louder and, when you checked on the ice obelisk, far brighter too.

Which… you didn't quite ignore, no, but you did return to what you were doing.

And what you were doing happened to be going out to hunt for something. At least something strong

Which you hadn't done since you'd returned to this place.

But still, it doesn't take you long to find something despite that. And it even turned out to be a threat, at least according to your senses.

To make things even better, it was completely unaware of you.

But just because it was unaware did not mean that you were going to not give it your all, no. You'd learnt from your experience with that thing.

And admittedly you were curious what you could do if you put your all into it, something which you hadn't done for a long time.

So you began pushing your core, and you just kept pushing. Even as arks of pure white heat began to shoot from your scales, even as wind currents surrounded you and you were surrounded an aura of sharpness.

You pushed and pushed until, suddenly, your core clicked.

And then you understood.

Understood the gradual decline of the material existence as it lost potential to the uncaring emptiness, how everything that existed in physical form would eventually cease as that very same emptiness withered it away.

How you were, at this moment, an extension of that very emptiness.

Only you weren't going to end the entirety of the material existence. No, you were merely going to end the things before you.

So you charge towards it, easily bursting through the air barrier that formed, with your claws poised and ready at your sides. Then you swung your claws all at once, from their lower position upwards.


Sigbjorn POV

"Uh, are you sure about that?" he asked the beautiful human woman in front of him, subtly admiring her golden hair.

"Again, yes I'm sure mister Sigbjorn," she said again while dusting her hands off, which caused her chest to do very distracting things in the too tight clothes she was wearing, "this place, while humbler than where I'm from, is far… nicer. Plus, I was going to retire from being a paladin anyways, I might as well retire here."

"I guess if you're sure," he mumbled, picking putting down the furniture into her newly bought house, "and you can c-"

*BOOM*

"What the fuck!" he exclaimed while scrambling out of the house, the ex-paladin behind him, to see where that came from.

…only to see a pillar of blackness, with a blinding white core, stretching into the sky.

"…well fuck."

"… while I don't agree with the language I do agree with the sentiment."


Lysha, the Light of Creation

Lysha, the goddess of creation, the one who brought light, patron of art and innovation… was bored.

Not just bored, but super bored.

Like, seriously. There was literally nothing going on! None of her followers were doing anything particularly interesting, that one kid she was following the love life of had just made the boring choice to go with the childhood friend and that fucking lizard had somehow managed to eat something that made it hard to follow.

That last one was the most annoying one, though that kid came close. Because while yes, she did hate the lizard for what it did to her followers and yes, she did "mald", as Momoe used to say, when she saw it succeeding.

But at least then she wasn't bored.

Now she can't even turn her attention to it when bored because she just ended up looking at the wrong thing, though she did put an angel on observing the mountain it's in.

"My lady, we have news about the heretic!" and speaking of that angel…

"What is it Yehudiah?" sometimes she regretted her "Chuni" phase, another thing Momoe used to say, and how it made her give the older angels names which were such a mouthful, "have you managed to pierce the lizards veil?"

"No my lady, but I've managed to pinpoint it's exact location again!" he answered, causing her to actual sit up from in her throne.

"Oh, and how did you do that?" she asked, genuinely curious. Because she'd given him that task because she was sure he wouldn't be able to do it.

"It was because of the heretics mistake my lady," he said, while handing her… a recording, "it failed to take account of the fact that, while it is protected from your divine sight for now, it's surrounding aren't safe from your sight. Now all that's required is to inform a few more bishops and..."

Except she wasn't listening to him anymore, focusing more on the recording in front of her. Looking at the size of the beam and the effects it had on the environment specifically.

That was definitely at least equal to an attack from something with four evolutions under its belt.

"… and while this may cost more causality it will allow the paladins sent to properly show the heretic how it overreached with it's disresp-"

"Okay no," she interrupted him, "we're not doing this song and dance again."

"M-my lady?"

"You heard me, we're not hunting it anymore," she said, finality in her tones, "we can't waste the causality it'll take to kill it, and on the off chance it survives we'll get another Helel."

"B-but my lady, surely you give this lizard too much cred-"

"Did. I. Stutter?" she, once again shut him up, "we're not doing this. Go inform the others. Now."

It was only when he left that she leaned back into her throne, before immediately starting to cycle her perception over her followers.

Watching someone with a tumulus love life will definitely improve her mood.


Lizard POV

You look at the massive trench gouged into the ground with your fleshless upper limb hanging limp by your side, flesh strands slowly growing back. Then you look at the hole in the clouds above you, and the complete lack of your previous enemy.

… you think you understood the upper end of your abilities quite well now.

[You gained 365,787 xp]

[You've reached level 85]

Eventually, when most of the flesh on your upper limbs grows back, you decide to go hunt some weaker prey.

And that "some" ended up turning into a lot as you just hunted for the whole day, casually killing anything that came into your sights. Though what really increased the amount of things you killed was when you walked into what you think was a combined den for some creature.

That really ended up creating a massive pile of meat.

So, by the time you went to sleep you had more low quality meat than you knew what to do with. Which included a couple of those deer.

[You gained 1,200,995 xp]

[You've reached level 90]


You evolve to a... Astral Dragon

Astral dragons, like many dragons, are considered extremely powerfull creatures. These ones are even occasionally treated as divinities.

Which isn't really unfounded.

Because not only do they possess, at a much higher level, than what is considered normal for most dragons, that being a ridiculously powerful physique and arcane might, it also has an uncanny ability to create things and understand magic.

The fact that they decend from space also helps that belief.

From: [Juggernaut], [Creation (astral dragon)], [Origin (entropy)], [Devestation (astral dragon)], [Dragon], [Ender's mind]


[Evolved]

[Dimensional tag absorbed into being]

[The keeper of the second gate will help you out with it until next evolution]


Day 48

When you woke up it was… suddenly clear.

You knew that you were a dragon right now, you knew that you were in a cave… and you knew you were too big for it right now because you'd evolved.

You also knew that what you were feeling right now was annoyance, especially with how you now had wings.

Walking out of your too tight den, or it was more like bursting out of it, you decided to just go the village, which is what it's called apparently, to exchange the deer for metal.

And you'll admit, while reminding you a bit of that thing, the wings were quite nice for travelling. Even coming with instinctive knowledge on how to fly.

And so you quickly reached the village with a casual flying pace, at least compared to your best speed, and landed right outside with deer in claws. Then, ignoring the screaming you heard from inside the village, you sat down and waited for the bear demi-human.

Who quickly came out… with one of those humans you gave it a couple day ago?

But you ignored that, not really caring what it did with them, and just dropped the small, for you, pile. Which caused it to look… resigned?

Yes, resigned. At least before it turned to the human and made some sounds, "don't worry about. This just sometimes happens…"

Which you instinctively understood was it telling the human that this was normal? Still, after it said that, it just grabbed the pile of deer and began the process of taking them in and giving you your metals…

Which were now barely enough to be a bite with your new size. Which was disappointing but also something you expected.

But before he could leave you blocked its path, then tried to make the sounds you knew would inform it of your desires… which you couldn't do. Instead, all the sounds you made were growls and hisses.

Which was because you… didn't have the right throat?

Still, you seemed to have gotten your point across as another wave of resignation come from it.

"Yeah, sure. Why not right?" and then it faced the human,"hey, you can go back. I just got to teach the dragon to cook. That's just my life now."

Then it finally turned back to you and… pulled out some things from the pouch on it's side, "well, might as well get started with only eating the good parts of the animals."

Huh, you wonder if you could use your claws in place of this knife?

Well, might as well test it.


Sigbjorn POV

He stared at the moose meat in front of him.

The one from the moose that the dragon had randomly gotten up and grabbed in less than a minute.

The same meat that the dragon cut, using its claws mind you, with far more skill than his rough chopped moose chops…

… yeah, this was his life now.

[You can more or less understand language]


Lizard POV

Eventually, once you'd felt satisfied in learning what you could from the bear, you decided to return to your den…

Only to realise that you were still too big for your den!

You could barely fit inside it… and that's when you remembered the pouch. The one you now realise, with your newly gained understanding, had a shrinking spell on it. You could use that.

And so, after managing to get to it, you began examining the little pouch.

Which, while hard with how tiny it was, still resulted in you quickly finding how to manipulate your mana to do the same thing it did… only to instinctively realise that you weren't skilled enough to try to use it on anything that is alive.

Meaning you couldn't use it on yourself.

…at lest you can shrink stuff that isn't alive now.

But you weren't going to be just satisfied with that. No, you were going to fit into your den after you shrink yourself.

So you began trying to make the shrinking spell on living things. Though, after the first painful use on yourself, you began to use it on some passing creatures…

… you didn't manage to learn it even after some time. Much to your increased annoyance.

You were close though, you could feel it.

And then you felt the ice obelisk behind you hum suddenly.

But you didn't even bother looking at the, now brightly glowing, obelisk behind you.

Instead your head immediately snapped to the side, directly towards the human who just walked into sight… and then you lost a lot of interest when you saw they had no metal on them.

And then that interest returned when the human, after realising a burst of several emotions, walked towards you.


Myra POV

You know, at a certain point of misfortune she just kind of reached this zen state of being where she just… accepted and adjusted her plans to take into account the new variable.

It was the case when she found that the royal treasury had been robbed and the thing she needed for getting the most broken job class was gone. Most likely stolen by the heroine and her cult.

It was also the same when she discovered that the modded stuff she'd only watched videos of were also real. Not just that but one of the most horrifically hard ones that actually ended up causing a war that fucked canon beyond all recognition.

She accepted all of that and just moved on to her next plan, making sure to grind as much as she could as possible.

Which was to use the [Patron bond] skill she gained from her Grand herald job class to get a really strong monster patron. A plan she actually came up with after a simple realisation.

This wasn't a game. This was a very real world.

Which meant that the limitations of the game didn't apply, thus the [Patron bond] skill would work on any strong enough creatures. Not just the powerful NPC's.

After all the description of the skill said "allows you to gain the strength of powerful beings in exchange for your offerings".

Plus, she found references in the royal books about it. But it made her feel smarter to think she puzzled it together so that's how it happened if anyone asked.

But anyways, the plan was simple.

Go to the ice mountains on the eastern continents and complete the "sealed in ice" quest. Use the temporary immunity she had from the ice Qilin's attack to bribe it with the core, she convinced her new parents to get her, to become her patron.

Do some stuff with the boost and new abilities she gets from the Qilin, one of them hopefully being an elemental affinity.

Then win, somehow...

Yeah, it kinda broke down near the end… but still! It was a good plan.

Then a fucking Astral dragon is just standing in front of the obelisk! Like what the actual flying fuck world?

Like, she knew that there was going to be modded stuff in the world. But these sparkly purple fucks, are meant to be on the moon! Why was it here?

And it was looking at her!

… then she remembered the video describing the mod's lore she listened to in the background while studying in her past life.

"… are one of the more intelligent dragon species. Which is represented in the magic they can use in the mod…"

Which is why she was walking towards it.

Besides, while it'd be a massive waste, she did have the safety necklace she commissioned.


Lizard POV

Watching the tiny thing walking towards you while radiating determination with slight interest, which quickly turned into heavy interest as she pulled out a tiny, for you, crystal. One that let out a very attractive scent.

Then your mind was hit with information.

…a deal was it?

And you could feel that is you accepted you'd have to follow through, at least for the moment.


The request for patronage:

You get:

- Primordial pool shard (advanced) (1 tag)

- additional 1 causality per day

- Promise of significant further resources to strengthen you. On penalty of losing everything from the patronage.

She gets:

- 1% of your resuorce regeneration (HP,SP,MP)

- Your elemental affinities (doesn't actually take anything from you, just letting you know this)

- To call you once in month to fight for her. Any further calls are answered at your will.


You think about the deal.

It wanted a bit of your recovery and the ability to get you to fight for it… which didn't really seem that bad. In fact, you were more than okay with the whole fighting thing, especially if it was against something good you could eat.

But there were some things you did want, which you were willing to sacrifice more of your recovery for. Maybe some other things as well.

Especially when you remember the frustration of trying to get the shrinking spell on yourself.

The (altered) request for patronage:

You get:

- Primordial pool shard (advanced) (1 tag)

- additional 1 causality per day

- Promise of significant further resources to strengthen you. On penalty of losing everything from the patronage.

- Knowledge for Magic, Cooking, strengthning self

- must provide information on where to find crystal and other special metals

- Information on those mind controling butterfly

She gets:

- 2% of your resuorce regeneration (HP,SP,MP)

- Your elemental affinities (doesn't actually take anything from you, just letting you know this)

- To call you once in month to fight for her. Any further calls are answered at your will.

- Add Autosummon against Butterfly threats to the first deal outlined above

- Refuse materials from your body (sheddings, scales, etc)


And no sooner had you though about the changes to the deal did you feel the actual deal itself suddenly change. Then there was silence for a bit.

And then suddenly the feeling of the deal being accepted filled your mind as the human… hit the air repeatedly?


Myra POV

Wait.

Waiiit.

Metal? Butterflies?

Is this… the LIZARD?

Yesyesyesyesyesyes. Accept motherfucker, accept!

Holy shit… I'm invincible!


Lizard POV

And now the humans just standing there, staring into the distance.

"Okay then!" and suddenly it's moving again with a clap, before it puts the nice smelling crystal onto the ground, "now that that's over, I'm gonna go for now… are you gonna stay here or come with me for the lessons?"

It was a bit weird how it's emotions were suddenly all positive, but you still thought on its words.

You look at it, before getting up. Which caused it to back off, at least before you grabbed it along with the crystal and the shot into the sky. Specifically towards the bear village.

"Woah, okay! Too fast! Tooo fast," you also ignored the screaming the human did in your claws.

Eventually though, you reached the village and let the human down, though you kept a claw around the crystal, before sitting down to wait for the white demihuman.

"Oh god I'm gonna be sick," and once again you ignored the human.

But eventually the bear demihuman came out of the village to meet you, along with the human again, and so you turned to it and communicated that you were leaving.

"Wait… princess!" once again you ignored the humans, as you were becoming exceedingly good at.

"Right, well. Enjoy that I guess," it said to you, also ignoring the humans, "… if that's all I'm just gonna go now."

And then it and the human, who seemed to not want to go, returned back to the village. Leaving you with your… beneficiary?

With your beneficiary, who was no longer on all four, who now turned towards you, "so… do you wanna leave now?"

You give an accepting growl, something which it seems to understand, before reaching for it again. Only to stop when it began to back up while shouting.

"Whoah, whoah whoa! You don't need to do that!" it shouts while waving it's limbs, "just let me find the right crystal…"

You just watch, getting progressively less patient as you watch it mess around with the pouch it had. But before you can just grab it and go, it pulls out a crystal. On you noted, as it came up and touched your claws, that didn't smell nice.

"Now just don't panic please…" and, a few moments after you comprehend what it said, it raises the crystal and you feel yourself be enveloped by a bright light before being squeezed and pulled in one direction.

Then you're in a completely different area, inside a small field grass with a castle where the field ended. Along with, what you now know as, a city further out behind the castle.

You were also feeling the urge to lash out from the sudden change in scenery and the discomfort of how you got here.

But you didn't, because you remembered what your beneficiaries' words… and mostly because you were still thinking about the specifics of how you travelled here, having felt mana during the travel.

Looking at the tiny human moving around, the loud noises, and your beneficiary telling them that… it'll be fine? Yes, thats what it's shouting at the other humans, along with warnings not to go near you or attack you.

Not that the humans would be able to do much from what you can sense, except die of course. But still, seeing that makes you contemplate staying awake to see what happens.

Then you remember the crystal in your claw and decide that it's far more important than whatever's going on now, so you just pop it into your mouth and lay down, letting sleep claim you.

… and you dreamt of mana and bonds.

[Shard of the Primordial Pool Consumed]


[Ability gained]

[Deicide] [Unranked] [Passive] (1/?)

Damge dealt scales with causality possesed above the max amount by enemy

Authorities, and authorities derived things, are less effective against you

You take less damage from [divine] sources

[+5 to all stats for eating core]

[Max HP + 2500]

[Patron bond solidifying]

[You may now access your beneficiary's basic status sheet from now on]

[Cost to access status sheet is 1 causality]

[You may now adjust what you are sharing with beneficiary]

[Displaying basic beneficiary sheet]


Name: Myra Eleanor Vallejo

Species: Human (+1 to all stats every 10 levels)

Bloodline: High human [Light/death] (+3 to all stats every level)

Level: 12

Class: Grand herald

SP: 47 (+17/turn)

MP: 39 (+26/turn)

Strength: 47

Constitution: 42

Agility: 50

Spirit: 52

Magic: 51

Active abilities [Call patron] [Patron bond] [Send offerings]

Abilites

Patron bond (Level 91 Astral dragon):

Regeneration (Elite)

SP recovery (advanced)

MP recovery (advanced)

Conditional immortality

Affinites: Fire, Lightning, Ice, Poison, Wind, Origin, Entropy

Death and light affinity [Intermediate]

Additional 10 points when creating death or light spells

+40 to rolls when learning death or light spells

Human recoverey [lesser]

Boost sp recover 10* three times an hour for one minute


Queen POV

She looked at her daughter, who was currently looking into the air with a wide smile on her face, and tried to keep the exasperation off her face.

She loved her daughter and her husband, she really did. Sure, they weren't what most people would call… politically savvy. But they had heart in spades and would always try to do the right thing, something that was, in her opinion, far better than being another backstabbing politician.

And while it did look like her daughter may have been going down that path a month or two ago her, but her fathers influence managed to eventually win out and she became a lot like she was when younger.

But sometimes she, and her husband, both give her such terrible headaches.

"Haha! Congratulations!" and speaking of her lovable oaf of a husband, he'd just went up and hugged their daughter. Despite them agreeing to act strict towards her for the mess she made this time.

She swears, every single time.

"Ahem," she coughed, getting their attention and dismissing the surrounding staff, "yes, I'm very happy for you sweetie. Now… would you mind telling me why we have a giant dragon sleeping in the fields. The one that just ate the primordial core, and thus will be stronger when it awakens, we gave you?"

Watching the wince that crossed her daughters she felt satisfaction bloom in her upon seeing that she at least understood the problem this time, unlike the time she told that prince to 'go fuck himself'. But she didn't let it show on her face, instead just waiting for her to answer.

"Well, you see mom," her daughter started, once again calling her mom and not mother… which she didn't actually mind, "that's my patron."

"…I gathered," the dryness in her tone could've dried the ocean, "and I'm also assuming you got it to agree with the bribe. But why is it here and not, say, in the secondary castle in the wilderness I know you have the right teleportation crystal for?"

"Well… you see," she raised a single brow, causing her daughter to avoid her gaze, "because… I… wanted to see you?"

The sheer question in her tone made it obvious that she was lying.

"Well I guess that explains it!" but apparently not to her husband, he shouted before immediately hugging her, "we missed you too Norry."

She however just glared at him. He was meant to be siding with her this time! They talked about this!

But soon that glare melted as she saw genuine happiness on her daughter's face, something that she hadn't seen for a good two months. It was like a cloud had appeared over her life when she'd stopped being a… well, if she was honest, a bitch.

And while she had been happy as her mother that her daughter's behaviour improved she hadn't been pleased that it came at the cost of her happiness.

So she'd let this slide for now… even if her husband is going to sleep in the other bedroom for forgetting about their agreement.

"Follow your lead," her well shaped ass!

"Uh, your majesty?" she turned towards the maid who arrived into the room, "what… what do we do about the dragon?"

"… just leave it," she told the maid, wishing she could get a bottle of wine.

But unfortunately she had a meeting with the church today, and going into it drunk, while tempting, wasn't a good idea.

"Oh yeah mom?" her daughter got her attention.

"…yes?" she could already feel the headache forming, just from the tone of her voice.

"Can we hire some cooks, like really good ones?" okay, that wasn't as bad as she thought it would be.

"I'll tell Maria to hire some as soon as possible."

"Thank you," her daughter said with a bright smile, causing her to soften a bit more… which is when she struck, "oh, yeah. Can we also get an opening for the academy? Part of my deal with my patron was that he also gets magic lessons so…"

…there's the headache.