CHAPTER 32
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After a filling meal and putting out the campfire, I wanted to hunt in a different manner than the locator spell. This time I wanted to use Poe and her murder as my locator to see how efficient it is going to be.
-Poe, can you tell your murderer to locate me some rabbits?-
-Okay, Daddy.-
She started to caw and croak. Then almost all of the birds around us started to fly in all directions. After a few minutes, I started to hear some cawing and croaking all around us, but it was coming from a distance.
-Daddy, they found some.-
-Which way?-
She came down from the tree branches and landed on top of the big rock right in front of me, and started to caw in different directions.-
Right, she doesn't know how to count. I must teach them to count as soon as possible. From her frantic pointing of directions, I think they found around ten rabbits.
-Take us to the closest one but tell me before we are closer than… right, closer than that big rock, okay?- I point at a rock bigger than me. It is around 10 meters ( 32 ft ) away from me.
-Okay.- she took off, and I started following her as fast as possible, but it was hard to follow her in this forest. After a few minutes of running, she lands on a branch and starts cawing at the crow, then turns to me and tells me.
- Daddy, it is inside the tree hollow right there.-
-Poe tells that crow to bother the rabbit so it will get out of the hollow.- I wouldn't be able to order it to bother the rabbit. I can only give the simplest of orders to the dominate animals, like attack, defend or follow, but Poe and Erebus can give more complex orders, maybe because they are birds too or because of another reason I don't know yet.
She caws, and the crow flies over to the hollow and starts bothering the rabbit. After some tussling rabbit decided to get out of the small hollow, I was waiting with bow and arrow at hand, aimed and shot the arrow. The next second there was an arrow at the rabbit's head. In these few years, I became a good archer too. I really love 5x, I don't think I could become a level 2 druid this fast without it. I think it would have taken a talented magic caster 5 to 10 years to reach my level.
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After that, I followed Poe to 9 more locations and hunted more rabbits. It was starting to be too heavy. I think ten rabbits are enough to show my talent in hunting and archery to Rodrik, he would definitely be informed after I sell those rabbits at Winter Town, and it was starting to be late. I have 3 or 4 hours until the sun is down. So, I decided to spend some time learning how to use my spells then I would return to Winterfell.
I sat down on a rock and took ten small stones, and called Poe.
-Poe, do you want to learn to count?-
-What is counting?-
-hmm, it is being able to tell how many of something there are. Like there is one Aermir, or there is one Poe, but there are many humans and many ravens.- she nodded her head as she understood me.
-Let's say I have this many stones. How many stones do I have? Can you tell?- I show her three stones.
-Yes, you have a stone, stone, stone; that many stones you have.- I almost laughed.
I took around seven stones and said –if I have this many stones are you going to keep saying stone until you call out all of them.- she shook her head approvingly.
-But there is an easier way. It is called numbers.-
After that, I showed her all the numbers up to 10, but she was only able to learn how to count to 5. For a start, I think it is a good number. Considering I'm teaching a raven how to count. She was really patient and obedient; I don't think I'm going to have that much luck with our loud meathead.
For a few hours, I trained how to use a familiar sight spell. For this spell, it was possible to cast without chanting. All I have to do is focus on the connection inside me and follow the tether to the familiar after that. I could fully control them or share their sight. This training was really hard. I tried to move while sharing Poe's vision; I would fall after taking 1 or 2 steps, but I have made some progress with this training.
A year ago, I couldn't even stand up straight. I even tried Aerobula (Air Bubble) too. I found a creek inside the forest and used the spell; I can use it outside of water too, but it looks ridiculous. It looks like I have a giant soap bubble on my head, and outside of water, it is really easy to pop it. All you need is to put a finger through it then it pops. But underwater, it is more durable and elastic. To pop it, you would need a big strike.
I am around 6 km away from Winterfell, and Erebus should have reached it hours ago. So, I used Vocadyni (summon beast) again.
"Vocadyni (summon beast) Erebus. "
After he is summoned, I look at my mana, and I lost 18 mana from this summons. It shows my hypothesis was right. With more distance, it is going to take more mana to summon. So, in 20 km, it might take 60 mana to summon them. After that, I spent almost all of my mana on elemental spells training and was only left with ten mana for emergencies. Then I decided to turn back to Winterfell. The road back was uneventful, and before sundown reached the town after selling my catches. Before I went back to my room, I did an hour of sword training so Rodrik wouldn't chew my head off for slacking.