A month had passed since my first visit to the Hospital and well I can say I have gone back plenty, but not for more healing lessons nor anything of the sorts, both my mom and my third mom ended up having babies less than a week apart, so we were over welcoming even more family, Betty my little sister who was born of my mother and Sally also my little sister who was born of my third mom, Sally came out first so she became the fifth of the girls and Betty is sixth.

My dad, what can I say? He is a bit tired, but he is happy and to add to everything my second mom announced that she was pregnant too, the only thing I can say is that they do not waste time.

My lessons sort of got interrupted while my third mom was taking a break to recover from childbirth, and in the meanwhile I came to talk with my dad about my classes, this is quite unique since normally everything that has to do with lessons he talks it publicly at the breakfast table.

- Hi dad, Alexander told me you wanted to talk with me? – I question after knocking and entering his office.

- Yes Carter, I was going to need to talk to you soon – He says and then comes out and directs me towards one of the chairs beside the fireplace – Son you really have the focus of an adult, you have learned what your brothers and sisters took 5 years to learn in 8 months, at least on the more normal subjects, you still lack a lot of training in magic but that like many others is just a matter of practice, practice and more practice – He stops here for a second.

- Really 5 years? – I ask surprised.

- Carter, maybe you have not seen it yourself, but kids at your age are more active and less likely to sit and learn, they like to run and go outside and play and chase one another, I insist that you do this because you are still a child and you need to grow up normally that is why your brothers, sisters, cousins and every other kid in the household goes into play mode in the afternoon, you need it – my father says with a straight face.

- You have given orders…

- No I have not – my father interrupts me – the only thing I had to do is say that you have a special blessing and that you need social life and exercise with children to help you, and I let them decide if they wanted to help, all of them did it on their own. And I want you to continue having this social life.

I sort of understand, I could easily get stuck on my own head and isolate myself, and here the sense of community is extremely strong everybody will try and help others specially when it is related to blessings, I am so happy my family supports me, my dad starts talking again pulling me out of my own thoughts

- Well the point of what I wanted to discuss with you, is what are you going to do in the future, your mothers and I are willing to support you in everything, but we need to understand in what direction you want to go, Specially because your blessing let you go in any direction you wish – He says and looks at me.

- You are hiding something – I tell him.

- Yes I am, and if you were going to go to the fort and the frontline tomorrow, I would tell you, but right now you are not at that point, you are here and we the family can help you with your learning and with your training.

- I believe you – I truly do believe that if it was something critical they would tell me, oh well let me tell him some of what I want – Well dad, I want to study blacksmithing, also I want to do my own studies on bringing and adapting technology from my world, so I would like if you could order copies of whatever info the other Heroes left behind, so far I do not know what else I will need or want to study to make improvements, I also want to see the city to see with my own eyes what is needed and I would like to go to the fort.

- Okay that is a good way to start, you will be given access to the main library here in the mansion so that you can study whatever you want, blacksmithing will have to wait a bit we usually start having more physical lessons and training around the age of 6 is when your body really starts to adapt better to physical exercise, I will have to insist that you learn swordsmanship – my father says.

- Yes I want that!!! – I interrupt him in excitement.

My father laughs hard at my interruption and eagerness for swordsmanship lessons.

- Normally we make the kids start with the longsword some people like it others do not, your brother Desmond loves the spear and he has a talent for it, also your brother Albert is really good with a bow, so if you want to use a different weapon tell us – my father says while still having a smile after laughing so hard.

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- I would like the greatsword if it is possible.

- Then once you are six I will start your training myself since I also use the greatsword. – says my dad and I see the happiness on his face.

- There is one more really important lesson, your mother would have liked to give this class herself, but I asked them to let me give this class to you – he says.

- Oh about what? – I ask

- The system – He says and then straightens himself and start the lesson right there - the demons invaded 2000 years ago and we have been at war with them ever since they came over, after some very disastrous defeats we came to know that we needed help from the gods to be able to deal with the demons, so we asked for help, they gave us the system, it puts numbers to some attributes on our bodies and it makes it so that we can grow stronger more easily than before, there are Skill and they go from level 1 to level 100.

He takes a break and goes towards his desk where some juice is sitting and he serves two glasses, he takes ones and gives me the other one, before he sits down and continues with the lecture.

- Blacksmithing, Swordsmanship, your own magic, all those are skill recognized by the system, and the system will keep track of them and help boost them once you fight with the demons, but you are in charge of training your skills, the system only keeps track of their levels and help with the demons – He says.

He stops for a second and then cast a magic dome, the same dome I saw him cast all those months ago when we talked about my blessing

- Or at least that is what we know, I know you come from a world where systems were more common, mostly because they were used in some forms of entertainment, so I would like to ask you to check the system, are we missing something?, the heroes used the same system as us and with their Hero Blessing, they could level up fast, they ended up doing stuff that is incredible and helped stop the demons every time, but us even though we do not have that blessing we live with the system for years and we do not reach that level. – He says

- It is true that every single Hero lasted an extremely short time in our world, the Hero that lived the longest only lived 10 years after he transmigrated, the demons did everything they could to kill them and the demons themselves destroyed their own offense if it helped them kill the Hero, that is how we survived so many ferocious attacks from them, they themselves stopped their crazy offense to throw everything at the Summoned Hero. – My dad says and now he dispel the dome of light – any questions?

I am not stupid I understand that what he told me under the dome is everything he knows on that subject and that he wants it private, so he must be asking about any question about the previous stuff, I sit down and think for a bit, and a question comes to mind.

- Dad what is the Demonic Bite?

- Well son when a skill reaches level 100 is maxed, but sometimes specially after fighting with demons or sometimes out of nowhere you may lose all your progress, your skills gets lower in level normally to level 1, and it is so much harder to use it, this is what we call the demonic bite – I see that this question makes him uncomfortable, but he also adds one last tidbit – there are others here in the household who have suffered from the bite you can talk to them, I will ask Alexander to direct you to those people.

I feel fine after everything that we talked and now I have an idea of what I’m going to do in the near future.

After a couple of months my third mom is energetic enough to continue our lessons, but from now on it is barely an hour and it is mostly to practice my painting skills, then I go to the library and read, while my afternoons keep the same magic practice with the family and playtime with the battalion of kids we have at the household.

I went down to the city and I found out a lot of things, the city is not like any older cities, the city looks very rundown not many tall buildings, there is a smell and when we went to the hospital in the city a lot of kids were there with also some adults, the streets were in bad shape, and I ask around about the market and all the other stuff in the city.

After I come back home I start investigating, one of my first ideas is to build a sewer system, but that idea did not work out because when I told my third mom about it, she told me that it was not feasible, we have lost a lot of terrain to the demons and we use the river both upstream and downstream for fishing, so where could we put the outflow of a sewer system, after seeing the idea not go anywhere I continue studying in the library.

My birthday was great I was finally five and most of the family came back for the celebration, my mothers and father made sure that most of the family could come, I met my second uncle, and he was a bow user and he looked very wild his name is Richard, it was fun to see him and well my aunts were all happy he was here, I know that every year they rotate, one in the household and one in the fort, my father also was in the rotation but on a less permanent basis since he had all the responsibilities of being the duke but since he got the demonic bite he was stuck at home full time dealing with the fief.

It was a very fun time, afterwards I continued with my studies until one day I found something that would be a solution and the bane of my existence, Runic language, result that there is a very old language that comes from a race that went extinct, and this language could affect magic, the pronunciation of the language is lost, there may be some races in the world that may remember how to speak it, some dragons and other beings that have lifespans that are enormous, but what I found was the written part of the language.

Good part this language could be use sort of like a computer language to do magic, bad part the language was very difficult to write and it could not be written with any kind of ink, not even magical ink, it had to be carved and you had to pour magic into the carving to make it run, it has all sort of rules and to create a spell you needed to follow those rules, there were ways to connect multiple circles to create more complex spells but man it was a headache.

I continued my studies and we had another party since my second mom had another baby, this time I got a younger brother called Arthur the seventh boy of the family, also after months of waiting, the information from the other Heroes arrived at the household, the information was fragmented, almost all of the scientific knowledge was there, but some of the more personal information was missing, diaries and other stuff was just not there, after my father received word of this I saw him make a very worried face, no idea why.

I continued my studies and another birthday came through, again another celebration and I could see how my family was growing, I also knew my older brother was going to leave for the capital to go to classes in the Royal Academy, he was going to spend 2 years in the academy, and then come back and enter his mandatory time in the Royal Army defending the borders against the demons.

Also having reach my sixth birthday I was also going to start the next phase of my training I had grown for my height of around 95 cm when I was four to an impressive 1 meter and 30 cm by the time I was six, and I already knew where I was going to be doing my apprenticeship in blacksmithing and where I was going to learn swordsmanship, and now with my studies of runic language and magic, also my third mom insisted I learned more languages and was teaching me the elven and dwarven language, so now my schedule was going to be different from before, I would have 4 activities I needed to do every day, and 1 extra activity that it was going to be different every day.