I woke up on the 33rd day to find the bed fairly wet. This has become a daily occurrence and I could not stop it at all. The culprit were those little water spirits that started to hang around me like it was nobody’s business.
(Guys I get it is fun to be around as I am like the best source of water attribute energy around the area but can’t you guys show some moderation.)
Tiny balls of blue light emanated out from the bed and started to rest on my lap.
‘Good morning. Did you have a good night’s rest?’
‘Yeah sure. And guys I know you mean well and just want to hang around me but you got stop drenching the bed every night it is hard as fuck to drag the moisture out.’
‘Sorry! We tried, we really did but we are spirits of water so no matter what we do as long as we are there water will gather. It is a real miracle that you don’t attract water to yourself even though your water attribute is so pure.’
‘I already told you many times before that I am part human so I don’t work like you guys.’
I got up from bed. The six balls of light moved to my shoulders and one to the top of my head. It is awesome that people can’t see them otherwise I would be hard pressed to explain my situation.
Now started my greatest practice of magic for the day. I closed my eyes and tried to feel the world around me. I could feel the world itself as though it were another person, I could feel the presence of the hundreds of spirits all around the castle. This feeling was really empowering.
When I opened my eyes I saw my whole body covered with a soft blue glow. I extended my hand forward and rolled it into a fist and then rose it.
As I did so the moisture rose from the bed and collected into a ball of water right above it. Then I gestured it to come to me and ball of water floated through the air and entered my body. The amazing part was I did not increase in mass or volume even though all that water entered me.
As I broke my concentration the blue glow died down and connection to the world weakened a great deal. It is possible to stay in that state for as long as I liked but there two reasons I did not. First my hair and eyes became blue every time entered that state which is difficult thing to explain to my folks, and I became a spirit magnet, my life is already difficult trying to handle the six spirits on top of all my shit and I would be screwed if it increased anymore.
I started to dive into my books for the time being without freshening up, when you are a spirit of water one helpful aspect is that you can escape all things bathroom related.
After I read for like an hour my breakfast came along with my signature dead pan maid. My mood plummeted every time I see her like this. Making her smile around me was second on my to-do list and it was a work in progress.
She left immediately after taking the dishes when I had finished my gargantuan breakfast.
After I left I bought out my notebook where I jotted down everything down everything I learned of the maid whose name was Tear. I firmly believe that she had that name just so the world could troll me.
My current object is to make her smile more often and I spent the four hours in the morning when she is not attending to me to do just that. My stealth skills were very decent and I would spend these four hours in the morning stalking her.
She always went to the gardens in the mornings and it is the best time to see her smile. Our castle has a huge pond in the garden, to the point I thought it is a lake, where one of my dad’s concubines reared swans as is her hobby. The creatures are magnificent, they are 10 times the size of the ones on earth, are powerful combatants, beautiful to the point of otherworldly even by these world’s standards, were very intelligent and the coolest part is that they could both fly and swim , and it is possible to ride them. The only downside, they are not very friendly and it was a chore to tame them.
She would sit on the edge and watch them swim and it was one of the rare moments I would see her smile.
On cue, one of the swans saw her and went up to her. She started caressing the swan and started to converse with genuine emotion in her voice, it’s just that the contents depressed me. Using the spirits as a relay I could hear what she was saying to the swan.
‘Blue, what did I do to deserve such punishment? Papa always praised me for being a good girl and I have never done anything wrong. Even when I was told to serve Master Simon I did everything right, I was praised by nana to be the best among the new maids, so why is my master so cruel to me. I don’t remember doing anything to upset him. Papa always said that my life would be better after I started to serve a lord but he lied. In my old home I could not eat properly and would sometimes go hungry but we never starved and I was happy. I really wish papa could take me away from here.’
Somewhere along the lines tears started streaming down her face and after a while she started to sob and muffled it using the breast of the beast. The swan wrapped its long neck around the girl which seemed like it is trying to console her. After a few minutes like that she let go of the bird which kept on staring at her.
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I felt hollowed inside, every time she met up with blue the conversation would steer in this direction. One would think after the umpteenth time I would get used to it, but no it is still as painful as it is in the beginning. It is probably because of the perseverance skill I am still ok and not turned into a sobbing mess.
The next part is even more painful though in a different sense. After she left I came out of hiding. The swan noticed me and came running to me with a look that clearly suggested that she wanted to be praised. I get frustrated as fuck when I saw the look on her face.
(I know you don’t care about her but could you at least try to show a little sympathy to her plight. Sigh I am a very hypocritical person aren’t I.)
She nuzzled her beak across my face as sign of affection and I grudgingly gave her a piece of meat infused with water attribute as a reward of what she did a while back.
The friend Tear thought she had was nothing more than an illusion I had set up. It was very wrong of me to toy with her emotions like this but I was out of options. Among the entire list I got, nothing made such a significant change to her as did a swan. If she ever found out it would break her heart and she would probably never heal from it again. But the situation she was in right now was not any better. Before I came up with this hoax, I found out that she was not eating right, she had erratic sleeping habits and she tended to over work herself. She would probably break if it continued for much longer. However after I started this horrible scheme, through surveillance I found out that she started to get her health back in order and she started to look a lot better too. This made my plan worth it. I had experience because I would also make such elaborate schemes when I needed cheer my younger sister up when she was depressed. Although she would never show it, I knew her so well that I noticed even those supple differences in her behavior due to mood shifts.
This swan, which I also named Blue, was relatively easy to train. Communication was extremely simple due to astral voice and since swans are beasts of the water attribute they would flock around me whenever I shifted. Talk about hero’s luck I somehow managed to do just the right things to help me tame a swan which helped me in my endeavors.
After reading a couple of informative books from the library on beasts I found out some rather helpful things. Even with my bonuses it should not be this obedient, the only reason it is because I managed hoaxed it into a familiar contract. Mages with magic lv of 4 can contract a beast of their respective attribute, the reason was mages were not usually the hardy type and the extra protection from the beast went a long way.
One could make only one contract at a time and it lasted till the beast or the contractor died. One could even make a contract with a human if the other party was willing. It allowed the contracted to draw the magic energy and reap some of the passive benefits in exchange for obedience.
Blue and I were telepathically linked and it was easy to relay orders especially since she had high intelligence.
Since I could control her it seems I can also can use status arrangement on her and her stats were something like this
Name: Blue E.X.P:123317
Age: 4
Gender: Female
Class: High swan
Titles: Object of beauty, servant of spirits,
Physical Power:101.8
STRENGTH:34/40
VITALITY:43.5/50
AGILITY:13.2/15
DEXTERITY:11.1/15
Magical Power:85.7
MANA:541/1000 AFFINITY:WATER
MANA REGENARTION:21/50/HOUR SPIRIT POWER:93
INTELLIGENCE:6.3/10
WISDOM:4.3/1O
SKILLS
UNIQUE SKILLS: PATH OF EVOLUTION(LV1), CONNECTION(LOW)
PASSIVE SKILLS: PAIN ENDURANCE(LV3), DETECT PRESENCE(LV3),POISON RESISTANCE(LV3), AQUA FORCE(LV3), AQUA ABSORB(LV3), FIRE RESISTANCE(LV3), PERSEVERENCE(LV3), FEATHER ARMOR(LV4), BEAST AURA(LV2),BEAST INSTINCT(LV4)
GENERAL SKILLS: INTIMIDATE(LV2), FISHING(LV5), SNEAK(LV1), CHARM(LV3)
PHYSICAL SKILLS: CLAW(LV2), BEAK(LV2), WINGS(LV1), SWIMMING(LV5)
MAGICAL SKILLS: FLIGHT(LV2), WATER MANUPULATION(LV1)
She had a lot exp to spend but I was determined not to do anything till I got some more reading done and was absolutely sure about what path I wanted her to take.
After spending a minute of quality time with her I quietly left so as to not arise suspicion.
I went back to my room quietly like always, very few people knew that I actually moved about the castle due to how sneaky I was. Most thought I spent all my time in my room.
I softly entered to find her cleaning my room while humming a soft tune.
(PROGRESS! Yes! First time in god knows how long she had such a natural look on her face. I really want to do a little victory dance right now.)
She saw me standing there looking at her and immediately froze. I gestured her to continue and took a random book pretending to read all the while carefully monitoring her behavior. No luck today either, she was still uncomfortable around me even with my sudden drastic change in temperament. It was better than how it was at first but she still closed her heart to the whole world except that bird.
The rest of the day was just me reading and hanging with my water spirit buddies. I lay in bed promising myself that I would heal her heart even if it is just a little.