A new day and I certainly feel refreshed. Of course, despite my good mood everything remains the same, but I decided to change my way of thinking. Yesterday I was seeing only the negative, so today I will see only the positive. I mean, at least for now I don't have to worry about what happens outside the city.

Unlike animals, I have a secure point that provides me with basic necessities, so my priority should be focusing on developing my magical abilities. But even though my will is burning today, I am taking things slowly; I don't want to make a mistake that could threaten my integrity. However, I must move forward and think about my next step to take, so the question in my mind right now is:

Where should I start?

I keep thinking that many of my doubts and blocks could be resolved if the one who gave me the ability to feel magic would teach me how to use it. But since the young dragon is still sleeping, I have no choice but to move forward with my eyes closed, like a headless chicken, until I find the answer or until I crash into a wall.

Yeah, it’s all Danamus' fault, not that I’m incompetent.

I've been thinking about all the information I've gathered so far, but I still can't find that key to unlock my ideas. Maybe I'm overlooking something important or maybe that something hasn't appeared yet. In any case, for now, the best results were obtained from fruits, so until I find something more promising, I'll focus on them.

The energy contained within fruits seems more stable than the energy of the air, and I can control it better, so my plan is to divert the energy from the eyes to other senses and I am confident that it will work with some ease, although so far I have done it unconsciously, I think there is not much difference between the senses; I believe that just shifting focus would be enough to achieve it.

But that presents a slight problem. What should I focus on?

I still don't know how or where the energy moves when it enters my body, although I believe that with fruits it might be easier to find out. So far, all I know about energy is that it's gray. Also, I don't know how much energy fruits contain; maybe it's a lot and I'm wasting it, or maybe unknowingly I'm optimizing the little energy they have, although that's unlikely.

When I meditate, I can see the energy around me. The amount I attract is tiny, yet it's enough for the mental map to manifest. But when I tried to dig deeper into that tiny bit of energy, I paid the price for lacking enough energy.

I'm worried the same might happen with fruits and they only contain enough energy to activate [Snooper]; I don't want to go through that again. Also, in meditation, there's no risk of suffocation. On the other hand, with fruits, I'll be completely dependent on them, and if I faint with fruit in my mouth, I could die without even knowing it, or if I lose concentration, I could choke.

It could also happen that the fruits possess more energy than I can think and trying to manipulate it causes an explosion in my body. That would be the worst case scenario. But even though the risk might be higher, at the moment the fruits are certainly still the most promising, so I'll focus on that.

But my positive self today fervently believes that things will turn out well. So instead of getting caught up in unanswerable questions, it's better to move forward with my research.

Now that I think about it, these fruits have no seeds, so how do the trees reproduce?

It might be a minor detail, but I promised to spread their seeds around the world. Besides, if my financial future depends on these trees, it would be bad news if I couldn't expand the plantation. There are certainly many trees, but not that many, and considering that only two types of trees produce edible fruit, it means the number of fruits I can sell is very limited.

In fact, if Danamus also fed on fruit, I would probably be starving right now.

I also can't forget that trees have seasons when they don't bear fruit, and I can't rely on dragon's blood to speed up the process. That could wilt the plant, which would be like killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.

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Accidentally I just discovered a big problem that could severely affect my wallet. Although there are seedlings, so they must have a way to reproduce.

Even though there is a risk of falling and dying, the roof of the tower is still the most reliable when it comes to testing the senses. I have a complete view of the prairie, the wind blows without obstruction bringing with it the smells that spread across the field and also from this height, I can better pick up the direction from which sounds originate.

I was hesitant since there is the possibility of suffocating to death, so instead of resorting to the skill [hamster], I decided to just put in a couple of small pieces. Besides, this way I can also try to calculate how much energy the fruits contain, which in short would be killing two birds with one stone.

Despite my nerves, my concentration did not falter; I am determined to take a step forward in this world. That said, the prairie is silent, so it seemed like the perfect moment to test my hearing and find out which topics are most popular among the animals.

'Well, here I go'

I'm glad that as rarely my assumption was correct and with previous experience, it was easy to change the direction of the energy. I could feel something shifting inside my ears, although I still don't know where the energy is moving.

*RUAAR*

*PINNG*

*HUNNG*

*CHEW*

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHK FUCK, STOP!"

*BOOM*

*PRRROM*

*SHHHHS*

"AHHHHK STOP IT! STOOOOP!"

A success, in fact, it was so easy that something definitely had to go wrong. I achieved what I expected, so ultimately the experiment was satisfactory, but I was not happy with the result and at that moment I wished it had been a failure.

My rest was supposed to be for my mind to prevent these obvious problems, but of course, I forgot the small detail that it's my mind, so I failed. I don't know what I expected to happen; I mean, I already had experience and if the sight was amplified it was obvious that the hearing would do the same and in fact, it was what I was trying to achieve, it was so obvious that it terrifies me how stupid I can be.

It's like ordering a bitter chocolate dessert and then complaining because it's bitter.

The process and the time were the same as with sight; I swallowed the fruit and thought about listening better, even closing my eyes to improve my concentration. Shortly after the fruit went down my throat, I could feel the temperature inside my ears increase a bit, and then absolute horror arrived, hell itself.

Noises of all kinds flooded my ears like an avalanche. All the sounds were so loud that I thought at any moment my head might explode like a watermelon. In my desperation, I tried to cover my ears with my hands, but that action had the opposite effect to what I expected, and instead of reducing the noises, I could hear my hands cutting through the air before crashing against my head.

It was as if several fireworks exploded right next to me. I felt nauseous and the dizziness worsened; I lost my balance, my feet gave way, and I fell onto the tower's roof. The sound produced by this impact entered my ears like a terrible thunderclap that mixed with all the other sounds until everything became a loud buzzing sound that only made things worse.

However, I refused to remove my hands from my ears, firstly out of habit and secondly because I was afraid that doing so would create more sounds. I vomited several times, and it was horrible. I could hear everything moving in my stomach, and that sound mixed with all the other noises in the environment, creating a nightmarish melody whose only purpose was to torment me.

There I was, lying on the ground. I could feel liquid coming out of my ears. I mean, I'm still human, so I suppose I burst my eardrums, but I couldn't care less about that now. My heart felt like a gong being struck repeatedly, and the blood rushing through my veins sounded like water from a waterfall.

As the sounds had subsided, I could hear something else in my body, but with the buzzing and the desperation of the moment, it was hard for me to concentrate on figuring out what it was exactly. All I wanted was for this new way of torturing Mae to stop.

Desperation gradually took over my mind. I had no way to stop what was happening; all I could do was wait for the abnormal state to stop on its own. Besides, the air that had once seemed like a cool breeze from the countryside now felt like being in the midst of a blizzard, making me shiver.

I think most people dislike pain, well, there are always the weirdos who find pleasure in it, but in general most people avoid pain if possible. And then there's me, I'm specifically afraid of it, so I try to avoid any action that causes me pain no matter how minimal it is, but here I am, torturing myself several times.

It's very illogical if you think about it.

Fortunately, both my willpower and body are weak, so when the pain exceeds a certain limit, my mind shuts off. This is what I cling to when something causes me physical pain. Just like this time, and luckily it didn't fail me; suddenly the lights went out and I stopped suffering.

I think it's the defense mechanism my body created to prevent my brain from frying like an egg. Of course, before it didn't have much use since there wasn't much opportunity to show its effectiveness, except a couple of times when I was a child and a few times as a teenager. But since I arrived here, this innate ability has shown its tremendous usefulness.

From the moment I ingested the fruit until the moment I lost consciousness, not much time passed, a couple of seconds at most, but for me, it felt like hours. In any case, I just hope to wake up and of course, not fall. Maybe magic can fix some broken bones, but I'd rather not have to go through that.