dinner and the night passed peacefully for the family, the rising sun woke sam opened his eyes leaving his rune induced slumber. pulling off his blood splatter cover he crawled out of bed and got ready for the day, "so what were my plans for the day" the teen asked himself as he rinsed out his mouth.
'paperwork for the warfare league, weapon care and checking on the rose seeds and meeting with Tyrone one the summoning site.
"thank you for that" sam spoke with a hint of sarcasm as he put away the toothbrush he almost dropped. leaving his bathroom heading to the kitchen putting order to his list of tasks for today. entering the kitchen he found his mother nursing a cup of tea. Cora waved at her son as he started on his breakfast but note before making himself a cup of tea.
"so plans for the day," she asked as he pulled out the table, "many" sam responded before digging in. Natale joins them thirty minutes later on the verge of falling back asleep, but that didn't stop him from making his morning meal.
sam moved around his father to put his dishes in the sink before heading out into the back yard. in the shed sam's hand hover over the rose seeds checking how they were taking to the lust,'they doing so-so the energy isn't taking but it isn't rejecting-' sam stop to think to try and remember what he was supposed to do when this happened '-if I'm right I shouldn't add new energy and manipulate already existing energy.'
using his newest core saw tapped into the dust that coated the seeds, closing his eye sam focused and began to manipulate the energy weaving it in and out the seeds a couple of times. when he was done the lust had been partially accepted by the seeds with the rest hanging near.
"so I check back in a few hours and see how they're doing" going through the house sam crossed over to Tyrone's house after he was let in sam join the younger male in his room before telling him more on summoning sites." one of thing you should be aware of is the kind of people who visit summoning sites in general, despite the fact the one were making would be an expectation. anyway, the type of people are like me abnormal different than the rest outcast however you want to say it they are the unpredictable."
stopping for a moment to look Tyrone in the eye," that brings us to another problem, while look at summoning site a bet you notice the rule they were plaster on them right" noded "while you can't be arrested the police will bother you if you aren't careful."
"bother?"
"yeah like repeatedly asking questions that you have already answered, but I want you to direct them to me, and if they try anything give me a call so I can have a little chat with then!" his smile gained an edge the time his voice turned dark.
"you mean maim them" Tyrone mumbled to himself as he sluthered a boss in the online game he was playing, sam herd him but didn't comment before talking more.
"the sight has to be split into subcategories and level based on what they want to summon and what they have the skill to summon."
"skill?"
"summon is far from easy and anyone who tells you it is is either a nitwit or a con artist." a vaguely annoyed expression crosses the raven face for a brief moment before his unbothered smile returned. "there are general requirements for summoning that I don't remember because I didn't care and summoning is weird with me"
"why is it weird," the younger male asked as he unleashed a fifty hit combo "actually has anything worked normally for you"
"I'm offended even if it is true and that has to do with the fact that I can be summoned technically" a light bulb goes on in sam's head,' that would get him out of the house.' immediately after this thought crossed his mind Tyrone felt a shiver in his soul and he knew it was because of sam." how do you feel about tattoos"
"There aren't that bad but what the hell are you planning?!"
"a summoning tattoo for you it may be a way to get you outside" Tyrone tensed as he curled in on himself," I don't plan to force you it just an idea" sam reassured, "get a tattoo so you can summon me at any time, that would make you safer going outside wouldn't it."
"that not a bad idea but..." he could shack off the fear that was gripping his heart since that day,
"it fine there no time limit to this idea, when every your ready even if that day never comes." sam reassured him before changing the topic ao the Tyrone could calm down. they started talking about games a topic sam had information because both daniel and Tyrone were hardcore gamers and he wanted to be able to hold a conversation with them(plus knowing about videogames was normal for his age).
sam eventually returned to his own home he was sure (read: forced) a meal in the younger one's stomach. slumping into the living room couch the raven started to fill out the paperwork for the warfare league but not turning the tv to its channel, "let's see the first thing on here is the wavers lets see ... not responsible for injuries ... in case of dismemberment ... in case of decapitation ... in has of trauma physical or mental ... not of these are a problem for me ... this one might be" but nither the less sam signed her and there with the occasional initial.
Then he moved on to the rules which led to some rather demented laughter coming from sam his parent felt bad for someone they didn't know who but they knew they were.
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After reading through the rules twice to make sure that he understood them(and their loopholes) sam moved on to the weapon registry form, "let knives, magic ribbon, my entire being, should I put the gems on here ... Nah I didn't put the sword on the die so there that" add the other three weapons he planned to use for the league before. at the bottom of the form, it asked if he possed an ability, deciding to save the future self some trouble sam said yes thankful they were smart enough to not ask for more.
a commonly know fact was that an ability possesser didn't share the details of there ability to those they didn't trust, in fact, it was the greatest sign of trust for them.
next, he filled out the defense gear which included the ring and bracelet he put on yesterday before the fight. keeping the box off the list sam moved to the clothing that was worth of battle which was all his clothing." I don't wear shoes in battle or most of the time... I dislike gloves...whats a mask gonna do for me...do I have any massively destructive or instant kill techniques, plenty" Sam knew what he was doing later.
there were a few more questions that sam quickly answered before closing the form, then after two quick stops at his room and the storage closet sam returned to the living room taking a seat on the floor. one by one he placed all of his knives to his right before removing the blade maintenance supplies from there container and onto the ground in front of him. tacking a breath he grabbed the first blade.
placing it on the wet stone sam took a deep breath before his arms fashed in movement, a high pitched sound rang out. holding the blade age to his eyes sam examined it,'bit more'. placing the dagger on the wet stone once more he created another high pitched noise." good" placing aside the wet stone sam grabbed a bottle and cloth to the oil the dagger before butting it back in its sheath.
he repeated the process for everyone one of his thirty-plus blades using more care the older the blade. at one point his mother came down to investigate the high pitched noises he was creating. when he was done he let out a sigh of satisfaction and a bit of pride as he rolled his sore shoulders. he cleaned up his mess quickly trying to get some feeling back in his shoulder when the helper spoke up for the second time today.
'My lord, I'm pleased to inform you that a new skill has been registered'
"is that right " sam said before opening his kill record to look at the new skill.
blade maintenance-flash movent style
mid mortal rank
common
used to maintain the sharpness of a blade with fast and fierce movement.
near mastery
upgradable
looking over the new skill sam remembered that he wasn't to test out the skill upgrade and then he remembered he never ordered anything from the shop. "and here I thought I would have time to waste today "after he said that he started going through his skills picking out the mastered ones before deciding on astral sensing.
astral sensing
lower demi-immortal
common
open the mind to sense thing beyond flesh and blood thing without true form
mastered
upgradable
"I would like to upgrade this skill and I need to figure out when I learned such...no wait is this my third eye"
'i will get right on that and third eye?"
"the third eye is a human belief opening it is the key to enlightenment higher understanding...the opening of mine wasn't a pleasant thing so no more questions for now." sam brushed away the rising memory by opening the shop and after a bit of searching through the infinite options decided on a map of a nearby star system.
"wow, the time testament if about a week from now, I have to figure out how to pay them by then" sam comment after placing the order through the account he set up a week after he became a lord. closing the floating screens sam decided it was time for something a certain curiosity he had after first seeing his states and skill record, "prepare yourself I'm about to show you the force that makes me so unbothered by this world" sam finished as he closed the door behind him.
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"WHY THE HELL CAN NO ONE FIND ANYTHING!" shouted the head of the seven-blade warfare league." it has been more than a month since we have received the warning about the coming of two natural disaster level being and no one has found a thing."
the hard light projections before him grumbled in agreement, "whatever these being are they are showing no signs well none we can see." a representative of the eastern guilds commented.
"How the fuck is that possible," the western guild's representative shouted," no one sign of a natural disaster level being there not know for being stealthy!"
"most of them aren't"a woman who looked in her seventy commented, "I think you all remember that rowdy little devil bear" even in that nodded remember what a headache that teleporting bear was even more so when it died out of now where five years ago." then there was the sea snake" a snack the breathed plasma and moved at Mach 1 in the water that it just so happened to blend into perfection." and don't forget the those wo-"
"Okay, you have made your point. we need to think of a way to find it."
"I may have missed this but what's wrong with divination."
"I can answer that" the chosen representative of the see beyond the group." what even it has the power to interfere with our sight, leaving us with nothing but horrid images and well" the man started to blush "people's intimates" the conference was silent before the deservingly young women commented, "well that something unexpected."
"anyway what should we do, what other information gathering methods are there ?" the room was filled with suggestions and them being shot down or accepted it was a while before the conversation turned to what they could do after they found the being. the complemented what kind of creature it would be, its possible size, if it could fly, how aggressive it might be, did it have the ability to use magic, maybe it used abnormal energy. they talked for hours and when they were just about to conjure an emergency transmission came in," the irony" warfare league head commented.
the transmission was projecting an image received live from a satellite over the arctic ocean if there was sound they would have heard the sound of the ocean return from where it was displaced, they in the center of the aftermath of a large scale explosion floated a being coated in a darkness deeper then stupidity with grey feathery wings that spread behind them." so this is what we hunting for, doesn't look to dan-" they were cut off by the figure turning to look at them and in doing so filling the room with there bloodlust.
it smiled at them before part of the darkness condensed into the palm of there hand to the size small then a strawberry seed when they raised that hand the video feed cut out.
for a while, no one said anything, "so...how do we fight something that can snipe down a satellite and creates an explosion with a radius of at least three football fields, not to the mention the blood lust we felt what was that about?!" no one had an answer for him they were asking the same thing themself, "I guess I should cancel my fall plans with my wife"