The genial plan of training my Dragon into a proper powerhouse is working!

Lady Janna took her teacher role very seriously, and trains anyone from the Wild Guard with any kind of magic spark, while Jet keeps an eye out and gives awesome rides to the kids that manage to learn a new spell.

Positive reinforcement seems to work just as well as getting hungry in the wild, so we're doing both. The healing spells need practice too, and I learned Cure Light Wounds too. I can use it just fine on the kids even the bears, but not on myself or my Imperial Dragon . He resists my meager spell without even noticing it.

Thus, by beating up Jet and forcing him to heal himself, he gained the more powerful version called Cure Serious Wounds which was strong enough to heal even Dragons! But when he casts the spell on me, it barely works at all, which is both good and bad.

The good is obvious. Most spells also fail to reach me at all, with Ghur as a particular exception. The bad thing though, should I ever get hurt badly, I would need an Amber Wizard to heal me, or a Dragon much stronger than Jet.

The next important spells are Detect Magic and Dispel Magic, for obvious reasons. My Detect Magic only works when close to Jet, but on the other hand, my Dispel Magic is both strong and wide enough to cover an entire battlefield. I can work with this.

Should an enemy mage cast a curse or debuff on my army, I can cancel it with a single word. Also, I can remove my own spells, which is quite important if I need to cast Taal's Fury on someone, and they become beserkers howling for blood.

Janna stepped beside me, and hugged me gently with one arm. "My lord husband, this was the strongest Dispel I have ever seen. It covered the entire forest for kilometers!"

I kissed her cheek, then nodded towards the Dragon pretending to sleep. "Jet has a great healing spell too."

The Celestial Wizard just shrugged. "Dragons should compare only with other Dragons. And from what I've read, other Dragons are a hundred times stronger." she said with a mild voice. I felt Jet's pain though the bond, as if someone had kicked him right in the ego.

I smiled a bit sad. As proud as I was about my Dragon pet, she was probably right. "I haven't met another Dragon yet, so you may be right. But Jet is our Imperial Dragon and still young. He will get better."

" I will get much better, Warden!" Jet grunted in my mind, while observing hundreds of kids struggling with magic exercises.

His magic sight or witchsight was something amazing too, allowing the Dragon to sense things nobody else could. Like invisible Shadowmancers sneaking around and spying on me.

My left hand caressed the bottom of my wife and touched the Divine dagger, cancelling everyone's spells including Emma's Shroud of Invisibility.

"Eh! I was found again?" Emmanuelle wondered as she walked towards me and hugged me from the other side.

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"I see your magic reserves are full again. Jet, want to hunt my wife a little?" I asked at random, guessing intent and fact just as Jet opened an eye.

"Can I use my dragonfire?" he asked in a bored voice.

If Emma was a full Wizard, we may risk it, but she had a lot more training to do. "Only on illusions and such. Don't cook my wife, I like them raw." I quipped and pointed to the side. "Run, bouncy Emma. The Imperial Dragon wants to hunt." I urged my wife, who took off while casting shadows and illusions to mask her trail.

Jet counted to 10, like any proper hide-and-seek player, then howled loudly announcing his hunt had begun. Emma was long gone, leaving only mists and all sorts of illusions behind, but a Dragon was not easily fooled.

He sped into the forest, hunting the Grey apprentice for fun.

Janna shivered for a second, as a jet of dragonfire burned a cloud of mist to reveal it was empty. "Five minutes top." she guessed at the remaining time.

People tended to underestimate Dragons, for some reason. Jet could have found and neutralized Emma in 2 seconds, if moving at Tenth Speed.

He was being quite the sportsman, chasing illusions and making a show of his dragonfire.

"She made a Shadowsteed and runs through the tree tops." Jet explained as he flew up and then down again, while pulsing with Detect spells like a radar station.

Clever of you Emma, but a shadow horse will drain your mana even faster. Maybe she had a new spell to try out today?

"3 minutes now." Janna predicted with her own magic. She couldn't predict me though.

I sped away, grabbed Emma and returned to the camp in a single second. Jet kept chasing the illusion riding a shadow horse for another minute, then realized he had been fooled.

"Cheater! I only lost because you interfered!" my Dragon shouted in my mind, then sped back to the camp in 2 seconds.

"Next time, don't take so long, mighty Dragon. If this was a real enemy, they could have aid waiting for them, or a teleport circle prepared." I said in a disappointed voice, while entering my cabin and setting my wives on the bed.

"Oh...more husbandry again, dear husband?" Janna guessed and started taking off her clothes with slow and calculated moves.

"Well, I was caught...now I have to deal with the consequences." Emma said while blushing slightly, and taking deep breaths to recover from the chase.

I nodded seriously, and undressed as well. The new wives needed to be bound to me with chains of love and responsibility, thus plenty of lovemaking and setting them on important tasks.

I took Janna in my lap, and kissed Emma deeply. "Cast your Pall of Darkness, my Grey wife. There are too many curious eyes on us right now." I proposed with a knowing voice.

My cabin and everyone inside vanished in black darkness, leaving us blind as well. But we could find each other by touch, and made our threesome more exciting too. Magic was nice, but best use it for training as well as pleasure.