Name: Able Drake STR: 9 INT: 20 Race: Homeo-sapien AGI: 5 CHA: 9 Contracts: *Erebus* *Bob* VIT: 5 LCK: 21 Hp 350/350 5/s END: 7 Skill points: 0 Mp 400/400 17/s WIS: 17 Essence: 753

Skills: Inspect E lvl 4 79%/100%.

Begginer QCQ E lvl 3 69%/100%.

- Novice Golaith style C lvl 2 92%/100%.

Drake training B+ lvl 1 0%/100%.

Inspector's record E lvl 0%/100%.

Mana weaver A+ lvl 3 86%/100.

Arcane Throwing B lvl 4 53%/100.

Arcane swordmanship B lvl 7 64%/100%.

- Gliding arcana B lvl 5 35%/100%

- Arcane smite B lvl 1 32%/100%

Arcane skining C lvl 5 68%/100%

Talented blacksmithing C lvl 1 0%/100%

Talented carpentry C lvl 1 0%/100%

I was very excited that Erebus Could feel mana. I was thinking about all the things Erebus could do already "Hehehehe" I looked at Erebus {Do you know where your mana is? No? It's in the heart, literally Not something like "friendship is magic" like a couple horses would have you believe, or were they ponys? Eh who cares anymore, this ain't earth. Anyways try to sense the feeling in the place of your heart.}

And I gave Erebus some time to try and sense its mana. After a couple minutes of waiting I asked {Do you feel anything?}

Erebus told me [No.]

"Tch" *Sound affect* (I have to make sure you understant this.) I then walked back towards Erebus and tried to put mana inside Erebus again, this time trying to stimulate Erebus's mana. I followed the 'anatomy of a drake' book's pictures that I had memorized to find Erebus's heart, It was quite easy to find its heart the book was quite accurate. But then remembered that I didn't have any kind of way to sense mana.

I quickly tried a thing from an anime, I put out a pulse of mana hoping it would do something. But it didn't.

Continuing With the mana inside of Erebus, I put it next to the heart. But when I tried to put my mana inside of its heart I felt resistance to my mana. Which I assumed to be Erebus's mana. When my mana was pushed back Erebus had a reaction, I asked Erebus {You feel something at your heart?}

Erebus told me [Yes, It's weird but It's that feeling of your mana. But far weaker and very hazy]

'Lucky.' I sneered 'I had to try to feel it constantly for more than a year to feel it.' But told Erebus {Can you interact with it?}

[No.]

After hearing that I put in more mana into Erebus and started to push against the mana in it's heart, when My mana entered Erebus's heart I noticed that It was feeling pain. So I stoped and tried something else, I made attacked the mana to make an impact as to activate the mana. And asked {Do you feel it better?}

[Yes.] Erebus said.

I had an idea at that moment {I'm going to take back my mana, I want you to focus solely on trying to keep the feeling of your mana.} And did what I said I was going to do, giving Erebus half-minute to do the thing. {You still feel something?}

[Yes. I believe so.] It said over the link.

{let's go outside.} I said, then I walked outside. And Erebus Followed. I told it {Use 'Drakish roar' on the dintyles and try to feel you mana be used.}

Erebus roared, I didn't really listen to the roar or how Erebus moved. But I saw one of the dintyles have a seizure, It was funny. "Pffff." I told Erebus {Do it again.} And the drake roared again.

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Another dintyle had a seizure. "Hahahahahahah!" It was hilarious, The dintyle's seizure wasn't one of those 'twitch on on the floor knocked out' seizures. It was the 'spasm hardly and froth from the mouth' seizure. It was fucking hilarious, important things need to be repeated twice.

Realizing that I was getting side tracked I asked Erebus {Do you feel your mana move?}

Erebus looked around pondering I think, and told me [No.] I felt the feeling of sadness with the words. I felt no sympathy for the beast, but sadness can / will lower productiveness and motivation.

So I told Erebus {Don't be sad, it took me like 9 months or more to feel mana. You're way ahead of the curve.}

Erebus said [Really?]

I told him {Yes.}

After that Erebus stood proudly, I think? I don't really know a drake's body language, I only know the obvious from books from the library that I memorized back when I had loads of free time, and was training QCQ. It's equally possible for it to be shame, it just looked by human standards like a proud pose.

I sighed and looked at the sun, but when I tried to find the sun to guess the time, I realized it had set long ago. Apperantly I the things I did inside with Erebus took longer then I thought and it was already time to go to bed. So I told Erebus {Erebus I am going to bed, need to keep a constistant sleeping scedule. I don't really care what you do except killing bob, killing one of bob's followers or leaving the pen... Actually beatup anyone that enters the pen unallowed then wake me up, your allowed to break their legs so they cant escape.}

Erebus said [Yes, yes. Can I still try mana things?]

I told Erebus {Of course you can! You getting stronger is good thing.} I explained like talking to a todler.

[Bye.] Erebus said not really knowing of the expression 'good night', or finding it waste of time to use.

walking back inside I was thinking on what skill I should get to show to the public, I thought 'Should I get the 'Archery' skill, Yea I think that would work. It's safe and I can attack from a distance, but I do want to learn how to do parkour. I know the 'parkour roll' and some parkour, nothing special. I played around with it in my last life, man that was fun.'

While thinking about my previous life Bob said {Feed!}

It tottally took me by suprise 'Oh yeah! blood Beast's need essence to live! Luckily I fed all of bob's follower's the corpses from the dintyle's without the hide that I skined' I quickly used some essence to feed Erebus and Bob. 1 essence for Bob and 3 essence for Erebus, one essence for 1 day as a blood beast, so minus 4 essence.

When I was inside of the room that was far bigger inside than the outside, I believe the way it works in laymans terms was 'spatial enchanting technology'. No I don't know how it works, There were only very basic enchanting thingies in the books that I had to read / memorized while I had access to the library / had a mentor.

'Maybe I should learn the 'Enchanting' skill, nah.' I shook my head.

I walked over to my non pink bed (I am making it vague) and slept.

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I woke up in hospital from before I died, I was weirdly completely able to move my body. I thought 'It looks like that experimental cure that I funded worked well enough for me to walk and move again.'

But slowly started thinking about the 5 years on Icarus 'Oh I guess it was all a dream and a waste of time, it would have been nice if I noticed that it was a dream. I've always wanted to have a, what was it called again? Yea lucid dreaming would've been cool.' Completely throwing the felt years of work as if it didn't bother me at all, it actually did, I was very annoyed at it. But time is money or no crying over spilled eggs or was it spoiled eggs, sayings are weird.

At that moment I saw a shadow in the corner of my eye, when I quickly looked towards it it disappeared. 'Weird.'

Then I heard a door open behind me, I quickly turned around and saw a nurse in the door frame. the nurse screeched "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!, how are you able to move?! you should have died! Did that snake oil work actually work?!"

"Snake oil?" I said to the nurse, after I said that I actually looked at how she looked. She looked like she was about 20~ years old, nothing special really just average looks, luckily. If I had a good looking nurse there would be a big controversy, I also looked around if there were security camera's to make sure she doesn't make a fake rape claim. There were also security camera's, I quickly thought about feminism 'Femenist are hypocrites these days, they're even trying to make a matriachy or whatever they call it.'

2032, That was the current year. the world has changed a lot since 2021, and trends are stupid. the analog computer market has grown a lot, but is more for company's to use and not the public. Social justice was since the year 2027 asociated with being an idiot in the public eye, but made a come back in 2030 when they partnered up with feminism, that had their more influential members become corrupt over the years. because of that social justice warriors made a come back, and went back to trying to limit free speech.

The nurse that I forgot about for a moment said "W-well i-it was black and t-t-thick so the nurse-'s *Gulp* s-started joking that it was s-s-snake oi-l" the nurse said nervously. "Is there an-anythi-i-ing y-you need?" She said

"No not right now!" The nurse jumped back from shock." I want to see how good my healthy my body is right now, but it's best that I just walk around and see if I need physical therapy. So call a doctor."

The nurse still suprised a comatose patient could suddendly walk around said still nervous "Y-yes i-i'll call a d-doctor over right now." And left right away, I was actually pretty suprised that that nurse actually didn't run away in a panic right away.

Again I saw some thing in the corner of my eye, this time when I turned around it was a dark hand that disappeared the moment that I recognized that it existed. 'Weird, do I have insomnia?' When I remembered how the hand looked it was disgusted, it was rotten, it was dripping blood, it looked like it came from an undead eldritch abomination. 'Must be a side effect of the medicine.'