Name: Able Drake STR: 9 INT: 20 Race: Homeo-sapien AGI: 5 CHA: 10 Contracts: *Erebus* *Bob* *Essence harvester* VIT: 5 LCK: 21 Hp 350/350 .5/s END: 7 Skill point(s) : 0 Mp 400/400 1.7/s WIS: 17 Essence: 58935

Skills: Inspect E lvl 5 72%/100%. Begginer QCQ E lvl 6 32%/100% - Novice Golaith style C lvl 4 88%/100%. Drake training B+ lvl 4 37%/100%. Inspector's record E lvl 1 73%/100%. Mana architect S- lvl 1 23%/100%. Arcane Throwing B lvl 9 23%/100%. Arcane dual-swordmanship B+ lvl 5 45%/100% - Gliding arcana B lvl 10 78%/100% - Arcane smite B lvl 4 42%/100%. Arcane butchering C lvl 5 38%/100%. Talented blacksmithing C lvl 9 48%/100%. Talented carpentry C lvl 5 99%/100%. Primitive Mana bolt B lvl 7 32%/100%. Basic Pottery lvl7 29%/100%. Basic dagger mastery E lvl 7 29%/100%. Charging arcane archery B+ lvl 6 35%/100%. Oculltism A+ lvl 4 53%/100%. Darkness theory EX lvl 1 2%/100%. Slave appraisal C+ lvl 6 25%/100%. Rudimentary teaching E lvl 2 39%/100%. Rudimentary learning E+ lvl 4 37%/100%.

It had been 3 weeks and I was celebrating hard, I finally had the darkness attribute under control and could use it somewhat consistantly, with somewhat I mean barely.

But that was enough to be happy, the suits I arranged came in too. I mix and matched a few to get a black outer, white inner and red tie, the classic, I still don't have that great a fashion sense, so I'll go with trail and error like always. I had my hair cut, and just made it chaotic. Straight black hair isn't my style, it wasn't messy. It just looked like a more 'free spirited' hair style that didn't take long to do, there was a bit of hair styling that was done crudly, but it had unraveled, this was all fake.

Now that the free spirited hair was done, I had already had the 'don't care about this shit' clothes on with it not having frills and a cloth stuffed on the forfront of my neck, also with it not being very intracate did that too.

I looked at a mirror and had practiced the 'tired of being here' and the 'no motivation' faces, also the most important 'Shut up, I don't give a fuck' and 'you're annoying enough for me to kill you'

After the party was over I cleaned up quickly, by me I mean the slaves. Slavery is still legal, and child slave rape is still only condemned in the drake family. Seeing Isla sit alone, while she usually was trying to talk with or watch me, and other times talking with the other slaves. I did a quick vibe check, she seemed unmotivated and when I asked her, she said "Well, you're going to the academy, and I'll stay here, alone..."

I frowned at her little problems, but she had a bad motivation. Like, being sad is normal, but its bad to let it control you and stop your progress. She also seemed to think it was out of her control showing an external locus of control, meaning she thought everything wasn't able to be changed by her leading to her not working too hard. I'll just say something about her having to do something that she hasn't yet to be able to come with me, this'll give her an internal locus. I gave an encouraging smile, and squated on one leg, putting my hand on her shoulder "True, it's a shame, as long as you had one of your combat skills as a varient I would take you with me."

She slowly looked up at me, she seemed determined to do something "How do I get a varient skill?" I smiled a bit wider "As long as you specialize a lot you can get a varient, but I don't recommend a bow type varient where it only works on certain bows. Try getting a bullseye 100 times in a row, the library said you can get a good varient from that." She nodded erratically and ran too the bow rack and picked one up and ran outside, towards the archery range I had made for myself and had extra use in Isla's training.

I hoped she would do well, I had two nights to wait, to well get things ready. I made the party today because if I did it the actual night before all my cleaning and packing would go down the drain. I should probably tell her something or do something to encourage her to keep at it, showing her a beast being hard working would do it.

{Erebus, it's time to flex your superiority.} The disdain on the face of Erebus to the filth that messed up his sleeping space turned into egerness to show off, let those trash understand his superiority. I explained the scheme {You see, this time we're doing dilligence. Show that you are above your race of lazy drakes, and be seen as hard working and motivated. Which in truth, you are. But we haven't flexed that yet, most people wouldn't even notice so I chose not to. But now, my slave is trying to work hard, so she'll notice.}

I thought for a second {Right now you can strengthen skills with an overload, but now we're going to change your breath weapon into a beam from a cone.} I sent over a picture of what I meant through the channel {Even if you don't like the less flashy appearance, you should be able to make the mana unstable, making an explosion.} I gave him a thumbs up {If you can, I would like you to be able to do it in a burst, like instead of a breath, make a ball of fire you shoot out. That'll let us use channeling, making a giant explosion beyond your skill rank and evolutionary rank wouldn't be too hard if you can do that.}

Channeling was pretty much an overload but less 'damaging' and 'natural', that's what my 'Charging arcane archery' is. As long as I channel my mana into my arrow for a few minutes I could easily kill Erebus if I hit the right spot or put the mana into a chaotic state causing an explosion on contact. That's the power of channeling on my regen rate, now think of the stronger beast mana regen, what do you think will happen? Remember, I had Erebus train a lot, giving a high level. Anything in the same rank would get demolished if he gets channeling down well, just a few seconds would already put him in an advantage.

I hope it'll give a good result, motivation is hard to give out to others. But belief is infectious, and Erebus has a hard belief that as long as you keep working you'll get a good result in the end. That isn't true of course, except if you only talk about the framework, that's pretty fair.

Sleep is for the weak, and that's what a kid is. So Isla should at most get sleep deprivation for two or three days, I could do that, but it would hinder my physical growth. But doing it once or twice wouldn't be too bad for you, just feeling like you're dying for a few days. So nothing too bad, for me.

I wondered what the outcome of this night was going to be, well, I needed something to entertain me, and something to not get a weird feeling of skipping shit in the story if I ever made one. So another dream for me!

Get nice and comfy, and woo!

A heavy thump resounded within the cave, two large corpses with slash wounds on them layed on the ground, if you looked closer the wounds seemed as if they were perfectly cut. The mark of space magic, I threw the sword in my hand into my small pocket dimension in one of my artifacts.

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I ran at the girl that tried to kill us all with her little stunt, I picked her up by the neck. I was mad, really mad "I am done! I'm the only reason this party is stable! I keep saving you losers in every quest! The hero is a dumbass that can't control his libido! The princess is a bitch! The wizard is a introvert that can't talk to any woman over a 5 without simping! The warrior! Well, he's pretty chill actually, I feel sorry for him being abused by his girlfriend though. Talking about her! She doesn't have even the most basic level of self control! Run into the enemy! Almost die! Get saved, by me! It's always me that saves her! And what? She doesn't learn a thing! She thinks it's my duty to save her!"

I was unleashing all my pent up emotions "And you! I saved you three times every day! I helped you get your sanity back! And trying to kill me is how you pay me back! Karma is obviously not a thing anymore! I should stop being a goody too shoes and go back to what I was doing before wasting my time here! Everytime you losers try to make something better, you make it worse! You throw the perfectly good sugjestions from me and the warrior away for a hot girl's trash orders! I am done with this trash party, and the worthless piece of shit that is your life will end along with it!"

A crack resounded and the girl's dead body fell to the ground, I stomped on her body, then stole everything of value. It was basic courtesy, among me, myself, and I at least. I found the space anchor that allowed her to stop me from using wormhole, I obviously broke it, I'm a space mage and letting stuff like this be is stupid. I did keep the remains to research enchantment, I'm not that good at it.

Now that the stabilization of space was gone, I made a worm hole. It looked like a rip in the fabric of reality, a beautiful night sky could be seem through it. I jumped in it like a cannon ball, activating one of my ten rings, space resist up by 20% of the original.

I appeared in a forest a bit away from a city, I was covered in blood. The split second I was in the night sky of the endless stars had already halved my health, even with my high resistance against space, it was still dangerous.

I looked at the framework's notifications

-You have killed the king and queen of trulims in quick succession. gaining the 'Trulim's royal essence' and the 'Trulim skull crown'

-You have gained the title 'Trulim killer' (Uncommon)

-Your title 'Trulim killer' has advanced into 'Trulim hunter'

-Your titile 'Trulim hunter' has advanced into 'Trulim predator'

-Your title 'Trulim predator' has mutated due to your title 'Hero' (Legendary) into 'Trulim's apex predator' (Rare)

-Your title 'Undead hegemony' (Legendary) has reacted to your title 'Trulim's apex predator' and has empowered it into 'Trulim tyrant' (Epic)

-Your title 'Undead hegemony' has consumed 'Trulim tyrant' empowering it's effects and letting it work on Trulims, 'Undead hegemony' has gotten closer to evolving into 'Undead sovereignty' (squire)

-Your title 'Royal nemesis' (Epic) has resonated with the slaying of royalty, and has consumed the essence of two level 55 royalties. Royal nemesis has gotten closer to evolving into 'Royal slayer' (Legendary)

-You have leveled up to lvl 60, you have gained the choice 'Enchance skill' or 'New Skill'

A big amount of notifications as always, I looked at all my new stats, so nice. But There was another notification, it was red and weirdly urgent.

Limit reached

Huh? Limit... I reached the limit? No, no! NO! That's not possible! I'm a hero! I have the title! A hero doesn't have a limit! Lvl 60 is the limit of the masses!

W-wait, calm down Arthur! The limit isn't a hard level cap! As long as I get a good enough title or skill, or get a good enough achievement it'll let me level up until lvl 70.

As long as I get a squire rank title or skill it'll all be fine, let's go to the adventures guild saying that I left the party. A normal teleport spell brought me to the gate of the city, I was able to skip the commoner line with the golden tag on my neck.

I quickly walked to the adventurers guild, I kicked in the door in my mind, while calmly opening the door in the real world.

I walked up to one of the receptionists "Open the profile 'Isaac ilth' for me, scan the tag." I took off the gold tag on me and gave it to the receptionist.

She took it and quickly scanned it, a look of surprise appeared on her face before she started talking in a soft and pleasing tone she hadn't before "Sir, your profile says you've just been promoted to platinum, do you wish to get the corresponding tag?" I nodded to her and said "Yes, please also update my party status from 'in lion hearted' to 'Without party', also check the quest to see my rewards based on my contribution since I am no longer part of the lion hearted party, so the reward split is no longer an internal choice."

The receptionist nodded calmly, but she was obviously in a state of shock inside, most adventurers don't learn the rules and regulations of the guild. Leading to unfavorable choices, so it was a shock, but she was just doing her job anyways. Just out of interest, while she was doing of which she was asked she looked at the recent quest and party.

It said some bad stuff 'the real leader is Isaac Ithil which was the only one that was worthy of platinum rank.' and 'Isaac Ithil broke at the end after killing two true royalty Trulims after trying to run away but being stopped by a party member, said party member was killed right before he left, before which he went on a rant on how he was the only reason the party was even able to function correctly and how all the other party members were batshit crazy or trash, except the warrior that always did his job, though he was chosen as not worthy due to not having a high enough strength.'

The receptionist stayed calm and said "Your contribution to the quest needs to be-" I nodded quickly and cut her off "Yes I know." I bit at the end of my thumb and let a drop of blood go on the crystal, it was sudden and caused a shock to the receptionist.

The crystal suddenly displayed "Isaac Ithil; 78%. 1560 silver." in a blue box but I don't feel like displaying that.

The receptionist quickly had an assistant go into the back for the money, she tried to make some small talk "Are you planning on joining a party?" I had been done with doing everything for others "No, if I'm going to be part of a party I'm going to make one. Right now I'm already a part of platinum rank adventurer circles, since I showed that level of prowess by beating up a team of seven gold ranks when I was a gold rank and being able to deal with peak gold quests on my own. But right now I haven't gotten enough achievements on my resume to make a party. So I'll need to do a few platinum quests first as a show of power and then..." I stopped since having someone know to much about my plans was bad, and I saw the assistant coming with my money. So I didn't need to talk to her anymore "I'd wait until enough people with the right classes were partyless to scoop them up."

She smiled a bit "Huh, really? That's ambitious of you." She was expecting me to talk more but was stopped by her assistant with the money, she seemed a bit dissapointing "Sir, here's your reward." She presented a plate with 1 gold and 560 silver, I smiled gently, and took it all like a raider looting his spoils. I put it all into my artifact, I politely excused myself from the conversation, it wasn't the time to choose a new quest due to my impulsiveness.

First, lets think of ways to make more money. I put all my money into equipment and other things for survivability, and I don't have any assets or liabilities. I need money to get assets so that I don't 'need' to work, I was always planning on using the party's back-up money in case of emergencies. But now I don't have that layer of cash as protection, I always knew that party wouldn't throw me out, but I snapped a few minutes ago and that burned the bridge.

A good solo mission is something I need, a fighting mission. If others are going to watch I'll need a strong foe or a few powerfull foes, but if not than a mix of strong and weak with a lot of enemies would be best. But first let's heal from the mental fatigue that broke out when I broke, if I'm not in a good state of mind, I'll never really make good choices