Once the peace negotiations for the fate of the entire world were sorted, the next couple of months were a little odd.
To start with, we would regularly get ssengers and visitors coming by exchanging information with both my parents. Most of it was boring nonsense so I ignored it but both my parents seed to be fascinated by what had been going on in the human world as such.
Father has a part ti job as well now, the unofficial wyvern hunter of the empire. The human ssengers give him locations of high-risk wild wyvern nest locations and he goes to obliterate them. Mother especially hates it since sotis, he cos back ho drenched head to toe in wyvern blood with a big grin upon his face.
As for and Minos's requests, Minos got his own little pile of money to himself which he now sotis sleeps upon, I may be slightly greedy but even I wouldn't do that. On to my request, so things needed to be sorted beforehand since both of the ntors would need to move out here temporally since we're so far away from any human settlent. I haven't actually started learning anything yet.
A small cabin in the woods was swiftly built close to our mountains for the two humans since there wasn't any other place they could stay.
Mother offered for them to stay in the cave but since the only way into the cave was by flying, realistically, they couldn't stay since they would basically be stuck and could only ever rely on being flown in and out by the dragons or .
Reason for why they couldn't use a wyvern, it should be obvious that father wouldn't agree to having a flying rat living in the cave. I also think from the human's point of view, living alongside two dragons might take ten or twenty years of your life, it's not exactly a calming experience.
Ah, can't forget my mandatory status update for when I level up, this ti around since I should be hopefully learning magic, I decided to invest into magicka. Unfortunately, I've only levelled up once since then because levelling on wild creatures is becoming more of a grind now.
It took roughly one hundred animals to get from eleven to twelve. Problem is, I can't exactly clear out the entire forest for EXP since our family won't have any food left, the only other alternative is hunting humans but that doesn't seem like the best idea after what happened in the city.
Back onto showing my stats.
'Status'
[Na: Ikarus | Species: Phoenix | Level: 12]
[Health 2,500/2,500]
[Stamina 2,341/2,500]
[Magicka 1,000/1,000]
"I'd prefer if you don't use that ability around "
Who said that was battlemage Leone, both and her are in an empty part of the forest while I was giving my update for my first lesson in magic. I'm unsure on how she knew what I was doing.
"Wait a second, can you see it as well?"
"No, I can't, just your eyes fill with magic when you use whatever that is. It's the third ti I've seen you do it now"
"Third?"
"First in the net, second in the cave, third now"
Ah, that explains it. As for why I'm able to control my anger at the net capture incident now, the reward seems too good to let my anger consu . I still hold a little grudge towards her but can put it aside for learning magic.
"Ah, okay then. Before we start, can you help put this thing on?"
I'm of course talking about the choker since I'm still in bird form, had to fly over here since I ca from the cave. Also made sure to bring my clothes with in a fur bag I made. Thinking about it, I should have asked for more human clothes when the prince was here. Nightgown and a fur robe aren't exactly suitable clothing.
"…"
'Why isn't she responding? Did I say sothing stupid like what happens with system?'
It takes her a second to realize why I want to change form, once she does, she gives her response.
"You don't need arms to learn magic"
'Damn it, I did say sothing stupid. She really does seem a bit emotionless though, like a human doll'
"Hang on then, how am I supposed to turn myself into a human flathrower without arms then?"
That thought is pretty badass to be honest.
"Human flathrower? I think you misunderstand how magic works, Miss Ikarus"
It was a joke but I have next to no idea on how magic actually works, rough idea on how dragon tongue kind of works but that's completely different. Does that sound weird? Oh, who cares if it does? That's what it's called anyway.
"Well, the information I have is from two dragons who disagree with all human magic teachings. Ah, and drop the Miss, don't like it"
"Okay then, Ikarus. What do you think magic actually is?"
What magic actually is? I'll just make up sothing that sounds cool.
"The secrets of the universe and power, sothing like that?"
"Wrong. Magic is only one thing, luck"
'Luck? What kind of a weird magic system is this? This teacher might be a bit wacky'
"Luck?"
"I exaggerate slightly but my words hold an elent of truth. If you're not lucky enough to be born with magic, then you can never learn it"
Then the mage stretches out her arm towards , mutters sothing under her breath and then a net appears in the air above .
"Damn it, not that blasted thing again!"
I've found myself trapped under her stupid net again. Why is that thing so bloody heavy?
"If you don't like it, get out of it. It's not difficult"
"Not difficult!? You co under here and try and get out!"
Is she teasing or is this supposed to be lesson? Damn it, I just want to get out of this crappy thing.
"Ikarus, take a deep breath and compose yourself"
"Will you just get to your damn point already or let out? Of course, I'm going to get stressed under this shitty thing"
I hate this stupid net and I'm starting to dislike the woman who put in it even more.
"Very well. This first lesson is finding and focusing on where your magic is stored. For humans, it can take so ti but for a phoenix, it should be easy"
"You're talking like I have a clue what you're on about! Can you let out already, getting claustrophobic now"
"No, stressful situations help the process. If you're that desperate, get out yourself"
"Damn it, you heartless emotionless bitch, let out!"
"…"
She just ignores the verbal insult I've thrown at her and just watches struggling in the net.
'She's not going to let out, is she?'
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'System, do you know what she's talking about?'
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'Fine, fine'
I close my eyes, try to calm myself by steading my breathing and focus. I'm still unsure what I'm looking for.
"I still don-"
"Quiet and focus. Close up your mind and focus on the darkness, find that spot"
She quickly cuts off and tells to focus, this damn annoying woman.
I really don't understand what I'm supposed to be looking for, all I can obviously see is darkness. It doesn't matter where I look, doesn't matter what I focus on, I can't find what I'm supposed to be looking for. This is stupid.
Must have been in this state doing this for a good several minutes, just as I'm about to stop and complain again, sothing starts to burn in my chest.
"Ouch… what the heck is that?"
"Keep your eyes close, shut up and focus on it"
Doing as she says, I focus on the heartburn feeling I have deep inside . The more and more I fixate on it, the stronger the burning gets. After half a minute, the pain starts getting intolerable and I have to stop. I'm sweating bullets now as well.
"*Huff, huff, huff* What… the hell *huff* is that?"
"What does it feel like?"
"*Huff* Like my *huff* heart is on fire"
"Fire huh? Makes sense… Now that you've experienced that feeling, try and move it through your body to the net surrounding you"
"I can't, that pain is too much"
"Try it again, it won't be as intense"
I reluctantly do as she says and continue to focus on it. Once I have it in focus, I try to move it slightly and it turns out, it's more difficult than I thought. Trying to pull it out is like trying to fight against gravity, it only wants to go to that one burning spot.
As I'm trying to move the fire burning inside towards the net outside, I focus even harder on it than last ti and suddenly sothing warm and bright surrounds my every direction.
"SHIT!"
A devastating fire envelops and the net but is gone within a spilt of a second, the net completely disintegrates from it though.
"Wow… that was… unexpected"
Even a look of slight surprise appears on the battlemage's face, she clearly isn't completely emotionless, I think?
"The hell just happened?"
"You just experienced your first surge of magic, Ikarus. Even I'm slightly surprised that you’re able to manifest fire so quickly but you are a bird of legend after all"
'This mage definitely knows more than she lets on but I'll ignore it for now. Status, I want to check my magicka'
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'Another ability? Probably from starting to learn magic, tell about it after this lesson, status again'
[Na: Ikarus | Species: Phoenix | Level: 12]
[Health 2,500/2,500]
[Stamina 2,117/2500]
[Magicka 666/1,000]
'That little fire used that much magic up? My stamina has depleted quickly as well, stress clearly does drain it faster'
While I was still on the floor looking at my stats, a finger approached my beak and went to flick .
"Oi, what was that for?"
"I asked you not to use your ability"
The flick didn't exactly hurt but I'm still going to complain about it regardless.
"Why does it matter? It wasn't aid at you; I was using it on myself"
"Doesn't matter, don't use it around "
Before I had the chance to get up and complain further, her arm was lifted out and another net was summoned.
"Get out of another one now"
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'Damn that stupid woman'
While I'm walking through the forest with my bag on my back still in my bird form to my next lesson, I'm visibly irritated.
In the end, we ended up doing that stupid net thing four more tis before my magicka ran out. I'm confused in how I was able to do it since I should have only been able to do it three tis but my best guess is the more your practice it, it probably uses less up.
My temper really isn't good, need to think or sothing else on the way there.
'System, what was that new ability again?'
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'What's it do?'
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'In exchange for points, I can buy abilities? What's the price?'
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'Five thousand!?! Ten levels worth of points just to be thrown away like that? Once again, I knew this would end up being shit'
As usual, this system makes optimistic and then throws it away.
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System's voice actually sounded slightly excited while saying this, never heard her robotic voice sound like that.
'I don't think I've heard you sound so excited on sothing, just how strong are so of these abilities?'
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