CH.559 Date with Unika
… okay, I lied. I did half of that already.
Yeah. It really didn’t take that long for to learn Tar’s Paradise. It is a complicated skill, for those that don’t understand parallel dinsions, ntal dinsions, Space Magic and so on. But I’ve more or less figured out all of that, so it really just took an afternoon of trying for to get the skill.
And because I can now move them around easier, I want to ta more monsters. So I decided to head out in a random direction and hope for the best.
And because I was taming sothing, I brought Unika along and turned it into a date.
We first flew to so random place Unika picked. I just let her fox instincts, even if she doesn’t have that skill, guide us sowhere.
From there, we got out of the ship, I transford into a dragon and we flew. Luckily I knew all the towns and cities in the area, so I was able to avoid them. Sure there could be so people on the roads between the places who spotted us, but I don’t care. Flying on a tad dragon, or in this case, transforming into a dragon, isn’t illegal. You just have to land so ways away from any city or town.
I then let Luna, my owl, out of Tar’s Paradise to help us look … for sothing. We actually don’t have any goal in mind. We are just going to fly sowhere, and maybe ta sothing.
After about an hour, we decided to have a short break. To let Luna rest, and to just enjoy nature. We found a nice clearing for it, I set out a blanket for us, and we had so snacks.
While we were enjoying the snacks, Unika caught a small bird with just her bare hands, and showed how to do a temporary ta.
Temporary tas weren’t that different from the permanent ones, naturally. You just had to purposefully make sure the monster understood it was just for a bit. It might sound difficult, but it is actually really easy. Probably easier than permanent tas.
I think monsters just accept temporary servitude easier. But Unika also told that sotis a temporary ta becos permanent by accident. It has happened to her a few tis, and she had to kill the tad monster in the end, because of the monetary situation of her family. They couldn’t afford to feed more tad monsters, even if they may have enabled Unika to make a bit more money as an adventurer.
As we were about to head out again, I noticed sothing moving the tall grass at the edge of the clearing. I assud it would be so big monster based on the area in which I saw the grass move, so I put up my guard. I generated a pair of Magical Arms and sent them to reveal the monster in the grass, but as I tried to reveal it, whatever monster was hiding there began to move quickly.
Quickly towards us that is. And as it got to the shorter grass, we saw what it was.
… And it was just a common snake. An F-rank snake monster. The weakest there is.
“Oh? A snake. Let’s ignore it and go.”
“... Yeah.” I agreed, as I looked at the snake. “... what can snakes evolve into?” I asked myself. “... Yeah. I’m taming it.” I decided.
“Why? It’s just a snake. A common snake. We’ve seen forest snakes and you ignored them, so why do you want this one?”
“... feeling, I guess. I guess my dragon instincts tell to ta it.”
“... you should have turned into a Fenrir instead. You could have tad sothing fluffy.”
“Don’t need sothing like that. I have you.” I told her, and got Unika to blush.
I used my Magical Arms to capture the common snake and brought it to . The snake tried to struggle free at first, but quickly submitted as I brought it to .
It was a strange color, a dull blue. Most of the ti, common snakes are different shades of green. Or so sort of sand color if they live in a sandy area. Or gray if they live in a rocky area. But in a forest, you’d expect a greenish colored snake.
Well, at least it isn’t an albino snake. That would have been even more rare.
I got a small chunk of raw at out of Storage, made another Magical Arm and offered the at to the snake with it. While I did so, I began to gently run my hand down the snake’s body, while giving it just the tiniest amount of mana.
I had to be very careful not to put too much mana into it because of my level and Mana Control. If I put too much into it, I’ll overload the snake’s mana circuits and either injure it badly, or kill it.
The snake seed to enjoy the service, and soon enough, I had it tad.
“... now you need a na. Can’t na you Indigo, cause soone already has that na.” I spoke to myself, while I continued to pet the snake.
“... why did you even ta it?” Unika asked. “Like really. It is just a snake.”
“As I said, felt like it.” I repeated. “Did you know that when I still lived in my old world, I kind of wanted to have a snake as a pet?”
“... you don’t talk about those tis that often, so no. Why a snake though?”
“Good question. I just wanted one. Maybe because I love dragons?”
“I don’t see the connection.”
“Well, my old world didn’t have dragons. They were legends. Stories. Myths.”
“Like the Hero’s party?”
“Yes, but also no. We can confirm that the Hero’s party existed. That is a fact. And because of the System and the Goddess, we can confirm that they did at least most of what is said that they did. So that isn’t a legend or a myth in the sa way.” I told her. “Our legends didn’t base on sothing like that. At least we couldn’t prove that they did. But still sohow almost all cultures had legends of dragons.”
“Depending on where in the world the legends ca from, they’d look different. Like the western dragons. They are what we call ‘dragons’ here. Four legs, two wings, large body, breath fire. Well, here they breathe whatever elent they have, but in my world, it was fire, and rarely sothing like lightning or poison. These dragons were often depicted as being ‘evil and destructive’. And from the point of view of a person who can’t use magic or skills, surely they would be. But for a dragon, a regular person is no more special than this snake is for us.” I told Unika, as I stroked my new pet snake.
“Next were the eastern dragons. They looked more like Janina. Long, serpentine dragons, except they didn’t have wings. They were seen as god-like entities. Sure they may do evil things, but people believed that the evil they do is for the betternt of mankind.”
“... could they fly? They had no wings, right? So could they fly?” Unika asked.
“Yeah.” I confird.
“... how?”
“Magic, duh. I know my world didn’t have it. Or at least we couldn’t use it. But legends are legends for a reason. And would you question how a god flies without wings?”
“... I suppose I wouldn’t. I an, you, Alice and Cailie can all fly despite not having wings. Even mom learned how to.”
“Exactly.” I told her. “Sure we can’t compare ourselves to gods, well arguably I can, because reasons.”
“Reasons?”
“Yeah. In a world like this, I’d say soone is a god-like being when they can influence the System to give out levels and skills. I can do both, so …”
“But you don’t call yourself a god.”
“No. I guess a demi-god. A God, a true God, is immortal, all being, all knowing, all doing. There is no God like that in this world. Not even the Goddess. She has told multiple tis she isn’t like that, so I don’t feel bad about saying that, even if soone might say that is sacrilegious. So tell this, if both the Goddess and I can influence the System to give out skills and levels, what is the difference between us?”
“... I’m not sure.” Unika admitted.
“I’ll answer then. The scale at which we can do it. I can only do it to the person in front of . The Goddess on the other hand can do it to every single person holding the System. At least I think she can.”
“I see…”
“But enough about Gods and Goddesses. Want to hear more about dragon myths?”
“... I guess, if you want to tell more.”
I did just that, telling Unika about Quetzalcoatl, wyrms and wyverns. She was kind of blown away by how many of the mythical beings from my world were actual monsters, or just Janina. Because admit it. Janina is basically a mix between the Quetzalcoatl and an eastern dragon.
I ended up naming my new snake Aoi Koiru, though I'll call her Aoi. Which is Japanese for blue coil. Based on reverse engineering Japanese using Iron Chain Coil.
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