Early Morning - Mid Spring : Ho
After Mother said we should eat, she gave us each large Field Bison that she had prepared earlier.
They were simply divine. -So juicy.. so good..- The at lted in my mouth and tasted more juicy than normal.
Mother gave a curious look as I was enjoying the food. "So Vasilias, what was that magic you used on the wyvern? I've never seen anything like it. Although I'm also curious about your breath from earlier, I think this will be easier to understand."
Snapping out of my thoughts, I took a second to think about how to explain it. "Well, first I created a tal rod with earth magic, then used lightning magic to launch it out of my mouth.." I tried my best to word it in a way she could understand, but her not knowing what magnetism was made that a more complicated task.
Mother sat up straight and looked at father in complete confusion. "Sweetie, can I get more detail? Like how does the lightning move the tal rod at all, let alone fast enough to do that much damage?"
Father was confused about sothing else though. "What did he do?"
"He completely eviscerated a large wyvern along with a few kiloters of forest behind it.."
Father stopped eating for a mont and just froze. “With a tal rod?”
"Well it's not that complicated.." I decided I would just try to explain the basics of magnetism. "So on a basic level, certain tals are known as magnetic." I created a small iron ball in front of , and used lightning to make it float. "See? I can control how it moves by using the lighting because the lightning has charge."
Mother still looked confused. "So you're trying to tell you moved an iron rod faster than I could catch a glimpse of.. by using lightning?"
"By using magnetism, yes. See?" I quickly used magic to throw the iron ball into the side of the mountain.
*Bang*
Father was the first to break the silence that followed. "Vasilias.. Could you show what you did to the wyvern earlier?"
I lightly nodded my head and aid at the iron ball embedded in the mountain.
*CRACK*
The tal rod instantly left my mouth and plowed straight through the mountain [1].
Krystallo and Father's jaws both dropped seeing a hole dripping molten rock appear in the side of the mountain.
Silence encompassed everyone for a mont before Father spoke up.
"Vasilias." He looked straight at with a gleam in his eyes. "Would you like to co with on a mission to a humanoid city?"
Mother froze as if she was going to intervene but I spoke up first. "Mission?"
"I have so business with the royalty in the Kingdom of Kaelallan in two months, it will only be a quick trip, there and back, but it might be a good experience for you."
"But won't I have to learn transformation magic first?" -I can't just walk into a human city as a dragon can I?-
I was super excited at the chance to see so more of the world, but my gut was telling sothing like transformation magic would be extrely hard to learn especially on short notice.
"You've already learned it! Every dragon is born with the ability to change to a humanoid form once they acquire enough mana. The one you will make will be your temporary form. You will only be able to use your 'true' humanoid form once you awaken it around the elder stage, even your Mother and I are rather far from it."
-Ah so it was in the inheritance..-
Mother’s worry beca more visible as she spoke. "Vasilias, rember you can choose whatever race you want for your 'temporary' form.. just keep in mind that.. it might hurt so.."
-Hmm what should I be then.. a human form is too boring, rfolk and elves aren't my style, so avians or demihuman..- After thinking for a short mont, I started to lean towards being an avian, but my instincts kept telling to transform into sothing else.. sothing specific that felt incredibly natural.
I glanced over at Ilios. -Well I guess going with what feels most natural is smart.-
I started to exude a blinding purple light as my massive 23 ter body started to change shape.
Unlike how I expected, it was nothing like a spell, my body just took a bit of my mana and did it on its own.
-There isn't any pain?- Although Mother warned that it might hurt, I didn't feel any pain, instead, I just felt extrely uncomfortable.
After a short mont, the light subsided and I looked at myself with aura.
I looked like a 10 year old kid. My hair was such a deep black it looked like the abyss but it was strangely beautiful. I also had two perky wolf ears on my head and a fluffy black tail that looked just like Ilios's except that it was black.
Besides appearance, I also felt weaker, but not nearly as weak as I had expected. It still felt incredibly uncomfortable being so much smaller and weaker than my dragon form though.
Circulating my mana a bit, I quickly noticed my breath gland as well as all 7 attribute nodes were still there and my mana reserve was left untouched. -I thought my temporary form was supposed to be weaker..- (Will be explained next chap)
As I was busy thinking to myself, Ilios ran up to and bowed his head at my feet.
-What the?- It was incredibly odd since Ilios had never acted like this, it was extrely out of character. "Mother, why is Ilios acting like this?" I quickly looked up to see Mother and Father completely awestruck and Krystallo staring at as if in a trance. -What’s with that reaction..-
Father broke into a cold sweat the second I looked at him.
-What in the world.. wait.. maybe it's an aura thing?- Even if I knew about the issue though, I simply couldn't do anything about it. I still hadn’t learned how to control it properly.
"V..Vasilias.." Mother finally said sothing although her voice was very shaky. "What race.. is that?"
-Huh? Do I not look like a demihuman?- I decided it was best to just respond honestly. "I just followed my instinct." I glanced over at Ilios.
Mother and Father noticed my glance and looked at Ilios. "Did you.. copy Ilios’s race? B..but that's not possible.."
-What?- "What do you an? What race is Ilios? Isn't he a frost wolf?" I was struggling to figure out what Mother ant.
Mother looked like she was deep in thought. "Well.. we thought he was, but after absorbing a ton of your aura during your dragon sleep he evolved into an Ancient Fenrir.. [2] There are only 2 ancient fenrir that can exist at once, one black and one white…” She looked back and forth between Ilios and I before continuing. “They are mythical creatures said to be stronger than the gods... Even dragons have to bow to them.."
-COOL!- I looked down at Ilios with a proud smile.
I thought it was incredible that Ilios was not only stunningly beautiful and adorable, but he was also crazy strong.
"But what did you an by I copied his race? I didn't feel like I copied anything though..”
Mother stiffened up and her face was covered in an inexplicable expression.
Father was quick to take over for her. "Well.. when choosing your 'temporary form', you would be able to mimic the appearance of any race.. but you.. actually changed races.." Father looked at Mother with a face of concern and worry.
I wasn't following what they were talking about. I had thought that I did sothing cool but seeing their reactions was a little worrying.
After finally sorting so of her thoughts, Mother chid back in. "So.. Vasilias.. how much of your mana reserve can you use?"
"Huh? Uh.. all of it."
Mother and Father both froze.
"It's not full at the mont but I do have access to all of it."
"W.. wh.. what about your attribute nodes..." Mothers voice was getting a bit shaky.
"I have all 7, even my breath gland is untouched.." I didn't know how to react to their expressions anymore.
"Are you sure?” Mother looked at in disbelief. “Here.. aim at that tree and use a breath.. Just be very careful.."
"O..okay.." I was a bit nervous but I was excited to experint with my breath again. -This ti, not nuclear..-
I was thinking of what possible explosive I could use before I settled on ammonium nitrate, simple to make and moderately strong.
It was a dirty explosive but it was SIGNIFICANTLY more affordable mana wise than anything else I could think of. -Maybe I should try TNT next..-
TNT was cleaner, but it was crazy expensive compared to ammonium nitrate. (Ammonium nitrate is NOT toxic enough to harm dragons!)
After creating a moderately substantial amount of ammonium nitrate, I aid towards the tree mother pointed towards, and opened my mouth.
*Crack*
This ti I used so wind magic to help keep the explosion together, focusing the blast into a beam that instantly reached the tree.
*BoOm*
The explosion completely obliterated the bottom half of the tree and stripped the bark from a couple trees nearby it.
-Affordable with good firepower, a good combo..-
I looked at the scene in satisfaction, sohow overlooking the tense and awkward atmosphere behind .
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