They way she opened the eyes after hearing my remark was entirely different. Not so calm and relaxed… she opened them as if it was the most important thing in the world right now. She even stood up looking me in the eyes with all her mighty form revealed before me…
¨I am a dragon. I can tell if someone lies to me. I have no doubts divine beings can probably somehow trick that skill but I am nearly certain that you are not capable of such thing right now. I believe you little rat…¨
Man I have to admit that I hate being called little rat. I mean sure it is the truth… especially compared to her but god damn… it is still annoying.
I didn’t want to interrupt her but I just really dislike the term. There are many reasons why but most importantly, I have a damn name.
¨Its Felix. My name is Felix. Please don’t call me little rat anymore¨
I think she was a bit pissed that I dared to interrupt her speech… however I think she also understood why.
¨Very well Felix, my name is Aelin. I am honored to meet you¨
Well now you are honored huh? I wonder what is so special about reaching floor forty? Maybe that it is just deep enough for her to consider me worthy? I have so many questions that I doubt she will answer half of them.
¨Anyways Felix. Do it, I am ready¨
Wait WHAT? What does she mean by that? Don’t tell me… ??
¨What are you talking about Aelin?¨
I mean I think I know what she meant by that but why would she even want that? Also I think that’s a bit weird change of heart.
¨I don’t know how it is called but the ritual for me to become your follower… do it¨
Whoa… I mean sure, she might know about that but why? Few minutes ago she refused to even talk to me and now she want to become my follower? That’s very suspicious.
¨Why would you want that? I really don’t understand¨
She is giving me this disappointed look again… I don’t really know why but I have no doubts she will enlighten me with her reason? Surely?
¨Felix… this is hard for me. I am willingly giving myself to you… are you telling me… that I am not good enough for you?¨
Whoa? That’s a bit passive aggressive right there? I think she misunderstood my question. I wasn’t refusing her I was generally surprised… darn.
¨No! That’s not what I meant! I am asking you why would you want to become my follower, because you didn’t even want to talk to me few moments before and now you suddenly want to become my follower?¨
How does she even know about that? Maybe she already experienced it before? Still doesn’t change the fact that it is very suspicious.
Man if I thought she was pissed before when I was pestering her with the talking… she was legit just taking a nap… now however, I am nearly certain that she is fucking pissed. I can tell because the way she looks at me changed drastically and I am also fairly sure that she isn’t happy with the current situation. I even think she might be getting ready to fight? Is there someone that I didn’t notice? I can feel only the stupid elementals?
¨Are you questioning every single monster that comes to you blinded by your aura? Did you give every single one of them the choice? Or did you perhaps feel like that’s the only thing in the world that makes sense? Did they seem like they would even refuse? Now my question would be… are you this hollow? Perhaps I don’t want to become a follower of someone who cherry picks who he is going to help and who he refuses to give a helping hand. I have lowered myself before you. Because I know that you deserve respect. You survived impossible and made it to the only place that can make you stable. In a very commendable time frame as well. None of the being before you came even close to that. They might have been stronger but you triumphed because you have time now. All the time you need. However… perhaps… that will change with the way you act. You will have many enemies. I wanted to give you a chance because you seemed nice. Probably too much nice for your own good. Now I know that isn’t the case. You probably don’t even know who you are. You are a hypocrite. Not true to yourself. Clinging to something not important. I am ashamed of myself to even utter these words. I will fight you to the death now, survive and maybe, just maybe, one day you will be worthy of my faith¨
And her huge tail smashed me across my body. I have felt it coming. I have even knew how to dodge it. I refused to accept the reality. I have been smashed into a wall over hundred meter away from her. I don’t know how much health I lost but it was somewhat manageable. Probably only few thousands.
I don’t understand… I just asked her why? Why would she be so pissed about it? Is she so proud that for the trees she doesn’t see the forest? I really don’t understand how can she be so pissed at me to initiate a duel to the death??? I don’t even see her as my enemy, how am I supposed to kill her? She will literally have to force my hand. I can also always just leave? Does she expect me to just blindly follow her moods swings?
Fucking women. No matter what race they are from… they make zero sense. You cannot reason with them. That’s like the biggest taboo… you have to feel how to act with them and even that will most likely fail. Wild animals are easier to predict damn.
Now… I can feel that despite she has relatively small amount of mana she is making use of that mana right now and I cannot interrupt it. I just know, I didn’t even try. It is far too complicated for me to even attempt to shred it.
This is going to hurt… I just don’t know what to do? Damn.
I will just run. I might be able to beat her... but why? I don’t really need her anyways. Cya dragon girl.
I erased my presence… about same time she did the magic. It was a very wide breath attack. Well that was to be expected. She is a dragon after all. I could try to dodge it with my bullet jump but I am actually quite interested in how much damage can that shit do to me… I am also fairly certain that only mana enhanced bullet jump would be able to dodge it entirely and in time. There might be a chance that is actually not worth it mana wise… very unlikely but who knows.
Well I should’ve done that. I am nearly certain the breath attack is doing about five percent of my max hp per second. That’s some dps right there. I also know that it would surely froze me if I could be frozen. Somehow I am certain that my skills are protecting me from that happening.
She interrupted her breath about ten seconds later… still scanning the surroundings.
¨I know you are still around. I can tell. If you are a divine being… you shouldn’t run. Stand your ground. Fight your enemies. I have attacked you, probably hurt you a lot. Don’t let others step all over you. You will regret it, I have made myself clear. I am your enemy. You are just a scared little rat. A monster that nobody gives a shit about. You will not be missed. Nobody cares about you and never will. I don’t know why you are like this but you don’t deserve to wield your powers. Now reveal yourself and fight me. Or I will dedicate myself to purging you of this world. I have my ways. You will regret it¨
Alright fuck it. Fuck it. That bitch is so wrong about me but she is right in one thing. She hurt me quite a bit. In this floor there is nowhere near enough mana for me to regenerate all the damage she did to me. Not fast at least.
I am not a fucking rat. Well I kinda am… but not really.
I will give her what she wants. I have no idea why is she so pissed but I am pissed myself. I have done nothing to her and she wants to kill me. She is also possibly strong enough to actually manage it. And she is threatening me even with more trouble… you wanted this fat lizard.
I have revealed myself. No use hiding myself. I will give her the fight she so damn wants.
She used her wings to start flying in the air. Hovering over the place we are at the top of the mountain. I still cannot see the ceiling even but I guess it shouldn’t be that far away.
It gives her relatively big advantage since I cannot fly. She can just bombard me with stuff from the air.
That’s exactly what she started to do. She isn’t doing the breath attack anymore. Just few balls there and there. Well many of them but I can keep up and dodge it relatively easily. Some of explosions hurt me a little bit but that’s nothing.
I am trying to find anything in my arsenal to hit her with. I don’t fucking know… I am nearly certain that throwing my mana at her directly would be just a waste. I can maybe replicate the fire magic the fire elementals were doing but all of the spells were aoe and the other one was a fire pillar. It was strong but I doubt it will reach her at all. Trying the random spells I shredded from others is a huge risk I am not willing to take and potential mana waste as well…
I am fucked. Unless I run or think of something right about now I am royally fucked.
What am I supposed to do? Well there is one thing I can do. I will make her mine. I don’t really see anything else to do anyways.
I have initiated the ritual on her, lets hope for the best.
I think this is the best solution.
Hopefully.
There seems to be a big misunderstanding from MC lacking information and Aelin not knowing that he lacks such information or whatever. MC doesn’t know the significance of followers, faith or the like. Is he supposed to and he doesn’t due to his previously human soul not being as in touch with their instincts (though he should be adapting to the body fairly well)?
In any case, we found out some info that divine beings are special and need a rush of mana to stabilize themselves initially (which MC got from the bait and some from monsters) and then need to go to an area of super high mana concentration (floor 40 which has so much mana it’s basically a mana ocean) within a year to permanently “stabilize” themselves and not die. Afterwards they seem to be able to live a long time (perhaps indefinitely as long as they aren’t killed).
MC should find out what a follower is from her and it’s significance: does the follower get anything from the “divine patron” (MC in this case) they have submitted to? Does MC get anything besides the levels/exp offered?
I was thinking something, since MC is a mana genius and monsters are initially “born” from mana pooling in certain spawn points, couldn’t he be able to make monsters too with some experimenting? Would he be able to form cores too (not sure whether they are formed in nature, made when a monster has a chance to choose a certain evolution or mutation or just gets it from another who has it like MC did)? In any case, if he is able to form the body of a monster than there is a chance he could make something for Candace and take the essence from Rose and putting it inside (though since the hit squad should have her core, Candace will have to either work on getting/making another if MC can’t make them himself). At the very least his instincts seemed to think it was possible for him to do “something.“
@Ediav42 well you are quite on point again... there is insane ammounts of spoilers i would have to give to answer you but basicaly yes is just enough.
@Wulfos Did MC think that she was referring to s*x when she said that at first (how would that even be anatomically possible or would magic be able to do something?)? Or did he think she was referring to the followers thing and maybe thought ? in the corner of his mind that it was a bit suggestive if the situation was different. Good chapter in any case.
@Ediav42 haha i purposelly frased it like that. He knew she is talking about the follower thing. He was just surprised why would she change her behaviour so quickly.
@Wulfos and she promptly thought he was being some kind of hypocritical stuck up little rat ? that felt she wasn’t good enough when really he is just ignorant on most things of this world (not even 3 months old) and he never said no but just wanted an answer to his confusion
@Ediav42 yeah... she is a bit too proud. She got legit hurt by being even questioned. The thing is Felix doesnt really act like he is supposed to at all. He is just a normal human still... she either felt that or guessed something is wrong but regardless still got hurt by being rejected. If she was rejected mating she might have been hurt but possibly not as much. It is a bit complicated.
And yes... Felix is indeed ignorant to things. He doesnt really feel like he wants to change at all but it is already far too late for that.
@Wulfos Ignorance can be changed by just learning. Being an unsubtle thick headed social person is much harder as it's part of your personality. Not surprising she is proud as such things are generally expected from dragons.
Well it isn't like MC has had a great chance to sit down and learn about many things (magic, common sense, history, whatever) since he has a pretty full schedule with needing to reach floor 15 (I'm willing to bet Candace's daughter is probably an Arachne or at least some kind of smaller spider around MCs size) and finding the gate on floor 40 (he needs to be strong enough for that so going through each floor seems best) in addition to not dying. It's a tough life being the world's strongest rat ?? at two months(ish) old.
@Ediav42 yeap tough life.. . Damn i really like your coments man. Feels good to have someone care about the story so much thank you
@Wulfos is this still going to be updated?
@Wulfos @Wulfos when will the next update? love the series by the way
@ravencroft Okay so i am extremely sorry for all the delays. I shoulda update everyone but every time i came close to sort of okay ground and enough time to continue... something happens. But mostly work ofc. I simply dont have time for now and every time i do i kinda just drop dead at home without any energy to do anything. I will update the story asap though. I wanna continue and i also have insane ammounts of new ideas and story things.
TL,DR: I will update when i have the time for it. But when i do i will most likely have some story upfront so when i dont have time then again i have some story piled up so i can just mash chapters despite not having time to write them. Curently i have nothing writen. I will start really asap. I am extremely sorry and i hope you guys can forgive me. Thanks for all the attention and cya for now :)