Monster

As I was relaxing and enjoying the pleasure of my constantly improving body something suddenly changed.

The space around me suddenly constricted and started to press down on me.

First I started to panic, but soon I remembered were I am and that it was probably time for me to be born.

So instead of just waiting for my mother to do all the work I tried to felb by pressing against the walls and moving in the direction where I was guided to by the pressing on the womb.

But I somehow miscalculated my strength and I shot out of the womb but just as the light at the end of the tunnel was in front of me I was stuck.

How tight!

Damn what's wrong with this. Is is simply too tight. I believe had I not trained with the mana in my surrounding I would have been injured by this tightness. How the hell are normal babys born without getting injured? No wonder the first thing a baby did when being born is crying.

Just as I thought of that I could feel a push again as the walls around me pressed me forward again.

But it was slow as fuck.

And I hat no more foothold to help myself so I could only wait and endure the tightness around me.

….

Finally I was born.

And the first thing I did was crying to play my part of being a baby.

But I couldn't do that for long as I got distracted by my surroundings.

I found myself inside of a wooden room that seemed a bit ancient. There were only 1 bed inside that was at least 2 by 2 meters and a woman lay there on top of it, it seemed as if she were still in pain as her face contorted a bit and she was breathing heavily.

Besides the bed stood a handsome middle aged man with antlers tail and scales, purple eyes and hair. That looked with worry at the woman and from time to time glance at me. His glance contained a hint of love worry and a tiny bit of, anger?

As for me? I was in the hands of an old man hat hat the same characteristics as the middle aged man just less prominent.

„Congratulations your Majesty and 2nd Empress the third prince is very healthy."

Its English! Wow how lucky the pineapple here seemed to be speaking English.

After hearing that one could see the relief on the face of the woman and a trace of happiness in the eyes of the middle aged man but it soon got replaced by worry as he looked at the woman on the bed

„Doctor how is my wife? Is she alright?"

The doctor gave me to the middle aged man and went over to the woman and checked her pulse.

After feeling it for a while he couldn't help but frown. Seeing that the man started to panic. And his grip got a little tighter. And as he held me I could feel a bit of pain, but I withhold my tears that threatened to break out, I was a grown up man after all, well at least my mind is.

„What is it, Sacred Doctor? Is something wrong with my wife?"

When he felt the worry in the voice the doctor came out of his stupor and his brows eased he then turned to the middle aged man and said with care.

„No, Your Majesty, it's actually the opposite, your wife is actually fine. Just a bit exhausted because of the birth, because of the same reason she is in pain, since the Third Prince is too big as a baby. But the health of your wife is fine. But I don't know how that could be possible, with how much impurity's your wife had to filter for the baby, she shouldn't be this healthy."

"But isn't that a good thing? Or could it be that you wanted my wife to be ill?"

The voice of the middle aged man was raised as he said that. How could a doctor be so unhappy with the health of a patient? Especially the esteemed Sacred Doctor.

"Nonono! That is not what I meant Your Majesty. I was just confused as the current situation is not in line with my previous observations. That is truly strange, and I had never heard of anything like that."

The Sacred Doctor panicked, after all, even for someone with his status it would have not been a good idea to anger someone with the strength and status of the Emperor of the Sacred Beast Empire.

"Please excuse me Your Majesty, seeing that your son and wife are healthy I should go now. I want to go and find my Master and consult with him the strange situation that happened here. And I would like to ask Your Majesty to call for me again if something else like this happens again."

After the old man said that he turned and started to leave. I tried to follow the conversation until now and what I got from it until now was, the old man that is leaving seemed to be some kind of doctor and a pretty good one it seemed, after all he was called by the middle aged man 'Sacred Doctor' and by the way the doctor addressed the middle aged man, he should be the Emperor as well as my father. Then that leaves the Woman on the bed as my mother.

But now that the old man was leaving I think nothing else interesting will happen again, so then again let's indulge in the pleasure, that is training.

After 2 months of training nonstop I got pretty good at sensing the particles around me so I quickly noticed something different. There were a whole lot more of the particles in my surroundings, I grew ecstatic, as more particles in the air meant that I could absorb them a whole lot faster then before. And absorbing faster meant that I could strengthen my body faster too and so experience more pleasure.

I don't know if this addiction to pleasure was something good or not. As it could soon get on the same level of someone that smokes.

But who cares! In my last life I wasn't one that had sex regularly and now that I could experience something that came close to that nearly indefinitely I just couldn't stop myself.

But something was wrong! The expected pleasure didn't come but instead I could feel pain. And not just a little bit of pain. But a lot! It felt as if my body was hit by a truck again, as every part of my body started to break down. And then? Well then came the pleasure as I could feel my body repairing again. But that didn't last long and I could feel the pain again, this time even slightly more intense. I couldn't help but let out a cry and stopped absorbing the surrounding Mana.

And as I stopped I became aware of my current situation. I was currently still in the arms of my father who didn't give me to my mother because the doctor still had to examine her and he didn't have enough time to do so after the doctor turned to leave as I started to train again. And that was because he stood completely petrified on the spot and looked at me full of worry.

Next to him stood my mother, who must have jumped out of the bed and frantically tried to reach me. She had a similar expression of worry.

The last person, that stood just in front of my parents was the doctor as he cast an examining look at me and was just about to reach my little arm with his hand, probably yo measure my pulse.

Just what is wrong with them? I was just training. Why are they so worried? Sure I had let out a cry, but just a little cry from a newborn baby shouldn't be able to get these adults so worked up. Baby's did cry an awful lot after all.

But I couldn't think further as the hand of the doctor reached me and I could feel a trace of energy flow into my body from the hand of the doctor, that felt awfully similar to the particles in the air. But it felt kinda weird. As if something was missing.

Ah I know the Mana of the doctor only contained the particles that felt cool and smoothing. It was missing the other different feeling particles. Like the hot, cold or sharp feeling ones.

„Hmm… strange, it feels like nothing is wrong with the prince too, even though he absorbed the Mana without using a technique to filter the impurity's. How can this… WAIT! How is this possible?"

Suddenly the doctor let out a loud shout and took a few steps back involuntarily and his face got a bit pale. But his eyes shone with a strange gaze it contained astonishment, excitement and a bit of fear as he looked at me.

„What did you find doctor? Is my son alright? Well obviously not. But can you cure him?"

My mother cast an worried look at the doctor, seeing him acting so strange.

But the doctor just gave my mother a strange look and instead of answering her he just said.

„Well Mylady, it is probably better for you to see for yourself. Try and send a strand of Mana into the boy and try to feel his magic core."

Hearing the doctor, not just my mother but even my father both sent a strand of Mana into me.

And strangely enough both the strand of Mana from my mother and my father were missing many of the different feeling particles of Mana.

My father only possessed the hot one, the sharp feeling one and some particles that, even though I could not really see it, felt as if it was devouring the surrounding light.

My mother on the other hand possessed the cold one, one that felt like it would blind my eyes if I could see them and lastly some particles that I couldn't really feel very well, as if they where nowhere but everywhere at the same time.

My theory was that these different feeling Particles were the different elements. And if I was not wrong the particles that were cool and smoothing of the doctor should be the particles of the life element.

My father should possess the Elements of fire, metal and darkness. My mother the elements of water, light and space.

I could feel some other elements too namely those of the, earth, wood, wind, lightning, time, death, fate, chaos and many others that were a mixture of the above. For example water and wind would become ice.

But back to the present.

As the Mana strands of my parents explored my tiny body I could feel as they suddenly paused when they reached my Magic Core, that seemed to have grown since the last time I had concentrated on it.

The next instant both my parents withdrew their senses and had stunned looks on their faces.

„His Magic Core is a Supreme Orange Grade one."

„And it contains every Element that I know exist. And even many that I had no idea existed."

Both looked in the eyes of each other and could see the surprise in them. And as they were still in a stupor the doctor took a few steps forward to stand in front of me and my parents again.

„Exactly! The prince is a genius! No, the word genius is not even enough to describe the amount of talent he has. He is simply a Monster! Even for us Dragonkin it is rare for a baby to be born with a Middle Orange Magic Core. But not only is the prince born with a Supreme Orange Magic Core but he seemed to have an affinity to every us known Element, and even with those obscure mixed elements. Now I know why the madam had no health problems too. As you know the impurity's that I talked about were simply the Mana particles of the elements one had no affinity for,but since the prince has an affinity for every element these impurity's are simply not impurity's but normal Mana particles, he can absorb freely. If I am allowed to make a suggestion, I would like for Your Majesty to use your ability [Advanced Appraisal] on the prince, maybe he holds more surprises for us."

My father came out of his shock with the words of the doctor as he nodded his head and looked at me.

„[Advanced Appraisal]"