the barons hospitality (7)

not only Annabel and Gill yelled up in surprise also Jeff and Oliver the so far silent twins also yelled out in disbelief as suddenly 4 pairs of eyes filled with gratitude and respect was gathered on Mars

'this feels kind of nice but...'

Mars gave a slight smile before he spoke with a tone that contained slight killing intent

"I would prefer if all of you kept silent about this"

the nearby servants shook, but the knights and the baron couple kept their cool in the face of Mars's killing intent

'I would be annoying if people from all over came running, begging me to heal them after all...'

Mars looked around at the people in the room just to drive the point home before he let up on the killing intent

"oh, also Reimund have asked me to train you guys tomorrow so see you then"

Mars, not feeling social stood up and walked out off the room and into the hall

'now to find the store room...'

Mars asked some servants and found the way to the store room where he picked out some 10 kilograms of raw meat which he carried out into the garden

"Victoria are you here?"

"I'm... over here"

Mars looked around and saw Victoria was laying in between some flowerbeds like Irene had said and walked over to her

"you hungry?"

Victoria's eyes snapped open and she looked at the meat Mars had brought with hungry eyes before her horns flashed

"yes... very hungry"

"that's good, this is all for you"

Mars and the eager Victoria walked over to a tree where Mars sat down leaning his back against the trunk before he summoned his flame and began to roast some meat for Victoria

"Mars..."

"hmm...?"

"are... we not... going to... do... anything about... that?"

"oh 'that'.... hmm, not for the time being I want to see what they do first"

"okay..."

Mars took a peek in the direction where he felt the cold glance form earlier in the day that still seemed to be following him

'but Victoria is right, it's starting to get annoying... should I kill them real quick?'

Mars sat for a time and thought about whether it was worth it to hunt down the source of the cold glance when Elsa showed up

"I have come to guide you to your room"

Mars looked up at her and saw that even though she was working there was a glint off happiness in her eyes that made him show a playful smile

"sure lead the way"

Elsa also gave a smile before she gave a light bow and gestured

"right this way dear guest"

Mars and Victoria followed after Elsa into the mansion and up to the 2nd floor where she opened a door and went into a room

"this is... nice"

Mars looked around in the room, besides the comfy looking bed there was also a writing table with a chair, the room also had a big window overlooking town, his sword and backpack had also been brought to the room

"yes dear guest is after all a guest of a baron"

Mars gave a smile and asked with a 'pure and righteous' look on his face

"does the barons hospitality come with a personal maid?"

Elsa gave a slime and turned around and left the room with her tail slightly wagging

"oh well, it was worth a shot"

"what...was?"

Mars looked over and saw Victoria was standing on the bed frame and pressing down on the mattress with her paws, seemingly in wonder of the softness she felt

"I will tell you when your older"

"okay..."

"well then... status"

Name: Mars

Age: 0 (vessel 5220)

Race: Half-dragon human

Titles: [Living god of energy] [Conquer of Salen] [Tyrant King] [5000 year prisoner] [Man that fell from the sky] [Contracted]

Class: [Energy]

Class level: 19

Status points:

Strength [21/1000] Constitution [41/2000] Dexterity [32/1500]

Intelligence [19/600] Wisdom [32/900] Charisma [23/50]

Active skills: [Dragon-flame magic lv 5] [Swordsmanship lv 4] [Shadow magic lv 2] [Demon dreaming lv 1] (new)

Class skills: [Energy: absorption] [Energy storage: 656/1900] [Energy: discharge]

[Energy: upgrade shop] [Energy: information] [Energy: restoration] [Energy: healing] [Energy: absorb shield] [Energy: reactive shield] [Energy: basic reinforced storage]

Passive skills: [Fire resist lv 15] [Commanding lv 3] [Mental reinforcement lv 5] [Pain resist lv 5]

"well not much have changed here... well besides the [Demon dreaming] skill... this must be the skill Info mentioned "

Mars looked over his status and saw his energy was running a little low and walked over to his backpack and pulled out the leather pouch with all his cores and coins inside

"now let's see, 1 class 9 core, 6 class 6 cores, 1 class 4 core, 8 class 3 cores and 2 class 1 core... for a total off 2532 energy units..."

Mars gave a nod satisfied with his current stash of cores and decided to level up his class to level 20 and ate the 6 class 6 cores and the one class 4 core which brought his total energy units up to 1906 energy units

"open the upgrade shop"

as Mars willed it the half transparent words making up his status changed to the upgrade shop

[Energy: upgrade shop]

[Energy] class skill level up price: 1900

[Energy: basic drain touch] price: 1500

"what did the drain touch do again?"

as Mars willed it his [Energy: information] skill activated and showed the information about the skill

[Energy: basic drain touch]

use cost: none

status: locked

function: upon activation [Energy: basic drain touch] will slowly drain mana and thermal energy from a target in direct contact with the users hands, converting the drained energy and mana to energy units

"hmm... unlock [Energy: basic drain touch]"

there was only 1 reason Mars unlocked the drain touch, he was to dependent on magic beast cores so he felt like it was an good investment to unlock the [Energy: basic drain touch] and soon felt the energy units being drained from his body leaving 406 units in his storage as the skill got implanted in his brain

"okay, now to level up..."

Mars quickly ate the remaining cores

"status"

Name: Mars

Age: 0 (vessel 5220)

Race: Half-dragon human

Titles: [Living god of energy] [Conquer of Salen] [Tyrant King] [5000 year prisoner] [Man that fell from the sky] [Contracted]

Class: [Energy]

Class level: 19

Status points:

Strength [25/1000] (up) Constitution [51/2000] (up) Dexterity [36/1500] (up)

Intelligence [27/600] (up) Wisdom [40/900] (up) Charisma [27/50] (up)

Active skills: [Dragon-flame magic lv 5] [Swordsmanship lv 4] [Shadow magic lv 2] [Demon dreaming lv 1]

Class skills: [Energy: absorption] [Energy storage: 1738/1900] [Energy: discharge]

[Energy: upgrade shop] [Energy: information] [Energy: restoration] [Energy: healing] [Energy: absorb shield] [Energy: reactive shield] [Energy: basic reinforced storage] [Energy basic drain touch]

Passive skills: [Fire resist lv 15] [Commanding lv 3] [Mental reinforcement lv 5] [Pain resist lv 5]

"wait a second..."

Mars stared at his 1738 energy units and fell silent before calculating and found that the number was right

"well then.... never mind leveling up"

Mars laid down on the bed and felt a little defeated but also hopeful towards his new skills potential before he reached up and pressed a switch that turned off the lights in the room

"...wait a second"

Mars sat back up in his bed and flicked the switch again and sure enough the lights turned back on

"is this magic...?"

Mars stood up from his bed again and walked over to a the small light that stood on the table and turned it on by flicking a small switch and closed his eyes to feel

'there is some kind of energy moving in the lamp... but it's not mana, even though it feels much like it...well whatever'

Mars opened his eyes again and turned off the lamp and sat back down on the bed where Victoria was already snoring slightly

'let's just ask about it tomorrow...'

Mars quickly stripped and laid down under the blankets where he quietly circulated his mana activating the [Demon dreaming] and soon feel asleep and started to dream

"Mars..... Mars wake up"

"just a few more minutes...."

"oh no you don't young man!"

"oh shit!"

Mars feeling danger quickly jumped out off the bed and heard a 'thump' behind him and opened his sleepy eyes and saw a man with short black hair had just delivered a heel kick to his pillow, the man was about 2 meters high and had a near perfect build with big, but not too big muscles covering his entire body, he wore casual clothes and a homely white 'worlds best dad' apron

"what the fuck dad!?"

"HA-HA-HA just as I would expect from my son, you sure dodge well!"

Mars was speechless but gave a sigh before he greeted his dad

"good morning dad"

"and a good morning it is! you remember the old server I brought home yesterday?"

Mars lit up, his sleepiness disappeared

"did you find something good?"

"I sure did my son and it's old, way back form the early information age I think"

"that's amazing dad!"

"HA-HA-HA you can praise me more son! you kno---"

"DEAR! cut the crap or you will make Mars late!"

"y-yes dear..."

Mars's dad looked slightly defeated but still whispered to his son

"I will show it to you later"

"okay dad... wait what is this?"

Mars finely discovered something wrong as his consciousness started to blur before he blacked out