Generous King

Picking the lock on Pied Pipers door took less than a second for me and I just strolled inside. The guy was a hippie and he lived like one as well. The place smelled like pot and ass. I had nothing against pot, it never hurt anyone. I just didn't like hippies and smelling ass. The Flash poster on the wall made me chuckle, until I saw the drawings of flash in odd positions and the flash body pillow with obscene things around it. I quickly adverted my hetero eyes before I went blind. I wasn't one to knock another persons interest, it just wasn't my interest.

Looking at the calendar on the wall, I saw today circled with 'Slaughterhouse Protest 10am'. It was currently 11:00am so I got here at a decent time. It was a studio apartment so I found his costume and flute right away. Of course they were not placed neatly anywhere, but simply thrown on the floor next to an open pizza box with old pizza still in it. A roach on one of the pizzas was even waving 'hi' to me.

I waved back out of politeness before grabbing the flute and then beaming to my house. First I cleaned the flute, because another mans mouth had slobbered all over it and it was sitting in a gross apartment. Then I imbued it with healing powers from the magical instrument section of the systems shop. The trigger for the healing to start would be the song of healing.

I was left with 20,000c after. It was pricey, but I felt it was a good investment. I put the flute into the vault. I planned for it to sit inside the vault until I felt Mayank was ready for it. Until then I had bought a 100c non magical flute from the system that he could practice with.

Weeks passed by and then months and a few things had happened during that time. Wonder woman had gone to visit home and had a fight with Felix Faust. The league including myself had found his house with all it's magical items inside, which i doubled back to later without the league and grabbed up a number of magical artifacts which I placed within my vault. I had no problem stealing from bad guys and would probably continue to do so in the future.

After five months, Mayank finally died in the holodeck. I was quite proud of him. He survived through quite a lot for a long while with nothing but his bare hands and wits. When the simulation ended, Mayank had eyes that looked like he had seen the worst in life and seemed paranoid of everything around him. It took a whole extra week to convince him he was no longer in danger and for him to somewhat readapt to the regular world again.

I felt bad, so I decked out his room and gave him his new flute right away instead of waiting. I gave it as a gift for getting through the training. The moment I handed the flute to Mayark a system notification popped up.

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Host's first musical apprentice:

Reward: 100,000c

Host has Unlocked a new title:

'Generous Teacher'

Host has a disciple in both music and martial arts, title upgraded:

'Generous Master'

Host is Royalty with subjects, title upgraded:

'Generous King'

Title Perks: Can bestow one random power to a total of 5 loyal subjects. Cannot be bestowed on anyone outside of your territory. If a subject rebels against his King, the power will be stripped from them and you can move that power to a new subject. A good chance at a better power if the subject is also the Kings student. No powers that can harm the subject will be given and the subject will have full understanding of the power once it's bestowed as if they had always had the power. Host has a minor influence on what random power is given.

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The new coins were nice, but the title was even nicer. I hadn't expected anything like this when I had decided to take on a disciple or gift him with a flute. Sure, it didn't really do anything for me, but having stronger disciples is of course a plus.

After receiving the flute Mayank noticed my attention was on something else. "Master, what's wrong? Did I do something?"

I smiled down at my sweet disciple. "No, you have done nothing wrong, I wouldn't be bestowing you with two gifts today if that were the case".

"Two"? asked Mayank.

I nodded my head. "Yes two, don't get too excited though, your main training starts today, I expect great things from you. Now come over here and let me bestow a power onto you."

Although Mayank had gone through a few months of hell, he knew his teacher only put him through it to make him stronger and that his teacher was a good man that spoiled him every chance he got. He had no doubts that what his teacher said was true. This was the Hero of Moonlight City that changed the city greatly in one night on a whim. The man who could bring back the dead and in his opinion, a lot cooler than any other hero. If he said he was going to bestow power onto him, he believed his teacher.

Mayank walked up to his teacher and knelt in front of him, it was a natural action. Not long after, his teacher touched his forehead and Mayank felt a change within him. Instantly understanding the power, he was excited to try it out.

The system had notified me of Mayank's new power. I had tried wishing for him to have invulnerability, but instead he got 'Fairy Summoning magic'. My influence must be very minor.

"Try using your new power in the holodeck Mayank, let's start your first training now"

We walked to the holodeck and I instructed the computer to have Raven as his enemy. Considering he didn't know how to play the flute yet, his new power and his survival skills will be the only things in his arsenal against her.

I backed away and watched from the sidelines as Raven attacked first by sending out a wave of dark black energy towards Mayank, which he dodged, before using his own power.

A number of glowing orange lights flashed around Mayank before showing their true form.

The 20 or so fairies he summoned were grotesque tiny naked creatures with pointy teeth and claws. Not all of the fairies were the same either, some of them had pot bellies, some carried tiny daggers, and some even wore hats that resembled the hats you would see a witch or warlock wear. The fairies all glowed with the orange light of my system.

Raven flew up into the air and sent a a soul projection towards Mayank. He was about to dodge until he realized it wasn't needed. 5 of the fairies sprung into action and created a forcefield around him, the other fairies headed towards the soul projection and then started eating the magic. They didn't stop there, but also went towards Raven herself and started tearing away at her flesh, eating it like they had done to the magic. Mayank couldn't stomach watching the scene and commanded the fairies. "Stop!"

The fairies hearing the command growled and seemed angry, but they stopped eating and rejoined Mayank. Leaving ravens guts on display.

'What a disgusting power, I love it' I thought. I couldn't help but smile, It seems I did influence his power a bit. It wasn't invulnerability, but the fairies could create shields to protect him from danger. I had no idea how strong the forcefield was, but with time we would figure that out. I wanted to see him use his flute as soon as possible, so after he tested out his power a few more times, I planned to have him do flute lessons for the rest of the day.