CHAPTER 28

CHAPTER 28

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Now that I got what I want, I can go out and explore the region, and most important part I can go into the secluded areas like mountains and forests to do magical experiments. The dimensional space is too small for the experiments, and if I'm right, I'm going to need a lot of herbs and animals for those experiments, and I can't find all of them in the Godswood. It is too small; most importantly, it is not secluded.

I got into my room and opened the window. Poe and Erebus come inside now. I look at them carefully. They grew a lot these two years. Erebus became two times its old size. Before, he had a wingspan of 1.5 meters ( 60 in ), but now it is close to 3 meters, his length was 50 cm ( 20 in ), and now it is around 80 cm ( 31 in ). People started to think he was a black eagle now.

Poe grew too, but not that much. She is bigger than normal ravens, but not that much. Her wingspan is around 2 meters ( 80 in ), and her length is around 60 cm ( 24 in ). She is almost eagle size too. They love standing on my shoulders while I meditate and circulate my mana, but they started to feel heavy on my shoulders. I think Erebus is almost 5 kg ( 11 lbs. ), and Poe is 3 kg ( 6.6 lbs. ).

Holding them for hours is starting to feel taxing on my shoulders. I shoo them away, but whenever I focus on meditating or mana circulation, they land on my shoulder without me realizing it. Even when I kick them out and lock the latch on the window, they are smart enough to unlock it. Of course, I can force them not to do that or enter the space without them, but when I do those things, they become really sad. I can feel that, so I spoil them a bit. What can I say? I like the brats.

I sit on the ground and start circulating my mana before becoming lost in my mana training. I feel them perching on my shoulders. This time the circulation is a bit different. Usually, it is like a vacuum cleaner. It sucks the mana to my heart, but this time it is like a vortex no, that is not entirely right. It is more like a storm, and I'm at the eye of the storm.

The mana keeps whirling around me without going inside my body, but with every passing second, there is more mana in the vortex. It keeps getting bigger and bigger; as it grows, it gets harder the control. I started to feel a bit of dread, like if I lost control of the mana, something bad was going to happen to me. The mana vortex starts to get unstable; it feels like I'm holding onto the ledge of a cliff with only my fingertips.

As the vortex becomes unstable, I start to lose consciousness. To not lose consciousness, I bite down on my lips. I can feel the blood running down my throat, leaving a bitter, iron-like taste. But it works. The pain helped me focus, and I started to regain control of the vortex.

As I gain more control, the vortex keeps getting compressed, and when I get full control of it, it becomes a disc of mana around me. Then it just dawns on me. I know what I have to do. I start compressing it more, but this time I compress its diameter too. At the end of it, it becomes a disc as big as my palm on top of my head.

I get a hold of it with my mind and command it to go to my heart. It darts into my chest and takes its place around my heart, creating my mana core. The second the core takes its shape; I start to get new knowledge about ritual concepts and spells. I have become a level 2 druid now. At that moment, I hear the voice of a little boy.

"Stupid Aermir, don't stop giving us the delicious wind."

And then I hear the voice of a little girl.

"Don't call daddy stupid. You are stupid."

"Who is that? Who said that?"

The boy said, "Did he just hear us." I realized I didn't hear the voices. The voices were coming to my head directly, and it was telepathic.

"Yes, I can hear you. Who is this?"

A/N: FROM NOW ON, İF SOMETHİNG İS BETWEEN (-) TWO DASHES, İT MEANS İT İS AN İNNER VOİCE OR TELEPATHİC.

- Stupid Aermir, I'm me. Who am I supposed to be other than me?-

-Daddy can finally hear us. I'm so happy.-

" You are stupid. I'm asking your name?"

-No, you are stupid, Aermir. I'm the smartest Erebus.-

Once I heard that, I turned around and looked at Erebus with a shocked face. I was able to communicate with them in more basic ways, and I knew they were as smart as 2 to 5 years old children in some aspects, but this is beyond that.

"Is this the effect of talk to animal spell? Did they learn to talk right now, or have I started to understand them now?"

-We always spoke stupidly Aermir didn't hear us before.-

"Who are you calling stupid, you overgrown fat bird."

He bit my ear and started flying away before I could catch him.

"Ahhh, come here, you asshole of a bird." I got up and chased him, but he flew out the window.

-Erebus, stop calling daddy stupid.-

-how is Erebus's father? He doesn't have a beak or wings. He doesn't even have beautiful feathers like Erebus. He is so ugly; I don't even want to look at him.-

-Daddy is the daddy- I knew Poe was a good girl, like I expected Erebus to be an asshole. Then she continued speaking.

- He might be so ugly, but he is still daddy. You shouldn't bully daddy.-

The corner of my mouth started to twitch. You as well, Brutus... Should I go to the corner of the room and cry?