I groggily woke up and when I did I couldn't help but try to move my arms to stretch like I normally would do, only to find my arms were trapped. When my vision cleared and I looked down, there I saw something amazing- a completely naked Victoria using my left arm as a pillow and she had my right arm trapped between her breasts.

In that moment the entirety of last nights events raced back into my mind.

‘Hmm, it seems my lust really was increased, just like that skill said. It really was difficult to control myself even the first time we did it, and I don't really remember other times we did it….what the hell? I drank her blood? Like I thought last night, I really have been changed even deeper than what the skills say.’

“Mmm, Master? Do you want to go again?” It seems I’d been unconsciously massaging her breast with my hand.

“Erm, no,” I replied while regretfully forcing myself to let go of her breast, “ I still have a lot of things to do today and if we go again right now, I have no doubt in my mind we won't stop until tomorrow…..Thank you again Victoria, you managed to set my mind at ease. Don't doubt what I said, you are very special to me.” As I said that, I bent over and gave her a quick kiss before disentangling my limbs from her so I could head over and clean myself in the bathroom.

When I built Imperial Silver, I embedded many Elemental stones and enchantments into the already exceedingly valuable base material, allowing my castle to have many of the functions a modern home would have, for example, I embedded Fire Elemental stones all throughout the castle, and then I weaved an enchantment that would passively gather manas in set amounts between the stones which would allow anybody to adjust the temperature of the castle anywhere within it. I also did the same with Light Elemental stones, allowing me to turn on and off the lights. However, I think the most useful work is when I added water element stones and fire element stones allowing us to have heated showers, as well as running tap water and toilets. Ah, that brings me back. I had to study for hours just so I could reproduce piping and working toilets. It's. honestly rather amazing what modern infrastructure and magic combined can achieve.

Anyways, as I cleaned myself of the various juices and fumes that shall not be named, I came up with a plan for today. First, I’d kiss Victoria goodbye, and then I would head to the training grounds where I would proceed to gain some of the most basic yet helpful skills, and then I would power level my mana manipulation until I had at least a base degree of control over my mana, and then I would refine and build my mana core.

I suppose I should touch upon the subject of what exactly a mana core is. You can think of it as an orb made of crystallized mana that resides in a separate dimension. When we use mana, we aren't using the crystallized mana, what we use is the mana collected within it. You see, a mana core functions as a sieve that catches mana run off from the ether flow of the universe, at least that's what my experiments when I was researching my immortality magic led me to believe, although I’m still not quite sure what the Ether flow actually is. What I found is that, while there is mana in our dimension, it contains way to many impurities for any self respecting mage to use, which is why we use the other dimension to create our mana cores. The other dimension has many times more mana than our dimension, allowing us to refine the impurities out and still possess a great deal of mana for our usage. The difference between pure and impure mana is the same as the difference between firewood and gunpowder. When we construct our mana cores, it takes large a large amount of mana to crystallize even a little bit, and the better we construct it, and the purer we make it, the more mana it can hold.

The way we draw mana from our mana core is through the use of the magic circuits every race naturally possess. Magic circuits are naturally frail, but over time, as more mana is passed through them, they naturally strengthen. Mana cores can theoretically grow indefinitely, however any core over the size of a mountain becomes redundant as magic circuits determine the amount of mana you can use at any given time. I suppose an example of this would be a tub of water and a drain. No matter how large the amount of water is inside of the tub, the amount of water that can come out at any given time is determined by the size of the drain. Although a mana core can theoretically grow forever, not only does it become redundant after a certain size, it will also encounter a soft cap, a so called ‘racial limit.’ A racial limit could be considered the strain that the size of the mana core puts on the connection between the other dimension. The limit is decided by the quality of the body and how mana attuned it is. This can be seen in the fact that as a Vampire, I’m part of a high quality magic race which allows my base stats to be twice as high as a human’s, meaning my racial limit is also much higher. The limit only means out becomes much harder to increase the size of a mana core, it doesn't mean its impossible. The only way I’ve ever found of increasing the racial limit is through my unfinished Ascension Magic, which directly raises the quality of the body.

Still awake after my little explanation? No? Well I’ll continue without you regardless.

Continuing on, after I finished cleaning myself, I quickly dressed in a simple black shirt and pants. I left the bathroom and saw Victoria who was still lazing in bed glancing at me.

“As much as I’d love to let you continue lazing in bed, I really do need you to handle the logistics of Imperial Silver today. Your welcome to use my shower if you like, but please have some maids change the bed sheets when you leave. Again thank you, you really mean more to me than you know.”

As I said that, I kissed her and swiftly left the room, too embarrassed to continue facing her after saying that, even though I’ve basically accepted that I’m going too say stuff like that from now on. However, by doing so, I failed to see the tinge of happiness that colored her face.

*10 Minutes Later*

Whoo, I’d forgotten just how large Imperial Silver is as I used to just teleport everywhere I needed to go. It's been awhile since I just walked through my castle; I should do it more often, the castle is quite beautiful.

Anyways, after 10 minutes I finally managed to make my way to the training grounds where I could see Devi and Sylvia commanding the guards. I may have forgotten to mention it earlier, but I wrote into the character bio that Devi adopted Sylvia as a little sister as Sylvia had just been an orphan, that is why Sylvia and Devi always complete their tasks together. I usually tend to even forgo having them operate separately as Sylvia’s fighting style perfectly suits Devi.

I first intend to check out my newly released talent limiter, as it would really be a crime to not be able to use a weapon with my powerful body. I don't even need to be particularly proficient with a weapon or use any fancy fighting styles as my main weapon will still be magic, but it would be nice to be able to defend myself at close range; and if what my status said is true, then my non class talents that should normally be nonexistent should now be set as average, which isn't bad at all.

I walk over to the weapon rack and select a basket hilt longsword that would be fairly easy for me to learn. I remembered seeing how the various new close combat players would learn how to use a sword everytime I stopped by the guild to turn in quests. Me watching them learn is what led to me realizing that I would never be holding a sword with my character. My character is so biased towards magic that the one time I attempted to swing a sword at the guild, it somehow managed to leave my hand and embed itself in the wall across the room….less than an inch from the neck of a shaking, teary eyed receptionist who had just walked into the training hall. That day I managed to receive a firm talking to and also a thre- recommendation to never use a melee weapon. Well, that's all in the past.

I thought back to how I watched the instructors and moved my body into the same position as what they had said and gave a practice swing towards a straw dummy. I pulled my sword back gleefully at the fact that I managed to keep it in hand, and then came to a sad realization: even though I managed to hold it in my hand without nearly killing anybody, I wouldn't be making any progress with it in any short amount of time. When I first used magic, it felt incredibly intuitive and like I only had to will it to do what I wanted, but with the sword, it felt...foreign to me. Honestly, it could be compared to learning a new language, you know you’ll eventually be able to learn it, but for now it only feels incredibly clunky and different.

‘Haa, this is going to take more time than I have right now to make any sufficient progress. At least I know that I do have the possibility for melee combat in the future.’

‘Well, now I guess I should learn some of the basic skills I’m gonna need. I have to start somewhere. Let's see…..I suppose I could learn that fairly easy?’

Thinking of the first skill I want to learn, I bend over and find a fairly small pebble. I walk over to an empty archery lane and ready myself before taking aim at the center of the target and then pumping my arm forward and releasing my projectile. The small pebble bounces off the wood outside of the painted circle, nowhere even near where I aimed, but it is enough.

The skill Aim has been learned. You become slightly more accurate. +1 AGI

I could feel myself gaining a little bit more control over my actions. The reason I wanted to gain this skill is not only for the extra Agility or for its easy ability to train, but for the fact that it also helps improve the accuracy of my magic spells. For the next 15 minutes I continue gaining various base skills that are easily acquireable as long as you know how to get them, and are also very useful. By the end of my little skill-fest, this is what my status looked like.

Name: Roland Magnus

Titles: Lord of Imperial Silver,

Race: True Ancestor Vampire

Class: Ruler of Magic

HP: 210/210 MP: 100/100

STR: 13

AGI: 14

END: 21

INT: 14

WIS: 17

Skills:

Talent Restriction Removed: Lvl Max (All non class talents set at average)

Vampiric Urges: Lvl Max (Bloodthirst and Lust increased to fit your race. +10 END)

Night vision: Lvl Max (As a creature of the Night, the Night is as Daylight to you)

Sun Resistance: Lvl Max (As a True Ancestor, you don't fear the Sun +1 END)

Aim: Level 1 (You become more accurate +1 AGI)

Sprint: Level 1 (You are able to run at quick speeds +1 AGI +1 STR)

Bodily Control: Level 1 (You can control your body more easily +1 AGI)

Calculation: Level 1 (Your ability to use numbers +1 INT)

Art: Level 1 (Your ability to create +1 AGI +1 WIS)

Meditation: Level 1 (Your ability to clear your mind +2 WIS)

Bodybuilding: Level 1 (Muscles grow larger and denser +2 STR)

Parallel Thought: Level 1 (Ability to think of multiple things +1 INT +1 WIS)

Accelerated Thought: Level 1 ( Causes perception of time to slow at will +2 INT)

Higher Dimensional Thought: Level 1 (Ability to think in extra dimensions +3 WIS)

Normally skills shouldn't be gained this quickly, but I did things that encompassed the very essence of the skill, allowing me to gain them quickly. Most of the skills that I gained are pretty self evident about how and why I gained them, but some like art might require an explanation. I gained the art skill as its really useful in enchanting and drawing runes and magic circles; I gained Parallel thought by trying to think about multiple things and its pretty useful in constructing multiple spells at the same time. Accelerated thought was fairly easy, all I had to do was raise my concentration to the maximum and I was able to slow my perception of time down ever so slightly allowing me more time to process the flow of a fight and more time to create spells. Higher dimensional thought I actually went out of my way to acquire as its really useful in constructing 3 dimensional spells as well as later on in incredibly complex magics. All I had to do was visualize and draw various higher dimensional objects like a tesseract and a Mobius strip. All in all, a fairly good place to start growing my abilities from.

By this time, both Devi and Sylvia had noticed my presence and made their ways over to me. Devi stepped forward with a slight blush adorning her otherwise stoic face. Ahhh~ She must have been one of the ones who had listened to means Victoria last night. Should I tease the both of them? Sylvia has a blush too~ How bold my normally shy Sylvia is~

“Master, Sylvia and this one have put the guards on the highest alert and are now keeping the off duty guards warmed up just in case. Do you have any orders for us?”

“No, you have done splendidly. We’ll be calling another meeting when Lyra gets back to discuss our next move. Of course we’ll also discuss how naughty girls are punished when they peep on their master with a woman are treated~”

Seriously, could it be that this is like that anime Ov*erl*rd where my personality is being adjusted to fit my body? I'm certainly feeling much more sadistic. Ahh~ Devi-chan’s blush erupted just before bowing and then retreating away out of embarrassment. Hmm, she seems to have forgotten her sister ,who is frozen in shock, behind in her embarrassment. Should I also tease her a bit?

“Hmm? Is my cute little elf by any chance a little jealous that it wasn't her in Victoria's place last night? I think it could be arranged if you really want it that bad~”

Hahaha, her face is exactly the color of a tomato right now.

“.....ease.”

“Hmm?”

“...Please! I also want a turn! Big sis does to!”

Hohoho, who would have expected this? Who would have guessed that the shy elf would be so bold?

“Well, I’m certainly not saying no, but,” As I say this, I get closer to her before I hug her and quickly lick the tip of her long ear, “are you sure that's what you want? I know we've been together for a long time, but if we do that, you will be mine, and I certainly don’t like sharing.”

With steam essentially shooting out from her ears and crimson covering her face, she quickly mad an “...Un.” Sound before quickly running off to join her sister.

Seriously, what's happening to me at this point? I seem to be turning into the classic playboy vampire. Ah hell, nothing I can do except for what I can do. What's next?