Two months have passed after my first training session with miss Lazula. I have been training non-stop in these two months, allowing me to get a better understanding of the body-strengthening spells. I found out that I could stack each of the spells up to two times without getting any lasting negative effects. I can for example use a strength increasing spell which increases my strength 5 times as long as I can keep it active with my mana.

However if I stack this spell two times I can increase my strength 25 times. I however can’t stack the spell three times because that would bring lasting damage to my body. I can keep 1 stack active for half an hour before I run out of mana, two stacks can however only be kept active for 6 minutes. Also two stacks will make me feel exhausted after use and it always takes me half a day to recuperate. The same principle applies for the spell that increases my speed and the spell that increases my durability.

Increasing my proficiency in these spells was however not the most important thing that happened to me during these two months. The integration with the dragonic bloodline gave me unexpected problems. I didn’t feel anything in the first week that I acquired this bloodline. However the problems came when the true integration started. The initial fusion with the dragonic bloodline just made it possible for me to keep producing dragon essence blood in my body, but this blood had not really fully integrated with me yet. After a week’s time the dragon essence blood started to also influence my brain beside just my body.

The problem however is that dragons and humans are completely different races. It gave some really funky effects when emotions induced by the dragonic bloodline clashed with my human psyche. To give you an example of how bad it got, is when I accidently stomped on a rainbow beetle. You would expect me to not really care, but because I felt a bit sad of having stomped on such a beautiful beetle my emotions suddenly went haywire. You see this sadness got suddenly immensely amplified by the back then still unstable dragonic bloodline.

This sadness got amplified and blown out of proportion. I ended up crying for a half a day because I stomped on a beetle. I still feel embarrassed just thinking about it. Similar incidents kept happening at random times because of the instability of my bloodline. I heard for example that a rogue squad of angles attacked one of our border towns, I of course felt a bit angry that they killed innocent people without any remorse. Of course my unstable bloodline thought it was a good idea to amplify this anger to ridiculous levels inciting me to grab a sword and stomp my way to that border town and kill those angels. Luckily the princess saw this and managed to stop me from going haywire.

She had already given me an explanation in the first week after I acquired this bloodline, explaining to me that I would experience such effects. The problem was however that I’m 10% dragon unlike the royals that are 99% human and 1% dragon. Also the royals do the fusion at the age of 5 to prevent big accidents from happening. However I’m already 18 making it a lot more troublesome if I throw a fit. Combine this with a purer dragonic bloodline and you get the perfect blend for stupid things to happen. Luckily the princess seemed to have made it her job to look out for me during the time I was emotionally unstable to the point of insanity.

It took me a month and a half to calm down and stabilize my bloodline. While my emotions are still somewhat stronger now, it’s still in acceptable boundaries. I also managed to calm my emotions down a lot faster thanks to the 15% slime part in my body. You see, slimes have neutral emotions. That means that they neither experience negative or positive emotions. This neutrality that the slime part of my body provided helped me stabilize the emotions of my dragonic bloodline and was also what helped me survive those one and a half months of insanity. It seems that integrating with a bloodline is not all sunshine and happiness. It comes with a certain amount of risk of going insane in the process of the emotions of the bloodline and the emotional traits of your race fusing together.

I also did some research on my new traits I acquired after my ascension to rank 3 in my more clear moments. I managed to find out what one of them did. I researched the trait Bloodline integrator: Allows you to consume bloodlines and inher^$ù=ù==$=è(àà’”é(èàéç’. I found out that with this trait I can integrate with any bloodline and acquire traits from them. There is however one catch to it. The bloodline I want to integrate must be stronger than any other bloodline I already have.

A dragonic bloodline is however already one of the strongest bloodlines out there, making this trait next to useless. However the good thing about this trait is that I can use the essence blood of weaker bloodlines to strengthen the dragonic bloodline and make it more pure. By doing this I might be able to unlock more dragon based traits that I then will be able to use. Who knows, maybe I will be able to get firebreath someday, which is the strongest attack of a dragon. I already injected some lesser bloodlines and even thought nothing happened, I could still feel my dragon aura becoming somewhat stronger. This can only mean that my theory should be right.

I have also seen that the princess seemed to want to tell me something during these two months. Even though I didn’t notice it at first, I started to see that from time to time she was on the verge of telling me something but then seemed to change her mind at the last second while looking slightly vexed. When I talked one day with her about my parents and how I would show them that they made the wrong choice in abandoning me, the princess told me that I should not hold a grudge against my whole family.

Even though my EQ might not be the best (even though it got somewhat better because of the increased senses provided by my dragonic bloodline), my high IQ helped me understand that the thing that the princess wanted to tell me might be related to my family. I also understood how strange it was that I was able to study at the most prestigious school of the country. There was something fishy going on here, the royal family would not have allowed me to enter this school if not for someone’s interference. But I cannot afford to think about this right now, if I manage to pass the last test of the Elite Soul SchooI, I will be able to acquire a noble title for myself. This will give me enough authority to return home and solve any problems that might have occurred.

One day the princess seemed to have made up her mind and was about to tell me what was going on. But I stopped her. I know I might hate myself for this later on, but I need to first acquire a certain amount of authority before I can wantonly involve myself in the cesspool that is called politics. If I have no authority and only this measly amount of strength of a rank 3 soul augmentator, then I have no power to truly change anything. I know how unstable my emotions still are even after stabilizing myself to a certain extent. I can’t know for certain if I will be able to keep my wits about it if I hear what has been going on behind the scenes after I have been exiled out of my own family.

Even if I will hate myself for this later on, I know I should first acquire strength and political authority before I try to attempt anything. It’s better for now to focus on what I need. I also don’t want to further burden the princess after all the help she has given me. She first helped me keeping bullies at bay and later on helped me controlling my emotions. She taught me how to control and stabilize my dragonic bloodline. She helped me further my understanding of my spells by being my ever patient sparring partner. She is like a big sister I never had.

I could see with my measly EQ that she was suffering. She knew that telling me would bring me in danger and might even affect the country with how close the war is these days. I understand that she doesn’t want me to go haywire both for my safety and also for our currently unstable kingdom. She explained to me the current situation of the kingdom, so I know how bad it is right now. Since I can’t know for certain if I will be able to control myself with my still unstable emotions, I decided to help the princess and ask her to tell me after I became strong enough to take actions without harming the country. After telling her that, the tension disappeared. She seemed more happy and less depressed the last few weeks before our practical exam. I was happy too, seeing that I could help her with something for once. I wonder if this is how a real family feels like.

Suddenly our class stops marching and the princess nudges me in my sides.

“We have arrived!”, she whispers with an excited undertone to me. Her eyes are sparkling in anticipation.

I can see other classes with elves and beast people already waiting for us in front of the big forest. We have arrived at the practical exam!

Finally it’s time for me to truly see how strong I have become!