“Adorable Adria is hungry” this is a problem. My perfectly beautiful Adria is hungry… I should get her something before she thinks of eating me. Ok, actually you know what let’s activate plan Adria brainwashing plan C.

Haha, I bet you are curious about plan A and B. Plan A was whispering into her ear when she was sleeping and it overwhelmingly not effective at all. Plan B was to hire a dog trainer and go from there but… she ate the dog trainer plus it’s not really something that I can ask for. So hey I have this little girl do you think you could train her into a loyal pet oh and she has the habit of eating people so be careful. See it doesn’t really work so it’s plan C which is? What was it again?

See this is why I need someone else as a secretary or something so I can remember things like these.

Oh well, I will wing it. “ Adria come with me.”

“ Are we going to get something to eat?”

“... maybe depends on your performance.”

Adrian's face became serious and his eyes showed determination to die.

I told her to stop and walked into another room and there sat Shasha. “ Shasha how goes the research?”

“ I hope to have the results… sometime this year.” She seemed really tense. Extremely so and she refused to make eye contact.

“ Oh, that’s faster than I expected congratulations.” She was looking at me funny after I said that but I closed the door with a “ Don’t disappoint me also if you need anything, anything at all ask Ren to get it for you tell him bad things will happen if he fails. Also, I am taking Adria out I am not sure when I will be back.”

“ Okay… Thank you-“ I close the door before she can finish.

I can tell already that it will probably be longer than a year before we see her give me any results and she probably knows it too. Of course, she must also realize that even if I promised to pay for her research just how expensive it really is and that my words don’t mean much without trust but trust is something built not obtained.

I take Adria out with me and we begin to climb the mountain and soon we reach a certain height after a few hours of travel where I don’t think it will be that easy to go any higher.

I then pull off my shirt and drop my pants. I turn to see Adria running away screaming about how she won’t let me put things in her butt.

Ahh I bet this looks really bad doesn’t it but I think I said it before that I despise the feeling that clothes give me.

So I bolt after her and tackle her. “ Don’t worry I won’t do anything to you… until your older and that’s a maybe. Ok”

“ Then!... Ok” she actually accepted my words so easily. I lean on and say “ You too will have to strip your clothes off.” She looks at me and I get up and she does as she’s told. Yep, I feel nothing looking at her. This is great I was a little worried I might be fucked up in the head when I had this idea.

“ So where is the food?” She asks me so full of innocence and I reply “ I am the food!”

She looks at me for a few minutes. I can see the gears turning in her head. “ Hey! You trick me!”

“ No, I didn’t I said it depends on your performance and that’s what I meant this is training. There is no food on this mountain and most importantly no people up this high. Meaning what? If you don’t want to starve all you have to do is keep taking bites out of me every now and then don’t worry about me I will be fine even with a few months without but my combat abilities will drop and eventually I will be weak enough for you to start biting me.”

“ You might be fine with a few months without food but I won’t!”

“ Oh, but you will. See there are two parts to this training. The first is that you to survive will need to use your power of time manipulation to stop your aging and then stop your body from needing more energy! and at the same time, you and I will be sparing, although lightly and without blades, you will have amazing endurance after this and think back to that town. When the guards cornered you was it because they were strong?”

“ No. It was because I got tired! So then with this,, I won’t get tired or hungry or I can hunt for more food.”

“ Well, …Yep!”

“ Ok!”

Ahhh good little girl. I punch Adria in the face breaking her nose and knocking her out.

“ Ops… I look to the east. I see so it has begun has it Kung?”

******

“ Your majesty King Lllimitar Ralolen the third and his right-hand lady Gorre Tragolor, his lordship duke Ryul of the Panels family's wishes and audience.”

A young grey-haired man sat upon a throne. His most notable feature was his long ears that stretched out past his shoulders. He wore a red and white robe of extremely high-quality materials.

The right hand Gorre Tragolor was an older woman who had acted as a mother for the young king since he was small and was allowed to give her opinion on matters of state at times where she felt that it was of use to the king. She was mostly forgotten and dismissed by all but the king and a select few who knew of her true identity as a king class mage.

They were sitting in this amazing hall and then the king looked around and all his surroundings came to attention as they knew that if they shoes even the slightest weakness before the man who was about to enter than he would surely use it.

As duke Ryul of the Panelis family was on the surface the king's most trusted ally in truth he was the leader of the anti-King fraction.