Able Drake-

A cliffhanger unhanged

[Hello?] I heard inside my mind It was not my thoughts and didn't interact with my thoughts so I assumed it was safe and tried to send the message {Yes, I was just making it was safe to use the link} the drake looked around then at me, and I then heard [Is that you?] And I reacted by sending a message {Yes Drake} then I heard [What does making sure its safe mean?] I then said {Instincts aren't infallible} Then The drake said [Really?] I then said {Yes, like your instincts telling you not to go against me because I beat you even if I told you to sit still while I tried to kill you} The drake then said [oh, ok I wont listen to them any more] I then said {That's not what I meant, intincts have a reason to be. Its best not to trust them immediately before you test what the do. But their are skills like the saintess's "Caretaker of beast's" skill that manipulates the instincts of a wild beast that has not made a contract, when next to her} I pointed at the saintess {Don't trust anything your instincts tell you} The drake then said [okay, can I trust my current instincts?] I then said {The "Caretaker of beast's" skill activates through speach, has she ever said anything to you?} The drake said [no.] then I said {then you don't have to be afraid that she has manipulated your instincts}

[Then, what is your goal] The drake said, I then said {Why do you ask?} The drake then said [my instincts told me to] With me going with the flow I said {To be the sheppard of the populace on this continent, no to rule this measly continent as an emperor} Then the drake said [I mean the one that you've had your entire time alive and been following your entire life]

I was going to say 'that is my real goal' but then I understood what the drake meant, I thought 'why did endure everything in my old life?' after thinking about it there was one answer

{To reach the pinnacle}

When it heard That it made a pained expression and said [Please don't put so much conviction when saying stuff over the link, It hurts very badly] I then said {How do you even know what that means?} The drake then said [I just know what its called] then I said {Oh, thats good. I'll probably test the connection's features later} After half a minute the drake said [are we going to talk or-] I then told it {The first conversation usually takes half an hour to complete because monsters are very stubborn when they can get more out of something} [Oh] it said, it had the feeling of boredom with it {I can explain some stuff about my plans} The drake then said [better than nothing] then I said {Yep, now let's get started first: When I said I wanted to rule, I meant it. The idea is to rule, I thought that if I ruled I would be able to easily obtain the resources that I need. Also information will be readily available} I took some time to think what to tell the drake before I made the contract, I then knew what I wanted to say {For now I won't tell you much but I will say that skills have ways to gain more exp to how many actions you make, and you don't really need to use your skill seriously to gain exp, I don't really trust you with more without the contract, so lets talk about things you like} The drake then said [I like food and not starving] As you could guess it was very boring so after the 15th minute passed I had chosen to do the blood contract

{Its time for the blood contract} I said, Then thought 'I've already shown myself to be talented with beast and combat so I should double down on that' The drake then said [finally] It said with its inteligence of the avarage 13 year old. {I'll start then} I then bit my thumb without flinching, it bled a lot after getting used to where the blood was streaming. I put my hand there to collect the blood, when there was over 100 ml I called

"Blood contract, activate"

Then all the blood in my hand flew at the drake's head

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The drake-

Today was the day where I was going to be put to use, the use was someting about blood contracts and stuff. But the reason I was so excited was because I would be able to walk around outside the cages and pens, maybe go back into the "World labrinth". I don't know how I know how its name, I just knew. Even if it was as an attacker then an inhabitant, The atmosfere there just southed me.

After the human that has been taking care of me for the last 352 days, I was unleashed from that cage. I was overly exited for the first time in a while since I had complete freedom of movement and jumped out rightaway. Then all the humans had their inferior beasts called out, I thought of them like that because they were very stupid and had little INT from what I gathered when fighting other elements of drakes. I was never able to meet another beast with the same element as me. A female human made a loud noise that I didn't care much about like when the caretaker made a large noise, then I got a screen

You have been asked to start the "First conversation"

Do you accept?

Yes/No

I thought 'Yes'

A transparent bubble formed around me and the caretaker

I assumed the caretaker would take the initive to talk with it, I was pretty excited to understand its thought process but it didn't. It looked somewhere else and looked like it was investigating something. I was waiting for a couple moments I said {hello?} and then a 15 minute conversation begun. And I learned a lot like, not to trust its instincts unconditionally, there were many things.

(Pretty much what happened in able's perspective but in the drake's perspective)

And there was one thing I was able to notice easily over the last year, that the caretakere didn't trust something unless it was litteraly unable to betray it. When the 15 minutes were up, the caretaker bit its finger and let blood flow into its hand then said something I couldn't understand and the blood in his hand flew into my head and a screen appeared

Able drake has requested a "blood contract" to take place

Do you accept

Yes/No

I thought '"Able" so that's the caretaker's name' Before I choose yes I looked at my status

Race: lesser drake (Darkness) STR: 23

Mastery: strategy mastery, tracking mastery, claw mastery, jaw mastery, tail mastery, faint mastery

Skills: Stealth, Darkness affinity, Drakish scales, Assasination, Pressence consealment, Drakish roar, Drakish breath (Darkness)

Level: 23/50 AGI: 33 name: none END: 15 sex: male WIS : 5 Age: 3 years old INT: 7 HP: 93/93 (1.3/s) LCK: 10 MP: 40/40 (0.5/s) VIT: 13

perks: None

Titles: fear monger

I was still proud of getting "strategy mastery" with the help of the caretaker 30 days ago, I looked back at the first screen

Able drake has requested a "blood contract" to take place

Do you accept

Yes/No

And thought 'Yes' After that another screen appeared with some fanfare and trumpets

Congratulations!

You have become the blood beast of able drake

Due to becoming a blood beast your contractor will from now on chose your choices or veto your bad choices

Your contractor's orders are from now on absolute unless changed in the options

Then another screen appeared

You have been set a message by *REDACTED*

As the first follower of the chosen I hope you rise along side him

to Reach the pinnacle

I thought 'what?' while the care taker was doing something and the bubble slowly disapearing, my body started to move into a pose that looked 'majestic' for humans I know that because the caretaker said [Pose like this *Show's majestic pose* It is majestic for humans and shows power. Also lets start with starting orders, never do anything with malicious intent to myself unless allowed, never tell anything that I tell you through this link to others unless allowed, do not share any plans, secrets, techniques or tricks of mine unless allowed, and look like you are looking down on others and that your aggresive to others unless alowed to not be]

Then when the schock subsided I thought 'The caretaker's orders are now absolute? he can choose for me, that might be good for the uninteligent masses but not for me! I know now how the caretaker could trust me just after a contract' then I heard from the caretaker [Don't worry I won't take away your freedom, mostly. The current orders are for my ease so as to give you information without being able to tell others about it because of somthing like the saintess's "Caretaker of beast's" skill] {Not like I can break the contract anyways} I said

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Able Drake-

After The drake accepted the contract I got two notifications one about how I became a contractor, and the other from my status that I gained a blood beast but before looking at the drake's stats what was most important was {Pose like this *Show's majestic pose* It is majestic for humans and shows power. Also lets start with starting orders, never do anything with malicious intent to myself unless allowed, never tell anything that I tell you through this link to others unless allowed, do not share any plans, secrets, techniques or tricks of mine unless allowed, and look like you are looking down on others and that your aggresive to others unless alowed to not be} the bubble started to disapear and my father started to walk up along with the patriachs of the other 5 great houses. Lion, snake, bear, eagle, gorrila houses all the heirs of their houses the last one was xerxes while we shook hand he left something in my hands I instantly and discretely put it in my pocket without others notice and I gave him a slight smile for what I hoped was a "donation". After that I noticed the drake was out of shock I told it {Don't worry I won't take away your freedom, mostly. The current orders are for my ease so as to give you information without being able to tell others about it because of somthing like the saintess's "Caretaker of beast's" skill} [Not like I can break the contract anyways] The drake said

Then I was expected to make a speech, so I made one. "Hello I'm currently a bit delirious because of blood loss so, i'm don't feel sorry if I make a mistake and don't take anything out of this speech against me because. That's just dirty, and for the shameless. Ssssooo first off the list: the blood contract was a sucsess, hold your aplouse. second: the name, it doesn't have one yet I choose that it was better to take my time for it. Now i'm going now, wait another thing. No I won't allow the church inspect my blood beast, the reason? I don't trust the church, why do I not trust the church? Paranoia because my clossest friend when I was four years old, which was a servant. Turned out to be an assasin, So I have some seriously bad trust issuses. Oh yea if any one of you get's my blood beast to take an apraisal even if your my father or ancestor that has somehow been able to not die of old age secretly away from the drake house, I will do my best to do everything in my power to kill you." I said the last part coldly then I walked and told the drake to follow me. after a good nights rest we went by carraige back to our mansion in heigel the city where I've lived in for my intire life before coming to the capital

At that moment I looked at the "donation" of xerxes, it was a letter with a stone first I looked at the letter and it was really long but in a nutshell it says he hopes that he and I will work and be friends in the impirial collage, and that the stone is a transmition stone that goes two ways but only works on saterday 20:00 when I inspected the stone it said

Two way transmition stone

-only useable at saterday 20:00-21:00

-durability 1000/1000 *activation= - 1 durability*

i'll try it next saterday, today is Monday

an undetermened amount of time later-

I arrived home, ate then went to bed. But my room was changed, It was enormous. Apperantly now The drake was going to live in the same room from now on, at least I had no problem right now. I was probably to tired from blood loss or lack of sleep because the drake kept asking thing while it walked next to the caraige

At that moment I noticed that there was an enormous gate at one side of the room, and then realized with the path we walked the direction of that gate would go to the pen of the drake. So first I ordered someone to open the gate when it opened I saw the drake, I yelled at it in the link {Drake!} It then responded with [Caretaker] then I said come over to the gate that just opened, it then came and I then said {You and I are going to sleep in this place now} It then said [ok] I told it {Explore it if you want to, I don't care i'm going to sleep} I ordered a servant to lower the gate, when I saw they were completely done I told them to leave and wake me up tomorrow at 7:00