Steel dragons are similar in temperament to bronze dragons, aside from having an unyielding desire to craft the arms and armor for war. Their instinctual magics revolve around the manipulation of metal and fire. They care little over the size of their territory so long as it has the materials and infrastructure to allow them to continue in whatever their chosen crafts are. They are the most common dragon to make alliances with the civilized races openly or under disguise.

Adrian

I’m not sure what is taking Bryan so long after his ritual reached its pinnacle, the shadows of the room stretching and converging around the body of my friend and where I assume his spirit is.

After what feels like hours, the draining of the life in the body of my friend ceases. He is breathing and there doesn’t seem to be anything wrong with him except that he does not do anything save breathe even though he is not asleep. The shadows retreat as the ultraviolet lights of the circle dims. His spell has ended but something is not right, I walk over to my friend and start examining it in every kind of perception that I have used before.

I find nothing amiss aside from the lack of my friend making any actions, there are no entities of positive or negative energy in the room save for myself and my friend’s still living body. What could have gone wrong? Nothing is wrong with the body, nothing different aside from the swirling of darkness which I assume is an effect of building a connection to shadows.

I can feel a chill, something unnatural. What could have gone wrong other than an effect on the body? The only other part is something going wrong with the spirit part of the ritual. I look around as I pull on the Sphere of Soul as I try to figure out how to sense the spirit. I bound Lykou to me and that is harder to do than sensing.

It does not take long for me to figure it out, the similarity to sensing life and death suprises me. I ignore the wisps scattered around the room as I focus on what I can only assume is my friend as the semitransparent figure is the splitting image of him.

“Bryan?” I ask looking straight at him.

He responds after a moment, surprised by me talking to him.

“You can see me now?”

“For now, what went wrong?”

“I couldn’t reestablish the connection to my body.”

“Prove to me that you’re Bryan.”

“Really Adrian, you’re going to make me prove who I am?”

“Yes, you could be a demon spirit after all, trying to trick me.”

“Fine, fair enough. So how do you want me to prove it? Answering questions?”

“Just tell me a few things only you would know.”

“You cheat at games including dice. You have no idea how to actually use mana. Your favorite class was your PE Aerobics class because you were the . . .”

“Alright, enough I believe you. Other than failing to reforge the connection to your body did anything else go wrong?”

“No, that’s the only part that failed. I would have already dissipated otherwise.”

“Don’t resist” I say as I put forwards my right hand and create chains to bind souls. He never died so this should work.

Bryan screams as the chains pass through him before they drag him back where he should be, towards his own body. They wrap around him but rather than enter his body the two are just pressed against each other. I frown, this is not what I want. I want them to merge like dragon-me and I did not Lykou.

I can feel the resistance, the dissonance between the two. This won’t work, the body would be a puppet and not Bryan; the chains don’t get rid of the resistance between the two. The chains fade as I try to force the two to force the two to superimpose, pulling on more Spheres at once than I ever had before.

I begin to space out as I struggle to push reality. Tension builds as reality pushes back, and everything goes blurry. I keep pushing, refusing to accept the loss of another friend. I hear breaking glass as if a window was shattered into hundreds of pieces as what I see does the same.

I stand in an empty void, thousands of symbols form and dissipate as I stand confused. What is going on? Where did everything go?

“Where am I?”

“Nowhere, and at the very same time everywhere” I hear as me-but-not-me comes out of nowhere in front of me.

“Why did you bring me here?”

“I didn’t.”

“Then why am I here.”

“You are realizing something about how to manipulate our power."

“And what would that be?”

Me-but-not-me gestures to the symbols that surround us, “you tell me.”

I look at the symbols and they just keep appearing and disappearing.

“That some Spheres are connected? parts of other larger Spheres; but that can’t be right, isn’t everything its own thing?”

“Why? You change reality according to how you understand concepts. Why can’t a one concept be included in another. There is more than a single way to explain anything."

I can’t help but nod, her logic is good.

“Anything else, or can I go back to saving my friend’s life?”

“Just this” me-but-not-me touches my forehead, images of the birth, life and death of many people. Every one of them a mage with more raw potential than the previous. With each birth, something connects to them and moves onto another at death, stronger than it was before.

After a time no new mages were being born, and the something had to wait. A long wait, longer than any other ended with a single opportunity, but the new mage wasn't like the others. It had reptilian deformities. Something it and the other somethings always avoided bonding to.

The something hesitated before entering and becoming part of the humanoid reptile as it had with previous hosts; even as its scales darken.

“What was that” I ask, but me-but-not-me only smiles before whatever this is shatters the same way that I got here; only now I am lying on my back.

I glance around and see Bryan sitting up and holding his head as if he had a headache. I feel a bit different than normal, a slight headache but more confused at whatever it was that me-but-not-me showed me at the end. What happened here though? What did I do?

“What? How?” I hear Bryan ask.

I shrug my shoulders when he looks over to me, “I don’t remember, I passed out.”

Bryan lends me a hand up, and the two of us take a quick look around the room to find nothing out of place.

“You’re going to have to tell me what you managed to get out of this” I say and Bryan nods.

Once we get to the front room, Abagail and K are sitting there waiting for us.

“What took so long?” Abagail asked.

“You’re on your own for this one” I mutter towards Bryan.

“I wanted Adrian’s help with something in case it went wrong” Bryan answers.

I walk over to K as Abagail pulls Bryan away. K smiles and starts to slowly walk away with a sway in her hips, “feeling better” she asks.

“A bit” I answer as I follow her down a hall to another room.

SC

K gives me a kiss as she pulls us into the room, unlike last night I return it. I slip one of my hands under her shirt and press her against the wall.

Her own hands mirror my actions as I close the door behind me with my foot. I am not sure if I tried to take off K's shirt first or if she tried to take off mine. Either way both are now on the floor and I smile at the sight that bounces gently before me.

K replaced the strip of cloth with a red bra and while it does look great on her the color would be better on the twins with their red hair. I take a step back and watch as K removes the bra.

Once she finishes, she grabs my hand and pulls me towards the bed. The two beds of the room having been pushed together, Lysan and Talia asleep on one side. They are in nightshirts and the blanket over them does not cover much. The shirts seem disappointing to me, maybe if they were my shirts. . .

The question of how long I spend helping Bryan passes through my mind for an instant as K has us sit on the edge of the bed. I begin playing with her boobs, the firm softness just too good for me not to do something.

K begins to pull my belt off but finds some trouble in finishing the action as I push her down on the bed to kiss and suck on her chest. She humors me for a while but I know she would rather have me porking her as hard as I can. I like her boobs more than she likes me playing with them. . .

After a few short minutes I pull back, my spit catching what little moonlight coming through the cracked window. My pants fall, K having long removed my belt and I stand before her in no more than socks and an underwear tent.

I pull on her pants as she very willingly moves to make it easy for me to strip her. There is a glint of animalistic desire in her eyes as she stared at my crotch. She then sits up and pulls off a pair of black panties, the released smell of her arousal brings a twitch to the tent on my hips.

Not taking my eyes off K I ditch the last of my clothing, making sure to let my boxers land next to her. K jumps and I catch her, a little higher and I might have been able to slide into her but I content myself with the feeling of being pressed against her slit.

She growls and I make us fall on to the bed. I line myself up and slide into her, enjoying the warmth as her walls wrap around me. We both let out a light groan at the sensation before she like always tries to take the lead and roll us over.

For once I let her but make sure the roll continues until she is on her back again. It was a partial mistake as we now take up part of the bed already occupied by the twins but I don’t immediately notice that. I thrust into K hard and growl “mine” into her ear.

Her legs wrap around my waist as I start plowing away. Her exclamations only serving to let me know just how much she likes it hard and fast. Even if she is trying to hold back a bit to not wake the elves.

Just as she begins to claw on my back I bite her ear. Her scream echoes in my ears and becomes so tight I barely manage to thrust hard enough to strike her deepest depths. I groan into her ear as I dye her in my color.

The elves bolt up but I wouldn’t have noticed it if their movements hadn’t shaken the bed. I let go of K's ear and give it a lick as the movements of her walls pull a few more drops from me.

After the moment for us to catch our breaths I look at the two elves upset from being woken up by K screaming in their ears. I give the two of them a grin, “sex?” I say hoping that it will work as an apology and that I can have them tonight.

“Did you wake us up just for that?” Talia asks as I unconsciously start thrusting into K again.

“Accidently but I was going to. . .” I say before Lysan cuts me off with a kiss.

After the kiss she whispers “you can have me even if I’m asleep” to me.

Talia says something else but other than it was a yes for tonight I forget it as K pulls my head down and kisses me before thrusting upwards spurring me to mess her insides up some more.

Something I have no problem with at all. She struggles a little to get me to keep her pinned and I cycle between biting and growling in her ear after each attempt from her to take charge. Each time she cums a tiny bit and I get closer to repeating what I just did to her. I don’t understand it but she loves this ear stuff.

Soon she let’s out another scream as she climaxes, this time I wait a second before biting her other ear and stop holding in another flood of white dye for her inner walls.

I feel K completely relax as I pull out of her. I smile as I think I’ve found what she finds most satisfying even if I think it’s more than a little weird.

“Are you planning on being that rough with us?” I hear Talia ask as the draft in the room brings a slight chill to my length covered in a mix of K and my fluids. The shirts the twins had on are now on the floor, naked elven beauty in open view to my eyes.

“Only of that’s what you want” I answer and she smiles. I don’t think she would handle what I just did to K very well.

I pull Talia towards me and give her a passionate kiss while one of my hands check how wet she is. Wet enough, I smile as I push her onto her back but before I finish lining myself up she tries to roll us over. Unlike K who does this to have a fake struggle I don’t think Talia wants me to force her to be on the bottom.

I let her roll us over see us stop with my tip just poking her slit. Talia has one arm helping her balance on my belly, she slowly lowers herself. Her pedals spread as I enter and a growing bulge forms as she stretches to accommodate my size.

I watch as Talia’s breasts bounce and the bump formed from how much of me is in her grows and shrinks. I start thrusting lightly up into Talia. She takes it as encouragement to do more and I can’t keep my hands off her as she starts telling me how much she loves this.

This show is better than when K rides me and it is not too much longer before I grab her hips both of us nearing our limits. Talia stops her vertical motions and begins grinding against me while swaying. The new sensation is not one I’m used to and with a grunt I erupt and Talia cries out, pushing fluid past me.

A few seconds later she goes limp and I roll us over, “did you like it?” I hear Talia ask.

“I did” I answer before starting to enjoy her body some more.

I try making some circular motions instead of just straight thrusts as I have done before. If the moans Talia makes are anything to go by I’m not the only one who enjoys the variance.

All to soon Talia cums again and I follow a second later. Exhaustion and fulfillment are on Talia’s face as I roll off her. That look on her face is just too satisfying and I give her a quick kiss before she starts trying to cuddle up to me and fall asleep as she tries to hold onto my arm.

I barely manage to replace my arm with a pillow before Talia is out. I sit up to see Lysan crawling over to me. Before I know it, she sits in my lap and one arm is around my neck as she pulls herself up to give me a kiss.

We separate with some trailing spit between us. I feel her hand over my cock just before she guides it into her, “I love you . . .” she begins before a slight moan interrupts as as much of me as possible for our position fills her.

Lysan pushes me gently to lay back down, “I saw how much you liked sister doing this” she mutters with some embarrassment and I grin. I watch as she takes the rest of me inside and starts to ride and grind against me as her sister did with one distinct difference, she is trying her best to make sure I enjoy it.

I try to hold back and enjoy the show for as long as I can but I couldn’t help but give some thrusts of appreciation. I grit my teeth and grip Lysan’s hips only to have her grind against me as I try to hold on as long as I can. I lean my head back and groan as I pump Lysan full, my orgasm pushing her over the edge.

Lysan lies down on my chest and snuggles against me, my slowly shrinking erection still inside her. I smile as I give my elven lover a hug. “Stay here” I hear her mumble as I move to cover us all with a blanket, and I give into her request she can have as much of me as she wants falling to sleep myself.

For the first time in several days I do not resist when the Grey Dream pulls me into it. Unlike last time there is a person standing in front of me. A man in a grey robe who just smirks at me and answers the question on my mind, “no need for cheap theatrics between us” he says.

“Alright just create the interface you have been giving me.”

Absorbed Souls: Gain: Languages (Dwarven, High Dwarven, High Elven, Terran, Ignan), Unpracticed knowledge on various skills, +50SP,

Gain: Dragon 13 (+30SP, +50EP), Magus 17 (+40SP, Sphere Increase), Necrol (Spoken) +2SP, Melee 4 (+4SP), Hand-to-Hand 3 (+3SP), Perception 4 (+4SP), Arcane Power 6 (+30SP), Concept Fusion Life/Death, Life/Death 5 (+25SP), Demon Kill: +50EP, Reality Weaver Kill: +100EP,

Name: Adrian Ravnos

Gender: Male

Age: 17

Skills

Attributes

Class

SP: 200

Traits

Magic

Languages

EP: 264

Of course this place rewards me for the death of Frank. The sadness returns but I take a breath and do the best I can to set the emotion aside with only partial success. I touch EP and bring up the dragon options.

Alternate Form

Void Powers

I open the Alternate Form options.

Human Transformation (Improved) 50

Increase Natural Armor 50

Why would I need either of these? I still look human aside from my eyes and I don’t think my scales need to be stronger. Perhaps I will end up picking things up beyond just dragon powers, but what? Also, why isn’t there a size increase for dragon form?

I touch the other tab as I conclude there must be some sort of requirement for the option.

Void Grasp 75

Void Slip 75

Void Twist 75

No new options, I’m not entirely sure what any of these will do but dragon-me will probably have some sort of memory about it. He knew how to use the other dragon powers instinctively so he may know these too. I take all three of them and once my EP has dropped the Alternate Form screen changes.

Human Transformation (Improved) 50

Increase Natural Armor 50

Increase Size 150

I can’t buy it, I don’t have the EP for it anymore. It doesn’t have an age category though, perhaps this one is repeatable like I assume Increase Natural Armor is? I glance at my SP, it still isn’t enough to raise the tier of one of my Spheres. Should I keep holding onto it, or spend it since the cost of the Spheres I want to buy keep going up?

I open the options for my Spheres of magic.

Free Sphere Increases: 1

1280 Arcane Power 6

320Space 2

320 Planar 0

80 Fate 2

1280 Life/Death 5

1280 Soul 4

160 Primal 2

640 Time 3

40 Transmutation 2

10 Telekinesis 0

40 Fire 3

40 Lightning 3

40 Light 3

40 Darkness 3

20 Gravity 1

40 Mind 1

I don’t have any of the options of the big, high cost spheres. What option should I take? The best options I could have aren’t available. I don’t know much about it but the most costly option is Prime so I take it.

I could buy a few of the low-cost Spheres but I’m not sure I should since I was able to get them to the level that they are at without the help of this place. I’m a little proud of them but there seems to be a required number of Spheres at a certain tier to purchase higher tiers. How can I get the most out of it?

I buy Lightning and Light 4, then I take Lightning 5. That should be enough to work with for a while.