I awoke several hours later to an empty bed which weirded me out, to be honest, I used to sleep with others in my bed. I got up and made myself some simple food before going out to my cubs spending some time and feeding them they are already getting bigger. I was in a trance playing with them for a bit. I left them to their thing before I went out stealthy to the slums checking in with Frank. The territory the gang use to have been almost the entire slums now it owned just a couple districts. I would change that but first I had to make a cadre of elites and grow from there. Frank was a gem that even the last leader did not utilize properly he was a cowardly man. But he had a hollow spine as long as I told him to he thought he was in charge.
This would work for now. I became a spectre at night from this day on. I spent the mornings with less sleep. I lived on three hours of sleep. I would start the day with Freya, Stacy, and Carol. I was waiting for Miss Green to bring me, my little wolf girl. I also decided to Pick up Are they attached?
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Are they Attached?
Flexibility to the Extreme this makes the user so flexible people question whether their limbs are in fact attached to their bodies. Allow continuing growth in flexibility indefinitely.
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Then I picked up Energy Cultivation. The day I did this my temper blew up. It was a week of dealing with gang matters and looking for a new second in command I just received Are they attached and I sat down thinking and decided to check it out.
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Congratulations on purchasing Energy Cultivation.
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Energy Cultivation
The Use of mana instead of making spells Empower the body towards skilled and precise movements. Has many applications even into weapons. It creates a slightly different form of mana with a different signature and skill path than common wizards and cannot be in the same vessel at a time.
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This suited my fighting style perfectly I think about the battle and how to act in fights trying to keep a fucking spell image in my head was borderline impossible for me. I think I have cast one spell in battle in total. Now with this, I could revolutionize my fighting capability. I was stunned I was Mad I gathered the information for the Skill that appeared in my head. The Mana I have can be converted and will take time but my anger has not subsided I was a person walking down a road looking for water and just realized that it was in front of me the whole time. Freya was using a different type of mana and so were others in the academy. I realized my mistake with the double Major. They thought I wanted to go down the road of Wizard with a hobby of beast taming and whips.
It wasn't even the academy's fault no one had explained to me there were alternates they just assumed I had decided and was stubbornly walking down this path. The Cultivation of energy was in bringing in mana and converting it slowly with movements spreading it throughout the body.
It was on this day that Miss Green showed up with a little wolf girl in tow with a smile. "Why didn't you tell me?!" I yelled not looking good I was stressed form my life the gang was annoying I hadn't worked out sexual tension since the night I came back from being attacked by the Slave Master guild and I was pent up. I needed to let off steam I just didn't know it yet.
"Okay, Hello Sally you seem stressed," She noted, "You will not take that tone and you will explain yourself Sally I am keeping my calm."
I realized who I was yelling at and took a visible minute. I punched the ground creating a creator of splinters on the floor and my hand was slightly bleeding but I did not care. I breathed deeply before starting. "Sorry, My temper of learning something made me angry that is not completely your fault or others since I never asked," I breathed deeply again," The other day I learned from Freya although she wasn't using Mana as a Wizard she still was using Mana I find that I should have asked more questions then. I came across an Energy Cultivation technique in my endeavors and realized this was the sort of thing that would be taught by the Academy since it works perfectly for how I am growing. I have a hard time with Mana in a Wizards role and thought why I was never told about this as an alternate. This to me seems like an oversight that is kind of hard to forgive." My tone is much more polite with an undertone of extreme anger.
"Sally, I will remind you, you put yourself in the Wizard program even though you also wanted to be a beast tamer." My anger was glowing, "But you are correct I for the last year have seen your determination and it is hard to remember where you came from. You were a slave and not told some basics that would have otherwise been taught to Nobles. This creates gaps in knowledge we didn't think to fill since you are educated on so many subjects even passing other nobles. I apologize for this. You are correct Energy cultivation does work better for you though. It is though a correctable oversight. Although the progress will regress a bit I can help you fix this and learn its applications If you wish. One last thing I brought the favor you asked I had her healed and compensation from the guild it seemed they wished for you to come to pick her up. I dealt with the bullshit for you." She took a deep breath before turning and stepping towards the door and turned on last time. "Sally Never Yell At Me Like That Again. I Will Not Take Disrespect From You Like This Again." Her tone sent shivers down my spine and the bloodlust was palpable and everyone else paled dozen.
I looked at her straight in the eye. "I Apologize for my reaction I was pissed but I feel I was rightfully Pissed off. Although that wasn't only and strictly yours and my fault I should not have disrespected you so I will once again apologize for that. I will not promise I will not blow up again Miss Green but I do not apologize for my anger." We stare in the eyes of each other bloodlust meeting bloodlust. She smiles nods and exits. I now have my Wolf girl slave. This was now another responsibility dropped into my hands. I sigh but at least this one I expected.
A message came in a second later. "I forgot to mention your afternoons are now booked for me to help you with the cultivation of your energy... Enjoy!" hearing Miss Greens' voice.
I look at every one. It was mid-afternoon and everyone was home I now had three women and a child looking at me. "Freya Take care of this girl and get her situated for now get her a small bed or she can sleep with us. Make sure she understands the rules I need to go out for an hour and will be back soon." I walked out to calm my head and walk off the anger.
I was having a hard time calming down and started to meditate I took a bit more than an hour in the end before I came home to food on the table. Carol looks at me enter and I smell the food.
"Mistress I think I have learned something I can do but do not know if you need it," she asks me. I look at her and started then prompt her to continue as the Freya with the wolf-kin child comes in. The child seems to be behaving for now but I can still see her feral side. "Yes, Mistress. I was a sex slave for the last three years but I am not blind and deaf. I learned a lot while being a plaything. I could be your ruler of the gang in your absence."
"How so? You're weak as fuck! How are you going to be a leader to a gang in my absence those members will eat you alive and spit you out, Carol." I state not being kind looking at her with contempt.
"That's the beauty of it Mistress who needs to have power when they think you do? All you need to do is put an enchantment on me that gives off residual mana. They will think I am powerful and I am around the same height as you. I can fill in since knowing how you acted before no one knows your appearance not only does this free your time Mistress but gives you a buffer between you and the gang." She explains and I have to give it to her she is not incorrect.
"Hmm, Alright you are not useless I will treat you as such congrats. I will teach you some methods to get stronger." I simply state and start to eat at the head of the table as everyone is seated and eating. The little girl was eating with gusto with tears in her eyes making sure to get as much food in her mouth as possible. She was still skinny even after medical treatment and needed calories to help her grow, I had plans for this girl. Long term ones that will need a lot of work.
That day was a long one. My workload increased. I started to train Carol to impersonate me. I was with Miss Green working on converting all my Mana into Energy. I was working on the gang as our numbers reduced the Elites stood stronger and closer. We were shedding territory but the undercurrent of recruitment made us stronger than ever. I purposefully was using this to infiltrate the other gangs of the slums putting people in to learn hideouts. Most of the shedding was actually orders to shed our name and joining theirs for information.
My Network increased as well as my power and standing. I was busy and my temper was becoming more and more uncontrollable. I was losing my calm more and more as the stress was getting to me. I was sleeping three hours a night and I felt like I was missing something as I continued to work. My girls were settling in the little girl under my orders to make her feel like family. It was the start of my manipulation on her I needed her feral but controllable. I was scheming and Manipulating all day. One day after about a month I snapped.