" Did you hear that!? " Ignell said, still worried about what she just heard
"Hm?" Yet Alpha was still calm
"The voice! I heard a weird voice in my head!" I
"Oh! Did you hear a voice saying you got a new skill?" A
"Yes! Exactly! What was that!?" I
"Come on Ignell, you can't be serious, you've lived for centuries Already, you must have heard similar stuff like that many times before" A
Alpha didn't get what's so weird about that, and decided to just brush it off as a joke, but Ignell was still worried
"What are you talking about! I've never heard something like that before!" I
"Wait seriously?" A
"Of course! Who would joke about this!?" I
Ignell couldn't calm down, and no matter what Alpha said, the worried look on her face never disappeared, and he slowly begun worrying about it him self
"Ok let's calm down for a bit. You heard a weird voice in your head right?" A
"Yes!" I
"And you never heard something like it before" A
"That's what I'm saying!" I
"Then did it say something like you've got a new skill?" A
"Yes! How did you know?" I
"Wait wait wait, now even I am confused, if you've never heard something like that before, then how do you know when you aquire a new skill or title?" A
"Well, it's just a feeling, you can tell if something is different in your body when you aquire something new, and sometimes you wouldn't know about it until you check your status screen, but why do you ask? Is it related?" I
"Well, I'm not sure, but let me ask you this, the skill you just got... or the voice you just heard, did it say the skill was breath of the world perhaps?" A
"... How... did you know" I
The conversation between Alpha and Ignell was quite heated before, but now she begun suspecting him
Although they've spent more than twenty years together, Ignell was the only one who took care of the other most of the time, while Alpha was just sleeping, or more like hibernating
They only talked for a few minutes when they first met, and a few other minutes after he woke up, so even if they spent twenty years together, it was safe to say they knew nothing about each other
At this point, Ignell was starting to suspect that Alpha was the reason behind all the weird things happening to her lately, and she's not completely wrong
But before she could express her suspicions, Alpha spoke " now that I think about it, we haven't finished checking out your status screen have we, I still don't know what your new title is, and we're still unaware of what caused your body to change so much, who knows, we might be able to find out what's causing the weird voices in your head as well"
What he said didn't remove her suspicions, but needless to say she was curious, and his words did make sense. In the end she desided to trust him one more time and opened her status screen.
Now that she was mentally prepared, she could take in all that was in front of her, and as expected, their was a lot
Other than the increase in stats and the resetting of her level, the gaining of the new skill [breath of the world] and a new title
The thing that stands out the most is her race, previously she was an ancient dragon, and now, she became a devine dragonoid !
That alone can explain the change in her level and stats, since a racial rank up and the increase in strength can be considered the two faces of the same coin
If you rank up then you'll naturally get stronger, and if you get strong enough then you'll rank up, which explains how Alpha became a high human
But what it doesn't explain is how she ranked up in the first place, but that can be understood after reading her new title
Title [Familiar] : the one who got tamed/contracted.
Once you become a familiar, you become bound to your master, take a shape similar to his and share the same mana pool as him.
Skill [Transformation]
Active skill [transformation]: revert back to your previous form for a short period of time, duration can be extended by consuming Mana
So that's how it is, she ranked up because now she shares the same mana pool as Alpha, but because it was a borrowed strength she still got a boost in stats
But even after all the informations acquired, there was still one question unanswered "I STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS THAT VOICE !!"
Ignell was nervous, even though reading her status screen answered many of her questions, it still didn't answer the one she was worried about, but after she looked at Alpha, she could see a face of guilt
"Well, hear me out, and please don't get mad, the voice in your head, I think it does have something to do with me after all, but it's not a bad thing I promise, I think"
Ignell was really about to loose her trust in him now, but after he told her his story about how he came from a different world, and the things he experienced inside of that dungeon, she finally managed to calm down her fears
Then after a short conversation, they both came to the conclusion that what she was experiencing had something to do with her new title [Familiar]
Since Alpha was hearing those voices, then it only made sense for Ignell to hear them too because of their connection
But for why he was hearing them, they could only assume it had something to do with him being an other worldrer
Putting that aside, the atmosphere between the two became livelier, and they both went on sharing their life stories, this time in more detail
Although Alpha didn't have much to tell. after all, despite gaining all of that knowledge about his previous world, he still couldn't remember anything about himself or what kind of life he had, and whatever memories he made in this world weren't particularly pleasant, so he decided to skim through them quickly
After that it was Ignell's turn, and turns out that whatever she told Alpha about herself during their first meeting wasn't completely true, and according to her, she was hailed as a prodigy in her youth! She was the quickest in her generation to learn how to talk, walk, fly, and even breath fire at a young age!
Thanks to that she was admitted to one of the most prestigious schools of dragons, and she graduated from it with flying scores as the top student of the year!
But that was it, after going to the real world, and no longer receiving support from her parents or the adults around her, her progress stopped
Once left to lead her own life she got stuck, she didn't know what to do or how to do it, she was so used to receiving help and advice from everyone around her, the adults always told her what she needed to do and how to do it without her even asking
But now that she really needed that advice, she didn't know how to ask for it, she wasn't used to asking, she was used to receiving, resulting in her hitting a wall she didn't know how to overcome
In the end, she grew up with no further improvement, with no more achievements, growing further and further away from society, living the life of an outcast
Eventually she felt her life nearing it end, so she left her tribe. She wanted to find a quiet place to die in peace, she didn't want to die hearing other dragons saying how pitiful she was or what a waste her life was, she knew very well how much of a looser she is and didn't want to hear others reminding her of that
Which lead her to a secluded cave in a mountain, which lead her to meeting Alpha the nameless!!