It was the system, he had completed his mission.
[Side Task #1]
[Find Michail Christos]
[Reward: Unknown]
[Accepted]
[Side Task #1]
[Status : Completed]
[Finding Michail Christos Successful]
[Reward : Loading]
[Hidden Task : Completed]
[Befriend Michail]
[Reward : Loading]
Liam blinked in shock as his vision was bombarded with screens. He was pleasantly surprised by the hidden task completion, the system reminded him of a game he used to play.
Ding!
[Rewards Loaded]
Ding!
[Side Task #1 Reward]
[Awaken Trait : Ancestor Inheritance]
Ding!
[Hidden Task Reward]
[Awaken Another Element]
Liam was surprised by the rewards, he had thought that they would be a lot different. But he liked the rewards, if he was right about what they were then they were going to be really helpful in his journey to become more powerful. He would have to ask Demyx.
He was really excited to go back now. He looked around for his Grandfather who had disappeared. He spotted the man in a corner and walked towards him. Liam saw a familiar face, he wasn't sure where he had seen her.
"Grandpa! Can we leave? I'm tired."
His Grandfather smiled at him as he said, "I was just about to leave, but first let me introduce you to my friend Ralph's daughter Kanna. Kanna this is my grandson."
Liam smiled and nodded at the girl, she had silvery white hairs and a cold expression on her face. She nodded back at him with her lips curling in what Liam assumed was supposed to be a smile. He finally remembered where he had seen her, she was in the pack he saw before he got lost.
"Now, Kanna you can smile a little. I don't know what's with this girl, she has taken after her mother. It's like living with an iceberg." Ralph shook his head helplessly as she watched him indifferently. He still had Michail sleeping on his shoulder.
"You'd think I torture her or something."
"Well, living with you has got to be hard." Maddox said and Liam dragged him away before they started bickering like children again.
"We're leaving." He said as he dragged his grandfather by his hand.
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Liam rushed inside the room and looked around for Demyx. He ignored his Grandfather's voice telling him to slow down. He wanted to see the rewards!
He finally discovered the puppy on the kitchen shelf and picked him up before running to his room.
"Demyx! Demyx! Demyx!"
"I heard you just fine the first time."
"I completed the mission!" Liam laughed as he danced around with Demyx in happiness. It had taken a lot of self-control to not do that in front of everyone at the banquet.
"I know, now put me down if you want to hear about the rewards."
Liam quickly put him down and sat down in front of him excitedly. They were sitting on the floor cushions in his room, Liam having to bow his head to look at Demyx.
"Your first reward is the Trait Ancestor Inheritance. I believe you know what a Trait is? You can say attribute, characteristic whatever. Ancestor Inheritance basically makes you able to inherit powers from your ancestors. Although you're the same race, every person has something they're better at then others. This Trait basically enables you to learn the powers you have, like the person that's best at them. Like one of the powers of Cloud Dragons is Weather Manipulation, but not all Cloud Dragons are good at it. Some can do it better, others can do other stuff better."
"With this Trait you can be the best at every power of yours. Your Uncle is really good at fog manipulation and your Grandpa at water manipulation, which is rare in Cloud Dragons. You unlike them can be good at every element you have the ability to learn. Remember this is only for powers you can control."
Liam nodded, the reward was even more amazing than he had thought. It was something he was worried about before when he noticed that he wasn't that good at weather manipulation. Demyx continued;
"The other reward is quite simple, you will awaken another element you can control. I can't tell you right now because it only appears when you're 11. But it should be related to your race."
"Lastly you have another Mission."
[Side Task #2]
[Join the same academy as the Protagonist.]
[Reward : Unknown]
[Necessary mission, can't be rejected]
"As you can see the mission is far away, you can only join an academy after awakening your elements so, I'll explain it later." Demyx yawned as he finished talking and he curled up to sleep.
After living with him for a while, Liam knew that it was impossible to wake him up when he decided to sleep so, he left Demyx there and went outside as he hummed happily. He was really satisfied by the rewards, not just talking about the Trait even the new element was amazing. After all most people could only control one element, having more was always reassuring.
Liam remembered that the Male lead of the book had the same trait as him. He was the protagonist after all, Liam just had to make sure to get more powerful than the protagonist. It was a little hard but life was boring without challenges.
Liam bumped into Juno in the kitchen, reminding him of her presence. His Grandfather had allowed her to stay but they weren't going to stay here forever themselves. He sat down in front of her at the sofa, she looked up from the book she was holding. Liam was once again shocked by her androgynous beauty, he was getting a little unsure about her being a girl so he decided to just ask. They were kids, and kids were blunt.
"Hey Juno, are you a girl?"
"No." She replied curtly.
"So you're a boy." Liam said shocked.
"No, I'm not." She said still calm, her amber eyes looking into his golden ones. Looking and talking to her, made Liam feel weird feeling inside. A feeling that he had only felt after shifting into his dragon form.
"Are you playing with me?"
"Phew!" She sighed as she closed the book. "I'm a succubus we don't find our gender until we turn 11. We can choose then, whether to be a girl or a boy, or you can say a succubus or an incubus."
"Whoa! Really? I don't know if that's cool or weird." Liam said blown away, he had read about sucubus before but this was something new.
"Of course it's weird. Why would it be cool? Succubus is a race based around love and stuff so, the reason you get to decide your gender is so that you can choose depending on the person you love. It means while we don't fall in love easily when we do, it's them or no one else."
"That sounds amazing though, What powers do you have then? And elements?"
"Mind control, we're really good at that. Usually it revolves around seducing people though and since we are demons we have the darkness element." Juno said slowly, Liam was surprised she was so easy to talk to.
"Hey! I was going to train for a while, would you like to stay and train with me?" Liam asked as he crossed his fingers, he had hoped she could stay after all, she was still a child. If she was alone she would probably get kidnapped again.
"If it's okay with you then fine." She replied as she shrugged.
"You agreed so easily? I thought you would say no for a while." Liam was once again taken aback by her frankness, she was really comfortable for someone who had lived such a hard life. Not that it was a bad think, just surprising.
"Well, you seem pretty rich. I'm sure having another person around won't trouble you much." She smiled for the first time and Liam was dazed, two dimples appeared on her cheeks.
'This trip was worthwhile I completed my Mission and I even made friends.' Liam thought as a month suddenly seemed too short.
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