"I'm sorry I can't help" Rea said turning her away from Kyle.
"What do mean you're a dragon right you can just fly us there" Kyle and as Fiona nodded In agreement by his side.
Kyle had asked Rea to help him return Fiona home but was meet with immediate regection.
"Kyle, obviously I want to help you but dragons aren't allowed to leave the forest" she replied with a solemn look on her face.
She wanted to help Kyle, but she was a physically unable to do so.
Dragons were creatures who didn't require food to survive,but it was more correct to say dragons wouldnt survive if they eat only food, dragons could eat but they would never be full, the reason being that instead of a stomach they had mana core, which enabled them to absorb large amounts of mana and use it as norishmemt, but this ability had a set back, infact multiple set backs.
The first one begin that they could only process negative mana which only existed in the Great Forest.
Secondly they could only live in the central area of the forest, as the mana- nutrient transformation becomes ineffective causing, well....hunger.
So it wasn't a question of whether Rea wanted to leave or not, it was more of a could she?
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After a while of explaining why she said no to him, Rea was looking at Kyle with a sad face.
"I'm sorry for not being helpful" she looked down at the table fiddling with her fingers.
But Kyle soon placed his hand over her's with a smile,"it's okay" he said trying to reassure her.
He wasn't going to force her to do something she couldn't, even if she could fly them out of the forest, he wouldn't force her if she didn't want to.
"But then how are you guys okay whenever you leave here"
Everyone looked at Fiona who had just commented, she had been watching Kyle and Rea talking to each other, and she was frustrated beyond belief so she decided to break it up.
"That's true actually, now that I think about it there isn't any negative mana within the barrier" Kyle agreed with Fiona it didn't make sense that they were able to spend the whole day here.
"Well actually, this human form takes less energy to maintain, so we're able to stay in places without mana for significant numbers of hours" Rea answered, they would eventually need a recharge, if not Rea would have never left the house.
Kyle realized that they weren't going anywhere, they they would have gone through the forest, but Fiona couldn't do that and he really wasn't up for fighting any monsters, so he decided to ask someone who might have some answers.
'system help me out here'
[The host should try to assimilate some of the negative mana]
'huh why'
[...]
'h-hello...'
[.....]
"Tch, fine" Kyle got up, a little annoyed with the system, he walked outside mumbling curses under his breath.
Everyone else who was there just watched him leave, before following behind him.
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"Kyle what are we doing out here" Fiona asked watching him curiously.
Kyle placed his hand on the barrier causing it to ripple outwards "Just watch".
He pushed his arm through, wiggling it a bit after it went through.
"ASSIMILATION"
Just like before a blackish mist burst out his hand, pulling in the surrounding air like a vacuum, after a minute or so it retracted, going back back into Kyle's palm before disappearing completely.
He pulled his hand back inside before turning back to the three who just stood there wondering what they had just witnessed.
"Lord Kyle, what was that", Thalia was the first to ask, the maid who had lived for a long time had never seen any skill like this in all her years of living.
"Ah, you see it's just my– *cough*" Kyle was trying to explain what he had just done when he suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood.
[Warning.Warning]
[Internal mana has been corrupted]
[Negative mana core is being created]
[The host will experience "Intense Pain"]
"Aaahhhhhh" Kyle fell to the ground clutching his chest, the pain was so intense that he almost lost his mind, but before that could happen he fainted, his brain was unable to process this amount of information and turned itself off.
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"Ugh" Kyle groaned as he sat up from the bed shirtless, it was already the middle of the night, and only a lamp and the moonlight illuminated the room.
'what the fuck was that, the system is actually trying to kill me isn't it' he thought
Kyle looked down to see two people lying down beside him, well they were sitting down beside the bed on chair while their heads were on the bed.
Obviously it was Fiona and Rea, they had been watching over Kyle since he fainted and had fallen asleep beside him.
Kyle watched the two of them for a bit, his heart warming at the fact that these girls cared about him so much.
Memories flashed in his head of when he was a kid, his mom would always do this for him, stay by his side until he fell asleep.
'when was the last time I felt this warmth'
A sad smile appeared on his face as he stretched his hands to pat the girls on their heads.
He thanked them in his mind, before his expression turned serious.
'now you explain yourself, what the heck was that' Kyle wasn't angry, he was just annoyed that he wasn't informed about the fact that he was performing a threatening act, and who could blame him he literally thought he was going to die.
[The host absorbed the negative mana, and inorder to compensate the host body created a second mana core to contain the negative mana]
[The pain the host experienced was a result of the brief interaction the negative mana had with the already existing mana in the host body]
'that's not what I mean idiot, I meant why didn't you tell me'
[..…]
Kyle was starting to think the system was just playing dumb, but was that even possible.
Kyle rolled his eyes."So why did you even make me do that" Kyle asked leaned back on the bed, his hands still playing with the two girl's hair.
[After obtaining the negative mana core the host can now create a use negative mana, although it can not be used to activate skills or anything infact]
[The host can also transfer his negative mana into others]
"You would have just started with that *sigh*, atleast you didn't say something useless" Kyle was this close to scraping the system, not that he knew how of course, he just thought, was really a need for a system that puts you mortal danger.
But the system had redeem itself just a little bit.
After laying for a while admiring the girls, he felt movement under his right hand, Rea was waking up.
She slowly lifted her head from the bed before noticing the strange weight on her head, it was a hand, Kyle's hand.
She looked up at him, her sleepy eyes disappearing and being replaced teary ones.
"Kyle?" She said said wondering if she was still asleep.
Kyle in the other hand didn't know what to say, so he just said what felt most natural.
"Ahh, it seems I caused you guys a lot of trouble" he scratched the back of his head and smile awkwardly.
Rea didn't answer she just jumped onto him, bawling her eyes out.
Kyle was a little taken aback by the sudden situation, but he soon adjusted, rubbing Rea's head as she laid on his chest.
"You're really enjoying yourself aren't you" Fiona who had been woken up by Rea's sobbing said.
"Fiona, oh um–" he was trying to explain himself when she dived onto him
"I'm so glad you're okay, don't ever do anything that stupid again or else..." as tears fell from her eyes she buried her face in his neck.
Kyle was speechless, 'who on earth is this' he thought, he had never seen Fiona like this, well he had never actually seen any of them like this, but he just couldn't imagine Fiona crying.
Just like Rea he just gently gave her head a rub, he didn't say anything for the fact that he couldn't agree to what she asked.
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After finally being able to get the girls to stop crying, they all laid on the bed with Kyle in the center, Rea on the right side, and Fiona on the left.
The bed wasn't big, but it was enough for the three of them to stay on.
"Rea aren't you supposed to be back home right now, your the queen right are you sure everything is ok?" Kyle asked, he was worried that she had abandoned her responsibilities because of him, he didn't want to be the reason that something happened to her or her kingdom.
"It's fine" she replied " I sent Thalia back in my place" she laid her head on his chest, pushing her self closer to him as if to show him she wasn't going anywhere.
"Can you do that?" he asked concerned
"Of course I can I'm the queen after all" she answered confidently.
"But what about your hunger" Fiona who had been watching them from the other side of the bed asked.
She was also laying down in Kyle's warm embrace.
"I guess I'm a little bit hungry, but don't worry, I'm a greater dragon after all" which was a big lie, infact the fact that she was a greater dragon meant that she needed more negative mana to stay full, in her current state she could bearly even walk straight up.
"Actually I think I can help" Kyle said
"Huh?"
Kyle rose his right hand and placed it on Rea's back, before trying to channel some of the negative mana from his core to his palm.
In order to do this he had to first pull all the normal mana in his body back to his core, before allowing the negative mana to flow through his mana pathways.
After accomplishing this, he released it from his palm, it flowed into Rea's body slowly replenishing her mana and filling her up completely.
After about 10 minutes of this she was full, well he didn't really know for sure but he wasn't able to push more into her, the moment he removed his hand the negative mana retracted back into its core allowing Kyle to let him normal mana flow again.
"How do you feel" Kyle asked.
"Amazing~" she replied her voice dripping with satisfaction, she tightened her hold on him, she didn't know how to explain it, but when Kyle passed his mana into her she almost immediately climaxed, it was only through share will power that she was able to endure the whole 10 minutes.
Kyle wasn't really sure why her voice sounded like that, he hadn't even done anything yet.
"That's good, well I guess we'll finally be able to get you home right Fiona....Fiona"
The poor girl had already fallen asleep, she was seriously mentally exhausted and Kyle's chest seemed to take away all the worries she had.
"I guess it's just me... and... you" Kyle turned back to Rea just to find her sleeping to.
"Hahaha" Kyle couldn't help but chuckle at himself.
"Good night girls" Kyle said before joining them.