I opened the book, turned the page, and stared at his attribute sheet.
[Common rat
Status: Tamed
Owner: Wyatt Brewer
Magical Beast Ascension Rank: Primitive Beast
Magical Beast Ascension Level: 3rd Circle
Magical Beast Ability: Enhanced smell[Expert] Enhanced Tracking[Expert]
Magical Beast Talent: 1-star
History:
After being birthed and abandoned on a lone Pirate ship, its life has been based on survival, either by instinct or luck. Scavenging for food, living in between the wooden structures of a deteriorating ship, master in hiding itself in plane sight, no ladder is too big or small to climb to make sure that it lives to see the next.
Its fate was supposed to be tied down just like any common rat, however, this rat was lucky enough to feed upon the living heart of an ascendant, enabling it to grow stronger, and so its journey was far from being over.
[Edit] ].
I couldn't help but notice that his ascension level has increased, which means that he has gotten stronger. And also, his history seems to have changed.
No, something else was added.
After reading it, I understood why that was. However, an itch in my hands spread as I start at the 'Edit' option on the page.
"How do you feel?" I asked Bones and waited for his answers attentively.
"Oh! Show me" He nodded his tiny head and then ran to the edge of the bed, somersaulted in the air and then landed on the ground with all four feet without budging an inch.
"Impressive" I clapped, praising his display of strength, agility and precision.
It didn't even take up to ten seconds, and yet, I could already feel his prideful emotion from our connection.
With a swift movement, he kicked the back of his feet before jumping into the air, lashing his claws on the bedsheets and then crawling back to his previous position.
"Squeak!! Squeak!!!" He uttered.
"Oh really! But what if I tell you I can make you stronger than Toothless" I responded to his bragging behaviour after he boasted about how he is now the strongest rat on the ship.
"Squeak!!"
"Of course! Are you doubting me now?"
"Squeak!!" His head twisted from side to side in denial.
"Knock!"
"Who's there?" I shouted as I was too lazy and tired to stand up and check who was knocking.
"Mistress Celia has ordered me to bring you a pen and ink, sir?" A feminine voice responded.
"Oh! It's finally here" I muttered and stood up from the bed.
After stretching my hands for a few seconds, I walked towards the door and pulled it open.
The woman holding the inkstone and pen was dressed differently from the other women I had met, in a very sensual dress that was way more distinct and erotic than the ones I saw yesterday night.
Hmm! I guess that's their uniform during the day.
I took the tools and thanked her without ogling at her since I wasn't in any mood to fuck and then proceeded to shut the door before moving over to the table to set them down.
I walked over to pick up the book while ordering Bones to follow me, which he did by jumping on hanging on from the fabrics of my boxers.
'Bam" I laid the book on the table before scooping his little body and placing him beside the edge of the book.
With grace and finesse, I dipped the pen into the inkstone, but not before re-reading the rules
[ Rule number 3-A: History can only be changed in correspondence to one's power. The stronger the rank, the stronger the chances of manipulating a beast's history to fit the desired format]
After reading the last line, I couldn't help but think.
Does this mean that I can't just rewrite Bones' history and have him go through a rebirth that would transform him into a behemoth dragon of catastrophe?
Or if I do succeed then it wouldn't be in the way I imagined or wanted it?
Yes, I know that I was now strong, but I am still aware that I am not yet strong enough.
And besides…
[Rule number 3-B: Changing the history of a beast has the possibility of affecting the world around it. History is connected by strings, be sure not to get it entangled or risk facing the consequences.]
Changing history is also the same as changing the past!
If I were to turn Bones into a dragon or another magical beast with the potential for achieving insane feats, does that mean that I would be creating a new sub-species? And does that also mean that there would be others out there?
What if I make him the last of the species? Or instead, I turn him into a mutated beast with the ability to grow stronger every time eats, breathes or sleeps?
I brought out the pen from the inkstone, turned toward his attribute sheet and placed it on the edit function, which instantly disappeared and expanded the space below the walls of text in it.
I wonder if I could erase this part of his history.
]Its fate was supposed to be tied down just like any common rat, however, this rat was lucky enough to feed upon the living heart of an ascendant, enabling it to grow stronger, and so its journey was far from being over.] A/N: WN doesn't provide adequate tools for editing.
'Boom!" Power exploded in front of me, bellowing in all directions as it whipped my hair backwards as though I had just opened a jar that contained the source of all the winds in the world.
"This is anti-climatic" I admitted. Although the breeze was strong, it still wasn't strong enough to blow me across the room, except for Bones, who I caught immediately and laid on my lap.
And then, the text began to disappear, taking with it every word I crossed.
Now, for the real experiment. I sighed dramatically as I laid the pen on the page and wrote.
[ Its fate was supposed to be tied down like every common rat, however, after feeding on the living heart and remains of an ascendant, it was lucky enough to awaken its hidden bloodline of a.....]
Hmm!! What next?
[ Of a divine dragon which was so thick that with time, he was destined to transform into one ].
I closed the bracket. And the winds sized.
The pages flickered from one side to another, before they returned to Bones' attribute sheet, with the history being the same as before, and my edited text was nowhere to be found.
I guess it didn't work then!
I looked down and sent a thought to Bones just to confirm.
"Squeak!" He responded. He wasn't feeling any abnormal changes except for the wind that threatened to smash his body against the wall.
Ideas upon ideas against each other in my head. I wasn't particularly disappointed, but instead thrilled and eager to test them out and see which one would work.
So I wrote again, after erasing the walls of text once more.
[.….however, after his first ascension, he awakened a strange hidden ability from his ancestral heritage that's been long forgotten, which is an ability that allows him to take the abilities of any beast he kills ]
Okay, this should work.
Again, as it had done before, its pages flickered until it stopped at Bones attribute with the same result.
Let's try again.
[ .... ]
….......…
"That's it" I muttered irritatedly before I looked down at Bones.
"I have tried everything I could, from Dragons, Phoenixes, and Tiger Whales and even attempted one way or the other to give you an elemental ability or a unique one. And all of it failed" I cursed, before sighing in defeat "It's either you lack the potential to go that far, or I am too weak to make it happen".
Bones bowed his head in defeat, and for the first, since he woke up, I could sense an emotion of worthlessness ramping through our connection.
"Hey cheer up!" I flickered my eyes across the pages before dipping the pen into the ink stone "We are not yet done yet".
And so, I pressed my pen against the pages of the book and wrote.
[ Like every other being that stayed in the Vrymath kingdom, in between the Cryptic Sea, he was supposed to be under the protection of the Miracle queen, guarded against the terrible phenomenon of the Midnight Ice, however, as a common rat who was lucky enough to break and escape its fate after feeding on the living heart of an ascendant, its blessing was now a curse as the Moonlight's ice infected his body with a scourge that could only be felt by a magical beast the moment he was brought out of the 'Temporary storage space', and exposed to its chilly winds.
Which caused his body to go through changes until he unknowingly became a mutated beast, not dying from the Moonlight's ice touch that freezes everything to death]