[Ding. The detected host has advanced a tier]

  [Activating lottery]

  [Do you wish to draw]

  Now that I have no hopes for the system, I say yes in my mind, devoid of any emotion, expecting nothing out of the lottery.

  [Host drew a Domain. Congratulations!]

  Wow. At last something useful. Although I do not know what it exactly does, it does sound better than ash. Well, the system may not be stingy at all. Maybe I misunderstood. So I ask the system what it does.

  10 minutes later...

  A stingy system. Doesn't even explain what it does. So I go to my status and see in inventory. This one looks like a stone. I think of taking it out and it appears in my hand. Suddenly, it turns into light and enters my body through my forehead. I cry out in pain.

  "Master what happened!!?"

  The pain was too much. It felt like something was wedging me open, and putting something in there. However much I try to repel it, it just stays there breaking my mind and making itself home. After some unknown time, the pain subsides. But that isn't important right now. Yes because I now know what the domain does.

  "Master, are you okay? You seemed to be in extreme pain for the past 15 minutes. You were shouting like crazy" I hear a slightly agitated voice.

  "Don't worry I am fine. But more importantly, we have a solution."

  Then I ask Illumi to take me to where the wolves' bodies were piled up. He asked about my health, cast a heal on me, and then took me there on my insistence. When we reached there I did it. A slight crack, fully back, from where even light did not seem to escape appeared before me.

  "Master be careful!" illumi was vigilant thinking it was an attack.

  "Don't worry. It is one of my powers"

  Yes, this is the power of a domain. I can create an opening to a space, that is different from this world, an entirely separate pocket of space. The space inside depends on the amount of my magic power, but for now, it is enough for us to keep all the wolves in the space. And yes, I will use this space to fuse illumi with the bodies while keeping us safe. That is because one feature of this space is that no one can enter once the opening is closed. And if someone has the power to enter it, then there is no way we could fight them now anyway. Even though I don't want to take risks, even taking precautions against far-fetched troubles will hinder my growth in the early stages.

  I explain my plan to Illumi who was fascinated by this domain and asked various questions to which I did not know the answer and stopped bugging me after I said "I don't know" to his many questions. Then illumi moved the bodies into the domain. One thing is though, that the entrance and exit of the domain remain at the same place when I am inside it, but they can be moved when I am outside. And I can also store things inside. So it is also like an inventory that I thought I got last time. After Illumi put all the, now half rotten smelly bodies into the domain, we ran in the directions, where last time those humans whose bow Illumi robbed, ran to.

  There are two main reasons for this. One is that humans tend to live away from danger. So when the humans ran away from Illumi, they should have run to the nearest village they talked about. And two, even though there can be hostile humans, both I Illumi did not feel anything with magic sense when the domain opened. So as long as we covered the entrance. It is fine. And it is better to leave that place where a spectacle took place faster since it would attract unwanted trouble.

  So I sat on the back of Illumi as he ran for 2 days, stopping only for me to eat and sleep. And then we found an abandoned cave. So we set down, tried putting some leaves and branches to hide the view, and hunt some food for me. Finally, we start the fusion.

  [Fuse 13,478 bodies with subordinate lesser Fenrir. The time for fusing is 2 months. Do you wish to proceed?]

  I say yes in my mind. And then a familiar scene of bodies turning into streaks of light and going into the body of Illumi could be seen.

  Although this space was huge, with all the wolf bodies, there was a small place left. There also seemed to be a height restriction. It was a 100 meters by 100 meters space, with a height of 20 meters. It was a dark space with a small artificial light on the ceiling. The boundaries seem to be hard like walls, although see-through, can be easily recognized.

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  I wanted to practice in here with my archery, but there was not enough space and Illumi was against me being alone outside, even when now have the domain, that I can open at any time. He said something about me being weak and slow and I stopped listening after that because my ego was hurt and now I am stuck Inside. So now I try again to understand magic and how to use it.

  Last time I was trying to store magic power somewhere inside my body but I ended up strengthening my body instead. Now that I have nothing to do, I start trying to store my magic power and get somewhere with my magic. five days pass without anything happening, and I just eat the food we caught earlier. I thought I was getting somewhere after 3 days but suddenly it stopped for some reason. Now I can't even feel any mana passing through me. Suddenly I panicked, if I made a mistake and somehow became unable to use mana, then I would be useless anymore.

  In that panicked state, my mind went through many ideas, something like I have fusion so I can depend on subordinates to a weakling who needed protection. I don't like being weak and someone protecting me at all times. I want to be strong enough to fight on my own. The flashback of the night that wolf attacked me came into my mind followed by the battle day after. I felt helpless. After hours of mulling, I thought if I can just sense mana, maybe I would still have some hope, but not at all. I couldn't sense anything. Not even a dot anywhere.

  Then I looked at where Illumi was fusing, contemplating how much I would need to depend on the subordinate now. Two more days pass and I am out of food. So I exit the domain, carefully, to find some prey to satiate my hunger. But maybe I unconsciously used my mana sense, I could now sense mana. As I was happy, now not crippled, I go on a hunt to get some food with my bow. After some immense concentration, and a lot of missed targets I get enough food for another week. And after I finished my hunting, I came back to the cave only to be surprised.

  Although I know that the opening to the domain can be changed by me, and I was outside the domain, the opening should still be in the cave, but somehow I can't see it. And then when I thought of opening it, it appeared again. I left this weird occurrence aside for now and went inside the domain. But now something weird happened again, now I could sense mana in the domain. I thought, maybe it was due to the domain that I failed to notice anything, but now I could sense mana inside the domain, albeit a bit slower. I ate some meat, after making a fire the old-school way, which by the way took 3 hours for me, even with my now superhuman strength.

  Now that I was getting nowhere with the storage of mana, I went ahead and used mana strengthening. 2 days passed and it happened again. I couldn't sense any mana. I couldn't think of any reason except that the opening so I think of opening the domain again. As I was about to exit, I felt a mana, very slightly around the entrance. It is when I realized that the opening is a way for mana to flow to the inside. There was no mana source in the domain and it would get used up if there is no opening.

  After that, I just thought of opening whenever the mana inside was insufficient. I also remember that people dried meat so that it lasts longer, and I tried it. It worked and, now I had enough food for a month.

  And finally, I sat down, this time determined to achieve something about mana. Then my thoughts drifted. What is storing mana? Is it stored in a body part, which acts like a container.? Or Do I need to make a core like Illumi? Even then how do I make a core? Do I make a part of my body into a core? If not, then should I just create a core? But how do I even create a core? Then I went back again to storing in my body. Do I store it in my stomach? Does it feel like eating food? Oh? Can I store it in each cell? But that would be everywhere. So I think of mana going everywhere and going into tiny particles everywhere in my body. Unknowingly some time passed. And finally, I did it. I could store mana inside my body. Where, simple everywhere.

  I store it in every nook and corner of my body. This time it felt different from strengthening, it felt as if mana stayed in me like it was where it should be. Suddenly I felt my stomach gurgle and ate a lot of dried meat. I stored water in one of the hides of the wolf we first ate, and it still has enough water for days. And finally, I look at my status.

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  Name: Prot

  Race: Human

  Tier: Apprentice 3

  Class: None

  Skills :

  [Heroes Cheats]: Growth and comprehension are greatly increased. Has the blessing of god who summoned them. Rank - SSS+

  [Fusion]: Fuse compatible dead bodies with oneself or subordinates. Subordinates can be created but have a max limit of 5. All subordinates are loyal to the host. Rank - indescribable

  [Swing] As you swing your weapon, from top to bottom, you make use of the full force of falling to generate a great blow. Rank F.

  [Mana Sense]: Sense the mana around you. Rank E

  [Mana strenghthening]: Absorb the mana into your body to increase the strength of your body slightly. The effect is permanent. Rank(D)

  [Determination]: Through practice, you increased your focus. This skill helps you to continue in your training. Neither hunger nor sleep holds you back. Rank B.

  [Concentration]: While you try to lock into the target with your bow, you tune out all the irrelevant information. Rank B.

  [Single shot]: You can hit a stationary target with 90% accuracy, irrespective of distance. Rank D.

  [Moving shot]: You can hit a moving target by following its trajectory with 50% accuracy. Rank E

  [Mana Storage]: You store mana in every nook and corner of your body. You have achieved a feat that was never achieved before. Rank SS.

  Subordinates :

  [Illumi]

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