A new friend

When he tried to interact with the spirit qi of a nearby wolf it turned into an invisible string that attached itself to his finger.

Like a puppet this string gave him complete control of the wolf, he could even see thru its eyes. Intrigued Dean made the wolf walk around the forest, looking closely at am dancing imp.

Assuming that being able to feel this demonic spirit qi and create strings was related to the effect of the fruit on helping him reach spirit rank Dean started to create a bunch of strings, tangling them into a ball of concentrated demonic qi.

He could fell his demonic qi concentrating more and more as he put more string in it. Soon he could even see the small black ball in his giant hand instead of just feeling, I looked like made it was made of tar.

"So this is how you become a spirit master, concentrate all your spirit qi into a single point, create a core to your soul".

The ball of unholy energy became bigger and bigger, Dean pushed it in the air, and it floated there as it became bigger than his gigantic body. Turning into something so concentrated that its core turned solid.

Dean wondered how powerful would an attack be if used the energy from his core "I could probably kill that wolf with a single attack, albeit if he used that glowing form before I attacked it would be a bit more difficult. But if I used the energy from the center even his second form would not do much".

When he was finally done, the core had two times his height, he looked at it for a little while then went back to his body. Instantly he felt completely different, his body felt as light as a feather, filled with power, all his senses more sharp.

Murray smiled "Careful, don't move too much, wait for your senses to get used to it all.

Let me be the first to congratulate you on reaching the spirit rank. The first task I will be giving you is to relax, go have some fun".

"What? Shouldn't I train? Get used to my powers?".

"You can always do that later, you are fourteen, go have some fun, throw a party to celebrate. There is no lack of cold old man who just cultivate all day in this sect, we don't need more of them.

Also take this, you are not an inner disciple yet, but as my disciple you are authorized to use the sect crest and walk around the inner city". Out of his spatial storage Murray took a black suit just like his, with the sect crest stamped on the left chest and back.

"Thank you mu, master".

"Not need to thank me, I only want is best for you. I have already transferred some pocket change to you, buy yourself a new phone and add me on Goldnet.

Most of the time I am busy with sect related matters or family matters, but I will make some free time for teaching you.

Talk with Randy the stables master if you want transportation, the sect is very big walking around is a big waste of time".

Murray bid Dean farewell and left to take care of important sect matters, he had already delayed more than he should have.

Dean laid in the bed and begun to think on what to do now "He said for me to go have some fun, but I don't really have any friends right now. Mary dint sent me a single message since the incident and I can't really talk with Tony anymore because of Janet.

Maybe I should just go to the arena, I can have some fun watching some fights".

Putting on the extremely comfortable suit, which adjusted to his size, Dean asked a maid for help and went to a stable with a few spirit animals.

He approached a tall half-bull man, with the aura of a spirit emperor master, a strong build, brown fur covering his body and two curved gray horns that was feeding a black winged horse.

Without even looking at Dean the man said "Are you the new disciple of the patriarch? Want a ride?"

"Yes and yes, want to go to a store to buy a new cellphone then go to the arena".

"Do you know how to ride a flying animal or do you want me to take you there?"

"I have no idea, so yeah I would appreciate if you took me".

"Its a very useful skill, you should learn when you have the time. Do you have some money to pay for the ride or do I bill it to the patriarch".

"Master did gave me some…" Dean paralyzed when he saw the number in his card, his mouth agape.

"I guess you will pay. So snowball or fire fang?" Said the half-bull pointing at a huge white rabbit, with two deer antlers and a pair of white wings, and at a red wyvern, which woke up when it heard his name.

Feeling a bit of a connection with the fire wyvern Dean said "Fire fang I guess?"

"Affinity with the fire element huh, wait here I will go get its saddle. Don't trust it, it will try to bit your hand off". Leaving Dean confused the man started walking towards a room with a tall double door.

Dean approached the red wyvern, its aura stronger than the reptile wolf, it had a long neck, and big red scales. It lowered his head close to Dean, seemingly wanting him to pet it.

"I see what it meant by that, what a sly creature" he took a step back. Seeing his plan was not going to work the wyvern stopped caring about Dean and laid back in its huge pillow bed.

Suddenly the voice of Roger came to his ears "I knew I would find you here, welcome to the family Dean, nice suit".

Dean smiled slightly and walked closer to him, saying "Hey Roger, how are you?".

"I am good, did you enter the spirit rank? Congratulations buddy, you can officially join the crew now".

"Yes I did, I will have to decline the invitation though".

"Yeah, yeah, sorry, sorry, I heard what happened, such a shame. But don't worry there are a lot of beauties out there, now that you are my father disciple you will have a ton of propositions.

Anyway where are you going? I have some free time, mind if I join you?".

"Sure, I am going to buy a new phone then go to the arena drink and watch some fights".

"Great! No better combination to take the mind of things. There is also this birthday party of a friend of mine happening tonight, we can go there after if you want to".

"Sure why not, I am not supposed to train". As he talked he looked to the side, seeing the huge bull man easily carrying a saddle twice his size.

Roger greeted him all happy "Hey Randy, you can leave the flying for me".

Randy shrugged "Sure, its better for me. Just let me put the saddle".

Having done it a thousands of times before Randy rapidly put the saddle on fire fang, the wyvern not showing even a little bit of its earlier slyness in front of him.

Randy warned "Don't pet him or he will think you are below him and will stop obeying you, don't leave him alone or he may bit someone hand off, he can only take two people, say what I just said to whoever is going to take care of him in the arena and bring him back safe".

Roger said happily "Sure thing Randy, here is your payment with a little extra because I am happy today. Lets go Dean!". Dean and Roger got up on the saddle, fire fang becoming a lot more obedient with it on, and flew out

As they flew in the sky Roger asked "Some of the elders said that you defeated a spirit beast while in the mortal rank, is it true?".

"More or less, if your father dint show up I would have died. By the way thank you, if you need anything that is in my reach please ask me".

"No need to be all polite with me, you should really thank Janet, she was the one that called me".

"Yeah, won't be doing that anytime soon. Anyway what kind of present should I buy to this friend of yours?".

"She is alchemist so some ingredients are always a good choice, lets stop at the mall we can buy a phone and the gift".

They soon reached a mall that looked like a huge wale with huge scales, they left fire fang on a stable, not forgetting to instruct about his hand eating tendency.

As they walked thru the mall Dean asked "Are all malls sea themed?"

"In the main city yes, it was the sea dragon clan that build them, all their big building have a sea theme, one is even below water. Do you want to buy the phone first?"

The two walked the mall for more than an hour, buying what they wanted and attending a show of dancers that was happening. Dean ended up filling his ring with ingredients for potions, but still barely spending a tenth of the money Murray gave him,.

Learning from Dean earlier reactions, Roger stopped mentioning anything related with Janet and managed to start to form a friendship with Dean.