Dawn Of Twilight

Thanks to all that beatings and guides, before he could fully heal himself, Tobi quickly started to feel the bottlenecks, and soon he felt the black impurities were trying to find their ways around his Mana core like little maggots.

As Tobi realized what was happening, he quickly undressed himself so as not to stain his clothes, even though it was nothing more but rag.

This time with Horus overseeing him, he suffered no resistance. Discovering that it wasn't so painful after all, Tobi expelled far more impurities than the previous times, letting them all out from his pores and orifices.

The stench was so bad that he would have fainted, if not for Horus constantly providing natural Mana beside him. After removing so many impurities from his body, he was completely exhausted together with that of the training he felt like sleeping in a warm bath.

"After a bath, I swear I could eat a whole mansion filled with meat."

Horus ignore Tobi's remarks, as he stared at him.

"It is exactly as it seems, whatever changes that is happening to you. Is like a piece of metal, getting forge into a divine weapon and tempered at the same time, surprisingly your potential is skyrocketing.

"Now compared to the previous Pride Dracula, you far more stronger than even when he was at your age. Though, you still need to work harder to develop your skills, even though you are stronger it was bȧrėly by an edge."

"Thank you, Horus for your help and hints," Tobi replied sincerely, while his eyes were closed.

"I didn't do anything, young master is overpraising me.' Horus replied with a smile as he stares at Tobi's figure.

Horus stared at him, as though he was searching for him. His expression was a bit dark, while Tobi had his eyes closed with his legs crossed, he secretly stole a glance at his body from the top to bottom.

'There is something wrong with young master.' While they were in their training section, he sensed something suddenly changed about him and exponentially bust of strength.

Because of that, he took longer to dissipate the fog around them, also he was surprised to see that he had easily spotted his figure amid the thick hazy fog but he didn't show it on his face.

The strangest part about it was, he notices his pupils suddenly turned dark gold.

'Master might have awakened, one of the ten thousand Ancient egos.' He thought as he remembered his extraordinary feat of simultaneously using about four elemental Mana easily.

And so, Horus and Tobi continued their martial arts routine until his coronation.

Almost five had passed and overall, many things had changed.

Four years ago, when Tobi was six years he had received the moon Goddess divine blessing, and with the passing of the years.

He had changed deeply, in terms of his physical appearance and mana core, despite having yet to become twelve years old he was almost 1.7meters(5.3)tall. His thin and bonny build was now a mere memory.

He now had broad shoulders, his muscles were very well developed but not to the point of being ripped, rather Athletic chiseled. With the constant training sections he and Horus had, even though he didn't plan to stand out much nor become bulky, Tobi still gain the unique fitness of a Holy human soldier.

He was very content with a far from an average build and a body that was able to react instantly, according to his will. Apart from that his mana core was now crystalline Rank 2 Hybrid awakened, no longer a Rank 1 vapor, he was now halfway through the Rank 3 stage that would precede the next evolution.

A mana core on the strong end of the spectrum had proven to be much stronger than the previous ones, but at the same time, it put a much stronger burden on Tobi's body. He had reached a bottleneck that couldn't be overcome with training or study which was what Horus started.

Only after hitting his growth spurt, his body would become strong enough to allow him to refine further the mana core to the level. Before such an event, the use of Mana Accumulator would bring to him nothing but pain and no benefits.

(AN: Mana Accumulator is the breathing technique that allows Tobi to absorb the world energy into his mana core, making it grow stronger through expansion and shrinking cycles, but now it goes between three stages from Vapo, liquid and crystalline with each mana core expansion and shrinking circles.)

Also, now with his status as a noble, the clothes he wore had become luxurious embroidered with crest of a noble either on the shoulder or the ċhėst pocket, Horus made full use of this newfound authority to teach him about elegance and etiquette a Dracula most possess as highest noble blood.

The does and don't of a noble was the only thing he would be allowed to learn, except from their training, Horus would always strictly teach him all the kinds of stuff of a Dracula.

Seeing Horus glare at him, if he used the wrong hands in the dining or his daily nagging had become a common occurrence to him. By having him constantly pest him about the rules of etiquette, one way or the other he started to grow accustomed to it.

It was only thanks to Horus nagging about his coronation, Tobi could even recall one or two things about being a great Pride Dracula, previously the idea of him wearing red wine velvet vintage gothic Victorian would have been preposterous to him.

Inside, though, Tobi had changed very much. He was becoming a cynical, mistrustful broken man most especially since he lost his family, he had no real friend or loved one outside Horus.

Having growing accustomed to the alone lifestyle, training every day learning about the dark secrets of the world from Horus, had further rooted his belief in his mind, even the new world which had taken away his only family from him, was a plaque he had to control and by only strength, he could free himself of the shackles it had on him.

His only real friend was Horus, and despite all his attempts speaking about being merciful and forgiving and that it was an attitude of being a good leader, he had not been able to change Tobi's belief even one bit without him being aware of it.