The Villainess Is My Cute Daughter

"Fine." Adrian said. "We can do that, but just go get some rest for now. You look exhausted... and since I’m busy with other things, we will start the training process after Aria’s birthday party is totally done. I want to focus entirely on that for now."

"Okay." Serena agreed.

She stepped out of the circle and gave him a polite bow before turning toward the stairs without another word.

Adrian followed right behind her.

And once they hit the main floor, they just went their separate ways. Serena headed down the right corridor to her guest room while Adrian took a left to his master bedroom. He walked inside and locked the door.

But he didn’t even bother taking his boots off.

He just used his Dungeon Link and teleported into his dungeon. Adrian walked over to the stone chair he had made earlier and collapsed right into it, letting out a long, heavy sigh.

’System.’ Adrian commanded in his mind. ’Open status screen.’

[Status Screen]

Name: Adrian Sterling

Title: Baron

Knight Rank: E Rank

Mage Rank: Third Circle

Mana Veins: D rank

Daddy Status: Papa

Demonic Blessing: Dungeon Master

Divine Curse: Pacifist’s Shackles

Dragon’s Blessing: Draconian Mana Heart

Skills:

Gust (D), Telekinesis (B), Frost (E), Pain tolerance (D), Self Healing (D), Dad Strength (SSS), Daddy’s Love (SSS), Daddy’s Spanking (SSS), Dungeon Link (SSS)

Adrian tried to look at the description of Draconian Mana Heart but nothing came up.

So he decided to ask the system directly.

’System.’ Adrian thought. ’Do you know anything about this skill?’

[Insufficient information.]

[Suggesting the host to experiment by using spells or any actions that require mana.]

Adrian let out a sigh.

He focused his mind and used the one spell he had been practicing non stop since he arrived in this world. Telekinesis. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

’Dungeon.’ Adrian commanded. ’Give me an iron ball. Make it exactly three kilograms in weight.’

Soon, an iron ball materialized on the stone floor right in front of him.

Three kilograms was the weight limit of his telekinesis at the moment. Normally, to lift something this heavy, he had to put in of his focus. He would have to grit his teeth and push his mana to the absolute limit just to get it off the ground.

He raised his hand and made a cloth like thing out of mana before sending it towards the ball. The sheet of mana flew below the ball and stopped.

Then, he raised his hand upward.

And the metal ball shot up into the air like it didn’t have that much weight.

Adrian blinked. He stared at his raised hand and then looked at the floating iron ball.

"Wait, what?" Adrian said out loud.

He flicked his wrist. The three kilogram iron ball shot across the room instantly.

He dragged his hand in a circle, watching the heavy iron ball spin around his body with almost no resistance. It felt ridiculously light. It was basically like a guy who normally struggled to curl twenty kilogram dumbbells suddenly picking them up and tossing them around like tennis balls.

Because he felt like he could literally play catch with it right now.

Adrian grinned widely as he rode the high of being overpowered.

He dropped his hand and the iron ball crashed into the stone floor with a loud thud.

"Let’s try the other one." Adrian said.

He raised his palm toward the empty wall, gathered his mana and prepared to cast his second favourite spell. He used Gust at its absolute maximum power.

He compressed the air right in front of his palm and fired it forward.

Until now, casting Gust felt incredibly weak. He could barely feel the recoil and the air just sort of moved forward like a strong breeze. Compressing it helped a lot but there was a limit to how much weight it could push, which meant that he couldn’t really shoot heavy things.

But this time was totally different.

A loud, violent boom hit his ears. The compressed air blasted forward like a literal cannonball and slammed right into the solid stone wall. Then it rebounded with so much force that it actually smacked Adrian and made his hair and clothes flutter backwards.

He couldn’t do much other than squint his eyes as it hit him.

"How?" Adrian muttered softly.

He immediately pulled up his system interface.

’Show me my current mana capacity.’ Adrian ordered.

[Mana: 400/400]

Adrian frowned at the number.

Four hundred mana was the exact limit for a third circle mage. A first circle mage had one hundred. A second circle had two hundred, and a third circle made had exactly four hundred mana inside their mana heart. At least if they reached the limit of their circles.

He genuinely thought his mana capacity had increased, but the number still clearly showed four hundred. He had thought that the Draconic mana heart was another magical organ inside his body that gave him more mana like the regular mana heart but now he felt like his expectations had been crushed.

"Okay." Adrian said to himself. "I do not know what is going on here. I do not even know what else I can test."

He looked back at the blue screen.

’I used the spells like you suggested.’ Adrian told the system. ’So can you tell me what is actually going on?’

[Affirmative.]

[Based on the collected data, the Dragon’s Mana Heart grants the host a higher natural affinity with the ambient mana in the surroundings.]

Adrian just stared at the screen.

’I do not really know what natural affinity means.’ Adrian thought. ’Just give me some practical examples.’

[Affirmative.]

The system paused for a second before it smacked him with multiple paragraphs of explanations.

[A knight can only circulate mana inside their own physical body. They cannot interact with the natural mana existing in the atmosphere. There is a common misconception regarding high ranking knights that A rank knights and above can project their internal mana outside their bodies to coat their weapons. This is commonly known as an Aura Sword.]