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further.”
     
    “What are the Twelve Noble Houses and why have I started to change if I haven’t contracted my first pact? You told me tha-,” I was cut off by the frightening stare the dragon was giving me.
     
     “I agreed to answering your questions but I will not answer a stream of questions from an agitated Knight. Calm yourself and then I shall answer. Do you accept the terms?” asked Master in a commanding voice that hinted at annoyance.
     
    The dragon seemed upset as his tail twitched from side to side, and up and down. I thought it would be smart to agree with his terms.
     
    “I agree to your terms and I am sorry for angering you, Master,” I said calming down as the spike at the end of his tail struck a tree and almost brought it down.
     
    “I understand that you would be angered because of the secrets that I must keep from you, but you will eventually learn why it must be done. As for your questions, The Twelve Noble Families are the original twelve Dragon Knights that the dragons created. Since they were the strongest humans of their time, various countries gave them royal status and power in order to try and influence them for their own gains. These countries however, did not account for the years of training they had with dragons. After giving them their power, they turned on the countries that had once given them their status and political power, bending them into what became known as the Empire. The rest, as you humans say, is history. They brought about the Golden era for humanity and to this day they hold more power collectively than the very Emperor that rules over them.” He paused and waited for me to nod indicating I understood everything.
     
    “As for the reason you can complete spells that only Naturals and Nobles can… It is because even if you haven’t formed a deal, your body is constantly drawing power from dragons near you, in this case me. That is how we selected Dragon Knights because only through sensing our presence could they drain our power. Only a few humans can drain magic from us, the higher the drain, the greater their strength. You see, contrary to what most humans believe, magic is not drawn from within oneself, it is channeled by the mind from the world. Once you make your first deal you will be drawing power from the magical link that exists between the world and dragons. You won’t need dragons to be close to you in order to use their power once this happens. But no matter how many deals you create, you will always be less powerful than dragons that draw massive amounts of magic from the world, for our bond with this world exists since the beginning of time and has only grown stronger with the passing of the years. Don't ask me where the planet’s magic comes from because even us dragons have yet to discover its origin. However, it is believed that like all things in this world, the world itself is alive and magic is just an after effect of its massive life force.  All I can tell you for certain is that it’s tied directly into the life of dragons. When we die, our final resting place will not grow or sustain any sort of life for centuries to come. We believe it is the way the world mourns our passing.”
     
    “I don’t understand,” I said dumbfound.
     
    “It’s a hard concept to understand, especially when you haven’t been educated on subjects pertaining to the Knights and the magical history surrounding them. The simplest way of describing it would be, the world is a living creature and magic comes from it. Dragons have a strong bond with the world and Knights leech off this bond to obtain their powers.”
     
     “And you call that a simple way of describing it? I get it, somewhat, but then where do normal humans get there magical powers? And Elves and Irkanians?”
     
    “All from the same source, the world. The human bond has not been established for a long time; hence collectively humans are magically weak because the bond is not as strong.