This obscure views and shortsighted is is still a burdened to my perception but could do little to nothing to it. It can't be helped but pick up my glasses and look around.
I saw a small floating orb of light. and i know who it was. It was my friend, plune. A hybrid of wind and fire spirit. She's been with me ever since I saved her from the spirit hunters years ago in the cursed forest.
I grabbed something under my bed and a small wooden treasure trone grabbed by my hands. Not to expect anything from it's exquisite appearance. It do full of magical treasure but i considered it a container of spirit batteries. A sort of feed for my little spirit to keep her charged with magic although... It's a waste of useful materials. I heave a sigh and took a peculiar leaf shaped like a tail, it contains mana and i would have earn silvers if i have concocted it to potion. But plune magic is still indispensable in improving potion quality and in offensive power, specially in battles. I have done my mental training yesterday and now is the day of the week I tend to the usual, well. Run on a mill pharmacy.
Plune is my partner for many thing. She's with me for years now. Also she helps me with sleep well with her status effective magic (sleep). though there's a price to that. And you know. Consumption of magic items sigh. She's not bounded by me still we had a pretty good connection. Ever since I was a kid I had a unique ability to see (mana) and it's natural flows as well as supernatural entities that contains mana. Elemental spirits as such.
my ability to see unnatural things like spirits, was what made me able to make friends with them. To see them a normal person need to make contract with them. To make contract with them. One would them to garner their attention or to make them notice your presence as an interesting individual. Kind of a complicated stuff but it's not my problem. I saw plune flew out of the miniature house.
"ahh good morning plune , you look uhh.. Quite Energetic today, guess you had a good dreams last night"
"plune! Plune plune pluune.." she float in circles at me, i could feel the refreshing air shuffles my hair.
Suddenly I heard a loud dragon roars outside again. Seems like masters at it again huh..
suddenly someone shouted so loudly from the outside.
"you brat it's already 7'o clock in the morning!! Are you intending to sleep all day long?!" an old man voice echoed from the outside, akin to the voice of an hermit.
How annoying, I just got up and still unprepared. Also seems like master is back. He's not here yesterday I don't know where he went.
"what your not up yet? Come down and eat, you better not skipping in your training today!!" that old man shouted again, I just recently completed mental beholder imaging from that lonely, quiet, and sad cave with no one to talk to even plune can't enter. I'm still mentally exhausted! What's up with him. Shouldn't be the day I started to tend the shop?. Wait don't tell me he knew I had awakened?! Then that definitely make sense now.
But training? forget it I'll just take a nap in my comfy bed again. Just a few minutes of eye shut... As I lay down again, I totally forgot, that darn watch dog has actually just entered the room in unconventional way. Master had a summon pet dog that likes to bite(just me), the moment I realized it, a feeling of pain at my left leg occurs.
"aaaacck, you damn dog! Let go of my leg!!" i couldn't shaken this damn dog off I know it's stronger than me. I could only accept the fate of getting dragged by the dog downstair to the dining table where somewhat a delicious piece of meat is ready. Being dragged still hurts, but it's not as bad as first time. I'm just glad I'm still alive despite all that, i need to grow strong quickly so this dog would stop bullying me.
"y-you bad and ugly dog, you don't have to do that everytime!? I can just walk in in my own two legs while you do your thing and walk in four legs!!"
"roof!grr!! Woof!!" this guy's is saying it's his masters order to bring me here, he's still convincing me it's only doing it's job.
"so what? do you really have to torture me like that? No bone for you today!" he suddenly whimpers and look more tame, then suddenly he became ferocious it's as if suddenly want to pounce. I know what this little guy's trick, I won't be fool this time!
He suddenly jump out aiming to the table attempting to snatch my meal yet I swiftly took it away before it could even snatch. "now your stealing my meal again? No way I'll let you have this again" we did a little tug of war for a short while, chasing each other until I emerge victorious because my master whistle as he called felrurne, the damn wolf cub. Apparently my master's one of his many summons that has a bloodline of the great fenrir. My food is a bit sad looking now but it's still edible and good. That accursed dog, one day I will get a wolf familiar and make it beat the shit out of you. I gritted my teeth thinking about it
My masters cooking never betrays me despite the harsh and isolated training. It taste really delicious that even that damn picky dog covets. My only solace in that lonesome cave with only grain balls and water.
I finished my meal and wash myself up as I wore the most common clothe that I often wear, just the casual villager style.
As I gone out, really really bizarre things happened, just like now I'm seeing master teaching the dragon a lesson. Must've been that roars I've heard in early morning. This place is a sanctuary of monsters, it's a secluded place remade inside master's dungeon. Yes master's class was a (Dungeon summoner) or so he told me. Outside this dungeon is the human world, the surface. Master is one of those great summoners who manage to obtain and control a dungeon.
"oh orvel! Don't just stand there and come here" wait, that look at master's eyes don't tell me.. He just look a bit evil just now or was it my imagination?
"yes, master what's my training plan for today? You promised me that you'll teaching me the necessary things to become a great summoner once I awakened. Now I have awakened my job class just today!"
I spoked not minding the dragons shivering in fear. Once obtaining a job class, a unique crest of that specific job on either hand(left hand for me) will permanently be engraved, though it's process is still a mysterious thing questioning it's sudden appearance, like an unforeseen force putted it to someone of age. Just like that dream.
"you have? Hmm let me take a second look" he grabbed my left hand and examined the crest on the back of my hand.
"ho ho, you've grown up orvel. this is the (tamer) crest. I already told you about it. Do you remember what it is?"
"do you mean, the beginner class? The very foundation of all advancement job class"
Master did told me about it. There is supposed to be 4 main job foundational class in blumilia. tamer, weapon bearer, craftsman and mana manipulator. Ever since the dissappearance of mana, mana manipulator job dissappeared alongside it. They are the most basic job to choose, job class are like tree branched out from the roots to its leaves. The tamer job is the least amount of path to choose, unlike others it only had 2, beast master and the summoner.
"ho ho, did you have fun during the awakening?"
"it was not nothing but a short trance, why do master making a big deal about it"
Awakening appear during the time I was mental training in the cave, it was like being pulled in a strange world filled with darkness. Then an unknown voice echoes, questioning what path will i take. I did not gave a grand reason but just an honest answer pertaining the path I was destined. And then suddenly a vacuum devouring the darkness appeared, it devoured it whole in an instance and it brought me back to reality. It formed the smallest orb and it seep into my bare hand, imprinting a sliver of knowledge of the first skill I had and it also left a crest in my hand, attaining my class.
"ho ho about that, i almost forgot about the necessary things in order for us to start, can you retrieve it for me?" he really do spoke like an old hermit, I also think he's growing senile.
Good thing, it's not what I think it was. even though fighting dragon is rather interesting, I'm still weak to survive a minute against a dragon attack. I might turn into fried orvel if I did.
My eyes still sparked in deep interest. excited about master's summoners techniques. ever since I received my tamer class. I only learned it's common and primary skill, (Tamer contract). It's the most common. And most natural.
the rest more summoning related skill is not something to learn and gain instantly. But by learning it from others or learn and realize it yourself. Still learning advanced skills needs it's proper foundation. Ofcourse, fire doesn't burn without air and fuel, mastering air and fuel creation will allow me to master fire creation. Some basics of magic that is lost.
The skill (Tamer contract) is a contract agreement between a summoner and a monster, implementing the pact of deep trust and loyalty to the contractor(tamer). It's still sucks, it's not even force contract, the contractee(monster) still have the right to refuse, although if it accepted. I will still gain it's absolute obedience but I heard from master that it has its cons, 1 a monster willingness to accept the contract. 2 if loyalty and trust drops at most 30%, the contracted monster might rebel and goes against the it's master's will. This cons doesn't work on force contract. The difference of the two is like a slave and servant contract.
Master always tell me to maintain my trust and affection to my future companions. Their strength will be my strength.
"but master what did you forget in the house? i can grab it real quick!" i act dumb despite knowing 'where' he really want me to go. Though it's no use.
"orvel, not in the house, can you retrieve magic stroll in our shop at the surface world, blumilia?"
I was wrong, that made me nervous for some reason as I heave a sigh, i thought he would again send me to outerworlds.
If it's on drowlocke street, pharmacy luminus. The one master established with two goal of earning money by selling herbs with healing properties and concocted medicine that master and i made, i already mastered what master taught me about herbs and other ingredient for an healing potion, or other types of potion. It's not necessary banned since there's a lot selling potions like that damn holy order.
"it isn't hard master. But if it's all I will go now" since there's only a door that leads directly to the shop, the basement door. Also connected to these place. I also has to tend the shop there so I won't be doing cave training.
"Hold your horses orvel, im not done speaking. can you also go to ashenstrum peak to obtain the wand I requested from the blacksmith there?"
To the ashentrum peak? There isn't any place like that in blumelia... Wait. Just thinking about it making me nervous, I know i was not wrong. Is it the source of the bad feeling I had?.
"master, don't tell me your making me go to the outer worlds?"
"I know you understand it my boy, I also have an erran-" I interrupted him and replied in haste.
"b-but master, isn't making me go to the outer worlds too much unless, your coming with me and use your teleportation magic, your coming, aren't you?" no way do I have to delve into the unknown just to get into ashentrum peak! The path their is deeply dangerous and perilous. If I just walk it out from the starting point until I reach long road towards the destination. Even blumelia's legendary dragon is just a little lizard In front the outerworlds monster!