What would you do under the fated Aries star? Shall you wish for fate or wish for nothingness.
My name is Isabel or formerly Isabel Noctrine, 13 years old and was born from the Noctrine Earl family under the Mizala Kingdom. I was once a talentless person with no abilities to mention.
It was a unwritten rule that talentless persons were deemed useless and most likely abandoned by the family.
The Noctrine family, a Earl house born from powerful sages were always under the impression of bringing powerful sages.
Inside the Noctrine family, ones with high magical prowess are highly sought and those with none shall be forgotten. I am the latter.
I was treated as non-existent, to abide by the law. We are given at the very least soup, bread and a bed, you slowly get numb to it and just live like it.
My case was different than normal, in this world. Spirits are existent creatures, since birth. I can see spirits of all kinds following me, people cannot exactly sense or see spirits without special eyes.
I was born with Spirit Eyes therefore allowing me to sense, contact and feel the spirits of the world.
You are unable to contract a spirit unless a form of contact such as exchange of words occur.
I wasn't able to speak with the spirits around me until I turned 11, I was kicked out from the house and was adopted by the orphanage. The orphanage was located in the Dukedom of Interia. The orphanage was slightly broken down but was in a much better condition than the orphanage back in the Noctrine territory. It was better living there compared to the Noctrine mansion, though I have to work from cleaning to being a waiter. On the side, I tend to practice wielding a sword from a retired adventurer on the orphanage.
It was around when I was running down the hallway when a spirit bumped into me.
Theoretically, spirits cannot bump into persons, the most case of them bumping into them tends to have the spirit pass through them.
My case was different, the spirit that bumped into me was a Queen-type Holy Spirit. Spirits are categorized by different ranking, the highest being Queen or King types with the lowest being Commoners.
Apparently, our wavelengths were compatible with the spirit and somehow bumped into me when she was chasing after a Darkness Spirit which was hiding behind me.
My curiousity struck me when I thought about how their skin feels therefore I asked "C-can i touch you". It sounded weird as I was also stuttering.
The spirits tilted their head in confusion but nodded anyways, I never knew that asking to touch a spirit is equivalent to asking a spirit to contract with you.
A spirit contract works by having a form of contact with a spirit in which both sides arguably agrees. Most spirit contracts tend to have conditions in which binds both the parties.
Once a contract is formed, memories or knowledge from both parties shall be shared as a form of trust and allowing both sides to telepathically contact each other.
Spirits shall lend you their powers in exchange for mana you send to them, it works by telepathically sending details of the magic from chant to imagery to the spirit and providing the mana in which the spirit works as a catalyst to activate the spell.
The spirit explained all of these to me the moment we formed a contract, and it took us a few weeks to adapt to each others capabilities.
I turned 12 years old when I decided to join the Adventurers Guild, the guild is a institution of people who takes requests as a form of job.
These jobs are at high risk but the rewards tend to be fair or better, for the past few months. I learned how to incorporate magic into my weapons, how to use mana and the rest from my spirit, one of the spells I created is a sword type spell in which I pour mana into the spirit and the spirit shall use a spell to incorporate to the weapon while handling the control of it.
The spell is destructive as I tested before as I went secretly to venture the Forest of Darkness to practice.
The Forest which is right next to the Dukedom territory is a large forest in which the trees cover almost all light sources earning it the nickname it has. It is the best place for monsters to gather and also the best place for practicing for me.
The moment I registered as a Adventurer, I took the opportunity to take requests for subjugation request on the Forest. Some adventurers laughed at me and some looked at me with pity as if I was going to die, I turned a blind eye to them and still accepted the requests.
I went to the Forest and searched for a red wolf with one horn, I tried activating presence sense when it detected two wolves and a boy with a limb lost.
I panicked as I never been into this situation before, I thought about my next course of action when one of the wolf was about to move.
I decided to help the boy out, and sent mana to my spirit in return for speed, I rushed through the trees and just a few seconds in came to the scene.
I jumped down and used my strongest spell, in which I rushed to slice off both wolves. I was exhausted, I turned to look at the boy.
The boy had one limb lost, black hair with golden eyes that attracts ones soul. His clothes were tattered with his hair disheveled. On his shoulder was a mark, nobles have a mark on the body with their family rank and logo. His mark had the words "Archduke" with two swords and a snake in the middle, it was the mark of the Archduke family Interia.
The boy suddenly spoke, "An angel."..
I thought to myself, what fate have I been caught on.
THE END.