FRANCIS ESTTEMORT'S POINT OF VIEW
The day was incredibly clear, looking up I could see some clouds in the blue sky above us, even though it was autumn, the day was really beautiful, the weather was nice, the sun was shining and its rays hitting my face brought me a feeling of peace.
We were galloping non-stop for almost a day, on a small route of roads that would take us to the edge of the great black river, in less than a day we would reach our destination after that, the descent of the black river would be smooth. and calm, and it was what I wanted, no more problems for now.
I found myself distracted watching between the trees of the dense forest that surrounded us. My eyes quickly focused on something, was there something there, a wolf? No, it was brilliant, it shone brightly with silver light. A bestial spirit? Even if it were, he wouldn't show himself to us if he didn't want to. Then I realized that the creature looked at me, looked into my eyes, it was as if it saw inside my soul, it was as if it evaluated me. I pressed the spur on Koshi and pulled the reins causing him to neigh and lift the front hooves quickly, fixed my eyes on the creature in the hope of not losing sight of it, maybe if I took my eyes off it, it would disappear. I saw Henry out of the corner of his eye looking at me and turning his mule named Patrie to find himself beside me, seeing that I had stopped. He then stood beside me and followed my gaze to the silver quadrupedal creature that still looked in my eyes, I saw Henry's eyes widen and whisper to me:
"what the hell? what in the name of god is that?"
"I have no idea, a bestial spirit perhaps?" I replied, trying to hide my doubt even bigger than his.
"If this thing is a bestial spirit, we should try to get closer and make a pact, if it has shown itself to us it is because it wants something from us, you know, bestial spirits don't always come out of nowhere. "
Considering his hypothesis, I got off Koshi's back, taking care not to make a mistake, I walked step by step until I found myself five meters from the creature.
I ventured to blink, when my eyes opened the beast was instantly in front of me staring at me with big blue eyes divided by lines of cat eyes, the creature seemed to look at my right hand where my gauntlet was, specifically where the sapphire was trapped in it, i looked at my hand too, and at that moment luminescent blue particles seeped from the creature towards my gauntlet, the particles entered the sapphire in my hand, the sapphire shone brightly as the beast continued to look at me, unreal pain radiated from the palm of my hand as it went up my arm, I fell on my knees, bright blue runes rose from my right hand to the shoulder, my head hurt intensely when I fell on the ground holding my fist, while I felt the vast magical energy radiating through each molecule of the my body, I saw Henry shouting my name, but I couldn't hear him, my pain spoke louder, I swallowed saliva and stifled a heartfelt cry as the pain subsided it disappeared. Was that a pact? A lineage pact? It was not possible, the lineage pacts are only possible with an invocation ritual. Wait! Was that the bestial spirit in my family? No, my family's spirit is shaped like a baby blue dragon. So what is it? What the hell is that energy? It is as if thousands of doors are opening inside my soul. No, it is as if thousands of minds have entered mine.
Opening my eyes again, I noticed the pain subsiding, and I managed to organize my thoughts again, beside me was Henry holding me with a face of panic, and the beast still standing in front of us, I looked at her again, and it was as if she I shook my head mentally approving my look. No, I felt that she approved of me mentally, the creature then simply turned its back and left, then while walking towards the forest, I saw, its tail was gone, I wonder if that was what a few seconds ago almost killed me.
This was not a lineage pact. A lineage pact occurs only when someone who has no magic performs an invocation ritual to attract a bestial spirit from a parallel plane called the astral plane, when the rules of the agreement are established with the spirit, the person merges with the beast, and the person who previously had no magic obtains all the magical powers and affinities of that spirit, and that consequently all his descendants inherit that same magical affinity, yet the person does not receive the knowledge of how to perform magical energy. It takes years of study for someone with a pact to do magic.
I looked at my friend who had a face of total confusion and was staring at me for almost a minute, I still got up a little dizzy using him as a support, then I told him:
"close your mouth before a mosquito enters."
He looked at me perplexed with frowns in total disagreement and said to me:
"what the fuck was that?"
"I have no idea, help me climb Koshi to go" I put my hand on my horse and mounted it. Then he opened his mouth again and said:
"Ah! One more thing, I think I'm a wizard now,"
"WHAT?" he asked me as he shook me by the collar of my shirt.