Aurelius did not waste that time his son bought him at the cost of his own life.
He held on with a renewed vigor, the chains of contract becoming thicker in front of every one's eyes, sinking deep into the golden dragon.
The golden dragon kept ramming it's horn into the slug that lay atop Tom, trying to kill it.
However, it's like poking a knife straight into a paper wad.
It penetrates, but never makes it far.
The wound gets healed too fast.
Fortunately, it worked exactly like it's supposed to, giving Aurelius a chance to complete his contract with the golden dragon.
"Kill them all" The terrorist leader ordered.
"Kill them all! Kill them all!" The terrorists passed the command all over.
Five of them started a covering fire, using only minor attacks, the kind which will not take much mana, but harm people enough if they hit the target.
The rest gathered in the middle, and started a long chant.
That's not good, the people in the arena could tell.
The panic increased among the remaining students. Humans, beasts and otherwise all rushed away from the epicenter of conflict.
The animals squeaked in fright, their long ears taut as they sensed increasing ominous aura.
The humans definitely knew a long chant was never a small spell, thus started running pell-mell towards the other edges of the arena.
They overlapped each other, and created a weird sort of synchronization.
Even through all this, few questionably sane people remained in the arena, far too interested in how the fight ends.
Someone ought to tell these people how the curious cats died.
All the same, the chant progressed.
Abrakadreere lerelkeee mukweeooo kkklllooo..
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Abrakadreere lerelkeee mukweeooo kkklllooo..
Ominous dark clouds gathered atop the arena, exactly above the location of the golden dragon.
The dragon is slumped on the ground, with Aurelius slumped atop the dragon.
The little slug held it's master underneath itself, spreading all over him like a slime.
The clouds started rumbling very loudly.
There were few purple lightnings among the clouds.
Abrakadreere lerelkeee mukweeooo kkklllooo..
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Abrakadreere lerelkeee mukweeooo kkklllooo..
The rumbling increased ten fold!
Then, the chant stopped once more all of a sudden.
"Lightning tribulation." The man in the middle shouted, chopping his hand down like a mighty god.
Lightning rained down in the middle of the arena.
It was so blinding, even the blind men could see it for some time.
Many averted their eyes, fearing being blinded by the light.
Light of this strength could after all burn the eyes of beings with night vision!
Silence reigned all over once the lighting attack was finished.
In the utter silence, the golden dragon descended like a god from the skies, and swiped at the terrorist gang standing in rapture at their own handiwork.
In a moment, the entire stadium boiled over.
All the animals are still running away, but the humans stopped and returned to witness the scene.
The golden dragon is tamed by Aurelius Goldmedal.
Only, no one knows the fate of his son.
Except for himself.
The slug spread itself on his son like a blanket, completely protecting him from the lightning.
What's surprising is even that lightning was not enough to make any kind of dent in the slug.
It seemed to have absorbed all the magical energy in the lightning that touched it.
Even the golden dragon is singed and damaged in the lightning.
If not for the lightning burning the dragon fiercely, Aurelius would have returned to the scene faster.
However, even among this, the slug was able to protect his son.
'Well, the little bastard at least chose his beast right' Aurelius thought grudgingly.
He never much liked being proven wrong, and there wasn't a greater defiance than what Tom did till today.
He could have been informed of Fenton's treachery long before, but Tom chose not to inform him.
Rather, in a true prodigal son style, he chose to open it up in front of everyone, on the stage where a thousand other things could have gone wrong.
The situation stabilized with the help of school administration, and the government intervention.
The main castor who cast lightning tribulation has died.
The rest were taken into custody.
All in all, it's one good show.
Despite the original show being trashed completely, the students are incredibly hyped for the beast contract of Goldmedal corporation.
After all, Aurelius Goldmedal successfully contracted a golden dragon.
Yes, he did so after a great amount of trouble, but they needn't go for a powerhouse like Golden dragon.
One power level above their own would be perfectly possible and safe. This still will give them a great boost in their careers, money earning capacity, all around betterment of their future.
The gold medal mansion was silent in the night.
The congratulations are being received at the company headquarters.
Inside the mansion, the laboratory head met with Aurelius.
"What do you think?" Aurelius asked, looking at his son completely covered by the devouring worm.
"It's a truly fascinating specimen. Neigh undestroyable. However, the magic can not be extracted from this specimen. I wonder why?" The head researcher said, his eyes shining at the sample Aurelius let him retrieve.
In fact, this is not a fragment of the devouring worm like Aurelius and head researcher hoped for.
They were unable to cut the slug and retrieve part of its body no matter which method they used, including the tier 10 research scalpel made of mythril and adamantite.
So, they retrieved a newborn devouring worm egg, which has the ability to become part of any slug, and let it develop into an appendage, with a spirit energy separation.
When the devouring worm egg has absorbed sufficient properties, they separate off the egg, before it could become truly a part of the slug and become undetachable.
It's not a perfect material, but it will work for now.
"So, a beast synchronization potion. Are you sure? We are very near to finding cure to his magical resistance. Even if not a cure, we will be able to find a way for him to use magic externally. Once he uses this synchronization potion, his path in magic is closed forever." The researcher asked aurelius.
Aurelius looked at Tom, still covered by his slug, still breathing extremely shallowly on an oxygen ventilator.
"Yes, I am sure. Do it." He told the researcher.
Tom just did not have the ambition.
Unfortunately, he had too much courage.
In that case, rather than winning, Aurelius will have Tom survive.
As a father, he hoped his son would walk the same path of ambition and excellence as him.
While Tom is provided with all the necessary tools and encouragement, he just did not take to it no matter what.
One can lead a horse to water, but can't make it drink.
Aurelius clearly understood Tom will only ever choose the path opposite to the one he chose.
In that case, he will stop choosing any.
Let his son suffer without a goal and his own support for some time, then, only then will he extend his helping hand.
He tried the approach of raising a child, he did not succeed.
Now he will try the approach of raising an employee, and see what his son does.
However, during all this, he did not want his son to die.
Since Tom had the good fortune to choose one slug which stumped them all, let him resemble that slug to be a bottom crawler.
Let him see the true struggle of bottom crawler.
He has been raised too much in riches. Since he is so stubborn about being a nobody, let him struggle like a nobody and see how it suits him…
In two days, the completed beast synchronization potion is delivered.
Aurelius fed the potion to Tom by closing his nose.
Consent of his child to take the medicine and alter his body forever?
Bottom crawlers had no rights!
consequently, Tom had no rights!
From now on, he and his slug will resemble each other and crawl on earth together, getting beaten together and be in a world of pain forever!