Aisrins new owner, Trilla Bon Thorn, was a rich noble woman. She was also a researcher, on slave marks. Aisrin had been in her possession for nearly eight months.
The entire time, he was used as a test subject. Her goal was to be the only person who knew how to remove the mark. There was no noble reason, she just wanted to do it.
"I've almost made a breakthrough! You see this symbol here, the swirl within the numeral right here. This, I believe, is meant to keep mana from circulating. It just traps it in the body, and absorbs from the air to keep the subject alive! But, I don't know if the mana is ever released. It could explain the constant energy slaves tend to have... Oh, there's so many possibilities!" Trilla always seemed excited when she found out even the smallest detail into the mark.
Aisrin never showed emotion beyond annoyance or anger, but around Trilla, he showed nothing. He simply sat, stood, laid down, or whatever he needed to do, as uncaring as he possibly could.
"You know eight months is a long time, and yet I have never heard you speak. I'm sure you do, to the other servants. But you seem to just distance yourself around me." Trilla continued. Aisrin looked at her, void of emotion, and looked back down at the mark.
"Still choosing silence... I could order you to speak..." Trilla began to ponder.
"I'd greatly prefer to remain silent." Aisrin replied simply.
"You have quite an attractive voice. You should use it more." Trilla continued.
"Why are you nice to me? I'm a slave, shouldn't you be disgusted?" Aisrin still had biased views, even though Trilla had never treated him too poorly. He even wore nice clothes.
"Because I want to." Trilla replied with her signature line. Aisrin was her only slave. The rest were servants. A status just above slaves. The only difference was the treatment. Yet Aisrin was treated equally if not better than a servant. From that point on, Aisrin and Ttilla would have these short conversations during Trillas research, that soon would become experiments.
*Three months later*
Trilla had officially began doing experiments on the slave mark. Her first attempt was a failure and resulted in the incapacitation of Aisrin. The second also failed. resulting in Aisrin being unable to eat.
The third was semi successful. Yen percent of the mark had faded, giving Aisrin emotions he realized had been sealed. Mostly just sadness and a sense of justice.
"I think if I try to erase this symbol here, I can recirculate the mana in your body, if you can even use magic that is." Trilla dipped her finger in the black liquid, similar yet different compared to the liquid used for the mark itself. Somehow this liquid had the property to erase, or really, overwrite the mark ink with about a 33% success rate.
"I can use magic. It's just been awhile." Aisrin replied. Trilla nodded and then began drawing over the part of the mark. It took hours of excruciating pain and diligence. It began to look like a failure, until Aisrin suddenly felt the most familiar and comforting feeling of warmth. The breezes of mana.
As soon as Trilla removed the symbol, mana exploded forth from Aisrin, blowing both of them away from each other.
(PSI rebooted
Name: Sin Age: 17
Job: No Set Job Title: Lycan Slayer+3more
(3 Jobs Available)
Lv: 47 EXP to next Lv up: 56267
HP: 4398/4398 MP: 12849/12849
STR: 146 VIT: 147
AGT: 124 INT: 114
SEN: 112
Pre-Existing Skills:
Magic Swordsman Lv 24
Mage Lv 24
Swordsman Lv 27
Updated Skills:
Dagger wielding Lv 13
Silent Strike Lv 5
Aquired Skills:
Fire Bolt Lv 5: Charged Fire magic compounded into a ball and shot like a bolt. AOE- 45m
Limit Break Lv 2: Double all stats for five minutes. Awakens all primal instincts for increased reaction time. Use- once every week.
Takeover Lv 2: Become the Shadow Lord for five minutes. Use- Once a month.
Lightning Clad Lv 7: Don the lightning spirits cloak for high speed and impenetrable defense. AGT +14.
Wind Blade Lv 3: With mana gathered in the user's weapon strike with a Sprites breath to slice the enemy. Distance effective up to 30 feet. Width 5 feet.
Sneak Lv 8: Become the background, 40% harder to detect.
Observe Lv 4: See the Name and stats of opponents and objects.)
Aisrin stared at his stats. Amazed. He hadn't realized that he had leveled up so dramatically. He was confused on why his name was wrong and why his Job had changed.
"Oh wow, you are overflowing with mana. So my theory was correct! The mana is never released nor circulated, it's just absorbed and retained constantly. I wonder what level you were before you became a slave... you must have experienced an exaggerated leveling from the forced increase in mana." Trilla was dusting herself off as she went on a tangent about her theory. Aisrin was more than overjoyed with the return of his magic.
"You can say that I went through something." Aisrin replied.
"You know, it might be a bit late in asking, but, this mana seems a fair bit refined, so can I inquire as to why you became a slave?" Trilla asked.
"Its a long story." Ausrin warned, he was happy enough to share his story, after all, he just recieved quite the compensation.
"Well, we have time." Trilla urged. Aisrin sat across from her and told her his tale. Starting from when he found out his job, all the way to the betrayal he recieved via the princess, and the loss of his friends.
"I suppose you really want to be freed from this mark then... Hmm. How about this. I love revenge, I do. But, if I release you from that mark, how about you stay here for a few years? Level up even more. After all, you'll be goin against a kingdom if not a continent. Strategically, I believe that would benefit you yeah?" Trilla offered her opinion.
"I never planned on going back right away... But I agree. The problem, lies in how I'll get away with training." Aisrin countered with his logic.
"You're my property. So you can do as you please with my permission. And, this gives me si much more insight to the mark. And, I just want to help you. Because I want to." Trilla ended with her signature line. So between Ausrin duties and experimental sessions with Trilka, he added training back into his routine.
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*Please comment if I need to add more details or not to this chapter. I will be smoothing it out at least, tomorrow. I'm just worn out from work and wanted to get this chapter out. Comment opinion please, I can fix if I need to!*