Viktor explained to Ast his hypotheses, and although it seemed a little far-fetched Ast gad to agree that there might be some merit in Viktor's theory.
It was a lot to digest but Ast didn't ponder on it for long. Ast decided to just move forward and face whatever challenges may come his way. Ast again chanted his tribe's mantra to calm himself.
'Assassins are the apostles of death and thus cannot shy away from it. Death should not be feared as it is the final salvation. Death is the quick release while the burdens are carried by the living'
Ast noticed that something was vibrating and releasing bursts of energy inside his storage ring. He looked inside and brought out a huge egg from his ring. The egg was vibrating a bit and very fine cracks were starting to appear on its surface.
Viktor saw the egg and felt the powerful bursts of energy coming from the egg, he immediately knew that the beast was trying to come out of the egg and from the energy it radiated it was a rather powerful beast.
"Master you must drop your blood on the egg and form a pact with the beast otherwise, if it comes out without a pact then it would be hard to subdue it.
The beasts were different from the other races. Beasts took time to grow their intelligence but to counter that they were given awesome powers from birth itself. They were given the talent at their birth and did not need to visit the temple to awaken their talent. Other races have always been desiring the power that the beasts hold and were always eager to form pacts with beasts with powerful bloodline or talent.
To form a pact with a beast inside an egg only require some blood but it was not true if the power difference between them was high. Then a beast could also be subdued when it is still a child in the growing phase but that could only be done by the tamers or people with such talents. And lastly, it was very hard to make a pact with an adult beast.
Ast didn't waste any time and used his right hand to draw blood from his left. He poured much more than a few drops over the egg. Sensing the power contained in the blood, the beast inside the egg readily devoured his blood and started shaking a bit as if asking for more.
Ast complied with its request and fed some more blood to the egg. After a while, the egg hatched and a small white chubby fox came out, it was resting on its back with its stomach towards the sky and it had a small bulge on its stomach as if it had a delicious meal.
The small fox was not even half of the size of its egg and it looked absolutely adorable.
Ast then heard a unique feminine voice in his head, the voice was that of a child stuttering a bit while speaking.
" What's your name?", Ast had a feeling that this was the same fox speaking to him so he told her his name.
"Oh Ast that's a good name, give me a good name as well"
Ast was silent for a moment and then replied "Luna"
"Hmm Ast and Luna, I love it, from this day onwards we will be a team okay Ast" replied Luna
This whole conversation took place via telepathy hence Viktor didn't know what was happening.
Ast turned toward Viktor and asked him "Viktor what kind of beast could talk to someone via telepathy?"
Viktor was rooted to his spot how many surprises would this master of his give him?
"Master if the beast had a conversation with you then it was not via normal telepathy. I think this beast is a spirit beast, which is known for its intelligence which starts to show from the moment of its birth. These beasts could converse with their masters via direct mind link and often share their soul power with you and vice versa"
"But Viktor she addresses me by my name, not by some honorific like you, and she doesn't like you calling her a beast, her name is Luna" said Ast.
Viktor was again surprised by the turn of events now he was thinking to himself that maybe he should prepare himself to be calmer otherwise he would be shocked to death by his master.
Luna addressing Ast by his name meant that she was a very powerful beast as she had her pride and treated Ast as an equal. Maybe that's why she hated Viktor calling her a beast.
Ast picked Luna up and brought her close to his face to see her eyes which were deep blue in colour. Luna licked his cheeks and then snuggled her head on his cheeks.
Ast was amused by her antics and kept her on his head. Luna was very small in size and soon became comfortable on Ast's head. Ast's hairs have already turned white which acted like a good camouflage for Luna.
Ast then noticed Luna's talent and was very pleased and a bit surprised by what he saw. Luna had an SS grade talent 'The Illusionist'
The Illusionist lvl1:
1. Nightmare trap lvl1
Ast told Viktor about Luna's talent and Viktor was confused learning about a talent which he had never seen in a beast and that too an ss grade talent which meant that Luna's proficiency with the talent was high and this could only originate from its bloodline. But Viktor had never heard of a special fox-like beast specialising in illusions.