When I opened my eyes, I was not in my bed. Both this world's and mine.
Instead I stood in a large empty space with a lot of monsters surrounding me.
I froze.
The monsters surrounding me were exactly 9 in numbers.
I immediately figured that I was in my magic space or whatever and the familiars were surrounding me.
They were big to say the least. The smallest one was twice the size of a normal human.
They also have five syllable names but for the sake of simplicity there are yellow, red, blue, white, black, pink, brown, purple and orange.
All of them were surrounding me very menacingly.
"My what a smell."
The blue one said first.
"I want to eat it as fast as possible."
Yellow one followed.
"We should savor the taste by eating it slowly."
Black one added.
'w-what are they talking about?!'
There is no one here beside me. Are they gonna eat me? There was nothing like that in the novel!
Slowly others added in the conversation.
"It's smell so alluring yet so distant as well."
"I think we should split it equally."
"Nonsense! I am the eldest here so I should get the biggest share."
"I discovered it first so I should get the first bite."
"Don't you know they say ladies first."
"Just because you are pink does not mean you are a lady!"
"…"
I just stood there surrounded by them as they discussed how they are going to eat me.
After some bickering the white one said to me.
"YOU!"
"Y-Yes!"
"Give us that!"
"W-What?"
"That thing clinging onto your heart."
"Uh…"
I looked down at my chest.
There was a small glowing white thing on there. Being transmigrated and being summoned in front of these familiars I was so caught up in my own depression and fear that I failed to notice.
I immediately closed my eyes and focused on my chest.
I saw it. A small white stone clinging onto my heart.
Thump!
My heart skipped a beat due to excitement.
It's because I could recognize this stone. This stone is the ultimate bullshit I made up in my own novel!
Everybody knows about the philosopher's stone. The ultimate theoretical alchemy perfection known to mankind.
Now imagine similar thing but with magic and power. Basically a stone which can grant its user unlimited power and control over self.
It works by controlling 2 aspects of magic and strength.
1. It can increase the magnitude of any spell or any physical attack to double its maximum capacity. For example, every normal punch will be turned into double the strength of a punch a person can dish out without his body sustaining any damage while the stamina consumed will be that of a normal punch. When it comes to magic it can increase the size of spell. For example, a small fireball will be turned into a giant ball based on mana capacity of the user for only the cost of a little bit of mana. At least it was like that in my novel.
2. It can increase the control of a person over his body and mana giving him absolute control over any part of his body. So no matter how strong the physical attack or magic is, it will never get out of the person's control. Moreover, control also gives other advantages over one's body such as learning very fast, disabling any sort of pain in body, never sleeping, manipulating limb's size, changing face and even changing gender is possible.
'Yeah. Now that I think about it, this stone is a little bit too much broken.'
But that is what being true OP is about.
"Hey! did you not listen to what I just said."
The white one interrupted my thoughts.
I looked at him and smiled.
"For a big dog you sure bark a lot."
"…"
Silence.
Every familiar went silent.
The relation between the familiars and vampire is that of mutual benefits. The vampire requires their help in battles and familiars require blood and respect given to them.
"What did you say?!"
Boom!
The aura around me got thick as every familiar put pressure on me.
The black one said.
"Ho! This guy is getting cocky since he became a lord."
Pink one cut in.
"Just because we are bound to you for life does not mean you can insult us."
Orange one said.
"You need us so it is better for you to start respecting us as soon as possible."
Familiars have always been like this. More arrogant then their lord since they know that a lord without the power of familiars is nothing but a little girl in a den of monsters.
Aura of 9 familiars was very strong. But it is useless against me.
I just used the stone to nullify the pressure on me. The pressure of aura is pure mental so I can always change my mental state using the stone.
I smirked and said loudly.
"Ha! So what if you guys are needed to a lord. Do I look like a normal one to you?"
I said in a deep voice.
"Take a close look at my chest. I believe you dogs are not so dumb to not know what this is."
Familiars are always arrogant. Even in the novel the MC had to respect them. But I am different.
With this stone in my possession I don't need them.
The familiars looked towards each other and then retracted their aura.
Orange one said.
"We see that you are not similar to others but still a familiar is lord's ultimate trump card."
Brown one said.
"Even if you are strong you will never be able to intimidate others into submission without us."
Purple one said.
"If you give us a part of the stone then we will pledge our loyalty to you without any need for blood."
White one said.
"What do you say?"
'Would you look at that.'
They never gave any face to MC in the novel but now they want to pledge to me. I guess I underestimated the allure of this stone.
"No can do. I will not give this stone to any of you. Not even a part of it."
I paused for a second.
"But why is this stone alluring to you guys? Do you want the power? Or just want to eat it."
"…"
There was silence since no one spoke.
I narrowed my eyes.
"Don't tell me even you guys don't know why you want it."
Black one said while avoiding my eyes.
"I just want to taste it."
Blue one said.
"I think it has nice smell."
White one said.
"I just want it since everyone was so eager to obtain it."
"…"
Is this fucking for real?
"So you guys want it but don't know why and you want it so much that you will put your pride aside to negotiate a deal."
"…"
"Yes."
White one said after a pause.
I so wanted to facepalm myself but then I remembered a line I wrote while bullshitting about the stone.
'Power so refined and allure so charming that magic itself is attracted to it. It will change itself to the liking of the stone just to get a silver of its energy.'
If the magic is attracted, then maybe it also effects the magic beings such as these familiars. there were no magic pets in my novel so I don't know about it.
I went in a deep thought. While thinking the familiars stayed where they were silently.
After a few seconds I called the yellow one.
"You there! Come forward."
"What is it?"
The yellow one said in arrogance but still came forward obediently.
I stretched my hand near him and activated the stone.
My heart glowed in pure white light and streaks of light traveled from my hand into the yellow familiar.
"Ha…Hahahaha…"
Hearing his hysterical laugh, I immediately pulled back my hand.
The yellow one stopped laughing.
"More give me MORE!"
I frowned.
"No way in hell I won't. You are creepy."
I only wanted to test something. The stone only works on myself and my magic. So I thought that maybe it will also work on these guys since they are also a part of me.
The yellow one turned around and looked towards others.
He did not say anything but it looked like he is conversing with others with his eyes.
After sometime the white one said.
"We have discussed among ourselves. We will pledge ourselves to you if you just supply us with that power and blood."
I thought for a second and replied.
"No I don't want your pledge. You guys are very violent. Each time you guys are summoned you wreak havoc."
It was also a problem in the novel as well. But I guess some people live by the code of the bigger the explosion the better.
"But that is one of the strength of familiars. Our strength causes others hearts to quiver in fear."
"I would rather that my enemies underestimate me rather than overestimate."
"Destruction is in our nature we cannot change that."
"Well…"
I smirked.
'What a brilliant idea.'
"I have the stone so I can probably change your nature."
"… What do you mean?"
I told them about the powers of the stone.
"I will use the stone to change your nature of powers. Instead of getting out of this area to fight the enemy you will only supply me with your powers so that I can fight on my own."
The familiars went silent for a while and then replied.
"We don't mind but you will also have to drink blood otherwise we will not be able to control our powers well."
"Deal."