"Yassou! Welcome to the Tauros horns blacksmithing shop! AH Yuujiro you're back and you brought a friend."
Shyly giving her greetings, "hello I am Sagi of Troy, Yuujiro's party member and arranged future wife, nice to meet you."
Europa looking at me exasperated "Wah WIFE!? Yuujiro you said you were going shopping, but I didn't expect you to come back purchasing this sweet girl as your wife!"
"What happened to calling me master Yuujiro you materialistic cow, and NO I didn't purchase her what do you think I am."
Unconvinced Europa turned to Sagi looking at her like a helpless child "Are you sure she's not a slave you purchased just to party up and have your way with her? Sagi was there money involved when he 'partied up with you'?"
Sagi thought in silence before meekly answering "Actually yes he gave my mother 200,000 Gold for me and was looking at me with such a vigor and lust when I changed."
Realizing how bad it looks "WAIT I can explain! it's not how it looks like, I'm not a human trafficker I swear, and she changed on her own in front of me." retrieving the party coin from my infinite storage, brandishing in front of her.
Hearing all this commotion, Minato emerged from the back of the shop. His large frame taking up a quarter of the room. "Miss Sagi from the esteemed house of Troy nice to see you again." with Sagi returning the greeting.
Then Minato addressed to us, "Mistress Sagi here is from a very powerful and influential family in the town of Andros and other parts of the world as well, but most are only familiar with her more renowned mother Elaine the windbreaker, now left her adventuring life behind to ascend as the matriarch of their family and commander of 80,000 soldiers strong."
"It makes sense that your mother has left you in the hands of Yuujiro, his recent feat in the exhibition has garnered much support and renown. No other party would have qualified to protect you mistress."
Europa understanding the situation, "Ah I see, so Yuujiro wasn't such a scum after all, and how did brother Minato meet the Troy Familia."
Minato pointed to his carriage outside, pulled and secured by two giant Chameleon Dragons. "Our business are as beast tamers; our ancestral magic allows us to subjugate monsters and we have been serving the Troy family for decades supplying crucial mobility."
"Europa this is also the reason why even though you're in the branch family, you are able to work on monster parts without repercussions.
"Regular black smiths need to be demi human to even have a chance at becoming a true blacksmith as we possess higher endurance and resistance, otherwise they may be exposed to the monster part's curse magic defense mechanism."
"However other races like centaurs and harpies require at least 50 years of honing their abilities and capacity to even start working on powerful monster parts, hence the troy family being centaurs having more affinity with war magic rely on us to supply equipment."
"Which is also why there aren't a lot of blacksmiths in town and why I was previously against it. Miraculously you possess enough of the ancestral blood and perhaps pure talent that you've managed to pick up the craft in those few years, even our best blacksmiths in the Alpha demon bulls required 5-6 years in order to attain such high proficiency."
Parading her snobbish smile, "Heh I always knew I was special; did you hear that Yuujiro you've got a first-rate blacksmith maybe you should be calling me Master Europa! MUAHAHAH!"
Jabbing my finger on her cheek drilling it, "Don't be obnoxious you deranged cow, did you forget you fashioned my precious Draconic leather into a regular belt."
Still acting high and mighty, "Pffttt you just don't understand the creative minds of us artists you uncultured swine." laughing and galloping into the back too overdosed on high praises.
"Anyways, Yuujiro regarding the Legendary classed Shadow Leopard you brought me, you mentioned you want it summoned like a familiar right? I've got it prepared in the back let me show you outside."
Making our way to the back of the shop, a large space filled with forging equipment and materials, in the courtyard the Legendary Alpha shadow leopard remains asleep on the ground, additionally bound by 5 magic circle inscribed with sealing sigils, light chains surrounding all its body.
"Making a familiar is much more dangerous and difficult than simply domesticating it, it involves the strength of our body and soul to contest with the opposing beast that you wish to subjugate, hence it also needs to be awake."
"It's like an astral tug of war in the soul realm, first we establish an unbreakable connection similar to a rope attached onto each other's soul. The strongest soul magic catalyst is using your blood, in a way soul magic and blood magic are two sides of the same coin."
"The requirement is drawing blood?" This might be tough...
Retrieve "Draconic Acid Fang & Draconic Poison fang".
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Elder Primal Chimera
HP: 21,000/30,000
DMG: 20,500/30,000
DEF: 21,799/ 30,000
SPD: 20,100/30,000
Equipment: (+)
Draconic Fangs of the Underworld (+5000 Damage)
Affliction (Curse, Poison, Corrosion -500 damage per minute stackable)
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As powerful as I am, Poison fang wouldn't work on me with my skill, God Physique nullifying all curses and status ailments, the additional damage is nullified as well. Moreover, my defense his higher than my attack making it impossible to hurt myself.
Perhaps the use of the Draconic Acid Fang is more viable since corrosion damage is neither a curse nor a status ailment.
Speaking of corrosion damage, I could also try to bypass my defense by casting the God class Decomposition Magic - Underworld Acid on myself.
However, that requires Draconic serpent integration and doing so would be a conundrum and a waste of time not to mention exposing my true abilities, since integration would make me immune to corrosion damage.
Never mind stupid idea back to the blades then, my only hope is on the stackable damage, I need to deliver a minimum stack of 22,000 damage per minute of corrosion damage to get over the defense hurdle to draw blood.
By my calculations through the stack effects, I'll need to stab myself....44 times.
Fuck I'll look like a mad man, shit no choice now I've asked all these people to come help me, so it's too late to back out now!
Steeling myself for the moment, while Minato, Europa and Sagi watches in suspense wondering why I need to be so dramatic, just to cut and draw a little blood.
"Let's go!" In one fluid motion, I flung the draconic poison fang into the shoulder of the comatose Legendary Shadow Leopard.
It swiftly whistled through the air before finding itself securely embedded in its flesh, absorbing the anesthetic poison and of course causing it to bleed.
Then began to stab my left hand 44 fucking times, while the others dropped their jaw in utter disbelief.
Minato softly whispering, "Europa! You forgot to sharpen Yuujiro's blade now he's too embarrassed to stop until he draws blood."
Though it didn't damage me, but it definitely hurt. Similar to grabbing a blunt plastic toy knife and furiously stabbing my palm. From far it looked like I was performing some high-level hand sign jutsu.
Hit...3...12...28...39...44 Times! 22,000 corrosive damage...ping -(201 Damage per minute.)
Like a teenager forcing a quick wank while his parents are out the house, I breathed a sigh of relief and euphoria from exhaustion.
Quickly placing my hand firmly on the wound on the side of the Alpha Shadow Leopard.
Minato quickly directing me "Now say Soul Vow and name the Alpha Shadow Leopard, the sealing inscriptions will activate once you've named it and once it does start pulling physically and spiritually.