It was night time in the forest of Rasher. The Zyon tiger and the cub were laid down on the ground while I held little Joyle in my hand continuing to circulate my energy through her to control her blood flow and reduce her fever. She apparently ate a mushroom she shouldn't have. I had my eyes on the Zyon tiger as she woke up. She stretched out her body and then took a look at the cub beside her. Then when she realized I was sitting opposite to her on a chair I had made from wood, she instantly got up and bared her fangs.
"you know, people usually thank their saviors and not decide to attack them though I will definitely accept your challenge." She thought for a moment then stood back straight with her hands on her stomach as if she were a maid then bowed down to me. Then she spoke which was quite weird since energy beasts didn't really speak and just bit instead, "you are the blood master and we owe a debt to you. This here is the next generation beast gerent. I would like to thank you for your assistance in dealing with the wolves but at the moment we're dealing with an insurgence among the great beast clans."
Yea beast gerents were a big deal in the beast kingdom of Basthion all the way east of the forest which is quite far yet why had this future "gerent" and this beast tiger come all the way over here away from their safe haven I wonder.
"I'm the baby sitter of the little gerent and am being chased down by hunters. Beast hunters who will do anything to hunt us down while not caring about those around us. Now that you've helped us, they will hunt you down." I had to admit, this girl had some guts. She looked just about 18 yet she had the guts to threaten someone stronger than her. I couldn't help but laugh out.
She took a step back while protecting the baby with her body. It seems she has had her fair share of training. Then I sat back and got back to circulating Joyle's blood. Her fever seemed to be lessening. The girl said "you won't get far while protecting that kid, a cursed kid whose existence is a taboo far more than those of the homunculus. I knew what she said was true but I felt angry. Things like these didn't matter to me and I wanted to prevent the case of this girl getting killed. I needed to do that so the world would not suffer and so she can live a better life as Fallenhyde has asked of me. I extended a blood whip at her until it was just near her throat just enough to cut a slight slit across her face. "Well now that you have expressed your thoughts, I guess I have no choice but to kill you…. both of you."
Her face had a grim expression as though she would give up her life for the baby. "…. or you could accompany both of us while taking care of Joyle and being useful instead of just using words such as death to threaten me. That'd be safer for you and you'd be useful to me unless you wanna die, that option still exists."
I gave her time to think while healing up Joyle, by the next morning Joyle was up and running like a rabbit out for food. Although she did seem to be regretful since she ate the mushroom and fell sick which was troubling me so I just told her to not go near anything edible that doesn't have any form of 'living' organisms on it. Since most of the beasts in the forests ignored her, it should be no problem.
Then I remembered just in case I'm not there for her, I should help her summon up an energy beast. Simply put, demons summon mana beasts which remain as their permanent protector, servant, friend and rarely ever so rarely their love.
Mana is a specific type of energy belonging to the world itself, and each and every species is capable of conjuring it but not as good as the demons. Dwarves, elves, beast men, fiends and the minor speciods all have their own energy form but humans are a special case. In my previous life when I was travelling the demonic lands, I learnt the tale of a much ancient divinity who existed far before the current gods. Much crueler, much powerful and much titanic. The world was in his hands until some young gods decided to overpower him and take over to create the 7 lands of athanasia. This was just a part of their folklore missing a lot of parts from it. The story of the first birth to the story of the death everything could've been made up so it had substance but nothing to back it up.
The other species specialize in one type of energy most of the time excluding the variants but humans are the only people who can create and use different energies. It's a unique attribute of humans. So even though I could teach little Joyle my energy forms, it'd be of no use due to her stigma of greed. Her almost infinite energy reserves would disperse my techniques so instead I had to do something else.
I laid down a magic circle on the ground. Usual magic circles would be in the shape of well, a circle but the ones I use are hexagonal since I also use runes to control them. Circles are more preferred since the energy flow is constant when compared to other shapes. But my energy control wasn't the best so instead I resorted to runic energy flows. My eon energy when mixed with the runes could perform some wondrous things. I then dropped down 2 blood drops from my finger and said a small incantation after which I said the name "call Melissa Burnhaven.".
The next moment smoke erupted from the magic circle and then it formed a hole in the smoke which then slowly turned red then another variety of colors for which I had to shield Joyle's eyes so it doesn't affect her. Then when the smoke cleared, a clear image of a girl sleeping while salivating probably dreaming about eating something, most probably humans, appeared. She adorned a bright red dress which definitely didn't go along with her blue horns and dragon wings. Add to the fact her hair was a brilliant sky blue but her face looked tired for sure for someone who looked that young. I put my hands through and pinched her cheeks as hard as I could to which she woke with quite literally a bang. She burst out into flames and then when she blew all the flames out "how dare you, how dare you pinch the cheeks of the great, cute and strongest protector dragon Melissa. Who are you to do so and do you have the power to... wait. You. Uncle Kevin, what the hell. You look different. You look young... and weak. What happened to you???"
"Yeah, some stuff happened and I reincarnated into this guy's body who is supposedly my grandson times something. But before all that, your family owes me a favor."
"well, I was wondering why you'd call me, not to meet your beautiful niece or congratulate her for ascending her father's throne."
"well we can talk about that later, but for now you need to form a beats pact with this girl. She replied "what is she your daughter or something, plus why her. That's very very much unlike you."
I said "no questions asked but I will tell you, this girl has the stigma of greed, the same one that caused the great calamity a millennia ago causing the downfall of great kingdoms of various beasts. If you form a pact, not only will you be sharing the power she is yet to control, you will be under my protection."
To which she said "but from my point of view, it seems like you're the one who needs it.... But still the Burnhaven family never leaves a debt undone so as such your request will be granted. But still what has happened to you uncle. I sense a form of confusion in your soul."
"well I met some gods and I received a job but to finish it is definitely gonna take some time and manpower but before that" I picked the the memory crystal matriarch had given me and showed it to her "do you think its genuine, or is something wrong with this memory crystal?"
She took it into her hand, then she cracked it then reformed it. "seems to be tampered a bit. Some memories were edited. Give me a minute lemme check something."
She then toyed with the crystal which using a water spray containing who knows what to clean it and then gave it back. "now that's the pure memory, the unedited version with everything intact." she flicked the crystal at me then said "now then, i can't really deny your initial request so draw my insignia onto her arm so we can commence my pact with her".