"""You're an Ylka!?""" (All)
All of them spouted the same thing altogether... What is it really that hard to see?
I removed my illusion spell and let them see my real appearance, the black haired that flowed down to my bottom suddenly changed color from top of my head down to the tips of my hair...
"I see..." (Toki)
Toki nodded as she saw my appearance... What is it? If there is something you want to tell me say it already!
"Waaah! An Ylka! For real!? This is amazing, how did you do it? I mean isn't the Ylka race already decimated from the world?" (Shiro)
No, they weren't! they were enslaved, and thus with generations of Ylka the purity of one no longer existed, maybe that's what they're taking about...
"But you! I could feel the same as back then! To think an Ylka still exist!" (Castor)
"Shiro don't get too pumped up!" (Aka)
"B-but she's an Ylka, you know! The omnipotent race!" (Shiro)
"That didn't care for otherworldly things such as gold and the like?" (Misu)
"If she supplied us with her mana! We'll be back to our old selves in no time!" (Shiro)
Wait? What!?
"What do you mean?" (Ryomi)
"Well, the world tree has been... Stingy... In giving off mana to us spirits... It said we're using too much..." (Shiro)
"Well, you use too much light after all!" (Misu)
"E-eh!?" (Shiro)
She didn't think that at all, huh?
"Okay... Tell me everything that happened, since I don't know much about this world's history." (Ryomi)
"Eh? I thought an Ylka would know, specially since you're the only one alive" (Misu)
As she said that, I was taken aback a little... Do they really not know?
"The Ylka's are alive and... I can't say they are well but apparently they are being suppressed..." (Ryomi)
"Eh? We haven't sensed anyone with a mana like yours for 400 years" (Shiro)
So... It's probably because the Ylka that exist were no longer pure and the blood that flows within are more of the other race's than their own... But since signs like their hair being grey, it was no longer as beautiful as pure silver, but that of an old man... They are still treated like dirt... So I'm a pure one huh?
"Just tell me everything." (Ryomi)
"U-un! I understand!" (Shiro)
Shiro then started to explain the events that occurred recently... Apparently, the amount of mana taken from the world tree was much higher than it could reproduce, the source of this problem was unknown and thus they couldn't take action but somewhere beyond the Dragnil's Isle a high concentration of magical energy was sensed almost regularly, there the monsters have become more stronger and more vicious, even the inhabitants have become somewhat different as well, like crazed demons they rampaged and killed, even the spirits that inhabit there changed as well.
It may also be their own fault as well, as they were the ones that hold much power in the world next to the Gods... Some of the spirits suspect the revival of the devil king and is planning to destroy this world, and without the Ylka, which was supposed to be the one that balance the scales between devils, mortals, and gods, the balance was broken...The mortals have no chance of succeeding in the future battles to come, or so the spirit guardian of the world tree predicted, the world will be destroyed by war.
But with an exception, Leonia, The Patron God of the Cursed Race, if she were to bring back even one, they might have a chance...
"So, seeing as I am here, I'm treated like a hero of some sort?" (Ryomi)
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""""Yes!""" (All)
Is Leonia planning something? Is she luring me? I'm not a brilliant man and I can't change that... Even if I rack my brains to it's limit the best I could get are assumptions and sometimes my assumptions are not just coincidentally correct, they are rather dead on and I don't like it... It always led me into situations I couldn't get out of...
"If you want your mana to be replenished every now and then, I'm okay with that... But I want to have you do something for me..." (Ryomi)
"Sure! As long as we could get some!" (Shiro)
"""Shiro!!!""" (All)
"I-I'm just joking! I'm not that greedy!" (Shiro)
So she says but she was already breathing heavily as she imagined getting magical energy from me... Isn't she supposed to be a light spirit which is a pure and delicate spirit?
"T-then at once! We should commence and create the contract!" (Shiro)
Oh right... I forgot about that...
"Is there anyone who is unwilling to make a contract with me?"
They closed their eyes and knelt... With one hand to their chest they muttered synchronously.
""""I am which that supports and defends, I'll be thine blade in battle, I'll be thine shield in dangers to come... I am the servant that holds most respect to the one I call my master, this pact relinquishes my freedom and chains thy life to serve thee, and so I hear thy master's acceptance!""" (All)
"I am Shiro! The one who holds the element of Light"
"I am Kuro! The one who holds the element of Darkness"
"I am Aka! The one who hold the element of Fire and Lightning"
"I am Misu! The one who hold the element of Water and Ice"
"I am Lue! The one who hold the element of Earth"
"I am Kaze! The one who hold the element of Wind"
"I am Castor! The one who hold the element of Space"
"I am Toki! The one who holds the element of Time"
"""We swore our fealty belongs to you and nobody else's... The pact has been sealed and only awaits the master's answer...""" (All)
The magic circle that encircled me, and with the spirits themselves encircling me, each and every had stepped into the magic circle with their element's sign in it...
Faint light came from my arms... It seems this will hurt once the contract is sealed...
"I answer thee to thy fealty! The contract is hereby sealed and I declare that your are to be my guardian spirits!"
The faint light from earlier suddenly give off a burst of pain... However, I must endure...
"Shiro!"
"Yes!"
One of the symbols from the magic circle vanishes and transfers to my arm, like it's being burned into my body, after a while, it subsided and the sign was tattooed of my arm... It's painful, though in the AR I didn't take any kind of damage...
"K-Kuro!"
"Yes!"
Once again, an incredible surge of pain was felt from my arm... and thus was again tattooed a sign...
This process was repeated everytime I called upon their name... Lastly I called Toki, but she was too powerful, both she and Castor... They occupied a different space, rather than my arms they were tattooed on my back, I felt tired... Not soon after I lost consciousness due to fatigue...
> Title Acquired [She who leads the Spirits]
> [Time] and [Space] magic acquired