Aria got up and went to the opposite side, she whispered something to raisa and with a raise of raisa’s hand she conjured a circle that had a pentagram in the inside using her rose petals and the stems has the base.

I was wondering why a pentagram was used. From what I remembered back in my world, a pentagram was mostly used for mystic things and mostly something satanic. I did not ponder that much because anything can happen here. I mean the animals nearly looked the same from earth, but have differences. The fruits here also looked somewhat similar, like the banana. When I took a bite, turned out that it was citric flavored, kinda nasty.

“Mathew, can you tell me the most known of summoning’s.”

“there are many different types, but the most well-known are the use of summoning circles and direct summoning.”

I learned this from the books that were given to me by aria. There were a total of twenty ways of summoning. Besides the other two I just mentioned, the other three well known is vessels, seal and sacrifice.

Vessels is when a familiar require an empty object for it to live in. because nobody discovered a way to transfer a familiar in an object, they barely use it. It is rare though to find ancient artifacts that contain an old familiar.

Seal is mostly used on weak familiars. The summoner will place a seal on a living being and bring out the soul and forcedly make a contract with it. I would say that this is cruel because when the soul has been cut off with mana, it will instantly die.

Sacrifice is already stated from the name. The procedure is simple, find a sacrifice, sacrifice it and the summoned being will appear. This mostly brought out demons and bad beings so people that made the sacrifice usually get killed.

“Correct!!, I’m sure that there are a lot of ways to summon a being, but these two are mostly used. For now we will summon a being from the circle using your mana. It may exhaust you, but it’s okay because the more you use your mana, the more the capacity will grow.” She said smiling.

I nodded and approached the circle.

“Now close your eyes and imagine the image of your mana.”

I closed my eyes and started to see the image of the waterball that’s constantly leaking water.

“Good, now try to make ripple effects. It will show that you can control it. You must feel the mana.”

I did what has been told, but couldn’t do it. I was starting to break cold sweats and was starting to get a mental strain. The more I concentrated the more I couldn’t see any ripple effect to it, I was now mad and started to force it.

“You mustn’t be tense, be calm and feel at peace. It’s okay to fail. Just breathe slowly, in and out.”

I was now starting to breath; with a slow beat I was now feeling calm. I tried again, but couldn’t do it. I must feel the mana, my mana. After a few failed attempts, I was starting to get the hang of it. I could feel my mana flowing through my whole body, the feeling like its blood circulating. Next thing I knew I was able to make my mana in a form of a waterball that’s swirling, almost like a torrent.

“Good!, even though it took three hours. I’m impressed, to be able to control your mana, with this you will now be able to proceed to the next phase. Open your eyes.”

I opened my eyes and saw that it was completely dark and that aria was sitting on a stool drinking tea while raisa holds the teapot. I was socked that lost my sense of time; I must’ve concentrated a lot.

“It took a while, but we can now proceed into summoning a being or in your case, your familiar. The step is easy, just concentrate your mana into the circle and just say an incantation. It doesn’t have to be fancy, but whoever responds to your call will appear.”

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She took another sip and was wiping the leftover rea on her lips. I was dumbstruck by the way she was acting. Why was she feeling so elegant, what happened to the childish adult?

“I suggest you say an incantation about your affinity, but it depends on you. Now! Are you ready?!”

I nodded and started to transfer my mana into the circle. I was getting tired from mana exhaustion, but I continued. My mana was depleting in a fast and rate, I thought about giving up right now, until the circle shined brightly. I looked at aria and she nodded, since I got the nod of approval, I started my short incantation.

“Creature of plants and poison heed my call and come forth with knowledge! Come! Serve me!”

The light shined brighter exploded into smoke, the remains were purple plants on the ground, like it was newly grown and a standing figure that had feathers.

“Greetings young one, I am prince stolas, you may call me solas. How may I serve you?”

In front of me was a tall bird with dark brown feathers bowing to me. When he gracefully brought his head up, I was wide eyed on his appearance.

Stolas was really tall, but it was his long legs that made him tall. His body had a small torso with numerous feathers and wings that reached all the way to the ground. His head was small, but he had big eyes, just like an owl. The other thing I notice was that he had a mini crown on his head.

“U-um g-greetings..” I nervously bowed down. “I’m Mathew and I ask that you form a contract with me, this will make you my familiar. In return I will do anything you ask.” I noticed that aria face palmed when she heard my offer.

“Ho.. amusing. Anything you say?” solas said in a deep voice. I feel like it was a mistake in making my offer. “Then I want…” I was ready. “To go on adventures…” after he said that, his body was enveloped with smoked and he became smaller.

His body was still the same when he was big, but the difference was that solas was even small, about my height. When the smoked vanished, he landed on my head and rested there. Since i was weak I fell down.

“I was locked up in hell and I longed for freedom, so I may use this chance to see the outside world. So yes, I may be your familiar.”

Our bodies glowed and solas gained a symbol on his back, it was not visible due to the feathers, but I got a glimpse on how it was placed. I on the other hand was exhausted, so before I knew it I was sleeping.

***

Aria went near Mathew and placed him on the sofa inside of her house.

“Seems like my pupil spent up all of his mana, it would’ve been dangerous if it was completely empty. I’m guessing it was you’re doing, solas.”

Solas came out of the shadows and approached the sleeping child.

“Yes, he may be weak, but In the future he may be strong. I’m currently supplying him with my mana and it seems that his capacity has grown. I will stay for now, but I will go back to my realm. Tell Mathew that if he needs me then all he has to do is call.”

And with that solas disappeared.

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