I woke up with the sunrays hitting my face, still sleepy I decided to get out of bed because once you get back to sleep, you won’t feel energetic for the rest of the day. I looked around and saw that I was laying down on a sofa, from the looks of it I was probably in the living room.

When I went to the kitchen I saw aria eating. On her plate was something similar to a salad and some meat on it, she was also drinking tea, but the color was a light brown, not like the light pink from the rose.

When I entered I greeted her. “Good morning teacher!” when I greeted her, she got surprised from the sudden entry, but she calmed down. When she heard me call her teacher her face looked happy, grinning like a happy child.

“So what happened yesterday? I collapsed right?” I never go the basic from anything related to mana, only the manacapacity was what I learned about.

“Well… you did exhaust your mana, so solas gave some of his to you.” Oh I see so It was basically me using my mana too much, but why did I collapsed?

“If you’re wondering why you collapsed, it was because of mana exhaustion. When you use mana and only 10% of it is left then you will start to have a headache giving you mental strain and if you use it all up reaching  0% then…”

“Then?...” I was absorbing the information, but she stopped midway.

“Then you die..” I was shocked. I died already twice so I hate the feeling of death. “But depending on the bodies condition then the effects will change, an example is you. You’re still young so you only collapsed. Teenagers usually go in a coma and old people die.”

“oh! Then it’s a good thing.” I said happily accepting the food raisa gave too me. I wonder where did she come from, but I ate like a pig. I didn’t got to eat yesterday, but drink tea so I was happy that I was finally eating meat.

“Well it is a good thing, but you should be careful because doing it numerous times will take its toll.” I nodded.

After eating we both went outside. When I went outside I covered my eyes blocking the sunlight. Once I got used to it I noticed that the circle was not there anymore and that there was more space.

“Now it’s time to summon your second familiar!” said aria sitting on a stool.

“But didn’t I summon solas already?”

“Indeed you did, but now you can summon one.

Let me tell you this, you can make a lot of familiars has long has they have a place they can return too, aka their realm. The reason why you can summon another is because your mana capacity is full and also has increased! Go ahead and feel your mana”

So basically I can have numerous familiars and also stronger ones in the future. Ok I think I’m starting to get it now. The reason why my mana drains is because my mana is what makes the familiar stay here, so the more mana I have the longer they can stay.

I closed my eyes and started to feel my mana, the image I got was an even bigger waterball. Well it didn’t feel different, but I can feel it though.

“now that you see and feel your mana then let me lecture you on how mana and mana regeneration works.

To put it simple, everything has mana. Your mana regeneration is just you absorbing it from them, it does not matter if you have a big or low capacity, your mana regen will depend on how many mana particles there is near you. If there is a few mana particles then your regen will be slow.

The more you use your mana and absorb the mana particles around you, your capacity will increase. This is why your capacity increased yesterday. it was because you absorbed the mana from solas. Because he was a demon, he had a huge amount.”

“oh…. I see. Then does that mean I can make many familiars. And how do I increase my capacity?” I was starting to get excited from this. This practically means I can have a lot of fire power in my arsenal.

“Well you can have a lot, but it depends if the being wants to be your familiar. Another thing I should tell you is that it also takes a huge amount of mana to summon your familiars, if you continuous summon then it will deplete your mana. has for the capacity?.... well you can find an object that has a huge amount of it and just absorb from it, but eventually you’ll just absorb everything.”

“Well it’s okay, as long as I get strong. I guess we should start the summoning. By the way, where’s the circle?”

“Oh! were doing direct summoning this time. This type of summon takes a huge amount of mana, but the being you summon will be strong.” I knew how to do direct summoning because of the book, but isn’t it getting a bit out of hand. Yeah I have more mana, but this method takes a lot of mana.

“well then we should get started!” I nodded and started to concentrate.

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The thing about direct summoning is that it does not have a handicap. the difference is that nothing will amplify my mana to summon a being unlike the circle, it’s all just connecting with the other realm.

The thing about this is that it requires no incantation, so I could just summon any being that I imagined. All I have to do is imagine the things I want and if there’s match, it will be summoned.

Right now I’m trying to find a good being that will represent my affinities with pure water. I was thinking a type of being that was kinda like a slime. Slimes can duplicate, can be any affinity with anything it eats, has resistance to physical attacks, but cannot handle magic attacks, like lightning or ice.

I actually was imagining a being with a body made out of clean gel that has wings, can morph and can resist physical and magical attacks. In an instance I felt a connection.

“COME!!” the ground shook and a puff of smoke appeared. One the smoke settled down I saw a small being that was floating.

It had a circular body with two pairs of wings attached to it, the wings made out of feathers and skin. The body was clear, almost like transparent water that’s being hold in place. It didn’t have any eyes or a mouth, but it approached me and did a bowing position and lifted it whole body.

“Hi, I’m Mathew and I want you to be my familiar. In return I-“ I didn’t have time for an introduction and I was being attacked. The being started to tackle me. I dodged and thought that it can’t harm me, but when I got hit by the wings, blood fell from an open would showing that I got cut by its sharp wings.

“It’s testing you!!” aria said sitting on her stool drinking tea.

“So it’s showing if I’m worthy huh? Okay! I’ll show you worthy.”

I raised my hand up from the sky and called forth prince stolas. I knew that my mana got heavily drained, but I’m still weak and I still can’t fight physically.

“You called.” Solas appeared, he bowed and stood up. His form was when I summoned him, big and tall.

“Restrain… that being… please.” I was starting to feel tired.

Solas flapped his wings and flew to the sky, the being was gonna tackle him, but solas conjured many vines that had thorns. Looking closely I saw that there was a light purple substance coming out from the thorns, it was poison.

But the being turned really fast cutting the vines that was holding it. In a flash it chased solas, but solas flapped its wings towards the being releasing a cloud of poison. I thought that it was useless, but that being fell down and dropped to the ground.

Solas descended and landed next to me. The next thing he did was hold the being down.

“It’s a Paralysis poison that numbs the nerves.” Oh yeah! The only thing that has nerves to move was the wings.

I gave him a thumb up and approached the being. When the fight started I only sat down and started to replenish my mana, that’s why I didn’t feel that tired.

“If you don’t become my familiar I am going to kill you!” I said in an intimidating voice. It was just me looking serious and cool. I thought it wouldn’t work, but it did. Our bodies glowed and the symbol was placed on the front side of the body.

“So what should I call you?” I didn’t know if it was a girl or boy so I though a unisex name was suitable.

“My name is Papillion. you may call me pali, master.” I heard a female voice that sounded like an old samurai warrior. I knew it was Papillion because she was the only thing here that can’t communicate. I had the probability of telepath so it didn’t shock me.

“Yes pali. Can I have the reason has into why you attack me?” I was not really angry, but I wanted to know the reason.

“it’s because I wanted to see if you were able to become my master, but to summon a being and let him fight your fight, you’re weak.” That really hit me on my sore spot. “But it’s admirable to know when you are at an disadvantage, so I thought that you are a person worthy to become my master.”

“I’ll do my best to see your expectations.” I nodded. And with that both of my familiars disappeared back to their realm.

“I GOT ANOTHER FAMILIAR!!!” when they both Disappeared I yelled running to aria while jumping up and down.

“GOOD JOB!!” she said has we circled around and hug. “You want to summon another one?!”

“FUCK NO!!” I ran back inside and Aria started laughing. I had enough of fighting..

[AN]

yay mathew has another summon.

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