“Okay! Before you start the basics on summoning I suggest you read these books…” aria laid down three books that’s around five inches thick. I was wide eyed at the three books thinking that it’s gonna take a long time to read, but luckily aria had a solution.

“Here are some reading glasses, they don’t help much, but it will help you read and memorize much faster. Oh! And you can change your clothes upstairs.” Aria flicked her finger and the stool went back to where it came from. She went back to the shelves to place back the crystal globe.

I on the other hand went out of the room and went upstairs. She didn’t specify which room so I thought that the wardrobe which was out in the open was where I will get the clothes. I went near the wardrobe and looked at my reflection from the long mirror next to it. My hair was light brown and my eyes were also brown, but had a bit of gold that faded near the iris. I had quite a cute face and a petite body. For a second I thought I was a girl, but was assured that I was a boy.

I opened the wardrobe and saw a variety of clothes that were too big for me. In the end I just wore a black top and a poncho over it that reached all the way to my hips, ending it with a short. Once I was done I went downstairs and noticed that aria was in the other room which I presume was the kitchen.

She was drinking some kind of tea that smelled like rose, staring at the window that was illuminating the room with the sunrays, she was smiling. It seems like she didn’t notice me, so I sat down on the opposite side, wore the reading glasses and started reading.

***

It was starting to get dark and I was already done with the books, in a nutshell it was all about the basics of summoning. I learned a lot, but it only showed the types of summoning’s, how they are maintained, how the elemental affinities will affect the summoning and how summoned beings will behave.

When I looked up, I saw that there was a cup of tea for me and that aria was nowhere to be seen. I took a sip from the teacup and was relaxed by the combination of bitter and sweetness along with the warmness I would say the feeling was blissful, the flavor was a rose and I can taste a small amount of lemon or something citric.

Once I was done with the cup of tea I decided to head to the place which I called the witches den, but noticed that aria was outside with a big looming figure above her floating.

I went outside and was staring at aria, but I was more fixated on the looming figure that was only a dark silhouette. I kept on looking at aria and the figure. Aria noticed me and was smiling.

“She’s one of my summoned familiar that I made a contract with, her name is Raisa. She was my very first familiar.” She said with a wide smile.

In an instance the looming figure was enveloped in a bright and exploded into tiny rose petals. Raisa was now visible and was quite beautiful, in my case, a beautiful flower. She wore some type of dress that was overlapped with numerous red petals that faded to a light pink at the tip of her skirt, her head and forearms had huge read petals, her skin was a pale pink and she had wings that were see-through. Her eyes were wide and black, kinda cute.

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She landed down slowly and gracefully bowed to me and went back to her master.

“Raisa is a rose fairy that lived here, the first time I contracted her was when I moved here. Her flower patch was burned down by adventures that were loitering around the forest. She wanted revenge, but was weak so she made a contract with me. In the end we didn’t manage to find the culprits, but we live here peacefully.”

“Oh.. I see, that’s nice, but why are you telling me this?” I was interested indeed, but does this have to do with anything.

“What I’m saying is that there are many ways to contract a familiar, but it depends on not only the one making the contract, but also the one being contracted.” She moved next to me and motioned me to sit next to her.

“Truth is people mistreat familiars here. They think that they are disposable slaves, because once they make a contract with you they gain immortality due to them feeding off of your mana, but they only feed on your mana when you summon them.”

“Wow! So they just gain immortality like that?”

“Well not really, they can still be killed, but if they are fatally wounded then they will unsummon themselves and go back to their realm. This is one of the many perks for being a summoner.

But that’s only for spirits you made contact with here on the mortal realm. There are several realms here and you can randomly summon them and if you’re successful then you can make them your familiar. This method is way more convenient.

Because spirits that you made a contract in the mortal realm will still be here in the mortal realm and you will have to maintain them with your mana since they don’t have a realm to go too.”

“Oh! I see, basically they can stay here, but they need mana and that’s when I come along, I give them my mana. And you’re saying that familiars that don’t have a place to go to will still be here and we will have to maintain them? But don’t they have their own mana capacity?” I was confused at that part.

“hehe~ I knew you would ask about that. Well were not maintaining them, were maintaining the contract. Once it’s broken then they are free to go, this is where the loyalty of the familiars comes. But first let me tell you that we don’t have to maintain familiars once they go back to their realm, you only have to maintain them when their summoned, and yes they have their own mana capacity and that’s mostly used in their abilities”

“Oh... I see...” honestly it’s so confusing.

“Well now that you get the gist of it lets summon a being that we can make your familiar.”

[AN]

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