… and see two large eggs, one white and one black.
Large wouldn't even begin to describe their size they are the same size as a house. No, they are bigger. I know chimera type familiar eggs tend to be big as they have a very amorphous form through their evolution,.Normally at best they are the size of people, because they get bigger and more unstable as more creatures DNA are added.
Familiars are mana beasts that are one of two types. Type one is a monster or mana beast tamed by force (kicking their ass till they are half dead and then putting mana in them by the taming skill or slavery spell) or by mana conditioning before their birth, by hatching eggs with your mana cycling through theirs or as soon as they're born putting mana into them slowly as you clean them. Type two is a contract that can be made by dragons, monsters, mana beasts, spirits, and devils can make giving some of their power or allowing you to summon them in return for something. The upside of type one taming is that you have complete control over your familiar and there is no real downside. Compared to Type two which the upside is that they give you some of the strength of the creature that you contracted and the downside that they are not under your control but equal partners.
There are people who do both on the same familiar known as beastmasters, but most people only do one or the other. Mother studied them and created The technique we are going to use.
"Well... just run our mana through the eggs!"
We both put our hands on our egg. I picked the white one and Andria picked the black one and we slowly put about 95% of our mana in our eggs while invoking a constant contract spell.
Then my egg is the first to crack...slowly the egg expands, and then it glows.
Next, it shrinks into a small orb that has two horns.
Color returns to it and shows that it is a slime with two horns.
"Your name is Richt."
I use {PERSON APPRAISAL} as I did for the two of us.
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Name: Richt-----Race: Demon Slime Chimera
Job: Assassin-----Class: Magic Manipulator
Skill--Body Manipulation--Body Harden--Stealth--Storage--Shadow Arts--Resonance--
--familiars bond--
Title--[sapphire's familiar]--[one of a kind]
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"Hey, don't get ahead of me!" Andria started pouting.
Right after her egg did the same and what showed up was a giant black Nine-Tailed Fox with gems on various parts of its body.
"Your name is Nina. Hey, Sapphire scan it, scan it!" she was consumed by excitement.
I listen and use {PERSON APPRAISAL} on it and see...
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Name: Nina-----Race: Nine Tail Fox Gem Chimera
Job: Martial Artist-----Class: Magic Armor wielder
Skill--Summon Magic Armor--Size change--Illusion magic--Landscape Method--Humanization (locked)--
--familiars bond--
Title--[andria's familiar]--[one of a kind]
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My familiar is a direct support type meaning it directly boosts the owner's capabilities, while Andria's is a combat type meaning that it fills a role in combat.
They both have rare skills, for Richt, there is Body Harden and Resonance, and for Nina all her abilities are rare.
A quick explanation of the skills that aren't instantly identifiable are Resonance, it lets you take the mana and strength from one to boost the other (take his to further strengthen me) and rapidly drain stamina (both of us have infinite stamina making it so broken that even I am aware). Landscape Method allows you to instantly transfer anywhere within 14 meters while touching the ground using mana as fuel, and finally, Shadow Arts which is the ability to enter and move around in shadows and be able to use shadow magic.
I tell the capabilities of Andria's chimera to her, while said chimera at the moment is the size of a house cat rubbing its face on hers while sitting on her shoulder. I'm curious about the feeling that makes me want to grab and throw it.
"Isn't Nina cute? But she has really rare skills, so she's definitely a great draw."
The feeling mysteriously goes away by looking at Andria's smile.
"I like the smooth, squishy feeling of Richt better. She also fits my fighting style better."
We play with our familiars for awhile and the maid head comes in and asks us to "Please prepare for dinner."
"Yes we are on our way"
We leave the room and head for the dining hall.
... There are only two seats right beside each other...will this be okay?
We sit down anyway, and the food is brought out. This time is apparently an orc fillet.
The two of us don't need to eat but it helps with mana recovery and it is just pleasant to eat good tasting food with other people.
Andria cuts apart a part of her fillet slowly leans over flashes a quick smile and says "Say Ahh"
My cheeks heat up with my heart and redden a little. It's this, the legendary 'say ahh' treatment, it was something from every single romance novel ever according to 'my' memories.
I blushed brighter the longer I thought about it.
"If you don't want it I'll eat it."
Instead of responding I jumped at it and ate it.
After sitting for a minute the words " Here, say ahh" as put the fork in front of her with my hand keeping anything from dripping.
"Oh my, why thank you." She acted surprised but it was clear that she was expecting it. Oh well, at least she seemed ecstatic anyway.
Dinner continued with this interaction on repeat and ended in about twenty minutes.
"We should go to bed early so we can go out early tomorrow."
"Yeah, lets."
We go upstairs into the... only room... with only a single bed. I immediately blush and say.
""I'll sleep on the floor.""
""No you sleep on the bed, I'll take the floor. ""
We both thought the same thing so this goes on for a while.
"How 'bout we both sleep on the only bed." Andria said while embarrassed.
I knew we wouldn't get sleep if I refused but "Un" was all I could get out.
Both of us were tired so we fell asleep quickly.
It was probably a good thing because if we didn't we wouldn't get any sleep.