155 Ch. 155 'Familiar Spirit'

"Niken, what are you worrying about? Have you forgotten that you are not alone here? Don't feel like you are abandoned and can't do anything. So don't keep it to yourself."

Niken smiled at the soft whisper above her ear. Even though their mind-linking wasn't active, Kazuto could still feel Niken's anxiety. The man could always sense her concern and give the best comfort he could provide. She realized that Kazuto didn't force his way to read her mind through the mind-linking, causing her heart warm at the gesture.

"Thank you, Kazu. I promise you are the first to know my thoughts."

Kazuto chuckled at that. In fact, he could just activate his mind-linking, and he would quickly know what his inamorata was thinking. But Kazuto chose to remain silent and waited patiently. After all, open communication was much better than secretly reading the girl's mind. Besides, Kazuto preferred to hear Niken's voice directly rather than the voice in his mind.

"Kazu? Are you sleeping?"

"Not yet. Anything's wrong?"

"Do you know what a familiar spirit is?"

Kazuto loosened his hug to see her beautiful face clearly. Niken also responded by looking up, making eye contact with the man.

"How do you know about familiar spirits?"

"From my vision. A butterfly turned into a human and told me to ask the ocean lord's familiar spirit for help if I wanted to restore the evil mermaid's state."

An eyebrow of Kazuto raised at that. Not because he heard that they had to summon the familiar spirit of the ocean king, but because of the girl's statement. 

A butterfly turned into a human? The only butterfly that could turn into a human… isn't that the phantasm lord's familiar spirit?

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The next morning Niken recounted her vision to Lionel. Yesterday she discussed it with Kazuto, but it seems that the man also doesn't know much about familiar spirits, so both seek enlightenment from Lionel.

"Are you sure the butterfly turned into a human?"

"En. I am sure. In fact, it's not the first time I've seen it."

Niken remembered she saw the beautiful butterfly for the first time when she fought Muyun in front of her house. Then she also saw the same butterfly in her previous nightmares.

Is it possible that this butterfly, not ordinary butterflies?

"Is it possible that the butterfly I saw was not an ordinary butterfly?"

"I think so. The butterfly is one of a familiar spirit."

Lionel's unexpected answer made Niken's jaw to drop.

"Why is a familiar spirit following her?"

"Good question. Maybe that's why she has an indigo magic circle."

"So, Niken is the new phantasm lord now?"

For some reason, the two men talked to each other seriously as if the dumbfounded Niken wasn't there with them.

"Wait a minute. Could someone please tell me what's going on? I really can't catch your talking." Niken couldn't stand the two men talking to themselves when it came to her. "What is a familiar spirit? What do you mean with I'm a phantasm lord? What does that have to do with my indigo magic circle?"

"Niken, familiar spirits are creatures that don't originate from our world. They come from the spirit realm and come here to balance the worlds' power."

"I don't understand."

Lionel began explaining to Niken with great patience.

Apart from this world, apparently, there are several other worlds that are interconnected with this world. There is a spirit realm where familiar spirits came from, then there is also a demon realm where daemons are born and a dark realm where all negative energies and dark force originate.

Meanwhile, the world occupied by Elementalists and wizards was divided into two realms. Mortal and immortal realm.

Niken and others, including all Elementalist and wizards, live in the mortal realm, whereas the chosen one who made life-death contracts with familiar spirits lived in the immortal realm.

A mortal who made this contract with a familiar spirit, his strength automatically multiplied in folds in both elemental energy and magic. Similar to the contract between Time Master and mo spirit, if the master dies, the familiar spirit will also die.

The difference was that if someone's familiar spirit was destroyed without bequeathing a new generation, then the master will also die.

There are many forms of familiar spirits coming into this world. For some reason, they chose the beast form from magical beasts in the Beast country, such as a giant grizzly bear, a nine-tailed fox, or a winged-horse. Therefore, people often mistook the familiar spirit as the magical beast and hunt them down.

But no familiar spirit has the same beast form. And only each familiar spirit has its own strength, and nothing is the same.

One of them is Supreme Alpha.

Supreme Alpha, the giant white wolf, was not an ordinary beast that comes from this world, but it was a familiar spirit and has lived in this world for thousands of years. Unfortunately, the Alpha had been corrupted with an evil master; thus, its fur turned black.

Kazuto knew about it, and he was able to summon that familiar spirit without ever knowing why he could summon the beast. Lionel's guess was that Kazuto was a direct descendant of the previous contractor, which made no sense.

Because as long as Lionel remembered, the only ones who could make contracts with a spiritual creature as strong as Supreme Alpha were only wizards. So there was no way that Kazuto was a wizard...

Lionel's thoughts stopped when he remembered something. Doesn't Kazuto have magic in his body? Isn't that guy able to create a magic circle despite having black eyes?

Does that mean the blood of a pureblood wizard is indeed flowing inside Kazuto's body?

"You have a wizard ancestor?" Niken herself could hardly believe it when she heard Lionel's hypothesis.

How cool is that?