Mark knew that Luna's powers would be restricted in the battle, but he didn't think it would be this extreme. The game told him that the masters needed to rely on their servants during the battle, and that meant the master wouldn't be allowed to have powers to fight with. The game must've restricted Luna's powers in order to make sure that she was a proper master candidate.
"What is going on? I know I have my mana, I can feel it. So why can't I bring it out? What is a master? Why are they telling me that you're my servant? This makes no sense.
I never signed up for something like this. Why was I chosen for this?"
Luna suddenly turned to Mark with a lot of questions, and Mark leaned back as he told Luna to calm down. He didn't have anything to do with her being chosen. It was a random draw that just sucked her in without his consent.
"I wouldn't have chosen you if I had a choice in the matter. I didn't have a say either."
For some reason, Mark saying that one sentence made Luna's heart squeeze in pain, but she ignored it and just focused on what was happening in front of her. She needed to find a way to get out of this game. Or, if she couldn't get out, then she needed to find a way to get her power back.
Luna looked at the back of her hand and she frowned as she saw the three black lines painted across the back of her palm. Is this for the three orders? Luna understood that she could give three absolute orders to Mark as his master and he would have to obey them no matter what, but Luna was not really interested in thinking about that right now.
Luna was more worried about trying to get her mana to work again!
Mark could understand Luna's confusion at the moment, and he just waited as she tried to come to terms with everything that was happening around her. Mark had no idea that the system would just go and pluck some random person like that. Was this how powerful the gods are?
They can take us away from our dimension and into their own dimension in the blink of an eye, and they can even suppress the powers that they gave us so that we are rendered powerless.
Mark frowned in annoyance as he thought about the gods suppressing his abilities and making him powerless. That was the last thing that Mark wanted, and he decided at that moment that he had to find a way to prevent something like that from happening in the future. Just how strong do I need to get before the gods can no longer do anything to me?
"So you're my servant?"
Luna finally spoke up, and Mark was snapped out of his thoughts as he turned to her. He noticed that Luna was no longer as distressed as before, and she was sitting calmly on the floor with her legs joined in front of her and her hands wrapped around her knees. Did she already come to terms with this? That was quick!
Mark nodded to her and told her that he was her servant. The game chose someone of high compatibility, and it turned out that Luna was the one chosen for some reason.
That flying eyeball was the ugliest motherfucker that Mark had ever seen, but for some reason Luna was treating it like the cutest puppy in the world. Mark just sighed and decided that he would never understand a woman's mind.
"That's a Wiik-Bat. It's for reconnaissance and surveillance. I'm going to send it out to try finding the other game participants."
Luna oh'd as she heard what Mark said.
"That is a pretty useful ability. Is this also one of the buffs that the game gives to the pawn?"
Mark nodded while calling the Wiik-Bat to him.
"Yeah, but I don't know if it is really a good buff or not. I still can't tell what the buffs of the other chess pieces are, so I might be getting the short end of the stick with my abilities. I just have to hope that they don't get buffs that are too much stronger than mine. That would be unfortunate."
Mark spoke to the Wiik-Bat and told it that he needed it to go out and do some surveillance for him. The Wiik-Bat listened to everything that Mark told it attentively, but once Mark was done, it didn't move and just turned its face away while folding its bat wings across its front like a petulant child. Mark felt his eyes twitch.
"Oi, bastard. What the hell are you doing?"
"Wiik!"
You don't think I'm cute!
For some reason, Mark could easily guess what the idiot was saying and he grabbed it by the wings and pulled!
"You fucking idiot! Do you think this is the time for your nonsense!? Who do you think you're giving sass!?"
"Wiik! Wiik! Wiik! Wiik!"
The wiik-bat cried out in pain as Mark almost pulled its wings out!