Master Of None

Su went to claim a spot on one of the chairs. She had changed in to more comfortable cloths after her training earlier. Walker hadn’t realized he had been the only one left due to him being lost in meditation.

Laurence placed the little porcupine on the floor next to a coffee table and after glancing at Su immediately rolled in to a ball. ”Ah you’re looking more and more like a Hyde every time to do that.” Laurence joked around starting to accept that may be that the name sticks.

Onyx saw the porcupines reaction is slithered over to it making small hissing sounds. This seemed to calm it down significantly as it unrolled fairly fast. Maybe onyx was telling it su was like the porcupine, a defender.

Stella had positioned herself behind where Elise sat and wrapped her arms around her. It was kind of adorable but very understandable since Stella had been asked to wait in the beast ring for a few days.

”So I’ve been wondering, where do you all get those beast rings? I can’t help but think it would be incredibly useful for locations that midnight might not be allowed or able to travel.” The thought process behind this was that Walker wanted a safe place for midnight if they came to an area that was too hostile towards monsters. Just like at the castle if someone targeted her he could just hide her away in the ring.

Laurence was surprised, he had been thinking walker had a system somewhat like a tamer. It wasn’t easy to find solid information on what system someone possessed and most of the time rumors were exaggerated. It wasn’t like the kid could actually learn any skill, he just had a unique system!

” well, most tamers will be given a quest to gather the materials for one and bring it to a magical craftsman. We all need different materials to create the magic carvings inside. For me, I needed monster materials from fire affinity monsters. This is because I’m a fire tamer. It sounds cooler than it is, I can’t actually tame fire itself just fire monsters.” This explained why walker had not really heard of them, they were part of a quest tamers had.

”That doesn’t go to say that some tamers gain a master skill early to hold their tamed beasts within their own soul. I believe it’s similar to spatial magic but more intimate.” A master’s skill...walkers only drawback was he couldn’t learn a master skill.

”Well I guess that’s a challenge, I won’t be able to learn a master’s level skill. Maybe down the line I’ll figure out how to change spatial magic to allow living things inside. Or happen upon an artifact that has the same uses as the beast rings. Ah how about your contracts, I’m not sure if it’s rude but I only know one way to contract and create a bond, I’d love to know more from those who have actually used them.” This was something that had been on his mind. Walker knew he had used a blood contract that always used all his mana at the time. He also knew that the bond made his tamed beast equal to him and shared feelings and emotions. It wasn’t a perfect master skill that would allow the master to actually see through their tamed beast but it was the closest he would ever get.

”Oh no it’s not rude at all, we each have very different contracting methods. It usually goes down to what kind of tamer we are. Since I have the flame tamer system I form binds using a flame contract. It only works on beasts with fire affinity so I’m limited but I’ve never once felt so.” This made sense, but saying Laurence was limited was a major lie. The world was a large place and there were many species of monsters some unknown still. Laurence was sure to have much too many choices in beasts to tame than he could ever dream of.

” wild beast tamer system....wild contract.” Riley spoke up, he had begun snacking on some dried vegetables he had with him.

”Yes Riley is a wild beast tamer, he’s a bit hard to fight with since he can’t tell his beasts what to do in a fight. Hence the wild contract. Although a lot of beasts that wouldn’t normally allow themselves to be tamed can fall under his care. He even has some wild demon boars.” Laurence took over the explanation knowing Riley would only give the most basic information. It was a good and a bad thing to be able to tame the most wild beasts. Good because no one else could do so and you could gain very unique allies. Bad because you couldn’t tell them to do anything and influence their actions. Well it was definitely wild.

”Oh my tub my turn!” Elise was raising her hand and Stella had mimicked her making small higher pitched noises. ” my system is the sky tamer system, I can use the sky contract to bond with anything that can fly. That’s why Stella and I are so perfect together. She’s just like me but with wings! I hope that I can learn a transfer skill one day and fly with her.” Elise giggled as she allowed herself to lean back in to Stella more. Stella seemed rather excited at flying through the sky at Elise.

The transfer skill was a skill unique to a tamer. It could take an ability of their tamed beast and allow them to use it a the cost of mana. Could he learn that skill too. Could he breath fire balls and fly on skeletal wings made of mana? If he was hungry would he be able to eat light just like onyx? There were too many possibilities but they were very enticing.

Walker returned from his day dreaming and only felt it polite to share the contract he used as well. ”Well I’m sure you have heard but I have a jack of all trades system. I can learn pretty much any skill that’s not a master level skill, so the contract skill I managed to learn was blood contract.”