Chapter 13: The wolf at the door

Edward quickly got up the stairs and entered the room just upstairs where Circe said she’ll wait for him. After stepping through a small passage, he entered a room filled completely with books to find Circe sitting on a small sofa, reading through a thick book.

Feeling Edward step inside, Circe placed the book down on the table in front of her and said: “How was it? Were you successful?”

Edward nodded with an excited look on his face as he proudly displayed the droplet mark on the back of his left hand. Circe looked at the mark and asked with a confused look: “What is that supposed to be?”

“Huh?” muttered Edward, being his turn to be confused: “The spirit I made a contract with, what else could it be?”

His answer didn’t make the confused look on Circe’s face go away as she motioned for him to come closer. “Come and let me take a look.”

Edward complied and walked up in front of Circe before lifting his hand and showing her the mark. Circle grabbed his outstretched hand and carefully touched the mark for a while before releasing it and saying: “I can feel a strong water mana concentration inside this mark, but I’ve never seen anything like this before. Are you saying this mark appeared after you formed a contract with the water spirit?”

Edward nodded in response before Circe stood up and said: “Let’s go upstairs and check it out. I’ve never heard of a spirit marking it’s host so we must make sure nothing is wrong.”

The two of them returned to the study they were in yesterday and after placing a tablet on the table, they both sat down once more. Seeing the look in Circe’s eyes, telling him to touch the tablet, Edward did just that and a few lines of text appeared once more.

<Name: Edward Black>
<Race: Human,*****>
<Age: 18>
<Level 1>
<Mana aptitude: 10>
<Mana type: chaos, water>
<Basic magic aptitude: 10>
<Air aptitude: 10>
<Water aptitude: 10>
<Earth aptitude: 10>
<Fire aptitude: 10>
<Chaos aptitude: 10>
<Intermediate magic aptitude: 10>
<Advanced magic aptitude: 10>
<Potential: SSS+>

Circe read the text and nodded before taking another tablet and placing that in front of Edward. Already used to all these tablets, he placed his hand on the new one as well.

<Name: Azure>
<Race: High spirit>
<Element: Water>
<Age: Unknown>
<Class: Primordial successor>

Circe’s lips twitched slightly and looked at Edward with as she said: “How did you form a contract with a high rank water spirit? There should only be low rank water spirits in the plane I gave you the incantation to.”

Edward didn’t really know how to answer so he just scratched his head awkwardly while trying to think of a credible enough lie to say. Circe lifted one of her eyebrows after seeing his fidgety behavior and said: “Fine, you don’t need to tell me. I knew you had your secrets since you already have a connection formed with a chaos spirit… Sigh.. Another thing we must make sure to keep a secret..”

Edward was a bit surprised by her words, the image he had about this self-imposed teacher of his growing slightly inside his heart as he asked: “Master, why do you say we must keep it a secret?”

Circe waved her hand and a small rabbit made out of water appeared on the table in front of them. He looked quite cute as he gazed curiously between Edward and Circe, not really sure of what to do.

“This is my contracted spirit, a low rank water spirit. The only way to form a contract with a high rank spirit is to know the coordinated to the high rank plane, which only a few respectable high ranked magician families know and they are guarded as top level secrets.”

Circe then looked at the tablet once more and continued: “And not to mention a primordial successor one… that’s stuff you only hear of in old legends. Most magicians might try to kill you so they can try getting their hands on this spirit…”

“But, can you steal someone’s contracted spirit just like that?” asked Edward.

“It doesn’t work most of the time, since they need the spirit to agree, but there’s no shortage of people who will kill you just for the small chance the spirit will accept them… a high spirit will bring too many advantages to ignore…”

Edward had no idea so many advantages came with forming a contract with a higher spirit. He only did it because Fenrir said he couldn’t really for a contract with a lower spirit.

“Master, could you tell me what those advantages are?”

Circe nodded and said: “The rank of the spirit increases the speed in which mana is converted into it’s element. You will be able to cast your spells a lot faster than someone contracted with a low rank spirit. Anyway, what happened happened, now we need to start teaching you how to use that spirit to practice magic.”

Edward immediately got even more excited and looked at Circe with shinning eyes, but Circe crashed all his hopes as she waved her hand and three thick tomes, over a thousand or so pages each, appeared on the table.

“You will need to learn everything, starting from the basics. These three books contain all the basic knowledge a beginner mage must know before casting his first spell.”

“All of this?” muttered Edward as he started feeling the flames of passion that were surging brightly inside him before, slowly getting doused.

Circe nodded and said: “I’ll be at the top of the tower doing some experiments. Once you are done, you can come let me know upstairs.”

“But these must have at least 3000 pages, there’s no way I can finish reading them in a single day.”

“Of course not. You will need at least a week to do it. You can sleep here on the sofa.”

‘Like that’s even an option. I’m sure the wolf will eat your entire library.’ Though Edward before saying: “Master, I really must return to the city at the end of each day. I’ll come back in the morning of the next day, please understand.”

Circe took a moment to stare in Edward’s eyes before eventually sighing and saying: “Fine, but I want you to memorize all the information in this book to perfection in one week’s time. If you don’t manage to do that, I’ll have no choice by to lock you inside the library from then on. Do you understand?”

“Yes, master.” Answered Edward with a face like he was about to cry, all this earlier enthusiasm now completely gone. Circe nodded and left the room, leaving Edward completely alone with his three books.

“How am I supposed to memorize 3000 pages to perfection in a single week?” mumbled Edward as he looked over the titles of the books.

<Introduction to Magic for beginners>
<Mana Channeling for beginners>
<Spell Casting for beginners>

With nothing else to do, he grabbed <Introduction to Magic for beginners and started reading. By the end of the day, he managed to read around 300 pages and saw the sun already started setting outside through a small window on the side of the tower.

“I’m done for…” mumbled Edward as he placed the book back on the table and stood up. He only managed to read almost a third of a book on the first day which didn’t spell that great of a chance of him managing to memorized the books completely by the end of the week.

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After getting to the top of the tower and letting Circe know he was leaving, he walked outside the guild’s gates and started heading towards the place he left Minx at.

Once he was by Minx’s side, he spent some time patting her head before getting naked and going to sleep. Once he appeared inside his mind, he was surprised to notice there was now a small fish swimming around Fenrir’s giant body.

‘Sooner or later I’ll end up with a complete zoo in here…’ though Edward only to notice that both the fish and Fenrir turned towards him with unfriendly looks.

“Oh right, no privacy. I forgot about that…” said Edward as he ignored their unfriendly looks and sat down trying to recap what he read during the day, but was disappointed to find out that his memory didn’t help him and he was able to barely recall 20% of everything he read.

“I’m really done for.. Circe will lock me in the tower for my entire life…” Muttered Edward as he lay down on the ground and looked at the ceiling with a hopeless look.

His new water spirit, in the form of a little fish, seeing his hopeless expression, came up to him.

“It’s normal for you not to remember, you’re only human. Don’t worry, I will help.”

Edward’s expression turned hopeful once more as he turned his eyes on his little companion, encouraging it to continue.

“Me and Fenrir are spirits, our souls capable of remembering everything we ever see. We can recite the pages you read back to you until you memorize them.”

Now that he got help, Edward spent the entire night memorizing what he read during the day with the help of the little fish.

As morning came ever closer and he managed to finally memorize everything, his mind got pulled back inside his body and he opened his eyes.

Looking at Minx who was dutifully licking the blood he managed to gather on his body on the last night away, a soft expression appeared on Edward’s face.

“Thank you, Minx. Sorry for being so busy and not having time to spend with you.”

*Whimper*

Once he was completely clean, he rode on Minx’s back and returned to where he left his clothes the last night before getting dressed. Patting Minx’s head, Edward apologized once more and headed toward Violet Flower inn.

“Good morning, customer.” Said the pretty wolf-girl at the counter, but one could still see her nose gently twitching from the moment he passed through the doors.

“Good morning.” Nodded Edward and grabbed his key before making his way towards his room to pick a change of clothes. After cleaning himself up, he washed his tunic as best he could and changed into a new one.

Hanging his washed up tunic onto a line that stretched from a corner of the inn’s roof to the tall fence, he walked inside and let the innkeeper know about it.

Done with his morning routine, he walked outside and wanted to head towards the marketplace before the sun started rising only to get shoved to the side as soon as he stepped outside the door.

Looking at the person who shove him, he saw a young man that looked like an adventurer, dressed in leather armor, walking straight towards the counter.

‘This fucker, he’s so lucky I still haven’t learn any magic or I’ll kick his ass…’ thought Edward as he turned around to leave and continue on his way, only to suddenly stop when he heard the adventurer’s voice from inside the inn.

“Oi you bitch, why haven’t you paid your protection money this week? What if someone comes and causes trouble in your inn?” after the adventurer’s words ended, the sound of something breaking also came from the inside.

A trace of indignation appeared in Edward’s heart as he did an 180 turn and waked back inside. The adventurer who shoved him to the side was now crushing a chair under his heavy boots and looking at the girl behind the counter with a teasing look. The other demi-humans were also giving him threatening looks, but none of them seem willing to step up.

The girl behind the counter, which Edward had a really good opinion of, seemed to be so scared one would even notice her bushy tail trembling softly behind her back.

“I,I,I’m sorry, sir. I’ll pay you as soon as I can. Please don’t break anything else.”

Edward clenched his fists and wanted nothing more than to punch this guy to death, but he knew by the way the other demi-humans acted that he wasn’t easy to deal with so he did his best to keep his anger in check and continued watching the situation play out.

The man appeared unmoved and lifted his hand, slapping the wolf-girl so hard she flew two meters backwards and stopped when her back broke a few of the cabinets. All kind of growls and animals noises came from the demi-humans, but still no one stepped up to intervene.

Edward’s fists were clenched so hard that droplets of bloods started flowing through his fingers, dropping constantly to the floor beneath.

“You little bitch, you are already two days late for your payment and you dare speak back at me? The boss wants the money now or tomorrow you won’t have an inn to run anymore.”

Seeing the girl tearing up and doing her best to lift herself up from the broken cabinet, Edward could no longer sit still and asked, his voice resounding clear through the inn: “Hey you, how much does she owe you?”

The adventurer turned towards Edward and said with a cackle: “What’s it to you animal fucker? Are you scared I’ll damage your plaything? Don’t worry, we have a dog or two running around our base, if you pay well, I’m sure the boss will lend you one or two for a night.”

The man’s words made Edwards anger to spike once more and a burning sensation started coming from the bite mark on his right arm. He was not the best at managing his anger and, losing himself in his fury, he charged at the adventurer, wishing to strike him with his fist, but sadly, Edward horribly overestimated himself and the adventurer just backhanded him into a nearby wall, same as the wolf girl.

As Edward’s back hit the wall hard and blood started dripping from the corner of his mouth, he looked up at the adventurer who just hit him and said through gritted teeth: “If you don’t leave now, you’re going to regret it.”

He looked so pathetic and weak, but his words carried a tone of determination and dignity. Seeing that the adventurer seemed undaunted and started walking towards him, Edward muttered: “Fenrir, I don’t care about the damage to my soul or how you do it, kill this bastard.”

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