Ascension: Strongest Fateless Mage

Chapter 39 Contract, Limit

"I'm fine with that," Zevien nodded and finished forming a contract with Tarto by dropping his blood on the scroll that Tarto materialized in front of him.

"Hehe, now let's see how much of my power you can endure for now," Tarto turned into a dark cloud and dashed towards Zevien, after which he disappeared inside him.

Vernisia, Erica, and Dan could also talk now as the restriction on them were removed.

"Holy smokes! Don't tell me that you had an unawakened link with the fairy spirit labyrinth?" Dan asked while wiping the sweat from his face.

"That was a scary experience," Erica muttered, "I felt utterly helpless when bound by that power."

"Yeah," Vernisia agreed as she sighed a relief.

On the other hand, Zevien started feeling something strange.

"I am feeling a bit strange, t-this….," Zevien was startled as he felt new organs.

Vernisia and the others also noticed Zevien slowly changing as his hair became a bit longer, and a pair of furry ears appeared on his head with a tail protruding from the lower end of his back.

His eyes also turned ruby with black patterns.

'Zevien, as a shamanic fairy spirit, I can directly channel my power in you by forming a connection with your magic eidos body. Now I will slowly infuse my powers in you and stop when you can't bear it anymore.' Zevien heard Tarto's voice in his head.

'So you can also hear my thoughts directly?'

'Yeah,' Tarto replied, 'I have basically possessed you but didn't take control of your body. Anyway, channeling my power into you will increase your magic power and mana pool. You will also be able to use some more advanced magic spells relative to the increase of your magic power.'

'Ok, I am ready,' Zevien replied with his thoughts.

Vernisia, Erica, and Dan saw Zevien's aura slowly increasing.

"He summoned a fairy spirit and even made a contract with it…wow," Vernisia was amazed.

"Well, there were many incidents of other people summoning fairy spirits, but due to the half-assed connection, those fairies wouldn't appear physically but just in a spiritual form. Hence, returning quickly without forming a contract," Erica said as she adjusted her glasses after wiping the sweat with her handkerchief.

Yowen was pretty lucky because, unlike Zevien, he summoned a different type of fairy known as Arc Spiritual Fairy. That type of fairy doesn't have a physical body in the first place and is purely a spiritual energy being. That's why Electra could enter into his computers and the internet.

Even though Yowen accidentally summoned her, since coincidently he was in his basement where all his electronics were located, and Electra was a spiritual energy being, she stayed longer and decided to form a contract with Yowen.

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'Keep on going,' Zevien spoke through his thoughts to Tarto while checking his Digi-band.

-Magic power: 189

"How much is it now?" Dan asked curiously.

"191...193…," Zevien grinned, "it's increasing every second."

'Alright, this is going too slow. I am increasing the output,' Tarto stated as he suddenly increased his output.

In the next second, a burst of powerful aura got released inside Zevien, changing his face before he fell onto the ground, twitching.

"What happened?" Vernisia and the other two hurriedly approached Zevien and checked him.

Zevien grit his teeth and endured while hissing, "t-that cat….sudden burst….p-power."

"Arghhh..."

Zevien suddenly screamed painfully as his whole body was on the verge of breaking down with his magic eidos body.

'Stop, stop!'

'This is it, huh?' Tarto spoke, 'well, not as bad as I assumed, so good for now. 624 magic power is your current limit, and to increase this, you will have to hone your will and strengthen your body and magic core as well.'

Zevien's body was constantly trembling as he tried to stand up.

'Should I remove some of the power?'

'No!' Zevien replied stubbornly, 'I'll adjust to this state of power.'

"What are you doing, man? Quickly tell that fairy to remove some power," Dan said with a frown, "your body is straining too much, and I don't even want to know the state of your magic eidos body."

"Zevien, stop this now," Vernisia creased her brows.

"Tsk, stop telling him that and have some faith in him," Tarto appeared in front of the trio and spoke while licking its cat paws.

The three of them were startled to see Tarto and backed away.

"Don't be scared, idiots. I am not going to eat you," Tarto rolled his eyes.

Vernisia, Erica, and Dan looked at each other and gulped before asking some questions to Tarto, while Zevien had barely sat down and had closed his eyes in meditation to adjust to this temporary power-up.

"Can we call you Tarto as well?" Vernisia asked as some hesitation appeared on her face, but she still continued anyway, "a-and…can I p…pat you?"

'The cat is so cute! I really want to pat that smooth fur,' Vernisia thought internally.

"Are you a male cat or a female cat?" Erica asked.

"How powerful are you?" Dan also asked curiously.

Tarto flew towards Zevien and sat down on his shoulder, which caused Zevien's body to shudder, and a frown appeared on his face.

'Damn…it hurts. You could sit down anywhere in this room.'

'Humph, I will sit wherever I feel like. You can order me when you become more powerful than me. For now, shut up and focus,' Tarto snorted and replied to Zevien before looking at Vernisia.

"You can call me Tarto, but you can't pat me," Tarto puffed, "not worthy enough."

"Also, I am not a female nor a male cat because I am a unique being. I don't reproduce. All fairies are like that; we are born in a different way than animals and humans. But if I have to say what gender I am inclined to, it would be male."

After that, Tarto looked at Dan and grinned, "you want to know how powerful I am?"

Dan repeatedly nodded.

Vernisia and Erica also nodded as they wanted to know.

"I am more powerful than Derhon the Devourer since I recently beat that bastard," Tarto spoke proudly.

"Eh…. don't you have any ranks or something so we can know how strong you are?" Dan asked with a wry smile.

"Ranks? I am a Lord rank fairy," Tarto said before shaking his head, "however, it's very vague, I guess. Derhon is also a Lord-rank fairy, but I beat him. I know a Supreme rank fairy that I can't defeat, so…. that's how it rolls."

Vernisia, Erica, and Dan could only wryly smile since it seemed that they wouldn't be able to know the exact strength of Tarto for now.

"Anyway, you don't need to know my strength because I will not be using it here," Tarto said while yawning, "I will be mostly staying in my fairy realm. But Zevien will be able to borrow my power from now on, so that's that. Goodbye."

After saying that, Tarto disappeared.

On the other hand, Zevien opened his eyes and tried to stand up.

"How much is your magic power now?" Erica asked.

"624.7," Zevien replied while frowning, "this is very hard."

'I have put a seed of my power in you, and you can use it anytime to borrow my power according to your limit. That seed is directly connected to me, and I will be observing you all the time.'

Zevien heard Tarto's voice and indeed saw a seed inside his magic eidos body. It was hovering around his magic core.

He thought of deactivating this power-up, and suddenly, the seed absorbed the additional power as he returned to his normal form. His cat ears and tail disappeared while his hair also returned to normal.

"So the surprise was that magic spell and…since you created it, I guess we can also use it, hehehe," Dan said with an excited laugh.

"You can," Zevien grinned, "but this will be our secret, and only use your fairy as your trump card. Alright, now give me your foreheads so I can channel you the spell formation. You can use it after learning it and summon a fairy."

Zevien arrived in front of Vernisia first and put his finger on her forehead, "close your eyes."

Vernisia's heartbeat slightly increased, but she composed herself and nodded before closing her eyes.

After a minute, it was done.

Zevien proceeded to do the same to Erica and Dan while Vernisia checked out the spell formation.

After three minutes, she opened her eyes with a frown.

"Hmmm, this is a bit complex but no problem. However, this magic intent is vague," Vernisia spoke with doubt, "I can't sense it properly in that spell formation."

Erica and Dan also opened their eyes after a while and nodded.

"Well, that's the catch," Zevien said with a wry smile, "for now, just focus on re-creating the spell formation, and it will summon a random fairy correlating to your strength. But to do a summoning like me with intent, it will be almost impossible if you haven't understood the summoning intent."

"But how can you understand it?"

"Because I also have an unawakened connection with fairy spirit labyrinth. On top of that, Vernisia and I had worked on this for a whole three years, and every time I summoned a fairy, we recorded that, and I also focused hard at that time to sense the intent," Zevien said with a smile.

"But isn't that time rewind thing bull shit?" Erica raised her eyebrows.

"Of course not," Zevien laughed, "it's true."