Master Of None

Chapter 108 - 108. Meeting Stella

Luckily as they group enter red Hilda wasn't working in the kitchen. If she had been walker would have gotten the scolding of his life in front of his new friends. The heat of the oven welcomed them.

"So you wanted to warm us up, I thought it was strange you wanted to enter through here." Laurence thought walker had just brought them this way out of kindness. Elise however saw the reason why and jumped towards the side of the oven.

"This my friends is midnight, she's sleeping while meditating so I'm not sure she'll be running around any time soon. Just don't touch her, you will probably burn yourself, she really likes to sleep next to the oven." While he spoke Laurence and Riley had both moved behind Elise trying to take a look.

Elise was using every ounce of focus she possessed to be certain she learned everything possible from the encounter. Every scale, every line, every bone, every nail, and so many more aspects of midnight were analyzed by her hawk like gaze. She had only glimpses a dragon once and had not the opportunity to truly take in the wonder.

Elise was a tamer specialized in avian creatures. To say she wasn't interested in dragons would be a blatant lie. Dragons may be their own beast but they did fly life birds so many who tamed bird like monsters saw them with high respect. Elise was very captivated by midnights scales due to their toughness. Avian beasts rarely had trying defenses and often instead would possess great speed. The simple reason being that if they had tough defense it would make them too heavy to fly.

"Her wings are very beautiful, but they seem a bit different from the rest of her body. Why?" Elise didn't beat around the bush she didn't understand the full reason why and just asked without hesitation or even looking at walker.

Not perturbed at all by this walker answered "we believe her father to be a skeletal dragon which is why her scales have white and grey lines. But her mother was a black crystal flame dragon so she had many characteristics such as her mother's tough scales, coloration, and even most of her skills. She recently started to shed her baby scales so eventually the colors will even out but for now it was mostly just exposing her wings." Walker himself was eagerly awaiting midnight to awaken. Once she did he could only imagine what new skills and power she may have.

Laurence was focused on the grey and black wisps flowing around midnight, he couldn't figure out how it was an effect of something small like meditation. "May I ask what kind of meditation young midnight is going through to produce these wisps? I've never seen such a thing on any tamed beast before."

"Actually it's a pretty unique case, due to certain reasons we discovered a large part of the catacombs in the ancient ruins. We needed up trapped but luckily found our way out. Through our escape we found a bead called concentrated understanding. It possessed knowledge on darkness and death well basically bones. So midnight is processing it." These where's were so nonchalant and calm that the three before him almost just brushed it off.

"Wait, what?" This was the second time walker had heard Riley speak, Riley was the only one able to respond to what Walker just said. "You didn't seriously find someone with a master skill to create condensed understanding did you? That's just crazy." This was one reason why the adventurers guild needed to doctor their report before release, such items were so insanely rare that they could cause massive battles between the strongest warriors. Condensed understanding was basically a master giving down his experiences learning about a specific element.

"Let's just keep that part a secret alright. After she finishes meditating on it no one will have proof it existed." Walker had shrugged as he said this, he pretty much had just said even if you tell people you can't prove it. Sneaky sneaky.

Elise had seen all she wanted to see and couldn't rebuttals what Walker had said. As amazed as she was she had promised to bring someone else with her when she visited. " would you like to meet my Stella? Can I summon her here? She doesn't like the cold so this is a good place.

Remembering that Elise had indeed mentioned someone names Stella walker didn't mind. But summon her? How would a tamer summon something? These were very different systems. At walkers nod Elise lifted her hand. A small red ring which matched one Riley and Laurence had on began to glow. "Stella don't fly we are inside." With those simple words red light flashed and someone else had joined them...or wait something else.

In front of them was a young girl with bird claws for feet. The claws were sharp and dangerous looking. He legs looked strong and slightly orange. Her arms were adorned with feathers to creat blue and green wings. Her hands were part of these wings but each finger had a razor sharp Talon. Her face was much like any girls but she has slightly pointed ears and a mix of feathers in her short brown hair. She had sharp yellow eyes that seemed to penetrate anything she looked at.

"This is my lovely Stella, she's a harpy and the most adorable girl ever!" Elise was always excited to show off Stella since harpies were notoriously hard to tame. They often would rebel due to their stubborn will and unborn desire to fly through the skies. "We've been together since we were little, she fell right out of the sky after her mother was hunted by adventurers for taking livestock. Once I met her my system unlocked. We are pretty much sisters. If I didn't worry for her safety I wouldn't have asked her to wait within the beast ring." She loved Stella to the bottom of her heart, not every tamer had this devotion and connection to their tamed beasts. This explained why Elise had certain characteristics of avian creatures, she had grown up side by side with one.