Sora Kurusu, The First Artificier

'Hmmm, what should I do now?' A week has passed since I last met Arthur, and during the said week, He offered to take me up in smithing. I've been making daily rounds in apprentice-hood ever since, I look at my status once more...

Primary Attributes: Strength - 13; Dexterity - 9; Constitution - 9; Intellegence - 13; Wisdom - 15; Charisma - 12;

Skills: Smithery - 5; Acrobatics - 3; Survival - 4; Cooking - ??; Diplomacy - 1;

Titles: Soul Taker, and Diligent Apprentice

'Soul taker, now that's gonna be problematic for those with Appraisal abilities...' I thought to myself. Apparently, Arthur and his dog have been also slipping in a few lessons about magic, because magic augmentation is one of the norms for Smiths that craft at 'Legendary' or 'Mythical' grade. And that's saying something, even for an other worlder like me. 'But still, to think that magic itself should be more complicated than it simply looks...' I then recall a few things they mentioned to me:

'Basic magic theory; A theory coined by Lupin Everstein not long ago, give it probably two hundred years since it's official release...' Arthur spoke 'All kinds of magical manipulation is possible, If the right series of patterns and series are used to successfully create said manipulation. It can grant it's caster the right to accomplish the impossible... ' Now that I think about it, the theory kind off sounds a bit off to me, even the Scientific theories of my past world were more short and self-explanitory.

'Hmm, how about this?' I grabbed my notebook, and on the backside of the hard cover. And there in the language of this world, I wrote down.

"Mana, manipulated by any living being, is considered magic..." I said out loud, as I wrote the words down. And then suddenly, my hands began to glitch out. Like how a computer screen starts showing glitched out letters and screen parts, partly before showing a blue screen. And then, the glitches suddenly stopped. And a screen, yes a screen, appeared before me.

'You've successfully rewritten the rule 'Mana manipulation'!...'

My heart pounded, the sight of the screen showing me such a message. 'Did, I just change the rules of magic?' I thought, then another screen popped into existence:

'Applying rewritten rules to caster...'

'Applying to caster...' I paused briefly, then: 'Wait! that caster can't be...' Then my body felt some sort of pain, as if pins and needles were piercing my very body and soul. 'Argh! what the f.u.c.k?!' I yelled, but then I felt nothing. And then something, but not the feeling of my own flesh, nor my breath. I was nothing, and then the next feeling, I was something. I was feeling something, something indescribable, something...

"Master!" A little girl's voice came, and then I openned my eyes. There was my little slave, in her new outfit that the lady made for her. Since it was kinda getting tiring for both Tessa and Her to stop her from getting the potato sacks hidden throughout the entire house. "Master! Are you okay?" she asked. I placed a hand on her cheek, and she instinctively held it. "Master?" She looks at me, my eyes still trying to adjust to the light.

"Heh. It's gonna take alot more than just frickin' messed up spells to disable my a.s.s..." I said as I stood up, my slave girl then scowled "Master..." she takes great hold of my shoulder, I got scared. "You shouldn't scare me like that!" she then yells at me with her cute high-pitch voice...

"I know you've been building up some resistance to mental and magic attacks, but you aren't immune to being overworked! Do you even know what rest is? Do you even know that there are some people here that worry for you safety-" My ears blur out the scolding I'm currently recieving from my slave girl. 'Tch, She's persistent and annoying but...' Silhouettes of my classmates appear in my head, each and everyone of them laughing and embracing each other '...I guess she's nothing like they are...' then two hands grab hold of my face.

"Master! Are you even listening to me?!" she yells at me, loudly. "Okay okay! I'm sorry for suddenly collapsing alright? I was just doing some tinkering that's all..." She looks at me with her great yellow eyes, She definitely knows I'm lying. After all, our minds are somehow linked. 'Wonder if there's an explaination to that...' "Explaination to what?" my slave girl scolded "To how our minds are linked..." she then grits her teeth "Still! that's no excuse on why you should suddenly pass out like that!" then something in my head suddenly appeared...

'First contract - Grants both the familiar and master full use of each other's abilities, also grants familiar and master the unrestricted ability to cast 'Detect thoughts' on each other, as well as both being able to share each other's statistics...'

"Hey..." My slave girl looked at me, as If she escaped from a deep trance "You saw that screen too, right?" I said, she nods slightly "So that would explain why both of us can communicate at long distances..." I looked at her once more, and realize that she was now holding my jacket sleeves tightly "That would also explain why you can hold my jacket, and to go as far as being able to wear it..." she then takes her hands off momentarily.

I sighed

"Guess this other world stuff is not gonna be easier than I thought..." I smiled devillishly as I stare at my little slave girl. She stares back at me, she was first scared but then she sighed, "Well, aren't you being a bit, evil..." she grins at me. We both then laughed, even after what just happened to me. "Well, do you wish for me to prepare some snacks for you master?" she then asked me "Hmmm, I'm a bit famished from what just happened, and that I shall help out with..." I removed my jacket and then let it rest on my shoulders freely.

"Let's go..."