Once Marcus and Kalt had finished with a few pleasantries they got right down to business.
“I have set it up so that the foremost expert on beasts and creating seals in the capital will arrive tomorrow. He will keep your binding with a legendary grade beast a secret for us as he has in the past.” Kalt said.
Apparently, this guy had done the binding for Mrazivy and her beast companion as well as James with Fallon, so he was already used to keeping the royal family’s secrets.
“Of course, this means that you will need to be in your original form. It would be better that way since your already an honorary prince.” Kalt explained.
However, Marcus frowned at this and explained how his maids had already seen and knew about Inten.
“That is a slight problem. But if they were trained at Lady Delilah’s Academy of Service then they should be able to keep a secret. Just in case make sure to have them sign new contracts that prevent them from revealing information about your beast companions. You have too many secrets that could cause waves and it would be best to keep them from getting out.” Kalt said with a stern look.
Though Marcus was not thrilled with forcing his maids who had been loyal to him to sign a new contract that forced their silence.
“What if they refuse and simply quit? I have no way to prevent them from leaving my service if this stipulation is too much for them.”
Yet Marcus did not receive the answer he wanted and Kalt’s eyes grew intense.
“I would hope that it does not come to that. I can imagine you know what happens to those who know too much and can not be trusted to stay quite.” Kalt said with a cold tone that showed no compassion.
This was what was necessary to rule a kingdom, and Marcus was sure that Kalt could have any of his maids simply disappear if they did not sign a contract that gagged them from speaking about Inten or Roxene..
“Very well, I will see to it that they sign new contracts. There is no need for any rash actions.”
Nodding his head Kalt was satisfied with Marcus’ answers, and after informing him the time the expert who would create the mutual seal for him and Inten would arrive allowed him to go on his way.
“That is all we need to discuss for today. You are free to go around the castle as usual, but please try to stay out of trouble.”
With his meeting finished and nothing better to do, Marcus headed down into the amethros forge and got to work on making some weapons.
Of course, he was not actually going to be working with amethros and was just using the forge to make some mithril weapons to keep his skills up and to make a profit.
‘I can just use basic materials and formations. No need to go all out on these. Otherwise, it will be more difficult to sell them.’
Getting to work it had been a while since Marcus created more basic weaponry, but as he got into he lost track of time and by the next day he had completed nine mithril weapons that were all of good quality that anyone under level forty would love to have.
‘That was a good warm up, but now I should get started on the weapons I promised Andrea and her tribe.’
However, before Marcus could get started, he received a call on his sending stone and a slightly peeved Kalt remined him of his appointment to have the mutual seal made with Inten.
‘Oops. Guess I got lost in my work.’
Luckily, he did not have to do to much and cleaned up by storing everything into his item box and worrying about it later.
“Inten. It is time. Come on and wake up!” Marcus shouted.
A few moments later the small diamond mouse came scurrying out of an adjacent room where he had been napping the day away and jumped up onto Marcus’ left shoulder which had become his designated spot.
Hastily Marcus made his way through the castle until he arrived at the room that had been reserved for the binding between him and Inten.
Inside the room was only Kalt, his personal knight, and the man that would be making the seal.
“Good you are finally here.” Kalt said with an exasperated tone.
It was clear that he was a bit upset that Marcus had forgotten the appointment that he had asked for.
Luckily the other man in the room was oblivious to the situation and rushed up towards Marcus peered intently at Inten.
“My what a fine specimen. I do not believe I have ever seen this species before. That does lend credit to the fact that it is a legendary grade beast.”
The man soon began writing down notes in a notebook, as he examined Inten who became increasingly uncomfortable.
“Um, could we get on with making the seal. If you keep this up, I believe that Inten may decide to skewer you.” Marcus said.
He could feel Inten getting agitated and was afraid that the diamond mouse might go off on this guy.
“Oh yes, I do have a job to do. I suppose that I can leave any inquiry until after that.”
The man then backed off and began taking the supplies he needed to form the seal between Marcus and Inten.
The process went quite smoothly and unlike when he made a seal with Roxene no light blasted down upon him and there was no pain to speak of.
“Now I have some questions for the two of you. It is quite rare that I have the chance to create seal for a legendary grade beast, and this is the first time I have made a mutual seal for one. What brought the two of you together? You must have gained each other’s trust or maybe have some goal you are both working towards?” The beast expert asked.
However, Marcus and Inten cared not to stay for his questioning and quickly left the room.
“Sorry we have much to do. I will be excusing myself now.” Marcus said as he took Inten and rushed out of the room faster than the man could keep up with.
“Whew, glad that is over. Now we can get to the good part.” Marcus said as he smiled at Inten who smiled back
Forming a mutual seal meant that they could share skills and Marcus had a bunch of good ones and Inten was bound to as well.
Though before Marcus did anything else he finally sunk some of his skill points into upgrading his companion subsystem and added Inten as one of his registered companions.
“There now I can see your status and you can go in and out of my companion storage. Go ahead and give it a try.”
Seamlessly Inten entered and exited Marcus’ companion storage and they were both satisfied by the function.
“Now what skills should we each take.” Marcus said as he looked at his and Inten’s statuses.
He tired to give Inten Greatest Potential, but that was a bust since it was a skill he was sharing with Roxene and not actually his own.
The same went with false status and high-speed regeneration which were all skills that had been at the top of the list for Marcus to share with Inten.
As for what skills Marcus wanted from Inten it was more lackluster than he thought they would be.
Most of the diamond mouse’s best abilities came from its race, so its actual skills were not as powerful as Marcus had been hoping.
Still there were enough good ones to pick from even if there was nothing impeccable.
‘I guess I will give him, Soul Burst, Sound Mind, and mana barrier. While I will take from him, unbreakable Lvl 6, dull pain Lvl 5, and impact wave Lvl 5.’
Each of the skills that Marcus got from Inten were certainly not as powerful as the ones he gave, but they were useful and all ones that he could not normally acquire due to his race.
Unbreakable was a very powerful skill that made the body much stronger and harder to damage and something a spirit could not acquire through normal means.
Dull pain did as its name suggested and made the sense of pain lessened but did not make it to the point of not noticing damage and acting as an inhibitor to sensing danger and damage.
Marcus was especially happy to get this skill as it would allow him to shrug off heavy injuries a lot easier since he could have his body cleaved in half and still fight.
Impact wave was an attack skill that was normally only accessible to beasts that used their bodies as blunt weapons, and it could send a shockwave into things and cause massive internal damage.
All in all, each of the skills were good acquisitions, and both Inten and Marcus ended up much stronger now that they had shared three of their skills each.
“Everything looks good. Now did you want to accompany me somewhere and we can test out our new powers and I can pick up some resources that I need?”
Inten who was raring to go agreed immediately. Though he did say that they should bring Roxene along so that she would not feel left out.
‘Oh, and what is it that you plan on gathering?’ Inten asked via telepathy.
“I am running low on celestial platinum which I need to make weapons and armor. Luckily, I know of a mine invested with monsters where we can get in some good fights and fill up my lessening stock.”
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