67 67 - Signing a Contrac
The Blessed Ones had never been happier looking at a blue sky in their lives.
"For a mont, I thought my grave would be under a red sky," the thunder magician in the group said while using his cell phone that he just took out of his belongings locker and photographed the sky to use as a cell phone wallpaper.
Noah shared their sentints. He also thought for a few seconds that he was going to die inside that Fortress. Even though he was strong compared to a Blessed Rank E, that monster was several levels above them all. Noah didn't even know if he had enough strength to make his dagger penetrate the monster's skin or if his fla had already purified sins enough to cause any real damage to the Boss. After all, his fla was not so powerful against the Goblin Boss or the Boss Boar. Who was to say how strong it was against a monster as powerful as that bird.
After giving his testimony to the governnt agent, Noah was notified that he had moved up from Rank F to Rank E because of the great performance he had displayed in the two Fortresses he participated in which were Rank E.
Blessed could try to deceive the governnt in their testimony to raise soone's rank, but as the testimonies were given individually, if the information did not match, the Blessed who gave false information would receive a very severe punishnt, usually causing people to give up trying to deceive the governnt with false statents.
Of course, there were still people who tried to do that and failed miserably, but it was not sothing that Noah cared about. What Noah was really caring about was how much he could earn from those eggs he had put away in his backpack.
Noah said he had gotten so bird eggs to the governnt agent, but said he did not know what bird they were from, just thinking they were from Angry Birds. The governnt already knew how to deal with the Blessed who brought out eggs and as it was becoming very common today, Noah just received a receipt from the governnt and took the eggs away. The other mbers of the group didn't even know about it.
He only told the official because he knew he needed a receipt from where these eggs were taken to sell, since the most respected stores did not buy monster eggs without a receipt for fear of receiving a monster they were not prepared to deal with.
After the Fortress, Noah was formally invited to join the team, which he gladly accepted. Arriving ho, Noah opened his backpack and began to carefully remove the eggs. Upon entering the living room of the house, where the temperature was warr and more comfortable, Lilith woke up and slid up Noah's arm to reach his shoulder, looking at what Noah was doing with curiosity.
Seeing that she was better, Noah felt less worried and responded to her as he continued to carefully unpack the eggs. "They are monster eggs. I believe they are eggs of that monster you scared off. Hey, what happened back then? How did you scare off such a powerful monster?" Noah finally asked what had made him very curious.
Hearing the question, Lilith sighed and answered in a low voice. "I... rembered more things."
Hearing this, Noah raised his eyebrows in amazent. He was anxious to know what she had to tell him.
"In addition to my na, I felt a great pride, great to the point of it becoming arrogance. I don't quite rember the reason, but I know I did sothing to be very proud of, and when you were in danger from that monster, I felt he had no right to do that. I was also scared by the noises he was making, but for so reason, I felt more indignant than scared. So, on instinct, I threatened him because he caused you trouble." Lilith apologized after explaining herself, as she was not awake after the threat she made to the monster and had passed out due to tiredness.
Noah was slightly surprised by her response. When she had hissed at the bird, he had three possible assumptions: he imagined that she had either recovered her own mories or she always had the mories or the complete opposite, a case where she didn't rember anything and just did it on instinct. He just didn't realize that what actually happened was a mixture of the three assumptions. She rembered almost nothing, but what she rembered was enough to activate her instincts and show that she had other mories too. It just didn't explain to him why she had these mories if she was born only a short ti ago.
She said she had very old mories, yet the monster store attendant confird that she was born from an egg found in a Fortress and that she hatched from the egg while she was in the store.
Unfortunately, Noah knew that he would not get the answers to his doubts by asking her now. "I understand what you an. Don't worry; you actually helped a lot. That monster intended to kill , even if the reason is still unknown to . For now, our priority is to heal you and have you in a peak state before making you focus on your mories again. It will not be healthy for you, both physically and ntally, to continue to wear yourself out in that weakened state."
Hearing what Noah said, Lilith felt warm inside. She was just a snake; she only rembered living as a snake; but she knew it wasn't normal for her to have such a high perception of how humans feel and how they behave, even acting like them in almost every way. She managed to put herself in Noah's place and knew how strange what was happening to her truly was and how hard it was to believe her.
In her little head, the only possible thing that made him trust her so much was the sa reason that made her see him differently: that strange connection they had since their eyes t in the store that inexplicably made her open up to him like she had never opened up to anyone. "I'm glad I helped with the bird, and I'm also very grateful for you letting be with you. I've never felt so good physically as I do every ti I wake up from a sleep wrapped around your wrist."
Noah also thought the sa thing as her. This connection they had, he knew it was mutual. He could only attribute this to Lucifer, or rather, to the Lucifer Descendant System. Thinking about it, Noah rembered the window that was still open in the bottom corner of his view.
He knew it wasn't sothing anyone would easily be willing to accept. Signing a contract where your soul would practically connect with soone else's soul was too risky?for most; the monsters just accepted it because they didn't have the intelligence to understand what that ant in the long run. But with Lilith, even though she had an intelligence as high as that of a human, sotis showing a maturity that was not even seen in people, Noah felt she would accept it. He felt it because he knew that if he were in her position, with his instincts telling him to be together with her, he would accept it.
And it was no different than he imagined. Lilith, after hearing Noah explain about the contract, did not have to think twice before accepting the terms.
When Noah asked her the reason, just to be sure, she simply gave him the answer he expected. "My intelligence cries out for to refuse this contract imdiately, because of how dangerous it is and how little I know about you, but on the other hand, my instincts scream for to accept this contract even if I have to do anything to make that possible. And in the few mories I saw, where I was very proud, I also saw that I should trust my instincts, as they have already saved from a lot apparently."
The answer she gave only made Noah even more sure of his choice, so without a second thought, a familiar energy ca into his palm. A pair of pentagrams floated between them before flying toward them. The pentagrams didn't have to wait even a few seconds before they flew into the two. One etched itself into Lilith's forehead while the other settled on the back of Noah's hand.
As soon as the pentagram entered Noah's palm, he felt that the affinity between him and Lilith, which was already very powerful before that, had now beco a few tis stronger, as if they had known each other for years and had a deep friendship between themselves. Whenever Noah wished, he could make the mark disappear or appear there looking like a tattoo.
As soon as the pentagram's mark disappeared, a black window appeared floating in front of his eyes. It reminded Noah of sothing else. Aside from the ssage he had to read now about the contract he made with Lilith, he also had another ssage that he didn't have ti to read before: the warning about his wings.
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