Chapter 33: Bind – Part 3
On the way ho Alissa suddenly stops moving.
"Wolf, can you give
[Ignorance]?" She asks
"Sure, why?"
"There's a weakened bird over there, I can capture it easily with the spell."
"Oh, for [Bind]?"
"Yes."
"One mont."
I unmount her and she turns back into the love of my life. I adjust my points and cast [Ignorance], my hand glows and I touch Alissa. Suddenly she hurts to look at, sothing that sounds like a nightmare to .
She stalks the bird and then pounces on it. The poor thing is old and weak, couldn't resist Alissa's assault even if [Ignorance] wasn't applied.
I pull out a bottle of paralysis poison made by Roxanne. Alissa opens the little beak for
and I pour a few drops into the beak of the little grey animal. Not even 10 seconds later and its body stiffens, could even pass up for dead if it wasn't warm.
"Let's do this at ho," I say.
Everyone is circling , anxious, excited, and curious.
"Here goes nothing."
"What?" Hana asks.
"Idiom."
I cast [Bind], my hand glows and I grab the bird.
I feel like I grew another arm, I wish I had [Materialization] right now. I pull the arm out and feel a need to bring it to my chest. With little effort I feel sothing enter my heart, then I release and my hand stops glowing.
My body convulses and I lose control of my muscles. I feel a stiffness on my whole body that's very uncomfortable. My heart beats fast and my eyes dart around, fear clouds my mind. I feel an incredible need to open my arms wide and flap. I'm hungry and tired, very tired. My vision doubles.
My mind stabilizes after a minute and I recognize what I have been feeling. Proprioception, vision, hearing, touch, and other senses. The sa overload of information when I first summoned sothing. I wish to cut all my senses and my body returns to normal.
"Ughh... I feel horrible..." I mutter.
"Wolfy! You okay?!" Alissa's orange eyes stare unto mine, fear and desperation on her deanor.
"Yes, I think," I push her away and straighten myself on the sofa. Ciel removes a shining hand out of my arm. I look around and see everyone's pale faces, even Aoi's, if that's even possible. I look at my shoulder and a very calm Gify stares at .
"Gih."
"Yeah, you girls should trust Gify," I say, "he sees how my mind works."
"At least he didn't get physically injured," Ciel sighs.
"Still scary, what did just happen?" Roxanne asks.
"I felt everything the bird was feeling and the poor thing wasn't feeling good," I say.
"Oh..."
I feel sothing more, like a string inside my mind that connects to my body, feels weird. I tug at it and feel the bird's mind flood into mine, like a large fluffy blanket that wants to engulf . With little effort I bundle it up and engulf it myself.
The bird's mind starts to detach from myself, I still feel it but it seems like a different world, a second monitor that I can look at when I wish, different from the usual feeling of having more "eyes" that the usual summoning has.
"Give it the antidote," I say.
Lina receives a small bottle and pours it down the throat of the bird. Slowly its body relaxes and it calmly flaps its wings, stretching itself.
I watch it with warm eyes and hold the blanket tighter, it shrinks on my grasp and becos a re fuzzy ball of fluff. I see the little grey bundle of feathers shiver and chirp happily.
"You are safe here," I say.
"You can talk to it?" Alissa questions.
"Not really, it's even more abstract than [Animal Tongue]. More like it surrendered its mind to ."
I tug at the fluffy ball and will it to sleep. The bird curls on itself and closes its eyes, in a minute it's mind is completely shut down.
"Incredible," Ciel mutters.
"So you really can control it's mind," Alissa says.
"Yes but it could also do the inverse and control
if my mind is not strong enough. It's what happened when the spell started taking effect, I wasn't ready for it and felt like a bird."
The girls raise their eyebrows.
"This is dangerous," Ciel says.
"But also interesting," Alissa says, holding her head in thought. "You need to test it more."
I cast a [Heal] and [Refresh] on the bird. Its body was too weary, it wouldn't survive longer like this.
I wake it up with a thought and start controlling it. I have it eat so berries we have then I make it fly out of the window and make it cross town. The feeling of flight is enhanced by the birds own feelings of freedom. I can sowhat read its mind, its not smart enough to have proper thoughts but I can certainly understand its feelings.
"Controlling it costs mana. The further away he is the more mana it costs to send him signals," I say. "Though the sense sharing is not costing mana."
"Sense sharing could be sothing like a piece of the soul staying with it. This is why it doesn't cost mana," Ciel says.
"If information is being shared and a piece of my soul is in the bird than maybe there's a way to detect the transfer of information sohow."
"What?"
"So concept from my world. I'm also worried about soone getting a hold of the bird and hurting it's soul, it could end up hurting
too."
"Remove the points and see what happens," Alissa says.
I call back the bird and start to focus on how to summon it. This spell is very different, I can't use the "pocket monster" approach and summon a ball of light, I have to summon it instantly besides .
I pull on the string that's connecting the blanket, a little mana goes away. I "grab" the string and pull it hard, it keeps coming to
and my mana drops a considerable amount.
A light appears in front of
and the bird materializes out of it.
"Oohhh," Roxanne looks at the bird in wonder.
"That took a lot of mana."
"Expected since you teleported it," Alissa says.
I remove the points and the fuzzy ball turns back into a blanket, taking a lot of effort to keep it contained. I quickly put it back on.
"Didn't remove the [Bind], only made it more difficult to control."
"Okay, you really have to find a way to undo the bind," Roxanne says.
"Soul damage first," Alissa says.
I put 40 points into [Spirit Magic] and a new spell appears [Soul Blade], I cast it.
A small ethereal purple broad blade appears in front of my right hand, the size of a dagger. Awkward to use, it's similar to the katar, a push dagger.
I make the bird land on the table and cut all senses from it. I let a sigh escape.
"Here goes nothing..."
Preemptively wincing I push the blade into the bird.
"AAH!" I yelp in pain as my head sears in pain. The bird also cries and falls over, passed out, "FUCK!"
I cast [Soul Touch] and grab my chest. As if my insides are caressed the pain slowly recedes and soon turns into a gentle pleasure. Alissa caresses my hair, Aoi licks my chin, and Gify turns on his touch until the pain goes away. Then I do the sa for the bird until I can see it's back to normal through the sense sharing.
"Yeah this is bad," Hana says, "et a spirit mage and you are screwed.
"You really have to find a way to undo the bind," Roxanne says.
"Agreed. Hm, maybe if I..." I get an idea.
I grab the fuzzy ball and start to push it away towards where it ca. Sowhat like the reverse of [Redirect Mana] I push it out of my soul and the fuzzy ball simply disappears. The bird suddenly chirps and flies into the window and crashes. Alissa hurries and grabs it again.
"Well... I did it."
"That's reassuring. A bird isn't that useful for you, anyway," Lina says.
If I could teach this spell to other people it would be sothing like familiars, quite the exciting idea.
"I have to develop chants for these spells and teach other people, you girls would benefit from having sothing like this," I say.
"Possibly, scouting would be much easier, specially when you have an eye on your back," Hana says.
"Bind a Beholder and you are safe from nearly anything," Lina says.
"Except invisible assassins," Roxanne says.
"Except invisible assassins," Hana repeats with a sigh.
"What do you think would happen if you do it with a humanoid?" Alissa asks a glint in her eyes.
"Difficult to tell, the bird was barely sapient and he tried to take over my mind."
"Sapient?" Alissa asks.
"Intelligent like us," Ciel answers.
"Then let's test with sothing barely intelligent, perhaps goblins or Mossy Fangpines."
"First we have to know what happens when we kill it," I say.
"Let's use the bird then... sorry, it's important to know this," she hurriedly adds as she sees the pain in face.
I'm sorry little birb, you are not safe here.
We move to the kitchen. Alissa holds the bird over the stone sink and looks at , I nod. The dagger slices, its head falls off and I feel my heart stop. My vision goes dark.
I felt "death
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