"Wait… esd …. eqt", the sentences the cat wanted to say ca out cut off because of Kayden’s mana dominance. But it was enough for him to see that the cat didn’t want a fight. He stopped his hold and waited for the beast to communicate.
"Hello! My na is Felix and I’m a shadow and snow cat. I want to join your gang!" Even though the thesis ssage didn’t have any voice, Kayden felt like it was a cute and childish voice.
" Why? How did you find ?" Kayden was sure he had stacked several camouflage spells before he started cultivating.
"I’ve been following you for 1 and a half years and taking advantage of the scraps of at and food you leave behind. I can hide in the shadows." The cat simply disappeared in Kayden’s eyes and not even his spiritual sense could find it.
"Can you attack in this form?" Kayden realized he could have died thousands of tis in that ti.
"No, if I manipulate mana I have a small delay to co out of the shadows. It’s just enough for my target to be able to defend himself hurriedly." The cat stepped out of the shadows and threw five black cuts from its claws at a nearby tree.
Kayden understood that he could easily defend himself from that and react in ti. This eased his mind a little, but the feeling of being chased and watched was still not completely eradicated.
"Why do you want to join and how many lightning bolts did you get? I won’t accept less than five lightning bolts." Kayden had high standards and played sothing that would have been impossible for the cat to have.
"Animals walk in packs, only the strong can be alone and even they have their pack. I’ve been alive for about 150 crystal cycles. Each crystal cycle was about a year from the surface and I don’t want to die from old age. I want to see what’s above the crystals and for that, I need strong allies and I got five rays in my three advances."
The sentence ca as a big block of information to Kayden and took him by surprise. In the past, he would have ford a friendship and companion pact with the cat, but the Kayden of today?
"BOOOM!"
Kayden fired a bolt of lightning at point-blank range at the feline and the animal, which had no malice and wasn’t even expecting anything like that, received the attack in full. Then ca an aura slash that knocked two of its paws into the air. Without letting him rest, Kayden utilized his dominance to the maximum and approached at high speed. Five claw attacks ca at Kayden directly, each of them had a dark color and as soon as it touched his katana it began to hiss as if it was corroding it with acid.
Along with that, several sharp ice boulders began to fall on Kayden. Unfortunately, they were useless and barely got within 1 ter of Kayden before it ca apart entirely. Kayden continued bombarding the cat and blocked any attempts by the animal to communicate.
In the past, he would have felt sorry for the actions he was taking, but he broke down a long ti ago and had already abandoned ethics and morals. Every ti the feline tried to hide in the shadows, Kayden threw stronger attacks and prevented him from continuing.
Even with severe injuries, Felix managed to defend himself and attack to the point that Kayden had so cuts on his shoulder. At that mont, the boy began to camouflage his presence with dozens of mana points that were identical to him and launched the sa attacks.
The cat didn’t know why it was being attacked and was fighting for its life. With every second that passed, he felt more tired, mainly because he couldn’t recover the mana he was spending.
"That was almost..." Kayden thought in his mind as he dodged claw slashes that ca from his own shadow. Without thinking much, he erected a small artificial sun and all the shadows that were in the region disappeared, leaving only a few artificial ones made by Felix.
The animal could jump from one shadow to another and simply teleport. This was the first ti Kayden had seen sothing like this, but luckily for him, Felix couldn’t get out of his grasp.
Slowly, the fight lasted for more than an hour to the point that the cat no longer had any mana for any type of attack. The fight ended with Kayden having dozens of cuts on his body several of them showing his bones. Within seconds, Kayden completely knocked out the cat and, without wasting even a second, began drawing a pentagram on the floor.
Several minutes later, a tree of complex runes lay on the ground with the cat at the center of them. Kayden activated it and all the surrounding mana turned dark as it entered the beast’s body. Kayden guided the mana to two points: one of them was the animal’s heart that functioned as its core and the other was the feline’s head.
The animal began to scream in pain even unconsciously as black mana penetrated every part of its brain. In a few minutes, the process was finished and Kayden fell to the floor next to him, exhausted. This type of magic required great control and an even greater amount of mana.
"Wake up, Felix." With Kayden’s order, the cat’s eyes opened and its first action was to try to run, but heavy chains and mana prevented any movent of its body.
"I put a slave chain on you. At my command, your body performs any action I want, even if I ask you to kill yourself. Your request to join my pack has been accepted, but I must ensure your loyalty in this way." This was one of the spells that Han placed in the forbidden area of his book.
There were only a few dozen in those pages, but each one was dark and vile. Torture spells or spells that could cause mass massacres were placed in this part. As soon as reality set in, the cat started screaming and growling at Kayden.
"Don’t look at like that, your wish will still be fulfilled. Take this and try to heal yourself." Kayden threw one of the pills he still had into the spatial ring. This was a fourth realm pill, and as soon as the cat ate it chanically, its body was completely restored.
"Stop," Kayden ordered just as the cat tried to attack him again. "You cannot attack or plot against . Any such action will result in instant death from now on. Furthermore, you cannot go more than 100 ters away from without my orders and you must appear in front of once a day." As soon as Kayden said that, he released the animal from any mana pressure and instantly Felix disappeared into the shadows.
Unfortunately for him, as soon as he reached a distance of 100 ters, he felt a pang in his heart. If he took just a few steps forward, he would be killed. Without having much to do, he just hovered around Kayden for the next few days.
For the first ti in his life, he developed emotions such as hatred and distrust. In the past, he was mostly driven by instincts, but Kayden opened a new world to him. He appeared in front of Kayden for less than a second that day. It was only a week later that he accepted his fate and appeared above Kayden for the longest ti.
"You are already strong, why do you need a slave?" The cat could not understand feelings like avarice and greed. He spent a lot of ti just alone and never interacted with humans.
"You are not my slave, I just did this so as not to be betrayed. I can take you out of this abyss. Since you ca to talk to , I will finally give you two options: step into your shadow and never appear in front of again, or co with as a companion." The first option would result in the animal’s death, but Kayden wouldn’t tell him that.
"Prove to that you can get out of here," the cat said childishly. Kayden pulled out sothing he never expected to have to use here, a bag of canned food to last decades appeared in his hands.
"I ca from the surface, look at this and sll it." What was in Kayden’s hands was a plastic wrapper, sothing that would never appear naturally in the abyss. Imdiately the cat recognized that this was not a natural material. "Besides, I can promise with mana." Kayden used a spell that demonstrated that he was telling the truth, making the cat believe it.
"Why are you here then? This is a big prison," the cat grumbled.
"We are in a kind of abyss, on the surface our level is sowhat pathetic and we have hundreds of thousands. I will only leave here when I reach satisfactory strength ." The new information was easily assimilated by the cat who was already expecting sothing like this.
"As? If dragonflies kill us easily," the cat had been trapped in the third level for many years and saw several beasts more powerful than him succumb, even so with six rays were killed at the cost of a few billion moths.
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