Chapter 107: The Third Contract Creature
“Buzz—”
After the incantation was recited, the light of the Contract Formation quickly enveloped both of them. As the contract was completed, Jia Na's soul power was also rapidly depleting.
“Pop—”
The light dissipated, and the scene shifted. As if space was shattering, and her consciousness rapidly fell, Jia Na, who was ejected by the Contract Formation, also withdrew from the Mirror Layer Domain in her spiritual body form and returned to her physical body in the Main Material World.
“Drip—drip—”
Due to the large consumption of soul power from the Contract Summoning, Jia Na felt incredibly tired at this moment. She lifted her head and glanced at the mechanical clock on the wall; Jia Na even felt her eyelids fighting to stay open.
“This Contract Summoning took a total of ten hours, which is much faster than I imagined, but—”
Forcing back the urge to fall asleep again, Jia Na first extinguished the continuously burning spiritual flame on the aromatherapy candle.
“It's just that the soul power expended to contract the second summoned beast far exceeded my prior expectations—this mirror creature is simply too much of an eater.”
Every time a Contract Summoning is completed, Jia Na, as the active party in the contract, has to contribute a large portion of her soul power,
to nourish the contract creature. Although soul power is a replenishable resource, this large consumption will take Jia Na at least one or two weeks to recover from. “Elf Summoning is good in this regard; after a forced contract, it doesn't consume nearly this much soul power, just a symbolic amount will do——ha~”
Jia Na, whose eyelids felt as heavy as a thousand pounds, let out a long yawn. She looked at the wound on her wrist, which had already recovered as before. Without even having time to thank the Spiritual World Lord for being so thoughtful, she stumbled back to bed and immediately fell into a deep sleep———
“By my will, I command you, summon—Hundred-Eyed Mirror Demon.”
By this time, the sky was already bright. Jia Na, who had slept for a full fourteen hours, woke up at six-thirty the next morning.
Although the feeling of depletion in her soul still existed, after a night of rest, it no longer affected Jia Na's daily state.
“Shimmer—”
Accompanied by a silver-white light flashing from the Contract Formation, a delicate round mirror, about half a person tall and entirely silver-white, appeared before Jia Na.
【Hundred-Eyed Mirror Demon: A Spirit World creature with no obvious Life signs, survives by Swallowing energy bodies, skilled in constructing mirror illusions,
Concealment, Sealing, Short-Range Teleportation...】
After quickly browsing the newly condensed contract medium information on the Wizard tree from the perspective of her consciousness, Jia Na also gained a general understanding of her third contract creature.
Just as Jia Na had thought, the abilities mastered by the Hundred-Eyed Mirror Demon, which originated from the Mirror Layer Domain, were extremely close to the Laws of this plane. This also perfectly matched Jia Na's idea for a third contract creature skilled in concealment.
Moreover, what Jia Na valued and was most surprised by was that this Hundred-Eyed Mirror Demon before her actually possessed the ability of “Short-Range Teleportation,” which is generally only mastered by space-type apprentices.
Yesterday, while in the Mirror Layer Domain, Jia Na had actually seen the Hundred-Eyed Mirror Demon use “Short-Range Teleportation,” but because she wasn't sure if it was an illusion or space Witchcraft, Jia Na had remained skeptical.
Only now could Jia Na be certain that her contract creature had actually mastered extremely rare space-type Witchcraft.
“Silver Mirror, what is your teleportation distance?”
Silver Mirror is the Hundred-Eyed Mirror Demon's true contract name. Like the Celestial Sparrow, the Hundred-Eyed Mirror Demon is also an intelligent creature with near-human intelligence. Its drawback also fits its characteristics: it cannot speak like the Celestial Sparrow.
The Hundred-Eyed Mirror Demon's daily method of expression is to write what it wants to convey on the mirror surface, and it cannot be too complex, because the Hundred-Eyed Mirror Demon is not yet proficient in the written form of the Wizard Common Language.
Of course, due to the Contract Summoning, Jia Na can still give instructions to the Hundred-Eyed Mirror Demon through telepathic communication, but the other party can only simply receive and cannot give the same telepathic response.
“Five meters~”
It was still the same morbidly humorous red font, like a blood inscription. Although she really wanted to complain, seeing the words “Five meters” on the mirror, Jia Na's eyes couldn't help but light up slightly.
“From here to here, demonstrate it once.”
Whoosh—As soon as Jia Na issued the command, in just the blink of an eye, the Hundred-Eyed Mirror Demon directly teleported from the bedside to the experimental table designated by Jia Na.
“The concealment is quite good, almost no magic fluctuations.”
She nodded in satisfaction. After testing it several more times and feeling the Hundred-Eyed Mirror Demon's fatigue, Jia Na also roughly figured out the upper limit for casting this ability.
“The limit is about ten times, which is much better than I imagined.”
Nodding in satisfaction again, Jia Na's attention shifted to the Hundred-Eyed Mirror Demon's other abilities.
“I've already seen Illusion, Concealment, and Short-Range Teleportation. What's left is this Sealing characteristic———”
Sealing Art is a field of Mysticism with a learning difficulty comparable to Deformation Art, and it is also strongly correlated with Wizard Talent. For example, Space talent, Astrology talent, Flash Freeze talent, Curse talent, and even individual bloodline talents—
It can be said that its talent categories span the three major fields of Elemental, Bloodline, and Mysticism. But coincidentally, neither Plant Affinity
nor Spiritual Body Shuttle meet the learning requirements for Sealing Art, which also destined Jia Na to have no connection with Sealing Art.
However, what also surprised Jia Na was that a “Sealing characteristic” appeared in only her third contract summoned beast, and judging from the Hundred-Eyed Mirror Demon's current performance, its future development potential is not low.
“Swish—”
After sensing Jia Na's thoughts, the Hundred-Eyed Mirror Demon directly teleported in front of Jia Na.
“From now on, don't easily use Teleportation without my command.”
Looking at the Hundred-Eyed Mirror Demon, which had no regard for its own magic power, Jia Na gently stroked the openwork pattern on the edge of the mirror and began to set rules for it.
“And this, I promised you when we signed the contract.”
Feeling the Hundred-Eyed Mirror Demon's remaining magic power was not much, Jia Na took out one source energy fragment from the remaining ten and handed it to the Hundred-Eyed Mirror Demon.
“You are truly a person who keeps your promises (smiley face)~”
Looking at the mirror surface, which was finally no longer Blood Red but normal black text, Jia Na could tell from the simple smiley face doodle at the end that the Hundred-Eyed Mirror Demon was in a rather good mood now.
“This is part of the contract content; I will not break the contract.”
Shimmer—silver patterns rippled. As a silver-white light flashed from the mirror surface, a short tentacle condensed from mercury slowly extended from the mirror. It then carefully took the source energy fragment from Jia Na's hand and swallowed it into the mirror with a gulp.
