Offer

Nicola was surprised by the description of that thing that was absorbed by him, a natural treasure that could generate his own mana of darkness was what he did not expect to happen.

Access to such information was so restricted that he believed that not even reaching the gold level would he have a free pass to know something like that, but luckily, in a forgotten swamp in the corner of the Empire lands he managed to find a natural treasure, an essence on top of that. As a blacksmith he would be happy to have found a weapon, as an alchemist a herb would be incredible, as a craftsman a jewel would offer countless possibilities.

But something like an essence was different from the previous ones, this would allow him to manipulate the darkness at an almost microscopic level in all his experiments. The mass of black fog rounded with tentacles still spun like a planet around its core as it emerged from the torpor caused by the fusion.

Kin and Gin talked to Tuatha in a corner while they waited for Nicola to finish the lineage reinforcement process. The two had abandoned their hostility after Nicola made sure he was not as dangerous as they had thought.

The sphere varied again in color and shape while making the brothers tell about their adventures outside that cave.

"Hrmmmm" Nicola made a noise with his throat to get the attention of the three, who stopped talking and turned around excitedly. "Sorry for the delay, I hope you weren't too worried. Apparently I gained a lot of benefits this time. I think it's about time we left."

"As I promised, Tuatha, I managed to break your bonds to this place. Would you mind?" Nicola asked with a look of understanding between them.

"You can do the honors Nicola" The wisp spoke.

Nicola used his newly acquired power to launch a jet of black mist that reached that corpse that was paralyzed in a greedy position. As if hit by acid, the body slowly decomposed and slowly turned into a puddle of black and fetid substance.

At that moment the little gray sphere felt emotional and thanked him. "Thank you Nicola."

"No problem, I should be thanking you for letting me take these treasures. Anyway, we got what we came for and we're leaving this place. Would you like to join us?" Nicola sincerely offered it to him.

'I am already a half demon and my apprentices here are also camouflaged with an appearance similar to mine, it was already a little difficult to go unnoticed in places. With an undead floating around now, it would raise some suspicions from the citizens and the forces of the kingdom. After all, the war was formed by two forces, one of which was an alliance between demons, undead and orcs. But what can I do about it? ' Nicola thought.

The sphere seemed to be reluctant to join to someone else. Tuatha's scattered thoughts went between following someone who was practically unknown and walking alongside the person who saved him. In addition to not knowing the intentions that Nicola had when he offered him this proposal, he also had no knowledge of the places and habits of the surface.

Nicola had already reached out to accept the shiny sphere as his travel companion, so all he could do at the moment was to wait for an answer. Then he turned to the two children and asked. "Where did you learn this technique from you? I never taught you that kind of thing." He said.

"We don't know master, it just popped into our mind when you said you were in danger and it became clear to us as if we were seeing through a veil before." Kin said.

"Yes master, it was as if we knew that the two elements could be fused, in my case I felt that light and water had something in common, as if both could be shaped and had a softness that could be quickly transformed into something aggressive like ice crystals." Gin completed.

"With me the same, but in the case for me the light and the fire besides being able to illuminate the dark path both can cause quick damage to the enemy, the fire and the light merge to become faster and more aggressive." Kin explained his version.

Nicola seemed to think, his tails on the back swayed, some excitedly, others slowly, and one even scratched his chin. Nicola himself already had his hands on the heads of the teenagers, tousling his hair as he used to do. 'Elements can be merged through their attributes proximity. Just as light and shadows are sides of the same coin, so are the other elements, and that does not prevent them from being fused together to cause different effects'. Nicola thought while thinking about another research topic for later.

"I think I've heard of that." He said to both of them as he bent down a bit to stay in the same line of sight. "They are called inherited memories, some magical beasts or species with pure lineages have these memories inherited from their ancestors and are awakened in times of struggle or with age. You two should keep it a secret for now, maybe when you get older and strong we can assume its origins. "