Binding Vow 1
A/N: Many really didn't like the fact that he told them about his origin and that's fine. but I feel like with how dangerous using magic is without any guidance, he needed someone to teach him the ropes.
Plus, he is no where near Sukuna right now and has no idea how to get there. Do you think food and shelter is free! Its a luxury that needs money to get. How do you even earn in Orario when you have an entire region(Daedalus street) full of unemployed people,
what do you think bell went through before meeting Hestia and that guy has plot armor and MC just does not want to check weather he has plot armor right now.
A/N: That's what I thought while writing this and He will get to Ryomen Sukuna level eventually just not in three chapters.
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"binding vow?" Leo said confused. How do they think they could ensure that I would not go rogue on them using a [Binding Vow]? There is some way I just can not see how they can specify something like that.
Then again he is an 800-year-old mage he can probably come up with something.
Ouranos also did not speak letting his oldest aide take charge trusting him with this adventurer. after all, humans always understand their kind the best, even better than the gods.
"I propose you enter a [Binding Vow] that prevents you from harming any intelligent creature, if you break it your powers will be sealed forever," Fels said with a stern tone.
Holy! Hold your horses my guy, where is all this beef coming from?
"Is there some personal vendetta there?" Leo asked suspiciously to Fels.
"You know how dangerous your powers are and how addictive it can become," Fels said.
"So I should just leave myself defenseless even when I am getting robbed or something, even without the power or Falna I can at least defend myself,"
"You are prohibited from harming not defending"
"And how am I supposed to ensure that no one gets hurt while I am defending myself, one slip up and boom! it's all gone or maybe a miss fire I am not exactly a born expert in this" Leo argued back.
"Then you don't need to cultivate your powers..." Fels was rebuking when their arguments were interrupted by the god present there.
"That's enough Fels, you know full well that your demands are unreasonable," Ouranos stated as he calmed the fight between the only two mortals who possess his Falna.
This was enough to quiet Fels.
"Fels is not completely wrong, from our investigation we have found that everything you have said holds," Ouranos added.
"You have power and knowledge but are not of this world. Your presence or rather what gods in <Tenkai > did will have consequences,"
"So we are back to square one, you don't want a rabid dog and I don't want a leash" Leo concluded as the trio once again maintained their silence.
Although Fels was taking the shit to the extreme, he knew that if I went to someone like Freya, they would be in serious trouble. or even Loki, after-all Ouranos is not allowed to have a Familia to maintain the neutrality of the guild.
"How about a 1-year contract then," Leo said as Fels and Ouranos listened to his proposition.
"As all the incidents that I know about will happen at least 1 year from now" Since Ais Wallenstein took at least 3 years to level up by fighting Udaeus, it has only been 2 years.
"For 1 year I will work for the guild and follow your orders during that time I will spend most of the time in the dungeon and learning from Fels and I will also take that Binding Vow since I also want to check how it works. That much time should be enough to both get to know each other and decide what to do after that,"
As I finished speaking both Fels and Ouranos looked at each other.
"We accept your proposition human from another world," Ouranos said as he told Fels to teach me everything I needed to understand about my magic.
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"So this is your hideout"
"...yes, and I apologize for my previous demands," Fels said as he opened the door to a rundown shop near the guild, beside another secret entrance to Ouranos's prayer room. I did say he should have more ways but now I feel like he has too many.
"don't fuss about it, you were doing what you felt was necessary for your world," I do say but giving talking monsters more trust than me is a low blow.
then again it has been a decade since the guild discovered their existence in the dungeon. A decade that Fels here has spent interacting with them.
"So we start with learning about magic?" I asked Fels as he nodded and walked up to a book stand and took out 7 books, from what I could read their titles ranged from Theory Behind Mana to Falna's Effect on Mortal Species"
"These are researches from Altena. Since your magic is unique and with a skill like [Incantation], conventional methods of performing magic will probably be a waste of time. What we need is more information about your magic,"
"So we test it out."
"Yes"
"Sweet but where?"
"Follow me," Fels said as we made our way toward the backyard in the run-down place which had lots of open space. Even though the place looks like it's rotting away there is a lot of space here. There was even the adamantine golem there in the corner which Tiona wrecked during the Xenos arc.
Fels on the other hand picked up a piece of wood from the pile of garbage and handed it to me.
"You said this magic or domain was related to cutting things,"
"Yes, that's what I know"
"Then try it on the wood"
I looked at the broken wooden plank in my hands as I imitated how Sukuna used his magic.
"<Cleave >"
and nothing happened, The wood was still strong in my hands.
"No, Something did happen," Fels said as he took the wood piece of my hand to show a clean cut in the wood right behind my palm. It was not enough to kill something but it was enough to hurt something.
"My head feels a bit heavier," I said as I noticed the slight discomfort that appeared out of nowhere.
"That is due to having low mind stat" Low? No shit it was currently at a solid 0.
"So do we continue?" I asked as Fels was in deep thought,
"Is there more to this magic?" Fels asked.
Oh, he has no idea.
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