19 Leaving the Beast Trial (1/2)

Yale was thinking about that when the system prompt appeared.

”A beast voluntarily formed a life-bound contract to the user. The Origin Qi in user's body provoked a breakthrough in the beast's body.”

Yale looked at the little wolf with a strange face.

A Magus could use special techniques to enslave beasts to work for him. Given the usually weak body of any Magus, having a beast to win time while casting spells was very useful.

However, Yale didn't plan to do that as he didn't have a method to do it nor did he want to do it.

Yale didn't want to part with the little wolf, but he thought that the little wolf's life would be better in its natural habitat rather than going with him as a slave.

Originally, Yale wanted to give freedom to the little wolf as he already was responsible for its parent's death, at least the system considered Yale, the killer of both.

And taking it to the outside without a contract would provoke a calamity to the little wolf as the exit had restrictive spells to avoid any beast from leaving the Beast Trial.

What Yale didn't expect was for the little wolf itself to create a life-bound contract with him, that type of contract could seem similar to the normal one, but its nature was completely different.

A human could break the slave contract with a beast and then free the beast, but a life-bound contract created by a beast was impossible to be broken by the human nor by the beast.

There was no way to break the contract if the human died the contract would also kill the beast, so it was impossible to form a second life bound contract afterward.

However, if a beast did that kind of contract it wasn't because it wanted to become enslaved, a beast could only do this kind of contract if a human who considered its closest family, for the beast that was a way of becoming a true family with a human.

Yale knew about the reasons behind the life-bound contract, and that moved Yale.

He also knew that a beast could only form that kind of contract with someone of a higher level and he had suspicions that the little wolf had held back its breakthrough until Yale reached the 1-star real so it could make the contract.

The little wolf approached Yale and rubbed its head on his legs; then Yale seemed to hear a cute voice.

”I...want... to stay... with...big bro...”

That was the first time that Yale understood the little wolf, the words were vague as the little wolf was still too small, but their meaning was clear.

The little wolf only wanted to stay with Yale, its only family. It didn't care about freedom or complicated things; the little wolf didn't want to live alone.

After Yale saw the little wolf eating the Fire Wolf, he had considered that beasts were only beasts and that he had thought too much about the little wolf family's situation before, doubting about his first impression.

However, at that moment he understood that he had no reason to doubt, his first impression wasn't wrong, the little wolf's desire to be with him wasn't different from a human one.

”Don't worry, you are my little sister, and I won't abandon you.”

After hearing the little wolf, Yale became incapable of treating her like a beast and came to see her as his little sister; he didn't care that she was a wolf, to Yale she was more family than any of his half-brothers in the Roanmad Clan.

Actually, besides the little wolf, Yale only considered his sister and his master as a family, the rest of the people in the clan were at most neighbors to him. As for his father, he didn't speak with him in years he was a complete stranger to Yale.

”Right, you are still without a name. Then I will name you on behalf of your mother.”

Yale thought for a while until he decided a name.

”Your name will be Wyba!”

The little wolf seemed happy after obtaining her name, and Yale smiled.

Yale continued to pat Wyba's head as he finally went to the Quest Menu to check the new sub-quest.

”Upgrade [Tri-sword] and [Spark] equally until level 5. Reward: Combined Skill [Tri-sparkling Sword]”

This sub-quest wanted Yale to train both skills equally; when he leveled up one to level two, the other should also be upgraded to level two before the first one went to level three and should remain this way until both were level five, otherwise, the sub-quest would fail.

Yale didn't feel that the new sub-quest was problematic, as long as he didn't use the skill it wouldn't level up, and the reward was a combination of the two skills which was very good.

Since Yale had turned ten years old he should leave the Beast Trial quickly; he already was on the outskirts of the Beast Trial near the exit.

Yale carried Wyba in his arms, and after a whole year, he left the Beast Trial.