Don’t Fear Of Darkness - Volume 1 Chapter 23 It Is Even Stranger Than It Was.

*Perspective of Edmund*

“… He bowed to him ?!”

I looked dumbfounded at what had happened. This damn pile of stalks, which has just tried to kill us just now, is bowing to Andrew.

However, from what I see the boy is more surprised than me, because his jaw almost fell to the ground and stares blankly at this bush. The stalk did not move an inch at that time.

Andrew turned to me with a question in his eyes, but I just shrugged.

“Forgive me, but for the first time in my life I see something like that, so I will not help you.”

The boy suddenly came to his senses and focused his attention on the wounded familiar. I ran to them to check the situation. The wound was deep, but it did not threaten life.

“Start pouring your power into Barghest, he will regain his health faster, I will take care of you.”

Ceplinski nodded and focused on treating Xena. After a while, his pet was able to walk, though he was limping.

Then we transferred all the attention to the mutant.

“Master, do you have any idea?”

“Do not you see what he’s doing? Try to tell him something.”

“I’ll try …”

Andrzej went to the bush and ordered:

“Stand up.”

The creature immediately rose.

“It seems it listen you, can you explain it to me?”

“Hey, do not look at me like that! I did practicing black magic, but I did not … do it.” He pointed to the monster. “Besides, you saw that he attacked us and you watched me, so you know what I was doing here, right?”

(All right, so why is he listening now?)

I looked at Andrzej’s wound and I remembered something.

“The blood pact!”

“?”

“I think that you created it, but not consciously.” One of your spells probably hit him and it began to distort his nature. In theory, this energy should dissipate over time and not do such excesses, it had to absorb your residual power and grew up to the present state. ”

“Well, what’s the deal with this pact?”

“Some wizards purposely created such creatures to defend their possessions as the first line of defense, but they also had to prevent them from attacking random people and themselves, so they created a blood pact to control them, creating a master-servant connection. Master always know where the servant is, and the servant carries out all orders indisputably … although from what I know no one does not use it anymore. ”

“Why? It looks quite strong.”

“Maybe so, but nowadays one ckm position is much more dangerous than such a creature. In addition, you have to give him mana all the time, which is a pain in the ass, especially if it grows bigger and don’t accept another mana than his master.”

“So what are you going to do with him?” I continued.

“If it serves me now, I will take care of it.”

“Do not even think about taking him near the mansion, because the whole garden will go in a piss.”

“It means?”

“Do you think that it only evolved thanks to magic?” In order to achieve these sizes so quickly, he had to absorb the minerals from the soil and at the full steam. ”

I kicked some snow away, revealing the earth. Although the winter was not terrible, the whole grass was yellow and strangely dry. The soil itself was cracked, and the color did not differ from the grass.

“If you want to stop him, he is not going to leave even a meter away, right?”

“No problem.” He turned to the bush. “Have you heard anywhere? Do not go anywhere and do not let you turn this place into a sterile desert, okay?”

The creature moved up and down slightly something that probably was the head, so he probably agreed. I sighed with relief.”

“That’s when we’ve set it up, I have to call you somehow. What about … Dark Ent?”

Ent probably liked the name because he was nodding more energetically than before.

I looked at Andrew surrounded by Barghests and Ent.

(It was only missing a stylish outfit and a demonic smile and he can looking like demon lord)

On the other hand, my life has not been so much fun for a long time. Probably if I did not meet him I would not even think about taking a student. And moreover…

(Perhaps, however, I will be able to fulfill your dream, Master)