Chapter 19: Spirit Bonding

After calming herself, Elysia looked at the body of the white tiger which had wounds all over his body, whether it was an external wound or an internal wound. The spirit beast was on the verge of death and had closed his eyes to accept his fate.

Then, Elysia walked closer until right next to the spirit beast's body which was 4 meters long and 2 meters high before stretching out her two hands at the dying body.

She will try the thing that comes to mind now, the healing process.

Elysia used her 'advanced perception' and then used her magic to stop the bleeding by narrowing the blood vessels around severe external injuries.

After freezing the wound is complete, together with white blood cells have worked well to prevent infection, then she accelerates the process of producing collagen with her magic to form damaged tissue.

Visible to the naked eye, the outer wounds on the tiger body slowly healed. Elysia completely healed the tiger's outer wounds, and then she tried to heal the inner wounds.

Everything she does uses only the medical theory that she has learned and has become common knowledge on Earth, along with her strong imagination and magical abilities, she successfully heals the tiger body completely. If not counted blood marks on the white fur of the tiger, he seemed never to have been injured at all.

Unfortunately, the spirit beast in question had closed his eyes and didn't care about the world, he didn't realize the death that would pick him up had missed him from the list.

'*phew* I didn't think it would work. The laws of nature in this world are miraculous and wonderful.' After finishing healing the poor white tiger, she felt relieved in her mind.

'It is you who is amazing, Lil Ely. You can either let the tiger die or immediately release him from suffering, but you prefer to heal him.' Elena praised with a smile.

'Um. I don't know why, I feel like I saw my old self in this tiger, and I will feel sorry if I just let him die. I try to live without regrets and I will always be like that.'

Elysia moved away from the side of the tiger that had recovered before muttering in her pleasant voice."You will not die just like that. Your fate is what you determine and not what you receive. You are the master of your own destiny. Regarding your brother who went first to the afterlife, he might die even if he does not meet me, maybe it was fate that made me free him from his suffering."

The creature in question moved his ear as if responding to a voice he could hear clearly. He began to realize that death had passed over him so he was not picked up to the afterlife. Then, he opened his blue feline eyes and stared at Elysia's back that kept walking away.

The winged white tiger immediately stood up feeling healed from all the wounds he had suffered, then he tried to think and understand the words of the female human.

"Please wait a moment!" The white tiger exclaimed as it slowly approached the human.

Elysia turned and looked directly into the tiger's feline blue eyes while the tiger looked at Elysia's purplish-blue eyes.

A human and a spirit beast looked at each other as if they were assessing each other's characters for a few moments.

"Can I see my brother's body?" The spirit beast that had used a deep voice now seemed to beg.

Elysia nodded and with a light hand gesture, she put out the corpse of a winged black tiger from her [Space Storage].

The white tiger immediately approached the lifeless body of his brother who had become cold. he sniffed and seemed to stroke his brother's body with his paw as if he were mourning and crying.

"Can you grant me one wish?" After a few moments passed, the white tiger spoke to Elysia while still staring at the body of the black tiger lying on the ground.

"What is your wish?" Elysia frowned slightly.

"Can I bury my brother's body properly?" Now he turned his tiger head to look at Elysia.

"What makes you so sure I will grant it? I heal you who are dying for personal reasons." Even though in her heart she will grant it, she still needs to clarify things. She doesn't want to be framed or exploited because of her kindness.

"Please, he is my only family. I'll give you anything." He returned to beg.

"What will you give me?" Elysia began to feel guilty, but she remained on the hard front because every step and decision she took would determine her future. She must be very careful in every situation.

The tiger fell silent immediately. He had nothing to offer to exchange the body of his brother, whereas the path of coercion was stupid suicide.

"Why are you silent? I'm sorry, but I can't take the risk in the future if you can't offer what is worth it." Elysia murmured with a distant view, while the white tiger interpreted it with a different meaning.

In this unsafe world where wars still often occur between races and groups, the possibility of extortion, framed, and other problems could have occurred due to current events. So he understood what Elysia said to 'take the risk' like that.

"Myself. I will offer myself in exchange for my brother. Since you healed me, I will serve you sincerely for the rest of my life. So, please grant me this wish." A white tiger who thinks it's impossible to fight and interprets it to a different thing offers everything he has.

'Serve me? What does it mean?' Elysia was surprised but did not understand what the tiger meant.

'Lil Ely, we better not overdo this. He dared to offer himself with determination. If problems arise later, I will be there with you.' Elena said that her opinion made Elysia no longer think too much.

"Um. Alright."

A short sentence that made the spirit beast relieved. He then bowed his body to the ground.

"Now please touch my head. I have opened my spirit to you, you can mark me as yours and that will prevent me from betraying you."

Elysia was a little hesitant, but she still did what she asked. She touched the tiger's head with defense preparations if the spirit beast suddenly attacked. Then she felt strange energy coming to her, she reflexively channeled her energy into the strange energy.

The spirit bond had been established between the master and servant without Elysia knowing how that could happen, but the existence of the servant could be felt inside her.

And a unique mark appeared on the tiger's head, the same position where Elysia put her hand.

"What was that?" Elysia immediately pulled her arm from the tiger's head while looking at the unique mark in the position she had touched earlier. The mark seemed to be transparent before it was fully absorbed.

"It is a ritual of spirit bonding between masters and servants, in which servants must open their souls to the master to be marked. I will die if you die, but that is not the other way around. You can use the mark to communicate and command me. I am Vanessa, greet Master."

Vanessa said her long narrative with a different voice but Elysia did not pay attention to it because she was trying hard to adjust to their rapidly changing situation even though she did not show it through facial expressions, and Elena tried to think logically to calm Elysia from her excessive thoughts out of concern.

"*sigh* So what are you going to do now?"

After her mind calmed down, she sighed and returned to their topic. Strangely she does not feel afraid of beasts rather than humans because she thinks beasts are just animals and something in the form of people is human which sometimes makes her traumatized.

"I will soon bury my brother properly to our land." Vannessa said firmly as if that was his priority.

"Um. Then I'll be there too. Since you became my servant, I don't need to worry about many things and I want you to answer some of my questions. In return, you can ask me questions. I won't lie to you. So don't try to lie to me."

Elysia said after accepting her situation and thinking clearly again. After Vanessa agreed, Elysia put the black tiger body back into [Space Storage], and the two of them immediately went to the land in question.

On the other hand, many representatives from various organizations or groups are heading to Avrora Forest to investigate previous un-natural events that have occurred in the Human Continent.