"What the heck happened to you?"
Rex looks down at Amanir that shrank and take the form of a small white fluffy creature that is a hybrid between a dog and a cat. It has two white ears shaped like a rabbit's ears but upright, the way they flap up and down makes them look like wings.
But Amanir also has a set of wings shaped like a fly's wings, this overall makes it look cute and might even be popular if known by women. Something that he didn't expect to be a light spirit costing hundreds of thousands of gold.
With another flap of its ears, Amanir then replied squeakingly, "T-This is my true form..."
"Then why do you use that form earlier?", Rex narrowed his eyes staring at Amanir questioningly, it doesn't make sense for a powerful light spirit to not be proud of its own form. But then again, Amanir's form is not at all overbearing.
Something tells Rex that he can't use logic to decipher this light spirit in front of him, "Your form is hard to be taken seriously, did you take that form earlier just to look scary?", with the fluffy appearance, even a normal person will find Amanir cute.
Unknown to them that Amanir is a pretty old light spirit costing 150,00 gold.
If it turned into real money then this Amanir that looks adorable and fluffy costs 1,5 million dollars, that was a hefty sum of money but thankfully Rex got that covered. But the disappointment can't be paid by gold.
Just try and think the great Rex Silverstar summons a spirit and it turns out to be Amanir.
Supernaturals might even laughs at his face seeing his light spirit this small, puny, and worst of all very cute. Even normal people that saw Amanir's form will probably think it's a cute mutated animal.
"Don't mock my form! I'm Amanir, the embodiment of the good side of light itself!"
Amanir stiffens its ears trying to look endearing and scary but in the midst of its little declaration, Rex face-palm himself when Amanir's voice breaks into a squeak. A literal squeak that sounds like a mouse getting its tail pinched by a door.
'It's so different from when I met with Devo...', Rex thought with a sigh.
Back then during his couple of encounters with Devo before subduing him in the assimilation process, Devo also said a similar sentence saying that he's the strongest above the sky. But that time it was a power sentence backed with strength, it's different now with Amanir.
Despite the obvious disappointment on his face, Rex decided to keep a positive thought.
One can't judge the book by its cover especially, in a world like this. A cute little spirit like Amanir right here might just be a dragon in disguise that can soar to the sky, the system also recommended Amanir to him so it's definitely not without a reason.
With him asking for a light spirit similar to Devo's age and also able to help his Lunar Dust Illusion spell, Amanir should be a good spirit comparable to Devo despite its appearance.
Looking back at Amanir, he saw that Amanir is still embarrassed by the break of voice before.
"Tell me, what is your power? Can you turn into something and copy their abilities just like a Shapeshifter, or do you have other innate abilities?"
Rex asks Amanir in anticipation as he tries to give Amanir a chance to redeem itself and unsully their first meeting, but seeing Amanir sits on the ground before rubbing its chin with its little paw makes Rex's anticipation dissipate.
If being asked of its power and Amanir needs to think, it's definitely a red flag.
But instead of answering Rex's question, Amanir steals glances at Devo that is looking intently. Looking away meekly, Amanir then said, "Stop looking at me like that, I don't taste good. Your stomach will be upset if you eat me"
"Wha...", scratching the back of his head, Rex finds Amanir too soft for a powerful spirit.
Even when he asked the system about Amanir's power, he didn't get an answer which added to his frustration. Just before, he was attacked by his other self. And now as if it's not enough, the system sent Amanir that is testing his patience.
Just when he was about to forcefully assimilate Amanir into him, Devo suddenly open his mouth.
"Amanir huh, I think I've seen you before..."
With his narrowed eyes, Devo kept looking at Amanir finding this little light spirit familiar. Aside from finding Amanir very familiar, Devo also seems to remember hearing its name before but he can't remember from where.
Devo then remembered the form Amanir take earlier, and his eyes widen in realization.
"I remember you! You're the thief that went inside Heaven's Odyssey Atrium posing as one of us and took our Lightning Fruits from the Thundering Sumac Tree!", Devo exclaimed pointing at Amanir in utter shock.
Upon hearing this, Amanir yelped stepping back with clear fear in its eyes.
The black lightning and spirit energy inside of the red throne start to become greater as Devo's anger slowly rises, it seems this Lightning Fruit is something valuable for Devo's race. Rex watches this in confusion, it's the first time he experienced something like this.
In his mind, he will be fighting gruesomely with the light spirit today and reach the sixth rank.
But now he was faced with a situation where his spirit is angry at the new light spirit that he was about to assimilate with, turns out they have a history with each other which makes the situation even more complicated to deal with.
Rex was standing still in place watching Devo cursing Amanir that is already backing to the corner.
While he was thinking about how he can make the two be on good terms as they both will be inside him as his spirits, he suddenly frowns. Despite it being subtle, Rex can feel lightning-related energy coming from Amanir's body.
Although it's subtle, it's nevertheless there, 'Is it because of the Lightning Fruit...?'
Just as he thought of that, he suddenly widen his eyes knowing why the system recommended Amanir as his light spirit, 'I don't know how having two spirits works, I don't know how Evelyn manage to assimilate with two spirits, but maybe both spirits also need to be somewhat linked...'
He's not a hundred percent sure, but there's no other explanation.
Not only does Amanir has the ability to impose something else per what Devo said earlier which will help his Lunar Illusion Spell, but Amanir also has similar energy as Devo from eating the Lightning Fruit. If Rex thinks about it more, this makes perfect sense.
Having two spirits might be pretty cool and strong, but there's no doubt it's hard to achieve.
If both spirits are not in sync with each other achieving two spirits at once might be impossible, but with the Lightning Spirit eaten by Amanir then those two are a perfect match despite their history. Rex didn't sit still anymore, his eyes slowly shifted to Amanir on the corner.
Upon feeling the terrifying gaze directed at itself, Amanir's fluffy furs stood up with a chill.
At a blazing fast speed too fast for Amanir's eyes to follow, Rex disappeared from his spot before grabbing Amanir by its body covered with soft and sumptuous white furs. It's like grabbing marshmallows.
"Don't hurt me!! Someone help!", Amanir screamed in sheer fright.
Because of its soft and thick furs that feel like grabbing marshmallows, it doesn't matter how strong Rex's grip is. It's hard to hold Amanir in place as Rex stumbles around trying to make it stay in place.
"Stop moving! I'm just going to assimilate with you"
"I don't want to assimilate with an abuser like you!"
As the struggles continue, Rex is evidently starting to get annoyed.
It's not because of Amanir's struggle when all he wanted is to start the assimilation process, but because the angrier he got the harder it is to hold Amanir in place. Somekind of defense prowess one might say, the stronger his grip the slicker Amanir's body gets.
"Devo, help me hold this eel thing so I can start the assimilation process!"
"Assimilation process must be done by the Awakened alone without external help!"
Even though Devo used his serious expression when saying this, Rex sees through his expression easily as surely he doesn't want to help Rex assimilate with Amanir because of their history. It's just an honor thing for an Awakened to fight the spirit alone to be recognized.
If forcing a spirit to assimilate can be done, then getting help should be a tool too.
Just as the struggles continue, the door into the red throne is opened.
Upon hearing the ruckus coming from inside as Rex stumbles around the room with Amanir slipping out of his hands a couple of times like a fish, Evelyn steps inside before she stopped.
Her eyes instantly fixated on Amanir's cute appearance, "Aww... Is that a new pet?"
"Evelyn! Help me catch this thing, it's a light spirit that I want to forcefully assimilate with", Rex replied without even gazing at Evelyn as he tries to push Amanir into his chest to no avail, every time Amanir got close Amanir managed to slip again.
But instead of helping, Evelyn doesn't have the heart to help Rex.
Amanir is too cute and fluffy that she can't bear the thought of harming it, and this makes Rex clicks his tongue in displeasure knowing that this will happen if the girls saw Amanir's appearance.
Gritting his teeth, Rex's eyes glow red as he activates his Alpha Bearing skill.
Despite not knowing whether it will work on Amanir or not since Amanir is a spirit, Rex tried to weaken Amanir so it's easier to capture it. With his Mental stat that has a tremendous amount of increase from his berserk in the Delarosa Family's territory and Blessing of the Countess, surely it will work.
True enough, Amanir's body stiffen for a couple of seconds upon getting hit by the Alpha Bearing.
Rex's eyes flash as he activates his black lightning and uses his Flash Skill, he utilizes the stiffened body of Amanir which makes it easier to grab Amanir before he forcefully pushes Amanir into his body.
"No!! You cheated!!"
Upon getting closer to Rex's body, Amanir slowly turns translucent.
It makes Rex's eyes flashes in accomplishment seeing that Amanir is slowly being pushed into his body, 'Alright, even though it doesn't look strong the assimilation process should still hurt a bit...', Amanir has 12 media that needs to be connected with Rex's media, the number of media is comparable to Devo's media.
With that, Rex prepares himself by sitting in a meditative position. His body is already glowing.
Amanir's light element makes his eyes glow with white light.
<Assimilating with Amanir, Sham of Duplicity>
<0%...>
Getting ready to assimilate with Amanir, Rex then without hesitation launch an attack on Amanir's media inside of him hoping that it will not create too much of a commotion inside the throne room.
But even though powerful shockwaves will be created just like when he's assimilating with Devo, Rex has already engraved protection rune around the room so it won't matter.
Rex's eyes flash with sky-black lighting as he launches the first attack,
Learning from the experience of assimilating with Devo, Rex attacked the hardest media first which is the heart media before moving to the media in the head. Back then he thought that he needs to do it in an orderly manner starting from the weakest one, but he realized that he can do it in reverse.
It's because of him being a Werewolf, injuries from the assimilation process are not but a scratch.
Conquering and connecting the heart media first will confirms the assimilation, and connecting the media in the brain will automatically forces the other media to be connected as well. It shouldn't be possible for others, if they tried it then they will die from the injury.
Just as Rex directed his all into Amanir's heart media,
Splash!
"Hmmm...?", Rex looks down at his body in confusion, the light element glowing inside of him instantly got dimmed putting an evident frown on his face as this is a weird situation. Devo who is watching this in annoyance from the back got confused, even Evelyn also frown in confusion.
Amanir's presence suddenly vanished, Evelyn didn't even get to close the throne room's door.
Rex checks his entire body before his eyes widen in surprise, "T- That's it...?", he mutters in disbelief realizing that with just one firm push, not only does the heart media crumble but the media on the head also got connected easily.
Upon hearing the light mutters, Evelyn asks, "What do you mean that's it?"
"I just reached the sixth rank realm on my Lunar Light element, that thing is so meek that its media crumbles just from a push...", Rex glanced at Evelyn giving her a blank look, but this becomes more and more ridiculous by the second.
Evelyn tries to hold back her laughter but she can't, her face is already turning red in laughter.
"I can't believe it, isn't spirit age equals to their power...?", Rex mutters still in disbelief before a couple of notifications from the system appeared in front of his vision confirming the situation.
<Congratulation on assimilating with Amanir, Sham of Duplicity!>
<The user's stats have been increased!>
<Congratulation on completing Two Elemental Spirits Achievement!>
<Obtained Exalted Spell, Spirit Amalgamation!>
<Congratulation the user's bloodline has evolved into Exalted Royal Black Werewolf!>
<Intelligence stat has been increased!>
<Every spell chanted by the user will be amplified by 50% in power potency!>
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"Do I even need to look at the increase if it's so weak...?"
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