Isekai Journey Of The Magic Archer

[Rein's POV: ]

"So… you're saying you could just do it without the consent of your familiar? The hell are you talking about?"

We had already finished discussing today's papers so everyone had gone back to their dorms.

Everyone except Eon, this captain Alpha bastard, and my Luna sweetheart.

"Yes. Well, I know how absurd it sounds— being able to take over the senses of your familiar, almost like possessing their body or something- without their consent is pretty absurd.

But, even I was surprised when I tried it."

He was telling us about how he was able to perform mind synchronisation without the constant of his familiar and his story was almost sounding like a lie.

'I can tell even Luna and Lucy found it pretty unbelievable but, Eon had no reason to not believe what he was saying, while Luna didn't care about any of these things.'

She was with her 'friend' right now that had 'apparently' helped her get past yesterday's difficult night.

Now… we don't know what exactly she meant by that, but it at least confirmed that they spent the night together.

And that kind of progress meant I was right about them from the beginning.

"I know you can already see my screen so there's no reason to hide things from you two.

I'll just tell you what happened yesterday-."

"Yesterday?" Alpha was talking but Ron suddenly cut him off and looked at him with a stunned expression.

"…yes? Didn't I say it was just a few hours ago that I figured out how to do this?"

Even Alpha was surprised that we didn't know about this.

Eon's surprise confirmed that we didn't know much about this thing… and since we know a lot about many things, it was pretty surprising to both of them.

'This bastard…'

He did that purposefully this time.

It was true that we didn't know about it this time since we were busy talking with Lord Kain yesterday, but we do know a lot of things that happen most of the time with people close to us thanks to Celes and her clones wandering all around this island most of the time.

'Now they will be confused…'

Both Luna and Alpha had suspected that we somehow spy on all of them or if not that, we somehow know most of the things that happen with them.

Which was true, no doubt about it.

However, after seeing that little genuine surprise on him, they won't know whether we really spy on them or not.

'He knew how to play mind tricks… this bastard.'

And it worked as well, actually.

Even without my eyes, I can tell both of them were now confused about the situation before them.

"Ah, you didn't say that so I thought you had been trying this for at least a while now.

What you're saying isn't easy either, you see.

You don't have a skill that can help you with 'possession' directly.

Even if you could do it this well now, it's absurd how you were able to do it to this extent in such a short time already."

This time, he genuinely praised him. Which made Luna look at him with a new look of little surprise as well.

'She knew very well just how rare his praise was.'

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She wasn't in his house but she had heard a lot about it from the people of his house.

Plus as someone that had done business with him directly, and had observed him from closer than the other friends of our group, she knew that he knew just how rare his praise was.

And, if he was praising Alpha directly after being surprised by something he said earlier, then it was an even more rare occurrence.

"You might only know statistics of the general population, but a familiar creature of your level isn't something everyone can 'control' without some special skill.

You see, it's not possible by the very nature of this idea of mind synchronisation."

"That's right."

This time, he was just stating facts so I also agreed with him. He was right with what he had just said.

'The familiars, by nature, are unique creatures.'

The moment a being bonds with someone else and becomes their familiar, they aren't the same creature of their kind that they used to be.

'In this nature, finding and bonding of two beings is a big deal.'

Everyone already knows how during the bonding process, two minds of the beings forming the bond connect with one another.

However, that is not all that happens.

'Fate, time, and the energy frequencies of these two binds sync as well.'

They became bonded with one another in literal meaning. So, when we talk about something like mind synchronisation with a familiar being, we are talking about the realisation of this 'bond' that they have on a higher level.

'Right after the binding process, one is able to communicate with their familiars in various ways.'

They understand them even if they don't understand the 'language' they are using.

This is the most basic thing that happens when a familiar bond is established.

'And after that, when two people forming these unique bonds learn more about one another, they are able to do something more interesting.'

Starting with mind synchronisation, they are able to link their senses together.

They can use their familiar as a medium to communicate with others, and sometimes, one can even fight battles alongside their familiar in a unique way.

'There are many people who fight alongside their familiars and are impeccable at it.'

But, it requires years of experience with their familiars or a kind of bond that not everyone has.

'Mind sync is something precious that even Branwen and I could only do after a long time of being together.'

And, in a Master-familiar bond, something like Mind sync is the most basic thing…

"Can you tell us what exactly happened yesterday? Is possible that is. We wouldn't-."

"Ah, no no. There's no problem."

After Mind Sync comes (Energy Transfer) or (Energy sharing). After that comes (Bond Imprint), the generation of the mark that many of us already possess at the moment of bonding.

Lastly, when one learns enough about their familiars and their bonds become strong enough, they are able to 'bond' together. In a literal sense.

That's the highest known point of a master-familiar bond at which one can do various things no other being of their kind nor they themselves would have been able to achieve individually.

"So…"

Captain Alpha didn't know how there are only a handful of individuals who have ever achieved this highest level of master-familiar bond, there are also only a handful that had ever even been able to sync with a creature as strong as his salamander.

'It's obvious he doesn't understand the greatness of what he has done- even with some trick that he himself doesn't understand.'

It's absurd from a normal point of view like ours so, he found it difficult to understand what was so surprising about his actions that even Eon was praising him.

But, as he told us how he was bored and was reading about the Six elements of nature, namely (Sky), (Form), (Root), (Truth), (Origin) and (Void), for tomorrow's test and had a unique idea out of the blue… he started to realise what was so surprising about his own story.

'Just like the third element of nature: Root, suggests that everything has a root to it that connects with the fourth element of nature, the Truths, he started wandering about the root of his own existence.'

Well, we don't talk about it much but we both know that his existence in this world is a little unique from others.

Though not similar to Eon and Prez Zod, he is somewhat similar to them.

'His unique existence here made him think about the root of his place in this world.'

And then he contemplated, thought, and while in a deep state of concentration, he told us how he was able to see a light- a flare- inside of him.

"As soon as I interacted with that flare or ball of fire or, well, whatever it was, I found myself in the body of my little one, and I was able to control it directly."

Well… this was pretty absurd, and the rest of us agreed on this matter.

"So, well, technically speaking… you're saying you entered your own mind, found the anchor of connection, and when you tried interacting with the connected consciousness of your familiar, you were able to 'control' him?

Do you know how absurd that sounds?"

"…right? Now that I think about it…"

The captain of True dragons, the most talented individual among the students of this year, the best speaker and the most charismatic leader of the era… was a dumbass.

"You're unexpectedly dumb, Alpha."

Even Luna sighed and shook her head after seeing that reaction of sudden realisation.

'She must be seeing this reaction of his for the first time considering how even he himself was too confused to hide his expressions like he usually does.'

What he just told us was not something even I could do yet…

'Being able to enter your 'mind' and going as far as interacting with the intangible manifestation of a connection was unbelievable in both theory and practice.'

Even Eon had that look of extreme interest that he only rarely has on him.

"Captain Alpha. Can you give us more details… I mean, can you tell us as much as you could possibly remember?"

Alpha had always been with us since he knew we were special and interesting.

There were many things about us that he, as well as many others, didn't know about.

Plus he had this detective side of his that wanted to uncover all the things about us himself.

'And, now he had the opportunity to get something from us and this experience of his as a bargaining chip.'

But, I can tell instead of thinking about something like that, he was instead still thinking how absurd what he had done actually was.

And since he did it without the consent of his partner more than once, he was now worried about what he was going to do about this going forward…