Chapter 1: The Bond Formation
A young man was sitting alone in a dilapidated-looking room. The room was in an extremely bad condition, and it looked as if the entire structure could come crashing down at any moment.
The man was eighteen years of age. He had turned eighteen exactly today. He had dark black hair and equally dark eyes. He was six feet tall. The man was bare-chested, and the ripped muscles on his chest and abdomen showed the brutal training he had been through in the past few years.
The name of the man was Athar VonCruz. He was sitting on a half-broken wooden chair, while a plastic crate served as a makeshift table. The man's eyes were fixated on the thing that had been placed on the crate.
An egg. The egg was black in colour and was almost circular in shape. The diameter of the egg was around five inches.
The egg was Athar's savings of his entire lifetime: one hundred and fifty thousand F Rank Crystals. This egg, which was of the lowest grade possible, had cost one hundred and fifty thousand F Rank crystals.
Athar was an orphan who had been born and brought up in Nawarin city. As far as Athar could remember, he had lived by himself. The abandoned or half-destroyed buildings on the outskirts of the town were his home. He would work as many part-time jobs as possible and spend the minimum of the money he earned from it.
He had been saving for the past decade, and after crushing himself with all sorts of work for a decade, he had barely saved enough to buy the cheapest of the eggs.
This world was a world that relied on beast taming. The rules governing the world were a strange bunch of rules. And mana was the foundation of the world.
As soon as a child turned eighteen years of age, the body of any human would start to automatically absorb mana from the environment. And though this should have been a good thing, it was not.
As I said, the rules governing the world were a strange bunch of rules. And probably the strangest bunch of rules was that the human body was incomplete in a certain manner.
The human body in itself had the ability to absorb mana and then process it, but it did not have the ability or a place to store the mana. Strange, no?