"Alright, I will teach the skill first, and then I will activate [Chosen Partner], so that Shade can bond with her directly."
"Why do you call him that?" Anilla asked.
"That’s what he said his name is."
The girl nodded, and the Elder smiled, seeing a solution to her problem in sight.
First, Karl activated [Follow Me Little One], and chose to give Anilla the [Beast Space] skill, hoping that it would work now that he was an Immortal.
{Pet Sitter Karl Grants Knowledge} Skill [Beast Space] has been transferred to Shade’s pet Anilla.
Karl chuckled both at the description, and the way that the [Follow Me, Little One] message had changed with his class change. No longer did it ask them if they wanted the skill, it simply gave it to them.
But the fact that the System already considered her the cat’s pet boded ill for her future as an independent being.
[Chosen Partner] activated.
{Shade has chosen his partner.}
Anilla was lost in the System Selection screen when the cat vanished, retreating into his new Beast Space to start the necessary renovations.
"They’re going to need plants, possibly some bedding and other materials. The beast space starts out pretty bare, and needs to be mentally formed, but it works better when there are real objects in there.
What species is he, anyhow?"
"The cat? He’s an orphaned Divine Moor Cat that I picked up a few months back. His mother was hunted for resources, but he was hidden and the Sect doing the hunting didn’t notice him.
Or if you mean the girl, she’s half Elf."
Karl nodded. "I guessed that part. It’s also why she is late to activate her System. Elves mature more slowly, even half Elves do, though not to the same extreme. That’s why she hadn’t awakened yet.
She likely wouldn’t have activated a class until close to twenty, that’s the usual age for them, as I remember."
The Elder shook her head. "You’re still young. The competition between Immortal born is fierce. Here, even the Elves find a way to force early awakening so that their children aren’t vulnerable for decades.
Ten years is already a long time to be locked down, protecting the children. But for Elves, where their children don’t usually awaken for fifty years? It’s an eternity to prevent the news of a powerful member’s weakness from being used against them."
"Ah, so that’s how it is. While the children don’t have a class, they’re a target painted on your back, easy leverage to get an Ascended Immortal to do something unsavoury."
The Elder nodded. "Have you made plans for when your wife gets pregnant?"
Karl smiled. "Actually, those plans were made for me. You see, the beasts are very protective of their Dana Mage, and now we’ve got an Immortal Rank Behemoth in the group.


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