An Extra’s POV

The rest of the process was pretty simple.

Rey and the Symbiote Slime entered a binding vow, each delivering their own conditions for the relationship to be established.

On Rey's end, he gave three conditions:

"One, never betray me."

"Two, always obey my commands."

"Three, do not obey any other person's commands unless I give you permission to."

They seemed incredibly extreme, but when considering the actions or inactions of a Familiar, they all tallied.

Even Ater followed these three to the latter, yet he was still able to express himself and take the initiative in a lot of instances. As such, Rey didn't feel negatively about his conditions.

Instead, he focused on the ones that came from the Slime.

As though keeping things fair, it also had three conditions:

"Do not accept any other Familiar."

"Do not break our bond for whatever reason."

"Do not starve me."

They all seemed reasonable enough, and Rey could see himself following all of them without any need for infringement.

'What are the chances that I'll get the Beast Summon Skill again? I don't think I'll ever get another one…'

Still, even if he did meet a creature and desired to make them his Familiar, he didn't have a Taming Skill or Class, he would have to go through this whole 'Binding Vow' thing again.

'Well, I could always try to use Magic to make a creature from this world my Familiar, so that could work…'

The temptation could come, but Rey didn't feel the need to break any of the conditions that were set for him by his Symbiote Slime.

break one of the rules and reveal that I am immune to the curse, which will in turn cause the Slime

following Ater's methods, Rey could be viewed as cruel, but he would

think I want to take that

a base relationship with the Symbiote Slime. It wasn't like he couldn't resort to force or a show of strength if necessary, but he

and I have nothing to lose if I do the same.' Staring at Ater for a brief moment,

understands

at a deeper level of consciousness, so the Slime couldn't read them. Plus, with Rey's access to his mind and body, he could always restrict some of his thoughts from being breached by the Slime, which meant he didn't have to worry about the creature constantly prying

be so cautious about it, but… well, I

with Ater, despite having Bonded with him from the start, he found it very difficult to trust him for

wasn't until recently

guess it just takes me time to warm up to new people.' He smiled at the blob that now began to climb

breaking one of the conditions was severe pain and weakness—one that could only be turned off if the culprit changed his ways, or if the other side forgave them. Breaking two conditions meant instant paralysis, weakness, and constant pain of an even higher degree than the

conditions

so he didn't really care about how severe they were. The Slime also seemed pretty

Thus—

~GLOP!~

the word. It almost felt like diffusion, watching the slime permeate

became evenly distributed to his

"Haaa…"

had expanded his consciousness. He felt

heard a voice inside

amazing! I love you

with this sudden attitude change?' Rey wondered as he felt the excitement of the Slime

System Panel

[System Notice]

have acquired a Familiar, and a secure 'Bond' has been

~Please Name Your Familiar~

see. So even without the Bonding Skill, we can still create a bond recognized by the System if

Familiar, he already had a

"Emil. That's your name."

Tastes so good, smells so immaculate. I don't think any other body

very weirded out, hearing all of this

gender, and considering this one was a Slime, that went double for it. Yet, the voice and personality made Rey consider the thing

disturbed and weird