Odyssey of the Blind God

Using the taxing swordsman training as a means to perceive and collect the surrounding Mana, Nial broke the shackles around his Mana Core.

He used the unique cultivation method of the Creatoran to build the Soul pace inside his Mana Core, thus awakening his talent as Summoner.

Every Creatoran naturally possessed the foundation to create a small isolated dimension inside their Mana Core. This isolated dimension uses the potential of the Soul and is used as a medium to create a Soul Link with Monsters.

The Soulbound Monsters, Familiars if one wants to call them such, would be granted a small habitat inside the isolated dimension, the Soul Space, to rest there. The Familiars could then be summoned at any time as long as the Summoner willed the Soul Space to open up.

The ability to summon and store their Familiar was an essential ability for any Summoner. It made things much easier when it came to traveling through crowded streets, or preparing for battle. One could even say that summoning their familiar was their trump card. After all, one could gain an advantage in the midst of the battle upon suddenly summoning a unique Familiar that the opponent didn't expect.

Of course, being able to store and summon their Familiar was not the most important trait of a Summoner nor was it the fact that a Familiar's strength amplified the strength of the Summoner to a certain degree.

Two of the most crucial points of a Summoner were the fact that Monsters could unleash their full potential by being bound to a Summoner, and to be able to teleport to the Monster Dimension.

Nobody really knew where the Monster Dimension was, who created it, and if its purpose was to grant Monsters a Sanctuary, or if it had been created to give Summoners the opportunity and challenge to catch their Familia-to-bee,  in the first place.

Nonetheless, it was an amazing place that harbored both treasures and dangerous threats.

And that was exactly where Nial was currently.

The four-year-old Nial Lacardian finished his swordsman training the day before, he washed up and started to cultivate using the Creatoran's Summoning Cultivation technique. He unsealed his Mana Core and completed the creation of the Soul Space.

However, what he didn't expect to happen was the Soul Space to suddenly teleport him into the midst of a humongous forest. Nial was already in his pajamas, ready to go sleep once he finished his daily evening cultivation session, only to be suddenly thrown into the Monster Dimension.

'I thought it was necessary to gather more mana to open up the portal to the Monster Dimension. What happened?'

Nial Lacardian had read a lot about Summoners and he knew that the Monster Dimension would sometimes call Summoners. But even if the Monster Dimension would have called him, it was not as if it would usually force someone to enter. The Monster Dimension's call was more of an invitation to the Summoner than a kidnapping.

It was a means of the Monster Dimension to show the Summoner that he/she was ready to bind a new familiar and that the Monster Dimension actually found a suitable partner.

In that sense, one could even say that the Monster Dimension was a sort of match-up dating site. One would find their soulmate through the Mosnter Dimension's help, after all!

'So the Monster Dimension found a monster that is highly compatible with my soul?'

The stronger the 'urge' of the Monster Dimension, the higher the compatibility between some Monsters and the Summoner. A higher compatibility between the Summoner and his Familiar created a stronger bond from the moment their Soul Link was established.

Not only would the Summoner receive a higher amplification in strength thanks to that, but there were even more benefits. These benefits were in accordance with the kind of monster that would be bound to the Summoner.

But not only the Summoner would get benefits. The stimulus of the Monster would be stronger, and the likelihood for the seals on hidden bloodlines to be unsealed simply by relying on the course of time and with the help of arduous training was much higher.

If a Monster had already unsealed their strongest bloodline, it was not unlikely that binding to a Summoner would enhance the bloodline and give enough stimulus to evolve the bloodline as long as all pre-conditions were met.

All of that was great, and one would be overjoyed if the urge of the Monster Dimension was strong enough to force the Summoner into the Monster Dimension

Nonetheless, Nial had some issues to take care of now because the Monster Dimension forced him inside.

He couldn't prepare himself properly, his body was tired-out because of the earlier swordsman training, and he was not even equipped for battle. In fact, he couldn't even bring his protection charms and defensive artifacts.

That meant, he was bound to die the moment a monster showed hostility toward him. After all, there were still a few Demonic Beasts out there in the Monster Dimension! Demonic Beasts were Monsters that had developed the habit to kill Summoners and developed unique traits thanks to the highly nourishable and unique blood that coursed through the Creatoran.

Apparently, the blood of Creatoran could help Monsters break their natural shackles, and allow them to advance past their racial limits.

That was exactly why Nial was so fucked up.

He found himself standing in the center of a large clearing, surrounded by a vast and dense forest. Towering trees with deep roots and sprawling finger-like branches extended high into the sky, creating a canopy that filters the sunligh around him.

The canopy cast an emerald-green hue over everything below, manifesting a mysterious and exotic aura onto the clearing and the forest around. Even though the clearing was not small, there was only a little sunlight thanks to the towering trees all around.

The trees that seemed to connect heaven and earth through their massive size were also the reason why the forest floor turned into a carpet of leaves, broken branches that were bigger in size than some trees would ever be, and small rocks that jut out of the ground like small fangs.

Nial was a little nervous. He was totally unprepared and it was not exactly helpful that he had all kinds of sounds in his surroundings. The rustling leaves, the chirping birds, the buzzing insects, and the occasional roars and growls of predators were not exactly reassuring, and they rang in his ears even louder than his wildly beating heart.

'Now…how the hell am I supposed to find my fated familiar?'

Nial figured that he could use his eyes to navigate through the forest. Being able to see the mana currents around him, and the hues of a monster's potential from far away, it shouldn't be too problematic to avoid a bunch of monsters.

However, searching for the monster that was highly compatible with him was not exactly something that could be done easily. Some Summoners spent decades in the Monster Dimension to search the region they have been teleported to after receiving the Monster Dimension's call to enter.

The issue was just that these Summoners were already adults, they made enough preparations to stay in the Monster Dimension for a long time, and their strength was usually a lot higher than newly Awakened Summoner.

Nial was a small and delicate-looking child, with short silver hair and eyes that sparkled lightly as he analyzed his surrounding

At first, he was a little confused and unable to tell where he should start looking for his fated familiar, but it didn't take long before something extraordinary happened around him.

Monsters of every shape, size, and color were slowly making their way toward the clearing.

It was almost as if the monsters were drawn to Nial's presence like a magnet.

Birds dived down from the trees, their wings glinting in the emerald-green hue of the canopy. Smaller monsters, predators as well as prey were scattered across the clearing, while large beings like Titan Deers, Millenia Bears, and even an Earth Dragon were cautiously making their way forward, paying attention not to squash the small monsters.

As the monsters gather around the child, it was pretty obvious that they were not afraid. They were drawn to his Soul Space, and the opportunity they fathomed.

'What is going on?!'

Nial could hardly breathe. The scene around him was simply too confusing, yet breathing beautiful and wondrous. The clearing, filled with a sea of monsters of every type, turned into a place of awe and reverence. There was no trace of danger, let alone fear hanging in the air.

All monsters seemed to come to have come to an agreement.

They wouldn't hurt one another to give Nial the chance to pick his familiar.

This was something unheard of, but Nial was not in a condition to think about all of this.

He was currently too confused to even think straight, let alone attempt to understand what was going on.

He could tell that the situation was in his favor, but he had a hard time picking a familiar.

After all, he was supposed to find his fated familiar.

'Now that I can see, I should use my eyes!'

Wait…why 'now'?

…

Was something wrong with being able to see?

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