Oath

From what I had learned about the situation was that No one except Madam Svetlana and her daughter could be trusted by me. An apprentice magician bodyguard doesn't no seem right though.

I had made up my mind of following Madam Svetlana but I had apprehensions if I would be forced to get into another soul contract.

"Still hesitating?" said Madam Svetlana.

"I am just a apprentice mage? Why even bet on me?" I asked.

"I saw your magic control that time. I can bet none of the mages, maybe even grandmages won't have the control as you. Just take it as me getting on the our future. Good actions do get rewarded. I will not force you into a subordinate contract but you have to take a magic oath with my psychic mana."

She then explained how the psychic oath works. She will push mana into my heart which I have to channel which thinking about the content of the Oath.

She got up and came towards me. It looked very intimidating to be honest.

I stood up. She brought her hand onto my chest and said something inaudible to me. I heard a ding sound in my brain and also the content of the Oath came pouring into my mind. The oath was short,

"Never betray Svetlana and her daughter Arshaya."

I accepted the mana and it formed another chain on my magic heart. At the rate, I was getting soul chains on my heart, there would be no space left, I complained internally.

Another thing I noticed was that Madam didn't trust anyone except her daughter, maybe she did not have any family left besides her daughter.

"You can stay in the outhouse of our mansion in inner city. Do you have any things you need to bring from the shantytown." She asked.

"No, I just need to inform the neighbours that I got a job inside town." I replied.

"Don't be boastful about it. People do get jealous of others success. Come, I will take you to see the other workers in the store and introduce you to them. I will tell them you had helped me from the robber, so I am helping you with a job. Don't tell them about our conversation." She ordered.

I nodded and followed her.

We back out from the background and she asked the butler, "Tom, this is Bruce. He will work for the Shara family from now on. He can work as a guard at the start. By the way, Where is Rock?"

"Master Rock is in the backroom working on alchemy. Lady Margaret is with him as well."

I looked at the guards and workers of Shara family, Almost all of them were level 1 mages. This Tom was a level 2 Earth Mage.

And this Margaret was Rock's wife. She was from a family far across the sea. She was from an aristocratic family of Napoli Kingdom. It was when trade was happening between Margarets family and the Dunt family that this marriage was proposed but with the death of Rocks father.

Margaret did not like Svetlana. She wanted to go back to Napoli with her husband. She had proposed to take the family across the sea and provide residence on their property. She was the daughter of Earl of Brussex which was a entrepot nearest to Augustus kingdom.

It is said that Brussex city is at the mouth of river Napoli which divides Napoli Kingdom into north and south. It is could have been the capital of the Kingdom not for the far away location from eastern parts of Napoli which would make control difficult.

Brussex Earl had always been greedy for the rune technology of Augustus kingdom and Rocks father was believed to be a genius alchemist. It was to make them defect them that he had agreed to send Margaret across the ocean.

Margaret was older than rock from what Svetlana had told me. She had used the word Femme Fatale for her when describing her. Svetlana had told me how this was not Margaret's first marriage and her previous husband died before consummation of marriage.

I didn't know what to expect from Rock and her wife.

I followed Madam Svetlana with a hint of curiosity and entered the alchemy lab.