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Chapter 15 - A Contract Forged in Ruin

[THE RUINS ENTRANCE] 

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Clover Winslow is being held captive by Fae Harlow in the entrance of some ancient ruins. 

As Clover tries to remember why she's being held captive by Fae, she's then dragged by Fae to a different area of the ruin entrance. 

In the other area of the entrance to the ruins, James and his friends show up, and at the moment, Fae shows himself, holding Clover by her hair, with a sword to her throat. 

James is betrayed by his friends, and they don't allow him to pass by so he can save Clover. 

After a short battle, James is defeated by gis so called friends, and as he continues to struggle im his goal tl try and save Clover, Fae uses the sword he has by Clover throat and slits her throat, at the same time as Clovers thraot was slit, James was thrown into the ruins, as he saw Clover getting thrown in them as well, with her hands tied, and thraot slit. 

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As Clover falls into the ruins, she uses her water magic to heal herself. Seconds later, her throat is healed, and she can breathe normally again. Within the time it took Clover to heal herself, she finally made it to the bottom of the ruins and barely broke her fall using magic. 

When Clover stood up at the bottom of the ruins, she tried to get the rope that she was tangled up in off herself. 

Clover used some wind element magic to try and slice through the ropes; however, it took her multiple attempts before she managed to get them off. 

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Clover broke the ropes that bound he, and was all healed up; however, she was at the bottom of the ruins and needed to figure out how she would escape and hopefully meet up with James again. 

After composing herself, Clover decided that the fastest way to get out would be for her to try and clear the ruins, since trying to climb all the way up and outside of the ruins would take longer. 

Clover proceeded with her plan to escape the ruins by clearing them, and took off trying to find monsters to kill after resting for a few minutes. 

During her ventures to try and conquer the ruins, she found herself entering a strange room.

In the room Clover entered, there had been a dragon sleeping. Clover was shocked that she couldn't move an inch after finding out there was a dragon in the ruins. 

Clover stayed as still as possible while trying to think of a way to escape. As Clover was wondering how she would make it out, she realised that dragons don't usually live in ruins and they prefer to be on the tops of mountains.

When Clover realised this fact, she knew that she was either the luckiest person out there or in a worse situation than she could've ever dreamt of.

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In the room Clover is in, there is either one of two beings there that could be taking form as a dragon. The entity that is in the room Clover entered could either be an ancient spirit or a shapeshifter. 

Clover knew that if the entity in the room had been the latter (shapeshifter) that she would most likely end up dying in the ruins before making it out; however, if it was an ancient spirit, she'd have a higher likelihood of making it out alive, or even possibly making a contract with the spirit. 

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Clover thought deeply about what she'd have to do to make it out of the situation she had been in. 

After a few minutes had passed, the dragon-like creature that had been in front of Clover opened its eye slowly and began to stand tall, to show it was no longer asleep. 

The creature spoke one sentence and asked Clover why she had been in its domain. 

Clover told the creature that she had just stumbled upon its domain by accident and would be more than willing to leave if the creature would so graciously allow her to get out of its domain. 

The creature lifted and waved its dragon-like hand at Clover, as a sign that she could leave. 

When Clover noticed the sign, she immediately used her wind and water element type magic to try and get out of there as quickly as possible. 

As Clover used her magic, the dragon-like creature asked her to hold on for a second, as it had seen great potential in Clover. 

Clover didn't hear the creature and proceeded to keep her magic active. As her magic wasn't stopping, the creature decided to stop her using the same magic to try and counter Clover's magic without hurting her. 

The creature successfully stopped Clover and prevented her from getting injured in the process. 

When Clover looked back at the creature, it said it meant her no harm and revealed its true form to her. 

The creature had been an ancient spirit, and Clover was slightly in shock of the fact. 

The spirit reintroduced itself as Bell Zymen and asked what Clover's name had been. 

Clover told the spirit that they could refer to her as Clove, and her full name was Clover Winslow. 

The ancient spirit thanked Clover for telling it her name and asked if she would like to form a contract with it, as they had similar element magic use, and she had been proficient in using wind and water magic. 

Clover thought of it for a second and thought that it seemed sincere enough for her to accept the offer, so she took the spirit up on it. 

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Clover and the ancient Spirit Bell Zymen enter a blood contract. The blood contract allows Clover to use spirit power, as well as enhancing her innate element-based abilities, and also gives her access to ancient magic, which was long lost to time. 

After Clover and Bell sign their contract, Bell is spirit-bound to Clover and can be summoned by her at any time. 

Bell tells Clover that she can summon him, then asks why she was in the ruins. Clover tells Bell that she was captured and thrown into the ruins by one of her old classmates, as a way for them to get revenge on her beloved James. 

Bell acknowledged what Clover said and asked if she would like to know a shortcut on how to get out of the ruins. 

Clover said she'd Love to know how to get out as fast as possible, and Bell told her that it would take a few days to set up, but it would instantly transport her to the top of the ruin. 

Clover said that that would be fine, and she didn't mind the wait. 

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Bell tells Clover to wait in the room while he goes to procure what is needed for the teleportation to work.

Bell leaves the room and immediately goes down to the boss's room in the ruins. When Bell gets to the boss room, he uses he magic to immediately trap the boss monster, and take its life essence with an old glass vile looking magic item he had. 

After taking the boss's life essence, Bell left the boss trapped on the wall of the room, and went to procure other items within the ruins before heading back to Clover and begining to set up the teleportation device that he wanted Clover to use. 

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