Chapter 62: The Cockroach Problem, Kind Hearts and Help

The process isn't dissimilar to getting a tattoo. The needle bursts out ink from its tip and into the dermis of the skin, quick, effective and lightly painful. 

The orb works in the same manner except the orb focuses the mana and spits it out the recorded pattern onto the skin and maybe something else. 

Unlike a tattoo, it isn't gruellingly long and only takes a few seconds to a minute as it spits out the pattern Maylin formed over and below the orb itself onto my wrist, solidifying the shape with every pump.

It hurts for a bit afterwards with the area a bit reddened by the experience. Maylin puts the orb away, stuffing it back into the floor boards from whence it came.

"Wait, I never asked how much this cost."

A smile spreads over her lips and she takes on a mock contemplative look, "How about a hundred gold coins!"

I stare blankly at her as she pronounces this amount and soon, she can't take it anymore; she bursts out laughing.