Chapter 11 Their names.

Outside Paul approached the younger sister who was still busy drawing her map.

-How is it going?

He asked.

-It is the best I can do for now master.

The girl answered and showed him her work.

This map showed a larger area but was incomplete.

-We were running from the beasts and I couldn't look around.

She said apologeticly.

-Don't worry this is plenty and it is already remarkable that you managed to remember this much when you were running for your life.

Paul praised her and she became happier.

-Let's put this matter aside for now, It is time to give you both a mark and make a contract.

He said, feeling the presence of the other girl behind him.

-But master you said that you would not brand us.

The younger girl said with a bit of fear in her voice.

-And I won't brand you, but you will have a mark on your bodies that will serve as proof that you both belong to me.

He explained.

Paul had a bit of a problem with deciding on a mark since he did not want to use his father's family mark and had to come up with his own.

Finally, he decided on a mark that was most likely not used as the beast it represented was weak so not many people would want to use it.

-Do you both understand that once you become my slaves then you forfeit your freedom and have to do anything I tell you to do?

Paul asked seriously as he did not want to leave any doubt about the consequences of what they were about to do.

-We do.

Both girls answered.

Then let's start.

He said and gathered some mana into his hands while he was visualizing the mark that both girls would have on their bodies until the day they or he died or he decided to return their freedom.

Both sisters were a bit scared as they had no idea what he was doing and they only witnessed the branding of slaves which made them scream in pain.

Before long there were two identical marks before the girls and they had the shape of a blood rabbit's head with its mouth opened and baring its fangs and beneath it were two rabbit paws crossed and with their claws out.

-Do you accept the fate of becoming my slaves?

Paul asked as this was a part of a ritual that they had to go through since they were willingly entering slavery.

-We do.

Both girls said with shaky voices sealing their fate.

The moment they confirmed their desire to become his slaves the marks entered their bodies, startling them but a moment later both of them had the same marks on their bodies and they looked like they were tattooed on their skin.

The older sister had hers a bit above her left breast and the younger one had hers on her belly to the right.

The marks materialized randomly for every contract but they were painless, unlike the branding.

Paul also got a mark but his was bigger and it covered his back.

The marks on the girls' bodies were the size of a grapefruit since they were slaves and his mark was way bigger symbolizing becoming a master.

Also for some reason the master mark always manifested on the back.

-These slaves, greet master.

Both girls knelt and bowed to him.

-you may rise.

Paul said as this made him feel strange.

He became a master to slaves for the first time and it scared him a little because he now had absolute power over the girls.

Whatever order he would give them, had to be obeyed without question no matter what it was.

This kind of power was frightening and he understood that fully, only after the contract was completed.

-What are your names?

Paul asked just now realizing that he never bothered with that before.

-Master we don't have names.

The older girl answered.

-How is that possible? Even goblins have names.

Paul was stunned at this revelation, especially since the girls were unable to lie to him now.

-The shaman of our clan forbade us to have names, we don't know why.

This was strange but there were a lot of things that humans still did not know about the goblins.

-Then from today your name will be Mia and yours..

He said looking at the younger girl.

-It will be Maya.

-Thank you master for naming us.

They both bowed to him again.

They were happy to finally have names of their own.

Since they were little they were jealous of the other goblins who all had names.

To Paul, this was mostly a matter of convenience since having names would make it easier to call them if he needed them but for the girls, it was a great gift that they both wanted to receive for a very long time.

But their happiness didn't last long as a moment later both girls were tossing on the ground screaming in pain.

Paul was shocked at first but soon came back to his senses and rushed to see what was going on.

He held Maya down and started to look for the cause of their sudden condition.

On the outside, there was no sign of any abnormalities so the only other place this could be coming from was from the inside.

Paul sent some of his Qi into the girl to try and localize the source of their pain.

What he found shocked him to the core.

This girl had both meridians and mana channels which meant that she was just like him a dual cultivator.

This revelation shocked him but he quickly started to look for the source of her torment and left the mystery of her cultivation for later.

It took him a few minutes to find the cause and it shocked him even more than his other discovery.

Inside her dantian there was a seal in the shape of a star surrounded by a circle filled with runes and on each of its arms there were miniature versions of the seal.

One of those small seals was cracked in many places and on the verge of breaking.

Paul knew this seal as he had read about it

The moment he recognized the problem he also knew how to fix it.

Paul focused his Qi on the cracked seal and poured the energy into it.

Not because he wanted to repair it as this was impossible but because he wanted to break it.

It only took around a minute before the seal broke and disappeared leaving only the main seal and four smaller ones.

Once the seal was broken, Maya stopped struggling and lost consciousness from the pain.

Paul made sure that she was not in danger and proceeded to help Mia.

This time he wasn't even surprised that she also was a dual cultivator or that she had the same seal as her sister.

He helped her break the seal and she also fainted a moment later.