"Sweet~!" Sasha exclaimed when she got the notification. [i]Mana shield... something like that bastard mage's barrier? Anything that makes me harder to kill would be helpful.[/i]

It wasn't very useful at the initial level, but Sasha was sure it would get more powerful. Thanks to her lucky success, she still had some remainder of the morning left. Pondering on her next course of action, she remembered there was something really important sitting in her inventory. She called it up and retrieved the Familiar Gem. The pretty little thing rolled around in her cupped palm.

"So... how do you use this thing. And what would come out of it. Hmmm... a cute guy as my underling would be nice." Sasha began mumbling to herself. She was sure the gem wouldn't fit in her mouth, and breaking the object was too risky. She raised the gem over her head and shook it a few times. "Come out? Heed my call?"

"...anybody in there?"