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Smack!
"Eek!"
The small girl, already collapsed and trembling, shuddered.
Blood gushed from her mouth in bursts.
Imperial soldiers on either side grabbed her arms and pulled her up.
"Haa... Please don't. If you're thinking of tormenting Undine, please don't...."
"Torment? We're just keeping her here for a while. As bait, you might say."
The girl's eyes, filled with terror, stared at Intelligence Chief Heinz Grayton.
Her cheeks were swollen, and her eyes were bloodshot.
"Please..."
"You don't have to call her. They say that spirits whose minds are connected to their contractors instinctively know when their contractor's life is in danger."
Thwack!
Heinz Grayton grabbed the girl's neck.
"Keuheuk!"
At that moment.
"Can't you keep your filthy hands off Celina?"
The water spirit Undine appeared from seemingly nowhere.
Undine.
The sister of the ice spirit Glacie.
And the highest-ranking spirit representing the four elements of nature.
As the highest-ranking spirit representing the four elements, her power is greater than Glacie's.
But Undine, like any ordinary spirit, or even more so, enjoyed being friends with humans.
Undine especially liked kind and gentle girls with a high affinity for spirits.
Because of this, Undine had numerous contractors across the continent.
As the number of contractors increased, Undine's influence in the human realm was bound to be significantly dispersed.
In fact, the power she could currently exert was proportional to the strength of the little girl she was connected to.
On the other hand.
Whoosh!
Heinz Grayton's sword cleanly sliced through the stream of water that Undine fiercely shot out.
Heinz Grayton was the Intelligence Chief of the Marino Empire.
And a senior swordsman within the top ten.
"Activate the device."
"Yes, Chief!"
Both the girl Celina's and Undine's eyes shook simultaneously.
They felt a very bad feeling, but they couldn't ignore Celina.
A spirit's love for its contractor was something that human emotions couldn't comprehend.
"Undine! Run!"
"Celina!"
Undine frantically looked around.
Even if her influence in the human realm was limited right now.
Undine was a top-tier spirit.
Pushing this group of humans into the sea wouldn't be difficult.
The problem was the white-haired swordsman whom the humans called "Chief."
'I can't handle him in my current state.'
On the surface, it seemed like Heinz Grayton had simply cut through the water stream Undine had shot out with his sword.
But in reality, the power contained within that water stream was considerable.
That was how sharp Heinz Grayton's swordsmanship was.
But she couldn't just stand by and be defeated.
Undine urgently stretched out her arms.
This time, not towards Heinz Grayton, but towards the seawater beyond the shore.
Whoosh.
The seawater lapping at the sandy beach receded, and suddenly a tsunami taller than a person began to surge.
'It's fortunate that there's a sea nearby.'
A tsunami of that magnitude would be enough to throw the people here into confusion.
In the meantime, she planned to take her contractor Celina and escape from this place.
At that moment.
Swish.
Crack!
Grains of sand began to coalesce, creating a massive sand barrier.
It was the work of Zabrina Randi, the strongest magician in the Marino Empire's Intelligence Department.
Splash!
The hastily created tsunami struck the sand barrier.
But it couldn't break through the sand barrier, which had quickly grown higher than the tsunami.
'I was too hasty. If I had more time...'
Meanwhile.
"It's done."
"Is it activated?"
The conversation between Attila Payman and Heinz Grayton.
Even before their conversation ended, Undine felt a chilling sensation.
'Trapped? Here?'
To the eye, the beach remained unchanged.
But Undine instinctively knew that she couldn't escape this place.
"What should we do with the contractor?"
"Tie her up not far away. To prevent Undine from doing anything else."
"Yes, Chief."
The magician Zabrina Randi said.
"To succeed in trapping a spirit. You're truly amazing, Attila."
"You flatter me. Your ability to block the spirit's tsunami was even more impressive."
While the director of the research institute and the chief magician were complimenting each other.
Intelligence Chief Heinz Grayton began to walk towards the carriage.
"Let's go back. We've only secured the bait. Now we must prepare for the real hunt."
"Yes, Chief!"
Two months later.
Summer vacation arrived at the Elton Academy.
The fourth summer vacation since the 4th timeline.
"The Gold Dragon Aurum Drago?"
"That's right, Davian. He wants to see you at his lair soon, and you have to go with me then."
Davian stared at Ignis with a bewildered expression.
"A Gold Dragon is summoning dragons, why am I going?"
"It's a summons related to this demonic invasion. Davian, you're the one who stopped this demonic invasion, right?"
Davian turned his head towards Insanis this time.
"Insanis did half, Glacie did half, what did I even do?"
That was not wrong.
Insanis, who transformed into his true form after someone broke the fence of his house, ruthlessly spewed breath, killing the most demons.
Glacie instantly killed the legion commander because he was interfering with his conversation with Davian and had a gloomy appearance.
"If it weren't for Davian, Glacie wouldn't have appeared, and Aurum Drago is especially interested in this Davian Federation, I think it was called."
"A dragon is interested in a human federation?"
"Dragons are interested in everything in the human world. They just prefer to live quietly in their lairs."
The oldest dragon on the Pax continent summoned Insanis and Ignis.
But he told them to bring Davian with them to that place.
Davian sighed deeply.
"I can't help it, can I? How long will it take?"
"How long? There's no such thing. He'll just sit and wait for years, won't he?"
"Ah."
Davian nodded.
A dragon's time flows differently from that of a human.
It's not that the actual time that flows is different, but because their lifespan is so long, their concept of time itself is different.
"Well, it wasn't urgent?"
Of course, this is only the story of dragons who are enjoying their time alone in their lairs
It does not apply to those who mix with humans and enjoy pleasure, like Insanis or Ignis.
"Since Davian is on summer vacation, I think we should go sometime this month."
Since the ancient dragon Aurum Drago directly pointed him out and told him to bring him, how could he not go?
"Yes, I understand."
At that time.
Glacie opened the front door and entered Davian's dorm.
Insanis and Ignis raised their hands and greeted each other lightly.
Glacie also greeted the two dragons lightly and then looked at Davian.
"Davian, where's Bellus?"
Davian tilted his head.
It's been almost four years since he contracted with the ice spirit Glacie.
This is the first time he has looked for someone else as soon as he appeared.
Davian was always Glacie's number one priority.
"Bellus? He must be at the academy. The forest behind the Medio Garden. I heard that Undine hasn't been showing up these days, so he's been living there almost every day since the vacation started."
"I see. So she's not showing up here either. Something's up."
"What? Wasn't Undine busy with something in the spirit world, so she wasn't visiting Bellus? That's what Bellus thought."
Glacie shook his head.
"No. It's been over two months since Undine unnie came to the spirit world."
The same time.
The southern coast of the Manum continent.
Research Institute Director Attila Payman shouted.
"There! Put the pillar more to the left. More! More! That's right. There must be no errors!"
Under the leadership of Research Institute Director Attila Payman, a large-scale construction was underway.
The unofficial name of this construction is "Spirit Hunting Frame Production."
After a long period of research, Attila Payman completed a space where spirits could be trapped.
After several experiments.
He is now holding Undine, one of the top four elemental spirits.
The problem is that there is no guarantee that Glacie, the real purpose of creating this space, will willingly enter the space.
She is Undine's sister, Glacie, but the influence she can exert in the human world is completely different.
Intelligence Chief Heinz Grayton arrived at the construction site.
"Intelligence Chief."
"Is it going well?"
"Yes. We will be able to complete all the construction within a week."
"Prepare without any setbacks. You never know when the Emperor will finish his closed-door training."
After obtaining the Sword of Destruction.
The last thing the Emperor, who had left for closed-door training with no end in sight, instructed Intelligence Chief Heinz Grayton, the most influential figure in the imperial family, was.
It was not to ensure the smooth implementation of colonial rule, to maintain sound finances, or to prepare well for the advance into the Pax continent.
"That spirit called Glacie. Can't you bring her before me? I'll kill her with my own hands."
The reason was even more absurd.
"I cannot leave alone anyone who interferes with the one-on-one match between me and Davian that will take place in the future, no matter what that being is."
Heinz Grayton muttered to himself.
"Well, I'll bring her before you, so go ahead and try fighting. Whether you kill the real Glacie, or whether you are killed by Glacie. Both will be a great help to our empire."
One week later.
The mansion of the Red Dragon Ignis south of the Alsace Forest.
The flames that Davian had created slowly died down.
"Really, me. It feels like only a little while ago that Insanis came to me and made a fuss that there was a human with great flames."
Davian, who had completely extinguished the flames, asked.
"Are you okay?"
"How should I say this. I'm a little upset. I taught him, but how can a human create flames as pure as a dragon's to this extent?"
"It's thanks to having a good teacher."
The opponent was a Red Dragon.
Davian knew the virtue of humility.
"Anyway, it's amazing. Its size and maintenance may be the key, but anyway, in terms of the purity of the flames alone, you've clearly entered the realm of the Red Dragon. Congratulations, Davian Naone. You're the first human to do that, right, Insanis?"
Insanis nodded.
"I knew from the start that he wasn't an ordinary human."
Ignis looked towards the front gate.
"By the way, why is that kid so slow? Still, she's been running here for 2 hours without stopping once?"
Davian asked.
"Who's coming?"
"Yeah. That cute kid who lives with you, Bellus."
Only after Ignis spoke and a little more time had passed.
Davian could also feel Bellus approaching.
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