My Summons Are Mythical Beasts

A pin drop silence echoed in the surroundings.

If normal crickets had gone extinct, they might have chirped right at this moment to announce their presence.

The four bandits who just arrived stood in the middle of the social trail with dumbfounded expressions on their faces.

They were clearly the ones planning to make a killing today by robbing Shelsea and her group; how could the situation change all of a sudden, and it was now them being robbed?

And even if the other parties had covered their faces, as someone who had especially investigated Shelsea and her group, how could they not recognize her as one of the group robbing them?

Too absurd! This was just too absurd!

HAHAHA!

As if hearing the most laughable joke he had ever heard, the one in the middle burst out into a fit of laughter. The men behind him soon followed suit. Clutching their stomach, as if they heard the most ridiculous joke of their entire life.

After all, who would not be amused by such a thing?

The other party, instead of escaping, instead chose violence and tried to rob them in return.

Do they take them for a fool?

Perhaps it was so, indeed.

"I must say, that is the greatest joke I have ever heard. I almost could not recover from laughing," the man in the middle stated. His words sounded humorous, but his tone did not share the same sentiments.

"Now that the joke is over, hand over your belongings peacefully, and you might be able to escape with your life intact."

As he said so, the man summoned his grimoire with a flash of light.

Lucas' and the others narrowed toward him, surprise and shock flashing in their eyes as they saw the color of the stars in his grimoire.

'Bronze Grade-Silver Star 1, summoner!'

Although higher than expected, it was still within the range of their previous speculation.

Being a Bronze Grade, the highest grade of beast he could summon was only of the Silver Grade. And being a Silver Star 1 summoner, his beast could not have surpassed him in terms of rank.

After considering a lot of factors, Lucas tried to overestimate the man as much as possible and labeled his unknown beast as a Silver Grade-Bronze Star 7.

If it was only that, Lucas was naturally confident.

After all, even if he has that kind of beast, this does not mean they would have to face that beast directly.

As long as they could kill the summoner, the beast would be disoriented and hence would be easy to kill.

In truth, this was his plan to begin with.

He had no intention of confronting their beasts at all, as it posed a lot of uncertainties. His plan all along was to target the summoners directly. And for that, he was confident that he would be able to pull it through.

The announcement of robbery was merely a ruse to distract them from the real deal.

This was because, unbeknownst to the man and the three men behind him, a fat worm was silently perching on Lucas' shoulder. Not only that, the Gentle Dog, who had always stayed at the top of his head, was nowhere to be seen.

This was where Lucas' confidence came from for this operation.

At this moment, the man and his followers were still yapping about the amusing situation.

From the looks of it, they did not see any of them as a threat at all.

Considering that they had investigated Shelsea and her group, Lucas knew that the man was just confident that they would be able to deal with Shelsea and the others.

Unfortunately, a variable occurred, and this variable was not something that he would be liking.

The man pointed at Kane and said, "You. Take out your Gobbling Toad and let it spit out all the items stored inside it. As respect to your father, I won't take the Gobbling Toad from you."

What the man did not know was that at this moment, an invisible entity had already crawled right in front of him.

At this moment, even Lucas could only tell the general location of Spot through their contract connection.

And even though he could not see the fat worm on his shoulder, he was still able to tell that it was extremely focused on its task at this moment.

Perhaps, at this moment, only the Mirage Worm was able to see the exact location of Spot.

Fortunately, Spot was quite smart. Lucas had already instructed him thoroughly beforehand, and he knew that Spot would be able to follow his order splendidly.

His only worry was the possibility of the man owning a skill that allows him to detect danger beforehand.

However, since it was the Unhindered Stealth skill, Lucas reasoned that it should be absolutely safe.

And indeed, that was the case.

Beneath the man, still in the Unhindered Stealth state, Spot, in his Gentle Dog form, transformed into the Hellhound Manifestation form almost in an instant.

The man was still yapping when suddenly he realized that his vision had somehow shifted to the right.

No, it shifted to the middle.

No, his vision turned into two.

And that was his last thought before his body and blood were sprawled to the ground.

The man clearly has a strong contracted beast, hence his confidence when facing Shelsea and the others. Unfortunately, he was not able to use his contracted beasts this time around as he was already dead.

At the same moment his body fell to the ground, a valuable lesson was also etched in Lucas' mind.

That was to never underestimate any opponent, no matter how strong he would become in the future.

Always act with caution and straight to the point.

Summoning a contracted beast could be said to be almost instantaneous.

The man had not anticipated that he would be killed, and he thought that he had enough time to summon his contracted beast should the need arise.

Unfortunately, not only did he die a miserable death unable to summon his contracted beast, the man did not even know how he died or who killed him.

What a pity.

Fortunately, Lucas recently gained the Reduction talent and was now able to maintain summoning Spot for a long period of time. Witnessing the easy death of a summoner just because he did not summon his beast at the first notice, Lucas decided to always maintain Spot by his side from now on.

Meanwhile, a few seconds after the body of the man fell to the ground, Spot's humongous silhouette gradually appeared in everyone's eyes.

Since he did not tell them about the real plan, not only the three bandits, but even Shelsea and the others had a surprise expression on their faces as they witnessed the harrowing scene at such a close distance.

This was not the first time that they had seen someone being killed, but this should be their first when it comes to seeing a person's head sliced into three parts.

What was more appalling was the fact that they clearly did not see how it happened, and only when Spot surfaced in their eyes that realization struck their brain.

Meanwhile, the three bandits felt as if they were about to pee in fear when they saw the body of their leader fall.

Everything happened so suddenly that they were unable to react swiftly.

When the silhouette of Spot was outlined, it was only then that they realized that something had gone horribly wrong.

Their hearts beat like wild horses as each of them summoned their grimoires one by one.

Summoning lights flashed one after the other as the three of them frantically summoned their strongest contracted beasts without hesitation.

At the same time, the three of them leapt backward and toward another three different directions, not wanting to entangle with the harrowing group any longer.

Their leader had just died as silently as possible; how could they still have the courage to remain at that place?

Revenge? At the cost of their lives?

No, they'll pass.

Now, all they could think was to preserve their own pathetic lives.

Unfortunately for them, Lucas had already considered such a scenario to happen.

This was the reason why he ordered Shelsea and the others to position themselves as if they were surrounding the bandits earlier. Not only does this solidify the misdirection about their robbery, it also ensures that should the plan succeed and the survivors decide to flee, they would have ample time to pursue and kill them.

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Fortunately, he did not have to instruct Shelsea and the others regarding that.

The moment the three remaining bandits tried to escape, they had already burst into action and ordered their contracted beasts to attack.

Meanwhile, Spot remained in his position and merely looked at the enemy's contracted beast provocatively.

Just as the enemy beasts were about to pounce on him all at the same time, Spot suddenly opened his mouth and let out a sonorous roar that echoed in the surroundings.

With that, Spot has announced his presence and made the beasts visibly shrink back due to the instinctive fear they felt.

With a swift motion, Spot leapt forward and killed the beasts one after the other as if he were harvesting leeks.

The same moment they were killed, their summoners received backlash and fell to the ground, allowing Shelsea and the others to kill them as swiftly as possible.

Meanwhile, remaining on his spot, Lucas took out his grimoire and prepared to see the numerous experience points he had gained from this endeavor.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

However, his brows soon scrutinized to a frown as he saw the empty logs that were supposed to be filled with kill prompts at this moment.

"What's going on?"