My Summons Are Mythical Beasts

Hundreds of meters away, Lucas turned his head around as he heard a collision resound from the area they had just escaped from.

At this moment, Lucas felt that he had exited the stealth state. He took a glance at the worm in his shoulder and noticed that it had entered a semi-weak state, much like when Spot transforms into the Hellhound Manifestation for too long.

The moment he felt so, he also saw the beast and Asher look toward his direction almost at the same time.

Asher's eyes glinted in surprise and rage.

His movements halted as he turned his body toward Lucas.

Vines grew behind him, and just as he was about to move toward Lucas, a towering beast suddenly appeared in front of him with a forceful strike.

Forced to defend, Asher did not have the luxury of time to pay attention to Lucas anymore.

It seems that the beast was not willing to let go of another prey this time around.

Seeing that his two enemies had gone for a brawl of their own, Lucas did not stay in the area any longer and proceeded to escape.

The thought of fishing in troubled waters had naturally crossed his mind.

However, with Spot being injured and the Mirage Worm being weakened due to overexertion, Lucas trashed that idea as soon as it crossed his mind.

Instead of staying, he decided to escape with his life.

Among the two enemies of his that were fighting, he still did not know who was stronger. But no matter, as long as one of them gets defeated, he knows that they will come and pursue him to the ends of the earth.

Hence, before they could settle their battle, he must escape as far as possible.

Lucas ignored the sound of the fierce battle and moved forward with caution and goal.

Due to its specialty, Lucas had always been cautious around the creek.

However, recalling that it has potent healing properties, Lucas abandoned caution and directly ran toward it.

His injuries were not severe, having only been smashed toward the tree once. However, although not severe, it still affected him a great deal. His movements were not slow but were not to his optimal state either. He could easily get exhausted because of it.

More importantly, his valuable fighter, Spot, must recover as soon as possible.

He knew that a battle against one of the two enemies was imminent. He must prepare before that inevitable battle commences.

Arriving at the creek, Lucas' previous hesitation toward it was no longer present as he directly drove his face down the creek to drink.

Desperate to recover as soon as possible, he drank as much water as he could, not bothering about the latent consequences that might arise in the future.

As he did so, his hand pressed on the second page of his grimoire, summoning Spot, who has not clearly recovered yet.

Spot was summoned with a blinding light. Although exhausted and injured, Spot still assumed a battle-ready stance as soon as he appeared out of thin air.

Seeing his appearance and stance, a pained expression surfaced in Lucas's face.

Steeling his resolve, Lucas gritted his teeth and ordered Spot to drink the creek's water.

Lucas also took the Mirage Worm and allowed it to drink.

The fat Mirage Worm, though, looked around in caution and hesitated for a bit before eventually submerging its whole body in the creek's water.

Like what he had initially guessed, the Mirage Worm was indeed cautious and might even be a timid beast.

It was not a wonder why it had survived in this wilderness with its meager strength.

In his whole journey here, the Mirage Worm was the first beast he encountered with only an Iron Star 1 strength. The others must have already been consumed by the stronger beasts that roamed the area or might have already migrated to other parts of the wilderness with lesser danger.

The Mirage Worm surviving this wilderness with its meager strength spoke volumes to its cautious and timid personality.

From Lucas' guess, it must have relied on its Camouflage and Silk Mirage skills to escape and survive from predators.

Most of the worms Lucas knew were also just Unranked Grade's and with no star rank, much like the Vinecrawler Caterpillars from before.

The Iron Grade Mirage Worm must have encountered a special encounter and evolved from an Unranked Grade worm and gained its Silk Mirage skill as a result.

As the Mirage Worm bathed itself in the creek's water to recover, Spot had also determined the intention of Lucas and began drinking the water greedily as well.

Unlike Lucas, Spot has never been cautious toward the creek's water. It did not take long for him to consume a lot of them in his Gentle Dog form.

After a while, Lucas unsummoned Spot, allowing him to recover inside the grimoire, before continuing to move forward.

As for the Mirage Worm, he allowed it to stay on top of his right shoulder.

In case something appears, the Silk Mirage and the Unhindered Stealth will buy them some time to escape.

What made him greatly disheartened, though, was the fact that he realized that he needed a high amount of Spiritual Energy to summon the Mirage Worm.

After it obtains the Unhindered Stealth, the Mirage Worm has directly leveled up to an Iron Star 3 beast.

Being an Iron Grade beast, he actually needs 20 Spiritual Energy to summon the Mirage Worm, even though it was just an Iron Star 3 beast.

It must be noted that the Uranked Grade, Iron Star 4 Spot, only requires 11 Spiritual Energy to be summoned.

With his previous action of summoning Spot as well as the Mirage Worm, Lucas calculated that he would only be able to maintain the summoning of the Mirage Worm for an hour and a half at most.

With his current speed and pace, he reckoned that he would be able to cover about five to seven kilometers by that time if he traveled without stopping.

Knowing that a great threat was behind, Lucas dared not stall and slow down.

With the Mirage Worm by his side, Lucas has no need to worry about encountering beasts; hence, the traveling speed has significantly become faster than before.

It was just a pity that the Unhindered Stealth could only last for two to three minutes if the Mirage Worm went into that state along with him. The time would significantly be reduced if it brought another being with it. After exiting that state, the Mirage Worm would also enter a period of weakness and could not use the Unhindered Stealth during that period as well.

Fortunately, this period of weakness was not long and was only around three to four minutes. Since he does not have a timer, Lucas could not gauge the exact amount for the time being.

Anyway, it was enough to take him to safety as long as they did not encounter a stronger beast than the one that Asher was facing now.

Speaking of them, Lucas could still faintly hear the sound of their battle.

It has already been more than thirty minutes since he left, but the sound of collision, though faint to his ears, was still terrifying and fierce.

From the looks of it, the beast and the summoner, Asher, were more or less equal in strength.

In terms of pure might, the beast might be stronger. However, the summoner's strength does not rely on an individual's strength alone. And strong summoners like Asher do not have only one beast at their disposal.

Lucas and the Mirage Worm had just encountered a fierce beast a moment ago.

This beast also seemed to be fleeing away from the battle. And although it looked quite afraid and was carelessly escaping away, Lucas did not dare to confront it, knowing that it was a high-grade and high-star rank beast.

The moment the Mirage Worm saw it, it even trembled in fright and almost jumped off his shoulder to run in the opposite direction.

Fortunately, Lucas was able to calm it down in time, telling it to cast the Unhindered Stealth as they moved past that beast successfully without alerting it.

The exhausted fat Mirage Worm trembled in relief after the beast was left behind without alerting. It was only at this moment that it realized that it had significantly grown stronger than before.

Its confidence grew a little upon that realization, but that same confidence once again broke down when they encountered another beast.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

To it, the massive beasts that could crush and devour it with one move were still very terrifying.

What it was afraid of the most was being consumed by those terrifying beasts.

Looking at it from another angle, with its increase in strength and star rank, won't it mean that it had significantly become tastier in those terrifying beast's eyes?

Its whole body trembled in freight upon thinking about that.

Hide! Hide! It must hide!

It snuggled closer toward Lucas' neck. As if the closer it was to his neck, the safer it was.

After that encounter with another beast, Lucas decided to take a momentary rest and recover some Spiritual Energy.

The Mirage Worm had just entered its weakened state too, so continuing to move forward would be more riskier than before.

While the Unhindered Stealth was on cooldown, Lucas recovered his Spiritual Energy little by little.

With his current Star Rank's meditation speed, Lucas recovered thirteen Spiritual Energy after five minutes of meditation. Lucas wanted to recover more, but he knew that he did not have the luxury of time to do it given his current circumstances.

As he opened his eyes, Lucas also released a frown.

The sound of battle was still entering his ears.