Book 1 Chapter 407

407.

That evening.

Leo returned to his dorm room after finishing his departmental schedule.

Five summoned beasts were sitting around a circular table in the dorm room, playing a game with two cards in each of their hands.

"Hmph. It seems I've won this round."

Kieran, with a smug expression, bet the pile of candy and chocolate next to him like chips.

"Don't make me laugh, you foolish fairy."

Fiora scoffed and accepted Kieran's bet.

The other summoned beasts had long since discarded their cards and were watching the situation unfold, given the fiery exchange between the two.

Eventually, five cards were laid on the table, and the hands were revealed.

"It's a full house."

"Wahaha! Four of a kind! You fat chick!"

Kieran laughed boisterously and reached for the heap of candy and chocolate on the table.

It was at this moment that Fiora, who had her snacks for the week instantly taken away, wore a sad face.

"Hey, fairy prince."

Laruel, the Great Spirit of Light, glared at Kieran with a chilling gaze.

"Why are you calling me?"

"Are you messing around with magic?"

*Boom-!*

"Kyaaaak?!"

After stomping on Kieran's hand, Laruel reached for the cards.

"I'll bet everything I have that you switched the cards with illusion magic. What do you bet?"

As Laruel touched Kieran's cards, the numbers changed.

Fiora's eyes turned menacing when she saw that.

"Cut off his hands! Cut off his hands!"

Elsi let out a deep sigh as she watched Fiora shouting wildly and excitedly.

"Fiora, you shouldn't use such harsh words."

"Cutting off is too much, but twisting it… *Haaak*… Just thinking about it is thrilling… *Kuhuk-!*"

Elsi, who couldn't stop her from rambling and instead spouted nonsense, glared at Atti and punched her in the side with her small fist.

Atti, who was hit in the side and rolled on the floor, writhed in pain while saying "Ahhh!" and enjoyed it.

Leo wore a complicated expression watching that.

'If the summoners saw this, they would surely wail.'

And they would surely curse this cruel reality.

In fact, Leo himself was not getting used to this behavior from his summoned beasts.

5000 years ago, the Flame Emperor Katariou, a sworn ally of Lisinas, and other great spirits, including Luminus, were beings of great dignity.

Silode, the sworn ally of Luna and the fairy prince at the time, was young but not as boisterous as Kieran.

The Great Spirit of Light was not this twisted and malicious.

'Could it be my fault?'

He wondered if his influence was significant in how his summoned beasts turned out, but he quickly shook his head.

'Albus was a very noble Pegasus. Not a pervert like Atti.'

The only normal one among Leo's current sworn allies was Elsi.

Elsi was practically in charge of preventing Leo's summoned beasts from going berserk.

In conclusion.

'The summoned beasts are strange these days, not me.'

Leo drew a clear line and approached the summoned beasts punishing Kieran.

Kieran, who was suffering a terrible fate for playing around, was cringing on the floor when Leo reached out.

And holding him by both wings as if catching a dragonfly, he lifted him up and said,

"Who led this illegal gambling operation?"

"The foolish fairy."

Fiora pointed at the unconscious Kieran without hesitation.

Leo clicked his tongue and roughly tossed Kieran onto the desk, saying,

"It's awkward to say this, but… you're my summoned beasts, you know?"

The summoned beasts stared blankly at Leo.

"Why don't you maintain a little dignity?"

"There are very few phoenixes as elegant and polite as me."

Fiora said with a prim face, puffing out her chest.

Atti said, looking at Fiora,

"You didn't look elegant at all when you were fat and rolling around."

At that, Fiora roughly pulled Atti's hair.

"Ahhh!"

Atti made a nasal sound in response to Fiora's attack and enjoyed it.

Leo let out a deep sigh watching that.

Since Leo's status as a sworn ally of the Three Great Summoned Beasts was already known to the public, the Summoning Department had been constantly receiving requests to study the Three Great Summoned Beasts.

However, Leo could not grant their requests.

'How pitiful would it be if their illusions were broken by showing them these things?'

Leo's sworn allies were abnormal, but the Three Great Summoned Beasts as a whole were not necessarily strange.

Leo did not want to break the illusions of the budding youths.

While the summoned beasts were behaving shamefully, Leo said,

"Get ready to go out, anyway."

"Get ready to go out?"

Elsi tilted her head.

"Yes. I have something to test. We're going to the Island of Summoned Beasts."

"But it's curfew now. We're not supposed to go to the Island of Summoned Beasts at this time."

While the Island of Summoned Beasts was Lumine's domain, it was technically outside the school.

No matter how much of a student council president Leo was, going outside the school during curfew was a violation of school rules.

In the first place, even if he was the student council president, entering the Island of Summoned Beasts without permission was problematic.

In response to Elsi's words, Leo said,

"It's okay. We can go secretly."

"As the student council president, shouldn't you set an example for other students?"

Laruel opened her eyes halfway.

"I should set an example."

"But you're going to break school rules?"

Fiora also asked, opening her eyes halfway along with Laruel.

"If you don't get caught, it's not a crime."

Laruel sighed with an expression of helplessness at Leo's indifferent words.

Of course, Fiora blinked with an expression of intolerance.

"Do you think that makes sense?"

"Of course not."

"Then why aren't you protesting anymore? My mother said that the Great Spirit of Light is a being who protects the justice and order of this world."

"Yes. But I'm old enough and I've learned to compromise with reality."

Laruel patted Fiora's head and prepared to go out.

Fiora, who had been contemplating Laruel's words, nodded.

"So, if you don't get caught, it's not a crime?"

"Absolutely not."

Elsi, unable to watch any longer, could only let out a deep sigh.

***

Waiting for Leo on the Island of Summoned Beasts was none other than Mel.

"Welcome, Leo-nim. Everything is ready."

Kieran tilted his head at Mel's words.

"What is ready?"

"I have something to test."

The place Leo arrived at was a vast open field in the center of the Island of Summoned Beasts.

The innermost part, where even teachers rarely tread, let alone students.

Leo's summoned beasts looked intrigued at the word "experiment."

"Atti."

Atti's eyes widened at Leo's call.

"Me?"

"Yes."

"Are you going to experiment on me, Master? Will it hurt?"

Leo said, looking at Atti who asked with expectant eyes.

"Well, I can't guarantee that."

Leo shook his head, watching Atti's disappointed expression.

"Manifest yourself in your true form."

"Yes."

Atti returned to his Pegasus form.

Leo climbed onto Atti's body.

Seeing that, Mel cast a spell.

She created a barrier that would not be known from the outside, even when using powerful magic.

As Leo pulled the reins, Atti soared into the sky at incredible speed.

*Fzzzzzz-!*

Lightning storms swirled around Atti's body.

"What are you going to test?"

"I'm going to test one of the rewards I obtained by conquering the Hero's World."

"Conquest rewards?"

The moment Atti made a puzzled expression.

*Fzzzt-!*

"…?"

Atti, who was running through the sky using Leo's spiritual power, trembled for a moment at the aura Leo's spiritual power felt.

"This is…?"

It was the power of a Pegasus.

A power stronger and purer than any Pegasus.

Pure white lightning enveloped Atti's entire body.

*Fzzzzzzzzzzt-!*

"Agggggrrr-?!"

Atti's body trembled as if he had been electrocuted by the storm of lightning that enveloped his entire body.

Along with that, Atti's power began to amplify.

At that moment, Leo withdrew his spiritual power.

*Chiiiiiiik-!*

Smoke rose from Atti's body.

"Hey, are you okay?"

Leo asked cautiously.

The power Leo had just used was the Essence of Thunder, obtained as a conquest reward this time.

It was the essence of Albus, the last pure white king of Pegasus and Leo's sworn ally.

The essence itself had imbued Leo's spiritual power.

Leo had tried to draw out the power of a Pegasus using this Essence of Thunder for the first time, but the Essence of Thunder did not respond to Leo's will.

And after various experiments, he found out that it responded to Atti's contract array.

'More accurately, it seemed to respond to the Pegasus I contracted with.'

Even if Leo possessed the Essence of Thunder, Leo was not a Pegasus.

The Essence of Thunder had resided with Pegasi for generations.

Therefore, it was impossible for a human like Leo to use it.

'So, I predicted that it might be possible to reproduce the power of the pure white king in a contracted Pegasus using this Essence of Thunder, and it seems my prediction was correct.'

The problem was that not just any Pegasus could accept the power of the pure white king.

It was a power permitted only to select noble beings among Pegasi.

Although Atti was a powerful Pegasus with many years of experience, it seemed difficult for him to directly accept the Essence of Thunder.

"Are you okay?"

"What… what is this?"

"It's the Essence of Thunder."

"Essence of Thunder… the power of a king who disappeared long ago."

Atti's voice trembled.

5000 years ago.

Atti was purely moved as a Pegasus by the fact that the power of a king, passed down only in legends, had been revived.

"The Pegasus I contracted with can use the power of the pure white king… but it seems the backlash is also considerable."

"Yes. It was certainly a pain on a different level than any pain I've felt before."

"It seems like it would be too much if I used this power any further, so it's best to stop here…"

"It's the best!"

"……"

"Using the power of the great pure white king, and on top of that, this thrilling pain. Ahh. It's the best."

Leo looked up at the sky at Atti's genuinely ecstatic reaction.

'I was a fool for worrying.'

*Fzzzzzzzzzzzt!*

"Kyahaha~"

As Leo used the Essence of Thunder, Atti let out happy screams.

A little later.

Leo, who had pushed Atti to his limit, descended to the ground.

"I'm happy."

Atti, lying on the ground, murmured softly.

Mel approached, watching that.

"Did you find out Atti-yang's limits?"

"Yes. It will be very helpful in future battles."

Mel smiled at Leo's answer.

"I think it's a great fortune that Atti-yang became Leo-nim's sworn ally."

"Why?"

"Because other than Atti-yang, there wouldn't have been any Pegasus that could withstand the Essence of Thunder like this."

Indeed, it was a power that could only be used by a pervert who found joy in pain.

Atti, lying on the ground, wriggling and smiling dazedly.

Elsi covered Fiora's eyes and said,

"You shouldn't see things like that."

"Why?"

"It's harmful."

Leo let out a deep sigh, watching that conversation.

"If he saw this, he would cry."

"Who?"

"My old sworn ally."

Leo thought of Albus.

He was sure he would have wailed that pure power had been defiled.