Book 1 Chapter 874
“Brat?”
The demon’s eyes twitched.
“Who are you calling such a thing!”
Gooooo-
A colossal dark magic swirled.
Seeing this, Eliza’s lips curled up.
“You’re so quick to retort, you must really be an ill-mannered brat, aren’t you?”
“Eeeeeek!”
The demon’s face turned crimson.
Seeing this, Chelsea wore a serious expression.
‘How childish.’
It was like a childish argument.
However, the swirling dark magic was no ordinary level.
‘It’s not far behind the Legion Commander of Pain.’
Chelsea realized the demon was a newly appointed Legion Commander, just like the Commander of Pain, and looked at Eliza.
“Eliza, be careful. That guy is a new Legion Commander.”
“I know.”
“So confident, aren’t you?”
“You said you fought a Legion Commander alone, right?”
Glance- Eliza said, looking back at Chelsea.
“If you could do it, there’s no way I can’t?”
Eliza’s face exuded her characteristic haughtiness.
Chelsea admired her.
‘She’s truly amazing.’
Chelsea knew Eliza had never shown any weakness.
From her freshman year, she considered herself the best and never seemed to doubt it.
Even after meeting Leo and having her belief of being the best challenged, Eliza remained unshaken.
She moved forward without hesitation, fueled by a competitive spirit, determined to surpass Leo one day.
It was different from Chelsea.
Chelsea had admired Leo from the moment they first met.
Even after thinking he might be an insurmountable being, she wasn’t greatly shocked.
Even after Leo became an insurmountable wall, Eliza never abandoned her self-belief.
And now.
Even now, when they had reached a future possibility that they might not be able to attain, Eliza had no doubts about herself.
It was a stark contrast to Chelsea, who feared her own future.
A powerful spiritual energy began to swirl from Eliza’s body.
Sparkle- Sparkle-
Pure white lightning sparked around Eliza’s exposed spiritual energy.
At the same time, Eliza’s hair shot up into the sky.
Flash-!
Lightning struck from the sky.
Along with it, Pegasus, Rue, appeared.
Seeing this, the demon scoffed and raised his hand.
Zing-!
Then, a giant summoning circle appeared on the ground.
“Beast Magician?”
Eliza narrowed her brows.
CRASH-!
GRROOOOAR!
Along with it, a colossal monster appeared from the summoning circle.
“Gigantes!”
Chelsea tilted her head back in surprise.
“It’s incredibly huge!”
Gigantes was a top-tier beast representing Tartarus, boasting immense size.
However, the Gigantes summoned now was on a different level in terms of its sheer size.
Seeing a Gigantes that appeared about 1.5 times larger than other entities, Chelsea was astonished.
The demon, standing on Gigantes’s shoulder, crossed his arms and looked down at Eliza and Chelsea.
“My name is Gon! I am the Beast King who rules the beasts of Tartarus!”
“Tartarus has gone too far. A mere child like you is the ruler of beasts.”
“Who are you calling a child! You’re an old hag!”
Crack-
A vein bulged on Eliza’s forehead.
Rumble-!
Gigantes lifted its foot.
CRASH-!
Its colossal foot stomped on the ground where Eliza and Chelsea stood.
Then, as if an explosion had occurred, the surrounding area was swept away.
The piled-up snow scattered like smoke.
WHOOSH-!
From within the dust, Eliza, riding Pegasus, soared upwards, followed by Chelsea using flight magic.
“I’ll put a hole in that damned lump!”
Sparkle-!
Pegasus’s entire body was enveloped in pure white lightning.
Eliza literally became a bolt of lightning and charged towards Gigantes.
THWACK-!
GRROOOAAAR!
Gigantes, with a giant hole in its chest, let out a scream.
Eliza, soaring high in the sky, looked down at the staggering Gigantes with a mocking expression.
The Beast King, Gon, unleashed dark magic to heal Gigantes.
Seeing Gon, Eliza spoke condescendingly.
“Why not summon other beasts?”
Basically, the combat style of a spirit summoner and a beast summoner is the same.
Summon various beasts and draw out their latent abilities.
If he is called the Beast King, he should be able to control the countless types of beasts in Tartarus.
Gon scoffed at Eliza’s words.
“I only summon Gigantes!”
“That’s foolish. Then you’ll just be a target.”
“What does that matter! Gigantes is the biggest and coolest!”
“You have a surprisingly unfitting taste for someone like you.”
“Mind your own business, old hag!”
“You damned brat…!”
A menacing aura emanated from Eliza’s body.
Watching from a distance, Chelsea wore a serious expression.
‘It’s so childish, there’s no tension at all.’
What was even more absurd was how effectively these simple provocations were working on each other.
As Chelsea clicked her tongue at the battle of two immensely proud beings.
CRUNCH! CRACK!
A grotesque sound came from Gigantes’s arm, and it began to change.
Eliza’s expression shifted.
“Death Worm?”
Gigantes, transforming its arm into another high-tier beast of Tartarus, Death Worm, swung both its arms at Eliza.
“KRAOOOOOOO!”
CRACKLE-!
The Death Worm, baring its grinder-like mouth, roared, unleashing a massive shockwave that split the sky.
Eliza, quickly dodging the attack, glared at Gigantes.
‘Chimera?’
A chimera beast, created by combining multiple beasts.
The thought crossed her mind, but soon the arm that had transformed into a Death Worm returned to its original state.
CRACKLE! CRACK!
This time, leathery wings sprouted from Gigantes’s back.
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! ROOOOAR!
After flapping its wings a few times, a storm swirled around.
Along with it, Gigantes’s colossal body soared into the sky.
‘It’s not a chimera. It’s instantly synthesizing beasts!’
Not stopping at just flying up, it began to charge at Eliza with incredible speed.
Adding speed to its massive body created unimaginable destructive power.
Eliza quickly pulled on Pegasus’s reins, escaping the attack range at blinding speed.
For a moment, Gon’s eyes gleamed dangerously.
Raising his hand, Gigantes raised its arm in response to Gon’s movement.
WHOOSH-! CRASH-!
“Eliza!”
Gigantes, accurately striking the fast-moving Eliza and Pegasus, raised its other hand.
Then, the shape of its hand transformed into the head of the beast, Fafnir.
CRACK-!
As the colossal Fafnir opened its mouth, a breath was exhaled.
FLASH! CRASH-!
The spot where Eliza had been literally vanished.
Chelsea’s face hardened.
Even if it was childish, a Legion Commander was still a Legion Commander.
It was a being with terrifying combat power.
Just as Chelsea was about to intervene,
WHOOSH-!
“You stay out of this.”
Eliza, who had flown to Chelsea’s side, said.
“Are you okay?”
“It hurts.”
“Then let me help you……”
“I said I don’t need it.”
“No, you said it hurts!”
“I’m used to pain.”
Chelsea wore a strange expression at Eliza’s words.
‘Why would a spirit summoner be used to pain?’
Perhaps a spirit user.
Spirit summoners primarily rely on delegating combat to their spirits and maximizing their spirits’ combat power.
As such, if they fight properly, there’s almost no chance of getting hurt.
Knowing Eliza’s skills, Chelsea naturally had questions when she said she was used to pain.
Looking at Eliza strangely, Chelsea’s face became even more bizarre.
She could see Eliza enduring the pain.
The problem was that Eliza’s lips kept twitching.
For some reason, she looked like she was holding back laughter along with the pain.
“Eliza. Are you really okay? Your head isn’t injured, is it?”
“What are you talking about?”
“You… you’re smiling while in pain.”
When Chelsea genuinely worried, Eliza became serious.
“When did I smile?”
“Huh?”
‘Did I see it wrong?’
Despite her confusion, Chelsea gave Eliza a worried look.
Leaving Chelsea behind, Eliza approached the Beast King.
And she covered her mouth.
‘I’ve become needlessly accustomed to pain!’
It was a side effect of Leo’s training.
One day, while being exposed to the essence of lightning to forcibly awaken her abilities,
When intense pain struck, she habitually let out a strange smile.
Recalling how Kahl was startled and asked why she was smiling, Eliza took a deep breath.
‘Still, I gained something thanks to that insane training.’
Eliza took out her whip.
“Rue.”
At Eliza’s call, Rue’s eyes flashed.
CRASH! FLASH-
Pure white lightning struck Eliza from the sky.
“What, what is it! Why are you attacking yourself?!”
“What a weird old hag!”
Chelsea was horrified, and the Beast King also looked at Eliza with a shocked expression.
“Kuhh…!”
From Eliza’s lips, groaning in pain from the lightning enveloping her entire body, came a “chuckle.”
“Ah… exhilarating.”
At her appearance, which even made her ears bleed, the Beast King flinched.
A spirit summoner is a being that enhances spirits.
Furthermore, those who have reached the pinnacle of spirit summoning can weaponize their enhanced spirits like spirits.
Leo and Lunia were prime examples.
However, Eliza went further.
‘Can I enhance myself with the power of my spirit?’
Of course, to do so, she had to endure the spirit’s powerful force with her entire body.
This was a realm of spirit summoning that even Leo deemed dangerous.
However, Eliza, exposed to the essence of lightning, had her spiritual energy wavelength specialized for Pegasus.
She also gained the mental fortitude to withstand Pegasus’s immense power.
The pure white lightning swirling from her body inflicted pain throughout her entire being.
However, a strange sense of omnipotence and pleasure struck Eliza’s entire body.
Originally, it would have been impossible to strengthen her body to this extent due to insufficient spiritual energy.
But now, it was her future self.
Eliza yanked-! The whip.
SPARKLE-!
Enveloped in terrifying pure white lightning, Eliza swung her whip.
CRACK! SPARKLE-!
“You lunatic!”
Seeing Eliza tearing apart his Gigantes with a whip, the Beast King recoiled in horror.
“Die! Die! You damned brat!”
Consumed by a strange excitement, Eliza charged at the Beast King like a berserker.
Each time, a paralyzing, tingling pain relentlessly assailed her.
Biting her lip, she endured the pain.
“Ugh!”
Trembling from the pain that struck her entire body, Eliza began to breathe heavily.
“Ugh… Haa… *Gasp*!”
SPARK- SPARKLE-
The lightning swirled even more intensely.
“Haa… Ah… Ahahahahahahahahahaha!”
The moment the pain threshold was crossed, Eliza’s eyes half-rolled back as she burst into laughter.