Next, Jeana familiarized herself with her abilities while coordinating with Zhao Guang for testing.

Through the tests, Zhao Guang discovered that Jeana's summoning ability was indeed a kind of contract-like power. However, this contract was with the Elemental World, a sort of reward bestowed by the entire Elemental World.

But the will of the Elemental World wasn't clear enough, so its control wasn't as strong as Hell Power.

The entire consciousness was hazy, which gave Zhao Guang an opportunity to take advantage.

"As long as we find the pattern, we can contract directly with the Elemental World in my name, or even contract with the Elemental World in the name of the Magic Net. Someday, this contract could spread out, creating contracts with all Elemental Worlds."

After his research, Zhao Guang believed this approach held great potential.

It was during this research process that Xi Fei returned.

It turned out that Xi Fei had already established the rough frameworks of two cities on the eastern border.

With a decent population, the development of the two fortress cities was very rapid. In the middle was a Black Nest Lord's lair, and the three formed a strategic triangle, covering each other.

With these three positions, a vast coastal area was under control.

As for other places, they could only wait to be gradually reinforced in the future.

The lack of population remained a problem. Even with a replenished population, there weren't enough strong individuals, nor enough troops. This wasn't a problem that could be solved in the short term.

Currently, the vast coastal region was only patrolled by the spiders of the Black Nest Lord, which was far from sufficient.

Most of the spiders still had to remain near the lair, as they served the Black Nest Lord.

When Xi Fei returned and saw Jeana's breakthrough, and the results of Sephidya, she was somewhat stimulated.

After clinging to Zhao Guang for a night, the next day she applied to enter the Mage Tower for seclusion.

Indeed, she intended to go into seclusion because Xi Fei planned to summon and suppress those Legendary Demons from Hell through the Mage Tower, completing her control and releasing the full power of a Demon Mage.

This required selection, substantial energy infusion, and waiting for recovery.

The time needed was quite long, and that night, Zhao Guang couldn't stop all night.

Even with Zhao Guang's physical endurance, he felt a rare bit of fatigue. Of course, it was mainly mental; Zhao Guang's own recovery ability wouldn't leave him feeling physically tired.

After sending Xi Fei to her seclusion place, Zhao Guang returned to continue his research.

After some time had passed, Zhao Guang didn't make an appearance during this harvest.

When he emerged, a new Magic Net Professional had been born. It turned out that after such a long period of development, Magic Net Professionals had already spread throughout the Kingdom, and even into other countries.

Except for a few areas under absolute control by the Temple, other places had begun to establish the Magic Network System.

With the Magic Net, development was exceedingly rapid. Even if rejected, nobody dared not to introduce it, otherwise, while they remained weak, those around them would become strong, and the consequences would be dire.

Even within the Temple, there were advocates for incorporating the Magic Net into their management.

Of course, their first goal was to gain complete control of the Magic Net, which Zhao Guang would certainly never agree to. Thus, the internal disputes within the Temple grew louder by the day.

As for Zhao Guang's personal thoughts, they weren't considered important in their eyes.

After all, he was just a legend—did they really need to ask him to control the Magic Net's management rights? If necessary, they could just call in a demigod to deal with him if he didn't comply.

Whether the demigod would listen to them was something they hadn't apparently considered.

After all, when in a high position for a long time, some people end up seeming quite foolish.

Zhao Guang was unaware of this, but when he reemerged, he introduced a new Magic Net profession: the Magic Net Summoner.

Specifically, it was akin to an Elemental Summoner. Elemental-type summoners were definitely a niche profession among mages, and many Magic Users didn't even know such a profession existed.

Now, Zhao Guang had signed a contract with the Elemental World in the name of the Magic Net, which changed things.

Because of the spell slot relationship, the spells a Magic Net Mage could use each day were limited—they could only cast a certain number of spells of certain levels, with no way to increase this.

Unless they could elevate their own level, many who advanced further began to follow the path of a traditional mage.

Because of this, major Mage Organizations had no intention to exclude the Magic Net Mage profession.

Even so, Magic Net Mages remained in high demand. The effects of some special spells were simply too significant for the entire team, unmatched by warriors.

Now it was different—a spell slot could summon an Elemental Creature of the same level from the Elemental World.

Even though the time they could be maintained was limited, if an Elemental Creature died, it would result in the immediate loss of a spell slot.

This was a deliberate restriction Zhao Guang had imposed to prevent the use of Elemental Creatures as cannon fodder. If everyone did this, the Elemental Creatures of the Elemental World would rapidly diminish.

If they decreased enough, the Elemental World itself would shield the contract unilaterally.

Of course, if a spell slot was accidentally lost, it could be restored later through other means, though the method involved was through a task—an exceedingly difficult task.

While summoning elements consumed a spell slot, Elemental Creatures could also use magic.

Although it was a single type of Elemental Magic, Elemental Creatures did not have spell slots.

Within a unit time, an Elemental Creature could output a considerable amount of magic attacks. Just as Elemental Summoners first appeared, they directly challenged the status of traditional mages, creating a significant impact.

Zhao Guang didn't pay much mind to these matters—even though summoning elements was easy, the threshold was considerably higher than that for ordinary Magic Net Mages.

This naturally limited the number of Magic Net Mages over time.

What Zhao Guang hadn't anticipated was that quite a few traditional mages began taking up part-time roles as Magic Net Summoners. To them, being able to summon some Elemental Creatures was a significant aid.

The notion that traditional mages and Magic Net Mages were not mutually exclusive sparked a large-scale discussion from this point onward.

Especially when, one day, someone summoned an Elemental Dragon, and this profession entered the higher echelons' view across various major forces.

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