As the dungeon faded away, he was back in the abandoned, roofless mansion. He looked up at the dark sky and shut his eyes.

In the next moment, Godfrey appeared in his soul space, right in Ballista's chambers. The Bow Knight-Captain sat on his throne, the rot still on every part of his regal armored figure, but it was slowly fading.

Luckily, the soul space had some sort of preservative and healing effect. Small damages could easily be dealt with at the cost of a little time.

Godfrey walked up to him and stretched forth the dungeon core. "Here, you did well."

Ballista replied with a heavy nod, the thick chainmail around his neck making soft metallic sounds with the movement of his head.

As he held the dungeon core, its pure mana flowed into his body, causing the rot to fade as the sheen of his armor grew bright once more, especially the two sun emblems at both cheeks of his helm.

His cloak fluttered without air as a faint golden light rippled out of him. Ballista had risen to 6.0!

Godfrey turned, watching as the stone covering where both parts of the double door joined fell off, withering into nothing before touching the floor.

With slow steps, he came close to the door and paused. Godfrey lifted his head, looking at the massive door, over fifteen feet tall and broad.

He pressed his palms against it and pushed inward, revealing a staircase of about twenty steps leading upward.

Godfrey climbed the staircase and stood in a rectangular hall that had pillars on both sides. At the other end was darkness, but within that darkness were two golden eyes staring right back at him.

To his left was another door, and to the right was a circular hole in the wall that allowed bright light from outside to envelope the place. But what it truly did was illuminate the other door, as the throne of his third summon was shrouded in shadows.

Godfrey looked at the writing etched on the stone. "The Light in the Shadows," he muttered.

"I have waited for this day, Duke Godfrey." A rumbling voice, like thunder and lightning warring in the clouds, rolled out, along with the heavy metallic sound of a mighty sword being pulled from stone.

What followed next were deep, metallic footsteps as a towering, eight-foot-tall knight clad in armor with the bulk almost rivaling Mountain emerged.

His golden armor gleamed, unleashing its brilliance at the touch of light. His head was hidden beneath a white, almost tattered hood, but from the darkness within glowed two golden eyes.

The hood came down to a cloth wrapped around his neck and shoulders, and from behind, his cloak flowed, bearing the proud emblem of the sun.

From beneath the hood, silver hair fell from both sides, resting against his thick chest plate. A white loincloth fluttered between his legs, and a great sword, six feet in length, was held at the blade.

Godfrey couldn't help but squint as this walking thunderous tank went down on one knee, held the great sword by its hilt, and plunged it into the stone.

"My Prince." The Great Sword Knight bowed his head, gleaming brightly under the illumination of sunlight pouring in from the hole.

Naturally, Godfrey was still a prince, but now bore the official title of Duke, granting him the right to have a chief knight under his authority. Godfrey suddenly realized that as he opened more doors, he would ascend from being a mere prince to someone stepping closer to the absolute throne.

Summon: Chief Blade Knight of the Golden Order

Type: Hybrid

Tier: 6.7

Potential: 8.5

Description: [An eight-foot-tall knight, a warrior above captains, an anointed chief knight. He possesses monstrous strength, lightning-fast reflexes, and full control over lightning. In Black-Out State, the Chief Knight breaks the limits of his base strength and gains lightning-tendril-like wings that can be used as both an offensive weapon and for flight.]

Godfrey was short of words. It just got better with every door.

"Enter Black-Out," he said, and the Chief Knight nodded.

"As you wish."

As he spoke, his hood turned crimson, as did his golden armor and loincloth, while his sword became as night. From his back, tendrils made completely out of golden lightning burst forth. They were long and alive, their brightness chasing away the darkness throughout the room, illuminating even his throne.

Godfrey felt the air become charged as a low hum rippled through it.

With a thought, he exited the soul space, and with another, a diagram appeared mid-air from which the Chief Knight emerged, his lightning tendril wings crackling as a bright golden light flooded the mansion, piercing out through the doors and window frames.

"Tempest," Godfrey whispered, watching the Chief Knight in all his glory. "Hmm, that sounds good. I'll call you Tempest!" he said aloud, prompting the knight to look down at him.

"I shall wear it proudly, my prince," Tempest replied solemnly.

Unbeknownst to Godfrey, at the base of the hill, four members of a guild were rooted to the ground, staring at the angelic being hovering above the mansion like a miniature sun in the dark night.

They had come because the authorities had sent word of a discovered high-mana signature, since all the gauge devices were connected to the central network for monitoring.

A girl with cat ears couldn't help but gasp. "Is that a summon?"

"It's an angel," a short, stocky man muttered.

"If that's not a summon, then we better leave. That's clearly a powerful high-tier," another said in panic. But just then, Tempest vanished, allowing darkness to engulf the place once more.

People in their homes, who had been staring at the knight in awe, suddenly felt disgusted by the returning darkness that swallowed the mansion after the knight's disappearance.

"Where did it go?" the cat-eared girl asked with wary eyes.

Their eyes narrowed when they saw someone in a black hood descending the hill, his hands in the pockets of his hoodie.

The cat-eared girl caught a glimpse of his face, and her eyes widened. 'He's young... Wait! That teen owns that summon?!'

"We should head back. There's no way a dungeon will still be here if that summoner got here first," the short man said.

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