Watching the ambulance moving out of the place, Godfrey furiously tried to get to it but couldn't. In his fury, a portal flared up before him.

The moment Tempest appeared, he opened his palm and what looked like a mini sun with a halo manifested. It expanded in a bright radiance, sweeping outwardly in every direction.

As the golden radiance swept past Godfrey, his weeping stopped as he found himself curled into a ball in the foggy forest. Alarmed, Godfrey rose to his feet.

'It was an illusion?! I didn't even know!' he thought, looking at Tempest who was also scanning his surroundings.

"I see her." Tempest pointed his greatsword in a particular direction. All Godfrey could see was thick fog, but he somehow knew Tempest referred to Isolde.

Dashing in that direction, he soon found Isolde. She was in a position as if she was tied and kept crying despite him shaking her.

"Tempest!" Godfrey looked at his Chief Knight, who lifted up his left gauntleted hand and manifested the intense light ball. This time it blew outward, spreading far and clearing up the fog, revealing Percival and Lucy, all of whom woke up along with Isolde.

"I… I'm here." Out of words, these were all Godfrey could say to Isolde as her eyes adjusted to him.

Their eyes locked. Godfrey saw the intense emotions in her eyes and felt the need to clarify. "I think we were all in an illusion that displayed our greatest fears. I saw my mother's death, I bet you all saw something similar."

"I see," Isolde said quietly.

"Where's Isaac?" Percival's question made all of them look around.

***

Still trying to evade the dungeon boss, Isaac, thronged with thick vines, shot a web string, taking himself further away from the huge bear.

A portal flashed, and the Mammoth Spider appeared, instantly manifesting a web net several meters wide and seven meters above the ground. It provided enough space for Isaac and his spider to manoeuvre since the floor lacked space.

He would have escaped had it not been for the army of Werebears around the lake. Once Isaac tried escaping, he would face over twenty Werebears, each having a tier of 5.3!

Top-level elites.

Even if he could handle two or three at once, twenty was a big number, especially for creatures with claws, and his spider wasn't immune to claw attacks.

His hope was slowly dying, but he held on. However, it finally shattered as the vines wormed their way up to the web net and shot toward him from all sides.

Suddenly, a shadow loomed above, prompting both Isaac, the dungeon boss, and its minions to look up.

A white-scaled wyvern flew above them. Grace opened her mouth and a forceful mist, like a torrent of snow, burst out, engulfing the lake, the dungeon boss, the minions, and even the web net.

Everything froze, all except Isaac and his spider. Isaac gasped as he stared at the iced foes all around him, even the dungeon boss in its standing pose. Blood stained the ice as they had spikes inside, piercing right through each and every frozen creature.

All of them died, yet the scene looked like a work of art. A huge gale blew against Isaac's face as the wyvern landed on the ice, revealing Isolde, Godfrey, Percival, and Lucy, who were on the summon's back.

"Isaac!" Lucy rushed toward him with concern. Godfrey came right after the freshman, who collapsed on the ground after retrieving his summon.

"I have to say, you did good surviving this long."

Isaac raised an eyebrow at Isolde being so close to Godfrey. He envied the sophomore's ability to charm such a rich beauty, but wasn't it too much?

He was the one they were supposed to be showering attention on right now.

"Tsk!" Isaac clicked his tongue as he looked away. "What kept you guys for so long?"

"We were in an illusion," Lucy replied.

"What?!"

"I've found it!" Everyone heard Percival's voice and turned to see the blue-haired junior taking a dungeon core from a pillar of water that came out of the ice.

'He turned my ice into water?!' Isolde was amazed. She knew how cold the ice of a white wyvern in its process of evolving into a frost dragon was.

After making sure Isaac was fine, everyone gathered to see Lucy put the dungeon core on her Iron Clawed Crab.

"We've already fed it two dungeon cores so far. It has long reached its peak. This core should stimulate it even if it doesn't evolve," Isolde said to Godfrey in a soft tone.

Just then, an intense heat radiated off the crab as it began to expand, growing from five feet to a great eight feet at its shell top and twelve meters from front claw to tail.

Built like a tank, this crab had crimson and ember-orange chitinous armour with jagged ridges running along its shell like glowing cracks of molten light, pulsing like veins.

Its claws were huge and saw-edged, shaped almost like short greatswords made of volcanic metal.

The intense heat radiating off it made Isaac yell, "Does it want to cook us alive?!"

"That's it, the evolved version you showed us, Isolde. The Crimson Dreadclaw, tier 6.0 with a potential of 8.0. A lord-tier potential!" Lucy gasped, covering her mouth in shock as her hair began to change its colour.

The roots became crimson while the rest, down to her long twin ponytails, became ember orange.

"You look good." Percival's calm statement made Lucy blush. Of course, her looks were what made a rich heir like Lucian from Polaris ask her for a dance, but her identity as a low-tier summoner made her like gold buried in a pile of excreta.

Pursing her lips, she eyed Godfrey, but the golden-haired teenager was busy examining her summon.

In the next moment, Mountain was summoned. It was then Godfrey looked at her. "Now that our summons are both at the same tier, how about another spar? I haven't really tested Mountain's new strength."

Lucy paled, her face turning white. The Crimson Dreadclaw scuttled to her back, not minding its absurd size in comparison to its summoner's.

***

Three days later, Lucy opened a door and walked into her family house. Her eyes landed on her father, mother, and brother, all seated at the dining table over a meal.

They noticed the head cover she used to hide her hair.

"What's with the weird cap?" Sam spat.

"It took you a whole more day to get here. Couldn't you see that your brother came on time? Where did you go when I clearly stated you should return with your brother?!" Cedric, Lucy's father, said coldly.

"I went out with my friends." Lucy's reply made Cedric rise to his feet, veins throbbing along his arm as he shot a dangerous glare at her. Before he could take a step, Lucy's mother blocked him.

"She's your daughter," the mother said softly.

Cedric frowned. "Listen and listen well…" he stared at Lucy. "You will apologize to all of your brother's friends. I did not train you to be disrespectful. You will do that or get pulled out of that school."

Lucy clenched her teeth. "They tortured me! Burnt my fingers! Sam also hit me several times and locked me up and made me miss my test all because of them! I thought I had a brother, I never knew I was only his sister when his friends were comfortable with me."

"Shut up and do what I say!" Cedric hissed, his glare intensifying.

"I won't," Lucy replied before he even finished.

"What?!" Sam, Cedric, and even her mother were all shocked at her reply.

Sam snickered inwardly. 'You're so dead.'

Cedric looked at his wife, seeing her shake her head at him with a pleading gaze, yet he tossed her aside, charging toward Lucy.

But just then, they heard screams coming from outside. That kind of sound always meant one thing and one thing alone, a dungeon break!

They had been seeing it happen in different places in the news, but the thought of a dungeon break occurring at the high-tier blue gate dungeon frequently cleared never dawned on them.

A boar summon, about three and a half feet tall, was thrown through the door. The summon lay lifeless on the floor as blood came out of the deep claw wounds on its body.

Lucy looked at the four-feet-tall lioness, which had a golden crescent moon totem on both arms. It had golden claws and fangs.

This was a 3.1 minion of the Black Mane Pride Dungeon; a dungeon with three bosses, two mini bosses, and one main boss. All three bosses were lions with a pride of their own. The mini bosses had four lionesses each, and the main boss had eight.

Each of these lionesses was a top-level low-tier, a creature that could tear apart most civilians, as it was stronger than most summoners' low-tier summons.

But as it leapt at them, Sam's eyes narrowed greatly. 'She's already frozen in fear. Get out of the way!' Sam thought as he rose to his feet.

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My good reviews are vanishing and bad ones are multiplying! It leaves a bitter taste.

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