Chapter 274 (2/2)

He smiled a bit, the girl was really timid. She felt like a good kid and by being connected to her soul he knew that she had a kind heart.This made it easier for him to help her out but also made things more difficult. First he needed to get her stronger as without her having a higher mana pool he wouldn't be able to interact with the world for more than a few minutes.

”You can but… your body can't handle the strain too well. I won't be able to stay for long, you must increase your mana reserves with haste…”

This was the most important point, he needed to find a quick way to boost this girls mana reserves. He had a connection to her soul so there were a few approaches that he could take. Before he could do that he would need to be sure that it wouldn't harm Beatrice in the slightest. There was also the possibility of something going wrong if he didn't have the information. For this he needed to get to that library.

”That's why you must visit a library and procure all the books that concern magic, anything can be of use, the more the better.”

Beatrice nodded while listening to her summoned spirit talking about the library books again. She didn't know what he wanted with those, normally a magical being as this should know more about magic than humans. Things like human magical theory wasn't something other races could even use.Every race and being was slightly different and thus required a totally different approach.

”Of course Honorable Holy Lightning Emperor Leigong.”

Zhang Dong gave out a chuckle while they ventured forward, this girl reminded him a bit of his disciples with how much prostrating she was doing. Finally they arrived at the supposed training area where he saw an old man in a suit of armor standing next to Beatrice's father.

”I am here, father.”

Beatrice curtsied slightly while holding her long skirt.

”Good. How is that spirit of yours? Can you show it to me?”

The girl evades her father's gaze while holding her right hand on which her summoner insignia was. Her father had a similar one as she had which was also the proof of being the current family head.

”Ah yes… I can show him to you…”

”Great, before that. Sir Heinrich.”

The old man that was on the side moved forward. He placed himself in front of the young girl with about twenty meters of space between them. Soon the sound of a sword getting unsheathed could be heard.

”Heinrich will test your summoned spirit, you should have learned how to summon it by now, right?”

Beatrice nodded while still clutching her hand together. She had summoned this spirit once before but it was a peculiar one. For one he felt like someone from the older generation that wasn't taking things very seriously.

Her hand was stretched towards the man in front of her. She infused her mana into it and made the summoner sign glow in a bluish light. The light flickered in a golden hue for a fraction of a second but just like last time, nothing appeared.

”Beatrice? What happened?”

The father looked from the side a bit surprised that there was no spirit there to fight the knight.

”Ah… the spirit is here… he is there father…”

Beatrice pointed toward a barrel in which some old wooden practice swords were stored in. It was close to where they all were standing and blocked part of the view.

”There? But I can't see anyt… what is that?”

The blond mustache wearing man leaned forward as he witnessed the form of his daughter's summoned spirit.

”A boot?...”

It looked to be a white boot that didn't go further past than the ankle. It looked like it would connect to a leg but it was cut off. The strange summoned spirit started floating around while getting close to the knight.

”Um Father… the honorable spirit says that we can start the test…”

”The spirit told you that?”

The man's eyes bulged out slightly as the bodiless foot floated towards his armored knight. The old man in the suit of armor was looking at this strange phenomenon as well. The man looked to the baron as he didn't know what to do.

”Fine… go ahead Heinrich.”

The old knight looked at the wobbly foot moving his way, it wouldn't be hard to slice something like that in half. The man felt anger that he was forced to be part of a silly test like this. He was a sworn knight though and had to follow orders.

His sword was raised and its edge was encased in flaming energy. The sooner he took care of this, the sooner he would be able to resume the training of the other guards.

This strange boot reacted to the charge as it flew towards the armored knight. It changed its trajectory and it was now looking like a flying kick was coming towards Heinrich. He reacted by swinging his magic infused sword at the disembodied body part, soon the two collided with each other.

What was supposed to be an easy victory for the experienced knight captain, turned to shock. Instead of the foot getting cut in two pieces it smashed the knights sword into tiny pieces. It flew even further and collided with Heinrich's metal armor sending the experienced warrior tumbling back.

”Impossible!”

Beatrice's father's jaw dropped as he looked at the floating foot that soon vanished into tiny mana particles.The armored knight was out cold with a footprint on his armor. It had a strange symbol in the middle that looked like a checkmark.The old man wouldn't be waking up for a while after this...