Using the ritual drawing pen and special ink, Lucas dreentagram magic circle on the paper. He pced ten bloodsto the outer and inner points of the star.

  Finally, he took out "The Heart of the Red Dragon Niele" and pced it in the ter of the pentagram.

  Instantly, the sulfur lines within the hexagram magic circle ignited.

  The wind picked up, f a whirlwind around the magic circle, while the inside remained ued.

  Lucas adjusted the dials on "The Heart of the Red Dragon Niele," and the faint sound of a dragon's roar echoed in the air.

  The wind intensified, lifting sand into the air and enclosing the magic circle within a swirling wall of sand.

  As Lucas set the final dial to the correct position, the wind abruptly stopped, and the sand fell back to the ground.

  Silence, as if all the world's sounds had vanished.

  A pressure emanating from a higher being slowly intensified in the air.

  Lucas quickly jumped out of the ter of the magic circle and took out several potions from his spatial backpack, drinking them rapidly.

  The fire within the magic circle burned more fiercely, f a wall of fmes two meters high.

  The pressure grew heavier, and the air seemed to solidify.

  The fmes surged higher, reag three meters, four meters...

  Lucas drew the A Rock Cleaver, and the effects of the potions kicked in, causing the elemental fusioor within him to operate in overdrive with the raw materials and catalysts provided.

  An overwhelming surge of energy burst forth.

  At that moment, a genuine dragon's roar came from within the now over teer-high wall of fmes.

  A pair of red dragon wings stretched out from the fmes.

  "I am the Red Dragon Niele..."

  Lucas pushed E's level to 80.

  [Holy Guardian]

  In the baptism, the angelic armor materialized by divine energy covered the right side of his body, and the cleaver's bde first ignited with holy fmes, then densed into a golden yer.

  A thick dragon tail extended from the fmes.

  "Answering the call of the tract, for the en minutes..."

  Lucas pushed E's level to 100 and cast status spells on himself.

  [Supernatural Strength] [Swift A] [Unyielding Power] [Frenzy]

  As a dragon's head emerged from the top of the fmes, Lucas leaped high into the air.

  His face showed markings, his eyes turo icy crystals, and his expression became one of extreme excitement. He raised the cleaver high, and its bde extended over three meters.

  "I will fight for you and crush your eell me your name, my tractor."

  "E!"

  Lucas shouted his name as he reached the peak of his jump, seeing the red dragon standing in the ter of the fmes.

  He then pushed E's level to 120. The bde's aura surged, extending to teers.

  The pressure from this pinnacle of power in the world stuhe newly summoned red dragon.

  It lifted its head to look at the elf, feeling the killing ihat made its entire body tremble.

  Large patches of icy mist bloomed on the beach, the seawater froze in mid-wave, and the fire walls within the magic circle were suppressed into flickering fmes.

  The Red Dragon Niele turs head toward the airborne elf.

  But its head was forcibly twisted back. Time Reversal!

  'Damn, I shouldn't have been greedy for those jewels!' Niele thought.

  Lucas swung the teer light bde toward the red dragon's neck, eling all his energy into the time reversal to suppress the dragon's movements.

  Iruggle between time and the dragon's resistahe dragon's head flickered like a glitched frame.

  The cold frost extinguished the st fme.

  The solidified holy fme-coated light bde struck the red dragon's neck.

  The red dragon, newly summoned, had not cast any protective spells on itself, and the brief time reversal nullified any ce of resistance.

  Everything happeoo fast!

  The light bde sliced through Niele's neck scales as if cutting through butter.

  With one swift stroke, the entire dragon's head was severed.

  Ice rapidly spread from the dragon's four limbs, freezing the body solid before it could colpse.

  Barely any blood illed. Five seds.

  Lucas quickly reduced E's level to 80 as the dragon's head, as tall as a person, nded beside him.

  The frozen dragon head still had its eyes open.

  Niele likely never imagihat this summoning was not for battle but to take its life.

  Having successfully sin the dragon, Lucas immediately began processing the corpse.

  First, he used his freezing skills to create several rge ice chests and then draihe dragon's blood into them.

  The low temperatures would preserve the blood, giving him more time to refi ter.

  Ohe dragon blood was drained, he sealed the ice chests and stored them in his spatial backpack.

  came the task of dismembering the dragon.

  The sheer size of Niele's body made it impossible to finish by dawn. Lucas had to divide the massive dragon into dozens e ks, freeze them, and store them in his spatial backpack.

  Sihe dragon was dead and couldn't escape, he could take his time processing it in a safe, secluded pce.

  After st the dragon's remains, Lucas ed up any traces of the summoning ahe beach.

  Ba the ior's dormitory at the Seawall District Secret Intelligence Bureau, Lucas woke up from a nap.

  He checked the time.

  3:35 AM.

  He wondered how the battle at the Mad Axe Gang headquarters had gone, but sino one had e knog with news, everything seemed fine.

  Lucas activated the dormitory's security system to open the floor passage.

  He desded the stairs.

  Befoing to sleep, he had walked this escape route oo familiarize himself, allowing him to move quickly the sed time.

  After about a kilometer, Lucas reached a hidden chamber.

  Oher side of the chamber's door was a waterway. A small boat was tied to the wall above the waterway, and by taking the boat, he could access the Lime River.

  Lucas stood by the waterway.

  After a moment, a thick yer of ied rapidly oer's surface, and E walked in on the ice.

  "Hello!"

  "Hello!"

  Lucas trolled both bodies to greet each other, then couldn't help but ugh.

  This is so messed up!

  With only a few hours until dawn, there was no time to waste.

  E took out the items she had purchased from her spatial backpack.

  Lighting dles, she pced them along the walls, spag them every thirty timeters.

  Lucas stood in the ter of the chamber while E used the rune drawio draw a magic circle around him.

  She then arrahe mystical items in the magic circle acc to the sequence of secret arts.

  The dle fmes suddenly fred up.

  A suppressive atmosphere spread through the chamber.

  Secret arts are teiques that harhe mysterious energy tained within mystical items.

  Mysterious energy differs from magical elements and is a type of energy that is difficult to expin. Its source be the essence of a soul, the bond of faith, the expression of emotion, or the accumution of natural energy...

  When these energies reside in an object, it bees a mystical item.

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