My Summons Are Mythical Beasts

Desperate enough to contract anything, even if it causes him harm, Lucas did not even have a full view of what had moved before he willed the grimoire to contract it.

All he knew was that it was a beast and he could contract it.

And so he did.

The dilapidated grimoire shone with a bright light.

Lucas felt his mind touching something; the process of contracting had already begun even before he knew it.

To contract a beast was actually very easy. A summoner only had to do it with their minds, and the grimoire will do the rest.

If the contracting was successful, the beast will be captured and recorded on the blank page inside a grimoire.

If it was unsuccessful, the user would receive a backlash depending on the degree of difficulty, and they could try again if the damage was just superficial.

Perhaps due to his desperate will, the beast was contracted in a matter of seconds.

It felt as if the beast offered no resistance toward his will.

As soon as the beast disappeared from his sight, Lucas turned to look at Spot, only to see that Spot's side was somehow clawed by the talons of the abominable beast. Blood dripped out of its claws as Spot desperately tried to bite off a chunk of meat from the creature's bear-like shoulder.

His bite, though, did little to no damage. His sharp fangs were unable to pierce the thick furs of the beast's shoulder, no matter how hard he tried to bite through it.

Lucas gritted his teeth and ignored the dreadful sight.

He focused on his grimoire and flipped to the third page.

There, the previous blank was already full of details of the new beast he just successfully contracted.

However, his mood hit rock bottom when he saw the description of his newly contracted beast.

[Beast Name: Mirage Worm

Grade: Iron Grade

Rank: Iron Star 1

Skills: Camouflage, Silk Mirage

Camouflage:...

Silk Mirage: Produce delicate silk strands to create illusions. These illusions can resemble small, harmless shapes or distracting movements that can confuse predators, providing precious moments to escape unnoticed.

]

Lucas could not help but curse his luck.

However, knowing that he still has the System to rely on, Lucas did not despair that much. He did not bother reading the descriptions of its skills either, knowing that they wouldn't be much of help either way.

The only thing that comforted his heart a little was the fact that this beast, even though just a worm, was at least an Iron Grade beast from the start.

Lucas pressed his hands on the page and summoned the Mirage Worm for the first time.

Ignoring the worm's current status and appearance, Lucas willed for the System screen to float before his eyes.

Unlike when he checked earlier, one column of the wheel was already lit up. Enjoy more content from empire

Seeing the familiar Bloodline Detector function being available for use once more, Lucas could not help but rejoice.

The System was finally back!

Not wasting any more time, Lucas used the Blood Detector function and dragged the drop of unknown blood toward the unsuspecting Mirage Worm.

Just like when it was done to Spot, the Mirage Worm showed no reaction as the drop of blood fell toward its pinky-sized, small body.

[Mirage Worm: Tracing bloodline…

Bloodlines: Space Rift Dragon, Mirage Dragon, Mirage Beast, Voig Dragon, Void Bug, Cerberus, Kirin Worm, Cryptic Worm, Aether Wyrm, Green Butterfly...]

The list goes on with no end in sight. Lucas skipped that scandalous information about its bloodlines and directly glanced below the ellipses to see the skills available to be inherited.

[Mirage Worm:

Grade: Iron

Rank: Iron Star 1

Choose one of the skills listed below to inherit. The skills are optimized according to the creature's grade and rank. The skills listed below are the most suitable for the current beast. Please choose wisely.

Mirage Projection: Create a grand mirage projection that has the property of confusing those who have seen it, and make them feel like everything is normal when the truth is, it isn't. What was the truth and what was a mirage will only be revealed after the mirage is over.

Unhindered Stealth: Temporarily enter a sublime state of being one with the surroundings to hide from the perception of others. Through the connection with the surroundings, the user could choose to hide from the others and hide others from others at will.

Phantom Illusion: Creates two illusory copies of itself, confusing enemies and making it difficult to distinguish the real one. The illusion mimics...

]

Lucas quickly scanned the three skills and immediately cursed upon reading their descriptions.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

The Mirage Projection was just a powerful version of its current Silk Mirage skill. The Unhindered Stealth allowed it to enter a strange state where it and those it willed to not be perceived, seen, or heard by others. The Phantom Illusion allows the beast to create two illusory copies of itself. The Phantom Illusion skill was also there when he chose Spot's inheritance skills before.

Even though the skill set offered this time looked unrelated, Lucas could actually vaguely tell the uncanny connection between the three of them.

These three skills were good for stealthy maneuvers and made the user remain out of sight.

And if seen from another angle, one could say that these skills were very suited for escaping.

Coupled with the Mirage Worm's original skills, Lucas could now somehow guess the personality of this new contracted beast of his.

And that did not go well for him.

However, knowing that there was nothing he could do about it, Lucas could only weigh his options and choose the most suitable skill that could be of use for the current predicament.

Since he could not have another powerful fighter to help Spot, he would create a powerful support so that they could escape to safety. It just so happened that the specialty of his newly contracted beast was that of escaping and getting unnoticed.

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