The Sphinx: If I'd Known, I Wouldn't Have Eaten Those Dried Fish

"Captain Dragonfly, come receive an audience!"

Liu Zheng climbed out of the hatch and shouted toward the sky.

Then, nothing happened.

"Hahaha!"

Garcia let out an exaggerated laugh.

"I have to say, you always manage to surprise me. Unfortunately, no matter whom you wish to summon, your voice cannot cross the barrier of divine power."

"So why not consider the suggestion I just made?"

"Since you have amused me, I can give you another half hour to think it over."

He spoke after laughing enough.

"Is that so? I wouldn't be so sure."

Liu Zheng showed no panic and recited the incantation.

"Androsphinx."

The phantom of the Sphinx appeared behind him in an instant, its eyes tightly shut. Its front paws rested on his shoulders as it lowered its head and bit into his scalp.

At the same time, the Sphinx that had been lying at the clinic entrance, fiddling with a Yarn Ball, sensed something and abruptly raised its head.

Then it closed its eyes, while the eyes of the Sphinx phantom suddenly opened.

Its gaze narrowed at the layers upon layers of black circles.

Although an unregistered deity like this could bring down less than one ten-thousandth of its divine power within the city, it was still worlds apart from a mythical creature like the Sphinx.

Even merely breaking through this barrier would cost it dearly.

"If it doesn't work, forget it. I'll think of something myself."

Liu Zheng opened his mouth, but his voice rang in the Sphinx's mind.

At that moment, his thoughts had become one-way transparent to the Sphinx.

"Shut up. Whether I can do it or not isn't for a human like you to say."

The Sphinx bit down hard on his scalp, its sharp teeth sinking three-tenths of an inch into his flesh.