In the courtyard of West Hill Manor.
Roland left his desk for a while and came here to test the cards in his hands.
Blaise, who had hurried over upon hearing the news, watched from the side and helped with the testing.
"~~~~~, ~~~~~..."
As the summoning incantation rang out, guided by Seris, the mana of this universe resonated.
Immense power surged from the source of magic and poured into the Phantom Magic Card floating in the air.
A dazzling light suddenly flared.
The next moment, a burly man appeared, wielding Ganqi and brimming with the intent to slaughter and take revenge.
He lacked the head an ordinary person possessed. Instead, his nipples served as eyes and his navel as a mouth. With an axe in one hand and a shield in the other, his will to fight to the bitter end was almost tangible.
"He really is getting more and more lifelike. Let me see whether his combat strength has actually risen to the fifth rank, as the card shows."
Blaise praised him, then chanted an incantation, using level 5 Monster Summoning to summon a group of dried corpses wrapped entirely in bandages, like mummies.
"These are monsters from the land of death: fourth-rank Hollow Corpse Monsters. Together, they're more than a match for a fifth-rank warrior.
Let's have them fight it out."
"Xingtian, take them down!"
Using his mental connection as a guide, Roland activated the pact spirit as though working a marionette's strings.
Battle erupted in an instant.
The Hollow Corpse Monsters were wreathed in the aura of death and plague. Their negative energy was as thick as black sludge, and every attack sent up a cloud of dense smoke.
But with Ganqi in his hands, Xingtian blocked their attacks almost flawlessly. Before long, he had hacked