Hermione, whom Zhu Si and Dylan had privately remarked was "lucky," stood in the spacious hall atop the Brass Building, yet she felt no hint of good fortune favoring her.
Because she was facing a task that seemed almost impossible to complete.
Earlier, she had heard every word of Jiang Yu's instructions clearly, but when put together, their meaning left her briefly dazed and doubting herself.
"—A Dragon Monster?"
Hermione repeated the unfamiliar term, looking uneasily at the witch seated behind the massive stone table, surrounded by countless charts and data. Her face was full of confusion. "You mean... a magical creature like a dragon, or a spirit? If it's a spirit from the Xuanhuang Small World, shouldn't it be like the others that were cleared out before?"
In her understanding, all the "spirits" of this world were "anomalous existences" that needed to be sorted out or eliminated. Not something like what the mission briefing in her hand said—
Visits.
Jiang Yu wanted her to visit that Dragon Monster!
Just looking at that word gave Hermione a faint sense of absurdity.
Although she had not been at First University for long, she had already gained a clear understanding through the Wizard Codex of the relationship between wizards and other magical races. Spirits like those in the Xuanhuang Small World were not magical creatures recognized by the Codex; their status was even lower than that of the goblins in the Silent Forest.
Their proper fate was to become experimental material in wizards' drawers.
"That's right. It is indeed a spirit. In essence, it is the product of the remaining aura from Waghar's bones combining with the Earth Qi leaked from the Earth Vein."
The witch behind the stone table did not deny Hermione's judgment, but then shifted the subject. "It's just