Castra immediately looked at the little summoner in disbelief, as if she backstabbed him— no, she did!
He could still struggle against one monster, but a summoner and God knew how many spirits they could summon?
Not to mention the spirits could use various strange skills, much stronger than the monsters' physical attacks!
This is suicide!
"Dear summoner!! What were you thinking? Are you courting death? A leapfrog challenge against a D-rank summoner??"
Castra was already thinking of reporting his customer and asking for a broken heart compensation or something…
But the little girl grinned while hugging the fluffy furball who looked like it wasn't a high-rank spirit at all.
"Yeah. What's wlong? I think you can do it~ "
In her past life, she was the famous top summoner, Cecily!
For her, a leapfrog battle is too common.
But for Castra, the slacker who was eager to clock out of work, this was a breach of contract!
He refused to do a workload beyond his pay!
"I-I want a higher pay! Or else, I'll re— "
"Mole mana? Deal!"
She still had mana to spend, anyway.
The little summoner Cecily agreed so fast that Castra swallowed the words "resign" and immediately showed his perfect customer service smile.
"Okay, okay, thank you, dear cus— summoner~ I'll work hard— achoo!"
Castra hurriedly distanced himself from the furball in his employer's arms but in his eyes, even this source of calamity suddenly looked so cute.
Hehehe, an extra pay~ More mana~ He's rich! Rich!
Castra eagerly turned around, about to see his opponent when a new notification from the Spirit World suddenly popped up.
BEEP. [You have defeated an enemy one level higher than you for the first time.]
[You acquired the title "A Leapfrog Fighter".]
[Every time you fight against higher-level enemies, all your innate skills countdown will be cut by half.]
! Since when did the Spirit World's administrator have conscience?
This title is such a timely help!
After one good news, Poo also came with another good news.
[Host, host, you have to play this game well!]
[Huh? What are you saying out of the blue— ]
[Host, there are magic orbs recording the battles and there's a chance that the Ares Arena will display outstanding duels for promotion!]
This means…more fame points and possibly some faith points from other summoners!
Could he finally advance to an E-rank spirit after so long??
Just then, the iron gate on the opposite side slowly opened and a human figure in a black cloak slowly strode towards the arena.
The first commentator who was waiting for the mysterious person's appearance immediately cheered,
"Ladies and gentleman, our D-rank Summoner, the Son of Flame, is here!!"
At the commentator's words, the "Son of Flame" stopped moving and suddenly yanked his cloak's hood, revealing his face.
"It's meeee! Mario!"
Even in the dim light, Castra, whose eyesight had always been good, saw the summoner's extremely familiar face.
Castra immediately pointed at the summoner with trembling fingers.
"It's you!"
It's the bastard who reported him and gave him the fifth 1 star review!
"Yeah, that's me, Mario!" Mario patted his chest and looked at Castra with a smug smile.
"You didn't expect that, did you?"
Castra certainly didn't expect that!
"Mario, you're actually a D*ck— a D-rank summoner??"
Then why was he struggling to fight an F-rank Giant Foot Rooster?!
Mario saw Castra's distrustful eyes and he immediately waved his hand and a huge flame suddenly appeared out of thin air, burning the sand and the air itself.
Ssshhhhhhhhhh—
The burnt smell of fire and the heat could be felt even from twenty meters away!
Amidst the flickering fire, the figure of a man slowly stepped out and the red flame quickly gathered into the shape of a bow and arrows, floating behind the man's figure.
When all the flame disappeared, the figure of the man landed lightly on the sandy ground, already holding a bow loaded with an arrow entirely made of fire.
The first commentator who saw this scene immediately slapped the table while yelling excitedly,
"And there we gooo! Our Son of Flame summoned his famous natal spirit— the Fire Archer!!"
Castra looked at the handsome humanoid spirit with long fiery red hair resembling a fire elf and he almost doubted his eyes.
The hell? A fire-element humanoid spirit?
Just looking at the blue glow around the spirit...
It's a D-rank spirit!
When the realization hit, Castra immediately exploded on the spot.
"Mario bastard!! Back then, I didn't see you summon your natal spirit!!!"
If Mario had his natal spirit back then, why would they struggle to fight against an F-rank rooster monster??
And this guy still had the audacity to report him?
Ahhh!!
Mario flinched at Castra's shouts but he immediately puffed his chest and retorted loudly,
"My natal spirit was recovering! That's why I summoned you, but why did you hide your skills? You lied to me!"
"Ha? I lied to you? I used all of my skills!"
"Then, what's with the one-punch skill just now and that cat? Why didn't you use your skill and cat when I summoned you??"
"I just acquired it after you reported me, you bastard!!"
"But you still got summoned anyway, right? My report didn't get you suspended!"
Bullsh*t! It's entirely thanks to the system that he didn't get suspended.
Of course, Castra couldn't say that, so he just glared at Mario and wished that he could tear this man to pieces.
Mario could somehow understand Castra's unspoken words through his facial expression.
The man, who was in his early twenties, immediately stomped his feet like an anxious kid.
"What are you looking at? Back then, it was really your fault, you fake spirit!"
"It's your fault, you fake summoner!!"
The two people bickered and wished they could tear each other apart, so chaotic that Cecily and the commentator could only stare at them dumbfounded.
Uh, so these two people had met each other before?
They looked like mortal enemies...
Mario continued to scold Castra from head to toe before he finally held back the fire in his heart.
"Okay, okay, fine, fake spirit, take a look at my true power!"
Mario suddenly tossed a piece of burning pork meat and white bone onto the ground while shouting,
"Heed my call and come to my side, Fire Beast spirits!"
Once Mario's words fell, two blue magic circles appeared next to him and the two burning things thrown to the ground suddenly disappeared, as if consumed by something.
As the two "offerings" disappeared, two huge flames burst out of the magic circle, slowly forming the figure of two beasts.
Shaaaaa—