He stared at the prompt for a second, then pressed Yes without hesitating.
The dark gold lines spread open in front of him, forming the familiar circle on the ground, but the moment he started pushing his mana into it, something felt wrong.
Back when he summoned Juna, the mana drain had been manageable, a steady pull that left him a little tired but functional. This was nothing like that.
His mana started pouring into the circle like someone had opened a floodgate, the flow so aggressive that his vision blurred at the edges before the circle even finished forming.
'What the hell,' he thought, his knees buckling slightly as he fought to keep his hand extended. 'This is taking way more than last time.'
The circle brightened, the dark gold lines flaring up into the air and weaving together into a three-dimensional structure that spun slowly above the ground. The mana kept draining, faster and faster, and he felt his reserves dropping at a rate that made his stomach turn.
