C338: Worse ScenarioNidhogg cut through the sky with violent speed, its massive body tearing through the air currents as though the atmosphere itself was something fragile and inconvenient to be broken apart, while below, the battlefield unfolded in layers of chaos that had already begun to spiral beyond controlled engagement.The mature class alien had already been identified, and even from above its presence distorted the terrain beneath it, as though the land itself had begun to react to the weight of something it was not designed to support.Flora shifted her stance atop Nidhogg’s back the moment they entered striking range, and without hesitation she launched herself downward, her body falling with precise control while her wind spirit wrapped around her like an invisible buffer that adjusted her descent and stabilized her momentum so that she would not crash into the battlefield like an uncontrolled projectile.Ryan, positioned slightl

C340: The Buried Gate of ContractsSera and Ryan had barely reached the reinforced slope of the mine entrance when Ryan’s voice cut through the battlefield with an urgency that carried both command and exhaustion, as he immediately shifted his weight backward while assessing the collapsing perimeter where alien forces continued to push forward in erratic waves that made the ground tremble under the pressure of their numbers and distorted biology.“Sera, we are retreating into the mine,” Ryan stated without hesitation, already turning his body halfway while keeping his weapon trained outward, and as he reached her position he did not slow down even for a second as he continued issuing orders with a controlled sharpness that kept the remaining fighters aligned despite the chaos pressing in from every direction.“You all proceed with the withdrawal immediately, establish movement discipline and maintain spacing while we fall back, and we will coordinate the d

C342: Demands (Bonus) The moment the hidden passage inside the mountain expanded into a broader chamber, the cramped silence that had been pressing against everyone’s chest finally broke apart, revealing more than a hundred survivors scattered across the uneven stone floor, some slumped against jagged rock walls with fresh injuries and torn clothing, others tending to those wounded individuals with hurried hands and exhausted expressions that reflected the kind of desperation that only came when survival had already been pushed to its limits and was now being bargained for in real time. Among those gathered, the first to properly register the arrival of the group from Frexia Academy were the roughly thirty fighters who still retained enough strength and awareness to maintain a defensive stance, their gazes sharpening instantly as they recognized unfamiliar yet clearly organized reinforcements stepping into what had already become a collapsing

Summoned Celestial Divine BeastC344: Sphinx and JinwuFlora’s entire body trembled under the pressure of the scene unfolding before her eyes, not because of fear alone but because of the overwhelming contradiction between what she understood about summoning theory and what Ryan had just manifested into reality, as the sky above the battlefield bent and twisted under the presence of a colossal sun-like entity that seemed too vast, too pure, and too impossible to exist through conventional summoning methods.Her gaze remained locked onto the radiant mass hovering above the battlefield, its heat distorting the air in slow waves that rippled across the ground like invisible tides, while her mind struggled to reconcile the logic she had built her entire understanding of Dioki manipulation upon with the absurdity of what she was witnessing.She had seen high-tier familiars before, she had even witnessed rare summoning phenomena during Noelle’s era, yet none

C346: Sphinx’s Might (Bonus)On the far side of the fractured mountain range where the ground still trembled from earlier clashes, the battlefield had already been carved into something resembling a ruined warzone, with shattered stone, uprooted trees, and scorched earth stretching across the terrain like scars that refused to heal, while in the middle of all that destruction Sphinx had expanded his body to a colossal scale, his divine wolf form swelling until he matched the monstrous spider-like alien in sheer presence, each step he took sending heavy vibrations through the cracked ground beneath him as though the mountain itself was struggling to remain intact under the weight of their confrontation.The alien spider reacted without hesitation, its countless legs striking the ground in rapid succession as it lunged forward with a speed that defied its massive size, and the moment both titanic beings began to move at full force the entire battlefield shook vi