2026-03-16 16:16:23Harry's head snapped toward where she pointed. There, huddled against the wall, was the small girl John had summoned—the one without wings. The red handprint from John's slap still blazed across her pale cheek. Her thin shoulders shook as she sobbed silently, her tattered white dress barely covering her frail frame.
"Perfect solution, Grandmother!" John crowed. "The worthless beast for the worthless master! It's poetic! A piece of garbage for a piece of garbage!"
"Fitting indeed," Marcus added with a cruel laugh. "Trash belongs with trash. At least this way, the defective creature won't have to be disposed of immediately. Though honestly, she'd probably be more useful as fertilizer."
The ceremony master opened his mouth to protest, then closed it. His expression was troubled, but he remained silent.
[Warning! The summoned beast has already formed a contract with another. Please find a new beast as soon as possible. If no contract is made within 24 hours, the system will self-destruct!]
Hearing the warning from the system, Harry’s heart jolted.
He had intended to refuse Elder Margaret’s humiliating “compensation,”
But now, aside from that little girl, where could he possibly find another beast in such a short time?
Even if he went to a trading house to buy an uncontracted beast, ten thousand dinars wouldn’t be nearly enough.
He turned to look at the little girl, her eyes met his, wide and desperate and utterly hopeless. She was still an unclaimed summoned beast. According to the rules, any beast that remained uncontracted after the ceremony would be "humanely disposed of"—a polite term for execution.
She was going to die if he didn't take her.
Something twisted in Harry's chest. He knew what it felt like to be discarded, beaten, called worthless. He'd lived that reality for eighteen years.
Ignoring the sneers and whispers, he walked across the hall toward the corner. Each step felt like walking through fire as the crowd hurled insults at his back.
"Look at him! Going for the trash beast!"
"A match made in the gutter!"
"I wonder which one is more useless!"
Harry knelt beside the girl. Up close, he could see she was even younger than she'd appeared—perhaps fourteen or fifteen. Her bare feet were cut and dirty, her dress torn. The handprint on her face had already begun to bruise.
"Hey," Harry said softly. "Can you stand?"
She flinched at his voice, then looked up at him with red-rimmed eyes. Slowly, she nodded. Harry extended his hand. After a moment's hesitation, she took it, and he helped her to her feet. She swayed unsteadily, her legs weak.
"I'm Harry," he said, keeping his voice calm despite the rage still burning in his gut. "I know this isn't what either of us wanted, but... I'm willing to contract with you. If you're willing."
Her eyes widened, filling with tears again—but these seemed different. "You... you would contract with me?" Her voice was barely a whisper, hoarse from crying. "Even though I'm defective?"
"You're not defective," Harry said firmly. The words came out with more conviction than he'd expected. "They don't know what they're talking about."
"But I'm below Common grade," she whispered, her voice breaking. "I have no wings. I can't fight. I'm... I'm useless..."
"Then we'll figure it out together," Harry said. He squeezed her hand gently. "I'm not going to leave you here to die. Are you willing to try?"
For a long moment, she simply stared at him. Then, slowly, she nodded. "Yes. I... I'm willing."
"Then let's do this."
Harry placed his other hand over hers. The girl closed her eyes, and a faint light began to glow between their clasped hands—weak and flickering, but growing steadier. The contract was forming.
[Contract complete! Congratulations, Host, for obtaining your exclusive beast: Rose!]
Harry took the little girl Rose’s hand and opened the system panel. He needed to know—what level was this frail-looking girl, really?
Even if she was only Common rank, he believed that with the system’s infinite evolution ability, she could eventually reach Legendary.
The system interface appeared, filled with Rose’s information.
But after reading just two lines, Harry almost forgot how to breathe.
[BEAST STATUS PANEL]
Name: Rose
Current Rank: Unranked (Sealed)
True Rank: IMMORTAL
Immortal rank!
The highest level of summoned beasts known to mankind!
And as of now, the only Immortal-ranked beast in the entire world belonged to the strongest man alive—
the legendary Lord of the World.
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The first was a young woman standing near the window with her arms crossed and her weight balanced on her back foot, the posture of someone who assessed threats before she assessed people. Sienna Reyes. Her hair was cut short, practical, and her eyes carried the patient stillness of deep water. Behind her, barely visible in the room's dim light, a shape shimmered, her contracted beast, a Frost Ice Phoenix called Frostwing, whose aura radiated cold so controlled that it never quite reached the furniture but made the air taste like winter.The second was a young man sprawled across two chairs with his boots on the table and his hands behind his head, radiating the kind of confidence that usually preceded a spectacular failure. Damon Ellery. Tall, broad shouldered, with the build of someone whose beast did most of the fighting while he did most of the talking. His War Treant stood behind him like a living fortress, bark skinned and massive, its root system curling across the stone floor.
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Harry had not finished folding his second shirt when the knock came.It was not a knock that waited for permission. The door opened three seconds later, and Elias Cho stood in the frame looking like a man who had slept exactly zero hours and made peace with that fact."General Cole is outside. You leave in four minutes."Harry looked at the half packed bag on his bed, then at Rose, who was already standing with the hammer materialized and her posture perfectly composed, as if she had known this was coming before the door opened."Four minutes," Harry repeated."Three now," Elias corrected, and disappeared.They were in the air before Harry's brain fully caught up with his body.General Cole's guardian beast defied every reference point Harry possessed. The system panel flickered when he tried to scan it, returning fragmented data that amounted to almost nothing, a name, Skyrender, and a classification so heavily redacted that the display looked like a page of blacked out text. The cre
CHAPTER 78
Red markers highlighted completed sections, forming an almost continuous line across the map. Almost."Every other section has been conquered. Military forces cleared them over the past decade at significant cost in lives and resources. But one section remains open." Cole enlarged a single point on the map, a pulsing gray marker surrounded by red. "This node sits at the most critical junction in the entire defense network. Without it, the barrier has a gap. And through that gap, Outer Domain demons enter our territory every single day."Harry studied the marker. "Why hasn't the military closed it?""Because the Land of Trial at this node is classified as Abyssal difficulty. The highest tier recognized." Cole's voice carried the weight of someone who had lost people to those words. "And because Abyssal Trials impose entry restrictions that no amount of military force can circumvent. Specifically, this one requires a team of exactly three Beast Masters, all at Awakening Tier Five or belo
CHAPTER 77
The Southern Command Mansion corridors smelled like polished stone and authority. Elias Cho walked two steps ahead of Harry, his posture so rigid that it looked painful, as if the man's spine had been replaced with an iron rod somewhere between the plaza and the front entrance. He had not spoken a single word since they left the ceremony grounds.Harry followed in silence, Rose walking beside him with the hammer dismissed and her hands folded behind her back. She had sensed the shift in atmosphere the moment they crossed the mansion's threshold and adjusted accordingly, pulling her aura inward until she radiated nothing more threatening than a well dressed young woman with unusual eyes.Elias stopped before a set of heavy oak doors, knocked twice, and stepped aside."Through here, Mr. Klein. They're expecting you."Harry pushed the doors open and read the room in two seconds.City Lord Marcus White stood near the window, hands clasped behind his back, occupying the kind of position a m
CHAPTER 76 PART 2
Beside him, Seraphiel had gone very still. While everyone else had been watching the rankings climb from the bottom, she had been scanning the entire list from top to bottom, searching for one specific name. She had checked every position from last place to second.Harry Klein's name was not on the list.Which meant it could only be in one place.The screen resolved its final line.First Place: Harry Klein. 42,600 points. Potential Evaluation: SSS.The plaza did not erupt. It detonated.Noise crashed from every direction at once as hundreds of voices collided in shock and disbelief. Students grabbed each other's arms and pointed at the screen. Spectators who had been leaning against walls pushed forward to get a closer look. Someone near the front dropped their drink, and the glass shattered on the stone without anyone noticing."Forty two thousand?""That's five figures. That's a five figure score.""Count the digits again. Count them again!""Is that real? Is that actually real?""S
CHAPTER 76 PART 1
The white light spat them back into the city plaza like the Trial Space was glad to be rid of them.Harry blinked against the sudden brightness of open sky after hours of fog and crimson shadow. Rose materialized beside him, hammer resting casually on her shoulder, looking no worse than someone returning from an afternoon stroll. The plaza was already crowded, hundreds of students and spectators milling around the massive display screen mounted above the registration platform, waiting for results to populate.Harry barely had time to orient himself before a figure cut through the crowd toward him with the kind of urgency that turned heads.Elias Cho looked like a man who had sprinted from the monitoring station to the plaza without stopping to catch his breath. His uniform was rumpled, his hair disheveled, and a coffee stain darkened the left toe of his boot. But his eyes were electric, burning with the kind of energy that bureaucrats were not supposed to possess."Harry Klein." Elias
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