Watching the figure standing in front of her—it wasn’t even that broad—Christine was momentarily dazed.
Just a moment ago, she’d really thought she was going to die.
It was this man, the one she’d always regarded as a “potential investment,” who saved her.
When did he summon that stone wall?
She hadn’t sensed a single fluctuation of magic power.
“Hey! What are you spacing out for? Hurry up and find a place to hide!”
Irina’s shout snapped her back to reality. Irina rushed over, pulled her up from the ground, and dragged her behind a distant large tree.
“Are you alright?”
Irina asked anxiously.
Christine shook her head, but her gaze never left Leo, who was in the middle of the field.
She saw that Leo didn’t pay the rampaging ogre, which was hammering at the stone wall, the slightest attention.
He simply stood there calmly, and the magic surging around him now was even more overwhelming than when he’d summoned the stone wall.
“Hey, Young Lady, was that supposed to tickle it just now?”
Leo’s leisurely voice drifted over, tinged with a hint of teasing.
Christine’s cheeks flushed crimson in an instant—part shame, part indignation.
“That beast is strange! My ice lance can’t possibly be that weak!” she retorted.
“Yeah, yeah, its skin’s thick, its flesh tougher, and it’s got high magic resistance,” Leo replied without even turning his head, “That’s why, when fighting a boss, you need strategy. You can’t just keep throwing money at it… uh, I mean, throwing magic at it.”
[Good thing I invested in Constitution. Thick HP and high defense. Otherwise, that shockwave just now would have done me in.]
[Looks like this Young Lady’s real combat experience is practically zero.]
As Leo griped inwardly, he finished his summoning.
This time, he didn’t bother with any tricks.
He went all out.
Boom!
The ground began to tremble slightly, and a massive earth-yellow magic circle unfolded in front of Leo.
A figure nearly four meters tall, its entire body composed of hard rock and earth like a moving mountain, slowly rose from the magic circle.
[Earth Guardian: 150 mana, 20 minutes, 400 HP, 20 attack (Stone Skin)]
“Go. Block it for me,” Leo gave a simple command.
The Earth Guardian took heavy steps, letting out a dull thud as it charged straight at the ogre.
The ogre, which had been attacking the stone wall, was immediately drawn to this new giant.
It abandoned the wall, roared, and swung its spiked club at the Earth Guardian.
Bang!
Club and stone fist collided with a deafening crash.
The Earth Guardian was knocked back a step, cracks appearing on its stone arm, but it didn’t care in the slightest.
Its other fist immediately smashed forward.
The ogre staggered back from the blow.
Evenly matched!
[Good, the tank is in place.]
Leo nodded in satisfaction, but his hands didn’t stop.
“Next, DPS.”
His hands lit up with magical brilliance again.
This time, two dazzling blue arcs of electricity appeared.
With a crackle of electric current, two even more peculiar magic circles appeared on either side of him.
Two lizards, each over four meters long, bodies covered in blue scales and backs lined with conductive bone spines, crawled out from the magic circles.
They opened their jaws, arcs of electricity flickering between their fangs.
[Thunder Lizard: 200 mana, 20 minutes, 350 HP, 40 attack (Lightning Breath, Chain Lightning)]
Summoning two at once!
Irina and Christine, hiding behind the tree, were completely stunned.
“Summoners really are on another level. I want to change classes!”
Christine said nothing, but her fingers gripped her staff so tightly that her knuckles turned white.
Earth Guardian, Thunder Lizard…
These were all mid-to-high tier elemental creatures!
Each one required a summoner to have extremely high elemental affinity and immense spiritual power to summon.
But Leo hadn’t just summoned three at once; from his relaxed manner, it looked as if he’d just called out three kittens or puppies.
He said his spiritual power was exhausted…
Who is he fooling!
This man had been acting from the very start!
He’d been hiding his true strength from everyone!
“What are you waiting for?”
Leo’s voice sounded again, “Enjoying the show?”
“Irina, cast Stone Skin on the Earth Guardian—its own won’t cut it.”
“Christine, stop using your tickling ice lances. Use Ice Magic to slow it down! Limit its movement!”
“Move, all of you!”
His tone brooked no argument.
Irina shivered and immediately responded, “Oh, oh, got it!”
She hastily raised her staff and began chanting.
A yellow glow fell upon the Earth Guardian, giving its already hard rocky hide an added sheen.
Christine bit her lip.
Though she bristled at being ordered around, watching the ogre being all but suppressed on the field, she still raised her staff.
“Frost Storm!”
A sweeping blizzard of ice crystals and bone-chilling wind engulfed the ogre’s area.
The ogre’s movements visibly slowed.
“Perfect!”
Leo snapped his fingers.
“Lizards, dinner time!”
The two Thunder Lizards, receiving the order, simultaneously opened their jaws.
Zzzz—!!!
Two thick blue bolts of lightning, like twin thunder dragons, shot across dozens of meters in a flash, blasting the ogre squarely!
Aooou—!!!
The ogre let out a miserable, bloodcurdling scream.
The intense heat and current instantly charred its flesh, filling the air with the acrid stench of roasted meat.
And that wasn’t all!
One of the lightning bolts, after hitting the ogre, didn’t disappear but split into multiple smaller electric snakes, leaping in all directions!
Crackle!
A group of goblins who’d been gawking nearby got unlucky, caught up in the Chain Lightning. In an instant, a whole swath of them collapsed, twitching violently, foaming at the mouth.
This was the Thunder Lizard’s signature move: Chain Lightning!
A divine skill for clearing trash mobs!
“Keep going!” Leo commanded coolly, “Don’t give it a chance to breathe!”
The Earth Guardian braced against the ogre’s blows, keeping it locked down.
Christine’s Ice Magic rained down in waves, layering slow after slow, making the ogre feel as if it were slogging through mud.
Irina, from the back, occasionally tossed out fireballs or wind blades, aiming at the ogre’s eyes, joints, and other vulnerable spots.
Meanwhile, the two Thunder Lizards had become the most terrifying artillery on the field, launching Lightning Breath one after another, electrifying the ogre until it howled in agony, completely unable to fight back.
The previously mighty hidden boss, who’d almost one-shotted the Duke’s daughter, was now nothing but a living target.
The flow of battle was completely under Leo’s control.
Christine watched the man in the rear, calmly giving orders, handling everything with ease, and her feelings grew ever more complex.
She finally understood—her so-called “investment,” in his eyes, might really have been nothing more than a joke.
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