My Summons Are Mythical Beasts

In the group chat, an image of a golden grimoire was sent by Anjie.

It hovered on the grimoire's first page, and on it, one would be able to see Hector's basic information, mainly the current star rank and the spiritual energy, as the others below it were purposely blurred for privacy.

[Name: Hector Wardell

Age: 17

Grimoire Grade: Gold

Rank: Iron Star 3 (7.33/338)

Spiritual Energy: 41/1361

Beasts:----,----]

As it turns out, after the school-regulated dungeon was closed for the second-year students, Hector and his squad did not sit idly by.

Instead, using Hector's family's connection, they were able to enter another dungeon owned privately by some company and continued to gain experience points there.

In fact, most of his classmates were more or less doing the same.

In Twilight City, the school-regulated dungeon was after all, not the only regulated dungeon available.

It was just that they were inaccessible to Lucas, as each entry has a high Unity Coin requirement, which he simply could not afford for the time being.

Previously, he thought that his batchmates did not enter the dungeon the moment it appeared because they were still struck with trauma after what happened to one of their batchmates.

Lucas shook his head after realizing how naive his thinking was.

It's not that they were unable to recover from the trauma; it was just that they were already busy gaining experience points in other dungeons while Lucas himself was still busy cleaning beast cages to earn Starlight Coins.

Perhaps to them, the death of a classmate was indeed not something that they needed to dwell on.

'As expected of a Gold-grade Grimoire user.' Lucas could only sigh in envy as he looked at Hector's stats.

The spiritual energy was simply miles apart compared to his.

His spiritual energy recovery should also be miles ahead. With his talent, there was no way his family and even other families would not invest in his growth.

Lucas was only using a basic meditation method, but Hector might be using an advanced one. Coupled with his gold-grade grimoire, the amount of spiritual energy he recovers per minute would simply be staggering.

With that alone, it was possible for Hector to continuously summon his beast for a long period of time and continue to hunt for as long as he wanted.

Of course, summoning a higher-grade beast also meant a higher spiritual energy requirement; however, the cost could be negated easily by how high his spiritual energy recovery speed was.

Not to mention the fact that Hector might even use some potions to hasten his spiritual energy recovery.

'But why is he still in Iron Star 3?'

This was what confused Lucas the most.

With his Gold-grade grimoire, the amount of experience points he can receive for each kill was simply outrageous compared to what Lucas has been getting.

What he was confused about the most was that, why was he still lingering within a group when he could actually go solo and hunt alone to monopolize all the contribution percentage?

As a Gold-grade beast, his lion must also be extremely strong, so there was no reason why it could not defeat an Iron Star 1 beast.

And even though it got blurred, it was still obvious that he already has a second contracted beast.

'Lucky bastard!'

'Is he afraid of going solo? Or had the thought simply never crossed his mind.'

Although it was encouraged to work as a team, there was never a rule, even in the academy, that one could not go solo.

In fact, most summoners, after they grow to a certain extent, would prefer to hunt a weaker beast alone than to fight a strong beast with a group of people.

Although the experience points would be deducted due to the level difference, the amount they would get would still be worthwhile as they would be able to monopolize all of it, unlike when they were in a group.

Another reason was also because it was safer to hunt low-grade beasts.

'Is he so dumb that he did not even know how powerful a gold-grade beast is?'

It was already an acknowledged fact that, in terms of intelligence, well, Hector was not well gifted.

Oftentimes, he let his emotions get the better of him, and he would say anything without thinking.

As for how he was able to enroll in the academy, it was all because of his Wardell family, of course.

'Wait, could it be that he just did not want to work that hard?'

"What a waste of gold-grade grimoire!" Lucas grunted in displeasure as he thought that the arrogant Hector was simply wasting his potential by playing around within a party.

He was struggling to earn a meager single digit of experience points per kill, and this bastard, who could earn double digits, was not doing his best and was just simply playing around.

'Sigh. Comparison is the thief of joy indeed,' Lucas thought, as the joy he felt earlier for reaching Iron Star 2 slowly diminished.

Anyway, even if Hector did not employ the strategy that Lucas thought was possible, he could still not be compared to the other party's leveling speed.

With talent and background, and then resources, the gap between Hector and the other summoners would just continue to widen.

Of course, it was the same case for Lucas.

However, with his system and the Gentle Dog, the gap should not widen that much, right?

Lucas sighed at his circumstances.

Others might have simply skyrocketed already after they obtained the same system as his, even if they did nothing.

However, since he was limited by his grimoire grade, Lucas still needs to work extremely hard to just see a glimmer of advancement.

Speaking of the system, Lucas summoned the virtual screen and was disappointed upon seeing that none of the columns were lit up.

The only function, Bloodline Detector, was also unavailable for use.

Lucas guessed that it would only light up once again after he contracts another beast. The reason why he wanted to receive another grimoire page so badly was also because he wanted to use this function once more.

Anyway, Lucas turned off his phone with envy in his heart.

Tomorrow, he would need to earn Starlight Coins once again so that he could enter and earn experience points to level up.

'Sigh, life is hard even with a system!'