Chapter 64: Awakening

What Dan Marina wanted to do most now was leave this place quickly and figure out exactly what being Petty had contracted with was, something that could actually evade her own abilities.

Just as that man had said, what Witch would be so kind-hearted? As for summoning Zheng Yichen through that Summoning Contract, that method was possible, but the problem lay in the fact that the Contract Petty had with Zheng Yichen was an Equal Contract. One of the most basic clauses in an Equal Contract was that the Summoner could not conceal the environment they were in during the summoning.

No matter how dangerous or safe it was, this restriction meant she couldn’t use any clever tricks to bypass the Contract’s constraints and summon Zheng Yichen over. As long as Petty performed the summoning, Zheng Yichen would be able to understand the situation here to a certain extent.

She didn’t want to expose her own existence to Petty’s Contract partner just yet. After all, this situation was too abnormal. What if it was a trap set by one of her old rivals?

“Magic Weapon Summoning Book, exactly which Witch’s handiwork are you?” Dan Marina muttered to herself, looking down at the Magic Weapon Summoning Book in her hand. After confirming that the Magic Weapon Contract of the Magic Weapon Summoning Book had no hidden dangers, she had obtained one for herself. As for the so-called Contract cost, for a Witch, it was hardly anything.

One percent of her Mana per day was the kind of thing she could recover in minutes. The Mana cost for summoning Magic Arms could even be ignored. What truly puzzled her was that she actually couldn’t break through the restrictions of the Magic Weapon Summoning Book, not even a tiny bit!

When she tried to hack into it, in a manner similar to a ‘hacker,’ the feeling she got was the same as when she tried Tracing that unknown existence through the Summoning Contract. However, the Magic Weapon Summoning Book was even stricter. Violating such a taboo would result in punishment!

The power she invested couldn’t be recovered. Even her most closely linked Mental Energy, once drawn away, immediately slipped out of her control! If it were just Mana, that would be fine; she didn’t mind losing a bit of Mana. But Mental Energy? The Mental Energy of a Witch… even a single strand, if mixed into someone else’s mind, was enough to transform their mind into a monster-like existence.

“Interesting,” she said, tapping the summoned dagger with her finger. She could tell at a glance that the power imbued in the dagger belonged to a low-level Magic. However, the contained power had already exceeded the low-level… It seemed the imbued power had been additionally enhanced by Mana.

This was a somewhat wasteful thing. For low-level Magic, consuming ten units of Mana only increased the power from one to three or five. Using higher-level Magic, consuming ten units of Mana could unleash power between eight and eleven. Of course, this was only the case before Reaching the Tier. After Reaching the Tier, such rules didn’t apply much.

However, the Magic enchanted on this weapon was also universal, definitely not Magic adjusted after Reaching the Tier. Of course, universal types had their advantages too. Once one’s own strength Reached the Tier, and the Summoned Magic Weapon also reached the stage of Advanced Summoning, one could make subsequent adjustments to this universal Magic foundation during the summoning process.

Of course, no matter how it was adjusted, it was only usable on her end. The same type of Magic Arms summoned by others would remain as they were. This was also a very peculiar method. You should know that even for Projections, if they were modified by the Summoner without restrictions, the modifications to the Projection would slowly seep into the original.

If only one person did this, it wouldn’t cause excessive impact on the original. But if thousands and tens of thousands of people did this frequently, it would pollute the original, affect the essence of the Magic Arms, and even make them lose their original traits…

Moreover, she had never heard of any Magic Arms that could be summoned this way… To project effective and useful Projections, it basically required a Divine Artifact. Only a Divine Artifact with a spirit could do something similar to establishing a Contract and creating such summonable Projections.

So how could these Magic Arms achieve this? And who researched this new type of Magic? A Magic that could ignore the strength of the Magic Arms and the possibility of pollution to create such Summoned Magic Weapon Contracts.

Too many unknowns weighed on her mind, igniting a long-lost passion within her. After all, with her ability’s characteristics, many secrets that others guarded with their lives were like naked men in her eyes, holding no secrets whatsoever.

Some secrets that were buried, destined never to see the light of day, would be slowly uncovered by her as long as she could grasp even the slightest trace!

“I’ll find you soon, little one. Wait for big sister…” Dan Marina said, licking her lips quite provocatively, then looked at Petty, who was still sound asleep. The breakthrough to find her Contract partner lay with Petty, whether through physical means or mystical ones.

She reached out and gently flicked Petty’s forehead with her finger. Petty immediately woke from her slumber, sitting up right away and looking around in surprise. Even though she had been taken away due to an irresistible force, the memory of being taken was still there.

The situation back then had left an extremely deep impression on her. When she was taken, the people around her were in a strange, motionless state. But it wasn’t that time had stopped; rather, the people around her had ‘frozen,’ including herself. The difference was that her thoughts hadn’t frozen. At that time, she could only watch helplessly as she was taken away by a group of people in robes of unknown origin. What happened after that, she had no idea at all.

She didn’t even know how much time had passed now.

“Who are you?” Petty asked, looking puzzled at this ‘big sister’ by the bedside who was smiling very kindly. The panic in her heart eased a lot under her smile… Of course, it also had to do with her gender. If it were a man, even with such a smile, Petty would probably have frantically checked her body in fright first.

“Who I am isn’t important. What’s important is that little sister’s current situation isn’t good,” Dan Marina said with a smile. “After all, being targeted by the Sanctuary Church, do you think that’s good or bad?”

Her words left Petty briefly stunned. Targeted by the Sanctuary Church? How was that possible? She was just a very ordinary girl. Not to mention good deeds, she basically hadn’t done any bad things. Even Bandits and outlaws didn’t warrant attention from the Sanctuary Church, so why would she be noticed?

Could it be because of… Connor?

But was that possible? She had learned from books that while the Dragon Clan did have dealings with the Sanctuary Church, it was just dealings. The Sanctuary Church didn’t have much say in Dragon Clan matters unless a dragon did something unforgivable. And the so-called ‘unforgivable’ restrictions were quite lenient when applied to the Dragon Clan…

Connor’s size was at most that of a Juvenile Dragon, not even close to a Young Adult Dragon. What could he possibly have done to attract the Sanctuary Church’s attention?

While Petty was lost in thought, she didn’t notice the strange smile on Dan Marina’s face.