Chapter 176 - Fifth Floor — Otherworld (4)

Leaf's action, beyond shocking to groundbreaking, created ripples in the hearts of those who witnessed it.

No, not ripples, more like a maelstrom.

To just blow up spirits like that.

And not even her own contracted spirits, but someone else's spirits, remotely self-destructed.

Although spirit summoners were called one of the three lowest classes in the mage industry, that was only limited to the old generation.

New generation spirit summoners, who removed the spirit's consciousness and made them strictly obey commands, were different.

Though there was the side effect that the spirit's output decreased along with its spirituality during the consciousness removal process, the advantage of not needing to perform mana calculations directly had led many down the path of new generation spirit summoning.

Among Elves, almost everyone except the martial artists kept one or two spirits.

The same applied to the Elves of Shadow, who clamored for Elven purity and dreamt of returning to the past—the revival of the World Tree revival.

In other words, they were no different from carrying bombs that the opponent could detonate...