After waking up, I go through the Neverend Online door and huh? it’s white, it’s the white room again. Did my character get deleted? but I didn’t do anything against the rules so there must be a reason for this.

From above, the woman from before falls down and once again gracefully lands as if she was a feather. And as before, she starts speaking.

“Welcome back, traveller oh? it’s you”

That last part was spoken very bland. does she hate me or something? She must be jealous of my genius.

“so?”

“what?”

what does she want from me? I can’t give you my genius if that’s what you’re asking.

“Haa, what do you want?”

Hey! what’s with that sigh? No matter how much of a genius I am, I can’t read minds… yet.

“I want to play the game”

She takes another heavy sigh. God, this woman’s annoying.

“I know that, I’m asking if you want to make a new character, play as an existing character or delete a character”

Then why didn’t she say that from the start!

“I’m gonna delete my character after spending an entire day, whaddya think? I want to play as Noah”

Oh? She’s gone red. Hah, that’s what happens when you make an idiot out of me.

“How am I supposed to know what a level 1 noob who spends all his time killing maggots is thinking!”

ah, she got angry. Her angry face is quite cute, I think I’m gonna do this more often.

“Hey, Buzz-B is level 27 after my efforts and is even going through metamorphosis”

Hmm? Her face turns into that of a condescending one.

“You mean that maggot? hahahaha! it’s a maggot! a maggot ya’know?”

She’s actually laughing at all my hard work!

“For starters, he’s gonna be a fly soon, and he’s the strongest maggot to ever exist! No maggot is a match for my Buzz-B!”

How’s that? Nothing can match Buzz-B when it comes to maggots, he could probably take on a fly if ya know, they couldn’t fly.

“Hahahaha, that’s true, no one has been stupid enough to try and raise a maggot! Hahahaha”

It seems she truly doesn’t understand.

“You got something wrong there, no one has been genius enough to try and raise a maggot”

If she still doesn’t understand it then there’s no hope for her.

“Hahahaha, that’s enough! no more! you’re killing me! Hahaha”

so it was too complicated for her.

“few, finally. ha, calmed down. You wanted to play as Noah right?”

Oh? I’m surprised she remembered.

“yeah, gotta make the strongest maggot into the strongest fly after all”

“Hahahaha, I said no more! Hahahaha, just go! hahaha!”

As before, a light envelops me and I’m back in the library. Wait a minute, how did she know what I’ve been doing? Guess I’ll tease her about that next time. I check up on Buzz-B and yep, still in metamorphosis. He doesn’t need to eat in metamorphosis so that’s one good thing about this.

I go back to the summoning books and start reading the ones I haven’t read yet. A lot of them is about theory which is what I really need so I pay extra attention to them. A few hours later and I manage to get the air element summoning skill as well. I now have all four elemental summoning skills. I’m never actually gonna use them but they have bumped my wisdom up to 16. Now I can use taming three times and have mana left for a support spell or two.

Now back to the books. Most of them are theories about the reason why the elementals answer the summonings in the first place. I have learnt a few things that help though. Elementals only exist as long as you are supplying mana to them as they have no real body within the physical realm so use the summoner's mana to create it. This creates the sustained effect seen in some games where your max mana is reduced until they are unsummoned. If so then I need something as a catalyst for their body other than my mana. Turns out that I need to alter the contract instead of removing it.

I continue reading through the books and the book I’m currently reading is interesting. It’s called ‘the history of summoning’. It seems in the past, summoners used to have to go through summoning rituals. A circle with the contract written in ancient magic language was drawn based on what you would want to summon. Over the years, the ritual was made simpler and simpler till it wasn’t needed at all. Which is the type of summoning magic I have learned.

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I know what I need to do now. I have to learn magic language and modify the contract on the ritual circle. I got up and ask the old librarian for books on magic language in which she happily gives me a mountain of books… great, more books.

After a few days I finally manage to finish the last book!

You have gained the title ‘Magically fluent’

Oh? a title? let’s check it out.

Magically fluent

Through your dedication, you have learned the language of magic to the point that you are fluent in it.

+2 intelligence

+2 wisdom

hahaha, I only had to read every book once and I’m already fluent in the language! if this doesn’t prove my genius then I don’t know what will. Now I need to modify the ritual and I’m good to go.

I leave the library and head towards the alleyways once again. I grab one of the rotting rat corpses and put it in my inventory. If they can manifest a body with mana then flesh will be even better right?

I pull out a sheet of paper which was provided to me by the librarian and start drawing a ritual circle with the contract to summon a fire elemental changed to take the flesh on top of the circle while leaving out the part about it being bound to me. In short, the summoned elemental will completely free to do what it wants. I lay the paper down on the floor and put the rotting corpse on top. I touch the edge of the paper as so not to sacrifice my own fingers to the elemental and start pushing mana into the paper to activate the magic circle.

The magic circle starts to glow light blue and the corpse starts to glow as well. Soon the glow is so intense that the corpse can’t even be seen. A few seconds pass and the glowing dies down and all that’s left is a small candle flame in its place. Not even the paper remained.

you have learnt ritual magic[lvl1]

+ 1 wisdom

you have successfully summoned a ‘minor flame spirit’

Ritual ‘summon flame spirit’ has been registered

It worked! it actually worked! I knew a genius like myself won’t fail at something so simple as this. I look at my newly summoned flame spirit with joy. I starts flying around as if inspecting its surroundings. I better go and tame it.

I go up to it and touch it.

-1hp

“ah, it burnt me”

Now’s not the time, tame it now!

you don’t have enough mana

eh? not enough mana? but I had full mana. How much did that ritual take? I take a look at the bar in the corner of my vision and it’s empty…

“It took all of it! you greedy little bastard! wait a minute while I get my mana back and then I’ll tame you”

I sit down and watch the small fire spirit floating around and inspect everything. The fire spirit starts to calm down before floating upwards.

“ah”

I stand up and try to catch it.

-1hp

The fire spirit continues to float up until it vanishes into the distance… It got away…

“Nooooooooooo!”