Enhancement +1 could actually grant additional summon slots.
When Yu Xian had watched live streams before, he had noticed many streamers commanding quite a few summoned beasts. At first, he had assumed it was similar to Xielina's ability—a summoned beast summoning other beasts in an endless nesting doll sequence.
Now it seemed some streamers had likely undergone enhancements, and quite a few times at that.
Because Chaos Summoning came with immense unpredictability, Yu Xian naturally wouldn't perform a summon inside his room. If he accidentally called forth some colossal behemoth, it could burst right through the inn.
Even though Fukang City now belonged to the Sparkle Troupe, he would still have to pay for the damages if the building was wrecked.
Leaving his room, he walked over to the room shared by Little Nora and Fang Qinghao and knocked on the door. After a moment, Fang Qinghao meekly opened it. Yu Xian stepped inside to find Little Nora still fast asleep, snoring away.
To be fair, Little Nora's sleeping postures were truly bizarre.
It would either sleep with its rear stuck up in the air or curl into a C-shape, its chubby body surprisingly soft and squishy.
"Little Nora, wake up," Yu Xian said with a chuckle, taking hold of its beak and giving it a gentle shake.
Though Little Nora possessed a duck's bill, it was remarkably pliable and capable of shifting into shapes no ordinary duck could ever manage.
In fact, its beak was even more flexible than a human mouth, allowing it to mimic almost any sound in the world.
"Mmph, mmph!"
With its bill held shut, Little Nora quickly woke. Spotting Yu Xian, it tried to call out to its big brother, but with its mouth pinched, it could only produce muffled whimpers.
It swatted Yu Xian's hand away, sat up in bed, and grumbled, "Big Bro, could you not pinch my beak? I almost bit my tongue!"
"Sorry, sorry. Hurry up and get ready—time to go grind some more monsters," Yu Xian said with a grin.
Little Nora's appearance had been continuously evolving. Previously, it had relied on Yu Xian's help to alter its shape, but ever since sharing his abilities, it could freely adjust its own physical form.
In its earliest form, for instance, it had stood taller than Yu Xian, but now it had shrunk down to the size of a child. Its limbs could also freely morph back and forth between wings and arms, and when necessary, it could even keep both wings and hands at the same time.
After freshening up, Yu Xian led Little Nora and Fang Qinghao out of the inn and headed outside the city.
The routine of grinding monsters and leveling up resumed once more.
***
In the blink of an eye, three months went by.
Over those three months, Yu Xian led an exceptionally disciplined life, revolving around nothing but grinding monsters and leveling up day in and day out.
His level finally reached Level 40, allowing him to advance to the next city. Before leaving Fukang City, however, there was one last piece of business to attend to.
At Fukang City, vast crowds of class users had gathered together.
Led by Ximen Wangcai, Situ Xingye, and Cheng Jian, this massive force marched out through the city gates in grand fashion.
Three months prior, Ximen Wangcai and Situ Xingye had been sent flying by the shockwave, landing deep in a remote, desolate mountainous region where local monsters had relentlessly targeted them.
Throughout that time, both men had been diligently gathering intel on the area.
In the end, they confirmed that the monsters inhabiting the region all belonged to the Class Hunter Society.
The Class Hunter Society was the largest monster organization in the Zhen Realm. Their objective was simple: drive out all class users, dominate the entire world, and turn the realm into a paradise for the Original Inhabitants.
Indeed.
Members of the Class Hunter Society never considered themselves monsters.
They viewed themselves as the world's Original Inhabitants—the rightful natives—while class users were merely foreign invaders. As the original lifeforms of this world, they felt it was their sacred duty and responsibility to purge all class users and restore clarity to the realm.
One could say the Class Hunter Society was the greatest adversary of the class users and their primary target of conflict.
Moreover, because the Class Hunter Society possessed a unique barrier technique that, once activated, could only be lifted when one side was completely wiped out, class users jokingly referred to raiding their strongholds as running a dungeon.
In practice, it truly was no different from running a dungeon.
The Class Hunter Society controlled abundant resources unique to monsters. Successfully clearing out one of their bases invariably yielded tremendous rewards.
Whenever any major guild discovered a Class Hunter Society base, they would immediately mobilize their forces to launch an assault.
Having learned that a Class Hunter Society base sat just outside Fukang City, Yu Xian was naturally not about to let it slip by. Before setting off for a Level 40 city, this stronghold had to be eradicated.
Besides, such a base posed an ongoing threat to Fukang City.
The moment the base commander decided their forces had grown sufficient, they would take the initiative to attack and utterly lay waste to Fukang City.
If matters escalated to that point, Yu Xian and his allies wouldn't be raiding a base; they would be forced into a desperate siege defense.
***
Deep within a dense forest, Yu Xian sat atop a boulder. Little Nora and Fang Qinghao stood beside him on one side, while Xielina, Bolaiye, and three new summoned beasts stood on the other.
Behind these summons stood a dense phalanx of skeleton soldiers, the soulfires in their eye sockets blazing fiercely. At a single command from Yu Xian, they would charge into battle with complete disregard for their own destruction.
In the valley beyond the woods lay the stronghold of the Class Hunter Society. Swarms of monsters could be seen patrolling the perimeter, while others moved in and out carrying gathered supplies.
"These monsters don't look particularly bright," Yu Xian remarked after observing them for a while.
Ximen Wangcai walked over to Yu Xian's right side and chuckled. "Those are just cannon fodder. Across the entire base, there are probably two monsters with high intelligence at most—one is the base commander, and the other is the combat commander."
"Still, the moment their barrier deploys, all the monsters will receive a power boost. Don't underestimate them," Situ Xingye cautioned.
Yu Xian rose from the stone and asked, "Shall we begin the attack now?"
"All set. Let's attack," Ximen Wangcai agreed, glancing back at the assembled class users and nodding.
Everyone was primed and ready. Once Yu Xian's skeleton army softened up the enemy ranks, the rest would move in to reap the spoils.
Yu Xian glanced toward Xielina. In the next instant, golden flames blazed up within her eyes, and the skeleton soldiers behind her marched forth toward the stronghold.
The dense swarm of skeletons moved like army ants—not particularly fast, but in uncanny unison. The Class Hunter Society's monsters quickly spotted the advancing horde and sounded the alarm.
*Clang! Clang! Clang!*
The warning bells rang out frantically. Swarms of monsters burrowed out from caves and hollows across the valley. A den of bears even tumbled from one opening; a heartbeat later, the male bear let out a ferocious roar and charged outside the base, while the mother bear ushered her cubs back deep into the cave.
The skeletons clashed head-on with the monsters. In an instant, countless skeletons were shattered on impact, yet even as the beasts smashed through them, they were immediately met by counterattacks from the skeletons following right behind, suffering slash after slash across their hides.
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