Legendary Traveler: By Earning Progress Points I will Become Supreme!

POP! FWOOOSHHH!~~~~~

With a loud pop that seemed to shake the Cave, Aoni and Glacia were blasted by a fierce wind that shoved the fur ball deep into her Lord's embrace and pushed the lad back several feet.

That fact alone was more than enough for the pair of Lord and summon to understand they had hit the jackpot on the 10th and final summon.

Unfortunately, due to the strong wind buffering them, neither Glacia nor Aoni could open their eyes. If this were any other type of everyday wind, sure, it wouldn't have been much of a problem, but that wasn't the case because this wind was actually EXTREMELY Concentrated Energia being expelled from the Flume, and as such, was a good indicator of a High-Grade Summon emerging, even if it were in orb form.@@novelbin@@

Turning his back toward the incoming Energia wind and curling over Glacia in order to protect her, Aoni took the brunt of the windstorm, and although it didn't necessarily hurt, that by no means meant it was comfortable.

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To put it in more understandable terms, think about the blast of air you get hit by when opening an oven; now imagine THAT, but hurricane-force winds, and you have what the lad was getting hit by.

While it didn't hurt, it wasn't the best feeling in the world, and it actually made him a bit nauseous.

Luckily, this only occurred for all of 10 seconds before calming down, and the instant he noticed that was so, the lad spun around, and his jaw practically hit the floor.

"No…fucking…GAO!" Finding no other words, Aoni was so startled by the color of the new orb that he inadvertently defaulted to his unknown "Glacia-Setting" and mimicked her surprise sound, causing the ball of fluff to stare up at him in horror as if he had said the most unforgivable thing she'd ever heard.

"OoOOOooOoooOO!" Using her small paws and curling in her claws so that they didn't gash open Aoni, Glacia pounded away on his chest as if saying, "HOW DARE YOU USE THE WORDS OF MY PEOPLE YOU HEATHEN!"

But since there was literally zero strength behind the baps, the lad chuckled as he tried to collect himself; the reason for his extreme reaction was that floating across the room, some distance away from the other orbs, was a shining Sapphire Orb, twice the size of the others.

"Ha…haha….hahahhaha, okay, okay, Glacia, chill LOOK, A SIX-STAR SUMMON!" letting the aggravated ball of fluff beat him for a second, Aoni turned his body in an attempt to force his summon to look at the new orb.

"GAO, GAOOOO! GAOOOOOOO!"

Bap bap bap bap bap bap.

As luck would have it, the little floof couldn't give two shits about the new summon and instead was taking out her frustration one bap after another.

"I got it; I got it, I'm sorry, I won't use your cute words again, stop stopppp hitting me ppfft pffft," snickering and finding her anger hilarious, Aoni, with little to no effort, caught Glacia's paws and apologized half heartedly, which funny enough, the floof accepted before turning her head away with a snort and observing the Sapphire orb with interest.

'Natural 6-Star, this is wild! Sure, whatever comes out of that orb will have all Null Stars, but suppose it's not an inanimate object heh. OHHH How we bout to take off!' placing Glacia on his shoulder, Aoni rubbed his hands together like a greedy merchant, earning him a bewildered look from the ball of fluff, who couldn't comprehend the gesture.

'No, don't get ahead of yourself, steady, we need to stay steady; powerful summons are a money sink, and even if they have a high power cap, it will take a shit ton of resources or, in my case, points to get it there.' Closing his eyes for a second and calming his mind, Aoni stood inert while breathing slowly before opening his eyes and, with a wave of his hand, rearranged the Orbs by color order, with the Grey ones clustered together on the left and the Red, Orange, and Sapphire ones on the right.

"Technically, you could have come out of one of these here," pointing at the grey ones, Aoni drew Glacia's attention away from the sapphire orb and watched as realization dawned on her little face.

"OoO?" Tilting her head to the side as excitement flashed in her eyes for a second, Aoni chuckled and scratched behind her ear.

"Yeah, that means we could get some new friends for you outta these, so don't look down on them because they aren't shiny like the others." Giving her one last pat on the head, Aoni's face suddenly grew solemn as he reached out and coaxed the first of seven grey orbs to his hand, and the moment it floated into his outstretched left hand, he crushed it in his palm, causing it to burst into motes of light and shoot back toward the Flume, then with a soft flash of muted light, there was a loud.

KLANG

Indicating something, clearly made of metal, crashed onto the hardwood floor.

"….g….gao?" Looking at the object lying by the Flume and then back to her Lord, Glacia seemed to be asking… "Friend?"

"Sigh, no, not a new friend, just a piece of rusty sheet metal; shoulda seen that one coming," Shrugging his shoulders, Aoni moved over, picked it up, and moved it near the mouth of the cave before returning and crushing the second grey orb.

And as before, his bad luck continued because, this time, he received a wooden yardstick.

When it came time for the third Grey orb to burst, it spat out something pretty useful: a comfortable-looking pillow.

"Oh, nice, that one is all yours, Glacia; it's a pillow, it's like a bed for your head, but with how big it is, im sure we can make you a bed from it." feeling generous and being the benevolent Lord he was, of course, Aoni would give her something comfortable to sleep on, especially since it was a full-sized body pillow which looked brand new.

Hearing that she was getting something, Glacia was quite happy, even more so once she understood it was made for sleeping on, so without wasting a second, she entered furry missile mode, grabbed the body pillow with her teeth, and brought it into the bedroom.

"That's three down, four more grey orbs to go," Crouching down, Aoni waited for Glacia to settle her new pillow into its place and come back before continuing to open the orbs.