Being a Summoner on our Evolved Earth

Rebirth (34)

'I've got to do something about this mana...' Lucia thought hard until she realized that she still had an out flow of mana. 'The oath with Aegis and Vicki! I can send them a lot of mana.' Lucia focused on sending the mana crushing her into the oath's connection which went from a trickle to a gushing faucet. It relieved the pressure enough for her to walk again. She could also tell that in this last century Aegis and Vicki were already tier 9 in strength.

'They've been working hard all this time.' Lucia thought as she felt her own body break through to tier 8. Lucia snuck as quietly as she could behind fog man and swung her staff like a bat. She managed to send the fog man flying a few feet to where the edge of the island was. Lucia stared wide eyed at the strength boost she earned. Fog man who got hit started to climb to his feet and Lucia shot [Mana Slash] at him. She expected to cut him in two, but he managed to roll over and block it with the fog sword. The force of the attack pushed him off the island instead. Lucia used this chance to reclaim more flowers while casting [Greater Healing Spring] on herself to use up mana.

When Fog man landed again he shouted, "How can you still move and use that much strength?!"

Lucia really didn't want to waste her strength replying to him, so she just kept walking through the withered flowers towards him. He grumbled and snapped his finger again, causing another mountain of mana to crush Lucia again. It felt like being crushed underneath a semi truck this time. She collapsed to the ground completely this time like she was under the effects of a gravity spell. The fog man sneered down at her as he walked by destroying the flowers. Lucia desperately grabbed his ankle to stop him with the little strength she could muster.

"What? Are you going to beg me now?" The fog man cackled. Lucia didn't bother looking at him or saying anything, only tightening her grip on his ankle while thinking of solutions. Her body then broke through to tier 9, but even then it only made the pressure slightly less crushing. 

"Whatever..." The fog man not seeing a response kicked away her hand and continued on.

Through the oath's connection Lucia detected Aegis and Vicki reaching tier 10 which was the peak of strength that was supposed to be unlocked with the expansion. Now even they couldn't handle her sending them mana or they would burst like balloons. 

'What exactly can I do now? My buff spells won't work on myself, I can't burn through this mana fast enough.' While lost in thought the constant absorption of mana allowed her to reach tier 10 quickly, and a memory unsealed itself.

'The Rebirth spell?' Lucia examined the new spell that the dungeon had given her back when it gave her the knowledge of how to use her powers in this world. 

'It's a spell for creatures who have an oath pact or contract with the summoner. It allows them to compact their tier 10 strength down to tier one and start the climb all over again. Plus it needs an insane amount of mana. The only other requirement is to be touching the target...

{Aegis, Vicki, if you can hear me... Please touch the ice seal!} Lucia cried out in her mind.

{""Yes!""} She soon heard their voices in response. 

'They can hear me, thank goodness!' Lucia sighed in relief.

{We're in contact with you.} Aegis voice could be heard a minute later.

'That was fast, were they at my side the whole time?' Lucia thought briefly.

{Here it goes... [Rebirth]!} Lucia didn't even need to focus on gathering mana as she had too much of it around her already. She only focused on trying to get the rebirth to effect everyone in the vicinity of herself. Like turning the single target spell into an area of effect spell. Well she had the mana to do it anyway thanks to fog man giving her access to the seal's mana.