Being a Summoner on our Evolved Earth

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Lucia felt her world spinning, on top of the agonizing pain across her whole body and started to feel nauseous as well. When the teleportation ended, she was right back where she was in the Frost's yard. Lucia felt her consciousness fading fast though as she was about to enter a state of evolution again due to the incredibly large amount of mana she received just now.

{Aegis... back yard...} Lucia forced her mind to work as she tried to get back to her feet while leaning against a nearby tree.

{Lucia? What happened?} Aegis voice replied back almost instantly. 

Lucia could hear the sound of a window being opened, followed by a thud. Aegis had jumped out the window of his room and seemed to know exactly where she was as he ran a straight line towards her. Lucia relaxed and just leaned against the tree as she took out the Darkness magic  crystal and placed it on her shadow.

"You should use this while I'm asleep, Rikit. You've worked hard." Lucia managed to say as she slid to the ground while struggling to keep her eyes open. 

The crystal sunk into the shadow like a rock into quick sand. {Rest well Lucia.}

"You... Too." Lucia muttered as her eyes slipped closed. The last thing she saw was Aegis reaching down to check her pulse.

Aegis confirmed that Lucia's pulse was fine and that she was entering evolution sleep. However, the real surprise was how Lucia who was tier 2 this afternoon, suddenly became tier 5 and was about to evolve to tier 6. 

"Rikit, what happened?" Aegis asked.

Rikit poked his head out of Lucia's shadow.

"Well I'm not really to sure myself. Lucia suddenly left her room and came out here to check some orb. The orb seemed to have a mind of its own as it tried to fly away from her grasp. Then she put it away and after a bit she took it out again, and I could vaguely hear a voice asking for help, but Lucia acted like it was really loud. Then she said 'I'll hear you out' and next thing I know, we're in another unknown location. There were some humans asking for help..." Rikit continued to explain everything that happened up until they returned to this spot.

"I see..." Aegis was only slightly surprised by what he heard. "I'm glad you both returned safely."

"Me too." Rikit eyed Aegis suspiciously, but didn't say anything else as he slipped back into Lucia's shadow.

Aegis sighed, then he picked up Lucia in a princess carry and walked over to below the window to his room. He then started to create a platform of ice under his feet that slowly started to rise up. Once it was level with the window, the ice's surface became bumpy to provide traction as Aegis walked across it and into his room. The ice behind him swiftly started melting as he walked to the bed and placed Lucia down. Aegis walked out of his room and checked to see if anyone was in the hallway. There was a female maid not far away who was there to attend them if they needed something. She quickly noticed Aegis open the door as she straightened her posture.

"Could you go fetch a glass of water please?" Aegis asked the maid kindly.

"Yes sir." The maid gave a small bow of her head and she left to fulfil his request.

Aegis opened the door to Lucia's room then went back to his own and picked her up. He smoothly transported Lucia to her own bed and tucked her in.

"Aegis? Why is Lucia with you?" Vicki woke up from her nap when she heard footsteps enter the room.

"We'll have to find out when she wakes up." Aegis said simply as he went over to pat Vicki's head. "Rest for now, we'll talk later."

"Okay." Vicki nodded sleepily and went back to resting.