Kaka looked utterly dejected, lying on top of Leon’s head with an expression that said she had given up on life.
Once a Little Spirit signed a contract, they could not unilaterally terminate it until the contractor’s death.
Thinking about starting from zero and grinding her way up with a **ten-point** “Wild Dog,” Kaka felt dizzy with despair at her bleak future.
‘I would have been better off waiting to die in the Elf Temple!’
In contrast, Leon was much happier.
He had not expected things to go so smoothly.
Kaka had practically forced herself onto him, saving him a lot of breath.
Although Kaka had undergone a sudden personality change and was now slacking off, these were minor issues.
Leon only needed Kaka’s abilities; her motivation did not actually matter.
‘I don’t care what you think; now that you’re on board, it is no longer up to you.’
Leon slowly closed his eyes, activating the mark Kaka had left in his Sea of Consciousness.
Instantly, all his memories unfurled before him like a roll of film.
He could even pinpoint specific memories down to the second.
‘The **Memory Enhancement** ability is indeed useful!’
With a thought, a segment of the memory film appeared before Leon’s eyes—the exact information he needed right now!
The Calamity — Goshimt.
The only one among the Five Calamities without a physical form, it often appeared as a dark green shadow.
Essentially, Goshimt was an existence similar to the Little Spirits, capable of entering and exiting the Spirit Realm at will and interfering with people’s thoughts through it.
Most importantly, Goshimt was a Calamity with an allegiance; it had secretly sided with the Theomancy Angels and swore loyalty to the Church.
The incident where Goshimt attacked the Elf Temple was originally supposed to happen 6 months later when Rita was embroiled in a royal assassination case.
To seize the faith of the royal nobles, the Archbishop of the Royal Capital Church had ordered Goshimt to erode the Covenant of Lesser Spirits.
This was an attempt to seize control over the power of the nobles who had signed contracts with the Little Spirit King, thereby shaking the Royal Authority.
There were six copies of the Little Spirit King’s covenant: four belonged to the royal nobles, and two belonged to the Church.
If Goshimt succeeded, the Church could immediately control the lifelines of the kingdom’s four great noble families, gaining an absolute advantage in the future war for faith.
Of course, this did not succeed in the end.
The Sovereign Angel quickly responded, sending an envoy to contact Rita, who had been caught up in the turmoil.
Rita was chosen as the Saint Representative and sent to the Elf Temple to assist the Little Spirit King in repelling Goshimt.
In the game, this was also the first official gambit between the two angels fighting for their respective faiths, which fully expanded the game’s world-building from that point on.
Rita had gained a blessing in disguise.
After undergoing a baptism of power from the Little Spirits in the Elf Temple, her strength increased significantly.
She also earned the gratitude of the Little Spirit King, allowing her to enter and exit the Elf Temple freely from then on.
This plot point was the first key milestone for Rita’s meteoric rise, so it should not have appeared this early!
Right now, Rita had not received the Saint’s blessing yet, nor did she have the support of royal companions.
She was currently just a novice mage whose internal Mana Source had not even stabilized!
Moreover, it made no sense for Goshimt to appear here at this time.
Without the guidance of a covenant, how could it possibly find the Elf Temple?
The Covenant of Lesser Spirits could not be eroded just like that.
The Church side would need to destroy at least one of the covenants first to follow the self-destruction process and find the Elf Temple hidden in the Spirit Realm.
Destroying a covenant!?
Suddenly, a bolt of lightning flashed through Leon’s mind.
“Actually, your family also had a covenant with the Little Spirit King, but that covenant was artificially destroyed during your father’s generation…”
Claude’s words echoed in his mind, and he suddenly realized something.
‘Was the person who destroyed the covenant from the Church? Did Goshimt come here through the covenant held by my family? There is a time discrepancy when traveling between the Spirit Realm and the real world. Factoring in those errors, the timing of the Calamity Goshimt’s attack was roughly around when I entered the Spirit Realm Teleportation Array. Did I trigger another Spirit Realm Teleportation Array destroyed by the Church during my transit, giving Goshimt the opportunity?’
This was the only reasonable explanation Leon could think of.
‘So, the plot really changed because of my intervention…’
Now was not the time for regret.
Leon calmly considered his countermeasures within his ocean of memories.
In the original story, Rita had come with Stella, a royal princess who also held a Covenant of Lesser Spirits.
With the help of the Saint’s blessing and Royal Authority, Rita was able to draw upon the power within the jade platform in the center of the Elf Temple to briefly contend with the Calamity.
That jade platform was the key!
The platform was the core of the Elf Temple.
Through it, one could borrow the collective power of the entire Little Spirit race.
A quantitative change led to a qualitative one. By stacking the abilities of the Little Spirits, Rita’s combat power was forcefully boosted to the Natural Disaster Rank.
Normally, such a massive accumulation of power would instantly blow apart the Mana Source inside Rita’s body.
However, because of the Saint’s blessing, the protection left by the Sovereign Angel in Rita’s body guarded her Mana Source, allowing her to accept that power successfully.
To activate the jade platform, one had to use the covenant held by the royalty.
The Saint’s blessing and Royal Authority were two essential things to survive this crisis.
But right now, Leon had neither!
Furthermore, the current situation was different from the crisis in the original story!
Leon opened his eyes in despair and communicated with Kaka’s mark again to activate his Spirit Realm vision.
He looked up…
The milky-white sky above the dome suddenly twisted, as if a rift had been torn in the heavens.
Within the rift, the Little Spirit King, in the form of a translucent orb of light, hovered at the highest point of the temple’s dome.
His body flowed with a pure, silvery-white glow, like moonlight that had been condensed and given life.
He had no physical form.
In the center of the orb, a warm, bright spot pulsed—his core essence.
The holy aura it radiated intertwined with the temple’s milky-white glow, forming an invisible barrier that separated the dome from the temple below.
A thick, dark green shadow surged from the surface of the barrier, with fine, ink-colored tentacles constantly churning at its edges.
This form was exactly like the Calamity Goshimt in Leon’s memories.
It did not choose to collide directly.
Instead, it turned into a massive web of shadow, slowly draping down from the outside of the dome.
The dark green tentacles twisted through the gaps in the barrier, trying to seep into this pure land isolated from the outside world.
The Little Spirit King’s orb of light suddenly expanded, turning its silvery-white glow into countless slender threads of light to meet the shadow web.
The moment the silver threads touched the dark green shadow tentacles, the tentacles emitted faint black smoke, melting slightly like snow meeting fire.
But more shadow tentacles surged from behind to fill the gaps.
Meanwhile, the Little Spirit King’s threads of light grew dim under the erosion.
The bright spot at the center of the light orb trembled slightly, as if it had reached its limit.
In just an instant, Leon judged that the Little Spirit King was about to lose the strength to resist the erosion, while the Calamity Goshimt still had power to spare.
Suddenly, a faint *crack* echoed through the empty temple.
The glowing barrier woven by the Little Spirit King’s silvery-white threads finally buckled under the weight.
The sky… split open!