"Gaaaaahhhhh!" Nathan gritted his teeth. "Do I have enough Ena yet?"
Nathan formed two contracts. He wondered if this was enough, but after swallowing a few hundred cores, he finally had enough Ena to upgrade and sign the two contracts simultaneously.
"Oi! Refine those cores first. If you continue like this, you're going to die!" Anubis warned him.
"It doesn't matter." Nathan panted. Even though he was having a hard time breathing and his body was hot, he still grabbed Fenrir's fur and tried to stand up. "We don't have time. Bring me to the sky right now!"
"You're not in a condition to do anything." Fenrir wanted to stop him, but Nathan simply looked at him. His eyes were pleading with Fenrir not to stop him.
Fenrir gnashed his teeth. Looking at his summoner acting like this, he truly had no other choice but to follow his wish. It was clear that if they waited for a bit longer, the enemy would gradually gain the upper hand.
That was why Fenrir turned to Nidhogg. "Nidhogg."
"Oi. Fenrir!" Anubis didn't expect Fenrir to be this reckless.
"Shut up, Anubis! Look at his eyes. Look at your summoner right now!"
Anubis' body shook.
His body was shaking. It took him everything just to stand up. However, his eyes were pleading with them to trust him.
Anubis bit his lips. He summoned his bandages and carried Nathan to Nidhogg's back.
Nidhogg had a solemn face, finally understanding what kind of summoner Nathan was.
Nidhogg took off to the sky, heading straight toward Silvania.
There were two contracts he made earlier. The first contract was his way to dispel the barrier.
Now that his soul contract had been upgraded once more, Nathan could make a contract with the barrier.
[This contract will be activated the moment Nathan Reckmoon shouts, "Dispel." Party B, the barrier, will remove its links, deactivate its conditions, and stop the supply of Ena for one second in the spot designated by Nathan Reckmoon in exchange for 150 Ena.]
With a hoarse voice, Nathan said, "You have your job. I, too, have my task. There's no need to worry about me."
"But you—" Nathan stopped her and pointed down, specifically at the other students. "Look at that. More and more aliens are coming. If you don't help them right now, someone might die. Don't let them die."
The dryad took a look at the situation before turning back, only to find Nathan already making his way to Nidhogg's back. Without even waiting for her, Nathan had flown away.
Vivian couldn't help but bit her lips as she could only helplessly watch him from the outside. Silvania and other familiars saw Nathan in a new light.
Meanwhile, the dryad bit her lips before her body turned back into vines.
...
"Stop them!"
"Hey. They're about to break through over there!"
The students started getting overwhelmed. They had killed a lot of aliens, but the number was too much.
But before the aliens overran them, vines emerged from the ground and started wrapping around two hundred aliens, stopping their advance.
After that, trees started to shake as if a powerful wind hit them. When those leaves fell down, they fell like sharp blades, cutting all the aliens that had been captured.
"This is..." The students were surprised since none of them was capable of such a massive feat.
The dryad showed herself to them and said, "Students. Use this chance to regroup and handle the aliens coming from that part. Some of you are to head to Rudeus and August. They need help to take down the ogre."
"O-oh?!" The students were stunned for a second but soon cheered. They became energetic again and followed the dryad's instructions.
Meanwhile, the dryad's real body appeared from the manifestation of the world tree as her voice rang from within. "O' Eternal Tree, I call upon thee to bestow thy power, to grant thy strength and wisdom for the pitiful earth."
"!!!" Dikkleus was startled because she wasn't supposed to be here. "You—"
"Save your yapping! I'm pissed off right now!" The dryad clasped her hands. "Come forth, Garden of the Beginning!"