Holt was about to say more, but Vincent suddenly stopped him. He put out his cigarette on Holt's face. "I suggest you watch your mouth."

Vincent used his [Slime Tactics]. Holt was stuck in place and couldn't move. He could only let Vincent use his face as an ashtray.

"Damn it! I'll kill you!" Holt's eyes turned red with anger. He felt deeply humiliated.

But Vincent didn't care. He calmly pulled out a new cigar, grabbed a match, and struck it against Holt's face.

Zzzzt… Sparks flew everywhere!

After Vincent lit the cigar, the space finally returned to normal.

Holt was about to shout, but Vincent blew a thick cloud of smoke right into his face. He coughed hard.

Eugenia saw Holt being treated like that and got angry. "The Black Church people, I suggest you stop now."

Vincent was about to say something, but Fischl stopped him. She turned to face Eugenia. "I also suggest you start drawing the map. If those three get angry, we won't be able to stop them."

She looked at Natalia and the others, signaling Eugenia to hurry up.

The commotion had already made Natalia angry. She stared coldly at Holt and his group, her hands already wrapped in spider silk from the Abyss Web.

Uesugi Shin and Kevin looked at each other and quickly stepped forward to start drawing the map.

Other council members and Temple knights followed, all kneeling down to draw.

Soon, the group put together a map of the underground area.

Natalia stood next to the map, her eyes locked on a blank spot. "Have any of you noticed something strange about this underground space?"

Vincent heard Natalia's question, and his cigar suddenly broke in half.

He suddenly walked up to Natalia and looked closely at the map. Frowning, he said: "If we drew the map right, things might be more complicated than we thought."

Everyone turned their eyes to Vincent.

"What do you see?" Sophia looked at Vincent, feeling a strange feeling in her heart.

"Dale Morgan exploded eight Blood Cultivation Realms. Normally, the space from those realms should spread out in eight directions," Vincent said, pointing to the northwest on the map. "But look here. It extends under our lake and forms a hill. But for some reason, this hill gets narrower and narrower, like something pushed it, and finally disappears... like it was swallowed up."

Eugenia blinked in surprise. "So you're saying one of the Blood Cultivation Realms is being absorbed by something, making the underground space shrink?"

Vincent took a slow puff of his cigarette and muttered, "That's probably what's happening. And you should check that area carefully. The number of monsters there is really low—like they were cleaned out."

At that, Natalia turned and flew straight toward the northwest.

Sophia and Lucia followed without saying a word.

Vincent saw how worried they were about Logan and sighed. "I'm actually pretty good-looking. Why do you all like Logan's type?"

Then he noticed Eugenia looking at him and smiled. "Hehe, you're right, Captain. You really have good taste. I always say, girls with big chests have great style."

Boom!

A loud explosion rang out, and Eugenia finally couldn't take it anymore. She kicked Vincent straight into the air.

Everyone watched as Vincent flew like a rocket across the lake, making a perfect arc before splashing into the water. They all took a sharp breath.

Only Holt looked sad and muttered, "Damn it, that kick should've been mine!"

He turned around and looked around. He had planned to ask Fischl for more info about Logan, but Fischl was gone.

"Where's that Black Church girl?" Holt asked Eugenia, but she just shook her head.

"Fischl left with Logan's girlfriend," Eugenia said, pulling out her sword and heading toward the northwest. "No matter what's there, as the leader of the Snow Dragon Temple, I have a duty to check it out and deal with the danger."

Holt looked back at the council.

The council members were all talking at once, making a big mess.

Everyone had different ideas about what to do next.

Back when they faced the Blood Tree, they all had the same danger and could work together.

Now that they knew the Blood Tree was destroyed by Logan, they went back to their old, stubborn selves. They started acting like they were in charge.

Holt knew the real reason they were arguing—it was because they didn't want to go deeper underground anymore.

Even he had to sigh. "Alright, let's go back. We'll bring the news to Blood Dragon City and get the people ready for the beast tide."

The council all agreed quickly.

Some of the more scared council members immediately called their flying familiars and flew up into the sky.

This cowardly behavior made the free familiar tamers angry.

They had risked their lives just to be here. But these council members didn't even try to fix the problem, and now they wanted to run without even saying sorry. That made the tamers really upset.

"Damn it, the council is completely rotten!"

"Fuck it, I'm going back and propose a new election!"

"I'll go to the council building every day and hold a protest sign!"

...

Just as the scene was getting out of control, Logan was in the northwest corner of the underground cave, absorbing space energy around him.

For some reason, ever since Logan broke through to the Legend stage, he had an extremely strong sense for space energy.

With that feeling, he easily found the core of a Blood Cultivation Realm.

Since Dale Morgan had exploded the eight realms not long ago, the space inside them had invaded the real world but hadn't fully merged with it yet.

That was perfect for Logan. His instinct told him that absorbing this energy would bring him a big advantage.

So he found the area with the most space energy and started absorbing it, just like he did with space crystals.

As the energy flowed into his familiar space, it began to expand.

At the same time, the real world around Logan started to shrink.

The areas that had gotten bigger from the Blood Cultivation Realms were now shrinking quickly, pulling toward Logan's location.

It wasn't until he completely absorbed the energy of one Blood Cultivation Realm that he opened his eyes and realized something was wrong. "I thought this place was supposed to be a hill... why is it half jungle and half desert now?"

Logan, full of questions, started looking for a path while checking out his familiar space.

At that moment, his familiar space had turned into a huge, open world.

Not only had the main island become a full continent, but it was also surrounded by a dozen floating islands of different sizes.

These islands were surrounded by the sea, and most of them had become part of Logan's [War Domain], far away from the main continent.

In the center of this ocean, Logan's soul core had somehow moved here.

Through the soul core, Logan could change the whole familiar space, command everything with just a thought, and control it more easily than ever before.

At the same time, the energy here slowly flowed through the soul core and into Logan's Soul Sea, strengthening his soul power.

This was the first time Logan had ever found a way to increase his soul essence. He jumped with excitement.

This kind of improvement was on a deep, fundamental level.

Not like getting stronger, more durable, or better at thinking.

It was a real transformation—like going from an ant to a human, from a human to a superhuman.

Like a simple-minded illiterate person turning into a top scientist.

And now, Logan had found a way to trigger this kind of evolution. It made him even happier than breaking through to Legend-stage familiar tamer.

Back in the real world, Logan tried to use his soul power.

He activated [Dimensional Ambush], and in a blink of an eye, he was standing 1,200 meters away in a jungle.

He took a deep breath, feeling the humid air. "Improved by 200 meters. That's why people say the jump from Legend to Saint is a life-changing step."

"If I can absorb enough life energy and soul energy, and trigger both my life genes and soul essence to evolve, I can step into the legendary Saint stage—where a human can stand equal to the gods."

At this, Logan clenched his fist and walked straight into the deep jungle.

Since these suddenly expanding Blood Cultivation Realms were dangerous to human areas, he might as well take the advantage for himself.

Logan believed that, besides himself, no other familiar tamer in the whole federation had the ability to absorb these growing spaces.

So he found a cave, sat down cross-legged again, and started absorbing the space energy around him.

Dozens of kilometers away, Natalia and the others had just arrived at the place where Logan first absorbed space energy.

But before they could check the surroundings, they noticed the ground was moving, the sky was shaking, and the trees were shifting.

It was like building blocks on a tablecloth—if someone pulled the tablecloth, the blocks would move too. And Natalia and the others, who were standing on the blocks, were moving along with them.

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