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"Is this... a Pug?"
Rubbing his eyes in disbelief, Ye Huan never expected to see a cute Pug printed on the first page of Durei IV's Summoning Encyclopedia. He almost laughed out the lunch he had just eaten.
"Come on, how can you say that? If you think this is just an ordinary dog, you're completely mistaken." Rolling his eyes, Durei IV seemed to have anticipated this reaction. He suddenly pressed his palm down on the page featuring the Pug and shouted, "Come forth! Wangcai!"
With that shout, the Summoning Book underwent a strange transformation. A white light rose from the book, and swirling mist began to coalesce from nowhere. A giant beast, towering five meters high, gradually became visible within the mist, hovering above the Summoning Book.
About ten seconds later, the mist started to dissipate, and the giant beast leaped down from the Summoning Book to the ground with a thunderous crash, causing the ground beneath it to crack like a spider web.
Fortunately, the Ye Family's roof had been built nearly ten meters high for grandeur; otherwise, accommodating such a giant beast would have been quite a challenge.
"Woof woof!"
After landing, the giant beast let out an earth-shattering roar. The mist that had occasionally floated around it completely vanished, revealing its appearance to Ye Huan.
"...Haha, isn't this just a Pug?"
Even though Ye Huan had mentally prepared himself for the beast's voice, he couldn't help but burst into laughter when he saw what it looked like. Holding his stomach, he bent over in amusement.
Before him stood a five-meter-tall beast—no, a five-meter-tall Pug—its face covered in wrinkles and its body plump and rotund, with patches of black and white fur. It looked utterly adorable and exuded no sense of threat whatsoever.
"Don't laugh!"
Seeing Ye Huan laughing so hard made Durei IV's face turn pale with anger. He regretted not flipping through more pages back when he was still a Level One Summoner to avoid having this particular Summoner appear before Ye Huan.
Hearing Durei IV's mildly angry tone and recalling his status as Court Chief Summoner, Ye Huan lowered his head and took a deep breath to calm himself. When he raised his head again, his expression was much more serious; however...
Ye Huan felt an overwhelming urge to laugh as he stared at the enormous Pug in front of him.
After holding back for five seconds, he could no longer contain himself and burst into laughter, clutching his stomach. Between fits of giggles, he pointed at the Pug and said in a trembling voice, "Teacher Durei IV, could you please put away this Pug named Wangcai? Otherwise... haha, hahahaha!!"
Durei IV simply stared at him, speechless.
Two minutes later, after Durei IV had put Wangcai away, Ye Huan managed to regain his composure. The two sat facing each other.
Satisfied, Durei IV began his serious instruction. "Ye Huan, you must understand that this world is filled with vast amounts of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy at all times. Both warriors and mages can absorb this energy into their bodies, but we summoners cannot.
Due to a certain special aspect of our constitution as summoners, Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy cannot be utilized by us. Therefore, we need a medium for communication—what you saw earlier, the Summoning Book. Of course, every summoner possesses a Summoning Book within them.
Now, I will guide you. You need to constantly visualize what the Summoning Book looks like in your mind. Do you understand?"
"I understand." As a student from Tsinghua University in the twenty-first century, Ye Huan would have to be quite dense not to grasp such straightforward words. However, he was slightly curious about how Durei IV would guide him.
Just as Ye Huan was lost in thought, Durei IV moved. One hand reached into his bright red robe and pulled out a shimmering pendant—a transparent glass orb hanging from a silver chain that swayed gently with Durei IV's wrist movements.
"Look at it, look at it, Ye Huan. All you need to do is focus on this glass orb and continuously imagine that there is a Summoning Book in your mind. Imagine it—constantly imagine it—that it is a book—that it is a... Summoning Book!"
As the pendant appeared before Ye Huan's eyes, he began to understand what Durei IV was trying to do—hypnosis; it had to be hypnosis. After all, why else would he use something like a pendant?
Even though he recognized Durei IV's method, Ye Huan found himself unable to look away from the transparent glass orb below the pendant. As Durei IV's enticing voice filled his ears, Ye Huan's gaze lost focus in an instant, and he began to chant softly, "Summoning Book... in my mind... Summoning Book... Summoning Book..."
"Yes, that's right—the Summoning Book! Imagine it! What you need to do is visualize its appearance—imagine..." At that moment, Durei IV fixed his gaze on Ye Huan and continued guiding him while Ye Huan cooperatively repeated, "Summoning Book... imagine its appearance..."
Time passed without Ye Huan realizing it; his eyelids gradually drooped until they finally closed tightly. Only then did Durei IV breathe a sigh of relief. Carefully placing the pendant back into his robe, he turned his attention back to Ye Huan and observed him closely, wary of any issues that might arise.
"Imagine—Summoning Book—imagine..."
Even with his eyes closed, Ye Huan continued to mechanically repeat the previous words. Who knew when he would wake up...
A great scientist once said that every person's mind has several independently functioning areas, much like a computer divided into multiple hard drives.
If the area that maintains daily life is akin to the system drive C, then the other areas could be likened to drives H or D.
Ye Huan was no exception; his mind was also divided into several areas, one of which housed the memories from both of his lives.
At this moment, after falling into a hypnotic state, memories from this area began to spread into other regions. Coincidentally, a particular image flowed into the system area of Ye Huan's mind.
It was the last scene from Ye Huan's perspective before he crossed over: a 16k-sized book lay quietly about thirty centimeters in front of him, stained with blood.
Until the very moment of death, Ye Huan could not understand why this book was so hard. Yet it was precisely this book that had brought him into this world.
"Summoning Book, Summoning Book..." Ye Huan continued to mutter unconsciously, as the image in his mind froze.
Time passed without him noticing. In Ye Huan's mind, the book in the image became clearer and more real until he had chanted "Summoning Book" no less than a thousand times. Suddenly, that book in his mind vanished without any warning.
At that moment, Ye Huan, sitting in front of Durei IV, abruptly opened his eyes. Before him, a visible vortex was gradually taking shape, and a book appeared out of thin air between Ye Huan and Durei IV!
"Did it succeed?" Staring intently at the book before him, Ye Huan realized he had awakened from hypnosis.
Sometimes, hypnosis is truly wondrous; although Ye Huan clearly remembered what he had just done, he couldn't understand why he had done it. But none of that mattered anymore because after the appearance of this book, Durei IV revealed an excited smile. It was evident that this book was indeed the Summoning Book Durei IV had mentioned!
Although Ye Huan had long been mentally prepared to become a summoner, he still trembled as he reached out his hands and carefully picked up his Summoning Book.
On the cover of '2012 Arms Encyclopedia,' four Arabic numerals and four Chinese characters were so clear and dazzling that Ye Huan felt overwhelmed with excitement.
Wait a minute, 2012 Arms Encyclopedia?
In an instant, Ye Huan snapped back to reality, feeling that something was off. According to the memories in his mind, there had never been a Summoning Book owned by any summoner in this world that wasn't a living Summoner. How did it end up being a comprehensive Arms guide from 2012 here?
What were Arms? Arms referred to all weapons and ammunition used by the military! It was obvious that these could not possibly be living creatures!
"Hey? Apprentice, your Summoning Book seems a bit strange," Durei IV said, staring with keen interest at the Arms guide in Ye Huan's hands as he approached.
Rolling his eyes, Ye Huan knew that the Summoning Book was indeed peculiar, and he was already troubled by this matter.
Ignoring Ye Huan's eye roll, Durei IV quickly took out his own Summoning Book. After gesturing with it for a moment, he confidently stated, "Yes, it is indeed much larger."
Ye Huan: "..."
If it weren't for Durei IV mentioning the size of the Summoning Book, Ye Huan wouldn't have realized that his Summoning Book was a full double the size of Durei IV's!
By the standards of the Twenty-First Century, Ye Huan's book definitely belonged to the 16k category, while Durei IV's Summoning Book was in the 32k category. The difference between them was easily discernible.
After glancing back and forth between the two books for a while, Ye Huan hesitated before setting aside the content of his Summoning Book and humbly asking Durei IV about the size issue: "Um, Master, are all Summoning Books about the same size as yours?"
"Of course! As your master and the Court Chief Summoner, I have seen all the summoners' Summoning Books in the entire palace, but I have never seen one as large as yours." Durei IV stroked his smooth chin and pondered for a moment before providing a definitive answer, which only deepened Ye Huan's confusion.
The content and size of Ye Huan's Summoning Book clearly seemed out of place in this world. So what exactly was it?
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