The spirit summoning ritual turned into an abject mess when the person overseeing it, Aria Eisen, lost consciousness. The number of spirits stopped increasing, but there were already too many present.

The spirits pushed and stepped on one another, desperately trying to remain inside the circle. Seon-Hyeok wondered whether there were separate worlds inside and outside of the circle as he watched the scene unfold.

Whoops.

A particularly small and insignificant-looking spirit was pushed out by its fellow spirits and lost its balance. Seon-Hyeok found himself reaching out, seeing the spirit pitifully trying to stay upright.

“Huh?”

However, as soon as the spirit was pushed out of the circle, it lost its shape and disintegrated into a pile of dirt.

It was only then that he realized why the spirits were so desperately struggling inside the summoning circle. Regardless of their tier, it seemed as though the spirits could only maintain their form inside the circle drawn by Aria Eisen.

Crumble. Crumble.

One after another, low-tier spirits were pushed aside and lost their shape.

As the spirits returned to dust, Aria Eisen’s status worsened as...