Eren didn''t expect something like this for a spirit contract. He was taken aback, feeling the unexpected warmth of Felona''s lips.


    The spirit mark on his hand glowed softly, binding their fates in a spirit contract which was more favorable for Eren as he didn''t have to spend any life span, unlike others.


    As Felona pulled away, her face was still flushed, and she avoided Eren''s gaze. This was the first time she had a spirit contract, and also the first time she did something so embarrassing.


    "Is that it?" Eren asked, still bewildered by the sudden kiss. He looked at the back of his hand and noticed that another spirit mark had appeared.


    The mark appeared quite simr to the one he received from Yelen.


    Felona nodded, her voice barely above a whisper. "Yes, the contract isplete."


    Yelen, observing the scene, couldn''t help but smile slightly.


    "Now you canmunicate with Felona from anywhere, and she will ry yourmands to the entire realm. This way, you won''t need to return every time."


    Eren flexed his hand, feeling the spirit essence coursing through the spirit mark. He felt like he was truly connected to Felona.


    Although he couldn''t read her thoughts, he was able to feel her emotions through the spirit contract.


    "Wait a minute!" Eren suddenly thought of something and suspiciously looked at Yelen. "If a kiss is needed for a spirit contract, then how..."


    He raised the hand which had Yelen''s Spirit Contract Mark. She didn''t kiss him, so how was he able to get her spirit contract?


    Was it also thanks to the system? Or was it a contract that she established in the past which only now resurfaced thanks to the system?


    He looked at Yelen, who was still perfectly calm, not phased in the slightest.


    ''I suppose I might be overthinking. It''s not as if the system follows the logic of this world with the rewards.''


    He hadn''t seen any Spirit Contract in his hands in the memories he received from the memory fragment. That meant even before his arrival into this body, he didn''t have the Spirit Contract.


    The spirit contract only came as a reward and nothing else. At least that''s what hismon sense was telling him.


    He stopped thinking about the first spirit contract, and instead shifted his attention to another question that had been guing his kind.


    "Before I left, there was onest thing I wanted to ask."


    His focus was on Estelina, who was standing in the back.


    Estelina wondered if he was going to me her for everything she did to him? Was he going to ask her to apologize? Or was he going to have the Spirit Queen punish her?


    She was ready for anything, although a little scared about the punishment.


    "I remember you saying that Xiu Ying hated the Spirits? Can you tell me why that is the case?" Eren asked, remembering Estelina''s words.


    He wasn''t sure when he was going to meet Estelina next. He couldn''t even take her back with him as he didn''t want her to be seen by Xiu Ying, hence he could only ask that question here.


    "It''s because of her wish," Estelina answered. "It was a wish that became her biggest regret."


    If it was before, she would not have told him anything. But what could she even do now? Even her mother and the first spirit queen worked under Eren now. She couldn''t ignore hismands either.


    "Contracting a Spirit is hard, but it''s also very rewarding," she added. "At the cost of lifespan, you can make any appropriate request, and we are obliged toplete them if epted. That''s all I did."


    "And what was her request?" Eren asked, confused. Why did her request getting fulfilled made her hate the spirits?


    "It was because of a little misunderstanding..." Estelina answered. "She told me that she wanted everyone there to die."


    "Her words were so vague that I thought she was talking about everyone in the city when she was just talking about everyone in front of her."


    "Themand was epted as per my understanding, and the request consumed half her lifespan, regardless of her future cultivation or lifespan," Estelina answered.


    "So she is upset because you stole half her lifespan, based on your own misunderstanding?" Eren scratched the back of his head, realizing why she would be so upset.


    Anyone could be upset if half their lifespan was stolen over a misunderstanding. Moreover, it wasn''t even half her lifespan of her current self, but her total life span no matter her strength or cultivation in the future.


    If she had six hundred years of life span, three hundred of that was stolen. A normal summon only cost ten years of lifespan, but she lost much more than that.


    It was as if she was affected with a curse for life, a curse that kept taking her lifespan as much as she increased it.


    "She wasn''t upset because of the cost of the lifespan. She was upset with the results. As I said, themand is epted based on the understanding of the spirit and once epted, it can''t be changed."


    Estelina told Eren, feeling as if it happened just yesterday when a little girl had managed to summon her and establish a contract.


    Even she was surprised at that time, not understanding how a little girl who had no cultivation was able to summon her and also satisfy the contract conditions.


    "She is upset because that day I did as he assumed she wanted. I killed everyone... Not just everyone in front of her, but also everyone else in the city. Even I could not go against the deal that was made."


    "That day, I killed the young, the old, the strong and the weak, turning that ce into a ghost city where only she was alive."


    Hearing Estelina, Eren rubbed his forehead. The more he heard, the worse it became. Unfortunately, that was just the beginning. What he heard next truly took it a little too far.


    "I didn''t realize that amongst the people that I killed, her family was also included..." she stated.