My Ultimate OP System: Summoning All Dragons, Gods, Heroes & Villains-Chapter 123: Random Casper Moment

Greta held the glass of water to her lips with shaking hands, taking slow sips as she tried to steady herself.

She was still dazed, and her eyes a bit distant like someone who’d just woken from a particularly vivid nightmare.

Eula swirled her drink lazily as she watched Greta recover. "Oh dear," she said with a light sigh. "I didn’t think it’d be this complicated dealing with the stark kid."

Lucien stared at Greta with narrowed eyes as his mind turned over the problem. Was the princess really reawakened? Or was just some sort of protection?

If she was a Grand Class caster, that just made things significantly more complicated.

And then there was this interference blocking any attempt to find or track Ethan’s whereabouts.

They needed a way to lure Ethan out into the open.

Lucien turned toward Martina and said calmly, "Get me Hector and Dante."

Martina nodded and left for the hallway, heading deeper into the house to find the summoner in their ranks, along with Lucien’s nephew.

After a short while, she returned with a slightly puzzled expression on her face. "Hector is on his way," she said, "but I don’t see Dante anywhere. Apparently, he left the compound with Casper a while back."

Lucien’s face turned into a serious frown. He had not remembered authorizing any such movement outside. "Casper..."

-

However, at roughly the same time, Casper and a half-masked Dante had already alighted from a black sedan and were strolling casually through the roads of the estate belonging to House Stark.

Casper’s face lit up with bubbly excitement as he glanced around at the trees and well-maintained pathways.

"You see, rookie," he said casually, "sometimes I like to take initiative and do my own thing.

Waiting on these casters all day... urgh! takes away the fun from the whole thing"

Dante didn’t respond. He just followed silently by Casper’s side.

"So take notes," Casper said, grinning wider. "First lesson, when you’re strong, you don’t wait, you don’t sneak... you walk in through the front door and make it everyone’s problem."

They approached closer to the manor when suddenly Casper stopped in his tracks, raising one hand in front of Dante.

Casper tilted his head playfully, with a smile on his face as he extended his arm forward. His palm met resistance almost immediately. A barrier.

"Ooh, fancy," Casper said, pressing his palm on the invisible wall and giving it a little knock.

Right then, his Arcphone buzzed in his pocket. He pulled it out, and answered with a grin still on his face. "Hey boss..."

-

Inside the manor, Ethan was having a conversation with Percival and Hayley in the living room. Eduardo wasn’t around at this point since he had left much earlier to meet Roland concerning the sniper rifle, Katarina.

But in that instant, Ethan’s eyes widened.

Through the bond skill connection with his summon stationed outside the gates, he saw two figures approaching.

One of them matched Joe’s brief description perfectly: long hair, a wide-brimmed hat, and a scarf tied around the crown of the hat.

"They are here again," Ethan muttered.

The Knight-class summon that had been watching from her concealed position took initiative to act in defense as she had been instructed.

She blitzed forward in a burst of speed, closing the distance in less than two seconds, and swinging down her blade toward his head.

Casper raised his left fist above his head and the blade struck his knuckles with a sharp metallic clang but did no damage. His right hand still held his phone over his ear as though nothing unusual was happening.

"Sorry boss," Casper said into the phone, leaning closer to it like he was struggling to hear over background noise. "I can barely hear you. Speak louder."

Dante watched the scene unfold without doing anything. He would have acted if not for the fact that Casper had told him earlier not to get in his way during this little excursion.

So Dante simply did nothing to stop the opposing summon’s attacks.

The female bladed summon retracted her sword quickly and swung again at Casper’s side with even more force this time.

Casper adjusted his left fist to block the strike again. He kept moving his fist back and forth to block each attempt she made, barely paying attention to her at all while nodding along to whatever Lucien was saying on the phone.

"About that," Casper said cheerfully, "I went to visit the target, boss."

There was probably some shouting happening on Lucien’s end of the call because Casper pulled the phone away from his ear for just a second and leaned toward Dante. "Oof, he sounds angry."

Then he put it back against his ear while still blocking another sword swing aimed at his ribs. "Huh? We should return?" Casper said with exaggerated disappointment in his voice. "But I was just about to break this barrier thingy."

Lucien’s voice then said over the phone: "There has been a recent development."

Casper sighed. "Alright boss."

He slipped the phone back into his pocket and finally gave the summon his full attention. "You’ve been annoying," he said.

The summon swung her blade again, but Casper sidestepped to dodge it this time instead of blocking. Then he cocked his right fist back and gave one devastating blow straight into her chest that sent the summon flying backward so fast that it looked a blur moving through the distance.

She crashed somewhere far out of sight, though Casper didn’t bother watching where she landed before turning away.

This brief exchange had only lasted barely two minutes based on when Lucien’s call first came in, and by the time Ethan, Percival, and even Hayley blitzed outside through the front entrance of the manor, both intruders had already climbed back into their black sedan and driven off down.

Ethan was floating several feet above ground level using his flight spell as he stared out toward where his summon had been sent flying.

"Fuck..." he whispered.

-

That evening in the manor, Ethan walked Hayley toward the ride she’d come in, and it was a quiet walk down the path.

When they reached the car, Hayley stopped and turned to face him. "This whole thing with this group is more serious than you let on," she began. "So I’ll be back here tomorrow morning. And if anyone wants a fight, we’ll give them one."