Following the departure of the Roland family's Sacred Realm leader, Annan's tightly wound nerves finally relaxed. She slumped into the soft chair, feeling her entire body go limp.

On the desk sat a cube-shaped crystal. Within it slept an ivory-white golden pony with a pair of wings. It was a spirit passed down exclusively through the Roland line, the Pegasus. Once activated, it would transform directly into a Two-Winged Pegasus, serving as a mount, a combat support unit, or an independent fighter.

This was an extremely rare Tamer Class spirit. A sorcerer's ability to summon spirits was built upon knowledge as its foundation and inspiration as its fuel, constructing something from nothing. Mainstream sorcery classes like Fist and Claw, Earth, Water, and Firearm originated from skills common people could learn in their daily lives.

Things ordinary people could not learn, touch, or understand, like Prophecy, Fate, and Truth, belonged to advanced sorcery classes beyond the reach of average sorcerers.

The Tamer Class shared these same traits. Unlike conventional animal training, summoning a Tamer Class spirit demanded true, innate empathy with a beast's nature, a level of understanding humans could rarely achieve. Riding a horse only meant mastering horsemanship, training dogs only meant mastering control, and adopting stray cats only meant mastering kidnapping[1]. In short, no skill allowed a human to fully comprehend another creature.

Imitating animals proved equally useless. A dog could digest feces, but a human could not. A cat could lick its own fur, but a human could not reach. A horse could sleep standing up, but a human could not.

Even a successful imitation yielded...