As soon as Udyr sat down in the room, he heard dull footsteps outside the door.

As a ranger, he easily determined that the owners of the footsteps were the somewhat stubborn dwarf and the other two friends who often played cards with him.

Before they knocked on the door, Udyr said, "Come in, the door is not locked."

There was silence outside for a moment, and then the dwarf and two other card players pushed the door open and walked in, carrying a large portion of golden and crispy fried Chocobo legs and some other food.

This is the takeaway that Udyr ordered earlier. At this time, only takeaway shops selling fried chicken can make it so quickly.

However, Udyr himself also likes to eat this kind of thing. High-calorie food always brings him a sense of illusory satisfaction.

"Were you cursed by something during your last adventure?"

Putting the fried chicken meal in his hand on the table, the dwarf asked about Udyr's situation in a muffled voice.

He picked up a palm-sized piece of fried chicken and stuffed it into his mouth. Under the crispy batter, the fragrant meat burst out with some gravy, which made Udyr's stomach, which had stopped working due to not eating for a long time, start working again.

Under normal circumstances, people who have been hungry for too long are not suitable to eat such high-protein and high-calorie food, but as an 11th-level ranger, Udyr has no concerns in this regard.

He waited until he quickly swallowed the fried chicken in his mouth before answering the dwarf's question.

"No, I don't know what happened to me the past two days. In fact, I just felt like I had a not-so-comfortable nap. Come, let's eat together. I ordered six servings. If you are not busy, will you play two more rounds of cards with me later?"

After looking at each other, the dwarf who was recuperating and the other two adventurers sat down and ate fried chicken together.

"Hey, you guy, why didn't you order some beer?"

The dwarf, who couldn't live without wine, grumbled something after finishing his fried chicken with a dry swallow.

But he just said this, then he took out an alchemy pot, raised his head and started drinking.

"Oh my god! You can drink the wine made by the alchemy pot? You drunkard! Come on, I got a rare spirit card yesterday, let's talk first."

After teasing the dwarf, one of the adventurers took the initiative to start a card game.

Soon, several people cleared the hotel's coffee table and started the game.

After shuffling each other's cards, the four returned their decks to each other, and then began the process of drawing cards, summoning, and attacking.

Spirit cards can be played even if you are not in the Afterlife Bar, but because there is no special card table to assist, once the spirit dies, it will take some time for it to re-condense, which can be considered an alternative anti-addiction measure.

Udyr was about to draw a card, but suddenly he felt an inexplicable connection with a card on the top of the deck.

He reached out and pulled out three cards, including the wolf cub condensed from the winter wolf's teeth.

Subconsciously, Udyr placed the Spirit Card on the table in attack form.

A wolf cub with gray fur and a hint of light blue immediately appeared. Seeing it, Udyr's mind became a little dazed again, and he even subconsciously activated the professional characteristics of his contracted animal partner.

The next second, he suddenly realized that his animal companion had long passed away, and what appeared before him was just an illusion of its spirit condensed from its remains.

But at this moment, he suddenly felt that he had established a magical contract with the spirit in front of him.

Before Udyr noticed anything was wrong, the magic power of the magic network had already been transmitted through him to the cards on the coffee table.

"Hmm? Scales?"

When Udyr and the dwarves came to their senses, a strange beast three meters long, covered with gray hair and pale scales, appeared in the living room.

Its overall appearance is roughly the same as that of a winter wolf, but its forehead, limbs, tail and other parts have obvious "dragonization" features, making it look like a hybrid of a winter wolf and a white dragon beast.

Mustering up his courage, the dwarf reached out and touched the tail of the strange dragon beast, and found that its body surface was frighteningly cold.

"How did you come up with this? Can the Spirit Card have this kind of effect?"

Looking in surprise at Udyr, who also had a confused look on his face, the dwarf smacked his lips, his voice sounding a bit dull as if he had not yet recovered.

"I don't know. I just accidentally released the characteristics of my contracted animal partner to that spirit phantom. Who would have thought... it was condensed from the wolf fangs left by my first animal partner. He died in the battle I challenged a white dragon beast. This..."

In great shock, Udyr rarely spoke out what was deeply buried in his heart.

The dwarf stroked his beard in distress, then quickly walked out of the room and shouted to the waiter in the corridor: "Hey! Can you help us call the police to come and take a look? We seem to have found something incredible!"

The dwarf's loud voice suddenly resounded throughout the entire floor. Udyr in the room instinctively wanted to jump out of the window to escape, but his animal companion, which looked like an albino Thunder Wolf, grabbed his clothes and forcibly pulled him back.

The hotel waiter came to the door, took a look, then quickly ran out of the floor and went to find the hotel manager.

A moment later, a team of sheriffs arrived from the sheriff's station across the street.

"Woo~, what a lucky guy!"

Looking at the majestic winter wolf dragon, Lisanna let out a wail of envy.

She had already seen the physical form of the Metagross when she returned to the Bastion last night, but she didn't expect to encounter another one this time.

"Do you know what this is?"

Although Lisanna is too young to be the daughter of those present, she is the current chief of the Sheriff's Bureau after all, so everyone gives her face.

After taking a look at the hotel manager who was acting as a supporting actor, Lisanna began to explain the speculations and conclusions she had heard from Carl and Nia yesterday.

After successfully confusing everyone on the scene, she finally concluded: "In short, professionals such as beast tamers, dragon beast guards, and battlefield craftsmen can use certain means to establish a closer connection with the spirit cards they own, so that they can materialize and descend.

This form of spirit will not truly die. After being attacked by a powerful force, it will retract into the card and fall asleep, and recover over time."

Having said that, Lisanna sighed again with regret.

"It's a pity that you are a beast tamer. This spirit created by mixing the spirits of the white dragon beast and the winter wolf can only remain in its current form at best and cannot go any further. If you were a dragon beast guard, it might be able to further transform into a dragon."

Hearing what Lisanna said, Udyr replied subconsciously: "No! That's good! That's good..."

After saying this, he stroked the materialized winter wolf dragon beast, and there seemed to be some light gradually blooming in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)