Bam!

Ronald stood motionless.

He wasn't unable to react, but faced with this sudden attack, he couldn't help his curiosity and wanted to see what would happen next.

The giant claw, made of crystal, then gripped Ronald directly.

Though it was powerful, Ronald stood completely still, and the "Sloth Sin" gave him extremely strong defensive capabilities, directly neutralizing the force.

Additionally, the giant claw didn't even activate Ronald's passive defense of the "Guardian Angel."

"…"

Ronald calmly observed everything in front of him.

Yet, meanwhile, faced with the prey that couldn't be clamped, the owner of the giant claw seemed at a loss due to the situation.

They waited quietly for a few seconds.

Amidst the mud and sand splashing everywhere underwater.

A gigantic crab entirely made of crystal finally emerged from the hiding sea bed.

At this moment.

Ronald finally sensed a significant magic fluctuation within this creature.

This was also a magical creature evolved!

The level of magic activity far exceeded the sample from the "Dawn Spell Society" on Lighthouse Island, and even the three sea monsters once defeated by the Grid fleet were only slightly inferior!

Splash—

As Ronald observed this fascinating creature.

The crystal crab didn't remain idle.

Seeing that its claw couldn't clamp Ronald to death, it simply dragged its prey towards its mouth, ready to taste it directly. As the distance between them decreased, Ronald could clearly see the few sinister sawtooth moving, about to bite down on him!

"Sorry, I'm not planning to help you grind your teeth."

Observing this, Ronald felt it was about enough.

Testing the magical creature's aggressiveness was fine, but being stuffed into its mouth and chewed a few times was unacceptable.

"Let me go!"

The next second, Ronald pulled out his hands from the claw, then firmly clamped onto the crystal crab's claw foot.

In the moment when the creature was still making the move to send food into its mouth.

Ronald exerted his full strength, accumulating terrifying power throughout his body, instantly pulling the gigantic crystal crab from the sea bed, then swung it around a full circle before slamming it onto the ground.

Boom!

Even under the sea water.

The momentum from this action was quite frightening.

An entire forest of crystals was shattered, and even the crystal crab itself fell into a coma from the blow, remaining completely motionless.

"…"

In contrast, Ronald completely lost his vision.

Though he could feel through touch that the crystal crab was immobilized, the swirling mud and sand completely blocked the light from the fluorite, leaving the surroundings in complete chaos.

In this situation, Ronald aimed at the claw foot he was holding and punched it.

Crack—

The crystal shattered, revealing the flesh underneath.

Taking a sample of the crystal crab's body, and using the ability of "Origin of Species" to begin analyzing, Ronald prepared to float to the surface, leaving this unique and beautiful underwater world.

However, after ascending only a few meters.

Ronald suddenly changed his mind, returning to the unconscious crystal crab.

He suddenly had an idea!

Although he had acquired the needed pink crystal and figured out the creature attacking him, for other casters, this crystal crab is certainly very important.

Since he was already here and had knocked it out.

Might as well take the creature back to the surface, then let his companions handle it!

Deciding so in his mind.

Ronald scooped up the giant crystal crab.

Carrying such a massive creature, swimming to ascend was impossible.

Thus Ronald directly chanted a spell:

"From the relationship between the earth and sky, we begin to construct our understanding…"

The spells "Round of Origin" and "Equal Round" were cast simultaneously.

Ronald and the crystal crab were both under the control of the spells, immediately flying towards the surface.

…

Bam—

A few minutes later.

Beyond the harbor of the city of Carpen, a huge splash erupted on the sea surface.

Then Ronald controlled the massive crystal crab, descending together onto the deck of a Grid steamship.

"By the Queen! What is this?"

"Wait, isn't that Mr. Ronald?"

"I think he summoned this magical creature from another world?"

The deck was crowded with people.

The casters remaining on board immediately came over to discuss the crystal crab.

They all knew Ronald's identity.

So they didn't feel too surprised by the enormous creature, instead actively gathering to discuss the reason.

And amid this atmosphere, Ronald was happy to explain his recent adventure to them.

A few minutes passed.

Patricia, dressed casually, arrived with a few investigators. They made their way through the crowd, immediately seeing Ronald guarding the crystal crab.

Patricia quickly approached to inquire:

"Ronald, what's going on?"

Ronald smiled and lightly patted the giant claw of the crystal crab behind him:

"As you see, I brought a gift back to the fleet."

"A gift…" Even Patricia couldn't immediately grasp Ronald's words. She paused for two or three seconds, then guessed through the surrounding discussion, "This summoned creature from another world… wait, Ronald, is this the prey you brought back from the sea?"

Ronald nodded, appreciating Patricia's quick response:

"That's right, I just scooped it up from the seabed, and like those previous fish, it also has a magic fluctuation within."

"A magic creature entirely evolved by nature with no caster interference!"

"I think this thing must be quite valuable for Grid, right?"

After hearing Ronald's explanation, Patricia's expression changed, she turned and ordered an investigator:

"Delchi, go to the embassy on the shore, notify Princess Claudia! There's a very important situation she needs to handle!"

She instructed the investigator to notify the princess to manage the situation.

Claudia then turned back to Ronald, speaking in a tone of mixed emotions:

"Ronald, you really know how to bring surprises."

"Just went down to find something, and happened upon this…"

Ronald laughed, explaining the situation to Patricia.

Only thinking of the pink crystal he needed to deliver to the library's underground manager, he didn't stay long on the steamship's deck, soon bidding farewell to Patricia:

"In any case, this is for you guys."

"I have some things to handle in the city, let's meet up later!"