Erica

The dragon spoke in a calm and gentle tone as she looked down at Alex, who stood before her in awe. Although he tried to maintain a calm facade, his excitement was apparent in his eyes as he gazed upon the majestic creature he had summoned. "Are you the one who summoned me?" she asked.

"Yes, I summoned you here and wish to form a contract with you," Alex replied, looking directly into the dragon's eyes.

"How intriguing... to be able to remain standing and so calm even under my spiritual pressure," the dragon said, studying Alex. "Now that I look at you carefully, I sense a rather strange magic from you - something similar to the protection of spirits, but far more sacred and powerful. Just what are you, human?"

Alex wondered if the dragon was referring to his divine protection. "Well I am just a regular human who wishes to form a contract with you," he confirmed.

"Very well, human. I agree to form a contract with you if you are able to complete my trial," the dragon said.

"And what is your trial for me?" Alex asked.

"Nothing special, human. You just need to be able to make me touch the ground," replied the dragon.

"I accept your challenge. Let's begin," said Alex confidently.

"Wait!" Lexi's voice interrupted. "Don't fight here, you idiot! We're still inside the secret door. If you want to fight, go fight outside of the city."

Alex remembered that they were still inside the secret door and that everyone was looking at his summon. The dragon was enormous, and if they fought there, it would cause problems for the people inside.

***

The tall, muscular figure of a handsome man with brown hair stood outside the city of Zephyria, facing a dark-scaled eastern dragon with golden eyes.

"Let's begin," Alex said as he strode confidently towards the giant dragon.

Invoking the flying spell, Alex soared towards the black dragon, which tried to create distance by flying backwards. Alex smirked and invoked another spell.

[Teleport]

He said, disappearing and reappearing behind the dragon. He touched its beautiful black scales and invoked another null spell.

[Gravity]

He said, causing the spell to increase the weight of the dragon by altering the force of gravity acting upon it.

The dragon tried to resist, but before it could, Alex increased the spell's effect, bringing the eastern dragon to the ground and emerging victorious.

With a look of satisfaction, Alex stepped back and watched as the dragon acknowledged his defeat.

***

After a while, the golden Monarch was finally free from the spell and after casting a quick recovery spell the dragon returned to its previous state of being completely fine.

"So shall we form a contract now that I have won the trial"

"Very well" The dragon replied calmly and asked Alex to bestow a name in order to seal the contract.

"Please bestow a name upon me. That shall be the proof that seals the contract. It will also serve as a bond that allows me to exist freely in this realm," the dragon replied.

"A name huh... By the way, are you male or female?" Alex asked, since it is really hard to guess the dragon's gender.

".....I'm a female, my liege," the dragon replied.

"Hmm, very well. I guess I will name you Erica, which means eternal ruler or ever powerful," Alex said.

"Erica... eternal ruler. I like the sound of it. A name really befitting for me. Very well, master. From now on, I would be called Erica," the dragon said.

"Welcome to our camp, Erica," Alex said, looking at his new summoned beast. However, his expression turned serious as he thought about something and turned to the old man Garrick, who was still staring at Erica with his mouth agape.

"By the way, old man, you referred to Erica as the golden monarch, but if I'm not wrong, there are only four monarchs in the world?" Alex asked.

But before Garrick could speak, Erica interrupted up. "There are indeed only four heavenly beasts who are said to be the strongest - namely the white monarch, black monarch, Azure Monarch, and the flame monarch - who were born with incredible strength."

"But there is also me, the former golden monarch, who is also referred to as the false monarch."

"I am a dragon, though I differ greatly from normal dragons and was the only one of my species due to a genetic anomaly and was taken cared by the Azure Monarch"

"I trained myself hard for a long period of time before becoming the strongest of all magical beasts and challenging the four monarchs, and finally defeating them."

"With the recognition of spirits, heavenly beasts, and other beasts, I gained the title of golden monarch and the false monarch, which makes my standing in the beast world similar to that of the four heavenly beasts."

"Although I say my standing is similar to that of the four heavenly beasts, I don't rule over the other creatures like them nor governs any aspects of nature"

"Oh I see" Alex said as he looked at his beast with a look of appreciation.

Mentioning the name of the other four monarchs, Alex had another Idea which he wanted to try it but not now since it was already late.

"My Liege, I have a humble request."

"A request?"

"Yes, to remain in this realm as summoned beings requires a lot of mana to keep us materialized in this realm. But after contracting with you, I noticed that you have an abnormally high amount of mana reserves, and I have felt that your magical energy has hardly depleted in the slightest."

"That being the case, I would like to humbly request your permission to remain in this realm indefinitely."

"Very well, you can stay by my side Erica, but can you change your form a bit since it would be inconvenient for us if the people of the city to see you like this"

"Change my form...like this?"

As Erica said her body started glowing with a golden light and her size began to reduce.

The large eastern dragon shrunked down to the size just a bit shorter than a feet and swirled around Alex.

***

Ok no heavenly beast romance just simple heavenly beast and master relationship.