Chapter 2 · 9 min
Chapter 2
Clara
[Sched: Level 8
Wishes to devote his life to serving you loyally. Having your head cut off once for Sched would be nothing to you either]
[Serin: Level 7
Likes you. You seem willing to destroy an entire country for Serin]
[Maneric: Level 5
Reveres you. You would at least say a word for Maneric]
I carefully read the descriptions of the summoned creatures again. No matter how hard I stared at them, the descriptions didn't change.
“Wow, this is ridiculous.”
It was even worse than what I'd heard on the forum.
“System window.”
I tapped the Gallery at the top of the system window.
I didn't know why there was a Gallery function in the system window...
Anyway, it was convenient.
Nowadays, using an online community no longer meant opening the internet and logging in. Using the Gallery in the system window had become the norm.
After all, even inside the tower, where you couldn't bring any items from Earth, you could still use the Gallery in the system window.
I entered the Summoner tab.
{Anon: We're fucked, our summoned creature}
I copied the description exactly
Only eats meat. Serving cheap meat will be considered an insult
Apparently anything except Premium++ Korean beef counts as cheap meat
It hasn't even been a month since I summoned him, and I'm about to go bankrupt serving Premium++ Korean beef three meals a day
Anon: lololol Average beastfolk summon lololol
└Anon: Average beast summon lolololol
└Anon: So it wasn't just me...
{Anon: Beastfolk descriptions are fucking hilarious lol Our elf summon is different
Wishes to receive treatment befitting a noble being. Will be uncooperative unless proper food, clothing, and shelter are provided
That's the exact description I copied
Premium++ Korean beef? Our elf only needs one piece of good fruit lol
Since he's a knight, clothing is easy too. Just buy him a few knight uniforms}
Anon: So clothing and food are covered, but what about shelter?
└Anon: I've been sleeping on the street lately
└Anon: Why?
└Anon: He said he didn't like me and wanted a separate place to live lol I begged him to please let it slide and said I'd move out instead. Then he let it go
└Anon: Average elf summon lololol
The descriptions of summoned creatures I'd seen on the Gallery were generally like this.
“But I'm supposed to get my head cut off or destroy a country?”
Damn it, why does this kind of thing always happen only to me!
Should I settle for the last summoned creature, the one whose description said, ‘You would at least say a word for Maneric’? But he's only level 5...
“At level 5, it'll probably be hard to find a party...”
A party could have up to five people.
But this was where another major problem with the Summoner class held me back.
In a party limited to five members, the Summoner and the summoned creature each counted as one person.
“Seems like it'll be easier to find a party with level 8 than level 5...”
{WheelchairHunter: I awakened, help me please, bowing and scraping
Picked the Summoner class
Sched level 8
Serin level 7
Maneric level 5
Got three
Who should I pick?}
SwordMageF: Serin
└WheelchairHunter: Why?
└SwordMageF: I can tell just from the name
└WheelchairHunter: Oh? Is she famous among summoned creatures or something?
└SwordMageF: Sounds like she'd be pretty
“Damn it! Seriously!”
He was a regular username I was fairly friendly with, and he was just screwing around.
Ding~!
I closed the system-window Gallery in frustration, but a notification sounded, apparently because a new comment had been posted in the meantime.
Knight's Retainer: I'm a current Summoner. Tell me the descriptions
└WheelchairHunter: One second! I'll copy them exactly
I hurriedly copied the summoned-creature descriptions from the system window in response to the comment from an actual Summoner.
└Knight's Retainer:? What does this even mean?
└WheelchairHunter: I copied exactly what appeared in the system window
└Knight's Retainer: No way? Mine said, If you work hard, he may at least allow you to become his retainer
└Knight's Retainer: And why does it say she likes you when you haven't even summoned her yet?
└WheelchairHunter: I'd like to know that too
└Knight's Retainer: This pisses me off! It's been over a year and I'm still not even treated as a retainer!
└WheelchairHunter: Um, so do you perhaps have any advice for me...
No matter how long I waited, the user called Knight's Retainer didn't post another comment.
“Damn it! Seriously!”
Ding~!
At the notification that another new comment had been posted, I entered the Gallery. This time it was another regular username I knew reasonably well.
GiggleOneShot: Don't pick Serin
└WheelchairHunter: Why?
└GiggleOneShot: You know what happens when you summon someone for the first time, right?
└WheelchairHunter: Ah
You couldn't bring any items from Earth when entering the tower.
Summoned creatures were the same. And that also applied when they were first summoned to Earth.
In other words, they were summoned naked.
└GiggleOneShot: Your aptitude for the Summoner class was the only one that came out good, right?
└WheelchairHunter: Yeah
Actually, only Mage was Iron and all the others were Bronze, but explaining it was a hassle, so I just roughly agreed.
└GiggleOneShot: If you got Bronze, your looks probably aren't bad, but don't summon someone of the opposite sex and put yourself in an awkward situation right from the start. If you're a woman, then pick Serin
└WheelchairHunter: If I don't pick Serin, who should I pick?
└GiggleOneShot: Shouldn't you pick the highest-level one?
└WheelchairHunter: I'll keep that in mind, thanks
“Hmm...”
The part about getting my head cut off was a little concerning.
Should I go with Sched after all?
Surely he wasn't some lunatic who wanted to devote his life to me by cutting off my head and then killing himself too, right?
At least it was a relief that the description didn't mention any financial demands...
It couldn't be helped. There was no way to understand everything from a single description anyway, and more importantly, if I wanted to find a party starting from Floor 1, having even a slightly higher-level summon would be advantageous!
Having made up my mind, I reached out to select Sched.
At that very moment, a new entry appeared in that spot, and I ended up selecting it instead.
[Clara: Level 5
Believes you, whom she met for the first time today, are her destiny. You too, for Clara, would—]
“Damn it, what the hell is this!!!”
How could a new entry be added at the exact moment I was choosing? What kind of bug was this!
And why did it have to refresh in the exact spot where Sched had been!
“And damn it! Level 5? No, even the name is a woman's!”
Since it changed the instant I touched it, I hadn't even gotten to read the rest of the description.
What was I supposed to do for Clara?
[5 Magic Power has been permanently consumed]
“Damn it! Fuck!”
The summoning had already been completed, consuming 5 Magic Power, an amount corresponding to the summoned creature's level of 5.
Once summoned, there was no such thing as unsummoning. We had to stay together. There was one way to terminate the contract, but...
‘That price is a bit much.’
[Clara is jumping up and down at your choice]
Huh?
The system-window description was still strange.
Did that mean she was happy?
Soon, fog grew so thick that I could no longer see in front of me, filling the tower field.
‘This is bad! The summoned-creature descriptions were so strange that I forgot to prepare.’
I'd completely forgotten. Since summoned creatures appeared naked, I should've prepared clothes for her beforehand!
I tightly shut my eyes and, as if that weren't enough, even covered them with both hands.
Tap.
At last, perhaps the summoning had finished, because I heard the sound of feet touching the field.
What would she say? My heart pounded.
Then the youthful voice of a woman reached my ears, and my mind went blank.
“Your wife! Clara has arrived~!”
“What?”
At this point, I truly had no idea what was going on.
____________
The office of the President of the Korean Hunter Association.
An elf dressed in a knight's uniform sat on the sofa with his legs crossed.
The middle-aged man standing before him couldn't even sit down and merely clasped his hands together.
“Useless humans.”
“...My apologies, Vice Commander.”
Vice Commander.
An elf summoned by a Summoner who had climbed to Floor 40.
Level 49. Someone who had served as a knight vice commander in the other world.
However, there was a problem. Like most otherworlders, he had an overbearing attitude and a personality that looked down on humans. In the end, the Summoner paid the price.
To terminate the contract with this elf.
The price had been paid, but it was fine. The Association had offered a huge sum of money.
Of course, as could be seen, the suffering the Summoner had endured because of this elf hadn't simply disappeared, but the abilities of otherworlders were valuable enough to make it worthwhile.
“How long exactly am I supposed to wait?”
“Our Summoner is climbing even now. He'll reach Floor 49 soon. If you begin climbing with him from then on, Vice Commander, reaching Floor 60 will happen quickly. Then won't you be able to bring Her Majesty over? Please, just a little, just a little longer.”
“I cannot understand it. What is so difficult that they rest for days at a time?”
“Unlike people from the other world, humans suffer aftereffects from climbing the tower...”
Tap. Tap.
The Vice Commander tapped the table with his finger.
“Our queen is destined to become a High Elf spoken of only in legends.”
The Vice Commander's voice rose.
“That legendary High Elf! And yet you're held back for days at a time over something so trivial!”
“I-I'm sorry! W-we're doing our best!”
Bang!
In the end, the Vice Commander slammed the table in front of him.
The solid hardwood split cleanly in two.
“I joined the Association in order to bring over the queen, but if this continues, I will go to another country!”
“P-please, anything but that...!”
Once again today, the Association President could only reflexively bow at the waist.
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.
.
The Association President's office after the elf had left.
A smashed door and a table split cleanly in two lay in disarray.
Even so, they had no choice but to keep appeasing him.
The reason they had brought the elf Vice Commander into the Association even by offering him an enormous sum of money.
Level 49.
If one looked only at stats, there wasn't a large difference between level 48 and level 49.
However, Wishes rose in rank with a difference of only a single level.
Because starting from level 49, one became a high-ranking ability user.
Of course, being a high-ranking ability user didn't make the Vice Commander the strongest. An excessively large level gap couldn't be overturned.
But what if the Elf Queen whom even the Vice Commander praised endlessly were to arrive?
That queen who was said to be level 69?
What level would a human need to reach in order to surpass this queen?
“Ah~ I want to resign as Association President!”
Once again today, he could only pray desperately for someone who could resolve this situation to appear.