Rise of the Weakest Summoner: Volume V, page 1
Rise of the
Weakest Summoner
Volume 5
J. R. Saileri
Disclaimer
Copyright © 2020 by Saileri / J. R. Saileri
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form possible without permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Cover design by Ullr.
Typography by MikeWe.
Edition: 01.09.2022
Acknowledgements
First of all, to my lovely supporters from Patreon, who decided, for whatever reason, to honor me with their presence, often sharing kind words, comments and feedback, besides the obvious financial support. I love you all guys and girls! Even if I started writing just for fun, you are now partially my reason to keep improving further and further!
And from that incredible, supporting family, I want to specifically mention my Living Legend backers—Moheebi3abc and Julian S.; my EX rank backers—Michael S and Alvzorin; and of course my S-rank backers—Magiwarrior, Chicken Adobo, Soen Kigi, Fandley, Luiswu, Skyell, Dennis W., Vincent S., William J., Sonicblackfox, Robert H., Fussel, Trenton S., SIDracon, James A. M., Rando C. and EatsBreeze. Especially you, Magiwarrior. You’ve been with me since pretty much the first month of my Patreon, silently watching over my stories basically from their first chapters. Godspeed to you man. Over two years and counting. Insane.
Of course, I can’t forget another patron of mine—Termac. Since the day you’ve joined, you keep relentlessly pointing out mistakes in my chapters, release after release. I appreciate that so, so much. I hope this little mention will show at least a little bit of my gratitude.
Moving off this long Patreon-train, I can’t not bring up my best friend—Peres. Even though I’m sure it’s annoying at times, I can always count on you when a random word that I need suddenly decides to escape my chaotic mind. Your help in catching it is very much appreciated.
Last but not least, to all the readers that follow my works, and to You, who reached for this book. I can never fathom how thousands of people are following me on these various fantasy journeys. Thank You for giving this story a chance. Many of you might not be aware of how anxious an author can get about their own writing. But, just the thought of making someone enjoy a good time even for a brief moment is something incredible. I hope you all will never run out of good books to read!
CONTENTS
Foreword
Story So Far
Chapter 1 A Step Into the Unknown ❤
Chapter 2 The First Introduction
Chapter 3 The Second Introduction
Chapter 4 He Did
Chapter 5 As Open as a Demon
Chapter 6 More Than Warm Welcome
Chapter 7 Clash of Flames
Chapter 8 Fall From Grace
Chapter 9 Just a Little Bit Longer
Chapter 10 Behind the Golden Gate
Chapter 11 The Importance of Bonds
Chapter 12 Bonded ❤
Chapter 13 Gains
Chapter 14 Let There Be Light
Chapter 15 The Lost Realm
Chapter 16 Interdimensional Trade
Chapter 17 The Founding Mothers and Father
Chapter 18 Reunion
Chapter 19 A Puzzling Arrangement
Chapter 20 Prove Your Worth
Chapter 21 The First Pair
Chapter 22 The Second Pair
Chapter 23 The Third Pair
Chapter 24 A Familiar Opponent
Chapter 25 Accidental Excavation
Chapter 26 Deeper Connections
Chapter 27 One’s End, Another’s Beginning
Chapter 28 The Next Step
Chapter 29 Keepsakes
Chapter 30 Where the Light Shines, the Shadow Follows
Chapter 31 The Ceremony
Chapter 32 The Speech
Chapter 33 The Showmatch Begins
Chapter 34 Times of Change
Chapter 35 The Arrangement
Chapter 36 Tina’s Wish ❤
Chapter 37 Peerage
Chapter 38 Towards a New Beginning
Afterword
What’s Next?
Where To Find Me?
More Stories Like This
Foreword
Yo! Saileri here! Just wanted to throw in a few words before we dive into the book. Also, a huge thank you for deciding to give my novels a try!
I have seen many people mentioning that it would be so nice to have a short summary of the story at the beginning of the volume and that’s exactly what I decided to include in my book. The section before Chapter 1 briefly summarizes the events of Volume 4, so if you are coming here straight after reading it, feel free to skip it without losing anything. For summary of Volumes 1-3, check the beginning of the earlier books again. If quite a few days have passed since you read my story, I hope this will help you refresh your memory. Of course, it won’t be as detailed as the book itself so I still recommend reliving the first volume completely ;)
This story was written in the form of a web novel published on the Internet, which sometimes slightly differs in reading experience from what the usual books offer. Such stories are often long-going, with hundreds of relatively short chapters, and a similar situation takes place here.
This book features three chapters containing adult-themed content and they are marked with a heart symbol in their titles. They can potentially be skipped without losing too much, besides some more insight into the characters, but some small details are still mentioned in some parts of such chapters.
Also, as no one in the world, I’m not perfect, so if you happen to stumble on any mistakes, feel free to bash me on the head about them in my Discord server. There’s a dedicated channel for that there. I finally got myself an editor, but things can still escape our eyes, obviously.
Without further ado, enjoy!
Story So Far
Beware! Spoilers from Volume 4!
For Volume 1-3 summary, check Story So Far in the previous books!
After arriving in front of the port town Nebula, Asterios and the girls found a swarm of monsters. Instead of attacking the city, the creatures seemed to be split into three distinct factions and duking it out between themselves, which he quickly noted as a possible Dungeon War.
With Guildmaster Suanori’s permission, Asterios entered the town and questioned the local guildmaster, finding out that the man had neglected his duties and covered dangerous signs for more profit. The situation was relayed to their elf friend immediately and Asterios agreed to help solve the crisis, having it a little hard turning his back on the innocent. But, he also saw a potential profit to be made and they did in fact lack some monster ingredients.
Suanori arrived in Nebula after finishing all the paperwork and gave a good scolding to the man in charge. She then moved with Asterios and the girls to the vicinity of one of the dungeons and watched them showcase their strength, doing the same after them so that they could get to know each other better.
A few days later, the emergency meeting was underway and Asterios showed up to join everyone and discuss the matter at hand. He met a few renowned adventurers there, such as the dwarf Artificer Tishnera, the human Warrior Darlick, the demon Void Mage Svertaniel, and the human Summoner Yuuze.
Suanori briefly summarized their plan but Yuuze seemed adamant about finding someone more experienced than Asterios to play the main role alongside her. After a brief argument, Asterios decided to show his strength a little, releasing Umbra and having him play some memories of their previous fights in everyone's minds. Yuuze didn’t get to protest as he fainted quite quickly.
With everything set, the operation was in motion and various teams of adventurers headed into the three dungeons. Asterios and Suanori moved into the oldest, middle, undead one. Before they ventured inside, Asterios tested infusing some mana into his eyes and intent, which resulted in his mates becoming quite enchanted with them, and even caused their elf friend to feel somewhat intimidated. Umbra called such pressure an Aura of Authority.
Finishing their preparations, they began their delve. Selene took care of the dungeon’s Gates with her spiritual punches and Umbra got rid of the first boss monster before they even got to fight it, much to Miria’s disappointment. But, they cooperated together to take down a Flesh Golem a bit later, where Asterios used his Spellslinger to freeze the enemy with Permafrost.
On their way deeper, they stumbled on some flying skulls and fought against Ignituls. Soon, they heard some unusual explosions and followed them, running into Darlick and Tishnera who were destroying the dungeon’s walls according to their plan.
The next boss room surprised them greatly as there was no creature inside, at least until they realized that the scarlet liquid spread around the cavern was blood and part of its body. They fought bravely against a Monarch of Blood, which forced Asterios to bring some finer techniques out, causing Miria to burst in flames and Selene to become ice-cold. The fox lady used his support to completely annihilate their enemy, but then, the floor crumbled and they almost fell into a deep chasm.
Thankfully, everyone managed to react in time and they used the Core’s trap to traverse deeper, skipping tens of floors.
Finding a ledge, they stopped their descent and Selene destroyed a part of the dungeon's structure to let them into the proper corridors again. They decided to rest a bit and Asterios helped his vulpine mate regain her lost energy and vitality through more personal means, sharing some brief intimate time with Selene.
Continuing further, they ran into some occasional Death Knights, but a swarm of magical weapons crossed their path. They fought bravely against the hovering armaments like they would be facing a team of adventurers. While descending the stairs leading to another floor, they stepped into a teleportation trap and were sent into a giant maze, separated from each other.
While Asterios brought forth a few more offensive Summoner techniques to borrow strength from his summons, turning himself into a weird mix of Selene, Umbra, and Miria, the girls walked another path with Suanori, protecting their friend. They found themselves in a chamber full of weird pedestals with see-through, oval shapes.
Spotting a riddle, they attempted to solve it, unfortunately, failing during their first attempt and triggering rays of darkness that seemed to erode anything they touched. Recognizing their mistake, they set the pieces of the puzzle properly and opened the exit. Selene took their reward, a small copy of the dark mirrors, and they reunited with Asterios in the middle of the labyrinth.
Entering the big chapel, they faced a giant, hooved, humanoid beast with purple skin and the head of a bull. While Asterios and the girls fought, Umbra corrupted the creature’s mind and took control of it. They stole its weapon, which could resize itself according to the user, and used it to cut holes in the dungeon’s floor until they reached the Core.
Falling into the Core's chamber, they found mountains of bones. Some of them formed a massive Skeletal Dragon. They faced the beast, giving it their all, with Umbra utilizing his new toy. Alongside him, Miria and Selene chopped off the Dragon’s wings and Asterios finished it with the panthergirl, diving between its jaws. Afterward, Selene shattered the Core, displaying her immense strength, and stepped back to recover.
In the meanwhile, Umbra absorbed parts of the Core and the Dragon and regained some of his locked strength. He could now move living beings through the shadows and they used that ability to leave the dungeon.
The news spread quickly and the situation was under control again. Asterios visited Imadil and Cynthia, ordering a sheath for the new sword from the elves. Back in the guild, he received a rank-up and became an A-ranked adventurer before leaving the port town alongside Svertaniel, who was going to be their guide in the Demon Continent. They boarded the Bellowing Kingfisher and met Captain Moreso alongside his crew.
Partway into their sea voyage, Asterios was spending time with Selene while fishing. They suddenly hooked something heavy and pulled out a humanoid shark onto the deck. The sailors quickly hid away while he and the others handled the sudden attack without much trouble. As thanks for their help and to celebrate, Moreso hosted a drinking contest, which was won by Selene, who bested everyone after surviving the Dragon’s Piss.
Soon, they reached Dagger’s End, a small stop on their journey, and decided to look around the port town belonging to the silver-skinned dwarves of the Damascu Clan. The local Adventurer’s Guild needed adventurers for their newly discovered dungeon and Asterios mediated the quest with Suanori, agreeing to transport people through Umbra.
Returning to their ship, they found the entire town in lockdown in search of a wanted criminal who had escaped from prison. Umbra sensed someone inside their cargo bay and they discovered a dwarf child hiding in their meat storage. They quickly realized that the boy named Risvi was related to a similar organization to Dane’s, the Phantasmal Horror they had dealt with in the past, involved in the creation of a weird poison.
Bringing Risvi back to Tyrienheim, he left the boy in Kindra’s care and discussed the evil organization with his grandparents. James, his grandfather, had a Royal Favor that their family had gained long ago and they agreed to use it to find an audience with the Human King. Of course, Asterios was chosen as their representative.
Transported to the capital by a transfer magician, he ventured into the royal castle and barely avoided getting hit by a flying sword, launched to the side by a young woman with scarlet-amber hair, which clearly was the princess. After convincing King Welrond about his case during the audience, they moved to a more secret and safe location to discuss the details.
During the talks, Asterios revealed some of his abilities, like his summons, him being able to move around the protected castle freely, or joining people’s minds with Umbra, shocking the king’s advisors greatly. He also noticed someone trying to eavesdrop on them and it turned out to be Princess Silvia, who had gotten curious after seeing him enter the room with her father.
After a short test of strength, the king revealed that they belonged to the True Sun’s Bloodline, which resonated with Ast’s unusual fire affinity strongly. Silvia requested a duel and Asterios agreed after Welrond suggested helping him with all the information he could find if he accepted to help his daughter grow.
Asterios spent an eventful night with Miria and Selene at the royal castle and joined the father and daughter duo for breakfast. They talked a lot about him, stumbling on the topic of Tina. The king suggested making her dream come true, which meant inviting Tina to the Royal Division as her graduation gift since he was sure that Asterios hadn’t oversold the woman to him. Asterios was immensely grateful for his kindness and they moved on to the duel.
He fought against Silvia and struggled to keep up with the princess at first. Their bout was fierce and not many people could follow it with their eyes. But, during one of Silvia’s spells, she created a flaming shape of a Lesser Dragon, sending it at Asterios. Something reacted in him and he snuffed out the magical fire with just a snap of his fingers, showing incredible might and power, and then falling unconscious.
Finding himself in the weird volcano realm, he suddenly could materialize clothes, so he did that. Then, he even gained wings, which looked ominous. Asterios flew around the weird place but didn’t find anything of importance, besides many active and inactive volcanoes. Willing to leave, he succeeded and woke up.
A short discussion about his bloodline followed and he admitted that many things started showing a direct connection to True Dragons. He agreed to the king’s request to allow Silvia to travel with them so they both could train their bloodlines while exploring the Demon Continent since they truly seemed to resonate well together. When stepping out of the bed, he suddenly materialized his clothes just like back in the weird realm, shocking everyone greatly as it was proof of incredible control, which the king then explained.
Back in Dagger’s End, Asterios paid a visit to Grotger, the Damascu Clan Patriarch, alongside Svertaniel, and connected him with King Welrond. They discussed their plan on how to deal with the evil organization and made their move on an old lumber mill. Selene locked the area under a powerful sealing formation and the others snuck in through a secret entrance they had learned from Risvi’s memories.
One by one, they freed clusters of captured dwarves, collecting information on the way. After getting found out about midway, they ran into a changeling woman and a noctis lady. The two chased them into a spacious storage chamber and a fight broke out. Utilizing Ast’s techniques, Miria and Selene beat the changeling, who was also the overseer of the place, though Asterios made the finishing move. Svertaniel dealt with the noctis lady until Selene’s body crashed into her and knocked the woman out.
Leaving the rest to the forces of King Welrond and Patriarch Grotger, they brought the captive leaders to proper confinement and reunited with the Human King above the ground, finding the soldiers decimating the organization’s members. During their meeting back in the Patriarch’s castle, they talked about possible rewards and Asterios chose to make a connection with the Damascu Clan’s dwarves, inviting his mother into business negotiations between the man and King Welrond. He had no idea what he had caused at that time.
Finishing all their businesses, Asterios and the girls resumed their journey to the Demon Continent on Captain Moreso’s ship…
