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4.

The aptitude test results show that Chris’ aptitude is for the summoner profession.

“Summoner? I’ve heard of it… Isn’t it similar to a monster tamer?”

Monster Tamer is a combat job that trains monsters to fight in your stead.

It wasn’t an ordinary combat job like a warrior, wizard, monk, or hunter.

“Monster Tamers usually have to bring monsters with them and train them, but Summoners are a little different. They use magic to summon creatures that have been contracted in advance. You can see them as being similar to magicians.”

“So is this a useful job in combat?”

In fact, that was the most important question.

If it doesn’t help in combat, rare or not, it probably won’t be of much use in the Academy.

“The Summoner profession itself doesn’t have particularly outstanding combat abilities. However… if you make a contract with an excellent summoner, your combat abilities will become excellent.”

“In short, the combat ability of a summoner is determined by how excellent the summoner is that he contracts with.”

“That’s right. In addition, unlike Monster Tamers, Summoners can summon divine beings from a higher dimension than this world, so their potential is limitless.”

Chris nods to Professor Berriol’s explanation.

In any case, it wasn’t a bad thing since it was an extremely rare profession with limitless potential.

#

Chris returns home to the dorm alone after class.

Perhaps because of Chris’s past misdeeds, when he tried to make friends, everyone looked at him coldly and avoided him.

It was an unfair situation for John, who was possessed by Chris.

‘It’ll get better as time goes by. And right now, I have a lot to study on my own, so it might be better for me to have more time alone.’

Today is Friday. I had to pack my bags and return to the Delun Estate for the weekend.

When I returned to the dorm, Lily was already packing.

“Your Majesty. Have you gotten your aptitude test results?”

“Oh. They say you have a talent for being a summoner.”

“Are you a summoner?”

It was a job that even Lily had never heard of.

That’s because he said that not many people with the summoner profession have emerged in the kingdom over the past 50 years.

“This is the first time I’ve heard of this combat job. What kind of job is it?”

“A job that summons beasts from another world and asks them to fight on my behalf.”

“It’s a job where you don’t lift a finger yourself and order others around.”

For some reason, Lily’s gaze as she spoke like that felt like it was filled with contempt for Chris.

‘Hmm… do you hate me that much?’

Chris looks a little intimidated.

“The Lord was very much looking forward to the results of the aptitude test for the young master, so I hope you can go and tell him quickly.”

Lily said so, but Chris knew.

Lord Lawrence didn’t have high expectations of Chris.

I never thought that a scoundrel like Chris would awaken to a career that would raise up a family.

Not only Lawrence, but also John and the other servants had no expectations of Chris.

#

Delun Estate.

Lord Lawrence had a headache.

Recently, natural disasters such as droughts and floods have occurred in the territory, and monsters have increased in number, so the territory has gradually become desolate.

In addition, he had borrowed a lot of money from the capital’s merchants to run his territory over the past few decades, and it was difficult to even pay off the interest.

The Lord of Delun is a bright apricot.

If the management of the estate continued to run at a deficit, the estate could go bankrupt.

But Lawrence only knew how to protect what he had received from his ancestors, and he had no ability to start a new business.

In order to improve the management of the territory, he created a group of knights and sent them to neighboring territories to earn money, but he was tricked by a knight who was not very good and lost all his money. The knights entered monster nests and died, and none of them returned.

In the end, a huge amount of money was spent as condolence money for the deceased knights.

After that, Lawrence was afraid to even start a new business.

Chris, the eldest son with only one child, was a real troublemaker, and he insisted on attending the birthday party of Liel, the daughter of the neighboring estate, in a typhoon-like weather, and was struck by lightning.

Lawrence thought the future of the Delun Estate was bleak.

-Knock knock knock.

The butler knocked on Lawrence’s office door.

“What’s going on?”

“Master Chris has returned from the Academy.”

“Hmm. Is it Saturday already?”

Lawrence, it’s amazing how quickly time passes.

I was so worried about the land issue every day that I didn’t even realize a week had passed.

“Master Chris took an aptitude test.”

“So what job did you get?”

Rune Mage, Paladin, Berserker… I never even dreamed of such high-level professions.

Lawrence was hoping that Chris would at least display some magical talent.

“It is said that you have awakened the talent of a summoner.”

“A Summoner?”

Lawrence’s eyes opened wide.

“Is that true?!”

#

Chris was called into Lawrence’s office.

“Chris, is that true? You’ve awakened your summoner’s talent?”

Lawrence asks Chris again, excited.

The lord looked excited as if great fortune had come to him.

It was the first time Chris had seen it.

“Yes, Father.”

“You’re not lying about awakening the talent of the Arknight like before, are you?”

“It’s true. You can ask Professor Berriol.”

Lawrence looks into Chris’ eyes seriously.

“If you mess around again, I won’t let you do anything.”

“You were fooled and lived like this… Please believe me.”

It was Lawrence who knew Chris well.

When Chris lied, he often rolled his eyes and couldn’t make eye contact.

But now, I’m looking Lawrence straight in the eye.

‘I don’t think it’s a lie.’

“Chris. Do you know what kind of family our Delun family is?”

Chris doesn’t understand his father’s intentions for asking such a foolish question.

Tilt your head.

“Isn’t this the noble family with the largest estate in the Might region?”

“That’s not what I’m saying. My family has been a lineage of summoners for generations.”

It was the first time I heard it.

Lawrence nods as if he understands Chris.

“It’s not surprising that you don’t know. It wasn’t until your great-grandfather, Jude, that he was famous as a summoner. Neither my father nor I had the talent of a summoner.”

I’ve heard of Christ.

His great-grandfather, Jude Delun, was said to have been a famous wizard who made a name for himself in the kingdom.

‘I found out you were a summoner.’

“In other words, it’s almost like the summoner’s bloodline has been restored to our Delun family after 50 years.”

Lawrence looks at Chris with satisfaction.

That’s because Lawrence didn’t awaken his summoner’s talents as a child.

How disheartened his father, Count Delun, was because of that.

It was a great wound to young Lawrence.

But today, his eldest son has once again inherited the summoner’s bloodline.

I was proud of myself for giving birth to such an eldest son.

‘As expected, the strong summoner’s blood flows in my veins.’

But the joy was short-lived.

It was a shame that Chris’s summoner talent was awakened.

‘I wish my second or third son had shown the talent of a summoner. Why did it have to be Chris?’

Anyway, now that Chris has awakened his summoner’s talents, it feels like a ray of hope has finally appeared in the Delun Territory.

“Chris. There is something your ancestors left for you.”

“What did you leave behind?”

“Just follow me and you’ll know.”

Lawrence led Chris out, smiling playfully like a child hiding a present.

The place Lawrence took Chris to was the tall spire at the center of the Delun Manor.

There was a paper hanging on the top of the spire, but it was very worn, as if it had not been used for a long time.

“They say that this place used to be our ancestors’ magic workshop.”

Chris opened the locked door on the spire.

-Squeak.

It was covered in dust as if it had not been maintained for a long time.

The two climbed to the top floor of the spire.

On the top floor was an altar ornately carved with runes.

In its center was a staff set with a large, amber-colored jewel.

“Chris This is the legacy left by our ancestors.”

“What is this?”

“This is a summoner that our ancestors made a contract with in the past. It can summon a guardian spirit that will protect our Delun family.”

“Summoning demand?”

“According to what I heard from my father, it is a summoning staff that can summon the legendary Shine Dragon”

As Chris put his hand on it, the summoning staff began to flash.

“Ohhh! The summoning staff has started reacting to the blood of the Delun family!”

Lawrence started making a fuss and suggested that they go outside the spire with their walking sticks.

“If we summon here, the spire might collapse. A huge dragon will definitely be summoned. Let’s perform the summoning ritual in the wide yard.”

#

Upon hearing the news that Chris was summoning the Shining Dragon, his mother, two younger brothers, and all the servants of the mansion gathered in the central garden.

“You’re great, Chris.”

His mother, Countess Delun, was wiping away her tears with a handkerchief, while her two younger siblings, aged 16 and 15, were looking at Chris with disapproving eyes.

It seemed that he was dissatisfied with the fact that his brother, who was a loser, had become a summoner and was bearing the family’s expectations.

As Chris raised his staff, waves of golden light began to ripple out.

“Ohhh! Are you watching, ancestors? The summoner’s bloodline has appeared again in the Delun family.”

Lawrence is overwhelmed with emotion.

Flash.

A golden glow enveloped the central garden of the Delun Mansion.

“Kyaooo~!”

And what appeared was.

She was a golden-haired girl of about thirteen years old with horns on her head.