Chapter 233 – How to Increase the Number of Summons

“Yes?”

Lee Seung-ah’s reaction was more violent than I had expected, so I had no choice but to ask.

“Why?”
“It’s really a waste of money. Only those who don’t have time to grow a pet or don’t intend to do it in the first place buy it.”

Lee Seung-ah explained.

“Attachment comes first when it comes to the relationship between a summoner and a summoner. You have to grow with affection so that you can show your potential with true loyalty to me. The bond with the summoner is the key to raising a summoner. Of course, it is also effective to send them to an environment that suits them through reverse summoning, but that only means creating an environment suitable for the summoner to live in, and the key is the relationship with the summoner. If you buy them with expensive money and manage them only with money, that kind of relationship cannot be said to be proper. It took me more than five years to come into contact with and bond with Lipos. The devil is especially like that. It’s hard to open your heart to humans.”
“Five years?”

I never thought that the red horned devil and Lee Seung-ah would build a bond for so long.

“Even though I didn’t summon him, I talked to him every day. I know everything he’s been through in the past five years. He’s been growing faster since signing the contract. So I became more confident. The core of summoning art is the relationship between the summoner and the summoner, that is, affection.”

Lee Seung-ah’s somewhat ardent words led Kim Ru-ah to immediately agree.

“That’s right! Sister’s words If you look at summons only in terms of money, that’s meaningless!”

The relationship between Rua Kim and Louie was special.
After making her cat, whom she loved, disappear with her summoning magic, she thought she would never become a Hunter at all.
I wondered if such an attachment would hinder my ability to deal with summoned beasts freely, but Lee Seung-ah, an S-rank demon sorcerer who never neglected her studies every day, didn’t seem to think so.

“I was imagining dealing with dozens or hundreds of summons. Most of the world’s best summoners are like that. Individual summons are strong, but there are many cases where you can compete with the amount. How do you do that?”

Of course, a first-class summoner would have an excellent ability to handle summons.
It must be the quality of a first-class summoner that makes the summoned people follow him well.
However, giving affection to dozens or hundreds of pets in that way seemed difficult even at first glance.
I wondered if there might be some key secret.

“Oh, that’s right.”

Seungah Lee said.

“There is one more way to increase the number of summons.”
“What is that?”
“I designate a leader, and the summons form a group. So, as other summons follow the leader, the number naturally increases. There are many advantages to doing so. Since the leader leads the group, the burden of having to control all the summoned creatures is reduced by the summoner himself. And since the hierarchy is established naturally through the leader, management is easier.”
“Oh, there was such a way!”

Rua Kim and I looked at each other.
As expected, rather than blindly buying a new pet, it was better to visit Lee Seung-ah and discuss it.
Because if he hadn’t listened to her, he would never have thought it would be this way.

“However, in order to increase the number of summons like this, conditions are necessary. First of all, the pet you have must be strong enough to be a leader and have leadership skills, and if it is a species that is not suitable for group life in the first place, it is difficult to form a group.”
“Hmm…”

I wondered if Boba might be that type of pet.
The answer was that it was a summoned beast that had the ability to lead a group.
As Kim Hae-na also said, he was originally a pet that could become like a dragon if raised well.
Even in a confrontation with other reptiles, it was not difficult to subdue the opponent.
In addition, there were times when I looked into the creature’s ecology through the ‘Summons Management’ ability and marveled at its surprisingly calm and relaxed appearance.
Although he was still small, he had an attitude as if he were a king.

“I wonder if Louie can do that…”

Unlike me, Lua Kim seemed to have doubts about whether her own summons had the qualities of a leader.
That could have been enough.
Because basically, cats don’t give side well.
Of course, there are cats that form groups, but it remains to be seen if Louis will be that type.
Unlike Boba, Louis had been in another world for years.
But when he showed up, he was still alone.
I’ve seen Louie’s life a lot with me, but I’ve rarely shown any signs of interacting with other cat breeds.

“It is forbidden to jump to conclusions. I told you. The bond with the summoner is more important than anything else. Summons are different from normal monsters or fats. Most of all, it is affected by the summoner. So, a summoner can grant abilities to a summoned creature. If you want to make a leader, you just have to instill that ability.”
“How are you doing?”

Rua Kim asked Lee Seung-ah with a desperate expression.

“I have been studying it for a long time too. However, since I couldn’t properly control a single Repos, I only thought about it in my head and never put it into practice. It was only recently that I started working on it.”
“You started?”

The work Lee Seung-ah was talking about naturally meant the work of increasing the number of summons in the flow of the story.
So, until now, he had only been using Lipos as one of his summons, but he is trying to increase that number in the future.

“Okay, can I show you?”

Lee Seung-ah smiled brightly and said positively.

“Yes, sister! I miss you!”

Lee Seung-ah smiled at Lua Kim’s words and took out a stick.
She started drawing her magic circle on her table.
Drawing magic circles was familiar, so the act seemed very simple and easy.
It is a complex pattern, and each line must have a meaning, so I guessed how much research and practice Lee Seung-ah had to do before she could draw it so skillfully.

I was a little worried about what would happen next.
If you summon Lipos here.
Although it is a space separated from the outside, it is still inside the school.
Repos wouldn’t fly out of Lee’s control, but I doubted it would be appropriate anyway.
Lipos is completely different from my Beauvais and Kimrua’s Louis.
It wasn’t called the devil for nothing.
I remembered how he snatched monsters that were difficult for us to deal with in dungeons and chewed their heads off.

Contrary to my worries, Lee Seung-ah did not directly summon Lipos.
A round screen-like object was formed in the air and began to reflect the screen of another world.

“Ah…”

This was, so to speak, similar to the ‘management of summoned beasts’ that Lua and I used.
However, as Lee Seung-ah is an S-class talent, the screen that reflects the other world was bigger and clearer.
Would it be as vivid as if you could be sucked into that space right away if you stretched out your hand?

In fact, Rua Kim stretched out her hand there as if possessed, but she could only pass through it, unable to put her hand into another world.

A familiar figure appeared on the screen.
A red-bodied demon with a single horn.
It was Lipos.

The boy was not alone.
He was with a demon with a similar appearance to himself.

Lee Seung-ah smiled as if it just went well.

“This is the guy I’m working on right now. There is no bond with me. But Lipos is getting along well. Lipos is originally a demon with a good lineage. There are many demons who follow him just because of his status. However, since he is still young and his abilities are not high, he could become even more dangerous if he recklessly leads other demons. In the world of demons, it’s very common for a subordinate to kill a leader and take his place. So making a group is something you have to do very carefully.”

After listening to Lee Seung-ah’s explanation, I understood the scene in the video better.

Lipos and the smaller Red Devil were talking to each other.
But we couldn’t understand what must have been demonic language.
Lee Seung-ah seemed to know quite a bit, but he wasn’t even in a situation where he could ask for an on-the-spot interpretation of the conversation.

They seemed to be plotting something.
Mostly, it seems like Lipos is instructing the little demon.

The two of them started moving.

The world of demons was definitely different from the world Boba and Louie lived in.
If the world Boba and Louie lived in was not much different from this place, the world where Lipos lived had a dark and gloomy atmosphere.

As Lee Seung-ah said before, the difference between normal summons and demons may be only the difference in the world they live in and the difference in species.
But at least there was a feeling that the world where the demons live is a dangerous world of a higher dimension than other dimensions.

Finally, Lipos and the little demon have their target set.
In other words, the guys were trying to hunt now.