The Tales of Draconic Warlock

Summonings, there was an entire section about them in the Nexus Library, which for the most part I have access to.

I totally forgot about that, even though I saw that there is a section dedicated to that. The reason can be said that I was too busy to use that knowledge.

Truth be said, I didn't use those after sending Inari back.

Summoning means, that they come from somewhere far away.

From where? I have no idea but those places are their homes and I am essentially kidnapping them from their houses.

I didn't feel much at first when I summoned Inari to complete my promotion mission but as time went on, I felt quite bad that I pulled her away from her home. That's the reason why I didn't summon again.

Beast Taming and Summoning are both professions that essentially kidnap others and make them serve you. I am starting to have mixed feelings about those.

Though I tamed Asya, she was alone. She has no parents or siblings who could take care of her in the secret realm. She would become food for the bigger monsters if I left her there. So I took her with me.

In the future, if she wants freedom, then I would grant her that without a second thought. After all, beasts are to be in the wild, not in buildings or pet spaces. These spaces could be considered to be safer than the wilds, where she would have to fight monsters and also humans who may come after her to get materials by killing her.

Even though that is a fact, I'll let her decide her fate after she understands all the facts. It is her right to decide what's best for her but I won't let that happen without her having the proper information.

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Anyway, that was for the future, not now.

Even though I'm not particularly eager to do summonings or something like that, I need to understand about the summoning.

There is a reason for that. A summon can change the course of a battle.

Summoners are usually weak themselves but with the summons that they bring almost no one can defeat them, unless they are successful in dealing with sneak attacks.

Beast Tamers and Summoners are weak. So if a fight erupted with them, the best way to deal with them was to eliminate them rather than fight with their beasts directly. Assassins have better ways to deal with them, as long as they don't have any shadow summons.

This was something every beast tamer or summoner knows. So they would try to contract a shadow-based beast as soon as possible. Shadow-based beasts are similar to assassins and they can easily detect assassins in their proximity and could render them useless.

The problem was that catching them would not be easy. Unless you have the background that supports you to get them or if your luck is so high that you would stumble upon them and subdue them yourself, it is almost impossible to get them.

Shadow-based monsters are like assassins. They live in the shadows and won't show themselves easily. Also, assassins won't act against an opponent unless they are sure about their chances.

So unless they see you as easy prey and take the bait or you have a way to pull them out of the shadows, you won't be even able to see them.

This is why it was not easy to find a shadow-based beast to tame. Summoning would also not be easy. As far as I know, no one in the present era has ever successfully summoned a shadow beast. The reason behind that, I don't know.

Maybe there are no shadow-based beasts in the summoning plane from where these summons come from or like how I did demon summoning, there may be a different summoning method for shadow beasts.

I don't know but I believe that there should be something in the Nexus library. I should read and if there is a way to summon a shadow beast, then I should try it but if and only if the beast truly wants to become my partner would I let it stay with me. Otherwise, I would send it back.

With the chances of William's retaliation or maybe even the entire Rutgurd family retaliating against me, I need to keep guard 24X7, but that won't be possible. I need a partner to do that.

Moreover, I want to catch them off-guard. So I can't use Asya, who would be very visible to everyone if she came out from her pet space. I need a shadow beast, which can watch me from the shadows when I need rest.

I may be Tier-6 but my body would need rest or else it wouldn't be in shape to fight the enemies. So I would take pretty good care of my body, no matter what. Read exclusive content at m_v-l'e|m,p-y r

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Speaking of summoning, I wonder how Inari is doing back at her home.

I mean she was away from her home for more than two years and many things should have changed in those two years. When she returned home, I don't think everything was as they were before she was gone and the culprit behind that was me.

I took her away from her home but I had no choice. If only I had a better option to choose among the choices that I was given for my promotion mission, then Inari would have been never pulled away from her home.

Back then I thought I would feel less guilty by using a stranger for my promotion rather than doing such nasty things with ones I know. It was true for some time but as I started to know her more and more, the guilt started to build up more and more.

So, I had to send her back home, hoping that it would eliminate some of that guilt but there was no such luck.

Now, other things are haunting me. The guilt is only increasing.

Why are my promotion missions like that?