A Dual Crest Summoner In Infinite Summoning World

They had built the wall. It wasn't easy—it took time—and only after a year and a half had it been completed.

Only one thin layer of stone with some sticky white paste the people of this world used instead of cement to bind the stones. A thin layer was on both sides, and in the middle was a wide, wooden interlocking, deeply buried wall. One person could climb above it and walk freely.

The villagers had no other ideas, so they had instantly agreed to give a try to his game-making plan. There wasn't much to invest other than a little free time in the evening for the blue-rank summoners and some carpenters. An empty warehouse near the village square was used by them, and every evening, after finishing up their work, all the needed parties gathered. They had six blue-rank wood summoners, so Auren only called two for twice a week, and the two carpenters had agreed to help, dividing a three-three day workload.

It wasn't entirely free—Auren told them each completed set of the game, 10% would go to the summoner and 10% to the carpenter who would shape it. 30% Auren had planned to keep for himself, and of course, 50% for the village wall. If the money earned wouldn't exceed 7–8 gold, no one would get any money; all would be used to make the wall.

Auren had made over 170 sets of checkers and 25 sets of chess in six months with his 'team'. The people did not have much faith in him until some five sets of checkers were bought by Elder Mukishi, Tamun, and other people who had money to spare and were impressed by the demonstration of the game Auren had shown everyone in the meeting.

Those old geezers played with other free people, which their village had a lot of. Checkers was not hard to learn and understand, so the new attraction to pass the time had become quite an activity to do in their village. People were even talking about having a competition on this harvest festival, with a prize that the Elders should decide with Dante. A similar competition happened for the young men above 12 years of age for fighting. They used wooden weapons, but it still left many with injuries every year. The winner was given the rewards that the elders collected each year from the spectators. It was much of a donation, though, and not mandatory for all. Still, giving incentive to young warriors to train hard all year so they could perform well in the upcoming raid was kind of an old tradition.

Auren had heard from Dante that the bigger towns and cities' competitions even lasted for days, and even blue-ranked and some orange-rank summoners took part in it. All commoners and nobles took part in it. Mostly, only nobles won, though, with their powerful summons. They were not allowed to use the summoned animal, but for the blue-rank animal and spirit summoners—the summoner could, for a time, enhance himself with attributes of his summon.

The received enhancement was different for each person depending on what it was that they summoned, but it was more noticeable the more powerful the summoned being was. Only animal and spirit beast summoners could do that—this was the place where object summoner warriors were left behind in the path of becoming a better fighter.

Still, other than those five, no other person in the village had bought the checkers set. Auren had priced it at five silver after talking with Elder Mukishi and others. The chess sets he was determined to sell only for 50 silver; it took a lot of effort into making those, and he only had 25. If both got sold—even half of the stock—they would have their minimum required money for the wall.

But when Dante took him to the nearest town of Thornmarch,1 where the lord's castle was, they got a much better deal than Auren had ever hoped. A friend of Dante, another knight, introduced them to the man he was in service of—a distant cousin of Lord Cedric Cornvell, the Earl of Lowfield. 2He was an object summoner and a merchant. Being a part of the branch family of the Earl, he had a bigger status among merchants than a normal merchant would have.

Auren presented his two game boards. The wagon of Elder Mukishi was full of all 195 game sets. Elder Mukishi would have come along too, but his health was not good enough to travel for days in wagons. He did give them a letter for the few merchants he knew in his days. They were going there when the steel-clad knight recognized Dante, and they started chatting on the side of the busy market street.

After two full games of checkers and five games of chess(it was hard to teach the rules), the wealthy merchant of the Cornvell household had bought all of the prepared sets of both games. The thing that the guy praised the most, other than the idea behind such a game and the beautifully carved and shaped pieces, was the handwriting. The most up-to-date version is on M(VLEMPY)R.

Auren had written the rules of the game behind each and every game board along with their house's coat of arms—a mountain goat. It had cost him quite some ink bottles and quills, but he had money, and this was necessary to do if he wanted his game to sell well.

He had always thought they would just impress a few small-time merchants, selling a few sets at a time, and then would make a stand in the market for a couple of days and return back. He had never thought they would get to meet a merchant wealthy enough to invest so much in something very new and unique.

The cousin of their Earl had money to spare, though. The guy was in his mid-40s and quite healthy-looking, with a beard and mustache. If one saw the guy in the crowd, they would take him as a bandit or creepy-looking villain, but he was quite well-known in this town, and all of Lowfield and the Dukedom of Summer.

For Auren, the guy was an angel. He was paid 25 gold coins for all 195 game sets—four coins more than the total price. Auren's hard work and investment in writing all the rules by his own hand were rewarded with four extra gold coins.

I will soon make a map of my world, till then bear with me >.>

For Better Understanding of the noble ranks, Guys see the auxilary chapter called - Noble Rank & Names Of Regions.