18 Alert: party name set as - “The Summoners Domain”

Chaaya awoke with a start, her body jumping up as she woke up. I was sitting at the small table with Avon's armour in my hands. It was plated armour so I had to fix every piece individually.

'Alert: Rhy repaired an item - "Cobalt armour +" '

"Oh you're awake, everything ok?"

"Um yeah, how did I get here?"

"I carried you, don't you remember?"

"You did? Oh right, things are a lot clearer now. How's Avon?"

"He's in the arena challenging opponents again and I'm up here fixing his armour."

"Oh ok,"

I advanced ten levels in the last gate, I put them into strength and speed as usual. And there was a weird message that said I had a bonus reward, It turned out to be an item similar to the "path diviner" I should probably wait a bit to use it, and finally the last thing i need to look at was the new recipe that I got, It was for the Exo-armour, I scrolled to the crafting window and pressed on the recipe book the virtual pages flipping over as I scrolled. I stopped once I found it.

"Item rank - S - an armour forged with the armour of a living weapon."

I could actually craft it? That's new, usually it takes hours of grinding to make a B-rank set of armour.

'Alert: Rhy crafted S-rank item - "Exo-armour +" '

The set dropped to my hands, it was nothing like I expected, it was a lightweight set of black plates that had spikes and curled outwards. There were straps and buckles that ripped into the plates. I put the armour on the black plates covering my wrists and legs perfectly without restricting any movement, the spikes were on my right hand and my left was wider like a sort of shield. A black cloak flowed from under the armour. The black armour melded with my black hair perfectly like the armour was made specifically for me. The stat boosts are insane too, I get a plus 70 boost to defence and a 10 boost to speed not to mention a 40 boost to strength.

"Wow, a new set of armour? Now you really look like a demon."

"Hey what's that supposed to mean?"

"I'm kidding you look like the perfect servant to the future SSS rank adventurer."

Damn it I fell for her schemes again, every time she managed to make it seem like I was her servant. It was so annoying and arrogant. But every time she seems like human scum I see her smile, her radiant smile and somehow it quells my rage. For some reason when I see her laugh at me or smile triumphantly I can't help but be calm, I can't help but feel like everything is alright.

"Come on, I said we'd meet Avon at the tavern now."

"We? I thought you wanted nothing to do with me?"

"Well um that's not… uhh."

"Hahahahaha I got you again!"

"Let's just go human."

"There it is again."

"What? Did you say something?"

"No don't worry"

We arrived at the tavern, the small wooden hut was bustling with adventurers, drink spilling from everyone's mugs as they danced and laughed. I sat down at a small wooden table across from Avon.

"Hello sir what may I get you"

"We'll take three mugs of beer." Avon was surprisingly polite for someone who spends every spare minute fighting.

"Well it is very busy today sir If your drinks were to get dropped in all the celebration it wouldn't be very good maybe 20 roh would steady my hand?" she was smirking, the damn human was shaking us down. Why are they all evil, every single human. Ever… well not everyone.

We paid her and she hurried off to the kitchen and returned a few minutes later with our three drinks.

"So Avon you get beaten again today?"

"What no! I would never lose….. Twice."

"I have a genuine topic of conversation if you're done annoying Avon, human?"

"Sure sure you're no fun Rhy."

"Good now we need a name for our party."

"Oh that's a good point, I hadn't thought about that."

"How about the spear panthers?"

"Um that's a solid no."

"But panthers are awesome and don't even get me started on spears."

"I won't"

"Well what about something like the sword and spear?" Chaaya made a good suggestion but she isn't in the name and I know how far she will go to try and be useful

"Um, how about the summoner's domain?" This sounds right. Since I'm a summon.

"That works for me."

"Well it only makes sense since I will be the next SSS rank."

"Yeah Yeah"

We spent the rest of the night drinking and listening to Avon's drunken spear monologue. It was a fun night. Probably one of my first.

The next day we headed down to the guild to register our party and remeasure our ranks.

'Alert: party name set as - "The Summoners Domain" '

I was measured as an A-rank and so was Chaaya.

"Miss you know what this means right?"

'Alert: Rhy has gained a new title - "A-rank adventurer.'

'Alert: would you like to use title - "A-rank adventurer" '

I won't change my title just now the stat improvements aren't enough compared with the black smith buff I get. This armour is proof.

"Uh no?"

"Well since you are A-rank you can now summon up to three monsters."

"Wow, that's awesome."

No, I thought she was different. How could she? How could she even consider summoning a monster? Why would she do that? She wants to summon a monster to be her slave despite how I feel about it. Why would she do that? I thought she was different. But maybe she was just biding her time until she could do this and leave me behind. Why? Why would she want another summon? Damn it they're all the same. All humans are the same. They only use others. Everything they do is for themselves. How could they? How could she?