Thank you for the review. The mc is supposed to be EQ stupid and that's why Tsubaki verbally smacks him in chapter 2. If he's coming off as IQ stupid then I need to work on that. It's the second part of your review that's concerning me, and hopefully you'll expand on what you mean when you say 'he'll do nothing and order his servants around.' A major point of the story is that he has to accept that those he summons will not blindly follow orders like dolls. Instead he'll need to learn to work with how others choose to live their lives and find some middle ground where their interests align. Tsubaki smith's, so they'll make spirit guides Hinata paints, so they paint people's cultivation etc. Some explanations or examples of where this isn't happening will hopefully help me improve my writing.

Honestly, its just my opinion of reading multiple novels/fan fics/manga etc. Summoners can be done well if they have a limited amount of time of use in battles or certain restrictions. They could go back in the chess pieces in your story. A good few examples would be fairy tail 🔑 or Rwby (weis summons), stands, personnas and djinns. I say this because most stories with summons who stay there forever need more development, side stories, backgrounds. Since you chose already existing characters it mitigates the damage sure, but a new world would change how they view things and create moral conflicts not to mention the easy trap of advancing the story with already made characters and not your mc/ideas. About the mc’s iq, idk really he just passes off as ignorant or not well driven. I think he needs a clear goal to reach. I hate to say it but the beginning of the story didn't sit well for me either, never mind the family drama, the spirits aren’t well explained or well thought of. The Frankenstein spirit may easily be one of the most original spirit concepts (if you don’t take it the puppet route) I have seen but it needs a new name. Also if you include the spirits eyes in the previous spirit as a mental domain ability why have a chess board as a 2nd spirit with the same mental domain attribute. If his spirit was Frankenstein (a full body type spirit) why would it merge with spirit eyes if the souls aren’t merged? If you read to here, it means you can take criticism. If I offended you in anyway shape or form please disregard my review as I have no bad intentions. Good luck in your journey of a new author ✍️, I shall continue reading your story to see where you can take it!

I'm not offended. I just always have ideas I, before now, never tried fleshing out into a story. Since I'm writing a story, I want to learn to make it better. I can tell some of my short comings, character descriptions, but I'm certain outside opinions can help me more. I'll see about getting more into his martial spirit's oddness in a few chapters. Thank you for your time :)