A Dual Crest Summoner In Infinite Summoning World

"How did you think of such things?" the Baron's daughter named Petricia asked, her big wide eyes looking at Auren with curiosity.

"I just thought about how we could use the common summons of our villagers more effectively.." Auren answered slowly, stepping away from the clutches of the mother-and-daughter combo.

"A good use of the useless summons.." the Baron's wife said.

Sable's face twisted a little, but she stopped herself from saying anything. The word 'useless' was indeed unnecessary here.

"The shiny backplates for candles and wall stands will be really useful when I read at night.." Petricia added, an excited smile on her face.

Ah, somehow Auren felt like that was not really as much a compliment for him as it was a snide at her mother's 'useless'. Still, Auren smiled and nodded, acting his part of a five-year-old perfectly.

She continued, "We have already ordered some for our keep. The blacksmith will make some and send them to us.."

"The cleanliness of this village is indeed above the others we visited—such ideas must be spread all over the March-field," Lady Thornmarch said.

Petricia nodded. "Father must compensate this little gentleman with rewards for such nice ideas."

"That would be well-deserved," agreed the Lady.

The Baron stayed the night in the best house their village had to offer. Auren thought he would get lucky with such busyness and would finally get to see the monsters that come at night, but alas, his parents knew him a bit too well for that.

They left the Baron and his family in Elder Mukishi's care and arrived at their home before 6:30 in the evening, squashing all his hopes of staying alone with Granny and sneaking a look at night when she was deep asleep.

The next day, the Baron left with all the 'gifts' villagers gave him to make up for the tax. The wagon and carriages were filled up, and there were still a few villages the guy had to visit—on top of the other villages where the Baron's men had already collected the tax. They had put a lot of effort into the celebration this year. Surprisingly, the Baron was more lenient with Dante than the Baron's men who had come last year.

The Baron, too, was an Orange-rank beast summoner—he did not summon it during his visit, but Auren had heard the guy could summon a big monkey. His daughter had inherited the bloodline summon. She was a Blue-ranked one.

A Blue-ranked beast summoner could share some of the senses of their summon; an Orange rank could partially assimilate with their beasts. According to Dante, at Gold rank, there is no physical difference remaining between the summons and the summoner—they become two souls in one body.

It wasn't guaranteed that a child would inherit their parents' beast summon—but if both parents were animal or beast summoners, it was highly likely that the child would inherit the beast of a domineering gene. Still, there was always a chance—even after being born in a generational beast-summoning family—that a child might have an object as their summon.

Auren was rewarded with a silver chalice by the Baron for the innovative ideas he had used to make the village better. They had high hopes for him after seeing his two summoning crests—but when Dante told them what his two summons were, Auren saw the hopes vanishing from their eyes, replaced in an instant by pity, even disdain. For the sake of appearances, they didn't say anything, but it was clear to see what they thought of him.

Auren didn't care for a second, but Dante and Sable had a hard time suppressing their dislike. Dante had too much pride as a knight to say something to his lord, and Sable was held down by Dante. Even if she was Dante's wife, she would still be considered a commoner by the likes of the Baron and his wife—anything from her would not be taken lightly.

She said a lot of things afterwards though—Dante had to calm her down even though he himself was pissed. Auren had a hard time not laughing out loud hearing the creative insults Sable was throwing around. When his grandma heard what had happened, both Dante and Sable had to stop her from shouting out loud in their front yard.

Auren now could not stop himself and had to let himself go. All three were confused seeing him laughing like crazy, then all three slowly started smiling seeing him. Days like these reminded Auren how goofy this new family of his could be at times.

The silver chalice was actually worth over 40 silver coins. The currency here was the same as it was in old times on Earth—10 bronze was 1 silver, then 100 silver made 1 gold. Just the words used for Silver and Gold had another meaning in their language: Bronze meant Rat, Silver was Wolf, Gold was Bear, and there was one more for Dragon—1000 silver was 1 Dragon.

It was supposed to be a metal superior to gold in value, but Auren had never seen it. He had never seen a gold coin either, but in stories Granny and Sable told him, gold was often referenced as a shiny yellow coin.

Dante asked what he wanted to do with the chalice. Auren simply asked him to sell it and use the money for their house—but both Dante and Sable rejected the proposal wholeheartedly. The lord had awarded it especially to him—Auren—to have the chalice for his contributions. His parents knew Auren understood the value of money just like them, and they did not want to take what was his.

Till this point, he had not thought much of the silver chalice, thinking he would just give it to Sable. But now, with 40 silver coins, there were some things he could do that required money. For now, Auren just asked Dante to sell it—he would think of something to do with the money. His parents knew what his thinking would most likely include, and they accepted without any questions.