What Happens When When the Hero Summoning Goes Wrong
Copyright© 2026 by Greven
Chapter 2
WHAT THE HELL IS WITH THESE STATS!!!!
When I got here I was a weakling and now I was in the top tier? Hold on, no. If I remember the heroes were all in the three digit level. Like two hundred and something. For an idea where I stood I looked at Lilly and appraised her. WTF? She was a power house of a fighter and she topped out in the thirties. What the hell did this all mean?
We switched to a room with a large bed at Lilly’s request. After a nice dinner we headed to the baths, only this time she didn’t hide from me. I damn near killed myself as she asked me to wash her from head to toe and this time I did condition her tail. We almost ran back to our new room and after that we knew we were very compatible in every way possible.
The next morning I woke up feeling completely refreshed and with a very happy looking bunny watching me sleep. Then a thought crossed my mind, I didn’t use any protection and boy should I have. “Um ... I know this is a bit indelicate but is there a possibility we might have made a little one last night?” She thought for a second and then looked a little sad. “I guess I should have told you before we married. Demis can’t make children with humans.” She said in a tiny voice.
I lifted her up and then kissed her gently. “Lilly, I didn’t marry you to make babies, I married you because I love you.” Tears started to come. “Maybe we can find a human for you to love and then we can both be mothers to your children.” She sobbed out. I held her in my arms as I felt her heart break. Then something hit me, in my world the Hestia was the goddess hearth and home. Of course she was also the goddess of fire and not earth. Maybe I could ask a boon in some way.
Once Lilly had quieted down I opened up my menu and bought a nice selection of assorted sweet drinks. I set the box down and took a deep breath. “Hestia goddess of earth I make this offering to you in hopes of answering a prayer.” The box glowed and then vanished. “Hey there Larry, contacting me again so soon? Let me guess, want to thank me for your blessing?” I smiled though I kept my head bowed.
“Goddess for that I am truly grateful. I haven’t a clue what to do about them yet, but I am still very glad to have them. Why I came to you now is because I have a wonderful wife with a loving heart. However she is a rabbit woman and her heart is sad because she won’t be able to have children with me. Is there any way I can change that?”
“Woah Larry, talk about a big ask. I’m sorry but that kind of thing is beyond me. See creating a life is up to my father. Maybe someday you will do something worthy of his attention, but I can’t stomp on his toes if you get my meaning?” I nodded and sighed. “Then again...” there was a pause. “You are a bit of an odd ball. Normally heroes can only be summoned in threes. That you somehow got dragged here can’t be a mistake. You also have his blessings in the form of your skill and the other hero gifts. So who knows, maybe he’s already keeping an eye on you to see if you make the cut.”
“The cut?” I asked and she suddenly got cagey. “Opps did I say that? Well I got to go, someone is on the other line. Take care and thanks for the drinks.” Then the line went dead. I turned my head and saw Lilly’s red eyes looking at me. “Why were you offering another prayer?” I sat up and smiled at her. “Well I wanted to know if there was something we could do to be able to have children.” She kind of sank into herself.
“She told me that was something her father might be able to help with, but we would have to meet some kind of conditions before he would even talk to me.” She nodded and I forced her to look at me. “My love, I will do everything I can to make sure that someday I will look at you and see our child in your arms.” She looked into my eyes and knew I wasn’t just saying that. “Then I will stand by your side till that day comes.”
Later I told her about my level and my new magic skills. She asked if I would come with her to the adventurer’s guild and join the guild so we could work and gain ranks together. We got dressed in our gear and headed over after breakfast. We walked in hand in hand and boy did I get some looks. Good thing I didn’t give a shit.
We walked up and the counter lady smiled at us both. “How can I help you both?” I smiled back and said “Well my wife wanted us to form a party since she is a registered adventurer. I’ve some magical talent but I am a registered merchant. I was hoping I could also join the adventurer’s guild.” She bowed her head a bit and then seemed to think. “Well there are no rules against it that I know of but let me speak to the guild master to make sure.”
She took off and a few minutes later came back and asked us to follow her. We entered a large room with two couches and a massive desk. Behind that desk was a white haired man with a scar crossed face. We stood in front of the desk and the old mad reached into a drawer and pulled out a clear crystal. “Hold this.” He said and handed me the crystal.
When I concentrated on the stone the room was filled with a dark green light. “What the ... I thought you said you could use a little magic.” I nodded. “Actually I’ve never used magic. I came from a small village in the Cortan Mountains and never had need of it until the Elder told all of us to leave because war was coming. I registered with the merchant’s guild as soon as I came to this nation, but my wife told me I ought to join the adventurer’s guild.”
“So what did you do back home?” I told him I was a cook and trader and he just nodded. “And you must be his wife.” Lilly nodded and presented him with a silver card. “A D rank adventurer and an over powered merchant. Talk about a mixed party to start with.” He took a few breaths. “Alright, follow me.” We went out a door in his room and after a few turns ended up looking at the back wall of the city.
“Ok young lady, let’s see you in action. Take out that dummy over there.” He pointed at the human shaped dummy and instantly there was an ax buried in the center of it. “Not bad, now let’s see how you do in hand to hand.” She pulled out her second ax and ran over to the dummy. She yanked the first one out and began a dance of death as the dummy was cut to pieces.
“You should be at least a C rank with those skills.” She shrugged and then looked at me. “Well I was trapped in Clefon kingdom for a year so I didn’t get to rank up.” He looked at me and then nodded. “Good reason. Well I’m sure with a few tasks you will reach it in no time.”
Then he pointed at a bunch of boards down range and said. “Well let’s see what you can do.” I realized I had never used magic. “Um, Lily, what do I do?” The guild master’s eyes rolled into his head. “Hold out your hand, envision the magic happening and then call out the name of the spell.”
Ok if that was it then I could let my time watching D&D movies be useful. I pictured a stone the size of my fist flying at the target and hitting it hard. “Stone Bullet” Well it happened just as I hoped, and then beyond that. The stone hit the target and then buried itself in the stone wall behind.
I went to the next one and this time I saw five stones about the size of a cat’s eye marble shooting out at five targets at the same time and slapping to bits. “Stone bullet” It went off perfectly if a little less over powered as the stones only pitted the stone wall behind them.
I aimed my hand at the ground and called “Stone wall.” And instantly a stone wall about six foot long and ten feet high appeared. I looked at a dummy and shouted “Stone Bind”. And the ground rose up to its waist and formed a cone. I looked at the guild master and saw his mouth was open.
“So guild master is that good enough to get a membership?” He nodded and then took a breath. “Yes but the highest I can do right now is C rank. As a party you can both take up to C rank quests.” Then he stared into my eyes. “The two of you are a good match, overpowered and yet restrained. Keep working hard and before you know it you might even make A rank.” We went inside and the Master himself instructed the people what to do in making my card out. Then when we were asked what our party name was I looked at Lilly and she looked at me. “What do people usually use for a naming custom?” The lady shrugged at me. “Some pick things that do with monsters like Dragon busters, others pick names that have a deeper meaning like morning stars.”
I wrote it out and showed it to Lilly. “Ok then, from now on we will call you “Bound and Determined”. You can take up to C rank quests, of which we have many, and all payments are made directly to your accounts. Gold can be withdrawn but only after payment has been confirmed. Any material or artifacts you collect can be sold to the guild traders next door. Any questions?” We shook our head and after I took my card we headed to the many posts that were ranked by level.
I was looking around when Lilly pointed at one. “Hunting goblins is easy and a good start. It only pays five silver per goblin, but we could both do with some practice jobs.” I agreed and presented the lady at the counter with the quest. She registered it and told us a problem area to look in. It was midday and I figured I could feed us something special once we were out of town and she agreed.
When we were at the edge of an area that people had seen goblins in we stopped and I pulled up the menu. I bought a couple of chicken subs and some sodas. Lilly couldn’t’ get over how tasty sodas were and the sandwiches were a real joy. I had just tossed the garbage into my box when we heard something coming our way.
We had decided for our tactics that I would take things on at a distance, and she would keep anything that I missed away to keep me safe. I was getting myself psyched up when three nasty little beasts came running out of the bushes. They had small green bodies and huge heads. Their grins were pure malice and I had no problem putting a stone in the centers of their chests.
Then came the nasty part. We had to cut off their left ear as proof we killed a goblin. That meant buying a large cloth sack and tossing the dripping thing in. Thankfully Lilly had no problem with that bit of work. Not far from those nasties we found a pile of junk she said was their idea of a camp. Lilly then found traces heading away from our kill so we set out after them.
We began taking out one group after another and Lilly said something didn’t feel right. “What do you mean?” She was looking at our surroundings. “Usually goblins move around in small packs so they are no real threat. But we have been finding one group after another and it feels more like these are hunting parties. If that’s true then we are close to finding a goblin village.” That did not sound good and I said so.
“It’s not good for us, but after finding so many they may realize they have been discovered and move on. That means some small village will fall victim to these nasty monsters.” She sounded like that is a very bad thing so I told her I was ready if she was. She pulled me into a kiss and smiled at me. “Thank you for trusting my judgement.”
Just our luck we stepped into a clearing and ran right into a shit load of the damn things. Well I threw up both hands and tried something I hadn’t before. “Stone bullet rapid fire.” Suddenly ball bearing sized stones came shooting out like I was firing a 50 cal machine gun.
I didn’t try going for single targets and just aimed at their head level. This way each round would take out two or three at a time. Just as my vision seemed a little blurry Lilly tapped me on the shoulder. “That’s good Larry you can stop now.” I looked and all I saw was a field of green and red. I collapsed where I stood and Lilly looked me over carefully. “How is your vision?” She asked and I told her. “That’s mana sickness. When you use too much, for too long, it will wear you down. Take a rest here and relax, but don’t fall asleep. If you do I might not be able to wake you up until you finish regaining your strength.”
I opened my menu and bought two large bottles of iced coffee and sat there sipping it. The caffeine started to hit me and helped keep me stay awake. I ended up having to buy a few more large bags for Lilly and wondered what to do about all the bodies. This much meat laying around couldn’t be good for the natural area. This much meat would also bring in a lot of scavengers and that would be trading one problem for another.
Lilly had been collecting the tokens in an orderly manner so I came up behind her and started popping the bodies into my item box. I had no idea of the limits of this magic item but I was going to be testing it today. Then we came up on a real nasty looking thing. Lilly said it was an orc general and besides the bounty for killing one, and the materials it had, the meat was supposed to be really good. I tossed that into my bag as well and we moved on.
We discovered that the “village” was a large cave so we went in to make sure it was cleaned out. We found a lot of loot worth taking, and then I discovered why people really hated goblins. Lilly called it a food pen and it made me glad I slaughtered them all. There were the bodies of human women everywhere and their bellies were torn out. It seemed the beasts loved human women as a snack and did all kinds of nightmarish things to them before eating them. I called up a wall so this place acted as a tomb for these poor women.
We found a large room filled with garbage of all kinds so I emptied them all into that room and sealed it off as well. The sun was going down and so we had to jog in order to get to the gates before the town closed them. We decided it was best to go home, clean up, and report it all tomorrow. Lilly knew the sight of dead humans had caused me pain and she was as gentle and caring as I could ever ask to help me through it all.
The next day we walked in and told them we had found a goblin village. The lady seemed shocked than steeled her nerves. “How big do you think it is?” She asked and I told her it wasn’t a problem anymore. She then looked at my face and then at Lilly. “There was a pen filled with bodies. It was his first time.” I could see the pain in her eyes, but it was for me and not the victims.
“I’ll get the guild master.” She headed off and when she came back the guild master looked at me and just nodded. “So you have the proof?” I nodded and asked if we could do it next door. When we got there it was a small warehouse with benches and huge tables. A heavily muscled man with a bald head named Johan was the head dismantler. “Is this everyone in here?” I asked and they both nodded. “Well I have a blessing that was given to me and I don’t like anyone knowing about it.”
They nodded and Wilhelm told me that it would go no further. I dropped ten twenty gallon cloth bags filled with ears. Then I dropped the body of the orc general on a huge table. The two were stunned at the enormity of what they were looking at. “This is going to take some time to count out. You will still get the bounty for each goblin, the bounty on an orc general, and the bounty for clearing a goblin village.” I nodded and then he seemed worried. “Can you tell me where the bodies are, we need to clean that area up before it brings in other beasts.”
“You won’t find them, or at least not much of them. We collected the bodies and sealed them in a cave about five miles north of here.” William thanked me and told me there would be a bonus for that as well. Lilly and I left them to their business and she took me home. I was laying in bed with my head in Lilly’s lap. “My love, this is the world we live in. Bad things happen to good people which is why the world needs adventurers. We protect the world from that kind of thing happening more often than it already does.”
“I can’t help but think of those poor women.” I said as she stroked my head. “Instead of thinking of them, think instead about the hundreds that were spared by your willingness to stop the goblins at all cost.” Her soft hands ran through my hair. “Think about the mothers who were saved with every stone you cast. Think of all the daughters that will become mothers because of every goblin that fell. Think of every man who won’t mourn his loss because you poured your very life into securing their families.” I took her hand in mine and gently kissed it. “Thank you my love for showing me what really matters in this world. Having great power and making sure it will always be used to make the world a better place.”
The next day we went in to see what jobs there were and were summoned to talk to the guild master. “Good morning Larry, we got the final tally here and your payment. One hundred and forty three goblins generates forty five gold. One orc general is twenty gold, the materials from the orc is another twenty gold, and the bounty for clearing a goblin village is an additional one hundred gold. With the confirmation of the village site bonus the total comes to three hundred gold.”
He smiled at me and sighed. “I’m sorry that kind of job was your first, but now you have a clear idea of what we do if you can keep doing it.” I nodded. “Oh, that made me know alright and I plan to keep doing it as well.” He nodded and then asked to see both our cards. We handed them over and he left for a few minutes while we relaxed and waited.
When he came back we saw we were both rank C now and we had a positive balance on them. After all we were a party and all funds are divided equally on payment. “So got any ideas what you are looking to do for now?” I shrugged. “We were going to look at the board and see what there was.” He then walked over to his desk and handed us two flyers. “Here are two that people haven’t been taking, but need doing. Feel up to them?” I looked and they seemed simple. A metal lizard was causing problems on one of the trade routes and there was a training area that a herd of bloody bulls had moved into.
“Sounds good to me.” I looked at Lilly and she smiled as she nodded her head. “Now the skin on a metal lizard makes for some nice material for light armor, and the bloody horn bulls are some of the best meat you can get around here. Not to mention the leather is highly valued by the merchant’s guild.”
That brought up a good question. “Is it ok to sell material to them and not you?” He shrugged. “Normally both guilds frown on cross sales, but since you are registered with both we can’t say no.” He sat back on his couch. “You might talk to Ralf about the leather instead of taking it straight to the guild.” I nodded and stood up. “Take care, those beasties are tough ones and it will take some thinking to tackle them.”
At the front desk we collected the information on the area these were located in then headed out. We walked together and I just reveled in the being that was my wife. “So my husband, have you given any thought to making our party larger?” I looked at her and shrugged. “Not really, why?” She bumped shoulders with me and hummed to herself. “What do you think about adding another demi to our party? Say a cat or dog demi.”
“My love when it comes to that I will let you be the guide. I have you and that is all I want, so anything else will be to your taste and feel.” She bumped me again and we kept moving. We headed to the mountains to battle the single enemy first. We moved around and began searching for any sign of the quarry. It took us all day but eventually we found a small cave entrance shaded by a tree and began exploring. We found signs of its movements and after some exploration we eventually found a huge chamber.
“Husband, do you know what all of this is?” I looked around and saw small outcroppings of a glowing blue ore. “Not a clue, is it dangerous?” She giggled. “It could be. This is mithril ore.” I nodded “Ok, so is that a rare material?” She then gave me a rundown of the immense value of a find like this. “The problem is that the crown would take this over the instant it’s discovered.”
“Are you saying they would steal the discovery from us?” She shook her head. “No, they would pay us a fair price, but something like this is very rare and the kingdom would need it both for trade and defense. In the end it would be smart to let them buy it and then walk away with the profits.” I nodded and then looked at our target.
“If this beast has been here long enough there will be mithril in its hide. That is valuable but it also makes it nearly impossible to kill.” I grabbed a chuck of mithril and we headed back up the passage way we had come down. With the blue stone in my hand I began the first part of stone bullet, which is imagining the projectile. I imagined it being made of the blue stone and my magic began collecting it from the chunk in my hand.
Step one complete. Next I tried focusing on the shape and made it something resembling the armor piercing rounds I had seen made of steel. The more I concentrated the easier it became as I let round after round just drop from my hand. When I had it down to the same speed as a normal stone bullet and the image was locked into my head, we went to deal with the beast.
I fired a normal stone bullet the size of my fist and got its attention. The lizard spun around, hissed at us, and then I used earth bind to hold it in place. It began to struggle and when it looked at me it hissed and I fired five small mithril rounds down its throat. Its eyes bugged out, it began coughing blood and then its head dropped down. I sat there shooting regular stones at it with no results and then Lilly commented there was blood pouring out of its mouth.
I moved closer, ready for it to stop playing possum, when Lilly walked over looked in its eyes and smiled at me. “Well it looks like you ended this a lot faster than we thought it would take.” I released the body and we looked it over before I sent it into my item box. I looked around and then I smiled at Lilly. “So how much of this ore can we collect before we have to head home?”
In the end we worked for two days as Lilly ran around picking up loose stones while I was walking around gathering larger clusters. The light in the cave actually dimmed a bit before we realized the only thing we hadn’t collected was what we couldn’t reach. I checked my box and at best guess we had almost a ton of ore secreted away.
We got back and went straight to the guild. I asked to talk to Wilhelm and when I told him that the metal lizard was dead he was over joyed. I then told him we needed for him to see it but in secret. That led us to the warehouse and him telling everyone but Johan to leave. Once we were good I pulled the lizard out and they both looked at it stunned.
“Is that what I think it is?” Wilhelm asked and Lilly bounced happily. “Yes, we not only killed a mithril lizard but discovered a new mithril mine.” Johan was stroking the beast and then looked at me. “How did you kill it?” he asked and that got Wilhelm’s attention.
I described the battle and they both nodded. “That was a new ploy I never heard of. Shooting it in the only place that wasn’t armored with enough force to rupture its internal organs.” Then Wilhelm looked at me. “I’m sorry lad but I have to collect the materials from this one for the lord. I also need to know where the thing was living. There is little mithril to be had in the whole world and this will be only the fourth ever discovered.”
He looked at me with a sideways smile. “The good thing is that this beast will probably earn you enough to live for ten years quite well, and the rights to the mine will probably be about the same amount. Rest assured I will fight for every copper you are owed.” I nodded and smiled at him. “I have no worries about you or the guild. I understand your position and will abide in what you think is fair.”
We went back to the inn and paid them for another two weeks before going to our room. We grabbed some clean clothes and headed straight to the baths. After getting clean we ate some dinner and retired to our room where we set about learning even more about each other in depth.
The next day we stayed in and began working on our other form of income. That means we were unwrapping bars of soap and putting them into cloth bags. Once that was done we spent more time stripping labels off the bottles of conditioner. I was wondering how to get this shipment to Ralf when I noticed a home décor sale advert, on that page was a “medieval wooden chest” for sale and at that price I bought fifteen of them. I also book marked it and a few similar products as possible crates for future shipping.
We got it all loaded and then slipped the whole thing into my item box. When night was about to fall Lilly and I went out the south gates and told the guards we were meeting a friend and not to worry about locking us out. I set up a modern tent on the edge of the forest, and the two of us relaxed that evening on an inflatable mattress with two sleeping bags zipped together.
The next morning the gate opened and we were standing there holding the chest between us. The guards looked inside saw there was no contraband, and we headed straight to Ralf’s. When we walked in I saw that his stock had been shifted around and a large case of shelving set up. “Good morning Ralf, we just got your shipment last night.” He called for his wife and when she came out she actually looked much younger than before. “Lawrence, I am so happy to see you. For days I have been constantly asked how in the world I regained my youthful appearance. Now that you’re back does this mean we have stock to sell?” I opened the chest and they both looked in.
After counting out the shipment he offered to pay either by coin or by card. I put it all on the card and we shook hands as his wife filled the shelves and drawers of the display. When she saw us shaking hands she walked over and looked at her husband. “Did you give him the bonus?” I looked at him and then her. “No my dear I haven’t yet. I wanted to close our official deal first.” I looked at him wondering if he was pulling something and his wife stepped on it, but then I remembered she was more likely to do something like that.
He pulled out a sack and handed it to me. “That is the balance for what we are buying at the price you sold it to us at. We already know what the market will take, which happens to be whatever we want it to be. The daughter of the count saw my wife on the street, followed her back here, and demanded to know what she had done to get her hair so vibrant. She happily handed over a half bottle of conditioner and the girl gave her ten gold for it. Well once she had it her mother tried it and wanted some. Right now we have people throwing obscene amounts of money at us in hopes of getting this new miracle.”
Caroline leaned in. “What I want to establish is that after this we can still do business together. I didn’t want you think we were getting the dragons share and leaving you to hang. We didn’t want you to learn how much we were making and then drop us as partners in this endeavor.” I hung my head and chuckled.
“Madame, even without this I wouldn’t have minded. You are putting the name of your company on these and that is why they are selling at this price. That means the extra profit is for risking your name on my product. Now before the wealthy come flooding in I have some other things for you to try.”
This concluded the old deal and we began a new one. I set out three new bars. “The first bar is an unscented bar. The health benefits are less thought the beauty effects should be as strong. The second new bar is...” Caroline stopped me and frowned. “There are health benefits besides beauty?” I nodded trying to look confused. “Of course, haven’t you noticed? The scented bars are all made with specific flowers that smell good but also heal the body in a passive way. They rid the body of impurities; help with aging problems like pimples, bad digestion and sleeplessness.” I said like it was a given.
I could see Caroline thinking. “I hadn’t noticed till you said that but I do sleep better and have more energy.” Ralf nodded. “I have noticed it since the first day. I thought it was just because you liked looking in the mirror again.” She pouted at him and then nudged him. They both blushed and something said there were other benefits they didn’t want to say.
“As I was saying the unscented bar will still do wonders, just not so many. Then we have the Lavender bar with a cleaner scent and the lilac for a sweeter scent. I then pointed at the green bar. “This is a new one for men to not only cleanse and rejuvenate, but give a wonderful new smell.” Ralf sniffed that one and his eyes widened. “Oh that is bracing and very clean smelling.” Caroline sniffed it and then gave Ralf a little eyebrow wiggle.
Ralf then reached into his pouch and counted out sixteen coins. I gave him two back saying the unscented was less expensive as the process to make them is less work intensive. “If that is the case, maybe we could sell this at a lower price that the average person could afford.” Then I asked Ralf if he needed any horn bull leather.
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