Betrayed by the Hero's Party, I Summoned Their Replacements

Reed's summoning skill pulled a wooden chair during a boss fight. A chair. It sat in the summoning circle while a level 35 dungeon guardian tried to cave his skull in. He used it as a shield. That's what [Random Summon] was: 98% garbage, 2% barely useful, and the reason the Hero's party kept him around as a punching bag instead of a teammate. For two years, Reed took the beatings. The stolen loot. The healer who patched his bones but never asked who broke them. Then the Hero buried him alive in a collapsing dungeon and filed him as dead.

Reed Altius has come a long way from the level 5 Summoner pulling wooden chairs from the junk pool. His garbage skill evolved to Mythic rank, his party includes three legendary women pulled from the sealed archives, and he just passed the Church's sanctioned Hero on the frontier rankings. Now the Church is calling him to answer for it. A formal investigation into his skill's access to sealed records. A hearing before the Fourth Circle Inquisitor.

The archives are alive. The Church lied. And the man they tried to bury is standing at the gate. The capital doesn't work the way the frontier did. The enemies wear titles instead of armor. The weapons are subpoenas, tribunal votes, and forged evidence planted in guild offices. And the Seneschal has spent twelve years building the kind of institutional power that a level 63 Summoner can't cut through with a blade. So Reed brings his own arsenal.