Lord Summoner's Freedom Philosophy: Grimoire of Love

"Now, let's see how much my forces got strengthened after the battle with the goblins," (Lyan)

After seeing how Hobu transformed, it's very likely that the other monsters had transformed or at least leveled up as well.

'Me, Master,'

Receiving Hobu's thought, Lyan once again shifted his gaze to the kneeling Hobu, but now there are six black figures similar to him in color kneeling behind him.

"Summoning Grimoire," (Lyan)

Following his call, the black grimoire appeared, and opened the page of Hobu.

[Shadow Goblin Lord (Hobu) (Lv. 5)

An evolved shadow hobgoblin that ruled as a living shadow that is loyal to its master, granting it the strength to use shadow attribute magic and abilities to protect its master. As the shadow of its master, the shadow goblin lord is capable of protecting its master and following its master by hiding inside the master's shadow.

The shadow goblin lord grows stronger by absorbing the shadow essence of dead beings. The stronger the creature that the shadow goblin lord absorbs the essence of, the stronger it will get.

As the [Lord] type of monster, the shadow goblin lord is capable of enslaving monsters into enslaved shadows under him. The number of the shadow servants depends on the strength of the goblin lord's capabilities.

Health: 98/100%

Status: Healthy

Attribute: Shadow

Mood: Worried

Shadow Servant: 6 (3 Goblin Champions) (3 Hobgoblins)]

"I see... He really did evolve from shadow hobgoblin into a shadow goblin lord, huh... Then those shadow figures behind him must be the shadow servants," (Lyan)

Behind the kneeling Hobu, there are three shadow goblin champions and three shadow hobgoblins kneeling even deeper.

(Interesting. My survival rate without the spirits will increase even more with them) (Lyan)

As Lyan is rejoicing the fact that his force had increased, another summoned monster called him, but unlike Hobu, he didn't use the telepathy.

"My lord," A deep voice filled with dark mana resounded.

Lyan shifted his gaze, and the figure of his Deadlight appeared before him. there is not much change in him unlike Hobu, but Lyan could see that his giant claws got even redder and the glow on his eye sockets got even brighter.

"So you can talk..." (Lyan)

Just like Hobu, the Deadlight kneeled, making his cloak spread on the ground.

"After accumulating enough experiences from killing the goblins, I've obtained the ability to communicate with you, my lord. Unlike sir Hobu, I haven't reached any evolution yet, but my rank had ascended. I've also gathered the forces I could to help you increase your strength, my lord," (Deadlight)

Following the deadlight's words, dozens of skeletons approached from behind of him.

(Skeletons! Did he transform the dead goblins into skeleton servants with necromancy?) (Lyan)

Lyan could see that there 24 skeletons behind him are the goblin champion skeletons. He must have prioritized turning the strongest goblins into his servants.

(Summoning Grimoire) (Lyan)

The summoning grimoire once again flipped its pages and went to the Deadlight's page.

[Deadlight (Lv. 63)

A living death that is born from a dense amount of elemental mana and mana of death. They are usually born from the corpses of great magicians and wizards that possess powerful regrets about their life, bringing forth a skeletal lord with powerful magic.

Their giant claws are weapons and staff at the same time. Powerful magic could be used from those claws that act as a powerful magic medium. The deadlight is capable of raising corpses and forcing them to be his servant. His voice could disturb or even devours the soul of the living, and his gaze could petrify even a gallant lion.

Health: 100%/100%

Status: Healthy

Attribute: Death/Soul/Demonic

Mood: Worried

Servants: 800 (24 Goblin Champion Skeletons) (226 Hobgoblin Skeletons) (550 Goblin Skeletons)]

(E-Eight hundred!? So he's capable of making such an army! But the world has a bad image of necromancy, showing the force of undead serving under me might make me unnecessarily get targeted by the church as well. I need to use them wisely) (Lyan)

(Hm? I noticed that the two of them have the same [Worried] mood... Ah! I see...) (Lyan)

"Did the two of you perhaps worry about me because I fainted?" (Lyan)

The both of them nod.

"Not only us, my lord. The golems, the high spirits, and even the lady behind you and her two friends are also very worried about your condition," (Deadlight)

Lyan noticed Surena slightly flinched for a moment before returning to her usual composed expression.

"Please use us as your weapons and tools, as it's the reason for our existence. We'll lose our meaning if we lost your existence, after all..." The Deadlight said as he kneeled deeply.

A deadlight's voice is supposed to contain a dense amount of dark mana that is imbued with a curse that is capable of draining the opponent's life force or engraving a curse on the opponent's soul. But Lyan could only sense a small hint of dark mana from his voice.

The Deadlight before him is maintaining the amount of mana that might appear from his voice with a magnificent amount of control to make sure that his master wouldn't get any negative effect from hearing his voice.

(Meaning, huh... Now that I think about it, I'm responsible for their lives since I'm the one who brought them to this world, didn't I...?) (Lyan)

"You're right. I'll make sure to depend on you to protect me and avoid exerting myself too much. I'm looking forward to your assistance, Deadlight," (Lyan)

"Yes, my lord!!" The deadlight bowed his head even deeper.

"But..." (Deadlight)

"Hm? Is there something wrong?" (Lyan)

"If possible... Is it permittable for me to get a name from you too, my lord?" The deadlight seems to be fidgeting as he asked the question.

"Name, huh..." (Lyan)

(Deadlight sounds cool enough, though... I used Hobu as a name since shadow hobgoblin is too long to pronounce, after all... Hm... Name, huh...) (Lyan)

"Ah! How about Grimclaw?" (Lyan)

(It's from the grim reaper, but since he has a pair of claws rather than a scythe, it became Grimclaw instead. It sounds pretty cool) (Lyan)

"Grimclaw... I see... I, Grimclaw, swear that I will continue to serve you wholeheartedly with all of my strength, my lord," (Grimclaw)

"Good, now let's check for the others..." Lyan went to check the pages of the golems.

Just like Grimclaw the Deadlight, the golems only have their level went to level 50 and haven't reached any evolving peak yet. They are standing at one entrance each as if guarding them to make sure no hostile entities could approach him.

"All of them were guarding the parameter for the whole time, you know? If you see the great hall where the goblin king and his army of guards were killed, you'll even see an army of skeletons checking the whole place around. It feels like I've become a comrade of a demon king or something," Surena shakes her head as she shrugged.

(So the rest of the skeletons are there, huh...) (Lyan)

"There are 676 of them checking every place inside this goblin king's lair, my lord. The other 100 returned together with the high spirits to the Grimoire's Space. The lightning spirit lady and the dark spirit lady said that they are needed to attend milord's house there," (Grimclaw)

(Griselda and Lilith, huh... Attend... It seems like they just got a whole hundred of new servants to order around, and toys for them to play with, aren't they...?) (Lyan)

"I see... With this much of force, it should be enough..." (Lyan)

Lyan closed his eyes as he folded his arms.

(Now let's consider what kind of danger and where the source might come from. I'm incapable of using the spirits until the next week, which means that I need to be capable of defending myself without their strength for a whole week, not to mention that most of the mana I got from them was almost depleted as well) (Lyan)

(The first one is from the prince. He himself doesn't seem to harbor any hostility, but I don't know about those knights, and especially the people of his country. It's not impossible that they will spread the information of me being a summoner. It won't be surprising if there are some people targetting me to make me their pawns because of that) (Lyan)

(Second is Jean. Surena said that some members of the Crimson Talon finally arrived at the Goblin King's lair after founding their leader. It seems that Jean got seduced by a member of the Golden Thrill, but was drugged instead and got thrown into a small cave. I sensed some hostility from him because of Lichia's matter, but I guess hostility from him won't be that hurt, huh) (Lyan)

(The last is the [Crows] we encountered before. I doubt they were the only members. With me taking the prince's side before, it's likely that I would enter their sight as well after this. I need to make some way to keep them in check by some means...) (Lyan)

(With this much attention I got, I guess I need to lay low for a while... Surena and the other Valkyries might get caught up as well if people saw us looking close. But the priority is Belle and the others) (Lyan)

"Looks like I'm going to enter a new fight right after this battle, huh..." (Lyan)

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<Shadow Hobgoblin (Hobu) --> Shadow Goblin Lord (Hobu)>

<+6 Shadow Servants>

<+800 Skeleton Army>

Name: Lyan Arkanium Evocatore

Occupation: Gold-ranked Mercenary

Money: 49,722,400 Elnes

Weapon: None

Equipment: Black leather cloak, Leather Armor, 1 (Decent) One-handed Sword, 2 (Good-Quality) One-handed swords, 2 Health Potions, 2 Poison Vials

Grimoire's Companions: 8 High Spirits, 1 Valkyrie, Shadow Goblin Lord (Lv. 5), Papilio Slime, Galewing Butterfly, Rock Golem (Lv. 50), Deadlight (Lv. 63), Moonlight Butterfly, Ice Golem (Lv. 50)

Grimoire's Army: 6 Shadow Servants, 800 Skeleton Army