His situation was akin to possessing an AK-47 rifle without knowing how to unlock it.
'If things stay as they are, Daichi's words will become reality. Forgetting about the demons maybe I couldn't even defeat children from this world.'
While he was wallowing in despair. Someone tugged on his sleeves as if sensing his emotions.
"Right! No need to lose heart I still got you too with me!"
Kelly said those words as he moved his hand and placed it on the top of a crow's head. As he kept on petting his head, he found himself calming down. Yeah right, no need to freak out I still have him kelly thought.
"After all! You are more powerful than me aren't you buddy"
Turns out even though my Lightning magic has no future whatsoever. My summoning magic works just fine and Mr. Crow here is my very own summon.
Where all other types of magic work on some kind of manipulation of natural phenomena. Summoning magic is the only exception, it's completely different from all the other types of magic. While with other magics, you need some amount of mana to trigger them with summoning you need no mana it doesn't even matter if you have mana or not. Summoning magic entirely depends on the other aspect of the status 'SOUL STRENGTH'.
As explained before, soul strength means the strength of your soul or the amount of stress your soul can endure. So, when activating summoning magic if the summoner's soul strength is equal or less than the summons then only the contract can be completed.
The reason you can't form contracts with beings of higher soul strength was simple, when forming a contract both individuals souls overlapped with each other. Simply put they are connected through soul. A bond which can't be broken when formed until one of them dies which results in your soul being broken too and can result to death also at least that was what Sir William said. Therefore, as a summoner your soul strength plays a major part. For example, kelly's soul strength is 50 which is a numeric representation thanks to status. So, If he chooses to form a contract with someone of lesser soul strength let's say 25. Then he will only be left with another 25 of his soul strength to form another contract. Conversely if kelly form a contract with someone whose soul strength is more than 50 then it will put an incomparable strain on his soul in which case either he will die or his lifespan will be shortened. With an additional benefit of your, summon being out of your control.
'Normally people with summoning magic have higher soul strength also. Like the Hero, but there have been some unfortunate incidents of people with low soul strength to have summoning magic. In that case it is preferred they summon only one with all their soul strength and train them to become stronger.'
"Isn't that right! Mr. Crow"
And all that brings us back to kelly's summon. Which is in fact a crow, I know it doesn't sound all that amazing to have a crow as a summon when the hero summoned a dragon. But that doesn't make Mr. Crow powerless, on the contrary he is even more powerful than those snot nosed knights.
There is a huge difference between the soul strength of humans when compared with beasts. Usually, beasts have low soul strength and that's resulted in them having low intelligence conversely humans have higher soul strength compared to beasts. It doesn't mean they are more powerful than beasts. It's just because they are highly intelligent species compared to beasts who have more potential in the path to power. So, even though a low-level beast has soul strength between 5 to 10 they are generally stronger than most humans.
"Which makes you a very powerful beast out there! Isn't that right! Aww…" kelly said as, he started patting Crow's whole body with both hands. And in response he yawned and nodded boringly, as if answering kelly.
'So, cute!'