Come Forth, My Summoned Beast

The good-for-nothing summoner Naka Sa fell into a place called Earth.

Then she fell back again.

The village had fallen, and the beast tide was surging.

This time, she would protect the village no matter what!

As a tide of demon beasts came rushing in, she raised the phone in her hand.

"Come forth, my summoned beasts!"

A gigantic mutated cockroach spread its glossy black wings, a twisted grin on its face.

"Chat, I'm taking first place in damage this time, no question!"

One monstrous giant after another, each stranger than the last, poured onto the battlefield like a rising tide at Naka Sa's summons.

Before long, the monsters she had summoned vastly outnumbered the demon beasts on the battlefield.

The players realized something was wrong!

This many demon beasts counts as a beast tide? Who are you looking down on? There's not nearly enough to go around!

So they started fighting over the right to hunt the demon beasts!

"This demon beast is mine! Nobody's taking it!"

"If it's yours, why is it in my line of sight?"

"You come into a game and still want to go jungle? You want to hog everything for yourself?"

This devastating beast tide should have wiped out the village. But with the players getting involved, the battle took a dramatic turn!

The villagers watched the summoned beasts scrambling to snatch up the demon beasts, stunned.

Hadn't they just been preparing to give their lives to protect the village?

Now, there wasn't a single living demon beast left, or even one intact corpse!

Did their village chief, Naka Sa, really have this kind of power?

Were they crazy, or were those summoned beasts crazy?

Or was this just a fantasy they were having before they died?

*

In the real world, a mysterious full-immersion game quietly began its closed beta test.

Defend Naka: that was the name appearing on all the major platforms.

At first...

Netizen A: Heh, a full-immersion game? This little studio must have gone way overboard on the ingredients!

Netizen B: A fully open world, a completely realistic experience, and NPCs with emotions just like real people? What an outrageous ad!

Netizen C: No way. If it's real, I'll livestream myself doing the butterfly stroke in a cesspit!

Later...

Player A: Damn it! What kind of garbage game is this? You get 0.1 experience points for plowing three mu of land?

Player B: The NPCs are tough as nails. They'll throw hands instead of talking. Play it and find out!

On the forums, players who hadn't gotten into the beta cursed in frustration: You can't even handle a game this basic? Send me your VR headset and let me play!

Players: Hehehe, this game has so many perks, and the NPCs are so nice to you.

I just love plowing fields!

I plow three mu of land in one go!

From then on, Defend Naka attracted more and more players and received a flood of glowing reviews.

*

At first, the villagers grumbled about these unfamiliar "summoned beasts."

Villagers: The creatures Chief Naka Sa summons are so clumsy. They can't fly or walk, they're ugly, and they love messing around, turning the whole village upside down.

Some time later.

Villagers: Good heavens, the chief's summoned beasts are amazing! I've never seen summoned beasts so clever, obedient, hardworking, tough, happy to do hard labor, brave, enthusiastic, capable, strong...

I really wish I had summoned beasts like these!

*

The village grew and prospered, the number of players kept increasing, and Naka Sa's name became known to everyone.

Naka Sa smiled faintly, keeping her achievements to herself.

I'm just an ordinary summoner, that's all.

Note: The male lead appears late. There is little romance, and the story is a slow burn.

Theme: Success depends on the ordinary things we do every day and the effort we put in