My F-Tier Summons Keep Dying for Me: Full Spoiler Guide

Andy Chunking is twenty-two and standing in a midnight launch line outside a Better Buy in Austin when a man walks two children toward a van. Andy gets them out. The man opens both of Andy’s arms at the elbow, Andy kills him with the sliding door, writes FUCK YOUR FREE CANDY on the wall in his own blood, and dies. He wakes face-down in a turnip field with a sheet that reads Cursed Summoner, Realm F-, SENTIENT ONLY. My F-Tier Summons Keep Dying for Me is Jax A. River’s LitRPG cultivation harem: an isekai summoner build that binds people instead of monsters, a realm ladder that only moves when someone he loves dies, and a party he calls like a raid lead.

What it is

Seventy-two chapters, single POV, close third past. The world of Ardnowe and the Sett road puts a nameplate over every head and a System panel on everything from bread to kills. The cultivation ladder runs Mortal (F-, F, F+), Qi-Gathering (E), Foundation, Core-Formation, Nascent Soul, Spirit-Severing, Dao-Seeking, Half-Immortal and True Immortal. A bound summon keeps her true stats but is suppressed to her summoner’s realm, so three terrifying women fight at F-minus because Andy is F-minus.

The kit is small and every number matters. BIND takes blood and 24 qi. RECALL brings a dead summon back after thirty-one hours for the same price. TETHER pours his qi into one of them mid-fight. His summons are Sarafael, an archangel and Instrument of Judgment bound off an execution post, who tanks, schedules everything and bakes siege-grade bread; Dianizobilal, a Greater Succubus and former head librarian, bound by accident when the confirm panel opened into his nose; and Jessamine, a Circle-wright in a tall hat who pressed his confirm button herself during a crossbow ambush.

Who will love it

Readers with MMO hours who want fights narrated in aggro, cooldowns and pulls, and who want to watch a weak build get solved. Readers of cultivation fiction who know heart-demons, dual cultivation and demonic paths and want them inside a LitRPG frame. Readers who want a harem with three sharply different women and want it grim: companions die on the page, more than once, and come back changed. Not for readers who need the lead to be strong, or the tone to stay light.

Tropes

• Isekai by death; gamer lead; stat panels and a snide System
• Cultivation realms; cursed summoner class; death and respawn on a timer
• Harem (archangel, succubus, witch); sapphic pairing inside it; dual cultivation
• Morally black companion; found family; rescue and escort quests
• A watcher-god that feeds on the lead’s choices; villain on the same path, forty years ahead
• Raid-boss finale; a loan with a god; trophy looting; dark comedy

Heat

Site heat level: Explicit. Eight scenes on the page, the first in chapter 12. They are oral-focused, with no penetrative sex shown, and the women lead. Recalled summons come back euphoric and reach for Andy, and he stops them three times. Sara’s full scene in chapter 44 is asked for aloud, sober, a day ahead. The book ends with “rule nine”, a written sober yes all three women sign for the times they return high. Jess and Diana are lovers on the page.

Content notes

Attempted child abduction in the opening; child trafficking and penned children; graphic gore including a woman torn in half, crushing and disembowelling; a torture killing ordered by the lead; ritual self-harm, including a companion opening her own wrists to test recall; companions dying and being resurrected; a companion’s past murder of thirty-one women; people held and worn down by repeated deaths; sexual content during an impaired state, with consent questioned on the page; a child’s death from fever; the deaths of two horses; strong profanity.

Full plot, with spoilers

Andy binds Sara on a threshing floor, Diana by accident a day later. They find Annet dying in a drainage cut: someone else’s bound summon, Deaths 114, her WILL walked down to F-. Another summoner is farming people. At a tithe barn Jess reads all three of them and joins by her own hand. To learn how recall works she opens both wrists, and comes back thirty-one hours later naked and high. At the weir they free eleven captives from an iron-shod wagon, and its driver, Ivo, walks off saying, “She’ll want the angel.”

A voice writes in the river in capital letters only Andy can see. It says it wrote the restriction on his sheet and offers him severing: spend one soul, gain a full realm. He tells it to go to hell and the water looks fed. Ivo sacrifices a held woman to raise a Gorefiend that tears Diana in half in Ferrow market. Andy’s bar fills, he breaks through to Realm F, and he hates that it felt good.

A long middle builds the party through side work: a riverjack ferry, a lynx bounty, the Queen’s Collectors hunting Jess, a dye-works where her arm is severed and mended with Sara’s ichor, a lamp-eater under Wellbrook, Sara executing six child-traders, the Thresher. Sara gives Andy his first kiss and the System logs him as DEVIOUS PERVERT. At the midpoint a woman in a grey shawl sits down at their table. Malericha is a Cursed Summoner on his own path, Realm A, who said yes to the water forty years ago. She reads Sara’s whole sheet and says she will have the angel walked into her gate on a day she picks.

At the river Andy works out the cruel part of his build: his breakthroughs scale with how much a death hurts him. Jess’s chosen death paid two percent. Diana’s paid in full. He tries to ration his feelings and the women notice. On Harn’s Saddle, Sara saves the other two from a drake and falls forty feet; he braces, and the bar pays a third. Ivo presses an iron token into her spilled gold. A line reading CLAIM: PENDING appears on her sheet and Andy files it as a bug. Jess’s unlabelled number turns out to count the women she killed in a cellar to buy an ascension that stalled. She is not sorry.

In chapter 54, mid-sentence on a ridge, Sara’s dress drops empty. BOUND SOUL LOST — CLAIM ANSWERED. His bar completes on her loss. The water makes a third offer and he refuses it. He then reads his own sheet like a design doc and sees what the watcher wants: an audience can be fed on purpose. They free thirty-two captives. Jess guts and drains Ivo on Andy’s spoken order. At the parley Malericha lets him see Sara wake for one breath and kills her again.

The ending (spoiler)

Jess cuts a nine-anchor contesting ring around Malericha’s sigil in eleven minutes under fire. Malericha pours sixty-one jars of soul residue and her own realm into the ground and the Working stands up: Realm S, 4,400 HP, a giant made of the county, apologising in a schoolmistress’s voice for the house, the wall, the hour. Jess reads that Andy’s death ends the raid and hers is only a step. She shoves him clear and a farmhouse lands on her. He breaks through to E-.

The numbers still fall short, so Andy makes a deal. He sells the watcher a show and is lent a Realm A ceiling for the whole party, curtain to curtain, pulled the moment the fight gets boring. Jess’s ring wins the claim duel and his recall lands Sara inside it. She drinks his qi, unlocks Flight, and flies. They win by never repeating a move. He pours Tether into Diana with 1.8 seconds left. He recalls Jess off a second cut on his right arm, and she closes a forty-anchor coffin on the Working while Sara splits it crown to ground and Diana burns its joints. Zero HP.

Malericha, realmless, asks to be allowed to stop and grow old. Her sheet still reads METHOD: RETAINED. Andy says no, and Sara takes her head. Jess keeps the skull as a candle-holder and chalks a door to where the soul went. The loan ends; Sara’s flight shrinks back to a dash; a new sheet line records her third want, to fly once with nothing chasing, as UNPAID. At Foxwell the three women write rule nine and Andy says okay. In the last chapter the watcher’s whole attention turns north onto him. The back matter names the next book, My E-Tier Summons Keep Dying for Me.

Where it sits

First book of a new Jax A. River series. For his completed harem LitRPG runs see Hell Raid Harem, Chad’s Cursed Build and Angel Queen. Genre primer: The Centuria Guide to LitRPG.

Reader Questions

Book page: My F-Tier Summons Keep Dying for Me. Author guide: Jax A. River. Browse the full catalogue at Centuria Books.