I Alone Am an EX-Class Summoner - Chapter 208

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I Am Alone EX-Grade Summoner Episode 208

Tower of Trials 70th Floor (2)

White hall.

Vacant lot.

Swoosh.

Aso took a stance ready to dash forward.

Hunkyo spoke.

Since she first learned the Cheongcheon Movement Technique, and then the Mugeok Cheongeom Technique…

Now it was time to learn another one of the Cheongcheon Movement Techniques.

One of them was precisely Cheonri Meteor (Thousand-Li Meteor).

– Cheonri Meteor.

Hunkyo murmured.

– If Punghua Muheun is about avoiding enemy attacks or concealment, then Cheonri Meteor is a technique for approaching enemies faster than anyone else. It’s a movement technique at the pinnacle among all martial arts. In a way, it could even connect with the Mugeok Cheongeom Technique. What supports excellent swordsmanship is excellent movement technique.

Gulp.

Aso swallowed her saliva.

She knows too.

Punghua Muheun, Ilseom Cheonji…

The secret techniques of the Wuji Immortal are overpowered just by learning them.

– This technique goes beyond simply running fast. You truly become a meteor falling from the sky.

– I don’t quite understand. How is a person supposed to become a meteor?

– A person can’t become wind, yet didn’t you accomplish it?

– That’s true, but…

That’s not the issue.

If a person truly becomes a meteor?

Wouldn’t that itself be able to deal great damage to the opponent?

In other words, like a meteor body slam.

– Aso, you should know by now, but the martial arts of the Wuji Immortal aren’t something to think about so simply.

– Right.

Aso smiled slightly and nodded her head.

Cheonri Meteor.

Like a real meteor, she could step a thousand li in one stride, or approach at speeds beyond limits like a meteor instantly cutting across the sky.

‘Meteor.’

Something that cuts through the sky burning everything, but simultaneously creates a beautiful and intense flow.

If she could show such movement…

Couldn’t she overwhelm enemies while dominating that moment?

– Tell me the incantation. I’ll try to visualize it.

– Good.

Understanding it was entirely Aso’s responsibility.

This was something even Hunkyo couldn’t do.

Truly the realm of genius.

Aso closed her eyes and stored the words Hunkyo muttered one by one in her mind.

Just by hearing it once, she memorized everything and even interpreted it from multiple angles.

Just as when she learned Punghua Muheun, she tried to become wind within the wind…

To learn Cheonri Meteor, she needed to know how to create that instant of reaching the opponent while transcending all obstacles.

‘I don’t know how long it will take.’

Since she has a goal.

Let’s keep challenging!

Aso’s eyes became resolute.

Time passed.

A whole day had already passed, but neither of the two teams had come out.

‘The skill gap is seriously severe.’

The dragon that Aso defeated in one hit, they went in as a group and still haven’t killed it?

He was starting to get anxious.

Wondering if they might have failed.

‘Probably not.’

If they had failed, a message would have appeared.

‘Whatever the case.’

Humanity can’t just ride Baek Jin-woo’s bus forever.

They need to grow properly by fighting with their lives on the line this time.

“Phew.”

Baek Jin-woo, who had briefly dozed off and woken up, stretched and then walked around the area.

Watching his summoned creatures’ training scenes.

Among them, Eila caught his eye.

“Eila.”

– Yes, Jin-woo.

Whirr!

She spun her spear to retrieve it.

“How’s the training?”

– It’s simply amazing.

“Amazing?”

– This world, I mean. The world I lived in must have been entered in this same way, right?

“…Right?”

– Indeed, Jin-woo is amazing. To travel between worlds across dimensions… Sometimes I even think this. Whether Jin-woo might be a god…

“Come on.”

– I’m serious.

Eila’s expression became serious.

– Recently, the more my faith in Jin-woo becomes solid compared to the god I originally served, the more divine power seems to come out. Would you like to see?

Whirr!

When Eila spun her spear again and thrust it downward.

Paaaah!

A dazzling light aura covered the spear.

– It’s much denser than before, right? When I think about it, that’s natural. Jin-woo saved my world and even took me in… To me, Jin-woo is like a god.

But it was real.

He could see the spear aura was definitely brighter and denser than before.

What was this?

Was the setting really like that?

Just as he was thinking that, a thought suddenly crossed his mind.

‘Ah, right!’

He had obtained one S-grade awakened summoned creature in the Tower of Trials.

Then?

Couldn’t he find one in this tower too?

“Hunkyo.”

– Yes, Master.

“Doldol.”

– Kruruk…

Baek Jin-woo called his summoned creatures together.

When he thought about it, there was that kind of fun.

The fun of finding Easter eggs hidden by developers.

And?

The expert who had always found such things was precisely Jinugod.

“Until other teams show up, let’s search around this Daejeon area. We don’t have anything else to do besides training anyway, right?”

Who knows?

Maybe something new will pop up.

Since the setting was new, we couldn’t just pass by anything carelessly.

It was the same during “Battle of Summoners.”

When you drop into a new field?

Terrain reconnaissance comes first.

“Aso will focus on training, and everyone else will thoroughly search the surroundings.”

– Yes, Master!

– Yes, Jin-woo!

– Good.

– Krrrk…

“If there’s anything even slightly incomprehensible or unnatural, come tell me right away. I’ll go check it out.”

Thud thud thud!

The summoned creatures ran off.

Though it’s called a wide battlefield, there weren’t as many places to search as expected.

First, the three-way path.

The paths divided into left, center, and right meet again as one at a higher altitude.

Each path was neither wide nor narrow, just about the right size for three people to pass through holding hands.

If you go up that way?

There’s another three-way path.

Like that, three times.

‘So we need to defeat a total of nine dragons.’

And the final wide common path no longer split into three ways.

One heavy and wide path!

That’s probably where the final boss is.

Chaos Dragon, Zarvan.

The origin of dragons that rules over all dragon tribes!

Everything else was pure white.

The ceiling, walls, and below the stairs too.

The pure white texture without a single pattern gave the feeling of existing beyond the boundaries of the world.

‘Hmm.’

From experience, the probability of something being hidden in places like this is extremely low.

– Meow!

That’s when it happened.

Mayeo, who had been running around somewhere, suddenly appeared in front of Baek Jin-woo again.

“Mayeo?”

– Ahem! Do you know what, meow?

Mayeo crossed her arms with a triumphant expression.

Hm?

What?

Did she find something?

“What do you know?”

– Aso? Pokryong? No matter how strong they are! They can’t match this witch’s utility, meow! Being strong isn’t the measure of being useful, right meow?

“Right, right. Did you find something?”

At Mayeo’s reaction, the summoned creatures in the distance approached one by one.

As everyone’s attention focused on her.

– There’s an illusion spell cast here, meow.

“Illusion spell?”

– Follow me, meow.

What?

Is there really something there?

Baek Jin-woo’s eyes lit up as he quickly followed, watching Mayeo’s rear as she ran ahead.

The place Mayeo headed to was the second commons.

She went to the end of the wide commons, positioned herself there, and performed a ritual.

Scritch, scritch scritch!

She scratched the floor with her claws while muttering.

– There seems to be a system controlling this space itself, meow. It can deceive others’ eyes, but it can’t escape this witch’s sight, meow.

Witches live hiding from people’s sight.

They were beings accustomed to darkness, who could only survive by hiding.

As a result, their ability to read what’s invisible and find what’s hidden naturally developed.

– Hidden path… Concealed magic… And a nasty reptilian smell.

Tap tap.

Mayeo’s claws tapped somewhere in space.

– This witch’s senses don’t simply rely on sight, meow. We feel and read the energy, flow, and delicate vibrations of space, meow.

Like groping to find the end of a thread.

While scratching through the air.

– Found it, meow!

Click!

Mayeo’s claw caught on something.

And she turned it like a key, click!

Whooom!

A wave rippled once, and something new revealed itself in what had been a pure white space.

A tightly closed magic door!

And two people who seemed flustered.

“What, what is this!”

“How did you find this place!”

Baek Jin-woo’s eyes widened.

He hadn’t expected such a scene to appear at all.

There were people here?

Moreover, he could understand everything those people were saying.

“Let’s get out of here!”

The people who discovered Baek Jin-woo’s group started to flee.

What could this be?

If he didn’t know, it would be better to catch them first.

“Hunkyo, Aso.”

Swoosh swoosh.

The two immediately sprang into action.

Hunkyo thrust his sword, and Aso thrust his wooden sword as they charged.

Thud, thwack!

And they easily subdued them.

He didn’t know who these guys were, but their faces were full of resentful expressions.

Well then, shall we interrogate them a bit?

At first, he had this thought.

Could these be the ones behind the system that appeared on Earth?

Could they be the entities operating this Tower of Trials?

That’s what he thought.

But?

It didn’t seem to be the case.

“Earth? What’s that! We don’t know anything about it!”

“Summoned creatures? Tower of Trials? What is that! We’re just ordinary researchers!”

They knew nothing.

Even after having Hunkyo torture them for 10 seconds, they didn’t confess anything.

– They don’t seem to be lying, meow.

If even Mayeo says that, I should accept it.

‘Then.’

This might be a similar situation to the 60th floor of the Tower of Trials.

The possibility that this place is one world.

If that time depicted a continental bloodbath between the Holy Kingdom and the demon race, what would this be?

Could there be something related to the Dragon Tribe?

“So what is this research you’re doing?”

“…F-first, please stop intimidating us.”

“Intimidating?”

Baek Jin-woo tilted his head and looked around.

Whoosh!

Pokryong gracefully drawing out streams of fire.

Tap tap.

Aso tapping his wooden sword.

Whiiiing!

Hunkyo tilting his sword this way and that, letting out sword cries…

Plus Doldoli emitting fierce glares, and even Jakgeo growling!

“Hah.”

It is intimidation.

“Okay. Everyone step back.”

– It’s dangerous, Master.

– That’s right. We don’t know what they might suddenly do!

“It’s fine. I have a protective barrier anyway.”

A Player is invincible unless all their summoned creatures are reverse-summoned.

As the summoned creatures stepped back.

“Good enough? Now stop wasting time and talk. What are you researching? And what’s that door? Why did you hide it with illusion magic so it couldn’t be seen? What is this space?”

“…”

“Too many questions? You can answer them one by one carefully.”

“…Please promise us first. That you’ll let us live if we tell you.”

“That’s…”

It’s something to decide after hearing it, but well.

Listening is what’s important for now.

“Fine, let’s do that.”

“We are… researchers from the Cadia Empire studying chimeras… specifically, we’re a team researching chimeras related to dragons.”

Cadia Empire?

– Oh…!

The one who reacted to that was none other than Eila.

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