I Alone Am an EX-Class Summoner - Chapter 209

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I Am Alone EX-Grade Summoner Episode 209

Tower of Trials 70th Floor (3)

– The Cadia Empire! I’ve heard of it!

Baek Jin-woo’s eyes narrowed.

She’s heard of it?

That means she hasn’t actually seen it herself.

– It was an ancient nation that existed long before the Holy Kingdom of Lumentia. I heard it was destroyed because they lost control of their test subjects while researching something, but could it be…?

Oho.

From Eila’s words, he could tell.

This place was also the remnant of a fallen nation, just like Lumentia.

“So.”

Baek Jin-woo twisted his lips.

“You’re researchers from the Cadia Empire… What is this place? Why did you use sorcery to hide yourselves and create this space?”

“Th-that’s actually.”

One of the researchers hesitantly raised his hand.

“To be honest, we’re just as confused. We didn’t even know this space existed. And we certainly didn’t expect a suspicious person like you to suddenly appear here.”

“That’s right. We were simply managing the energy accumulation device.”

Energy accumulation device?

– I know about that.

Eila, who was beside him, explained again.

Paladins, especially Champions, must be skilled in both martial and scholarly arts.

To serve God, one must never neglect the history of the continent.

– It’s an ancient mana absorption device. It’s the core technology for creating chimera cores. The concept is that you just install it and mana accumulates automatically over time, but I know it was abandoned and lost in our era.

Hmm.

Baek Jin-woo nodded.

Anyway, this is quite fascinating.

This space, which he thought was just a test stage, was connected to the ancient history of that continent.

“So you don’t know anything?”

“That’s correct.”

Baek Jin-woo made a strange expression.

“What ridiculous guys you are.”

“Pardon?”

“You said you’d tell me everything if I promised to spare you… But all you’re saying is that you don’t know? Then where’s my reason to spare you?”

“We-we really don’t know, what do you want us to do?”

“Huh.”

But they really seem to not know.

Then I’ll just ask about something else.

“How do I get to your continent? Do I need to open that door?”

“Uh… That’s…”

“When you were trying to escape earlier, you seemed to be heading there. Right?”

“Ah-ha, yes. That’s right.”

“Then guide me there.”

If these guys don’t know?

He could just capture someone higher up and ask them, was his thinking.

“Understood. Please wait just a moment!”

One of the researchers jumped up.

“But you need to stay far away. If too many people gather at once, the device might overload and everyone here could be in danger.”

“Hmm, really? You’re not trying to pull something, are you?”

“Why would I pull anything! Actually, if I bring you along, the higher-ups will be even happier. The Cadia Empire always welcomes new things.”

The researcher showed a friendly smile and headed toward the magic door.

Then he began tampering with various devices.

He even started humming a tune.

Step, step.

Baek Jin-woo also moved to that area.

– Master.

Hunkyo muttered as if worried, but.

Swish.

He raised his hand and gestured that it was okay.

“Hey.”

The researcher called another researcher.

“What are you doing! Hurry up and help. We need to open the door.”

“Ah, right! Of course!”

Hurriedly!

The other researcher ran over and moved his hands around as if operating the device.

‘Hmm.’

Look at these bastards.

Something feels off.

They deliberately created distance between us and then grouped together?

Are they trying to escape?

‘Am I being too sensitive?’

Probably not.

The other summons also seemed to sense something suspicious in the atmosphere, as they were keeping their eyes sharp.

“The device looks quite complicated.”

“Haha, it’s because it’s old. It takes some time to activate.”

“You’re not stalling for time, are you?”

Grin.

At Baek Jin-woo’s smiling question, the researcher’s hand stopped.

Tsk.

Then his expression instantly twisted.

“As expected, I can’t fool you. But it’s already too late.”

His hand suddenly grabbed the central lever of the device and pulled it down.

“Chimeras, awaken! Awaken and annihilate these vicious criminals!”

Kugugugugu!

At that moment.

Some kind of iron bars fell down between the magic doors.

However.

In that split second.

Baek Jin-woo, who had been waiting, immediately rushed forward.

Kwarreung!

The bars closed with exactly the two researchers and Baek Jin-woo inside.

– Master!

– Gasp!

– Father!

It was certainly a mysterious iron cage.

Even when Hunkyo and Aso immediately drew their swords and struck.

Zing!

The swords couldn’t reach it.

“Oh no, did he get in?”

The researcher panicked, apparently not expecting Baek Jin-woo to enter in such a short moment.

“Huh.”

Baek Jin-woo let out a sigh.

“Look at these bastards.”

The reason he could boldly enter?

Setting aside the protective barrier.

Anyway, in a human vs human fight, Baek Jin-woo doesn’t lose to anyone.

As long as the opponent isn’t superhuman, and the aura he felt from those guys was insignificant.

In other words, they were below Baek Jin-woo’s level.

Moreover.

– Master!

Meow!

Someone appeared right next to him.

It was Mayeo.

– Their behavior was so suspicious that I’ve been hiding beside master. Kekeke, did they think they could hide their sinister intentions from this witch!

He had known from the beginning that Mayeo was attached to his thigh.

Anyway, when Mayeo growled cutely, the researchers panicked.

– Kekekekeke, master! Please allow me to use these bastards for human experiments! This witch will torment them horribly before killing them!

Wait.

Before that.

– Kroaaaaaaaaa!

– Kiraaaaaaaaa!

– Kroaaaaaaaaa!

That’s when three dragons burst out from the Three-way Intersection commons over there.

‘Those are.’

Poison Dragon, Water Dragon, and Wind Dragon!

They were the mid-bosses of the 64th, 65th, and 66th floors of the Tower of Trials respectively.

“Kekeke, it’s already too late.”

A researcher chuckled as he muttered.

“We didn’t expect you two to enter, but the people outside will all be swept away by those chimeras. They won’t be able to escape either. This iron cage is a high-dimensional device that completely separates us from that space.”

“Is that so?”

Baek Jin-woo replied indifferently.

The researcher didn’t like that attitude.

No matter where you search the continent, there’s no existence that can face those chimeras.

That was also the reason the Cadia Empire had unified the continent for hundreds of years.

And he’s so carefree in front of such chimeras?

The three dragons soared high into the sky.

Just as they unleashed their momentum to tear apart all living creatures with fierce roars.

Slash!

A cutting sound came from somewhere.

Whoosh!

The sound of fire was also heard.

And.

Crack!

The splitting Poison Dragon and the burning Wind Dragon!

And.

– Doldoli, you try cutting that one!

Along with Ramba’s shout.

Slash slash slash slash slash slash!

Even the reaper that instantly split into multiple copies and spun its scythe at light speed.

– Kieeeeeeeek!

It didn’t even take 20 seconds for all three of those tremendous chimeras to disappear.

“Right.”

Baek Jin-woo looked at the researchers whose mouths were hanging open.

“So who’s getting swept away?”

“Cra, cra, cra, crazy…!”

The researcher stammered multiple times as if he had witnessed something that should never happen.

Smack!

He struck the back of that researcher’s head hard.

“Enough, just hurry up and open the iron cage, you bastard.”

“If, if I open it, what will you do?”

“Let me ask you the opposite, what will you do if you don’t open it? Ha, this won’t work.”

Baek Jin-woo turned his head and called Mayeo.

– You called!

“Limited to these guys, you can do whatever you want. Just don’t kill them.”

– Kyahahaha! Good!

Mayeo began jumping around excitedly.

Master’s first permission!

A damp green aura began writhing around Mayeo’s body.

“Wha, what are you trying to do!”

“Wa, wait a moment!”

And at that moment.

The green aura spread like tentacles and pierced into various parts of the researchers’ bodies.

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”

Tremendous screams were heard.

“Ugh, they’re not going to die from this, are they?”

– Don’t worry! I just used a spell that maximizes the pain nerves! Kekeke! Now I’m going to conduct pain experiments to see which types of pain make nerve cells react most actively!

“Ple, please spare us!”

“We were wrong! We were wrong!”

The researchers began begging frantically due to Mayeo’s atrocities.

Ugh.

At that level, even I would probably beg.

If you get caught by Mayeo, death becomes a luxury.

You’d be destined to live your entire life as a test subject, unable to even die.

– Hmm, let me start with burning pain. Here!

Whoosh!

As the green light changed to red light.

“Aaaaah!”

“I’ll, I’ll open it! I’ll open the iron cage!”

The objective was achieved immediately.

Wow.

As expected of Mayeo.

– Open it right now.

Even speaking solemnly, the coolness just flows out.

The researcher pulled the lever back up.

Whirrrr!

The iron cage rose back up and disappeared.

Well, it was quite an interesting device.

“Phew.”

What should I do with these guys.

Since they tried to kill us, naturally killing them would be right…

But just killing them feels like I’m wasting a hidden achievement.

During that brief moment of pain, the two researchers were so shocked that they knelt down, tears streaming down their faces.

Baek Jin-woo crouched down to meet their eyes.

“For now, I’ll let you keep living. Of course, I won’t stop Mayeo though.”

“Pl, please….”

“Instead, I’ll make you a promise. If you have any information to spill, bring it to me. Then I’ll give you rest time. The more useful that information is, the longer your rest time will be.”

“We, we don’t know anything.”

“Wow, still saying that?”

Baek Jin-woo smiled coldly.

“Well then, I guess we’ll have to blame your shallow knowledge. Who knows? Maybe something important will come to mind while you’re suffering.”

– That’s right-nya! This witch has magic that makes people tell the truth-ong! Living beings originally have survival instincts, so they have the mysterious habit of spilling the truth when beaten until they’re on the verge of death-nya!

With that, Mayeo began casting her spell.

“Keu, keuaaaaaaak!”

The screams of the two researchers echoed through the air.

“At, at this rate we’ll really die!”

– Wouldn’t it be nice if you died-nya? You’d be freed from this pain-deng?

“We’ll really die! Keuaaaaat!”

– Try dying-nya. This witch is in control, so if you can die, that would also be a test subject-ong!

Mayeo’s eyes turned cold.

– And you must pay the price for daring to target my master-nya. Don’t you dare speak right away-nya! No, I’ll seal your mouths for 1 hour-nya! Absolutely don’t tell us any information-ong! The more you try to speak, the more painful spells I’ll cast-nya!

Squeeze!

When Mayeo cast her magic, the researchers’ mouths disappeared.

Literally, their faces only had eyes and noses left.

Which meant they couldn’t even scream anymore.

Wha, wha, what!

The researchers’ eyes showed expressions asking what kind of crazy cat this was.

This wasn’t just ordinary crazy!

‘Definitely.’

Baek Jin-woo nodded as well.

Witch magic and mage magic were subtly different.

– Master! Don’t worry-nya.

“Yeah.”

– They’re the Imperial Research Team, and they came to inspect the core device that creates chimera cores-nya. It makes no sense for guys like that to have no information-nya! Just wait a little and I’ll shake out everything down to their souls-nya!

Yes, yes.

Very reliable indeed.

For the time being, it seemed like Hunggyo’s Bun-geun-chak-gol would be out of work.

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