I Alone Am an EX-Class Summoner - Chapter 256

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I Am Alone EX-Grade Summoner Episode 256

Celestial Realm (4)

“I’m getting summoned creatures.”

It wasn’t just one.

[Player ‘Baek Jin-woo’ has acquired summoned creature ‘Stone Goblin’ (E-grade)!]

[Player ‘Baek Jin-woo’ has acquired summoned creature ‘Stone Goblin’ (E-grade)!]

[Player ‘Baek Jin-woo’ has acquired summoned creature ‘Stone Goblin’ (E-grade)!]

…

Whatever I touch becomes a summoned creature just like that.

Even more?

They can be summoned too.

But only exactly five.

It seemed like I couldn’t exceed the Tower of Trials rule of maximum fifteen creatures.

“Hunkyo.”

– Yes.

Slash slash slash!

Hunkyo drew his sword and cut down all the summoned goblins at once.

They weren’t helpful anyway.

These naturally went into my inventory.

“It seems like they’re in their state before being summoned to Earth. If I tear a summoning scroll on Earth? One of these would go over there. And I’d acquire it at the same time.”

“…That makes sense, hyung.”

“The fortunate thing is that they can be summoned… Though I don’t know if it’s a bug or what.”

It’s probably a bug.

Originally, you can’t tear summoning scrolls inside the Tower of Trials.

But somehow, I got the same effect as tearing a summoning scroll.

‘As expected, this buggy damn game.’

But it’s actually fortunate.

Even if Baek Jin-woo is fine, the other members have already reverse-summoned many of their creatures.

Their power is severely lacking.

This is a precious opportunity to replenish here.

What about runes?

They can take them from reverse-summoned creatures, and since they’re all world rankers, they probably carry a few sets of fully enhanced runes in their inventories.

If that doesn’t work… I’ll just tell Runde to make some.

I can’t enhance them, but there will definitely be useful summoned creatures if I just match the set effects.

“I have a feeling that one of the reasons the system extremely didn’t want us coming to this place was this?”

“That’s right. I think so too.”

“Let’s spread out and search through the factories here. Look for at least A-grade or higher. S-grade would be even better. You guys need to replenish your power.”

There are countless buildings here.

If we search through them, surely there will be a treasure trove?

“”Yes!””

A strange mix of tension and excitement appeared on the faces of the scattering party members.

At least A-grade.

The highest grade summoned creatures most of them have are A-grade.

But?

Here, if they’re lucky, they might get S-grade!

That grade that was impossible on Earth.

‘This is amazing?’

‘The 80th floor of the Tower of Trials must have been a hidden among hiddens.’

‘Let’s find them. We must find them no matter what.’

Their dead morale began to rapidly rise.

We decided to conveniently call the buildings stacked with summoned creatures ‘factories.’

There were an incredible number of factory complexes here.

Between cities and cities.

The lower paths of the heavenly islands.

They were just countless.

Also, most summoned creatures were B-grade or lower.

Occasionally when we found a factory with A-grade summoned creatures stacked up…

– Kiruurururururu…!

We sent a Sky Wyvern into the air to mark the location.

After spending several days here, we concluded that there wasn’t a single surviving angel in this place.

All nearby cities were eerily empty without even an ant, and Aso, who kept watch, said he hadn’t seen a single living angel.

What does that mean?

They really squeezed out every last soul to send them to kill us.

“A-Amazing! Come over here!”

“It’s a treasure trove!”

Everyone was truly excited when discovering A-grade summoned creatures.

And certainly, A-grades were few in quantity.

Unlike B-grade and below that had thousands in each factory, there were only about a hundred.

Actually, even a hundred is a lot by Earth standards.

“But it’s meaningless anyway.”

“Right. We don’t even know if we can return to Earth alive.”

“But it still feels good, right?”

We generously collected A-grades as we saw them.

Even if we don’t use them, we acquired them all for now.

The summoned creature inventory is infinite after all.

Fortunately, trading was possible even inside the Tower of Trials.

“First, sweep them all up. I’ll figure out which summoned creature combinations work later.”

“”Yes!””

Everyone was excited.

For a moment, they forgot their sadness and felt surging dopamine.

And that dopamine…

“I found it!”

Reached its peak with Song Yeon-hee’s shout heard from far away.

“Guild leader! Over here! It’s S-grade!”

“S-grade!”

Baek Jin-woo’s eyes lit up.

He has no intention of raising S-grades now or in the future.

Raising EX-grades is already overwhelming, and learning one more Aso skill would help increase power more than raising hundreds of S-grades.

However, the members are different.

Their power itself changes if you give them just a few S-grade summoned creatures each.

He can raise them all to Rachel’s level.

“S-grade?”

“Really?”

“I’m coming now!”

“Where! Where is it!”

Everyone gathered toward Song Yeon-hee.

The factory with S-grades looked the same, but the difference was…

“Just one?”

“Only one?”

Unlike the grades that had hundreds or thousands, there was only one.

In that vast interior.

First.

In the center, a dragon that seemed to harbor lightning was crouched inside a giant transparent glass tube.

“That’s….”

Just looking at it, I could tell what it was.

“It’s the Azure Dragon, isn’t it?”

A body covered in blue scales.

Eyes that dominated the space with yellow light.

Transparent wings.

A tail split like a trident.

…And on top of that, an intense electrical pressure so strong it was hard to breathe even from close range.

Anyone could see it was the Azure Dragon, one of the Four Divine Beasts from East Asian traditional mythology.

“Guildmaster.”

Song Yeon-hee pointed at the Azure Dragon with both hands.

“Please acquire it quickly!”

She said, shrugging her shoulders.

Come to think of it, among our SKY members, she had always been the luckiest.

She always brought back valuable things generously.

“Even if you don’t use it, Guildmaster, it’s tradeable anyway. I think it would be safest for you to have it.”

“Right, well done.”

I approached the glass tube and placed my hand on the Azure Dragon’s scales.

[Player ‘Baek Jin-woo’ has acquired summon ‘Azure Dragon’ (S-rank)!]

“Let’s keep collecting like this for now. We’ll decide who uses what and distribute everything at once when the time comes.”

“Sounds good!”

“Understood!”

Everyone shouted energetically.

Now their goal had become even clearer.

Find and collect as many S-rank summons as possible!

Then distribute them!

The members quickly scattered again.

At that moment.

Somewhere in the Celestial Realm.

“Haah.”

There was a woman sweating profusely and sighing, and it was Hong Ari.

“Just stop for now and rest.”

“Don’t push yourself too hard.”

“That’s right, sis. If you collapse, we’ll all die here.”

Surprisingly, all the missing members were right beside her.

From Jenos, Hikaru, and Olivia.

To Oh Sun-young, Kang Geon-ho, An Gi-jeong, and Kang Ji-ho.

“…Haah, should I?”

Thud.

Hong Ari slumped down and wiped the sweat streaming down her clothes.

Above them, a flame orb that looked hotter than the sun was blazing away, and Jujak was currently blocking that heat.

“Damn it….”

Hong Ari clenched her fists tightly.

It had been a week since falling into this place.

She closed her eyes and recalled the past.

That time when Rachel suddenly shouted about clearing the mission and was sent to Earth, causing chaos.

It was fine until everyone jumped into the rift near the Destruction Dragon.

But the real problem started from then.

When caught in the rapids of dimensional travel, everyone inevitably got scattered….

In that brief moment, Hong Ari jumped out from the Destruction Dragon and entrusted herself to Jujak’s embrace.

At the same time.

Flame Summoning.

She consumed all her MP to summon fire spirits and flame birds, enveloping all visible beings.

That was exactly those seven, and several summons that were nearby.

Jujak flew weakly through the air, being drawn to this place with the giant flame….

‘This flame.’

The closer they got to the intensely burning fire, the more Jujak’s power came alive.

Accordingly, the power of the spirits she had summoned to Jujak also grew stronger, naturally guiding them to this place.

In other words?

It was fair to say that Hong Ari had saved all these people.

‘The problem is….’

There was absolutely no way to get out of this damn place.

That wasn’t all.

If Jujak hadn’t spread its wings to suppress the pouring heat?

We would have already turned to ash.

Everyone was sweating profusely.

It felt like it was roughly between 40 and 50 degrees.

Of course, that was the temperature in the area Jujak was protecting.

If you stepped slightly outside?

It would probably easily exceed thousands of degrees.

‘We might get cooked to death at this rate.’

It was unfortunate.

If only Hwang Ji-woo had been here, it would have been more livable….

Unfortunately, there were no ice-attribute Players here.

“Do you think Jujak can keep holding out?”

Jenos asked, and Hong Ari nodded.

“Jujak is fine. Actually, it’s full of vitality. It even feels stronger than before.”

“Then what about using Jujak to break through those flames?”

“That won’t work, I’m telling you.”

– Kiru!

Jujak shook its head vigorously as if angry.

“The moment we enter there, even Jujak will burn up.”

“…Jujak burns in fire? A bird that’s already on fire?”

“Exactly.”

That fire is an impossible fire.

How we even got in here when we entered… honestly, I don’t remember.

When I woke up after fainting, we were all here.

If I had been conscious before that?

I would never have entered a place like this.

“Ugh, this is frustrating.”

“I want to eat shaved ice.”

“Shaved ice, really…. Just a cold drink would be enough for me.”

“I’m hungry.”

All they had consumed for a week was just drinking water.

Even that water was only available because the Transmutation Alchemist (A-rank) was alive… If Hong Ari hadn’t saved it, they would all be dead.

“For now, we need to keep thinking of solutions….”

It was just as Hong Ari, who had rested briefly, was about to get up from her spot again.

Kurrrung!

The ground shook.

“What’s that?”

“What is it?”

Everyone stood up from their seats.

But the earthquake happened just once, and no matter how much time passed, there was only silence.

– Hmm.

Aso scratched his head.

– What is this place?

While wandering around, he discovered something strange at the edge of the Celestial Realm.

It was a massive altar that seemed to float in the sky…

At its center, a giant Flame Orb burned like the source of all light and heat.

It was so blindingly bright that he would have gone blind if he hadn’t drawn up his energy.

– Is this the sun of this world?

In a way, it looked similar to the sun.

Intense light and swirling flames around it were intertwined with each other.

And.

The flames writhed constantly like a living creature.

Just in case, he tried slashing at it with his Heaven-Earth Severing Strike.

If it can cut through heaven and earth, surely it can cut through this one flame!

But?

Kurrrung!

The altar only shook slightly, and the flames completely absorbed Aso’s sword strike.

– Wow, amazing.

Aso instinctively felt it.

This wasn’t just simple fire, but something with a much greater power dwelling within it.

– I should tell Father about this.

Aso nodded and sheathed his wooden sword back at his waist, then turned around without hesitation.

Whoosh!

At the same time, he cut through the wind and rushed toward where Father was.

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