I Alone Am an EX-Class Summoner - Chapter 262

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I Am Alone EX-Grade Summoner Episode 262

System (1)

The fire caught.

Crackle, crackle-crackle!

It started burning from the roots below, but it didn’t catch fire as easily as expected.

– It seems to contain some unusual moisture.

That wasn’t all.

The old bark was hard and rough, so the flames didn’t spread instantly.

But wasn’t Seong Yeom-hwa called Seong Yeom-hwa for nothing?

The flames began to gradually spread from the lower branches.

“Keep burning it. If we keep burning, it’ll all burn up completely.”

The tree was incredibly large.

So it seemed like it would take time for the entire thing to be engulfed in flames.

[Please calm down.]

[If you recklessly burn the World Tree like that, Earth will be in danger too!]

The system’s message appeared once again.

As expected, it showed clear signs of urgency.

“Earth will be in danger?”

Baek Jin-woo chuckled.

“Looking over there, it seems like it’s already as dangerous as it can get.”

[It can be reversed.]

[I acknowledge it.]

[You are strong and persistent.]

[I propose negotiations again.]

“Negotiations…”

Baek Jin-woo shook his head from side to side, then looked at Pokryong again.

“Pokryong.”

– Yes.

“Can you increase the firepower more?”

– I’ll try my best.

You have to look before you leap.

It was obvious that it was scared, so what negotiations?

It still hasn’t come to its senses.

[Are you trying to die together?]

“Wasn’t what you’ve been doing all along about dying together?”

[What compensation do you want!]

[I will provide sufficient compensation!]

[Please stop!]

“That’s something you say when the situation is somewhat even, not when you’re at a disadvantage.”

What, when you even summoned that ridiculous stone statue to try to crush me… and now?

Not a chance, you bastard.

Crackle, crackle!

The flames began to gradually devour the tree.

Crack!

The bottom 10% of the branches broke.

At the same time.

Shatter!

One of the worlds attached to the end broke.

The flames continued to spread.

20th Floor, 30th Floor…

As the flames began to grow larger, the momentum started to build.

Red flames bloomed through the cracks in the bark, and even the smoke shot up to the sky like a massive pillar.

“Cough, cough!”

The members started coughing.

“Is this really okay?”

At this rate, we’ll burn up too, won’t we, hyung?”

Worried gazes gathered one by one.

But Baek Jin-woo was just calmly standing with his arms crossed.

[If we can’t suppress the flames any longer, Earth will be in danger!]

[Earth hasn’t completely perished yet!]

[I urgently propose!]

Baek Jin-woo had expected this too.

If the branches of the Earth world that had spread widely in the middle section broke, he had thought that perhaps Earth might be finished.

“Mayeo.”

– Meow!

Mayeo is an overpowered utility summoned creature.

I said it before.

With magic, she can discern the truth or falsehood of others.

“Are those words true?”

– Hmm, that’s right-nya! It’s desperate, but it seems to want to explain some situation that it had no choice but to be in-nya.

“Good.”

Baek Jin-woo gave Pokryong a look.

The quick-witted girl gracefully swished her staff with a whoosh!

Then Seong Yeom-hwa was withdrawn from the flames.

Just doing that alone.

Hissss…!

The flames gradually weakened and slowly died down.

Dark red embers were still burning here and there, but they weren’t shooting up frighteningly like before.

The flame that Pokryong summoned was power that came from the system.

Therefore, it couldn’t burn the system.

“Don’t try any tricks. If I see even the slightest suspicious sign, I’ll burn everything including Earth.”

He was serious.

Anyway, without a smooth agreement with that thing, even if Earth survived, it wouldn’t really be survival.

In that case, it would be better to just give it a big screw-over.

“So, what kind of proposal is it?”

[I will explain everything!]

[I will invite Player Baek Jin-woo to the core area of the system!]

[All accompanying personnel will be returned to Earth in their current state!]

[The monsters remaining on Earth cannot be immediately recalled, but it is judged that they can be sufficiently suppressed with the power of the returning personnel.]

“Mayeo.”

– Wait a moment-nya!

Mayeo took out various things from her bosom and cast a spell.

Then she nodded.

– Meow! That’s sincere-nya! It’s completely surrendered-nya!

– That’s right.

Pokryong also stepped forward.

– Seong Yeom-hwa is sending word that there’s no reason for that existence to harm us. Rather, it seems like it shouldn’t do that?

…?

Baek Jin-woo didn’t understand.

“Then why did it act like that until now?”

– Even Seong Yeom-hwa probably doesn’t know that?

“Huh.”

Baek Jin-woo let out a sigh and looked around at the members.

“What do you all think?”

The message had appeared for the members too anyway.

Each of them would have their own thoughts.

“We’re fine with it.”

“If what he’s saying is really true, I think we need to reach an agreement.”

“…Looking at it, he seems to be playing a role similar to Earth’s god, but we’re just mere Earthlings, so what…There’s nothing we can do. It’s a bit frustrating though.”

Everyone agreed.

However, looking at what the system had done so far, it was hard to trust unconditionally.

No matter how much Mayeo was casting spells to discern the truth, there could be means to evade those spells.

Of course, if they didn’t trust at all, there wasn’t any other alternative either.

Now they were facing each other at the edge of a cliff.

The moment one of them betrayed the other, they would embrace each other and fall off the precipice together.

“Before inviting us to the core area or whatever, send the kids back first.”

[I acknowledge this.]

[I will take action immediately.]

“Go ahead first.”

Baek Jin-woo and the members exchanged farewells.

Actually, for Baek Jin-woo, it would be more convenient to move without the members.

Rather, if Earth’s situation was a mess, it might be better for them to go and sort things out.

“I’ll be waiting there!”

“You must return safely!”

Did they exchange farewells for about 5 minutes?

Swoosh, swoosh!

Their figures began disappearing one by one.

“Pokryong.”

– Yes.

“If you see even the slightest suspicious sign, just release all of Seong Yeom-hwa here.”

– I understand.

[Don’t worry.]

[That will absolutely never happen.]

“Let’s prepare too.”

With all those members and summoned creatures gone, the tree branches looked completely empty.

Baek Jin-woo gathered his summoned creatures.

A total of 11.

Ramba, Hunkyo, Pokryong, Jakgeo, Dampir, Runde, Doldoli, Aso, Leila, Mayeo, and Myeongmang…

As they gathered and looked up at the sky.

Whooom!

Soon another dimensional rift opened.

– That’s right, meow. This is a passage connected to the core of the World Tree, meow!

Nod.

Baek Jin-woo nodded and climbed onto the Destruction Dragon.

The other summoned creatures also formed close protection around Baek Jin-woo in their own ways.

Then.

“Let’s go.”

Whoosh!

The Destruction Dragon flapped its wings lightly and slipped inside.

The core of the World Tree was a space beyond imagination.

As soon as they passed through the massive tunnel, he felt as if he was floating in a space within the universe.

A space where even the concepts of up and down were ambiguous.

The direction of gravity wasn’t constant, and he felt as if even his physical senses were being distorted.

Transparent membranes that couldn’t even be called walls surrounded all directions, and there he could see endlessly spread stars and planets.

“Is this the system’s core area?”

Baek Jin-woo looked around.

Fortunately, all the summoned creatures were able to come over.

Inhale, exhale!

He could even breathe.

– Master!

“Yeah.”

– This is… the core of this planet, meow.

Core.

A term meaning the center of Earth.

In the very center floated a massive crystal structure.

What looked like a giant crystal was slowly rotating while emitting a gentle light.

Within the light, endless civilizations passed by.

Past, and present.

It was Earth’s history.

Baek Jin-woo realized at that moment.

“This is it.”

That crystal was the system that sent messages to them.

The creator and operator of Battle of Summoners.

[Nice to meet you.]

[I apologize for greeting you this way since I don’t have vocal organs.]

Huh.

Huh huh huh.

A structure without vocal organs?

And it’s in the center of Earth…?

How should he explain this?

“Who are you?”

[I am Earth.]

Earth.

That unpopular game Baek Jin-woo had been playing since his teens was actually created by Earth?

[In human terms, I am Earth’s consciousness and the system that maintains this planet.]

There was no need to use Mayeo.

Baek Jin-woo intuitively felt that those words were true.

“So before being Earth, you’re the existence that brought disaster to humanity, threatened us, and did all that?”

[It wasn’t my intention, but yes.]

[I too only moved for survival.]

“For your survival? What, do you want to say that we humans hurt Earth, made it sick… Is that it? So you wanted to make humanity extinct?”

[No.]

[It’s rather the opposite.]

[Humanity is my masterpiece in the universe that I raised.]

[I only sought survival methods for humanity, for humanity’s sake.]

“You sought humanity’s survival?”

Such an existence threw us into these trials, and ultimately got angry and announced the end outside?

“Do you think that makes sense?”

[Look here.]

Whooom!

It was then that space trembled for an instant.

The cosmic backdrop surrounding the crystal exterior!

A part of it began to change.

As if zooming in sharply, space twisted and expanded.

Beyond that.

A massive form clearly emerged from the black void.

[Do you see it?]

A being emanating tremendous overwhelming pressure.

“….”

Baek Jin-woo frowned, and all the summoned creatures flinched as well.

It was an existence they had never seen before.

A presence so powerful that even the stone statues of the sanctuary would weep!

First of all, it was a form so massive that words failed.

How could a being wearing a helmet and armor, holding a great sword, be larger than Earth itself!

The ominously writhing crimson silhouette, the pitch-black gauntlets enveloping its entire body looked like living metal.

From the outer edges of the helmet, from the parts corresponding to its two eyes, brilliant white flashes were bursting forth.

That being was… quietly, yet fiercely rushing toward Earth.

“What is that thing?”

[I call him the Cosmic Arbiter.]

“Arbiter?”

[It is sent by the great will that sustains the universe.]

[To punish planets that have violated the cosmic laws.]

[That arbiter has been rushing this way for approximately 16 years from now.]

…So then.

It turns out the being threatening humanity wasn’t the system, but that arbiter?

‘Ha.’

Well this is something.

This makes no sense at all.

Baek Jin-woo scratched his head.

There were still far too many unresolved questions.

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