It’s the Apocalypse, but My Summons Do Everything - Chapter 18
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Episode 18
#Episode 18
Seeing Kim Yeo-ul collapsed after exhausting all her strength, anger surged up within me.
I felt sick knowing that someone who had already died once because of me had nearly died again.
Even though I had obtained such powerful strength, my heart ached that Kim Yeo-ul had fallen into mortal danger.
My gray eyes, mixed with anger, took in the enemies.
The King of Fists’ proud stance, which had been displaying strength, now burned with rage.
When this power disappears, I’ll return to normal, but at least right now, I held in my hands the strength to protect someone precious.
Then I would simply wield it.
With maximum fury toward those who had abandoned being human.
“Sister Merry is dead!”
“She was Father’s beloved daughter!”
“It can’t be helped!”
“It’s okay, there’s a prettier sister over there…”
With a single punch, Louis’s lower jaw, who was holding an axe, was torn away.
“…Huh?”
Blood poured from where his entire lower jaw had disappeared.
As if experiencing cognitive dissonance from an attack he couldn’t follow with his eyes, Louis alternately looked between the lower jaw gripped in my hand and me.
“You… you…!”
The disgusting lower jaw regenerated quickly.
It seemed the blood those bastards had used earlier had powerful regenerative effects.
The regenerative power was so strong it reminded me of super-regeneration, but I wasn’t afraid in the slightest.
I didn’t feel like I would lose at all.
“I’ll kill you!”
“I’m going to kill you!”
“Definitely!”
“Absolutely!”
The enraged Bloodsuckers charged at me with weapons.
I countered their attack, slow enough to make me yawn, with another single punch.
Kwaaaaang-!
The axe and greatsword couldn’t withstand the King of Fists’ momentum and cracked.
But the two Bloodsuckers, mad with rage, continued attacking me as if they didn’t care about such things.
Unfortunately for them, I was never pushed back.
Rather, the more the attacks continued, the more I advanced.
Their attacks grew weaker as time went on, to the point where I didn’t even need to swing my fists.
Just lightly tapping away their incoming attacks was enough to rob them of their power.
“Die! Just die!”
“Why won’t you die!”
“Are you really human!?”
“You’re not human! You’re not a person!”
Was this what pure malice looked like?
I could feel the psychopathic twins, who had thrown off their human masks, gradually becoming terrified.
So they could feel that fear only the weak can experience, that bone-chilling sensation when facing death, I leisurely pressured them.
A coordinated attack targeting my front and back came flying.
I stretched out my arms and firmly grasped the incoming greatsword and axe blade with my bare hands.
Crack!
Snap!
The cracks in the greatsword and axe became even more severe.
Only now noticing the cracks in their weapons, the two Bloodsuckers’ faces visibly hardened.
This is punishment.
This is the punishment I’m delivering to you bastards who abandoned being human.
This is the karma that has returned to you bastards who were once human but abandoned humanity and killed countless humans.
The startled two Bloodsuckers tried to pull out their weapons, but even that was impossible.
My physical strength far surpassed both Bloodsuckers.
“Hup-!”
When I gripped tightly with my hands, the cracked weapons shattered into pieces and were destroyed.
“The weapons Father gave us!”
“No, no-!”
They must have been precious items, as both twins’ faces turned deathly pale.
Even so, I didn’t stop the punishment.
With their weapons destroyed, the two twins’ momentum visibly broke.
They belatedly extended their red claws and lunged, but having failed to defeat me even with weapons, there was no way they could win with mere claws.
I caught the incoming wrist and ripped off the left arm.
“Kyaaaaaaah!”
A scream rang out.
Blood droplets formed and tried to regenerate, but since regenerating severed limbs wasn’t easy, only blood drops formed with no other changes.
“Give… give it back, that’s Louis’s arm…”
Ruin, trembling in his legs, sent me a pitiful gaze.
“Did I say I’d rip off both arms?”
I reactivated the Yeonje I had deliberately turned off and burned the arm to ashes.
Now as the sun was setting, flames as bright as the sunset turned the Bloodsucker’s arm to ash.
“Lou… Louis’s arm…”
“It hurts… Ruin… Ruin, I’m in so much pain…”
Louis clutched his severed arm and fell to his knees.
His legs trembled madly and his breathing became rough.
Cold sweat was pouring from his forehead.
I walked forward step by step.
The terrified Ruin swung his fist, but it was a blind attack.
Louis, who had collapsed after being punched in the abdomen, grabbed my ankle with his trembling hand.
“You… bastard… I’ll definitely… kill you!”
I could feel terrible malice.
But it was powerless, weak malice.
On the Korean Peninsula where power represents all logic, it had no meaning whatsoever.
That’s why I cut off Louis’s head right in front of Ruin.
Blood droplets formed, but judging that this couldn’t be regenerated, Louis’s activity stopped completely.
“…Ah.”
Despair formed in Ruin’s eyes.
To think he despaired over his own blood relative dying when he had killed countless humans.
“Well, you should have lived a good life.”
I sent Ruin to where Louis was as well.
Shortly after, with an alarm that my level had increased, the three Bloodsuckers’ life activities completely stopped.
* * *
“How’s your body? Are you okay? Are you conscious?”
“I wasn’t seriously injured to begin with, I just used up a lot of stamina.”
“Then will you just walk on your own?”
“Ugh, it hurts!”
“Ah, yes.”
When I returned carrying Kim Yeo-ul in a so-called princess carry, all the National Assembly members came running out in a hurry.
“Are you alright!?”
“Your body! How’s your body!”
“If there are any injuries, we’ll treat them immediately…!”
Kim Yeo-ul waved her hands dismissively at the doctors who were bustling around taking out medical kits.
“There’s no problem at all, so don’t make a fuss.”
“But you couldn’t even walk and had to be carried here.”
“Ah, this is because he asked me to…”
“My legs!! I think my legs hurt a bit!”
“…That’s what she says.”
Leaving behind Kim Yeo-ul receiving treatment for her fake illness, Seo Iram quietly approached my side.
“How’s your arm?”
“No problem!”
“…Reliable.”
I patted Seo Iram’s head once for no reason and sat in the car.
When I ended the possession, I felt my strength drain away completely along with tremendous exhaustion.
Having wielded power that overwhelmed an S-rank Hunter, I even felt as if my mind and body were separating, as if I was now receiving the price for it.
Like that, I fell into a pleasant sleep without any resistance.
* * *
I opened my eyes.
No, should I say I opened my eyes?
Something began to be visible.
In an infinite cosmic void where my toes couldn’t touch anything, I was floating leisurely.
This is a dream.
From the utterly unrealistic, hazy sensation, I could instinctively realize this was a dream.
It seemed I had fallen asleep from the aftermath of the possession.
‘That aside, this is quite an interesting dream, just floating around like this…’
Just as I was about to close my eyes unconsciously from the comfortable sensation like being in a soft cradle, a chilling voice echoed in my ears.
[This is not a dream.]
It was a voice that came like a gentle breeze, but its impact was certainly not small.
It was enough to make my hazy mind instantly turn cold.
“What…?”
Not a dream?
Then what exactly is this space?
As I looked around in confusion, something enormous began to reveal its outline belatedly.
“…Fingers?”
What filled my vision was definitely fingers.
I belatedly realized that I was sleeping on someone’s palm.
“What is this…?”
A giant of overwhelming size was looking down at me.
However, I didn’t sense any hostility in that gaze.
Rather, it was a warm look mixed with compassion and slight affection.
[Do not forget that I am always with you.]
“…What?”
With that solemn voice as the last thing I heard, I woke up from the dream again.
“…Oh.”
The place where I opened my eyes again was on Kim Yeo-ul’s lap pillow.
I had thought I was envious when Seo Iram was receiving one before, but I never thought I’d get to receive one like this too.
I considered pretending to sleep again belatedly, but since Kim Yeo-ul was looking at me with a mischievous expression, I opened my eyes and let her know I was awake for the sake of my personal safety.
“Are you awake?”
Kim Yeo-ul giggled as if regretful and stroked my hair.
The soft touch wasn’t too bad, but since there were many watching eyes around, I got up while unnecessarily arranging my hair.
“…How long did I sleep?”
“You slept for about 9 hours.”
When I rubbed my eyes and got up, a new day was greeting us.
Thanks to the National Assembly members standing guard around us, I was able to rest comfortably.
“Oh, you’re awake? How are you feeling?”
“I feel incredibly refreshed.”
“That’s a relief!”
Lee Hyeon-cheol let out a sigh of relief as if he had been anxious just in case.
“Do you know how shocked we were when you suddenly collapsed? Kim Yeo-ul came crying and begging us to please save you…”
“We, we agreed not to talk about that!!”
“Oh, did we? I have a duty to inform the guardian, so I just…”
Lee Hyeon-cheol answered slyly and handed me a vitamin pill while chuckling.
“So, what are you planning to do now?”
“For now, we’re planning to continue heading to Seoul.”
“What? Seoul?”
“Yes.”
“Is there something important in Seoul?”
Since Seoul was currently a destroyed city, Lee Hyeon-cheol asked the reason with a curious expression.
I pondered for a moment before opening my mouth.
I judged that there would be no problem answering someone who had watched our backs this much.
“What would you do if you had the ability to resurrect people?”
“What? Suddenly?”
“Yes.”
“Well… I would first bring back someone precious to me.”
Lee Hyeon-cheol also seemed to have painful memories as he smiled bitterly.
I also quietly looked at Kim Yeo-ul before fixing my gaze on Lee Hyeon-cheol again.
“What about after that?”
“Well… after that…”
Lee Hyeon-cheol, who had been thinking deeply, stroked his chin and said.
“It’s embarrassing to admit, but wouldn’t I bring back legendary S-rank Hunters? Like Hunter Baek Do-hyeon… Oh, come to think of it, Baek Do-hyeon’s grave is… Huh?”
Lee Hyeon-cheol blinked and then looked directly at me in great surprise.
“Yes, that’s the reason.”
I didn’t deny it and gently nodded my head.
Lee Hyeon-cheol looked around in great surprise, then lowered his voice.
“Is, is such a thing really possible?”
“Yes, of course. Yeo-ul here beside me is also someone I resurrected.”
He looked back and forth between Kim Yeo-ul and me with an incredulous gaze, then sat down in front of me, dumbfounded.
“You were doing something incredible…”
“It’s a secret.”
“Of course, I’ll take it to my grave.”
For Lee Hyeon-cheol too, Hunter Baek Do-hyeon’s reputation was so high that he couldn’t hide his excited expression.
“Perhaps the day when the Korean Peninsula stands tall again might come.”
“It might. This somehow makes me feel like I’ve become an independence fighter.”
“Since foreign invasion has come, it might be roughly similar.”
Lee Hyeon-cheol and I chuckled at the silly joke.
“So you’re heading to Seoul National Cemetery like this?”
“Yes, if there are no major variables, it will probably be like that.”
“Ah… then by any chance, aren’t you stopping by Taean County?”
“Huh? Taean County?”
At my question, Lee Hyeon-cheol spread out a map.
He pointed directly at Baekwha Mountain in Taean County as he spoke.
“Hunter Kang Cheol-u, who passed away, rests here.”
“…What? Is that really true?”
“Yes. I went there for volunteer work before and saw it myself, so I’m certain. I heard this was Hunter Kang Cheol-u’s hometown.”
Kang Cheol-u.
Who was he?
He was a legendary tank, evaluated to the point where if there was Hunter Baek Do-hyeon for offense, there was Hunter Kang Cheol-u for defense.
It wasn’t for nothing that people said Asia’s greatest spear and shield were gathered in one country.
To think that such a Hunter Kang Cheol-u was buried in that place.
“Even if it’s a bit of a detour, we must stop by there.”
“I’m excited too, the resurrection of Hunter Baek Do-hyeon and Hunter Kang Cheol-u…”
Lee Hyeon-cheol showed signs of wanting to follow along, but unfortunately, we couldn’t travel around in a crowd with over twenty people.
Lee Hyeon-cheol seemed to know this too, as he couldn’t bring himself to say let’s go together.
“If you have nowhere to go, how about trying Sejong once?”
“Huh? Sejong?”
“Yes, if you go there, there will probably be plenty of people who need help.”
“Were there that many people in Sejong City…?”
Even as Lee Hyeon-cheol said this, he prepared to depart for Sejong City for now.
Since we were in a hurry, we got back in the car.
The trunk was generously filled with various medical supplies and fuel cans.
“This is a radio that connects directly with us. If anything happens, contact us through this anytime. We’ll rush over anytime, anywhere.”
“Would such a thing happen to us?”
“We should hope not! It’s a world where no news is good news.”
Lee Hyeon-cheol and I chuckled.
“Well then! Let’s meet again later!”
“Yes! I’ll always be cheering and praying for you!”
And so we departed for Taean County to obtain the legendary tank.
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