It’s the Apocalypse, but My Summons Do Everything - Chapter 23

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Episode 23

#Episode 23

“What the hell…!”

Kim Yeo-ul’s arms are originally connected to Seo Iram.

Even if her arms were cut off, she should have been able to endure it at least once.

But now Kim Yeo-ul had lost both arms and was trembling violently.

‘What!?’

When I turned around in shock, Seo Iram had already lost both arms and was writhing in pain.

That meant it had grasped the relationship between Kim Yeo-ul and Seo Iram in that brief moment and attacked twice.

Two attacks so fast that even S-rank Hunter Kim Yeo-ul couldn’t perceive them.

Moreover, they were rendered unable to fight with just that single exchange.

‘Is something like this… even possible?’

I could feel a hazy aura of death slowly tightening around my throat.

There wasn’t a single opening to be seen.

The perfect being before my eyes had been standing in the position of an overwhelming powerhouse from the very beginning.

As if it had never even considered the position of the weak, it overflowed with leisure even while facing us.

‘Just from eating goblins, something like this is possible?’

No way.

From a leveling perspective, it doesn’t make sense at all.

Then what could be the reason such a powerful being suddenly appeared?

“I can hear the sound of your thinking all the way over here.”

“…!”

The thing that had gotten behind me at a speed too fast to perceive laughed coldly.

The laughter sounded like fingernails scraping against metal, making goosebumps rise all over my arms.

“Krrgh…”

Before overwhelming fear, everything becomes powerless.

Seo Iram, who had regenerated her arms, gritted her teeth and shot up from her position.

Then she gripped kitchen knives in both hands and began charging forward.

“You bastard-!”

“Noisy.”

With those words, red energy shot out and Seo Iram’s body became chunks of meat and disappeared.

Perfect death that couldn’t be endured with physical regeneration.

A system message guaranteeing that re-summoning would take 1 hour confirmed this.

Shriiiiek-!

But only briefly, Kim Yeo-ul, who had regained her arms through Seo Iram’s sacrifice, attacked the creature at the same timing as Kang Jin-woo, as if they had made a promise.

The creature didn’t even move, wearing a bored expression.

The red energy scattered around it easily blocked the attacks of the two S-rank Hunters.

Yeonje’s flames seemed to be incompatible with the energy, flinching before being suppressed instead.

Kang Jin-woo’s shadow dug into the creature’s energy a little, but couldn’t achieve any further results.

Even as the two S-rank Hunters’ attacks continued to pour down, the creature was looking at me with an interested expression.

“What a curious being, one that shines brightest in the darkest place.”

Strange eyes captured me.

At the same time, Yeo-ul and Jinu, who had been attacking the creature, seemed to take a massive hit simultaneously and went flying into a pile of trash.

“How annoying.”

In an instant, Kim Yeo-ul’s body was split in half.

Death that couldn’t be regenerated was instantaneous.

Soon it reached out toward Jinu, who was coughing up blood while embedded in the wall.

“No-!”

“Hmm? Why is that? You let that woman die.”

“Urgh…”

When I couldn’t answer, the creature found even that amusing and lightly sneered.

“Well, I am merciful, so I’ll grant you that much.”

The creature withdrew its hand from Jinu and stood before me, staring at me.

Within its red eyes, I existed, but there was an unpleasant sensation of being sucked somewhere, as if it wasn’t really me.

“This…!”

“Don’t move.”

Red light flashed as red power emanating from the creature’s entire body wrapped around my body.

My body flinched for a moment, but it didn’t have much effect on me.

“…Oho!”

When I casually tore through the red power, the creature’s eyes widened.

“You’re definitely different from that trash.”

An arrogant smile hung at the corner of its mouth.

The confidence of an absolute powerhouse cast itself everywhere.

“You may hear my name, I shall permit it.”

It was the kind of words only a psychopath drunk on arrogance would utter, but the power he emanated clearly backed up that status.

I forcibly grabbed my trembling arm and spoke to him.

“…Are you also a bloodsucker?”

“Bloodsucker? Ah… yes, there were such creatures too.”

With a single gesture from him, the ground began to shake.

He was creating this phenomenon through pure physical force alone, not any special power.

The ground, already stained with blood, turned red.

Something disgusting that was neither grass nor soil writhed and violated the earth.

Once again, that red energy did not gather around me.

Seeing this, he smiled with certainty about something.

“I am the King Who Cannot Be Reflected, the Final Pride, Karnack.”

Karnack glared at me and gestured.

He moved as if lifting something up, but my body showed no movement at all.

“Hooh… as expected, my authority doesn’t work on you.”

“Stop talking nonsense and get lo…!”

Karnack, who had been in my field of vision, disappeared.

“Are you also a ‘Lord’?”

A voice came from behind me.

“What kind of bullshit is that!”

“Hmm, you haven’t realized it yet.”

A voice came from the left.

“Such an intense light even before blooming.”

A voice came from the right.

“Truly…”

Layered voices came from above, below, left, right, front, and back.

My teeth clenched at the voice that seemed to grab and shake my brain itself.

“”””””You look delicious.””””””

“Kkhheuk!”

Karnack’s pale white hand grabbed my collar.

Even his pure physical strength, not his authority, was overwhelming.

“Let… go…!”

“Would you just lick your lips while facing such a fantastic delicacy?”

When he opened his hand, a mouth with sharp teeth was flicking its tongue inside.

“I’ll eat well!”

Just as the sharp teeth were about to pierce my neck.

『It is not yet time for war.』

A black energy that emerged from my body blocked Karnack’s teeth.

Seeing this, Karnack’s eyes widened as if they would tear.

“I wondered whose dog it was… so it was you.”

For the first time, Karnack’s mouth, which had been consistently relaxed, twisted.

As if he had met his mortal enemy, an unidentifiable red power burst out madly.

“Kkhheuk…!”

What kind of monstrous power is this…!

What’s this about war, and why is this bastard getting angry!

A tremendous force that felt like it would break my mind crushed down on me.

I desperately tried to resist to somehow keep my sanity, but how could an ant face an elephant.

“This damn… bastard…”

Blood flowed from my lips that I had unconsciously bitten, and my nose began to bleed.

Just as my vision blurred as if I would go blind and blood was about to flow from my ears.

A pitch-black energy began surging madly from my body.

It was such tremendous power that it momentarily crushed Karnack’s red force.

『I have not permitted war.』

“Ha! Do I look like I need permission from the likes of you-!”

Kwaaaaaa-!

“Kaaaaaaak!”

Before Karnack could even finish his words, the black energy surged madly from my body once more.

Unable to withstand the overwhelming power that no mere human could endure, I finally lost consciousness.

* * *

‘My head feels like it’s going to split…’

Kang Jin-woo, who had been embedded in the wall, coughed up blood.

As thin black blood burst out, he felt his vision becoming clearer.

“Hy… Hyung? The kids?”

He tried to get up, but no strength entered his legs.

Barely managing to turn his head, he saw Hyun-soo hyung caught in that monster’s grasp.

“Hy… Hyung…”

His voice, thin as if about to break, failed to finish and lingered in the air.

He had to save his hyung somehow, but no strength would come.

His broken ribs were piercing his lungs, making it impossible to breathe properly.

“I have to… I have to save him…”

Blood flowed from his bitten lips.

He tried desperately to stand up, but not even a bit of strength entered his legs.

He had thought that now he finally had powerful strength to protect his precious people.

But what was this – far from protecting them, he couldn’t even use his power properly and got slammed into a wall.

His hands trembled violently.

Not a single bit of strength entered his entire body.

To think such terrible pain came from just one hit.

His trembling hands touched the garbage behind him.

He struggled desperately to somehow stand up for a moment.

“Kuaaaaaaak-!”

Along with a scream that seemed to slice his ears like a blade, black aura began swirling like a storm around Hyun-soo’s body.

Even the creature gripping Hyun-soo’s neck was startled and let go.

Though he should have fallen to the ground when the hand was released, Hyun-soo’s body floated gently in the air.

“What is that…?”

The black energy that had been swirling like a storm embraced Hyun-soo in a circle.

Soon a black egg was formed.

It was preciously protecting Hyun-soo within the eye of the black storm.

He could only blink at this incomprehensible phenomenon.

But that monster seemed to know something, as it twisted its lips and shouted harshly.

“So that bastard has enough value for you to interfere in the present world!”

The aura emanating from the monster became even more violent.

As if to finally settle things, an energy that tore through the ground bared its teeth.

“Today I shall personally take your lover’s life.”

Red power struck at Hyun-soo.

It was such a powerful attack that the piles of garbage around exploded all at once, but not even a small scratch appeared on the egg.

As if that wasn’t enough, Karnack spread his red wings and sliced through the air.

He cut through dimensions, put his hand inside, and pulled out a bizarrely shaped red spear.

It had the form of snakes coiled and twisted together in layers.

‘What is that thing… What the hell is happening!’

Even from this distance, it was such an ominous power that it gave him chills and made his hair stand on end.

“The time of war has already arrived, and this shall be proof of it.”

Red power began swirling like a drill around the noble spear.

Just as the tremendous power the size of a three-story building was about to strike Hyun-soo.

“Why does a defeated remnant of the old era dream of defying heaven?”

The egg cracked and Hyun-soo revealed himself from within.

“Hyun-soo… hyung?”

The feeling was completely different from before.

A brilliant aura spread throughout his entire body as if he wore black armor, and in his hand was an eerily long scythe.

The black scythe was imbued with such bewitchingly dark power that one couldn’t look away.

“Defeat? Ha! Do you consider a rigged game from the start to be a match?”

“It was you who entered the game and accepted the match.”

“Shut up-!”

As if his reverse scale had been touched, the monster’s spear aimed for Hyun-soo’s brow.

The spear tip that charged at a speed the eye couldn’t follow was caught on the scythe.

Though it was clearly a strike aimed at his life, Hyun-soo wasn’t angry but wore a pitying smile.

“Are you so afraid of the new era?”

“A god! Must be an existence that defies the times!”

“How can you speak of gods when you failed to ascend to the divine throne?”

“Shut up-!”

The monster deflected the spear and tried to charge again.

That charge too fast for the eye to follow was about to continue, but.

“…Huh?”

Without even time to blink, a deep black wound had already been left on the monster’s chest.

“O fool who could not transcend realm or rank, O ordinary being who has yet to escape the shackles of mortality.”

From the black wound carved into the monster’s chest, dark energy began to seep out ominously.

Hands tearing through the black wound grotesquely widened the gash until it became hideously torn open.

“Now, crumble away.”

Swoooosh—!

As the wound tore open, the monster’s body split in half.

Then the monster’s body began to scatter like powder in the wind.

It was overwhelming power that couldn’t even be called a fight, yet Hyun-soo—or more precisely, ‘That Existence’ possessing Hyun-soo’s body—clicked his tongue.

“As expected, is it because this being is bound by shackles?”

After saying those words, he suddenly turned his gaze back toward me.

As if he had known from the beginning that I was awake.

“Well then, I leave the rest to you.”

With those final words, Hyun-soo lost consciousness.

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