It’s the Apocalypse, but My Summons Do Everything - Chapter 48

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Episode 48

 

#Episode 48

 

My vision was obscured by blue energy as my eyes closed.

 

Just by closing and opening my eyes for a moment, I had been instantly transported to another space.

 

However, it didn’t seem like the purpose was to kidnap me, as an endlessly polite ice human greeted me.

 

“I apologize for summoning you in such a violent manner.”

 

An ice human dressed in butler attire carefully helped me to my feet.

 

Without my knowledge, I had been sleeping on a bed inside an ice palace.

 

“You must be confused waking up in an unfamiliar place so suddenly, so I shall escort you.”

 

“…Where is this place?”

 

At my wary question, the butler made an “oh my” expression and bowed his head again.

 

“My apologies, I was being rude. This is the Frost Palace where the Frost King resides.”

 

“A palace… is this another planet?”

 

“The size is similar to a planet, but it’s just a palace for now.”

 

“I see…”

 

The Frost King, he said.

 

Since I had just finished off Han Bingrong with my own hands, many things were clicking together in my mind.

 

‘Are they trying to get revenge or something.’

 

As if reading my expression, the butler smiled faintly.

 

“We won’t do anything so petty, so don’t worry. Rather… hmm, no, let’s go and have a direct conversation about this.”

 

I got up from my seat while receiving the kind butler’s attention.

 

The first thing I noticed was that the palace was enormous in size.

 

It couldn’t even be compared to the palace of someone like Han Bingrong that I had seen before.

 

As I left the room, the corridors on both sides stretched so long that I couldn’t see their ends.

 

When the butler gestured, the corridor’s form changed and a massive door appeared.

 

“The lord is waiting.”

 

The blue door made of ice and sapphire was so tall that even when I looked up to the sky, I couldn’t see its top.

 

If I couldn’t even open a door like this, it would be telling me to go back, similar to what I’d seen in trial grounds.

 

The butler had no intention of opening the door for me and just stood beside me with a faint smile.

 

That sight was quite irritating.

 

More than anything, the power I felt from his soul was so vast it was unbelievable for a mere butler.

 

‘If he invited me here, he should at least open this much.’

 

At a glance, it seemed like something problematic would happen if I just touched it with bare hands, so I drew up my death force into my feet.

 

When I created powerful vibrations by friction with my death force, the butler made an impressed “ooh” sound.

 

Since I had no intention of holding back at this point, I exploded my leg strength with all my might and kicked the door.

 

Kwaaaaang-!

 

Even with that quite powerful strike, the door wasn’t destroyed.

 

It simply opened wide to both sides, revealing the Frost King’s office.

 

I brushed off the ice fragments stuck to my foot and looked at the butler.

 

“I did as you asked, so now tell me. What’s the reason you summoned me here?”

 

“What do you mean by that?”

 

“It’s all obvious to see… How about it, should I act a bit more stupid for you?”

 

At my answer, the butler’s eyebrows twitched.

 

Then he soon laughed heartily and changed his appearance.

 

Ice fragments fell from the tall butler’s body, and soon a beautiful boy with blue hair appeared.

 

The real butlers and maids who appeared belatedly began tidying up the dirtied surroundings.

 

We left that behind and entered his office.

 

After entering and sitting on the sofa, he asked me with a surprised expression.

 

“How did you know? I perfectly hid the fact that I was the lord.”

 

“If you were going to deceive me, you should have hidden your soul better too.”

 

At my answer, his eyes widened, then he soon laughed and clapped his hands.

 

Despite his frivolous behavior, I could feel tremendous power from him now, not inferior to Senior.

 

The fortunate thing was that this massive being wasn’t hostile toward me.

 

Showing neither hostility nor killing intent, he was just looking at me with apparent enjoyment.

 

“You look like you have many thoughts?”

 

“That would be natural.”

 

“Is it because of this?”

 

With one gesture from the lord, Han Bingrong’s face appeared before me.

 

“Ah, now it’s this.”

 

With another gesture, this time the brutal appearance of Han Bingrong that I had killed was reflected.

 

Even while openly watching this scene, he was smiling gently as if nothing was wrong.

 

Seeing not even a trace of resentment, I asked.

 

“Still, wasn’t she once your subordinate?”

 

“She was, we once ruled the world together.”

 

“But you seem completely unaffected.”

 

“While it’s heartbreaking that I abandoned her without affection, she was consumed by madness and committed too many evil acts, so she received her just punishment.”

 

“…I see.”

 

Though he said that, the Frost King seemed like he didn’t care whether Han Bingrong lived or died in the first place.

 

Perhaps Han Bingrong’s existence already held no meaning for him.

 

It felt fitting for a lord who had transcended humanity and ascended to divinity, but on the other hand, I found it somewhat uncomfortable that he could so cruelly cast aside a comrade like that.

 

Of course, to me, she was nothing more or less than a demon dragon who had massacred humans.

 

I killed her because she deserved to die.

 

Since that was all there was to it, I had nothing more to add.

 

“Then, what’s the reason you specifically called me here?”

 

“Why, to give you a reward, of course. Since you cleaned up the filth I left behind, shouldn’t I provide appropriate compensation?”

 

“…I’ll hear you out for now.”

 

“Kehehehe… You’re probably the only person in the entire universe who would show such a reaction when this Frost King offers to bestow a reward.”

 

He maintained a smile throughout, but the chilling aura flowing around him was still difficult to get used to.

 

Perhaps it was because it contained the very essence of bitter cold, different from the chill of death.

 

I naturally wrapped myself in death force to protect my body.

 

“I have no intention of harming you, yet you’re being excessive.”

 

“I’m still human, after all.”

 

“It seems this generation’s Lord of Souls has educated you well.”

 

“I suppose so.”

 

He smiled cheerfully and suddenly thrust his hand into a dimensional space.

 

He rummaged around inside as if searching for something, then finally handed me an egg.

 

It was about the size of an ostrich egg, so I carefully received it.

 

“What is this?”

 

“Try to guess.”

 

Though he wore an unpleasant smile, I was genuinely curious, so I closed my eyes and channeled power into the egg.

 

Death force seeped in and permeated the being sleeping within the egg.

 

After about 10 seconds, I could completely make out its outline.

 

“…Huh?”

 

“From that reaction, it seems you’ve figured out what it is. That’s right!”

 

I was so dumbfounded that I examined the egg from various angles once more.

 

Naturally, the result didn’t change.

 

“A dragon…?”

 

“Ding dong dang, correct!”

 

A dragon’s egg… An uneasy thought flashed through my mind.

 

“Don’t tell me it’s Han Bingrong’s egg?”

 

“Hey, if it were trash like that, I would have thrown it away long ago.”

 

“Then what exactly is it?”

 

I couldn’t sense any power from the egg.

 

It even felt completely empty, like a blank white canvas.

 

“That’s something you’ll have to decide from now on.”

 

“Excuse me? I have to decide?”

 

“That dragon is a child who will be influenced by its master. For example, if I were to raise it, another creature like the Han Bingrong you dealt with would emerge.”

 

That meant a dragon exclusively for me could emerge.

 

“This doesn’t seem like something cheap. Are you sure it’s okay to give this to me?”

 

“Value is relative. To me, it has no meaning whatsoever.”

 

“…I don’t have anything I can do for you in return for receiving something like this.”

 

“Didn’t you already deal with her? That’s enough.”

 

I stared at the egg quietly and carefully held it in my arms.

 

“Thank…you.”

 

“Don’t mention it.”

 

I hadn’t expected him to actually give me something valuable, so I wrapped the egg in death force for now.

 

The egg then floated up beside me.

 

“Hehehe… No matter how many times I see that power, I can’t get used to it. A concept that encompasses the entire universe…”

 

“Excuse me? A concept?”

 

“Oops, my mistake. Pretend you didn’t hear that…”

 

Kwaaaaang-!

 

Before the Frost King could finish speaking, an earthquake suddenly occurred as if someone had struck this entire dimension.

 

“Goodness, he certainly loves his junior terribly.”

 

The Frost King seemed to know who had caused this, chuckling as he created a door in front of me.

 

“At this rate, your senior will come here looking for a fight, so you’d better go. I don’t want my precious castle to collapse either.”

 

“Ah… thank you.”

 

“Yes, farewell! Let’s keep in touch.”

 

“Let’s stick to seeing each other in my senior’s domain.”

 

“You really don’t back down from a single word!”

 

With those words, I escaped from the Frost King’s domain.

 

The place I emerged was the castle’s dungeon.

 

It seemed that when Han Bingrong died, all the monsters under her command had been completely annihilated as well.

 

I could see my companions walking toward me from the distance.

 

Fortunately, no one appeared to be injured.

 

“Everyone, come this way!”

 

“Oh, it’s Hyun-soo!”

 

“What the hell, why does this castle have a basement…”

 

Yeo-ul and Hunter Baek Do-hyeon, who had been running over excitedly, immediately frowned deeply.

 

Behind me, the boys freed from the ice were trembling violently, breathing out thin, thread-like breaths.

 

Soon, the companions who entered with them weren’t much different either.

 

Among them, I urgently brought Seo Iram over and asked.

 

“Iram, can you heal those kids?”

 

“All of them?”

 

“Yeah, all of them.”

 

Seo Iram in her nun’s habit looked carefully at the children, then said to me.

 

“Gather the kids together.”

 

“Alright.”

 

We gathered the children together and Baek Do-hyeon lit a fire.

 

The flames imbued with mana blazed up, improving their deathly pale complexions somewhat, but their lives still seemed precarious.

 

Seo Iram in her nun’s habit knelt before the children.

 

Then she clasped her hands together and began earnestly praying to somewhere.

 

‘Come to think of it, she was called the Saint of Sacrifice… If she’s a saint, doesn’t that mean she serves something?’

 

When Seo Iram awakened as a saint, only one skill had come to me.

 

That was all there was.

 

I tried using it just in case, but since I was basically non-religious, no answer came back to me.

 

‘I’ll have to ask Seo Iram about this later.’

 

Seo Iram continued praying without concern.

 

A gray puddle appeared beneath the children’s feet, and soon gray light burst from the puddle and engulfed the children.

 

Then, as if absorbing color from the children, it extracted various colors – red, blue, and many others – and devoured them completely.

 

Before long, the light mass that had been gray transformed into countless colors.

 

And those colors rose up into the sky and melted away into nothing.

 

Then all the children who had been trembling as if they would die at any moment returned to normal.

 

Even the severe frostbite that might have required amputation was completely healed, with soft new flesh growing in its place.

 

A power closer to recreation than simple healing.

 

Since I had never seen healing ability of this level before, all my companions including myself were subtly amazed as we looked at Seo Iram.

 

Under such gazes, Seo Iram wiped her sweat and stood up.

 

“Phew! Healing complete!”

 

With those words, she came running over to me and made a proud expression.

 

Regardless of the great power she had just displayed, Seo Iram was still Seo Iram.

 

“…Wow, our Seo Iram is amazing, isn’t she?”

 

“Ahem! Ahem ahem!”

 

“If your brother gets hurt later, you’ll save me like this too, right?”

 

“Of course, just trust me!”

 

Despite using such power, Seo Iram showed no signs of fatigue at all.

 

What kind of god does she serve to be able to use this level of divine authority?

 

Though I was curious, the children’s safety came first for now, so I said to my companions.

 

“Let’s quickly take the kids and return to Seoul for now.”

 

“Understood.”

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