It’s the Apocalypse, but My Summons Do Everything - Chapter 57

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Episode 57

 

#Episode 57

 

“Did you wait long?”

 

“I always believed in you.”

 

I almost burst into tears, but unfortunately, now wasn’t the time to be immersed in such sentiments.

 

“It’s a guy who gets stronger under the sun. That’s not something like the Black Sun, but the real sun, so I can’t even destroy it.”

 

“Ugh… You’re saying he’s the type who calls forth the sun just to fight?”

 

“What kind of monster is that…”

 

My blurry vision recovered thanks to Seo Iram’s healing.

 

Vitality returned to my sluggish body.

 

She didn’t even seem to be using any healing power, yet the recovery was incredibly tremendous to an eerie degree.

 

“How is it…?”

 

Seo Iram looked at me with deeply worried eyes.

 

Since becoming the Saint of Sacrifice, my wounds had never transferred to Seo Iram.

 

But it seemed she had noticed I was injured for some other reason.

 

“Thanks to you, I’m all better. Thank you.”

 

I deliberately exaggerated as I roughly tousled and stroked Seo Iram’s hair.

 

She didn’t seem to dislike it, as Seo Iram smiled foolishly as usual.

 

“Now that you’ve recovered, let’s think about what to do with that thing.”

 

Baek Do-hyeon hugged his shoulders as if he got goosebumps from Karnack glaring at him.

 

“There are about two methods.”

 

The first was to wait like this for nightfall that might not even come.

 

The second was…

 

“What’s the second one?”

 

“…For the second one, you all would need to buy me some time.”

 

Perhaps seeing my expression, Kim Yeo-ul, who had approached my side at some point, put her arm around my shoulder.

 

“How much time do we need to buy?”

 

“Since it’s a method I’m trying for the first time, I don’t know. It could take a few minutes, a few hours, or in the worst case, even a few days.”

 

At the mention of a few days, my companions flinched for a moment.

 

What I was trying to do now was that absurd.

 

Yet the first to stand up was, as expected, Kim Yeo-ul.

 

“We can’t run away from here anyway, right?”

 

“Right.”

 

Karnack’s domain had already spread, completely cutting us off from the outside where the car had been.

 

In the direction where the car had originally been, only the scenery of an infinitely stretching desert was spread out.

 

My companions steeled their resolve without anyone needing to go first.

 

“Buy me something expensive when we get back.”

 

“Where are there any bars in South Korea?”

 

“Then build a bar first.”

 

Along with Hunter Baek Do-hyeon’s joke, my companions stood in front of me.

 

Each finished their battle preparations and heightened their tension.

 

The goal of the battle wasn’t to kill him, but to endure.

 

Kang Cheol-u finished preparing to burn almost all of his lifespan.

 

Baek Do-hyeon’s elemental magic began heating the atmosphere even hotter, creating heat shimmer.

 

“You were fighting something like that alone?”

 

“You’re nothing short of a monster yourself.”

 

Leaving my companions behind, I knelt down while holding Desperado in my arms.

 

I closed my eyes and slowly drew up the death force within me.

 

To defeat him, I had to do something about that sun first.

 

Before the sun actually rose, I had been beating him one-sidedly.

 

Then how should I block that sun?

 

Karnack had summoned the real sun and made the entire area his domain.

 

‘Domain…’

 

Karnack, Arc, and even those who controlled the Black Sun all used something called a domain.

 

As if it was natural for a Monarch to possess their own domain.

 

But I didn’t have such a skill.

 

If I had to say, there was the infinite resurrection skill called Monarch’s Domain, but that was a skill for my companions, not a skill for me as a Monarch.

 

And more than anything, what I wanted now wasn’t a skill.

 

A domain of one’s own that a Monarch should possess.

 

That was what I needed now.

 

A domain powerful enough to cover that sun and devour Karnack.

 

The flow of death force flowing from my heart began to gradually accelerate.

 

I could feel the death force flowing through my entire body fluctuating even faster at the mention of domain.

 

It was as if the death force was asking me if I truly wanted that power.

 

“…”

 

I couldn’t answer easily.

 

I had a strong feeling that if I crossed this line now, I could never return to being an ordinary human again.

 

Boasting about being human as if it were my very identity, yet now hesitating to cross the line.

 

My chest feels stuffy from this petty worry.

 

My heart, forcing me to choose, pounded loudly.

 

When I opened my eyes, my companions were desperately blocking Karnack’s attacks.

 

In that brief moment I had closed my eyes, quite some time seemed to have passed outside.

 

Now I must make a decision.

 

Whether to remain human.

 

Or reach the essence of a Monarch and become something beyond that.

 

The last remaining human heart within me seemed to plead not to abandon itself.

 

Though that proposal was terribly alluring, I opened my eyes once more and took in my companions.

 

Even while bleeding and being one-sidedly beaten, they were fighting so desperately to protect me.

 

‘Did Senior make this kind of decision too?’

 

My mind was made up.

 

If I remained human while abandoning my companions, how would that be different from a beast?

 

The death force in my heart urged me to choose.

 

‘…Yes, take it.’

 

I allowed my body to the death force.

 

The death dwelling in my heart completely embraced me.

 

I felt as if I was lying in a terribly cozy and intoxicating warm cradle.

 

[In the end, you return to my embrace.]

 

The death force that embraced me whispered in my ear with a sweet woman’s voice.

 

Just as I was about to close my eyes and surrender my body.

 

Crackle!

 

[Don’t let mere power try to surpass its master.]

 

Suddenly black sparks flew from my heart, driving away the death force that had embraced me.

 

Suddenly, memory fragments I didn’t recognize replayed like sparks in my head.

 

It wasn’t Senior’s voice.

 

Rather, a man whose voice resembled mine shouted angrily.

 

[Aren’t you mistaken about something? I’m actually your true essence.]

 

[How can a being subordinate to power dare be called a Monarch?]

 

The Black-Haired Man firmly severed the Woman in Black Robe’s touch.

 

The woman smiled leisurely as if such things didn’t matter at all and asked.

 

[Without me, you are nothing. Are you really fine with leaving me?]

 

[You still don’t know your place.]

 

The black scythe in the man’s hand was placed at the woman’s neck.

 

I felt an extraordinary power beyond comparison, incomparable even to my Desperado.

 

[Though my flesh is already defiled, I will break the current chain and present a new path to future Monarchs.]

 

At the man’s declaration, the woman smiled bewitchingly.

 

[It will take longer than creation itself. How arrogant.]

 

[Reaching against heaven by defying limits is the vessel of one who becomes a Monarch.]

 

With those words, my consciousness returned to reality.

 

Before I knew it, the death force that had been embracing me had distanced itself and was kneeling obediently in my heart.

 

Though my head should have been confused by the suddenly emerging nameless scenes, I felt refreshed as if I had just woken up.

 

I could even begin to see how I should proceed from now on.

 

I lifted up the death force that had been in my heart again.

 

The death force no longer clung to me stickily.

 

Rather, it began moving much faster, obediently following my commands.

 

That speed was so incomparably fast compared to before that it was surprising.

 

From that action just now, I learned several things.

 

That death force was ultimately a power that needed to be subjugated and controlled.

 

Second, that there were still many hidden powers remaining in the death force.

 

To awaken those powers, I needed to control the death force even more perfectly.

 

Of course, what I needed most right now was my own domain.

 

Originally it would have been impossible, but now that I had somewhat subdued the death force, it seemed possible.

 

As I stood up holding the Desperado I had been cradling, my exhausted companions were blocking Karnack with desperate resolve.

 

Karnack also looked clearly surprised, as if he hadn’t expected to be blocked to this extent.

 

“You held out better than expected, but this is the end!”

 

Light began gathering in Karnack’s sun sword again.

 

Just as the intense light that seemed like it would melt anything that came near was about to burn my companions.

 

A black line that opposed it precisely dissipated Karnack’s power.

 

At the sudden appearance of the black line, color returned to my companions’ faces.

 

“Hyun-soo!”

 

“My lord!”

 

My battered companions looked at me and smiled brightly.

 

At their pure, clear smiles as if they had known I would return, I couldn’t help but chuckle.

 

“Did you wait long?”

 

At my question, Kim Yeo-ul, bleeding from her shoulder, smiled weakly.

 

“I always believed in you.”

 

“Yeah, now rest well.”

 

As I stepped forward, leaving my companions behind, a startled Karnack widened his eyes and glared at me.

 

“You are no longer a lesser Monarch.”

 

“Oh… so that’s what ‘lesser Monarch’ meant.”

 

“Don’t tell me you awakened to your true nature in such a short time!?”

 

“Who knows.”

 

Truth is, I still don’t fully understand why he showed me those memories.

 

But one thing I knew for certain.

 

Death force isn’t a power you lean on and share with others, but one you thoroughly subjugate and control.

 

“It must have been boring, so let’s have some real fun now.”

 

As if sensing what I was about to do, fear flickered across Karnack’s expression for the first time.

 

I gripped Desperado and drew up my death force.

 

Like a demon lord who would dye this entire world in death, I manifested my death force toward Karnack’s realm.

 

The brilliant sun was shrouded in darkness.

 

Darkness unleashed at full power without restraint began to engulf the world.

 

A black coffin forged from pitch-black death completely swallowed the surroundings, including Karnack.

 

“Every Lord of Souls throughout history has been nothing but a madman…”

 

Karnack glared at me, his expression severely distorted.

 

It seemed he instinctively realized he couldn’t escape from the Realm of Death.

 

In the complete Realm of Death where not a single ray of sunlight could enter, I could see Karnack gradually losing his light.

 

Everything within this space was hostile toward Karnack.

 

The things that had been within his domain completely lost their color.

 

In contrast, I felt as peaceful as if I had returned home.

 

I could understand why Monarchs were so obsessed with domains.

 

The power I wielded became twice as strong as usual.

 

The output of the death force within my body also became twice as strong.

 

I lightly drew up death force into Desperado and slashed.

 

The peaceful ground was carved into a massive crater with a single attack.

 

My death force was also twice as enhanced as before, but there was something more important.

 

This entire space was waiting for my commands.

 

It was such a mystical sensation, like having it in the palm of my hand, that I sheathed Desperado and resonated with this black coffin itself.

 

Karnack’s sword continued to lose its light.

 

He’d want to settle this while he still had some strength left.

 

‘If that’s what you wish.’

 

The black coffin began responding to me.

 

Black chains generated from the dark space attacked Karnack at my command.

 

Claaang-!

 

“Kugh…!”

 

The faded sun sword struck the chain.

 

Even handling just one seemed difficult as Karnack was pushed back considerably.

 

“Kuhuh… it seems you haven’t adapted to this power yet either.”

 

Why was that?

 

Karnack had been so overwhelming before, but now I didn’t feel even the slightest difficulty.

 

“A precious genius is waiting outside. I’ll finish this quickly.”

 

“Ha! If you can, then try…”

 

Thud thud thud thud!

 

Thousands of chains poured from every direction—up, down, front, back, left, right—from everywhere within sight, piercing through Karnack in an instant.

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