It’s the Apocalypse, but My Summons Do Everything - Chapter 7

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Episode 7

#Episode 7

“I reclaim my authority.”

The backlash from those light words was immense.

[W-wait, what is this…]

The massive power that had been covering the battlefield began to be absorbed into me.

The undead that filled the earth began to lose their strength one by one and collapse.

[Why is my power being absorbed by you!]

With a desperate scream, the Lich’s scythe aimed for my neck.

It was an attack swung without giving Kim Yeo-ul any chance to block it, but the creature’s scythe couldn’t inflict any damage on me.

[This… this is impossible…!!]

Because the scythe stopped precisely above my head.

The very power of darkness it possessed seemed to want to protect me, firmly binding the Lich’s limbs.

[Lies! All lies! Why does the darkness that should serve me protect you instead!]

Fear began to fill the Lich’s skull.

The Lich that had grown powerful by killing thousands began to tremble with terror.

There was nothing it could do.

Meeting its end betrayed by the power it thought was its own—that was truly a fitting end for the Lich.

[Kyaaaah! D-don’t do this! Please! I beg you! No, I implore you!]

Perhaps driven mad by fear, it threw away its scythe and knelt before me.

The sight of it rubbing its white bones against the ground while begging for mercy was quite a spectacle.

“Do you want to live?”

[Yes, I do!]

When I stood before the creature with its head buried in the ground, Kim Yeo-ul flinched.

Of course, I did this because the creature couldn’t harm me.

More than anything, I was curious about something.

I stepped on the Lich’s head repeatedly and asked in a low tone.

“Then from now on, answer everything I ask with utmost sincerity.”

[Th-then you’ll spare me?]

“Of course, do I look like someone who would lie?”

[N-no! Ask me anything!]

The Lich bowed its head low as I expected and desperately tried not to displease me.

I pressed down on the Lich’s shoulder and asked.

“Baek Do-hyeon should be buried in Seoul, so why did you specifically revive Kang Hyeon-u in Daejeon?”

It was information any Korean would know.

No matter how they were both classified as S-rank, Baek Do-hyeon and Kang Hyeon-u were on different levels.

The Lich wouldn’t have been unaware of this, so why?

The Lich immediately answered my question.

[Th-that’s because Baek Do-hyeon cannot be revived.]

“You revived Kang Hyeon-u, so why not him?”

[I don’t really know either… No matter how much I tried to revive him, there was no reaction at all, as if it was impossible from the start.]

“Hmm… I see, understood.”

[Th-then I can now…!]

“Yes, now die peacefully.”

[What? This is different from what you promised… Kyaaaah!]

As I lifted my foot from the creature, the Lich’s power that had been slowly absorbed began rushing into me like a bursting dam.

A desperate scream that would have brought tears if it had pupils filled the battlefield.

The power of the helpless Lich, who could neither inflict damage nor move, was completely absorbed into me.

[Ah… ahh… ahhh…!]

With a scream like a knife scraping metal, fear swirled in the Lich’s eyes.

The Lich, shrouded by the shadow of death, saw something within Cha Hyeon-su.

[No… ah… no, what is… what is this, no… hieek, hiiieek!]

An endless abyss teeming with beings incomparably superior to itself.

Beings that made one’s knees weak just by looking at them were waiting for it.

A jester wearing a black crown rolled on the floor, laughing until his mouth split.

Someone with their mouth sewn shut with red thread wore a crown of thorns and glared with red eyes.

Besides them, countless other powerful beings too numerous to count were looking at it.

Their gazes were so chilling they seemed to pierce through the heart.

I could instinctively sense it.

That place was a world where even a Lich was less than an ant.

Someone like myself would have limbs torn and body crushed with just a single gesture from those beings.

Overwhelming terror wrapped around my entire body, making my brain tingle.

I wanted to scream and struggle, but the overwhelming fear wouldn’t even allow that.

My whole body was paralyzed by the poison called predator’s terror.

[Ugh…ahh…]

And so the Lich was slowly absorbed into that endless kalpa.

Sentenced to eternal death in the infinite abyss with no visible end, it never opened its eyes again.

When all its power was absorbed and it transformed into ordinary human bones, a System Message announced the bland victory.

Along with a System Message saying my dignity as a lord had risen, 10 levels shot up all at once.

The experience points converted from the evil karma accumulated as a Lich were incredibly sweet.

“That was easier than I thought.”

Kim Yeo-ul, who had been watching from the side in disbelief, approached me in surprise.

“Wh… what was that just now?”

“I don’t know either. The system just said I could do it, so I did.”

“You did that to a Lich…?”

Kim Yeo-ul stared at me intently.

After a moment of incomprehensible gazing, perhaps thinking this was beyond her level of understanding, Kim Yeo-ul soon shrugged her shoulders.

“…Right, thinking deeply about things I don’t understand would just give me a headache.”

“Yeah, anyway we won, so all’s well that ends well.”

Though I said this, I kept clenching and unclenching my left hand for no reason.

‘Still, it was a Lich, but I don’t really feel anything…’

Even compared to Cheonma, a Lich is absolutely not inferior.

In terms of danger level, a Lich is actually slightly ahead.

Yet despite absorbing all of that Lich’s power, there was no change except for the number of undead I could command and my level.

How strange…

Kim Yeo-ul became that strong just from receiving Cheonma’s power.

Isn’t this a bit unfair?

Of course, nothing would change just from my grumbling.

I should just check out the new skills I gained.

It’s a buff-type skill… how much enhancement does it provide?

“Yeo-ul, come here.”

“Hm? Why?”

I targeted Kim Yeo-ul and activated Demonic Spirit Enhancement, causing mana to flow out and be absorbed into her body.

Kim Yeo-ul flinched, then her eyes widened as she moved her body in surprise.

“Huh? What? What is this!? My body feels incredibly light!”

She activated King of Fists stance and lightly bounced on her feet, then shot up into the sky with a whoosh.

Kim Yeo-ul, who had flown up to the height of a building’s third floor, stomped down on the ground with her foot.

CRASH!

The asphalt was mercilessly destroyed, and the ground cracked like a spider web.

Kim Yeo-ul walked out from around the deeply cratered debris, her eyes sparkling brightly.

“Hyun-soo, this is amazing!”

“Yeah, it looks like it…”

The mana that flowed out was only about 10 percent of my total.

Since my mana increased along with my level, the efficiency would be quite excellent going forward.

Kim Yeo-ul, who seemed pleased with the new buff, bounced around in the sky before landing next to me.

Then, as if just remembering, she pointed at Kang Hyeon-u and asked.

“Come to think of it, aren’t you taking Hunter Kang Hyeon-u with us?”

“He’s capable, but having two fighters in the party right now is a bit much.”

“Is that so?”

“Actually, past research papers showed that parties with proper composition had their average combat power increase by over 51 percent…”

“Ah, I don’t know, I don’t know! If you say so, then it must be true.”

What we need now is a tanker, a healer, and a ranged dealer.

Hunter Baek Do-hyeon will handle the ranged dealing, so that’s no problem.

Then what’s left is a tanker and healer.

But where am I supposed to find those…

Capable healers and tankers are several times harder to find than capable dealers.

“I wonder if there are any useful tanker or healer corpses around…”

“What kind of crazy talk is that, Hyun-soo…”

“People can betray you, but summons can’t.”

“That’s true, but.”

“Moreover, my skill isn’t even undead but actually revives them, so there’s no aversion either.”

Every word made sense.

Trusting others in this hellish Korean Peninsula – such an innocent world had long since perished.

Even with a special relationship like Kim Yeo-ul and mine, this was a world where people would stab you in the back the moment you turned around.

Kim Yeo-ul had also witnessed countless betrayals and civil wars, so she couldn’t deny my words.

“Now that I hear it, it does sound right…”

“It’s this kind of world, so there’s no choice.”

It’s too dark a world to cry out for romance and friendship.

To survive in this harsh world, one has no choice but to compromise between ideals and reality and adapt to the darkness.

“Enough of the dark talk! So where are we going now?”

“Probably to Sejong City, since there were still a few villages alive there.”

“What if they’re ruined again?”

“We stopped the variable in Daejeon, so if nothing else happens, they should be fine, right?”

“I really hope so.”

A place where massacres happen as routinely as eating meals.

For a moment I felt breathless, but I had no intention of giving up on the Korean Peninsula.

“Let’s move diligently for now, we need to cross Trash Mountain today.”

“Ugh… we’re going there again?”

“Despite its appearance, it’s one of the safest places on the Korean Peninsula.”

Trash Mountain.

It means exactly what it sounds like.

When the gates opened and the Korean Peninsula fell to ruin, all the accumulating trash gathered in one place.

On the outskirts between Daejeon and Sejong, in the middle of the Republic of Korea.

Even though the country was ruined, the amount of trash produced by tens of millions was enormous.

The trash that should have gone to incinerators was left abandoned when the humans managing them died.

But since there was nowhere else to dump trash, it kept accumulating until now a mountain of garbage had formed.

It was the most foul-smelling and filthy place on the Korean Peninsula, but for that very reason, most monsters wouldn’t approach it either.

“The trash smell is going to stick to my body for a week again…”

“If you get dirty, I’ll resummon you, so just hurry up and follow me.”

“In that case, this girl will spare no effort to accompany you!”

And so began my and Kim Yeo-ul’s journey through the garbage dump.

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Trash Mountain, which we had entered in earnest, had grown even larger than when we came before.

It looked like a maze formed by layers upon layers of mountains.

The fortunate thing was that there were almost no monsters around.

The few monsters that were there were all small fry around E-rank level.

“If we keep smelling the garbage dump, we’re getting used to it, right?”

“Maybe our sense of smell is just paralyzed?”

“Why, should we take a dangerous path that would pierce our noses and stomachs instead?”

“Oh no way, let’s just keep going this way!”

Kim Yeo-ul smiled playfully and lightly tapped my shoulder.

Since I also had no desire to stay long in this Trash Mountain, I quickened my pace.

How long had we been walking?

Just as the garbage scenery had been repeating for about 10 minutes.

“Hyun-soo, stop.”

“Yeah.”

“Die-!”

A black creature suddenly flew at Kim Yeo-ul, swinging a dagger.

Of course, Kim Yeo-ul wasn’t at a level to fall for such a surprise attack, so she punched the dagger head-on.

A mere cheap dagger couldn’t even scratch Kim Yeo-ul’s body protected by the King of Fists aura.

Clang-!

The dagger shattered and the black creature that had attacked was sent flying far away, crashing into the trash mountain.

“What the hell is that?”

“Looks like a person?”

The girl who had crashed into the wall charged forward swinging her fists as if she hadn’t been hurt at all.

There was no way the girl who had been easily blocked even with a dagger could break through Kim Yeo-ul with her fists.

This time she didn’t even swing her fist.

Kim Yeo-ul flicked away the frail girl’s punch with just one finger.

Unable to overcome just one finger, the girl was sent flying backward once again.

With such a difference in power, one would expect her to be discouraged, but the girl started charging at Kim Yeo-ul again like a mad dog.

Kim Yeo-ul clicked her tongue as if fed up and said to me.

“Even so, I don’t want to kill a kid…”

“Me neither, just knock her out.”

“Got it.”

Kim Yeo-ul’s figure became blurry for a moment, then instantly appeared behind the girl.

Since she didn’t know techniques like striking the nape, she gave a small flick to the back of the girl’s head.

“Kheuk…!”

“You didn’t kill her, right!?”

“Of course not? She’s breathing, isn’t she!?”

Though she was trembling and foaming at the mouth.

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