It’s the Apocalypse, but My Summons Do Everything - Chapter 71

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Chapter 71

 

#Chapter 71

 

‘If it has such a significant impact, the difficulty could change drastically too… I can’t afford to be careless.’

 

I deliberately let the flying sword energy hit me.

 

Since I usually wrapped my death force around my body like armor, there wasn’t much danger.

 

Clang-!

 

The sword energy that struck my neck and shattered wasn’t just an ordinary blade made of mana.

 

‘Does a Swordmaster have a different realm from hunters who use mana?’

 

Contrary to my expectation that it wouldn’t even leave a scratch, my death force was very faintly damaged.

 

If he had attacked seriously, it might have been dangerous.

 

Of course, if he had attacked like that, I would have responded differently, but that’s not what’s important right now.

 

“…You’re no ordinary human.”

 

How should I put it, this Swordmaster called Nox felt like a strange harmony – half ordinary human aura, and the other half seemed crafted from nature itself.

 

Various natural elements like wind and clouds, light and darkness were protecting the rest of his essence.

 

‘That must be the mysterious aura I felt earlier.’

 

There was a bright, clear feeling that naturally lifted one’s spirits with pleasant euphoria.

 

Since he didn’t seem like a bad person, I lowered my guard first and extended my hand for a handshake.

 

“…What exactly are you trying to do right now?”

 

“Don’t you know what a handshake is?”

 

Ever since I made that promise with Senior, I stopped bowing my head carelessly.

 

So this was a light greeting offered as a Monarch.

 

Nox seemed unable to easily understand this situation, but after looking at me and my companions behind me, he soon clasped hands with me.

 

Just from that, he seemed to grasp our abilities, and his expression became tense.

 

“What reason do strong individuals like you have for coming all the way here?”

 

At his stiff tone, I carefully chose my answer.

 

The thick darkness still felt from the Underworld and the chilling Restless Spirits.

 

And most importantly, even the words being uttered by the two souls crying sorrowfully in his embrace.

 

The situation was gradually beginning to form in my mind.

 

Among all of this, the most important thing was what was happening in the Underworld right now.

 

If resentment was embedded this deeply, it certainly wouldn’t be anything normal.

 

“Do you really not know why I’ve come all the way to This Place?”

 

“…”

 

The Swordmaster’s cold gaze turned toward me.

 

Instead, I confidently met Nox’s eyes head-on.

 

Within his clear, blue lake-like eyes existed grief so deep its end couldn’t be fathomed.

 

As if something was weighing on him, Nox couldn’t easily open his mouth.

 

He lowered his head with guilt-ridden eyes.

 

His hair that seemed to contain the Sky and his clear eyes were like a painting.

 

If only it weren’t for the souls on both sides gripping Nox’s arms and wailing.

 

“We didn’t just die, that bastard… that son of a bitch in the Underworld killed us-!”

 

“You… why has someone as brilliant as you become so dim…?”

 

At the two souls crying heartbreakingly, I quietly spread my death force toward the Underworld.

 

In the Underworld, along with the countless Restless Spirits I had felt earlier, some black Something was doing something with those souls.

 

However, that was completely different from the way I handled souls.

 

It was like scooping up the dark, sticky, unpleasant swamp of hell.

 

From the words of the two souls and ‘that thing’ in the Underworld, the outline of the current situation was drawn.

 

Nox was glaring at me, trying to figure out my intentions.

 

My reflection in his quiet eyes didn’t look very good.

 

“When you don’t even know how your Wife and Daughter died…”

 

At my words, Nox’s face contorted as he placed his hand on his sword again.

 

Jinu and Rey, who had been watching carefully, pressed darkness and a blade to Nox’s throat.

 

Baek Do-hyeon was pressing down on him with subtle mana as if daring him to try something.

 

“If you want to live your whole life as a blind man with open eyes, I won’t stop you.”

 

Nox’s mind began working rapidly.

 

Having quickly grasped the current situation, he removed his hand from his sword again and raised both hands.

 

“…What do you mean by that? Explain it properly.”

 

“It’s not difficult.”

 

I felt the darkness in the Underworld flinch.

 

I wrapped my companions and Nox with my death force and completely blocked out sound.

 

Then I looked at the souls crying beside him again and shaped my death force, embedding words within it.

 

A droplet that advanced borrowing the authority of communing with the dead burst in front of the two souls.

 

[I can hear your words.]

 

The words contained within spread out and rang in the two souls’ ears.

 

Then the two who had been crying sorrowfully startled and slowly turned their heads to look at me.

 

I met both of their eyes and nodded.

 

Their expressions, stained with sorrow and resentment, brightened for the first time.

 

[I’ll be listening, so won’t you tell me what this is all about?]

 

I felt some hesitation from the daughter, but the mother’s soul seemed to have steeled her resolve in that brief moment and stood before me.

 

“I don’t want my husband to break down any further… so I’ll tell you.”

 

I quietly blinked my eyes.

 

With the mother having made her resolute decision, the daughter also hesitated for a moment before smoothly stepping forward to stand before me.

 

Mainly the mother spoke while the daughter added supplementary information where needed.

 

“Hmm…”

 

The story was simpler than I had expected.

 

I understood why this easter egg was called a tragedy.

 

While Nox was away on an expedition, the necromancer in the underground killed them both with necromancy.

 

It appeared as if they had fallen ill and died after suffering, so when Nox returned from his expedition, he was driven nearly mad watching the two of them dying.

 

Despite Nox’s every effort, both died, and taking advantage of that opening, the necromancer appeared as if he had been waiting.

 

The necromancer deceived Nox with sweet words, claiming he could revive the two who had died.

 

Bringing the dead back to life.

 

Originally, he wasn’t someone who would fall for such foolish proposals, but the grief of losing his daughter and wife was enough to paralyze his reason.

 

What followed was a boringly predictable story.

 

The necromancer made Nox do all sorts of things under the pretext of reviving the two.

 

The level of what the Swordmaster did gradually escalated, eventually reaching the point where he was offering the souls of monsters as sacrifices.

 

Naturally, there was no way a necromancer of that mere level could perform the miracle of reviving the dead.

 

This was the result.

 

A foolish Swordmaster who had fattened the necromancer’s belly.

 

A necromancer who grew even stronger by secretly taking the souls of the territory’s people, and furthermore, countless kingdom citizens.

 

If I hadn’t come, even more terrible things would have happened.

 

Having heard the story up to this point, I clearly realized what I needed to do.

 

“How would you like me to help you?”

 

“What do you…”

 

“I’m not talking to you.”

 

At my question, the two people grabbed my hands and knelt down.

 

“Please kill the necromancer underground and return my husband to normal… That… that would be enough for me.”

 

“Same for me, please… please return my father to how he was!”

 

“I understand, I’ll do that for you.”

 

Nox looked at me with surprised eyes.

 

He seemed to want to ask what I was looking at, so I said casually as if brushing it off.

 

“Isn’t love truly frightening? To think it could turn even such a brilliant person into such a fool.”

 

Nox was staring intently into my eyes.

 

I could immediately use my necromantic power to show Nox those two.

 

But I didn’t.

 

Looking at the current state of the two, it seemed like Nox would go mad with rage and rampage.

 

Even now, blood was flowing from his tightly clenched fists.

 

“I’ll do as Lavender and Elina have requested.”

 

At the two names that came from my mouth, Nox’s eyes trembled palely.

 

I drove the final wedge into Nox’s wildly shaking heart.

 

“To put it more understandably, I’ll do it at the request of Lavi and El.”

 

At the pet names only used within the family, Nox’s expression finally completely crumbled.

 

The expression of a man who wouldn’t shed a single tear even if stabbed with a sword was colored with grief.

 

I grabbed Nox by the collar and pulled him to his feet.

 

Gripping the collar of the handsome man shedding transparent tears, I stared straight into his eyes.

 

“See clearly with those two eyes of yours what you have done.”

 

I released Nox’s collar and dispelled the necromantic power that had been surrounding the area.

 

When I opened the door leading underground, an eerie aura came wafting up.

 

The cold resentment, so chilling it felt like midwinter, became a freezing air that formed frost on the walls like a freezer.

 

Just as I was about to enter the underground with my companions, Nox, who had been shedding tears, grabbed my wrist.

 

“The one underground… is he really a wicked bastard?”

 

At his desperate gaze as if asking me to give him certainty, I glanced at Lavender.

 

Perhaps she had originally been a strong woman, as she swallowed her tears and spoke.

 

“Please tell him anyway.”

 

“Very well.”

 

I repeated her words exactly as she said them.

 

“Dad, the sword with lapis lazuli and sapphires embedded in it that you promised to give me at my coming-of-age ceremony, that bastard has that too.”

 

At my answer, Nox’s last emotional barrier completely crumbled.

 

It seemed to truly be a conversation only they knew about, as the Swordmaster’s tears fell drop by drop to the ground.

 

I gave him a moment to process his grief.

 

I hoped that somehow, as the Tower wished, he would face the end of this tragedy.

 

“I see… so that’s… how it was…”

 

Befitting his name as a strong Swordmaster, he gritted his teeth and stood up even as tears flowed endlessly down his face.

 

Then he drew his sword and stood before me.

 

His blood-stained hand gripped the sword as if steeling himself with resolute determination.

 

“The one in the underworld gained tremendous power through my mistake, so I should take responsibility for that as well…”

 

“…”

 

I considered it briefly, but he would only get in the way.

 

If it were another enemy, I would have put Nox forward, but the opponent is a Necromancer.

 

The death force that had been slowly spreading began to unfold in earnest.

 

Stretching my crouched body and roaring with the pent-up power in full force, I announced that the Lord of Souls had descended upon this place.

 

“Huh… what…?”

 

Nox instinctively stepped back two paces, sensing power beyond normal limits.

 

His complexion, which had gathered sorrow through awe and fear, was finally presentable.

 

“Wh… who exactly are you…”

 

“Stand aside.”

 

Now was the time to act as a Monarch.

 

As Senior had said, Monarchs simply walk the path of supremacy.

 

Though I still didn’t fully understand it, I knew clearly what I had to do in this twisted situation.

 

As if entranced, Nox stepped behind me and sheathed his sword.

 

I had confirmed there was no escape route in the underworld.

 

Nox tactfully followed me.

 

Even my usually playful companions held their breath and followed me for now.

 

Death force began spreading into the underworld.

 

As if telling him that his reaper had come, so give up resistance and place his neck on the guillotine.

 

I had no intention of hiding it.

 

This was my path of supremacy and the stride of a Monarch.

 

With each step I took forward, I could feel the acrid emotions of the Black Entity in the underworld.

 

The emotions built from confidence and competitive spirit were diluted, gradually becoming thick with the taste of emotions stained with fear and terror.

 

The Restless Spirits that had been flying about chaotically all stopped moving at once as if by agreement.

 

As if recognizing the master who would come, they quietly held their breath and began showing proper respect.

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