It’s the Apocalypse, but My Summons Do Everything - Chapter 72

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Chapter 72

 

#Chapter 72

 

In the dark underground, the Monarch’s footsteps began to be carved.

 

With each step forward, the deeply engraved death energy announced the Monarch’s descent.

 

After descending all 208 steps to the bottom, I saw a greatly flustered Necromancer underground and behind him, Restless Spirits kneeling with their heads bowed.

 

The Necromancer seemed to have instinctively recognized the enormous gap between himself and me, unable to move easily.

 

However, it was quite insolent that he still refused to kneel and brazenly kept his head raised.

 

Nox’s expression was colored with shock.

 

It was because he had confirmed for the first time just how many Restless Spirits were in this space stained with death energy.

 

Among them, perhaps recognizing some acquaintances, he trembled with clenched fists and recited several names.

 

I don’t like these wishy-washy situations.

 

The black coffin devoured the castle.

 

The Monarch’s domain was declared, and the Restless Spirits who had been bowing their heads buried their faces even deeper into the ground.

 

What I’m targeting is only that one Necromancer.

 

To the others, I bestowed the warm mercy of reincarnation.

 

With Desperado wielded personally, I severed their resentment that had remained in this world.

 

The black threads that had been embedded in the ground disappeared, and the Restless Spirits that existed underground finally began their ascension.

 

Until the very end, they bowed their heads to me without forgetting their gratitude, and all the Restless Spirits in the underground were freed from the pain of death.

 

In the now-empty cavity, I glared at the Necromancer who had wet his pants in fear and said:

 

“Did you think someone like you could speak of resurrection?”

 

The Necromancer cannot dare fathom my depths right now.

 

The weight of the Monarch, for whom something like communicating with souls couldn’t even be called an authority, was crushing him.

 

Fear was engraved into his body, which had stiffened to the point where he couldn’t move even a finger at will.

 

The filthy water flowing between his crotch and his face trembling like an aspen leaf were hideous with tears and snot bursting forth.

 

Before this overwhelming fear that made my mind tingle, I glared at him.

 

The corrupt being drowns in my black gaze.

 

I extended a hand forged from death energy.

 

“You will never enjoy the bliss of life and death.”

 

Just as I was about to take his life before Nox’s eyes, a suddenly appearing black barrier blocked my grasp.

 

Clang-!

 

“…Th-that’s right! As expected, that person hasn’t abandoned me!”

 

What I felt this time was magical power possessing quite a high rank.

 

A barrier deployed by a considerably powerful being was blocking the space between him and me.

 

Not a barrier or ward deployed with desperate resolve, but merely a barrier with high rank.

 

Really, it was utterly ridiculous.

 

Scritch-!

 

I concentrated death energy at my fingertips and began cutting through the barrier.

 

The barrier that split as lightly as cutting paper ultimately couldn’t withstand the damage and was completely destroyed.

 

“Huh… Hueeeeek?!”

 

“If you thought you could survive with just something like this, you still don’t know me.”

 

A mere Necromancer like that could never gauge a Monarch’s power in the first place.

 

“I don’t know whose dog you are, but blame your corrupt heart.”

 

A massive guillotine forged from death energy placed the Necromancer between its teeth.

 

The one bound by fear wasn’t even permitted the struggle to beg for his life.

 

Along with meaningless writhing, the guillotine’s massive blade fell.

 

The severed head rolled and dropped in front of Nox.

 

Nox trembled before this power of a different caliber and collapsed to his knees.

 

And finally realizing what that barrier deployed for the man was, his eyes were trembling.

 

“He… he ultimately… followed me.”

 

As if it was all his fault, Nox struck the ground with his fist.

 

“If I had just died on the battlefield…! At least my family wouldn’t have suffered like this… Because I… of all people, I survived and returned, causing this…!”

 

To Nox, who had fallen into self-reproaching sorrow, I brought forward the two souls that still remained.

 

Lavender and Elina looked at Nox, whose whole body was trembling, and let out sighs.

 

Though he couldn’t see, hear, or feel them, the two quietly shed tears and embraced Nox, patting him comfortingly.

 

“…Comfort that cannot reach has no meaning.”

 

I finally concentrated high-density death energy in the space where the family was.

 

Human handprints began to appear on Nox’s clothes.

 

Warmth that shouldn’t have been felt was faintly perceived, and voices that shouldn’t have been heard echoed in his ears.

 

“La… Lavender… Elina, you…!”

 

“Isn’t a Swordmaster’s tears a bit too light?”

 

“Dad looks pathetic, so stop crying!”

 

At the warmth he thought he would never feel again, Nox looked at me.

 

I closed my eyes and nodded.

 

Then, human warmth began to fill Nox’s eyes that had been filled only with cold loneliness.

 

Nox embraced the two with all his strength, shedding tears while smiling.

 

My companions and I quietly stepped back so that Nox could cherish this moment.

 

Gradually, the light of the two souls began to fade.

 

“Stop crying, if you just drink yourself to death in your room without us, we’ll be angry from heaven!”

 

“…I’ll even allow you to remarry, so don’t live alone and lonely.”

 

“Yeah… okay… I will… I definitely will….”

 

The two souls he held tightly in his arms turned into golden powder from their feet up and headed toward the sky.

 

As their last act, they bowed their heads to me as if expressing gratitude.

 

I smiled very faintly.

 

* * *

 

“Oh ho, so this is how it works.”

 

Even though we had cleared it, the 1.5th Floor didn’t disappear or anything like that.

 

Rather, the events that followed seemed to be connected to the 1.5th Floor.

 

What would happen if the difficulty of the trial drastically decreased?

 

Would the number of enemies that appear be reduced?

 

While thinking about this and resting at Nox’s Manor for a moment, suddenly time seemed to stop and the flowing scenery froze.

 

Surprisingly, even I inside this space couldn’t move a single finger.

 

‘Is this the work of another Divine Throne Monarch?’

 

I didn’t think there would be any being on the ground capable of exerting such compulsion on me right now.

 

However, what unfolded next was something that far exceeded my expectations.

 

‘Hmm? The Tower Master?’

 

I recalled what my senior had mentioned in passing before.

 

Something about the Tower Master listening in, wasn’t it?

 

I thought he might be someone who valued discipline and rules, but to suddenly call for me?

 

Maybe he’s not as rigid in personality as I thought?

 

The invitation’s seal glowed brightly as if urging me to accept quickly, so I tore open the seal.

 

Then countless butterflies made of trump cards poured out from inside the invitation and soon swallowed me up.

 

I didn’t even feel the sensation of moving somewhere.

 

After the cards that completely blocked my vision disappeared, where I was located was no longer Nox’s Manor.

 

In a space where a giant chessboard stretched endlessly, a table and chairs were placed in the center.

 

In the chair across from me sat a mischievous boy, chuckling as he looked at me.

 

The boy wore a shirt and shorts with a bread hat, and had a spade drawn on his left eye and a diamond on his right eye.

 

As extraordinary as his appearance was, the power I felt from the boy was so immense it reminded me of a Divine Throne Monarch.

 

I instinctively realized that this boy was the Tower Master and sat in the chair across from him.

 

“Oh? You sit down quite obediently?”

 

Lazl had very big reactions to everything, befitting his boyish appearance.

 

I got a strong feeling that he was a mischievous god.

 

“Isn’t this the chair you placed for me to sit in?”

 

“What would you have done if it wasn’t?”

 

With those words, the chair that was supporting my bottom disappeared.

 

For a moment my posture collapsed and I almost fell on my rear, but the death force I always kept around my body created a crescent-shaped chair that supported my lower back.

 

“I would have done this.”

 

“Whoa… As expected of That One’s successor, so thorough.”

 

“If you’re referring to my senior, I’ll take that as a compliment.”

 

The Tower Master puffed out his cheeks and gestured.

 

The death force supporting my body disappeared and the chair reappeared.

 

To be able to dismiss my power so simply, he’s truly an extraordinary being.

 

However, just cowering wasn’t in my nature either, so I pulled the subtly uncomfortable chair closer and sat down while asking.

 

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

 

Someone who’s the Tower Master wouldn’t have called me carelessly just to see my face.

 

At my question, the Tower Master made a slightly troubled expression, then soon made a face that would appear in comics.

 

He stuck his tongue out slightly and bonked his head with his left hand.

 

“Tehehe! I made your senior juuust a little bit angry?”

 

“…My senior?”

 

“Umm… if I had to say, I showed your senior’s dark history…?”

 

At the same time as those words, I saw the Chessboard Realm shake greatly for a moment.

 

I felt pressure as if telling him not to say any more unnecessary words.

 

“Ehehehe… Geez, what a nasty personality really, eating the Divine Seat makes you bitter.”

 

I feel a strangely familiar darkness.

 

I instinctively noticed that my senior was watching from outside this domain.

 

“Then, you should apologize to my senior, so why did you specifically call me here?”

 

“I did apologize but he won’t accept it!”

 

“Even if you get angry at me after you were the one who did wrong first….”

 

“That’s true but… it’s a face I’m glad to see after a long time, can’t I play a little prank like this….”

 

Rumble-!

 

“Aigo! I’m dying!”

 

This time it seemed he hit quite hard, as Lazl’s space trembled violently.

 

I could feel Senior’s will that if he put his mind to it, he could easily tear apart a space like this.

 

“What a twisted personality… You must not become such a boring Monarch!”

 

Since the Tower Lord seemed to be secretly enjoying this situation, I gave him an appropriate response.

 

“I’ll consider that.”

 

“Good, good, my junior is someone I can reason with.”

 

With a single gesture from Lazl, the cracked world was restored as if nothing had happened.

 

In the world that had become even more solid than before, Lazl plopped down in his chair and spoke to me.

 

“Well… anyway, I was in the wrong this time too, so I called you here to give you compensation.”

 

“Compensation… you say?”

 

“That’s right, compensation.”

 

With Lazl’s gesture, three treasure chests appeared and were placed before me.

 

They weren’t particularly color-coded, but brilliant lights like auras were swirling chaotically around them.

 

“Choose one of the three rewards.”

 

“Is it random?”

 

“Normally it would be fun to gamble on something like that… but right now I think I’d really get in trouble if I did that, so I’ll tell you.”

 

Descriptions began to appear above the treasure chests.

 

Lazl deliberately got up from his seat and added explanations for each one.

 

“The first is a free pass you can use immediately! You can use it on a floor you think is absolutely impossible to clear! But it can’t be used on the 10th floor, which is the final trial!”

 

“The second is 3 retry tickets! The right to challenge again even if you fail once! These can be used on the 10th floor too!”

 

After putting away the two treasure chests, Lazl pointed to the last box.

 

“The last one is a reward enhancement coupon! It will enhance the final reward you receive for clearing the Tower!”

 

“Enhancement… how much enhancement are we talking about?”

 

“Hehehe, I knew you’d ask that!”

 

Drums that had appeared around Lazl at some point began to roll with a drumroll.

 

When the drums that had built up to a climax ended, Lazl held up two fingers.

 

“Minimum double! Maximum ten times!”

 

“Then, obviously I’ll go with the reward enhancement coupon…”

 

“But!”

 

Lazl grabbed my wrist.

 

He made a wicked smile and revealed the description that had been hidden beneath the explanation.

 

“There’s a demerit where the Tower’s difficulty increases by multiples!”

 

After offering compensation, suddenly there’s a demerit.

 

For a moment I was dumbfounded, but seeing that Senior wasn’t getting angry this time, it seemed reasonably fair.

 

“If it increases by multiples, how much are we talking about?”

 

“That’s also random for each floor! This also starts from 2 times, of course!”

 

“What’s the maximum?”

 

“Obviously ten times!”

 

A wicked smile pressured me as if asking what I would choose, but there was no need to think deeply about something like this.

 

“No need to look further, I’ll go with the last one.”

 

“Eh!? Really!? If you’re unlucky, you could get ten times difficulty starting from the very next floor!”

 

“So what?”

 

At my answer, Lazl’s eyes widened, then he pulled up the corners of his mouth to the fullest.

 

He bared his sharp teeth and laughed “kekekeke,” then nodded his head like crazy.

 

“Yes yes! Good! So you’ve decided on the third reward? No take-backs?”

 

“Yes, please.”

 

“Excellent!! Then I’ll send you back to the 1.5th Floor!”

 

With those words, Hyun-soo was carried back on a trump card again.

 

In the space where only the Tower Lord remained, a black door opened belatedly and the Lord of Souls appeared.

 

Lazl, who had been grinning broadly, clicked his tongue and threw a five-colored potion from his bosom.

 

“Are the Lords of Souls always nothing but lunatics throughout the generations?”

 

The Lord of Souls, who caught the potion and put it in his bosom, chuckled.

 

“Let’s just say he has a gambler’s temperament.”

 

With those words, Senior desperately created a throne next to Lazl and sat down.

 

Lazl snorted, then created large screens in front of himself and the Lord of Souls.

 

Inside them, countless Monarchs were challenging the Tower.

 

Naturally, the largest screen displayed was Hyun-soo’s.

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