It’s the Apocalypse, but My Summons Do Everything - Chapter 83

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Chapter 83

#Episode 83

The Void Librarian’s eyes shook wildly like mad.

“Why—”

“Do you think I’ve only seen bastards like you once or twice?”

Death, vividly manifested to erase a powerless past, strangled the librarian’s neck at its master’s command.

I won’t be pushed around anymore.

From now on, I become the standard of every battlefield.

“You’ve done something you’ll regret—!”

“Will I really?”

The enraged Nemos spread open all the books he was carrying.

Normally, the books would have opened and the attacks contained within would have poured out.

But no matter how much he gestured, the books wouldn’t open.

As if they were refusing his commands.

“What…?”

Nemos, who belatedly noticed the anomaly, twisted his power to forcibly open the books, but the tightly closed books shut their jaws and absolutely refused to open.

Nemos’s complexion, which had been overflowing with leisure, became filled with confusion.

He closed his mouth and gestured with his hands and feet several times, but the tightly closed books showed no sign of opening.

The reason was simple.

Those stories had rejected Nemos’s commands.

It might have been different during the time when he dominated all books, but 40 percent of his books had vanished in an instant.

With the sudden loss of power, his ability to control other stories had become significantly insufficient.

The stories that had been forcibly stolen had no reason to cooperate with him.

The stories embedded in the books were deeply imbued with echoes of souls.

Naturally, those echoes couldn’t be friendly toward Nemos.

“Something so easy—why couldn’t I do it back then?”

As Desperado rose, chains wrapped around Nemos’s body.

Nemos, dyed with fear, trembled violently and bit his lips.

“Now die.”

“Th-this kind of ending isn’t…”

“Fine.”

The guillotine fell and severed Nemos’s neck.

His soul had no chance to depart anywhere and became material for soul collection before vanishing.

Shortly after, the Black Fortress was released and the stories Nemos had possessed returned to their original owners.

However, among them, about twenty books didn’t return to their owners and simply turned to ash and disappeared.

Those were probably the stories of the previous Ascended Ones.

‘It seems the souls of Ascended Ones don’t get bound to the Tower even when they die.’

Besides that, the residents who had been in the City of Fools began to regain their stories and come to their senses one by one.

If they were personnel who had made it this far, it naturally meant they were the elite forces of that time.

Those who quickly regained their senses gathered together and approached me one by one, bowing their heads.

“Thank you!”

“If the Ascended One hadn’t stepped forward, we would have lived as fools until death.”

“We were bound for 10 years… *sob*… Thank you… Thank you, truly…”

It seemed they retained memories from when their stories were absorbed, as despite having many other comrades, they all approached me and bowed their heads.

I couldn’t heal the grief of being captured by monsters, but fortunately, I had a fortress left to share with them.

As soon as I contacted the fortress, soldiers came rushing out in a hurry.

Seeing them run out haphazardly without any formation, they must have originally been acquaintances of the missing persons.

“Brother—! Brother!!!”

“Ah… Abrel? You’ve already grown this much!?”

“You… could you possibly be Rad?”

“Do you know how much I suffered after Father left!?”

It was none other than Demiurgos Nia who cut short the joy of separated family reunions.

“I’m sorry to interrupt during this busy time, but what do you plan to do with the missing persons?”

At Nia’s clear voice, the attention of the gathering focused for the moment.

Even in a situation where the pressure could be felt, Nia continued speaking nonchalantly.

“There are two options. Either wait for the rescue ship that will arrive in a week, or choose to accompany our fortress.”

Though it’s an awkward situation in the midst of this emotional moment, we can’t stop here.

Our goal isn’t rescue, but to deal with something in the depths of the Sea of Oblivion.

At Nia’s question, they began to gauge each other’s reactions one by one.

In the briefly chaotic situation, the oldest person among them stepped forward.

He seemed to be someone who had also served on warships, as his shoulders and chest were adorned with medals and stars.

“Having come this far, I have no intention of just going back. If possible, I’d like to go to the end together.”

Following the captain who first showed courage, the survivors began to quietly approach one by one.

Though they may be missing now, they were all once heroes who threw themselves into the Sea of Oblivion.

In the end, not a single person remained in opposition.

The consensus was reached that everyone would board the fortress again and participate in the operation together.

Ria, who had regained control of her body, blinked her eyes as if slightly surprised by this.

“Even after going through such hardships, they still have the strength to join us again… That’s amazing.”

“That’s exactly why they’re people worthy of respect.”

The fortress was already severely understaffed compared to its enormous size.

This reinforcement would have a positive impact on the fortress as well.

“Well then, let’s finish the rest aboard the fortress!”

“Yes, understood!”

“Returning now!”

The fortress, having unintentionally absorbed a large number of veterans, began operating again.

At the same time, an alarm sounded indicating that the sixth trial had been cleared.

Four trials remained in total.

I had to maintain tension until the remaining trials were complete.

Things couldn’t possibly continue to go this smoothly.

* * *

Since there was no longer any reason to stay on the 6th Floor, I immediately entered the door leading to the 7th Floor.

If the 6th Floor had been the outskirts, from the 7th Floor onward, there was a strong feeling that we had truly entered the Sea of Oblivion proper.

“…Sigh, I thought things might go easily for once.”

Five times the difficulty.

No wonder the 6th Floor only gave us 1.5 times.

“Everyone, let’s stay alert on this floor.”

“Understood.”

“Okay~”

Our destination was the center of the Sea of Oblivion.

I couldn’t even begin to imagine how many enemies were lurking in between.

Just looking at the number of enemies caught by the reconnaissance I had spread out was enough to make me sigh.

‘Half water, half monsters…’

This was blatantly a space filled with death and despair.

Only now did I truly feel what kind of place we had stepped into.

Of course, that didn’t change the direction we needed to go.

“Multiple unidentified objects appearing ahead, entity difficulty rating is B.”

“Everyone, prepare yourselves.”

The combatants, including my companions, gripped their weapons.

“What kind of enemies are they this time?”

I asked Demiurgos for preliminary information, but there was no immediate answer.

Demiurgos, who had been rapidly moving his eyes as if calculating something, finally spoke with difficulty.

“Large number of Void Hunters appearing ahead.”

“Void Hunters?”

“What…? Those guys come from here?!”

“Why, do you know something about them?”

It wasn’t the crew member who clicked his tongue that answered my question, but Demiurgos.

He displayed information in my field of vision, showing monster-like creatures with shark upper bodies and limbs.

Peculiarly, they weren’t wearing spacesuits or flight suits.

They were creatures that simply swam through space as if swimming in the sea, attacking enemies.

According to the original data I had received, their armament level wasn’t very high.

Special harpoons and harpoon guns.

But the armament of those rushing toward us at full speed was clearly different.

“How is that supposed to be a harpoon…”

They held serrated harpoons in their hands and carried massive harpoon crossbows on their backs.

The crossbows were too large to dismiss as simple harpoons, measuring well over 3 meters.

Moreover, unlike the data showing them nearly naked, these ones were clad in blue iron armor.

Demiurgos, having assessed the danger, immediately entered combat mode.

Demiurgos deployed gun barrels and attack instruments, beginning to unleash attacks.

The attacks pouring from the entire fortress swept away large numbers of Void Hunters, but it wasn’t enough.

A full seven times the original number.

It was too many for a single fortress to handle.

Demiurgos turned his gaze toward me.

It seemed the time had come for the combatants to play their part again.

“Send all combatants including myself to the deck.”

At my request, Demiurgos looked at the combatants including my companions as if seeking agreement.

Everyone nodded firmly without a moment’s hesitation.

“I didn’t expect to be able to repay the favor so soon.”

“If we have any shame, we should naturally go out and fight.”

“This life was already nearly lost once, I’ll offer it here.”

With their agreement, we were warped to the deck.

I took position at the head of the fortress while the others formed a circular perimeter around it.

If we had only the original combatants, we would have been severely lacking, but the reinforcement of personnel was definitely significant.

The combatants waited tensely for the enemies to approach.

The enemies came rushing like dense black waves, so numerous that some clicked their tongues.

It felt similar to facing waves, so I reverse-summoned Desperado.

Since I was taking charge of the head, my role was to kill as many enemies as possible.

‘I don’t know how far I can go… but I’ll have to block them even if it kills me.’

Climbing the tower, I felt like this tower was demanding proof from the current me.

As if asking me to prove again now what I couldn’t achieve in the past, it presented similar but twice as heavy tasks.

Of course, I wasn’t sure if that was really the tower’s intention or just coincidence, but if I’d been driven this far, there was only one thing for me to do.

“Black Fortress.”

The Black Fortress deployed in front of the fortress.

I deliberately left the Black Fortress’s entrance open because blocking entry would prevent enemies from coming in.

I wanted to create an area where entry was free but exit was impossible, but I couldn’t yet handle domains at such an organic level.

“They’re coming!”

With Rey’s shout, the Void Hunters began swarming in.

Enemies who entered the Black Fortress without knowing anything were immediately pierced by black chains and lost their lives.

A scale that would have been impossible before.

But the current me was on a different dimension from back then.

I calmly shot down the swarming enemies.

Even as we moved past the beginning of the void wave into the middle phase, I felt no overload.

Every enemy lost their life without being able to penetrate the Black Fortress.

Meanwhile, enemies who noticed something suspicious tried to circle around the Black Fortress, but Demiurgos could easily bombard such foes.

Not a single enemy that entered the Black Fortress escaped.

About 90% of the enemies were completely ground down, and soul collection and experience began rising like crazy.

“Wow…”

“That’s incredible…”

“As expected of my lord!”

“To think such a person is with us…!!”

“Maybe we can really reach the end?!”

I could hear the hopeful praise of the combatants.

I gritted my teeth even harder to live up to their expectations.

For a while, I continued fighting in a trance, unable to even count the number of enemies being ground down in the deployed Black Fortress.

The number of swarming enemies gradually decreased, then the enemies suddenly stopped coming.

“Is it over now?”

When I withdrew the Black Fortress, only corpses of Void Hunters piled up like mountains filled the area around the now-empty void.

I couldn’t even properly grasp how many I had killed.

Just as a message appeared saying the trial was cleared and I was about to finally catch my breath.

Suddenly the System Message distorted and black void began devouring the surrounding cities.

“What the hell is this now…”

Something unimaginably massive began being summoned to this place.

Something so powerful that the enemies I’d faced until now would seem laughable in comparison.

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