It’s the Apocalypse, but My Summons Do Everything - Chapter 94

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Chapter 94

#Episode 94

Only after a fierce battle that left the training ground half-destroyed did the two people’s fight finally come to a temporary end.

Both of them shook hands after working up a good sweat.

It was absurd how they had been fighting as if to kill each other just moments before.

“So, what’s the reason you suddenly requested a sparring match?”

At my question, Golden Dragon nodded and answered nonchalantly.

“Because I’m dying, I was looking for a successor.”

“Dying? What do you mean by that?”

Life force itself was bursting forth from Golden Dragon.

He looked like the personification of health, yet he was dying?

At my question, Golden Dragon plopped down on the floor and suddenly changed the scenery.

Before I knew it, the training room had disappeared and changed to a pavilion with a tea table set up.

“I mean it literally, I’m going to die soon.”

Just as I was about to look into Golden Dragon’s soul to see what this was about, he raised his hand to cover my eyes.

“There’s nothing good to see, so don’t pay too much attention.”

“If you’re going to talk about successors to my colleague, you should accept at least this much.”

“…Heh heh, I suppose that’s true.”

When I pushed away Golden Dragon’s hand and looked at his soul, something strange caught my eye.

His golden soul was burning fiercely, but there was something like a black stake driven into it.

“Hmm…?”

I tilted my head at the strangely familiar energy.

‘I feel like I’ve sensed this somewhere before…’

However, it definitely wasn’t a good energy.

What could it be?

I pondered for a moment over this sense of déjà vu that I absolutely couldn’t ignore.

“Ah!”

“What’s wrong? Did you figure something out?”

“Black Sun!”

That damned black energy was unmistakable.

It had been quiet lately since the priestess died, but that was definitely Black Sun’s energy.

It was identical to that ominous sun’s energy.

The problem was why it was embedded in Golden Dragon’s heart…

Even after hearing the words “Black Sun,” Golden Dragon just blinked as if he didn’t know what it meant.

“Don’t tell me, do you know what this power really is?”

“Of course I do. I’ve fought against it several times directly, how could I forget?”

Golden Dragon’s eyes trembled.

“Th-then, does that mean you can treat this…?”

“That depends on your cooperation. It will be quite… no, horribly painful.”

It would be work that required putting my hand into his soul and forcibly extracting it.

The fundamental pain would shake his soul and body itself like crazy.

But Golden Dragon breathed heavily as if pain was of no concern to him.

“Please, save my life.”

Unlike Golden Dragon’s earnest gaze, I wasn’t particularly interested.

Setting everything else aside, it was too dangerous.

It wasn’t just any ordinary human’s soul, but the soul of someone like Golden Dragon.

No matter how I looked at it, this wasn’t something I could do with good intentions alone.

Golden Dragon seemed to sense my thoughts and hung his head low.

“If you can just heal me, I’ll give you my most precious treasure.”

With those words, Golden Dragon suddenly enlarged his body.

His human body expanded greatly as his true Golden Dragon form revealed itself.

The Golden Dragon, whose scales each shone with golden light, carefully handed over an orb nestled in his heart.

It appeared to be an orb condensed with Golden Dragon’s power, what was commonly called a wish-fulfilling jewel.

“A wish-fulfilling jewel…? Is it okay to give away something like this so casually?”

“Normally it wouldn’t be, but what could be more precious than life? I’ll be weakened for now, but as long as I’m alive, I can make as many jewels like this as I want.”

The golden wish-fulfilling jewel came down into my hand.

Warm energy enveloped my entire body.

“Ah…!”

Belatedly, the awakening conditions for Kang Cheol-u Hunter from before appeared, and the Golden Scale Guardian Orb was fulfilled.

Now all that remained was Banghaelyeong’s core.

I immediately looked at the armed warriors kneeling around Golden Dragon.

“Can I also take something called Banghaelyeong’s core?”

At my question, Golden Dragon flinched and his eyebrows twitched for the first time.

“That child is….”

As if there was a deep story behind it, the Golden Dragon stared intently at Banghaelyeong.

Banghaelyeong, who had the appearance of a young man in his twenties, was a general holding a massive great shield.

Even after hearing my words, he quietly bowed his head as if he would follow orders.

But the Golden Dragon also seemed reluctant to force his guardian spirits, answering reluctantly.

“A guardian spirit’s heart core is the immense power that the guardian spirit possesses. If he loses that, that child’s soul will no longer be able to survive.”

His attitude seemed to be for Banghaelyeong to hear as well, not just me.

Banghaelyeong glanced at me and the Golden Dragon, then carefully bowed his head.

“If it means the Golden Dragon can live longer… I can throw away a life like this anytime.”

“…So he says.”

“Should I understand that you’ll give it to me once I complete the purification first?”

“Yes, that’s correct.”

I need to build up as much strength as possible before the Lord’s War.

Strengthening Hunter Kang Cheoreu now would be a great asset for a long time to come.

After all, this was about strengthening a tank.

“Good, let’s do that.”

Without delay, I stood behind the Golden Dragon.

Since he was in dragon form rather than human, his massive soul was easily detected.

‘Found it.’

In the golden soul burning in his heart, a fierce battle was raging between blazing flames and the black stakes suppressing them.

‘I said I’d solve it, but how do I handle this….’

The act of interfering with the soul itself.

I’d often destroyed souls before, but this kind of delicate work was a first.

‘Don’t you have any advice to give?’

[No, you can’t grow if I give you the right answer every time.]

‘Tch.’

Disappointed, I slowly began detecting the Golden Dragon’s body.

Indeed, a dragon.

The circuits through which mana flowed were split into bundles extending to the extreme, spreading throughout his entire body.

No wonder he could manifest mana that would make humans look ridiculous.

I closed my eyes and delved into an even more detailed realm.

Beyond bones and muscles, beyond even the mana circuits to a realm beyond that.

The realm where the soul dominates the body.

For the first time, my hand was reaching that realm.

In the darkness, clusters of golden light from the soul bursting from his heart were spreading throughout the Golden Dragon’s entire body.

Even now he was this powerful, so I couldn’t easily gauge how strong he’d be without the stakes.

I wasn’t sure, but I found myself thinking whether the dragons I’d met so far would even dare present their business cards before the Golden Dragon.

“Whew….”

What I was about to do was touch the soul itself.

If I made even one mistake, the soul would have a tremendous impact on his existence.

So I had to pour my heart and soul into this.

My touch, traveling through the soul realm, carefully brushed past the lines of the Golden Dragon’s soul.

Leaving behind sensations like soft, warm microfiber blankets, my hand finally reached near the Golden Dragon’s heart.

Then an even more detailed form of the stake appeared.

‘He can survive with something like this driven into his soul…?’

It was a stake with the Black Sun drawn on it, and ominous black aura was continuously emanating from the stake.

If it were a human, their soul would have long since become corrupted and died or been transformed.

‘What kind of beings are these guys that they can drive something like this into a Golden Dragon’s soul?’

This wasn’t like putting a bell on a cat’s neck, but driving a stake into a dragon’s soul.

It was completely beyond the realm of normal logic.

“From now on, you absolutely must not move.”

Anyway, what I had to do remained unchanged.

I held my breath and carefully touched the stake.

Just brushing it with my fingertips caused black flames to flare up.

It was angry as if telling me not to touch it.

It even had the nature of trying to burrow deeper into the soul, as if it would embed itself even more deeply.

“Krhm….”

“Even if it’s painful, please bear with it a little.”

I put all my strength into my hand and gripped the stake at once.

I pulled out the stake in one breath to minimize the pain.

The stake that had existed in the soul realm came out of the dragon’s body and was projected into reality.

Puhwaaaak-!

“Huh, what? Why is this happening!?”

The stake had definitely been completely removed, but the Golden Dragon’s body began to be stained with darkness.

The brilliant flames like the sun disappeared somewhere, and ominous darkness took their place.

The golden eyes had vanished, and an ominous Black Sun was blazing in their place.

The Guardian Spirits glared at me with wide eyes, but I felt just as wronged.

After all, I had removed the stake exactly as instructed.

Hunter Baek Do-hyeon, who had been quietly watching this situation from the side, clicked her tongue.

“The mana circuit has been corrupted.”

“The circuit, not the soul?”

“Yeah, it seems they planned for this to happen the moment you pulled that thing out.”

“What kind of…”

It was absurd, but now was the time for action.

“So, what should we do?”

“We need to subdue it first, then purify the circuit again. Maybe pouring a bunch of pure mana potions would work?”

“So in the end, someone has to subdue that thing.”

“Correct.”

While the Golden Dragon bit its lips and fought to regain its sanity for a moment, I relayed exactly what I had just heard from Hunter Baek Do-hyeon to the Guardian Spirits.

The Guardian Spirits looked troubled, then nodded their heads.

“If you put it that way, we’ll trust you for now.”

“It’s not about trusting, this is what we have to do.”

“For now… understood, let’s subdue it together…”

“No, we don’t have time for that, so go get the potions first.”

“…Excuse me?”

Subduing and killing were as different as heaven and earth.

But that was only true for ordinary people.

“I’ll handle the subduing, so just go get all the potions you can. You should be able to do that much.”

“You don’t mean to subdue the Guardian God by yourself?”

“Yes.”

They looked at me as if staring at a madman, but time was of the essence.

I could feel the Golden Dragon gradually losing control.

“If it were me, I would have already made the trip by now!”

“…We understand for now.”

“Come back as quickly as possible.”

Banghaelyeong readily stepped forward first and nodded.

The other Guardian Spirits also looked at me with dubious eyes, but reluctantly nodded their heads.

As soon as the Guardian Spirits left, my companions took battle positions.

They seemed to have roughly figured out what I was about to do.

I immediately deployed the Black Fortress from behind my companions, covering the Taeguk above.

Black chains began pouring down onto the Golden Dragon writhing in pain.

Since this was subduing rather than killing, I had to avoid injuring it as much as possible.

The chains that filled the sky bound the Golden Dragon haphazardly like a mummy.

The Golden Dragon, bound so tightly there wasn’t a single gap, twitched its body for a moment.

Whoosh—!

“…So much for going gentle.”

Black flames erupted from the Golden Dragon’s body, burning away all the chains that had been restraining it.

Now completely consumed by madness, I could feel its razor-sharp killing intent.

The killing intent of a dragon that had reached this level made it feel as if bitter death had stepped close just by experiencing it with my body.

Just as I was about to attack the Golden Dragon with chains, going a bit stronger this time.

Clang—!

Black Swordsmen who tore through dimensions appeared and deflected my chains.

“Guardian Dragon securing operation begins.”

Black-armored Knights with the Black Sun mark on their chests began appearing in droves through the Gate.

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