My Catastrophic‑Level Summon Devours Gates - Chapter 160

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Episode 160

[Using Harsh Command.]

The mana condensed in my hand manifested in the form of a flag and flagpole.

In the center of the fluttering black cloth, a white skull emblem was prominently embedded.

As expected of an undead enhancement spell.

Truly consistent design.

[The abilities of subordinate undead increase by 20%.]

[Aggression becomes stronger.]

[If Undead Control fails, they will attack nearby living beings indiscriminately.]

Area-of-effect undead buff.

Combined with Roan’s divine spell, I could almost completely offset the penalty of [Lexio Divina].

If there was one tiny problem.

“Gegell?”

The Skeleton Wizard’s head turned toward the Mir Hunters in the rear.

The penalty of increased aggression toward the living.

While it wasn’t trying to bite me, suppressing its aggression was quite difficult.

“Yeon-du. Go inside the Gate.”

“I’ll help too, Uncle!”

“Right now, retreating is how you help.”

Our guys might bite if they make a mistake.

Look. They’re baring their teeth right now.

“Academy Supervisor.”

“Uh, uhhh.”

“Let’s retreat to the Gate.”

“Huh?”

Smack!

The Academy Supervisor’s face, which had been chattering, whipped around.

Wow.

That must hurt.

“Won’t you come to your senses?”

At Yeon-du’s shout, the Academy Supervisor gasped loudly and then shouted loudly.

“Retreat to the Gate!!”

The Mir Guild Hunters disappeared into the Blue Rift.

Phew.

Now I can finally breathe a little.

“Grrrrowl!”

“Right. Now rampage to your heart’s content.”

“Bark! Bark!”

The two enhanced Dracos scattered left and right as they charged into the front line.

Monsters classified as A+ grade by system judgment.

Though less intelligent than humans, they possessed strong specs and learning ability.

Having experienced various chaotic battles in the Tower of Chaos.

And once again raising the consumed [Predation] stacks to maximum.

They had become powerful beings with both combat experience and abilities just short of S-grade.

“…!”

“….”

“….”

[Chain Formation]

[Triangle of Death]

Three Masked Hunters stood in a △ formation and blocked the Draco.

A basic joint attack formation where one blocks the Draco’s attack while the others target its sides.

Though I called it basic.

Matching coordination immediately in an unexpected situation with unfixed members wasn’t ordinary.

It’s just.

They picked the wrong opponent.

Crunch, the upper body of the Masked Hunter trying to restrain the Draco disappeared in the blink of an eye.

“…!”

The aura surrounding its teeth had easily crushed the Masked Hunter’s resistance.

The Draco that had gulped down half the body growled lowly.

“Well done.”

The enhanced Draco’s breakthrough power was the best among individual entities.

Powerful mobility and instantaneous destructive force with no equal except Sir Isra!

Let’s strike both sides of the encirclement formation to create change.

Just as I was about to give orders to the Dracos.

Clang!

Two Masked Hunters waiting in the distance scattered left and right while gripping weapons.

A whip-like flexible sword.

The other held an iron mace.

Whooom!

Blue currents flickered around both Masked Hunters’ weapons too.

“Bark! Bark!”

The two enhanced Dracos also flared their auras to face them.

Clang! As the auras collided, a back-and-forth battle unfolded.

They brought this many A-grade Hunters just to target me?

“Just how many aura users are there?”

Whether it’s Mir Guild.

Or Chinese Hunters I once had a taste of.

They’re treating me so generously that I don’t know where to put myself.

Even after deploying most of my undead except for the recently retrieved Tigris.

The opposing forces still had room to spare.

“They said ten total.”

Three in the tank line.

Two who came out to repel the Dracos.

Two in the magic line.

The remaining three were watching me with their hands behind their backs or arms crossed.

Ready to charge the moment I showed any strain or opening.

The word death flickered at my throat.

Don’t get scared.

How many years did I put on a tearful shitshow to climb higher?

Just.

I didn’t shed tears and struggle on that uninhabited island just to die here.

“Can you deal damage to those guys with their hands behind their backs?”

“It’s difficult.”

A sharp answer.

“Low-level magic is useless against aura.”

“Is dealing with the mages okay?”

“They’re slightly lower level than our allies, but they’ve prepared a lot.”

Preparation.

Is that chain formation the problem?

Operating Master of Magic and Spirit Eye simultaneously.

I could identify the purpose of the magic circle beneath the feet of the masked hunter group.

[Chain Formation]

It integrates the mages’ calculation and mana rearrangement processes to allow them to exceed their limits.

The reason high-destructive A-rank spells came rushing in waves must be because of that formation.

They must have prepared it after annihilating the Mir Guild support team.

Without Ingrid’s unique technique, we might have been swept away by the magical bombardment coming from all directions.

“I’ll leave the remaining Skeleton Wizards to you as well.”

“You won’t be disappointed!”

Twenty additional Skeleton Wizards created besides the Witch Coven.

Since only Ingrid’s direct subordinates used soul stones, the remaining undeads didn’t possess powerful spells like [Photon Ray].

Still.

With various spells researched at the Death Forge.

Thanks to [Burst Flare], the spell that Skeleton Wizards basically learn, we weren’t falling behind in firepower.

Kwang! Kwaaaaang!

Colorful masses of mana collided in mid-air.

After dealing damage with the unique technique in the first exchange, it had been like this.

The masked hunters poured out harassment with low-cooldown magic as if they wouldn’t give us time to reconstruct spells.

“Tsk.”

In the sky above, the tome created with divine magic was still scattering light.

Roan was countering the spell.

Even with my command buff, it was barely manageable.

Crack! Crack!

[Skeleton Guard has been destroyed.]

[Armed Zombie Enhanced has been destroyed.]

[Armed Zombie…]

Though the Gale Knights fought valiantly.

The undeads were destroyed one by one by the wave attacks coming from all directions.

[Death Space]

—Summon 30 Tigris.

I summoned the Tigris Group once more to attempt a breakthrough.

“Uooooooo!!!”

[Threatening Roar]

But I couldn’t overcome the taunt skill of the hunter who wrapped his shield in aura.

If only there weren’t the divine spell debuff and tank line.

A couple of Tigris charge attacks could have turned this into a wasteland.

Let’s not think impatiently.

If I keep pounding, it will open eventually.

Zzzzzing!

Sir Isra and the Abyss Revenant group engaged in battle, tangled together with the tank line.

Should I charge the Tigris Group again?

【Enemy. Intact. Danger!】

Roan, who was maintaining the divine spell, shouted with difficulty.

“It seems they’ve studied Master quite thoroughly.”

“Indeed. They must have thoroughly analyzed our Lord and devised their strategy.”

The movements of the masked hunters felt malicious.

But you know what.

“Here, I’ll use the Death Warriors.”

I still had one more card left in my hand.

[Death Space]

—Summon 5 Death Warriors.

Do you know these friends who were recently recruited into the undead army?

It’s fine if you don’t.

We can get to know each other from now on.

Please.

I hope you’ll like your new friends.

* * *

Yang Chien observed the battle situation with her hands clasped behind her back.

‘He’s stronger than we anticipated.’

What kind of B-rank hunter is that?

There are as many as ten A-rank hunters deployed in this operation.

Eight aura users.

Two mages capable of using [Memorize].

It’s a luxurious force capable of instantly devastating any decent mid-sized guild.

—Kidnap Park Min-ho, kill him if that’s not feasible.

Those were the orders given by Zhu Yongshui Guan Wu Supervisor.

A company-sized Tourang unit was deployed for this operation.

How long has it been since they conducted a large-scale operation outside Southeast Asia and Africa?

‘Without collaborators, this operation wouldn’t have been possible at all.’

What were the odds of Min-ho coming to an uninhabited island in the middle of the West Sea?

It would have been impossible without the Mir Guild’s assistance.

Not only that.

There were more than a few organizations whose vision needed to be obscured, including the Coast Guard and Rift Management Agency.

The vigilance was at its peak due to Zheng Xianhe’s defection and Min-ho’s attack incident!

‘Thanks to that, the infiltration operation was smooth.’

The stage was well set.

Failure was impossible.

The Supernatural Affairs Bureau had thoroughly analyzed Min-ho’s capabilities.

All the superhumans deployed in this operation had firmly engraved countermeasures in their minds.

—2nd squad falls back. 3rd squad begins pressure.

—Roger.

—Wear down the undead soldiers as planned.

—Confirmed.

Yang Chien gave orders through thought without opening her mouth.

Using message stones, those linked could directly transmit thoughts to each other.

This was prepared in case they failed to eliminate Min-ho here.

Kwaang!

The explosion above disturbed her eardrums.

Dying flames and lightning reflected on Yang Chien’s retinas.

‘He has quite substantial magical power.’

The Supernatural Affairs Bureau’s analysis wasn’t perfect either.

No.

The battlefield was always full of variables.

They had identified weak magical power as a weakness of Min-ho’s undead army.

But after the operation began, it turned out their own firepower was insufficient instead.

—Lin Kerjie. Can you continue the operation?

—Possible. Even if I can’t overwhelm, I can make him a bystander in this fight.

—Confirmed. Please continue performing the operation.

Ingrid and the Skeleton Wizard group.

Due to Min-ho’s undead count and spec improvements from skills and achievements, the Tourang side was barely holding on.

However.

Thanks to the magic circle installed as soon as we seized the uninhabited island, we barely managed to achieve equal numbers.

―Push harder. Until the prey is exhausted.

Our side also had the advantage in close combat.

Though the numbers were similar, their composition was simple and their skill sets weren’t diverse.

The priests’ spells were also effective.

Not to the extent we had hoped, but they did weaken Min-ho’s undead army slightly.

‘To think there would be an undead using divine spells.’

Yang Chien glanced at Roan.

Two of the means prepared to hunt Min-ho had been neutralized.

Even so.

She didn’t think this operation would fail.

There were two things to be most careful of when facing Min-ho’s undead army.

Sir Isra and the Tigris Group’s breakthrough power!

‘We just need to hold down that spear.’

In a war of attrition, Turang’s side was overwhelmingly advantageous.

Only half of the priests deployed in the operation maintained [Lexio Divina].

The remaining ones healed the injured Hunters on Turang’s side.

Because of this, despite the fierce battle continuing.

Not a single casualty occurred on Turang’s side.

Meanwhile, the undead protecting Min-ho met their destruction one by one.

‘If things continue like this, we might be able to capture him!’

A light of desire flickered in Yang Chien’s eyes.

―Kill him by all means, but capture him if possible.

If she succeeded in capturing Min-ho, it would lay out a clear path to promotion!

Yang Chien smiled while dreaming of a rosy future.

[Aura]

[Death’s Step]

That is, until she saw the being clad in pitch-black armor.

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