My Catastrophic‑Level Summon Devours Gates - Chapter 194

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Episode 194

There were two paths leading up to the basin.

A Hunter stationed on the southern path let out a big yawn, “Huaaaam.”

“When’s the shift change?”

“In an hour.”

“This is boring.”

“Wasn’t it at least a bit challenging before the barrier was deployed?”

“We worked hard, so shouldn’t we be able to take it easy now?”

The Senior Superhuman (Hunter) grumbled.

Six months.

That’s how long they’d worked to build a stronghold on a mountaintop 1,000 meters high.

How much had they suffered during that time?

Guarding while the Alchemists carved formations throughout the mountain slope.

Being deployed for ground leveling work before installing the Gaia Former.

Fighting bloody battles with monsters that appeared constantly.

If you summarized all the hardships of the past six months, it would be enough for an epic drama series.

The stronghold they built while shedding sweat, tears, and blood!

Now even the dimensional barrier was functioning properly, so there was no need to guard the entrance.

“We built this stronghold while shitting ourselves. Can’t we enjoy some comfort?”

“You know Xiao Zai Supervisor’s personality, don’t you?”

As he said, Xiao Zai Supervisor, who oversaw the stronghold, was a stickler for rules, making his subordinates suffer too.

The senior let out a displeased groan, “Ugh.”

“I’ve been here since we started laying the foundation, when will they give me a rotation?”

“They said additional personnel are coming soon, so we just need to wait a little longer.”

“Do you believe everything the Party says at face value?”

“If you get caught saying things like that, you’ll have to do self-criticism, won’t you?”

The Senior Superhuman shook his head and looked around, then lowered his voice significantly.

“Hey. I heard a whole company of Tourang got wiped out in Korea.”

“Really?”

“Wang Da-lei and I are Fellow Trainees.”

Wang Da-lei held the second-highest position at Dragon’s Beacon Outpost.

He was the person who managed various equipment like visual distortion magic and communications.

“That’s… convincing!”

“There’s a huge hole in our homeland’s superhuman forces. Won’t we have to work even harder?”

“Ugh. I don’t want that.”

“That’s why I’m complaining. If they won’t reinforce our numbers quickly, at least let us preserve our strength.”

“Senior.”

“Don’t go tattling anywhere.”

“Senior!”

“Ah. What. Going to make me do self-criticism?”

“Look over there!”

The junior’s right hand pointed toward the mountain slope.

Step— Step—

A blonde, blue-eyed woman walked slowly forward.

Five Abyss Revenants followed behind, radiating menacing aura.

Behind them were ten Death Warriors and Death Giants emitting terrifying presence.

Even though there was considerable distance.

The aura was enough to make the two superhumans shrink back.

“Those Undeads. They’re all Aura users.”

“You’re joking, right Senior?”

“Shit. I wish I were joking.”

The junior superhuman swallowed hard.

The Man’s level was B.

The Senior Superhuman had reached A-rank.

Perhaps because of that.

He could quickly gauge the level of the slowly approaching Undeads.

“Sound the alarm! Buy time until we can prepare for intercep…”

[Magic Soldier – Long-range Artillery Mode]

[Hyper Mana Beam]

[Magic Boost]

[Overdrive]

A bone-chilling amount of mana.

Instinctively drawing his sword.

[Aura]

He materialized his will by imbuing mana with intent.

Flash!

The blue beam that struck immediately after blew away the stronghold entrance.

『Attack. Complete.』

A 10-meter-tall golem.

The left arm of one of the three Death Giants hissed, emitting smoke.

『Remaining mana. 70%.』

The mana beam fired at maximum output.

Clang.

A sword and an arm fell over the stronghold entrance that was now just a crater.

Sir Isra hummed, gauging the destructive power.

“It’s unfortunate that it can’t be used consecutively.”

The left arm overheated from Overdrive’s aftereffects.

For one minute, it had to focus on cooling down.

Eeeeeeeng!

As the magic bombardment blew away the entrance, emergency alarms blared.

‘The Hunters’ response isn’t ready yet.’

Sir Isra quickly surveyed the battlefield.

The advantage gained from the surprise attack.

While the enemy’s movements were sluggish, he had to minimize elements of counterattack as much as possible.

“Twenty-five Tigris. Charge into enemy lines.”

“Groooooo!”

[Fierce Charge]

[Dead Doping]

The Tigris Group passed through the blown-open entrance.

Magic turrets installed throughout the stronghold reacted to the intruders.

[Shock Wave]

[Lightning Burst]

[Icicle Spear]

Magic attacks poured down on the Tigris Group.

Their bone heavy armor absorbed most of the damage.

“Now.”

“Kill!”

[Mana Emission]

The Death Warriors who entered slightly later split left and right.

Taking advantage of the gap while firepower was concentrated on the Tigris Group, they approached the turrets with almost no Restraint.

[Aura]

[Sword of Judgment]

It easily cut through the barrier and destroyed the turret as well.

Starting with the Death Giants’ magical attacks.

In less than a minute, they had successfully neutralized most of the stronghold’s defensive measures.

“Intruders?”

“Who the hell are they!”

Chinese Hunters came rushing out in panic.

“Don’t leave a single one alive.”

A chill swirled above Sir Isra’s eyes.

* * *

Xiao Zai rose from his seat.

“What’s the enemy’s scale?”

“We’re assessing it, but something’s strange.”

Wang Da-lei’s voice trembled slightly as if somewhat flustered.

“Detection magic has been nullified.”

“Nullified?”

“There’s interference with the formation.”

“Eliminate it.”

“That’s the thing. There’s a bigger problem.”

Bzzt!

Sparks flew wildly from the machines that served as the barrier’s axis.

Simultaneous overloads.

It couldn’t be a coincidence.

“Is this the intruders’ doing?”

“That’s impossible. Our homeland’s technology is top-level, so how did they interfere?”

“You said it yourself.”

“That’s true, but.”

Wang Da-lei’s eyes shook greatly from side to side.

His confused mind couldn’t organize his thoughts.

China possessed technology second only to America in the field of magical science.

All the refinement circles installed near Dragon’s Beacon had undergone thorough verification.

Unless mana flowed according to the predetermined pattern.

The refinement circles would react and send feedback to the opponent.

If forcibly nullified, a signal would definitely reach their allies.

It was strange that they couldn’t detect intruders getting this close.

“Get your head together. Report the current situation.”

“Visual disruption and detection impossible. Communications are also cut off.”

“They’re serious.”

Xiao Zai squeezed his eyes shut and opened them.

Nothing would be resolved by just sitting there.

Who attacked the stronghold.

The enemy’s scale and countermeasures.

He needed to gather information on-site and respond quickly.

“I declare a Grade A emergency.”

An alarm spread throughout Dragon’s Beacon.

Grade A referred to the highest danger situation.

“You stay here and restore communications.”

“Y-yes, understood.”

Xiao Zai grabbed his armament and caught a superhuman.

“Where did the enemy come from?”

“From the south!”

The entrance was blown wide open.

Nearly half of the magic turrets built around the basin were neutralized.

Thud thud thud thud!

White heavy cavalry tearing through the stronghold.

Xiao Zai immediately recognized who owned the undead cavalry.

“Park Min-ho.”

A person he’d learned about in recent reports, and a Hunter they had even planned to kidnap.

As far as he knew, Min-ho was the only one who commanded undead cavalry in heavy armor.

“The intruders are all undead. Suppress them with divine spells.”

At Xiao Zai’s command, the priests knelt down.

And that was the preparatory stance for group spellcasting that Min-ho’s side had seen before.

“Sir Roan.”

【Black. Sun.】

[Divine Spell – Black Sun]

Black heat haze rising from behind Roan covered the entire basin.

A beat late.

The Chinese priests who had attuned their unique divine wavelengths cast their spell.

[Divine Spell – Lexio Divina]

A wide-area spell that drives away unholy energy.

It was the same divine spell used when a company of Tourang attacked Min-ho.

Even then, Roan had countered it, but could only barely suppress [Lexio Divina]’s effects.

Now it was different.

[The Black Sun’s effect nullifies the divine spell’s effects.]

[Lexio Divina’s effects are reversed.]

[Unholy beings’ power increases by 10%.]

“Kraaaagh!”

The priests chanting divine spells collapsed with screams.

The talent [Saint of the Dark Heaven] inherited by Min-ho.

A being loved by the dark god held superiority in compatibility when clashing with all divine abilities.

By deploying divine spells in advance, he could even turn the opponent’s spells against them.

【….】

Roan knelt in place.

While maintaining [Black Sun], he couldn’t move from his position.

“Three Death Warriors guard Sir Roan.”

“Kill!!”

“Tigris, circle around and join the main force.”

“Grooooar!”

The Tigris Group that had ravaged the Hunters near the entrance.

As soon as Sir Isra’s command fell, they made a sharp turn and returned near the entrance.

Grind.

Xiao Zai ground his teeth.

“Reform the formation.”

To counterattack, they first needed to reorganize their allied formation.

Superhumans who came out after hearing the Grade A signal.

Charging in without a plan would only cause severe casualties among allies.

‘What I need to be careful of is their breakthrough power.’

Tigris’s lance charging.

Death Warriors who appeared to be aura users and even Abyss Revenants.

Each one is a monster that cannot be underestimated.

However, they have absolutely no long-range countermeasures.

The calculation was that by forming a wall with tanks to block their offensive, one-sided damage trading would become possible.

Even as the Tigris Horde finished their lance charging and began turning.

This was why they didn’t exploit the clearly exposed opening.

‘Hmm. Quite cunning, aren’t they.’

Sir Isra, who had been preparing for a full-power charge, relaxed the strength in her legs.

A deliberately shown gap.

The intention was to inflict major damage by utilizing the advantage of a surprise attack.

And then deal even greater damage to enemies hastily attempting to counterattack.

‘There’s no problem proceeding like this.’

The initiative still belonged to her master.

The Chinese superhumans quickly getting into formation was also within expected parameters.

Xiao Zai urged the superhumans while the Tigris Horde made their wide turn.

“Vanguard forward. Mages, form your formation too!”

A considerable portion of the defensive systems installed at [Dragon’s Beacon] had been neutralized.

Even so.

The stronghold’s defensive power hadn’t dropped significantly.

The core of defense was ultimately people.

It was the superhumans standing by at this stronghold.

‘Quite a few personnel left for perimeter reconnaissance, but it’s fine.’

Sixty percent of total forces.

Sixteen A-rank superhumans alone.

B-ranks numbered over a hundred.

Though they couldn’t utilize the advantage of defense.

It wasn’t a force that would lose to mere minions of a B-rank Necromancer.

‘Is “mere” the right expression?’

Many of the undead before his eyes possessed combat power rivaling A-rank superhumans.

Power far too formidable for a single Hunter to possess!

Still.

It didn’t seem like they would lose.

‘Quickly subdue the enemy before us and find the caster too.’

Capturing Min-ho would make promotion a sure thing!

While Xiao Zai was running his happy circuit.

Kwaaaaang!

A tremendous explosion erupted from behind him.

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