My Catastrophic‑Level Summon Devours Gates - Chapter 215

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Episode 215

A dark room.

A few torches crackled, illuminating the space swallowed by darkness.

What the dim flames revealed were human skulls.

Not just one or two.

Hundreds of skulls arranged in a circle.

The skeletons positioned to face the center of the space.

Though their empty sockets should have contained nothing, faint flames flickered within.

“Are they undead?”

Looking closer, they weren’t.

This was different from the characteristic glow of the dead.

More intense.

Sacred.

And deeper in color.

I think I know what this is.

“Sacred power.”

Sage of the Black Heavens.

This was the talent gained from taking Roan as a subordinate.

A powerful ability that converted my mana into sacred power and even increased its output.

Thanks to that, I quickly recognized the identity of the energy the skulls contained.

“Waaah! Waaaaah!”

A child wrapped in luxurious swaddling was carried to the center of the room.

Those who brought the child were all thoroughly covered in black robes, leaving no skin exposed.

“This child shall become the vessel of god.”

“Ah. Praise be. To the great one!”

The child placed on the floor kept crying “waaah,” but no one paid attention as they left the room.

At that moment.

The hundreds of skulls poured the sacred power they contained into the child.

Sacred yet.

Gloomy.

And nauseating in one respect.

“Is this Roan?”

There’s no way the Grand Alchemist would be related to sacred power.

If I don’t know who this is after seeing this much, that would be the real problem.

Whoosh!

The space changed.

“O Sage of the Black Heavens!”

“Please hear our wishes!”

“Great being, agent of ■■■■■■!”

A scene that brought to mind the expression “above all people.”

The silver-haired child sat atop a high altar, receiving worship.

“Enemy. Destruction. Wish?”

“That’s right, O Sage of the Black Heavens!”

“Bloody punishment upon those who oppressed us!”

“We have prepared sacrifices so the Sage may perform miracles!”

Below the altar were thousands of beheaded corpses.

Blood gushing forth soaked my ankles.

The silver-haired child opened his lips with an expressionless face.

“God’s. Wrath.”

The corpses offered as sacrifices seeped into the ground.

An empty lot without a single drop of blood remaining.

And then.

Catastrophe descended.

Black lightning falling from the sky fulfilled their wishes.

Kwaaaaang!

Black Sage’s lightning?

Compared to that lightning, it’s like baby tears.

Sacred power took the form of lightning and struck the earth.

Whatever it touched couldn’t maintain its form and instantly turned to powder.

“God’s wrath indeed.”

Power befitting such a grandiose name.

This might be what it would look like if Sir Isra’s Aura Blade extended hundreds of times longer and swept across the ground.

Divine authority manifested by sacrificing thousands of people.

Truly.

Terrifying.

An evil god’s cult that expanded its territory by offering living people as sacrifices.

They had grown to become the continent’s greatest power before anyone knew it.

The fanatics, no longer having anything to fear, petitioned to resolve the long-cherished wish passed down through generations of the cult.

“Unification! Unification!”

“Please make us one!”

“The day of becoming one with ■■■■■■ has arrived!”

The Sage of the Black Heavens, now a young man, responded to the fanatical followers’ call.

“Really. Want?”

“We want it, O Sage!”

“The preparations are already complete.”

“We have erected towers of unification ritual in the conquered territories.”

“Quickly, the unification!”

Prisoners brought from various regions.

Their numbers reached tens of thousands.

By burning these lives, performing miracles would be possible.

One minute later.

The silver-haired youth moved his lips.

“Unification.”

Tssssst!

Countless sacrifices were ground down.

Red light erupted from various parts of the territory expanded through conquest wars.

“Ahhh. Finally, unification.”

“The great one will descend upon this world and grant us everything.”

“Kahahaha! Our world has arrived!”

Dark clouds gathered in the clear sky, blocking out all light.

A massive eye revealed between the black clouds.

The moment I met that red pupil.

I rubbed my forearms at the eerie feeling.

―■■■ ■■■

Filtered language.

It was telepathy spread by the eye that appeared in the sky.

The anomaly wasn’t only in the sky.

“Gak, grrrrrrr.”

“Why, is this. Happening, to us.”

“This, can’t, be real.”

The fanatical followers who had been filled with ecstasy just moments before.

Collapsed with the exact same expressions as those offered as human sacrifices.

Someone clutched at their own throat.

Another fanatic frantically clawed at the floor with their fingers.

This phenomenon occurred everywhere the spiral-shaped red towers had been erected.

“This is. Unity.”

The silver-haired youth muttered in an emotionless tone.

After over a million people had collapsed.

They were soon lifted into the sky and began clustering around the giant eye.

The fanatical followers who had become a massive sphere.

With the scene of it emitting intense light like a moon floating in the dead of night as the last thing I saw, my body suddenly dropped downward.

“Ugh.”

It’s a familiar ceiling.

I closed and opened my eyes several times.

But I still felt as if the moon formed by the clustered fanatics.

And the bright red eyes floating in the sky were still before my eyes.

Roan.

Just what kind of life did you live?

I sent a telepathic message to Roan, who was waiting in the Death Domain, asking to meet briefly.

“As you probably guessed, I saw fragments of your life.”

Nod.

Roan, who could only speak five words per minute.

Simple expressions of intent were done through body language like gestures.

Since once he opened his mouth, I’d have to wait a minute.

It was better to convey meaning this way.

“The eye that appeared in the sky. Is that the true identity of the Dark God you served?”

Nod.

“Unity means the followers of the Dark God clustering together as one?”

Nod.

“Why did the followers of the Dark God want such a thing?”

【They. Didn’t know.】

That makes sense.

The fanatic who was strangling himself had an aggrieved expression before dying.

“You don’t know what happened after Unity was performed?”

Nod.

“Was performing the ritual your will?”

Shake.

“So offering sacrifices and waging wars of conquest wasn’t your will either.”

Nod.

I asked several other questions as well.

Thanks to that, I could understand Roan’s life to some degree.

A child born with dark sanctity and chosen as a vessel for god.

Granted powerful holy power from birth.

Even accepting the constraint of silence, unable to express his will freely.

He possessed no will of his own whatsoever.

He was used solely as a conduit to fulfill the fanatics’ desires.

The past of the Three Scions I’d seen before wasn’t smooth either.

But Roan’s life was more tragic than I’d imagined.

What words should I say.

Countless words came to mind, but none came out past my throat.

Would any words of comfort reach Roan?

Though my thoughts were long.

The words that came out after much deliberation were simple.

“You did well.”

The fragments of Roan’s life I’d seen.

A life where he only fulfilled what the fanatics desired while having his own will castrated.

It would be deception for me to say I understand that.

Rather than understanding or empathy.

I spoke what I truly felt.

【Master. Gratitude.】

Roan’s sincerity felt in those five words.

In life, he was someone who desired nothing and only fulfilled others’ desires.

In his second life.

What would the Sage of the Black Heavens wish for?

Somehow I felt I knew the answer.

“An ordinary life.”

I wasn’t expecting an answer.

I was just organizing my thoughts.

Good.

I had a rough idea of the direction for Roan’s modification.

If I run some simulations, I should get some answers.

“Rest for now.”

Nod.

I’ll need to buy materials as soon as day breaks.

* * *

The next day.

I even canceled the gate conquest schedule and went to the Hunter Market.

“Let’s see.”

A saint and undead.

Truly an incompatible combination.

However.

The being Roan served wasn’t an ordinary god.

The god of darkness who created the demons that appeared in Siberia in the past.

Therefore.

If I add the Revived One characteristics, couldn’t I make him both a ‘priest’ and ‘undead’?

“Lord. You seem to have many concerns.”

“I’m trying to attempt something I’ve never done before.”

“Did you examine Roan’s memories from life?”

How did she know that.

“You used the word ‘attempt’ despite having the Simulation Lab.”

She usually seems slow.

But she’s sharp in unexpected places.

“Oh my. Really, Master?”

Ingrid also showed curiosity.

“I still don’t know if it’ll work out as planned.”

As soon as I entered the byproducts corner, I looked left and right.

There’s quite a bit of useful stuff.

“What are you looking for?”

“Please give me all intact heads or skulls, regardless of type.”

“Hmm. An unusual order. Understood.”

From low-grade monsters like goblins, orcs, lizardmen, and kobolds.

To large species heads like trolls and ogres, I bought them all and stockpiled them in the Death Domain.

It cost quite a bit of money, but it’s fine.

This is what I worked like a dog to earn money for.

Honestly, this amount didn’t even make a dent.

Conquering an A-rank gate once guarantees at least 4 billion.

At this pace, I’ll earn 100 billion in a month.

“I heard the Palace Interior Minister is controlling the supply volume.”

“They say if they release everything, the market price will drop.”

“You also said you’d look into sales routes with collaborators across the sea, right?”

What Ingrid meant by ‘across the sea’ was GGG.

Since America consumes much more magic stones than our country, it should be fine to release that much there.

I purchased all the monster skulls and heads at the Hunter Market.

I returned to my studio apartment and entered the Death Domain.

“Roan. Let’s start the modification.”

The undead to use as a base was the Black Sage.

I carefully implanted silver hair substitutes on the head area, just like the appearance I saw in my dream.

I also attached Deep Slime mucus that replaced flesh to the arms and legs.

[Possession Unity]

Roan’s soul dwelling in the Revenant was also successfully transferred.

I could finish crafting just by chanting the incantation for Corpse Crafting, but.

This time I’m thinking of adding one more process.

“Just bring out the heads and skulls.”

The byproducts I had purchased from the Hunter Market suddenly rose up from the floor.

Hundreds of skulls were arranged in a circle around me.

【…!】

Roan’s shoulders flinched.

Right.

I thought you would understand the meaning of this arrangement.

What more is there to say.

The form I saw in my dream.

A recreation of the ritual performed on a newborn child.

This was the real reason I couldn’t test it with simulation.

“Let’s try using this here.”

The item the Black Heaven Society used as a catalyst for gate creation.

I placed the corrupted cup on Roan’s stomach.

[Sage of the Black Heavens]

Roan’s talent that converts mana into holy power.

Using that ability.

I imitated the ritual that Roan had performed.

Flash!

The moment holy power bloomed from the empty eye sockets and concentrated on Roan.

“Open your eyes.”

[Corpse Crafting]

I shouted with force.

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