Chapter 164 – The Great Summoning Formation (4)

One arm of the collapsed Black Knight had flown somewhere and was nowhere to be seen, and Diane, who had used her ability beyond her limits, was collapsed behind the knight.

Clara, sweating profusely as if it were raining, seemed to have already used her ability beyond her limits too.

The opposing side wasn’t unscathed either.

Hayden had fainted and collapsed on the ground, and the warrior was covered in flames all over his body, with several places on his clothes burned away and smoke rising from him.

However, regrettably, the warrior’s ki could still be felt as it was.

The plan to lure Hayden, have Clara and the party subdue him, and have Sun-woo attack the magic formation to tie up the others unfortunately only half succeeded.

Besides Hayden, a warrior who looked strong had followed along.

Diane and the Black Knight thought they could handle that situation and pushed forward with the work, but regrettably, the warrior was stronger than they thought.

Even while bound by gravity, he blew off the Black Knight’s arm.

Moreover, unlike Hayden, he also withstood Clara’s flame attacks.

At least the fortunate thing was that they could knock down Hayden, who became passive when Sun-woo’s appearance was not visible.

“Really making things annoying. Seeing you won’t kill this guy, is this some kind of rescue squad? Ridiculous guys.”

Since they recovered the entire city from contamination, there might be some method, but to risk multiple lives to save one person.

For him, it was incomprehensible behavior.

“Let’s finish this quickly. Hmm, it would be interesting to turn you all into this guy’s companions… No. I don’t want to see him happy, so I’ll just kill you.”

The warrior looked at Clara and grinned. She, who had already used her strength to the limit, could only look at Hayden with a pitiful face.

The moment the warrior was about to step toward her.

Suddenly the world changed completely.

The sky that looked murky changed to gray mixed with red, and the ground and air too all became filled with suffocating energy.

And red light spread out from the ruins the party had escaped from, filling the horizon.

The Black Knight, Clara, and even the warrior.

Everyone looked at the ruins from which ominous light was bursting.

After a moment, the warrior started laughing.

“Uwahahaha, it’s started. Was this side the lure? But what to do. Rather, it only advanced the time.”

He glanced at Clara, who had lost all color, then flew his body toward the ruins.

In the place he left, his final words lingered.

“Now I don’t need to worry about you guys. Be happy that you’ve managed to preserve your lives, even if briefly!”

It was the moment the demon lord descended.

He wasn’t in a situation to squabble with such small fries. The warrior shot out toward the ruins even faster.

At the warrior’s words, Clara, whose mind suddenly snapped alert, hurriedly ran to Hayden.

Where she ran to, Hayden, covered in flames, was trembling while reacting to the changing world.

Clara hugged Hayden tightly while watching the gradually reddening horizon.

Fortunately, it seemed Sun-woo had made it in time.

According to Sun-woo’s plan, saving Hayden succeeded.

Now the rest was up to Sun-woo.

***

At the same time, the magician was looking at Sun-woo with a bewildered expression.

“H-how can you knock me down?”

The magician, cut in half and rolling on the ground, couldn’t understand this situation.

He was clearly an immortal body, half-connected to the demon world.

For such a self to be cut by a sword, even a sword made of holy relics couldn’t do that.

However, it seemed not difficult for Sun-woo.

“Though it wasn’t a proper demon lord, it’s a sword that cut even a demon lord. How could it not cut a mere magician?”

Sun-woo muttered while looking at the liquid flowing on the sword.

The liquid flowing along the sword’s blade was the contamination injection that had been rushed to even a half-priest to barely reverse its properties.

Like the contamination cure Yeonhwa made, this liquid could also cure contaminated people. Moreover, it could inflict wounds on those who half-stepped into the demon world, like the demon lord or the magician collapsed here.

Lastly, the most important point was that because it was made into liquid, it could be used multiple times.

“Such nonsense… Cough!”

Sun-woo cut off the neck of the magician who was trying to say something more.

There was no need to hear more.

At that moment, all the monsters rampaging around disappeared.

Sun-woo looked around and clicked his tongue.

It was because the summoned monsters he called were almost completely annihilated.

Fortunately, Seolmyo didn’t die, but even Seolmyo had turned bloody.

A belly split long where intestines were even glimpsed, and a leg half torn off dangling.

Even with Seolmyo’s good healing ability, it didn’t look easy to recover.

Sun-woo fed Seolmyo, who approached closely, a body regeneration potion taken from the inventory.

It was a 1,000 point item he carried around just in case, but he couldn’t lose Seolmyo by being stingy with this.

“No matter how I look at it, your ransom is expensive.”

Watching it gradually heal, Sun-woo grumbled quietly then reverse-summoned Seolmyo.

When called again, it would return in a healthy appearance. The problem was whether he could call it again.

Sun-woo, who sent Seolmyo back, looked at the summoning magic formation from which an arm like a giant tree was emerging with a disgusted expression.

Surely that was the demon lord’s main body.

The magic energy felt from the arm wasn’t much different from the shock felt when viewing the dead demon lord’s memories from before.

Just looking at it, that couldn’t be dealt with even with super absolute martial arts.

“I have to destroy the summoning magic formation.”

Sun-woo immediately opened his phone to activate the skill window and poured all the points he had into barrier magic.

〈Spirit of Earth. Grade 7〉 Grade increase: 400p

〈Illusion Arts. Grade 5〉 Grade increase: 200p

〈Jeonryun Divine Demon Art. 11 Stars〉 Impossible

〈Jeonryun Sword Technique. 10 Stars〉 Grade increase: 800p

〈Jeonryun Divine Movement. 10 Stars〉 Grade increase: 800p

〈Physical Enhancement. 3 Stars〉 Grade increase: 100p

〈Water Magic. 4th Circle〉 Grade increase: 200p

〈Fire Magic. 2nd Circle〉 Grade increase: 200p

〈Time Passed. Grade 6〉 Grade increase: 1000p

〈Barrier Magic 7th Circle〉 Grade increase: 400p

〈Summoning Magic 2nd Circle〉 Grade increase: 400p

〈Illusion Control Grade 2〉 Grade increase: 400p

〈Summoned Creature Domination Grade 1〉 Grade increase: 200p

〈Poison Healing Grade 1〉 Grade increase: 200p

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Current points 200p

By pouring the 2,000 points he had into barrier magic, he could raise barrier magic to the 7th Circle.

Regrettably, the points required increased during the raising, so he couldn’t raise it further, but this was enough.

Now he could dispel the magic formation before his eyes.

Sun-woo forcibly ignored the last skill that remained as strange characters and switched the skill window to inventory.

And he took out the berserk potion he couldn’t use because he was afraid of the aftermath and drank it straight down.

The opponent before his eyes wasn’t one to worry about aftermath. If the demon lord crossed over like this, the remaining city would only face destruction.

Escaping was impossible.

He had no choice but to use full power.

The effect of the berserk potion was tremendous.

The Jeonryun Divine Art flowing in his body began moving crazily fast.

Moreover, his muscles swelled, and blood circulated several times faster. His head became clearer than ever, and skill activation became easier than ever.

It felt like he became nearly twice as strong.

Sun-woo took a deep breath and tried to move toward the summoning magic formation.

“Stop!”

That was when it happened.

A shout came from behind Sun-woo.

At the same time, a sword shot toward Sun-woo.

Shuaaaak!

A sword like flying through the sky.

A sword fully wrapped in sword energy.

Sun-woo heard the shout and immediately threw the sword he was holding.

Shuuuuk!

Sun-woo’s sword also shot toward the sword flying while cutting through the sky.

Tucang!

The two swords met at one point.

And.

“Impossible!”

Sun-woo’s sword completely shattered the sword the warrior threw.

The warrior screamed at the sight, but there was no way the sword of one who forced himself to super absolute through contamination could beat Sun-woo’s famous sword, who reached super absolute through the proper method.

Sun-woo’s sword began circling widely in the air, and the warrior, watching that in a daze, saw Sun-woo closing in before his eyes and hurriedly took a defensive stance.

Pepepepuk!

Sun-woo’s attacks poured toward him in defensive stance.

Attacks mobilizing fists, shoulders, and even legs exploded on his body dozens of times in an instant.

As someone who trained martial arts for a long time, the opponent succeeded in blocking Sun-woo’s attacks, but both arms that blocked turned bloody in an instant.

And finally, both arms broke from Sun-woo’s fists.

“T-this, what kind of nonsensical power…”

Originally, becoming super absolute didn’t make one’s physical abilities themselves stronger.

However, the attack Sun-woo unleashed now seemed like not only internal energy’s power but the body itself was made of iron.

Not knowing Sun-woo’s physical enhancement ability, he had no choice but to deny reality after receiving Sun-woo’s attacks that seemed like he trained external arts for decades.

Sun-woo gripped that opponent’s neck.

And the next moment, Sun-woo’s sword that circled widely through the sky pierced through his back.

Puk!

Blood splattered all over Sun-woo’s chest.

Sun-woo indifferently threw him to one side.

Sun-woo’s sword smoothly slipped out from the warrior’s body, who lost his life pitifully with a pierced heart.

And the Jeonryun Divine Sword immediately flew into Sun-woo’s hand.

Sun-woo didn’t even glance at the nameless warrior buried on one side and moved toward the magic formation again.

The dead warrior was a super absolute warrior, thanks to contamination, but still super absolute. However, right now Sun-woo had no capacity to care about such things.

The closer he approached the summoning magic formation, the stronger the contamination, or magic energy, became.

The magic energy pouring out as if refusing to acknowledge things not contaminated seemed to push out even the surrounding air.

However, Sun-woo unexpectedly had no difficulty approaching.

His clothes fluttered wildly pushed by the magic energy, but walking into the magic energy wasn’t that difficult.

Sun-woo felt puzzled at being familiar with magic energy, but abandoned the thought. For now, it rather helped.

Shortly after.

Sun-woo could stand not far from the demon lord’s arm that looked like a giant pillar.

As expected, he could now sufficiently recognize the magic formation.

Sun-woo reached his hand toward the magic formation spread before his feet. He began chanting the magic formation breaking formula he realized just moments ago while emitting magic power fully.

At the same time, magic power burst out like threads from Sun-woo’s hand and began changing the patterns carved in the magic formation.

Kuguuguung!

The magic formation that was gradually increasing in size stopped its movement.

And the magic formation began moving in reverse. The hole from which the demon lord’s arm emerged began shrinking.

Kuaaaaa!

At that moment, a scream like ringing from hell was heard from inside the magic formation.

And the giant arm that was raised upward fell straight down!

Targeting Sun-woo!

Kwaaang!

It was like a giant meteor crashed into the ground.

Mysteriously, the magic formation itself was fine, but a spectacular scene unfolded where the ground split and rocks flew up.

The roar filled the entire desert, and the vibration was felt even dozens of kilometers away.

Sun-woo, bounced away by the fist, looked at his sword with a dazed expression.

Sun-woo couldn’t dodge the fist in time because he was focused on the magic formation.

He had braced himself for heavy injury and blocked the demon lord’s fist with his sword.

However, Sun-woo wasn’t hurt at all.

It was all because of the strange barrier surrounding his sword and body.

A murky barrier flowing with gray light.

Energy as if disconnected from the world.

It was a barrier made of contamination, magic energy.