Chapter 220 – Summoner (2)

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Translated by Heavenly Cat

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A world where clouds spread like the sea and the Milky Way stretched across the sky, a fantastical space.

But on the mountain peak rising among the clouds in the center, tremendous tension and divine powers were unfolding.

In the place where only Sun-woo, Goddess Frigg, and the Summoner had been until just before, countless gods were revealing their forms.

Gods who revealed their forms as avatars suitable for combat surrounded Sun-woo.

There were gods in the form of armored knights with wings, the form of a flame dragon spewing fire from its entire body, and the form of a god in human shape with dozens of hands.

All were executors who would carry out the gods' judgment.

Each mighty combat gods.

Not a single one had divine power smaller than Sun-woo's divine power.

Of course, Sun-woo himself wasn't without aspects where his divine power was weaker than other gods, but they were all certainly strong gods without exception.

[We have reached a conclusion. You who possess demonic energy. God with a physical body. Semi-divine Sun-woo who succeeded the Supreme Emperor's name, make your final defense!]

Dozens of gods' voices echoed throughout the entire dimension.

It was a voice that strongly gave off an atmosphere that any defense would be useless.

It was just a feeling of saying your last words before death, but Sun-woo didn't seem to care at all.

He just kept speaking to the Summoner, or Summoners, in shadow form.

"I pondered a lot about the reason for becoming a summoner and kept asking other summoners. What the being called Summoner is. But no one accurately answered about the Summoner."

Unfortunately, Sun-woo's story just scattered into empty space.

Sun-woo could instinctively know the shadow (shadows) before his eyes was the Summoner, but the Summoner gave no answer whatsoever to Sun-woo's words.

"I had many questions during that time. Why does the being called Summoner make humans fight contamination sources and continuously make them grow during the fight? And why does it leave contamination alone, and why doesn't it take abilities from contaminated summoners? Is it perhaps impossible?"

The gods seemed to acknowledge Sun-woo's words as his final defense. Everyone was listening to Sun-woo's words.

"So I started making assumptions. Perhaps the Summoner deliberately overlooks contamination? Or maybe it wants strong ability users to be contaminated?"

Unfortunately, no matter what Sun-woo said, the shadow didn't waver.

[It's useless. The System is different from gods. They're just a system this world created to prevent the world from being contaminated. They have no emotions, will, or personality. Don't tell me you were prepared for annihilation because of such questions?]

The goddess looked at Sun-woo with a pitiful expression.

"The Summoner is a system created by the world? Are you certain of that?"

Only then did Sun-woo look at the goddess.

[Since the Summoner appeared, we concluded that way. A mighty being with abilities beyond a single god, but an instinctive being without thought or will. That's why we call it the System.]

"So in the end you know nothing."

Sun-woo smiled wryly and added power to the demonic energy wrapped around his sword.

The demonic energy began gradually covering his body beyond the sword.

[Do not resist! If you resist, you'll only be annihilated more painfully!]

As Sun-woo increasingly strengthened the demonic energy, the sacred power of the avatars surrounding him grew stronger.

The calmly flowing clouds rippled and the stars in the sky seemed to distort.

Woong woong woong!

As demonic energy covered Sun-woo's body, his eyes gradually reddened and his body began trembling.

It was clearly visible his body and mind couldn't endure due to demonic energy far too strong compared to divine power.

[You're ultimately planning to fall.]

Goddess Frigg, who had been watching Sun-woo being covered in demonic energy with a gloomy expression, retreated back and disappeared.

Murderous intent burst from the avatars surrounding Sun-woo.

The entire world, the whole dimension began spewing rage toward Sun-woo.

"Kuk, tremendous pressure. I hope it won't end without even starting?"

Sun-woo vomited blood from his mouth and bent one knee.

Demonic energy that failed control began wildly sweeping the surroundings, and the avatars burst out divine power to block the demonic energy.

Finally, the moment the avatars were about to rush at Sun-woo.

Swoosh.

The shadow began moving.

Ignoring all demonic energy and divine power, as if not feeling pressure.

The shadow, the Summoner, the System smoothly moved across the ground and approached Sun-woo.

And the shadow knelt on one knee before Sun-woo and faced him.

No, Sun-woo felt the Summoner was looking at him.

The shadow's hand touched Sun-woo's shoulder.

***

White space.

Sun-woo, who stood alone in the instantly changed space, smiled and waited for the being that appeared before his eyes.

"Did you predict all of this?"

At some unknown moment, a man appeared before him and threw a question at Sun-woo.

"It's been a while."

The man standing before Sun-woo's eyes was a being he saw a while ago. It was the Demon God's spirit.

But unlike the spirit's appearance that was faint and weak in the past, the Demon God's appearance now visible before Sun-woo's eyes was no different from the god's appearance he saw at the ruins.

"You're talking about the remnant I met a while ago. Well, I accepted those memories, so I guess I can say it's been a while."

The Demon God who received Sun-woo's greeting suddenly appeared sitting in a chair behind him.

As expected, this was Sun-woo's mental space.

Sun-woo created a chair behind himself and sat down.

"I should ask that question again. Did you predict everything?"

At the Demon God's words, Sun-woo smiled somewhat ambiguously.

"I estimated about a 10% success rate. But things got twisted in the middle… It was dangerous."

Sun-woo recalled what happened from the Bright Cult and let out a sigh of relief.

Originally, he thought the Sword Demon would be the one the Bright Cult's god would possess.

But unexpectedly the cult leader appeared, and fortunately he was relieved when the cult leader possessed instead, but then the goddess came out as representative to talk…

Sun-woo was quite nervous worried the goddess might get caught up in the fight.

"Well, if things got twisted I was planning to flee to the demon realm. Since I had an escape hole, I went recklessly unlike myself."

"Hahaha."

At Sun-woo's words, the Demon God laughed heartily.

"Truly magnificent. Moving after making a back exit, if only I had done that in the past…"

Regret briefly passed across the Demon God's face.

And the Demon King's life flowed into Sun-woo's mind.

The Demon God, who awakened the mighty power called demonic energy unlike other gods, had to fight other gods who couldn't accept demonic energy for ages.

Countless gods were annihilated and the Demon God also suffered tremendous wounds…

The Demon God, who learned they would mutually perish if time passed, decided to leave himself.

A place without gods. To a world with demonic energy.

However, due to injury the Demon God couldn't continue maintaining both his divine power and demonic energy.

Ultimately, he abandoned divine power.

Thus he left his divine power behind and departed to the world full of demonic energy, the demon realm.

When he departed to the demon realm, as divine power disappeared he had to change into a true destroyer, the Demon God, and after he led the demon lords to invade Dimension Gamma, the fantasy world, he was sealed and disappeared.

And the remaining divine power didn't scatter into the world but moved toward one goal.

"That's making my successor. Contamination was also like aftermath I left behind when departing… Like the concept of cleaning up trash while making a successor…"

The Demon God's remaining divine power. The Summoner raised humans to remove contamination while trying to make summoners continuously accustomed to contamination into Demon Gods once more.

But the Summoner's long efforts ended in failure, and it felt the need to make a new type of summoner.

"That's you. Absorbing the world's abilities as evenly as possible. Growing only one inclination couldn't endure demonic energy. Fortunately this method succeeded. Seeing you standing in this place."

The Demon God finished speaking and extended one hand toward Sun-woo.

"Was it Sun-woo? Successor of the Demon God and new Demon God. I ask you. Clean up the mess I made…"

Sun-woo suddenly felt like punching the Demon God's face winking one eye, but just grasped the hand the Demon God extended.

That moment, the mental world shattered.

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[What! Why is the System being absorbed into that bastard's body?]

[Stop it! That bastard's ability seems to even absorb the System!]

[Don't approach! It might absorb other gods too! That bastard's goal might be absorbing gods! Retreat and attack!]

During conversation with the Demon God, the world seemed not to have moved.

No, time in the mental space clearly moved that quickly.

What Sun-woo saw upon returning from the mental world was avatars crazily distancing themselves from him and the entire world shaking.

And there were shadow(s) being absorbed into his body.

"Certainly this was mine."

Sun-woo smiled at the divine power filling up as the shadow entered his body.

The trembling spirit and body gradually stabilized, and the demonic energy moving violently stabilized and moved like limbs.

And when the Summoner was completely absorbed into his body, finally he could become a complete Demon God.

Intense light burst from Sun-woo's body.

[Impossible! Must stop!]

[No way, it can't be that?]

[Damn it, stop! Don't run away! It's not certain yet!]

Ancient gods who knew what the light bursting from Sun-woo's body was screamed, but their cries were just hollow cries unable to step forward themselves.

Among them were even gods stealthily pulling their bodies back fearing annihilation.

Fortunately, gods who didn't know past terror shot divine power, but those divine powers were blocked by mighty power mixed with divine power and demonic energy and bounced off.

And the light disappeared.

Sun-woo stood where the light disappeared.

Sun-woo's appearance hadn't changed from before. His height and appearance were exactly the same as before.

But the aura he gave off had changed completely from before. The divine power flowing in his body looked stronger than dozens of gods' divine power, and the demonic energy flowing in the semi-divine seemed like it could cut even this dimension.

[He's returned…]

[Good grief… It's the end. The world will be destroyed.]

[Don't be frightened! He's just one who fled in the past. If we join forces this time too, we can annihilate him!]

In an instant, past events were shared among all gods.

Gods who didn't know were terrified by stories of the past, but soon decided to unite and oppose Sun-woo.

However.

Sun-woo's movement was faster.

His sword he was still holding swung through empty space.

Slash!

All gods were startled by the sudden movement, but the sword didn't attack any god.

It just split the dimension.

Crack!

Space split and a gap opened. And tremendous demonic energy began flowing from that gap.

Sun-woo's sword cut the boundary with the demon realm.

Sun-woo stuck his sword in the ground and looked at the sky, at the gods.

Unlike the gods, Sun-woo had no intention of fighting. But he also had no intention of going through trouble to please them.

"Everyone stop and listen to me! Negotiation starts now! If there are gods who step forward carelessly, I'll immediately destroy the boundary with the demon realm!"

Threats were perfect as the start of negotiation.