Chapter 163 – The Great Summoning Formation (3)

“Hayden!”

Clara, who was about to scream and rush out, was caught by the party’s hands and pulled down below the sand dune.

Smack!

“Snap out of it!”

Clara, pulled down, could come to her senses from the pain felt on her cheek.

Diane had slapped her cheek.

“Ah, thank you.”

Coming to her senses, she expressed thanks to Clara instead.

She was certainly like someone who experienced harsh times.

Regaining her senses, she began looking for a way.

“Isn’t there a way to save Hayden?”

She asked Sun-woo with a desperate expression.

It seemed more than half a day had already passed since he was contaminated.

The contamination recovery agent was something that only worked if used at the time of contamination.

People who were contaminated for a long time couldn’t endure.

Hayden… Regrettably, too much time had passed.

Moreover, the magic formation that saved the old contaminated people in the city wasn’t something that could be easily made.

It was impossible even with Sun-woo’s abilities.

However, they couldn’t leave it alone like this. They had to try anyway.

And the problem wasn’t only Hayden.

That giant summoning magic formation was gradually showing signs of moving.

“Let’s try.”

Sun-woo began piecing together a strategy in his head.

***

“This is really troublesome. This way, it’ll be difficult to use easily.”

“If it really doesn’t work, just brainwash him. He’ll become an idiot blocked at both ends, but that’s his problem.”

Behind Hayden, who was blankly staring toward the desert, two men were watching and talking.

A man wearing typical warrior garb and a magician with his entire body wrapped in a black robe.

The middle-aged man with his entire face covered in scars shrugged at the magician’s words.

“Well, occasionally someone like that appears. Even so, it’ll be hard to last long. Enduring that loathing is too much.”

The warrior trembled as if something came to mind.

These two were the people in charge of protecting this summoning magic formation.

They were the leadership who had been leading contaminated summoners from behind since being contaminated as summoners long ago.

“But why are you keeping that idiot alive? Shouldn’t disposal be right for that level of failure?”

The magician realized who the warrior was talking about.

It was the story of Blood Demon Yang Hwasu, who made things troublesome by screwing up grandly while establishing a contamination zone to attack the underground city, and even lost the surface city.

“There’s an interesting experiment. I needed a volunteer, and he happened to volunteer.”

At the magician’s story, the middle-aged warrior giggled.

“He was really desperate. No matter how crazy he got, to volunteer for dark magicians’ experiments. Moreover, if it’s something you call an interesting experiment, the result will transcend imagination.”

“Really, interesting.”

The old voice speaking in short cuts gave off a chilly atmosphere.

“Anyway, thanks to that guy, this place seems exposed too, and guests even came.”

“Well. If workers increase. Good.”

“It was close to dangerous. Thanks to that, guard posts increased, but there seems to be someone who escaped.”

“Good if more come. Even better if it’s that guy.”

At the magician’s confident words, the warrior smiled roughly.

The magician’s confidence seemed like it wouldn’t disappear until death.

‘But is he even human who dies?’

With the extended lifespan from becoming a summoner, plus contamination, and the lifespan extended further by magic, he couldn’t tell where the end was.

“The guest came just in time.”

The magician looked at the distant sand dune.

A woman was standing there glaring this way.

“The woman who escaped. Fortunately, she didn’t come alone.”

The two could feel the summoner’s sensation rush from the sand dune side the moment Clara appeared.

“They hid their energy well. Interesting. Should catch them and find out.”

Then, the warrior looked at Hayden and let out a sigh.

“But maybe brainwashing would be better after all?”

“One vote for brainwashing.”

Hayden was trembling while looking at Clara who stood atop the sand dune.

He glared at her with reddened eyes.

Hayden drooled and shouted toward her.

“Q-quickly, leave, this place!”

He couldn’t control his body as extreme loathing toward summoners, his love for her, and also hatred and jealousy toward her who changed by being contaminated were all mixed up.

However, he struggled desperately to stop his body and cried out desperately toward her.

“It’s been a while since I felt this really irritating. Let’s leave that guy like that and I’ll handle it.”

“Do that. Now the final moment. Must watch.”

Then two more people climbed atop the sand dune. A man wearing a black coat and a woman with a sharp impression.

Seeing the newly appeared people, Hayden, who had been enduring, exploded.

“Sun-woo!”

Hayden’s telekinesis exploded, blowing away surrounding sand, and he shot forward with his body riding the telekinesis.

“That’s him! Perfect!”

When Sun-woo revealed himself, the warrior excitedly flew his body following Hayden.

Clara launched flames toward the rushing Hayden, but he deflected the flames with telekinesis.

However, the sand around the two rushing people deeply sank, and the two also ended up buried in the ground.

Puwak!

Powerful gravity struck the two.

However, the two who were buried in the ground overcame all the gravity and raised their bodies again.

Hayden moved his body with telekinesis, and the warrior overcame gravity with powerful internal energy.

Though they weren’t as fast as before, they began running forward.

Seeing that, the three turned their bodies and went down behind the sand dune.

***

“Hmm. That Sun-woo person is the stubborn one’s trauma? If we strengthen the trauma, he might become usable without brainwashing.”

The magician left alone continued his thoughts while feeling the stench of enemies moving away behind the sand dune.

“Rather than that, luring? The method isn’t bad. The problem is whether the timing will match?”

Now the summoning magic formation was racing toward the end. Though the enemies were trying hard at something, after the demon lord was summoned, such trivial tricks would certainly become meaningless.

The magician slowly approached the magic formation.

The bones that remained in the magic formation had all disappeared now, and only blood was emitting bright light creating new patterns.

The magic formation drawn on the outside and the central magic formation being created with new blood.

When both magic formations were completed, they could finally summon the demon lord’s main body, the dream of summoning magic.

“Fortunately. No need to overdo it.”

Though there was some interference, it seemed it would finish without major problems.

The moment he thought that and tried to lend a hand.

Kuguuguung!

Suddenly the ground rang loudly, and tremendous stench and nauseating energy felt like they surged from behind him.

He hurriedly turned his body and saw a man standing.

The man who was standing on the sand dune earlier.

The black-coated man who fled as if luring the stubborn one and the simple brute.

“Clearly, saw you, fleeing? Spatial ability user?”

Sun-woo didn’t answer the magician’s words.

There wasn’t much time.

Though he succeeded in luring Hayden and the warrior by making the Black Knight look like himself with illusion arts, he didn’t know how long the lured people could endure.

And the summoning magic formation before his eyes was just before completion.

The curse activated by surprise regrettably failed. That summoning magic formation and the spirits of countless corpses were blocking the curse.

Sun-woo held the ring forward and demonstrated summoning arts to the maximum.

Shushushushuk!

Various monsters began popping out around Sun-woo.

Wolf monsters, goblins, orcs, and various other monsters poured out by the dozens.

And lastly, Seolmyo, the smallest but strongest summon, climbed onto Sun-woo’s shoulder.

Meow!

Sun-woo had no intention of giving leeway this time.

“Sweep them away!”

He commanded toward the monsters, and Seolmyo first flew forward leading the monsters.

“Kyakyakya, it’s a summoning ring, right? Finally found it!”

However, seeing the rushing monsters, the magician made a pleased expression instead.

He finally found the object he had dreamed of for a long time.

He took out one long staff from his subspace. The staff that looked gray seemed like it was made of long bones.

“I don’t know where you found it, but thanks. Consider it a gift.”

The magician raised the staff made of bones high. Thanks to that, his arm that became emaciated with only bones revealed itself.

“Come out. Children.”

Kaaaaaak!

This time, monsters began pouring out around him along with black smoke.

Monsters like they were summoned from hell.

They were those monsters the magician summoned when Sun-woo fought the dragon.

Only these monsters were several times more numerous and looked several times stronger than back then.

And like back then, these monsters were also all dyed in murky color.

“Go! Chew and devour them all. Kyakyakya.”

The magician pointed his staff forward while sprinkling bizarre laughter.

With that, the monsters rushed forward and collided with the monsters Sun-woo summoned.

Kuaaaaa!

Kwajik!

Regrettably, the monsters Sun-woo summoned were helplessly pushed back.

Though Seolmyo was making great contributions, the monsters Sun-woo summoned were still among the weak axis of monsters contained in the summoning ring.

It was impossible to defeat the monsters the magician summoned.

However, Sun-woo didn’t return the summoned monsters, nor did he help the monsters.

He shot straight toward the magician.

His appearance flying with his sword looked like he was flying through the sky together with the sword.

Clang!

The next moment, he collided with the magician’s body and was immediately bounced backward.

“Kyakyakya. I knew this would happen.”

What blocked Sun-woo wasn’t the magician’s barrier. If it was something like a barrier, there was no way it could block a super absolute warrior’s sword energy.

The magician’s robe, laughing bizarrely, was cut by Sun-woo’s sword and fell to the ground.

And the magician’s body was revealed outside.

An emaciated body with large black eyes, red magic formations drawn all over the body, and tendons wriggling here and there on the body.

No matter how one looked, it was hard to see him as human.

“I. Already long ago stepped one foot into the demon world. I won’t get hurt by a sword like yours.”

He was Black Vernon, the summoning magician, one of the most notorious magicians in history.

Long ago, after turning a country into a wasteland with summoning magic and clashing with the Holy Kingdom then disappearing, his story couldn’t be heard anymore.

However, he was hiding and continuously building power, and by himself infusing magic energy into his body, half of him transformed into a life form of the demon world.

And after that, he worked as the demon world’s errand boy continuously trying to contaminate the world together with contaminated summoners.

“Then since a guest came, let’s advance the work. It would be troublesome to get hit in the back of the head while delaying something!”

His face looking like an alien turned toward the summoning magic formation, and subsequently the magicians surrounding the magic formation pierced their own chests with their own hands.

Puwak!

Blood spurted from their chests.

Immediately after, hearts were pulled out in the magicians’ hands.

Those hearts immediately fell onto the magic formation.

The magic formation began burning blackly.

Gray smoke, magic energy spewed out like crazy, and it felt like the world was being dyed gray.

The red pillar of light now transformed into a gray pillar.

The world seemed entirely filled with death.

“Now that person comes! Bow down!”

Leaving behind the sight of magicians who had their hearts pulled out collapsing on the spot, magician Vernon shouted toward the sky filled with madness.

And the next moment.

Kuwang!

A giant hand rose from the magic formation covered with gray clouds.