Chapter 187 – Dream of the Demon God (7)

by Heavenly Cat

Sun-woo who opened his eyes could immediately feel what had changed.

In the past when he was at the super-peak, he could also spread his ki to know the appearance of his surroundings, but now he didn’t even need to spread his ki.

He had crossed into a stage where he could know immediately as his mind moved.

Of course, he hadn’t reached the divine realm of grasping distant places, but he could definitely feel that he had become a human different from ordinary humans.

As proof, even though sirens weren’t heard yet, he could know that police cars were running from far away, and that Ming Wei who heard the warehouse explosion was running this way.

Sun-woo who confirmed the location of the divine stone and dragon heart that flew away together with the warehouse walls hurriedly cut off his senses that kept expanding.

“Is this half-baked.”

His brain couldn’t handle the excessive information.

Sun-woo who frowned at the sudden pain decided to leave the place first.

Sun-woo waved his hand to retrieve the dragon heart and demon god’s divine stone that flew away, then disappeared from the warehouse that had become ruins.

Igyeonghwanwi had now become nearly equivalent to teleportation without needing help from magic.

The place where Sun-woo reappeared was his own house garden.

When Sun-woo entered the house, Yeonhwa who was in the living room saw Sun-woo and bowed her head deeply.

“Congratulations.”

She immediately noticed that Sun-woo had grown. But Sun-woo made a puzzled expression at her excessive greeting.

She was completely different from her usual self.

Sun-woo examined Yeonhwa and himself for a moment and learned the reason.

Now he could even feel the divine power flowing from Yeonhwa’s body.

And also how Yeonhwa and the god called Supreme Lord she served were connected by divine power.

Moreover, he could feel power flowing from his body not from internal energy but from somewhere of a higher rank rippling in the surroundings.

It wasn’t yet to the extent of being called divinity, but if he raised his realm a bit more, it wouldn’t be much different from the god’s divine power felt indirectly through Yeonhwa.

“Is this breaking through the limit.”

Yeonhwa felt the power flowing from Sun-woo’s body.

She sent a congratulatory greeting as a divine maiden to Sun-woo’s realm that transcended human and rather became closer to god than human.

But for Sun-woo, it wasn’t such an interesting sight.

It was power difficult to handle yet anyway.

Sun-woo erased the power flowing from his body and the high-rank presence that was felt.

Since it was power that flowed out because his realm rose anyway, it was impossible for others to recognize if he forcibly lowered his realm.

“Hmm, let’s make the lowered realm version Phase One and the raised realm Phase Two.”

Sun-woo who controlled the flowing power spouted sounds like a game’s final boss.

“Stand up. It’s quite uncomfortable to see when Yeonhwa acts like that.”

Yeonhwa who had been bowing her head let out a long breath and stretched her body as Sun-woo hid his power.

“Wow! I was really surprised. It was tremendous pressure. I bowed without even knowing.”

“But you didn’t do that in front of other gods. They were weakened gods, but you resisted and such…”

“That’s because they were different gods from the one I serve. The energy Sun-woo emitted wasn’t much different from the Supreme Lord’s feeling, so I couldn’t feel rejection.”

It seemed Yeonhwa felt it similarly because it was growth based on the Bright Cult martial arts.

“Anyway, congratulations again. You gained a yang spirit, right?”

“Yang spirit?”

“They say the realm of becoming an immortal through martial arts starts with creating a yang spirit in the body?”

At Yeonhwa’s words, Sun-woo observed inside his body.

Unlike before, internal energy didn’t flow through blood vessels.

Internal energy moving as the mind goes without a path. And the dantian that was the center of internal energy was also different from before.

An orb similar to what spiritual beings like dragons had was felt at the center of the dantian that had no substance.

“Is this the yang spirit?”

Sun-woo who tilted his head took out his phone.

He came in a hurry so he hadn’t checked his phone yet.

[Min Sun-woo 10-star achievement rate 0%]

<Spirit of Earth. Grade 7> Rank increase: 400p

<Illusion Arts. Grade 6> Rank increase: 400p

<Body Enhancement 8-star> Rank increase: 500p

<Water Magic 5-Circle> Rank increase: 200p

<Fire Magic 4-Circle> Rank increase: 200p

<Elapsed Time Grade 6> Rank increase: 1000p

<Barrier Magic 8-Circle> Rank increase: 600p

<Summoning Magic 5-Circle> Rank increase: 400p

<Illusion Sight Grade 3> Rank increase: 400p

<Summon Domination Grade 4> Rank increase: 200p

<Poison Healing Grade 6> Rank increase: 400p

<$3R32@12^7> XXXXXXXX

Even though the raised rank was in a sealed state, the skills had overall increased by several stages.

Since they were skills that converted internal energy and manifested with his own body anyway, it might be natural to become stronger.

However, unfortunately, <Elapsed Time> which was mental-type had no change.

Does it mean it’s not related to internal energy since it’s a superpower anyway?

Sun-woo checked the points he had.

4,500 points.

Points accumulated thanks to growth being blocked.

Sun-woo immediately put in 2,000 points to raise the grade of <Elapsed Time>.

And matched Illusion Sight to Grade 5, and Summon Domination and Fire Magic to Grade 5 and 5-Circle too.

Remaining points were 1,300 points.

“No matter how many points you have, there’s no answer to impulse spending.”

Fortunately, as Sun-woo expected, when the grade of <Elapsed Time> went up, his stuffy head cleared up a bit.

Unlike other immortals who created yang spirits through martial arts and ascetic practices over a long time, Sun-woo had tremendous growth in a short time. Naturally, the growth had to be unbalanced.

This time, compared to other places, the head, namely the brain, couldn’t follow the growth.

“If you raise superpowers, the brain grows… Then does it mean to properly use abilities, I have to raise all the skills I have?”

It probably wouldn’t be all, but still the thought that he could demonstrate his true ability when magic and superpowers and martial arts all grew evenly passed through Sun-woo’s head.

“I should be satisfied with just this much.”

Even now it was unreasonable growth. It wasn’t a situation to grumble that he couldn’t fully use the increased power.

“The problem is it’s impossible to slowly rest and check abilities…”

Sun-woo looked at the constantly ringing phone and let out a sigh.

Not only Ming Wei, but messages and calls were also coming from the branch chief and Caroline.

It seemed Ming Wei blew things up tremendously.

The TV in the living room was showing Ming Wei’s press conference saying she came to Korea looking for a man.

A gossip story between a world-class top star and a Korean in a gloomy world with matters like terrorism and contamination. The broadcast must have been excited.

Thanks to that, Sun-woo accepted the summoning request from Hwangbo Jagyeom that came out of nowhere.

It was the martial world anyway, so it was perfect for checking abilities.

“I’m with Carol. I’ll be hiding for a bit.”

After leaving words to Yeonhwa who was on the phone with Caroline, Sun-woo was summoned to the martial world.

“Ah, Sun-woo left? He left before I could say it’s not because of Ming Wei.”

Caroline’s sigh was heard through the receiver, and a moment later Caroline left words telling Yeonhwa to come to the company.

“Will there be time to bathe?”

It seemed Ming Wei who ran to the destroyed warehouse would run back, but Yeonhwa sealed the door using her newly gained divine power and entered the bath.

Now unless the wall was broken, the door would absolutely not budge. Of course, no sound would be heard either…

***

About ten minutes after Yeonhwa entered the bath,

Central Romania.

“Summoner Sun-woo was immediately summoned to another dimension after returning.”

“As expected, he’s a summoner who doesn’t match well with me somehow.”

At secretary Sally’s words confirming Sun-woo’s absence through contact with Caroline, Director Albert shook his head.

“Should we delay the matter more?”

“We can’t. If he entered a mission again, we don’t know when he’ll return. We gathered military force with the training excuse, but there’s no guarantee we haven’t been caught yet.”

Director Albert who finally checked the castle beyond the forest in the distance with binoculars sent a signal to secretary Sally to proceed.

The place where the two were was inside a military tent set up in a corner of a wide plain.

In the tent full of radios and numerous communication equipment, he and secretary Sally, and several summoners and many soldiers were positioned.

Right now they were officially in NATO’s winter integrated tactical training.

It was military training held in Romania, the country next to Ukraine, under the pretext of showing a power demonstration about Russia’s expansion and Ukraine fallen into chaos.

Though it was urgently conducted training, it was proceeding quickly while ignoring protests from Russia and Ukraine as large-scale training receiving support from NATO’s elite armored forces and tactical helicopters, and even the US Atlantic Fleet.

“Well, unlike the official content, the reality is military activity to attack the contaminated summoners’ headquarters.”

Director Albert who exited the tent smiled looking at the numerous tanks spread on the plain.

The matter about contamination had already been exposed to the public anyway. He planned to say they destroyed the old castle that was the enemy’s base and dealt with the contamination source.

It was the truth anyway.

He used his remaining US military and various countries’ connections to the maximum to set up this operation.

Mixed with forced content and things like threats, there was a high possibility of problems later, but eliminating that guy first came first.

It was the enemy’s headquarters confirmed for the first time.

He thought he was dead so he didn’t worry, but if alive, this level of preparation couldn’t be seen as excessive.

“Tank unit ready.”

“Atlantic Fleet Tomahawk missiles ready.”

“Patriot air defense network operation started.”

“Summoner unit ready.”

At the story that preparations were complete, the NATO general who just heard to proceed gave orders to start the operation.

“Operation name Light of Purification, start the operation!”

As his words ended, voices were heard from the radio.

[Launching Tomahawk missiles.]

It was contact from the US Atlantic Fleet staying at the Romanian coast.

Now after about ten minutes, dozens of Tomahawk missiles would fall on that castle that looked faint from here.

Of course they were missiles loaded with regular explosives, but if just a few fell, the castle would surely collapse just like that.

“But isn’t it too excessive? Moreover, there’s no war, so there doesn’t seem to be a need to prepare even Patriot air defense missiles.”

At that time, one staff member next to the general whispered small to the officer beside him.

Of course he whispered thinking no one would hear, but among the summoners here, there was no one who didn’t hear his words.

“If you wait a bit, you’ll know. Well, if my prediction is wrong and the castle collapses, that’s good too.”

Director Albert opened his mouth as if talking to himself while looking at the castle, and that grumbling staff member closed his mouth.

And 15 minutes later, the soldiers learned what Director Albert’s words meant.

Dozens of missiles passed over the unit’s head and flew toward the castle.

A moment later, as one man’s hand standing on top of the castle’s bell tower spread open, the missiles changed direction and instead flew toward the unit.

“Self-destruct the Tomahawks!”

[Can’t! Control has been seized!]

“Launch Patriot missiles!”

“Fire everything!”

With the incoming Tomahawk missiles and the Patriot missiles soaring to the sky to block them, the sky above the unit truly turned into a battlefield.

But Director Albert wasn’t paying attention to the sky at all and was only glaring at the castle.

“As expected, our world’s strongest summoner. He got stronger.”

A summoner who reached the end of summoning and controlling modern weapons.

Adelio, Garcia’s son who could put not only his own weapons but even others’ weapons under control, and the strongest mercenary summoner, was in the castle.

“It’s for draining strength anyway. This is just the beginning.”

Director Albert sent a signal to the NATO general to depart, and hundreds of tank units that received the general’s order began moving toward the castle visible in the distance.

“It’s definitely regrettable. They say treat poison with poison… It would have been convenient to pit him against Summoner Sun-woo…”

He who clicked his tongue thinking of Sun-woo who wasn’t there began moving with the other summoners.

In the sky missiles burst out, numerous tanks and helicopters moved toward the castle, and summoners ran between them.

It was finally time for the contaminated summoners and Clean Earth’s elite, and NATO forces and US military to clash.

***

And Sun-woo heard unexpected words from the blood-covered Hwangbo Jagyeom.

“You’re saying Nanseol was captured by the Ming Cult?”

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