Chapter 195 – The Demon Cult or the Bright Cult (3)

[Perhaps because it was a place that was a temple in the past, this entire place is full of life force. The life force absorbed by the one who just died has scattered back into the air.]

According to the bracer’s ego, the bracer could see the life forces in this place.

[Thanks to growing, I gained several more abilities. You didn’t ask so I didn’t mention it, but it seems necessary now.]

At that time, Sun-woo had consciously kept distance and not asked about the bracer’s sudden change.

He’d forgotten to ask after that, but the bracer’s ego was now stepping forward to tell him on its own.

Though reluctant at the appearance different from before again, now wasn’t the time to pick and choose.

[The abilities newly gained from growing are the ability to see life force I just mentioned and the ability to grant that life force to other places. It will probably help the woman lying down now.]

An ability completely unrelated to the bracer’s original ability. Unless it was a healing ability possessed by priests!

Sun-woo grew even more suspicious but first buried such thoughts deep in his heart.

“Then what should I do?”

[Please bring me into contact with the woman’s body and infuse me with mana. It’s better if you earnestly wish for her recovery with a desire to save the woman.]

This was definitely something a priest would say.

Anyway, Sun-woo held Nanseol with his left arm according to the bracer’s words and infused mana into the bracer.

The bracer glowing faintly. Sun-woo earnestly wished for Nanseol’s recovery.

The bracer’s light intensified and the dark leather of the bracer now looked like a legendary artifact.

Woong-woong-woong

‘Particles of light?’

Even to Sun-woo’s eyes, the life force scattered in the air began appearing as particles of light.

Numerous lights twinkling like fireflies danced in the air then gathered toward the bracer.

Like fireflies gathering toward brilliant light, the light particles floating in the air were absorbed into the bracer one by one.

The life force that seeped in like that flowed into Nanseol’s body through the bracer.

“Mmm.”

Nanseol who had fainted made a small groan. The life force pouring in began awakening her consciousness.

Her face that had been dark began easing again. Finally the depleted life force properly returned.

Woong-woong-woong

Once Nanseol stabilized, only then did Sun-woo who had been intensely examining Nanseol finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Just able to look around, he was shocked at the surrounding appearance.

From around Nanseol, green moss spread full across floor and walls.

[It’s an area-of-effect type anyway. The moss that was already here seems to have grown faster thanks to life force.]

It was obviously just an excuse!

Moreover, people only recovered depleted life force to a degree, but as a side effect the surrounding moss grew explosively like this.

The effect was dozens of times more than for people.

‘The goddess of the temple where the bracer grew was definitely said to be a forest goddess.’

Suspicion was gradually approaching certainty. But now wasn’t the situation to question about it.

However things turned out, right now it was just his equipment.

And he was still in the middle of enemy territory.

He didn’t know when enemies might appear.

Just then. The old man’s face popped up through the hole in the altar Sun-woo had burst through.

“Hik! Chose the wrong side?”

He quickly looked around, exclaimed, then disappeared back into the hole.

Clearly the crazy summoner who had been giving problems at the entrance.

He was definitely crazy. For a contaminated summoner to see another summoner and flee so nonchalantly.

He seemed really properly crazy.

Sun-woo just let the fleeing old man go.

Crazy or not, the opponent was a super-peak master. If the opponent decided to flee, it was hard to catch easily.

Sun-woo erased thoughts about the fled summoner from his mind and began closing the door he’d opened again.

It was still hard to stay in ‘Phase Two’ state long. Moreover in actual combat, the load on body and mind was more severe than expected.

‘Can’t help it since it’s not normal growth.’

This was a problem needing time. Time for mind and body to grow matching the risen status.

Unless he abandoned the flesh, he could only wait.

After closing all divinity, Sun-woo laid sleeping Nanseol to one side.

And only then could Sun-woo pay attention elsewhere.

Dangerous enemies no longer felt in his senses.

The crazy summoner had already disappeared outside the sorcery surveillance net, and fortunately the two prisoners who followed him were carefully coming up this way without dying.

Confirming safety, Sun-woo took out his phone.

Though it was a place impossible for Summoner to contact, his phone and ability were functioning intact even here.

Proof being the phone vibrated in his pocket when he killed the shaman.

Sun-woo immediately checked the skill window.

[Min Sun-woo 10-star achievement rate 5%]

<Earth Spirit 7th rank> Rank increase: 400p

<Illusion Magic 6th rank> Rank increase: 400p

<Divine Wheel Demon Art 12-star>

<Divine Wheel Sword Technique 12-star>

<Divine Wheel Movement Technique 12-star>

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

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

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

<Time Passed 6th grade> Rank increase: 1000p

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

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

<Illusion Pain 3rd grade> Rank increase: 400p

<Summon Domination 4th grade> Rank increase: 200p

<Poison Healing 6th rank> Rank increase: 400p

<Soul Summoning 1st rank> Rank increase: 200p

<<$3R32@12^7>> XXXXXXXX

<Divinity Sealed>

Points: 300p

As expected, a new skill called Soul Summoning was added.

Perhaps because divinity rose, now stealing skills from killing enemies didn’t even need empty skill slots.

Like this, stealing from enemies worked out far cheaper than requesting skills from other people.

And the achievement rate rose a bit from killing contaminated summoners.

However the regret was he could no longer grow martial arts with the skill window.

Well, having grown to the point of becoming an immortal with just martial arts, it seemed impossible to raise it further by paying points.

Having checked the skill window, Sun-woo could finally look around.

“Is this the Demon God’s altar?”

A not-small square stone chamber.

In the center the altar Sun-woo burst through held position, and walls were full of faded murals.

Sun-woo placed his hand on the wall and tried using his ability, but unfortunately nothing showed.

Whether too old or blocked by divine power he didn’t know, but only faint afterimages remained, no helpful information showed.

“Doesn’t seem like there are treasures either……”

Still, there wasn’t absolutely nothing to gain.

Sun-woo approached the shaman’s corpse with broken neck and placed his hand on it.

He began peering into the shaman’s past using his ability.

Some time later, Sun-woo opened his eyes with a frown.

“Seems I learned Soul Summoning technique to some degree.”

The phone rang twice while experiencing the Soul Summoning experience together, so <Soul Summoning> definitely rose to 3rd rank.

The problem was content seen in recent memories.

“The Blood Cult’s leader came over to our world?”

Couldn’t help worrying what work someone being the Blood Cult leader came over to do.

“Should tell them to be careful when I return.”

After brief contemplation, Sun-woo decided to pass all worries to those responsible.

His head was complicated just with his own work. Not the time to meddle unnecessarily.

Besides, even staying still, people gathering were also a problem.

While he checked the shaman’s memories, Ki Ji-min and Hairy climbed up to this stone chamber.

Though both were a mess as if they got a beating from the crazy summoner, no traces of injury showed.

It seemed the story about kicking out without killing was true.

But the behavior of the two who came up to the stone chamber was interesting.

Hairy was happily scraping moss blooming full in the stone chamber and throwing it in his mouth, and Ki Ji-min made a gloomy expression looking at lying Nanseol.

‘Don’t tell me eating that moss also recovers life force?’

Sun-woo threw a question toward the bracer in his mind.

[Not big but it will help. Originally moss that received this temple’s divine power has excellent effects on recovering body and life force, and it grew thanks to pouring life force on it.]

‘Ho, you really know well.’

[Ah, I just came to know information from growing.]

Though quickly finding normalcy, Sun-woo didn’t miss the momentary wavering.

But teasing ended here.

“Now, shall we slowly return?”

Sun-woo smiled toward Nanseol who opened her eyes, and Nanseol stared at such Sun-woo.

***

Same time.

Central Romania.

The castle was half-destroyed with smoke rising, and the small city before the castle had turned into a battlefield.

The beautiful central tourist city was now a battlefield with corpses and tank wreckage, crashed helicopters, broken houses.

Krr-rr-rung,

One tank pushed aside helicopter wreckage and entered the road again.

“Push harder! Not far left to the castle!”

“Damn, I thought I’d fight places like IS, never thought I’d clash with espers.”

“Who would’ve thought?”

At the tank commander’s shout, the driver grumbled hard.

“Still, we’re at least not the side being pushed back!”

“We’re not being pushed but it’s ridiculous even now. Losing hundreds of tanks and dozens of attack helicopters advancing just a few kilos. The opponents are just dozens, no, actually three destroyed it all.”

The driver shuddered at the scenes seen coming here.

A man who changes incoming missiles’ direction to bombard allies and turns nearby tanks’ gun muzzles to attack allies.

A woman who seduces soldiers to incite rebellion.

Lastly, a man who destroys tanks and smashes helicopters with bare fists.

Besides that, several espers blocked the front, but most sacrifices came from those three.

“Still, not much left. Eliminated most other enemies and half-destroyed the castle too, now those three seem weakened not performing so well either. Right?”

The tank commander sitting on the turret side continuing talking looked down puzzled when no answer came.

And he saw the driver pointing a gun at him.

“Oh no.”

Tang!

The tank where gunfire came from soon changed direction and began charging toward the tank following behind.

“Good work. My beloved servant.”

Behind the running tank, a blonde woman in a red dress waved at the tank.

“Ugh, so tiring. Now not even one is easy.”

The woman complained toward the side with a tired face.

“How long must we hold? The idiots’ side already seems scattered. Can that shaman whatever even make it in time?”

At her words, the man beside her, Adelio, glanced toward the castle.

Different smoke was rising from the half-destroyed castle spewing smoke.

“Seems they made it in time.”

Simultaneously his phone in hand vibrated.

[Preparations finished. Bombs all loaded and launch ready.]

“Launch.”

Adelio raised his hand to drop another helicopter passing overhead then looked at the castle.

Tremendous smoke rose from the half-destroyed castle then missiles soared into the sky.

One, two, three, four.

“Regrettable we couldn’t get intercontinental ballistic missiles, but still perfect for starting work.”

“Can we finally see the Demon Lord too?”

The woman nestled in Adelio’s arms then looked at the missiles flying in the sky with a dreamy face.

“The result of experiments all this time. A collaboration of science, sorcery, and magic.”

One missile didn’t fly far and fell behind the city. The other missiles kept flying far away.

***

Some time later, missiles struck Romania’s capital and central Poland, Hungary, and Ukraine, and areas of hundreds of kilometers were contaminated in an instant.

The contamination spreader developed all this time finally revealed its desired form.

The entire Eastern Europe area changed into contaminated zones.