Chapter 199 – Who Are You (2)

As Sun-woo leaped out of the building, black flames flew at him as if waiting.

Kyahahaha!

The black fireballs seemed alive. They pulsated as if breathing and their positions swayed here and there.

Moreover, laughter like scraping a chalkboard came from the fireballs.

“Evil spirits?”

Having learned soul summoning, Sun-woo could tell what the approaching black flames were.

A much stronger ability than the soul summoning Sun-woo possessed or the shaman’s evil spirit summoning he’d seen at the ruins.

It was an attack that converted evil spirits into physical destructive power.

Simultaneous attacks of matter and spirit, making it an extremely tricky attack to block.

Even if one could block spiritual power, they’d be hit by physical destructive force, and even blocking physical force meant mental collapse from the evil spirits’ attack.

However, it was an attack without much meaning to Sun-woo.

Sun-woo slashed the flying black flames with his sword and simply passed through the remaining evil spirits.

The moment the sword cut, the physical force disappeared, and to Sun-woo who’d already received an evil spirit attack once and even obtained soul summoning, the evil spirits’ attacks no longer had meaning.

As Sun-woo approached breaking through his attacks, the shaman seemed quite shocked.

The shaman immediately overlaid evil spirits on his own body and soared higher into the sky.

But he couldn’t escape Sun-woo.

Sun-woo shot upward spewing internal energy from beneath his feet and swung his sword at him.

“Kyahaha, even using sword energy, you can’t touch my body overlaid with evil spirits… Kuaak!”

The shaman taunting Sun-woo swinging his sword couldn’t finish his words and ended up screaming.

Because Sun-woo’s sword cut through his body along with the evil spirits.

Far from the ground, he couldn’t use the earth spirit, but instead he now had the skill called soul summoning.

Though he couldn’t summon other souls yet, Sun-woo had one soul anyway.

Though it was a spirit.

[Eek, this feels weird!]

A strange scream came from the sword. It was Toshi’s spirit.

As expected, Toshi’s spirit could be summoned through soul summoning.

Maybe not an ordinary ego, but clearly an ego transformed by a god’s trick. Unknown how far it changed, but it was confirmed to have a soul.

‘If I raise the soul summoning skill more, could I summon Toshi’s spirit without possessing an object?’

A different thought briefly crossed Sun-woo’s mind, but that thought immediately disappeared from his head.

Because the shaman with his side cut and one arm severed was falling downward.

An ordinary civilian would have difficulty surviving, but the opponent was a contaminated summoner and tremendous shaman.

The wound on his side filled instantly and the severed arm stopped bleeding too.

Sun-woo immediately threw his sword toward the falling shaman.

A shaman without evil spirits could be caught sufficiently with a sword imbued with sword energy.

Tudadadada!

But things didn’t go as Sun-woo thought.

The sword shooting downward was hit by gunfire and bounced into the air.

If they were bullets fired from a typical rifle, he could have somehow penetrated through, but the fired bullets were 20mm rounds for Vulcan cannons.

Dozens of the hundreds of rounds fired at the sword hit it.

Thanks to sword energy it was intact, but the Jeonryun Divine Sword was pushed by the bullets and bounced into the air.

Tatatata!

The bullets were fired not just at the sword but toward Sun-woo too.

Startled, Sun-woo hurriedly leaped toward the adjacent building.

His body strengthened by internal energy, protective energy barrier, and body enhancement seemed able to sufficiently block bullets, but he had zero intention of experimenting by taking Vulcan fire.

Bullets poured into the building Sun-woo jumped into, smashing the building’s windows.

Sun-woo recalled his sword then stood behind the window raining bullets and peeked down below.

On the ground, dead soldiers and abandoned Vulcan cannons and armored vehicles were scattered about.

All were forces deployed by the government to defend the Cleanearth building under terrorist attack.

And among the dead soldiers stood one man looking toward where Sun-woo was.

The strong energy he’d felt from far away at Sun-woo’s home was flowing from that man.

A slender, handsome man who appeared Latin, and his face felt very familiar from somewhere.

“No, this isn’t the important thing, but really an unexpected attack.”

The gunfire pouring now wasn’t an attack someone shot but attacks coming from abandoned Vulcan cannons.

Without anyone there, the Vulcan cannon alone moved its barrel pouring bullets toward Sun-woo.

“I heard mercenary summoners can use machine guns or TOW missiles as they develop their abilities, but never thought they could use ownerless Vulcan cannons too.”

Clearly the contaminated summoner standing among those corpses was moving the Vulcan cannons.

A human who reached the pinnacle of this world’s summoners.

Sun-woo could tell whose face he resembled.

He looked exactly like the deceased Director Garcia.

“Was it Adelio?”

The one known to be dead, Director Garcia’s son and a powerful summoner.

And the person who became the reason Director Garcia betrayed.

“Wait, if he can fire Vulcan cannons, other weapons are possible too?”

At that thought, Sun-woo immediately started running toward the back of the building.

Kwang!

Behind running Sun-woo, the building wall exploded.

***

Bang! Bang!

The 40mm cannon of an armored vehicle on the ground was smashing the building walls in sequence.

Unlike the Vulcan cannons, people were riding the armored vehicle, but not all were living.

“Tsk tsk, go back and finish the summoning formation.”

Adelio, using his ability to move the armored vehicle, looked at the shaman with contempt.

“Slashing evil spirits! It’s impossible!”

The shaman sitting collapsed on the ground shouted while finishing treating his side cut by the sword.

“He’s a summoner called the Adversary. Seeing he didn’t die when we bombed the cruise ship, you know? He apparently had the additional ability to slash evil spirits.”

That Sun-woo didn’t die on the cruise ship made them fly to Korea immediately because of Sun-woo’s abilities with unknown growth limits.

“And please manage the summoners we caught on the way.”

Falling into a contaminated zone didn’t immediately contaminate summoners, but they possessed drugs to forcibly contaminate summoners.

Thanks to that, they contaminated all the summoners attacking the castle.

“Damn it!”

The shaman threw a huge tantrum, but with one arm already severed and even his evil spirits smashed, he could no longer be of help.

When Adelio raised his hand, a space-jump ability user appeared behind the shaman, grabbed him, and disappeared again.

“Then, shall we restart fly-catching?”

Adelio aimed the Vulcan cannons and armored vehicle at the building again then tilted his head.

“Forget the stupid shaman, but why did the two people who entered the building suddenly go quiet?”

As he said, the Cleanearth building spewing smoke from being half-destroyed had somehow gone quiet.

The shaman pouring attacks from the sky was out, but even those who entered the building going quiet was strange.

“Well, they’ll figure it out. More urgently this side first.”

He started pouring 20mm rounds and 40mm cannon fire at the adjacent building again.

***

Same time.

The contaminated summoner who massacred the Korean summoners who were with the branch director.

The so-called tanker Manuel was raising his remaining arm and hastily backing away.

Manuel couldn’t understand the current situation. Until just moments ago, he was happily smashing summoners.

Specialized in defense and strength, he could withstand bullets or grenades with his body, and this world’s summoners had few weapons besides firearms.

Though there were some Empire-side ability users making mental attacks, to him with even his mind reinforced, they were merely ticklish attacks.

After dealing with summoners like that, the moment he tried to finish off the person called branch director, a rather pretty female summoner appeared.

A woman who looked like a secretary or professional woman.

She seemed to have learned martial arts as her movements looked good, but to him it was a futile act.

He could immediately grab her by the collar.

The moment he tried to strangle her like that, a strange energy flowed from her hands grabbing his arm.

Shocked, he immediately shook free, but in that instant his arm scattered into dust.

Even now the annihilation kept spreading.

“What kind of ability is this exactly?”

Manuel opened his mouth looking at his shoulder with a terror-stricken face.

“No need to know.”

But Caroline only answered with a cold voice while rubbing her neck.

Fortunately, because the opponent was a physical type who underestimated her, she could finish in one shot, but it had been extremely close after a long time.

Manuel tried everything to stop his body continuing to disappear, but her annihilation ability didn’t disappear.

“I can’t die alone like this!”

Seeing his shoulder disappear beyond his arm, he ran at Caroline approaching the branch director, but Caroline didn’t look back.

And Manuel couldn’t even reach Caroline, collapsing on the floor with his head disappeared.

And some time later, all other parts became dust and disappeared too.

“Are you alright?”

“Unfortunately not enough to die.”

The branch director answered gloomily looking at the summoners collapsed everywhere.

Though they’d snarled at each other often, they were Korean summoners he’d grown fond of despite everything.

And even the defected summoners.

In a brief moment, they’d suffered tremendous damage.

“Seems Sophia wasn’t late. Did he come together?”

“Yes. He’s fighting now.”

Caroline pointed with her hand at the adjacent building being smashed.

“It was good that I evacuated people in surrounding buildings just in case.”

The branch director frowning at the exploding adjacent building urgently gave instructions to Caroline as if remembering something.

“Hurry down below. There are more contaminated summoners in the building. Got word they’re going around killing civilians!”

“Ah, Yeonhwa probably went down. Mingwei probably went together too?”

“They said a brainwashing ability user… Well, if it’s summoner Yeonhwa, it’ll be fine.”

***

As the branch director said, Yeonhwa was fine.

She stood in the corridor watching two women fight for a while.

“You’re dead!”

“Eek! Why won’t the brainwashing work?”

One seductive and the other beautiful, two women were exchanging blows with guns, blades, and their whole bodies.

One side was a brainwashing ability user who came with Adelio, the other was Mingwei.

Yeonhwa and Mingwei going downstairs encountered a brainwashing ability user watching employees brainwashed to kill each other.

Mingwei immediately charged at the brainwashing ability user and Yeonhwa exerted divine power to release people’s brainwashing.

Thanks to that, the opponent with brainwashing ability sealed had no choice but to fight Mingwei barehanded.

The brainwashing ability user had some talent for fighting, but couldn’t match Mingwei who properly trained in martial arts.

Getting thoroughly beaten, about to be subdued soon.

Seeing the fight wrapping up, Yeonhwa looked out the window again.

Because she saw Sun-woo burst out on the opposite side of the collapsing building.

Sun-woo shot like an arrow toward the ground.