Chapter 213 – Demon Lord Berid (2)

Halfway up a mountain overlooking a huge city in the distance.

Several humans and contaminated beasts were guarding the contamination zone that was shooting a subtle red light toward the sky.

“They’re, they’re not coming this way, right?”

One contaminated Imperial soldier asked the contaminated summoner beside him worriedly.

“How should I know! My nerves are already on edge, and you’re asking questions!”

Grrrung!

The summoner wearing the same uniform answered his question sharply, and the contaminated beasts prowling around also growled lowly at him.

They were all beasts under the summoner’s control.

“It’ll be fine. According to reports, so far they’ve all been contamination zones located in the western Empire. They won’t come straight here.”

The mage in black robes offered words of comfort, but it didn’t seem to help at all.

“Even without these contamination zones, the contamination won’t disappear anyway, but they’re making us cling to them till the end… What are they thinking?”

“They’re contamination zones to increase the demonic energy of the entire planet. Thanks to them, this planet has risen to a level similar to the demon realm.”

They knew the contamination zones raised demonic energy for the Demon Lord to cross over, but they didn’t know the other reason, which was to buy time.

“Really annoying. I want to go down to the city and have some fun, but I’m just stuck here…”

Everyone turned their heads away at the continuing grumbling of the summoner, but one person still answered him.

“Should I make you more comfortable?”

“Who’s there!”

Kyang!

At the unfamiliar voice heard from behind, they immediately turned around, and the prowling beasts also rushed toward where the voice came from at the summoner’s command.

Thud.

But the beasts couldn’t move far and stopped in place. Then the beasts shot upward.

The beasts that rose nearly a hundred meters fell back to the ground.

Pwok!

No matter how strengthened by contamination, there were no beasts that could be fine after falling from over a hundred meters high.

The summoner and other contaminated ones might have stepped forward at the sight of those beasts, but they were already not people of this world.

They had all lost their lives to swords that pierced their hearts.

“Kyagyagyak! Ugh, so tiring.”

Hayden, who had smashed the beasts with telekinesis, rubbed the back of his neck with a tired face.

This was already the fourth contamination zone. Moving hundreds of kilometers through spatial transfers while constantly fighting, Hayden was physically and mentally exhausted.

“What are you saying is tiring? You’ve barely done anything.”

But at Sun-woo’s single comment, his grumbling mouth shut tight.

Sun-woo was right. Compared to Sun-woo, what he had done was less than a mouse’s tail.

Sun-woo did the spatial transfers, Sun-woo defeated most of the enemies. It was also Sun-woo who converted the contamination zones into purification zones.

All Hayden had done was help defeat enemies and visualize spatial transfer points in his head.

But since what Sun-woo did was beyond human, Hayden, who kept pace with him, wasn’t exactly relaxed either.

He could clearly see it was half intentional dragging him around, but it was still hard to complain any more.

Sun-woo chuckled at Hayden pouting his lips and approached the summoning formation.

The core in the center and amplification stones around it. And the magic formation drawn on the ground.

It looked the same as the contamination zones he had seen until now.

Sun-woo immediately began the work of converting the contamination zone.

His magic ability, now grown to archmage level, instantly changed the structure of the contamination zone drawn on the ground.

Then Sun-woo picked up the contaminated central core in his hand.

“The inner core of a contaminated human-faced spider.”

Now he could obtain information about objects to some degree without looking at his phone.

He didn’t know how it became possible, but Sun-woo decided to think it was because his divine status rose.

Sun-woo immediately began extracting the demonic energy inside the core.

And simultaneously, he unsealed the divinity side and poured divine power into the core.

Uuuung!

The core began emitting light, and Hayden sighed, feeling his head bowing involuntarily.

Compared to nearly kneeling the first time Sun-woo emitted divine power, it was much better, but he couldn’t stop his body shrinking at the divinity he automatically felt.

When teasing around, he didn’t feel it much, but at times like this, it was difficult to even see him as human.

Moments later, the human-faced spider’s core was completely purified and emitted a clear radiance.

Sun-woo placed the core back in the center of the barrier formation, and soon the barrier formation converted into a purification formation began operating.

Kuwoong!

With a heavy resonance, blue light spread in all directions.

And the contamination-stained world began changing centered on the contamination zone.

“Will Rheinland also escape contamination now?”

The city visible in the distance. The Imperial capital Rheinland was also gradually escaping contamination.

“Not sure. It seems like it’ll roughly enter the territory, but it’s hard to gauge. The contamination level became too high during this time.”

Sun-woo felt regret that he moved too late.

He had left the contamination zones alone too long. Thanks to that, even after converting to purification zones, the area escaping contamination wasn’t as wide as expected.

With time, it would eventually escape contamination, but during that time, countless people would surely suffer in contaminated areas.

“Still, it’s fortunate. Because they kept maintaining contamination zones to raise contamination levels.”

Thanks to that, they could convert them to purification zones, but Sun-woo was feeling uncomfortable about it.

The enemies guarding the contamination zones clearly knew he was coming. But they only stood guard without other preparations.

And at this moment, Sun-woo felt he knew the reason.

The world seemed to briefly stop breathing. It felt like air and light disappeared.

After a brief shock, red light began spreading across the distant eastern horizon.

Red light spreading as if to cover the world.

It was that red light he saw when this planet was first covered in contamination, but this time it seemed to cover the entire horizon.

Sun-woo had seen a similar scene in another place besides then.

It resembled the scene he saw when the gate to the demon realm opened in the desert. Only this time, the scale was different.

“What, what’s happening?”

Hayden looked at the horizon with surprised eyes.

Unlike Sun-woo with high divine status, Hayden couldn’t understand the scene unfolding before his eyes.

He could tell something impossible was happening, but he couldn’t grasp what it meant.

Sun-woo didn’t explain to Hayden. Explaining to Hayden would be meaningless. And Prophet Silvia surely already knew.

“I’ll go check. Sorry, but it looks like you’ll have to return alone.”

“What?”

At Sun-woo’s words, Hayden could come to his senses.

Going alone from the capital to Stuttgart. Even in shock, he had no choice but to snap out of it.

“That far distance alone?”

But his question only echoed in empty air. Sun-woo had already left through spatial transfer.

“Ah, it’s already been two days… It’ll easily take weeks to return… And I’m a newlywed…”

Left alone, Hayden began walking toward the free city where his wife was.

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After several spatial transfers, the place Sun-woo arrived was some beach on the New Continent.

A place where debris of rafts still sprawled on the beach could be seen.

It was the place where Sun-woo and his party in the past obtained contamination proliferators.

It was exactly that spot where he met Yang Hwa-su as an enemy and fought with a woman who was Caroline’s former colleague.

It felt really old, but thinking about it, it wasn’t that long ago.

‘I’ve changed too much.’

Even at that time, he was just one ordinary summoner, so it was a difference like heaven and earth from now when he had escaped the summoner’s framework.

Sun-woo, who had briefly immersed in reminiscence, came to his senses and looked southeast.

This New Continent was now entirely filled with red light, but especially the southeastern sky was stained even more red.

“That direction.”

The place Sun-woo remembered was last here. From now on, he couldn’t go by spatial transfer.

Sun-woo drew up his internal energy to the fullest. Then he shot forward with his sword.

Sun-woo, who instantly left the beach, flew his body over the trees filling his view.

In an instant, the forest spread beneath Sun-woo, and while holding his sword, he deployed sword control.

Swooosh!

The sword shot forward, and Sun-woo began flying over the forest along with his sword.

Sword riding flight unfolded from Sun-woo’s hand.

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Same time.

The ruins that were the starting point of red light.

The massive tower was now shattering to pieces.

The giant that appeared in the tower’s center, a Demon Lord with red demonic energy wrapped around his whole body, was destroying the tower.

[Where are you! Where is the insect that wounded me! Come out now! Bring him to me immediately!]

Every time the one-eyed giant with four arms swung his arms, the ground shook and the tower crumbled.

His arms and body were unscathed no matter how much he smashed the tower and ground, but looking closely, a thin line was drawn on the Demon Lord’s arm.

It was the wound created by Sun-woo’s sword.

He was exactly Demon Lord Fourcas, who was wounded by Sun-woo while trying to escape from the summoning formation in the desert.

[Hmm, did I let Fourcas come out first for nothing? I brought out a stupid one first for safety, but I didn’t know he’d be this insane.]

Beneath the crumbling tower, a man wearing a golden crown was looking at the giant with a troubled expression.

Beside him, countless summoners lay dead, but he had a completely unconcerned expression.

Only the modified summoner, Yang Hwa-su, was kneeling at his feet.

Countless stones and rocks were pouring toward him and Yang Hwa-su from the crumbling tower, but they were all being annihilated before reaching him.

[Well, it’s just the beginning anyway. Once we transfer most of our side’s Demon Lords over, it’ll quiet down.]

Beside him as he shrugged his shoulders, a massive swirling hole was positioned.

And the tremendous demonic energies gushing out from within and the gradually approaching auras of Demon Lords.

This hole was exactly the crowned man’s, Demon Lord Berid’s masterpiece.

Not a simple summoning formation, but an eternal passage to the demon realm.

It was a gate to the demon realm.

Berid planned to connect this place where the Empire was to the demon realm and make it his territory.

[Ho, an interesting one is approaching.]

That’s when it was.

Berid looked toward the northern sky with a pleased expression, and

[There you were!]

Demon Lord Fourcas began running forward while demolishing the tower.

In the direction the Demon Lord was running, a single line was approaching, cutting across the sky.

At the end of the line that looked like an airplane’s contrail, only a single sword and one person could be seen.