Chapter 300 – Summons
The aisle was large enough for three or four people to pass through together, and formed a gentle curve downward.
Verna activated the lighting magic and walked through the dark passageway alone.
“I thought they made something like this in the basement…”
It must have taken quite a long time.
It was hard to see that he had made this all up in a day or two.
– Crisp square.
Soon after, an unpleasant sound began to be heard from the aisle.
And the sound got louder and louder.
I could infer that something was approaching.
It was a sound that would have been frightening to an ordinary human being, but…
Verna’s steps did not stop.
Instead, she launched another orb of lighting magic and moved it forward, giving her full line of sight.
Before long, the identity of the bad square was revealed.
Insects the size of her palm were approaching her, filling the walls of her aisle.
The sight of large insects filling the aisle was quite repulsive, so Verna couldn’t help but frown at her.
Verna knew the identity of the big bugs.
It was a demonic insect summoned by black magicians with magic.
The summoned worms had a habit of eating anything that was alive while moving.
However, black magicians use this summoning magic only in dungeons.
The bugs don’t even have the intelligence to track their targets, and their lifespan isn’t long, so it’s useless unless it’s in an enclosed space with a defined path.
It is not so easy for ordinary adventurers to deal with countless bugs that come from all sides.
Verna indifferently pushed her wand forward.
A small sphere of lightning was created at the tip of the staff and inflated in size.
– Fall in!
Wizards also have magic attributes that suit their aptitude. If you use the magic that suits your aptitude, the magic power consumption is small and the power is strong.
Verna said it was her thunderbolt side and she specialized in her magic that side.
This lightning sphere was also one of the magic she created.
A sphere of lightning inflated to the size of a human head slowly flies forward.
Her speed was tediously slow, but her power was not tedious.
The lightning sphere passed through the passageway, electrocuting the nearby bugs that filled the walls, literally roasting them.
A musty, unpleasant smell lingered.
The dead bodies of insects piled up on the floor.
“Hmm?”
As she dealt with her bugs, Verna felt a strange sensation. Not much of her, but her subtle magical powers were flowing into her own body.
Verna sharpened her senses at the strange phenomenon.
A portion of the mana that was scattered when the insect died was flowing into him.
‘What is this…’
There wasn’t that much magic flowing through her.
However, pure magic that was hard to see as mana from a creature in the demon realm flowed in.
It was amazing.
As for why this was happening, it immediately entered her mind.
‘Raid magic?’
It is the magic Unho bestowed upon himself.
Absorbs part of the magical energy possessed by the dead monster.
It was a terrible magic.
‘By what principle…’
Curiosity soared, but thinking about it now was meaningless.
Seeing an opportunity later, Verna decided to ask Woon-ho, and had no choice but to hesitate while trying to move her steps.
It was because the corpses of insects that had been roasted well by lightning were piled up on the floor of the aisle.
Verna didn’t want to move while stepping on the corpses of bugs.
She telekinetically lifted her body up.
She did so while she was half afloat and she started moving.
The bugs were just the beginning.
Strange monsters of various shapes attacked Verna.
Her strength was relative, and Verna’s were not powerful monsters compared to her abilities.
Verna handled her monsters lightly and moved deeper into the passage.
Eventually, the aisle ended and a large cavity appeared.
An altar was visible in the center of the joint.
And behind it was a large hill of corpses.
The types of corpses were variously mixed, such as monsters and humans. And in front of the altar, there was a guy that anyone could call a black magician.
It was a black magician who wore a gloomy robe and looked like it was drawn in a painting.
“Doing dirty things never changes.”
Verna, who has lived for quite some time, has seen her warlock quite a bit.
She had seen worse than this.
‘Still, should this be regarded as belonging to the average level?’
“I thought a paladin came in, but… To come all the way here by myself, you must have greater power than I thought.”
There was room in the warlock’s voice, but before he could finish his words, lightning struck terribly over his head.
– Kkwareung!!
Surprisingly, the one who was struck by lightning did not fall.
A few more bolts of lightning fell over his head, but a bloody force field blocked the magic.
Verna thought it took a bigger shot than he thought.
He didn’t care.
He used the most powerful magic of his immediately available attacks.
Heaven’s Fury.
It is a high-class magic of thunderbolt series created by Verna.
The power is also considerable.
If you don’t detect that it’s activated, it’s safe to assume that there’s almost nothing you can avoid.
“It’s relentless… Can’t we just say hello?”
The black magician grumbled.
It’s a waste of time.
It’s not the first time Verna has ever seen a warlock, and he’s never seen anyone with whom he can communicate normally.
With his experience so far, he realized that the answer is to just kill him quickly, and he just attacked.
“Hmm… I wish I had more time… But can I do anything about it?”
As the warlock raises his arms, a large black hole opens in the air above the hill of corpses.
“Summoning magic?”
Several corpses are sucked into the hole.
‘Gate?’
Probably not.
The gates of the Demon Realm don’t open that easily.
But the size is insignificant.
Verna quickly prepared a magic that could pierce the gnome’s force field.
Her right hand goes up over her head.
The staff in her left hand and the magic power extending from her right resonated and created a huge spear of lightning in the air.
– Pajik! Dismissed!
The 8 mana rings rotated furiously and blew magic into the lightning spear.
Sparks fly around Verna due to her huge flow of magical power, and her light blue hair floats in the air.
Her right hand pointed at the warlock.
Then, a huge spear of lightning floating above her head flew towards the warlock like a darting arrow.
The spear of lightning pierced the warlock’s force field at the moment he thought it flew away and was lodged in his torso.
And the thunderbolt flowing from the window constantly burned the black magician’s skin.
– Quick! Fall out!
“Keuouk!!! This, this hurts a little… Anything more than this would be dangerous for me too.”
As the warlock struck the ground with his wand, a light flashed from the ground and he disappeared.
He ran away
The guy was already ready to run away.
This was his dungeon.
There was no way to stop Verna, who had entered without special preparation.
And the ominous crack in the air did not disappear.
A large monster’s head came out of the crack and swallowed a handful of corpse piles.
The size of its head was considerable.
It seemed to be four or five meters.
And the huge monster’s torso began to crawl out of the hole.
An exceptionally large head.
A slightly slender neck compared to the head.
Its body was similar to that of a turtle, but it lacked a carapace and had a disgustingly large number of tentacles that seemed to act as legs.
– Ododok, ohdodok.
The monster didn’t care about Verna and ate the pile of her corpses with great pleasure.
Verna, on the other hand, was complicated in her head.
‘Summoning this easily?’
He would have done that if he had been the right guy.
In order to summon a monster of that level, a city-wide sacrifice would have been necessary.
However, Verna didn’t understand that he had summoned them with only a pile of monsters and human corpses.
If the black magicians were able to attract such a demonic monster with that amount of money, the earth would have already turned into hell.
At some point, the eyes of the monster that had eaten away the acid of the corpse turned to Verna.
The guy has an appetite.
Seeing that, Verna stopped thinking and raised his mana.
– Quick. Quick.
Sparks started flying around her.
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-Quaang!!!
A huge explosion rang out from one side of the fort.
My gaze, which had been inspecting the paladins, naturally headed there.
-Queack!!
There, a monster with a long neck stood tall.
It would be about 2.30 meters in size.
Then, lightning strikes continuously around the monster.
– Kwurreung! Bang!
“Where did that come from again?”
I took a closer look at his figure.
It was quite a distance, but it wasn’t difficult to see with my ability.
I saw a human flying around the monster and pouring lightning toward it.
– Kwalleung.
It was Berna.
She was floating in the sky, fighting monsters by moving her body around.
It didn’t look like a monster from the outside.
There was no way he wouldn’t have known if such a big guy had approached from outside the fortress.
Verna didn’t look dangerous.
While fighting the monsters, she was showing that she wasn’t being pushed back… But she didn’t seem to overwhelm them either.
“His Holiness…”
Judith came to me with a serious face, perhaps seeing the monster’s appearance.
A newly joined colleague was fighting hard, but I couldn’t just watch and suck my fingers here.
“Judith, keep doing what you’re doing. I’ll go. Liliana stay here too.”
Because if one comes out, two can come out.
“All right.”
“Don’t worry.”
I lightly rolled my feet and lifted myself up.
Then, stepping lightly on the roof of the building, I headed towards the place where Verna and the monster were fighting.
