I Became the Weakest Summoned of the Genius Summoner - Chapter 461
461 – The First Child
“Leveling up went smoothly. Eunyoung and I even received small quests from the system.”
Joo-ah and Eun-young had smiles on their faces as they received a quest for the first time in a long time.
“Why don’t I do the quest…”
“You succeeded in becoming a human figure today!”
“Give it to me, then why don’t you give it to me?”
“Hayun, you are a diamond spoon, so the system doesn’t help you. “How many artifacts do you have?”
“The original game is a temp game… But it’s unfair. How many should we remove?”
“No Hayun… Just do what you do. Equipment and artifacts shouldn’t just increase your stats. Mastery is also an intangible concept… So it’s better to just stick with what you’ve worn once.”
Noh Hayun, who was trying to take off the artifact, listened to Shin Youngah’s advice and put it on again.
“You can’t call me Castle, right?”
“It may be less developed than our country, but it’s not a dungeon with a lush forest. I thought it would stand out too much…”
“It’s better to put Eunyoung in the castle, um…”
“But it was more worth doing than I thought, so wouldn’t it be okay?”
“That’s right. It’s thanks to the summons, but the atmosphere isn’t bad.”
Shin Young-ah, who was quietly listening to the conversation of her colleagues, raised her body and opened her mouth.
“Things are going smoothly for us, but the atmosphere at the other party is a little different… Make sure everyone doesn’t get too excited.”
Shin Young-ah’s calm tone made her feel like her body temperature had dropped by about 1 degree.
“Have you heard any other news?”
“Fortunately, no party has given up yet. However, one party has lost contact… And some of the party’s hunters are said to be complaining of mental shock.”
Shin Young-ah was communicating continuously with the leaders of other parties, but unexpectedly, the content in other places was not very good from the first day.
“Speaking of mental shock…”
“They must have been shocked to see the people being trampled by the Creeper Guard. The guys we encountered were quite… Nice guys, I guess.”
“Ah…”
“Still… The infiltration team is progressing smoothly, so everyone just needs to stop worrying and focus on what we have to do, just like today.”
Rather, as night approached, she became more stable as she spoke, and instead of explaining, she looked at me and asked a question.
“But that summon named Ilwol… The combat power of the entire party showed a huge difference depending on whether that guy was present or not. That seems a bit of a problem.”
Shin Young-ah looked at me as if she was very curious about the reason, but her colleagues pretended not to notice.
“Everyone realizes that, so recently I’ve been going through the dungeon without Ilwol.”
“Are you saying we have already been doing it like we did today?”
“Yes!”
“Somehow… I guess that’s why you didn’t panic even when I told you to use your strongest power. That’s great. It’s better to keep it that way going forward.
And if possible… It would be better not to call Drake and Golem either. Of course, you will have to use it at least once a day to maintain a feel for it.”
“I’ll try my best.”
Shin Young-ah and I both seemed to think that the main body’s strength, excluding summons, should be improved.
We divided the team in half, stayed on guard, and took a break.
I asked if it would be okay to leave the guard to the summoned beasts, but Shin Young-ah said that being on guard was also an experience.
Since I was constantly awake, I performed Irmana’s ritual and stockpiled daggers and bombs.
Maeng Seong-yong, the commander of Team 3, advised us just before departure to refrain from attacking at night when it was getting dark.
The reason was that their violence increased when it got dark, and they could easily get excited by the slightest stimulus and kill the residents.
It was difficult to get through the next day without sufficient rest anyway, so it was not a difficult request.
* * *
When the party of Ilwol was taking a break.
Not far from there, there was a being who directly inherited the blood of the Devouring Creeper.
An elite monster of the great monster called ‘Escaron’ by the subjugation team.
Considering that the Devouring Creeper’s main body has virtually no attack ability, it was this being that was most responsible for destroying this country.
The guy had just received word from his main body that something strange was happening in the area he had worked so hard to expand.
“It’s being cut off… Our children… Are dying…”
Surprisingly, ‘Escaron’ speaks human language.
He was the first child born to the Devouring Creeper, and was a monster of monsters who had reached the point where he could even learn human language by consuming countless humans.
And the Devouring Creeper, who noticed his potential, took note of him and created 31 elite soldiers.
Of course, the 31 ‘Escarons’ created in this way could not learn human language, but they ended up resembling humans in appearance.
(First child. The fifth child has arrived.)
And the fifth child of the great monster who came to visit him.
They enjoyed calling each other by their birth order.
The fifth child especially followed and liked the first, and often visited his home.
This is also unusual among the children of Devouring Creepers who have strong individualistic tendencies.
The fifth one could not actually speak like the first one, but there was no problem in communicating with each other because the mental bodies connected when they approached a certain distance.
The first Escaron, who was staring at the fifth Escaron, opened his mouth.
“I will instruct my brothers stationed outside to deal with the newly appeared insects. I will tear them all to shreds and turn them into food for the earth…”
First Escaron ordered an expedition to the elite soldiers of the outskirts.
Although the Escarons on the outskirts are born late and are unfinished, they are also proud bloodlines born to their mother.
They alone had enough memories of dealing with most of the hunters that existed in this land, and even the insects that were killing regular soldiers were so weak that the first Escaron had no worries at all.
(The problem is that there are a small number of humans who came in before the bugs on the outskirts. Are there any among them who are enough to threaten Mother?)
There were strong bugs moving toward the main body, without any clear movement yet. No, the first Escaron had already judged them to be dangerous, not bugs.
“I can feel a strong energy coming from a few of them. But I don’t know their exact location. I can only feel it vaguely, and the detected location keeps moving. They must have done something. “I can’t leave this place because of those bugs.”
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(First… Are you really planning on fighting alone again like before? Even your mother warned you, but you shouldn’t overdo it.)
“I know very well that these bugs are different. The second and third ones should also be together.”
(They don’t listen to anyone, even you first. It would be better to lure the bugs to their land. I will help.)
“That’s a good idea. I’ll do it.”
After finishing the conversation, the fifth looked up at the first Escaron and trembled once.
An excellent being that deserves to be called a giant.
The one who inherited his mother’s power the most.
The brothers who consumed the most top-quality food (S-class hunters).
It was the fifth Escaron who thought that as long as the first one stayed by his mother’s side, he would have nothing to fear no matter what enemy came.
* * *
“Hmm… Nothing is going as expected. What happened? I’m the president of the association. They say ‘Escaron’ is out of bounds.”
“Oh, that’s right. I told you to wait a little while.”
“Huh, huh… There’s no reason for that guy to suddenly act like that.”
Association president Choi Kang-han was still shouting loudly, and Maeng Seong-yong was breaking into a cold sweat all over his body as he felt Kang Yeon-soo’s harsh force his.
It was good to plan the first infiltration route.
In any case, the subjugation advance team, which included dozens of S-class hunters, was able to reach an area not far from the main body without being detected.
However, harsh words slowly came out from the mouth of Kang Yeon-soo, who felt that the post-infiltration plan made by ‘Choi Kang-han’, ‘Maeng Seong-yong’, and other major figures of the association was not very successful.
“Oh, my stomach is bursting.”
Of course, this was expected because information was limited.
But apart from that, the atmosphere that things were not working out made her heart feel frustrated.
She was devoting all her patience to holding back from wanting to rush to the main monster and overthrow it.
“Let’s hold on.” Phew—”
You have to kill a few ‘Escaron’ now, but if you don’t hit the main body in the end, it will all be restored in a few days.
It is ideal to hit the main body at once, but if that is not possible, at least a strong enough aggro is needed to shock the entire ‘Escaron’ and gather them all in one place.
To that end, the barrier magicians were working together to create a ‘mysterious tunnel’ that would allow them to run straight across Escaron’s territory to the main body.
This is because the main body was not located in a general space, but had its own unique space.
Just like transcendents.
In any case, it takes several days to prepare to enter, and teams 1 and 2 are gathered in one place and waiting with bated breath to prepare for the unexpected situation.
However, the problem started when a few Escarons that had been quietly settling in the outskirts started wandering everywhere.
Did something happen to the guys who were firmly guarding the 32nd direction?
Of course, Kang Yeon-soo and the people of the punitive force knew that they were the problem.
‘Team 3 is dangerous…’
Yeonsu started to worry about Yeonhee.
But even she cannot escape from this place where she has settled down.
If we continue like this, we will inevitably have to fight with them once or twice, and if that happens, there will be a risk of contact with ‘Escaron’, the first thing the subjugation team is most concerned about.
As is known, the first ‘Escaron’ was the monster of monsters who single-handedly annihilated the top hunters in North Korea.
It was best to avoid an all-out fight with him if possible and kill the main body, but that scenario was getting further and further away.
“They definitely noticed our presence.”
“It is a huge monster that has swallowed up a country, but I can’t help but see that the information collection was poor.”
“I don’t think they have figured out our location yet, but it’s only a matter of time.”
“They said we need to prepare for the possibility of such an ability… Shouldn’t the high-ranking officials whose opinion be punished?”
“······.”
Woo Cheol-woo, a disciple of the ‘strongest’, who was watching from the side as the top hunters, who are said to be strong, were complaining, spoke to them in an attempt to calm them down.
“Everyone, please calm down a little. It would have been difficult for anyone to predict that the main body’s abilities would evolve so dramatically in just one month.”
However, this foolish man did not know that it would only inflame Kang Yeon-su’s anger further.
“What do you mean by subsidizing taxpayers’ money to anticipate and prepare for that? What is your name?”
“This is Cheol-woo Woo. I have nothing to say about the current situation…”
“Even if you call it backwards, it’s Woocheolwoo. Puhuhuhuh—If you say one more word, I’ll crumple your arm at an angle you’ve never seen in your life.”
“······.”
Although Woo Chul-woo had only been with Kang Yeon-soo for one day, he already felt that his mind was becoming dizzy.
I heard that he was definitely the most common-sense person among the transcendent level hunters, but when something started to happen that I didn’t like, he started to become more and more strange.
“We’ll run into Escaron in an hour. What should we do?”
“There’s nothing we can do since we’ve come this far. Let’s handle it as quietly and quickly as possible.”
“No matter how much it is Escaron, it is possible to quietly and quickly kill monsters at the level of monsters…? That is a rather difficult mission.”
“Ultimately, it’s a race against time. All we can do is pray that we don’t meet the first ‘Escaron’.”
“Is that something worth praying for?”
“It’s something to pray for. If it turns its head and leaves the main body, the probability of success in subduing the great monster increases dramatically. Rather than expecting that, it would be more realistic for a meteorite to fall from the sky.”
“I don’t understand. I guess I can just go and brush it off. It’s the first time and it’s the first time.”
“The president of the association is staying still, so why don’t you just stay still?”
“··· What? When did you get promoted for what you’re saying?”
“Everyone is quiet.”
“······.”
Since Korea’s strongest hunters were gathered together, they were more focused on keeping each other in check rather than fighting.
“Tsk… “
Seeing the hunters like that, Yeonsu’s excitement subsided.