Others Summon Dragons, I Summon Legendary Knights - Chapter 246: South Korea’s Red Gate
Chapter 246: South Korea’s Red Gate
It was late in Incheon, one of the most populated cities in South Korea. While Godfrey was starting his day, the moon had gone down in Korea, and the clock slowly ticked towards 8 o’clock.
The dazzling lights from buildings, street lights, and vehicles lit up the city. Suddenly, a massive red gate, several stories tall and wider than the highway road, appeared.
Dark crimson light painted the faces of drivers, passengers, pedestrians, and those inside the buildings. In an instant, their expressions changed.
Pedestrians fled, car owners tried to reverse. Few succeeded; others who got stuck left their cars and fled.
The gate loomed, its terrifying glow stretching to distant places. The military was swiftly dispatched to make sure civilians were moved away. The authorities had been expecting this gate and had even formed the Association of Origins to counter threats like this.
Seconds became minutes, and minutes became an hour. By then, barricades had been made, and Merlin fused with his summon, the Axe General, a hulking 15-foot-tall knight with two horns, a cross-shaped opening through the helmet, and a huge double-edged axe.
He had flown in two days ago after the signal of mana fluctuations became high. It was stretched over a vast area, so they couldn’t quite ascertain where the gate would have opened.
Beside him were almost a hundred men clad in dark gray armour, but they wielded different kinds of weapons. They were members of the Inquisition Guild, a guild made up of humanoid summoners who had to receive approval from the authorities.
They had no entertainers, just combatants, and were not known by many since the guild did not broadcast itself.
The Axe General was known to be impenetrable and huge, with a ridiculous perk being his great offence. This summon was immensely powerful, and that was why Merlin had the third rank.
Himari wore a kimono. Her white hair that ended with red strands fluttered gently along with the sleeves of her robes.
A huge creature, possessing white fur, a fox head, long limbs, a slender physique, and nine red tails, stood behind her. The twenty-foot-tall beast bared its fangs at the red gate.
Himari was ranked fourth out of the ten strongest Origin Tier summoners due to the beams her summon could unleash. Its destructive capabilities could move through entire cities to hit a particular target!
Other Origin Tiers that came over dominated the space behind, but with two of the strongest people on earth who were close to the pinnacle of the Origin Tier, there was ease in everyone’s heart.
They just wanted to see Himari and Merlin in action. For this, a helicopter with a cameraman hovered not too far away.
This was an iconic scene. It was quite rare for the public to see figures like these in action, a gathering of the world’s strongest.
“This is a paragon-level dungeon. I thought the Pagoda Guild would be here,” Merlin said. The hulking knight tilted his head towards Himari.
“You mean Guild Master Alex Wang? It’s impossible to get him here, even if he’s more available than the other paragons.” Himari told Merlin.
“I see. Since we’ve all gathered, let’s head in.” Merlin lifted up the axe, and his guild members marched behind him. As everyone approached the red gate, it suddenly turned black, and a fierce aura blasted out from it.
It generated a gale that blew everyone back. Merlin struck his axe into the ground and still slid a hundred meters back. Himari’s nine-tailed fox was ahead of him.
With the claws of all four limbs stuck into the ground, it was able to remain in place while the others were blown backwards.
“Prepare yourselves! An army will pour out of that gate any minute now!” Merlin came out of his summon and bellowed.
Agents aimed their guns at the gate.
Armoured trucks also aimed their machine guns and launchers, while the summons of summoners tensed up for combat.
A few minutes passed, and nothing came out of the gate. Himari, who had retreated to the rear, frowned at this.
She looked at Merlin, who fused back into his summon and took bold steps towards the gate.
Just then, something came out of the red gate, just one being. It was like shadows given the shape of a humanoid, with eyes equally dark as its body.
This demon prince exhaled, black misama with a little red billowing off his body.
“Just one creature? Or is that just the first one?” Himari’s thoughts were exactly what others had, until it moved.
It moved like a shadow. With a single step, the demon prince was already before Merlin, who reacted swiftly.
He swung his axe at the demon prince, but it grabbed the axe, tightening its grip to the extent that its fingers dug into the axe!
At the sight of this, Merlin headbutted the demon prince but staggered back. The demon prince grabbed the horns of the Axe General’s helmet and slammed his knees into it.
The helmet caved inward. Himari’s heart gave a hard, painful beat at that sight. Holding the same horn, the demon prince lifted and slammed the Axe General into the ground twice before the nine-tailed fox stepped in.
It spat a destructive beam at the demon prince, only for arms to come out of the floor, wrap around the fox’s neck, and strangle it while pinning it to the ground.
With a single wave of his hand, black and red misama billowed out like an ocean tide. It swept others away, forcing them to cough blood, as they did, they aged dramatically. The misama was a lethal poison, and this being emitted great loads of it.
Himari retrieved her summon and resummoned it above the demon prince. It spat a beam that tore over a thousand feet into the earth, but the demon prince was already behind her, taking the form of her own shadow.
He snapped her head before she could activate a skill.
The face of the man with the camera on the helicopter turned deathly pale. Merlin was still alive but could he really be considered their hope at this point?
