[Episode 08] Summoning Beasts (3)

On the floor by the window in the living room, on a small, square pillow lay a round ball of black fur.

Around the time the blackened sky regained its blue color, the sun peeking out from the mountain announced the start of the morning.

The spot occupied by the hair ball was the best spot to receive the sunlight at dawn.

A bundle of black fur slowly opened its eyes in the warm sunlight.

The black hair with its head raised soon stretched and embraced the sunlight with its whole body.

[The level of the Three-Legged Crow has risen.]

[The efficiency of solar generators increases by 100%.]

‘Is it already level 5?’

While drinking morning coffee in the living room and watching Kka-mi, I smiled.

This has already increased the efficiency of solar power generators by a factor of five.

Now, in just one year, it has transformed into a facility that pays more than its fair share.

This was a one-day change.

‘Honestly, I’m not sure if it’s worth investing 1 billion, but it’s not bad. It’s only a matter of time before we get back one billion.’

However, the changes were not all.

[The three-legged crow unlocks some of the sun’s power.]

[It inherits some of the power of phantom beasts.]

[Awakens the beginner attribute magic (Fire).]

‘Magic?’

At the same time as the strange notification arrived, I slowly began to understand what beginner attribute magic (fire) was.

‘This···?’

It didn’t take long to feel comfortable with unfamiliar knowledge, as if it were knowledge he had known from the beginning.

He quickly understood and was able to handle the power.

‘Is it like this?’

He raised his index finger and imaged the shape of a flame there.

That moment.

Hwareuk

Like a lie, a spark rose.

‘It’s a familiar feeling somewhere. ah!’

Soon, he noticed that it was similar to the sensation of creating electricity or gas lamps with the Dignity Maintenance skill.

After removing the flame the size of a lighter, I opened my palm to form a flame the size of a baseball.

roar

The flames were easily created, and hotter than expected heat was transmitted.

Having confirmed that, I went straight to the next step.

‘The eyes of the absolute.’

It was early morning, just beginning to break.

No matter how much they regained their stability, few citizens went out for a walk at this time.

I stared at the empty promenade and imagined a firework the size of a house.

Roaring!

However, the result that appeared in the air was a flame the size of a bonfire.

‘Is this still the limit?’

To be honest, it wasn’t that great.

but.

‘If I do this.’

The moment you pour gas using the Dignity Maintenance skill.

Roaring-!

Sparks exploded, pouring out flames in all directions.

‘It goes well with the Dignity Maintenance skill.’

The firepower was lacking with only the beginner attribute magic (fire), but when combined with the gas created by the Dignity Maintenance skill, it became sufficiently menacing.

‘There won’t be a need to cumbersomely create burning toilet paper from now on.’

But that was just about it.

A level that saves you the hassle when using gas bombs.

When I finished such a simple experiment, I felt tired for no reason.

Maybe it was because I stayed up all night, but it was a feeling of exhaustion that was hard to explain.

‘Right. The resources used are different from the skills to maintain dignity, right?’

The usage of power was similar, but I could intuit that it was a fundamentally different kind of power.

No matter how much I use the Dignity Maintenance skill, I don’t feel any fatigue.

It was just the money piled up in my wallet.

However, in the case of beginner attribute magic (fire), it seemed to be a power that was demonstrated as a resource.

‘Still, the potential for future development is infinite. Cami will continue to grow.’

As long as the modifier ‘beginner’ is attached in front of it, it was clear that Cami’s level would grow to intermediate and advanced.

‘Let’s eat.’

Perhaps it was because I hadn’t slept and stayed up all night, I was hungry in the morning.

Simple soy sauce egg rice for breakfast this morning.

Two half-boiled fried eggs were placed on top of rice, and soy sauce and sesame oil were properly poured and mixed.

After taking a spoonful, I put kimchi on it and put it in my mouth, and the taste was just as I expected.

‘My grandmother used to do it often.’

My mother worked a double income, so there were many times when my grandmother prepared meals for me.

Soy sauce egg rice was the menu that I often begged my grandmother to make at such times.

After a long time, I wanted to eat soy sauce egg rice that my grandmother made.

‘wait a minute please. I’ll go get them soon.’

In the afternoon, system notifications popped up one after another.

[Construction of the solar power generator facility has been completed.]

[Construction of the solar power generator facility has been completed.]

······

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Since morning, as the level of Cami has risen by three more stages, the newly built solar power generator facilities have had eight times the efficiency from the start.

‘At this level, I think I’ll have some money coming into my wallet soon, right?’

Until now, all electricity generated by solar power generators has been supplied to citizens.

Rather, it was more money coming out of my wallet.

However, now that the efficiency has increased 8 times, it was clear that there would be surplus electricity left even after supplying all the electricity.

‘How long do you want to come in?’

Around that time, Seo Ye-jin came to the house.

♬♪♬♩~

‘You’re here.’

It was the arrival of Seo Ye-jin, the key manpower of this operation.

This morning, she overslept for the first time in a while, took a bath and warmed herself up with warm water, and even ate warm rice cooked by her mother.

It was because he directly ordered Seo Ye-jin to rest and come back.

It was my own consideration.

Anyway, the group of survivors led by Seo Ye-jin had to survive in a barren environment for almost a month.

It gave me time to unwind with my family.

“lol. Thank you very much for yesterday.”

“I was just treating you according to my abilities.”

Thanks to Seo Ye-jin, the range of use of her abilities has increased significantly.

I have no choice but to be pretty.

“I look forward to seeing you again today!”

“The Ha Dong-gun Party is currently waiting at Seomyeon Station. You can guide me right away.”

Seo Ye-jin nodded and said.

“Otherwise, we sent mice along the subway lines. I think I could get to Choryang Station without any problems.”

“From the fact that you said ‘until’ to Choryang Station, it sounds like problems started after that.”

“······Yeah. To be exact, it’s Busan Station.”

She continued with a serious face.

“I think you’d better see it for yourself.”

Seo Ye-jin sat cross-legged and immediately practiced sensory sharing.

Busan Station, seen through a mouse, definitely seemed to have many problems.

‘·······.’

Chow ah-

I started hearing the sound of water long before I entered Busan Station, and at some point, the front was completely submerged and filled with water.

To make matters worse, the ceiling had collapsed in the middle of the track, and a huge pile of concrete could be seen blocking the path altogether.

‘I can’t get past this.’

It seemed that I had to go up to the ground and pass through before entering Busan Station.

At that time, Seo Ye-jin dismantled sense sharing and opened her eyes and said.

“As you can see, the railroad tracks are in this state, so I sent mice upwards. By the way···.”

Instead of finishing her speech, she closed her eyes and used sensory sharing again.

Through the eyes of the Absolute, I shared a view with a mouse she used sensory sharing.

And.

‘Huh.’

The scenery on the ground was hell itself.

The scenery of Seomyeon, which seemed like a war, was rather a gruesome sight to the point of feeling like a nobleman.

‘There are no buildings in good condition around.’

everything was crumbling

If the God of Destruction were to descend, wouldn’t it be like this?

High-rise buildings could not be found intact, and the roads were overturned or smashed, and were colorful.

It was a truly unrealistic sight to see it so mercilessly destroyed that it could be said to have actually changed the terrain.

Take-

While the mouse worked hard with its small body, I was able to observe the surroundings widely with the absolute vision.

Thanks to this, I could see at a glance what shape the mice were running hard on.

‘······footprint?’

There were huge footprints deeply dug there.

A gigantic footprint that appears to be about 10 meters long.

I stood in a daze for a while at the scene where reality seemed to be distorted.

‘no way?’

Recognizing that it was a footprint, the destroyed landscape began to come into view again.

Broken buildings, smashed roads, and huge footprints tangled in the center of them.

‘···giant?’

Looking at the traces left here, I could know it indirectly.

How serious was the tyranny of that monster who was no longer here.

How many people died at the irresistible size difference, and how much despair they must have felt has been told plainly.

‘crazy.’

It was then.

Quarreureung-

Something huge sounded.

‘Where do you hear that?’

At first, of course, I thought it was a sound coming from where the mice were.

But it wasn’t.

“Ah, Jaehyun!”

coo coo coo-

The house was shaking.

The loud roar was coming from near my house, not near Busan Station where the mice were.

‘Is it an earthquake?!’

The shaking continued for about ten seconds and then stopped.

‘······It doesn’t feel good.’

Why do ominous premonitions never go wrong?

the very next moment.

thump thump!

Along with the sound of knocking on the front door, Hyungjun Choi’s urgent voice was heard.

“Jaehyun! Jaehyun! You should see this!”

Seo Ye-jin and I looked at each other with puzzled expressions.

“Let’s go outside.”

“Yeah.”

As soon as I opened the front door, I was able to face Hyungjun Choi with a serious expression.

“what’s going on?”

“Me, to my house…!”

Following him running with a pale face to the living room of Choi Hyeong-jun’s house, a shocking scene unfolded.

Quarreureung!

The living room window of Hyungjun Choi’s house overlooking the streets of Seomyeon at a glance.

A giant monster of unreal size was tearing down entire apartment complexes out there.

Coo-gu-goo-!

When he pushed the apartment building with his massive body, the entire apartment tipped over and soon crashed into other nearby buildings and shattered like dominoes.

Quarreureung!

In the process, there was a sound like thunder and lightning, and an earthquake occurred.

The monster that had destroyed enough of the apartment complex looked around.

The next target seemed to be a high-rise building in Seomyeon.

‘… Summons a vassal.’

I summoned all the Ha Dong-gun parties that were waiting at Seomyeon Station.

It was because it was in a state of not knowing when the underground would collapse at the footsteps of that giant.

Ha Dong-gun, who was suddenly summoned as a group, looked around with a puzzled expression.

“what? Why are we here?”

“What?”

“I think it was because of the earthquake.”

The Ha Dong-gun party, who were talking, froze together the moment they saw the scene beyond the living room window.

cooong!

The giant was gradually running toward this place.

Koo-kung!

The giant, who was speeding up, crashed into the Lotte Department Store in Seomyeon.

aaang!

The department store building, which had become huge concrete fragments, collapsed helplessly.

Even the white dust that rose up could not cover the horrors.

“…”

cooong!

The giant came out of the dust with a fine appearance.

And what faced the giant in front of us was our apartment.

‘This crazy.’

cooong!

The one-eyed giant began to walk towards this place, blinking his only eye.

“Cyclops (Lv. 51)”

Will my abilities be able to withstand that monster’s attack?

Even if it survives, all the other buildings that have not yet been included in the territory will be destroyed.

‘I have to stop it.’

But by what means?

It was then.

“Jaehyun. Give me a chance.”

Oh Eon-joo was looking at the giant with burning eyes from the side.

I asked her.

“… is that possible?”

“I will make it possible.”

Even after seeing that overwhelming appearance, only Oh Eon-joo was the only one who burned his fighting spirit.

“Whoa. good.”

I gave Oeonju the promised quest.

《Quest granted》

Quest Content: Hunt Cyclops (0/1)

Time limit: 24 hours 00 minutes 00 seconds

Reward: The day of his son’s resurrection.

Failure Penalty: Excruciating pain for a day.