novelraw Chapter 39: The Summit
Chapter 39: The Summit
"How do you feel about the city so far Terrence?" Isis asked as she walked alongside him. "It’s way more different than what I last seen."
After she and Terrence passed the scan and gotten approval from the guardian Apostle, they were now walking to what the Apostles called the ’Straggler’s Rehab.’ It was a place where former Stragglers could go to temporarily rent out a small place free of charge. Once they were settled in and acquired money, that’s when it was mandatory for them to leave.
Apostles took good care of their own for sure.
Khoi City now was borderline futuristic from what she could last remember. Tall skyscrapers, plenty of restaurants, and even Apostles using their Summons as transportation in the middle of the road?! Yeah tons of things changed.
She noticed Terrence never responded to her and looked at him.
His now golden gaze had locked onto a single structure rising above all the others. It was a needle of pure obsidian that drank the light instead of reflecting it. At its peak a crimson orb throbbed slowly, like a heart visible from miles away. The building didn’t just stand; it loomed, casting a subtle shadow that felt heavier than it should.
The air near the tower tasted thinner, colder. A low dread settled in her stomach. It was instinctive and primal, the same nausea she’d felt years ago when the banishment decree was read aloud. Her skin prickled as though invisible fingers brushed the back of her neck.
Terrence leaned down and whispered in her ear.
"I need to go there. I’m going to kill six Apostles that deserve to die for what they’re planning on doing to the innocent."
Her eyes widened. "What Terrence what do you mean? Who are you talking about? What are they going to do?"
"Prepare yourself." Terrence ended with an emotionless tone that she didn’t like hearing from that voice of his. He started fast walking away.
"Terrence wai-"
Suddenly a loud and ear shattering siren started going off.
"WARNING MULTIPLE STAGE 5 SUMMONS DETECTED!! WARNING MULTIPLE STAGE 5 SUMMONS DETECTED!!"
The sound blasted from every speaker, drone, and billboard. Red alerts flashed across the skyline. Apostles froze mid-step. Summons reared up instinctively. Restaurant patrons spilled onto sidewalks clutching children.
"Wait did the alarm just say Stage 5?!"
"We’ve never had a Stage 5 before?! The highest we’ve had was Stage 3!"
"Shut the hell up and go! There’s a reason you’re all Apostles! Now go and defend the city!"
Multiple Apostles ran back to where Terrence and Isis just left from to see where the commotion was coming from on the outskirts.
They were in for a golden surprise.
"Isis stay here. I don’t want you to get hurt." Terrence said and before she could protest he vanished with a sharp whiff of displaced air.
She stood in confused shock as chaos spiraled around her. Heart hammering and her silver eyes wide.
Terrence had done this on purpose as a distraction.
He had summoned his Eternal Shadows on the outskirts of the city, so the innocents would focus on the "threat" and not what was about to transpire between him and these Malignant Apostles. He willed the Shadows not to touch a single one.
It was no use in delaying it. After all he had plenty of shit to still accomplish outside of this Rend, but he was mainly focused on erasing the vile and repulsive fuckers in this skyscraper they named ’The Summit.’
Their evilness poured into his senses like a tsunami when he first stepped inside this city and when he activated his Eternal Extraction, it revealed everything and more.
A wise person once said sometimes it’s better not knowing something than discovering it.
Yeah fuck that wise person.
Turns out the Stragglers who were ’zapped’ and thought to be erased were in actuality not erased or dead at all.
They were beneath the Summit and alive getting experimented on, tortured, and even..
He released a slow, angry breath.
And that’s not even the worse part.
A clone appeared beside Terrence right as he skid to a stop in front of the Summit.
The clone looked towards his Master in understanding anger.
"Killing them will be mercy..make sure they get sentenced to something worse than death." He nodded. "I’ll save the ones underneath."
Terrence didn’t answer with words. He simply stepped forward.
The Summit’s entrance was sealed with layered runes and force barriers, but they might as well have been paper.
Terrence’s hand shot out and broke through the irrelevant obstacles. He pushed the large titanium doors away with no effort at all.
The first Malignant Apostle his eyes caught was covered in a large silver robe. He couldn’t make out anything else except the fascinated red eyes that stared back at him.
[1/6 Boss Detected.]
[Elemental Malignant Apostle LV.500+]
Terrence’s eyes twitched once.
[Target Locked.]
[Timeline Cross-Link Established.]
Fragments of the Elemental Malignant Apostle’s life flashed around Terrence:
Drinking Straggler’s blood to gain Summoning perks and power
Torturing Stragglers until they bowed down to him and worshipped him
Feeding the Straggler’s bodies to his Snake Summons for entertainment
Jacking off to said Summons licking the naked bodies of women Stragglers
This cuck ass bastard might be more worse than the Goblins.
[Eternal Extraction initiating transfer..]
"Oh wee! You’re looking like you’re seeing inside of my soul! You must want to be inside of me?! Since you’re a hotbox I’ll let you..if only you give me that delicious scented blood-"
In the next heartbeat, Terrence right hooked him in the face so hard his head popped off his shoulders..but there wasn’t any blood and his head just floated
Slowly at that.
"Mmm I love it rough..tell you what, if you can defeat me I’ll give you my most precious possession, but if I defeat you and I will-" Another head appeared on the shoulders with a POOF. The other floating head disintegrated in blue watery energy. "YOU WILL BE MY SLAVE UNTIL THE END OF ETERNITY!!" He laughed maniacally.
Pause..
[Bitch we are Eternity! Terrence beat his ass!!]
[Extraction Complete!]