Abyss Summoner-Chapter 370 - 360: Death Banquet

T City.

This was a renowned metropolis in an era of peace, its proximity to the coast and robust trade exchanges rapidly turning it into a dazzling city.

In the past, this city attracted numerous young people. Although far from home, faced with difficulties in clothing, food, housing, and transportation, the large population meant there were many opportunities. The youth arrived here with dreams of success and a brighter future.

But now...

The city once in the spotlight has now become a wasteland, filled with shattered buildings and corpses. Zombies roam aimlessly through the streets. The survivors, though alive, live like mice hiding in deserted corners, dying in solitude.

A catastrophe had struck here not long ago.

Under the reign of a creature with the head of a wolf yet able to walk upright, the previously scattered beasts have come together. It was a formidable battle, with the beasts numbering over five thousand. Individually, they were not a threat, but as a force, they erupted like a volcanic blast, especially since some were accompanied by Bronze or Silver Tier elites.

The Tusked Giant Elephant was a beast of ancient ferocity. Under its assault, the painstakingly built city walls were shattered, and the beasts managed to invade the city, slaughtering at will. Had it not been for several human elites standing up, sacrificing their lives to kill the Tusked Giant Elephant and heavily injuring the Jackal-wolfman, the city might have been breached much earlier.

Even though they successfully repelled the beast tide, the survivors here now live extremely harsh lives. During the beast’s attack on the city, all of the magic farmland inside the city was destroyed, with eighty percent of the research results and food stored inside ruined.

In these trying times, the city’s professionals rely solely on hunting at sea to satisfy the daily needs of the camp. However, the ocean is no longer ordinary. They face not only unpredictable weather but also numerous monsters in the sea. If attacked, even professionals cannot escape across the vast ocean.

This city, once known as a pearl, is like a senile old man, slowly being corroded.

In chaotic times, not only heroes emerge but monsters too.

In such unsettling times, numerous organizations using various banners have risen, claiming they would help people out of their predicaments. Yet, more often, they were just looting the remaining grains from survivors. Some even went further, not only robbing food but turning these believers into food themselves, fulfilling their so-called path.

Humans?

Beasts?

In extreme adversity, these two words have become synonymous.

............... 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

In a secluded neighborhood.

During the disaster, this was a severe infection zone, with both airborne transmission and mutual biting, resulting in the entire neighborhood being overrun by zombies. After the city stabilized, they cleared the zombies from the neighborhood, but the casualties were too numerous, transforming it into a ghost building. No one visits anymore.

Yet now, in one of these buildings, several figures cloaked in black robes are sitting cross-legged. Their aura is thick, carrying a hint of death and evil intent.

In the center of the crowd, a voice like dried wood sounded: "In this world, there are too many stubborn people who do not understand the value of life and waste it wantonly. They deserve punishment."

"A prosperous life makes them indulgent, unaware that only death can lead them to the other shore."

"They have forgotten the teachings of our Lord, while we need to help them return to the embrace."

"Begin the ritual now."

The dark basement resonated with a complex prayer. Several figures in black robes pierced their hands and placed them on the ground. Meanwhile, the man who spoke earlier raised his arm, and a dense aura of death emerged, slowly permeating every corner of the room.

Some believers slit their arteries, thick blood spilling onto the floor, making everything even more eerie. The loss of blood not only failed to instill fear but instead brought smiles to their lips.

They are fearless in the face of death, finding it unexpectedly relieving and pleasant.

This is an extremely evil church.

They preach doctrines related to death, worship darkness and slaughter, and for their believers, death is not an end but a rebirth.

They are adept at instilling fear and recruiting followers through it.

On the fifteenth of each month, the day of sacrifice, they select handsome men and women to please the so-called Evil God through suicide.

Despite being classified as cultists long ago, with the city even sending experts to hunt them down, this church still stands strong, with a might that cannot be underestimated.

They often instigate panic and advocate that the world is already destroyed, only death can create eternal doctrines.

This is the product of humanity’s vile and distorted nature.

Today, gathered here, unknown sinister plots are brewing.

An oppressive ambience surfaced, bloody and accompanied by a destructive aura from beneath a massive pentagram. The man sitting at the top was also a summoner.

It’s just that each summoner’s domain is different, and the creatures they summon vary.

Compared to Chen Feng’s ability to summon demons, this summoner might possess knowledge of other planes, but his summoning methods are eerily similar; he too uses blood to attract the appearance of a heretic.

These are madmen.

Aside from their own blood, before them is a coffin, half-opened. If anyone else from T City were present, they would be surprised to find that the person inside the coffin is the hero who repelled the Jackal-wolfman.

This person mastered the Fire Element, capable of condensing flames into a lotus shape, and once detonated, rivaling a small missile. But such a formidable figure died unfortunately while holding off the Jackal-wolfman. To commemorate him, the city held a grand funeral, burying him in the city’s hero cemetery and earning the admiration of countless people.

No one could have imagined that these maniacs would dig up the coffin of the city’s great hero, evidently intending to use him as a sacrifice to please the monster’s arrival.

An appalling method.

These people are purely insane!

The basement seemed to transform into a space of Purgatory. As the summoner offered the hero’s corpse and the believers’ blood as sacrifices, a terrifying aura began to linger in the room.

Soon after, a monster tore through the dimension and descended upon this land.

This monster’s foot was two and a half feet long, bearing terrifying hooked claws. Then, another foot emerged. Following that, a huge arm covered in black soft hair appeared, its front splitting into two, each hand resembling the clawed feet. Then appeared two eyes emitting a red glow; the awakened giant shook its bucket-sized head, gradually regaining consciousness.

Its eyes protruded two inches from either side of its head, protected by thick fur and bone. The most terrifying part of the head, however, was its giant mouth: growing vertically, not horizontally, filled with huge yellow teeth running from the top to the bottom.

No one knows its name, only aware that it is synonymous with desecration and death, arriving on this land alongside the dead hero’s corpse.

It had blood-red pupils, resembling flames burning. From the moment it awakened, it roared, exposing a will of evil and cruelty.

The monster swung its sharp nails, and the cramped basement instantly turned into a slaughterhouse.

Blood and limbs flew everywhere.

The summoner did not evade; summoning this being had exhausted all his strength. At this moment, he sat on the ground, eyes filled with fervor and mania.

A corner of the lonely city.

A terrifying monster had descended.

This heralded slaughter and destruction...

These are madmen, they summoned such a dreadful entity with their lives, seeking nothing but pure bloodshed.

There were no words.

The monster slaughtered everyone present.

Without the summoner’s constraints, it was entirely free, now striding its robust body directly out of the dark room.

A frantic sound erupted.

The once-peaceful city faced an unimaginable nightmare.

The slaughter commenced,

This is a banquet exclusively belonging to death.