Supreme Summoner Overlord: Rise of the Endless Legion-Chapter 407: The Last Stop (12)

But she wasn’t done. Her black eyes moved across the room as she looked for an exit, and in this case, there were two: the first was for her to teleport away.

She could still open another portal if that happened, but of course, only if she found the materials, and based on what Reidar saw, it was likely that she would not even reach that point because she was too far beyond humanity at this point. If she stayed here more, no... even if she went back to Earth, she would just turn into a monster.

The second was for her to kill Reidar and cross the portal. He wasn’t delusional enough to think that she believed these were random monsters. No, they were clearly his, so what remained of her mind was searching for him.

<But I can’t risk her leaving...>

So, Reidar decided not to give her the chance.

"Dismiss the walls," he ordered the Shadow Sovereigns. The goal here was for Reidar to be seen by Mara. That would hopefully stop her from teleporting in case she would think about that in her messed-up mind, but it was also a very dangerous affair for Reidar, because if his summons didn’t act on time, he would die, and he didn’t have the time he needed to kill the woman at this point.

As the shadow walls vanished and the maze dissolved into mist, leaving the ballroom open and exposed, Mara’s head snapped toward him while the Shadow Sovereign moved close to his side. For a fraction of a second, something passed across her face that might have been recognition or perhaps rage, though Reidar couldn’t tell.

Then she teleported.

She appeared behind him with her claws already swinging toward his neck, but because Reidar had been expecting that move, the Shadow Sovereigns were already surrounding him the instant she arrived.

Mara tried to teleport again once her semi-feral mind registered what happened, but she was too slow. The shadow sovereigns used their hands and blasted holes into her body.

Although she screamed and used her remaining hand to tear through the nearest Sovereign, she was not able to get free.

Mara’s body hit the floor at that point.

[Level 533 Mara Icro defeated.]

[You have gained 0 C.L.A.S.P. Points.]

[You have earned 200000 Survival Points.]

Reidar didn’t have time to process the notification, but since Mara was too weak compared to him, she gave him nothing in terms of C.L.A.S.P. Points.

And like that, she died. Reidar didn’t have time to feel anything about it.

<Finally. Now the Por—>

A tremendous crash echoed from the hallway outside, followed by the sound of tearing metal. The Dread-Shields and the Spectral Knights had failed.

Stone and metal scattered across the ballroom as something massive smashed through the walls. An Elite Feral Ignis burst into the room covered in what remained of Reidar’s summons. Its blade-arms were already swinging, cutting through a group of Sky-Hunters that tried to intercept it.

The interface tag appeared above its head.

[Elite Feral Ignis—Level 601]

<Shit.>

Reidar stared at the creature, struck initially by shock—not because an Ignis had broken through, as he had already accepted the risk of defending such a massive palace against an endless horde, but because of how little time his defenses had actually bought him.

The Level 601 Elite had torn through the Dread-Shields and Spectral Knights like paper, crushing thousands of summons in minutes and proving that all his planning hadn’t been enough to delay it before the portal opened.

Yet, the shock was overshadowed by a deep sense of shame because Reidar knew he had failed to hold the line; while the Overmind Consciousness confirmed that other monsters were still far, this single Ignis was here, and being a Level 601 creature, it was an existential threat.

If this creature crossed to Earth, the result would be a bloodbath for unsuspecting families and children, assuming Reidar even survived long enough to see the portal open.

<I failed.>

At the same moment, the magic circle flared with a light so bright it washed out the entire room. The shimmering slit in the air above the circle widened with a sound like tearing fabric.

It stabilized into a perfect oval, eight feet tall and five feet wide. Through it, Reidar could see blurry shapes—a dark sky and the outlines of ruined buildings. Earth.

A hole had just been torn open in the center of the room, and then the suction did its magic.

Everything in the room lurched toward the portal. Reidar’s feet left the ground. The Sky-Hunters were pulled in by the thousands. The Shadow Sovereigns tumbled through the air, unable to resist the pull.

The Level 601 Ignis stumbled forward too.

<The palace. Destroy the palace.>

Reidar sent the command through the Overmind Consciousness. Every summons in the building received the order at the same time.

And then he crossed the portal threshold, since he was being sucked in by the portal itself.

The Archon Rift-Lords stopped fighting the monsters to turn their attacks on the palace itself, while the Siege-Breakers slammed their weapons into support columns and the Verdant Sovereign tore its roots free to rip apart the foundation.

Outside, the remaining summons attacked the palace from every angle, tearing into the ancient stone until the building groaned, cracks spread across the walls, and the ceiling buckled.

As the magic circle began to destabilize, the portal flickered—its suction weakening for a moment before surging again.

While the gateway was collapsing, it wasn’t closing just yet.

The only problem was that while he was already inside the tunnel, the Ignis and his other summons were too.

The last thing Reidar saw before the other side of the portal became a tiny speck in the distance was the palace ceiling collapsing, raining stone and metal down to crush the magic circle beneath tons of debris before everything went white, and the journey back to earth resumed.