I Only Summon Villainesses

Just as Kassie spoke, an ominous sound reverberated across the sky, sounding like the war drums of heaven. It shook the hell out of me and sent my hair standing on end.

Following that sound, the skyline of the dome gathered with clouds. It started slowly at first, but then swirled faster in a circle and began to turn the world below into night.

’Hey Kassie… is that normal? I thought they don’t have clouds here?’

Kassie stared up at the clouds. Her gaze was now hidden behind her helmet, so she responded with nothing, but the weight of the last words she said registered in my head. It was one of the few times she sounded very serious. Granted, Kassie sounded serious all the time… and we were always fighting something quite serious during those times.

’Oh crap, not my damn mind jinxing it!’

I think I had forgotten about how much of a jinx I inherently was. The one moment I tend to think, ’oh, things have been going smoothly — that’s good’, then, like an unpaid debt, something never fails to show up and prove me wrong.

And this time… it had been even worse. I had gone and said it felt too easy.

If I could go on my knees and beg Mother of Fate to forgive my loose mouth, I would right now and even suck her otherworldly temple between her legs if I had to!

’Cade, those are unnecessary thoughts right now!’

I steeled myself with a bit of effort and glanced up too. The storm had reached here, but its eye was not here. It had an actual eye, and it was directed toward the center of the vast array of buildings.

As I saw this, a realization flashed across my eyes.

“Tristan.”

The thought that Tristan might be in danger changed my countenance. My gaze grew dark, and flames sparkled out of my heel and palm, tracing thin edges to my elbows and flickering. A cold white glow appeared in my eyes.

At the same moment, fierce lightning flashed somewhere from the center of the maze of buildings. More people were pouring out of the buildings and surrounding it, and this time they were dressed differently.

They wore intricate cerulean armor over their robes. The armor looked like it had been carved from frozen jade. They all wielded different weapons—from spears to swords, clubs, rods, and even sophisticated long-barreled guns.

All of them poured toward the gate, running with efficient swiftness.

More people meant we needed to get back into the fray and assist Levi. However, Kassie was not looking at this new set of warriors.

Her face, though obscured by her armor, was fixed on the storm above the inner maze of buildings.

She then lowered her gaze to me and moved her sword hand.

I was going to join the battle below, but from the shift in the air around her, I could tell she had other plans.

Kassie might not need me to take care of these summons, just like Maggie didn’t need me, but she had never failed to take me along with her.

And because she always did, my knowledge of combat was slowly swelling.

She leaned lower, using her lower body, glanced at me one more time, and nodded. Then she exploded forward with a shockwave that devastated the parapet. Even I was thrown backward.

I staggered for a moment, then fixed my eyes on the shattered parapet. A portion of the wall downward, in fact, had been shredded as though struck by a fierce force, tearing it apart.

I belatedly got hold of myself. While Kassie was bursting through the wind, I couldn’t dare lag behind for a minute, or I’d only be perceived as lacking by my vicious summon.

’Not after everything I’ve endured to get here.’

I vanished instantly and appeared on Kassie’s sword.

Yes. Her sword…

It was extended to the side as she flew upward, and my gaze locked onto its movement before I used Feather Step and appeared on the flat of the blade. At the same time, five white chains whipped out from me.

Kassie was definitely surprised. She tilted her head for a moment before twisting her balance in the air and lunging me forward with immense power.

At the same time, my chains latched onto her and dragged her along with me as I bolted across the wind at a horrifying pace.

Kassie lunged ahead of me as I slowed down, and now we were at the eye of the storm. Below, I could also see Tristan, who was locked in battle with someone, while his beast fought another fierce battle with a creature that matched it in invisibility and speed.

The literal eye of the storm seemed like a passive observer… of course, until we entered the fray.

Kassie flew across its dark winds and twirled, gathering momentum. Her sword emanated a deadly crimson light, and she lunged it backward while still airborne.

The greatsword came down like a colossal hammer, cleaving the vast sphere of dark clouds cleanly.

A crimson fissure split the sphere into two equal halves, and the cloud slowly began separating from itself.

At the same time, with my chains latched onto Kassie, I used Feather Step again and landed on a roof, bringing her with me.

My legs found balance on the slightly slanted roof of a building within the clan perimeter.

Somewhere behind this building was where Tristan was locked in battle. I could hear the chilling clash of blades and a fierce, heart-quaking bestial growl as the two summons clashed and crushed each other somewhere amid the maze of buildings.

The roofs everywhere shuddered almost every passing moment.

I didn’t have the time to process their battle using Enhanced Sensing… I had myself to care for, after all.

Just as my feet found purchase, within the same breath, a vicious pillar of lightning came crashing down on me.

This wasn’t simply a stroke of lightning. It was an entire pillar that would consume both me and the building I was standing on. This sector of the land was going to be totally eradicated.

But in that same breath, Kassie twirled above me and met the massive pillar of lightning with her entire body and sword, both serving the same purpose.

She twisted and hurled the ferocious light away, causing it to thrash in another direction and decimate a vast swathe of the Crystal Deep Clan’s buildings.