Chapter 73
Chapter 73
Translator: Penny
Chapter 73
Grey pillars stood before me.
Maten, the Sillein strategist, said that inside these pillars was a shallow cave, and within it was the 'Root.'
And the last obstacle was the most heinous being guarding that Root.
The biggest problem was that heinous being's raw power.
Maten had explained about the heinous being before entering the barracks last night.
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The heinous being's pure power level, I should tell you in Ranks so you can understand. Rank 6.
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It doesn't use 'Domain.'
Just because a Rank 6 didn't use Domain didn't mean it would be easy.
And I was sure that there would be a challenge above Rank 6 on this 13th floor.
Strong.
Ban Ineoreu was.
The Rank of 6 was not a lie.
That kind of person probably met their end on this floor.
What I'd experienced so far couldn't be everything.
I recalled the Transcendent Gallery comments I had read right before falling asleep yesterday.
Currently, for the two Interdimensional Trades available, we decided to decide what item to receive after neutralizing one Root first.
Of course, if a situation arose where I felt like I would die if I didn't receive something during the battle, I was planning to take it right away.
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Archmage) I guess, they were dead, that's right.
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Archmage) The word 'were' in 'were dead' is a bit contradictory, though.
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Archmage) I don't know why the Tower revived them, but there must be a reason.
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Absolute Monarch) Yeah, and that reason probably isn't going to benefit you, Climber.
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Sword of Light) Highly likely.
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Ice Queen) Exactly, brrr….
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Dragon King) Beltui - Suspect everything, you know.
The seniors' suspicions were valid.
Logical and rational.
But I was gnawing away at those pieces of advice one by one.
A comrade who risks their life together to kill enemies.
Anyway, it wasn't easy to keep suspecting the person next to me as such an existence.
Kwaaaang! Kwajijik!
"Nice! The pillars break easily!"
I swung my sword alongside Ban, who was destroying the pillar with a sword wrapped in blue aura.
After smashing the grey pillar together and completely clearing away the debris, beyond it was something like the entrance to a tunnel.
"I'll hold that guy off, so you stick the Divine Stone into that Root."
It was a monster of a bizarre shape, standing still.
An enemy that looked like all sorts of insects mixed together.
"Can you hold out?"
"I'll have to try."
Ban Ineoreu had climbed up to the 13th floor of Pandemonium alone, without something like the Transcendent Gallery.
I trusted that judgment.
And Maten's words too.
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The paralysis of the Root is the same as piercing the heart of the heinous being, which is their child.
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The heinous being's powerful strength and vitality come from the activation of the Root.
I took out a spear from my Inventory.
It was the Black Javelin that I had used enough now.
I didn't intend to inflict a fatal attack on that guy with this.
An opening.
To create an opportunity for Ban to make the first attack. That was the goal.
I stepped forward strongly with my right foot.
I swung my right arm like a whip.
The Black Short spear was fired towards the heinous being.
Tiing!
The heinous being easily deflected the Short spear I threw.
Ban and I once again stepped on the ground and leaped out at the same time.
Hwaaaak!
I passed by the heinous being and Ban Ineoreu and went further forward.
I wrapped white Sword Qi around my sword.
Jjeoooeeong!
As expected, it wasn't all over just because I reached the Root.
Sss…!
Sword Qi was layered onto Sword Qi.
And I struck down dozens of times without hesitation.
Kwang! Kwaaaang!
I glanced back.
Ban and the heinous being were extending attacks towards each other at a speed that was hard to keep up with with the naked eye.
There was no time to hesitate.
I struck down with the sword, concentrating the Sword Qi as much as possible.
Scores of times, dozens of times.
The transparent barrier shattered and scattered.
I shoved the Divine Stone into the center of the spiral located in the center of the Root.
Then, I heard something collapsing from behind.
Kwaddeuk!
The heinous being's body was falling forward.
Ban roughly pulled the sword out of the heinous being's body.
Since I was the one who caused the paralysis of the Root, which was the heinous being's greatest weakness, my experience bar was also filled by 30%.
I ended the recording of 'Visographica,' which had only a few minutes of recording time left.
"Haa…."
Ban's gaze, exhaling, turned to me.
"It's done, right? This?"
"Probably."
Ban was moving both hands to wrap bandages alone.
I picked up the bandage and wrapped it around Ban's waist, where there were scars.
"Oh, you're not completely clueless, huh?"
After I tied the bandage, Ban tapped my shoulder.
Ban looked at the heinous being's corpse for a moment, then pointed outside the cave.
"Let's go out."
"Okay."
As we went out of the cave, the Sillein Warriors approached me and Ban as if they had been waiting.
"The paralysis of the Root has been achieved!"
At Turiana's words, Ban opened their mouth wide.
"Wow, can you really instinctively know that the Root is paralyzed?"
Turiana and the other Sillein Warriors shook their heads at Ban's words.
"To be precise, it's not that we can know that the Root is paralyzed, but that we can know that the land that Dranas was encroaching on has been restored to our land!"
Ban nodded at Turiana's explanation.
"I see."
Turiana clapped their hands.
Clap!
"I originally thought it would take two days to destroy one, but to deal with one so quickly is a very good thing!"
Behind Turiana and the other Sillein Warriors was a corpse covered in thick cloth.
"How many died?"
Turiana answered my question without hesitation.
"Three Sillein Warriors have fallen."
There was no emotion of sadness on the face of the race with fair skin.
"It's okay. They met a glorious death in the name of Azure Sky. It is a necessary death for the future of Halo."
There was no madness.
It really felt like this was their personality and habit, which made it feel strangely bizarre.
"Let's go back!"
Turiana led the Warriors and us and began to return to the council hall where the barracks were located.
Before the sun went down.
We were able to return to the council hall.
I sat on a bench in front of the council hall.
I was sitting and looking at the setting sun when Ban Ineoreu came and sat next to me.
"…."
Ban Ineoreu was also looking at the sky without a word.
Instead of the fading scenery, the scene of the battle between Ban Ineoreu and the heinous being that I had glimpsed kept coming to my mind.
"You were strong."
At my words, Ban smiled.
"I was Rank 4 when I first entered the Tower. This damn Tower forced me to come all the way here."
Ban also asked me a question.
"What about you? What Rank did you start at?"
I tried to make up a plausible lie, but gave up.
It was more tiring to make up a lie.
"I didn't know about Ranks. I didn't even have Mana."
I could feel Ban's gaze towards me changing.
From the feeling of looking at a moderately interesting guy to the gaze of looking at a completely crazy guy.
"You were someone completely unrelated to combat?"
"Yeah."
"Ah, that's right. You said you came from a pretty peaceful world where it's normal for that strange flying object to fly around carrying 500 people."
Ban added.
"Wow, then you must have almost died more than once or twice."
"That's right."
"Oh, right. My friend Chang is a bit weird. There's no one there."
"What?"
I decided to strengthen my suspicion if I saw any abnormal signs from Ban.
But coincidentally, that abnormal sign occurred.
"I'm sure there wasn't no one there."
Ban added.
"I don't…remember."
Ban scratched their silver hair.
I asked them a question.
"The floor right before?"
Ban slowly shook their head.
"I remember what I did on the 12th floor. But I don't remember the Exchange Meeting I had right before that…is it stress-related?"
Ban added words to relieve the silence where I wasn't saying anything because I was thinking.
"Well, what's important in the Tower isn't the past but the future. I'll remember it as I climb the floors."
I was going to ask if they remembered the Pioneer senior.
But with this, the probability of them not remembering increased.
Abnormal sign.
The 'Ban Ineoreu' next to me right now might not be in a complete state.
That probability had arisen.
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Shrine Maiden) Oh no, the worst possibility is that they suddenly go crazy and try to kill Climber Gong.
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Scum Sword Saint) If the Tower messed with their mind, there's a high risk of that happening.
I know.
Last.
I have to be suspicious until the curtain completely falls on the 13th floor.
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<Heavenly Demon>.
The Heavenly Demon, who was using that nickname in the Transcendent Gallery, stroked his beard.
His right-hand man, 'Goema,' said that it would be better for his lord to shave his beard, but he had no intention of shaving it at all.
Title: I've paralyzed one Root for now.
Writer: ㅇㅇ*
-Ban is strong. But I was trying to figure out if I should ask if they knew about the Pioneer senior. But before I could even ask, they said their memory was a bit strange. It seems like they don't remember any of the Exchange Meeting sessions.
Attached file: 120371298381092.mkv
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Is this the right way to fight on the 13th floor? Isn't it amazing?
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They said they're Rank 6.
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Spear King) Hmm, a skilled person like that dies…Pandemonium is a dangerous place indeed.
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LOL, seriously?? There's a difficulty where a Rank 6 appears as just a normal Monster level on the 13th floor??
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Jjuhdak) There's a problem with their memory…not only the Exchange Meeting but the other floors might be spotty too.
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Sword of Light) If this is the case, it seems almost certain that they died once.
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Archmage) What are they planning to revive them on the 13th floor for, that's the key.
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Pioneer) Oh, that's right. They fought that well when I met them at the Exchange Meeting. From what I remember, Ban was in the 12th floor Stairway waiting room when they were at the Exchange Meeting I met them at. It seemed like they quickly climbed up to the 13th floor not long after the Exchange Meeting ended. According to my friend Chang.
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They died after that.
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The problem is that we don't even have the certainty that it's the same 13th floor as the last generation.
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Secret Room Theorist) The case is in a maze, a great detective is needed…! - This world is made up of a giant locked room.
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Scum Sword Saint) Judgment, movement, everything is close to the best choice.
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Sword of Light) I see. I thought they were only good at using swords, but they're also good at shooting arrows.
The Heavenly Demon slowly tapped the floating keyboard keys.
-Heavenly Demon) Hmm, that's definitely a good move.
Detective or whatever.
The Heavenly Demon was more interested in Ban's battle video than in the fact that he couldn't find the answer even if he pondered it himself.
The movement as a Swordsman facing the heinous being.
The skill of steadily cornering the opponent.
And the flawless part of skillfully shooting arrows while floating in the air.
"There's no gap."
Certainly, if the difficulty is determined by 'talent.'
At least, they seemed equal to himself, who was on Hard Difficulty.
But does an overwhelming difference in talent exist?
At least, it didn't seem so just by looking at this.
"Were they broken before their talent fully bloomed?"
13th floor.
The original Ban Ineoreu was broken in the place where he is now.
"Don't die, Climber."
Tok!
The Heavenly Demon lightly broke the walnut shell and poured the walnut into his mouth.
Ododok-