Chapter 92
Chapter 92
Translator: Penny
Chapter 92
21st Floor.
First, open the Transcendent Gallery.
I safely arrived at the 21st floor Stairway waiting room and announced it in the Transcendent Gallery.
Title: I'm at the 21st floor Stairway waiting room.
Writer: ㅇㅇ*
I fused Sword Force and Fire magic to defeat it.
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What are you talking about... you Climber. Shit- How can Fusion even happen? Why?
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I explained that I would become an Archmage, so why is everyone acting like it never happened and making such a fuss??
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Don't you know it's even more absurd to actually do everything you said you would??
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Dragon King) Beltui- That's very true.
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Archmage) Did you happen to take a picture?
Seeing Senior Archmage's tone suddenly soften, it seemed he was quite curious about the fused form of Sword Qi and magic.
-Nope, couldn't take one. It wasn't done when we were far apart.
But in that fleeting moment, it was impossible to hold the gallery terminal and take a picture.
-Okay*) I'll rest for a bit and take one in the waiting room.
Come to think of it, it didn't matter if I took it here.
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Archmage) Thank you. I was curious.
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Sweet- Climber.
Sweet my ass.
He's a Senior who, along with magic, has helped me stay alive in this Pandemonium Tower, so I can at least do that much.
I took a breath and contemplated the future.
Comments started pouring in quickly.
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Jjuhdak) There's another Exchange Meeting soon.
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Yes, that's right.
The Exchange Meeting was in two days.
It was a rather ambiguous time to enter the 21st floor Stage.
The best thing to do was to train alone for a bit, finish the Exchange Meeting, and then continue climbing again.
Ah, there was one thing I had left to ask.
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I got an item called Dragonbone of Recovery from the Saintess Who Chases the Light of Constellations. I cleared a Constellation Quest. Is it useful? This thing?
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Water King) Recovery GOAT.
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Jjuhdak) It's one of the top-tier recovery items. The biggest advantage of that is that Artifacts with such great recovery power are usually limited to personal use.
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Jjuhdak) But that one can apply the effect to others too. Players or NPCs.
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Yes*) How much is the effect?
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Jjuhdak) Restores severed body parts. Restores ruptured organs. Quickly.
Indeed.
An item with that much recovery power was quite amazing.
At least among the items I had, it was the most powerful card I could use in a situation where I couldn't expect to level up.
Swish-
I looked over the [Dragonbone of Recovery], which looked like a bracelet made of bone, and put it back into my Inventory.
I took out a baseball from my Inventory.
The baseball in my hand now wasn't the first baseball.
The baseball I bought from the Coin Shop in the Tower was sturdier than the baseballs I used to throw on the mound.
Nevertheless, the first baseball I bought was worn down to the point where it would break if I threw it a few more times.
When the 15th floor ended.
I didn't throw that first ball, I just fiddled with it.
And then I put it back in my Inventory.
The first ball had gained meaning.
I couldn't destroy that meaning.
The one I held in my hand now was the fourth baseball.
The second and third had already been smashed to pieces.
I threw the baseball against the wall and caught it, repeating the process.
It was a process to clear my mind.
And then I sat cross-legged.
What I was doing was creating a 'Domain'.
I had to create a Domain to look ahead.
But was there a blank space to fill in front of the Domain?
The wall to creating a Domain was higher than I thought.
What you need to create a Domain is infinite imagination and the ability to realize that imagination.
That's what Senior Light Sword said.
I didn't know about infinite imagination, but I thought I had enough imagination to create a Domain.
But it seemed my imagination was lacking.
Or, something else was missing.
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Sword of Light) Maybe, you lack a motive.
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Heavenly Demon) Absence of experience to materialize the image.
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Absolute Monarch) Greater adversity and crisis.
Hmm.
I'm already experiencing enough adversity and crisis.
How much adversity and crisis does this Pandemonium Tower want me to experience?
The process of reaching Rank 6.
It was a repetition of terrible adversity and a series of realizations.
Perhaps I needed to accumulate even more experience than that.
Whenever I tried to materialize the image even a little, it would scatter meaninglessly.
Two days passed like that.
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[The Tower Exchange Meeting will begin.]
[Tower Exchange Meeting Server #1851]
[Tower Exchange Meeting Theme: Mission]
[Recruitment: 30]
The first Exchange Meeting since entering the 20s.
Looking at the surrounding scenery, the location seemed to be the starting point at the foot of a mountain.
Han Yoo-seong slowly nodded at the sight of people not easily moving first.
'This is normal.'
Everyone was unable to move easily.
This was a natural thing.
If they had climbed up to the 20s, they were people who knew what the Tower was like, even if they hadn't fully adapted to it.
Unless the theme was 'Soap', killing between players was possible.
Even if there were only players who had no intention of killing other players, a minimum of tension was bound to flow.
Han Yoo-seong looked above his head.
Above his head, as in any other Exchange Meeting,
< 21 >
Meaning a resident of the 21st floor.
Today, he had no intention of wearing a mask or distorting his voice.
Since he hadn't registered his floor ranking score since the 13th floor, it wasn't easy to deduce that he was 'unranked' even if he showed a slightly stronger side.
In the case of the Exchange Meeting, there was no difference in the experience gained whether he fought with all his might or cleared it by exerting only the strength of others, so his mind wasn't complicated.
'With the intention of finding out.'
Han Yoo-seong intended to find out in this Exchange Meeting what the average level and strength of 21st-century Earthlings in their 20s were on the 20s floors.
He could get information about the 30s and beyond thanks to the Senior Transcendental in the Transcendent Gallery who could browse the Climber Gallery, but he had to get information about the 20s himself.
Once they climbed to the 30th floor, it wasn't easy to have much interest in the lower floors.
Unless it was like the Union Leader, the guild leader of the Raid Alliance, who had the will to recruit as many talented people as possible into the guild.
Thump, thump
The sound of people coming down the mountain was heard.
"Welcome, mercenaries."
A man in neat armor said to the players.
[NPC - Rank 5 Knight Ulvgray]
"The purpose of calling you through the mercenary guild is to fulfill the imperial family's order to find the treasure hidden in this mountain."
Ulvgray continued.
"I have received your roster in advance. So, to avoid confusion, I have already formed groups, so I hope you will carry out the Mission as assigned."
The players shifted their gaze from Ulvgray to each other at his words.
Han Yoo-seong looked at the notification windows blocking his view.
[Mission Generated!]
The notification windows were explaining this Exchange Meeting.
[Find the treasure in Mount Rotverdin!]
[The Exchange Meeting will end when the treasure is found.]
One of the players listening raised his hand.
Ulvgray nodded.
"Do you have a question? Ask away."
NPCs continued along with the flow of the Tower floors.
Because of that, many people regarded NPCs as the same as themselves.
"...What is the treasure?"
Ulvgray answered indifferently to the player's question.
"It's a stone."
"Pardon?"
"If you find it, you will know it is a treasure. There are a total of 3 treasures. The search will end when all 3 are found."
Ulvgray ignored the murmuring voices of the players and added.
"I hope there will be no unnecessary bloodshed."
With Ulvgray's words, the players' movements became busy.
That's because the list of who they were teamed up with appeared in the notification window.
Not a name, but a number next to the floor number.
That was the group number.
3 people per group, 10 groups in total.
Han Yoo-seong checked the number next to 21.
< 3 >.
Han Yoo-seong strode towards the members of his group 3.
Han Yoo-seong's eyes first checked the current floor location of the group 3 members.
< 25 >
25th floor player.
"Nice to meet you."
The woman with short hair nodded at Han Yoo-seong's words.
"Nice to meet you."
Her face was very calm, showing no fear.
While they were exchanging brief greetings.
A cheerful-looking blonde Westerner approached from the side.
His floor location was < 27 >.
"Anyway, this relationship will only last for two days at most. There's no need to tell each other our names. Let's go by numbers."
The man pointed to himself with his index finger.
"I'm number 1."
He gestured to Han Yoo-seong with his chin.
"You're number 2."
The woman nodded.
"Am I number 3?"
"Yeah."
Han Yoo-seong followed the man's suggestion.
He had no intention of standing out in this Exchange Meeting, so it was a good thing.
"The sooner we find it, the better the rewards we'll get, so let's move right away."
The man from the 27th floor seemed to have the idea that he should lead this group, perhaps because his floor was the highest.
"Okay."
Han Yoo-seong followed the two ahead with a relaxed mind.