Chapter 94
Chapter 94
Translator: Penny
Chapter 94
“…Why did they give me a condition like non-killing?”
Number 1 seemed a bit dissatisfied.
“Why?”
Number 1 narrowed his brows at my question.
“It’s not like you didn’t use Sword Qi because you couldn’t, right?”
Number 1’s deduction was correct, but.
I didn’t tell him the truth. Let him think what he wants.
“It’s a good thing, isn’t it? It’s almost certain we’ll get the extra points for being first. It’s not like there are a dozen treasures, just three. At this rate, our Team 2 will be first.”
Number 1 nodded with a subtle expression.
It was a reaction that acknowledged my words were right.
Number 3, who had been quietly listening to our conversation, poured cold water on it.
“…I guess so? We’ll be first, right? Unless someone in the same team gets two each?”
I chuckled.
“If that happens, I’ll just steal one. Immediately.”
Treasure. I had already secured the points for finding the Magic Stone first.
The criterion for securing points was to hand over the treasure to Ulvgray, the 5th Order Knight who had announced the rules of this Exchange Meeting a few minutes ago.
That was the method of obtaining points.
So, if a team found two treasures, I could just steal one before it reached Ulvgray’s hands.
I thought the chances of messing things up were small since I was pretending to rest while constantly being aware of my surroundings.
I had something to ask Number 3, a player from the 25th floor.
“Is it okay to ask you something outside of the Exchange Meeting?”
Number 3 suddenly grinned.
“Hmm? What, my ideal type?”
There was no way I’d ask something like that.
“Your level.”
Number 3 clicked his tongue at my words.
“Heeeuuuum, I thought you’d ask something more interesting.”
But it didn’t seem like he wouldn’t tell me.
“My level is exactly 30. Rank 3.”
I wondered why he even told me his Rank.
It seemed like being level 30 and Rank 3 was obvious from Number 3’s perspective, so he just said it.
“Normal?”
“Heeeuuuum, I wonder what it could be?”
Number 3 tilted his head as if telling me to guess the difficulty, but I just concluded that Normal was correct.
If it was Hard Difficulty, he would have been triggered by the question itself and confessed.
“Can you tell me too?”
This time, my gaze was directed at Number 1.
The man who resided on the 27th floor.
If my guess was correct, the difficulty was Hard.
“It’s Hard Difficulty… and Rank 4. Like others, I spent quite a long time in the 27th floor Stairway waiting room to reach Rank 4… it wasn’t easy. But if I didn’t, the risk of death would gradually increase, so I endured the pain.”
It was Hard Difficulty as I expected.
By the way… he reached Rank 4, why is he making such a big deal out of it?
I wanted to say that, but Number 1’s face was too serious. As if he had really gone through the pain of cutting flesh and bone.
-Water King) Pioneer that guy is also overflowing with talent. Reaching 6th Order on the 38th floor with no background, it's unbelievable.
A post I had uploaded on the Transcendent Gallery after reaching 6th Order. I remembered the comment that Senior Pioneer, who had reached 6th Order on the 38th floor on Hard Difficulty, had whined about in that post.
The comment that Senior Water King had left on that comment didn’t seem to be false.
The fact that the two people in front of me were also from 21st century Earth like me must have contributed to this rate of growth.
It’s just that I’m showing an abnormal speed for someone from 21st century Earth.
The Exchange Meeting ended like that.
As Number 3 had worried, the same team didn’t sweep up two treasures.
[The ‘Tower Exchange Meeting’ Mission has been successfully completed!]
[Your level has increased!]
[Lv.84 → Lv.85]
[‘Strength’ stat increases by 5.]
[‘Agility’ stat increases by 6.]
[‘Stamina’ stat increases by 5.]
[‘Mana’ stat increases by 6.]
[Calculating contribution points for completing the ‘Tower Exchange Meeting’ Mission.]
[Your team, Team 3, is in ‘1st place’.]
[You are awarded 2000 coins as a 1st place reward.]
[You are awarded an item as a 1st place reward.]
And so, I returned to the 21st floor Stairway waiting room.
Four months and 20 days had passed.
That meant it was almost a year since I had been summoned to this Tower.
The current floor was the 27th floor.
My current level was 95.
I could say that I was facing a wall I had never experienced before.
I was still blocked from achieving the ‘Domain’ of the 6th Order.
According to the Seniors in the Transcendent Gallery, my growth rate so far had been quite abnormal.
They said it was natural for such a serious stagnation period to come eventually.
Domain.
Why wouldn’t that damn Domain wave its hand at me?
It would be a lie to say I wasn’t angry.
I sat cross-legged.
I operated my unique Mind Method, which I had now named ‘Breaking Limit Entering Dao Art’.
And I continued to draw Mental Images.
Mental Images that would become the foundation of my Domain.
But everything kept being erased when it reached a certain point.
Like a structure built up step by step from the foundation collapsing.
The emptiness I had felt even before creating the Breaking Limit Entering Dao Art.
I attributed that to the lack of experience I had as someone from 21st century Earth.
In fact, the Seniors in the Transcendent Gallery had said something similar.
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Sword of Light) The fact that your Domain isn’t properly formed means, as I’ve said before, a lack of opportunity.
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Absolute Monarch) That’s right, you need to experience more life-threatening situations.
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Yes*) I’ve already experienced a lot....
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Water King) LOLOLOLOLOLOL You need to experience even more!!!!!!
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Elf) Suffer a little more.
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Archmage) Still, it’s been nice that you’ve had time to learn magic, thanks to that.
That’s right.
I had spent more time training in magic during the past four months than in the previous times.
When I felt stuck by this damn wall, I trained in magic.
That was the best way for me to reduce wasted time.
However.
My foundation was ultimately in Martial arts.
My magic proficiency was far too lacking to create a Domain of the magic type.
What comforted me was not only training in magic.
It was doing the Gallery.
The Seniors in the Transcendence Gallery, feeling sorry that my achievement was blocked by the wall of Domain for a long time, slightly twisted the direction of the Gallery, which had been flowing mainly around me.
The post that triggered the Seniors to talk about themselves quite a bit was.
Title: Look, it’s Plum Blossom Sword Qi.
Author: Scum Sword Saint
Attachment: 128703912830912.png
-Isn’t it ethereal?
It was a photo of Senior Scum Sword Saint’s ethereal Sword Qi.
As if the Sword Qi was a relay authentication, it continued one after another.
Sword Qi color authentication relay.
What caused quite a stir next was Senior Sword of Light’s selfie with a terrible shooting angle.
Like using an angle that looked down on the other person too much.
Or looking straight ahead too much.
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Ehehehe, I’m being criticized….
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Wow, you’re okay even if you take it like this? Ah, I guess you’re not okay.
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Silver hair and red eyes are a successful formula….
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Shrine Maiden) Hawaawa, hawaawa. As expected, seeing pretty things occasionally is purifying. It reminds me of the gaze I had when I was climbing.
Of course, the reaction was good even if the angle was taken strangely.
What other posts were there.
Ah.
There was that.
Title: Cold…! It’s my kingdom!
Author: Ice Queen
Attachment: 32904230122.png, 4091267563187.png…
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This is the Snowflake Corridor, the center of the Ice Kingdom, a blue and white place…! And this is the Winter Garden! Cold! This is the Silver Tower!
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Wow, sorry, but aren’t they all the same picture?
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Ice Queen) Cold! No, they’re not!
I felt sorry for Senior Ice Queen, but there wasn’t much difference anywhere.
Anyway, the Seniors’ posts were a great help in cooling down my chaotic mind.
I had to discard all the unnecessary things.
I thought so and operated the Mind Method again.
The next day.
December 17th.
About two months before the 1st anniversary of being summoned to the Tower.
I opened the door to the 27th floor Stage.
The cooldown for Interdimensional Trade had also ended.
I opened the door and took a step forward.
A cold chill came fiercely from the front.
Han Yoo-seong couldn’t help but tremble all over.
“…Wow.”
His breath distorted the space as if frost crystals were forming in the air.
It didn’t take long to realize that something was wrong.
The cold rising from his toes was on a different level from the chills he had felt so far.
He quickly deployed his Bodyguard Qi.
Immediately after, a notification window appeared in front of him.
『Pandemonium Difficulty 27th floor is Quest Type.』
“Where is this again?”
The surroundings were covered in ice.
But looking at the scenery behind him, it didn’t seem like the Antarctic or Arctic was the background.
He looked at the building behind him.
“It looks like the Martial Arts World….”
The style of the building was similar to what he had seen in the Central Plains martial world background.
Han Yoo-seong first took out the Transcender Gallery Terminal from his Inventory and photographed the pavilion in front of him.
A pavilion covered in white ice and snow.
Han Yoo-seong uploaded a post with the photo he had just taken.
Comments quickly poured in.
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Hmm, I’ve seen it somewhere??
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That’s the Ice Palace.
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Heavenly Demon) North Sea Ice Palace.
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Sword of Light) Be careful. All the Ice Palace Lords were strange in some way.
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For real, you can’t find any Ice Palace Lords who are normal.
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The consensus is that their brains are frozen solid.
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Scum Sword Saint) But it’s become a bit of a headache.
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Shrine Maiden) Hawaawa, that’s what I’m saying. The Warriors of the Ice Palace are very strong in that background.
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Hmm*) Is their pure martial strength strong?
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Shrine Maiden) They are quite strong. The Ice Palace Lord our class met was around 7th Order Intermediate.
Hmm, that’s really strong.
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Archmage) But you probably won’t suddenly fight the Ice Palace Lord… even though they have strange aspects, they’re not that violent.
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Ice Queen) Cold…!
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Ice Queen) Frozen…!
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Ice Queen) Finally, finally the moment has come when the Climber needs my help…!
Han Yoo-seong could read through the comments that she was very excited.
-Ice Queen) If you have my item, you can breathe and walk around in this land of the North Sea Ice Palace without any problems! Cold!