Chapter 53: 13th Floor: Assault on the Assassin's Hideout
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 53: 13th Floor: Assault on the Assassin's Hideout
An assassin clad in black.
“Pant… Pant…”
He was running through the forest like a madman.
He’d forgotten all about the assassin's footwork, the kind trained to erase one's tracks. He was simply moving his legs as fast as he could, driven by the pure instinct to survive.
‘They’re all dead… Even those powerful seniors… Every last one of them.’
I have to tell them.
I have to tell headquarters.
Surely, no matter how monstrous that woman is, she can’t possibly take on all of the headquarters’ elite officers.
Finally, it came into view.
A wooden stockade, disguised as a small bandit hideout.
The real base was inside a cave connected to it.
"Hey, you... aren't you the youngest of Squad 16?"
"That guy. I heard he failed his mission. Is he coming back alone?"
"Pant... Trouble, big troub—"
Just as he was about to say something, a chilling voice came from behind him.
"There you are~?"
"Ah..."
Thrust!!
Before he could even react, his heart had been pierced.
Thud...
"Phew... It took a while to catch all the scattered rats. But thanks to this dimwit, I think I've found their main base."
She spoke to herself nonchalantly, even after killing someone.
"Wh-What the hell are you?!"
One of them drew his sword, wary of me, while another blew a small horn hanging from his neck to quickly signal the intruder's arrival.
‘Good, come out and fight me all at once.’
A B-rank trial? It’s more efficient to just get this over with quickly.
I dashed forward and pierced the throats of the two sentries.
"Urk!"
"Guh!"
As I entered the stockade, figures in black began pouring out of the largest tent in the center, which was connected to the cave.
I charged straight at them, spear first.
Stab-stab-stab-stab-stab!!
Like playing follow the leader, I skewered the living men, turning them into a human shish kebab. Once the spear was full, I swung it wide, flinging them off.
The corpses of men with holes in their chests rained down from the sky, along with a shower of blood.
The men who had just emerged watched the scene, their eyes trembling.
"You crazy... What the hell are you?! Who sent you!"
"You're the ones who came after me. What nonsense are you spouting?"
Now that I’d confirmed their base, there was no need to waste words.
At best, their skills were on par with well-trained ordinary people.
I didn't even need to stab them with the spearhead. Just hitting them with the shaft as if it were a staff was enough to send them flying to their deaths.
"Don't spare your hidden weapons! Throw everything!"
I easily dodged the projectiles flying from all directions with a simple jump.
Even if I were hit, the direct impact wouldn't be significant, but if they were coated in some kind of potent poison, there was a 1% chance I could lose.
I slaughtered them without ignoring even the smallest threat.
‘There’s a lot of blood splatter. Good thing I have auto-clean magic.’
After wiping out the first wave, I entered the cave.
Thanks to the torches placed throughout the cave, visibility was not an issue.
I kept encountering assassins along the way, but I killed them with ease and pushed deeper.
‘This place is bigger than I thought.’
I fought in the passageways for nearly ten minutes.
No matter how many I killed, the men in black kept crawling out like cockroaches.
They showed no signs of retreat.
There were also many traps, but who did they think I was?
‘Anyone who goes through the Tower’s trials naturally becomes a trap master.’
I had experienced many trials solo in my past life, so unless it was a complex mechanical or magical trap, it would be difficult to harm me.
After breaking through, I arrived in a large cavern.
It was a massive space, easily over 100 meters in diameter.
Inside, the assassins were waiting for me, standing in formation.
"Wait! Who are you? Why in the world are you doing this to us?!"
"You're the ones who targeted me, what are you talking about?"
Words were useless.
From experience, talking to people inside the Tower was never a good idea.
Especially if they were enemies you had to fight and kill.
I charged straight for the leader, but I couldn't ignore the blades and hidden weapons flying at me from all sides.
Clang-clang-clang!!
In an instant, metal blades clashed and tangled.
Blood and chunks of flesh flew everywhere, and the sound of lives being extinguished echoed through the vast cavern.
"Everyone, put out the lights!"
At the leader's command, all the torches were extinguished in an instant, plunging the area into complete darkness.
‘What are these guys doing...? Are they insane?’
They must have trained their night vision, thinking of themselves as assassins of the dark, but I was also a master of fighting with my vision obscured.
Am I too good at everything, you ask?
When you have to survive on your own, you have no choice but to become good at everything.
"Dammit... How can a woman like that exist?!"
The situation didn't change at all.
No, it actually got worse.
It became a completely one-sided massacre.
With their vision gone and screams echoing from all directions, the terrified assassins began to attack their own allies. The morale of the assassin corps plummeted.
In the end, he chose to flee.
"Leader!?"
"Huh?"
The leader and his elite officers abandoned their subordinates and ran.
‘What the hell… They’re just leaving without cleaning up the mess?’
This organization… it’s large, but something about it is clumsy. Did the leader inherit his position recently?
Regardless, I gave chase.
But when the regular assassins heard that their leader and officers had escaped, they also tried to flee. The cave entrance turned into a scene of utter chaos as people stampeded.
They didn't even notice me passing by them, too busy pushing and shoving each other to get out.
"Aaargh, I'm being crushed! Wait!"
"Don't push, you bastards!"
"Shut up! I'm going to live... I'm going to live!"
"What in the world is this......"
One person's will to live became another's cause of death.
People who had once shared meals and lived in the same place were now killing each other.
They weren't dying in battle. The assassins were being crushed and trampled to death as they scrambled over one another.
"Umm..."
I activated my camera, pointed it only at my face, and turned on the chat window.
- Ugh, that's disgusting...
- Holy shit...
- Ah, fuck
- Blegh
- Oh, Do-hee, good camera angle lol
"Well, this is a bit hard to watch. I kill people because it's a mission, not because I actually enjoy it."
It was already too late to get through that mess properly.
"What happens if I just wait here? The Tower's trial wouldn't let me clear the mission this easily... Anyone out there? Can you please look up similar cases?"
After a short wait, the viewers finished their research.
- Says you have to catch the leader lol
- Welp, you're screwed...
‘Hah… Should I have just pushed through earlier?’
The entrance had quieted down a little.
A barrier of piled-up bodies was now completely blocking the cave entrance.
Those who were going to die were already dead, and the survivors were holding their breath, afraid I would find them if they made a sound.
In that case... I have no choice.
I suppose I've done the bare minimum as a human being.
"I'll make it quick and painless. Full Charge Over Speaaaaar!!!"
I slammed the skill not into a wall, but into the wall of people.
- SQUELCHHHHH!!!
As if punching a hole through a massive wall of flesh, I forced my way through the human barrier, from which blood gushed out.
"Kuaaargh!!"
"H-Help me!!"
"Guek... ek!"
I tore the human wall to pieces with my spear and passed through the sticky pit of blood.
I finally broke through, drenched head to toe as if I'd taken a shower in blood.
"Hoo..."
I immediately began tracking the leader.
Perhaps because this wasn't a fantasy world, they hadn't been able to erase their tracks completely.
After about an hour of pursuit, I found the leader.
"P-Please, spare me! I don't even remember receiving a request to kill you! It's true! Someone, some idiot must have made a mistake..."
"That doesn't matter. You were destined to die anyway."
Slice!
I mercilessly cut off the leader's head.
[You have cleared the 13th Floor Trial. The reward grade has been increased for achieving the hidden ending. Please select an S-rank reward.]
The trial ended as soon as I killed the leader.
"Phew... It's over!"
The time had finally come.
I moved to the waiting room and opened the chat.
- She's here
- Do-ha~ We believed in you again this time
- Please, breast milk one more time
- Ugh, milk-freaks get out
- Hope a decent skill shows up
- A Skill Growth Ticket would be nice too
The 12th-floor reward was SS-rank, but an S-rank reward is still incredibly good. It wouldn't be S-rank for nothing, right?
Once again, cards floated in the air.
"I'll go one by one this time."
Honestly, opening the cards is more fun than the battles.
How should I put it? There’s a thrill in not knowing what reward you’ll get.
‘Please… something useful!’
First, the first one.
<Maso Slave's Leash>
When worn, sexual sensitivity increases dramatically.
Instead of pain, the wearer receives sexual stimulation when hit. All stats except defense are reduced to the level of an ordinary person.
Cannot be removed by the wearer unless the person holding the leash releases it.
"Eh..."
For a moment, I slowly read the description and stopped my hand from reaching for it.
‘Crap, was I about to choose that?’
The moment I read the description, I had a fleeting thought about how good it would feel to be tied up with that and raped relentlessly.
Of course, I have Irene's manual, but with that leash, I could truly enjoy a physically and mentally perfect Gang-Rape Restraint Breeding Press...
"Aaaaaaaargh!!!"
- What are you doing lol
- Did you actually consider picking that?
- C'mon... no matter how much of a pervert Do-hee is, surely not lol
- Her face looks a little red, doesn't it...?
- Uh oh, Do-hee, you can't become a masochist bottom
- What do you mean she can't, hurry up and pick it
- Maso Slave Let's gooo!!!
- You crazy bitch lolololol
I screamed to shake off the lust demons clinging to my body.
"Phew... This one's a dud, right? Let's see the next card."
- No matter how I look at it, that one seems like the best
- Doesn't the Tower usually give you one item that suits you? lol
- It's not always a perfect match, but the probability of getting something like that does seem high
- Too bad
- This bitch is gonna regret this 100% later lol
‘Ugh…’
I pressed the next card with my hand.
[S-rank Snake's Tongue]
Your words gain the power to bewitch people.
Additionally, you become more proficient at fellatio.
"Oh... um..."
As expected of an S-rank trait, it was quite useful.
In particular, becoming more persuasive is a very good trait.
‘But, is that really about persuasion?’
Bewitching people... surely it doesn't just mean sexually, right?
Of course, the viewers' interest lay elsewhere.
- Wow, fellatio skill improvement lol
- Does that mean your tongue splits and like, slurps up and down?
- Ooh
- Damn... getting a blowjob from a snake tongue would feel amazing
- Oh... I'm imagining it now
- That would be insane to have at a fan meeting
- Do-hee, pick it right now lol
- It really does give you things that suit you
"Ahem... Hey, why is everyone only focusing on that part? For now, I'll put this on hold. If the third option is bad, I'll choose this one."
And the final choice.
<Buff Stacking>
You can stack buffs. Additionally, the Divine Power cost increases by the square with each stack.
"Oh...? Waiiiit a minute!!!"
- Whoa
- That can actually drop?
- Holy shit, what the
- Finally, a use for that ridiculously large Divine Power pool...
This was a trait I had obtained in my past life as well.
Of course, back then, I suffered from a chronic lack of mana, so I couldn't use it much, but now, it's a completely different story.
The first buff costs the normal amount of Divine Power, the second costs four times as much, the third nine times, and so on.
In the past, I could only manage three stacks at most, but with my current massive pool of Divine Power, the story changes 180 degrees.
Divine Power: 824.2
Now, looking at my Haste skill,
<Haste Lv.3>
Consumes 7 Divine Power to increase Agility by 15 for 1 hour and 20 minutes.
It consumes 7 Divine Power.
So, with a rough calculation, if I use all my Divine Power, I could get up to 6 stacks?
That means an increase of 90 Agility all at once.
My current Agility, excluding buffs, is around 55, so the tail is wagging the dog here.
"This is insane....."
Unexpectedly, I had received a reward from an S-rank that was even better than an SS-rank.