The Tower of Death - Floor of Sacrifice (1)
Jin-hwan asked, “Ssaem. You really put White Dragon’s saliva in the food earlier, right? It’s okay if I lie, right?”
The Goddess of Job Advancement replied, “I wanted to tell the truth… but sometimes you need to know how to lie.”
The food the Goddess of Job Advancement ate really contained White Dragon’s saliva.
Of course, it was only a tiny amount that accidentally splattered during cooking.
But the Goddess’s reaction to this fact.
Seeing her expression as if she would commit suicide if it was true, she had no choice but to distort the truth.
“Still, somehow we made it here.” “Yeah. I thought there was no hope after the Cooking Floor.” “The Tower of Death, huh, not that big a deal.” Everyone seemed to find it hard to believe that they had reached the 3rd floor already.
The name itself was Tower of Death.
I had thought it would be insanely difficult, but it seemed we were climbing it pretty well.
Of course, it didn’t feel easy, but it was fortunate there was no damage.
“What’s going to happen here?” “Sacrifice Floor. What kind of sacrifice won’t they ask for?” “Sacrifice.”
This was the Sacrifice Floor.
From the previous two floors, everything that happened had matched the floor’s name.
That meant what happened here was probably the greatest sacrifice for others.
“Even so, since they gave us a day until the start, let’s rest a bit today.” Gong Jin-sa said that and went into the room assigned to him when entering this floor first.
Others seemed to agree to some extent. Physically not too hard, but mentally tough.
If they failed here, the pressure of how many people would die was enormous.
Because of that, they decided to meet again about five hours before the Sacrifice Floor started and entered their respective rooms for a bit of rest.
“Ssaem. I’ll go in too. I’m so sleepy.” “Yeah. Rest well.”
“Understood. Rest well too, Ssaem.”
After Jin-hwan went into his room, I looked around the area of the Sacrifice Floor.
While wondering if there might be some hidden device here and there, a person approached me.
“Didn’t you go in to rest?”
“Just, I was looking for something hidden here.” “No hidden thing seems to be there?”
“Yeah. I looked around too, seems like that.” I had looked around thoroughly, but it didn’t seem like there was any hidden device worthy of the name.
“But one thing, can I ask?” “Huh? What?”
“Just wondering why you’re so diligently caring for the surrounding people.” “Caring for surrounding people?”
“Yeah.”
Geum Bit-na-ra looked at me with sparkling eyes as if really curious about that, waiting for my answer.
“No particular reason?” “No reason?”
“Helping the struggling people is only natural, right?” “What? Fuha ha ha.”
Geum Bit-na-ra burst into laughter at my answer.
I couldn’t understand why she suddenly asked such questions and showed such reactions.
“Why are you laughing so much?”
“Fuha ha. No, I just can’t understand it.” “Can’t understand?”
“Yeah. Of course, if this situation hadn’t happened, there would have been many people thinking like you.” Geum Bit-na-ra calmed her laughter a bit and continued slowly.
“But you know. The situation has changed a bit… no, a lot, hasn’t it?” “What?”
“Yeah?” “What about the changed thing?”
“Hah.”
Geum Bit-na-ra looked at me with an expression that my answer was unbelievable.
“You know, right? After the situation changed, how ugly people have become.” “…
Her words were correct.
On the day this situation happened.
People pushing others ruthlessly, trying to live only for themselves.
They couldn’t help it.
If they wanted to live, there was no other way.
They had to act a bit selfishly.
Think about it.
If a terrifying monster was in front of you, covered in red blood, killing others, could you help?
It was hard to say that fleeing to save yourself was wrong.
“Moreover, now it’s a situation where power dominates everything. There’s no law anymore. No matter who kills whom or what actions, as long as there’s power, it’s a world.” Her words were right.
As long as you had power… nothing would be punished no matter what you did in this world now.
Police, army, law, nothing, a lawless land now.
The words of people with power were law and justice.
“Moreover, you’re currently Rank 3. That means you’re in the 3rd highest position among many people in Korea.” “What?”
“What do you mean? Just do as you like, no one will say anything. Rather, they’ll be desperate to stick next to you?” Geum Bit-na-ra’s words.
Honestly, there wasn’t a single false thing.
If I had acted as I wanted up to now, would there have been anyone to say anything?
Probably not.
“But you know. I don’t want to act like that.” “What? Why?”
“Just. It’s my heart.”
“Fuha ha ha ha. You’re really funny.”
Geum Bit-na-ra started laughing madly at my answer.
Was that answer so funny?
“During rest time, there are no cameras. Don’t talk nonsense and tell the truth.” “Really?”
“You don’t want to have it? Wealth and power that you wouldn’t have thought of before. Now, you can have enough, right?” “Yeah. I don’t really want it?”
“Really?”
“Yeah.”
Hearing my answer, Geum Bit-na-ra seemed to be thinking deeply.
Then, without saying anything, she got up from her seat and headed to her room.
“Going in to rest?”
“Yeah. You rest quickly too.”
“Rest well and see you later.”
Geum Bit-na-ra answered by raising her hand at my words.
After Geum Bit-na-ra entered, I looked around again and entered the room to rest.
Beep—beep—beep—
“Uuuuum.”
Beep—beep—beep—
“What? What sound is that?”
Unknown sound.
I opened my eyes at the sound and looked around.
“Eh?”
The room seemed subtly different.
While thinking what had changed.
Worried that something had happened to the others, trying to go out, but the door was gone.
“What? Where did the door go?”
The door when I had entered here.
But now it naturally disappeared as if it had never existed.
“Has the start time not come yet?” Even if I had slept a lot, a day had been given.
I thought time hadn’t passed that much, but it seemed not.
- Welcome to the Sacrifice Floor.
- Did you rest well?
- From now on, the Sacrifice Floor will begin. Please prepare.
Was all the time given already over?
I had been sure twenty-four hours of rest time was given, but what was this?
- Jin-hwan. What’s going on?
- I don’t know either. What is this suddenly?
- Isn’t there still time left?
- I woke up because I heard some strange sound. I don’t know if I woke up or not.
The Slime I had sent to Jin-hwan just in case.
Thanks to that, even with the door blocked, I could talk to Jin-hwan.
- Probably there was some device in this room.
- In the room?
“Yeah. Probably to drop people off.”
Exactly seven rooms divided.
Moreover, a lot of time given.
And the things experienced in the 1st and 2nd floors.
Everyone would have wanted to move to their own room and rest for a while.
When people all moved to their respective rooms after that, the Sacrifice Floor began.
It seemed like they had deliberately separated everyone into their rooms.
Drum—drum—drum—drum—drum—
- Uaht. What?
- Eh? What?
Jin-hwan and I showed the same reaction, so it seemed this sound wasn’t only happening to me.
And the wall starting to move in front of me.
The wall moved a bit, then disappeared, and in its place, transparent glass appeared.
- Eh? Ssaem! I see it?
“Yeah. I see it too.”
Glass where the door had originally been.
And beyond that glass, not only Jin-hwan but also the appearance of places where others had entered was visible.
“What on earth are they doing?”
Now the Sacrifice Floor had become a structure where you could see the center from each room.
And while everyone was looking around with doubt at the current situation, a person appeared in the center.
“Alright! Nice to meet you! Seven Chosen Ones. I am Ropnoria, who will be hosting today.” A man introducing himself as the MC.
“You all seem surprised because the event progressed suddenly. I was also surprised at first when the two of you didn’t enter the room.” It seemed like he was talking about me and Geum Bit-na-ra not entering the room but looking around.
“If I hadn’t entered, what would have happened?” I was curious what would happen if I didn’t enter the room till the end and acted outside.
Then, Ropnoria explained kindly.
“If someone had entered the room and rested, thinking it might be dangerous, the floor would have been passed with that sacrifice.” His words were unbelievable.
If they gave rooms and time saying to rest, and didn’t rest, it would be passed.
“Haa. I should have just stayed outside?” I had thought about staying outside just in case, but I had entered because I needed to replenish stamina.
“Anyway, from now on, you will face the true appearance of the Sacrifice Floor.” With that word, a large round roulette appeared in front of me.
The roulette had the names of the seven people here written on it.
“First, let’s start picking one person to be sacrificed in this Sacrifice Floor with this roulette.” With his shout, the huge roulette started spinning slowly.
Punggrrrrr.
“What does ‘sacrificed’ mean?” I couldn’t understand what he meant by that, but the roulette kept spinning.
And after a bit of time, the roulette gradually started stopping.
“Alright! The person to be sacrificed here is right!” Ddug. Ddug. Ddug. Ddug.
Thud!
The roulette completely stopped.
And the person the roulette pointed to.
[Park Jin-hwan]
“Congratulations! Mr. Park Jin-hwan! You have been named as the person to be sacrificed here!”
Welcome to the Sacrifice Floor.
Did you rest well?
From now on, the Sacrifice Floor will begin. Please prepare.