I Told You Not to Fight in My House!
A black graviton bomb detonated, tearing the sky apart.
Within the swirling waves of gravity that resembled a churning galaxy, the night sky itself violently convulsed.
Yet—the emotion reflected in those massive eyes was neither fear nor anger.
It was closer to curiosity.
"■■■■■■—!!!"
As the Silence of the Deep Night emitted a bizarre wavelength, the surrounding stars began to vibrate in unison.
Soon after, flashes of light cascaded simultaneously from thousands, tens of thousands of stars.
A single, concentrated beam of light pouring down from the entire night sky!
"Density Barrier."
But Crow calmly formed a gravitational field with his left hand, wrapping it around his body.
But the energy density packed into the cascading beams was far beyond what a simple defense could withstand.
A crushing pressure, as if the universe itself were pressing down, bore down on him.
He couldn't hold out like this.
"Gravity Dispersion."
Crow immediately scattered gravity around him, generating dozens of miniature black holes simultaneously.
The beams of light bent, curved, and twisted under the gravitational distortion.
The trajectories that had been hurtling toward his demise began to miss by a hair's breadth.
Having narrowly broken through the onslaught, Crow continued his vertical ascent.
In a split second, he unleashed a Diffused Gravity Wave to decelerate, landing upside down on the "top" of the night sky.
And he was certain.
This night sky had a physical form.
It looked like the sky, but it was undoubtedly an entity composed of a physical body.
Which meant—it could not escape the laws of physics.
"Got you."
Crow grabbed the night sky of the Silence of the Deep Night with both hands and activated the most powerful skill at his disposal.
"Gravitational Collapse."
At that moment—
—RUUUUUUUUUUMBLE!!!
Every vector of gravity acting upon the Silence of the Deep Night collapsed, causing the surrounding night sky to warp and compress as if being crumpled.
"■■■■■■■■■■■—!!!?!?!?!"
A wavelength resembling a beast's shriek echoed across the entire night sky.
Confusion, terror, and—a sense of crisis.
The Silence of the Deep Night began to panic.
But Crow's real attack was only just beginning.
"Supernova Explosion."
The final stage induced by gravitational collapse, when nuclear fusion ceases at a star's core.
The ultimate, most devastating explosion born from gravitational collapse.
Crow used Gravitational Collapse to forcibly meet those conditions and trigger it.
The Silence of the Deep Night attempted to unleash another beam of light to counterattack, but—
"Wormhole."
Crow had already calmly thrown himself into a wormhole.
And then—
—KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
An explosion.
A shockwave powerful enough to engulf the entire 95th floor tore through the night sky.
In an instant, the darkness turned as bright as day, and even the plains below were overturned and utterly devastated.
Even if it paled in comparison to a real cosmic supernova, its sheer destructive power was absurd enough to completely reshape the entire floor.
And just like that—
The night sky vanished, plunging the entire 95th floor into pitch-black darkness.
Tricia held her breath, staring intently at the crystal ball.
Inside the crystal ball, the 95th floor had long since lost its original shape due to the cataclysmic explosion.
Fortunately, the Warp Point seemed to be protected by the system, remaining intact right where it had been placed.
...Whoa, it can actually do that?
Tricia replayed the battle scene in her mind.
No matter how powerful an awakened climber was, being able to manipulate gravity so freely was astonishing.
But Tricia didn't evaluate Crow's battle solely by his raw power.
His mental fortitude is a total monster's.
The boss of the 95th floor, the Silence of the Deep Night.
That entity possessed a potent hypnotic ability that, with just a fraction of its power unleashed, could block out surrounding senses, erase vision, and paralyze thoughts.
Yet, not a single hypnotic effect worked on Crow.
Honestly, even without the hypnosis, anyone would normally be paralyzed with fear just looking at such a cosmic horror, but Crow didn't flinch in the slightest.
Instead, he had charged straight at the Silence of the Deep Night and showered it with relentless attacks.
Had Crow not acted so swiftly, the Silence of the Deep Night's power would have grown exponentially over time, likely putting him at a severe disadvantage.
But Crow had opted for a decisive, lightning-fast resolution, successfully landing a Supernova Explosion on the Silence of the Deep Night.
This man's true weapons were his extreme mental strength and the split-second judgment born of sheer experience.
"He's on a completely different level compared to the first climbers who came in...!"
That was something beyond human limits.
Unlike the ordinary climbers she had seen before, this was the arrival of a genuine powerhouse.
Tricia gasped in admiration as she replayed the battle.
An empty popcorn bucket was already clutched in her hands.
"Ghibsa!"
"Yes, Master!"
"Bring me another bucket of popcorn!"
"Right away, Master!"
Just how entertaining was this for her to have devoured an entire bucket already and demand a refill?
"Man, I really need a soda for this!"
The only slight disappointment was that while she had successfully manifested popcorn, she hadn't managed to replicate Coca-Cola yet.
Fortunately, she could get carbonated water, so she was drinking lemon-lime soda as a substitute.
With that, Tricia plunged right back into full movie-theater mode!
At this point, Ghibsa was starting to grow a little concerned.
"...Lady Tricia, wasn't the Silence of the Deep Night just defeated?"
"Yep. Pretty much."
"...Excuse me? Then isn't that dangerous?"
"Don't worry! That thing won't die!"
"...Pardon?"
"That wasn't even its main body to begin with. Its true form is separate."
Ghibsa blinked, dumbfounded.
Its true form is separate?
"That guy caused so much trouble back when we were in Eriel that my companions and I sealed him away. Afterward, I stuck him on the 95th floor like some glow-in-the-dark wall decoration... but when this place turned into a tower, the seal weakened a bit."
"Is that so?"
"So I just threw him in as the 95th-floor boss. I can always reseal him later anyway!"
It seemed she had deployed him like some recycled nuisance rather than a cherished companion, having sealed him away once before.
"Lady Tricia, then by any chance, is that seal..."
"Yeah. That night sky that just vanished."
She manipulated the crystal ball, rewinding the battle to a few minutes prior.
Pointing at the vast night sky, she said:
"—That 'night sky' itself was the seal keeping him suppressed."
"......!!!"
At Tricia's bombshell revelation, Ghibsa was left utterly speechless.
"So that night sky... was actually what was sealing the monster?"
"Exactly. It happened a long time ago, so you probably didn't know, Ghibsa."
"And now that the seal is broken... that climber is as good as dead."
"Right? But even if he dies, he'll just resurrect, so it's not that big of a deal—"
Tricia's voice trailed off.
In that instant, a realization struck her mind like a bolt of lightning.
—That climber didn't take the official route up from the 1st floor.
"...The resurrection buff!"
Which meant... he didn't have the resurrection buff!
In other words, if he died here, it was permanent.
Tricia's expression darkened.
Honestly, if that climber died, she would rake in a massive amount of Tower Coins.
Under normal circumstances, she had absolutely no reason to intervene.
But—
It'd be a bit of a waste to just let him die like that.
If a climber that powerful met his end here, it would likely trigger an even greater uproar soon.
A casualty suddenly occurring in a place where resurrection was supposed to be guaranteed?
That was definitely not the kind of scenario Tricia wanted.
She made up her mind.
She couldn't let him die.
"Ghibsa, I'm going to head down to the 95th floor for a bit."
"...Pardon?"
Eriel Tricia spread her wings wide and soared toward the 95th floor.
The 95th floor was completely devastated.
At its center, a wormhole shimmered as Crow emerged once more.
"...It's over."
Fragmented earth, a vaporized sky.
It was a brutal landscape where anyone would agree no enemy could have possibly survived.
Yet—something was off.
Despite clearly defeating the Silence of the Deep Night, the system did not announce the trial's completion.
Before he could even process his confusion, another system window popped up in front of him.
But it was no congratulatory message.
The Silence of the Deep Night reveals its true form.
"...What?"
Crow instinctively raised his head, looking up at where the night sky had once been.
There were no longer any stars, nor a sky.
All that remained was an absolute darkness that even light could not penetrate.
A void.
A world of nothingness that his eyes couldn't even begin to adjust to.
Yet within that pitch-black abyss, Crow saw something.
A silhouette.
A single focal point into which everything was silently being drawn.
From within, 'two eyes' slowly opened.
Rings of an endless abyss, dragging his gaze in like blazing black holes.
Simultaneously—
Massive wings covered in an incomprehensible static.
Unfurled, swallowing up the surrounding void.
"...What on earth is that?"
Even Crow caught his breath.
Though he had fought countless monsters, this entity was entirely different.
Its head was shaped like a dragon, while its body held a human silhouette.
Yet, a deeply unsettling, alien dissonance whispered to him that this form was 'something that should not exist in reality.'
The entity opened its mouth.
"────────────"
An inaudible vibration.
Yet the wavelength tore through space and warped time itself.
Crow's gravitational field violently distorted and fluctuated.
In an instant, he lost control of his own gravity, forcing him to drop a hand to the ground to steady himself.
"...The real deal has shown up."
The tables had turned completely.
The battle up until now had merely been a ritual to break the seal.
The real fight was starting now—
"Cut it out, you idiot!!!"
CLANG!
"@#$%—!"
Tearing through all that tension and darkness, Tricia's ultimate, lethal chop struck!
The crown of the Silence of the Deep Night's head was dented in the shape of Tricia's hand!
At the same time, a system window popped up before Crow's eyes!
The Silence of the Deep Night has been knocked unconscious.
You have cleared the 95th floor!
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The battle, the tension, and the grand climax.
All of it was brought to an end with a single blow!