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45 The Tower of Causality (2)
Kirruk!
Golden rake gnolls, said to be the highest species among gnolls, form a systematic formation and rush towards the silver-haired woman.
Tadat!
A woman running towards the gnolls and holding the sword in her right hand to her left side.
The moment when the gnolls rushed right in front of her in an instant, wielding their weapons.
The woman’s sword was lightly drawn horizontally.
But the scene that followed was never easy.
blah blah blah blah!
Because the silver flash that formed along the trajectory of the woman’s sword ripped apart all the golden claws that were rushing in at once.
Perhaps even that wasn’t enough, the flash that ripped apart even the walls of the maze as it went further.
The new model of the woman, who had dealt with all the monsters that rushed in that way, reached the end of the maze in an instant.
– You have passed the ordeal of the first floor.
The ordeal helper’s voice echoes in such a woman’s ear.
‘I almost broke through in a straight line.’
With him there was a happy light in the woman’s eyes.
It was because I had passed the maze faster than I expected.
There were a total of two ways to pass the ‘maze of agony’, the ordeal of the first floor of the Tower of Causality.
The first is to go through the normal monsters along the standard route.
The second is to find a hidden shortcut and then break through the strong monsters that exist in between.
Of course, the woman chose the second method.
Speaking of strong monsters, it was an ordeal on the first floor, so there was nothing special about it.
‘ This is definitely number one.’
A woman who lightly brushes her sword and waits for the next ranking to be delivered.
There was a reason why a woman wanted to be number one like this.
The highest rank reward given only to the one who achieves the highest score among those who climb the Tower of Causality.
Because the woman had come into the tower from the beginning for the reward.
‘ Originally, you should get a special reward that exists on top of it, but… … .’
It had already crossed the water.
I needed the Frost Queen’s Power Fragment to get the special reward.
So, in the past, he had gone to Ouroboros to get a piece, but it had already been robbed by someone.
Therefore, as a substitute, it is necessary to obtain even the next highest grade reward.
‘ In order to do that, you must have an edge from the first floor.’
It was the moment when the woman was about to move slowly with that thought.
passed -2 above. Based on the ranking, 10 basic points and 9 additional points are awarded.
The ordeal helper’s voice echoed in her ear.
“… … What?”
With him, the woman’s eyes were dyed with embarrassment.
* * *
passed -1 above. Based on the ranking, 10 basic points and 10 additional points are awarded.
The voice of an artificial spirit that rings in your ear.
Hearing that voice, Zion glanced back.
Then he saw the maze wall that was smashed in a straight line along the path he had passed.
‘ Well, at first, there was no saying not to break it.’
He swung his sword ignoring the belated ordeal helper telling him to stop, but he seemed to admit it nonetheless.
After all, breaking the wall was also the skill of the participant.
‘ Not bad.’
Shion thought so and looked at Iklaxia held in her right hand.
Is it because I’ve been using it for a long time?
The ability of the annihilation lightsaber, which became a whole, was superior to Zion’s own expectations.
Stability and fine control ability were also noticeably improved, but what was more surprising was the amplification efficiency of the Black Star.
Almost double the difference compared to before.
If Iklaxia wasn’t perfect, it would have been difficult to penetrate the maze wall like this with the previous blow along with 2 overlapping partial lunar eclipses.
It’s a pity that it can’t be used on the second floor.’
It was time for Shion to return the Iklaxia in hand with that thought.
Whoops!
The darkness he saw when he entered the tower again obscured Zion’s view.
Soon after, the darkness lifted, revealing a not-so-large void, a completely different place from before.
with him,
-You have entered the ordeal on the second floor
The cold voices of the ordeal helper began to resound in Shion’s ears.
– Team up with other players to take down two boss monsters.
– The type of monster is random.
– Points are awarded differently according to contribution and ability to cope with special situations.
– The ordeal begins right away.
As soon as that voice ends,
hook! hook! hook!
People who passed the maze on the first floor begin to be summoned around Zion.
A total of four people appeared as such.
‘It was fun.’
Among them, Shion, who found Lane Dranir looking at this side with her eyes wide open, smiled lightly.
This time, it seemed that she could see how much stronger she had become compared to before.
‘ Before that, I’ll have to clean it up first.’
It was when Shion thought so as she recalled the last voice of the ordeal assistant.
“ It seems like five people will have to break through the second floor.”
The giant, with his tight hair and tattoos all over his body, stopped looking around and opened his mouth.
“ Then, shall we start by introducing ourselves? My name is Deshon. Have you ever heard of me? The first floor passed in 14th place.”
Deshon Weiss.
Unlike his warrior-like appearance, he was a well-known shaman with excellent skills in the southern part of the empire.
Is it because the skills are backed up?
His eyes naturally permeated the feeling of looking down on others.
“ I, I… … My name is Adela. A priest who worships the god of the earth. Weak, but healing and support spells are available.”
At Deshon’s words, a woman with brown hair resembling the earth and a soft impression introduced herself in a small voice.
But after that, the voice cuts off.
“ Well, I don’t seem to want to reveal the rest, so let’s get right to the point.”
Deshon shrugged his shoulders and opened his mouth again.
“ According to the voices we hear, the ordeal on the second floor is to catch the two boss monsters together. Perhaps those monsters exist beyond that door.”
Deshon stretched out his finger and pointed to the huge door on one side of the cavity.
“ Even if it stays like this anyway, there is no way to know what kind of monsters are there, and it’s just a waste of time, so I want you to go inside.”
With those words, it was time for Deshon to move towards the door.
“ Aren’t you thinking?”
The fairy with a cold impression, who had been watching him quietly while holding the long sword to his chest, opened his mouth.
“ What? What did you say now?”
At that, the shaman wiggled his eyebrows and looked towards the fairy.
“ He said he had no idea. You’re just trying to hit me without any preparation. Can you have more than one life?”
“ Then do you have any way to identify the monsters in that door?”
“ No, no. But before entering, I have the brains enough to figure out the power of the people here and place them in a formation.”
A fairy who looked directly into Deshon’s eyes and answered cynically.
“ Ha, what hold up! On a subject that does not even reveal his name.”
“ It’s because of your attitude, as if you’re looking down on other people.”
“ Come on, calm down… … .”
Adela, a priest of the earth god, tried to mediate the two, but the seeds were not working.
“ Only for that reason!”
“ Of course I don’t like you taking the lead. Did you know that I was trying to increase your contribution?”
The air is getting worse and worse.
‘ It’s really going the same way.’
Looking at those people from one side, Lane thought to herself.
In fact, the fight that took place in front of my eyes had to be seen as the intention of the tower itself.
first floor, only the five people who had distinct personalities and did not match each other were grouped together.
In addition to that, there were even strong men who had nothing to do with each other, so of course there was no choice but to fight.
What I had already heard from the silver-haired woman before entering the tower.
‘ It was said that gathering these people was the ordeal.’
Perhaps the ‘special situation handling’ mentioned by the ordeal assistant a while ago will solve this situation.
The boss monsters appearing here were random, so there was no way to figure it out, even as Lane, who knew the tower’s information.
So the only way to get extra points on the second floor was to rally people.
‘ Anyway… … We’ll see you here again.’
Layne, having gathered her thoughts in that way, glanced at the dark-haired man standing on one side with an indifferent expression.
Zion Harness.
A man who had suddenly disappeared after the Black Forest incident was here.
‘ After all, seeing in front of the tower was not wrong.’
Where have you been and what have you been doing now?
After pretending to know right away, he wanted to open up the barrage of questions he had accumulated over the years, but Lane suppressed his mind.
For now, the first thing to do was to sort out the situation in front of me.
‘ I think the time has come, so shall we step forward?’
With that in mind, Lane turns to look at the people who are arguing.
The quarrel had already reached its climax.
“ Isn’t it natural for the strongest person to lead the situation?”
“ I agree with that, but that doesn’t mean it’s you. And I passed the first floor in 13th place.”
“ Yeah? So, shall we prove who is stronger here?”
Whoa!
With those words, the tattoos engraved on Deshon’s whole body glowed and began to scatter a huge amount of energy around him.
“ You’re the first to say something you like.”
A fairy who smiles coldly at him and pulls out a sword from its scabbard.
The sharp anticipation emanating from it cuts through the surrounding atmosphere.
“ Wow, we can’t fight each other!”
In a situation where the two of them are rushing to one another, Daila urgently shouts at the two of them.
It was the moment when Deshon and the Fairy fired a fatal blow towards each other, as if they couldn’t hear the priest’s words.
“ Until there.”
with a calm voice,
blah blah blah blah!
A single white lightning bolt struck between the two just before the collision.
A cavity that turns white in an instant due to the unstoppable power of thunder that exploded from such a thunderbolt.
The moment the cavity returns to its original color after a while,
“ What… … !”
people could see
Suddenly, Lane sits between Deshon and the Fairy and lightly blocks their attacks.
“ Didn’t I just say that obviously the strongest man drives the situation?”
Lane opens her mouth with a grin at the shaman and swordsman who looks at him with swaying eyes.
“ Then let me lead you here. Are you both unhappy?”
“… … .”
At Lane’s words, Deshon and the Fairy remained silent, unable to refute.
The attack they just fired towards each other was an attack with some sincerity, if not all.
He couldn’t even imagine how powerful his body would be if he intervened in the middle of such an attack and lightly blocked it.
In addition, until now, the brain power that gently flowed from Lane’s whole body contained a tremendous amount of power that gave their bodies goosebumps.
‘ Where the hell did such a strong man suddenly come from… … .’
In fact, by looking at his impressions, we could guess Lane’s identity to some extent, but De’Shon and the Fairy couldn’t.
Because I didn’t think she was the ‘Rain Dranir’ of Shouting Drums.
There was a huge difference in power for that.
“ Ah, by the way, I passed the ordeal on the first floor in 4th place.”
It was time for Lane, who had cleaned up her rank by revealing her first floor grades like that, and was about to open her mouth again.
“ Now then… … .”
“ Are you done with this arrangement?”
For the first time, Xion, who had been watching the situation with a calm eye without saying a word, opened her mouth for the first time.
A voice that is not too loud, or so small that you cannot hear it unless you listen closely, but you can hear it clearly.
‘ Zion… … ?’
Passing the eyes of people who naturally focus on him.
bum bum, bum bum.
Zion began to move.
His steps were very slow, but people couldn’t take their eyes off of Zion like that.
As if something was forcing them to grab their attention.
From the mouth of Zion who walked all the way to the center, bringing all the attention in such an instant,
“ Then we’ll finish the other side and start over.”
A low voice came out.
“… … ?”
It was the moment when the eyes of everyone there were dyed with doubts at the words whose meaning was unknown.
Kwajik!
Gigaperses of Zion, swung without any warning, split the body of Priest Deila who was standing next to him vertically.