#218
“… “Squeak.”
For some reason, the sight of it desperately running, dragging its tail, made me feel uneasy. The place the monster was heading was the gateway located at the end of the wide road. To be exact, it would be beyond that. The place the monster wanted to go was the Tower of Test.
As soon as Sehyeon realized this, he ran towards the small monster. When the monster saw Se-hyeon coming, he thought he was coming to catch me, so he started to avoid him in a hurry. Not long after, the boat was grabbed by Sehyun’s squeaky hands and lifted.
Squeak! Wow!
What was so disturbing was that the monster screamed and struggled in Sehyeon’s hands. He raised his claws and scratched here and there, and raised his teeth and gave several bites towards his hand that was under his stomach. In fact, I was bitten enough to bleed.
“I’ll leave, so stop asking, Kyaak.”
“Lo, load, blood… .”
Muan came closer and started circling around Sehyeon in a restless manner. Then she saw the monster and pursed her lips, so that you could see what her sullen eyes were thinking.
“Muan, let’s go to the tower for a moment.”
“Rod, I’ll take that guy. This damn habit… .”
“no.”
Sehyeon put the struggling monster on his shoulder and quickly walked out to the gatehouse. As if he had sensed this, Kiak soon widened his eyes and became calm.
I couldn’t shake the feeling that something was there. If this was because the monster sensed something, there was a high possibility that it was at least related to Jaeyoung Lee.
My steps gradually became faster, and by the time I crossed the portal connected to the Tower of Tests, I was walking as if I was running. As the heroes had gone to other empires to apply, no one was using the Tower of Trials.
Sehyeon, who set the tower’s floor level to the 90th floor, impatiently waited for the door to open. And as soon as the door opened with a squeak, he stepped into the space where sunlight seeped in.
An oval-shaped space with a huge cavity. The door, which was tightly embedded in the wall of the common area, was covered with roots, just like I had seen in the past. The huge iron gate standing tall in the middle of the cavity was the door to the world of manifestation.
However, the door that used to shine brightly with the sun was now dim.
Squeak! Keek!
Sehyeon caught Squeak, who was digging his claws into my shoulder, and lowered him to the ground. As soon as his feet touched the ground, Kiak ran towards the iron gate in the center of the cavity. He hurried over and started scratching at the door.
It wasn’t just noise in front of the door. Two giant monsters, who had been doing this for some time, were screaming and scratching at the door. I hit my whole body and slammed the door.
As far as Sehyeon knew, they were hero-level vassals of the Monster Empire. Perhaps those two monsters are the monsters that entered the 91st floor of the tower with Jaeyoung Lee.
There was only one explanation for why they were here. That he was resurrected after experiencing death. And now they were lingering in front of the door, trying to get back into the tower. It also meant that Jaeyoung Lee was struggling inside the tower. Maybe it’s a situation where we are facing death.
Keekeeek-!
Chwiik! Keek!
Sehyun, who had heard the monsters’ cries, belatedly took a step towards them. The monsters, who had been scratching the iron gate so hard that blood formed on his fingertips, realized that he was there and immediately turned around. The fiercely exposed fangs were ferocious. I even felt alive.
Still, if possible.
“… “Get out of the way.”
If this is really possible… It will be of some help to Jaeyoung Lee. Like the day we gained solidarity.
[‘Allies’ cast the wide-area buff ‘Depth of Love LV.8’.]
[‘Allies’ cast the wide area buff ‘Depth of Trust LV.6’.]
[‘Allies’ cast the wide-area buff ‘Solidarity LV.1’.]
Sehyeon passed by the monsters who were wary and retreated and reached the iron gate. Then he placed his trembling fingertips on the iron door.
The dizziness that came with the feeling of the cold iron door blurred my vision. Sehyun slowly slid down with her hand on the door. Sehyeon doesn’t know if the skill is passed down. Just a vague hope made my body move.
The skill quickly stopped due to depletion of mana. Sehyun took out a potion from her inventory, drank it, and cast the skill again. When I repeated that action countless times, blurry letters suddenly appeared in my blurred vision.
[‘Allies’ wide-area buff ‘Solidarity LV.2’ has been acquired.]
It was at that time that the scorching noise broke through. When my slowly moving gaze reached the period.
“!”
It was a terrible sound. The screams of all kinds of monsters and the sound of something exploding entered my head as if oppressing me, along with the noise of the world collapsing.
The moment I reflexively took my hand away from the door at the sound that seemed to tear the air, the sound disappeared like a lie. When he realized, Sehyun was breathing heavily.
“Rod, are you okay?!”
Muan, who pushed aside the monsters and took the seat next to Sehyeon, asked with a serious expression. After nodding his head, Sehyun stretched out his hand toward the iron door again.
The moment my fingertips touched the sound, so dense that I couldn’t even breathe, came rushing in again. It was an unidentifiable sound. Hundreds, thousands, no. The noise of an even greater number of monsters swarming and howling could be heard as if surrounding them from all directions.
Wow!
The sound of pounding the ground and the loud sound of someone hitting something indicated that they were in the middle of a battlefield. However, the sound disappeared as if it had been washed away at some point.
What came after the sound disappeared was a silence with a deep sense of disconnection. The monsters that had been howling so loudly were now crouching in front of the door, looking at it with gloomy eyes. It was as if he knew that Lee Jae-young’s presence had disappeared.
The only thing that touched my trembling fingertips was a cold sensation. She tried casting the skill again, but no sound came again. It felt like the gap that had been slightly open was now completely closed. Still, I wanted to reach it if possible.
It had been 20 days since Jaeyoung Lee entered the tower. According to the flow, it would have been time for Lee Jae-young to fight against the disaster he called ‘destruction’. The remaining attack time is approximately 10 days.
It was a longer and shorter time than I thought. Sehyun, who was thinking about that period, got up from where she was only after a while.
I knew very well that Jaeyoung Lee was currently fighting hard. The last thing I heard was a long howl. If I’m not mistaken, that was Jaeyoung Lee’s monster-like cry.
Sehyeon remembered the crying sound that went through his entire body to the point of giving goosebumps, and he picked up the now calm kid and turned away from the iron door.
Squeak-
Kiak, who struggled a few times, must have realized that there was no sign of Jaeyoung Lee, and buried his face in Sehyeon’s shoulder with tears in his eyes. I don’t know what this phenomenon was. However, Se-hyeon hoped that this was the goddess’s consideration to help Jae-young Lee, who was in danger.
***
The 85th floor of the tower. Sehyun was currently hiding in the grass with the heroes, spying on the movements of passing monsters. As soon as the monster wandering around showed his back, Sehyeon took out an arrow, loaded it, and opened his mouth as if whispering.
“Is Baek Do-hyun the same?”
[There are no significant changes other than visiting the White Cloth Empire once a day. Well, you know that Numan is about to lie down with a vase.]
“What about the tower? Baek Do-hyeon, is the tower spinning?”
It was a small sound that I was not sure if I could hear or not. The sound was currently coming out of the wireless earphone Sehyun was wearing in one ear. It was a new work created by Gong Jae-woo.
[The tower seemed to be spinning. Not only Baek Do-hyeon, but most of the people currently in the alliance are circling the tower very diligently. Isn’t it amazing?]
“Why isn’t the fan running?”
[Haha, I have a lot to do these days.]
There are many. As far as Sehyeon knew, Fan had been concentrating on one thing these days. Mass production of ultrasonic explosion air process. In addition, Sehyun’s guess was that partial improvements to the supersonic bombing airship were in progress.
“Mr. Fen.”
[Say it.]
“According to Agatha, Mr. Billwill is reluctant to meet Agatha. “Do you have any guesses?”
When the monster recognized the sound and looked back at the grass with fearful momentum, Sehyeon fired an arrow wrapped with <Purification’s Fall> at the monster’s head. The moment the arrow that shot out with light pierced the monster’s eyeball and exploded his head, the sound of Fan’s words penetrated into my ears.
[I don’t know. However, I am guessing about that time.]
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“When?”
[I remember receiving a report that Agatha visited Bilwil right after you were rescued from the Earth Empire. And I think Agatha has been reluctant to cross the portal since then.]
“If you knew Agasa’s whereabouts, you would have assigned someone to me too, right?”
[Is that important?]
Of course not. Sehyeon thought deeply for several days about the ‘unreasonable request’ that Agasa had made to Billwill. What is an unreasonable request that she can ask from her perspective?
The most important thing was whether Bill Will listened to it or not. Se-hyeon had already taken Yoon Je-ha with her once and asked Bill Will about Agatha’s ‘business’ on the premise of using the question ticket. At that time, Bill Will gave Sehyeon an answer that he could not answer regarding the player’s personal business.
Because of this, Sehyun still hasn’t been able to figure out what it is.
