Admission is a waste of time (18)
Lesson 5. The Tower is a One-Way Street – 1
[Steal 0.1 Demon, 0.05 Life, 0.03 Flesh, and 0.2 Archery from the Goblin Archer.]
After school on Thursdays, outside dungeon.
Ban Yu-won’s face hardened as he saw the amount of concepts being absorbed from the goblin he had just killed.
‘It wasn’t a mistake. It has shrunk.’
From the moment that Ban Yu-won’s concept of life passed 50, the efficiency of the goblin’s life absorbed into his body was halved again.
Nevertheless, goblins with ‘something behind them’ like Goblin Warriors and Archers still had a decent concept of quantity and quality, so they worked hard on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, conquering two or three dungeons a day.
But today.
Strangely enough, at some point, I started having trouble understanding goblins, not to mention regular goblins, or even warriors or archers.
‘Maybe it’s because… …I got too many concepts from the goblins.’
I thought there were no limits to the Babylonian code, but I was wrong.
Since I had already killed a huge number of goblins and collected concepts from them, it was a natural change that the depth of the concepts I was gaining would decrease.
To use a game analogy, you could say, ‘If you catch a lot of the same monster, the amount of experience points you gain decreases.’
“If this continues, it will probably become 0 at some point.”
Ban Yu-won cleaned up the scene, sighed, and looked at the code inside his body.
[Raw 99.74
Flesh 66.21
Soul 334.8
Magic Power 75.36
Martial Arts 49 [Swordsmanship 27, Kwan 22]
Leadership 6
Riding (騎乘) 15 – The ability to control vehicles such as horses and cars.
Mandok-an (萬讀眼) 110
Mancheongi (萬聽耳) 100
[Man-eon-sun (萬言脣) 102]
An internal code that clearly shows the results of diligently clearing external dungeons after attending lectures for three days starting on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
Of course, the one that developed the most was Life, but Ban Yu-won was even more proud of the growth in magic and martial arts.
Because these two codes have grown more on their own than they have absorbed from the goblins.
‘Especially martial arts. Every time you stab, your swordsmanship grows along with your stamina.’
To put it bluntly, the goblins’ fighting skills were poor.
Rather, the Zatoichi I encountered in the first practical evaluation dungeon, or rather the blind goblin warrior, was the most tolerable, and in other dungeons, most of the bosses were hobgoblins who came out with a barrage of goblins.
Fortunately, thanks to the Hobgoblin’s unique code, the evil beast, one of Eve’s core concepts, grew to level 18.
“You might have to challenge dungeons other than the goblin dungeon soon. Are you okay with that, Eve?”
“Shh, shh.”
Eve reassured Ban Yu-won, saying that there might be many monsters with the concept of evil in the upper dungeons despite his worries.
It really is a wonderful pet.
“… … Okay, since tomorrow is the day to enter the tower, let’s just do this one dungeon. The goal from the beginning was to get 100 lives.”
“Shhh.”
“Let’s go for a drive? Okay. I’ll have time to spare, and it wouldn’t hurt to work on your riding skills.”
What kind of drive do I mean? Of course, I’m talking about riding the hoverbike ‘Onyx’ that I bought on Monday.
Qualifying exam? I passed it with ease.
It was thanks to this that I absorbed the concept of horse riding, which was preserved in a very old saddle among the relics my grandfather had given me!
Having absorbed the concept of being able to control anything, and a concept with a depth of 12, Ban Yu-won was able to handle Onyx as if it were his own body after reading the manual only once.
Of course, I was able to get the license very easily, and thanks to diligently riding the hoverbike outside for about three days, I even increased my depth by 3.
“And you’re going to do that today, too. You promised, right? When you turn 30, you’re going to have younger siblings.”
“Shhh.”
“Okay. Then let’s go.”
After experiencing it for a few days, I found out that the depth of the concept is significantly more effective when the level is 10, so I decided to first develop Eve’s core concept to 30.
And Eve’s ghostly device is 29.5. No matter how deep the goblins’ concepts are, there’s no way they wouldn’t have been able to collect this much.
* * *
“Humans, I will curse you… … !”
“Yeah, I know you don’t even have the concept of a curse.”
The half-widow’s sword pierced the hobgoblin’s neck.
When I looked back, there were already over a hundred goblin corpses lying there.
Their signatures were all black.
Now that Ban Yu-won can easily deal with goblins, he completely excludes Eve and conquers the boss room to gain more practical experience.
“But I still don’t get the feeling. I guess it’s time to graduate around here.”
He was already struggling against a blind goblin, so he’s grown a lot.
He reached out, overcome with emotion, and absorbed the codes from the corpses all at once.
[Now, the goblin species cannot absorb the concept of life.]
As expected, when my life passed 100, I felt my body tightening and that message appeared.
He finished off 101 cleanly by absorbing the remaining Hobgoblin life that was still valid for him, and checked himself.
“Um, uh-uh-uh… … !”
I can’t say for sure what has changed.
But even as his body evolved and his magical power increased, a strange elation that he had never felt before was coursing through his entire body.
What should I call this feeling, confidence? Or presence?
Yes, it was a feeling that made me feel certain that my place in the world had grown.
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“I raise myself and lower my enemy. That’s it.”
Visible growth is fun.
I think I understand why people are so obsessed with the status screen.
Ban Yu-won tilted his lips and smiled, feeling a pleasure he had never felt before on Earth.
“Shhh.”
“I’ll give you the rest of my life, so just wait. No, I’ll leave some for your little brother… … .”
Eve also gained life and was able to grow.
Although he could grow life on his own, it was obviously not as good as having Ban Yu-won give him life himself.
However, it could not rise above the depth of the spirit, which is the core concept of Eve. In other words, if the spirit is 30, the student cannot rise above 30.
Anyway, since Ban Yu-won’s efficiency in absorbing life directly decreased, he often gave life to Eve, but now that he could no longer absorb life from goblins, it was better to give it all to Eve… or to ‘someone else’.
“Okay, is that all?”
It ate everything, including the hobgoblins, goblins, and their weapons.
It’s always a pattern to destroy the dungeon core and split the demon and core.
Only after coming out of the dungeon did Ban Yu-won put today’s plan into action.
“onyx.”
The streamlined black bike didn’t respond to Ban Yu-won’s words.
Well, that’s natural, since it’s just a normal hoverbike.
But from now on, that won’t be the case.
Hasn’t Ban Yu-won already had the experience of breathing life into things?
“But Eve originally had a club, so there was an effect of better compatibility… … Okay, I’ll get insurance.”
Ban Yu-won took several concepts from the code core.
Just because you inject a ghost into any object doesn’t mean it becomes an artifact.
Just as a club-shaped object becomes a goblin’s club when a ghost takes hold of it, we must carefully consider the compatibility of objects and concepts, and the combination of concepts.
However, after spending a few days thinking about the concept and synthesis, I had an idea of how I could successfully transform this bike into an ‘artifact’.
The key concept for today was the devil.
“I’m sorry I couldn’t give you everything, Eve.”
“Shreut, shreut.”
Eve wraps her arm around him, telling him not to worry.
Ban Yu-won gently patted the boy’s head and then looked into the concept of the hoverbike.
[Floating Car 30, Magic Core 30, Speed 30, Magic Resistance 20, Hardening 10]
The floating car is literally a flying car, and the magic core is the mana core that powers this bike, just like the dungeon core.
Speed is an athletic ability granted by the bike’s design, magic resistance is probably related to its ability to resist the dungeon’s magic waves… … and lastly, hardening is a function of the bike’s front fender.
“Leave the floating car alone. The speed and light are fine for now. The important thing is… … Phew.”
It’s the devil’s core.
Even the most anti-Yu-Won couldn’t help but feel nervous at the thought that if he messed with this thing wrong, his 3.2 million Ronya hoverbike would fly away.
But if you back down here, you will miss the opportunity to grow as a master of the Babylonian Code.
Sometimes you have to risk failure and move forward.
The time is now!
“Separate the demon and the core, and synthesize the demon 2 and ghost 5 with them respectively.”
With one hand, he touches the bike and splits the magic core inside it in half, and with his other hand, he injects the penis and ears, combining the penis with the magic and the ears with the core.
The moment the concept of the core split, the bike vibrated so terribly that it seemed like it was going to explode.
But the next moment, the synthesis began right away, and Ban Yu-won opened his eyes wide and observed the process of change.
“Please, please… please…!”
It was at that moment that a peculiar, barely recognizable pattern appeared on the mana core of the bike, which was glowing red and emitting smoke.
Ban Yu-won realized that it was a ghost.
[The Hoverbike Onyx’s Core 15 is combined with Ghost 5. It is a concept that cannot be combined.]
[Hoverbike Onyx’s Ma (魔) 15 is combined with Yōma (妖) 2. Due to the perfect compatibility, a transcendent synthesis that ignores depth is achieved, completing Yōma (妖魔) 20!]
[Due to the existence of the demon, the synthesis of Core 15 and Demon 5 is successful. Demon Core 20 is complete! The demon possesses the Demon Core and supplies power to it. We have succeeded in creating a superior artifact!]
It worked!
The concept of creating a core that is inhabited by a ghost and inserting a fictional being called a demon into it to drive the bike has been realized!
[Due to the outstanding manifestation of ability, the depth of Mandok-an (萬讀眼), Mancheong-i (萬聽耳), and Man-eon-sun (萬言脣) each increases by 5!]
[The depth of life has become 110.]
[The depth of magic power has become 82.]
[The depth of the soul has reached 340.]
“Hoooooo.”
His abilities also grew significantly due to the completion of the artifact.
In particular, it was truly a great achievement that the life grew to nearly 10 years old.
It’s different from when I just left it to luck and created the goblin bat by accident.
Meaningful success and growth were possible because we thought deeply about the concept of language and gave priority to the creation of concepts that fulfilled their own necessary conditions.
“You are release.”
-Boooooo
The first was Eve, the second was Lilith.
It was a completely reverse order of tradition, and the fact that a bike driven by a human was named Lilith was extremely bad taste, but the ignorant guy was delighted and vibrated the engine wildly.
But it’s not over yet.
Ban Yu-won also gave the guy 1 life and 1 soul, as well as a sharp sword he had collected from many swords.
Since it’s a guy who can attack by hardening the front fender anyway, there’s no harm in making it sharp, right?
And so, this is what was born as a result.
[Floating Car 30, Demon 20, Ghost Core 20, Life 1, Soul 1, Speed 30, Magic Resistance 20, Hardening 10, Sharpness 20]
Ban Yu-won asked the guy while stroking the release handle, rather than analyzing the flow of the completed code.
“Hmm… …. I don’t need magic resistance anymore, right?”
-Booooow
The guy revved his engine as if to confirm it.
Why was magic resistance needed?
In the first place, why do machines, or magical tools, break down near places like dungeons?
This is because the refined magical power inside the magic tool was shaken by the dungeon’s magical power waves and ran wild, destroying its internal structure.
This is done by granting magical power resistance to magical tools, and those that can move and control magical power on their own, like Eve or Lilith, or in other words, artifacts, are completely unaffected by the dungeon’s magical power waves.
‘So this guy will be able to enter the dungeon in the future, and of course the tower too… … .’
Ban Yu-won, who was thinking about that, suddenly thought about his student ID.
This is clearly a magical tool, so why has it been fine in the dungeon until now?
The internal structure of the student ID card, which is composed of a different language system, is not yet known because the analysis has not been completed.
If you can figure it out, Ban Yu-won’s abilities will grow once again.
‘First, let’s take out the magic resistance. Can it be divided into magic and resistance? As expected, there isn’t.’
However, it was possible to extract only resistance from magic resistance.
From a concept that could only withstand magic power, the conversion ratio was close to being extremely low, as it was a matter of extracting a higher concept that could withstand everything.
Ban Yu-won felt complicated as he watched the magic resistance of 20 become a mere resistance of 1 and fall into his grasp.
“First of all… … I think I have it.”
And he gave it to his own body.
[You gain Resistance 1. You gain resistance to all negative things.]
But surprisingly, that brought about significant changes.
Not only did my body become stronger and my mind stronger, but I also felt strength gathering from somewhere in my body.
“Is that because it’s a concept that applies regardless of body or mind? I’ve benefited from it in many ways.”
For a moment, I had a crazy thought of selling all my gold bars and buying a few dozen more Onyx to create some resistance, but I ended up shaking my head.
If you look for it, there are definitely more objects that have the concept of resistance.
Isn’t resistance omnipresent in the world in the first place?
“Then let’s go for a drive like Eve asked.”
“Slurp.”
He climbed onto the release with Eve, who wrapped her arms around him and acted cute.
Even though the appearance had not changed much, I felt strangely comfortable.
It was as if the release was embracing him warmly.
I won’t say anything because if I go somewhere and say something like that, you’ll think I’m crazy.
“But a good ride isn’t enough. Then where… … should we fly?”
-Boooooooooooooooooo!
At that moment, the release started to accelerate even though Ban Yoo-won hadn’t started it yet.
The acceleration was noticeably different from yesterday, and it was even faster than the highest speed he had ever experienced!
Ban Yu-won opened his eyes wide and held onto the steering wheel, trying to adjust to the situation where he didn’t know whether he was driving or being dragged.
‘What the heck… …!’
The flights I’ve been on for the past three days were a joke compared to this.
At this very moment, Ban Yu-won was truly galloping through the sky!
But then, because he was flying quite high, a part of the floating island where the academy was located came into his sight.
A black ripple was seen near the Tower of Babel, a huge tower that strictly controlled the entry of students and was also the secret garden of the Ban Yu-won family.
Perhaps it’s an optical illusion.
It would have been easier if he had just thought about it that way and moved on, but Ban Yu-won couldn’t help but grumble.
“Something is definitely going to happen tomorrow… … .”
First, I decided to consult with Yumina.
He was a man who never overlooked even the slightest incident.
And then the next day, the day to enter the Tower of Babel finally arrived.
