Admission is a waste of time (281)
Lesson 55. Center of the Tower – 1
“I wonder if it’s just my mood, but it feels like it’s been a really long time since I’ve been to the top.”
“That’s true, Asha.”
“No, that’s okay. Don’t tell me! I was wrong!”
On Friday morning, the Rebellion members, who had filled their bellies with crab meat fried rice and soup topped with an exotic citrus sauce, entered the Tower of Babel faster than any other team.
Of course, when they entered, the first-year special class members were glaring at them with spirited expressions, but they neatly ignored them.
Lucien Ortima, who was at the center of them all, had a pale complexion as if she was sick.
“If he’s sick, he should just stay in his room. Why is he out here?”
The moment he entered the tower, confidently enduring the countless gazes directed at his back, Asha, who could not help but mention Ortima, frowned and said.
In fact, there is no direct relationship between Asha and Ortima, but since they were both paired up with Ulrike Prominence at the Union Founding Ceremony and fought against Banyuwon, and both lost and suffered the same humiliation, I could sympathize with them somewhat emotionally.
The difference is that Asha got a chance to regain her honor that day, while Ortima’s honor, despite being the heir to the teenage family, fell into the trash can.
“Don’t you know, Light? He just achieved his goal.”
“Huh? What?”
To Asha, who asked innocently, Ruchel said with a mischievous smile.
“Just now, Light, you are interested in him.”
“Huh? Yeah, well, it’s weird that a descendant of a teenage family can’t even take care of his own condition… … Did I do something weird?”
“That in itself was the purpose. Right now, that person wants to expose his pitiful and miserable appearance to us as much as possible to gain sympathy.”
The space they last explored was exactly 200 rooms, no more, no less.
From now on, it was the center of the tower that could be proudly called the area for current students, not freshmen. The tower, which had been composed of simple mazes and caves, uncomplicated traps, and monsters that would attack without thinking, was now experiencing colorful changes, and it had become a space that gave the feeling of exploring a small world as you advanced through each floor.
――Of course, for Rebellion, the tower has been that kind of space from the beginning.
“Hey, even so, a man who is the descendant of a family of teenagers is doing something like that to get our attention?”
“If we’re going to do it, it might be Dokgoyeon, not us. If we expand it a bit, maybe it’s the owner.”
But even after arriving at Room 200, Asha and Ruchel’s conversation did not end.
Even though Asha didn’t know, Ruchel felt like she had been glancing at Dokgoyeon from time to time.
“Ah―― So that’s how much you like Dokgo Yeon. Too bad, Dokgo Yeon is dull, so he didn’t even care.”
As Asha, who still thought of Dokgoyeon as the world’s dullard, nodded innocently, Ruchel smiled faintly.
In fact, she was so shocked when she heard from her former lover, Dokgo Yeon, that she pretended not to notice other men because she didn’t like Ban Yu-won worrying about her for no reason, so she wanted to see Ban Yu-won realize the truth and react to it somehow.
“So what do you think, Dokgo Yeon? You knew that guy was there, right?”
“Beast, and fool. You came into the tower and your mind was too loose.”
And of course, Dokgo Yeon knew what Ruchel was going to do, so he hardened his face and spoke in a cold voice.
“I don’t normally mind having a flower garden, but this is already a battlefield. Wasn’t everyone’s goal to climb the tower?”
“Heh… … You’re right, I’m sorry.”
It was a golden opportunity to see Dokgo Yeon embarrassed, but when she came out with a serious expression, I had nothing to say.
When Ruchel, who had no choice but to give up on pursuing her, winked meaningfully at Ban Yu-won, Ban Yu-won, who roughly realized what kind of psychological warfare was going on between the two, shook his head as if he could see the nine tails of a gumiho behind Ruchel’s butt.
“Right now, Yeon’s words are right. I understand that our level of force is higher than the level of the rooms we’ve experienced so far, and it’s making us feel less tense――but what he said about the tower changing drastically from room 200 probably applies to us as well. Let’s all come to our senses and go.”
200 Room, before leaving Eden, I first collected all the blood flowing there into a water bottle.
The water bottle, which had been modified with an artifact to hold over 10,000 liters of liquid, was already more than half full of pure blood liquor. Those who knew the power of the blood liquor flowing in Eden would not be able to help but covet this water bottle.
“Did you all get your candy?”
“I don’t have any problem.”
Unlike bloodlines, this candy is made by hardening the jam made with the concept of life and fruit from Eden that was collected long ago.
After confirming that each person had at least three Life Candies, which could completely cure even the most common fatal injuries, I left Eden and headed to Room 201.
“You got out of here safely, Dokgoyeon.”
“Didn’t you hear what Won said earlier? He told you to come to your senses.”
“I feel like these days, more often than not, you’re handing over the reins to me rather than standing up and saying something yourself… … Do you know that I’m so happy these days because I realized that we feel the same way?”
“You will be stronger later.”
He waits for the shift to end, ignoring the two people who are whispering behind him and engaging in a never-ending war of nerves. Asha, who has been pushed aside by them, approaches him with her cheeks puffed out and whispers to him.
“Yu-won, those two have been acting strange lately. They’ve been glaring at each other and saying things that don’t make sense. Could it be that they’re being mentally interfered with by another being like I was before?”
“It’s okay, Asha, you two are perfectly normal.”
Ban Yu-won suddenly remembered Dokgo Yeon receiving chocolate from him with her mouth last night and thought that maybe she wasn’t normal, but he kept his mouth shut because he knew that if he said something like that, he would get beaten up again.
Luckily, the shift ended before he made the mistake.
The group was falling from the sky to the ground without parachutes.
The winds that struck from all directions were fierce and sharp as the group fell, pulled by gravity.
“See―― I knew this would happen――.”
“Wow――It’s really tall――!”
“The scale is no joke, look at how vast the land is! This is definitely another chain room!”
“It’s as if the world… has been crushed.”
Even if you’re a veteran who’s been rolling around on the tower for years and been through all kinds of situations, it’s understandable for a first-year freshman to be suddenly thrown from the sky.
But Rebellion isn’t a fraud team for nothing.
First of all, this team now has two members who can fly on their own.
Ruchel, who has awakened the blood of the divine beast, and Asha, who can fly, dig into the ground, and walk freely in the water with the power of the True Dragon Sword.
Although I don’t know, Dokgoyeon could also run through empty space if he used his internal energy, and when he reached Banyuwon, he could use wind, one of the elemental magic, to fly like a bird.
―You know where you land is important in these games, right, Master?
“Go down and transform since you’re not going to have a battle royale.”
-You don’t do any farming?
“I might do some farming.”
But Ban Yu-won chose an even easier path.
Lilith, who has acquired the concepts of monsters and transformations and can skillfully transform into any vehicle, transforms into a fighter plane and takes Ban Yu-won on board.
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It was a two-seater fighter jet, and Dokgo Yeon was soon sitting behind him.
“Hurry up?!”
Ruchel, who had taken out the tail of the divine beast and started flying, rolled his eyes in shock at the sight.
“Here comes another strange ride… …!”
Asha, who had drawn the True Dragon Sword and begun to glide, was also astonished at the sight of Ban Yu-won boarding the latest fighter jet, but immediately pulled out the sword’s aura and shouted sharply.
After her body was consumed by her ancestors and she awakened as a true dragon, her fighting prowess became trustworthy, even if other aspects were unknown.
As I swung my sword, freely turning my body in the air, a blue aura arose along its trajectory, cutting the air in a large X shape.
It was clearly only swung once, but there were two trajectories. Before I could even think about it, the purple winged things that had gotten caught in it in large numbers disappeared with a strange scream.
[You have gained 300 Life, 150 Curse, and 30 Fusion.]
“Curse! Be careful not to touch it directly!”
As soon as the enemy was destroyed, Ban Yu-won, who had acquired the power and the concept of language, identified the enemy’s identity and relayed it to everyone in the group through voice transmission.
But rather, the group looked confident after hearing those words.
“A curse of that magnitude wouldn’t be able to invade my body.”
Ruchel, who revealed the energy of a divine beast, dashed through the air, shooting out purple sparks from his entire body.
Every time the sharp claws protruded from the delicate fingers and tore at the bodies of the winged, irregular monsters, the evil energy disappeared and black smoke rose.
“Same here… … Let’s finish it off between us while Yuwon is trapped in that dull lump of iron!”
While Ruchel stands above curses with his innate divinity as a divine being, Asha crushes all the lesser curses with her innate high status as a dragon.
Especially since she had recently overcome the ancestral curse that had consumed her body, her resistance to curses had become extremely high, so she would be fine even if thrown into the midst of those monsters without the True Dragon Sword.
She grabbed her weapon, which had transformed into a spear, and kicked the air, smashing down all the monsters in her path as she dashed out on the other side.
“So what are we going to do?”
The moment Ban Yoo-won created the fighter jet with the release, Dokgo Yeon, who had climbed into his backseat with ghostly movements, confirmed it with a cold expression as if she had forgotten about such a past.
“The sky is my domain.”
Ban Yu-won confidently declared and called out to his followers.
The guy’s name is Abyss.
The ultimate drill that grinds down everything it encounters is attached to the tip of the fighter jet, transforming its front end into a drill.
“A true digger knows how to split the sky. Kite, let’s go!”
“Wait a minute, you’re not going to charge in like this――”
The fighter jet picked up speed and rushed into the swarm of monsters that were already causing trouble for Ruchel and Asha!
The drill attached to the front of the fighter jet, which was rushing at a speed that would have been so fast that it would not have been strange if the party had not been superhumans, had they been torn apart by the aftermath of the fighter jet, spun rapidly and even committed the atrocity of converting the flow of air caught in it into aura.
“Avoid it if you know how!”
“That’s… … Gyaak!”
“I’m getting sucked in!”
The terrifying rotation of the drill caused a whirlwind that sucked in all the monster birds, leaving them with no chance to escape, and the next moment they were torn to pieces.
Ban Yu-won stored all the concepts of curse and fusion that he had acquired after a long time in the code core, and looked at the scenery of Room 201 that was now clearly visible under the clouds.
Since the room’s size was limited, the land was divided into certain areas on all sides, but more than half of the interior appeared to be dyed black.
“If that’s all a curse, then this is it.”
It’ll be connected to the constellations.
Even though the freshmen and even the regular students who had become accustomed to the tower were screaming in the extreme environment, Ban Yu-won just smiled calmly.
