Admission is a waste of time (287)
Lesson 55. Center of the Tower – 7
It was now a familiar sight for the Union to get excited every Sunday afternoon over the renewal of Rebellion’s exploration records, when the Tower was being explored.
But this time it went too far.
“Last time… … how many rooms did the last exploration go to?”
“Room 200.”
“No, that doesn’t make sense! It’s not like we went on a long-term expedition during the entire vacation, and we only had 2 nights and 3 days to clear 50 rooms. How can that make sense!”
Not only freshmen, but also current students and even professors.
Wherever two or more people gathered, everyone was foaming at the mouth discussing Rebellion’s latest expedition.
A team made up entirely of talented people? Sounds good.
It is also good to have the power to climb towers and explore faster than others.
However, it was physically impossible to go through 50 rooms in just three days, not just from Room 1 to Room 50, but also from an area of over 200 rooms that only students in their second year or higher can reliably explore.
There are minimum achievement requirements required to break through the room.
Completing special quests, including defeating monsters, exploring hidden structures or objective points, and, in rare cases, rescuing NPCs.
As you reach higher rooms, the achievement conditions become more complicated, and in fact, once you pass room 200, there is a chance that you won’t be able to clear even one room per day.
How would you react if Rebellion achieved such a ridiculous result in such a situation?
This is, without a doubt, the first article to have appeared since Union Academy opened its doors.
“The video will be uploaded.”
“It’s manipulation. This time, it’s confirmed. I’ve always wondered why only that bastard Ban Yu-won could film inside the tower! If the president is secretly supporting that bastard, then it makes sense that he’s manipulating the contents of the tower!”
“Stop talking nonsense. Do you think the position of president is a position that you just get by staking out a ticket?”
And all that kind of fuss was focused on a video being uploaded to the Rebellion channel.
Not everyone believed that Rebellion had climbed the tower so quickly based on skill alone, but that did not mean that everyone suspected Rebellion of wrongdoing.
The tower that has stood still for thousands of years and has been challenged by countless people, and the president of the Union Academy that manages it.
It was a kind of authority.
They had a strong belief in their psychology that the Tower of Babel would not have given special benefits to any particular individual for any reason.
… … But if you actually find out the secrets that Ban Yu-won holds and the things that happen during his solo exploration, that belief will disappear in an instant.
Anyway, for that reason, Ban Yu-won was now called to the president’s office.
The other members were more intense than ever due to the investigation… … Even Dokgo Yeon, who never uttered a single word except when he was served something sweet, had quietly returned to his dorm room and was resting. Instead, his professor, Yumina, had come to the president’s office with him.
‘This is the first time we’ve had a three-way meeting like this.’
Ban Yu-won sat next to Yumi on a sofa that he didn’t know when it had been prepared, letting out a faint sigh as he thought.
Of course, the president, as always, was sitting opposite them in the form of a small doll.
Today, Yumina was present as well, so he looked like a middle-aged gentleman doll wearing a suit who paid a lot of attention to his appearance.
‘Celone, is there anything you want to say?’
Since the president and Yumina were all gathered in one place, I thought that Celon might be stimulated, so I tried to talk to him, but he remained silent and did not respond at all.
Maybe he thinks that if he raises his voice in this space now, he will be caught by the president?
Even though the president had grown so much since the beginning of the semester that it could be called a world of difference, Ban Yu-won felt somewhat uneasy seeing that his true identity was still unclear.
Even though he had already concluded a long time ago that it couldn’t be true, he was worried that the president might be reading his mind.
“Master, why did you call me?”
“Master… … ?”
Five minutes have passed since the three of them sat side by side.
When Ban Yu-won, who was frustrated with the situation where no one spoke up, couldn’t stand it anymore and spoke up first, it was Yumi-na, who was sitting next to him, rather than the president, who showed a strange reaction.
“Principal, could you please tell Yuwon to call me that… .”
―You probably know better why I called you here today.
Oh, I just blatantly changed the subject.
The gentleman doll, whose expression was clearly not visible, seemed a little embarrassed now.
―If it is revealed that the breakthrough of 50 rooms in three days was achieved in a very large room where 10 rooms were combined into one due to multiple shifts.
“You knew that.”
It was right to inspect this little tower!
Yes, that’s right.
Over the past two nights and three days, the Ban Yu-won group has gone through five rooms that were once ten rooms, but were combined into one due to multiple shifts.
It seemed like a different world each time, but the theme of every room was the same, and Ban Yu-won even suspected that it might be some kind of chain room.
And if that were really the case, there was a high probability that this phenomenon would not end with just this one… … .
―You have to admit it. Your special talent and connection. It’s a time when it’s hard to hide it even in edited footage.
“Uh… … Well, yeah.”
I can’t help but laugh when I hear the word fate.
He knew full well that the president had caught on to his secret, but fate.
Is that a roundabout way of saying bloodline?
“Fate…? Principal, what are you talking about? Before this special selection, our Yuwon was from Earth, a dimension that had been closed.”
―You probably know that. The specialness of that dimension. Earth was once connected to the Union, and the connection from that time has continued to this day, blossoming in Ban Yu-won.
“… … .”
Yumina keeps her mouth shut.
She was also the closest person to Ban Yu-won in the Academy, aside from the members of Rebellion, so she knew that he had a connection to the Top, either directly or indirectly.
The reason I have not spoken about this fact until now is because I know that it is a burdensome topic for both the speaker and the listener.
That is why she kept her mouth shut and supported him not through her status as a full professor at the Academy, but through her own talents and connections, and even through Rebellion’s fan club, Level Force.
‘And the reason I didn’t say anything was because I hoped the principal wouldn’t notice.’
I knew I couldn’t hide it forever.
Wasn’t it Ban Yu-won who had been receiving attention from the president since the day he entered school?
But as she listened to the president’s remarks, who seemed to know more about him than Yumi, or perhaps even Ban Yuwon himself, she felt her spirits suddenly let go.
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“Why are you telling me that now? You brought me here too.”
So it was not surprising that she grumbled not as a full professor at the academy who was trusted by the president, but as a man who had supported and raised her since childhood in place of her parents.
―Because the clash with the forces that are aiming for the tower has risen to the surface to the point where it can no longer be suppressed. The most representative of them is Exodus, but the other ten families are also showing their teeth one by one.
“Are you talking about the teenage family… … Prominence?”
―You will find that they are not the only ones. Among them, dragons are particularly dangerous.
Ban Yu-won nodded absentmindedly at those words, recalling the Melodia family.
But that person, if anything, felt like an ally of Ban Yoo-won… … Does the president view him as an enemy?
Just to confirm this discrepancy, I absolutely had to visit Melodia at least once.
―And it’s no different than it was all started because of you, Ban Yu-won.
“Huh, me?”
-That’s right.
The gentleman tapped the table with an umbrella that he had gotten from somewhere.
Then a hologram appeared on the table and a video started playing. It was the first part of this exploration video that had just been edited by Tike and uploaded to the Rebellion channel.
As expected, he was a subscriber to the Rebellion channel. While being certain of this, he carefully remembered the flow of mana that the president had just caused.
I knew that Union Net and even Unitube were the president’s tricks, but I never thought that a connection without a device could be made so easily.
It may seem like nothing special, but I had no idea that it might be the secret key to the Union Net that connects multiple dimensions.
―Look, the upload time was 1 minute ago… … .
Why does it feel so strange and funny to hear the president say the word upload?
No, now is the time to focus on what he has to say.
There must be a special reason why he called not only Ban Yu-won but also Yumi and sat her down here to talk!
―The number of views has already exceeded 500 million. If you refresh, it’s 1.2 billion. 1.4 billion…
“Haha, the channel has grown again in the meantime. This is all thanks to Yuwon’s great abilities.”
Yumi Palbulchul was clapping her hands in joy at the channel’s growth, seemingly forgetting the seriousness of the situation.
The gentleman doll continued speaking in a voice that seemed slightly bewildered by her reaction.
―A few days ago, a video of Rebellion was uploaded as well, but the number of views didn’t increase as fast as this. Do you know what this means?
What are you doing now?
Is this a place where I, the professor in charge, and the president gather together to discuss the growth direction and future goals of the Rebellion Channel?
Ban Yu-won, who desperately tried to keep himself from drifting away to Andromeda, gave a cool answer.
“So you’re saying that our team’s incredible exploration achievement this week was known to many dimensions before the footage was even uploaded?”
– That’s correct. This means that more than just attention, many people are wary and suspicious of you.
“Doubts! Our Yuwon hasn’t done anything suspicious! It’s just that he’s been doing so well in his explorations so far, so the tower has adopted a somewhat aggressive and efficient testing method!”
Yumina questioned him in a tone similar to that of a student council president protecting her younger sibling who was suspected of cheating on a test.
However, the president hit the table with the umbrella he was holding a couple more times, seeing Yumina’s pitiful appearance as she still couldn’t figure out what to do.
Yumina’s momentum was forcibly suppressed as she sat up, but then collapsed on the table.
-Minaya, doubt isn’t that kind of thing.
I don’t know how many times he had come here today―― but this time, Ban Yu-won finally suspected that there was something wrong with his ears.
Is it true that the president just called Yumina by her name?
Yumina’s response to him was also a masterpiece.
“But, teacher――!”
―Everyone who first climbs the tower fantasizes. They will become the master of the tower, and wield all the powers hidden within it. They will become the only god, and eliminate the messy boundaries of dimensions, and become the master of a unified world.
No――I don’t think there are many people who think that way.
Ban Yu-won, who read the president’s inner desire in his short words, felt goosebumps run down his entire body for a moment.
Should I run away from this place right now?
But as if reading his inner thoughts, the president’s umbrella pointed directly at Ban Yu-won.
―But as you climb the tower, you will realize that you are not destined to be the owner of the tower. The tower does not test the climber, but treats the climber as just one of the samples.
“Sample… …! Teacher, Yuwon will never be sacrificed. I will protect him!”
Perhaps the word sample stimulated Yumina.
Finally, she overcame the pressure of the president’s momentum and got up, stepping forward to embrace Ban Yu-won. But immediately after, the table they had been sitting at disappeared, and instead, a giant eye appeared on the floor.
The same goes for the ceiling.
Likewise, pupils appeared on the walls on all sides.
―But in fact, we will all gradually realize that there were exceptions to this.
And then in the next moment, everything disappeared and the room returned to its original appearance.
The president continued speaking calmly.
―Mina, you were put there to protect him from the beginning. There is nothing wrong with your attitude, so just do it.
“Ah, ah… … Just now… … Teacher… … ?”
Yumina’s complexion turned pale.
This time, Ban Yu-won supported her as she tried to sit down, her legs trembling.
The president acted calmly, as if he had no intention of threatening them.
―Successor. The enemy is everywhere. Outside the tower, and of course inside the tower. Think again about who was targeting you during this exploration. And prepare.
As he banged the table with his umbrella again, the two were chased out of the president’s office and were now standing in the hallway.
-The war has already begun.
Ban Yu-won thought as he hugged Yu-mi, who was still trembling, as if trying to protect him.
Anyway, the kid has a dirty pose.
With what I already knew.
