Admission is a waste of time (366)
Lesson 72. Babel Tower Isolation Operation – 1
The Ortima siblings’ Nuclear Fire Chicken Mukbang, which was uploaded in place of the Rebellion Team’s top exploration video, received a lot of attention and became the best video of the month on YouTube.
“no!”
Lucien Ortima shouted in anger with her lips agape.
“The power of speech is my power! But what kind of outrage is that to tell me not to use it! It’s just [removing the spicy taste]――.”
“Use it.”
Ban Yu-won clicked his tongue and said as he twisted the magic power of Lucien, who was trying to secretly activate a spell, and released her power.
“He still doesn’t know how to broadcast. How funny would it be to see someone with such great powers struggling with just spicy food, huh? [It’s not even that spicy].”
“You just used your power――!”
Since the previous video I uploaded was a huge hit, today is the second spicy mukbang.
There were many comments saying that they wanted to see Ban Yu-won’s mukbang, so he sat down with them, but the food in front of him was spicier than he thought – the hellish tteokbokki was spicy, so he tried to secretly turn off the spiciness, but was caught by Lucien, and so the two started a mysterious match to suppress each other’s powers to prevent the spiciness from being neutralized, but of course, the winner was Ban Yu-won.
“This is pretty good too. I’ve been really stressed out lately, but it feels like it’s been relieved a lot.”
And on one side, Luisia Ortima was eating tteokbokki with a calm expression.
Looking back, unlike my cousin who struggled in the previous video, he ate it all up easily. It seems like he is naturally good at spicy food.
“Why are you looking at me like that? Aren’t you hungry?”
The two people stared blankly at Louisa and eventually began to eat their tteokbokki in silence.
Today’s video was also a huge hit.
I can’t keep going like this though.
“How are things going?”
“Of course. There’s not much time left.”
After filming, in response to Lucien’s fierce questions, Ban Yu-won answered by scraping off some raclette cheese that had melted its surface with heat with a knife and pouring it down like a waterfall onto the tteokbokki.
“I don’t think it’ll be possible to drag it out any longer. I heard there have been a lot of irregulars recently?”
“I wonder if something big will happen at some point if things continue like this. … … I wonder what the president is thinking.”
“You still don’t know?”
Ban Yoo-won dipped a piece of tteokbokki in hellish sauce and snickered as he rolled it in cheese.
“I told you the president doesn’t have the ability to control the tower.”
As I was about to put it in my mouth, I saw Louisa sticking her face out from the side with her mouth still open.
He also helped me with the video shoot, and since he was upset that I left him behind the last time I went to Earth, I felt the need to take care of him a little bit… … .
After a brief moment of deliberation, I offered him some tteokbokki rolled in cheese. He took it, ate it, and smiled shyly.
“It’s delicious.”
“… … .”
Lucien’s expression grew closer to something akin to indescribable fear.
Now, Louisa, who seemed to be enjoying his reaction, took a picture of the tteokbokki herself and handed it to Ban Yu-won.
“I’d like to make time for the Chairman and the Head of House to meet, but it seems like the Head of House doesn’t have time.”
“Head of the Ortima family? What… … .”
Ban Yu-won had no choice but to accept the rice cake she offered him, chewed it and swallowed it, then shrugged his shoulders.
“I understand your feelings. The Ortima family is originally the most successful family among the ten families. Since you, the successor, have shown a strong will to form an alliance with me, that gentleman cannot help but be displeased… … Are you not going to say anything about changing the successor?”
“If that happens, then Ortima will be torn in half. Of course, Ortima has many great talents, both direct and collateral, but in this generation, there is no one with the same ability as me and my brother Lucien.”
In that regard, since the time he entered first grade, Lucain Ortima had boasted a strength level of over 1,000 raw, 100 level, and over 4 Erecto.
It may seem funny now, but when you consider that at the time, Erecto was only the average of the special class comprised of the strongest first-year students, you can see just how ridiculously strong Lucain was at the time.
And what was even more surprising was Louisa right before my eyes.
If Lucain hadn’t done something stupid, she wouldn’t have become the successor, but the bottom line is that Louisa was stronger than Lucain at the time.
He was originally strong, but his development was extraordinary, especially after entering the academy. What can I say, it was all thanks to Ban Yu-won’s thorough personal guidance.
‘If there’s anyone else who can compare to these guys, then Ortima is simply the best in the universe… … .’
The head of the Ortima family.
Ultimately, it’s a bit concerning that we haven’t met up until now, but since the plan is almost complete, it shouldn’t be a major variable.
First of all, they are allies.
“Anyway, you worked hard. Since you guys are such a hot topic, we don’t really talk about the top.”
“Don’t lie. There’s no way we can survive with this temporary measure.”
“What does the channel matter now?”
“What――.”
“UniTube itself might disappear.”
When she giggled and responded to the worried Louisa, Lusain, whose lips were still slightly swollen, was about to scream, but Ban Yuwon smiled and added, causing her to immediately shut her mouth.
“I will cooperate with you no matter what, but if possible, I would like you to stay on Unitube.”
Louisa smiled as she checked the freshly uploaded video through her mirror.
I think it might be a bit much to take screenshots of all the cuts where Ban Yoo-won and I appear together and leave them behind one by one.
“It may be an inappropriate thought for an heir to Ortima, but I like filming a video together. If you are my senior, wouldn’t it be possible to achieve your goals while maintaining things like Unitube… Union Net and the system?”
“――Yeah, I plan to try to work in that direction for now.”
If the tower collapses like this.
If everything connected to the tower disappears.
Surely a catastrophe comparable to the annihilation of a dimension would strike all dimensions.
Even at this very moment, while the operation to isolate the Union was being carried out diligently, Ban Yu-won was still pondering the method.
Since he destroyed the ziggurat in Iraq, it became impossible to enter the tower for independent exploration――it would not be easy to change the system connected to the tower.
“So let’s just film up to part 3. Okay, Lucien?”
“What?!”
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“Okay, this is fine too.”
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F-138 Dimension, Uraha and something specific… … Yes, the barrier that cuts her off from the Union Net has been completely constructed.
This dimension is home to Papitar, a country that suffered from an orc wave caused by orcs who had seized the relic in the past, and was also the place where the Rebellion team first carried out special activities.
Since it is a place with many memories, Ban Yu-won came here to do some ‘work’ himself… … .
“How are things on the ground, Tike?”
-Wait a minute
“Yeah, there’s no big fuss.”
The connection to UnionNet is lost, and the connection to the system is lost.
On Earth, everyone was causing an uproar because the status window had disappeared at this very moment, so why is there no commotion here?
That’s because the F-grade dimension is one that doesn’t properly receive the benefits of the Union Net.
Only a few people with outstanding abilities, high visibility, and noble status can access the Union Net, and of course, they cannot even look at the status window, which is said to be exclusive to higher dimensions.
How could there be an uproar when most of humanity is unaware of its connection to the Union Net, the System, and the Tower of Babel?
“It’s scary when you think about it that way. Why are the ‘successful’ people connected to Union Net even in this lower dimension… …”
[That’s right. At the time, I thought it was just a privilege based on class. But if you look at it objectively, there’s no way the system would take care of something like that.]
okay.
That it is connected to Union Net.
In other words, receiving the attention of the Tower of Babel means that one’s abilities are strong or special enough to be worthy of being the Tower of Babel’s ‘integration target’.
In other words, those who could access the Union Net from lower dimensions were treated as materials that could be integrated into the tower at any time.
[The word value can never feel so scary. It’s even more so when you think about the fact that they were proud of being able to access Union Net… … .]
Even Lilith, who rarely gets nervous, gradually realized how dangerous the Tower of Babel, which connects all dimensions like a spider web, was as the work of creating barriers through multiple dimensions progressed.
[Everyone will be grateful, Master.]
“I hope so.”
But it probably won’t be possible to get over it that easily.
In any case, the installation of lower-dimensional barriers that require less effort has now been completed.
Ban Yu-won contacted those who were wandering around creating barriers other than himself and confirmed that the installation of barriers in all dimensions of class F, E, and D had been completed.
He smiled as he looked at his grandfather Ban Ji-won’s face reflected in the image that appeared in his mirror.
“It’s really nice working with grandpa.”
-Won-ah, Grandpa, Grandpa… … This spatial movement thing is a bit too dizzying.
“Now that the crazy busyness is over, don’t worry. If you just count the numbers, there’s less than half of what we’ve done so far left.”
The problem is that when it comes to a C-class dimension, they won’t sit idly by and watch someone arbitrarily enter their dimension and set up a barrier that blocks the connection to the Union Net.
So naturally, force had to be involved, and naturally, the identity had to be revealed… … .
“From now on, we’ll be traveling in pairs at least. For now, we’ll hide our identities and move around, but probably… … .”
Even if you can somehow suppress up to C grade, it will be impossible to get to B grade or higher.
Even though Ban Yoo-won is a popular star in every dimension now, I don’t know what will happen from now on.
[Now that you mention it, Master, this is where the Orc Wave originally struck.]
“Yeah, I told you earlier.”
After regrouping the team members carrying out the operation in pairs, Lilith spoke to Ban Yu-won, who was finishing up the communication.
[Did you know that Monster Waves tend to reoccur in the same place they originally occurred?]
“If you think about what a wave of infection is, well.”
Ban Yu-won frowned as he recalled the time he had faced the Chimera Ball in space.
Ban Yu-won was now thinking that the infection wave might be something like a bug that occurred while the system of the Tower of Babel was being created.
The president called it an experiment, but he never said he led the experiment.
Then who would have done it? Of course, it would have been the previous owner.
“How shameless, to have the students climbing the Tower of Babel solve the damage caused by such a monster wave… … .”
[If the Union Net is completely cut off, it will be difficult to resolve the damage caused by monster waves in a timely manner… … .]
It’s not easy to just say that it’s something that we have to endure.
Monster waves are ultimately just violent conceptual outbursts. If there was a way to detect them in advance, there would be a way to resolve them immediately without having to go through any cumbersome procedures.
“No, wait.”
Monster Wave.
It is a production phenomenon that creates monsters by contaminating mana, and sometimes even combining them to create more monsters.
It is a natural disaster that is truly difficult for the opponent because it causes an amplification phenomenon even with a relatively small amount of mana.
“Isn’t this… … perfect for the tower?”
[You want to infect the Tower of Babel?]
“no.”
What if we could detect the infection wave in advance and isolate it in the Tower of Babel?
[……yes?]
“If we can control the tower, we can do such manipulations. We will need the help of Changeling and Fairy Tail. Aside from the purpose of the tower, which is integration, we will put in an infection wave that is nothing more than a failed phenomenon of past experiments. In that way, we can trap the infection wave itself, not the dimension, in the tower?”
[Won’t the inside of the tower become a mess?]
“It’s okay, it’s already a mess.”
The wave of infection is accompanied by a violent divergence of concepts.
The variability that can occur is a bonus.
… … If we properly manage it with a control device like the Tower of Babel, wouldn’t there be no better means of maintaining the Union Net?
[I’m already afraid of the future when everything goes as you want, Master.]
“Okay. Now that that’s done, we need to figure out a way to induce a wave of infection. Let’s go see Professor Campanella.”
Ban Yu-won ran through the dimensional wall again, collecting the seeds of evil that his ancestors had sown one by one.
That weekend, news spread throughout the entire dimension that the Fides dimension had disappeared without a trace.
