Admission is a waste of time (375)
Lesson 73. The Tower of Babel – 5
Ortima’s power can be expressed in one word: ‘domination’.
It is similar to the power of the tower lord, but it is different. It is more one-sided, has a narrow range of possibilities, and often becomes so great that it ends up eating its owner.
If so, when did he fall prey to my power?
Lumen stared blankly at the enemy with his vision blurred by red blood, thinking about such things.
-You’re shaken, Ortima.
Even as blood poured out of his abdomen, the president smiled triumphantly.
It shook, indeed it was.
Killing his son was the fatal blow.
At the time, he must have been genuinely happy――but during the battle with the president, he realized that the Ortima dimension had begun to collapse, and that he might lose.
Then, I was shaken by the thought that there was no meaning in killing my son.
The spirit that had been consumed by the power of arrogant domination was shaken.
-You underestimated the new owner of the tower.
The president seemed extremely delighted, even though he looked half-dead.
He himself is constantly at odds with Ban Yu-won, and yet he never stops testing him, which makes him completely repulsive.
Even now that they have completely parted ways, the president does not hold any grudges against Ban Yu-won.
That’s because I thought that if you’re a top player, you should do that.
In fact, didn’t he prove himself quite well?
It has changed greatly from what the previous generations intended, but still.
Ban Yu-won was and will remain the owner of the tower.
To reach a level far higher than the previous one, and forevermore.
The president was so pleased with that fact that he couldn’t stand it.
“Ha―― Surely, the calculations were perfect.”
Both legs were cut off.
In exchange for piercing the president’s stomach and deeply wounding his soul, he also loses his right arm.
In exchange for trying to steal the eyes of a legendary being, he ended up losing one of his eyes.
Lumen Ortima, who was forcibly maintaining vitality by ‘commanding’ her own body, opened her mouth to speak in a trembling voice.
“Why were you stronger, President?”
―It is presumptuous of a traitor to try to measure the legacy of the Tower Lord. However, I will kindly inform you of this out of respect for the Transcendent One’s final moments.
The president smiled sheepishly and patted my shoulder.
It was the shoulder that Ban Yu-won had tapped before entering the tower.
When the thing stuck to his shoulder without the president’s knowledge was revealed, Lumen let out a blank voice.
“amulet……?”
-That’s right.
The president also smiled awkwardly, as if he found this situation absurd.
―The power of a student who grew up in a lower dimension and joined the dimensional pirates, and is now a subordinate of the new tower lord. The power to strengthen all of his allies. The new tower lord has put it into a small talisman, amplifying its power.
“So now… … you.”
Lumen’s lips trembled.
The anger that seemed ready to explode at any moment was unable to escape and only heated up his dying body.
“A mere loser, a piece of shit, is blocking my path. Is that what you’re saying?”
―It seems that he thinks of himself as a slave to the tower owner―― That’s right.
The president nodded with a smirk.
-At least that’s why I was able to stop you here until the end.
“Haha―― Hahahahahahahaha!”
I couldn’t help but laugh.
Everything has been a mess since he showed up.
It was all ruined by a mere clown show.
The ambitions of the Ortima family were easily crushed by some ridiculous love game.
The realm that had been reached after enduring countless years of suffering was surpassed by just a few years of fooling around.
In the end, he grabbed my ankle and dragged me down with some childish talisman!
-Do you hate his talent?
“That’s right! I hate that cursed talent that easily tramples my determination and the years of my teenage family!”
The principal laughed as he looked at Lumen Ortima, who simply ignored his question and screamed.
-Ortima stole it from his predecessors. He feels even more inadequate because he couldn’t steal it all.
“You bastard, you will be with me till the end.”
―That’s what countless people who looked down on you and called you a piece of shit thought when they saw you. Now, you’ve become just like them.
“They were just materials to create a perfect world! You would have been treated the same way!”
-That’s right. So you’re saying that you ended up in the same situation.
Crunch.
Lumen Ortima realized something was biting his neck.
There was a very beautiful snake there, with impressive, shining white scales.
If it were a viper, it would inject venom, but it was the opposite.
He was horrified to feel everything that made him up being sucked out through the wound.
“snake……?”
-Yeah, I forgot. Let me introduce you.
The president opened his mouth and spoke in a relaxed voice.
―This is the first retinue created by the new top lord. It looks like he stayed behind to keep an eye on me.――
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Eve nodded silently.
It was truly outrageous that he deceived his master and moved secretly, but the reason was not to stab Ban Yu-won in the back, but to prepare for a danger that he could not prepare for and to nip it in the bud.
The snake, having finally sucked everything it had to from Lumen Ortima, pulled out the teeth it had stuck in its enemy and flicked its tongue.
“If you just die, the floating island will collapse. I had to prepare for that.”
And he said in a gentle voice.
-You could even talk.
“Because I was embarrassed in front of my master.”
Eve, who responded naturally, floated through the air and retreated.
Lumen Ortima, realizing that she had become an empty shell, thought again.
Why did I kill my son?
“You were valuable material.”
Eve answered in a languid voice, turning over in the air.
After absorbing the concept of the last traitor, she finally had everything she needed.
Just as a snake sheds its skin and grows, she shed her snake skin in the air and transformed into a dazzlingly beautiful girl.
Dazzling white hair, and cruelly transparent blue eyes like a snake.
Her face was beautiful enough to be admired by everyone, but at the same time, it had a strange aura that made it seem as if it would be forgotten when one turned away.
“Because you have completed me. I will die satisfied.”
Lumen Ortima was no longer in a position to answer.
The death of a man who was the ruler of a family that dared to be considered the strongest even among the teenage families, and who succeeded in deceiving even the current leader of the family who read his emotions by hiding his appearance and not revealing his true feelings until the last moment, was too absurd.
Eve looked a little disappointed when she saw it.
“I should have killed him more painfully.”
-Is it the owner’s disposition?
“It’s my nature.”
Eve, who had answered bluntly, stuck out her tongue and licked her lips, as if she still had the habit of being a snake, and looked at the principal.
“And now it’s your turn. You’ve been causing our master so much trouble.”
-I’m going to die anyway.
“If you just die, the island will collapse, right?”
Eve, with an annoyed expression on her face as if to say, “Don’t you remember that?”, held out one hand and made a snake head shape with her thumb and four other fingers, and struck them hard.
“I’ll take care of it from now on. You’ve worked hard, now it’s time to die.”
-Yes… … Finally, a new order has arrived.
I was thinking that this might happen once Ban Yu-won perfectly succeeds to the position of the top leader.
His role was only to guard the Tower of Babel until a successor to the Tower’s owner appeared.
But it was a little disappointing.
By his own will, he destroyed all the plans left by his predecessors.
Still, we have to fix everything so that it doesn’t get ruined.
The man who finally completed the new tower system.
To see him, whom she had worked so hard to raise, one last time――.
“This is the problem with crazy old farts.”
Eve, who had absorbed all of the president’s concepts, frowned and muttered.
“When you say yes, you really know that you did well until the end.”
Eve, who had been muttering in a cold voice, suddenly sensed a huge change and turned her head.
I had just finished adjusting the control of the floating island from the president, and I felt that the tower was being reorganized as if it was timed to coincide with that.
The tower that had been stretching toward the Earth at an angle so different that the entire floating island was tilting was shrinking in real time even at this very moment as I watched it, and before I knew it, it had shrunk to a level where it was still very tall but still visible to the naked eye.
Not only that, the image of the Earth seen in the night sky beyond was gradually becoming blurry.
With the connection between the tower and Earth completely severed, the two worlds were once again isolated.
In reality, the gap between the two worlds is close, but they have come too far to become one now, so it would be better for the two worlds to be isolated, if only for the stability that Ban Yu-won desires.
“The master has finished the work… … .”
Eve muttered quietly and changed her form back into that of a snake.
Ban Yu-won and his party escaped from the tower by a hair’s breadth.
“honey!”
As soon as Kang Eun-young confirmed that Ban Yu-won was carrying Ban Ju-seok on his back, she ran over and pulled him off her son’s back and hugged him.
At that moment, Ban Joo-seok, who had barely opened his eyes, felt his wife’s hand and smiled, but then got hit on the back for no reason.
“What did you do well enough to make me laugh? That’s funny!”
“It hurts so bad, honey… … .”
“Why are you worrying me like that! You’re a really weak person――!”
At the sight of the wife hitting her husband’s back with a sad face, Ban Yu-won turned his gaze to the group, as if to say, “You wouldn’t do that, would you?”
Then, everyone seemed to turn away from him, and then Ruchel muttered quietly.
“At least, Master, I’m glad you won’t be taken away.”
“no.”
Dokgo Yeon directly denied what Ruchel said and grabbed Ban Yu-won’s hand.
“I’m going to catch it from now on.”
“huh?”
“Excuse me, Dokgoyeon?”
Ruchel was panicking and trying to grab Dokgoyeon, but even though she had fully awakened as a divine beast, it was difficult for her to surpass Dokgoyeon’s movements after she had transcended the constellations and been resurrected.
She held Ban Yu-won’s hand tightly, making sure he couldn’t get away easily, and then looked back at Ban Yu-won, who was dumbfounded, and smiled.
“If there’s anything you absolutely need to do right now, please hurry up and finish it, okay?”
“Uh, yeah? It looks like all the urgent matters have been sorted out――.”
“Then follow me.”
Dokgo Yeon, who saw Kang Eun-young pulling her husband aside and giving a sermon, put her hand on her face and then took it away.
Then, the cross that had been clearly drawn in her eyes… … no, the concentric circles disappeared and turned into ordinary eyes.
Her large, deep-shining eyes were beautiful, even when they were black and had strange patterns carved into them.
Now that her eyes were pure white and clear, and her black pupils looked even deeper, she was showing off an appearance that was truly close to the pinnacle of oriental beauty.
“No, that’s right! If I hadn’t been caught there instead of my father, it would have been a huge disaster, right? Even our son should just applaud my excellent judgment—Aya!”
“If that were to go wrong! I can’t imagine waiting for you!”
“Greetings, Mom and Dad.”
“Oh my god.”
Kang Eun-young’s expression, which had been angry, strangely softened as she heard Dokgo Yeon’s voice calmly flying in from the side.
Perhaps the title of mother has a magic that can calm even the greatest anger.
While Ban Yu-won was thinking about this while holding Dokgo Yeon’s hand that he could not untie, Dokgo Yeon, who had immediately released Kang Eun-young’s anger, bowed her head deeply to her and Ban Ju-seok.
“I am late in greeting you, even though I have a deep connection with your son. It is said to be a connection between the Dokgo family.”
“Yes, Miss, that… … .”
“As expected, he is our son, he only picks good girls――”
Ban Joo-seok, who had been speaking, looked at his wife’s expression and closed his mouth.
Dokgo Yeon smiled shyly at the words, “That’s true,” and continued speaking.
“There have been many things, so it would be good to take your time to sort things out and let go of your worries… … . Because I have been in a situation where I have not been free for over two years, I have not been able to formally introduce Yi-i to the family yet. Now that the urgent matter has been resolved, if you both give me permission, I would like to take Yi-i to my parents’ house for a while. Do you think that would be okay?”
“now?!”
The tower’s owner has changed, the system has been overturned, the president has died, and the Ortima and other teenage families are in tatters.
Moreover, behind him, Ruchel, Asha, Aire, and Stella, who had just come out of the tower, and the other members of Banyuwon who were just finishing up the chaos, Yumina, Mira, Professor Campanella, Rio, Shati, Keira, Aneli, Ulrike, and Banyuumi were all after him!
“Or how about this? Since you two have been reunited for a long time, it would be nice to relax in a place with a nice view, relieve your fatigue, and share your memories. Would you like to come with me?”
“I see… … ?”
The mother glances at Ban Yu-won at Dokgo Yeon’s words.
While listening to Dokgoyeon’s words, which flowed like a stream of clear water, as if he had been preparing and holding on tightly, Ban Yu-won, who was half-conscious, received his mother’s gaze and thought about Shingyo.
The view was definitely nice, as there were tall mountains all around.
There were also many natural hot springs, so it was perfect for relaxation.
As he nodded absentmindedly, Kang Eun-young, who had become cheerful, pulled Ban Joo-seok’s arm and hugged him, saying:
“Then, I’m sorry, but would you excuse me?”
“Huh? No, just wait a minute, honey, first of all, to our daughter and to your father.”
“I told you to take our daughter-in-law to a good place, please.”
Seeing my mother’s hand holding my father in an unusual way, I felt that I had to give my father a second life candy as soon as the sun rose.
“Then I’ll come with you――Kkuek!”
Ban Yu-mi, who was approaching from behind, tripped over someone and fell down.
Then, a faithful handmaiden wearing a black sleepwear appeared with the spaceship that Lilith was carrying, though it was impossible to say who it was.
“It’s been a while, young lady. From now on, I will be taking care of you… … .”
“Heukseol, you stay here.”
“miss?!”
However, there was no forgiveness for Dokgo Yeon, who already knew that Heukseoldo was targeting Ban Yuwon.
Dokgo Yeon, who hurriedly loaded Kang Eun-young and Ban Ju-seok onto the spaceship, looked around at the others who were dumbfounded by the kidnapping that had occurred in an instant and smiled.
“Then please take care of the rest. It might take a while though.”
She stuck her tongue out at Bae, then pulled Ban Yoo-won into the spaceship and closed the door.
[Then let’s get started! After all, the less competition we have, the better for us!]
“Shit… … .”
Except for Eve and Lilith, who were wrapped in Ban Yu-won’s arms, the spaceship left without anyone interfering.
Those who were left there stared blankly at it for a while before eventually coming to their senses.
If I left it like this, not only would I not be able to hold a meeting with the parents, but I also felt like I wouldn’t be able to see them at all until Dokgoyeon gave birth to Ban Yuwon’s child and returned!
“Let’s chase after it.”
“Coordinates, who knows the coordinates?”
“I know.”
Black Snow said.
“Now that it has come to this, I won’t care about the consequences, young lady.”
A monumental day when the Tower of Babel’s systems were reorganized and operated by a completely different mechanism than before.
With the new tower owner and all those who had a major influence on the tower’s reorganization having all left their positions, the remaining students were left to stare blankly at the sky.
That would be the case, since the president just died here, and the vice presidents, Professor Campanella and Professor Clio Hecate, also left their posts.
Even if Campanella is on sabbatical, the mummy that was supposed to be teaching her has disappeared…
Someone muttered.
“… …Who will teach our lectures now?”
Shati, who was left alone in that position as the new professor with the most experience among the Rebellion team, muttered, clicking her tongue.
“Should I just become the president?”
