I’m Alone on the 100th Floor Episode 020
6. With Eternal (4)
‘That’s a monster.
ghost.
Or something else.
‘Is that a real climber?’ The black hooded cloak fluttered in the wind blowing over the rooftop, and a swaying haze of the same color responded.
The other person’s appearance was somewhat creepy, and did not seem human at all.
‘The basic rule is that trials cannot roam the safe zone, so it can’t be a trial…
Soojin, who was glaring at the inhuman opponent, asked quietly.
“Who are you?”
I asked, but received no answer. ‘If there are any wizards this excellent, I can only guess two of them… One is hunting from above, and the other must have paid the price for betraying Black Rose?’
Shin-Gung was certain that neither of them were the warlocks he was confronting.
‘If you don’t answer… …
Lee Soo-jin, who had already forgotten about William’s mission, quickly pulled the bowstring.
‘You have to find out for yourself!’
A steel arrow fired one step ahead of the enemy, grazing his cheek, piercing his hair, and then his hood.
‘??? You missed it?’
The eyes of the Shin-gung widened as he witnessed his arrow miss.
‘No, it’s not that I missed it!’
So you’re saying the opponent dodged? The reaction speed to dodge a fireball shot from close range? This wasn’t the reaction speed of a warlock.
‘That’s not a warlock! That’s a monster! That monster is not even a Black Princess or anything!’
Sujin changed her strategy to create a situation that the opponent could not avoid, and this time she created a special arrow instead of a steel arrow.
‘Tie your feet first!’
Sticky arrows.
It was a skill of the archer climber that allowed him to create an adhesive zone within a certain range when stuck on the ground.
‘???Tsk.’
As if it would not let that happen, the silent monster began to move. Thin legs contrasting with the thick hood appeared first, followed by white hands wrapped in azure.
Black gust.
It was a black magic skill that could be learned at around level 20, and it was a magic that summoned a fan-shaped black wind with an outstretched hand.
“Ugh?!”
The shrine, which was standing on the rooftop railing, swayed in the black wind that obscured its view.
It was basically a black magic that couldn’t inflict much damage, but it blocked the opponent’s vision and had a high probability of inflicting the blindness status effect.
[Status abnormality ‘Real Name’ is applied.]
Su-jin, who was twisting her body to keep her balance, clenched her teeth when she saw the text saying that she had been affected by an abnormal status.
‘It’s not just that he’s physically monstrous. He’s also used to fighting other climbers. He’s as skilled as me, or even better!’
It was an unspoken rule of the tower that sparring between climbers was prohibited. The number of people summoned here was limited, and the tower’s conquest was not progressing quickly.
but…….
There were certainly climbers who practiced sparring to prevent guild-wide competition or crimes committed by climbers.
‘Let’s calm down.’
Even though he was blind and his vision was blurred, Shin-gung was able to cope skillfully.
First of all, there was a crash.
As if she was being pushed by the wind from the other person, she fell over the railing and immediately pulled back the bowstring as soon as she started falling.
‘Feed me the arrows first!’
An arrow made of mana shot into the air, splitting into several branches and scattering across the roof of the hotel.
‘As far as I know, there is no skill for a warlock to stop this.’
Falling from a great height was not much of a threat to him compared to confronting a monstrous warlock.
‘Huh?’ But.
‘What the hell?!’
The black monster that had appeared on the rooftop was also flying over the railing, following her.
How can a warlock who invested his main stats in intelligence rather than strength or agility fly like that?
That was just suicide.
‘You’re so crazy you’re trying to die!’
The divine archer, who had been spinning around during the fall, immediately cast a skill.
Air step.
A privilege exclusive to archers that grants them one chance to jump in the air, something that warlocks cannot replicate. “Hmph.”
The sound of footsteps on empty space echoed pleasantly, and the body of the shrine lightly floated up.
chin!
Then, the shrine, which had its feet planted against the hotel wall, succeeded in standing horizontally as if gravity had been reversed.
‘Let’s see where and how it comes out.’
After stepping on the air, the archer, who made full use of his acrobatic ability to ignore position and assume a shooting stance, aimed his bow upwards.
Even though he was falling along with himself, the aura surrounding the warlock remained strong.
〈Heh, uhhhhhh! This is fun… … .>
For a moment, I got goosebumps.
‘ just now?’
Maybe it was my mood, but I felt like Ajirang was talking to me.
〈He is indeed an archer from another world.〉
also.
I heard it again.
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As I became convinced that what I had just heard was not an auditory hallucination, the breathing control needed to properly fire the arrow completely went out of control.
〈Oh, my… … .>
As Ajirangi spoke as if he had made a mistake, the black magician who was falling towards the shrine stretched out his arm once again.
‘Oops!’
Shin-gung realized that he had lost his mind and shot an arrow belatedly, but it was impossible to hit the target with his breathing disrupted.
‘Oops, I made a mistake because of an auditory hallucination!’
The Shin-gung’s face was distorted, but the black magician did not spare him.
“??? Got it.”
The distance between them quickly narrowed due to the speed of the fall, and at that moment, the voice of the warlock could be heard from afar.
‘This voice… where is it from?’
Before he could guess where he had heard the voice, the consciousness of the shrine maiden who was grabbed by the throat by the magician’s grip became hazy.
“Huh?!”
The black magician, who had snatched the Shin-gung’s neck away, used the mark he had carved on the hotel rooftop to teleport once more before his body crashed to the ground.
I heard the sound of candles being blown out.
“??? Huh, gasp?!”
Serin, who managed to teleport back to the rooftop just before kissing the floor, gasped as if she had just emerged from water.
‘What on earth is going on?’
When I witnessed Eternal’s actions of suddenly casting green lava into the sky, I tilted my head, but could it be?
I never dreamed that we would end up fighting like this.
‘Is this what a counterattack is like?’
It had just happened that I was standing next to Eugene, but it all happened so quickly.
〈I shot the strongest magic that a girl can use, attaching a magic circle to the mark.〉
Serin turned her head at the explanation that was a beat late and looked at Eternal, which had fallen from her body.
“That was just… …
Of course, he could use green lava, but he didn’t know that he could use it from such a distance and in such a way.
〈Nothing to be amazed about.〉
When Serin couldn’t continue speaking, Ether Nal was the first to break the silence.
“I did exactly as much as a girl could do.”
It was ridiculous.
This was because it was impossible given his limitations.
“I… … used magic with the marks I wanted, dodged the arrows of a ranker archer without skill, charged forward without fear, jumped off the rooftop without hesitation… All of these were actions that went beyond the common sense of a warlock that Serin knew.
“I can’t do that?”
When Serin frowned and muttered, realizing the stench of the hooded cloak belatedly, Eternal immediately denied it.
“No, it’s okay.”
“yes’?”
A question mark was added to Serin’s expression, which was grimacing from the stench.
〈This is not a matter of common sense. If the girl had not been lazy in this tower, it would have been entirely possible.〉
The trial directly mentioned the ‘top’? Before Serin, who thought she had misheard, could ask Eternal, Eternal spoke first.
〈Shall I make an analogy?〉
〈If that bastard Seon Yu-jin had climbed the tower like a normal girl, and if she had chosen to be a wizard… that bastard would have shown even further limitations than this place.〉
“That guy?”
〈Hehehe, right. That little shit is the kind of guy who would run while getting hit, thinking it’s a waste of time dodging arrows.〉
Serin, who had difficulty organizing the questions that came to her mind, asked cautiously.
“Was that person… that great?”
If you started from the 100th floor and are still alive today, then you must have incredible talent, right?
That thought suddenly occurred to me, but Eternal’s answer was different from what I expected.
〈No. At least in my judgment, that kid’s talent is inferior to that of the girl.〉
“Am I more… excellent?”
When Serin asked in disbelief, Eternal briefly explained the reason.
〈However, that kid is more vicious than the girl. If there is a difference, it would be that one.〉
“Toxic’?”
〈Hmm, I guess the word ‘desperate’ is pretty fitting for a girl. How desperate was the girl in this tower?〉
Of course I tried.
It was urgent.
So I was once a top ranker, a well-known black magic climber, and even an executive in one of the top guilds in the tower, although I didn’t really want to be one.
That’s what happened… … .
〈I heard from Seon Yu-jin that approximately 100,000 humans were summoned to this tower… I heard that only those with potential were called. Unless there are exceptions, there shouldn’t be much difference in their talents. I don’t know about their mindset, though.〉 Serin glared at Eternal with her fist clenched.
“It’s not like I didn’t try hard… …
I couldn’t say until the end that I lived hard at the top.
“Enough small talk. We need to clean up. We need to do it before that bastard Seon Yu-jin comes so we don’t get nagged.”
The once sluggish Eternal quickly turned into a black gas and disappeared behind Serin’s back.
“Whew… … Serin took a deep breath to forget the conversation just now and turned her head.
What happened was, the archer who had shot an arrow at him wasn’t the only one on the hotel rooftop.
“There was this old man too.”
In the corner of the rooftop, the wealthy William I met at the restaurant yesterday was passed out, foaming at the mouth.
“I think he asked the archer to do something similar to an assassination… Maybe there was a connection?”
Serin, who had guessed the situation based on the two being together, approached the unconscious archer.
“I never thought… …
When I was summoned to the rooftop by Eternal, I thought I was seeing things wrong, but I was not.
“That’s Lee Soo-jin.”
The identity of the climber that Serin had just faced, or to be exact, that Ternal had knocked out, was the famous archer on the tower, ‘Shin-gung Lee Su-jin’.
“You’re not dead, are you?”
Serin sighed in relief after checking Hohom and confirming that she wasn’t dead.
‘If possible, it would be better to try to subdue her rather than kill her. For the sake of others.’ As Eugene had expected, she was one of the rankers currently active on the front lines of the tower.
“There was a time when we ran raids together… and now we’re reunited like this.”
Serin shook her head as she recalled the time when she encountered a trial on the latter half of the 30th floor that was too difficult to conquer even as a party.
Now was not the time to wallow in thoughts of the past.
The archer who had passed out was waking up, other people were coming to the rooftop… As Eternal had said, I had to finish cleaning up before things got too bothersome.
“I’m sorry. Please rest here for a moment.”
Seo Rin, who had apologized to the unconscious Lee Su-jin, approached the unconscious Gap Bu again, foaming at the mouth.
“Should I take the person back now?”
Serin, who had seen the rich man’s stomach protruding as much as Namsan, thought about her own strength level.
≪ o 으”
The situation was that I had to kidnap a wealthy man to find out information, but I didn’t have the strength to do it.
‘What should I do? Should I just take the badge and go back? Or…
“???Are you done?”
Serin turned her head, her shoulders shaking in surprise at the voice coming from behind her.
‘how?’
I don’t know how he got there since he’s a beginner and can’t even teleport, but my employer was standing on the rooftop railing.
“Maybe?”
Serin, who was recalling what Eternal had just said, answered in an uncertain voice.
