I’m Alone on the 100th Floor Episode 025
8. Top Man (2)
“Ah, uh, ah… …
≪……
Serin, who was blankly staring ahead, looked at Freep when she heard a cracked voice coming from beside her.
The slave child, who had been holding onto her necklace tightly and looking terrified, suddenly had an expression of rapture on her face, as if she had seen a wonderful sight.
“iced coffee……
Freep, who had been absentmindedly staring, grabbed Serin’s collar and pointed at Eugene.
‘What are you saying?’
Serin, who couldn’t understand what the child was saying, stroked the child’s head with a sad expression.
“Sorry, I’m not very smart… I don’t really understand what you’re trying to say.”
“iced coffee.”
“Should I ask that guy?” “Ah… …
When Serin, who had apologized to the child, asked for his opinion, Freep nodded slightly and started looking in the direction where Eugene was standing again.
Most of the guards who had been whipping the slaves were lying on the floor unconscious, and even the remnants who were low level and just watched the situation from behind were unable to move hastily.
“Hey, stop!” As Eugene finished his thoughts and tried to move to knock out the remaining remnants, the remnants who were watching him fight took out several pieces of paper from their inventory.
“Go, if you come any closer I’ll tear this apart!”
It seemed to be the same type of magic scroll as the Explosion Scroll that Serin had tried to use to commit suicide when she encountered the pursuer who had come to kill her the other day.
The only difference was that the scroll had a really ‘real’ vibe and it was the slaves, not the climbers, who got caught in the explosion.
“If you don’t want to see all the slaves here die, then you’d better just… just step down!”
The remnant threatened Eugene by shaking the scroll in his hand, but Eugene did not even blink.
“If you think I came all the way here to save the slaves, you are sorely mistaken.”
Eugene walked, stepping on the climbers spread out in front of him.
“Huh?” “Whether I blow it or not, it’s already over here.” From the moment he took his hands out of his pockets and started swinging his power, he was determined to wipe out the hidden prison on the 7th floor.
To gauge how much power he had accumulated, to check why the people in the tower who appear from the 50th floor onwards were tied up as slaves, and to check the face of the mastermind that Serin had been talking about…
It was for those reasons that I moved, not to save the slaves here.
“Ugh”
The expressions of the remnants holding the scrolls hardened and turned pale, but on the contrary, the expressions of the slaves whose lives were in danger looked rather indifferent.
Perhaps he decided that it would be better to die in an explosion than to be dragged around in chains, handcuffed, and have slave tattoos.
“We are okay.”
One of the oldest slaves, who seemed to be the most experienced, spoke as his chains rattled.
“Hey, you little bastards! Won’t you shut up?” The remnants of the group that had been threatening the slaves while holding them hostage shouted in panic, but the slaves, far from being scared, were bowing their heads, not caring about their own deaths.
‘It feels a little different from giving up on yourself.’
Seo Rin, who was watching Eugene’s actions from afar, muttered to herself.
‘You said ‘top person…’?
Serin, who was looking at the slaves being held hostage by the guards and the free-spirited man holding onto her collar, asked Ternal.
“Have you ever seen Eternal? The Tower Man?”
It was because he was aware of the ‘top’ in an unusual way that he seemed like he would give me an answer.
〈The original owners of this place, the lab rats, the slaves, the experience points, and more… um, I can’t think of the right word.〉
Ether Nal, who had been mumbling a few words, looked at Serin’s face and continued speaking.
〈From the way you asked, it seems like the girl didn’t even know it existed.〉
“yes.”
Serin nodded.
〈How many floors did the girl climb up to?〉
“It’s the 44th floor.”
〈Then what floor is the highest point of the tower that the girl knows?〉
“47th floor??????
〈What?〉
For a moment, the part of the black body responsible for the space between the eyebrows seemed distorted.
“Hey, I heard you say that the people appear starting from the 50th floor… …
〈Then you really don’t know anything. Humans are not only shallow, but also ignorant… That bastard Seon Yu-jin must be sighing deeply. How can 100,000 people with potential be this slow?〉
Eternal sighed deeply and added to Eugene’s brief explanation.
〈Yes… It would be easier to think of the 50th to 90th floors as actually ‘one’ floor.〉
“One floor?”
〈The reason you climbers were summoned to this tower is because of the great cataclysm that will occur after this tower disappears. So that you can gain the power to protect the world there.〉
Serin nodded at Eternal’s words.
When I was first summoned to this tower, the voice heard on the practice floor, the protagonist ‘Anne Serra’, said those words.
‘Three years from now, a cataclysm will strike the world you live in. Monsters you have never seen before will appear and they will destroy your world. So, before the cataclysm strikes your world, you must be strong enough to face it…
Serin, who was recalling the time when she was first summoned to the tower, listened to Eternal’s voice again.
〈The first floor to the 49th floor where you are is just practice… you could say it’s a warm-up. The real ‘cataclysm’ is experienced from the 50th floor onwards.〉
Serin frowned.
‘From the 50th floor… no, was it the 51st floor? From then on, you won’t be able to use the basic shop.’ I remembered the day I first met him, he had asked me out of the blue, ‘Where is the basic shop?’
“Is that it?”
Eternal, who judged that Serin had roughly understood, muttered while looking at the levels of the climbers that Eugene had knocked down.
〈Still, it doesn’t seem to be the worst. Of course, the sight of the humans summoned here using the humans in the tower as slaves is interesting, but it’s more interesting that it hasn’t been revealed yet that there are humans who have made it to the 50th floor.〉 “Perhaps, as she recalled what Eugene had said to her, Serin recalled a line that bothered her.
‘Just go down.’
‘just?’
‘Yes. You can freely come and go from floors where the trials have already been cleared, right?’
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‘Huh?’
‘From the 1st floor to the 46th floor, you can go back and forth without having to clear the individual climber’s trials.’
‘ what?’
‘Why, why are you doing that?’
‘Really?’
‘ It’s true… …
‘No, then isn’t that a bit… fraudulent?’
‘What is it?’
‘Isn’t that possible upstairs?’
‘Of course not! Isn’t it supposed to be a one-way street? I had no choice but to go down!’
When I heard the story, I almost laughed out loud, but looking back, it was a pretty heavy story.
“Isn’t it that the person who passed the 50th floor wasn’t revealed, but rather that they couldn’t reveal it? I heard that it was a one-way street from there, so because of that… …
Eternal raised a question.
〈Didn’t you say that you have a bulletin board?〉
“When I posted that the guy was going downhill, no one believed me. I didn’t believe him either. That could be the case.”
〈Hmm, I guess it makes sense. Humans are very suspicious.〉
This Ternal, who recalled the singularity after the 50th floor, spoke about it.
〈Because in that area, the concept of ‘season’ is used instead of the concept of ‘floor’… unless humans awaken the power to turn back time, travel is impossible.〉
“season?”
〈The ordeal from the 50th to the 90th floor was to protect a world that was facing a cataclysm for four seasons. That guy, the order was a bit… no, it was a total mess because the wind was blowing backwards from the 90th floor.〉
Serin, who had been listening to Eternal’s explanation, asked about the information she had been curious about from the beginning.
“I think I have a rough idea of what happens from the 50th floor onwards, but what’s going on from the 90th floor onwards?”
Eugene said that he met Eternal on the 98th floor… so it seemed like the evil spirit in front of him also knew that area.
〈Hehe, why? Are you curious? Then don’t ask me and go experience it yourself… That would be good for the girl too.〉
When Eternal answered sinisterly, Serin’s shoulders unconsciously shrank.
“iced coffee!”
“Huh? Oh, sorry… …
As the voice and the collar were pulled, Serin straightened her hunched shoulders and turned her gaze to where Freep was looking.
〈It’s over.〉
As Eternal said, the situation was over before we knew it.
“ah?…”
Freep let out an exclamation of admiration.
If the climbers who had been whipping them were lying on the ground in a group, such exclamations would have been expected.
‘How did you rescue the hostages?’
In the meantime, while he was briefly talking to Eternal, the remnants who had been threatening him with the Explosion Scroll had also fallen to the ground with the whites of their eyes exposed. ‘Is that a fist?’ Seeing Eugene swinging his right hand, Serin, who had guessed that he had used a fist, couldn’t help but let out an exclamation like Freep.
Even if you look at it simply, it would have been all about the overwhelming physical ability, even if it had additional abilities and multiple characteristics… It was a clean finish from beginning to end.
“Guide! Come here for a moment!”
When Eugene, who had cleaned up the surroundings, shouted towards where Serin was standing, Freef, who had been hiding, ran out first.
“Oh my… … Eugene, who had caught the running free-spirit, bent his knees once again to meet the short man’s eyes.
“What do you think? Isn’t he cool?”
“iced coffee……
Freep answered, licking his lips.
Judging from his expression, it seemed like he was agreeing with Eugene’s question.
“Oh, um… um… mom.”
Eugene’s eyebrows furrowed as Pripp, who had been babbling, said a word other than ‘ah’.
” mom?”
“Mom. Mom… …
“Did you just call me mom?”
Seo Rin, who had followed the freefall and walked to Eugene, checked on the fallen climbers and asked.
“I think so?”
Eugene, who had been staring intently into Freep’s eyes, turned his head at the sound of someone approaching.
“I, thank you. I don’t know how to express my gratitude, but… … Those poor people wearing only a rag like a freeloader… The slaves from the 7th floor prison approached Eugene and expressed their gratitude.
“yes.”
Eugene nodded slightly in greeting and asked while patting Freef’s head.
“If you don’t mind, may I ask where you are from?”
“Us?”
How they answered could determine how they would move forward.
“That… I don’t remember.”
“You don’t remember?”
“Yes. It seems like we’re all suffering from collective amnesia.”
Their answers were identical to what we heard from Mirami, the slave worker we met on the 10th floor.
No matter how hard he racked his brain to answer the question, his memory was hazy, and he had no idea where he was born and raised.
“I don’t know if you’ll believe me, but everyone here remembers the same thing the last time. We heard something explode, and that’s it.” As the slave who had thanked Eugene began to speak, another slave standing nearby added.
“After that, each person was locked in here and whipped… or tattooed in order… or put into that wall over there.”
“wall?”
As Eugene turned his gaze to look at the bare wall, Freep began to pull hard on Eugene’s collar.
“Mom, Mom!” Eugene asked, trying to find out more accurate information after calming down Freep.
“That wall?”
“Well, I’m not sure, but the guards said it was an ‘underground auction house.’”
“Underground auction house?”
As Eugene muttered, another slave stepped forward and added an explanation.
“It seems like there’s a secret space behind the wall. I saw it briefly when I passed by, and it was a secret room the size of four or five prison cells combined.”
