I’m Alone on the 100th Floor Episode 040
13. Slave No. 148 (1)
[Title: Title of the Tower?]
[Author: Seon Yu-jin]
[Are there any titles that can be used as skills?]
[Comments (9)]
[Yes. It is hard to see and obtain, but some of the top rankers have titles that can be used as skills.]
【*Oh?]
[*Can you tell me specifically how it works?]
[Among the titles that a black magician can have, there is one called ‘Blue Flame’.]
[If you wear that title and use black magic, additional effects will follow. Usable titles are generally like that.]
[*You know very well. Is that you?]
[yes.]
[*That’s great. Thanks for the reply.]
[?-… Huh, the Black Princess even leaves comments in a place like this.]
“Number 148
“Number 148!!”
When the grim-faced man called the number,
‘Number 148’, who had been nodding his head, barely came to his senses.
“Get up.”
Number 148 had a small build.
It had brown horns on its head.
The eyes were like those of a deer.
“I’m sorry, but I don’t intend to give you special treatment just because you have horns. Move quickly. You have a lot of work to do.”
The chains dangling from the nape of No. 148’s neck and legs made a creaking sound.
“If you don’t go and come back on time, you’ll have to experience the bitter taste again, so it’d be better to go and come back quickly.”
Whether it was because he was scared or not, tears welled up in his bright eyes.
“What are you doing? Aren’t you going?”
As number 148 shook his head as if he was not ready, the grim-faced man began swinging the whip he had hanging from his waistband.
…Snap! A cheerful yet terrible sound echoed through the prison.
Number 148, too sick to even scream, looked up at the man, gasping for breath.
“What am I going to do if you look at me like that?”
Once again, the sound of the whip cracking rang out.
“If you were sold into slavery for a high price, then you should speak like a slave!”
Contrary to number 148, the man who had been swinging his whip while grumbling stopped his hand when he remembered something he had forgotten.
“Oh, right! You didn’t tell me where you were going? Haha! Me too!”
The man who had whipped the slave once more as if venting his anger threw one of the trinkets he had in his trouser pocket at the slave’s head.
“ruler.”
A small trinket dangled from the slave’s horn.
“The destination is the 12th floor. Just go there, deliver the items, and get what they give you. How is that? Easy?” The slave, who had been lying on the floor, writhing in pain, forced his trembling legs to move and stood up.
Because I knew that if I didn’t move quickly, the merciless whip would come flying at me again.
“Hehehe, it really is convenient.”
[Current floor: 11th floor]
Eugene’s face was wrinkled as he jumped from the 1st to the 11th floor in half a day.
“Hey, I should have just gone up.”
Actually, I could have gotten up to the 11th floor a little faster, but I couldn’t.
I tried to go straight up to the 16th floor via the shortcut I had taken before, the 15.5th floor… … .
“I was a fool for saying I would climb up without even knowing how.”
When trying to use the 15.5th floor that the guide had guided him through, he couldn’t find a way. Eugene, who couldn’t find a way to enter even after searching the bulletin board, eventually gave up on using the shortcut.
“It’s annoying, but there’s nothing I can do. I have no choice but to go up one floor at a time… I’d like to check out the lower floors too!”
The trials of this 11th floor were for climbers who had somewhat adapted to the tower.
“There are plants walking around on two legs, there’s everything in this tower.”
The 11th floor’s ordeal was plants.
It was not an ordinary plant, but a plant that walked like a living creature.
It was an ordeal to walk around on thin roots as legs, and then swing sharp leaves to fight back when climbers attacked.
“On the 16th floor there is a rotten water rat, on the 11th floor there is a moving plant… …
Eugene, walking up the stairs to the 12th floor, passing the leaves, guessed at the trials that would come his way.
“The real monsters might start appearing after the 30th floor.”
What Eugene was guessing were the ‘monsters’ on the tower.
The terrifying creatures that were not in human form but seemed to appear only in movies or novels had not yet appeared before Eugene’s eyes.
“I guess it’s not very nutritious, because I don’t see many people.”
As Eugene muttered, the climber who went around the 11th floor was Eugene.
It had been three months since I had gone down to the practice floor, so I still hadn’t met the priests I had met on the sixth floor.
“It’s kind of ironic. The 10th floor was so crowded with people.”
As Eugene walked, avoiding the surrounding plants, a voice came into his head.
〈Oh my, oh my! Oh my!〉
It was Rasil’s voice.
〈Hero! Look at these little guys! Aww, they’re so cute!〉
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Although it is a 98-story tree, it was fidgeting as it looked at the tiny plants on the 11th floor, as befitting a world tree.
〈Isn’t it cute?〉
“not really?”
“Ugh, I’m so emotional.”
A green-tinged dwarf girl peeked out from Eugene’s right sleeve and looked around.
〈Well, it seems like there’s no one around.〉
The World Tree, having once again confirmed that there was no one around, slipped out of his sleeve and climbed up his companion’s arm.
〈Ugh, tea! Oh yeah! First class! Alright! I have to watch the little friends from here!〉 Eugene’s face wrinkled as the World Tree climbed up his arm and settled on his shoulder.
“You guys, you really tire me out every now and then.”
〈I’m different from Eternal, right? I came down to help you, Hero!〉
“So? Is it also helpful for me to watch the trials here?”
〈I feel good when I meet my little friends, right? Then I can support you more reliably later? Then it will be beneficial to you, Hero? Then it will be helpful!〉 As the World Tree perched on Eugene’s shoulder began to wiggle its legs like a child, the plants on the 11th floor began to gather around Eugene’s legs.
“Aight… …
This world tree was not helpful, but rather a hindrance.
“Make them back off quickly. If you accidentally kick them, they’ll fight back and it’ll be annoying.”
It wasn’t a hassle to deal with the trials here.
Plants are a pain to take care of.
Although it was possible to sweep everything away with one kick, it was cumbersome because things like roots and leaves could get entangled in it.
〈Eww, why? Isn’t it cute!〉
“If you don’t bite me quickly, I’ll wake up Eternal and melt everything.”
〈Gyaaaah! You, you savage!〉
The world’s number, unable to withstand Eugene’s threats, reached out with tears in his eyes.
Then, as if by a miracle of Moses, the 11 floors of trials that had been attached to Eugene’s legs retreated.
“Aww! Look at those roots! They’re so cute! I told you they’re all babies!” Eugene wanted to answer that there was a time when the plants here were mercilessly trampled by climbers, but he kept his mouth shut.
“Just look at it. You’ll fall in love with it.”
〈What if I hear it?〉
“Because I’m going to the next floor.”
As Eugene spoke firmly, Rasil’s expression, which had been ecstatic as she looked at the plants on the 11th floor, turned pale.
〈Yes? Why?〉
“You’re not asking because you don’t know, are you?”
〈??? My emotions are dead.〉 Rasil, who soon started to sob, started to look at me with desperate eyes.
〈Hero, please! Just three hours! Just stay for exactly three hours! That should be fine, right?〉
“Are you crazy?”
Eugene answered.
“Then just 30 minutes.”
“Are you back?”
Eugene answered.
“no.”
“Ugh, I’m losing my emotions.” As Eugene continued to ignore Rasil’s voice, a staircase leading to the 12th floor appeared before his eyes.
“I found it. The stairs.”
〈Oh, no! Then just three minutes! Just three more minutes and then I’ll go! Okay?〉
The flower parts of the plants on the 11th floor that had paved the way were like sunflowers… they were all turned towards the direction that Eugene was walking.
To be exact, he was looking at the World Tree standing on Eugene’s shoulder with a pitiful look.
‘What?’ The plants didn’t have eyes, noses, or mouths like the World Tree, but they looked pitiful somehow.
“Don’t look at me like that.”
I just looked at the flowers, but strangely, my heart became weak.
〈That’s because they’re kids!〉
The World Tree noticed that Eugene’s footsteps had stopped and immediately began to exploit his weakness, but…
“Arai!”
It ended up having the opposite effect.
“Gyah! What are you doing?” Eugene, who had been grimacing, swung his right foot with all his might, and the plants pushed back by the wind pressure began to fall over one by one.
〈This devil!〉
When the World Tree sitting on his shoulder screamed, Eugene covered his ear and answered.
“We resolved it peacefully, so why are you calling Eternal?”
〈Black… … .>
The world tree, moved by the emotion, began to sob and soon covered its face with its leaves.
〈Hueeeeeeeeek! Disqualified hero, you piece of trash! Emotional murderer! A person with a broken character, ahhh!〉
‘Oh, it’s noisy… …
He was a tired guy, different from Eternal, who would always pick a fight by saying things like ‘X-son’.
‘We really need to pass one of them on to the guide…
Eugene ignored the World Tree’s tears and stepped onto the stairs.
[Current floor: 12th floor] As soon as he got to the 12th floor with a disgusted expression, a sigh burst out of Eugene’s mouth.
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???ah.
From the gentle chirping of birds to the sound of grass swaying in the wind… … .
There was a reason why the trials on the 11th floor were plants, and the background of the 12th floor was filled with the scent of grass.
〈Oh my god! The 12th floor is… … .>
The World Tree, which had been sniffling until just now, began to have twinkling eyes.
〈Is the 12th floor heaven?!〉
It was all forest.
“Oh, man… …
Eugene and Rasil’s reactions as they climbed to the 12th floor were polar opposites.
〈There’s a place like this on the top! Yes! I’ve been waiting for a place like this!〉
Her face flushed as she witnessed the forest background, but Eugene didn’t think she was that cute.
〈Aren’t you excited?〉
“It’s scary?”
“Why?” Eugene, who was holding back his answer, thought back to the 15.5th floor that he had passed by with the guide last time.
There too, the background was a forest.
At the time, Rasil was asleep so I didn’t make a fuss, but looking back… that means it was a forest.
‘Surely… the forest doesn’t continue from here to the lower level, right?’
Eugene’s facial muscles tightened with a bad feeling
While I was fidgeting.
… Boom!
An explosion sounded from a distance, out of place in the forest.
“hmm?”
〈This sound… … .>
As if he had heard the explosion just now, he stopped expressing his excitement and began to focus on the sound, the wind, and the heart of the forest.
〈???There are people.〉
Unlike the 11th floor, there seemed to be people on the 12th floor.
