I’m Alone on the 100th Floor Episode 055
17. Tower Workshop ⑴
[Title: The 97th Floor Forest]
[Author: Seon Yu-jin]
[I was scared because I thought there were only scary floors at the top… but there was a floor like this.
From the moment I came down the stairs, something felt incredibly peaceful… there were just ordinary rabbits and squirrels running around… … .]
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[I’ve seen this kid before, but he doesn’t seem normal. He’s still like this.]
【Did you take your medicine?】
[Still, sometimes I find it quite amusing to see what he posts. It’s like reading a novel.]
[*uh?]
[What? What is it?]
[There are two ways to make a person frustrated. The first is to not talk at all… and the second is… … .] The sunlight was breaking through the sky.
The morning dawned in the desert.
[Current floor: 20th floor]
One day, Eugene came out in the morning when the birds were chirping and looked back.
“Thank you for your help.”
When Eugene looked around at the three people on top and said that he was indebted to them, Mirami, one of the three who had been standing there with a bewildered expression, smiled and answered.
“What? Next time, if you let me know in advance, I’ll provide you with a separate place to lie down instead of the sofa.”
Eugene chuckled at Mirami’s answer and waved his hand as if there was no need to do that.
“it’s okay.”
As he turned around without hesitation, having nothing else to do, Drod, who had been hiding behind the door, whispered.
“Really… You’re just going to leave without doing anything… …
“I told you, you’re not a bad person?”
“Well, I heard he’s friendly with the guide… I don’t think he’d steal anything.”
The three people sighed in relief and thought about the guest who had stopped by last night.
The guest was a thief.
A thief who successfully entered the 18.5th floor, which the Black Rose Guild was attacking, and escaped with the item they were after.
“I thought… you were going to… touch us…
De Lorde muttered as he walked out the door after confirming that the guest had gone far away.
“Well, since you are a high level person, you would have reached out if you had to.”
As Gabga grumbled with his lips pursed, Mirami shook her head and defended her guest.
“Even if you’re not that kind of person.”
Mirami’s gaze was not directed at the back of the guest, but at the small baby deer following behind the guest.
“If he was a bad person, that little kid wouldn’t have followed him like that.”
As if it was difficult to refute that statement, both Gabuga and Droude answered in silence.
〈???Whew, I’ll live!〉
As he moved away from the place where he was indebted, Rasil, who had returned from the leaves to a dwarf form, stretched out in the sunlight.
〈Ugh! This body hates the sun.〉
On the contrary, this Ternal, who was hiding behind Eugene’s back, was curling up tightly.
“Then were you asleep?”
As I looked straight ahead and muttered to myself, the cowering evil spirit shook its head.
〈I’m not sleepy yet.〉
“Oh, yes.”
〈I’m curious about the place I heard about yesterday, so I’ll stay awake for now. When are we going to go to the ‘workshop’ they mentioned?〉
Last night, Eugene was staying at Mirami’s house and heard about what was on the 20th floor.
‘Oh, so you have to wait on the 20th floor until the guide comes?’
‘I don’t think you’ll get bored waiting since there’s a workshop. Judging from the restaurant you visited before, it looks like you’re spending quite a bit of money.’
‘Don’t you know the workshop?’
‘If you don’t know, I recommend you wait while looking around the workshop on the 20th floor.’
‘It’s a place that sells various items. Unlike the auction house on the 10th floor, it mainly sells invented items.’ The ‘workshop’ that Mirami and her group mentioned was also the place they had heard about from Albert downstairs.
〈I can’t stand being curious about the science of the other world’s humans. Seonyu Jin, are the cell phones and computers you mentioned there?〉
Eugene decided to ignore Eternal’s question and walked around, looking around. The 20th floor, like the 10th floor, was a resting floor, and the scenery that spread out gave the feeling of a city built in the middle of a desert.
〈I asked if there were any other world objects there.〉
〈Are you chewing on my words now?〉
As the dark, small gas appeared, Eugene muttered, holding the hand on his shoulder.
“Just wait a minute.”
Eugene, who had suppressed Eternal, began to look around the 20th floor again.
Although not as many as I had seen on the 10th floor, there were quite a few climbers who had been busy since morning.
‘The proportion of civilians has noticeably decreased compared to below.’
There were civilians in the anthill and on the 10th floor… but the civilian population on the 20th floor was much lower than on the resting floors below.
‘About eight out of ten?’
When Eugene realized that most of the people passing by were not civilians but climbers, he pressed down on the black machine that was about to pop out with his shoulder once more!
‘I can’t cause a fuss for nothing.’
This was because the excited Eternal could not harm other climbers.
‘The city of science……
Mirami, who was living here, said that the 20th floor was a city of science.
The buildings that were visible were shabby buildings that you would expect to find in a desert, but the convenient devices seen here and there gave off a feeling that they were far removed from the desert.
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‘That’s definitely true.’
It wasn’t just elevators or escalators… short-distance teleportation devices were flashing everywhere.
“They say all the alchemists and inventors of the tower are here… It’s just as it is written on the bulletin board.”
Every street vendor I passed by had some kind of unique potion or scroll on display.
“see.”
Eugene walked to the exact middle point of the 20th floor, where the largest teleportation device was located, and took out the map he had kept in his inventory.
“According to what Mirami said, if you go through the middle portal here, there’s a workshop… Is that right?”
Although it was a stop to wait for the guide who had left for a while, it was not a stop simply to kill time.
‘Maybe I can find something I can use here.’
In a 20-story workshop that had all sorts of items, you might be able to find a weapon that wouldn’t break even if you used it at level 10.
‘Whether it’s a sword or a staff… I wish I could salvage just one.’
Eugene muttered to himself and climbed onto the large portal that appeared before his eyes.
[Welcome to the workshop.]
As he stepped onto the large central portal, a welcoming message appeared before Eugene’s eyes as he began to teleport somewhere on the 20th floor.
〈Wow… … .>
The same welcoming message appeared and disappeared in front of the eyes of the deer that followed Eugene.
〈Wow, it looks like Deer is used to teleportation. I’m a little dizzy though… … .>
〈Ha! Since I’m always stuck on the ground, teleportation is a hassle. That’s why I’m getting fat all the time.〉
〈Wh, what? No! It’s not stuck, it’s communicating with the ground! And trees can get fat, right? I’m a tree too!〉
As soon as he entered the workshop, Eugene covered both of his ear holes at the sound of two voices arguing.
“Are you okay?”
Eugene, who had been frowning with his ears covered, followed behind through teleportation.
I looked at the deer.
Eugene blinked blankly at the sight of the deer nodding its head without saying a word.
‘Can we communicate?’
I hadn’t noticed it when I was on guard, but the deer seemed to understand what people were saying.
“That’s fortunate.”
Since he had the ability to go up and down the tower at will, there was no way he would get motion sickness from teleportation.
“Since you’re here, you might as well look around for things you can use.”
I felt like I had entered a large mart that I often visited when I was outside the tower.
The corridor stretched out like a neater corridor than the street vendors outside the portal, and the signs hanging above were all different colors.
“Then shall we take our time looking around?”
There were no signs saying no pets allowed. Eugene, who had decided to spend some time leisurely with Deer, took the lead. Deer, who had been staring at Eugene’s back as if she hadn’t opened her heart yet, followed behind her half a beat later.
〈Farter!〉
〈A flock of grasses.〉
〈Below Slime!〉
〈Maesaengi’s head.〉
〈Hey, hey… Eww, deer! This terminal is bothering me!〉
I sniffed at the actions of the World Tree wriggling between its horns.
The workshop of the tower.
A place where unique equipment is created.
From trinkets that allow you to whisper, to the Feather Cloak exclusively for archers, to the Size-changing Chainsaw exclusively for thieves… and even the Level Mask and Name Mask for Climbers that are created with a very low probability!
All of them are inventors, blacksmiths, and alchemists who live in the workshops of the tower on the 20th floor.
It was their work.
“???Is this a dud too?”
Eugene’s expression as he left the twelfth shop in the workshop was quite gloomy.
“Instead of focusing on my own things, I need to focus on other things.”
As expected, finding items I could use in the workshop was harder than finding a needle in a haystack.
“This tower will disappear in less than a year. Items that can be used by level 10 people… probably won’t be common.” Rasil spoke from behind.
As the World Tree said, with the Cataclysm just around the corner, there weren’t many items that level 10 could use.
I couldn’t say there weren’t any at all, but the only things on display were things that you wouldn’t necessarily need to pay for.
〈So? Are you willing to give up something useful for the hero to buy it?〉
The leaves on the deer’s forehead rustled here and there.
“I’m going to buy him some useful equipment or something he can give to the deer.”
〈That guy? Ah!〉
As if it had noticed who was talking, the leaves that had been swaying clockwise changed direction and swayed again.
“That girl?”
The green leaves have turned autumn colors.
〈If you’re going to give it to that girl, can’t I recommend it to her? I think I know better.〉
“you?”
〈Yes! Because we are the same girl!〉
Although the human form I encountered was clearly closer to a girl… it was the first time I heard that the World Tree had a gender.
“You don’t have a gender?”
〈If you have a girlish sensibility, you’re a girl!〉
If that leaf were in the shape of a person now, it would probably be standing with its chest outstretched and its mouth tucked into its waist.
“Tsk… …
Eugene clicked his tongue to make a sound and looked back at Rasil and asked.
“Okay, give me a recommendation.” I asked casually, thinking that maybe he could recommend something good, and the leaf pointed straight in a direction.
〈That one!〉
“That?”
Eugene frowned as he turned his head in the direction of the sharp leaves.
〈How is it? Is it okay?〉
The sign Eugene was looking at had the word ‘Jewelry’ written in large letters.
Among them, the ring.
Rings of various shapes, colors, and gemstones were neatly displayed.
〈You were staring at the ring that girl was wearing yesterday! You were worried, weren’t you?〉
Eugene’s expression was genuinely crumpled at the sound of Rasil’s voice recommending the ring.
“Don’t buy it.”
〈Oh, why?〉
“Who cares? I told you it won’t even move? No, I wish it would move a little.”
〈Then you should buy a ring even more!〉
〈Oh, don’t go! I told you, the one in the middle is really pretty! I think it’ll suit you well!〉
Eugene, who was passing the jewelry store while ignoring Rasil’s voice, stopped walking.
Rasil’s voice brightened as he thought he would return to the jewelry store, but unfortunately, that wasn’t the reason he stopped.
“Ha, really… I wonder when that weirdo will get kicked out.”
“I don’t know what they’re doing up there, taking up a studio space. Do they have a sponsor?”
“Hey, where would you find a sponsor who would support a guy like that? He’d have to be some crazy guy.”
It was because of the conversation heard from the corner of the hallway of the workshop.
“I heard that we’re running out of supplies, so we’ll be kicked out of here soon?” “Where will we go if we get kicked out of here?” “Well, what about an ant hole? If you’re selling that kind of equipment, an ant hole would be a good place to go.”
That kind of equipment?
Eugene narrowed his eyes.
“…With less than a year left until the Great Cataclysm, who would buy equipment that can only be worn by level 10 people?”
