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The light gave Dojin a golden shining thread.
“It is a ‘thread of fate’ that leads everything to its destiny.”
“How do you use it? This isn’t an item.”
The reward is something that doesn’t even fit in your inventory.
This is something that is treated as an object, not an item.
That’s right.
“Do I have to use this right now?”
“That’s not it. It’s going to exist until it falls out of your hands.”
“…If I let go of your hand?”
“Once fate leaves, it never returns.”
“It’s disappearing!”
“Whether it’s chance or fate, it’s all like that.”
The light that had been spit out while nodding along with the old man-like words suddenly began to fade.
【Oh, it looks like the time we can maintain this place is running out. I can see the last sound we made has disappeared.】
‘uh?’
It seemed to be fading away, but as the light said, I couldn’t speak like before.
【Still, I’m glad I could tell you a lot. Then I’ll wait for the day we meet again. Goodbye, reckless human. Oh, I almost forgot to say that. Thank you for giving me another chance. I think I’ll be able to come back again thanks to you. Then really goodbye.】
What does that mean? I wanted to ask, but the words wouldn’t come out.
The light disappeared, and the once pure white space was instantly turned black.
And when it became bright again, it was outside the Tower of Challenge.
“What is this… … .”
I was out of my mind, as if I was dreaming.
Maybe it’s because so many things happened so quickly.
Still, it wasn’t a dream.
I can still see the golden thread fluttering in my hand.
“There’s a lot to think about… but first, I need to figure out how to handle this.”
Since it’s an object, not an item, and it disappears when you let go of it, it means you have to use it right now, somehow.
‘Whatever it is, it is a thread that leads to its destiny… … .’
How on earth do you use it? If it can be used, it must have been given to you in this way.
Is it really not going into your inventory?
Dojin opens his inventory and takes the thread to try again.
But as expected, it didn’t stop exactly at the border between the void and the inventory.
“huh?”
But apart from not entering, something peculiar stood out.
It was as if it was being pulled in a certain pattern towards the open black inventory hole in the air, even though it couldn’t be stored.
As if there was something to be found in that direction.
‘Does it react to items in your inventory?’
To confirm, Dojin decided to take out one by one the items he had that would react to the Thread of Fate and conduct an experiment.
But the experiment ended with the first item.
“I see. Well, other than this, there’s nothing else I have that’s worth mentioning.”
The Thread of Fate reacted violently to the “Egg Left Behind by the Spirit Dragon” that was taken out of the inventory.
Is there a function that reacts more intensely to things or people that have a greater destiny?
“Eight, it’ll work out somehow!”
There’s no need to think about it too much. If you keep holding it in your hand like this, your hand will cramp up.
Dojin rubbed the golden, fluttering thread of fate against the egg that looked like a lump of jewels.
Okay then.
[The thread of fate was used in the “egg left behind by the spirit dragon.”]
[The Thread of Fate reads the fate of the “Egg Left Behind by the Spirit Dragon.”]
The thread of fate spread out with a swoosh, sending golden strings floating in the air.
But before he could read what they looked like, the golden letters were instantly absorbed by Dojin.
[The Thread of Fate guides your destiny until the related quest “The Egg Left Behind by the Spirit Dragon” is completed.]
The meaning of the phrase ‘guiding destiny’ was immediately apparent.
[Quest]
What Jeongryong left behind
Rating: Hidden
[The resurrection that occurred for a short time at a moment when even the body was entering the process of destruction after a long time of death may have been a struggle to release the egg it had been carrying into the world.
However, the eggs left behind by the spirit dragon appear unlikely to hatch because they have been left unattended for so long.
If you still feel pain, keep the eggs well and find a way.]
The tooltip for the hidden quest that I already had, which came up automatically, became squashed.
[Quest]
What Jeongryong left behind
Rating: Hidden
[The name of the spirit dragon that remained as a lonely corpse was ‘Daskandar’.
There is someone who might know how to hatch the egg left behind by Daskandar.
Let’s go find the legendary spirit master, Tegran Begriff.]
A new tooltip appears.
It’s a tooltip that’s more like an answer sheet than a clue, and it very kindly tells you how to proceed with the hidden quest.
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“… So this is how it works.”
Dojin muttered as he looked at the hand with the missing thread, and thought as he looked at the holographic window that contained instructions on how to proceed with the hidden quest that he had left unattended.
‘I think it’s become quite a headache.’
Dojin’s thoughts were nothing else than this.
Tegran Begriff.
Because I already knew him.
The problem is, Tegran Begrif… … .
‘You want me to go meet the dungeon boss? Or even kill it?’
It was said to be the boss monster of the dungeon,
And that’s an undead monster that’s been dead for a long time.
“This is… really hitting the nail on the head.”
Dojin frowned as if he had a headache.
But why do the corners of my mouth twist?
Yeah, honestly it was interesting.
There is some fun in solving problems that you know.
The fun of solving an unknown problem by twisting your whole body is also a fun that cannot be ignored.
“There’s nothing I can do. If I hold back my curiosity, I might get sick. I guess I’ll have to do this next time.”
Dojin throws the egg back into his inventory.
A jewel-like egg disappeared into the black, open hole.
* * *
The Tower of LOST’s first large-scale event challenge.
It’s the first large-scale event to be held, and it’s enough to grab attention, but this system has turned all users into a community of destiny, with the lights of Creation and Destruction competing against each other.
If I didn’t make any progress on conquering the Tower of Challenge right away, my experience and items would be in danger, so people’s attention had to be focused on the progress of the top users.
When all the top attack teams continued to fail to attack the 8th floor and the Doomsday debuff was applied, the excitement was so intense that there was no need for a separate group of mad zombies.
-They just showed off their skills and abilities, but when I opened the lid, they were all just idiots.
-Just a charging tool. He walks around with his neck stiff, thinking that he’s gotten stronger by throwing money at it, but it’s so ugly.
-You guys are also sucking money from viewers to make the payments, right? This time, a famous guild is broadcasting while receiving corporate sponsorship? It’s really easy to make money~
The guild and broadcasters who were broadcasting while excitedly shouting out how to completely conquer the Tower of Challenge were so stressed out by public opinion filled with ridicule and criticism that they felt a hole in their stomachs.
But at that time, Dojin had conquered the 8th floor as a solo player.
The destructive debuff has been resolved. However, that doesn’t mean that those who failed to conquer the area will have an easier time.
-Wow… It’s something that can be broken by one person, but even if a lot of people came together, no one could break it?
-Whether it’s quitting broadcasting, quitting games, or quitting life, please quit something.
Suddenly, I was treated as someone who ‘couldn’t break something that could be broken by myself’.
Even though we can see that this is not the case if we look into the details, the ignorant haters continued to swear and ridicule.
Naturally, those who became the target of ridicule gritted their teeth and concentrated on conquering the 9th floor with their venomous spirits rising.
But the 9th floor was incomparably worse than the 8th floor.
I don’t know about anything else, but I had doubts that the last guardian, Kusa, was made to be broken.
“I’ve tried every setting that’s possible at the moment. I can’t break this right now. The developers intentionally set up a wall that can’t be broken with the current specs.”
“After this try, our guild will stop broadcasting strategy videos. All of the guild members in the strategy party are too tired to continue. I apologize.”
“You made this to be broken? Don’t talk nonsense. If this is broken during the event period, I will give 10 gold to the person who breaks it.”
Many users and the strategy team have declared that they have given up.
It was difficult to continue the hopeless attempt while being criticized by public opinion.
The light of destruction grew stronger again.
The debuff that had subsided for a while has come back annoyingly.
However, there were teams that silently continued their advance, but as each day passed, the light in their eyes faded away.
It was around that time.
[The light of the city of destruction, Labes, disappears.]
[Genesis Bella emits bright light.]
A system message indicating that the 9th floor had been conquered spread throughout the world.
The curse was removed and the blessing came down.
And exactly one week later.
[9]
A video was uploaded to Dojin’s channel.
As the importance of the video is so high, the entire Lael Entertainment content team worked overtime for a week to plan, compose, adapt, and edit the special video.
Dojin’s battle scene, which is impressive just by watching, was made with the blood, sweat, and tears of experts and is equipped with a coolness that rivals movies, so naturally, the response was hot.
But it didn’t end there. The highlight of this video was this scene placed at the very end of the finale.
[“If you do not open that door, the power to suppress the Star of Destruction will soon run out. However, if you open that door, the Star of Destruction will not shine until this tower disappears.”]
[“My choice is a challenge. If my challenge can prevent disaster from befalling all of Rostania, then this choice will be worth it.”]
A warning from the Guardian that if you don’t challenge the 10th floor of the Tower of Challenges, a curse will surely sweep across all of Rostania, even if you’ve accumulated all the rewards so far.
This is Dojin’s appearance, choosing to take on the challenge without any hesitation and with the determination to lose everything.
The scenes of hesitation disappeared thanks to the power of clever editing, and instead, the famous scenes filled with only tragedy made the viewers inhale a lethal dose of ‘mulberry’.
-This is an MMO! This is an RPG!
-Sacrifice! Challenge! Dojin!
-Those kids who promised all sorts of things like it was absolutely impossible to conquer the 9th floor, are they screwed?
-Do- Men- Today too, praise him, Do- Men.
-Namu Amitabha Buddha ‘Jin’ Seum Bodhisattva. Thank you for giving me my daily bread today.
As a result, Dojin’s popularity rose to a level where it seemed like a new religion had been born, beyond simple popularity.
-When will the 10th floor strategy video be uploaded?
People who were waiting for the 10th floor strategy video expressed their disappointment that the video did not reach the end, but even that worked in Dojin’s favor.
-As expected, I failed to conquer the 10th floor… … .
-Realistically, the 9th floor was like that, so how can you break the 10th floor… … .
-You probably knew best, didn’t you? That the choices you made meant giving up a lot of things.
A sympathetic public opinion was created, especially among those who guessed that Dojin had ultimately failed to conquer the 10th floor.
Actually, Dojin’s own thoughts are…
‘There’s no battle, so why bother? Especially, I think it would be good to monopolize the information related to the tower guard. I shouldn’t even send the 10th floor video to the company.’
I just cut off 10 floors without thinking much about it.
-But you still took on the challenge. It’s really cool. If it were me, I would have just taken my reward without caring about the debuff or anything.
The public, unaware of this, were on Dojin’s side.
