Episode 820: Companion
If possible, I wanted to recover on the 99th floor and then head to the 100th floor.
Because I didn’t know what kind of place the 100th floor was.
It would have been nice to have at least recovered my stamina with some preparation.
‘I couldn’t afford that.’
The 99th floor was scheduled to be discarded and the field was disappearing, so if we waited longer, it would not have been good.
In the worst case, the opened portal may disappear.
-Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.
Upon entering the portal, what comes to you is immense fatigue and a feeling of floating.
I’ve used portals countless times while climbing the tower, but this is the first time my mind has been this clear.
Most people were moved to the next floor shortly after entering the portal.
“This looks like a passage.”
“Yes.”
The brilliance of dozens of colors unfolds before your eyes.
Countless stars flowed by, creating a long afterimage, which became a passageway and guided my body.
I tossed and turned, but could not move freely.
Because I’m literally being beamed.
Although it was a mystical experience, my five senses were sensitive.
I feel it.
‘The malice he left behind.’
This is the portal left behind by Bedrock Vaaluze, who made a deal with the Tower, to create fragments of chaos that represented an era.
I could see his remains and confusion mixed up everywhere.
Haven’t you already confirmed it with authority?
The first person to climb the portal has a close to 100% chance of becoming a chaotic fragment.
-Pajijijit.
just as expected.
“The passage is being forced.”
A passage made of light.
The path is transformed, as if it were made by weaving skeins of thread.
Countless possibilities are compressed and twisted to force the worst possible path.
The path of lost possibility has shrunk and narrowed the gap.
[Bedrock Vaaluze’s remnants grant compulsion according to the will of the tower.]
A method of making only one path by creating another passage.
Even though he died, the deal with the tower remained.
Does this mean that Bedrock Vaaluze was also just a means from the Tower’s perspective?
I don’t know.
Let’s focus on myself for now.
[The eyes watching the SSS-class power star are twinkling.]
As we approach the 100th floor, the tower’s will seems to be visible.
It was an image that could not be explained in words and was close to a vague precognition.
“You want me intensely.”
Now that Bedrock Vaaluze is dead, I can feel that the tower wants me.
Maybe he wants me to sit on the 99th floor instead of him.
Of course, I didn’t intend for that to happen.
-Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.
Focused inward.
The spirit world opens and your perspective changes.
The will is soon connected to the soul.
Unlike skills, powers and concepts are subordinate to the soul.
It was like proving my existence, so what Feline left behind must also reside in my soul.
[The wanderer’s trace (-) finds direction.]
A compass emerges from my soul in the shape of a bird.
An old, worn brass compass.
By moving the needle, we presented direction.
-Whoa!
My body accelerated.
The overwhelming sense of speed gives me chills.
Ignore the wide passage and run down another path that is as thin as your finger!
‘We collide!’
I gritted my teeth and prepared for shock.
Speed like light.
Even if I was in good condition, I don’t know what would happen, but it was clear that if I crashed in my current state, my entire body would be shattered.
-Sooooooo!
The body became long and thin, as if the space itself was stretched.
I felt a bit of a burden during the process, but it was worth enduring.
This is a portal.
As I became a particle and passed through the road, I was something more soft and flexible.
‘can do.’
I felt that confident.
I passed through the strangely curved road and pushed away the photon that was chasing me.
It soared at an angle close to a right angle, turned sideways, ignored the fork in the road, and plunged downward, digging into a hidden passage.
The narrow passageway was breathtaking.
‘Piercing!’
[Concept explosion protects you!]
-Quaaaaaang!
It was forced through by an explosion.
An art no different from a stunt.
Gradually, I could feel the obstacles the King of Worship had been working on moving further away.
As its will fades away, the portal’s original power becomes full.
My tense nerves relax and time seems to pass slowly.
no. Maybe time really has slowed down.
The place we arrived at after passing through the passage of light was a vast universe.
“It’s beautiful.”
At one point, I was floating in space and flying somewhere.
Ride on the passing stars and watch the rotating galaxy.
Swirling galaxies and shooting stars flashing by.
From the heat radiating from the stars to the gloomy, cold darkness that occupies most of space.
It is a sight I have never seen before.
-Tzuzuzuzu.
The power is activated and the vision overlaps.
Along with the spirit world, a view from the top that could not be seen from the bottom unfolds.
It shows the chaos and complex but solid order contained in each planet that can be called a world.
I knew it instinctively.
A world that moves actively and the chaos that sprouts within it.
Even where the tower will go in the near future.
My whole body cools down from the endless cold energy.
Coo!
My soul is shaken along with the feeling of my heart pounding.
The experience of predicting the cycle of destruction was a shock in itself.
“Wow!”
A sight that is too much for a being living in a single world to bear.
I felt sick, but I endured it.
Even though I am just a person, I have also grown.
It was half a step into the transcendence that the tower spoke of, and it was a struggle to escape destruction.
-Guuuuuu.
A sound is heard that sounds like the roar of a huge animal or like a huge vibration passing through the body.
It feels like it’s singing and calling me.
light and darkness.
The huge tower at the center appeared to me.
It’s so foreign, yet natural at the same time.
[The eyes watching the SSS-class power star face the tower.]
-Tzuzuzuzu.
[tower]
-Balance between chaos and order.
-The laws of the universe.
There were no ratings or details, but that was enough.
It’s too complicated and profound to write down, but that’s why it’s best to explain it in just one or two sentences.
Didn’t you already know?
Chaos comes to a world destined for destruction, and order is what mediates that power.
Since it is a polarizing concept, the tower is something that is intertwined with each other.
-Paaah!
The peak of the tower.
Light spreads from there and pulls me in.
I could feel the enormous manpower and will.
-Oooooh!
Eventually, I lost consciousness and my body regained its reality.
It felt like it was just a dream.
“Mmm!”
“Yes.”
The pain that came back to life as my body returned forced my mind to awaken.
[Entering the 100th floor.]
Light bursts out along with the phrase I wanted so much.
I opened my closed eyes and took a step forward.
I felt relief on solid ground.
-Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.
The halo of light disappeared and the 100th floor appeared.
A space with nothing.
I thought I was touching the floor, but when I looked down, all I saw was empty space.
It felt like I was standing in midair.
-Huung.
As soon as I thought it was empty space, something supporting my feet disappeared and I fell down.
Kwaaaaang!
He reflexively exploded and launched himself into the air.
It certainly seems like there was a foothold.
“Huh?”
A translucent membrane is laid underneath with the idea of a stepping stone.
This is perfect.
“Is what I accept going to be applied right away?”
I was curious and imagined it.
This place is water.
-Boogrrrrr.
At the same time, I felt pressure and my nose and mouth felt blocked.
As soon as I thought there was air on the road, it returned to its original state.
It’s an amazing place.
‘light.’
-Paaaaaa.
Light is born in a dark space.
Is it because the light has been restored?
The empty space began to fill up.
The flat marble spreads out, creating the shape of the building.
What I see beyond the window is the universe I passed by.
Realized.
This is what the 100th floor looks like I was unconsciously imagining.
[100th floor – Entered the room of birth.]
Room of birth.
This is the name of the 100th floor.
Even when I looked around, there were no enemies.
The tower had a safety zone at every 10 floors, so I thought the 100th floor would be similar.
‘Maybe this is because I believe that too.’
If you thought it was a place full of enemies, wouldn’t it have turned out to be a place swarming with all kinds of monsters?
[Monsters cannot exist at the top of the tower.]
Startle.
I stopped at a message that suddenly occurred to me.
Did you read my thoughts?
“There’s nothing strange.”
Because he read my thoughts, the things I imagined manifested in real time.
– Coo coo coo coo.
He smiled and gestured, and a table and chairs appeared.
I don’t know how the 100th floor goes.
Little is known about the subsequent information.
So I was curious.
What is talking to me now and what kind of being can be called the owner of the tower?
“If you come, can we sit down and talk?”
Is he reacting to me like that?
Light and darkness intertwined, and something like fog sat across from me.
Although it was in the shape of a human, it was not a real person.
It’s just an image that I’ve created so that I can recognize it.
“I guess it’s more comfortable this way, don’t you think?”
A neutral voice that you can’t tell if it’s male or female.
There is not even a soul in sight.
Even if you use your authority, all you can see is.
[Tower’s projection]
-This is a projection created by the tower for you.
There is nothing like this.
Because I just made it up to communicate comfortably with me.
I sat down comfortably in the chair.
At least I didn’t feel any hostility.
That means soon.
“It looks like you and Bedrock Vaaluze managed to avoid it.”
“Felain’s side brought you here.”
It means that we have escaped the future that is determined by fragments of chaos.
I understand why the tower banished Feline from the tower.
It must have been because it was something that couldn’t be controlled by the system.
Looking at the grin, it looks like I got the idea.
“There’s a saying about people who climb towers.”
I stretched my fingers upward.
“Those who reach the 100th floor can save the world.”
It is said that the secret to escape destruction lies on the 100th floor.
I also have similar thoughts.
Without that, the meaning of climbing the tower fades.
“That’s half true.”
The guy nods his head calmly.
It wasn’t quite the answer I wanted.
“Because you don’t know what the outcome will be.”
At the same time, it was also something I expected.
Infinite coins given to me.
Forced to go to the 100th floor.
The hidden quest that is the culprit of it all.
[Tower’s Seed – Hidden Quest]
-Climb the tower.
-The tower wants you.
-The tower needs you.
-Become a transcendent. (Condition achievement rate: 6/7)
-Reward: Trade with some towers in a world that is about to be destroyed.
Most of the conditions for becoming a transcendent have been fulfilled.
【Transcendence Conditions】
-1) Entering the 100th floor (completed)
-2) Chaos score over 1000 (complete)
-3) Rise in status (complete)
-4) Two or more concepts (complete)
-5) Selection of Tower (Completed)
-6) Recognition of Chaotic Fragments (Completed)
-7) Select (incomplete)
There’s only one thing left.
‘select.’
This decides everything.
There was a misunderstanding along the way.
I thought that if I completed this quest, I would definitely become a Chaos Shard.
“It actually could have happened that way.”
There was only the possibility of it becoming a fragment of chaos.
So the transcendence that the quest talks about could be something else.
Did you say the correct answer? The tower’s projection smiled brightly.
I still don’t know what thoughts and feelings I had.
Because the tower was close to a law of the world or a natural phenomenon that went beyond my perception.
“Those who enter the 100th floor are given a choice.”
Sreuk.
He touches my quest window.
“The same applies to those who were not invited.”
[The person receiving the invitation with the strange title is Salang.]
Does this mean that even if you don’t receive the hidden quest, you are given a choice?
In other words, not all of the fragments of chaos would have received the hidden quest.
“There is a given total amount in each world.”
As he rubs his finger, the window enlarges and the Earth is visible.
“If chaos exceeds that number, a tower appears and eats up the chaos.”
It is filled with something black that cannot be seen with the naked eye.
“It’s a kind of purification. “It’s like emptying a full glass of water.”
“All the water inside is thrown away.”
Of course, humanity is also included in water.
“The 100th floor is the starting point where a new transcendent person is born. “There are two options.”
He raises his finger.
“first. Offer yourself and be absorbed into the tower. The world will be purified in proportion to the total amount of chaos you have. The tower will disappear immediately and will not appear again until its total capacity is reached.”
-Saaaaa.
Half of the chaos that filled the Earth disappears.
“You have created an extraordinary amount of chaos. You may escape destruction. This is the first one. “It is a path to transcend by becoming a ‘part’ of the tower.”
He folds his fingers.
“And the second. Going down directly into your own world. It becomes a seed.”
-Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.
A gate is seen opening above the Earth.
There were many monsters inside, and they were real.
“When people come together in the face of trials, it means order. “The act of catching monsters and monsters is also an act of erasing chaos.”
This is a fact I didn’t know.
I thought the appearance of monsters and fragments of disaster chaos was just an act to confirm destruction.
“Seeds also become powerful in proportion to the chaos they contain. “If people kill the seeds and lower the chaos level to a meaningful level, the tower will disappear.”
“…It means that the seed is a confirmed fragment of chaos.”
“that’s right. Transcending into fragments of chaos. That’s the second option.”
Why do fragments of chaos always appear in one’s world?
Why are they called beings that confirm destruction?
This is because those who represent that era and have reached the peak appear as enemies with potential.
A contradictory being born with the possibility of salvation and to eliminate the object of salvation.
at the same time.
‘The power source that moves the tower.’
I can feel it.
Chaos is like a dog and is no different from being put on a leash by the order of the tower.
We eat food or toys.
At best, it might be closer to a servant taking you for a walk.
Either way, it was a choice with no regrets from the tower’s perspective.
-Wow.
When he claps his hands, the window that illuminates the Earth disappears.
I couldn’t see his expression, but I could tell he was smiling.
Our eyes meet.
【What is your choice?】
An irreversible choice that is imprinted on the soul.
Every word I utter will become a pledge that will bind my soul.
So we had to be careful, but both he and I knew that.
“Of course you do.”
“of course.”
“You wouldn’t choose what was given to you.”
“I refuse both.”
As always.
“Choose a new option.”
[Your type is indefinable chaos!]
[Your type is a pioneer of a new path!]
-Paaaa!
The 100th floor space collapses along with the light.
The body falls along with the illusion of moving away.
[I decided on the third option.]
[Your choice….]
The sensation of bouncing off the tower and sliding to the other side of the universe.
[I am a companion.]
[We shoulder the burden of the world together.]
I smiled as I watched the blurring message.
