I went to school for nothing (281)
Lesson 55. The center of the tower – 1
“I feel like I have been entering the tower for the first time in a long time.”
“That’s right, Asha.”
“No, it’s okay. don’t tell me! It’s my fault!”
On Friday morning, the Rebellion members filled their stomachs with crab meat fried rice and soup topped with an exotic citrus sauce and entered the Tower of Babel faster than any other team.
Of course, when they entered, the first year special class members were glaring at them with spirited expressions, but they neatly ignored them.
Even more so, the pale Russein Ortima, who was at the center of them, as if suffering from an illness.
“If he’s sick, he’ll just stay in his room, so why is he out there?”
The moment she entered the tower confidently receiving countless stares from behind her back, Asha frowned and said, unable to get past without talking about Ortima.
In fact, there is no direct relationship between Asha and Ortima, but in the sense that both of them were paired with Ulrike Prominence at the Union Founding Festival and fought a battle with Ban Yu-Won, and lost equally and were humiliated equally, there was a part that I could sympathize with a little bit.
The difference is that Asha got a chance to restore her honor on that day, and Ortima’s honor fell to the shit pit despite the title of heir to a teenage family.
“I don’t know. Light? He just served his purpose.”
“huh? what?”
Ruchel said with a mischievous smile to Asha, who innocently asked her question.
“Now Wright, you’re interested in him.”
“huh? Yeah, it’s strange that a descendant of a teenage family can’t even manage his condition and is out there… Did I do something weird?”
“That in itself was the purpose. Right now, that person wants to buy sympathy by exposing his pitiable and miserable side to us as much as possible.”
The last space they explored was exactly 200 rooms, no more, no less.
From now on, it was the center of the tower, which could be called the realm of students, not freshmen. The tower, which was composed of simple mazes, caves, uncomplicated traps, and mindless monsters, has undergone various changes and has become a space that gives you the feeling of exploring a small world every time you advance.
――Of course, for Rebellion, the tower was such a space from the beginning.
“Ah, anyway, a man who is said to be descended from a teenage family is doing that to get our attention?”
“If it’s possible, if we expand it a little more, it’s about the master.”
However, even after arriving in Room 200, the conversation between Asha and Ruchel was not over.
Asha didn’t know, but I could feel that Ruchel was glancing at Dok-go-yeon from earlier.
“Ah―― That’s why I like Dokgo Yeon that much. It’s a pity, Dok-go-yeon is a dull tank, so he didn’t even care.”
Asha, who still knows Dokgoyeon as the world’s weakling, innocently nodded and said, and Ruchel laughed a little.
In fact, she was so shocked to hear Dokgo-yeon’s previous story, ‘I hate Ban Yu-won’s concern for nothing, pretending not to see other men at all’, that she wanted to see Ban Yu-won realize and react to it somehow.
“Yes, but what do you think, Dokgoyeon? You knew the man was there, right?”
“Beasts and Fools. I entered the tower, but my mind is too loose.”
And, of course, Dok-go-yeon knew Ruchel’s intentions, so he hardened his face and said in a cold voice.
“I wouldn’t mind having a flower garden on my head, but this is already a battlefield. Wasn’t it everyone’s goal to climb the tower?”
“Heh… you’re right, I’m sorry.”
It was a great chance to see Dok-go-yeon shy, but there is nothing to say when she comes out with a serious face.
Ruchel, who reluctantly gave up pursuing her, winked meaningfully at Ban Yu-Won. Ban Yu-Won, realizing what kind of psychological warfare was taking place between the two, shook his head, feeling that nine tails of nine-tailed foxes could be seen behind Ruchel’s buttocks.
“Right now, Yan is right. I understand that the level of our armed forces is higher than the level of the rooms we’ve experienced so far, so I can understand that the tension is waning―― but the words that the tower changes dramatically from room 200 onwards probably apply to us as well. Everyone, let’s get up and go.”
Before leaving the 200-room Eden, I first poured all the blood wine flowing there into a canteen.
The water bottle, which was modified into an artifact and changed to hold more than 10,000 liters of liquid, was already more than half full of pure blood wine.
“Have you all packed your candy?”
“I don’t have any problem.”
Unlike blood wine, candy made by hardening jam made with the concept of the life of Eden and its fruits that were collected immediately.
It was only after confirming that each person had at least 3 Candy of Life, which could heal any number of fatal injuries, that they left Eden and headed to Room 201.
“You got out well, Dokgoyeon.”
“Didn’t you hear what Won said earlier? I want you to stay alert.”
“These days, there are many times when I feel like I’m handing over the initiative to my master rather than when you directly come forward and say something… Do you know that I’m really happy these days to know that we share the same mind?”
“You’ll be determined later.”
While waiting for the shift to end, ignoring the two whispering behind the scenes, Asha, who had been ostracized by them, comes up to him with puffy cheeks and whispers to him.
“Yu-won, those two are weird these days. They glared at each other while saying things whose purpose was unclear. Could it be that I am mentally being interfered with by another being like I was before?”
“The two of you are perfectly normal, so it’s okay, Asha.”
Suddenly remembering Dok-go-yeon eating chocolate from him last night, Ban Yu-won thought that maybe she wasn’t normal, but he kept his mouth shut because it was obvious that he would be beaten up again if he said such a thing.
Fortunately, the shift ended before he made a mistake.
The party was falling from the sky to the ground without a parachute.
Kwagwagwagwa and the wind that came from all sides to the falling party, driven by gravity, set the blade fiercely.
“Look at that– I knew this would happen–.”
“Wow– that’s really high–!”
“The scale is no joke, look at how wide the land is! This is definitely another chain room!”
“It’s as if the world… has been screwed in.”
If you’re a veteran who’s been through all kinds of circumstances while rolling in towers for years, you’re bound to panic when a freshman in the first year is suddenly thrown out of the sky.
However, Rebellion is not a scam team for nothing.
First of all, this team has two members who can fly on their own.
Lucille, who has awakened the blood of the divine beast, and Asha, who can dig into the ground and walk freely in the water as well as fly with the ability of the dragon sword.
I don’t know, but if Dokgoyeon also showed his inner strength, he could run through empty air, and when he arrived at Banyuwon, he could fly like a bird by applying wind among elemental magic.
―You know where you land is important when playing a game like this, master?
“I’m not going to go downstairs and have a battle royale, so transform.”
―You don’t even farm?
“I might do farming.”
But Ban Yu-won chose an easier path than that.
Lilith, who acquired the concept of Yogi and changeable conditions and was able to skillfully transform into any vehicle, transformed into a fighter and burned Banyuwon.
It was a two-seater fighter, but Dokgo-yeon was sitting behind him.
“Is it fast?!”
Lucille, who took out the tail of the divine beast and started flying, looked at it and rolled her eyes in amazement.
“I’m riding something strange again… and it’s coming!”
Asha, who started gliding while pulling out her Jinryongsword, was also stunned to see Ban Yu-Won riding on a state-of-the-art fighter, but right after that, she pulled out the aura of the sword and screamed sharply.
She was encroached on by her ancestors, but after awakening as a true dragon, she was able to trust her fighting power even if she didn’t know about other parts.
As he swung his sword freely overturning himself in the air, the blue aura that followed the trajectory split the air in a large X-shape.
It was evident that it had only been swung once, but before it was time to question why there were two trajectories, a large amount of something with purple wings caught on it and disappeared with a grotesque scream.
[I got 300 Life, 150 Curse, and 30 Fusion.]
“It’s a curse! Be careful not to touch it directly!”
As soon as the enemy disappeared, Ban Yu-Won, who secured the concept of expressing power, grasped the identity of the enemy and transmitted it to everyone in the party by transmission.
But rather, the party seemed confident after hearing that.
“A curse like that wouldn’t be able to invade my body.”
Ruchel, who revealed the energy of the divine beast, sprinted through the air, bouncing purple sparks with her whole body.
Black smoke rose as the evil energy dissipated whenever the sharp nails protruding from the fine fingers tore the bodies of the winged irregular monsters.
“It’s the same here… Let’s finish it by ourselves while Yu-Won is trapped in that dull piece of metal!”
If Lucille stands above curses with her innate sanctity as a divine beast, Asha suppresses all insignificant curses with her high rank as a dragon.
In particular, thanks to overcoming the curse of her ancestors that engulfed her body not too long ago, her resistance to the curse was extremely high.
She grabbed her weapon, which had changed its shape into a spear, and spurred through the air, shredding all the monsters on the track and leaping out to the other side.
“So what are we going to do?”
The moment Ban Yu-won made a fighter jet with Lilith, Dok-go-yeon climbed into the back seat of him with ghost-like movements and confirmed it with a calm expression as if he had forgotten such a past.
“The sky is my domain.”
Ban Yu-won declared confidently and called out his followers.
His name is Abyss.
The ultimate drill, which grinds everything it encounters, stuck to the tip of the fighter and turned the bangs into a drill.
“A true digger cuts the sky. Let’s go kite!”
“Wait a minute, I can’t believe I’m going to charge like this–”
The fighters sped up and rushed into the hordes of monsters that Ruchel and Asha were already messing around with!
The drill attached to the front of the fighter, which was charging at a speed that would have exceeded the speed of sound and would not have been strange if the party had not been superhuman, would have been torn apart by the aftermath of the fighter.
“Avoid yourself!”
“That’s… kyaaak!”
“It’s getting sucked in!”
There was no time to escape in the whirlwind caused by the drill’s terrifying rotation, and the flock of monster birds was sucked in and shattered the next moment.
Ban Yu-won kept all the concepts of curse and convergence he had secured after a long time in the code core, and looked at the scene of Room 201, which was revealed under the clouds.
As there is a limit to the size of the room, the site is cut off in all directions with a certain area as the boundary, but more than half of the inside can be seen stained black.
“If that’s all a curse, this is another one.”
It will be linked to the Constellation.
Ban Yu-won smiled calmly while watching the extreme environment, which would scream not only freshmen but also current students who had become accustomed to the tower.
