104. Divinity (2)
The fear of being summoned to the realm of the gods was short-lived.
―The Tower of Trials permits the summoning of challenger Han Seong-yoon as long as his personal safety is secured.
Just now, the Tower of Trials sent a message saying that they could summon me as long as my personal safety was secured.
Those words soon led to the judgment that the god of proof would not do me much harm.
‘Let’s calm down…’
I slowly turned my head and began to look around.
It was a scene where the sky felt very close, as if it were right under the clouds
.
Should I say that I really feel that it is the realm of God?
However, I was not given a chance to examine the surrounding space in more detail.
[ …Looking at it in person, it’s quite heterogeneous. Are you a quasi-god created by the Tower? ]
It was because the god of proof, who had been silent for a while, delivered another voice to my head.
‘Pseudo-deity?’
I couldn’t quite understand what he was saying, so I immediately opened my mouth to express my doubts.
“…I’m not sure what a quasi-deity is.”
[Pseudo-goddess So, did you say ‘Manager’ in the tower? I’m asking if he’s a being who acquired a quasi-divine status under a contract with the tower. ]
I’m not sure why the administrator is called a pseudo-godhead….
If you’re asking whether I’m an administrator or not, it’s easier to answer.
“I’m not a manager, I’m still just a challenger climbing the tower.”
[Certainly… It’s different from a similar deity. It has its own divine power. ]
“…?”
[The tower has become quite interesting after not seeing it for a long time. Did you realize that you can’t make a ‘real’ with a pseudo-god…. ]
“….”
[ Create a ‘real’ by making him an apostle of a pseudo-god…. Did that really happen? understood. Challenger Han Seong-yoon. You are not an ordinary being. ]
“What is that…”
I wondered if the God of Proof was misunderstanding something.
They talk about whether it is divinity or real, but to summarize it roughly, it seems that my divine power is the problem.
‘This is how the divine power obtained by killing Kairan…?’
It seems that the power of divine power absorbed after killing the preliminary apostle Kairan was quite important.
However, I don’t even know how to handle that divine power, and I don’t know if it’s that important.
Eventually, after much thought, I slowly opened my mouth and asked a question.
“…Can I ask you one question?”
[…? ]
“What is divine power, so why are you talking about it as if it were important?”
[ …I thought I was going to ask questions about my future self from the ordeal, but you’re asking strange things. Have you extracted divinity yourself and don’t even know that? Wasn’t it because he knew that he went through the extraction process to remove even the traces of God? ]
I didn’t extract it because I wanted to, but I got it through random power extraction, so I need to know something.
In my heart, I grumbled like that, but I soon found out that the divine power extracted from Kairan was quite amazing.
I don’t know what it means to say that there is no sign of a god, but if you know how to use divine power, wouldn’t it be quite useful…
‘The priests who actually use holy power were quite strong.’
As I thought so, I felt the voice of the god of proof ringing in my head as if it were absurd.
[ …Looks like you didn’t even know what divine power was. ]
“…I just happened to learn it.”
[It turns out that La…. Even if it is a fake reproduced by the tower, how did it happen that all traces of God were erased and absorbed from the divine power bestowed by God on the prospective apostle? ]
“….”
[Even though he may not be aware of it, it is no coincidence that he extracted Kairan’s divine power. I feel that the causal rate definitely exists. ]
Causal rate?
‘I don’t know what this means again…’
Divinity, causality, and even that it’s not a coincidence… As
I frowned at those words and pondered, I heard another voice in my head.
[ …I made a mistake. Seeing how angry the top was, it must have been information that shouldn’t have been shared. ]
“Yes? What is that…”
[It’s goodbye. Challenger Han Seong-yoon. I will make sure to listen to your actions from the outside. ]
“…Can you tell me more?”
This fact was known at the same time as the surrounding space was distorted.
「The consumed sacred power is used up, and the god of proof loses its temporary authority.」 「 After a while
, I return to
the original space in the divine area.」
There are still quite a few things I want to ask you, but you’re already going back?
To be honest, we didn’t even talk to each other that much.
But if I go back already, it will only be like going back with my doubts rather inflated.
I wanted to ask why I became like that in the future, what divinity is, and what the law of cause and effect means.
[That’s how it is. No matter what god, the tower is an existence that cannot be easily dealt with, so there is no help. ]
I tried to open my mouth as I looked at the surrounding scenery that was gradually blurring
.
[If you come to the ‘Temple of Proof’ in Ares later, I might be able to shed some light on what you’re curious about. ]
as if to prevent someone from asking questions.
[Oh and one last piece of advice…]
And…
[Don’t trust the gods of Ares. They will consider you an enemy now. ]
With that said, I soon returned to my original position.
A mysterious space with a large full-length mirror in the center of a black mirrored room.
「Congratulations, you have broken through the 11th floor of the Tower of Trials.」
Now you have completely returned to the Tower of Trials.
***
Returning to the tower, I felt quite complicated.
Should I say it’s a kind of emotion close to curiosity or frustration?
It’s not negative, but it’s not positive
either.
The ordeal on the 11th floor accelerated my growth to an absurd level compared to before.
However, what remained after the ordeal on the 11th floor was a question for which the answer is currently unknown.
「Congratulations, you have broken through the 11th floor of the Tower of Trials.」
「As a breakthrough reward, the ‘Old Proof Mirror (S-)’ will be transferred to your inventory.」
「You have acquired ‘70000 points’ as a breakthrough reward.」
「Breakthrough reward You acquired ‘3000 SP’.」
「You acquired ‘1500 SP’ as an additional breakthrough reward.」
「Go to the waiting room.」
However, the 11th floor ordeal was over without even having time to answer that question.
「When returning to the waiting room, the limited administrator’s observation area is restored.」
“….”
I stood there and thought, ignoring the system message on my retina.
God.
The presence that seemed to transcend everything spoke to me.
It was no coincidence that the divine power of the preliminary apostle Kairan was extracted, and he felt a certain causality.
As I pondered what that meant, I soon understood what that causality meant.
It is the tower that allowed me to bloom my unique characteristics, and at the same time, the decision to extract power is also made in the realm of the system.
That means that the tower can handle the system to some extent, and it is the will of the tower that extracted divine power and acquired it as authority.
‘That’s why he said he felt the causal rate.’
Of course, I still don’t quite understand what divinity is.
I understand that the tower induced me to extract the divinity from Kairan…
but I couldn’t even guess why it was trying to acquire the divine power through authority.
It was all the more so considering that the God of Proof said in a meaningful tone that he became the manager’s apostle as if the tower had induced him.
Let’s assume that the contract with the manager and the apostle and the extraction of divine power from Kairan’s command were all guided by the tower.
‘Then, what is the purpose of the tower inducing it like that…?’
However, he did not know what the tower that had induced him to do was wish for.
After thinking for a while, I immediately recited the keywords of the conversation I had just heard in my head.
If you think of keywords for conversation, you might be able to guess something.
“Pseudo-goddess… divinity… managers… and making ‘real’…”
The tower is a being that even gods cannot treat carelessly, and the manager has the nickname pseudo-goddess.
No, it could have been that the original name was a pseudo-god, and the tower might have created the nickname of manager.
Then, what does it mean to make the administrator’s apostle and create a ‘real’…
“I don’t know.”
It’s not that I can’t guess at all, but that doesn’t mean I can’t be sure.
But…
‘At least the tower isn’t harming me.’
Of course, there were several situations in which I almost suffered death in the Trial of the Tower.
However, to put it bluntly, the tower did not deceive me, nor did it exploit me.
I just induced him to climb the tower if he wanted to know more and become stronger.
Even just now, as soon as the god of proof forced me to summon me, I gave priority to protecting my personal safety.
‘I guess it’s because the tower also intends to use me for its own purposes, but…’
Even so, I didn’t feel that the tower was harming me right away.
After standing still, I quickly gathered my thoughts and moved to the portal that appeared in the center of the room.
Nothing in this world is free anyway.
Just as I wished to become stronger while climbing the tower, the tower only wants me.
And the Tower of Trials provides higher-level information as you go up to higher levels.
I thought that it is not impossible to know if you want to know the questions through the manager by collecting and collecting the questions.
‘A question like this can be solved while climbing the tower.’
There was only one question that really felt completely out of the question.
‘Don’t believe in the gods… it was.’
And then I added that the other gods now regard me as an ‘enemy’.
Until now, I thought that the only enemies I encountered while climbing the tower were challengers from another dimension.
It wasn’t.
‘The god of proof told me to consider the other gods as enemies.’
Just passed the ordeal prepared by the God of Proof on the 11th floor ordeal, and I gained the favor of that god.
‘Of course it won’t be forever, but… Until just now, he was quite friendly towards me.’
As a result, the god of proof told me various facts in a short conversation.
Most of the pseudo-gods and divinities sounded plausible, so I must be sincere that the gods might be against me.
Oh, but I’m not entirely sure that it’s true.
‘It’s not that I don’t believe in that fact at all, but…’
I haven’t told you why the gods I’ve never seen yet recognize me as an enemy.
Therefore, it is difficult to completely trust what the god of proof said.
However, even if I trusted him at all, nothing would change than if God was against me right away.
‘Regardless of whether the gods are hostile or not, as long as I have the protection of the tower, the gods cannot easily touch me.’
Just now, even the God of Proof had to entrust the tower’s permission to summon me, so that’s for sure.
Now that I know that fact, even if God is hostile to me, it doesn’t give me a reason to tremble right away.
So, it was time to put aside the complex concerns for a moment.
“You have entered the waiting room on the 12th floor.”
Worries are worries.
Now it was time to face a new ordeal.
