Chapter 167 Set (1) (1/2)
The air split and the red portal opened.
The Monkey King’s vestige could feel a familiar energy beyond it.
It was a sharp and heavy energy. The form was different, but it was the same as him.
And a small boy entered the imaginary world.
A mischievous smile, and a small height. Kindred kneeled and bowed his head.
Then, Kindred showed a new side of himself. Like he was greeting the god he served, he spoke with polite manners.
“Another face of the great heaven king. I’ve come to serve you.”
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When he went outside, all the benefits he received from the dragon god disappeared and he could feel the constraints of the fifth mountain again.
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However, the world he saw with Extrasensory Perception wasn’t uncomfortable anymore.
Yeon-woo swept his hair and turned his head.
‘Did they go already?’
He spread his Extrasensory Perception across the dungeon. Fortunately, he couldn’t feel Kahn and Victoria. Seeing as how there weren’t any bodies, it seemed like they avoided the Devil Army.
Kahn would definitely have known that it was foul play by Kindred since he was pretty clever.
Victoria was skilled enough to hide their presences after her magic power was replenished.
So he widened the range of his Extrasensory Perception and searched outside the dungeon to see if Kindred or the Devil Army was still there.
But it told him that only they were there. He couldn’t find any other traces.
Then where had they gone?
Yeon-woo narrowed his eyes, but shook his head a moment later. It was a good thing they were gone. Even if they were here, it wouldn’t be hard to hide from them. It was enough if Kahn and Victoria had managed to escape safely.
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He sighed in relief and headed towards where Rebecaa’s body was. It was hard to recognize her bloodied figure.
Yeon-woo felt gloomy. Even if he wasn’t that close, he was able to see that she was responsible and knew how to take care of herself.
He saw from how even though she wasn’t in the best condition, she tried to save Victoria who was in danger. The fact that she was Cernunnos’s apostle pulled him to her even more.
The god of hunting. His name wasn’t that well known, but he knew that he was among the greater gods.
‘Is there a way for me to retrieve this person’s soul?’
The Black Bracelet only allowed him to take the souls of those he killed. She wasn’t included in that.
And her soul wasn’t left here. It had probably already returned to Cernunnos.
Yeon-woo hesitated for a moment, and put her body in Intrenian.
There was a method he could try, although she might not like it. If she denied it, he could just return her to her original state.
He began walking, and ate all the pieces of the monkey statues with his left hand. Then, he damaged the plaque with the 72 Arts on it so no one could see.
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As he did, he purified all the leftover vestiges. He didn’t leave behind the traces on the wall either.
‘I guess there’s no need to leave it behind.’
Yeon-woo was planning on breaking everything before he left.
The Monkey King’s vestige had said so. That the pieces of the Ruyi Bang were scattered all over the tower, and there were many successors trying to look for it.
Then they were enough. He didn’t need new rivals.
And more than anything, he couldn’t let anyone else take Heaven Things for themselves.
Especially the Devil Army.
He was going to have to himself.
And that day.
The cave in the 5th mountain that had been there for a long time collapsed. Then, Yeon-woo entered the portal to the 21st floor.
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[This is the 21st floor, gate of the ‘Shadow Dojo.’]
With blue waves, a new sight came into his vision. Was it because of the freedom from the limits of the 20th floor? He felt that the outside air was refreshing his lungs and mind.
In front of Yeon-woo, there was a large building.
The Skill Archives of the One-horned tribe was smaller than this. Yeon-woo’s eyes widened.
He saw the 21st floor’s stage in the diary, but it was bigger than he thought.
[It’s been a while coming here.]
The Black Bracelet lightly shook, delivering Shanon thoughts to him.
‘I guess it was fun?’
[There was no place like here for me.]
‘I see what you mean.’
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Yeon-woo thought of the information of the 21st floor he saw in the diary.
If the 20th floor is somewhere to fix yourself, the 21st floor is to check how much you’ve changed.
You move in 33 different sections, and you have to beat the shadows in each section or endure them until the time’s over. There isn’t a better place than here to check how much you’ve improved.
And if the shadows see that you’re someone registered on the hall of fame, then it’s a good opportunity to see their special characteristics or abilities.
The theme of the 21st stage was basically a ‘dojo break.’
Like its name, this was a dojo for people who were training their martial arts.
The dojo was divided into an outer section and an inner section.
It was set up so people could train by themselves with the basic soldiers supplied by the Tower.
Sometimes, there were scarecrow dolls, which allowed for you to train your basic martial arts.
From the entrance of the dojo, there were 5 doors numbered 1 to 5. The higher the number, the higher the difficulty, and once you passed a door, you had to clear the 33 sections straight from there.
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What you had to do in each section was simple.
Within the limited time, you had to defeat the shadow given in that section, or endure their attacks.
And the shadows were illusions that replicated the 1 to the 165th ranked player on the 21st floor’s hall of fame.
After the Tower was created, countless strong players passed through it and left records.
Of them, this was the hall of fame that only the top skilled players would be able to leave their mark.
All players wanted to put their name on it, and only a few were able to have this honor.