Chapter 314 (2/2)
And unless the items contained the qualifications of godhood similar to the Somersault cloud or the Palm Leaf Sword, he didn’t have to agonize about them.
“To reach 100 million, I need 53 million more.”
That was indeed a ridiculous amount of points. However, he should be able to amass that sooner or later while climbing the tower one floor at a time. Besides, the number of points being acquired by clearing a trial seemed to have gone up somewhat after the 100th floor.
He quickly scanned through the remainder of the store’s list. This item called “A God’s Tear” happened to be found almost right at the end of the list.
“Have you made up your mind?”
“Yes, I have.”
“Is that so? What will you buy then? As a bonus, let me give you another piece of advice—”
“I’m not buying anything. Not yet, anyway.”
“You aren’t buying anything?” Phaethon asked back at Su-hyeun’s reply; then, the corners of his lips curled up. “Very smart.”
He too was fully aware of it.
He knew that out of all the items in the store he displayed, the smartest choice for Su-hyeun would be “A God’s Tear.”
“Make a ton of points later and buy it no matter what. Doesn’t matter how you do it. As long as all of your stats reach triple digits, a brand new world that you weren’t aware of before will open up to you.”
The administrator seemed to know something. Maybe he also knew something about the system currently applied to Su-hyeun.
A question popped up in Su-hyeun’s mind just then.
Were the administrators like this Phaethon before his eyes responsible for establishing this tower? If so, were they also responsible for the system currently applied to the human awakeners?
These questions hadn’t been answered yet. But even if he asked, he would not get an answer. Even then, he was certain of one thing—at the very least, Phaethon wasn’t lying to him.
“Okay. I’ll definitely take those words to heart.”
Shu-wuwuwu—
After Su-hyeun made his reply, his figure began to slowly vanish from the spot. Just as his body became transparent and the view before his eyes got hazy, a system message rang in his ears.
[The trial on the 102nd floor will now commence.]
**
What appeared before Su-hyeun’s view was a wide-open field.
However, he couldn’t see something as common as a tree or a village filled with people who should be cultivating unknown crops visibly growing in this field.
Su-hyeun scanned his surroundings more closely.
“Is there really nothing here?”
His thoughts didn’t wander off too far, however, because a new system message arrived shortly.
[Protect the god’s bloodline for the next 30 days.]
Su-hyeun could only make a puzzled expression at the 102nd floor’s “mission.”
Protect the god’s bloodline?
“In this place?”
One more time, Su-hyeun scanned the uninhabited wide-open field.
There really wasn’t anything there. He waited on the spot while hoping for something, but no other message came his way.
Su-hyeun groaned and activated the Sage’s Eye again, which allowed him to look much farther.
“As I thought, there really is noth—”
Fwhoooosh—
Su-hyeun, observing the endlessly-stretching empty fields, quickly shifted his head above. The moment he activated the Sage’s Eye, something began flying in his direction.
That something got obscured by the sun in the sky and became a small black dot before descending to the earth below.
SPLIIIIIIT—!
The thing that was descending from the heavens slammed into the ground. Su-hyeun stood still and observed the sight of the ground being torn apart and the soil overturning spectacularly to shoot up in the air.
“The moment it fell, it changed its trajectory,” Su-hyeun thought to himself.
What amazing speed! But what was even more surprising was the power on display.
It came from pure physical strength without the aid of an aura or energy. A man with blue hair and a short beard quietly emerged from the overturned earth as he fixed the lion headdress resting on his head.
“Are you hurt anywhere?” he then spoke in a voice that was imposing and dignified sounding.
“It’s Hercules,” Su-hyeun thought.
Although there were some minor differences in appearance from the 43rd floor’s version, his overall vibe or facial features were still the same.
Even the Nemean Lion Headdress adorning his head was the same, despite looking a bit worn-down now.
More importantly, though…
Tumble, tumble—
Bang—
The overturned earth tilted over and collapsed back down to the ground. The crop fields became even more unusable as a result.
It was merely a single strike. Just one downward strike with the club that he held in his hands was already this powerful.
More importantly, at the last moment, Hercules discovered Su-hyeun and urgently withdrew his strength and changed the trajectory of his strike.
If he hadn’t done that, the ripples from the overturned earth would have reached where Su-hyeun was currently standing as well.
“You seem to be quite shocked at the moment. My apologies. I thought you were from the race of the Giants, and I may have caused you inconvenience.”
“Ah, no. I’m fine. I’m unhurt.”
Su-hyeun, admiring Hercules’s strength, hurriedly waved his hands around. Even the latter’s personality seemed a little different somehow.
“I mean, when I saw him back on the 43rd floor’s arena, I thought he had an obstinate, relentless, and aggressive personality,” he inwardly recalled.
A stage of various heroes was the theme of the 43rd floor that was created by the administrator. It was a stage where heroes from many different worlds came together to fight and discover who was the strongest among them.
That was also the goal of the trial, and Su-hyeun encountered Hercules during the occasion. They might not have chatted at length after being matched-up in the arena, but at least from Su-hyeun’s memories, Hercules wasn’t someone this courteous or formal in nature.
“The god’s bloodline, was it?”
Upon meeting Hercules, Su-hyeun immediately recalled the latter’s birth as told through the popular myth.
“Wasn’t he the son of Zeus?”
Hercules was a demigod born between the bona fide god Zeus and a human woman. In that sense, he definitely qualified as the “god’s bloodline” as stated.
“But to protect him?”
And that’s why Su-hyeun was even more puzzled.
“This dude?”
Su-hyeun stared at Hercules before his eyes and formed a deeply confused expression.
The goal of this trial was to protect Hercules.
But the administrator said that Hercules might be a problem.
Even from the get-go, things were not making sense.