Chapter 254. Unknown Future (2) (2/2)
To effectively utilize my special skill, [Four-colored Enchant], I needed pinnacle-grade artifacts. Otherwise, I could just use items I crafted.
“Okay~ Good luck~ I’ll be cheering for you~”
I began to walk over to Boss’ room.
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[Pandemonium – Fallen Ghost-rank Gladiator’s Waiting Room]
On the other hand, Jin Sahyuk returned to her home. It wasn’t her home, technically speaking, but Pandemonium’s fighting arena. Since she never purchased a house, she had no other choice.
“Lord Jin Sahyuk, Lord Jin Sahyuk, will you begin fighting in the arena again?”
An employee of the fighting arena followed after her. Jin Sahyuk unpacked without answering him. She didn’t carry much with her, only effective goods she brought from the Tower.
“Lord Jin Sahyuk, can we schedule a fight for you…?”
A leather armor giving off a cold, dark-blue light, and a coat made from a special fabric enchanted with magic.
The two pieces of equipment were [Lv.8 Deep Dark Leather Armor (J – RedOrder)] and [Lv.8 Battle Armor Coat (J – RedOrder)], respectively. She had no clue what the words in parenthesis meant, but Lv.8 items were the highest-level items that Players could turn into effective goods, making them among the best items brought outside the Tower.
She had spent three-months worth of her salary to purchase them from the auction house.
“Um… Lord Sahyuk?”
“Geez.”
Jin Sahyuk glared at the arena employee before changing her clothes.
“Stop bothering me. Do you wanna die?”
“No… not at all….”
“Tsk.”
Jin Sahyuk furrowed her brows and shooed him away.
“Alright, do whatever you want, but the opponent better be interesting.”
“Y-Yes, thank you!”
Only then did the employee run out with a smile on his face.
“Ehew, these worms.”
From the looks of it, the fighting arena business wasn’t going so well. It wasn’t surprising considering that Pandemonium became split into two between Satan’s Servants and the Chameleon Troupe. Jin Sahyuk wasn’t too happy about her hobby being disturbed.
Jin Sahyuk took off her clothes and changed into her armor.
The combination of the leather armor and the coat was more than satisfactory. Jin Sahyuk smiled and nodded.
—Knock, knock.
At that moment, someone knocked on the door.
‘…Since when was the Fallen Ghost-rank waiting room so noisy?’ Jin Sahyuk felt her stomach boil from annoyance as she opened the door.
Thud—!
“…Who the hell are you?”
Beyond the door was a strange-looking creature.
It was a skeleton, wearing a robe to disguise its non-human appearance.
He seemed to be a lich.
Jin Sahyuk stared at his glowing eyes and smirked.
“You’re here for revenge?”
—Not at all.
The lich’s voice echoed as though they were in a cave.
“Then why are you here? You came to die too?”
—I am here to pass on my King’s message. He wishes to make a trade with you.
“Trade?”
—Yes.
This time, Jin Sahyuk laughed out loud.
“Ha! Interesting lot, aren’t you? Didn’t I say I didn’t want to talk to mere beasts?”
The lich didn’t show any sign of displeasure at Jin Sahyuk’s provocation. He seemed incapable of it in the first place. The lich continued.
—The King’s message is as follows, ‘I will let you return to your home world.’
“…What?”
In that instant, the atmosphere changed. Sharp magic power surged out from Jin Sahyuk’s body.
Jin Sahyuk grabbed the lich by the collar of his robe and threw him into the room.
KWANG—!
The lich let out an odd scream as he flew through the air and struck the room’s wall.
Jin Sahyuk ran up to the lich and stepped on his neck.
“…How do you know about that?”
—Do not… underestimate… the memory of monsters. There are monsters… who remember your home world.
“…What?”
—Monsters… are not the enemy of humanity. The King wants to open people’s eyes…. Humans should join hands with us to defeat the devil…
Jin Sahyuk loosened the strength in her leg. It seemed worth it to hear him out.
—Africa contains a fragment of the continent you once lived in. Furthermore, some of the monsters that gained intelligence came over from that continent.
“….”
—The King wishes to be with you.
The lich took out a small crystal from his pocket. It was a blue crystal that looked like a Tower Crystal.
—This is his sign of good will.
“…Good will?”
Jin Sahyuk stared at the item presented to her. As someone who hated being scammed, she had learned the [Appraisal] skill from the Tower of Wish.
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[Continental Fragment]
—You can use this fragment to return to the Recorded Past – Akatrina during the time of Continental Year 555.
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“…W-What? I can go back to Akatrina?”
Jin Sahyuk’s voice flickered with hope.
—Yes, but you cannot stay there forever. This is only a ‘recorded past’. Changing the past does not change the future. You will only be experiencing the world of the past.
The lich explained, and Jin Sahyuk’s excitement subsided.
“Then what use is it? I don’t need it.”
Jin Sahyuk clicked her tongue and threw the crystal. No, she tried to throw it. However, her hand refused to let go.
—…Do you really not need it?
The lich stared at Jin Sahyuk with a soft smile.
—You can take it. It is a gift from the King. There’s no need to pay anything, and you do not need to become our ally either. It is just a token of our good will.
“….”
The blue crystal glowed with a silvery light. Returning to Akatrina… Jin Sahyuk stared at the crystal for a long time before tightening her grip on it.
—Great decision.
The lich got up with a smile.
—Then I will be off. Feel free to visit us if you change your mind.
The lich slowly backed out of the room. However, Jin Sahyuk still had one question for him.
“Oi, wait.”
—Yes?
“…Can this bring other people with me?”
The lich immediately nodded.
—If you’d like. The power of the crystal is boundless.
“Mm, is that so?”
Jin Sahyuk grinned.
“That’s good.”
Then, in the next moment…
—…!
Magic power shot out from her hand towards the lich. It then spread out like a spider web, cutting the lich apart into five pieces.
**
A dark night.
I came back home for the first time in a long, long time. Now that Evandel had fallen asleep, I was sitting on the couch, contemplating about my next Gift.
“Hmm….”
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[Buster Call]
—Using Stigma’s magic power, summon from the Tower of Wish vassals who swore loyalty to Kim Hajin or his possessions.
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Buster Call.
Inspired by a manhwa I used to enjoy, I came up with this Gift to summon my aids and [Genkelope’s Vessel] from the Tower of Wish.
With this, I would be able to deploy the 16th floor’s NPCs as well as my almighty battleship… There was just one problem.
[You do not have enough SP. You need a total of 30,000 SP.]
The SP I had was nowhere close to being enough.
It was the same no matter how many restrictions I put on it.
“It should go down once Suho clears the Tower.”
I speculated that it was probably because the Tower of Wish hadn’t fallen. Once Kim Suho killed the Demon King, the Tower’s outer shell would fall and the Tower would meld together with the outside world. The required SP should drastically fall then.
Of course, I predicted I would need at least 5000 SP at the very least.
Even if the Tower’s outer shell fell, the world inside and outside the Tower were vastly different. To materialize something from the Tower, a huge amount of energy would be needed.
“Ah… what to do… what to do….”
Should I go with the other Gift I thought of before? Or should I wait a bit more and go with [Buster Call]?
As I was contemplating…
Sssk, sssk—
The sound of words being written rang out.
I turned my head to the side and saw words being written on the Communication Letter I gave to Jin Sahyuk.
“…Oh?”
I didn’t think she would write back so quickly.
I looked at what she wrote.
[I’m also participating in Pandemonium’s Orden Assassination Team.]
[Let’s meet and settle this once and for all.]