Chapter 134 (2/2)
“It’s not a common barrier. Physical defense barrier, Mana mirroring barrier, and anti-magic barrier are all overlapping.”
Pure physical force wouldn’t work, and if sword energy were fired against it, it would bounce off. Likewise, when magic was invoked, it was invalidated as soon as it collided with the barrier.
“It’s also got a helluva regenerative power.”
A moment of silence lingered among the party. Hibiki asked with a serious expression.
“Then what do we do?” “This.”
When I explained briefly, the atmosphere turned bright.
“Oh! That’s nice.” “For sure, it would work that way.” “Then I’ll prepare the spell right away.”
The sword screamed.
‘No! Please! Don’t! I don’t want to!’
I picked up the devil’s sword and aimed for the target. Holy and Evil were opposite in terms of properties. In other words, the heart was experiencing the same suffering as the devil’s sword as it approached the heart. When the force that repelled each other was maximized, it became a window to penetrate the shield.
Swish!
I threw the sword at it without hesitation.
‘No!’
Thuck!
The devil’s sword thrown from the tip of my hand became stuck in the middle of the heart. The blade, which was the gathering of evil properties, had penetrated the holy-propertied physical defense barrier. However, the sword’s length was too short for the size of the heart filling the entire room. It wasn’t enough to stop it from functioning. Furthermore-
Wobble! Shh!
A disgustingly fast recovery rate was triggered, and the heart muscle pushed the sword away.
“Hibiki.”
She had already prepared a spell.
[Lightning Bolt]!
A ray of currents burst out from the tip of her hand!
Zap!
The sacred-propertied barrier was closely enveloping the outer portion of the heart. The blade of the devil’s sword was currently located in the barrier, but the handle was outside of it. The sword had penetrated through the entire barrier. And the devil’s sword was… of course, a conductor.
Tzzzz!
The lightning, which struck the handle, flowed along the blade and poured destructive high-voltage currents inside the heart tissues.
Whoooooooo!
The sound of the heart’s muscles and blood vessels twisting and bursting was akin to screams. After it gave off a disgusting smell of burning and sizzling…
Ring!
– Congratulations! The tenth floor of the Tower of Choice has been Cleared!
We heard the message that we had been waiting for. Cheers burst out among the party.
“Okay, good job, everybody!”
After confirming the barrier had completely disappeared, I quietly approached and pulled out the Mana amplifier, a 50% chance brainwashing device, a divine power detector with tremendous accuracy, a holy-type-barrier-breaking crack-inducer, and a lightning rod, all in one.
‘You worse-than-a-devil bastard! You used me as a lightning rod!’
Ignoring the pale murmur, I put it back in the sheath.
“Now, shall we take a night off at this castle? I think Euclid needs to be recharged as well.”
Her Mana capacity, which served as the Mana tank of our party, was almost empty.
“What kind of skill is that? How do you know so well just by looking at it?”
While complaining, the dragon admitted that my guess was right. Although it could be filled back up by drinking a potion, since we have to rest in between anyway, it’s more effective to arrange the schedule like that.
“There are also clean rooms without monsters in the castle, so you can each pick one.”
Nate spoke while organizing and grouping the items and Mana Cores mined by the subordinates.
“Come to think of it; it’s already the 10th floor.” “I mean, was it supposed to be this simple to Clear the Tower of Choice?”
Euclid murmured in wonder. Although it wasn’t on the same level as mine, she felt a sense of disharmony because she already had some information about the Tower before she was sucked into the dungeon.
“People in the world I lived in had to climb it while biting the bullet… But I heard that it took them years to Clear it.”
Then Nate rolled his eyes and continued.
“Didn’t they climb a little slower on purpose?” “No way! How couldn’t they clear it with urgency when hostages were being held?”
That time, Hibiki made a guess.
“Isn’t it that our pace is fast because we’re in the early stages?” “Is that so…”
While my colleagues were talking- Hibiki first noticed that my expression was slightly stiff.
“What’s wrong?”
It was a question that asked what there was to worry about when we had already accomplished the attack perfectly. But I had a good reason to show such a face. I heard telepathy.
‘Damn it, do you feel it too?!’
I noticed because of the pain in my fingers. Nodding to the devil’s sword, I answered.
“Yes, the divine power is getting stronger even though the boss is dead.”
In my past life, after completing the attack, we went straight to the 11th floor without a break. That was because Angelica ‘predicted’ that it would be better to do so. Even though it was the best environment to rest in the Tower of choice, we left it anyway.
‘No, wait a minute. Come to think of it…’
Even if I didn’t try, the memories came into my mind right away.
‘There were a few more floors that we went through in such a hurry.’
The devil’s sword groaned.
‘Ugh! That’s… that’s unusual!’
When I let them listen to the conversation with the devil’s sword, the party members also looked grim. At that moment-
“Oh, Jin-Wook. That finger!”
I swallowed the profanity that was rising right below my throat.
‘Shit!’
Blood droplets began to flow from the two sacred wounds that Igras-Sho carved on my finger.
‘It’s the phenomenon that occurs when another god that is not the magical god approaches!’
I climbed the Tower in my previous life, but I had never experienced such a situation before, so I didn’t know what was happening.
“No way, is there a shrine or something in this castle?”
Drip!
“H-huh?!”
Nate pointed in the air and made a perplexing sound. Above us, two stems of bloodstreams flowing out of my fingers rose to the sky and drew a soft curve. As if to untie the thread floating by psychokinesis, the line made by the blood went in one direction, drawing a clear guide. It looked like an arrow leading us.