Chapter 279 – Tutorial 60th Floor (0-5)
“I’ll make sure to find out and kill whoever’s behind this multiple tis.” I gritted my teeth.
As the number of mirages increased, the anger steadily increased. I had already encountered more than 20 illusions. At this point, I wanted to et the person behind this more than the city.
No enemy popped out after hearing my murmuring.
Instead, Ahbooboo talked to . [Warrior, is it because of the wings?]
Because of the wings.
[Isn’t it supposed to be a walking place?]
Was it considered too easy to fly to the city? Well, I didn’t think so. The Tutorial was not constrained in that way. Even if that were the case, Kirikiri would have given such information before entering the stage.
No, maybe she couldn’t have told this ti. I had spent all I had left on privacy settings.
I stopped flying and descended to the ground. When I closed Talaria’s wings, it was already early evening. It had been quite a while since I’d flown for this long.
I shook off the sand that stuck to my body. I had tried to stop by using mana, but I couldn’t completely block the sand throughout the flight. Sand fell from my clothes like rainwater from an umbrella.
“So, you an we should walk instead of flying?”
That’s a possibility.
There was no other way, so I decided to try what Ahbooboo said. Slowly, I walked on the sand again. I could have run, but I didn’t want to.
There was no particular reason I didn’t want to, but I figured we’d have plenty of ti ahead. I didn’t want to rush through. I didn’t have to be impatient or judge the ti efficiency.
“No, it’s not even that.”
[Huh?]
When I muttered to myself, Ahbooboo questioned . I wanted to go slowly. There was only a limited amount of work, but there was too much ti left. If I didn’t slack off, soon everything would be cleared, and ti would be left. I hated that.
I hated that a lot, and I was scared. Honestly, it would be sweeter to throw into a hell-like situation and ask to get out of it. Or I’d rather, you ask to beat an enemy when I couldn’t stand up. I would do my best to find a way to attack the enemy with a trick. I’d act dangerously. I was better off on that side.
When I finished all my work, training was all I could think of. If I had more ti left than the pre-decided ti, I couldn’t bear to do sothing monotonous for long. I won’t be able to stand it.
It was scary. That was why I was taking a walk rather than running in a desert.
I wasn’t an average human, wielding the power of gods. It was natural that my class was elevated, and now, it was hard to think of myself as an ordinary human being. Nevertheless, my fears were too childish and straightforward. I was afraid of being bored and lonely.
There was nothing different from when back then. I thought of myself as an independent person. I preferred to play a ga where I won alone rather than playing a ga where I had to collaborate with others. It was comfortable and efficient to stand alone.
But to do so, I always needed soone to play against. I needed soone to play gas with , and then, the other person will lose to again. I couldn’t bear complete independence, contrary to what I had thought.
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[The God of the Sky watches over you.]
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What about the God of the Sky who looked at everything from above? There should be no one around or above him. No friends, colleagues, teachers, advisors, brothers, or parents.
Oh, is this rude? I’m sorry.
But so people looked down on the God of the Sky. So people considered themselves to be superior. It could be regarded as a terrible self-righteousness to have no one around you and no one above you. On the contrary, it also indicated dependence on people under the God of the Sky.
That may be why, as Ahbooboo once said, the Church of the Sky was more secular than other churches, and the welfare and benefits of believers were well established.
I needed soone too. To win, I needed soone beside . I desperately needed that. On the Tutorial stage, I rembered the faces of countless enemies I had killed. There were many tis when I killed without much emotion, but there were tis that pissed off. There were a lot of enemies and dead-ends that drove into crisis. All those enemies were precious to .
As I walked, the burning sun had set before . The air was beginning to cool down. I was going to make a fireball for a light source, but that idea ca to a halt. It was an amazing starry night.
I thought this was a luxury. The night sky that I looked up at, from the middle of the endless waves of sand over the horizon, was stunning. The twinkling stars were extrely visible and felt very close. I thought they would fall right away. When you get overwheld by the natural scenery, you lose a little bit of your self-esteem that was covering you up tightly.
I tried to sweep back the hair strands fluttering before with my left hand, but I halted my actions. There was no left hand. With a sigh, I arranged my hair with my right hand.
The disappearance of my left arm itself was not that uncomfortable. Not that my left arm was useless. Usually, I wouldn’t care about the loss at all, but when I needed my left hand, the sense of lancholic loss ca.
“I don’t even know if I can reach my goal.”
[Huh?]
If the goal was too easy, I was afraid that there would be a lot of ti left. So I set a goal that was farthest away, and I liked it. The problem is, it was a bit too far away. I didn’t worry about achieving my goal too quickly and disappearing, but it seed vague because I wasn’t near it.
“Can’t we wait? Until Hyung-jin cos up to the 60th floor.”
[Of course. You talked to him already. He can co up. It’s just that it would take so ti.]
It’d been like this since the first day. As if the things I’d been working on had been ruined. It was no different from pagodas built with sand. No matter how high the pagoda was, everything collapsed when the ground shook.
Can I wait for Hyung-jin to co without losing sight of my goal? I was anxious.
[There’s no way you’d get bored in two days. You can take a good rest for a few days. It’s not that you can’t stand a short ti, but that you’re worried and anxious about the ti ahead.]
Ahbooboo was right. I was worried and anxious in advance. Would I be able to endure those long hours?
[It’s okay. I, Lady Seregia, and the frog are here. When the four of us hang out, it’s easy to spend two years together.]
Ahbooboo kept comforting . I thanked him frankly.
“Yes, thank you.”
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[God of Adventure smiles at you]
[God of Slowness smiles at you]
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Yeah, I’ll try to hold on like Ahbooboo said. If I hold out, even if it were a pain, this wait would be over.
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[God of Adventure smiles more at you]
[God of Slowness looks at soone pitifully.]
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As Ahbooboo said, adding a day or two wouldn’t bring down. It has already been five days since I entered the 61st floor. For five days, I found a panoramic view of over forty cities and confird that it was all a mirage.
“It’ll be real this ti.”
[Yes... it could be.]
“If it’s not real, I’ll kill it.”
[What? The mirage?]
Whatever. I’ll blow this whole desert away and find the city.
It’d already been five days. I was flying, walking, and kept repeating both of these. I checked through Ahbooboo several tis because I thought I was trapped in so kind of magic spell. Yet, we found no sign of magic.
“But I think it’s real this ti.”
Really. Even though we were close to the city, it had not disappeared. It would not disappear when we’re just around the entrance of the city. It shouldn’t. If it does, then I’ll blow it all up.
“Hi!” A little boy’s face popped out of the city walls. With a smile on his face, the child greeted us.
“Hi!”
“This is not a mirage.”
[I don’t think so either.]
“Hi!”
I answered the little kid who had been saying hello for a while. “Yes, hello.”
The child who had greeted ca down from the wall and opened the city’s gates, leading us to a village inside. No security guard was doing any background checks or asking about the purpose of the visit. There was just a little kid opening the door at random.
The little boy led to his own house soon. I was wondering if it was okay, but for now, I just followed. At the child’s house, there was an old man who looked surprised to see us visiting suddenly, but he soon prepared water and food.
“Did you really cross the desert?” asked the old man, who appeared to be the child’s grandfather.
I said, “Yes.”
The old man explained the desert with a puzzled look on his face and talked about common sense, which was slightly different from what I expected.
“This is not a mirage, but a milestone?”
The old man nodded in agreent. The village was actually a milestone to tell us that we were on the right path. As a result, we did not get lost walking in the desert.
“You didn’t know about that, and yet, you managed to find it,” the old man remarked and told to wash up and rest. Of course, it wasn’t for free. I pulled so valuable items out of the inventory.
The old man’s room was small, with only one small bed. As I laid on the bed, it creaked loudly, but I could still lie down.
[It’s a city, thank God.]
Yeah, having a city on the stage was a significant advantage. In the anti, we could build a religious sect to collect faith, like on the 56th floor.
With challenging the 61st-floor stage, the city’s existence had allowed us to experint with many things. It would make it easier to attack the 61st floor with faith, but we would also be able to study and train more. I could say it was a blessing disguised in misfortune.
It was like divine power. Co to think of it, I believe Kirikiri said that above a certain level, there was no difference between Faith and Source.
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[God of the Sky is baffled.]
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Oh, the God of the Sky agreed, it seems.
If the divine power violated others’ dominance, the source was the power to break one’s own fra forcefully. When the fra broke, and the boundaries disappeared, if you don’t get yourself together, you’d get eaten by the source. If you held onto your mind and overca it, you’d be able to break the source’s fra. The God of the Sky had said that there would be no difference between the divine power and the source, and as it dealt with the source, it could interfere with the control of others. On the contrary, you could apply divine power to yourself. In a way, it was natural.
But it was hard to use a power that was perceived as one’s own to break their own fras. The source was needed to break the fra. That was why stagnant apostles needed a source to get closer to the gods.
[What do you think?]
“If I succeed in gathering my power and treating it like a source, I think I could recover my severed arm.”
If successful, not only will I be able to regain my missing left arm, but I also will learn a lot about my power.
I’d have a lot of ti to wait and a lot of work to do. The first thing I decided to do was to restore my arm through divine power.
“Then shall we start with the sect?”
Ahbooboo was actively in favor of my plan, while Seregia was silent. When creating and operating a sect, Seregia seed bored because she had little to do.
“Keeaaeeek!” The summoned frog croaked loudly. He seed to like the role of mascot for the sect he had played before.
“Then let’s make a plan first.”
The four of us, except for the quiet Seregia, put our heads together to discuss the establishnt of the sect.
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