I Alone Going To The Tower

Chapter 76

When I opened my eyes, I was in the tower. In front of me, the space-time that leads to the ordeal on the 4th floor still has its black jaws wide open.

“Top Joo! Top Joo! Are you okay?”

EA came to me in a hurry.

I gently stroked my chest.

There were no wounds. No, there was no sign of any injuries.

“…… What happened?”

“Topju died within the magic of fictional space. It is believed that it did not have any effect on the real body.”

“……”

What is death in virtual reality?

But because it was so realistic, it was hard to get out of the shock.

I’ve never been so helpless.

My brain was spinning.

‘I said the same amount of mana as me, but this difference… … ‘

I stretched out as it was.

Thoughts were complicated.

He met his predecessor, Ma Thapju, fought a duel, and died by an overwhelming difference.

still.

‘I want to see you again.’

strength entered his fist.

It’s really exciting to have a goal to beat.

You can try again and again. If you stick with it a bit more, you might be able to get a feel for it.

I woke up feeling the initial feeling of challenging the first floor ordeal. But suddenly, his eyes widened and he knelt on the floor.

“……uh?”

My mind was spinning. I felt nauseated and suddenly tears welled up in my eyes.

I feel like I’m not me.

“Top Master.”

EA hugged my body softly.

“Now is the time to calm down.”

“Hey, why am I doing this all of a sudden?”

“…even in a virtual world, death is death.”

There were sequelae. I can still remember the tingling sensation of that ice stuck in my heart.

It would be foolish to try again with this physical condition and condition.

“…Yeah. Let’s go get some rest.”

* * *

I slept soundly and the next morning, I challenged Anton again.

It was strong.

This time he didn’t last more than 10 minutes.

‘This time drowning.’

I remember losing consciousness while struggling painfully with a tank of water on his face. Anton was completely breaking me down in every way.

In the end, I returned to the lobby on the first floor, drank coffee brewed by EA, and was struggling to attack.

– Tiling!

“Well?”

I turned on my smartphone to check the sound of receiving a text message. Caller ID restrictions.

– Give up the potion business.

“Pooh!”

What else are these cubs?

What is this joke?

“Ah. Can Seojin call me on the second floor?”

“I see. Topju.”

After a while, Jeong Jeong-jin came down from the second floor and showed me the message I had received.

His expression hardened slightly.

“…Um, I’ll take a look. There’s also a kalam gun, so there’s nothing wrong with being careful.”

I stretched out my arms and supported the back of my head.

“What else is this time? It’s not that I’m asking you to give out potion talent or a recipe. Just to give up your business?”

Jeong Seo-jin touched his chin with a serious expression.

“I heard it’s strange. When the potion is commercialized, we’ll focus on people in trouble.”

“Are there people in trouble?”

Potions have a public benefit effect.

Although the price is cheap, it is also true that the dungeon stability and return rate of hunters have increased due to the potion.

Whether it’s cheap or expensive, once you’re a player, there’s no one against the idea of ​​potions coming out.

Rather, as the potion business expands, the probability that they will own a few bottles increases, which is a good thing.

“Isn’t it Mine? Potions greatly increase the survival rate of hunters. And hunters are the biggest enemies of monsters.”

“It makes sense. But the last incident has brought their identities into focus, and the demons are lying on the floor with their breath away. It’s not wise to do business at a time like this.”

“Hmm.”

Jeong Jeong-jin said after thinking about it over and over again.

“Ah, there is. Potion business grows, those whose position decreases.”

“who?”

“Players with recovery ability. To estimate their power, it is the ‘Healer Alliance’.”

“……Ohh.”

‘Healers’ with recovery-type abilities are rare. Generally speaking, they are treated as nobles.

And the Healer Alliance is a ‘guild’ made up of these healer abilities.

Only recovery players can join, and healers are dispatched to each guild. Of course, to bring a healer as a mercenary, you have to pay a lot of money.

“Until now, ‘recovery in the field’ has been a sanctuary for healers only. However, when the potion is activated, healers can feel as if their unique domain is being taken away.”

“It means you’re trying to protect my rice bowl.”

Certainly, once the potion begins to be activated in the market, the position of the recovery-type abilities may decrease.

“The timing is also roughly right.”

Jeong Jeong-jin said.

“I just announced the plan for the second Alchemia store yesterday.”

“I guess he reacted sensitively when he heard the news… For now, it’s just our prediction, so please investigate.”

“Okay.”

* * *

Although there was one threatening text message, except for that, the potion business was growing smoothly.

First, we decided to set up an office that could support the business in line with the increased sales volume.

Until now, material distribution, store management, and promotion were all outsourced, but now we have decided to manage it ourselves. Jeong Jeong-jin in the middle suffered too much.

It’s different from before. Now they can pay their employees’ salaries and cover the office rent.

As he had already set up an IT company once, there was no blockage in Jeong Seo-jin’s work.

It recruited 10 young and talented people and quickly started supporting store business and operating the website. It’s still a small office, but it’s going to get bigger and bigger in the future.

I gave the following instructions.

‘Now that the brain is built, it’s the arm’s turn. The distribution companies we are working with now, let’s start with the cheapest.’

Jeong Seo-jin, who heard my instructions, asked.

‘Is the purpose of rationalization of operating costs?’

‘In addition to that, there are security concerns. Back in the day, the Kalam guys were digging for information and kidnapped and tortured the knights we worked with. Because of that, some companies gave up working with us.’

‘How can I forget?’

‘The small retailers we work with continue to face external threats. Cooperating with the outside may create a hole in security. Now that we have the capital and we have an office we can control, let’s just embrace it.’

Now, I think that my name and the power I have is enough to block the threat of an insignificant guild.

There is the Hunter Association behind me, and the guilds that have built up trust by trading with me are not easy.

So we bought a small retailer that was on the verge of bankruptcy.

When I went to the company that was being demolished for a contract, I still vividly hear the cry of the boss holding my hand and saying thank you for saving our family members.

We hired all the drivers there as full-time employees and promised double the current salary.

Now, moving goods back and forth between the dummy factory and the store is handled by Alchemia’s full-time technicians, not external workers.

The knights, who were on the verge of losing their jobs, benefited from us, and morale increased significantly as a result of this. With this, even the slightest security hole was closed.

Of course, neither the office people nor the transport drivers know the identity of the tower. A definite division of labor between the business part and the horse tower part. This is the most important part.

In the end, the goal is to make Alchemia run on its own, even if Nana and Jeong Seo-jin take their hands off of it, as long as the potion is supplied from the Magic Tower.

“……So.”

!

I spit bloody saliva on the floor and wiped my lips with my sleeve.

“Now I just have to do it well.”

“What are you talking about other than fighting?”

A huge wall in front of me.

Anton, the 13th mage.

Returning as a boy, his actions and words changed like a kid. He was playing playfully swinging his wand, but his skills were uncontroversial.

“I’m back in.”

“Hehe! Come anytime!”

The information we have found about the 4th floor ordeal so far is as follows.

First of all. Anton is resetting his memories of the battle with me.

Currently, the battle between me and Anton continues until the 7th, but perhaps because of the peculiarity of the place of ordeal, his memory remained in the 1st battle.

In other words, as long as you don’t lose your mind, you can fight Anton infinitely, gain experience, and uncover his weaknesses, but Anton only fights with memories of dealing with me once.

but.

“How many episodes are you this time? You’re still too young.”

Anton seemed aware of the fact that this battle was repeated by my challenge.

And second. Like all the trials I have been through so far, this one had the quality of education.

‘The wind cutter is fast, but the trajectory is too obvious. You’ll have to change the formula to use it in person-to-person combat.’

‘Yes, you. It takes too long to warm up to fully immerse yourself in mana. The battle of the wizard begins and the victory is often decided in seconds. You need to practice getting a sense of it at once.’

‘It’s too late to accept the concept of spreading the shield magic circle. Think of it as a concept of releasing something that has already been made, rather than unfolding it. It is difficult to correct because it has already become a habit, but it must be changed and moved on.’

Anton was pointing out the shortcomings every time I used magic.

The memory is reset, so if you make the same mistake, you make the same point.

After this, if I absorb the advice and show an improvement, ‘Is this what I told you?’ And I noticed it like a ghost and gave the next step.

Anton fills in the limits of my learning magic with books. Rather than teaching new magic, he focused on pointing out the points I had misunderstood and filling my sense of practice.(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

It feels like being taught by a wizard teacher rather than an ordeal.

Oh, of course.

“ね!”

It was different from normal tutoring in that the teacher would rush to kill the student if it was twisted.

A 3rd rank frozen needle was pierced into his shoulder and blood gushed out. I clenched my teeth and digested the formula in my head.

This one also copied the magic circle with the eyes of a sage and returned it as it is, but it was blocked by the shield that came up like a picture.

“Hey! I told you not to do that!”

Suddenly Anton screamed.

Anton passed (killed) any mistake I made, but he was seriously angry at this part.

“Listen up! If you live by copying other people’s magic, you’ll only be second-class for the rest of your life!”

The three-step flame-based magic is poured in front. The sermon continued while I frantically stepped on the leaf boots and shield and ran away.

“If you have such a trashy mind, throw it away right away! Don’t worry about what others are doing, train your own things to the limit!

In the end, my body caught in the firepower of the explosion floated up and fell hard to the floor.

Ugh, it really hurts.

Anton was approaching with courage. The glistening eyes were as bloody as if they were going to cut a hole in my heart again and again.

“…the teachings of the seniors. I know everything, but only one thing didn’t work out.”

“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”

“It’s about warming up quickly.”

I wiped the blood from my forehead, which was obscuring my vision, with my sleeve.

“I don’t know why. I can’t immerse myself in it by deceiving myself, and it was only counterproductive to increase my concentration by taking the tempo too fast. So I thought. ”

“……Huh?”

“When I copied the senior’s magic, he always lost his composure and became angry. His magic control, which was like the hole of a needle, was shaken.”

There is one point where I have the only competitive edge in Anton’s battles.

Just experience and data.

I took a slow deep breath and opened my eyes.

“Thanks, I’ve warmed up. Now I’ll show you what I have.”

Like a spider’s web in the air, magic circles began to entangle and multiply. Anton had a sullen expression on his face.

“…I did something, but that strange magic circle again? It’s useless no matter how many spells you hang that reveal the starting point of the launch.”

“I do not know.”

I raised the corners of my lips.

“Try it once.”