Chapter 85: Inside the ruined world
“What the fuck? Are you kidding me system?”
Naturally, Evan was dumbfounded. He did all that, for what? Just to go a few steps back?
Then, the system calmly replied to him,
[Just wait, host. I wouldn’t have made you do something like this without a reason.]
But it didn’t calm Evan down, he kept frowning while looking at the system screen. Then a notification popped up there with a *Ding*.
[Congratulations, host. You have learned the most basic form of traveling through the void called ‘Basic void travel’, as it is still a basic mastery, you can only travel a small distance from your position.]
When Evan saw this notification, it still wasn’t enough for him to be satisfied with it, but then a realization hit him.
‘Hey, you asked me about the technique mastery card for this?’
[Hmm, you aren’t so dumb, host. Yes, I asked you that for this. Now, don’t waste more time, the monsters and Carla are coming in your direction.]
‘Hmm, then use it now.’ Evan said with excitement in his voice, finally he will be able to use his power.
[Roger, host. Using the technique mastery card in ‘Basic void travel’…]
As the system used the technique mastery card, the little knowledge of the void that Evan had began to widen and his eyes ice again, glowed with the aura of void, and disappeared when another notification rang in his head.
[Congratulations, host. Your skill ‘Basic void travel’ has been upgraded to ‘Void master’. You can now travel huge distances at once. It will still depend on your compatibility with void and your mana.]
Evan nodded his head and used his ability to see the barrier surrounding the dungeon again.
Before, he only saw a barrier covering the dungeon but now he could see some thin spots within them, these were the spots where the barrier was weaker than other places, and with the use of the right strength, he could easily tear them apart.
While Evan was about to enter the other side of the dungeon, Carla was marching towards him at full speed.
Her face was cold and beautiful at the same time and a few drops of blood were on it, showing her fierce battle just now.
But right now, her thoughts were chaotic, she just felt an immense presence that was too powerful than anything she had felt before and it was too strong, which made her feel too weak in front of it.
‘That monster… just what was it? I have never felt anything like that before. Its mana was far more than that of the monsters here and any S-rank hunter I have met before. If something like that comes to our world… I can’t imagine what will happen then. I have to keep it inside here even if it kills me.’
She went towards Evan at full speed, her speed was too fast, but it still was taking her some time to arrive at the location of Evan, that dungeon may seem small but it’s too vast, really vast.
She used her full speed and marched like a sparrow, her way was filled with the dead monsters that she killed just a moment ago.
After going for a while, she was near the location of Evan. When she felt that she was getting near the location of the monster, a figure clad in a dark cloak with his face hidden appeared in her sight.
The man was looking up and trying to touch something with his hand when suddenly the space in front of him cracked open.
Carla stopped at her steps and watched the scene that was happening in front of her, it seemed like a movie to her where the strong people just tore apart the void and traveled through it. The same thing was happening in front of her when the figure in front of her tore the void apart, she looked at him in a daze but quickly got herself back. And just when she was about to call for him, the figure entered inside the crack and the crack closed as soon as he did it.
‘He disappeared? But, why did he smile at the end?’
Evan disappeared right in front of her eyes and at the moment he was about to enter the void, he was smiling, or to say he wasn’t able to control his excitement and it was showing on his face as a big battle-hungry smile.
Carla stood there in a daze, making sense of the scene that just happened here. But she couldn’t think of anything, no one she had met till now had an ability such as that.
***
On the other side, inside the dystopian world, Evan was standing over a huge mountain, it was huge, if we were to compare it with Mount Everest, then it would look like a small hill crafted by a child.
‘This place is completely different from Earth, why does this look like, there has been a massive war here and everything was destroyed?’
Evan said inside his mind, hoping the system would explain it to him this time as well, but even after a while the system stayed silent.
‘System? You there?’
So he asked again, to check if the system was still there.
He thought that his link with the system was closed after coming to this new place, but his worry was for naught.
[Yes, I am still here, host.]
The system replied to him, but its way of speaking was changed, nothing like it’s usual, when he talks with Evan as fo they are friends.
‘You okay?’ Evan asked, worried that something happened to the system.
[I am fine, host. If something had happened to me, I wouldn’t be here, right?]
Evan felt its voice was filled with sorrow and sadness. He wondered that coming to this pace might have triggered something inside it.
‘You can tell me if there is anything, I am here for you, okay?’
[I can’t feel anything, host. And there is nothing wrong. It’s just… fate cannot be changed. Well, forget about that. Back to your question, what do you think is correct, this world has faced an intense battle, a battle among its inhabitants.]
[Just like your world, this world was also blessed with the tower and system, but soon that blessing turned into a curse when they weren’t able to climb the tower any longer.]
[You might not know this, but when a world reaches the 50th floor, the tower gives a time limit, under which that floor needs to be cleared. Only after a world can clear that floor, it will be promoted to a higher world than your previous world, and that world gets some benefits that might not seem much but are essential.]
Listening to the system intently, the same question arises in his mind and everyone else’s could have,
‘What will happen if the world isn’t able to climb the floor within that time limit?’
Evan asked it, but he did have an idea of what the result would be if a world failed to clear the tower within the given time limit.
[If a world fails to clear the floor within the time limit, the result would be the same as what’s in front of you.]
[That world will become a slave to the tower and will become a part of it. Countless monsters that roam inside the tower are all the slaves of the tower. The tower that gave them strength, that made them stronger will make those who failed it slaves and this is the truth behind the monsters of the tower and the dungeon. Slaves whose only job is to kill the weaker ones and become a nourishment for those who are strong and keep on climbing the tower.]
[If you clear all the floors of the tower, it will give you immense strength that will make you a conqueror of the world, but if you fail at one point, then… doesn’t matter how much you have achieved or how much stronger you are, you will be nothing more than a slave who failed to climb the tower.]
[This is the truth behind the tower. A blessing and a curse at the same time.]
Evan couldn’t believe what he found out, if someone else were to know this, they might not even believe it, but seeing the ruined world with his own eyes, he was forced to believe in that.
‘So, if our world fails to climb the tower at some point, then…’
[There are no exceptions, host. If your world fails to climb the tower, then it will be like countless other ruined worlds.]
[One thing you can trust about the tower is that it’s fair and equal. Doesn’t matter, what your starting point is, once you begin to climb, everyone will be equal inside it.]
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Fuck, I am at the end point today, oh fucking lord, I wrote 1500 words in 1hour… Fuck.
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