Chapter 86: Conquer the tower.
As he had thought, it was the same, once his world fails to climb the tower, it’s gonna become a slave to the tower.
‘So, if we fail, everyone who is on our world becomes a slave?’
[Correct host. Those who are in your world once the timer ends will become slaves to the tower.]
After listening to all this information, he realized how these monsters came inside the tower and dungeons, but one thing remains answered, and that is… why?
‘But why was this tower made? If it enslaves the natives of a world if they can’t climb the tower then it cannot be good, right? What was the motive behind creating this tower?’
[A motive… I can’t say for sure, but it must be to root out the defective and make those who are adept stronger.]
‘Only the strong and more worthy can live, all of the rest are just livestock who can only get butchered.’
[Unfortunately, that is true host.]
Evan then went silent and began to think within himself, after getting all this information, one thing he knows for sure is the tower cannot be trusted. Yeah, it might be fair and treat everyone equally, but that’s for now.
Its true motive cannot be explained yet. One thing he understands is that nothing can be achieved so easily, if the tower is giving them strength and an opportunity to get stronger then it will take something in return. Even if he climbs all the floor and never loses in a single one, even after that it’s not guaranteed that his close ones will be safe.
He then gazed in front of him, monsters so tall and strong that with their every step, the land below trembled. Even after being so strong, all of them were nothing more than just slaves to the tower.
‘Each one is far stronger than all the hunters on the Earth, few of them even have the strength on par with me, and all of them are nothing more but just an empty vessel who are under the control of a tower. And here I was getting excited for my puny strength.’
Evan sighed inside in mind.
‘The strength given by the tower is borrowed, I can never reach peak with that, even after I climb to the highest floor of the tower the creator himself will be stronger than me. Isn’t there a way for me to become far stronger than the creator himself?’
[I won’t give you false hope, host. It’s almost impossible for you to surpass the creator itself. But it’s almost impossible not entirely impossible, host. What you possess isn’t something that can be found in anyone at present, your potential itself sets you apart from everyone else. If I really have to say, there aren’t many people with similar potential as you, just two in entire existence are people comparable to you in potential.]
‘Just two?’
[But, they are already so strong that you can’t even imagine their strength. They can destroy the entire existence.]
Evan thought deeply about it, and as the system said he couldn’t fathom such a strange, he doesn’t even know how big this world is, and destroying it. That’s just a lucid dream.
[But there is a way for you to get closer in strength with the creator of the tower itself and that is to conquer the tower. The tower makes you the conqueror of the world if you reach the peak, conquer the tower itself, and become the conquerer of the tower.]
[If you do that, you can at least become someone close in strength with the creator.]
[So, what do you choose a host? Will you climb the tower or conquer it?]
Conquering the tower? People might even think that it’s true madness but Evan didn’t even have to think about it at all, if he could get more powerful then he would do it, there was nothing more to say about this.
‘Do you even have to ask? I shall conquer this tower.’
With a wild glint in his eyes, he accepted to conquer the tower, without realizing what consequences it might bring him.
Faraway in a distorted place, a demon was grinning widely with amusement seeing the scene of Evan deciding to conquer the tower.
‘It seems, it’s finally going to begin. The fate cannot be changed.’
On Evan’s side, he was unaware of someone keeping his eye on him. When he said he would be conquering the tower, a notification popped up in his head.
[Quest: The first step towards conquering the tower is to conquer the dungeon.
Reward: +1 all stats
Penalty: Devoured by unknown]
Finally a quest about fighting other than conquering a woman. Though the reward wasn’t something good, it was according to the difficulty so it was nothing, his strength got doubled anyway.
‘Then, let’s get started.’
Evan thought in his head while looking at the 100ft tall ogre with a massive mace in his hand.
He jumped from the mountain he was sitting on towards the ogre in front of him.
Evan’s speed was too much for it to even react and with a punch straight on his face, it was sent to the other shore of the Yellow River.
Evan’s touch was so extreme that it shattered its whole body apart, his pieces rained down on the ground painting it red.
[Congratulations, host. You have killed an ogre.]
The notification rang in his head right after he killed the ogre. But he wasn’t satisfied with it, it was down too soon, and it was too weak for Evan to even warm up.
‘There are not many strong monsters here. Only a few have the strength to go toe to toe with me.’
Evan said in his head, getting a little disappointed after he had such huge expectations from this world.
[You can attract them all towards you, host. All the monsters who are enslaved to the tower tend to attack those who are still free. So, if you release your mana and attract them towards you, all of them will come to you without you doing anything.]
‘Is that so? Let’s do it, then.’
He didn’t hide anything then, his physical stats were already unsealed, and the only thing left was his mana.
He unsealed it without a thought, the mana inside him was so much that it began to take a shape outside his body and covered him in its entirety, its size growing without stopping, and soon turned into a mountain of mana that reached the sky, and even went above the clouds.
Just a few seconds later, all of his mana was unsealing making a thick barrier around him. Then he spread all his mana to every corner of the world, alerting all the monsters that were roaming that world.
Evan soon felt trembles on the ground. Looking at the horizon, thick dust was covering the entire view, after it was cleared up, a horrifying scene unfolded in the vision of Evan.
Hordes of monsters were marching towards him with a loud groans. Their eyes filled with anger and hatred, destroying everything on their way.
Rather than being scared of it, Evan’s whole body was tingling with a newfound sensation. He was getting excited and awaiting this moment for so long.
‘Finally, it’s time to check my abilities. Demonic flames and Wind god’s fury, are the only abilities helpful in battle, if I use them wisely, they can be incinerated within the blink of an eye.’
And he did just what he thought, he already knows about his stats and it’s destructive, if he wants to get experience, then he will need to fight opponents stronger than him, not the ones in front of him, they can only be enough for him to test out his abilities.
‘Demonic flames, those flames that will burn down everything in their path and won’t stop till they completely incinerate it and wind god’s fury, the fury of wind that will bring cataclysmic storms that will take everything in its path. If I combine them both, then…’
Going with the plan he thought in his mind, he channeled demonic flames on his right hand and wind god’s fury in his left.
The jet black flames burning with intense desire for destruction, illuminated half of Evan’s face while a green little storm was on Evan’s left hand, swirling with the fury of wind trying to take everything to the brink of destruction.
Evan began to fuel them with mana, and their intensity began to change with it, the flames became more hotter and darker, while the wind swirled with more fury.
Their size increased with each passing moment and soon reached the sky, their intensity illuminated the whole planet and when Evan felt that it was enough, he joined both of his hands, combining both of his abilities which he had at most control over, and combined them, changing their structure into a round ball of demonic flames and wind god’s fury.
With a wicked and excited smirk on his face, he released the ball of destruction on his hand.
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Thanks for reading everyone.
Hope you liked this, I stopped in the middle because… I wanted to. But you will know what’s gonna happen soon.
Stay tuned for that.
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