CHAPTER 60: FINAL OBSTACLE

{ "Kai! To the left at 3 o’ clock!" }

-Swiiiiiiish!

{ "Ziggy! Do a backflip and kick in the air! Right now! }

-Tham!

-Bamm!

{ "Use your fire blessing on them, Unity!" }

-Oooooooooooong!

{ "Now the last one! Go in together! It’s vulnerable!" }

Even though she wasn’t as high leveled as the two of them, Lizzy’s skills were great when it came to assistance in battle. With the ability to telepathically relay her commands, she was able to guide both KiRA and Zyon during the battles.

Just like right now, she was a great help when it came to guiding the two of them.

{ "That’s it! Downwards... great!" }

The three of them had run through the areas with many monsters to reach the same final obstacle that the Association had taken days to reach.

Zyon was already familiar with the environment here so taking care of the creatures wasn’t a big deal, and with KiRA’s presence in the group, they were able pass the trap-covered areas and the puzzles far quicker than the raid team.

With the help of Izzy’s precise instructions, Unity’s buffs, Izzy’s buffs, as well as the good weapons and items that they had, they were much stronger than the monsters now.

Since Ziggy had also leveled up after the boss fight against the goat, he was keeping up with KiRA who had an amazing weapon on him.

Being able to turn the guards into different weapons might sound amazing, but unless you are able to use all those weapons proficiently, they would only hinder your progress.

However, KiRA was one of the few that could actually use them proficiently.

"Haaa... that was tough."

"You would have finished a while ago if you two didn’t start playing with it. I mean, guys! That’s a (Level-20) monster! What do you think you were doing there?!"

They could have finished the monsters in the area much quicker if they hadn’t started testing whether KiRA’s sword (Guards) were sharper or the [Holy Sword] of {C-Rank} that Zyon obtained after killing the hell goat.

It was a precious item that people don’t get even after killing a hundred of those goats, so the rewards were pretty great for the first floor.

The sword was obviously not on par with KiRA’s wrist guards, but they were testing the sharpness of the two weapons.

Both the swords looked equally attractive. The Sword that the guards had turned into were stronger, prettier, and sharper than their original forms.

But that still doesn’t mean you bet up the monsters and try cutting different parts of their bodies just to see how sharp the swords were... they were being cruel with those creatures. Iz didn’t know how to scold them at this point.

But thanks to their childishness, they were able to reach their destination in time.

"So? How do we get to the other side of this one?" They were in the same place that the A2P2 party was a while ago, before the cube that with a complex code that not just anyone could crack.

The cube was made of strange and complex algorithms. It was not easy to solve, but they did not have to solve it.

"Well, it’s not all that difficult." KiRA knew the cube was pretty difficult to solve. There weren’t many traps in the tower as complex as this one.

Even he had taken quite a long time to understand it back in the days. However, when he climbed up, he realised it wasn’t really as difficult a problem as everyone made it out to be.

"Well, the dwarves that created this were smart. They knew the challengers would try to solve it just because it exists as a keyhole."

KiRA walked up to the floating cube and placed his hand on it.

Then, infusing his Holy power into the cube, he covered the entire cube in his special energy.

-Oooooooooooong!

Then, instead of solving the cube, he pushed the edge of the cube inside, and a strange scene unfolded before them.

"Huh?"

"It looks strange every time I see this."

The cube that was as big as an elephant shrunk down to a sugar cube sized thing after a unique process.

The sube seemed to be made of countless one of these small cubes and as if to have merged them into a Cell, KiRA took the small cube and placed it on the ground inside a small hole of just the right size.

-Oooooooooooong!

A unique door different from the gate that opens after you solve the cube appeared before them, a red gate that seemed to be much different from the one that led them to the boss room.

"The gate’s the same though."

Zyon and Izzy still did not understand how this worked.

The cube was a puzzle that even the smartest people among them could not solve. But, just like the high ranking mages of the magic tower, for KiRA, this was no complex puzzle.

Even the process that turns the big puzzle into the key to the original prison only appears after one solves the entire cube in reverse, and only he seemed to have the knowledge of the key’s functions.

"What are you two doing? Let’s go, quick~."

The dwarves of the green-eye tribe made these walls after their ancestor saw the need to lock away the demons that somehow make their way to the 1st floor from the 90th Floor of the tower, or the [Hell] where they reside originally.

While it only happens once in a few centuries, whenever a demon makes its way to the 1st floor, the walls and the elders that reside there at that time use everything they have to seal away and weaken the demons.

’The demon is different from the one that we used to fight in the game...’

The three of them entered the dark red-black gate that led them to a world much different to what they knew about.

They weren’t under a red sky here, and there was no barren wasteland here either.

While this was made to imprison the demoness until the day someone who can get rid of her appears, the prison was... a little too attractive.

{ "Kekeke. I knew you’d come." }

There was a throne atop a long line of stairs. There were pillars on both ends and the room’s circumference was bigger than a battle arena.

Sitting atop the throne as she was the master of this entire floor, the demoness... the enchanting, voluptuous being smirked down at the trio.

’Causal Access.’

[Ding!]

[Checking the status window of the target.]

This was their final obstacle. Something they cannot leave alone for the sake of the players who would enter the floor after them.

’Enough sacrifices have been made.’

If more people died, she would be released and the entirety of the floor would get destroyed forever...