The Tutorial Is Too Hard - Chapter 280

Chapter 280: Chapter 280 - Tournament Chapter (13)

Chapter 280 – Tournament Chapter (13)

[Lee Yeon-hee]

“Tell Kirikiri to send my regards to Terrapin . ”

Would the situation have changed if I had not followed that remark? I didn’t know .

The God of Nature, who I met after clearing the 40th-floor stage, talked about information control against Tutorial challengers and hinted that I was already entangled in a similar situation . Information control through privacy settings and keywords .

I asked Kirikiri to tell me the truth, but she just laughed, as usual . We were eating cake together, chatting, and carefreely spending time with each other . She always comforted me and smiled prettily without a positive or negative attitude .

The answer was clear . I’d rather Kirikiri be honest, but Kirikiri never told the truth or lied, as she had always done .

It was easy to see that the keyword of information control was “Terrapin . ” I was keeping all the chat messages and letters I had with him . Among the records, it wasn’t hard to find one word that had a sense of incompatibility . Furthermore, at that time, I asked what a Terrapin was . Kirikiri didn’t answer, and I had dismissed it at that time since I thought it was a nickname or a slang that only Kirikiri and he knew . The feeling I felt at the time was jealousy .

I had envied the link between the two . I wanted to get in between them .

I was about to challenge the sixth floor when Mister made me say keywords . The sixth floor was one of the toughest stages . It was also a stage that I’d been stuck at for months . Every day the skull soldiers had been cut off by a rusty knife, and a bowl of blood had been thrown out by a mana explosion . Whenever a contracted spirit got extinguished, I fainted from the pain akin to my hair being pulled out . I also had to cut out my leg flesh to find a new spirit and try contract magic using it as a medium .

In those days, all I could see was my blood, flesh, and decaying skeletons . The only things that sounded in my ears were my screams . The stench of blood and rotten flesh had permanently found its home beneath my nose . The constant pain made me suffer from phantom pain, even when I was in the waiting room .

Thanks to his help, there was no severe death crisis . Those were the impoverished days when I thought it would be better to die .

When I couldn’t even meet Kirikiri until I cleared the stage, I exchanged letters with Mister . It was the only source of joy . I wanted to quit right away, but I gained strength by reading the letter and went on without collapsing .

But he… At that time, I thought of using the letter to deceive him and use it as a private seat on the 61st floor .

“…Are you listening?”

When I first came in, he consoled me, showing pity, but he was undoubtedly pleased . It was not because a colleague and a savior had come in…

“Hey . Are you listening?”

“I’m listening,” I answered the one who was talking in front of me . In recent years, people often drowned in their thoughts . I did that while talking to others . It seemed much more apparent now because after becoming adjusted to being the lone challenger in the early Hell Floors, talking to someone itself was awkward .

“Anyway, I’ve never seen a case as dirty as you . ”

I narrated a story, and it was another lame story . The man who has been talking to me for a while was a challenger of Hell’s Difficulty in the other dimension of the Tutorial . We met through the main body of the temple .

“How can there be only two survivors? Can they even get to the 60th floor? That’s somehow amazing . ”

He was a man of ability, of use to me . But he indulged in useless talks .

“Can it not be avoided?”

No . The gods wanted to check the situation on the 60th floor somehow . That was the deal in the first place . They’d direct me to the 60th floor at all costs .

“Do you have the confidence to clear?”

It was a question I’d already asked several times, but I had no choice but to ask again . It was because I wasn’t confident .

“Of course . You’re nervous because you don’t know what an apostle means being . An apostle means that there is a god with you . Why don’t you be an apostle? You said you had a lot of proposals . ”

There were many proposals, but I didn’t accept any apostle position . Above all, even if I were an apostle, I wasn’t sure I could beat him . The gods would despise it if I said this . When I finished, I had to leave at least one hole to survive .

That’s what he always taught . Everything was a matter of probability . Always predict the odds carefully and become immersed in it .

To me, who was deliberately slowing down the attack, he had said he could get out of the 60th floor by himself . I didn’t think that was a lie . If he disappeared, the chances of me leaving the Tutorial on my own were gone . Rather than being left behind forever, I had no choice but to bet on a slim chance of victory .

One question is, why was he waiting for me without leaving the 60th floor? Of course, I told him to wait, but that was not the reason for his stop .

It could be a lie . Being able to get out of the Tutorial alone may be just a lie to get me up there quickly . Then his chances of winning on the 61st floor would be higher . But the problem was that it was not a lie .

“The feeling of a god’s power in my body is really… I can’t explain this if you’ve never experienced it . It really completes me . ”

Ignoring the man who talked endlessly about things I didn’t care about, I stood up from my seat . I came back to the room I was using as my accommodation .

It was quiet again . There were times when I wanted to get out of this silence somehow . When I met people and faced a noisy crowd, I thought it was more comfortable .

It was a shame . I was upset and disappointed, and a singular thought kept haunting me .

If I hadn’t said the keyword, if Kirikiri hadn’t fooled me, if I had gotten the information on the 61st floor in time, we might not have been like this . Even so, I would still have felt betrayed . Still, I would have been able to get angry and resolve this disappointment . Even if our relationship went sour, we could have found a way together . Our link may not have been cut off so completely .

I knew it was a lingering attachment . Even if I did, my sacrifice on the 61st floor might not have changed . Still, I kept thinking that way .

If I did something else, could there have been any other ending? A slightly better ending .

-Beep… .

Suddenly a beeping sound rang in my ears . Someone had triggered the alarm again .

First of all, I built a barrier around the room to not let anyone in . Having finished several layers of defense, I focused my mind again .

The alarm went off when someone approached one of my clones . I moved to one of the clones that had set off the alarm .

The place where I opened my eyes was in front of the portal of a public server . There was a giant woman about four meters tall, in front of the portal . It was a familiar face . She was one of the challengers of Hell’s Difficulty, at my present level . She was also an apostle of a god .

“Where are you going?”

“To your server . Didn’t you say you were from Earth?” the woman answered me, unsurprised .

Why?

“Why on the Earth server?”

The woman replied with a troubled face . “Information gathering purposes . ”

“I remember I gave you all the information . ”

“Well, yes . There’s something else I need to find out . There are some proposals over there . ”

What was that stupid woman saying so calmly? I was sure I’d banned contact .

“Tie her up . ”

The spirit of containment had become visible . It was in the form of a tight chain, binding the woman’s body . Rather than struggling to get out of it, the woman just looked dumbfounded .

“What are you doing?”

She couldn’t get out of it . It had been a long-improved means to subdue Ho-jae . Now it had become an entity that could not even be called a spirit .

“Do you know what you’re doing now? You’re oppressing a God’s apostle . ”

“I know . ”

I had already prepared for this occasion . It was not a plan to prevent the actions of the gods . It was more of an act to escape the eyes of the gods . It was an act that would disappear at once if a god wielded his power, but unfortunately, a god could not intervene immediately .

A god could project his power on the apostle without any price, but a procedure was necessary . I was not sure exactly what the procedure was, but it took about 30 seconds to a minute .

30 seconds . It was enough time to kill someone . I took the bow out of the inventory and prepared the black arrows .

“You- You crazy bitch! Do you know what you’re doing?!”

Of course, I knew . I was trying to kill the apostles . Of course, it would prevent them from going to Earth’s servers to demonstrate power properly . But I couldn’t just miss the chance to kill the apostles .

I aimed at the woman’s heart . nAn attack was set up .

“Argh! Untie it now! You crazy b*tch, you can’t even thank someone for helping you . How dare you act like this! God will have you…!”

The black arrow pierced the heart of the apostle . She seemed to have tried to defend herself amid a clamor, but the black arrow nullified all her attempts . Black marks spread rapidly around the woman’s body, the black arrow at the centre . Because she was wearing long clothes, I had to check it out by looking at her face . The black mark soon reached the woman’s forehead .

“…Save, save…”

“Devour . ”

With that command, the black arrow began to devour the woman’s body . The woman’s body became stained with black marks and quickly sucked into the black arrow . In less than ten seconds, the place where the woman had been only had a Spirit of Containment and the Black Arrow .

It was too simple . The Black Arrow was retrieved, and the Spirit of Containment returned to the usual mode . There was a little time left . I could feel the power of a god . The plan that I had made was shattered .

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[The God of Fame is angry . ]

[Voting begins]

[Yes: 386 No: 6422]

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That was it . They decided not to intervene in the apostle’s death .

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[The God of Dawn is angry with you . ]

[The God of Darkness harbors bad feelings towards you . ]

[The God of Darkness glares at you . ]

[The God of Darkness…]

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Ignoring the message, I changed to non-visual mode . I let the portal continue its work and transfer me to a different place .

It was a small, quiet room again . That was why I didn’t accept the apostle position . At least within this Tutorial, the apostles cannot guarantee victory .

I didn’t want to think about it .

I squatted down on the side of a small room . I felt uneasy again . Time quickly passed by and I’d soon reach the 60th floor .

It was scary . When I met Mister, I only hoped that I would be calm without showing any emotions .

* * * * * *

[Lee Hochi]

I was playing a card game with Yong-yong, when I got called out . I had a guest who came to see me, but I remembered meeting all the guests . In response, I said that I would no longer meet other guests .

However, Park Jung-ah went to the Order of Vigilance headquarters for some reason . Yong-yong left with Baek Sung-woong . I’d met many guests, but there had been few pleasant meetings . And I strongly felt that this meeting would be the same .

“It’s a private meeting?”

“Yes, it is,” replied the man of short stature . He was a man from whom politeness seemed to permeate from head to toe . Although he was only a little taller than Yong-yong, I could feel that he was a mature person .

“For what reason has the apostle… “

“For the retrieval of power . ”

The time had finally come . Damn it . What should I do? Should I run away with Yong-yong?

[Don’t make a fuss and just listen to me . ]

How could I not make a fuss? I never thought the apostle would come in person to take back the power I stole .

“Well, I… I didn’t steal it . I didn’t do anything . The gods gave it to me . I just came back home because I felt burdened . Yes, I never thought about stealing from the beginning…”

I was just babbling and making excuses . The accusation of stealing was a huge blow to me . Lies were added to theft, and my conscience began to ache even more .

“No, it’s not you . ”

“…Eh?”

The exceptionally short man spoke in a calm voice . “I want to retrieve the power that the god of duel presented to challenger Lee Ho-jae . ”

[Tell him to stop bullsh*tting and get out of there . ] Lee Ho-jae spat out a curse at once . Of course, I didn’t repeat his words .

“As the power was duly supposed to be handled by Lee Ho-jae, taking away a portion of your god-given powers will be an adequate replacement to pay the debt . ”

[Huh . . ]

End

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