07. Eldoras (1)

The midterm exam results have been announced.

As expected, I took the support and chief positions.

It was thrilling to hear that a problem child who had been on the verge of failing last semester took the top spot in just a few months.

It’s not because I’m making a sword to be recognized by others, it’s because there are still many steps left to climb.

Surprisingly, it was Yuna who took the second position with support this time. It was a surprising result even though I would have been at a disadvantage in the written test and GPA because I was a transfer student.

Yuna said that this result came about because the blade was so well made that she made it together, but she said that it would have been impossible without her own efforts. She praised it candidly.

The battles and results were also announced.

Senior Baek Ji-soo.

Seok Yoon Seo-hee.

Whether to say it was an unexpected result or an expected result….

Many people felt uncomfortable because it was a confirmed result when Yoon Seo-hee declared her withdrawal midway through, but there was no disagreement that the two took the top and bottom seats side by side. Certainly, the match was not at the academy level in my opinion.

The problem was that it was too bloody to look beyond the level.

It was so bloody that after the game, rumors circulated within the academy that Yoon Seo-hee and Baek Ji-soo had a really bad relationship.

During the game, they shot each other with such serious expressions. I couldn’t hear what they were saying, but it must have been a very tough conversation.

The enemy of the family, the jealousy of Baek Ji-soo, who doesn’t want to lose the chief, or the fight of love with a man in between.

“… ….”

Only I knew that the truth was hidden in the rumors, except for the person concerned.

And rumors are just rumors. The insignificant talk about the relationship between the two was absurdly quickly quieted.

Since they are two people receiving offers from Suseong, Haneulnuri, and all sorts of large guilds that are known for their names, not only have their weight classes grown to the point where they are worried that they might get into trouble if they make fun of their mouths wrongly….

“Jisoo~ Do you want to go to a cafe together later? They said they had a new seasonal menu!”

“… Yes.”

“Let’s eat dessert and go downtown. I’m going to buy fall clothes, but Jisoo, I’ll look at your clothes too!”

“Yes. Let’s go.”

Yoon Seo-hee and Baek Ji-soo stick together as if they were wondering when did they fight like that. Looking at that kind of look, who can say that the relationship is bad.

I don’t know if it’s okay for me to think like this because I unintentionally caused the fight….

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Just as there is a saying that the ground hardens after rain, it was nice to see the two of them getting closer more naturally than before after fighting once.

“Lee Jin, you go too! We have to pick out our clothes!”

“Huh? What-“

I was caught by Yoon Seo-hee and put myself in the position of choosing clothes for the two of them.

The shopping time of the two women was longer than expected, and they had to spend an entire day at the department store.

In addition to the improved relationship between the two, there has been a change in Baek Ji-soo’s attitude recently.

Usually, I would have firmly refused to go with you, but these days, what can I say about Baek Ji-soo… It just looked normal.

It means that she looked like an ordinary 17-year-old girl shopping at a department store and enjoying desserts at a cafe like other girls her age.

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Ji-soo Baek, who had only been concerned about gloomy things such as the apocalypse or the attack of demons, put down a little of the heavy burden on his shoulders and looked more friendly than before, when he felt like a person from another world.

Looking back at myself awkwardly in front of the mirror, as if I had never done anything like this before, wasn’t usual, so I even looked cute.

I also thought about how great it would be if this kind of ordinary life continued.

But all three of us knew. That this is just a moment of peace.

That means you have to be prepared to fight the dangers that are about to come.

–

“D-Day is October 31st.”

Baek Ji-soo spoke as she sipped her drink through a straw. The menu was the same Java Chip Frappuccino as Yoon Seo-hee.

“On this day, 10,000 will attack Eldoras Tower. We have to stop that.”

“It’s just Halloween… How long are you left?”

Since it is now mid-October, there are less than 15 days left until the 31st.

“Right. So, in the meantime, you should be fully prepared.”

Yoon Seo-hee said, tapping her desk as if concerned.

“Even if you want to prepare… You only know that the raid will succeed on that day, you know nothing else, right? Can’t we just go and beat Manma-ryun?”

Baek Ji-soo shook his head quietly.

“No. It’s too risky, and I don’t intend to.”

“I don’t think so. Are we only three? At least, I am outside of combat.”

Aside from Yoon Seo-hee and Baek Ji-soo, who are strong outside the standard, I am just a blacksmith who can make rather good weapons. Even if you say that your stats have gone up a bit these days and you can imitate battles, your opponent is only going to be heinous, and if you borrow the power of Kertatus, you can’t use it for a long time anyway.

If you are the most elite of all 10,000 people who can attack the tower in an instant, you will not be at the bottom of 10,000 people, but S+ rank criminals who are known for their names, such as Ryu Jae-hyun and Rachel Bright. It was impossible to deal with Joe alone.

“And even if the raid date is October 31st, we don’t even know when Manma-ryun started raiding the tower. We can only apply for a tour for one day, but if we go upstairs, we can’t catch up.”

The tower is wide. It’s not just wide, it’s incredibly large and wide.

It looks very big from the outside, but the inside is much wider than it looks from the outside, as if some kind of magical action has been performed. A city, a country, and sometimes a whole world is embodied in the tower.

The size of Eldoras is national level, but… Even so, it was impossible to attack in one day. No matter how strong the elite team is, this is different from strength. Time and space contrast is just physically impossible.

And there’s no way that the smart Baek Ji-soo wouldn’t know that.

“If it is a general strategy, you are right. You can’t do anything in just one day. However, the blockade of the tower, the loss of contact with internal personnel, and the success of the 10,000 raids… It all happened in one day.”

” … You attacked the tower all the way to the top floor in one day?”

“Yes. So it’s definitely not a ‘normal strategy’.”

This is not a normal strategy.

Then what Jisoo Baek wants to say?

“It’s an event quest.”

Baek Ji-soo nodded slightly as if agreeing with what I said, and Yoon Seo-hee made a puzzled expression as if she had never heard of it.

“What is an event quest… ?”

“Well, to put it simply, it’s a large-scale event caused by NPCs inside the tower.”

The inside of the tower is a kind of closed world. Time is fixed, and even if you kill NPCs or monsters, they will revive at some point. There is no life that is born anew, and there is no life that dies forever. It’s like a stuffed world.

Even so, the tower does not always repeat the same day as if it were spinning on a treadmill. Numerous lives living there have their own values and goals, and they are still alive in the tower.

For this reason, when ‘certain conditions’ are satisfied, a completely different change occurs inside the tower, and it is called an ‘event quest’. It was a very rare occurrence, so Yoon Seo-hee, a novice Awakener, couldn’t have known about it.

“In a tower in Europe, an S-class hunter woke up a sleeping dragon deep inside a volcano, causing the volcano to explode and cover the entire field with lava and volcanic ash. I see this as a kind of event quest.”

“Hey, I see…” .”

When the balance of the tower, which was in a precarious balance, is broken due to the actions of an outsider called Hunter, an incident based on it occurs.

You’ll have to go inside to find out what events are happening in Eldoras Tower.

What if the event could be stopped in advance or the event that occurred could be stopped midway?

I was able to stop their plans without directly fighting the elite team.

As if responding to my guess, Baek Ji-soo nodded his head with a firm face.

“As long as you block the attack in some way, you can leave the work behind to the large guild. Since there is no space transfer inside the tower, they are like rats in a poison.”

It is a plausible plan in that it does not intend to collide head-on with Manpro-ryun. Especially since you can wipe them out all at once if you succeed.

If we can further reduce their strength, the chances of preventing the apocalypse will increase even more.

Yoon Seo-hee, who was listening, asked as she sipped her drink.

“I see what you mean. Don’t you have anything to prepare for? Is it okay if I just train as usual?”

“Not really. If things go badly, you may not be able to block the event quest.

That is also true. In the case of the volcanic eruption in the previous example, blocking the dragon from waking up will stop the event, but you cannot stop an event that has already taken place. Human power cannot prevent lava and volcanic ash from covering the inside of the tower.

“If that’s the case, I’d rather use the event to clear the tower faster than 10,000.”

“We… Attacking the tower?”

“Yes.”

Baek Ji-soo nodded and looked at me.

“I want you to make me a weapon for that.”