Chapter 692 – 692. Breaking the Ladder
The emperor tried to say something, but he ignored everything.
Because from now on, I really needed to concentrate.
‘While the Emperor deals with the guardians on the third floor, he needs to move things along quickly.’
I need to try to contact my girls before he interferes.
‘Ha-eun. Eunha. Hwayoung.’
Hwayoung didn’t have high expectations, but Son Ha-eun and Lee Eun-ha had high expectations.
Because both of them are experts in handling the soul.
‘Please reach.’
A secret affair that must be carried out while avoiding the eyes of the emperor.
Was my voice heard?
Soon someone answered my call.
‘Uh oh…! ‘Master!’
I barely reached Ha-eun.
As a necromancer, his soul was so corrupted that it was easy to connect.
Moreover, she and I are connected by a master-slave relationship and a slave stigma.
I delved into this part to the limit, and soon I was able to fully sense her energy.
‘Anyway, the fact that it’s connected.’
This probably means that Son Ha-eun died on the 4th floor.
It was a very unfortunate thing, but at the same time, I felt very fortunate.
Thanks to you, conversation became possible.
This is probably possible because this is a tower.
Since it was part of a space called a tower, it was easier to find.
Should I say that it feels like an in-house network rather than a wide-ranging Internet?
If I had had to search the underworld, I would never have found it, but even after death, I was able to find it because my soul was tied to the tower.
Above all, the emperor was currently fighting the guardian of the third floor, so he did not notice that I was in contact with Son Ha-eun.
Now is the perfect opportunity to come up with a plan.
‘Haeun, listen carefully. Now I have been taken over by the emperor.’
‘Yes? No, what is that…’
‘For now, just keep listening. The emperor plans to go up to the top of the tower and stage a sit-in while fused with me. The moment the emperor reaches the top of the tower…’
It is our defeat.
Surprisingly, the emperor did not hesitate to destroy me. Here, co-destruction does not mean dying and disappearing, but it means that it does not matter whether the game ends or not, even if you are thrown into a tower and rot.
If the emperor’s decision had been for the sake of winning the game or for his own empire, my 666 luck would have worked like a dog and brought down the emperor…
‘I literally just feel like I want to be with me.’
Love, affection, obsession.
This seemed to have blocked the operation of 666.
Of course, it’s just my opinion, but it’s clear that the situation has become so twisted.
I think that the emperor’s personal desires and the feeling of not wanting to harm me or simply ‘wanting to own’ blocked the operation of luck to exclude harm.
This is the scary thing.
I think this is my first time being attacked in this way.
‘Anyway, I’ve sent a human who has fused with Paimon to the 4th floor.’
‘Shall we cooperate with him?’
‘We must cooperate to kill the emperor. Only then will I and the emperor be separated.’
‘But…’
‘Why? What is it?’
Ha-eun reported the situation on the 4th floor as if she was in trouble.
‘Crazy.’
Mirror images gathered in hundreds or thousands.
Ha-eun was deliberately preventing the resurrection of the other two people and was looking for a way to deal with her mirror images.
‘No, at that level, the emperor will die on his own if I just send him up to the fourth floor?’
The space above is full of replicas of Eunha, Hwayoung, and Haeun.
It seems that the heart, which was the link of reincarnation, exploded, the tower collapsed, and they multiplied infinitely.
‘You guys, I’ll tell you the timing. The moment the emperor goes up and catches the attention of the mirror images, he immediately resurrects and kills the mirror images.’
‘Yes?’
‘Listen carefully.’
My plan was simple.
First, this is the most important part.
‘We don’t need to focus on the infinitely proliferating mirror images on the fourth floor.’
Why?
On the 4th floor, you only need to kill one mirror image, regardless of whether the mirror image proliferates infinitely or not.
Because the condition for clearing the 4th floor is to defeat ‘one’ mirror image.
‘Then…’
‘Okay. There is no need to kill them all. You were so panicked that you missed this important fact.’
All you have to do is kill one guy, go up, and escape.
‘Furthermore, there is no longer any need for you to fight the emperor yourself.’
‘What do you mean by that?’
‘The fact that the mirror image copied your appearance means that the tower acquired your information. This means.’
This means that if I can interfere with the tower, I can create mirror images of Lee Eun-ha, Son Ha-eun, and Ganghwa-young as I wish.
‘You watch the timing, go in, kill the mirror images one by one, go up to the 5th floor, and then escape. Then go to the abyss and call for reinforcements.’
I will stay here and kill the emperor using the caiman with Paimon inserted.
‘If Paimon had learned the true meaning of black magic from Sataniel, he would have actually reached the level of a demi-god when it comes to magic.’
At that level, it would be possible to interfere with the tower while avoiding vague causality.
If only I could do that…
‘You run away. Together with Caiman, I use mirror images to catch the emperor.’
My head was spinning.
Now that I am in contact with Ha-eun, my thoughts are being calculated through the tower’s central network, so I was able to quickly come up with a way to overcome the situation.
The key to this operation is for the Caiman with Paimon inserted to survive until the end. Only if he’s alive can he manipulate through Paimon.
Because only Paimon’s tricks can create a way to kill the emperor. It was also necessary to take advantage of the fact that the emperor did not leave the tower.
The moment you leave the tower, your bond with me will be broken. The situation is such that the emperor must remain in the tower.
If the fused body of the emperor and I die or leaves the tower, we win.
‘Ah. The guardian on the third floor is dead. Soon, the Emperor ascends. Resurrect at the right time and escape immediately.’
‘Yes, master. I hope you succeed…’
The connection with Son Ha-eun was lost.
The connection with the tower was also lost.
It was as if I had been sucked back into the emperor’s surface consciousness.
“How is it! “My strength.”
The guardian of the third floor beneath the emperor.
The guardian whose entire body was destroyed soon turned into white particles and disappeared.
[Level has increased by 1.]
At the same time, the level rose. With this, I am also level 26.
A notification pops up asking me to choose a skill, but I don’t have time to choose.
I immediately closed my eyes. We had to convey our plan to Paimon.
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Son Ha-eun, who received the rough plan from Jang Jo-jun, immediately conveyed the information she heard to Lee Eun-ha and Kang Hwa-young.
At this, Lee Eun-ha, who was looking at the spirits of the tower in a spirit form, opened her mouth.
‘There is a serious flaw in my brother’s plan.’
‘A defect?’
‘Yes, the emperor also needs to kill one mirror image, and he can escape to the 5th floor. If the emperor escapes, this plan will fall apart.’
Until Son Ha-eun heard about Jang Jo-jun’s condition, they only thought about escaping from the 5th floor.
But now things have changed. If she escapes without taking any action, her job will be taken away.
‘What if? If the mirror image fails to kill the Emperor, even if the Emperor gives up the fight and goes to the 5th floor, there will be no answer.’
Jang Jo-jun’s plan was established on the premise that the mirror image could unconditionally kill the emperor.
Here, Eunha Lee added one safety device.
‘The upper part of the tower will also be destroyed. Destroy the stone bridge that leads to the top. The 5th floor would be better. Even if you meet the clear conditions for the 4th floor, you cannot escape to the 5th floor. Trap the emperor on the 4th floor and kill him. They are sealing it.’
‘How?’
‘Look. The 4th floor is where the most souls gather in the tower right now. That’s because climbers went up to the 4th floor.’
‘Right.’
‘So let’s add more pressure here. In fact, the pressure was enough to cause all floors other than the 4th floor to collapse.’
Lee Eun-ha, who viewed the state of the first, second, and collapsing third floors from a shaman’s perspective, interpreted the tower as a ‘barrier’. A conclusion that can be made because one is a shaman.
An ultra-precise barrier that runs on the main force called the soul.
It can never be broken in any way.
However, in a precarious situation like now, it is possible.
‘As soon as you are resurrected, Ha-eun, you pull out the undead. Quality doesn’t matter. All you need is a large number. Instead, without using parasitic trees.’
‘Ah.! It means calling the dead with the spirit of the tower.’
‘Okay. That’s it.’
Currently, Son Ha-eun’s necromancy places great emphasis on parasitic trees.
It is a form in which a parasitic tree controls the corpse on behalf of the soul.
The good thing about this is that there won’t be a situation where you can’t deal with the dead because you don’t have enough souls. All you need is a corpse.
A very efficient method. But that method was not useful now.
What is important now is not the issue of efficiency or quality.
‘The massive concentration of souls creates a forced cycle of reincarnation on the 4th floor. If you do that, there will be a void in the souls of the upper layers. One of the upper floors will inevitably collapse. If only we could confirm it as the 5th floor.’
Lee Eun-ha’s plan is to crowd the souls on the 4th floor and blow them all up, leaving the 5th and 6th floors, which can be considered the path to the top of the tower, and the remaining floors empty. In particular, the 5th floor had to be demolished at all costs. So that the emperor cannot escape from the fourth floor.
‘The tower is a precise barrier.’
In order to maintain one floor, a minimum number of maintenance souls are required.
In short, it meant bringing all the electricity from other floors to the 4th floor and hitting it.
If only the 5th or 6th floor collapses, the emperor will have no way to get to the top.
‘If you can’t climb up… You’ll die when the tower collapses.’
The emperor must climb to the top and create a new core for the tower.
That’s the only way the tower will be maintained.
‘But if you forcibly create a cycle of reincarnation on the 4th floor… The 4th floor will eventually endure the collapse of the tower.’
‘Paimon can solve that problem.’
‘Ah.!’
The three will climb to the 5th floor and escape out of the tower before the 5th floor collapses.
However, Paimon remains in the tower with Caiman.
‘Once we escape and the 5th floor collapses, Paimon can immediately break the temporary cycle of reincarnation created on the 4th floor. If you just do that…’
The fourth floor will also collapse.
The White Castle Tower will disappear.
‘The problem is where my brother’s soul will bounce if this method succeeds. I guess I have no choice but to leave this part to Paimon.’
Eunha Lee decided to hand over all of her responsibilities to Paimon.
If it goes well, it’s because of him who made the plan, and if it doesn’t go well, it’s Paimon’s fault for not handling things properly.
‘Okay then, let’s get started. Hwayoung unni. ‘You didn’t understand what I said, did you?’
‘Yes!’
‘You just need to keep the dead in good condition by subjugating them. ‘Okay?’
‘Huh! I understand that.’
Jinjo Ganghwayeong, who was only sucking her finger and unable to join in the conversation between the shaman and the necromancer, nodded her head vigorously, thinking that she just had to do her job properly.
‘Ah! The master wants to be resurrected!’
‘Okay!’
Soon the three people woke up on the fourth floor.
At the same time, Kaiman shouted at the three people.
“Kwaaah! It came again!!!!”
“No!! We are on the same side!”
“Uh!? Ugh! Ah, you.!! We must stop that monster, who may be His Majesty or the Apostle of Ten Thousand Demons! Temporary alliance.!”
“Okay! There, Paimon! Connect your mind!”
“Huh? “Mental connection!”
Kaiman’s spirit was forcibly connected to Lee Eun-ha.
[I understand.]
Paimon understood Eunha Lee’s plan and gave orders to Kaiman to carry it out properly.
“If this crazy method were used, tens of thousands of souls trapped in the tower would evaporate en masse…!”
[Abandon morality, human. It’s surprising that there was a desire to maintain morality in the first place.]
“Ah…”
Caiman seemed distraught at the fact that he had to destroy tens of thousands of innocent souls with his own hands.
At the same time, I was astonished at Manma’s minions who calmly and weakly formulated and implemented such a crazy plan.
‘I wasn’t going to look down on her just because she was a woman. ‘All those women are crazy.’
Lee Eun-ha is smiling happily as if she is satisfied with her plan, Son Ha-eun is clapping her hands and summoning the undead with soon-to-be-extinct souls, and Ganghwa-yeong is looking happy.
In his eyes, all the people in Manmajeon were seen as evil people.
It’s not wrong. Because Manmajeon is that kind of place.
