I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 30

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Chapter 30

Since I was wearing thin clothes underneath anyway.

I stopped unbuttoning one by one and stood up from my seat.

“Wh-what…!”

“What do you mean what, come here.”

I quickly reached out and grabbed onto a part of Helios.

Helios, acting differently than usual, flailed and stepped back before falling down with a crash.

“Oh my, is falling down your hobby?”

“…”

In my hand was the towel that Helios had been wearing around his neck.

I vigorously wiped my face and hair with the towel as if shaking them off.

‘What, even the towel has a fragrance?’

How could ordinary people live with such unfairness.

A towel used to wipe off moisture giving off some fresh forest-like scent.

‘It’s excessive characterization.’

I sat on the bed with the towel draped over my body and yawned.

“If you sleep on the ground floor, your mouth will get crooked.”

“…You could have just asked for the towel.”

“It was within reach.”

Helios grumbled quietly and got up from his spot.

The moment Helios was about to step on the puddle created by the water I had spilled, one thought occurred to me.

“An opening.”

“What?”

The nature of the puddle Helios stepped on changed, and his foot slipped straight down.

One thing I hadn’t considered was that he fell toward me.

‘Well, there’s a bed behind me.’

I let Helios fall toward me as he was.

No, since this was my mistake, I even pulled him along so he wouldn’t hurt his knees.

‘It would hurt if he hit the metal bed.’

However, because I had thrown the towel while reaching out my hand.

The moment Helios got up after falling on top of me, the fluttering towel settled down over his head.

His face was very close.

A distance where our noses might or might not touch.

‘His eyelashes are long.’

I could see his face frozen in surprise just as it was.

‘Beautiful.’

This was the first time I was seeing the mole at the corner of his eye in such detail. Its mysterious and alluring appearance made me want to press it with my fingertip.

I reached my hand toward Helios’s face. Helios flinched in the shadow created by the towel.

“This time it’s also within reach.”

“….”

“Towel.”

I took off the towel and placed it beside me. Helios still hadn’t gotten up.

I tilted my head while lying down and realized.

“Right, how does it feel looking down at me from above? Does it feel satisfying?”

“…Not satisfying.”

Helios’s pale violet eyes looked like blazing fireballs today.

I chuckled and placed my hand on his silver-white hair.

“Why, are you satisfied?”

“…What?”

“You seemed to be admiring it, my face.”

Helios jumped away from me in surprise. I could see him continuously rubbing his face.

Seeing how red his ears were, it seemed he quite enjoyed looking down at me.

“Someday when you become stronger, you’ll really be able to defeat me.”

“….”

“Ah, should I lie on the same bed then too? Would that make you feel even better?”

“So Master, you….”

Helios covered his face with both hands.

“…say such things without any awareness.”

Why is he like that.

“Go to sleep quickly.”

I lay down again. Though I had turned off the fire with Kia, Helios stood in the same spot for a long time.

“The 25th Floor won’t be easy at all.”

“…Is there nothing in Master’s head but the Tower and floors?”

“…? Then what should be there?”

“….”

Since I could see fine even in the darkness, I wondered why his cheeks were so red.

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Whether they awakened before entering Niflheim or after entering the prison.

Using individually learned abilities to coordinate with others for cooperative attacks or synchronized movements was no easy task.

‘But such a thing actually happened.’

I whistled softly while looking down at the scene before me.

“Boss, behind you!”

“Don’t look back and jump!”

“In front, ah, there’s a spider web in front!”

On the 25th Floor, mutant spiders appeared.

Because of that, not only the moment of entry, but from the moment walls rose and divided the sections, spider webs were everywhere.

It wasn’t there just to match the atmosphere—its effectiveness was similar to regular spider webs.

It slows down people’s speed or prevents them from moving.

So you have to move while appropriately avoiding the threads that the spiders spit out.

Since this space itself is one where variants appear endlessly, there are limits to avoiding them.

So from the 25th Floor onward was when party clearing was truly needed.

‘Unless you have overwhelming ability to handle everything alone.’

I briefly recalled the day I climbed the 25th Floor in the past.

“Team up with a kid? Don’t make me laugh. Do you all want to die?”

“Send him alone!”

It was a memory with no meaning now. Anyway, while the 25th Floor could be cleared alone.

The safe path was still for people to gather and form a party.

In that sense, Helios was a good leader for this party.

‘He hates bugs but spiders are okay?’

One person to clump up spider webs so they wouldn’t interfere. One person to blow away those spider webs.

Besides that, one person to block the front so spiders couldn’t come within a certain distance.

One person to disrupt the spiders so they couldn’t group together.

Finally, one person to eliminate variables that appeared from time to time.

The person clumping up spider webs was Seth, who used Telekinesis Kia.

The one refreshingly blowing away the clumped spider webs was Helios.

The one using Bewilderment and Disruption to prevent spiders from gathering in certain numbers was Haira, a Mental Realm Kia user.

The tank blocking was Ged, and the dealer for eliminating variables was Brett.

Ged took the lead with Helios behind him, Brett was at the very back.

Between Helios and Brett, they positioned Haira and Seth, who were relatively lacking in physical ability and stamina.

Helios struck down the spider webs that Seth clumped up one after another while appropriately observing the situation and providing direction.

‘Is this kind of thing natural talent?’

I tilted my head while watching.

‘No…’

No matter how naturally gifted, you can’t be skilled from the start. Since Helios was quite skilled even on the 23rd Floor where he was first thrown.

Looking closely, I could see signs of training.

‘Being the Duke’s son, he really is different.’

They were smoothly reducing the spiders. Around me, golden discs were busily moving about today as well.

“Good. Today was good too, Siri.”

Whirr—.

“Right, Bixby. You’re the best too.”

I called out names that held nostalgia from my old world, then turned my head again.

It was certainly smooth, but…

‘The 25th Floor hasn’t even started yet.’

When some time had passed, I jumped down from the rock wall.

He lightly flew down and landed in the center of Helios’s group.

“Huh, what, Boss?”

“…Hahaha, what brings you down here?”

Ged and Brett’s voices overlapped. The sound of Seth and Haira gasping for breath could be heard.

“What’s going on?”

I stared at Helios, who had been fighting quite reliably until the end, then turned my head.

“Well, I came to beat you all up to keep everyone on their toes.”

“Beat us up…? Boss, isn’t that encouragement?”

“Ah, should we go with that instead?”

“What do you mean ‘go with that instead.'”

Helios muttered quietly while naturally standing next to me.

No, why? He should be taking care of his colleagues instead of standing next to me.

‘Well, he’ll understand once he experiences it.’

The spiders gradually began to decrease in number. It was a small difference, but the meaning it represented was clear.

“Everyone get ready, the Scarecrow will appear soon!”

It was the moment Helios shouted.

Clang!

“What, what is that…”

This Floor’s boss.

The first place the Scarecrow appeared was in front of Brett. The weapon Brett had made from shadows broke and fell to the ground.

Its durability had run out.

I grabbed Brett’s clothes and pulled him.

“Spider’s giving kisses.”

“Ugh, ha, haha. Thanks… Boss?”

I said lightly, but he was dragged along completely, and white Spider Web descended where Brett had been standing.

Swish! Thud!

Moreover, a sharp Sword that flew from somewhere pierced through the clustered Spider Web.

If Brett had continued to stay in that spot, it would have been an attack that would have instantly ended his life.

“B-Boss. What is that…?”

The Sword that pierced the empty Spider Web, the being holding that Sword slowly turned its head.

Everyone in the group held their breath.

“…A person?”

Helios muttered quietly.

I looked at the being before my eyes with interest. It was a being that wore clothes and had a face like a person.

‘Hmm, the 25th Floor hasn’t changed either.’

From that movement just now, I could tell its approximate Ability.

It seems that thing is similar to when I broke through This Place, or slightly stronger.

“This worked out well. You all haven’t fought against people much, right?”

“What are you saying, B-Boss?”

Seth opened his eyes wide and reached out his hand.

However, before Seth’s hand could reach me, Helios’s hand naturally grabbed Seth’s wrist.

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