I Conquered the Tower with the EX-Class Character That I Raised - Chapter 102

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Chapter 102
“Ugh!”
The Elf Queen drew upon every ounce of the World Tree’s vital essence, unfurling a defensive barrier.
A pale jade sphere of mana enveloped her in steadfast protection.
Above it, the blade of dark mana wielded by Lee Ah-woon came crashing down in torrents.
Boom!
Thud-thud-thud!
The barrier rippled as though shattering at any moment, while the surrounding trees trembled violently as a colossal shockwave radiated outward in all directions.
“Futile!”
Immediately after successfully defending, the Elf Queen withdrew the power infused into her shield and gathered it before her palms.
Whoooosh!
The energy of the World Tree, which had been radiating pale jade luminescence until now, began to distort with an eerie crackling sound.
Crackle-crackle!
Murky and ominous crimson blood mixed in, transforming into a vicious lightning of destruction that converged into the Elf Queen’s two hands.
As the Elf Queen poured her energy lavishly into it, the sphere that had been fist-sized swelled to the size of a human head.
“Die!”
She unleashed the energy toward Lee Ah-woon.
Roooar!
Like a dragon exhaling its breath, a beam of energy shot forth toward Lee Ah-woon.
“Pathetic.”
Lee Ah-woon twisted his lips in mockery and threw his fist toward the energy.
Boom!
The pale jade beam exploded like fireworks, scattering into fragments.
The bone armor enveloping Lee Ah-woon’s fist became tattered from the recoil of impact, but it swiftly regenerated, mending the shattered sections.
“You’re still far from enough!”
Behind the Elf Queen’s back, ten densely compressed spheres materialized simultaneously.
Unlike the previous assault that had concentrated all destructive power into a single strike, this was an overwhelming barrage of quantity that left no room for evasion.
Crash-crash-crash!
The ten spheres erupted in brilliant flashes in unison, unleashing a merciless crossfire upon Lee Ah-woon.
“Hmph.”
Lee Ah-woon scoffed, not even assuming a defensive stance, and trudged forward steadily.
Thwack! Thwack-thwack!
The bone armor gouged deeply wherever the beam attacks struck, yet Lee Ah-woon paid it no mind and simply marched unyieldingly toward the Elf Queen.
The bone armor regenerated instantaneously with each step he took, rendering him ultimately unscathed.
“How foolish.”
Witnessing this, the Elf Queen’s voice dripped with arrogance.
“A mere human dares to rival my mother’s infinite vitality? Very well, I shall indulge your wishes.”
“Foolish queen.”
Lee Ah-woon, who had been trudging forward, came to a halt.
“If you have the courage, step inside.”
“Hmph!”
Pale green energy blazed across the Elf Queen’s entire body.
As she opened her palms, the flames enveloping her surged toward Lee Ah-woon in an instant.
Yet Lee Ah-woon did not evade.
He simply braced his guard firmly and charged directly into the inferno.
“Foolish wretch!”
The bone armor encasing Lee Ah-woon melted away in moments.
The rate of dissolution far exceeded the speed of regeneration.
Eventually, Lee Ah-woon’s skin began to turn a searing crimson.
“Hehehehe.”
“You’re laughing?”
These flames were fundamentally different from ordinary fire.
Beyond mere heat, they possessed a sacred power that purified all corruption and wickedness.
Just as demons wither beneath sunlight, evil and filth cannot endure even a moment before the Mother’s flames.
The agony would be hundreds of times more intense than mere burning!
Yet this human was laughing.
Unless his mind had shattered completely, there was no way he could laugh through such torment.
With hollow eyes, Lee Ah-woon gazed past the Elf Queen’s shoulder.
His gaze met Kim Chul-soo’s.
* * *
Kim Chul-soo sensed the moment had arrived.
Pressing his hand against the ground, he drew forth his counter-divinity.
‘[Inverse Sanctity (B)]!’
He did not speak the activation word aloud.
This was the opening Lee Ah-woon had created with his exaggerated movements—the window of opportunity.
He could not afford to squander this chance.
The counter-divinity seeped through the earth itself.
Slowly corrupting everything it touched, the inverse sanctity spread until it reached the feet of the Elf Queen, who stood with firm footing upon the ground.
And it reached the “roots of the World Tree”—the conduit through which the Elf Queen received infinite power from the World Tree itself.
“Huh?”
Of course, B-rank counter-divinity could not corrupt the massive roots of the World Tree outright.
But it was possible to climb along its surface and mingle with a portion of the life force being supplied infinitely to the Queen.
The counter-divinity seeped into the Elf Queen’s body as she unleashed flames and drew the World Tree’s energy to its absolute limit.
“Kyaaaaaahhhhh!”
The Elf Queen convulsed, releasing a bloodcurdling scream that seemed to tear the very air.
“Hack, cough! Gaaahhhhk!”
The Elf Queen writhed in agony, choking and gasping as though her breath were being torn from her.
At the end of a violent coughing fit, blackened, corrupted blood sprayed forth in torrents.
“Ahhhhh! You damned ‘woodpeckers’!!”
It was as though someone had blown instant ramen broth directly into the nose of a person taking a deep breath of fresh air.
It was not a fatal wound, but the price of inhaling the Reverse Divine Nature—an extreme poison and the worst possible matchup.
As her mana circuits twisted and her organs convulsed in agony, the Elf Queen’s knees buckled.
And then.
Lee Ah-woon drew the Elf Queen’s attention, and
Kim Chul-soo created an opening—this moment of vulnerability.
“—Absolute Zero.”
Han Seol-ah’s spell, which she had been quietly preparing to cast from the side, reached completion.
“White Apocalypse!”
Whoosh!
Perfect timing that allowed neither defense nor evasion…!
“Aaaaagh!”
The Elf Queen thrashed desperately, black blood streaming from her eyes as she expelled every ounce of remaining power in chaotic torrents.
But White Apocalypse pierced straight through the World Tree’s energy erupting so wildly and struck the Elf Queen directly.
“Ugh!”
Crack!
In that instant, the Elf Queen’s body froze solid into a pristine ice statue.
“Phew….”
Han Seol-ah exhaled a weary breath.
The pressure from Layer 79 made manipulating frost magic far more difficult than usual.
Moreover, while Lee Ah-woon held the line in front, she had to operate her mana discreetly to avoid detection by the Elf Queen.
Combined with the condition that she had to freeze that formidable mage in a single strike at the perfect moment.
She had drawn Frozen’s support to its maximum, yet the difficulty remained immense.
But Han Seol-ah did not falter.
“Hah, hah….”
Completely drained, she staggered backward with a pallid complexion.
Not missing the opening, Lee Ah-woon approached the frozen Elf Queen.
His tattered bone armor had somehow restored itself to its proper form.
“It is finished. Arrogant Queen.”
Lee Ah-woon smiled coldly as he raised his bone blade.
Squeezing dark mana into it, the black flames wreathing the blade swelled as if about to explode.
Whoosh!
Lee Ah-woon brought the black flames down in a slash.
Crack!
With a heavy detonation, the Elf Queen’s body shattered into fragments.
“Phew.”
Lee Ah-woon, having ended everything, exhaled a long, scorching breath and extinguished the black flames.
His body had long since exceeded its limits.
Having scraped together every last drop of mana for that final blow, the power that had been forcibly sustaining him evaporated in an instant.
Thud, thud. Whoooosh….
The bone armor, now devoid of mana, shed its shell like a creature reaching the end of its life, crumbling away like ash.
“Cough, hack.”
The moment the armor dissolved, the recoil that had been suppressed crashed down upon my body without mercy.
Spewing forth a crimson mass of blood, I collapsed to the ground like a puppet with severed strings.
[Understood!]
Rat-dol, who had been observing the situation from behind me, rushed to support me.
But his small frame, barely reaching ankle height, was insufficient for the task.
At best, he managed to keep my body from touching the ground.
[You’ve done well.]
“T-teacher…”
I laughed weakly.
The same smile as always—drenched in blood, my teeth stained crimson.
“Did I… do well?”
[You did excellently.]
Rat-dol carefully laid my body down on the ground.
Then, with a sharp salute, he responded.
[Ah-woon.]
“…!”
This was the same Rat-dol who had always called me a worm.
It was the first time this small but stern instructor had ever called me by my name.
[You’ve grown beyond being called a mere worm.]
“Heh, heh…”
[However, compared to my lord, you still fall short.]
I nodded instead of answering.
To put it in perspective, my commanding lord was but a single candle flame just beginning to flicker.
How could I ever compare to Older Brother, who possessed a brilliance beyond that of the sun itself?
“I’ll… keep striving…”
‘Ah, I think I’m about to lose consciousness.’
The situation was over.
Now I could finally pass out.
“You did well, Ah-woon.”
“Rest now.”
‘…I’m not dying, am I?’
Hearing those peculiar parting words, I closed my eyes.
‘I’m just losing consciousness… everyone.’
* * *
Immediately after I closed my eyes.
Han Seol-ah, exhausted from the demanding mana manipulation, immediately entered rest.
Kim Chul-soo activated [Battlefield Restoration (B)] and cleanly organized the forest devastated by the traces of combat.
‘Hm?’
Something strange caught Kim Chul-soo’s eye.
Ice fragments scattered where the Elf Queen had fallen.
They were crawling across the floor on their own, twitching slowly.
‘What is this?’
Kim Chul-soo, who had carelessly discarded the broom he’d conjured moments ago, rushed over to assess the situation.
“This is…!”
The fragments that had been the Elf Queen were gathering together, forming a tiny seed.
The scattered debris across the ground was also crawling toward the seed, drawn like metal to a magnet.
‘Resurrection? Surely not!’
Gripped by an ominous dread, Kim Chul-soo retrieved a massive boulder.
Thud! Thud!
And he brought it down upon the seed.
‘Damn, it’s hard!’
Clink. Clink!
Even now, ice fragments continued to gather, seeping into the seed.
With each addition, the seed swelled noticeably larger.
Thud! Thud!
As the seed grew, mana pulses began emanating from within it.
Like the beating of a heart.
‘This cannot be allowed to complete!’
As the pulses intensified, instinctive dread seized him.
“Gah!”
Drawing upon his Inverse Sanctity skill, Kim Chul-soo attacked the seed with all his might.
Yet even Inverse Sanctity, which held supreme advantage over life force, seemed unable to leave a single mark upon it.
‘What in the world is this!’
“Ah-woon! Lee Ah-woon!”
Realizing his strength alone was insufficient, Kim Chul-soo called out to Lee Ah-woon.
But Lee Ah-woon lay in deep unconsciousness, unable to hear his cry.
Instead, Rat-dol, who had been watching over Lee Ah-woon’s side, heard the call and rushed over with lightning speed.
[Master’s friend! What troubles you?]
“Look at this!”
[!]
Rat-dol’s demeanor turned grave in an instant.
[This is a sign of resurrection. Allow me to strike it down!]
Slash! Clang!
[Gah…!]
Even Rat-dol’s blade, wreathed in dark mana, was repelled, yet a distinct sword mark remained on the seed’s surface.
[Stand back, friend.]
Rat-dol, focusing his concentration, swung his blade again.
The sword’s arc cut precisely along the mark that had formed.
Riiip!
The seed was severed.
And then.
KWAAAAAANG—!!
With a deafening roar as if a colossal bomb had detonated, the trembling egg burst apart.
The moment the shell shattered, the ferocious mana storm compressed within exploded outward in all directions.
“Ugh!”
[Gah!]
Kim Chul-soo, Rat-dol, and the entire party were sent tumbling like autumn leaves before the shockwave that crashed down like a tidal wave.
A repulsive force so overwhelming that they couldn’t even stand on their own two feet, let alone mount a counterattack!
In the very center of the storm that had laid waste to the battlefield.
The Elf Queen, having broken free from the egg, slowly rose to her feet once more.
“Phew.”
The Elf Queen stretched leisurely, her face twisted into an arrogant smile.
“As long as Mother exists, I shall never perish. You woodpecker-like humans—I will slaughter you all.”
“What in the world… is this…”
What manner of absurd ability was this?
Han Seol-ah’s circuits had been scrambled by the mana wave that erupted as the egg shattered, leaving her collapsed, while Lee Ah-woon had already lost consciousness.
The only party members capable of fighting were Kim Chul-soo and Rat-dol.
The entire group was on the brink of death, their strength utterly exhausted.
Into that suffocating desperation, an indifferent voice dropped casually, shattering the tension of the battlefield.
“All harvested. Time to go.”
It was Apostle, who had been merrily felling the World Tree until just moments ago.
He descended leisurely from the sky, laden with mountains of premium materials—branches and leaves of the World Tree.
“!!!”
The Elf Queen’s eyes widened in shock at the sight.
“Y-y-you…! You rotten corpse!!!”
“Hmm?”
The aftermath of resurrection had pushed her beyond her limits, and now extreme fury layered atop it all.
From the Elf Queen’s entire being, a crimson mana far beyond comparison to before surged forth like a typhoon.
A final destructive beam, wrung from every last drop of life force, gathered at the queen’s fingertips.
“Nebula!”
[My lord!]
The moment Kim Chul-soo and Rat-dol cried out with alarm and concern.
“How tedious.”
Apostle’s lips twisted, and his hand holding the branch casually slashed through empty space as if annoyed.
Swish!
The blade energy unleashed by the branch gently parted the beam the queen had condensed, and in that exact trajectory, it sliced cleanly through the Elf Queen from the crown of her head to the tips of her toes in a single straight line.
“Keep your eyes open.”
Apostle spoke coldly toward the corpse of the queen, now split in two.

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