I Conquered the Tower with the EX-Class Character That I Raised - Chapter 55

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Chapter 55
The loathsome, writhing cyan body of Resonar Type 1 froze solid in place.
A divine authority beyond reach, befitting the name of an ultimate skill.
“…!”
The tanks, who had been gripping their armor in tension, all swallowed hard in unison.
‘They say she suddenly grew stronger after the last raid, but this power…!’
This was it—the new strength of Han Seol-ah, South Korea’s Guardian!
In the brief silence.
A murmur of excitement and relief spread through the tank line like wildfire.
In that moment.
“Everyone!!!”
Tank squad leader Kim Tae-wan, who had keenly read the subtly elevated atmosphere, shouted with veins bulging in his neck.
“Focus!”
Boom—!
The restless tank line answered as one, rolling their shields to the ground with a heavy, grinding sound.
The wavering discipline instantly hardened like stone.
Kim Tae-wan did not relax his vigilance.
‘When Resonar Type 1 takes damage, Type 2 counterattacks…!’
That was Resonar’s rule—’Echo: Reverberation!’
Keeeeen—!
From the body of Resonar Type 2 floating in the sky, a suffocating inferno rippled forth.
It was a blaze that felt overwhelmingly threatening, as if merely looking upon it would sear the skin.
“As briefed!”
“As briefed!”
Yet not a single tank panicked.
It was information recorded in the Apostle’s strategy guide.
Before the massive worm, a sphere of compressed mana materialized.
The air trembled, and a sound like swarming bees filled the space.
Kwaaaa—!
Along with an overwhelming heat wave that seemed to incinerate all surrounding oxygen, a fiery tempest stained the vision crimson and began to descend.
“Shields up!”
“Up!”
The tanks, as promised, stepped forward.
Thud!
And raised their shields toward the sky with all their might.
Radiance burst from the shield artifacts, enveloping the heads of their allies.
“Special Operations Team, activate abilities!”
“Yes!”
Pop! Whoosh!
The Special Operations Team—they were a unit composed of tanks who had not been issued shields.
Tanks awakening wide-area protection abilities!
The special task force squeezed their mana to the absolute limit, layering another wide-area protective barrier over our allied shield wall.
The remaining tanks, without the slightest hesitation, retrieved their allocated consumables from their inventory and downed them in succession.
Kim Tae-wan likewise pulled out an ogre skin potion and drank it.
‘Excellent!’
Kim Tae-wan clenched his fist tightly.
A scorching energy coursed through his veins, and soon his entire skin hardened and thickened into a gray, rock-like texture.
The effect of the ogre skin potion.
The coordination between the shield team and the protection team, the synchronized doping—every tactic flowed as naturally as water.
Whoooosh!
A colossal inferno descended from the sky, bearing down with the force to reduce everything to ash.
Now came the moment of truth…
Blocking it!
“Shields up!!”
Kim Tae-wan, watching the firestorm descend, roared with all his might just before impact.
“Hyyyeeeah!!!”
“Hrraaagh!”
“Haiiii!”
Boom! Boom! Crash!
The inferno relentlessly battered the barriers and shields the tanks had erected, detonating in a fury of explosions.
The shockwave overturned the ground, and the heat that penetrated through the barrier seared their skin.

“Ughhhh!”
Cries of agony echoed back like a chorus.
Overcoming such torment, someone screamed.
“If we fall back, our comrades die!”
“Hold the line!!”
The tanks pressed shoulder to shoulder, back to back, enduring the shattering pain of breaking bones and tearing muscle.
United as one, they desperately withstood the flames.
But it was far from easy.
This was the 94th Floor break boss, after all.
An attack from such a being could never be weak, no matter how ordinary it seemed.
“Ack!”
The few seconds of the firestorm felt like an eternity.
Just as the tanks, shields raised skyward, began to buckle and collapse.
‘Now!’
Kim Tae-wan, sensing the signs of collapse, cried out as if spitting blood.

“Healer! Healer!”
Whoosh!
Above the tank formation, packed as densely as a turtle’s shell, a brilliant and warm torrent of healing light cascaded down like a waterfall.
It was a moment that showcased Min Ji-hee’s tactical brilliance—distributing damage and positioning the formation perfectly to receive area-wide healing.
‘Phew!’
The shield formation, which had been wavering and on the verge of collapse, regained its stability.
‘This… a weakened basic attack?!’
Kim Tae-wan clenched his teeth.
His skin, already seared by the encroaching heat, throbbed with pain.
‘So they really did adjust the power so we could survive just once…’
From the abbreviated briefing, as Kim Tae-wan understood it…
Resonar was a boss that counterattacked fiercely when hit.
But if you inflicted only the ‘Freeze’ status ailment without dealing any damage, there would be no “hit” registered, so only a very ‘weak basic attack’ would come back—
That attack was supposed to be powerful enough for the tank formation to endure just ‘once’.
‘And with Resonar Type 1 completely immobilized like this…’
What if Han Seol-ah’s magic had failed to fully freeze Resonar Type 1?

Both the Type 1 on the ground and the Type 2 in the sky would have attacked simultaneously, and the tank formation wouldn’t have lasted even a single second under that merciless onslaught.
‘One mistake… and we’d have been wiped out.’
But.
There was one thing Kim Tae-wan hadn’t anticipated.
Screeeee—!
A horrifyingly expanding sphere of flame at the corner of Resonar Type 2’s mouth began to compress once more.

The fact that Resonar’s last attack was merely ‘basic attack’ level meant…
That such catastrophic attacks could rain down in relentless succession without a moment’s respite.

‘Insane! This is insane!’
“Shields up! Defend!”
* * *
Resonar Type 2’s basic attack strikes twice.
Storms naturally assault twice, after all.
I’d anticipated the tanks would endure the first wave.
‘That’s why I scattered those items and consumables for this moment.’
Whoooosh!
But they cannot withstand the second.
No matter how much equipment they wrapped themselves in or how much they enhanced their gear, human limitations are absolute law.
‘Blocking even once is a miracle.’
A single basic attack from the 94th Floor’s break boss, blocked by assembling A to C-rank tanks? A miracle worthy of turning the United States upside down and making Japan tremble.
So then, who blocks the second basic attack?
The hand I prepared blocks it.
“Go, Lee Ah-woon.”
Lee Ah-woon, who had been holding his breath among the tanks, burst forward with perfect timing.
Simultaneously, warriors who had awakened ‘Overwhelming Strength’ type traits seized Lee Ah-woon’s legs and flexed their muscles until they seemed ready to burst.
“Throw him!!”
He soared into the sky.
Boom!
With the sound of the ground caving in, Lee Ah-woon shot forth like an anti-air missile at tremendous velocity.
Watching his trajectory, I cast a single dominion spell.
[Four attacks remaining.]
“Dominion: Ocean of Blood.”
Splooooosh—
Mana surged like a tidal wave from beneath my feet, engulfing the surrounding ground in a gurgling crimson swamp.
A level 60 advanced spell borrowed from the Blood Mage’s ultimate ability—the very magic I’d tested in the Underground Prayer Chamber.
The effect is simple.
It covers a designated area of ground with magical blood for fifteen seconds.
Allied forces positioned within the blood domain recover a fixed percentage of lost health and mana each second.
Enemy forces suffer greatly reduced movement speed.
My first objective: restore the tanks whose condition had deteriorated from that last strike.
My second objective…
“Show me. Your true power.”
To make the summons Lee Ah-woon would call forth considerably more resilient.
* * *
[Now, insect! This is the moment!]
Rat-dol, the skeletal knight in my pocket, pounded Lee Ah-woon’s chest repeatedly.
“Yes! Instructor!”
“Yes, sir/ma’am!”
Lee Ah-woon leaped skyward with all his might, channeling dark mana at full capacity.
Mana flowed along the wounds that still throbbed with a dull, persistent ache.
Pain tore through his unhealed wounds and blood vessels like they might split apart, but Lee Ah-woon gritted his teeth until they nearly shattered and forcibly tore open a path for the dark mana.

“Hhhhgh!”
[Concentrate! If you fail, you die!]
‘I know!’
Instead of answering aloud, Lee Ah-woon screamed silently in his mind and unleashed all his power.
“Summon Elemental!”
It began with the power of a summoner.
Kyaaaaa—!

Dark mana surged violently from within Lee Ah-woon’s body.
The mana absorbed a murky light in the empty air and ripened, then began taking form as a grotesquely mutated spirit that had lost its pure essence.

Those mutant spirits multiplied like cells dividing—two, four, eight, sixteen….
They replicated at an astounding speed, blanketing the sky.
The spirits detected the inferno storm threatening their master and charged forward with terrifying velocity, launching themselves valiantly into battle.
Boom! Kaboom!
Even now, the lowest-tier spirits split apart endlessly.
Boom boom boom!
They crashed and detonated.
The aid of the Authority: Ocean of Blood spread across the ground proved effective.
The spirits, which should have ended with a single explosion, evolved by reviving just before death and triggering another explosion.
Boom boom boom boom!
A desperate chain of self-detonations continued, leaving not even embers of flame behind.
[Insufficient!]
“Hhhaaaaaaaa!!!”
Pup! Pup!
[The rotation is slowing! Here! Here!]
Rat-dol guided the mana with gentle pricks of a toothpick, tap, tap.
“Hhh.”
The promised moment approached.
Lee Ah-woon drew in a deep breath.
The speed of Lee Ah-woon, who had been defying gravity and flying through the sky, gradually slowed, and the instant he came to a complete stop in midair.
[Ready!]
“!”
Lee Ah-woon, who had been concentrating all his focus on Rat-dol’s command, abruptly ceased the act of pouring dark mana recklessly as food for the lowest-tier spirits.
And he began compressing the mana into a single point.
Shhhhh!
Dark mana seeped from Lee Ah-woon’s entire body like thick black fog.
The ascending momentum gradually died, in that brief instant before gravity inverted.
In the weightless space where the world seemed to pause, Lee Ah-woon’s body began to tilt slowly downward.
[Now!]
“Skeleton Summon!”
Poof!
The compressed dark mana burst outward, seeping roughly into the scattered remains of the lowest-tier spirits.

Clatter-clatter! Crack-crack!

White bones erupted explosively from the mana-infused remains, clumping together.

The spirit corpses filling the sky transformed in an instant into thousands of skeleton soldiers, completing the formation of the skeletal army.
They stood directly in the path of the inferno storm.
The skeleton legion hurled themselves toward the flames without hesitation.
Crackle! Boom!
Cascading piles of bones shattered and burned as they touched the inferno storm.

At first glance, it appeared to be a futile sacrifice….
Clatter-clatter-clatter-clatter!
The number of skeletons being created was staggering.
Skeleton Summon was a basic spell learned by Bone Dragon Masters, a subordinate rank of the Necromancer, that raised skeleton soldiers from corpses or remains.
The sky held countless remains left behind by the lowest-tier spirits.
Moreover, because the power of authority had detonated them twice, the accumulated remains were double!
‘Hehehehe…! Twice the skeletons!’
Roooar!
And so, after endlessly grinding through spirits and skeletons as consumables.
Shhhhiiiing—!
The inferno storm, suffocated by the endless sacrifice of skeletons, finally scattered into black ash in the air without ever reaching the tankers on the ground.

“Catch him! Catch him no matter what!”
Toward Lee Ah-woon, who had exhausted all his mana and was falling lifelessly, the tankers waiting below threw even their shields and desperately rushed forward, layering themselves into a human cushion.
Lee Ah-woon crashed down onto them.

[You endured well, insect.]

Atop Lee Ah-woon’s battered chest, Rat-dol saluted with unmistakable pride.
“Huff… huff huff….”
Lee Ah-woon felt satisfied.
The price of wielding dark mana to its absolute limit was his skin splitting mercilessly, blood pouring from every fissure.
“My… nickname… blood clot….”
[…that’s exactly what you look like right now.]
“Heh… heh heh….”
Thump.
Teeth stained crimson with blood bared in a grin at the knowledge that I had protected everyone, my head lolled forward limply.
A majestic collapse.
* * *
“That’s enough.”
You did well, Lee Ah-woon.
At first, I’d considered pushing Lee Ah-woon’s ‘Reflection’ talent to its absolute maximum.
But considering his rate of growth, I quickly determined it was utterly impossible.
Lee Ah-woon was weak enough to be obliterated by a single sneeze from Resonar.
Of course, that doesn’t mean Lee Ah-woon is incompetent.
The Necromancer is officially rated as an EX-tier ability by Earth’s system.
Moreover, as a dual class, he’s also acquired A-tier Spirit Magic.
Lee Ah-woon possessed enough power to be classified as EX-tier by the system’s standards.
He simply wasn’t prepared to unlock his full potential yet.
‘It’s just a matter of time.’
Grrrrooong—
Resonar made a strange sound and went limp.
Resonar is a ‘gimmick-type’ boss.
The kind with a clear concept, developed to its absolute extreme.
Resonar is particularly vicious—impossible to defeat without knowing the strategy.
But if you know the strategy?
‘Fatal weaknesses’ can be exploited.
The first strategy against Resonar.
Seal one of the core rules—’Echo’—and he becomes helpless for a moment.
Just like now, with Han Seol-ah’s perfect opening completely shutting down Echo!
‘In a stunned state!’
I reached toward empty air, weaving the structure of magic to drive into him.

“Fatal Hex.”
A level 20 intermediate spell from the Necromancer.
Uuuoooong—!
An ominously wailing colossal spear of dark magic materialized in the void.
Thwack!
The spear shot forth in a straight line like an arrow, embedding itself deep into Resonar Type 2’s massive body.

—Kiiiiieeeeeeak!
A horrific shriek that shattered eardrums reverberated across the battlefield.
The moment the boss, who had been docilely trapped in a daze, let out a scream, Min Ji-hee’s alarmed voice pierced my ears.
[A-Apostle?!?!]
‘Don’t worry, Min Ji-hee.’
Uuuuoooong—
Resonar Type 2 cried out as if in distress.
Under normal circumstances, Resonar Type 1 on the surface would have immediately begun glowing and fired an enormously powerful beam, slaughtering all the hunters on the surface.
‘It’s fine.’
Right now, this was legitimate damage time earned as a mechanic clear reward from Resonar.
For this moment alone, ‘Echo’ does not activate.
“No matter how much you whine and cry right now, your brother won’t hear a thing.”
This trash mob bastard.
As Fatal Hex dispersed, a grotesque pulsating black curse mark was inscribed across Resonar’s cyan-blue skin.
Evidence that the debuff characteristic of Fatal Hex—’reduced magical defense’—had taken effect.
I stretched my hand forward, cutting off its breath before drawing forth the next spell.
Fuuuoong—!
Mana resonated with my will, and pitch-black darkness surged forth from my entire body.
A profession specialized in plague and disease, damage-over-time effects.
The Plague Doctor.
This profession’s ultimate ability, befitting its nature, is a spell that disperses the ultimate plague.
That plague’s name is ‘Pestilence of the Apocalypse.’
Its effect is fixed damage proportional to maximum health with healing negation that persists until death….
A ‘wide-area annihilation skill’ that spreads a disease that inevitably kills the target once contracted across a broad area.
This ultimate ability empowered as a spell.
“Authority: Pestilence.”
A cloud of death plague engulfed Resonar Type 2.
Uoooooo—!
The massive worm shrieked in agony.
Fatal Hex’s magical resistance reduction.
Pestilence’s ‘inevitable death’ plague.
Having been hit by this combo, the creature would soon perish.
* * *
“Apostle?!”
The Apostle finally began killing Resonar Type 2.
Min Ji-hee, watching the situation unfold, let out a cry tinged with panic.
The second core strategy for conquering Resonar.
—You must never kill Resonar.
You can’t kill Resonar, which must be subjugated? It made no sense.
An absurd strategy, but it was a countermeasure to prevent triggering Resonar’s second core rule.
Resonar’s second rule.
‘Echo: Resonance.’
Even if a single entity receives a fatal attack and is destroyed, if the opposite entity remains alive, it immediately resurrects in its complete form before taking damage.
This differs fundamentally from ‘recovery-type’ abilities like regeneration or reconstruction.
It is a ‘perfect resurrection’ that occurs at the moment of death!
There was only one way to prevent this.
Eliminate both Type 1 and Type 2 ‘simultaneously.’
Yet right now, the Apostle was clearly attempting to kill Type 2!
Min Ji-hee stamped her feet in frustration.
The Apostle had only briefed the tactical team—including Min Ji-hee—on containing Resonar Type 1 and blocking the subsequent ‘Inferno Storm’ from Type 2.
When Min Ji-hee asked what would happen after that, what had the Apostle answered?
—I’ll handle it myself.
“That thing comes back to life the moment you kill it! You must know that…!”
If Resonar Type 2 resurrected, the opportunity gained from completely containing Type 1 would vanish in vain!
* * *
—Uoong…!
Less than ten seconds after taking the plague combo, Resonar Type 2 released its final death cry and crumpled, broken.
‘Done.’
The common trait of such extreme gimmick-based bosses.
Because all their stats are concentrated into the gimmick, their actual durability is pathetic.
‘The plague combo is devastatingly powerful too.’
Max HP-proportional damage has always been poison to bosses.
As Resonar’s life force gradually extinguished, I…
observed it all within a world slowed to an extreme degree.
A single speck of dust drifting on the breeze, the creature’s agonized screams stretched like warped tape, fragmenting grotesquely as they echoed around my ears.

The moment death engulfed his flesh, the process crystallized frame by frame within my pupils with absolute clarity.
This was a trick I’d discovered earlier while manually pushing the Frozen Boundary mana to its absolute limits.
When I pumped an absurd amount of mana into my brain, my subjective perception of time slowed to a crawl.
‘Min Ji-hee must be worried sick.’
I owed Min Ji-hee an apology, but I couldn’t explain everything to her.
Not after Resonar Type 2 died.
A window of less than 0.01 seconds subjectively—a mere blink of an eye.
If I missed that timing, how could I tell Min Ji-hee that we should just surrender South Korea?
‘She would have foamed at the mouth in protest.’
In this decelerated world where one second felt like years.
After an eternity of waiting… the moment finally arrived when Resonar Type 2’s life was severed.
A glimmer—
The prelude to resurrection.
‘I’ve been waiting for this.’
Do you know?
That resurrection comes after death.
And for me.
‘A grand spell that commands death itself exists.’
Necromancer Lord.
Level 99. Ultimate skill.
Grand Necromancy.
“Harvest.”
No matter how fleeting the death.
Once you’ve stepped into death’s domain.
—You are mine now.

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