I Conquered the Tower with the EX-Class Character That I Raised - Chapter 56

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Chapter 56
Darkness yawned open with a sickening crack.
An absolutely staggering volume of dark mana clung to Resonar Type 2’s body—so much that it felt like the very concept of darkness had materialized.
The first stage of the Great Harvest.
Every corpse within the surrounding radius transforms into a Death Knight.
In that fleeting moment before Resonar’s resurrection, there exists a death judgment.
At that instant, Resonar is classified as a corpse.
The Great Harvest’s rule of ‘every corpse’ naturally includes boss monsters as well.
Even if that boss monster happens to be the 94th Floor’s break boss.
‘I’ve come this far flawlessly.’
In this decelerated world, I observed Resonar’s corpse being consumed by dark mana.
From the moment Resonar first appeared until this very day.
I meticulously analyzed the hand dealt to me.
Debuffer. Frost mage, Han Seol-ah.
Tank. Necromancer and spirit mage, Lee Ah-woon.
Dealer. Me.
Backup tanks for contingencies.
Commander Min Ji-hee.
This is everything I possess.
The hand I’ve been dealt is limited.
But squeezing every last drop from the given materials to forge the optimal strategy—that is the true specialty of a veteran player, isn’t it?
Considering all these factors.
This single move was the only method capable of defeating Resonar.
Monsters in Lost Honor and real-world demons possess identical specifications.
Everything from their strengths to their weaknesses.
Based on my experience of hunting Resonar countless times in Lost Honor.
This method works.
The problem is, it’s a technique that wasn’t easy even within the game.
Moreover, Resonar’s resurrection occurs in an instant.
Subjectively, it’s as if he resurrects at full health immediately after being killed.
That’s why damage-over-time is necessary.
Not some finishing move that gambles everything on a single strike.
But rather magic that deals damage according to an honest, consistent rhythm.
Only that type of magic allows me to predict the exact moment of Resonar’s death.
Killing Resonar with Pestilence was also the result of calculations extending to this point.
So then, is the Resonar strategy complete?
Can I call checkmate here?
The answer is no.
‘…This is where the true divergence begins.’
It’s time.
Screeeeeech!!
A bizarre, discordant screech erupted through the air—as if fingernails were dragging across a chalkboard.
Golden radiance blazed from within Resonar, flashing and flashing with such frenzy that even in the decelerated time, each brilliant pulse was unmistakably visible.
Resonar’s resurrection judgment had commenced.
So long as the counterpart entity remained alive, Resonar would resurrect completely.
This was an absolute rule that could never be circumvented.
Resonar’s gimmick was an immortal shield protecting it.
But conversely, the moment that gimmick was turned against itself, it would transform into the most fatal weakness.
The pulsation of dark mana that had been staining Resonar pitch-black suddenly ceased with a sharp click.
In its place, golden radiance tore through like it would rend the very fabric of existence, and Resonar’s crumbled flesh began forcibly reclaiming its original color and form.
It was resurrecting.
Precisely at the halfway point.
The instant when the dark mana’s corrupted portion and the newly resurrected portion divided exactly in half.
[System Logic Collision Detected]
—The world stopped.
* * *
[Calculating rules for entity ‘Wondrous Echo—Resonance Body Resonar’…]
[Judgment will now be rendered]
Flowing clouds froze. Scattering dust suspended. Blood droplets rolling across the ground halted.
Between Resonar and Ha Sung-woon, golden letters materialized in chaotic collision, as if engaged in fierce courtroom debate.
[Assertion. According to the core rule ‘Resonance,’ Resonar Type 2 must resurrect]
[Counterargument. The ‘Great Harvest’ triggered upon Resonar Type 2’s ‘death judgment’ is valid; it must transform into a Death Knight]
[Rejected. The boss’s ‘core rule’ takes absolute priority over any judgment]
[Counterargument. Said skill activation is recognized as a ‘legitimate strategy’ derived from the user’s meticulous calculation]
In a completely frozen world.
Only the letters moved.
[Referencing ■■…]
[It follows the precedent of ※※…]
[…]
[…]
The letters debated for a considerable time.
And then, at last.
[Judgment Complete]
The verdict was rendered.
[…]
[…]
The two entities engaged in debate fell silent.
[The strategy of entity ‘Ha Sung-woon’ is legitimate]
[The reasoning is as follows]
[1. Resonar’s ‘resurrection’ judgment, however instantaneous, unfolds after ‘death’]
[2. Ha Sung-woon’s ‘Grand Harvest’ unfolded at precisely the moment of ‘death judgment’]
[3. Resonar became a ‘corpse’ for a fleeting instant due to ‘death judgment’, qualifying as a target for Grand Harvest]
[4. The claim that Resonar’s core rule takes precedence over Grand Harvest judgment is valid, but the fact that 88.4% of Resonar had already prepared to mutate into a Death Knight via Grand Harvest at the moment of resurrection judgment. And]
[5. The 88.4% occupation rate is acknowledged as Ha Sung-woon’s intention to silence ■’s claim, and this too should be considered part of the strategy]
[…]
[…]
The judgment continued.
[Therefore, in accordance with ‘the supreme principle: all bosses must be conquerable’]
[this ‘rule collision’ is judged such that ‘Grand Harvest’ takes precedence over ‘Resonance’]
[…]
[…]
With a brief silence.
Poof.
The golden letters vanished.
* * *
“!!!”
Min Ji-hee froze in shock and horror.
Fragmented words tumbled from her gaping mouth.
“W-what….”
Everyone was in the same state.
Resonar Type 2 remained frozen, yet still alive.
So according to the Apostle’s strategy guide, killing Resonar Type 2 would only result in its immediate resurrection.
But the moment Resonar Type 2 staggered.
An enormous torrent of pitch-black mana erupted from the Apostle’s body, greedily devouring Resonar Type 2 suspended in the sky.
Crack! Crunch!
From the distant heavens came a grotesque, bone-chilling sound of bone and flesh being forcibly torn asunder.
Each time Resonar’s cyan-tinted gelatinous skin touched the dark mana, it crumbled as if doused in acid, melting into a pool of blood.
“A, ah….”
Min Ji-hee doubted her own eyes.
Since Type 1 remained alive on the ground, Type 2 should have resurrected in its complete form, untouched by damage.
Indeed, Type 2 briefly flashed golden, attempting resurrection in defiance of the erosion, but…
Whoosh!
The darkness the Apostle unleashed devoured that golden light in an instant.
Sizzle! Bang! Crack!
At last, Type 2’s massive skeletal frame—all flesh melted away—was forcibly twisted and bent in mid-air, reassembling into an entirely new form.
The grotesque larval skeleton fused into the towering, alien frame of a black knight, and in every hollow space between bones where flesh and muscle should have been, dark crimson mana clung like leeches.
These soon became steel-like armor plating, condensed into the form of a great sword in its hands, radiating an overwhelming aura of dread.
At last, in the empty eye sockets, a cyan ghostfire symbolizing death ignited.
“….”
In that moment, only one word surfaced in Min Ji-hee’s mind.
‘The Death Knight.’
A legend that had never been sighted even once.
A name whispered like myth ever since I learned that ‘Undead’ class monsters existed.
The mightiest undead warrior.
Could that be exactly what this undead was?
‘Now… did it create an undead from the 94th Floor break boss’s corpse?’
My thoughts froze.
But.
That was only the beginning.
Gooooooo—!
‘Grand Harvest’ was just starting now.
The pitch-black mana that had swallowed Resonar Type 2 from the sky now cascaded down toward the ground like a waterfall.
“!!!”
Min Ji-hee, the tactical team, and even the tanks who had been silently gazing upward were startled out of their wits.
“Sh, shields up up up!!!!”
Right after witnessing Resonar’s massive form being ‘horrifically’ dismantled before their eyes, transforming into a skeletal knight.
The terror that touching that mana would reduce them to the same fate sent the tanks into convulsive reactions.
“Aaaahhh!!!”
“Uuuaaaaaaa!!!”
The tanks screamed and raised their shields, channeling their full power.
Yet the dark mana passed through the tanks’ barriers without any resistance…
Onto the blood-soaked floor, atop [Authority: Ocean of Blood].
It seeped into the thousands upon thousands of lowest-tier spirits and skeletal remains that Lee Ah-woon had poured out and detonated while becoming a mass of gore.
Discarded gunpowder.
No—the most perfectly arranged sacrifices.
Each and every one was a ‘corpse.’
Clatter, crack, crackle!
The bone fragments scattered across the battlefield began to tremble in unison.
[Grand Necromancy]’s authority reached every ‘death’ remaining on the ground.
Pure white bone fragments sprouted from the translucent jelly-like bodies of the spirits.
The blood that had seeped into the floor flowed backward, clinging to the bone joints to form false muscles, while pitch-black dark mana covered it all, forging steel-like black armor.
“Uh, uuaaah!”
“Something’s happening from the ground!”
Kim Tae-wan and the tank formation, holding the front line, recoiled in horror.
From beneath their feet, black knights reeking of rotten blood and bone were crawling up through the dirt, clawing their way out.
“M, move out of the way!!!”
“Ugh! Aaaahhh!!!”
Some stumbled, swept away by the sudden movement and tumbling across the ground.
Thud thud thud…
Boom!
A cyan glow flooded the battlefield.
Ten, a hundred, a thousand… no, far more than that!
The corpses Lee Ah-woon had sacrificed his very life to accumulate were reborn as Death Knights, each one blazing with that same cyan radiance in their eyes.
The plains stretching toward Pyongyang had transformed in an instant into an encampment of the undead legion.
“….”
Min Ji-hee stood frozen in shock.
In the sky hung Resonar Type 2, now a boss-class Death Knight.
On the ground, thousands upon thousands of Death Knights.
This colossal army of death, commanded by a single figure alone.
All knelt in unison toward the Apostle hovering serenely in the heavens.
Thud!
A heavy silence descended.
Within that quiet, the Apostle slowly raised his hand.
His finger, descending with deliberate slowness, pointed toward Resonar Type 1—frozen solid in crystalline ice.
Thud!
At that indifferent gesture alone, thousands of troops surged to their feet in unison.
“Tear it apart.”
The command had barely fallen before the legion of death came rushing forth like a tempest.
An advance shrouded in silence—no war cry, no sound at all.
Thousands of black knights swarmed over the massive form of Type 1, now fractured and weakened, clustering upon it like ants.
Head, back, belly, tail—the very form of the 94th Floor boss vanished beneath layer upon layer of suffocating darkness.
Thousands of time bombs had finished their countdown.
The Apostle, gazing down upon the scene with serene detachment,
snapped
his fingers with a light flick.
Boom! Boom! Boom!!!!
A chain reaction of explosions erupted.
—Uoooooooong!!!
Resonar Type 1 shrieked as it broke free from the ice.
And before it,
Clang.
The Death Knight that had once been Resonar Type 2 hefted a greatsword as massive and heavy as its own frame.
Whoosh!
Crack!
The greatsword came down with crushing, merciless force, pulverizing the frost-covered skin, and the shockwave sent dark-green blood cascading like water from every inch of Resonar Type 1’s body.
—Ooooooo!
Resonar Type 1’s cry rang out with such anguish it was almost pitiful.
The Death Knight charged forward with greatsword raised, and with a thunderous crash, the blade sank deep into its flesh.
Immediately after,
snap—
In sync with the snapping sound of fingers echoing once more.
Kwaaaaaang!!!
With a violent explosion, the death mana harbored within thousands of Death Knights coalesced into a single point and detonated in a chain reaction, unleashing a thunderous roar that shook heaven and earth.
A mushroom cloud surged upward, devouring the atmosphere of the entire area, and soon a shockwave that twisted the very entrails came crashing down, bleaching the world white.
Not only the tanks, but Min Ji-hee, who had maintained her distance, was swept up by the tempest and sent tumbling.
Within a flash so blinding that eyes could scarcely open, the tanks buried their heads and trembled violently.
And finally, when the light faded and the explosion cleared.
There was nothing left.
Not the massive frame of Resonar Type 1.
Not the thousands of undead legions.
Not the “Resonar Type 2 Knight of Death” wielding the colossal greatsword.
All that remained was a vast crater with its floor sunken deep and a brilliant blue holographic window floating in the empty air.
[Notification: ’94th Floor Tower Break Boss: Wondrous Echo—Resonance Entity Resonar’ has been subjugated.]

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