I Possessed a Game Where I Die If I Don’t Clear the Tower - Chapter 44

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Chapter 44. The One-Hit Instructor in Dreams
The next day arrived.
Camilia rose early and made her way to the Knight Training Grounds.
The knights who had been training with me since the early hours greeted her with joy.
“Wow, my lord! Welcome! Before we head out for outdoor training, we get to see your face like this… We’re truly delighted, haha!”
“Oh, I suddenly got assigned to outdoor training myself… Please, make yourself comfortable!”
The moment the welcoming greetings ended, they vanished, claiming outdoor training was necessary.
All that remained was a single cadet with pink split hair and the Commander of the Knight Order.
“Y-You’ve arrived, my lord!”
Nashu Shumel rushed toward Camilia with an innocent, beaming face.
Meanwhile, Rohengreen Ashen’s ears had flushed red with embarrassment at his subordinates’ shameful behavior. He lowered his head, struggling to hide his mortified expression.
“Welcome, my lord.”
Camilia let out a hollow laugh in response.
“Good. How is training progressing?”
“Yes. Of course, it is.”
“M-Me too!”
Delighted that Camilia had come to the training grounds, Nashu Shumel chattered away, launching into various stories.
How she’d been training hard lately and seemed to be gaining muscle, how she was getting better at wielding her weapon than before, and so on.
Camilia stroked the excited Nashu Shumel’s head as she spoke.
“Nashu, wouldn’t you like to spar with someone other than a knight?”
“S-Sparring? With you, my lord? I-I’d love to!”
Perhaps still bothered by her shameful loss before, competitive fire immediately ignited in Nashu Shumel’s eyes.
“Not with me. Rather, I’m thinking of arranging a sparring match with one of the children I’ve recently taken in.”
Nashu Shumel tilted her head in confusion.
The lord had brought someone from the Slums, but weren’t both of them children?
“B-Both of them… aren’t they weak?”
“The boy around your age is quite strong. He’s at a level that would be somewhat challenging for you as you are now.”
“R-Really?”
Unlike Nashu Shumel, who immediately showed curiosity, Rohengreen Ashen wore a somewhat tense expression.
“My lord, may I ask the reason for arranging a sparring match between that child and Shumel?”
“I believe it will be a valuable experience. It’s necessary as well.”
“That is…”
“Do you not trust me?”
“How could I? I’m merely concerned that Shumel might not live up to your expectations.”
He, who believed Nashu Shumel to be a genius without question, was worried to this degree?
Camilia asked just to be sure.
“Have you met Vlad?”
Rohengreen Ashen, who had been hesitating, answered.
“That is… yes.”
He had met him to confirm whether they were talents she had personally gone to the Slums to take in, those who would be brought to The Tower.
It seemed that was also when she’d noticed Vlad’s abilities were far from ordinary.
‘Not just Zehar Al Rashid, but even Rohengreen Ashen paying attention to outsiders.’
It felt a bit excessive, but thanks to it, I had less explaining to do. That worked out well.
“Would I, of all people, resort to borrowing your hands when I have no other way to win? Don’t worry—I have no intention of letting my knight lose.”
Camilia glanced at the hologram window.
[Rohengreen Ashen has achieved Level 4.]
[Nashu Shumel has achieved Level 2.]
※Please distribute status and skills!
I was planning to do this today anyway.
Thanks to defeating the Pantheon Party, both my knight duo and I—except for Netanel Fragma—had leveled up.
I hadn’t been able to touch it because of the patch, but the timing couldn’t be better, could it?
‘I was curious about this anyway. How are ally level-ups handled?’
In my case, the increased stats were reflected immediately, but what about my allies?
I also wanted to know how they’d react when I allocated skills.
Since I knew all the skills from my previous classes and could use them on my own, my allies couldn’t even see their character or skill windows.
“Now, sit down for a moment.”
Camilia had the two bewildered knights sit across from her.
Then she quickly allocated their stats. Rohengreen Ashen received strength, and Nashu Shumel received stamina.
“Do you feel any change?”
The two knights, who had obediently remained seated as instructed, answered in confusion.
“…The floor feels cold.”
“M-me too.”
Don’t they feel like their status has increased?
Camilia went ahead and allocated skills as well.
She gave Rohengreen Ashen a shield skill and Nashu Shumel a skill that could be used as crowd control.
But the two knights’ reactions weren’t much different this time either.
They simply continued to stare up at her blankly.
‘Wait, if I allocated stats and skills, there should be some change, even if not immediately. Why is it different from me?’
As if responding to her irritated thoughts, the hologram window hastily appeared.
[※Ally status and skill changes are applied after extended rest!]
‘Extended rest means I have to make them sleep and wake up?’
It wasn’t like this in the game—did it change after the patch?
Camilia commanded the knights with some doubt.
“Lie down.”
Perhaps because their loyalty was so high, both of them lay down on the floor as she instructed.
“Don’t worry. I’m just going to have you sleep for a bit and then wake up.”
Camilia placed her hand on both their heads and used Domination.
The dice tumbled, and success appeared immediately.
“Sleep soundly and wake up in five minutes.”
Immediately, both knights fell asleep as if on cue.
Aisha, dutiful as a professional maid, quietly retrieved a chair and positioned it nearby, laying down a mat and cushion beneath it.
Camilia settled into the chair with confidence and waited for time to pass.
Exactly five minutes elapsed.
“Hah, gasp…!”
“…!”
Both knights jolted awake as if spring-loaded.
Nashu Shumel glanced around before looking at Camilia and asking.
“L-Lord, can you appear in our dreams?”
‘Huh?’
Unable to comprehend the question, Camilia turned it back on her.
“What do you mean?”
“In the dream, y-you appeared, Lord, and t-taught me this… this leg attack technique…?”
The sweeping strike was indeed a technique I’d imparted to her. But she learned it in a dream? From me, no less?
“Ah… w-wait? M-maybe it was just a dream? It f-felt like a dream…? There’s no way you’d call me S-Shusu like the senior knights do…?”
She called me Shusu? Me?
Camilia found herself glancing toward Rohengreen Ashen without thinking.
He, wearing a somewhat bewildered expression, responded.
“You appeared in my dream as well, Lord. I cannot be certain it was truly you… but you taught me a technique.”
Apparently, I—or something claiming to be me—had instructed him: “Rohengreen, you must learn shield charge and shield strike,” while showing him visions of combat against monsters, delivering something like a lecture.
‘…What in the world is this about?’
Camilia was thoroughly flustered.
It was already inconvenient enough that skills only took effect after sleeping and waking, but now there were these absurd side effects?
“C-could it be that you entered our dreams directly, Lord…?”
In the midst of this, she’d even invited a bewildering misunderstanding.
Since she’d even put them to sleep herself, denying it felt awkward.
In the end, Camilia resorted to the universal explanation that worked anywhere.
“…It seems The Tower’s mysteries have taken root quite well.”
“M-mysteries!”
She’d worried they might treat it as some sinister magic, but Nashu Shumel and Rohengreen Ashen simply looked delighted.
“S-so if we work hard, you’ll keep teaching us things like this?”
“If you deem us worthy of your favor, Lord, we shall follow.”
It was fortunate.
Really fortunate, though she wondered if it should be.
You children, when your superior invades your dreams and whips you to become stronger, you’re supposed to be terrified, not pleased…
‘I need to earn money quickly and give these kids a raise.’
Pushing aside her pricking conscience, Camilia conducted several tests on the two.
Whether they could feel their stats strengthening, whether the techniques came naturally, whether they could execute combos, and so forth.
“I can feel my strength increasing. I also seem to understand how to use the techniques.”
“M-me too! It’s like energy is surging up from inside my body!”
In the game, it was so natural she hadn’t paid it much mind, but now that it was reality, she understood.
Leveling up through the System is not normal growth. It borders on magic or miracles.
‘The speed of growth is absolutely staggering.’
Just look at Ken’s party, whom we defeated alongside the Pantheon Party.
Despite sharing the same experience, they showed no growth worthy of being called a level up.
In fact, even the elite adventurers who’ve been climbing and descending the 30th Floor for years were all hovering around level five.
‘But my party and I are different. By the time we reach the 30th Floor, everyone will have achieved at least level six as a baseline.’
When it was a game, I never considered it strange that only my party leveled up, but if that applies to reality as well, the implications are entirely different.
This is a far more powerful ability than I anticipated.
‘If I use this wisely, I might be able to recruit more allies.’
I could more easily draw in comrades who stake their lives on becoming stronger, or perhaps even make NPCs like Vlad—originally impossible to recruit—into allies.
I wanted to immediately reorganize my roster of allies, but I held back.
There was something more pressing to attend to right now.
“A sparring match using the techniques I just taught you would be quite enjoyable. Don’t you think so, Nashu Shumel?”
“Y-yes, absolutely!”
“Then let us prepare together.”
For a wager match—something truly delightful and entertaining.

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