I’m the Only One With Two Towers - Chapter 240

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Only I Have Two Towers Episode 240

What I Wanted to Meet

‘Ugh.’

I frowned at the red guys pouring out.

Blood-soaked as a given, not one of them had intact limbs.

Their faces were either half-missing or twisted.

They were so grotesque that yesterday’s Immortal Legion seemed decent in comparison.

“They’re all going after granny!”

Kancheo climbed up on my shoulder and shouted.

The things that had been rushing toward us changed direction to match Ellia’s steps.

They weren’t targeting us.

They were clearly targeting only Ellia.

“She’s surrounded!”

Crash!

Kancheo grabbed my head from my shoulder.

“Granny’s getting ganged up on!!”

Momo pounded my leg with her chubby fists.

“No!”

“Granny’s gonna die today!”

They looked ready to tear their hair out, so I quickly patted Kancheo and Momo.

“It’s okay. If there’s danger, I’ll know right away.”

As soon as I finished speaking, guys rushing from all directions covered Ellia.

Yeon Seong-jin was quiet.

Even though there were plenty of opportunities to use alchemy, Ellia didn’t.

Whoooosh.

Smoke scattered across my vision.

Camilla took a couple steps forward, raising the corners of her mouth.

“No need to worry. You must know. Those are merely remnants of rifts pretending to be alive.”

“Hey shaman granny! We’re the same today-tomorrow duo, but isn’t this too irresponsible! If she gets reverse-summoned like that, granny will have to do today-tomorrow alone for a week!”

I swallowed dry saliva and looked up at Kancheo.

His vocabulary improves by leaps and bounds each day.

“You always pick just the words that make me want to beat you up. I’d love to smack that empty skull of yours with my pipe right now, but I’ll hold back. Our friend is making progress.”

Camilla puffed smoke once more.

Then she glanced toward the cottage.

We weren’t the only ones waiting for Ellia.

There was someone who had been waiting for her for eons.

I smiled and turned my head back to its original position.

Ellia was now completely surrounded and invisible.

But I decided not to worry.

Just like the being in the cottage who had spent long years with Ellia.

Crash!

Sage of Stars Elia Posen looked straight ahead.

Beings stretching out teeth and hands as if to devour her.

But those hands and teeth would never reach her.

It was because Ellia herself had already recognized it.

Their true identity and reason for existence.

She looked around at the beings filling her surroundings.

“I know you guys. I should know, shouldn’t I? Because I created you.”

After countless research and attempts, she had created the philosopher’s stone.

And from then on, she began.

The resurrection of the dead, called alchemy’s greatest taboo.

The beings before her eyes were byproducts created in that process.

Ellia closed her eyes.

Then she recalled the days that had passed.

Hundreds of years of nothing but failure.

She must have failed quite a lot.

Seeing how many had flocked here like this.

“Tower.”

Ellia drew a strange smile.

“You must have hoped. That even after eons of time had passed, I would still carry guilt. And that it would be stirred by these beings. That’s why you pulled this trick. But unfortunately.”

She shook her head.

“I remember everything I created. Whether I made it ten years ago, a hundred years ago, or a thousand years ago – every single one without exception.”

She erased the smile from her lips and stared straight ahead.

“These are remnants born from the cracks of rifts. They never had life, not once, not for a single moment, and are remnants that take form solely to break an alchemist’s mind.”

Ellia extended her hand forward.

“You wanted to treat me like a merciless murderer who disregards and tramples on life, but that’s a premise that can never be established. Because… creating life through alchemy is impossible. So, disappear now. What I’ve been avoiding like a coward for so long, what I need to face, isn’t the likes of you.”

Yeon Seong-jin was drawn from the Gauntlet of Stars.

Bright golden light burst forth from there and swallowed the surroundings.

It was the power to return illusions that never existed to nothingness.

Hissss.

Ellia watched the scattering remnants and raised her head.

Then she spoke toward the sky, toward the Tower.

“Nice try, huh? But it was sloppy, so pay a little more attention next time.”

After giving one last smile, she moved her steps up the hill.

Step.

Ellia passed her master and friends and arrived in front of the cottage door.

Ellia took a deep breath.

What she had been running from for so long wasn’t remnants like the ones she just met.

It was this very moment.

Creak.

A smile formed at the warmth seeping through the opened door crack.

It was the warmth she had missed so much, that brought peace to her heart just by facing it.

Camilla, who had been watching from a little distance, opened her mouth.

“Ellia once asked me. Could she have a conversation with the dead, even if just for a brief moment? She said if she could return there, she wanted to ask, though she didn’t know if it would be possible or not. At the time, I answered that it was uncertain. While it’s common for souls to dwell in places, they tend to fade as time passes. But.”

Camilla smiled.

“It was needless worry. Ellia wasn’t the only one who wanted to meet somehow.”

Ellia’s eyes widened as she entered the cottage.

A green-tinted form sitting at the desk.

The form stood up as if it had been waiting.

“Siana.”

Ellia bit her lip at her friend slowly approaching.

It was the moment she had longed for so much, but she was afraid.

Under the excuse of reviving her friend, she had performed twisted and distorted alchemy thousands upon thousands of times.

In front of the friend with whom she had built the foundation of alchemy and established the principles and beliefs for its proper use.

But what was the result?

She had gained nothing.

All she had gained were remnants that leaked out from rifts, as she had just seen.

That’s why she was afraid.

What did the one who had been closest to her think of such a pathetic self?

She was probably very angry.

Because she had sold herself to do such things.

She might want to deny the time they spent together here.

Back then, she wouldn’t have known what a pathetic alchemist this was.

Ellia took a breath.

It was frightening, but she had to do it nonetheless.

The apology she had put off for so long.

“Siana. I’m sor…!”

Siana, who had approached right in front of her, didn’t say anything.

She didn’t get angry, nor did she blame Ellia.

She simply embraced the dear friend she was meeting after so long.

Then it began to be conveyed.

The words Siana had wanted to say to Ellia for so long.

That she had worked hard enduring that terrible failure, frustration, and disappointment alone for nearly a thousand years.

That she was grateful for doing so much for her sake, for coming to find her like this.

That she had really wanted to say these words.

Ellia, who was about to say something, closed her mouth.

Then she quietly embraced her friend.

Rustle.

Siana’s form began to scatter, transforming into particles of light.

Ellia hugged her even tighter, wanting to feel even a little of that warmth.

The moment that she wished could last forever passed by, and the form completely disappeared from Ellia’s embrace.

At the same time, darkness came to the cottage that had been illuminated by the pale green light.

No longer did the warm fragrance or gentle warmth exist.

As Ellia stood there in a daze.

Squeeze.

She felt the warmth of someone wrapping around her arm.

Looking up, she saw her master Yoo Jin-hyeok.

Then warmth was also conveyed from her legs.

It was Kancheo, who had pressed Momo’s chubby cheeks and forehead against her.

“This won’t make the potions taste any better, you know?”

Regardless of what Ellia might say, the warmth continued to accumulate one by one.

Moonlight seeping through the window illuminated the dark cottage.

“Hmm.”

Ellia, who let out a small sigh, smiled.

“It’s hot.”

She didn’t know why.

It was very hot, but.

Her heart felt at ease.

At the fact that this warmth would continue forever.

Ding!

[Star Sage Elia Posen has faced the past she had been putting off!]

[All conditions for the promotion Quest are achieved!]

[Ellia’s grade is promoted from Unique to Epic!]

[Accumulated temporary experience points are applied!]

[Ellia level up!]

[Ellia level up!]

[Ellia level up!]

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[Ellia achieves level 140!]

[Unique trait Star Alchemy – Intermediate reaches MAX level! Upgrades to Advanced LV1!]

# The power of all alchemy increases!

[Unique trait Star’s Blessing – Intermediate reaches MAX level! Upgrades to Advanced LV1!]

# On nights when stars are clear, the power of alchemy is amplified!

# You can discover constellations that were previously invisible!

[Unique trait Primordial Curiosity achieves Advanced LV4!]

# Gain inspiration from more diverse places!

# Curiosity is the starting point of all alchemy! The number of performable alchemy and craftable potions increases!

[Acquires unique skill ‘Workshop Assistant – Beginner’! Summons an assistant that exists only in the Starry Forge! You can assign workshop tasks, and as skill level increases, the performable tasks and efficiency improve!]

“Woohoooo!!”

Ellia cheered and threw an uppercut.

“It was worth putting off cleaning until the very end!”

Jinhyeok, who was listening, swallowed dryly.

The current Starry Forge was truly chaos itself.

It seemed like there would be another victim after Torongja.

“Captain. Didn’t I tell you? That old lady, that’s not right, that’s not.”

Even Kancheo clicked his tongue, thinking this wasn’t right.

Odongtong Momo, who was nearby, let out a sigh of relief.

Now that there was an assistant, Ellia wouldn’t pester him anymore to help clean the workshop.

‘Good luck, assistant!’

While offering heartfelt condolences.

[One more Epic grade card has been added! Class Collector, Player Yoo Jin-hyeok’s synchronization rate increases by 5%! Current synchronization rate: 135%]

He threw an uppercut as well at the synchronization rate rising after so long.

Then he suddenly remembered the story he had heard earlier.

“Ellia, question!”

“Oh master! Ask me anything! I’m much smarter than yesterday’s me.”

“I heard it in passing so I’m not sure. Earlier you said that you and Siana laid the foundation of alchemy here. You decided various things too.”

“That’s right?”

“Then before that, there were no rules or regulations about alchemy? Things that other alchemists had established.”

“There was nothing like that? There were no alchemists to begin with.”

“Huh?”

“Hehe! Our master didn’t know?”

Ellia spun around once and pointed at herself with her thumb.

“I am none other than the very first alchemist!”

Jinhyeok, who had been listening quietly, gaped his mouth open.

What…?!

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