I’m the Only One With Two Towers - Chapter 259

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Only I Have Two Towers Episode 259

Pilgrimage Path

[Remaining Tower of Despair tickets exist! Proceeding to the next floor!]

[Entering Tower of Despair 82nd Floor ‘Divine Bombardment’!]

[This is a floor where bombardments fly from all directions!]

[Clear condition ‘Protect the pilgrimage procession!’ has been updated! Failure occurs if 20% or more of the pilgrimage procession dies!]

[The bombardment begins once you enter the path!]

How much further had they come from where they met Belia and the believers?

A long, straight path appeared before them.

“Perfect for getting bombed!”

A path surrounded by high and low cliffs and hills.

It was hard to imagine a better place for concentrated bombardment.

Belia, who had stepped forward, frowned.

“This is the place that took countless brothers from us. Apostle, do you happen to possess any dark attribute weapons?”

Belia pulled out a pitch-black crossbow from her chest.

“Those beings are also armed with dense divine power. Without dark attributes, you can never wound them. You won’t even be able to touch their incoming attacks.”

After finishing her words, Belia looked around at Jinhyeok and his party.

No matter how she looked, she couldn’t see any dark attribute equipment.

She didn’t want to doubt the apostle.

But she couldn’t help feeling suspicious.

Could they really break through this bombardment?

“It’s fine. Let’s go.”

Jinhyeok and his party continued walking with smiles on their faces.

Several believers whispered to Belia.

“We fear we might meet the same end as our previous brothers.”

“It would be better to find another path.”

Belia shook her head.

They couldn’t give up on the path before them.

If they did, it would take several times longer than their original plan.

“This is an apostle sent by God Azriel. To doubt him is to doubt God himself. Do you truly wish to walk the path of an apostate?”

“A-an apostate? That’s preposterous!”

“Besides, even if we hadn’t met the apostle, we would have had to pass through that place. We’ve prepared thoroughly for it.”

Following Belia, the believers also drew their respective weapons.

Dark attribute weapons meant to kill sacred beings.

The beings blocking the path also served the divine, just like the pilgrims.

But there was no other choice.

As long as those beings blocked the path to their god, they would break through.

“Let’s go.”

How much time had passed since they set foot in the ravine?

Beams of light began falling onto each cliff and hill.

Divine-type monsters revealed themselves within the dimming light.

Soon after, artillery batteries that would be used in siege warfare were summoned before them.

“Judgment upon the heretics who block our path!!”

With Belia’s cry, pitch-black energy erupted from the believers’ weapons.

The attack gradually grew in size, covering the cliffs and hills.

As the attack struck, monsters with parts of their bodies obliterated fell below the cliffs.

However, it was only a tiny fraction compared to the whole.

“Reload immediately!”

Before they could prepare their next attack, a barrage of divine power orbs and arrows poured down.

Kwagagagagak!!

They responded with return fire, but it was impossible to eliminate every attack.

Unlike those beings born from divinity, this side consisted of ordinary humans.

The moment they were hit by an attack of any attribute, they would die.

“Ahh…”

Belia let out a small gasp.

It was concentrated bombardment that could sweep away all the pilgrims at any moment.

Finding herself in a situation she couldn’t overcome alone, Belia’s eyes turned to the apostle in front.

“…?”

For some reason, the apostle was leisurely watching the incoming bombardment.

‘These must be the monsters Hiyori and Se-yeon told me about.’

He let out a sigh of relief.

It was fortunate that monsters were blocking the pilgrimage path.

What if it wasn’t monsters but Tower residents trying to stop heretics?

He had planned to cancel his deal with Azriel, abandon the ticket, and go get new enhancement scrolls.

‘Might as well smash them with peace of mind.’

The bombardment barrage had entered a certain range.

Step.

Camilla, who had been in the back, came forward.

Camilla held out the inverted cross of Judas Iscariot she had been carrying.

“Devour them.”

As soon as she uttered those words, black energy spewed from the inverted cross.

Energy that devoured all divine power that entered a certain range.

In the blink of an eye, the divine power that had filled their vision vanished.

Bombardments with physical substance like arrows or spears were still effective, but.

Kaang! Kagagak!!

They never reached the pilgrimage procession.

Seira and Dark lightly deflected them with their swords and chains.

“Let’s go.”

He kicked off the ground together with Renia beside him.

The party had been given two inverted crosses.

Since the range of the inverted crosses was limited, they divided into two groups.

A defense group protecting the pilgrimage procession and a strike group attacking the cliffs.

As they entered the range of the inverted cross, the divine power surrounding the monsters disappeared without a trace.

What came next was easy.

Just like usual.

Sgaak!

Slash.

Jjeong!!

Pound.

Having enhanced the floor, they would be stronger than monsters from previous floors.

But they were ridiculously insufficient to make any meaningful difference.

“Totally refreshing! So satisfying!”

Kancheo, who had been surveying the cliffs with his yodel telescope, burst into admiration.

This was almost like a 40-ton dump truck.

The moment they encountered them, monsters came tumbling down.

“Autumn wind falling!”

Camilla, who was listening, frowned.

What was this little satan saying?

Did he mean to say autumn leaves falling?

“What! Momo wants to see too!”

“Eh? Where did it go!? My yodel telescope!”

Momo had pickpocketed the telescope in the blink of an eye.

Crunch crunch crunch!

With one hand inhaling potato chips and the other moving the telescope, she watched the dance of battle between her master and Renia.

“They fight so well!”

“Bring it back!!”

Kancheo swiftly launched his body forward.

Of course, he didn’t aim for the telescope.

Even if he took it back, she’d just steal it again anyway.

Instead, he flew toward the potato chips and began storm-inhaling with both hands.

And Belia and the pilgrims watching this chaotic scene were.

‘Th-that is…!’

Unable to continue speaking from shock.

It wasn’t because of the apostle’s force or the small beings disrupting their minds.

Their eyes were directed toward the necks of Camilla and the apostle, or more precisely, toward the inverted cross of the apostate Judas Iscariot.

‘A heretical weapon that should not exist.’

They couldn’t fail to recognize it.

That was the aura of the being their god had designated as the adversary, constantly appearing in their doctrine.

But they had heard that power was completely sealed away and vanished without a trace, so how could it exist in such a form?

“B-Belia-nim. Is that person truly an apostle? Aren’t they using the apostate’s power?”

“Something must be wrong! We must make a decision again, even now!”

Belia frowned at the believers’ urging.

And before long, she reached a conclusion.

‘That person is indeed the apostle chosen by God.’

If not, knowing God’s name wouldn’t make sense.

However.

‘That person does not serve our god.’

It was impossible for one who uses the apostate’s power to serve Azriel.

There was one fact that could be inferred from this.

‘God is using evil for the greater cause.’

The ironic situation where pilgrims must break through the divine legion to awaken God.

God must have brought in evil to resolve this abnormal situation.

“Listen well, pilgrims.”

Belia Blackwell lowered her voice.

The pilgrims stopped murmuring and listened carefully.

“That person is a heretic who serves the apostate. Our clear enemy. But God has commanded that person as an apostle. The reason is simple. God wishes to temporarily use them as a guide to lead us to our destination.”

“But still, to walk the pilgrimage path with a heretic…”

“Do you still not understand? God’s will.”

Belia shot back sharply and continued.

“The ultimate purpose of this pilgrimage is the complete resurrection of our God Azriel. Nothing is more important than this. For this, we must use whatever comes our way, whether apostates or heretics. And the moment we achieve this great purpose, that heretic will also perish by God’s judgment.”

Belia’s eyes turned toward Jinhyeok’s back.

“So let us quietly use them. Those foolish ones who turned their backs on divinity and chose the apostate’s path.”

The corners of Belia’s mouth, who had been quietly watching, rose.

The apostate, the being known to have brought God Azriel to the brink of extinction in the past.

Though his partial inverted cross had appeared, there was no need to worry at all.

That’s because the apostate no longer exists in this world.

A being completely banished to a dimension from which he could never return.

Summoning that being back was absolutely impossible.

‘I look forward to it. The world order that will be established again by our god.’

Since the adversary has been destroyed, nothing can stop Azriel now.

Once resurrected, it wouldn’t be long before all worlds would be devoured.

Smirk.

Her lips curved up even longer with overwhelming anticipation and swelling hope.

And meanwhile.

Crash!!

Jinhyeok and Renia, who had crushed the last monster, stopped moving.

Renia approached, roughly wiping the blood from his hands.

“Master.”

“Yeah?”

Renia pointed toward Belia and the pilgrims with his chin.

“There’s a terrible stench of blood. Doesn’t suit all their babbling about divinity and such.”

He nodded and pointed to his blue-tinted eyes.

“I could see them. Hundreds and thousands of vengeful spirits surrounding them.”

“I already knew that.”

“That’s why I was going to quit if our opponents weren’t monsters.”

He shrugged his shoulders.

“Anyway, if both sides are enemies we need to eliminate, it’s just a matter of order. Should I say it’s like clearing the tower first and then dealing with them?”

“That’s wise thinking. We need to climb the tower.”

“But there’s one thing I’m pondering. You know that symbol they showed before we departed? I’ve seen that symbol before.”

“The one they said was for awakening… What did they call it?”

“A game. You know that computer Kancheo and Momo always play with. I did it with that. That symbol appeared on one floor back then. To clear that floor, we had to help the being with that symbol seal away the darkness.”

“If it’s the being with the symbol, would that be Azriel we met before coming here?”

“Probably?”

He nodded slowly.

The gap between 2D objects seen through a monitor and reality is enormous.

Especially for cosmic horror-level beings like Azriel.

‘It was much bigger than my character though.’

Matching them was still difficult, but judging by the symbol, it was likely the same being.

After letting out a small breath, he continued.

“If the being I saw in the game and Azriel are the same, and we have to face it at the end of this section. We might need to look for it first before meeting Azriel.”

He recalled in his mind.

The dark entity that had helped seal away Azriel in the game.

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