I’m the Only One With Two Towers - Chapter 260

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Only I Have Two Towers Episode 260

In Silence

[You have cleared the 83rd Floor of the Tower of Reinforced Despair!]

[Entering the 84th Floor of the Tower of Reinforced Despair, ‘Divine Barrier’!]

Craaack!!!

A harsh roar echoed as cracks spread across the barrier.

The 84th Floor, entered after the 82nd and 83rd floors.

It was a floor where a towering divine barrier blocked the path.

That barrier had just collapsed moments ago.

“Kraaaagh!!”

From the pile of collapsed debris, the monsters that had been guarding the barrier rose to their feet.

Perhaps because they were cloaked in divine power, they showed not a single wound despite the massive collapse.

Without the inverted cross, this would have been truly troublesome.

“Let’s go.”

Just like we had done on the previous floors, Seira, Renia, and I prepared to advance.

Twitch twitch twitch!!

Beside us, Kancheo pulled out his assault rifle and trembled with excitement.

“I want to shoot!!”

Despite having magic circuits implanted at the Etheropolisville Magitech Research Institute.

Since no suitable situation had arisen, he hadn’t been able to fire a single shot until now.

I patted his violently twitching ears.

“Let’s look into it once we get outside. Whether we can change Kancheo’s assault rifle attributes.”

Kancheo’s arsenal consisted of the assault rifle and heavy machine gun used in the Saintland siege, plus a gas minigun.

The first two had divine attributes, while the minigun was non-attribute, so they couldn’t damage the current monsters.

There was a method where I could go and strip away their divine power with the inverted cross, then have him pour fire into them, but then I’d probably die, right?

Both then and now, our Yodel Rangers’ firepower is quite threatening.

“Kancheo! If you’ve got nothing to do, come here and help move scales!”

“What are you saying on the battlefield! You crazy thing!”

Even as he said this, he seemed to be bored inside.

Kancheo slung his assault rifle on his back and walked over, plopping down heavily.

Just like during the Saintland siege, Kancheo and Momo’s cottage industry began.

Momo cut while Kancheo moved and organized.

Their teamwork was perfectly synchronized.

I smiled and kicked off the ground.

Seira and Renia followed along, staying within the inverted cross’s range while slaughtering monsters.

I also moved to the rhythm, cutting down the monsters I faced.

Swoosh!

After dodging an axe that flew from behind at an angle, I lifted my foot and kicked.

Crack!

The monster’s jaw shattered as it collapsed.

Just as I was about to cut off its head with my sword.

“The Silent Knight shall judge the heretics.”

A prayer-like murmur reached my ears.

“Silent…”

“Be silent.”

“In silence…”

It was the same elsewhere.

Monsters reciting similar words at the moment of death before vanishing.

“Master.”

I looked where Seira was pointing.

Above where the barrier had originally stood.

Each time a monster died, light appeared there and grew larger.

It seemed their deaths and prayers were summoning some kind of being.

‘The Silent Knight.’

I had a guess who it might be.

Because the named monster that Cheon Se-yeon and Hiyori had warned me to be careful of had a similar setting.

Ignoring this, I continued sweeping away monsters for a while.

Ding!

[Bartolra, the Silent Knight who guards the barrier, reveals himself!]

[He is a being who has received a portion of divine authority!]

[All foes who stand before the knight shall die in silence!]

From within blinding light, a knight emerged wearing a massive spear and golden armor.

As soon as he appeared, the knight drove his spear into the ground.

Boom!!

The shockwave that erupted from there instantly swept across the battlefield.

“So that’s this floor’s…”

Seira stopped mid-sentence.

Realizing something, Seira frowned.

Renia was the same.

He paused his fighting and tapped his ears.

Ding!

[Unique trait ‘All Status Ailment Resistance SSS+’ activates! You are immune to the status ailment ‘Silence’!]

[Unique trait ‘All Status Ailment Resistance SSS+’ activates! You are immune to the status ailment ‘Hearing Seal’!]

A monster that magic-based classes requiring incantations would hate most.

Hiyori and Se-yeon had mentioned it too.

Silence wasn’t much of a problem, but hearing seal was dangerous.

I gestured for Renia and Seira to fall back.

I didn’t think sealing just their hearing would be enough to handle those two.

Still, it was better for me to move since I was fine here.

“Foolish beings. Leading a procession of heretics, where do you think you’re going?”

I suppose this is what you’d call a named monster.

Unlike other monsters, his vocabulary was fluent.

“You cannot hear my voice, but for you foolish ones, I shall offer a prayer of silence.”

Not knowing that I could hear him, Bartolra rambled on as he pleased.

I stepped forward with Eternal Cold Iron in one hand and Soul Harvester in the other.

Bartolra looked at me with interest.

“When one suddenly loses sound, situational awareness, sense of direction, and instant judgment all become clouded. You adapt quickly. But that’s as far as it goes.”

Bartolra raised his spear and kicked off the ground.

Soaring into the sky, Bartolra looked down.

“How pitiful.”

No matter how strong a being might be, they are ultimately slaves to their five senses.

Having lost sound, they must rely solely on sight for all information gathering.

Like now, when out of sight, he would be like an invisible man to that human.

“Weak being. I shall end that insignificant life of yours.”

Bartolra fell rapidly with his spear point aimed downward.

Crash!!

The circular spear blade drove straight into the ground, shattering it.

A question mark appeared on Bartolra’s face.

He couldn’t feel it.

The sensation of the spear tip tearing through flesh.

Bartolra, sensing something was wrong, hastily tried to pull back his spear.

More precisely, he tried to.

“!?”

For some reason, the spear wouldn’t budge at all.

As the dust cloud that had been blocking his vision subsided, he saw a hand placed on top of the spear’s handle.

An incomprehensible, tremendous strength that defied common sense.

No matter how hard he tried, it was useless.

The spear embedded in the ground wouldn’t be pulled out even a single centimeter.

And before this shock could fully fade.

“For a Silent Knight, you sure talk a lot.”

The voice of the human who should have been silenced could be heard.

“Don’t you know you should be quiet when launching sneak attacks from outside someone’s line of sight?”

This wasn’t something he learned from his masters Seira, Renia, or Dark.

Jinhyeok had known this fact since he was young.

Whenever he watched anime or movies, protagonists or villains would shout “Hiyaaaaa!” despite being in ambush situations.

Every time he saw such scenes, his chest felt stuffy and frustrated, and he had firmly resolved multiple times that he would never do such a thing if he were in the same situation.

Kuwaaaaaa!!

Perhaps this was what one should expect from a knight who guards the city walls.

Bartolra did not meekly accept this reality.

Bartolra gathered divine power from the barrier’s debris to add to his strength.

The entire ground vibrated from the struggle between the two beings, causing the debris to shake.

After watching this struggling display for a moment.

Snap!

He flicked his finger.

The treasure, Judas Iscariot’s Inverted Cross, activated once again.

In an instant, all nearby divine power was erased and Bartolra’s body was slammed into the ground.

Just as he was about to step on his head, he opened his mouth.

“I’m going to lead the heretical pilgrims to awaken God Azriel. Do you know anything about Azriel?”

This often appeared on the Tower Site as well.

Posts about obtaining information about the next floor from monsters with language abilities.

Just as he was about to finish since he couldn’t hear any response.

“Our god has spoken: that sacred light is so brilliant that it devours even the same light. Though sealed with the Apostate’s power, it has not completely disappeared, so one must always watch over it. Now that the only adversary has vanished, if it awakens again.”

Bright light poured from the eyes of Bartolra as he raised his head.

“It will erase the entire world with endlessly overflowing golden light.”

Bartolra turned to light and disintegrated the moment he finished speaking.

Ding!

[Silent Knight Bartolra has been annihilated!]

[All status abnormalities that had spread across the battlefield are lifted!]

[Tower of Reinforced Despair 84th Floor ‘Divine Barrier’ has been cleared!]

“Ah. Now I can hear again.”

Renia nodded his head a couple times and resumed his halted steps.

Jinhyeok approached Seira, who was frowning.

“Are you okay?”

Seira opened her mouth with an extremely serious expression.

“It was the first time sound disappeared. It would have been dangerous if we were in the midst of fierce combat.”

“Right. Since spatial awareness and sense of direction become dulled.”

“I’m surprised. I didn’t realize I relied so much on my five senses.”

Seira clenched her fist and looked at me with a determined expression.

“From the next training session, it would be good to practice with eyes covered and ears and nose blocked.”

I couldn’t rashly answer ‘Yeah, let’s do that!’

Lately, the frequency of getting beaten up had decreased significantly, which was nice.

If we did that, I’d end up getting cheerfully pummeled like in the beginning again.

However, as a disciple, I couldn’t go against my master’s intention to develop even further.

“What does Master think?”

“Oh, I think it’s really great.”

I had no choice but to give a thumbs up.

Then I offered some halfhearted consolation.

To my future self who would get cheerfully beaten up.

Ding!

[Remaining tickets exist!]

[Proceeding to enter Tower of Reinforced Despair 85th Floor!]

Jinhyeok’s living room in Seobangyo.

Crunch crunch!

Ellia, lying on the sofa, stuffed potato chips into her mouth.

“Hmm, is this it? Anyway, these gloomy necromancer bastards always choose to use weird characters, don’t they?”

She grumbled as she turned the page.

Currently, the Star Workshop was being diligently cleaned by the assistant summoned last time.

So she had temporarily moved her nest to the house’s living room.

Normally, it would have been chaotic with Little Satan and Momo running around.

But now it was quiet since everyone was climbing the Tower.

“Ooh, this is it! Now I’m really almost done.”

Ellia grinned as she transcribed the matched characters.

Beila, who had walked over from the kitchen, looked at Ellia with an indifferent expression.

With just a slight shift of her gaze, potato chip crumbs scattered in all directions came into view.

Moving her eyes a bit more, she saw old books scattered here and there.

Moving them a little more, she could see various chimeras and tools helping with the interpretation of ancient texts.

Just yesterday, it had been a spotless living room without a speck of dust.

The moment the entity called Ellia was dropped here, it became a war zone.

“Hm?”

Ellia, who belatedly noticed Beila, stuck out her thumb.

“Don’t worry about the snack crumbs, okay?”

Buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz.

“Bungbung 3 and 4 will take care of it.”

Beila stared at the Bungbungs working diligently.

Just when she thought she’d get some rest after the Kanmo Duo left.

A new formidable enemy had appeared.

Whether she knew Beila and the Bungbungs’ feelings or not, Ellia continued interpreting the ancient text while humming.

After doing this for quite a while.

“Ooooh!!”

Ellia suddenly sat up.

With the sentence she had just matched, the interpretation of the ancient text was complete.

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