I’m the Only One With Two Towers - Chapter 266

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Only I Have Two Towers Episode 266

Arrival at the Sanctuary

[Entering the 86th Floor of the Tower of Reinforced Despair, ‘Great Sanctuary’!]

A massive island reached after crossing the Sea of Lamentation.

As soon as we stepped onto the island, Belia and the believers knelt down.

“We have finally arrived. To the place where God Azriel slumbers.”

Pilgrims who start praying before doing anything else.

Leaving them behind, I walked toward the interior of the island.

Dododododo! Dudududu! Totototot! Kiiiek!

Kancheo, who had been running around busily, slammed on the brakes.

“Attention! Yodel Rangers Vice-Captain Kancheo! Island reconnaissance complete!”

Indeed, a ranger who had roamed the Yodel Forest since his baby yodel days.

He had scouted the tree-dense island in an instant.

“No monsters! Completely quiet!”

“I wonder if they’ll drop from above like last time.”

“That possibility can’t be ruled out, so I planted clay in various spots!”

“Oh. How much?”

“Enough to turn this island to powder!”

I swallowed dry saliva.

It feels like we’d turn to powder along with it, but that won’t happen, right? He must have installed it properly, right?

“But why is this place called a sanctuary? Isn’t it just an unmanaged jungle?”

Kancheo, who had climbed onto my shoulder, pointed straight ahead.

“If you go straight this way, there are strangely shaped buildings! There are also many crooked drawings scattered about.”

Kancheo lowered his voice.

“They look like Seira drew them.”

I instinctively looked around.

She was nearby but didn’t hear thanks to the whispering.

Let’s go check it out for now.

To the place where Seira’s drawings are.

Swoooosh…!

How far had we advanced in the direction Kancheo pointed?

The dense forest ended and massive ruins appeared.

Each building was on the level of a decent high-rise building.

Even the tools that seemed to have been actually used were enormous in size.

“It’s the Giant’s Kingdom!”

“What?! Momo wants to see too!”

Momo quickly climbed up my body to the opposite shoulder.

Judging by how her golden eyes sparkled, she seemed to be looking for something to take.

Ding!

[This is a place containing the history achieved by Azriel!]

[Long ago, this place was filled with Azriel and the army that followed him!]

[The army of light that lost most of its light and fell asleep with Azriel! Their breath remains in various places!]

“Ooh. How interesting.”

Ellia’s eyes sparkled as she examined the murals.

For her, who possessed primordial curiosity, this place was like a treasure trove of knowledge.

I was about to ask her to gather information anyway, and she was already taking out various books to compare with the murals.

“Come here, Momo! I found a good place to work!”

“What?! Where?!”

The Kanmo Duo jumped off my shoulders and ran off somewhere.

I walked over to Camilla, who was puffing smoke.

“He must have been quite proud.”

Even without being a ruins expert, I could tell intuitively.

That everything from the murals to the buildings was created by Azriel to commemorate his own achievements.

“Looks like he went around attacking everywhere indiscriminately.”

With each step I took, the empty map filled with bright colors.

It seemed to represent the numerous conquest wars Azriel had gone through.

“Light that surpasses brilliance devours all it touches, beware the light of predation.”

As I muttered, Camilla’s lips curved upward.

“Where did you hear that?”

“It’s one of the biblical verses Cardinal Carlo taught me yesterday.”

Besides this, there were dozens more verses that seemed to refer to Azriel.

And among them, there wasn’t a single verse.

That worshipped or revered Azriel like Yahweh or Jesus.

Every verse was warning of Azriel’s resurrection.

Whooooo.

Camilla, who had blown smoke, drew a mysterious smile.

“This place called the Tower is truly incomprehensible. It seems disconnected from reality yet closely related, seems closely related yet independent.”

“Exactly.”

I shrugged my shoulders.

Although several years have passed since the Tower appeared, humanity hasn’t discovered much.

It feels like we’ve only learned what the Tower of Despair or the System allowed us to know.

Just look at the Named movement that the Vatican discovered.

If we hadn’t paid careful attention, we would have just thought a Named suddenly appeared and left it at that.

“It cuts off here.”

Camilla, who had been walking ahead, pointed at the wall.

The only place on the map that wasn’t filled in.

Probably there would have been.

The being of sloth and gluttony born from darkness, Nia.

“Master.”

Ellia, who had bowed, drew an alchemy circle on the ground.

Hands emerged from it, clearing away the nearby dirt and vines.

No wonder the ground under my feet felt hard – an impossibly huge gravestone was lying flat.

It was filled with unreadable characters.

“Can you read it?”

“Of course! I learned various scripts while interpreting ancient texts.”

Ellia, who had scanned through it once, smiled.

“This is a record of defeat.”

Ellia turned her head and looked back and forth between the murals she had just been examining and the gravestone on the ground.

“He put records of victory in visible places and left defeats on the ground? How petty.”

Ellia, who had settled on the ground, began reading the gravestone.

“The abyss darkness that had settled there was very deep and thick, so even when the god and his army delivered the judgment of light, it did not budge and swallowed it all. Roughly sounds like they threw everything at it but it was swallowed by darkness.”

Ellia skipped through paragraphs freely and stopped near the end.

“In the end, the god lost most of his army and his own light and retreated. The prolonged battle left the darkness not unscathed either.”

“So Nia didn’t finish off Azriel.”

“The darkness that bore the tasks of sloth and predation never left that place.”

Come to think of it, even at the altar we visited last time, one side was deeply indented.

My guess is that it turned fossil-like from lying there so much.

“Let’s see.”

Ellia, who had been examining the gravestone with her hands behind her back, shrugged her shoulders.

“There’s no record of what happened in the end. Whether to Nia or Azriel.”

“Vile beings have come rushing in.”

It seemed she had finished her prayer.

Belia, who had walked over slowly, twisted her face in disgust.

“They served the same light, yet persecuted the divine. Simply because they were beings that disrupted the balance.”

“Did they also seal away the apostate who fought against the divine?”

“Yes. They eliminated two beings they considered thorns in their side without any sacrifice whatsoever. But most fortunately.”

Belia looked up at the towering temple.

“Unlike the darkness that was completely banished beyond the abyss, the divine left behind a final light for the future. Very secretly, so the vile ones wouldn’t notice.”

I nodded and casually brought up a topic.

“If that banished darkness were to return, it would be troublesome in many ways. For our divine, and for those who committed vile acts at the end.”

“Yes. It would be a catastrophe. But you need not worry.”

Belia continued with a confident expression.

“The banished darkness no longer exists in this dimension. If it did, the divine would have noticed. The darkness fell to a distant dimension that no being can reach. No one could find it. Absolutely not.”

Ellia and I exchanged glances and swallowed dryly.

She’d be quite shocked to know that darkness is currently sleeping at the Seopangyo house, wouldn’t she?

She might even faint.

‘So bringing Nia to the Tower of Despair could expose us immediately.’

I’d obtained good information.

I’ll have to bring her while keeping her well hidden.

Belia, who had taken a breath, met my eyes.

“Apostle. Thank you for leading the pilgrimage this far. Thanks to your devotion, the divine will soon awaken.

“That’s good to hear.”

“Then I’ll go prepare for the ritual.”

Belia turned and walked toward the temple.

A sneer formed at the corner of Belia’s lips.

‘How truly laughable. False apostle. Your role ends here. I hope you enjoy what little time remains. Soon the divine’s judgment upon the deceiver will fall.’

I watched Belia walking away for a moment.

Ding!

[You have safely led the pilgrimage to its destination!]

[This is a place that should have been reached on the 89th floor of the Tower of Reinforced Despair!]

[By killing Tehalram, Remnant of Judgment, on the 85th floor, the number of scheduled trials has been greatly reduced!]

[The scheduled 90th floor is ‘Divine Azriel Subjugation’. With player consent, the reinforced 87th, 88th, 89th, and 90th floors will be compressed! Upon compression, the floor will change to ‘Brilliant Light of Tyranny, Azriel’s Revival’! You can participate in the entire process from the heretical ritual to the moment of Azriel’s revival! Will you combine them?]

Oh?

This could be considered a reward for defeating Tehalram.

Originally, I would have just continued on the pilgrimage path before jumping straight into the subjugation battle.

Now I had more opportunities to interfere with something.

I smiled and nodded.

Ding!

[4 floors are being combined! Upon next entry, you will enter the ‘Brilliant Light of Tyranny, Azriel’s Revival’ floor!]

[The pilgrimage has been safely completed thanks to the player’s outstanding performance!]

[The 86th floor of the Tower of Reinforced Despair is cleared!]

Experience gain messages rolled up one after another.

Since I hadn’t done much, the increase was minuscule.

I stretched my back and looked at Ellia.

“How was it? Did you see everything?”

Ellia, who had thoroughly examined the records, gave me a thumbs up.

“I’ve got it all memorized. Everything from the ritual’s procedure to the items used.”

“Good, good. Then let’s go out and prepare. How we can weaken Azriel even a little before the revival, and how we’ll feed Azriel’s light to our friend.”

“Captain!”

Where had they been playing?

Kancheo and Momo, covered in mud, came running over.

“Look at this! We found it at the cliff down there!”

“It’s squishy!”

Kancheo held out something that looked like black pudding.

I carefully poked it with my finger.

I thought it was just mud, but it wasn’t.

As Momo said, it was squishy with a strange texture.

“Momo will show you magic!”

Momo hid the pudding behind her back.

Then when she held out her hand again.

“!?”

There were two of them.

She hid them again and held out her hand – this time there were four. Next, eight.

“How’s Momo’s infinite multiplication magic!”

“Oh? Our little Odongtongi brought something interesting?”

Ellia was kneading the chubby cheeks while examining the pudding.

Poke!

Without hesitation, she stabbed the pudding with her finger.

“No! The pudding will die!”

It seemed to split in two, then instantly returned to its original size.

This wasn’t division but replication.

“Odongdong. Take this outside with you.”

“Okay!”

Ding!

[Greedy Collector Momo’s unique trait ‘Rights Seizure’ activates!]

[The unidentified life form from the Great Sanctuary is transferred to Player Yoo Jin-hyeok!]

Ellia smiled meaningfully.

“Well, well, maybe we can make some good medicine with this?”

Jinhyeok gave a thumbs up and gazed at the temple beyond.

Divine hunting.

My heart was already racing with excitement.

Let’s hurry out and prepare.

[Exiting the 86th floor of the Tower of Reinforced Despair!]

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