I’m the Only One With Two Towers - Chapter 278

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Only I Have Two Towers Episode 278

Light Devouring

Etherapolis Magitech Research Institute.

“Oh ho, this is munch munch… interesting. Gulp!”

“You could finish eating first before looking at it.”

“No way. You brought such interesting blueprints, I have to eat while looking at them. And Beila.”

“Yes.”

“Why didn’t you make cooking like this for me and my master before?”

“Delicious cooking comes from diverse and fresh ingredients. Father’s house only had old hardened salt and sugar, rotten mushy cabbage, and eggs that had turned black.”

“Ahem… Was that so.”

I looked up to observe Rudolph.

Rotten mushy cabbage and black eggs.

Anyway, he cooked and ate with those ingredients, so how is he still alive?!

It was just overshadowed by Kancheo’s threat to break his staff, but he might actually be the strongest human being of all.

“What do you call this? The umami flavor is incredible.”

“Kimchi braised short ribs. It’s incredibly tender, right?”

“The bland food of Etherapolis isn’t bad either, but it falls far short of this. I really like spicy things.”

I one hundred percent agree with that.

Bland food might be better for health, but when it comes to taste alone, spicy is the best.

There’s no other cuisine that does it as well as Korean food.

Grandpa Rudolph cleanly emptied his lunch box and even coolly downed a bowl of makgeolli.

Wait a minute, he needs to interpret the blueprints but makgeolli!?

“Hmm?”

Did he notice my concern?

Grandfather waved his hand dismissively.

“No need to worry. I work better the more drunk I get.”

He seems to be a master of drunken fist.

“How is it, is enhancement possible?”

Rudolph, who had looked over the blueprints once more, nodded his head.

“Of course it’s possible. Who do you think I am?”

“Grandpa Rudolph?”

“That’s correct but a bit bland. Anyway, leave the enhancement to me.”

“Is there anything you need?”

“I think I can disassemble and use parts from the magitech weapons…”

Rudolph, trailing off his words, looked around the research institute.

“There are no spare weapons. You swept them all away back then. If there are any left, give me some. Then I can enhance it faster.”

“Just a moment.”

Momoooooook!!

“I came out… Huff! Huff!”

Had it been five seconds since manifesting?

Momo, who couldn’t last long, flopped down on the ground.

“I’m too full to move, how about that Momo!!”

“Pig.”

“Pig Momo, how about that!”

No wonder she was eating excessively today.

“Momo, open the Infinite Warehouse for me. I need to use some magitech weapons to enhance the ticket storage.”

“Got it!”

Momo, barely managing to flip her body over, opened the scale-wrapped bag.

A warehouse entrance formed at one side of the research institute.

Just as I was about to walk over, Momo grabbed my pant leg.

Her face was incredibly serious and solemn.

“You have to be careful of invaders! Ellia might come!!”

“Uh, yeah. She won’t come. She’ll be making the workshop assistants clean and taking a nap.”

“Perfect!”

Momo, who had stuck out her chubby thumb, dropped her head.

Momo instantly departed for dreamland.

The deadly sin of sloth isn’t contagious, is it?

I shrugged my shoulders and entered the Infinite Warehouse.

‘It’s really ridiculously spacious.’

Since it had been a while since I entered, it felt much larger.

That means Teacher Daemomo had accumulated a lot of various things.

I slowly looked around as I walked to where the magitech weapons were.

It’s truly a blessing.

Unlike Ellia, she’s good at organizing and tidying up.

After picking various items, I exited the warehouse.

“Will this be enough?”

“Yes! That should be sufficient. Rest for a bit. It won’t take long. Beila, you rest too.”

“No. I will clean the research institute.”

“What cleaning for a guest? Just sit down.”

“Impossible. Just walking stirs up dust and everywhere I touch becomes sticky.”

Rudolph made an embarrassed expression.

He hadn’t cleaned in quite a while.

“Ahem! Anyway, I’ll start working. Could you give me that ticket storage thing?”

“Here it is! Please take good care of it!”

Rudolph nodded and escaped to his workbench.

Beila took out cleaning tools she had brought in advance and began tidying up the research institute at incredible speed.

I settled down next to Teacher Momo who had departed for dreamland and opened my status window.

[Blank Card – Normal: 0 cards]

[Blank Card – True: 1 card]

[Blank Card – Legendary: 0 cards]

While eating grilled Tehalram, I had pondered where to use the True card.

And not long after, I made my decision.

Nia’s unique skill Light Devouring, the deadly sin of gluttony and sloth.

Since it devours not just divine power but light itself, functionally speaking, it could be called a superior version of the reverse cross.

Of course, without Nia’s unique traits that synergize with Light Devouring like ‘In the Darkness’, ‘Form Transformation’, and ‘Light Storage’, its utility would be somewhat limited, but just from a tactical perspective, it was worth engraving.

How would I fight if light disappears and I can’t see either?

No problem.

I have Kancheo’s presence detection and Renia’s fighting spirit.

I even have Momo’s energy suppression, so darkness would become a very advantageous environment for me.

Ding!

[Engraving the unique skill Light Devouring of Nia, the deadly sin of gluttony and sloth born from darkness, onto Blank Card – True.]

I smiled at the permeating energy.

Let me try it right away.

There’s something I want to test.

‘Where would be good.’

I looked around and approached a lamp located in the corner of the research institute.

Perfect.

I stretched my hand forward.

Then I set the range to devour.

Within the limited range, I can control it freely.

[Light Devouring]

Crunch!

Indeed, an instant activation skill.

The moment I used it, a pitch-black wolf-shaped mouth appeared and swallowed the lamp.

The light immediately disappeared.

I quietly watched the lamp and timed it.

Beila had tested various things on the sleeping Nia last time.

Back then, the light bulb that was continuously supplied with electricity had its light return quickly.

‘Oh ho.’

The lamp didn’t turn on even though nearly a minute had passed.

It took almost 3 minutes for the light to return to the lamp.

“Hey, that’s mine.”

“Oh shit. You scared me.”

Nia suddenly manifested right in front of me.

I was startled since I was lost in thought.

Perfect timing.

“Nia. Light Devouring only swallows the light that exists at the moment of consumption, right? In cases where light is continuously supplied, this lamp should have turned on immediately, but it didn’t come back for a while.”

“Yeah. That’s because.”

Nia slowly raised her head to look at me.

For some reason, her half-closed eyes were trembling.

“Don’t you know?”

“No. I know, but I’m trying to remember.”

Nia, having finished thinking, continued speaking.

“It’s because the Light Devouring that Master took is high grade.”

“It’s Advanced Level 2.”

“Yeah. Basic and Intermediate only eat the light of that exact moment. But Advanced eats even the conceptual space where light can dwell.”

I couldn’t explain it scientifically, but I roughly understood what kind of feeling it was.

It really was an ability that suited the deadly sin of gluttony well.

“But Master.”

“Yeah?”

“Why did you only learn Light Devouring? You need to learn other unique traits too to store what you’ve consumed and use it through conversion.”

I made a sad expression.

“I need blank cards to learn them, but I don’t have any left now.”

Lately, they’ve been coming out strangely stingy.

“You have to learn them when you get cards later. Then you’ll become stronger.”

“I’ll learn them as soon as I get them.”

I wasn’t just saying that.

Supply, storage, and usage through conversion.

If this one cycle became possible, quite diverse combat options would emerge.

“Good.”

Nia slowly stuck out her thumb like a sloth.

Then she slowly walked over and lay down next to Momo.

Snooooore!!

She must have been tired from talking so much.

BANG!!

I looked at the workbench at the sudden explosive sound.

First, the worker Grandpa Rudolph was safe.

Then could it be that my ticket storage exploded?!

When I hurried over, Rudolph turned around with soot on his face.

“It was successfully enhanced.”

“What?!”

It was fortunate that it didn’t explode, but why was it successful?!

“Oh, this explosion? In magical engineering, it’s as natural as breathing.”

“Was that it? It was nothing special then.”

“It is something special. Sometimes people die.”

I swallowed dry saliva.

I didn’t know that being a magical engineering researcher was such a dangerous profession.

“Take it. It’s a bit charred but intact.”

I received the ticket storage.

Ding!

[You have successfully enhanced the Ticket Storage!]

[The storage’s grade rises from Unique to Epic!]

[An excellent blueprint met a magical engineer! An Epic grade additional option is granted!]

[Ticket Storage / Grade: Epic]

# Maximum storable tickets: 20.

# Can store 10 each from Tower of Myth and Tower of Despair.

# Epic Option: When the user desires, all Tower of Despair tickets stored in the storage are enhanced!

My hand automatically rose to cover my mouth.

I almost screamed.

My level reached 150 from this Azriel subjugation.

Thanks to that, all future climbing would require enhancement.

Every time I went to the Tower of Despair, I would have had to contact the Player Hunter Bureau or run around, or if that didn’t work, wait for someone to approach me like this time.

That was no longer necessary.

‘Niiiiice!’

Since there were people watching, I decided to refrain from doing an uppercut.

Instead, I strode over and hugged Grandpa Rudolph.

“Thank you! This was exactly the function I needed! As expected of Etherapolis… no, the world’s greatest magical engineer!”

“Heh heh heh! What kind of obvious title is that! I’m very pleased that it was helpful!”

Grandfather was also vigorously patting my back, seeming to be in a good mood.

“Maybe it’s because I ate delicious food and worked, but the result is very good too!”

“I’ll leave some snacks before I go. That chubby friend over there has a lot in his warehouse.”

“Then I’d be so grateful! Wahahahaha!”

“Hahahahaha!!”

I burst into cheerful laughter together with Grandpa Rudolph.

When I go out, I should message Team Leader Jin Yun-ho on KakaoTalk.

That he doesn’t need to get enhancement scrolls for me anymore.

Once again… super nice!

Yeongsang Corporation Headquarters.

Jin Seo-hee and Yoo Su-yeon, gathered in one place, put their heads together.

They thought deeply like that for a while.

“Haaaaah!”

“Haah!!”

Without anyone going first, they both let out sighs.

It wasn’t because business was bad.

Business was good. Very much so.

However, it had become tight to grow further in various ways.

This was because existing shops and companies that originally didn’t even treat them as competition began tremendous interference, recognizing Yeongsanghoe’s potential.

They would need to break through this to create a path for growth, and to break through, they needed Yeongsanghoe’s unique trump card that didn’t exist in the current market.

But they couldn’t quite think of what to use.

“Would it be too shameless to hope for some novel item to just drop from somewhere?”

“How fascinating. I was just thinking the same thing. Suyeon, why do I lack creativity so much?”

“Me too.”

As they were once again sighing and racking their brains.

Ring ring ring.

Yoo Su-yeon’s phone started ringing.

# Yoo Jin-hyeok

The two people who saw the screen looked at each other’s faces.

They hadn’t even answered the phone yet.

But why was it?

For some reason, they had a feeling that something was about to drop with a thud.

The very thing the two of them had been hoping for so desperately.

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