I’m the Only One With Two Towers - Chapter 5

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Only I Have Two Towers Episode 005

Elena Forest

I looked at the scattered packaging containers.

# Two Plus sirloin.

Since I had some unexpected windfall money, I splurged on sirloin.

“This is incredible.”

“Right?”

Seira leaned back with the most satisfied expression in the world.

At first, Seira’s expression had stiffened slightly since it wasn’t the promised chicken.

But as soon as I fed her a piece of perfectly cooked medium sirloin, she immediately became happy.

“I wish we could eat this often.”

That’s impossible.

Two Plus sirloin is damn expensive enough to make my hands tremble even when buying it with windfall money.

“It’s not possible right now, but maybe if I work hard climbing the tower and the quality of items improves?”

“Can’t you buy everything with just that card?”

Jinhyeok pulled out the debit card he had happily swiped all day today.

To Seira, it must have looked like an inexhaustible spring.

Little did she know that the balance had dropped below 500,000 won from buying various tower-exclusive items.

“If I don’t refill it regularly, I can’t buy anything. So, speaking of which.”

Jinhyeok got up.

“Let’s go to the Mythic Tower.”

The condition to open the 1st floor of the Mythic Tower was clearing the 5th floor of the Tower of Despair.

Since the condition was met, there was no reason to delay.

Perhaps because I fed her expensive beef to her heart’s content.

Seira nodded and stood beside me.

[Entering the 1-1st floor of the Mythic Tower.]

I heard that each floor was subdivided in detail, and this seemed to be how it worked.

The dim basement room disappeared and green meadows and trees appeared.

I took a deep breath.

A place that naturally brought the word “phytoncide” to mind.

[Yordles are a race with much mischief and caution. This is Elena Forest where yordles gather to live. Traps are set up everywhere. Safely avoid these and enter the yordle village! Time limit 10 minutes. Starting countdown.]

An hourglass appeared above my head.

“I’ll cut them down.”

Seira placed her hand on her sword.

She looked ready to coolly blow away the trees first to secure visibility.

Jinhyeok shook his head and stepped forward.

“Master, I don’t recommend stepping forward.”

“It’s fine here. No monsters appear.”

I crouched as low as possible and examined the ground.

“It doesn’t look good.”

I acknowledged that and didn’t argue.

“Follow behind me.”

Seira tilted her head while following the instruction.

She thought it would be fine to just charge through quickly, wondering why we had to go this way.

And perhaps to show her the reason.

Jinhyeok, who had been slowly moving forward, picked up a small stone and threw it.

Crash!

An enormous spear shot up from the ground.

If we had been above it, we would have been skewered for sure.

“It seems right for Master to lead the way.”

Seira honestly acknowledged this and obediently stayed at the rear.

After that, Jinhyeok crawled along the ground in a skilled crawling position, avoiding traps.

Though there was a gap between being beyond a monitor and reality, it wasn’t much different from when he played it as a game.

After advancing for a while and leaving the area, Jinhyeok looked around.

The system wasn’t wrong when it said the difficulty had increased.

Not only were there incomparably more traps placed than during gameplay, but there was even a time limit that didn’t exist back then.

Jinhyeok roughly gauged the distance between his current position and destination and shrugged.

Considering that the traps would become increasingly numerous, it was going to be close.

This was a moment that required some forceful measures.

“Seira.”

He pointed at the forest with his finger.

“See the reddish leaves and grass? If you step on those, logs or rocks will fly at you from the front or sides. We’re going to run while only stepping on those.”

We had just passed all the tricky traps where poisonous mushrooms would burst and spray spores or shoot tiny poison needles like needles.

Now all that remained were things that would kill you instantly if hit, but the method itself was simple.

“I just need to destroy what comes flying.”

“Right. I’ll tell you the direction each time.”

“Understood.”

I stood behind Seira’s back.

And I pulled out the iron shield I had bought from the armor shop.

I had to block the debris from what she destroyed in front myself.

“Let’s go.”

Seira drew her sword and ran forward.

Seira matched her stride while being mindful of her slow master.

Whoooosh!

As soon as she stepped on the red part, a huge rock came flying.

I knew Seira would destroy it, but I couldn’t help feeling weak in the knees.

No matter how much I held a shield, if I got hit by something like that, I would die instantly.

Crash!!

Sword energy burst from Seira’s sword.

The rock shattered into pieces and scattered before it could even approach.

I deflected the falling debris with my shield while giving Seira directions.

The two people advancing relentlessly and the traps activating without rest.

‘She’s incredibly fast.’

Even while hurriedly following, I was amazed.

When I played alone as a game, it took damn long because I had to disarm them one by one.

With Seira here, such a refreshing breakthrough became possible.

“Can’t I cut down the trees? The visibility is bothersome.”

“You can’t cut the trees. We’ll get lost.”

Elena Forest was itself one giant device.

The moment you cut trees carelessly, the path disappears and you can’t reach the village.

Jinhyeok had also coolly set fires when he played.

He had gotten lost that way and spent the whole day going in circles before resetting.

Crack! Crash!

How many rocks and logs had we cut through?

A large old tree appeared before our eyes.

And when we arrived there.

Ding!

[You have passed all trap sections! Remaining time: 5 minutes.]

[You have cleared the 1-1st floor of the Mythic Tower!]

[Player Yoo Jin-hyeok’s level increases! Current level: 6. All stats increase.]

[Beyond this point is the Mythic Tower 1st-2nd Floor section.]

[Entry Condition: Clear Tower of Despair 11th Floor.]

[You reached your destination without damaging the forest or getting lost even once. A special reward for clearing Floor 1-1 will be given.]

A box appeared in mid-air.

Not wanting to miss it, I quickly grabbed and opened it, revealing a compass.

It had an incredibly simple design—just a needle placed in a circular space without any markings.

In the glass space, there was a drawing of a yodel’s face that was somehow irritating.

[You have obtained the Yodel’s Compass! It points to any destination you wish to go to, no matter where you are!]

It points to destinations no matter where you are. Despite its appearance, it has an excellent function.

It wasn’t even exclusive to the tower and could be used outside as well.

[Exiting the Mythic Tower!]

As soon as I came outside, I took out the compass from my inventory.

“The nearest convenience store.”

The needle pointed exactly toward the GS26 in front of my house.

“The place where Seira Kinketon is standing.”

This time the needle didn’t move.

It seems the compass can only find directions to places, not people.

A smile naturally formed on my face.

It looks like it’ll be useful for tower climbing in the future.

I turned my head at the gaze I felt.

Seira, who had disarmed and was staring blankly at me.

“Want to eat chicken?”

At Seira’s unhesitating nod, I took out my phone.

Today it’s seasoned green onion chicken.

While Jinhyeok and Seira were deliciously eating seasoned green onion chicken.

On The Everything of the Tower website, a small but fierce battle was taking place.

The battlefield was the comment section of a single post.

# Tower of Despair 5th Floor, cleared in 1 second. SSS+ grade.

The view count was rapidly increasing at an incredible speed, and it had reached the top of the site’s hot board.

@ Even 5 seconds on the 1st floor doesn’t make sense, how did they clear the 5th floor in 1 second?

@ Isn’t it just 1 second passing as soon as you enter the tower? Clearing it the moment you step foot doesn’t make sense no matter how you look at it.

@ I cleared the 5th floor in a day? Isn’t this a bug?

@ Where are there bugs in the tower? That aside, taking a day for the 5th floor is seriously overdoing it. Did you awaken as an earthworm?

@@ What the fuck did you say?

Most of the comments were reactions saying it didn’t make sense.

It was inevitable.

The fastest record for clearing the 5th floor until now was 5 seconds.

Moreover, the rank was F, but this was 1 second with SSS+, so the gap was too large.

It was too unrealistic to want to deny, but since it was officially registered in the tower’s records, they couldn’t do that either.

From the players’ perspective, not knowing what had happened, they couldn’t help but have headaches.

Especially, there were players who were confused by this record—those who usually paid attention to tower climbing records and enjoyed time attacks.

“What is this, really.”

Cheon Se-yeon, one of them, frowned.

She was currently attempting the 83rd floor of the Tower of Despair.

Since it’s not disclosed how many floors have been conquered at maximum, there’s no way to know if she’s at the highest floor in South Korea.

However, it was definitely a floor number that ranked among the top in the world.

The record she set when she went down to the 5th floor for fun was 5 seconds.

Since her level was so high compared to the floor’s difficulty, she got an F rank.

Cheon Se-yeon, who had been tilting her head while thinking about the 5th floor for a while, shook her head.

“It doesn’t make sense.”

Even if she went down and cleared it again now, that record would be difficult.

If all situations aligned perfectly, she might be able to reduce the time itself.

But the problem was the rank.

Unless her level regressed to single digits, that rank would never appear in her lifetime.

In other words, it was a record that Cheon Se-yeon could never achieve no matter how hard she tried.

“This is really getting on my nerves.”

She clicked her tongue lightly.

Though she didn’t openly brag about it anywhere, she had tremendous pride in being a user who cleared the 82nd floor.

Her confidence that she wouldn’t bow down to anyone was a bonus.

In fact, thanks to clearing the 82nd floor and her high synchronization rate, she had not only a luxury officetel located in Hannam-dong, Seoul, but also luxury foreign cars and all kinds of designer goods.

A life where she had nothing to envy others for, to the point where memories of envying someone were hazy.

However, a person appeared who casually did what she couldn’t do.

Watching that made her feel like her insides were boiling.

Tap. Tap. Tap.

Cheon Se-yeon, who had been tapping the mouse with her finger, shrugged her shoulders.

“But this should be the end, right?”

There were many similar reactions in the comments.

They said this unknown person’s shortest time record renewal would end at the 5th floor.

The reason was simple.

The 5th floor is the end of simple monster subjugation clears.

From the 6th floor onward, complex mazes and forest paths appear, adding pathfinding elements in addition to subjugation.

No matter how fast the speed or powerful the strength, clearing in such ridiculous time frames would be impossible with that structure.

“Phew.”

Cheon Se-yeon, who let out a deep sigh, ran her hand through her hair.

She was still annoyed but decided to endure it.

It’s only the 5th floor. Only the 5th floor.

“Unknown person. Let’s say you’re only superior to me up to the 5th floor.”

She spoke words that wouldn’t reach anyone and turned off the monitor.

She believed without doubt.

That a situation where she’d be irritated again wouldn’t happen.

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