I’m the Only One With Two Towers - Chapter 6

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Only I Have Two Towers Episode 006

Training and Growth

Late at night, rooftop of the villa.

Seira tilted her head.

“Master? Why are you lying down?”

Rather than lying down, Jinhyeok had collapsed with a thud and looked up at Seira.

Her face genuinely showed she had no idea why this human had suddenly flopped down.

“Because it’s hard?”

Having gone through both the Mythic Tower and Tower of Despair, it was now impossible to enter either tower.

Jinhyeok didn’t spend time lounging around his room eating chicken like yesterday.

Instead, he asked Seira to come up to the rooftop.

It was for practicing the Black Knight Order’s swordsmanship.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about. You haven’t even swung it that many times.”

As someone learning, he didn’t want to whine.

So he only shouted in his heart.

That he had swung it at least 200 times.

“Get up, Master. It’s not over yet.”

Seira gestured for him to stand up.

Jinhyeok truly wanted to get up too.

And how could he not want to become strong?

He wanted to become a protagonist who shines brighter than anyone else.

But right now, he had really reached his limit.

This wasn’t complaining.

He had desperately endured, but now his legs and arms truly wouldn’t move.

“Seira. You’re level 121. My level is 6.”

“So?”

“That means your stamina and mine are as different as heaven and earth. You’re not tired at all, but I don’t have the strength to move even a little…”

Thwack!

Jinhyeok stared at the wooden sword embedded in front of his eyes.

“Huh?”

A wooden sword that pierced through the rooftop floor—he had never seen such a thing.

“Seira?”

Jinhyeok pointed at the wooden sword with a dazed expression.

If he hadn’t pulled his head back in time, his head would have really been cracked open.

“How did you dodge if you have no strength to move?”

“That’s because I almost died…”

Thwack! Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!

She didn’t seem to plan on stopping with just once.

Seira’s wooden sword flew toward Jinhyeok.

If that hit him, something would really break, so he rolled his body desperately.

This time the wooden sword swept upward from below.

To dodge, he jumped up and twisted his body diagonally.

As the wooden sword grazed his ear along his shoulder line, Jinhyeok urgently shouted.

“I’ll die! I’ll really die at this rate!!”

“You won’t die. My duty is to keep my master from dying. Block and counter.”

This time the wooden sword came straight at him.

He raised the sword he had bought from the General Store to block the wooden sword.

The heavy weight pressed down on his already exhausted body.

His whole body screamed that it was dying, but Seira didn’t seem to have any intention of stopping.

“Pay attention to your footwork. If you don’t step properly, your sword won’t have any power.”

He didn’t even have the strength to shout for her to stop now.

Since dodging was better than enduring the weight transmitted through the sword, he moved his feet desperately.

He only blocked with his sword the attacks he really couldn’t dodge.

‘What mysterious power.’

Even while swinging her wooden sword, Seira observed Jinhyeok’s movements without missing anything.

Though he was desperate to dodge, those movements and the flow of his sword were definitely the swordsmanship she had created.

Even the most excellent knights couldn’t swing like that after just one day. It was truly a strange ability.

And that wasn’t all.

‘Good eyes. Excellent instinctive sense too.’

Just knowing swordsmanship doesn’t mean everyone can do what he was doing.

Jinhyeok didn’t close his eyes even when the wooden sword came close.

He watched the sword’s path until the end and made the best movements.

The way he occasionally used swordsmanship instinctively also surprised Seira.

His speed and strength were still far lacking since his body wasn’t trained yet, but if that could be filled, he seemed like he could reach a level comparable to the knight order she had once led.

Jinhyeok had really reached his limit now and couldn’t even lift his feet properly.

‘Should I stop here?’

If she continued, he might faint, so she gradually reduced the force in her wooden sword.

At that moment.

Swish!

A sword flew from the corner of her vision.

Seira reflexively dodged while instinctively thrusting her wooden sword.

Thud!!

A dull friction sound was heard.

“Ah.”

Only then did Seira look at Jinhyeok in surprise.

Jinhyeok looked at the wooden sword touching his stomach once, then raised his head to look at Seira.

It was filled with a resentful message asking “Why…?”

Thump!

Jinhyeok collapsed and rolled around on the floor.

If she had stabbed just a little harder, the expensive beef he had eaten earlier would have almost come back up.

Seira looked to the side of the rolling Jinhyeok.

There lay a small amount of Seira’s hair that had just been cut.

Even though she had let her guard down, to have her hair cut by someone holding a sword for the first time today.

To simply say she had gotten dull wasn’t enough—Jinhyeok’s attack that targeted the moment she relaxed was excellent.

Seira put down her wooden sword and approached the groaning Jinhyeok.

Then she lowered her body and examined Jinhyeok’s stomach.

“Your organs and bones are fine, so there’s nothing to worry about. You have so much fat that the impact was reduced.”

Jinhyeok looked up at Seira with sad eyes.

To make such a cold diagnosis to someone rolling around in pain. What a cold person.

Seira sat down completely and stroked Jinhyeok’s stomach.

“You must become strong. If you don’t become strong, you’ll really die.”

At the sudden serious mode, Jinhyeok stopped groaning.

“No matter how strong a knight you have, it’s impossible to be together every moment. Whether it’s an enemy’s scheme or trap. Whatever the path, there will come a moment when the master is alone too. It’s also the moment when the most emperors, kings, and lords have died. You must survive there to climb to even higher places.”

“Right.”

He had no intention of arguing.

Jinhyeok’s thoughts were somewhat similar.

He had no intention whatsoever of climbing the tower relying only on Seira’s full power.

Even if such situations didn’t unfold, Jinhyeok wanted to become strong himself.

That way, combined with Seira’s light, they could shine an even brighter light.

Ding!

[You have pushed your body to the extreme! Your strength, stamina, agility, and endurance stats have increased!]

[This is the most intense pain you’ve experienced since birth. Yet you did not lose consciousness. You have acquired the trait ‘Cannot Faint.’ No matter how much damage you take, you will not faint.]

‘Oh?’

His eyes widened.

It was an unexpected stat increase and trait acquisition.

Still, he found it a bit strange.

He had heard that sometimes stats could increase from doing something outside the tower.

However, he’d been told that unless you achieved significant physical progress, the probability was so abysmal it was nearly impossible.

But four stats and a trait all at once.

‘Maybe I’m just super lucky.’

After thinking for a moment, Jinhyeok came to his own conclusion.

Stats and traits were always better in greater numbers.

If they were giving him a lot, that was good—there was no need to agonize over finding the reason.

Beep beep. Beep beep.

While he was smiling at this unexpected growth, his watch announced midnight.

Jinhyeok shakily got up and looked at Seira.

“Let’s go to the Tower of Despair. Looking at my body’s condition, I’ll definitely have muscle pain when I wake up tomorrow.”

It was already a tower he could only visit once a day.

If he couldn’t go to the tower that day because of muscle pain, nothing would be more regrettable.

Seira looked at Jinhyeok, who had already finished preparing to enter.

‘He’s tough.’

She thought she could push him even harder starting tomorrow.

[Would you like to enter the 6th Floor of the Tower of Despair?]

Before nodding his head.

Jinhyeok took something out of his inventory and held it out to Seira.

“??”

Seira looked back and forth between the compass he held out and Jinhyeok.

“I’m in this condition, so. I’m counting on you to watch my back.”

His legs were trembling even while using his scabbard as a walking stick.

Seira lightly touched Jinhyeok’s leg.

Thud.

Seeing him collapse right away, this time he really seemed to be at his limit.

“Got it.”

After confirming that Seira had secured the compass to her wrist, he entered the Tower of Despair.

After going through the familiar process and the location changed.

“Welcome to the 6th Floor.”

A somewhat thin voice could be heard.

He had seen it beforehand on tower strategy sites.

The 6th Floor had what would be called an NPC in games, or a tower resident in this place.

‘There really is one.’

Jinhyeok’s eyes sparkled.

A person from another world that he’d only heard about in stories.

Seeing one in person was so fascinating that he wanted to poke at them with his finger.

Konu, the tower resident who somewhat resembled a badger, cleared his throat a couple of times.

“If you think this 6th Floor is the same as the floors you’ve fought through so far, you’re gravely mistaken. Ahead lies a complex maze. The moment you let your guard down, you’ll lose your way and wander the same places! If you’ve prepared little food, you’ll likely starve to death! So I recommend preparing means to return from the very entrance before departing…”

Whoooosh!!!

A strong wind blew.

By the time Konu closed his eyes and opened them again, Seira had already leaped far ahead.

“Hey, you should listen to people until the end! I’m telling you to prepare everything before departing!”

Konu was a resident who traveled between the 6th and 10th Floors.

He was also assigned the role of guiding players who entered each floor.

“I’m telling you to listen to everything before going!”

Even though he shouted once more, Seira didn’t stop.

She had already become as small as a dot, beyond the distance where his voice could reach anyway.

“I’m listening.”

“Geez, you scared me.”

Konu, who only then noticed Jinhyeok’s presence, frowned.

“There have been more than a few people who got lost after not listening to me! And plenty who fled after that! Don’t blame me…”

[Tower of Despair 6th Floor Clear!]

“Huh?”

Startled, Konu looked up at the air.

[Clear time: 10 seconds! A new record has been set in the Hall of Fame! SSS+ grade achieved! Achievement gauge increased!]

“What is this.”

Konu rubbed his eyes.

Even seeing it with his own two eyes, it was a result he could hardly believe.

Sure, the knight who just charged out was strong enough to quickly defeat the monsters.

But he wondered what on earth they could have done to find the path in just 10 seconds.

“Oh, gold teeth!”

This human seemed familiar with such situations.

Whether he had cleared it in 10 seconds or not, Jinhyeok checked the item he’d just acquired with trembling hands.

“Are gold teeth expensive?”

Seira, who had somehow approached Jinhyeok’s side, also joined in checking the item.

“With this, how many chickens could we eat?”

“At least 30 chickens.”

“Good.”

Cold sweat ran down Konu’s back as he watched the two people having some incomprehensible conversation.

‘What kind of humans are these.’

He could say with certainty.

They were the strangest humans he’d ever met.

A few days later, 10th Floor of the Tower of Despair.

‘Are they here.’

Konu was no longer standing.

Lying sprawled on the bare floor, he turned his head.

Jinhyeok and Seira appeared there.

“Hey there!”

“Oh.”

Konu raised his hand as if the world was bothersome in response to Jinhyeok’s greeting.

Why was it.

Ever since that pair appeared, he felt a sense of loss as if he’d become unemployed.

As the two people set off without hesitation once again, Konu turned his back.

‘Hurry up and go higher!’

He wanted the two of them to quickly go to the 11th Floor.

He really meant it.

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