I’m the Only One With Two Towers - Chapter 67

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Only I Have Two Towers Episode 067

What I Want to Make

At the izakaya where the Hunter Bureau’s third round of after-work drinks was in progress.

Se-yeon, who had been sipping sake, checked her phone.

‘Is this intentional push-and-pull? Or is he just indifferent?’

Jinhyeok, who had started not reading KakaoTalk messages again after moving out not too long ago.

When he was at home, she noticed he didn’t look at his phone much, which was unusual for people these days.

Maybe because he didn’t use SNS, he never took photos of food when eating either.

‘He was someone with incredible laziness.’

The part where she felt a gap in common sense was laundry.

While eating sushi, Jinhyeok had boldly declared.

That he had never folded laundry even once since he started living alone.

– ????.

At the time, Se-yeon had stopped using her chopsticks and drawn countless question marks.

Because washing, drying, and then neatly folding and putting away clothes had been her common sense until now.

On the other hand, Jinhyeok said he just grabbed whatever he needed from the drying rack each time.

He even said it was killing two birds with one stone since he could gauge the timing for the next laundry by looking at the clothes left on the rack.

Now that she thought about it, it seemed to make some sense.

‘Anyway, I’m probably not the only one whose KakaoTalk he doesn’t read.’

It had to be that way.

Otherwise, she’d get angry.

“Huh? What’s this?”

“Does this make sense? Isn’t this an error?”

“Team Leader, please look at this!”

The drinking party suddenly became noisy.

Jin Yun-ho, who was quite drunk, waved his hand dismissively.

“Look at what? Don’t show me anything. I can’t go even if you tell me to right now.”

“That’s not it! It’s the Runner! The Runner!”

Se-yeon’s eyes lit up at the word “Runner.”

Before people could say anything more, Se-yeon quickly accessed the Tower Site.

“Huh.”

It didn’t take long to find the cause of the commotion.

Because it was hanging there as big as a door as soon as she entered.

The Pantheon had been updated with four whole floors at once.

Naturally, the Tower Site was in complete chaos.

Related posts were pouring out at an insane speed.

She clicked on the top post among them.

@ What is this? How were four floors cleared at once?

@ Did different people do each one?

@ Does that make sense? Clearing consecutive floors with SSS+ grade on the same day?

@ Even quadruplets couldn’t do that.

After a brief exchange of arguments about the truth.

A definitive answer was posted below.

@ The Runner seems to have used a compression ticket.

@ There’s a crazy person who uses that?

@ Wasn’t that something you use to decorate your last path gloriously when going to die?

Se-yeon shook her head while looking at the endless comments.

Yoo Jin-hyeok, this crazy person.

When he said he’d use a compression ticket, she thought he’d combine maybe two floors.

But he compressed four floors in one go.

“Wooooah!!”

He must have just seen it.

Jin Yun-ho jumped up, even letting out a scream.

His knee hit the table, spilling alcohol and snacks, but he didn’t care.

Jin Yun-ho looked at Se-yeon sitting across from him.

Se-yeon shrugged her shoulders.

She had told him not to use it like that, but he went and cleared it with SSS+ as if to show off.

Now she couldn’t even bring herself to tell him not to do anything.

‘But seriously, how does he do it?’

Se-yeon grabbed her head.

It was proper etiquette not to ask questions related to towers or classes.

So even though she wanted to ask, she had been holding back, but she felt like she’d go crazy with curiosity.

Compression tickets aren’t simple addition.

It’s not like combining 3 floors makes the difficulty go from 1 to 3, but rather to 5 or 6.

How does she know?

Se-yeon had tried using one in the 40th floor section when she was eager to climb the tower quickly.

At the time, since her climbing had never been blocked, Se-yeon boldly compressed 3 floors.

– Kwaaaaah…!

That wasn’t the tower she had known until then.

Monsters that used to be cut in half in one strike now required dozens of hits to barely kill, and attacks she used to easily ignore with the Paladin’s blessing became heavy blows that struck her body hard.

‘That was just a taste.’

It was much tougher than before, but she didn’t retreat because the compression ticket and daily entry ticket were too precious to waste.

She endured somehow and continued hunting.

And when she thought she could see the end, that thing appeared.

A named monster not even recorded on the Tower Site.

The one named Callista was a knight wielding a giant sword over 3 meters long.

‘I could probably beat it if I met it now.’

But Se-yeon’s power at the time was nowhere near enough.

Callista swung the hundreds-of-kilos sword like it was a toy.

When she blocked the falling sword with her shield, she really thought she’d be crushed to death.

The swordsmanship itself was also excellent, making it nearly impossible to break through – truly an impregnable fortress of a monster.

‘…Tsk.’

Callista was the first being to give defeat to Cheon Se-yeon, who was praised as a hidden class holder and one of South Korea’s future hopes.

Perhaps because the bitterness of that time came back to her.

Se-yeon clicked her tongue and tilted her drink.

‘Anyway, it’s fortunate. It was a 30th floor section compression ticket.’

If he had used it on the 40th floor section, Jinhyeok would have definitely encountered that thing.

An asymmetric force that players in that section could never defeat.

That thing was a mountain.

An insurmountable high mountain that you had to somehow avoid and go around unless you wanted to die.

“Haaaah.”

Jin Yun-ho, who had been looking at the Tower Site for a while, let out a deep sigh.

While Jinhyeok’s rapid climb was very good news.

# Now the time has come. We must find the Runner!

# Those who doubted the Runner until now will disappear. The saint who broke through the 30th floor section in one go with a compression ticket! His light was real!

# South Korea’s three major broadcasting companies compete to declare they’ll find the Runner!

# Even the US and China have joined! Each broadcasting company plans to use all resources to secure an interview with the Runner!

This unprecedented attention was dangerous.

People who would risk their lives for content.

They would definitely start searching for Jinhyeok by any means necessary.

Among them would be mixed those with unwelcome intentions like naturalization or recruitment.

‘They won’t be able to immediately connect Jinhyeok and Runner from the Newcallie incident.’

But this alone wasn’t enough to feel at ease.

What if someone suggested the possibility that Runner might handle various weapons?

The influencers who were on the ship would be the first to start suspecting Jinhyeok.

Jin Yun-ho, who had been pondering for a while, roughly grabbed the bottle of alcohol.

“T-Team Leader?!”

Ignoring his flustered team members, Jin Yun-ho drank straight from the bottle.

“Keuugh!!”

Determination appeared on Jin Yun-ho’s face as he emptied the bottle in one go.

‘Go ahead and look all you want. I’ll hide him no matter what.’

Whether waves came crashing or tsunamis swept over, it didn’t matter.

No one could deny that Runner Yoo Jin-hyeok had become South Korea’s future.

Therefore, even if it meant smashing cameras shoved in their faces and hitting someone over the head.

He would protect him no matter what.

[Exiting the 40-4th Floor of the Tower of Despair!]

Jinhyeok, who had emerged from the Tower, stretched languidly.

His face looked incredibly refreshed.

“Easy, so easy.”

He had been slightly nervous because of the notorious reputation of the compression zones.

But it was far from sufficient to threaten Jinhyeok’s party.

“Is that a new sword?”

Seira bent down to look at the sword Jinhyeok was holding.

“How does it look?”

“It’s a good sword. It seems to have magical power imbued in it.”

This was a bit disappointing though.

If he had related magic, he could enjoy the unique effect of damage amplification.

But Jinhyeok had no power that used mana except for Quick Shield.

“Seira. So about that, I’m thinking of using Ganjiang Moye and Salamanca together.”

“The weights look similar too, so it should be fine. Then from today’s training, I’ll teach you the differences between single sword and dual swords, and the movements you need to be careful of when using them.”

“As expected of my master.”

He gave a thumbs up.

Meanwhile, Momo approached and examined Salamanca.

“This is expensive! You could buy a bigger house!”

Perhaps because there was a lot of news on TV about expensive housing prices in Korea.

Momo had developed a habit of comparing item values to housing prices.

“I’m going to use this. And Momo.”

Jinhyeok patted Momo’s head.

“I’m not going to buy a house with my own money.”

“Then how do we move to a bigger house?”

Jinhyeok looked around the officetel he had moved into less than 24 hours ago.

“Who let us live in this house?”

“Team Leader uncle!”

“Right. So who will give us the next house?”

“I don’t know!”

“Actually, I don’t know either. But I’m certain someone will give us one. So we just need to wait.”

“Woooow!”

It wasn’t a wild prediction.

Jinhyeok was also one of the users who used the Tower Site.

He knew best how high Runner’s current value was.

Therefore, he was confident.

If he waited, a real house of his own would fall from the sky, not just this monthly rental.

Jinhyeok nodded with a satisfied face and raised his hand high.

“Ellia. Question!”

“Go ahead.”

He took out the bizarre potion crafting box from his inventory.

“Oh? You have something interesting.”

“Can you take a look at this? What kind of potions can I make with it?”

“I’ve never seen this thing before either. Give it here. Let me examine it.”

Ellia’s eyes sparkled menacingly.

Her unique trait Primordial Curiosity had definitely activated.

Jinhyeok pulled the box back, avoiding her reaching hand.

“You can’t break this one.”

The Starry Forge was littered with broken objects scattered everywhere.

Things she had played with here and there to satisfy her curiosity before throwing away.

But this box was off-limits.

It still had one use remaining.

“Really? That was close.”

Ellia quietly put back the hand axe she had taken out.

What kind of examining did she usually do that such a thing came out first?

“I’ll just look with my eyes.”

Ellia took the box and examined it from all sides.

“Hmm.”

Though she looked slightly dissatisfied that she couldn’t dismantle it, her curiosity seemed roughly satisfied.

“Is there a potion you want to make?”

“Yeah. An elixir of immortality.”

The attention of his lounging companions focused on him.

Especially the undead Dark was smiling as if amused.

“Ho ho. Master, you’re trying to make something interesting. Good, good. You should make at least that much to be my master.”

Ellia nodded and examined the box once more.

Then Jinhyeok, suddenly curious, opened his mouth.

“By any chance, can you also make an elixir of immortality, Ellia?”

“No. It’s impossible.”

Ellia shook her head without hesitation.

“No matter how skilled an alchemist is, there are realms that cannot be touched, that must never be touched.”

Ellia pointed to Jinhyeok’s heart.

“Namely, things related to life and death. The moment you touch them, you’ll see hell. Of course, there were alchemists who couldn’t accept this and continuously challenged it to revive the dead, but in the end, they saw hell and acknowledged the impossibility.”

“Hmm. Then there’s probably a high chance this box can’t make it either.”

“No, not necessarily. This box contains a special power that can cross the line of natural law.”

Ellia pointed to Dark.

“Of course, it’s not at a level that completely transcends, so immortality like that ice block would be difficult. But if it’s just eternal youth, it might be possible.”

“Ooh. Then can you recommend just three ingredients?”

“Of course. I’ll recommend the best eternal youth-related ingredients from my knowledge. I want my master to live long too.”

A bright smile appeared on Jinhyeok’s face.

He was going to start making it from today.

The elixir of eternal life that even Qin Shi Huang couldn’t find.

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