I’m the Only One With Two Towers - Chapter 7

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Only I Have Two Towers Episode 007

Crazy Trait

10th Floor of the Tower of Despair.

I kicked off the ground following Seira who was charging ahead.

‘Is this what déjà vu feels like?’

Jinhyeok rubbed his eyes.

His schedule for the past few days was divided into four main parts.

Climb the tower, eat chicken, train with Seira, then go to bed.

He repeated this endlessly like a hamster on a wheel.

Someone could say

it was the simplest and most straightforward schedule in the world.

But they say it’s comedy from afar and tragedy up close.

Tower climbing and chicken consumption were easy, but the third part was the problem.

‘I really almost died.’

The day after first training with Seira.

Jinhyeok screamed the moment he opened his eyes.

He felt tremendous pain throughout his muscles as if his entire body had been shattered.

Even so, Seira showed no mercy.

-Everyone’s like that at first. You’ll adapt somehow.

Seira dragged the staggering Jinhyeok up to the rooftop and made him train until he collapsed.

He thought he would really die, but at some point he realized.

As Seira said, his body was adapting to this insane training.

And it wasn’t just that the post-training pain decreased.

Every time he trained, his stats increased day after day.

Combined with leveling up from tower climbing, his physique changed noticeably.

‘This is truly the result of training.’

Before, he would be gasping for breath after running just a little while following Seira.

Now his body felt much lighter, and his breathing remained stable even after running for a long time.

‘Maybe I was a late bloomer type human.’

Of course, he decided not to get cocky despite saying this.

Seira was already far ahead.

Even though his steps had become lighter, his speed was nowhere near enough to keep up with Seira.

Slash! Slash!

Seira cut through a group of hobgoblins and passed by.

Two hobgoblins that weren’t cut and had fallen rolled toward Jinhyeok.

It wasn’t that Seira missed them.

She deliberately sent them for Jinhyeok’s combat experience.

“Graaah!!”

Perhaps from rolling on the ground.

The dirt-covered hobgoblin raised its club.

He gripped his sword with both hands.

Originally he carried a shield for stability, but following his master Seira, he abandoned the shield and switched to a two-handed sword.

He moved with large steps, then hit the brakes at the right timing.

The hobgoblin’s club grazed past at a hand’s width distance.

After gauging the distance to the remaining one, he spun around and swung his sword.

Slash!

The hobgoblin split in half and collapsed.

A new hobgoblin jumped out from behind it.

A clever one that had hidden its body behind its dead kin.

-Swordsmanship is about flow. If you try to forcibly overcome weight, you’ll get caught in reverse motion.

He recalled the swordsmanship Seira had shown him.

Seira’s sword never faltered anywhere.

From beginning to end, it flowed smoothly as if connected by light.

Even when hitting something, that flow never broke.

Rather, she made the weight created by friction her own and deployed her sword even faster.

“Grrrraaah!”

Simulating her movements in his head, he parried the swinging club.

Then he used that weight to give a slight rebound.

Despite the small movement, the hobgoblin was pushed back greatly.

Not missing that opening, he thrust his sword in.

The pierced hobgoblin coughed up blood and went limp.

[You have defeated the 10th Floor boss Crazy Hobgoblin!]

[You have cleared the 10th Floor of the Tower of Despair!]

Seeing the timely message, he wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Fortunately, he had defeated all the ones Seira had passed to him before she cleared.

Two days ago and yesterday, it had ended with one remaining each time.

[Player Yoo Jin-hyeok’s level rises to 11! Stats increase!]

‘It goes up again like this.’

Jinhyeok rubbed his chin.

No matter how he looked at it, his stats increased too much with each level up.

It was a happy concern, but it was getting a bit scary since this happened every time.

# Here comes another delusional bastard. What are you, the tower’s son? What stats rise that much per level up.

# This guy’s a pathological liar. Last time he said his strength and agility stats went up from swinging a wooden sword a few times. Did he drink some SSS+ growth elixir? I don’t even know if such a thing really exists.

The flood of curses verified that this wasn’t normal.

No matter how hard he searched his trait window, there was nothing growth-related.

Whatever it was, he hoped it wasn’t rising by sacrificing future growth.

He turned his attention to the continuing messages.

[You obtain a Blank Card! Currently holding 1 Blank Card.]

[Maximum card slots increase to 4! Current cards held: 1/4.]

# Slot 1: Black Knight Order Captain, Seira Kinketon.

[10th Floor clear time: 16 seconds. SSS+ grade achieved! Achievement gauge increases!]

Ding!

[Achievement gauge is full! Special reward will be given!]

Jinhyeok’s eyes sparkled.

“Yes!”

He had thought it would be about time for it to fill up.

The Achievement gauge reset to 0 as a golden slot appeared before his eyes.

The slot began spinning rapidly, as if one of those items would be randomly selected.

‘Please something good. Please something good.’

After praying earnestly for a moment.

The rapidly spinning slot stopped at a certain point.

[You obtain an SSS+ grade Trait Selection Ticket!]

“Whaaaaaaaat?!”

His jaw almost dislocated.

A trait selection ticket.

These could be seen quite often on the site.

But those were only C-grade or B-grade selection tickets at best.

Though he called them “at best,” B-grade was actually a pretty good item.

When someone was incredibly lucky enough to get an A-grade, the entire site would flip out.

But SSS+ grade? He was so shocked that the soy sauce chicken he ate yesterday almost came back up.

‘Crazy lucky bastard.’

It wasn’t because he achieved SSS+ grade up to the 10th floor that this came out.

The grade achieved on each floor only affects the amount of Achievement gauge after all.

This was definitely helped by his ancestors.

‘Thank you, grandfather!’

Actually, it had been quite a while since he went to ancestral rites.

Instead, he heard that his parents were faithfully maintaining them without fail.

‘Thank you! Mom, Dad!’

Was it because he was trembling while clasping both hands together?

Seira, who had returned, made a disgusted expression.

Regardless of that, Jinhyeok steadied his breathing and reached out toward the selection.

Hundreds of traits unfolded before his eyes.

But he didn’t agonize over it.

Because he had already thought about what to take.

After browsing for a while, Jinhyeok smiled.

If he could choose, this was obviously it.

[Ultra-High-Speed Growth – SSS+]

# Stat increase amount upon leveling up is greatly increased.

# Stat increase speed from specific actions rises dramatically.

# Probability of acquiring related traits in specific situations rises dramatically.

In gaming terms, it was a trait like a paid growth potion.

Something that would let him get ahead in growth even when clearing the same floors in the same way.

Initially this difference might be small, but later the story would be different.

Because as time passed, the widening gap would make it possible to reach completely different realms even at the same level.

He selected the trait without hesitation.

Beep!

[This trait cannot be acquired.]

What kind of bullshit was this?

Just as he was about to flip the table.

[This trait has already been acquired. Please select a different trait.]

Along with the message, changes came to his existing status window.

Specifically, a description was added below ‘Black Knight Order’s Swordsmanship – Basic’ that he learned with the Blank Card.

[Black Knight Order’s Swordsmanship – Basic]

# Seira Kinketon was a genius of swordsmanship and simultaneously the world’s greatest genius of growth.

# Because he was a genius of growth, he was able to create, develop, and perfect this swordsmanship.

# The growth talent that Seira Kinketon possessed is infused into the swordsmanship.

Now he finally understood.

The reason why so many stats increased with every level up and training.

‘Damn unhelpful system bastard!’

Like a coward, he roughly expressed his complaints in his mind.

Anyway, the Black Knight Order’s basic swordsmanship was completely insane.

Just acquiring Seira’s swordsmanship was already tremendous value, but it even contained Ultra-High-Speed Growth SSS+.

If traits had physical form, he wanted to cherish and embrace it 24 hours a day like a hen brooding eggs.

‘Wait a minute.’

And Jinhyeok, realizing something, swallowed dry saliva.

That meant he could choose one more SSS+ grade trait.

[Exiting the Tower of Despair.]

At the timely message that appeared, he quietly exhaled.

This required composure.

An SSS+ trait selection that might not appear again anytime soon.

Ultra-High-Speed Growth was definitely 0-tier, but the tier organization of other traits was still pending.

‘I’ll take my time and choose with utmost care.’

Calming his mind, he nodded leisurely.

First, he’d start with tier organization.

Player Hunter Guild located in Jongno, Seoul.

Team leader Jin Yun-ho, who was looking at the monitor, clicked his tongue.

A single line of new record that just went up on the site.

[10th Floor of the Tower of Despair cleared. Time taken: 16 seconds. Grade achieved: SSS+]

He quietly stared at that record.

The team members standing behind him were also looking at the monitor, all wearing expressions of disbelief.

The Hunter Guild wasn’t a place just anyone could enter.

Even awakened players would be eliminated in document screening if their synchronization rate was below 10%.

In other words, most of the personnel watching from behind were players who had cleared floor 25 or higher.

Even such players found that record nonsensical.

The 10th floor had the tower’s first boss monster, the Crazy Hobgoblin.

Moreover, that bastard was hidden in a complex maze, yet 16 seconds? It was natural that it didn’t make sense physically or logically.

The team members swallowed dry saliva while looking at Jin Yun-ho.

When the 5th floor was cleared in 1 second, Jin Yun-ho had just accepted it.

But not anymore.

Jin Yun-ho, who had been pondering something deeply, opened his mouth.

“This won’t do.”

Jin Yun-ho turned around and pointed at the monitor with his finger.

“We need to find them.”

Having just cleared the 10th floor, the synchronization rate itself would be insignificant.

Nevertheless, this was a stage they couldn’t just watch idly.

Even if the current synchronization rate was zero, they needed to secure the recruit first and add them to the management list.

“You guys right now…”

웨에에에에에에엥—-!

Just as Jin Yun-ho was about to finish speaking.

A sharp alarm sound was heard.

Personnel in the situation room raised their voice.

“Team leader! It’s a transfer!”

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