My Husband Is Not the Magic Tower Master - Chapter 80

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Chapter 80

Carlo was frowning quietly, troubled by an uneasy premonition.
The rest of the security team who had just entered the Research Lab greeted him, but then froze in shock when they spotted Elline.
“Huh? Wait—?”
“Elline! What are you doing here? I could’ve sworn we just passed you in the hallway…?”
“Huh?”
Elline’s voice rose in disbelief at their question.
“Did you already forget? You said you’d come wake me up in the Research Lab this afternoon!”
“Oh, right. I figured you’d woken up early and gone somewhere.”
“But—what did you mean you just saw me in the hallway?”
“Yeah, that’s weird….”
The team member was sure he’d seen someone with an identical face to Elline’s over there.
Uncertain whether he remembered correctly, he’d been scratching his head and turning to look back toward the entrance when it happened.
Bang.
“I’m heading out.”
“Carlo, where are you going!”
The team members called out after Carlo’s retreating back as he left the Research Lab without a word.
And then came that moment.
Crack! Craaack!
A surge of Magical Power Wave tore the Magic Tower’s window frames from the wall in an instant.
“Aaahhh!”
“Wait, this is the 88th Floor!”
Screech, screech!
Shriek, shrieeek!
“Wow.”
All that escaped them was a dry exclamation at the absurd spectacle unfolding before their eyes.
Elline, still half-asleep, raised her thumb with sparkling eyes.
“What an uncommon experience! A Dragon-type Monster—I’ve only ever seen those in magical history texts!”
“…Stop clapping and summon your Mana, Elline.”
Or we’ll end up as Dragon food.
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Meanwhile, on the 101st Floor, in the Delphinade Estate.
“Ugh!”
I bent forward in a panic and vomited violently, expelling the Potion I’d swallowed moments before.
Crouched over the floor, gripping the furniture around me as I emptied my stomach in confusion, my heart felt hollow.
What do I do? How could I have been so careless?
‘I should have noticed from the start.’
Only after Carlo vanished had Elline appeared before me. She then handed me the Potion that only the two of us knew about, urging me to drink it right in front of her.
If it was really true that Elline had met Carlo halfway, I could have believed it, even if it seemed suspicious.
But….
‘There’s something I missed.’
Specifically, the floor number Elline had pressed in the elevator instead of me.
“You’re going to the Delphinade, right? I’ll press the 100th Floor?”
It had happened while my mind was still foggy.
The elevator had arrived at the estate at its usual brisk speed, and more importantly, I hadn’t been paying attention to what she was saying.
The floor number Elline said she would press was definitely the 100th Floor.
The topmost floor—the 100th—which Lucas, the Crown Prince serving as the Tower’s proxy, used as his private study.
But where Elline had actually brought me was right at the entrance to the Delphinade.
Before I’d drunk the Potion she’d given me, I should have remembered a crucial fact I’d forgotten.
‘Did I ever tell Elline about the existence of the 101st Floor?’
In this place, only I and Carlo should have known the 101st Floor existed.
There was no doubt—I’d walked straight into someone’s carefully laid trap.
“I’m an idiot. A real idiot….”
I leaned against the wall with blurred eyes and muttered.
There was no point in vomiting anymore.
Some of the Potion I drank had already been absorbed into my body long ago.
The one mercy was that the Potion I’d gulped down didn’t seem to be an immediately lethal poison.
The medicinal composition was identical, but drinking it all at once merely caused severe side effects.
[However, since the medicine is potent, you must drink it in small sips at intervals.]
If I’d read the note Carlo left beforehand, this never would have happened.
“But how was I supposed to read it…?”
Sweetly attached to the bedroom wall in secret—as if that were all there was to it. I’d stumbled straight into a villain before the romance even began, like some tired cliché.
“Sigh.”
Even as I despaired, a dizziness that wouldn’t leave made the world spin before my eyes.
Before long, after several rounds of retching, my mouth was filled with nothing but bitterness.
In the end, I drank it all. I’d consumed the entire Potion, and now I’d become far more dangerous.
“What did he say again? That it was an experimental Magical Power Stabilization Potion, and because its effect was so potent I had to divide it into portions—so the side effects would be…?”
Too much of any medicine becomes poison.
Typically, the opposite of its intended effect.
…Surely not a runaway reaction?
“I’m ruined.”
I slammed my head against the wall.
Die. I’m going to die, Rose.
I wondered how much pain I must have been in to make such a mistake, yet I resented myself more for letting my guard slip at such a critical moment.
Who exactly was Elline just now?
And why—instead of swapping the Potion Carlo mentioned for something else—did she make me drink it all as is?
Even as the situation felt oppressive, I was drowning in questions.
If my opponent had wanted to harm me, there would have been countless opportunities.
Then, suddenly, it dawned on me.
“…Oh.”
My body, slumped against the wall, had begun to tremble.
I went rigid with tension, lowering my head slowly.
Then I saw the Mana that had recovered at an terrifying pace beginning to slip away.
At first it leaked out in handfuls, but gradually it gushed forth in such staggering amounts that it burst out in chunks.
And finally, even ‘that’ power—the kind I couldn’t easily control.
Rumble.
Crack.
The ground trembled violently, and the roof of the residence split apart.
From beyond the window came a grotesque cry, as if something had been waiting for this moment.
It happened in an instant.
“Shrieeeek!”
Before I could even flinch at the creature’s wail, the roof was ripped clean away.
Suddenly facing the barren sky, I blinked numbly.
“Wh—”
A massive hole had torn open in the heavens, pitch-black, and swarms of monsters were flying through it in a frenzy.
For a moment, I thought I was dreaming.
“Shriek! Shrieeeek!”
“Craaaawww!”
“Ha. A Demon Realm Portal in the Human Realm, haha….”
I laughed hollowly, but my vision swam and I clutched the back of my head.
“This is insane.”
Is this the Demon Realm or the Human Realm?
“Shriek!”
Crash!
I had no time to marvel at the impossible scene before I rolled across the ground to dodge falling debris.
“Ugh.”
The Dragon-type Monster crunching through the roof suddenly spat fragments from its mouth in a rapid attack on me.
The sharp pieces of debris struck the ground with perfect precision where my target—where I—had been standing.
That was exactly where my heart had been moments before.
“Hah, hah.”
Cold sweat ran down my jaw. One misstep and my body would have been split cleanly in two.
The instant I braced myself on the floor with both hands to dodge the roof fragments.
Drip, drip-drip—.
I watched blood drop from the back of my hand. It seemed a piece of debris had grazed my face when I failed to completely evade it.
It was a mercy that the wound wasn’t on my arm or leg.
“Not bad—I managed to dodge that without using any Magical Power.”
I rubbed my stinging cheek absently with the back of my hand, breathing hard through the exertion.
Right, then. Time to think. How was I going to get out of this madness standing right in front of me?

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