"So we finally followed the normal routine and cut it down bit by bit until I was the only one left."
It was like an unreal fantasy suddenly disappeared from his ears. Duan Qing, who fell from the sky along the void well in the center of the tower, fell heavily to the ground of the corridor of the new tower, like a defeated soldier.
The ordinary body then collapsed to the ground under the double torment of strength failure and exhaustion, and did not get up again for a long time: "Although it can be regarded as successfully reaching the last floor, it is no different from the annihilation of the entire army.
...cough, cough, cough, cough!"
"Forget it, I am the least qualified person to say this." Struggling to move his upper body away from the dark floor, Duan Qing's soliloquy with a violent coughing sound was also heard in this scene.
Moving with difficulty on the undifferentiated dark floor of the upper corridor: "Since I was thrown to this place by you semi-forced, then even if I take your share, I have to hold on to a certain extent... Huh."
"You guys."
Inexplicably, the scenes that happened after the eighty-fifth floor flashed back in his mind, and the pretended relaxed expression on Duan Qing's face slowly disappeared with this low voice: "It's like this every time...
I don’t even know whether I should be happy or sad.”
"This is the last bottle of life potion." Dragging his lower body to the side of the corridor, the panting gray-robed magician stretched out his hand and groped for a while in his arms: "What is this?
Will he drink the blood volume back into his body? Hehehehe... eh."
He raised the potion bottle and was just about to drink it in one gulp. Then he was interrupted by the faint sound of footsteps in front of him. The silent atmosphere that was completely different from the corridors of the previous several floors of the tower also followed.
The sound of footsteps came closer and closer to where Duan Qing put down the medicine bottle: "..."
"……It's you."
Duan Qing pinched the crystal glass surface hard with his fingers. Duan Qing, who was staring at the visitor, answered with a somewhat inexplicable meaning: "I didn't expect you to be guarding here. It's been a long time since I last saw him."
"do we know each other?"
The sound of liquid swelling and dripping to the ground slowly came from the person's body. At the same time, the figure's body in front of Duan Qing became even more disgusting and terrifying: "I'm sorry, my long-term practice in the void may have changed my view of time.
My impression is that some familiar faces are unrecognizable."
"Haha, it's okay, it's okay, don't worry about it." Duan Qing let out two involuntary chuckles. Duan Qing, who did not choose to take a challenge pose, leaned on the pillar behind him in a sitting posture: "Even if it's you before
, you probably don’t recognize me now. After such a long time, my impression of you only remains the same defeated dog look you left in the last battle.”
"Mr. Rondoll."
The footsteps finally became clearer as the distance approached. The figure whom Duan Qing called Rondoer finally walked out of the darkness of the corridor. The magic sentry ray that had not stopped shining above the corridor then also
The faint light shone on the approaching figure, and his appearance, covered with black flesh and body, as if spliced together by various void monsters, became equally clear: "...This
It's really an eye-opening scene. When we were fighting the void beast before, I never thought of this possibility."
"No need to praise, this is a special way of treating losers." The figure seemed to have become taller with the transformation of the void beast. Rondoer, who came forward, looked at Duan Qing's face with a condescending look.
: "Since I was forced to come to the Magic Empire, I have never had any improvement in status. Since I have been classified as a loser, I have already become aware of this kind of treatment."
"But to this day, I have paid too much price on this road." He raised his huge arm that swelled and enlarged under the power of darkness, and slightly clenched his huge fist dripping with black pus.
He stretched and shrank twice: "Long-term practice has blurred my memory, but only the hatred for the Free City and the hatred for the living are still deeply imprinted in my heart."
"Are you a resident of the Free City?"
His expression seemed to become unstable as this emotion emerged. Only his head and upper body remained human, and the lines on Rondo's face began to become ferocious: "I don't know why, but I suddenly want to do it right now."
I'll crush your head, hehe, hehehehe..."
"Wait a minute, wait a minute." Duan Qing hurriedly raised his hands, with a flash of light in his eyes, and then put his dry smile on his face again: "If it is really because of hatred of the City of Freedom,
And if you stay here all the time, then shouldn’t everything happening outside now be something that you should be happy about?”
"Because I lost the Twelve Thrones after you, I'm living in a miserable state now." Feeling the twisted oppression so close at hand and stopping in mid-air, the gray-robed magician tried to explain and comfort him.
He also slowed down a lot: "We also passed by that city before, and their invasion of the void world was simply terrible -"
"...Oh? Is that so?" The rolling eyes gradually returned to their initial stability as Duan Qing's words appeared. The crazy look in Rondoer's eyes, which was staring closely at Duan Qing, faded slightly:
"How many of them died?"
"Uh, that -" Duan Qing, who scratched his cheek and looked around, replied in a low voice with a lie that a normal person could detect: "At least half of the city's people died, right? Whether they were adventurers or
Candidates for the throne, such as Reiner, Huskar, and Stark..."
"They are all dead?"
The other hand that had not been transformed fiercely grabbed Duan Qing's magic robe. Rondoer's sudden voice also contained a bit of uncontrollable laughter: "They are all dead? They are all dead? Haha.
Hahahaha! They are all dead!"
"I have been locked up in this place for an unknown amount of time, and I imagine their tragic fate all the time every day." The laughter that gradually enlarged then disappeared in the sound of a sudden contraction of breath, accompanied by
There was also the calm look of Rondoer, who was filled with black aura, and suddenly returned to his calm demeanor: "In order to complete my revenge on those people, I even did not hesitate to bow down to those adventurers who had no strength at all and only knew how to bully others all day long.
Cooperate with them to complete one useless plan after another and waste great opportunities again and again."
"Finally, I have been recognized by the damn Magic Empire." The words became clearer and clearer as Rondall's conversation gradually became smoother. Even the body wrapped in twisted void limbs seemed to follow his spirit.
He recovered and returned to his normal upright posture: "The Magic Empire gave me the final mission, allowing me to sneak into the city as I imagined, destroy the Star of Morna, and destroy the entire city together with all the people in the city.
People turned into nothing... Humph, hohohoho! Ah ha ha ha ha!"
"That's right! That's right! The history of the Free City! The glory of the Rondall family! It's absolutely useless!" The confessional voice turned into a harsh laugh again, and the body in front of Duan Qing began to twist again.
Mixed together: "As long as we can trick them into activating the magic circle! And then detonate the energy in the magic circle together -"
As if a fishbone was stuck in his neck, his words suddenly stopped in mid-air, and the unspeakable silence spread to the creature that no longer knew what it had become and the gray-robed magician who was half lying on the ground.
In the meantime, it was finally broken again with the confusion flashing in his eyes: "No, no, no... no."
"After that, I came here?" His disgusting palm covered with black viscous liquid slapped the back of his head. The pus staining half of his face didn't seem to bring any harm to him.
Anything strange: "Why? How could this happen? I have been here for half a year and have been responsible for guarding this area..."
"Perhaps it's because the passage of time in the void world is not synchronized with the passage of time outside." The voice of dry laughter and explanation became more and more difficult. Duan Qing, who tried to stand up, involuntarily distanced himself from the eyes in front of him again.
The distance between this mentally disturbed person: "According to the experiments we have conducted several times before, time in the void world should pass faster than the outside world. It takes more time to consume a day there, but it may take more time here.
Long."
"The reason why the magicians of the Magic Empire have become powerful is precisely because of this time advantage." He said this while making a powerful gesture towards the other party: "Just like you and me -
—Isn’t it just for this reason that we choose to practice here, hoping to become stronger?”
"You and I……"
It seems that he has become a little confused due to a series of chaotic memories. The sight revealed on Duan Qing's body that is inferior to a human being has also become a lot more confusing at this time. He has exhausted all his words.
Duan Qing then slowly moved his steps, and his tone of persuasion and comfort became gentler: "Look, since we are all fallen people, can we be called companions?"
"Aren't you...an intruder?"
"How is that possible? We are so familiar with each other, Mr. Rondell."
After carefully walking half a circle around the opponent's arms that were knotted like giant zombies, Duan Qing also began to look quietly in other directions in the corridor: "Why else would I be rushing here? This is not the right place.
Is it the core of this tower, the most suitable place for people like us to practice? Ah, yes."
"Speaking of which, this is my first time here." Unaware of the other party's intention to have an attack, the gray-robed magician began to speak in a lower and lower voice: "The central control room should be there.
Let’s go in this direction? If there’s nothing else—”
Snapped!
The ear-piercing and crisp explosions then rang in Duan Qing's ears, echoing over the area as the gray-robed figure urgently threw himself to the side, and the shattered ice crystal fragments also followed.
The point where Duan Qing was standing just now was used as the center, and the petals turned into scattered petals and swayed around the corridor. The seemingly gentle petals actually contained irresistible lethality.
There were streaks of blood on Duan Qing's body, and his gray magic robe was also cut with several marks. Then he suddenly jumped up while gritting his teeth and sucking in air, and ran forcibly while holding back the muffled roar caused by the injury.
Towards the front of the corridor: "Damn it, it really is impossible to pass this last level of test so easily."
"who!?"
His sharp eyes followed the magic trace in his eyes back to the end of the corridor ahead. The figure of a magician under a cloak then slowly appeared in Duan Qing's field of vision as he urgently searched for the source of the attack.
The wall made of huge ice cubes then distorted the light between him and the magician's figure in the sudden rise of blue light, and fell darkly onto Duan with an aura that was enough to cover the entire corridor.
In front of Qing: "You, you are——"
The sound of crashing and the spreading extremely cold air suddenly extended to the left and right sides of the corridor. Also extending were the huge ice blocks that fell to the ground and fell apart like an avalanche, reflecting the magnificent and glorious scene.
The position of Duan Qing, who was completely pressed underneath, was then occupied by the largest ice crystal that had not yet been crushed. The transparent surface emitting green smoke also showed torn marks: "You! It's you again.
!”
"Stay away from me! You crazy woman!"
The giant black claws, which were even more exaggerated and terrifying than the ice crystal collapse, then swept across the center of the corridor. With Rondall's crazy roar, he swept back to the original place in the direction of the ice crystal collapse, and his hands swelled larger than a human.
Tao's twisted body then crossed Duan Qing's position, swaying wildly between the spreading extreme cold air: "You can't freeze me! You can't freeze me! You can't stop me.
Revenge! I will tear you all apart! Hahahahaha!"
"——Failure."
A low murmur then appeared from where the magician was, and his voice was as low as the abyss of the Nine Netherworld: "Your presence is no longer needed here."
"You can't! You can't!" Twisting his knotted arms crazily, Rondoer's spirit seemed to become unstable with the appearance of this voice and the diffuse cold air: "You are not! You can't do it
Come! This is my territory! My world! You can’t control me!”
"……Step aside."
It seemed that he had lost his vitality. The figure of the ice magician in the darkness at the far end of the corridor stood quietly without any movement. The body of a more burly sword warrior was also followed by the ice magician.
He walked out slowly from behind, and pointed his outstretched arm at Duan Qing's motionless figure lying on the ground behind the crazy figure: "He is the one we have to deal with now."
The silent aura rose again as he said these words, with an icy blue storm sweeping towards the direction of Rondoer. A figure quickly flashed through the blue storm and then broke through all
At the edge of one's sight, the ice crystal blade mixed in the storm was about to land on Duan Qing's motionless body lying on the ground, pushing him away.
"gentlemen!"
This chapter has been completed!