Completion of a Myth
The first trial to appear was ten thousand skeleton soldiers at the same level as me.
After that, ten thousand skeleton soldiers with the hidden trait of ‘emptiness’ appeared.
‘It’s related to my race value.’
There was no way this was a coincidence.
There was clearly a deep connection between the ‘race value’ I saw when I entered, and the trials.
If so, what will come out in the next trial.
‘Giant, Druid, Heavenly.’
The first trial was probably an ordinary trial related to the ‘corpse crow.’
Because the battle with corpses itself is connected to the corpse crow.
Then three remain.
Giant(10), Druid(10), Heavenly(20).
If the difficulty is added according to the number attached to the race value, then Giant or Druid can be seen as the same level as emptiness.
A level that can be somehow broken through if I use my head and squeeze out a strategy.
It’s murderous that they pile up like compound interest, but it shouldn’t be completely hopeless.
‘The problem is Heavenly.’
Heavenly alone is 20 points.
What on earth is Heavenly?
Wasn’t it something related to the Celestial Race of the Divine Realm, and the Demon Race of the Demon Realm?
But I don’t think the race values of the Celestial Race and demon race would be higher than the Giant’s.
Giants are the great race that guarded the Goddess.
According to myth, some Giants were said to possess martial might on par with gods.
‘It might be something completely different from what I’m thinking.’
So ‘Heavenly’ could be something entirely different from my expectations.
I even have to keep in mind the possibility that it has nothing to do with the Heavenly Realm or the Demon Realm at all.
‘Anyway, I’ll find out when I climb the trial.’
The trials keep adding the traits of races.
If I reach the trial of that Heavenly one, I’ll be able to grasp the outline.
When that time comes, I’ll be able to understand what ‘Heavenly’ is, to some extent.
But to do that, I have to break through the two prerequisites first.
Giant, Druid.
‘Emptiness added the Light attribute to the skeleton soldiers. Giant’s Magic Resistance will raise their magic resistance, and Druid will of course add something related to spirits.’
Carefully.
Before stepping into the next trial, I think first.
I also sketch out in advance how I’ll deal with skeleton soldiers that have gained added abilities.
On top of that, I check my own changed abilities one more time.
Even if I calculate everything and move, it probably won’t be enough.
<The level of ‘skeleton soldiers’ is the same as the challenger’s level.>
<‘Skeleton soldiers’ gain a countering attribute due to ‘emptiness’.>
<‘Skeleton soldiers’ gain the trait of ‘Giant’.>
After finishing my preparations, I challenged the next trial.
When I crossed over by riding the newly generated warp, what I saw ahead wasn’t much different from the terrain I’d seen so far.
Barren ground.
Cliffs placed here and there.
And
“…….”
Ten thousand skeleton soldiers.
But my brow didn’t relax at the sight of them.
“……The worst, caw.”
The skeleton soldiers, are big.
Like Giants, they were big.
Instead of adding Giant’s Magic Resistance, they just turned them into Giants.
……Looks like I’m screwed.
***
“…….”
Isaac was staring blankly at the tower.
An out-of-common-sense event.
An incomprehensible thing that forced him to give up on thinking, was right in front of him.
And Isaac wasn’t the only one acting like that.
The monsters of Kramdel gathered one by one around the tower.
Because the wave of Light emitted by the Tower of Mystery kept intensifying, making this phenomenon visible across all of Kramdel.
The Hall of mystery is a place every being that comes to Kramdel visits at least once.
Yet the tower had never shown such a phenomenon even once before.
Countless monsters, curious, gathered around the tower and began paying attention to its change.
“The ring of Light…….”
“Who on earth is taking the tower’s trial?”
“How extraordinary must they be?”
At the top of the tower.
On that endlessly stretching summit, a round golden ring of Light appeared.
The ring of Light that began as one, soon became two.
The two rings scattered even more Light, leaving the monsters spellbound.
“……It’s the final trial of the tower that only a ‘Transcendent Species’ can receive.”
That was when it happened.
A beast that had been strolling over spoke loudly enough for everyone to hear.
Whenever that beast moved its feet, a path opened.
Near the Tower of mystery, which had been crowded, a phenomenon like the Red Sea parting occurred.
A fantasy species like an ox but with porcupine hair, Qiongqi.
It was a vicious being with a tiger-like face, hook-shaped claws, and wings sprouting from its forelegs.
Even other monsters feared it, and Qiongqi was looking up at the tower with a tense expression.
“Transcendent Species? Like mythical species or fantasy species?”
“What’s that?”
But monsters ignorant of Transcendent Species all tilted their heads.
The very concept of a Transcendent Species was unfamiliar, so it was only natural.
“One who transcends the standard of their species. In this Kramdel, only the White King could take that trial.”
“……!!!”
“Th-then does that mean someone is undergoing the trial the White King once did?”
“There’s such a being inside the tower right now?”
Everyone recoiled in shock and turned their eyes back to the tower.
But they couldn’t believe it.
Who is the White King?
A god of the North.
The guardian of Kramdel, the absolute one is the White King.
No human, not even the Abyss and its rulers, not even the Heavenly ones, can set foot in this North while the White King exists.
Any mythical species or fantasy species has no choice but to bow before the White King.
Does that mean someone with the same standard as such a being is inside this tower right now?
Gulp!
‘That can’t be…….’
‘Even if it’s true, it’s a disaster.’
Everyone watching the tower tensed up.
The reason Kramdel is called a paradise of monsters is because the White King is here. No one dares cause trouble before the White King.
But now, a being with the same standard as the White King has entered the tower and is taking its trial.
If that being were to come out of the tower, even once?
Kramdel’s peace might shatter.
Even if not, it wasn’t hard to infer that at least the taut balance holding Kramdel together would snap.
‘In the mythic trial, the White King made three rings.’
Qiongqi looked at the top of the tower.
Those round golden rings surrounding the tower are an indicator of ‘myth completion.’
But even the peerless White King made three rings and came out.
After that, no one could open the Mythical Hall in the Tower of mystery, so to these monsters, this phenomenon was bound to feel unfamiliar.
‘Two.’
And right now, the rings wrapping the Tower of Mystery are two.
The myth completion hasn’t yet reached the White King.
But even two is a result shocking enough. It was proof that someone had cleared two stages of a trial only a Transcendent Species could receive.
Now, if they watched the monsters coming out of the tower one by one, they would be able to tell which of them had taken the mythic trial.
“Th-three!”
“The rings increased to three!”
……But it still wasn’t over.
‘Three rings?’
Qiongqi’s eyes widened. As they said, the rings had increased to three.
That meant the same three-stage trial as the White King had been broken through.
Impossible. Something that couldn’t happen, mustn’t happen, happened.
Shiiiiiik!
At that moment.
“In, in the sky!”
“Medusa’s eye……!”
“Guh!”
A gigantic eye of Medusa appeared openly in the sky.
The fact she revealed it without hiding meant Medusa had gathered all her ‘eyes’ here.
In other words, she, who hadn’t shown herself for years, had taken an unprecedented interest.
She couldn’t help becoming interested the moment three rings appeared.
One of the four monsters called the White King’s closest aides.
One of the real rulers who govern this Kramdel taking this much interest in something, was without precedent!
“Wh-what’s happening inside the tower?”
“Who is it?”
“Surely the strongest, the worst existence.”
“It must be a vicious one capable of transcending all species.”
“Mm. It has to be an overwhelmingly terrifying monster.”
All the monsters chattered, making guesses about the being undergoing the tower’s trial.
But they had no idea.
What kind of tremendous monster was taking trials inside that tower.
How vicious, how terrifyingly powerful must it be for even Medusa and Qiongqi to show this much interest…….
***
Thud!
Kuroooolong!
Bang! Bang! Kwaaaang!
“…….”
I quietly watched the skeleton soldiers collapsing like dominoes before my eyes.
Giant skeleton soldiers whose height alone reached nearly 10 meters.
When they swung their hands and fired Light arrows, it should’ve been a hopeless situation.
Yet from a certain moment, those Giant skeleton soldiers began falling one by one.
As the very first skeleton soldier fell, a chain reaction triggered, and they toppled and shattered in a long domino line.
‘Ah. Level.’
Only then did I realize it.
Those Giants’ level was also ‘4.’
Their stats were far too low to support their inflated bodies.
No matter how much they gained opposing attributes and grew huge, their level was still 4.
Level 4 has limits, no matter how strong.
Even if you max out Strength, Stamina, Mana, and the like, none of it can go beyond 40.
It must have been nowhere near enough to maintain and move that Giant body.
And they certainly wouldn’t have the strength to catch and endure the huge bodies falling in front of them.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Kwaaaang!
“…….”
I stood there blankly, watching the scene.
It was absurd, but no matter how I thought about it, it was still absurd.
‘……Lucky.’
Unlike the first two trials, the third trial was free. It felt like a bonus stage.
Then will the fourth and fifth trials be the same?
Either way, the Giant trait would remain intact.
And with level 4, it was obvious they’d struggle to endure because their bodies were too heavy.
Honestly, the designer of the trial probably never expected someone like me to challenge it.
I didn’t expect it either.
‘They’re not going to refuse a reward because I cleared it too easily, right?’
I was a little worried, honestly.
I really didn’t do anything.
A trial is a process where a challenger hits their limits and breaks through them.
I didn’t hit any limit, and I didn’t break anything, so it would’ve been normal not to give a trial reward.
《You have cleared the trial ‘Wall of Species (3)’.》
《As a reward, you may obtain the transcendent mythic-grade mystery ‘Progenitor Giant’.》
《Would you like to obtain it?》
《If you do not obtain it, you will proceed to a higher trial.》
……At least that’s a relief.
Looks like the trial still counts as cleared.
‘After ultimate comes transcendence, huh.’
What comes after transcendence?
Now even I’m curious what will come out next.
《The challenger has refused to obtain the mystery ‘Progenitor Giant’.》
I’ve come too far to turn back.
If I stop here, I’ll never be satisfied.
So, even if I can’t eat it, I’ll still go for it.
Since I practically got the third trial for free, what remains are Druid and Heavenly.
Especially because my questions about Heavenly were exploding, I was determined to see the end of it.
《The challenger attempts a higher trial.》
《You have achieved the accomplishment ‘A challenger on the verge of completing a myth’.》
《All Constellations of the Pantheon are dumbfounded.》