Retired Hero Wants To Sleep

Mission No.2 Seal Tower (14)

“… What is all this, chief?”

Adele was the first to speak. She looked around her, frowning at the stench stinging her nostrils.

“You’re a few feet late.”

Ewald also quickly looked around.

The walls, the floor, and the ceiling were all covered in blood. In particular, there was so much blood that it was impossible to find an empty space on the floor. Not just the puddle level, but the entire floor was full of blood.

And the corpses of monsters were grotesquely strewn all over the place.

Someone came An alarm went off in Ewald’s head. Ewald yelled, looking around her quickly.

“Usbel! Examine the corpse!”

“Should there be more than a hundred boats?”

Even at Elif’s words, Ebalt did not respond. Rather than that, it was urgent to figure out this situation quickly.

Ewald slightly lifted his blood-soaked foot. Blood, still viscous, ran thickly from the soles of his shoes.

He hadn’t even hardened yet.

Walking to the nearest monster’s corpse, Balt immediately drew his sword. Then, with a gentle motion, he halved his corpse.

Before the party could be surprised by the sudden action, Ebalt put his hand into the dismembered side of his corpse.

There was quite a bit of warmth left.

In the end, it means that these monsters died not long ago.

However, something more worrisome than warmth was hitting Ewald’s mind like crazy.

‘… What kind of crazy guy are you, by the way.’

As a rough estimate, it could be 200, no, close to 300. It’s half corpse, half space. There was no vacancy anywhere, and the corpses of monsters were tightly packed.

It was also a problem that so many monsters died in one space to the point of ignorance, but the fact that most of the corpses were cut with a single knife was scratching Ewald’s nerves.

‘This too?’

As he walked through his corpses and inspected his wounds, Balt felt bad for one constant fatal wound.

Only one mortal wound per corpse.

He is quite capable

‘It’s a single knife…’

All corpses identified were identical. He was not killed by magic, nor was he killed in a bloody battle.

Just one knife. All monsters died in it.

This is the mark of one person’s death. Ewald frowned at the absurd reality.

“Usbel, how long do you think you’ve been dead?”

“Umm, uh uh uh uh uh, 4 hours at most?”

“Four hours…”

Ewald gritted his teeth.

“Follow me at full speed and I’ll catch you.”

“Yes? Yes?”

I don’t know what, which guy, or which guys came into this tower first and created this mess, but at least you’ll have to deal with the demons once you’ve gone down first, and if you follow the back roads that are clean and tidy, you’ll be able to catch up enough. Ewald’s judgment stood.

“Okay, it’s not too late. Get off now…”

Koo Goo Goo Goo!

At that very moment, a tremendous vibration shook the tower. As soon as the tremendous roar hit the tower, a rattling shock shook Ewald and his party.

The tower, which had been shaking tremendously as if an earthquake had occurred, stopped moving for an instant.

Elif, who had fallen on the bloody ground, was frightened and wiped the blood off his hand.

Ewald was taken aback by the unexpected situation, but was awakened by Usbel’s cry.

“Master, Master!”

Usbel jumped up to Ewald.

“The tower is sinking, sinking!”

“… What?”

“It sinks. Bang, bang and then.”

“Now?”

The tower sinks.

Zendwig Toum. Sinking tower. From the point of view of the Demon World, it is a soaring tower.

The story that the tower called suppositories by Usbel starts to sink…

“Why is this sinking now?”

“One floor sinks every year, didn’t you know?”

“I know it’s roughly that amount of time, but why is it now?”

“It was originally sinking, well. However, there might be a bit of a problem. A very big problem.”

The composure was erased from Ewald’s face.

“… What’s the problem?”

“This is the last floor, the last floor.”

It was. Because there was only one floor above the ground.

“If you go down this, you will completely pass over to the Demon Realm, this tower. It goes completely over.”

“… Going to the demon world?”

“Yes, yes. It doesn’t matter if you just move on.”

What more is left Ewald stared at Usbel with wide eyes.

“It will explode if it goes completely into the Demon Realm.”

“… Yes?”

“Explosion, explosion. Bang, bang, bang!”

Ebalt met Usbel’s eyes with a slightly bloody face.

“… I wish it were a lie.”

“Ah, how could I lie to my master? I can not. I don’t.”

It’s a very admirable Usbel, but now Ewald’s head was full of danger.

“… I don’t even have to tell you why it explodes. Instead of.”

“Yes, yes, tell me.”

“Is it just collapsing or is it exploding?”

“It’s an explosion. Big explosion. Kwaaang! The whole tower is just boom! Boom! Boom!”

“… A big explosion?”

Usbel nodded her head briskly.

“Even in the Pandemonium, we have already run away 10 kilometers away. If this explodes, there will be an uproar, an uproar. Will there be nothing left for three kilometers? We judged it to be that destructive, so we ran away.”

In Ewald’s head, the scene of the precious Schheim splitting began to appear.

Ewald’s eyes lit up.

Absolutely not!

“How long will it take to sink!”

“Ummm, uhm.”

Usbel tilted her head just once and opened her mouth with a bright smile.

“About 10 hours?”

“… 10 hours?”

“Roughly, that’s enough, and I’m going to completely enter the Demon Realm. Probably as soon as it starts.”

Usbel smiled broadly.

“Kwakwang~”

“Hurry!”

Ebalt waved his hand at the party.

“Is it so! Let’s go back quickly!”

Ewald shook his head at Adele’s words.

“Secure Schheim!”

“… What are you securing, mister?”

“Move quickly in time for questions! No time!”

“Here it explodes! Aren’t you supposed to run away right now?”

“Flee down.”

It was Supera who would rather strangle that non-human captain and be arrested as a red-handed criminal, but there is no way to strangle the self-proclaimed best magician on the continent.

“Oh, are you crazy? Let’s go out right now!”

“You’re a bad boy.”

Paperweight!

“Ugya gya gya gya gya gya gya gya!”

“Do it.”

Shuuk.

Spear, whose hair was scattered, exploded.

“It will explode in a few hours. Are you going to die?”

“You can ride Schheim and run away.”

“So what is Schheim, and what is this mess!”

“I think it will be faster to see for yourself.”

Ewald led the way down the stairs without looking.

“In action!”

* * *

“Whoa, take a break and go.”

“Ah, I’m going to kneel, you man!”

“There is no time.”

Ewald surveyed the terrain around him.

“It’s about this soon.”

Roughly the depth of the 49th floor underground. Since the first floor is clearly protruding from the ground, this area is approximately 50 floors away from the top.

Unfortunately, it was a deep ‘top’.

In addition, the entrance and exit on each floor are so far away that it has already taken up about three hours. People grumbled about what kind of stairs they made to go around so far, but Ewald took the lead and harpooned the obstacles, silenced the crew.

Ewald, who was quickly inspecting the interior of the Zendwig, which was about to explode in just a few hours, noticed something on the wall.

In an instant, his eyes flashed.

“Found.”

“What is it, what is it, Master? What do you have?”

“Létta fortjald.”

A hand that lifts the veil. The magical energy containing the caster’s will was transformed into mana and moved through Ebalt’s fingertips. Ewald’s hand, which moved gently as if skimming oil from a stew, revealed an object hidden under the mana curtain.

It was a dark door, different from the atmosphere of the tower.

Adele’s voice, somewhat excited to catch her breath, came to Ewald.

“Leader?”

“Ask questions later, everyone follow carefully.”

Bart pushed his body in as he opened the door roughly.

Someone broke into this place. This is the place where Schheim, hidden by Ewald, is sleeping. If someone steals it, it’s the end. The reason Marcus ran amok was because Schheim was a dangerous thing.

Fortunately, the door hidden by magic is still there. In other words, the intruder did not enter here. There is still time left.

“How much is left?”

“mmm, about six and a half hours? Maybe a little less than that.”

It’s tight, but the time will be roughly right. Even if you lose even one of the bays and return, you can return before sinking completely if you run away at full speed. At that judgment, Ewald walked down the aisle that started from the door as if he were running.

“Here… Is the atmosphere different?”

“It will be different. Because it was created separately from the tower.”

“Separate?”

“If you go a little further, it’s empty. Watch your step and follow me.”

Ewald continued walking down the narrow aisle with a brief answer. Is it joint by the way? Wasn’t the cavity a huge space? Shupea touched the narrow hallway and started to sarcastically.

“What about the cavity, did a dragon ever live?”

“I lived.”

In an instant, everyone’s breathing stopped. Did you live?!

Without even looking at the faces of the members who told him to make a joke, Ewald made a decision.

“Here… It was dragon rare.”

“Hey!”

Ebalt, who had already turned around and was about to run towards the entrance, grabbed Elif by the shoulder and dragged him along with a leisurely pace.

“Hey, wait a minute, it’s Daejangnim!”

“… Who said you could run away?”

Elif, who was being dragged by Balt, was able to regain his balance after a long time. But at that time, Ewald had already stopped his steps and was staring right in front of him.

And a scene they had never seen before opened up.

“Whoa, whoa… !”

A pure white cylindrical space spread out in front of the party. The width was even narrower, but people stood close to the wall in the empty space that spread endlessly downward.

A long spiral staircase descends along the edge of the wall. There was a hole in the middle, and if you fell down, you would have to fill out a death report without seeing it. In addition, the stairs were narrow enough to be filled with two people standing side by side.

If you have a fear of heights, it is a stairway steep enough to make you fall down.

“Follow me carefully. If you fall from here, you will die.”

Even a fool would know. If you fall for sure, you die. It’s high enough that you can’t even see the floor, so that’s natural. The party followed Ewald with their backs almost against the wall.

However, without taking a few steps, Ewald glanced at the cliff in the center.

“Is it here?”

Balt put his foot on the side of the stairs after looking around in all directions without a chance to judge what this human was doing.

It was a move without the slightest hesitation.

Suicide!

“Daejangnim!”

Elif, who was following right after Ewald, grabbed Ewald’s arm. It’s a captain I don’t like, but it’s not okay to commit suicide. However, Ewald’s body quickly tilted.

In that brief moment, Elif let go of Ebalt’s hand and seriously contemplated whether he should live alone, but instinctively realizing that if Ebalt died, the chances of his own death would greatly increase, and he let out a shout.

“You can’t abandon us and commit suicide!”

However, Ewald was tilted endlessly like a crazy person, probably not waking up from the alcohol he had drunk the day before.

And the bodies of the two were completely separated from the original staircase.

“Quaaa!”