“!”
As the signboard split in two, I hastily stepped back and drew my unique weapon: a hammer.
‘Roar of Acceleration.’
My body accelerated instantly, plunging into the path of the swordsman doll’s chaotic sword strikes like a hot knife through butter.
Even though the doll showcased bizarre swordsmanship despite my approach, I was in a state where the roar of acceleration stacked thousands of times.
It was utterly insufficient to keep up with my speed, and I brought my weapon down onto its head.
KWA-BAAAANG!!
The doll’s head caved in and sank straight into the ground.
[Whoa]
[No way lol]
[What just happened?]
[OMG]
[The signboard got wrecked]
[Wow]
[Lily just got super fast]
[Power of full throttle Lily is something else lol]
Clang.
“That was a close call.”
I rested the hammer on my shoulder and gently stroked my neck with the other hand.
The doll’s blade barely grazed me, but at the last moment, it displayed a strange balance and left a small scratch on my neck.
Chiiik…
Of course, that healed right away, but the fact that it did touch me is what matters.
‘To think there would be a ‘successful specimen’ of this level.’
The purpose of the impossible experiments was to create an ‘impossible being’ that shouldn’t exist at all.
The reason their ultimate goal is called the impossible is simple.
‘The hybrid of celestial and demon races.’
A strange being, born from nowhere and from whom knows what, suddenly appeared one day, wielding power strong enough to impact both the celestial and demon races.
A monster that used the weapon skills of the celestial race and the magic of the demon race simultaneously.
Well, there’s a rumor that it was birthed by the top-class demon of seduction who stole the feelings of a high existence, but whether that’s true remains unconfirmed.
Its power exceeded the top level, reaching toward the ‘left.’
No matter how seductive of a demon it was, the size was unmanageable.
‘It might be something I don’t know about.’
Anyway, thanks to such influence, a time came when countless celestials and demons, from upper to even the top levels, became engrossed in giving birth to impossible beings.
Many experiments took place, and I too encountered the substance of those experiments a few times.
Among them, there were quite a few attempts to catch me.
I wasn’t anywhere close to the sword god, but I was certainly a being quite ‘impossible’ in my own right.
They surely believed that catching me would yield progress in the sword god’s experiments.
“This one seems pretty usable… Did such a powerhouse exist?”
I lightly poked the doll, which was buried headfirst in the ground.
Throughout all of history, I hadn’t seen a specimen succeed to this extent.
No matter how much they were mock divine or mock magical, I had seen them blend together only to be profoundly weak.
Divinity and magic inherently repel and destroy each other, so a mix was practically impossible.
But just now, the doll successfully mixed even a mere 0.01% of its essence.
“If magic and holy power are mixed, the strength amplifies drastically.”
They try to erase each other, yet when combined, they release immense power.
I took a look at the doll, then glanced back at the two broken halves of the signboard.
Had the will of the altar master also been split as the remains of the signboard settled down?
“I doubt they intended just this level of preparedness…”
The doll was quite sharp, but that was about it.
At most, it was slightly stronger than an intermediate rank.
This level cannot stop me.
“Surely, this isn’t the end, right?”
[Probably?]
[Quick, let’s go go go!]
[That looks really tough.]
[Uh-oh, saying that will…]
[Let’s get one-shot cut, lol.]
[Words can become seeds, Lily.]
I headed straight to the 9th floor.
And there I faced ten dolls wielding swords.
“Oof.”
[?]
[Lolololol.]
[Looks like words became seeds.]
Sre! Sre!
“This is a bit much.”
Ten sword blades whipped toward me.
■
-Kwahahahahahaha!!
An explosion erupted beyond the screen.
A massive explosion from one woman consumed all of the dolls’ swords, and a storm began to form around her.
“The roar of the spear.”
A technique of the celestial race, inspired by witnessing the breath of the lowly dragon.
The roar didn’t just come from one direction, but erupted from each of the hundreds of clone spears she summoned, engulfing the entire area.
Of the ten dolls, seven were obliterated by the storm, but the remaining three used another doll as a shield and managed to reach her.
SWIPE! SWIPE!
-Oho…
The sword blades grazed her side and cheek.
Sadly, one was pierced by a spear just before it could reach her, forcing her to kneel, but the other two’s attacks succeeded.
Under normal circumstances, just allowing an attack would have caused them to fall due to the power of holy and magic.
“Impressive as ever. That insane regeneration.”
The woman, Lily, was unscathed.
In less than a second, she healed her wounds and unleashed the roar once more, slaughtering all the remaining dolls.
-Phew… this was a bit tough.
“Tough?”
3,500 years before losing my body.
Thousands of years sealed away after suffering deep wounds to my soul.
Are you telling me that these success stories, born from close to ten thousand years of dedicated experimentation, are merely ‘tough’?!
“Kekek…”
Ahahaha!!
The lower level of the altar echoed around the broken throne.
The master of the altar and the impossible experimenter clutched his head and chuckled.
“You’re like a monster. That’s why you’re even more tempting, Impossible One.”
“It’s like water. That’s why it’s so tempting. An Impossible Being.”
It had been a long time.
One day, I saw the existence of the Impossible Being. I poured everything I had into creating something in its image.
But the results were so pitifully weak that it was heartbreaking.
All my numerous creations were eventually destroyed by other Impossible Beings and came dangerously close to complete annihilation.
If she hadn’t left in a hurry, claiming she had urgent business, I probably wouldn’t even be alive right now.
But even then, living like this wasn’t really living.
He had returned from the brink of death, but by the time he regained consciousness, his body and soul were already confined in a place called the Altar.
I couldn’t understand why I was here or why I was imprisoned, but one thing was clear: someone with a considerably ‘high’ will had locked me away.
And it was certain that I wouldn’t be able to escape from this place for at least thousands of years.
Though he was stuck here with no way out, it wasn’t just a downside.
This place was littered with documents on experiments conducted by other celestial beings and demon races, including my own.
There was even something called ‘Gemelynus,’ which I thought was created by someone with truly superior intelligence.
Thanks to that, my experiments and intellect advanced further, and I finally began to produce a few things worthy of being called ‘successful creations.’
“I was getting tired of catering to those beastly guys anyway.”
The reason this experiment could progress was that the so-called Administrators who managed this place turned a blind eye to it.
No, they even seemed to encourage the experiments, but it appeared more like they were just displaying everything in a museum rather than actually desiring the advancement of the experiments.
“As long as we do our roles, it doesn’t matter what happens to the experiments.”
“…Both this guy and that guy are annoyingly arrogant.”
He chuckled to himself and turned back to the screen.
Soon, the Impossible Being, Lily, had broken through the 5th floor and was heading to the next level after defeating all 50 of the successful creation dolls.
At this pace, whether there were 100 or 1,000 of them, they wouldn’t be able to hold her back.
But it didn’t matter.
What was important was not defeating her but making her use even a little more of her strength.
The Master of the Altar leaned back against the Throne after confirming that the power from the screen was flowing somewhere beneficial.
“I hope you unleash a tremendous amount of power.”
At the very least, shouldn’t you pay for all the countless things you’ve destroyed?
■
Kugugugugu…!!!
[Wow]
[This is insane ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
[I’m shook]
[Whoa]
[How many are coming out, seriously?]
[It’s like an ant hell]
[Wow]
“Ugh… let’s take a break for a moment!”
Clank!
I dropped the hammer and slumped down.
3rd floor of the Tower.
I had to face a staggering 1,000 Swordsman Dolls.
One alone could topple a kingdom, and now a thousand were charging at me. I used the roar of my spear as usual, but maybe they had developed some resistance, as it didn’t work easily.
As Mari came running, I used the Spear’s Roar like any other time, but for some reason, it didn’t seem to work as easily this time, maybe I had developed some sort of resistance.
Eventually, after casting Spear’s Roar and Spear’s Eye a few times, I decided to just smash them with a Hammer when I was down to about 300 left.
It was only after around 100 rounds of whack-a-mole that I could finish the 3rd floor challenge.
[Why is the difficulty so high?]
[Why is it like this?]
[True.]
[Seriously lol.]
[This is dog hell for real.]
[Aisha and the Sword Saint cleared this?]
Sigh…
“Well… it seems like the difficulty changes depending on the player. That means the rewards will also increase, so it’s actually a good thing.”
With this level of difficulty, I could actually expect a considerable amount of Experience Points.
Besides, I wouldn’t choose any special rewards or class, so I’d probably gain even more experience.
Sigh…
‘By the way…’
The remnants of the Holy presence and the remains of the Doll left behind here.
The chaotic powers scattered around were flowing somewhere.
The more I went down, the more resistance the Dolls had to my power; that must be the reason.
I had felt this flow since I entered the Tower, but there was no way to stop it, so I just let it be.
To stop it, I’d either have to exert even more power or destroy the source entirely, but right now I had limited options other than just keeping on going down.
‘I don’t think it’ll be a major threat…’
I absorbed some of the power’s aftermath, but that was about it.
Simply absorbing the remaining power wouldn’t stop me.
I took about 10 minutes of rest before heading down to the 2nd floor.
The 1st floor was the entrance, so the 2nd was effectively the final floor.
I opened the door to the final floor, and the 2nd floor was completely empty.
[?]
[???]
[Why is there nothing here?]
Literally an ’empty’ space.
Darkness and light. The floor of the space was split exactly in half, creating a gap that connected to the 1st floor, and below it, I could see the high-raised altar and the statues Aisha mentioned.
At least twenty statues looked like they were there.
Among them were the Twin with Half Wings, Gemelynus, and the statues empowered by the fabric and Demon Race.
And then…
“…Huh? It was real, huh.”
There I was.
At that moment.
– Spear’s Roar.
A raging storm engulfed me.
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