episode_0225

After observing the entrance to the floating island, the power of space was manifested.

The resonance of the space, which is difficult to describe in words, passed through me from my head to my toes.

The nausea unique to space jumping resonated throughout my body and my toes lifted off the ground.

– Kikkigi …

An unpleasant sound rang in my head.

A dissonance in space that is perceived naturally, rather than a noise that is piercing into the ears.

How much time has passed?

The tip of my foot fell and touched the floor softly.

We arrived at a floating island that was just a moment ago in the sky.

And then, as if waiting for that very moment, I was met with a giant fist falling from above my head.

It was expected in advance.

Without panicking, I slowly flew to the side.

– Kwaaah!

A huge impact sound filled my ears.

My eardrums rang.

I kicked the ground again to avoid the gusts of wind and dust that hit my skin.

The large cloud of dust that had spread out for a moment slowly settled, revealing the identity of the hidden attacker.

[Open the door… Intruder…]

A massive body the size of a building.

Bipedal walking with a pair of arms and legs.

A thick white armor that covers the entire body without any gaps.

‘hmm.’

It had a pretty cool exterior.

The golem inside is just a sleek doll, but the armor it’s wearing adds some flair.

It has a simple, stylish look that emphasizes practicality without being overly flashy.

[Intruder… Intruder…]

A voice rang out from within the pure white helmet.

Clang! The golem retrieves its fist from the ground and turns its head towards me.

The magical light shining through the gap in the helmet recognized me.

‘Golem… It’s a servant horse.’

I knew the identity a long time ago.

Golems exist as monsters, but they are also used as servants by wizards, often made of earth or metal.

The uses of service horses are varied.

If they don’t have any special abilities, they are used as errand boys, and are also used for combat like the golem.

There are exceptions, but magic takes time to manifest.

A wizard who has little time and no vanguard to draw the enemy’s attention may make his servant horse strong and use it as a vanguard.

‘It is extremely difficult to create a service horse of that size, and it is also a burden in terms of cost…’

– Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

‘Neither skill nor cost will be of any use to the lord of knowledge.’

The ground shook.

Soon, I shrugged my shoulders at the countless magical eyes that were pounding hard on my body.

[Intruder… Intruder…]

[Assembly order, opening statement…]

[Repel order, intrusion… intrusion…]

The guy who just attacked me had particularly thick armor.

The golems now flocking here were each equipped with their own equipment.

Swords, spears, maces, and shields of truly heterogeneous sizes, seemingly tailored to the golem’s specifications.

The golems, clutching it tightly in their hands, gathered around me and formed a fan-shaped formation as if to surround me.

There’s a cliff behind… It’s not a place you can run away to on two legs.

‘hmm…’

I nodded my head for a moment.

In the original, there are two ways to get to the Tower of Knowledge… the floating island.

One is the method of delivering the Tower of Knowledge to the Vice President during his time at Siyoram.

In this case, it was delivered directly to the entrance of the Tower of Knowledge, not the entrance to the floating island, so there was no reason to argue with the golem.

Even if you go outside and wander around the floating island, the golem will not interfere with the player unless you attack first.

The other one is just pushing in.

There have been several attempts, but the 11th round was the only one that was significantly successful.

Tear down the powerful barrier that has been placed on the floating island.

Come inside and destroy all these golems.

After knocking on the inaccessible tower of knowledge for several days…

The irony is that even though I did all that, I couldn’t meet the Lord of the Tower of Knowledge…

‘Even if I have the key, is it considered trespassing now?’

At first I thought so, as the fist fell.

but…

[…authority check, repel order correction, trial order]

I corrected my thoughts a little at the voice coming from the golem that had first thrown a punch at me.

Immediately after, the murderous aura directed at me regarding the Golem topic also subsided considerably.

I wondered if Golem was bluffing. I had some doubts.

But surely the servant horse of the Tower of Knowledge, once they called me, wouldn’t be trying to turn me into a rice cake…

‘Wait a minute, you’re correcting me now? So the first blow was really intended to kill me?’

I narrowed my eyes as a sudden thought occurred to me.

Now that I think about it, I didn’t feel any power control in the first blow I fired…

‘The Tower of Growth… Even the president, who doesn’t know what he’s thinking, made sure to set up safety measures when he was rolling me up the tower… Could it be that the Tower of Knowledge is an even bigger idiot?’

– Kwung!

As rational doubts began to creep into me, the golem kicked its heavy body.

At that size, the body alone is dangerous enough.

The force of the wind blowing in crinkly is fierce.

‘fast.’

A golem rushing in front of you with a gust of wind.

It is a quick movement that is in contrast to its heavy body.

– Phew!

His fist grazed his hair.

Kick the ground repeatedly to create distance.

Unlike before, the golem did not stop attacking.

Quickly move your body to dodge the heavy, pouring punches.

The power of observation reads the signs of magic.

Kwarrurur! Magical power was released from the joints of the armor.

Magical power released at just the right time and in just the right amount of time pushed the golem’s body forward.

The golem, which had been closing the distance in one breath thanks to its acceleration, roughly extended its fist.

The hair fell back.

I watched the fist flying towards me, bursting through the air, and slowly extended one hand to meet it.

‘Magic Strike.’

– Kkakakakak…!

The fist that was rushing in with great momentum was blocked by a pure white slash.

Ki-ki-kik! The protective magic applied to the armor is gradually worn away.

The struggle was getting worse. The extended fist was gradually pushed back.

– Bam!

Finally, the golem’s fist was pulled back behind his back.

As a result, the slash lost its power and became disorganized, but the golem’s fist that blocked the slash split open.

Knock knock! The golem, who had been pushed back a few steps, raised his fist again.

To begin with, that golem was an artificially created servant horse. It doesn’t feel any pain or anything, so it can resume combat right away.

Knowing him, I of course didn’t give him any time.

I followed the golem that had backed away and dug into its arms.

He filled his palm with magic power and brought it to the waist that divided the golem’s upper and lower bodies.

Before he could touch the armor, a defensive spell that was reflexively deployed blocked his hand.

Immediately afterwards, I felt the stirring of magical power.

Attack magic will be used to counterattack.

‘Magic bullet.’

Cast the magic before that.

High-speed casting without the use of a spell. This is a field that I am confident in as it has magical affinity.

With your hand on the shield, this one casts magic first.

‘Magic bullets, shotguns.’

The magical power held in his palm transformed into countless grains and fired forward.

– Kwaaang!

The barrier blocking my hand was torn apart in an instant.

Shotgun shells are fired one after another into the armor.

The new Golem shook violently as if it had swallowed a bomb.

– Squeak, squeak…

The golem creaked as it stirred loudly.

A golem that twists its body as if it is still trying to continue fighting, as befitting a servant horse.

But the bastard’s waist was already blown away with large and small holes ripped through it.

It became impossible to continue the battle.

‘hmm…’

Magic strike and magic bullet.

It is the lowest level of magic, a basic magic close to magic manipulation.

Rather, thanks to that, it is easy to use and has decent power as a noodle magic spell.

These two types of magic have become more pure in nature and their power has also greatly increased.

If you modify the spell here to increase its power to a monstrous degree, you can instantly turn even such a strong golem into scrap metal.

Of course, the spell becomes more complicated, so if you cast it incorrectly, the circuit’s magical power may flow backwards or explode… but as long as you don’t fail, that’s fine.

I waved my hand briefly and turned to face the golem, who had fallen to his knees on the floor.

… The Golem theme is also cool when it falls down.

But since it’s already become scrap metal, it’s no different from being a nice piece of scrap metal.

-thud!

The golem that had become scrap metal rose up.

I raise my body by stepping on the ground and straighten my bent back.

Her damaged waist was revealed, as if it had been torn off.

– Giggling…

…the damaged area is repaired.

As if time had reversed, the torn armor gradually regained its original form.

Additionally, the damaged golem’s body is repaired.

‘Repair function.’

It’s no surprise.

Even the wings of the sky that are currently quiet have a repair function.

It’s a servant horse and not an artifact, but that makes it easier to repair.

The armor being restored… is equally unsurprising.

That’s not what I was paying attention to.

‘The technique was also restored.’

The armor, which had soon regained its original appearance, took on a glow.

Clang! The golem, which had returned to its original form, raised both fists.

– Clank! Clank! Clank!

As he followed, the golems that had been surrounding him prepared their weapons.

‘hmm…’

After fiddling with my fingers for a moment, I thought about it.

He reached out and thrust his hand into the subspace.

Golems are strong.

It is a golem that was created by the Tower of Knowledge itself to protect the floating island.

There is absolutely no way it can be weak.

The immature Aerus I met in Shipnaha could probably be handled like walking a dog.

But right now, I’m not at the point where I can be brutally beaten by a golem.

It’s the same even if they’re in formation with hundreds of them.

I can just pour out all my fears and melt it all away.

If we use all other means? They can all be easily overcome.

Actually, that’s not true.

Just jump through space to the entrance of the tower of observed knowledge.

‘But I came here to practice magic.’

Hear some of the truth.

At the same time, it is also to learn magic that will give you strength in the future.

Right from the threshold of the floating island, it is difficult to do it with magic, so relying on other means is not a good idea.

Of course, my strength lies in the diversity that comes from using all kinds of means.

On this floating island, it was necessary to primarily use magic.

I pulled out the hand that was swallowed by subspace.

What he held in his hand was a dark brown wooden cane.

It’s a typical magic wand with a curved tip and a blue gem set into it that’s as big as my head.

It’s not an artifact.

It’s just an average magic wand that I happened to get.

‘after…’

I put it upright and sat down gently.

Soon the staff that had burned my body rose up.

Flight magic engraved on the staff.

At that moment, magic appeared on the ground.

A trick to prevent something from rising into the air.

Since it is a magic engraved directly by the Tower of Knowledge, it is not easy to remove it with my magical skills.

The manifested magic surged up to knock me to the ground.

– Crunch!

‘Where.’

The sharp blade of magical power cut through the magic.

Through magical affinity, the magical power extending from the entire body is sharpened like a blade, and only magic is cut off.

…This is not magic, but more like manipulating magical powers, but let’s move on.

‘Even though I’m not a true magician… let’s fight similarly this time.’

Up until now, I’ve had the feeling that magic has been focused too much on assistance.

That’s not to say that it’s a bad thing, but it’s probably not very good for practicing magic alone.

I slowly clasped my hands together as I faced the golems that seemed to be slowly approaching me, gaining momentum.

Youngchang and Suin.

Two important self-suggestions when casting magic.

The problem is that my neck looks like this, and before, one of my arms was blown off, so I couldn’t even do water gestures.

Even now, Youngchang is virtually sealed, but he has a prosthetic hand with circuits connected to it, so he can move around to some extent.

He linked his two hands together and drew up his magical power.

‘Expression.’

The magical power it has woven together is released into countless branches.

Immediately afterwards, countless magic spells poured out without distinction of type, like rain.

.

.

.

Up until now, magic has been used too much as an auxiliary.

This time, let’s fight like a wizard.

A few hours after that ambitious declaration.

[Trial, flee southwest, orders to pursue]

[Shoot down order… Suppression first priority]

I am unfolding the secret of the 36 strategies of defeat and the method of running away from the surroundings.

To put it simply, it was ultimately a tactical retreat.

* * *

[Player Compensation System: Pioneer]

[Quest “Arrival at the Floating Island” Completed]

[Get points]

…

[Player Compensation System: Favorability]

Lee Ha-yul → Top stock for growth(?)

●●●○○○○○○○(30/100)

“Complexity” “Confusion” “Question” “Incommunicability” “Gratitude” “Squeak”

…

Lee Ha-yul → Tower of Knowledge(?)

●●●○○○○○○○(30/100)

“Complexity” “Confusion” “Question” “Incommunicado” “Thank you” “Squeak” “What the heck?”

…

[The tower of growth flinches]

[The Tower of Knowledge flinches]

[The top lord of tuning sends jeers]