Chapter 33: Don't Lose Yourself
When he heard Urek's words and his amused face, he started questioning his own intelligence.
'Did I get too arrogant?'
'How can I be so foolish?!'
'Now what to do?'
Just to be on the safe side, he accelerated his body's time by around 5 times. Any more acceleration was tough on his body. So he didn't accelerate even more. The spell from the Devil was even stronger but his body wasn't completely ready for using it in an optimal manner.
As many thoughts, passed through his mind on how to handle the current situation. A single ridiculous thought passed through his mind. He was about to dismiss it away, but then realized that this outrageous thought might be his only way to win the game given the situation.
Now granted, Urek might be willing to give away the Flower to him anyway even if he lost the game. Since he is only after the Baby Zigena, but he doesn't like the feeling of someone else deciding his fate. So if he can, he would give it his all even if winning the game might not be that important.
So after getting all his thoughts in order, he pushed himself to get even faster to get in between the blitzing Urek and his own team.
Just when he reached in front of Urek, Viole raised his right palm open and completely stopped the time of his own body and his immediate surroundings.
And when Urek noticed Viole blocking him, he punched him with 1% of his power.
All of these events led to the situation that left both Regulars and the Irregulars spellbound.
The idea for this came from a light novel that Viole read in his past life. Of course, he doesn't really remember his life but weirdly he remembers all the Otaku stuff he had perused at that time.
It was about a guy named Regulus Corneas' Authority. Obviously, Viole surmised that his idea might completely work since the difference in spell's powers and the Authority.
But it accomplished his goal of stopping Urek. And as soon as the punch's nullifies, he cancels the time stop on his body and resumes it again after tightly closing around Urek's fist.
'Good, so I think I can hold him back with this. I just hope Ryun gets the Zigena to me now.'
As he was thinking all this in his head, Urek started sighing to himself and then said, "Fine, it's a draw."
And when he finished saying that, he vanished from his sight breaking through Viole's time stopped body forcibly and had its spell canceled through purr brute force.
So when he reappeared with the weird animal which is in reality, a Baby Zigena, in his hands a second later. It was not that hard to understand as to what happened.
Urek on the other hand muttered to himself, "Spell casters are so annoying to deal with."
Viole on the other hand who heard him was confused in his head when he heard that mutter, since he didn't remember spells being that powerful from webtoon that he read. Granted he only read like 500 episodes of it, but he didn't remember any strong characters using spells.
There was White who used a spell, but he only used that spell to supplement his power. It wasn't useful on its own, plus it had a devil in it. And his own version from webtoon could just cancel any spell by touching, so he didn't really hold them in a high regard.
Also, his own Runes didn't work that well, so he didn't understand why Urek thought that spell casters were annoying. Maybe his knowledge of this Tower is still lacking, and he should look more into it considering that this Time devil power is a sort of spell too.
"Anyway, since I got the Flower while using more than 1% of my power, it's a draw. You can take the other Flower that is just behind that wall, since that has become useless to me now."
Urek says all of this while Viole was still in thought about his earlier words. His teammates, on the other hand seemed tense still. Except Hwaryun, who smiled as if everything was as she expected.
Viole just nods at this while being deep in thought.
"So, with that out of the way. I want to confirm something, are you from the Outside?"
Urek asks him with a serious expression. At this moment, his stare felt the most serious he has ever been during this whole event.
"Yes, I am from Outside." Viole replies with his own expression being serious. There are some quiet gasps from his female companions who seemed shocked at this reveal. "But don't ask me anything about any news from the outside, since I seemed to be trapped in an isolated location."
This was the truth since in his memory there was nothing about what happened outside his cave, except what that hateful Rachel told him. Though she did say that she wished to see stars. And that confuses him now that he has thought about it.
"...I see. So you are from Outside too." Urek starts walking towards Viole in an intense way while still carrying Zigena in his left hand.
He then proceeds to place his right hand on Viole's shoulder and says, "Don't mind any of this."
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Urek then continues, "The things that you have heard here. The things that you have seen here. The things that the people here want from you. Don't pay attention to any of it."
He then taps Viole's chest with his right index finger, "You are you. Don't ever lose yourself due to what happens inside this Tower."
"...Okay." Viole agrees that he should do that but while he agreed with Urek, inside he feels that he has changed over the course of last 6 years that he has spent here in this Tower.
This encounter with Urek has left Viole with many things to ponder about, and he had no idea that it would result in a divergence from plans he had concocted till now.
"And would you like to join Wol Ha Ik Song?"
Urek asks with slight anticipation and hope in his voice.
"Um.." Just as Viole was about to tell Urek about his situation.
"No need to tell me now. Just tell me your name for now, and give your reply to my invitation on 77th Floor." Urek stops him from making a hurried decision, which in his opinion is the worst thing he could do to a fellow outsider.
"I am Jue Viole Grace." Viole tells him his name.
"No, I am not asking the name that FUG gave you. I am asking your name from the outside." Urek asks with amusement on his face when he sees a puzzled expression on Viole's face. "Baby, I can easily put two and two together just like you. From all your actions, it's quite obvious that you are from FUG and that they gave you that name."
Viole was full of puzzlement because of this surprisingly intelligent Urek, but maybe he was underestimating Urek's intelligence too much. He nonetheless replied his name that he had gotten from Rachel, "It's Twenty-Fifth Bam."
Viole didn't notice it himself, but he relaxed himself when he called himself by that name. Urek noticed this and smiled, "What a nice name..."
"Anyway, so that's all for now. I will see you in a higher place." Urek says that vanishes from their sight with terrific speed that nobody in that could fathom not even Viole.
Three Rankers on the back of Zigena got easily defeated by Urek soon after, but that is a story not worth description.
Viole and his team relaxed with the departure of Ray Barracuda, the Fastest Ranker in the Tower. And when they realized what they learned from this, two of the girls didn't know what to say. Viole himself was pondering Urek's words and even started questioning his life choices, his thoughts got interrupted by the Red Witch.
"I think we should get the Flower now, my lord."
Viole just nodded at her while still in deep thought, and started walking towards that place along with his teammates who had many thoughts about the things revealed this day but didn't want to be the one to question any one.
And so after all these twists and turns, the Floor Advancement Test for the 21st Floor came to an end.
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