Chapter 211
‘If an S-rank skill like True Dragon Sword Technique evolves, could it become an even higher-ranked skill?’
Moreover, it meant that not only the True Dragon Sword Technique but also his other special skills could evolve into stronger skills.
Just as he was contemplating how to evolve the True Dragon Sword Technique into a higher-ranked skill, the space where Zeke was began to move.
RUMBLE!
The circular space moved and the floor descended downward.
RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE!
THUD!
As the circular floor descended, a completely different scene from the 99th floor appeared.
‘Where is this?’
It looked like a castle interior made of solid black bricks.
Surprisingly, decorative mounted Minotaur heads were hung throughout the castle walls.
As he was observing them, messages appeared before Zeke’s eyes.
[You have reached the 100th floor, the final floor of the Inverted Tower.]
[You are the first to reach the end of the Inverted Tower.]
[You will receive rewards for achieving this feat.]
[You gain 500 Karma Points.]
[Welcome to the Creta Castle on the 100th floor.]
‘Creta Castle?’
Zeke remembered hearing from the Hermit of Stories that Hero Tyr was the king of the Cretan Kingdom.
Looking around the castle, he realized his prediction was correct.
‘Will Hero Tyr appear in person for the finale?’
The possibility of Tyr’s shield being here had increased.
Zeke passed through the corridor decorated with Minotaur ornaments and entered deeper into the castle.
Opening the door, he entered a massive hall.
At the end of the hall was an elevated platform, and upon it sat a throne that appeared to be made from monster bones.
On that throne sat a figure wearing a horned helmet.
“I’m impressed by your incredible ability to reach this place.”
The figure wearing Northern-style armor and holding a massive hammer slowly rose from their seat.
Zeke noticed the identity of the figure who stood up from the throne.
‘Hero Tyr.’
As he watched them, Zeke noticed something strange.
‘It seems to be Tyr but… she’s a female warrior?’
In legends, Tyr was described as a male hero with a massive build.
But the real Tyr was not only female but also wielded a hammer instead of a sword or shield.
Tyr stepped forward with her hammer and declared:
“Warrior! Welcome to the Creta Palace! That amazing capability to overcome adversity with indomitable will! I shall test it myself!”
BOOM!
Tyr, wielding the hammer, lunged forward toward Zeke.
RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE! RUMBLE!
Tyr jumped into the air and swung her hammer down at Zeke.
CRASH!
The hammer, filled with tremendous power, fell toward Zeke’s head.
Zeke immediately blocked Tyr’s hammer with Bahamut.
CLASH!
As Tyr’s hammer and Bahamut collided, a shockwave spread around them.
Then Tyr shouted.
“What a fine sword! This is the first blade strong enough to block my ‘Titan Slayer’!”
Tyr gripped her hammer sideways again and swung it at Zeke.
CRASH!
Tyr’s hammer carried a heavy force as if wielded by a giant.
Zeke calmly blocked Tyr’s hammer while trying to deflect it sideways.
Then Tyr grinned.
“How interesting! You wield your sword just like that fellow Sethon!”
Tyr readjusted her grip on the hammer and began pressing even harder than before.
Watching Tyr, Zeke felt she was similar to his past self.
Her powerful attacking style of relentless pressure resembled his own.
“More, more, more, more! Fight with more passion!”
Tyr showed a fierce temperament befitting an ancestor of the Tourn family.
Zeke calmly blocked Tyr’s hammer while looking for an opening.
In that moment, Tyr charged forward with a powerful downward strike of her hammer.
Zeke deflected Tyr’s hammer while countering with Infinite Chain technique.
CLASH!
Zeke’s sword aimed for Tyr’s flank.
That’s when it happened.
WHOOSH!
Surprisingly, Zeke’s sword cut through empty air.
Not only was Tyr’s figure gone, but there wasn’t even a trace of her presence anywhere.
Then Tyr appeared behind Zeke.
WHOOSH!
She swung her hammer toward Zeke.
“UGH!”
Zeke barely avoided Tyr’s attack using Shadowless Step technique and rolled across the floor.
CRASH!
The mighty hammer obliterated the spot where Zeke had been.
Tyr didn’t stop there and charged at Zeke again.
It was like a mad bull charging with its horns raised.
Zeke unleashed Aura Blade with his sword and sent a slash toward Tyr.
CLASH!
Tyr easily negated Zeke’s crescent slash by raising her hammer.
‘Though it looks crude, it’s powerful with clear points of attack.’
Rex Tourn, the head of the Tourn family, was a warrior who maximized the power of the Tourn family’s blessed body while mastering refined aura techniques.
On the other hand, while Hero Tyr lacked Rex Tourn’s refinement, she possessed enough raw ferocity to more than make up for that difference.
Tyr instinctively followed Zeke’s movements and persistently swung her hammer.
CRASH!
Watching Tyr unleash heavy attacks tirelessly and continuously, Zeke momentarily wondered if she also possessed the Infinite Stamina skill.
His past self would have burned with passion and exchanged strikes equally with Tyr, but now that he had gained enlightenment, his perspective on combat had changed.
‘I imbue my will into the sword.’
While blocking Tyr’s hammer, Zeke established his sword’s will.
WHOOM!
Zeke naturally used the power of Soul Force to transform himself into a Divine Body.
THUD!
Tyr felt that Zeke’s sword, which collided with her hammer, had become even harder than before.
She grinned as she readjusted her grip on the hammer.
“How interesting! Pour out more of your capabilities!”
The Titan slayer that Tyr held roared loudly along with its master.
White light poured out from the Titan slayer.
‘That’s?’
Zeke realized that the light coming from the hammer contained energy similar to Lubern’s light magic.
Tyr raised the glowing hammer and charged at Zeke.
“HAAAAAH!”
With a powerful battle cry, Tyr’s hammer fell like lightning toward Zeke.
Zeke took the Dragon Slaying Technique stance and likewise charged at Tyr.
True Dragon Sword Secret Art
First Form
Sun Moon Fierce Strike
The secret art of the True Dragon Sword Technique unfolded from Zeke’s sword.
Soul Force and True Dragon Sword Technique, which had been impossible to use together, were now unleashed simultaneously.
CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!
Zeke’s body, enhanced by Divine Body, delivered an even more powerful Sun Moon Fierce Strike.
As Tyr’s hammer and the Sun Moon Fierce Strike collided, they created an immense shockwave.
WHOOOOSH!
The shockwave surged like a wave, shaking the entire hall.
CRACK!
The walls hit by the shockwave cracked and the ceiling crumbled down.
Zeke and Tyr were both pushed back to the walls from the force of each other’s attacks.
THUD!
When Zeke and Tyr hit the walls, the impacted floor and walls crumbled even faster.
Tyr got up from the broken wall, put down her hammer, and removed her helmet.
“For such a young warrior to push me this far. Truly remarkable.”
Zeke also stood up.
Seeing Tyr’s face without the helmet reminded him of Reina.
Tyr spoke to Zeke.
“Young warrior, come this way. I have many questions for you.”
Tyr gestured to Zeke and led him through a door at the back of the hall.
The space inside appeared to be a banquet hall.
A fire was burning in the fireplace, and there was a massive table in the center.
The table was piled high with all sorts of food including whole roasted calf and roast pork, along with entire barrels of beer.
Tyr tossed her helmet aside, put down the Titan slayer, then grabbed a whole barrel of beer and started gulping it down.
“WHEW! My throat is parched after moving around for the first time in a while. Come to think of it, I haven’t asked your name. What is it?”
“I am Zeke Draker.”
“Draker? I had that thought when I saw your sword… so you are indeed Sethon’s descendant.”
She offered Zeke a seat and said:
“Zeke Draker, excellent warrior whom I’ve met across vast time. Sit and partake of food and drink. In Creta, we consider it a great honor to serve good drink and food to outstanding warriors.”
Zeke sat in the seat Tyr offered.
He then received a roast pork leg that Tyr had cut off and handed to him.
Tyr had already cut off another pork leg and was chomping on it whole.
‘Hero Tyr. Her behavior is similar to those crazy folks from Himonas.’
Zeke thought that the traditions of Creta, which had been a kingdom located in the Northern Continent, seemed to have carried over to Himonas, ruled by the Northern Grand Duke.
Having quickly devoured one pork leg, Tyr looked at Zeke and said:
“By the way, which dragon’s contractor are you?”
Zeke, who had been cutting and eating the pork leg, opened his mouth at Tyr’s question.
“I am not a dragon contractor.”
At this, Tyr’s eyebrow twitched.
“Not a dragon contractor? That’s impossible. While ordinary warriors can enter the tower, to meet me on the 100th floor, one must meet various conditions. One of them is that you must enter the trial with the power of a strong dragon being limited as a dragon contractor.”
“Does that mean Hell Mode must be activated to be able to meet you?”
Tyr instead questioned back to Zeke’s question.
“What is Hell Mode?”
Zeke was instead taken aback by Tyr’s confident question.
“No, well… aren’t you the one who created this place?”
Tyr shook her head.
“No, I only provided the space for its creation and was tasked with screening out those who didn’t qualify.”
“Then who created this place?”
At those words, Tyr downed her mug of beer in one go.
Then she set the beer mug down on the table with satisfaction and wiped the foam from her mouth with the back of her hand.
“URRRP!”
Tyr even belched with satisfaction.
She looked at Zeke and said.
“There’s only one being who could create a place like this.”
Tyr’s eyes gleamed.
“The Elder Dragon.”
At those words, Zeke asked with wide eyes:
“Are you saying the Elder Dragon created the Inverted Tower?”
“Yes, at Chronos’s request, they created it together with other Dragon Lords.”
Zeke pondered the tower’s system as he heard Tyr’s unexpected words.
‘The Inverted Tower’s system did have many similarities with the Administrator System. Could other ruins’ systems also have been created by the Elder Dragon?’
Then Tyr looked at Zeke and asked.
“If you’re not a dragon contractor, how were you able to come here?”
Zeke explained his situation to Tyr.
“Lady Tyr, while I’m not a dragon contractor, I gained similar abilities because the Elder Dragon’s spirit was imprinted on my soul through a relic they left behind.”
At those words, Tyr’s eyes widened.
“The Elder Dragon’s spirit was imprinted on your soul? Is that even possible?”
“I think it’s because I discovered the Elder Dragon’s relic hidden in the Ice Mountains.”
Zeke took out the dragon statue that he had kept in his inventory.
“Have you ever seen this before?”
Tyr received the dragon statue Zeke took out and examined it from various angles.
“Hmm, this is…”
“Have you seen it before?”
Tyr, who had been examining it thoughtfully, shook her head.
“No, this is my first time seeing something like this.”
Zeke was taken aback by Tyr’s words.
‘Even Hero Tyr, who knows the Elder Dragon, doesn’t know this relic.’
Then Tyr said while looking at the dragon statue:
“While I don’t know what this relic is, I think I know what it’s made of.”
Tyr tapped the relic with her finger and said:
“This is made of Adamantium.”
Zeke frowned at Tyr’s words.
“Adamantium? I’ve never heard of such a metal.”
The most precious metal known in the world was Orichalcon, called the metal of the gods.
The Adamantium Tyr mentioned was an unfamiliar name he had never even heard of.
Tyr nodded and said:
“That’s probably true. Even I am seeing it in person for the first time.”
“Even you are seeing it for the first time, so what kind of material…”
Tyr slowly opened her mouth.
“Adamantium is called the God-Slaying Stone.”
“…You mean it’s a stone that kills gods?”
“Yes. It’s known as the only substance that can neutralize the power of Constellations.”
“Neutralize the power of Constellations, is that possible?”
“According to legend, in the past when Constellations could intervene in the mortal realm, when they interfered too much with human destiny and threw the world into chaos, there was a warrior who went around killing Constellations with spears and swords made of the God-Slaying Stone.”
“Killed Constellations? You mean a God Slayer?”
“Yes. In legends, it’s said that a warrior killed so many Constellations that they eventually became an otherworldly being themselves.”
“An otherworldly being…?”
Tyr slowly opened her mouth:
“They became the King of Fallen Constellations.”
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