Chapter 5: Chapter 5

1 day passed… and I'm now, at the border of the demon's… continent.

"Why didn't they make a bridge? I flew for 10 hours straight, my wings are overheating…"

I complain when I have to remember flying continuously earlier or I would have died… falling at the ground at high speed would presumably cause me death, and I need to be conscious to actually slow down my acceleration…

"*Sigh*... I may not be panting… but the pain I am feeling is so seriously not fun to feel."

–... Well, who actually decided to cross 1000 km in the air, up in the sky, with the speed of acceleration of super speeds and then complain about how far it is when they already know what they're doing… [Even then… who can actually make a 1000 km bridge? At this point, they're gonna make a teleport transporter machine instead.]

Sorry, but… I am already feeling like fainting at the moment… that's bad… my health isn't important, but my consciousness is…

... Ah… well… no… trying to resist fate… maybe I can be saved by one of the kind demons?...

–... Maybe… have fun sleeping… you'll need to rest anyway. [... Hmm… you're still a soldier anyway, so it will be fine… probably… maybe. No way is it fine to let you actually move… but, I can't really reason with a master that is so determined to get special swords… to be honest, I feel like Atleus is just getting special swords at the name of saving everyone… and well, all those swords that are legendary are actually quite good… except the second strongest angel sword… that one actually sucks. Saving everyone you care about needs strength at least on par with the royal knights… and most royal knights are stupid powerful… but the feeling of your family being already lost… is quite apparent isn't it?]

–… [Not much time passed. But even a single day is enough to worry about them being dead, there's also the war, what if they used their trump card? I wonder, but… the deadline is essentially 5 days left. The worry that he is hiding to feel is probably that long only… but even then, the return path would take 2 days… so, at this point… we have to find a very tall mountain. I have a feeling there will be a sword there… but I wonder what mountain it will be?]

8 hours passed.

"*Yawn*... Still overheating, they're usable… but I can't accelerate as fast for now…"

–Then… let's just fly normally. We don't need acceleration, but a constant speed to carry us anyway… and lucky for you, someone put you into a forest… in the middle of nowhere… Now, fly up.

I slowly flew upwards and upon seeing a town with my eyes, I started to fly towards the town I had seen… the town is 2 km away from the forest… It's very close. Should take me 3 minutes if I do it normally…

3 minutes later, I slowed down and touched the ground with my feet… now… how do I hide my wings?

–... Let's see, you have some cloak right?

Yep…

I wore the cloak and compacted my wings so that they wouldn't be as noticeable under the cloak. Now, I guess let's get going… information is the first thing I have to ask about…

–A bar should help. I mean, there should be some info broker in the worst case…

I kept some re… only 1000 re… so, it would be a problem if I met some broker who likes to scam their customers… I wish I had some bag that is weightless, but can keep a lot of things in it. It would be really helpful for me, as being able to fly is the only advantage I have… and also Angel, I guess.

–Eh, I won't mind if you forget me… I'm actually the weakest Angel Sword. [Cause my worth is just a stat boost for 30 seconds… except when it isn't… I do have some stat boost that are over 30 seconds… a permanent 20% increase on regeneration-... So that's how you can fly for hours without stopping… I buffed that even harder.]

But still, you're the first one I have, so that makes you have special value. {And… I know that I can upgrade you… no way you aren't upgrade-able, rather, it be a surprise if you aren't upgrade-able… cause from my knowledge, the other 11 Angel swords are already upgraded}

But… I don't think this town sells Wing restoration potions… Hmm, no problems… I don't need to buy something like that, but what I do need is… that's right, why do I need brokers… When fairy tales exist?

–... But authenticity is needed, most fairy tales are false.

That's where you come in… is what I like to say, but I doubt you remember the past. For now, I just have to find something that says that it has a sword in a really tall mountain, or a tower…

After asking around with the people… good thing they thought I was a traveller.

"And… this book… is what I need to read."

I muttered in satisfaction while reading it in the place I am currently in, a library… a public library.

–Hmm… the legend of the tallest tower-

"... Done reading."

I immediately closed it and discreetly left the library. I made sure to hide myself quite cleanly before flying and storing my cloak in my side bag, it's not a heavy cloak… but it will hinder my wings if I am still wearing it.

"Now… first thing I need to do is… actually find the tallest tower… and…"

–*sigh*... You know, I don't think you have extraordinary eyes…

"Focus…"

I kept focusing while looking in the air…

–... Concentration? Ah, let me teach you… first, cover your eyes in concentration, and that's it. The more concentration, the more you can see with the eyes you covered with said concentration is… problem is, that concentration isn't really that easy to use…

"Focus… down to the point of losing emotions…"

–[That chant… how does he know the Focus amplifier spell? Isn't that spell like, really mediocre? Focusing isn't really acquired… you can still use concentration without focusing.]

"... Entering mode of semi-hyper focus."

As soon as I said that, I felt like I'm seeing time move more slowly… Nggn… oh, my head… tch, 2 seconds is enough for the job…

I covered my eyes with concentration and immediately searched around with my eyes, 1 second later, I found a tall tower…

"Mode cancel… Nggn… that's a painful cost for just using a mediocre spell…"

{If I can just enter that state normally, I wouldn't even need to use that spell to remain in it…}

–[semi-hyper focus… a mode in which the person in this mode will suddenly be able to think faster than normal, making them feel like time has slowed down, even though in reality, it's just them temporarily having more reaction time. The mode is incomplete as… losing your emotions, or temporarily losing your emotions while in this mode grants you access to hyper focus. Which is… basically a semi-hyper focus… but 3 times better, and I guess you also lose your emotions… but that losing the emotion bit can be temporary, so it isn't a big issue.]

"... How can you think so fast? It's only been like 3 seconds, and this feeling that you just explained to yourself what is the thing I did is really imminent."

–Says the one who had an unbelievable reflex… look, actually, if someone actually told me that you made a mistake and hit a tree cause you are going too fast… I won't believe it, cause uh… you can just fly above trees…

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{Not the world tree however… I actually hit that one by accident, good thing no one caught me… or I might have been dead 5 years ago.}

–Except the world tree of course, that tree has a natural debuff of always getting hit accidentally…

… {So hitting that is actually much more likely to happen than a 1% chance… tch, unlucky me.}

Anyway, it should be like… a 20 minute fly to get there.

After a few minutes of safe flying… I reached the tower… hmm…

I tried touched the wall of the barrier, but an unknown force forcefully pushed my hand away,

"... not painful. anyway, a barrier to stop trespassing…"

–... 100 floors. Well… you know what to do… start climbing, from the entrance.

{High enough numbers, that means… this should take me 3 days… the next 2 days after the there days will be me returning back to Human/Angel continent.}

... Let's just avoid the enemy as my strategy.

I entered the tower from its entrance and tried to fly, but unfortunately, some unknown force is also stopping me from doing that… not that it matters anyway, I would just use my wings at climbing stairs anyway… just a bit more of a bother to do.

I summoned Angel from one of my rings and started to walk much more quickly, worried that maybe, almost all of my abilities were weakened.

–Don't worry, you can still use Wing mode… but in this space, it will only be possible to use it in 15 seconds, even then, you still can't fly. Also remember this, wing mode gives 100% speed boost when you are using it.

… Okay. That should be helpful… if I can fly, that is… I'm actually quite average at running…

–Already knew that, when your main way of travelling is flying, it kinda means you're not considering running as it is slower. Anyway, prepare yourself, there's something alive near you that isn't me.

"..."

I looked around while being cautious, seemingly focused and… I immediately turned around and blocked an attack that almost hit my wings.

"No. No you're not qualified to do that."

I immediately said while stabbing them as a counterattack and ran away to a nearby staircase that is leading upwards, floor 2.

"... I actually thought that this-... Oh, a maze…"

–I think… I'm starting to know why everyone didn't like this tower, it's probably because this place is riddled with time wasting mazes, and also strong monsters… and traps, but the maze is the real issue here…

"A maze… oh god… skip, can I skip this one? I don't want to do this anymore…"

–Let me tell you something I didn't mention just minutes ago, a barrier is blocking the entrance to where you came.

"Okay, I need to do this for 1 day then… the next extra day is gonna spend resting and preparing to go back."

–That's the motivation, let's go.

{... This is gonna be so painful that I will hate it.}

I ran towards the maze in hurry and avoided the monsters in the way, I got lucky and found the staircase going upwards.

Floor 3. An enemy blocked my way for 3 minutes, fortunately, I killed it before it killed me, after I did that, the maze disappeared so I can climb the floors… hmm… defeating every monster in the tower gets rid of the mazes.

Floor 4… I defeated the monster in this floor and go up to the next floor.

Floor 7… a high rank soldier equivalent monster is fought by me, I almost got hit, but fortunately, wolves only know how to bite and use their claws, making it easy to notice the pattern it is using and kill it.

Floor 20. A monster that is a wolf is defeated by me, even though it is higher on my rank, it's strength is weak as my sword, Angel is basically stronger than it… wish I can upgrade it.

Floor… 99th… thankfully, I can actually run away from the latter half of the towers…

"Focus, down to the point of self… consciousness…"

Aggh… my head…

–Hey, stop that spell. You don't have enough concentration for that… wait… spell? [... This doesn't feel like a spell… but it still is using a spell though? A spell for guidance? That's one way to use it, I guess.]

"Entering state of focus… mode entered."

… 2 seconds, all enough for the job.

1.4 seconds, I immediately dashed towards my target. 

1.1 seconds… I slashed my sword, 1.0 seconds, I activated wing mode.

0.7 seconds, my sword slash hit and I immediately did a horizontal slash to continue my attack.

0.4 seconds, I stepped backwards one time before throwing Angel straight at the monster's head…

0.3…

"0 point……"

I collapsed while I felt like my vision is quickly being blurry…

–... Oh no, uh… it should take 4 hours to wake you up… good thing the thing you fought was a wolf, cause those things have easy patterns. [This tower… it's just full of wolves, isn't it? Great, cause those things usually only knows how to do two things… bite and use claws… they can dodge your attacks, but other than that, they pretty are just simple enemies.]

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