Martial God Regressed to Level 2

Chapter 607

\'Oh, is it working?\'

After seeing Urd destroy a planet, Yggdrasil was visibly shaken.

Her eyes glazed over as the Red power was used at the right moment.

Seong Jihan watched this with inner anticipation, but

[Ugh...!]

As strength returned to Yggdrasil\'s eyes,

[Do you think I\'ll fall for that?]

Flash...!

As the rainbow pillar flickered,

The elf ghosts floating around Namsan suddenly began to gather.

[Ah. What\'s this? Why are they acting like this? Hey. They were clearly under my control... Where are you going!]

Click. Click.

Karlein panicked at this sight and tried to control the elf ghosts, but his attempts were ineffective.

Shuuuu...

The elf ghosts now stood guard around the rainbow pillar.

\'Hmm. It\'s not working?\'

[They\'re interfering with the domination. Can you clear away those ghosts?]

\'Sure.\'

As Seong Jihan stretched out his hand,

Fwoosh...!

The ghosts around the pillar instantly vanished.

With the environment cleared of interference like before,

Flash!

An intense red light spread from the Blue and Red that Seong Jihan pulled out.

[No... way...]

Hearing this, Yggdrasil\'s voice weakened, and her expression gradually relaxed.

Despite some twists and turns, it seemed Yggdrasil would become a subordinate after all.

However,

\'...Huh? What\'s this. She seems to be disappearing completely?\'

Somehow,

Yggdrasil\'s form inside the pillar gradually faded as the red light intensified.

[The power of domination is being applied without issue. Shall we cancel it?]

\'Hmm...\'

If the Red power were working, stopping now would be a shame.

As Seong Jihan was pondering what to do,

Swoosh...!

The massive rainbow pillar suddenly began to shrink.

And the fading Yggdrasil inside,

[...Huh? Where did she go?]

Her form completely vanished.

"Hmm... Did it fail?"

[No. The power of domination was definitely working...]

"I guess she chose death rather than being dominated."

He could have extracted information from her if he had made Yggdrasil a subordinate.

\'It\'s a shame, but can\'t be helped.\'

As Seong Jihan was letting go of his regrets while watching the rainbow pillar shrink smaller than himself,

Thud...

The continuously shrinking pillar eventually reduced to the size of a small stick,

No longer able to stand upright, it fell to the ground.

[Oh... That pillar has materialized?]

The pillar, which was translucent and intangible when pulled from the ground,

Had turned into a metal stick after Yggdrasil vanished.

\'I should at least take that.\'

Swish.

As Seong Jihan reached out his hand,

The stick rolling on the ground came into his grasp.

"Hmm..."

Wondering if there was anything special about the stick, he examined it closely, but,

\'For an object left behind after Yggdrasil disappeared, it doesn\'t have any life energy at all.\'

The brilliantly shining stick didn\'t seem to have any particular energy inside.

Was this just some remnant left after Yggdrasil\'s death?

\'I went through the trouble of getting Void, but this feels anticlimactic.\'

Should he just break it?

As Seong Jihan was lost in thought, twirling the stick with his fingers,

[Hmm. My power of domination... is still being applied to this object.]

\'Really? Then I guess I shouldn\'t break it right away. There might be something to it.\'

[How about putting it in your inventory and analyzing it slowly?]

\'Alright.\'

Seong Jihan nodded and opened his inventory.

And as he tried to put the stick in,

[*#$#$@#!...]

A message window full of broken characters appeared before his eyes.

The stick was ejected from the inventory.

\'What\'s this.\'

This was the first time he had seen this reaction.

As Seong Jihan was looking at the stick with curious eyes,

[Challenger \'Krademikan\' has entered the top floor.]

[Summoning the Tower Master to the top floor.]

[If you do not respond to the summon, the title of Martial God will be transferred to the challenger.]

A message appeared saying a challenger had reached the top floor of the Tower of Martial Gods.

\'It\'s been a while since this happened.\'

As the Tower of Martial Gods grew, recently there hadn\'t been any players reaching the top floor.

"Hmm. I guess I should go greet the challenger in the tower first. Can you take care of things here?"

[Alright. Not that there\'s much to clean up.]

"Then... may I return now?"

[Sure. I\'ll send you back to where you were.]

Flash!

As Karlein, who sent Gilgamesh back, agreed to take care of the aftermath,

\'I should take this with me for now...\'

Seong Jihan responded to the tower\'s summons while holding the stick that came from Yggdrasil.

Flash!

And as he arrived at the top floor,

Crackle...

Sparks began to fly from the stick in his hand.

\'Hm? Why is it reacting here...\'

Earlier at Namsan, no matter how much he examined it, there was no reaction.

Strangely, it was doing this now that he was in the Tower of Martial Gods.

Seong Jihan was about to examine it closely, but,

[You\'ve come, Martial God...]

The challenger wasn\'t going just to stand by and watch.

* * *

Krademikan, the challenger who reached the top floor of the Tower of Martial Gods.

He was a massive sphere of bright yellow burning flames,

Known as a semi-elemental constellation.

As Seong Jihan and he were about to clash,

Ziiing...

The BattleTube automatically turned on.

-Wow, how long has it been since a challenger reached the top floor?

-Krademikan... a fire-type semi-elemental constellation.

-Yeah, I didn\'t think he had the skills to reach the top floor.

-Fire-type constellations have strengthened since stat red appeared as rewards in the tower.

Since stat red started appearing as rewards,

Fire-type constellations had been putting in great effort to reach near the top floor.

Krademikan was one of these players, who reached the 48th floor to get red and then challenged again with his enhanced power to reach the top floor.

[Player \'Krademikan\' challenges Martial God \'Seong Jihan\'.]

[Krademikan\'s abilities are significantly weaker than the Martial God\'s...]

[Both players\' abilities will be adjusted 100% based on the weaker one.]

Swish...

As Seong Jihan\'s power weakened due to the tower\'s adjustment, Krademikan\'s flames flickered more intensely.

[This should be enough to face him...!]

He confidently tried to expand his flames. However,

"Sorry, but"

Seong Jihan, who had been staring at the stick without paying any attention to Krademikan, stretched his hand towards his opponent.

"I\'m in a bit of a hurry. Let\'s end this quickly."

Then,

Ziiing...

A blue light briefly flickered in Seong Jihan\'s hand.

[Ugh...]

The large flame sphere began to extinguish instantly.

No matter how much the opponent had been strengthened by gaining stat red, he was no match for the Blue that perfectly countered him.

The semi-elemental constellation turned to smoke in an instant and disappeared.

-No way... dead already? I thought he might last a bit longer since he got stat red...

-Still no match..

-Why do you think he\'d distribute red in the first place? It\'s because he can counter everything. lol

-Hey, is that really a 100% adjustment? It\'s always one hit.

-The top floor isn\'t meant to be cleared anyway... It\'s a place to get more...

As Seong Jihan easily ended the game, viewers who had expected this reacted,

-But what\'s that thing the Martial God is holding?

-It doesn\'t look like a weapon, is it a new item from the tower?

-If so, it\'s sparking a lot... Is it about to explode?

They started showing interest in the stick he was holding.

\'I set the BattleTube to turn on automatically, and now it\'s drawing unnecessary attention.\'

Since the growth rate of the White Light stat increased with attention on the BattleTube,

He had set it to automatically broadcast live on the BattleTube whenever there was a top-floor challenge event in the Tower of Martial Gods, but now attention was focused on the stick.

In fact, it was understandable.

Crackle...

Ever since arriving at the Tower of Martial Gods,

The rainbow-coloured stick had been flashing light in all directions as if it might explode at any moment.

From the viewers\' perspective, this was more interesting than a semi-elemental constellation dying in one hit.

\'I should turn off the broadcast first.\'

While subduing challengers could be shown on the BattleTube anytime,

There was no need to show alien viewers the activation of Yggdrasil\'s legacy.

"That\'s all for today."

As Seong Jihan was about to turn off the BattleTube with those words,

[Wait a moment.]

Large, green flashing text appeared in the chat window.

[Show me what you\'re holding in your hand right now.]

Like a sponsorship message, the text flashed large and alone.

This was a message that only administrator-level beings could send.

It was from Urd.

"What good would it do for you to see it?"

[Wait. You. Don\'t do anything rash. That key...]

"That\'s all for today\'s broadcast."

Seeing Urd\'s chat getting longer,

Seong Jihan immediately turned off the Battle Tube.

\'Judging by Urd\'s unusual panic, this thing must have some good use.\'

Thinking this, he looked at the stick in his hand.

Although it didn\'t look like it at all, Urd had called it a key at the end.

\'Hmm... It doesn\'t look like a key at all. Instead of just holding it, should I try sticking it in the ground?\'

Thud!

And as he stuck the stick into the ground,

Whoosh...!

A brilliant multicolored light burst forth,

And the walls of the Tower of Martial Gods began to sparkle similarly.

\'This... is resonating with the Tower of Martial Gods.\'

The object Yggdrasil had left behind at the end.

What on earth was it, to cause such an effect?

As Seong Jihan was observing the current situation with an interested face,

[Urd is coming.]

The Red Administrator urgently warned him.

"What?"

[Urd is rapidly ascending from the first floor.]

Since he turned off the BattleTube, was she responding by challenging the tower?

If she was going this far, it must be a big deal for her.

\'I still don\'t know what this is used for...\'

As Seong Jihan was blinking at the stick resonating with the tower,

[She\'s already on the 45th floor.]

[At this rate... is it a new record?]

[She\'s just broken through the 49th floor.]

Urd had already reached the top floor.

"...It\'s not too late yet."

Swish.

Appearing on the top floor with a cold, composed face, she saw the stick stuck in the ground and said,

"I will correct what\'s wrong."

Flash...!

With a serious face, she tried to summon her light clock.

However,

[Player \'Urd\' challenges Martial God \'Seong Jihan\'.]

[The Martial God\'s abilities are significantly weaker than the challenger\'s...]

[Both players\' abilities will be adjusted 100% based on the weaker one.]

Fwoosh...

Just like when she challenged before,

Her light clock lost power and disappeared.

"No...!"

Seeing this, Urd burst out in frustration.

"...Blue Administrator. What have you been doing all this time instead of growing?!"